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Update #1 · Aug. 17, 2012: The First Boss! New art and animations revealed!
Update #2 · Aug. 21, 2012: Mercenary Kings coming to Steam!
Update #3 · Aug. 23, 2012: Facebook & Twitter Profile Pics
Update #4 · Aug. 28, 2012: Facebook cover photos and some extra news
Update #5 · Aug. 30, 2012: Mercenary Kings Split Screen progress
Update #6 · Sep. 04, 2012: News, Interview and Metal Wolf!
Update #7 · Sep. 05, 2012: Mercenary Kings coming to OUYA!
Update #8 · Sep. 07, 2012: Hoodie Designed by Bryan Lee O'Malley Revealed!
Update #9 · Sep. 10, 2012: Here Comes a New Challenger! A Second Playable Character!
Update #10 · Sep. 12, 2012: A New Tiny Reward for the Final Stretch!
Update #11 · Sep. 13, 2012: Thank You!
The team behind Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game reunited to develop Mercenary Kings, a 2D action game that combines precise platforming action and a compelling crafting system. Accomplish various missions to unfold the story and gather materials dropped by defeated enemies to craft your weapon of choice. Any part of your weapon is customizable, each one altering the effect of your attack. Create an arsenal of weapons either to match your own play style or to match the challenge of a specific mission.
Mercenary Kings will have a strong focus on cooperative play. The initial version of the game will feature local 4 player cooperative play and will be available for PC. However, we are planning on supporting more platforms and online play if resources allow it.
You play as King, the most skilled mercenary on Earth, and you are sent to an island located in the Central American Pacific Coast to smash a ruthless criminal organization that assassinated your former team members. Your mission might be to save the Earth, but your own motives are to uncover the truth behind their intricate conspiracy and to get revenge for your fallen comrades.
You'll need skills, a sharp eye and lightning-quick reflexes. However, you won't stand a chance if you charge blindly. You'll need to be methodical and well prepared. That's why your backup is the world's best experts, ready and at your disposal to help you gear up for any mission. The Gunsmith can craft firearms of choice and upgrade your body armor, the Knife Expert can build deadly custom knives, and the Shopkeeper provides you with all the supplies you'll need.
Mercenary Kings features the art style of Paul Robertson, so be ready for spectacular animations and over the top characters!
The idea of Mercenary Kings was born back in 2010, as we were wrapping up Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game. We had seen the potential and we were eager to make more awesome 2D games together. It took some time, but the planets finally aligned, and we gathered once again!
Mercenary Kings is currently in a prototype stage, meaning that most basic features have been implemented and are being tested, but it also means that most of its content still needs to be produced. The game will still change and evolve as it takes shape, but the core game mechanics are already well established.
Backers will have access to a variety of rewards ranging from digital goods, to having an actual influence on the finished game. Higher tier rewards also include premium items such as a set of art prints, a t-shirt, a physical copy of the game, and a limited edition hoodie designed by Bryan Lee O'Malley! Their designs will be revealed in upcoming updates, so stay tuned!
Our previous game, Wizorb was a success for a new independent game company like us, but it was a relatively small production and even though the revenues earned from it are good enough to allow us to fund another small production, they would not suffice to fund a more ambitious project.
This time, with Mercenary Kings, we want to bring our craft to the next level and develop a game to the full extent of our ability. In order to achieve that, we need a budget that will allow us more resources and a slightly longer production cycle. A solution could be to obtain funding from a publisher, but these kind of deals are hard to find and can be restrictive on the creative side. This is why Kickstarter seems like the ideal option for us. It would allow us to fully realize our vision while being able to get feedback from people who support us.
If we make it to the $75k milestone, we'll be able to make a version of the game that focuses on the features that are essential to make Mercenary Kings great. But ideally, to bring Mercenary Kings to its full potential, we would need $200k (which is still a modest budget for a video game production). So, listed below are all the features we're planning on developing depending on how much support we get.
- 30 to 40 missions taking place on a paradise island under siege.
- 4-player local coop mode
- 20 to 30 primary weapon sets (guns)
- 5 to 10 secondary weapons (knives)
- Various materials to build parts
- Basic shop items (rations, first-aid, grenades, and more)
- Main NPCs (Colonel, Gunsmith, Knife Expert, Shopkeeper, Helicopter Pilot)
- 15 enemies
- 4 mind-blowing bosses
- 4 color palettes for the main character
- Achievements
- 20 to 30 additional missions (total of 50-70)
- Additional primary weapon sets (guns)
- Additional secondary weapons (knives)
- Additional materials to build parts
- New shop items (such as a riot shield, mines, rocket launcher, and more)
- Additional NPCs (a Fashion Designer and a Cook)
- About 10 more enemies (total of 25)
- 3 additional bosses (total of 7)
- 4 additional color palettes for the main character (total of 8)
- More Achievements
- The full plot is unveiled!
- 20 to 30 additional missions (total of 70-100)
- Additional primary weapon sets (guns)
- Additional secondary weapons (knives)
- Additional materials to build parts
- 1 additional NPC (Spy)
- About 5 additional enemies (total of 30)
- 3 additional bosses (total of 10)
- 2 additional color palettes for the main character (total of 10)
- Transceiver item and the ability to call for support (Colonel or Helicopter Pilot)
- 4-player online coop mode!
- More Achievements
- Leaderboards
- Console version
- 15-20 extra missions
- Additional primary weapon sets (guns)
- Additional secondary weapons (knives)
- 1 additional boss (total of 11)
- More character customization
On top of that, no matter how much money we raise, we plan on continuing work on Mercenary Kings even after its release in order to add more features from our wishlist. So, for example, if we reach our $75k milestone, we'll release a version of the game as described above but we'll use the money earned from the sales to work on updates that will add features of the subsequent milestones.
Paul Robertson – Animator – The mastermind behind Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006, Kings of Power 4 Billion Percent, and art director on Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game. Tumblr: http://probertson.tumblr.com/
Jonathan Lavigne – Game Designer – Veteran pixel artist and multitasking madman, he did pixel art for several handheld games, designed Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game, created Ninja Senki, and co-founded Tribute Games. Blog: http://pixeltao.ca/
Jean-François Major – Programmer – Co-founder of Tribute Games and one man army behind our development environment. He previously worked on various games such as TMNT GBA, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
Jonathan Kim – Animator – Possessing sharp drawing and animation skills, he's the author of many comics such as Instruction Space and the weekly comic for the great but now defunct gaming website GameSetWatch. He also worked as an animator on Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game and senior animator on Skullgirls. Tumblr: http://personasama.tumblr.com/
Stéphane Boutin – Illustrator – He was the sole background artist on Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game and thus produced an immense quantity of work while reaching an extraordinary level of quality. He also draws comics and did illustration, concept art, animation for a variety of games such as Open Season GBA, TMNT GBA and Monster Burner. Blog: http://boutain.blogspot.ca/
Patrice Bourgeault – Composer – Talented musician and composer of the amazing chip tune soundtrack of Ninja Senki.
Jean Chan – Sound Designer – With her mastery of audio she can compose soundscapes for a variety of media ranging from documentary to video games. She created the killer sound effects for Ninja Senki and composed the soundtrack of Wizorb. ReverbNation: http://www.reverbnation.com/jeanchan
Tribute Games – We're a small indie company and we've been in business for a little more than a year. Even though we're a relatively new company, we've already developed and published our first game, Wizorb. We're passionate developers, but we're also super focused and determined to make the games we love. Website: http://tributegames.com/
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Mayor Coleen J. Seng today announced that two major Lincoln municipal projects have together received more than $6 million in federal funds from the recently approved federal spending bill.
U.S. Senator Ben Nelson informed Mayor Seng that $3 million had been approved for street and bridge transportation projects in the Antelope Valley flood control project. These funds are earmarked specifically for the Antelope Valley flood control and street projects and cannot be used for any other purpose.
Just as important, Senator Nelson also announced that $3 million was approved for the four-lane South Beltway project. The beltway corridor is about one-half mile south of Saltillo Road. The funds, which will actually go to the Nebraska Department of Roads specifically for the South Beltway project, will be used to complete the design and continue the acquisition of right of way. When built, the South Beltway will reduce truck traffic congestion within the City by re-routing long-haul semi-truck traffic from Highway 2 to Highway 77 on the south side of Lincoln.
In addition, U.S. Representative Lee Terry notified the City of Lincoln that $500,000 was appropriated for continuation of the Antelope Valley flood control channel being built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
"These funds will be very important in moving these projects along," said Mayor Seng. "The Antelope Valley transportation funds will go primarily toward the construction of the large overpass and street about to be constructed near the Devaney Center. The flood channel funds will continue the ongoing construction of the flood channel and help ensure the two projects continue to be built simultaneously to save money."
U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel's office separately notified the City that $650,000 has been approved for improvements to the City's wastewater treatment plants and related infrastructure.
The funds were included as part of the fiscal year 2005 Omnibus Appropriations Conference Report that Congress approved last weekend.

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CDOT considers automated avy control for Berthoud Pass
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The Colorado Department of Transportation every winter lobs 50-year-old munitions into snowy basins to trigger manageable avalanches before they threaten travelers.
On Berthoud Pass, the department is considering a step into the modern era with an automated, fixed avalanche-control system that would reduce the need for helicopters dropping explosives or World War II howitzers launching slide-triggering missiles.
Using an automated system – much like the Gazex propane-gas sonic-explosion system used in three Western states and Europe – would enable CDOT to trigger more frequent, lower-intensity slides that ideally would reduce road closures on the vital U.S. 40 stretch over Berthoud Pass.
"We may be in a situation where we never have an avalanche reach the road," said Peter Kozinski, CDOT's project engineer shepherding a potential pilot program that would test a fixed avalanche-control system in the massive Stanley slide path on the eastern side of Berthoud Pass. "We've been using the same technology for 70 years. This pilot program is about understanding the new technology."
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Pebble Beach glory for Snedeker as he holds off Kirk
Brandt Snedeker went one better than his last two results after triumphing in the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in California.
Snedeker finished runner-up to Tiger Woods in the Farmers Insurance Open as well as to Phil Mickelson at the Phoenix Open in the last couple of weeks and he needed to be at his best today to record his first victory of the season.
The American rose to the occasion with a brilliant seven under par 65 at the Pebble Beach course to finish on 19 under for the tournament, which was enough to seal victory by two strokes over compatriot Chris Kirk.
"Feels great to finish one," said Snedeker to the PGA Tour's official website.
"The last two weeks, playing great but running into two Hall of Famers really motivated me to go out (and prove) that I can play good and handle the lead.
"I love being in this position and today was a lot of fun."
Snedeker set the tone for his round with an eagle on the par five second and another three birdies at his next five holes boosted the Tennessean even further.
Although he then bogeyed at the ninth, he immediately made up for his blip with back-to-back birdies after the turn and picked up another shot at the par three 17th to give himself some breathing room heading into the final hole.
Victory was the 32-year-old's fifth title on the PGA Tour and his second in his last six starts - the other win coming at last year's Tour Championship.
Snedeker was pushed all the way, however, with Kirk breathing down his neck following a final round 66.
Kirk gave himself a chance with eight birdies at the famous links course, but was ultimately left to rue successive bogeys at the ninth and 10th.
"I felt like I played well enough to win a golf tournament and came up a little bit short. But I'm really happy with my day," he said.
James Hahn, tied for the overnight lead alongside Snedeker, finished in a tie for third alongside fellow Americans Kevin Stadler and Jimmy Walker.
World number eight Lee Westwood finished a disappointing week on three under par overall after a final round of 72 to finish in a tie for 46th.
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The Reinvention Issue
Letter from the Dean
Evan Kleiman: Recipe for Reinvention
Not Your Parents' MBA: Lessons for the Digital Age
Built for Speed
Taking Risks Together: An Orientation
Raising the River
Surfing Silicon Beach
Eyes on the X Prize
The Business of Fighting Cancer
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Not your parents' MBA: Lessons from the digital age
Bridging the gap between online and on-campus MBA programs
The future of higher education may be online, but as with any transition, the route to all-digital learning involves a blending of old and new. The latest trend in higher education is a hybrid model, in which schools deliver course content through a combination of face-to-face and online instruction, developing synergies between the two.
Like online learning, hybrid education involves watching live-streamed or pre-recorded lectures, working on group projects over video chat and responding to a professor's questions via discussion boards. But unlike with online-only coursework, students enrolled in hybrid programs also spend some of their time on campus, gathering for a few days each term to interact face-to-face with classmates and professors, debate case studies and management decisions and participate in networking events.
As the march toward digitizing the MBA experience blazes forward - driven by universities eager to leverage new technology, broaden their pool of applicants, and meet the needs of students who would rather not hop off the corporate ladder to pursue an MBA full time - hybrid learning represents a sweet spot between the flexibility of fully online programs and the intimacy of traditional academic experiences.
"Schools have jumped on the online bandwagon, and students end up with this rather unnuanced choice between more-or-less wholly on-ground and more-or-less wholly online," said Richard Garrett, a managing director at the education consulting firm Eduventures, in The Chronicle of Higher Education last spring. "Many [students] actually want something that's a more nuanced combination of the two."
In 2010, more than 6.1 million students took at least one class online. Nearly one-third of students in higher education now take at least one online course throughout their educational career. And, it's no longer just the for-profit behemoths like the University of Phoenix (with more than 30,000 MBA students alone) that offer online courses. The crème de la crème are quickly signing on.
Hundreds of thousands of students signed up when Stanford offered three computer science courses online for free last fall. In May, MIT and Harvard announced the launch of edX, a new platform to broadcast free lectures to millions of students around the world. And this past summer, education startup Coursera announced that it would offer online courses from 33 top universities around the world, also for free, and mostly without credit. Last year, University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School became the first business school in the top twenty ranking programs to offer a mostly-online curriculum.
But the rapid growth of online education - measured by enrollment bumps of no less than 10 percent each year for the past decade - doesn't mean students are satisfied with purely online experiences. In 2007, an Eduventures survey of more than 2,000 adult students showed that one-third of students preferred hybrid programs, but only 16.6 percent had experienced them, a tempting gap in supply and demand that business schools are rushing to fill.
Pervaded by an aura of experimentation, the current landscape of hybrid MBA options contains an array of approaches, methodologies and philosophies about what makes the best 'blend' for success. (Just look at the exotic modifiers attached to the names of the various programs: FlexMode, Place and Space, MBA@ and iMBA, among others.)
Many programs include in-person interaction just a fraction of the time, like Penn State's iMBA program, with two week-long residencies over the course of 23 months. Other programs take a worldly approach, like the global MBA program hosted by the IE Business School in Spain. Students spend two weeks in Madrid on both ends of the 15-month program, rendezvous in Shanghai for another two weeks midway through and study online the rest of the time. Some programs, like Cornell-Queen's Executive MBA Program (co-hosted by Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell and Queen's Universities in Ontario) send students to boardrooms in 23 cities across the world for weekend-long interactive videoconferencing sessions.
Most programs offer a mix of asynchronous activities - exercises and pre-recorded lectures that are often highly produced - with synchronous ones, like online discussion seminars. New video conferencing tools feel more intimate than ever before, panning from one up-close view of a student to the next, as different speakers lend their voices to the conversation.
Despite the diversity in the models, research so far shows that, overall, blended education works. In 2010, a meta-analysis of more than 1,000 studies of online education by the U.S. Department of Education called blended learning "more effective" than "conventional face-to-face" classes (as opposed to purely online, which could be just as effective, but not more). A small study from 2004 argues that blended courses can create a stronger sense of community among learners than even traditional, in-person classes.
"This is about enabling a first-class learning experience for those who can't follow the standard schedule." —UCLA Anderson's Dean Judy Olian
Into this exciting new milieu enters UCLA Anderson, whose newest option in its suite of MBA offerings is a hybrid one: Fully Employed MBA Flex (FEMBA Flex).
FEMBA Flex divides students' time fifty-fifty between in-person instruction and online activities. Students grace UCLA's Westwood campus with their presence only four weekends per quarter for classes, as opposed to once or twice a week in the standard FEMBA program. It's an approach tailored to the constraints of full-time professionals whose careers, personal lives or geographic locations make it challenging to commute regularly to L.A.'s Westside. The bulk of the coursework is completed online from the comfort of a home office, coffee shop or wherever busy students find themselves when they're ready to engage with their studies.
While UCLA Anderson has offered electives online in the past, FEMBA Flex marks the biggest investment in online education the school has made so far. "Our goals are a little different from some of the efforts that you see in the press," says Professor John Mamer, who will teach his probability and statistics course "Data and Decisions" in the hybrid format to approximately 35 students this fall. "It's not meant to broadcast our education around the world," he says. "It's really meant to access a specific group of people who meet the stringent qualifications for getting into one of our programs." UCLA Anderson's Dean Judy Olian adds, "This is about enabling a first-class learning experience for those who can't follow the standard schedule."
For a top business school like UCLA Anderson, the challenge is to figure out how to maintain the institution's high educational standards while experimenting with new ways to transmit information. "It's a lot more than filming a professor," says Olian. "We fit the content to the medium so that we're doing live cases in the classroom, and transmitting lectures and prepared Q and A for more standard topics."
Watching a pre-recorded video of one of Professor Mamer's statistics lectures, for instance, is likely to offer a student just as comprehensive a learning experience as attending in person. Some students even prefer it that way, according to George Ingersoll ('09), a UCLA Anderson alum, a doctoral student in UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies researching online education, and an internal consultant who helped design FEMBA Flex. "You can go back and review. You can slow down; you can pause," he says. "It's not like you're just sitting in a lecture, trying to absorb everything right away." And Ingersoll says there are advantages for professors as well, like the ability to mandate 100 percent class participation through a discussion board, as opposed to in a classroom, where even a robust debate might only draw commentary from a handful of students.
Carla Hayn, Senior Associate Dean of the Executive MBA and Fully Employed MBA Programs, believes that some of the strategies employed in hybrid instruction will have positive outcomes overall for teaching. "Having more limited in-class time has made the faculty teaching in FEMBA Flex focus on how to deliver information as efficiently and effectively as possible," Hayn says. "There is a spillover effect in that some of the strategies employed in delivering material online will complement the teaching strategies employed in the non-hybrid sections."
The program faculty and advisors tend to agree that many aspects of an MBA education cannot be recreated online. "That's what makes the hybrid approach an appealing option. Students may absorb theory from their computer screens, but on campus - whether in groups or in class - they'll discuss the ambiguity of case studies, or challenge each others' strategic recommendations in vibrant debate," says Olian. "You don't want to compromise that essential ingredient when the goal is deep learning."
Another cornerstone of an MBA education that cannot fully be replicated online is face-to-face networking. FEMBA Flex will rectify the problem by instituting a rigorous social schedule when students are in Los Angeles, including three shared meals per weekend. A five-day leadership-themed orientation will take place at the beginning of the program. In the weeks between their face-to-face encounters, they'll mull over course material on Elluminate, a platform for web conferencing, and, presumably, on non-academic social networks as well. "We want to make sure that our Flex students meet as many students in the other FEMBA sections as possible," says Hayn. "This is not a satellite section operating in a separate space, but rather one that is integrally linked to the overall FEMBA and Anderson communities."
While results of networking opportunities are harder to measure, UCLA Anderson plans to closely monitor the educational outcomes of FEMBA Flex's inaugural class through testing and feedback from faculty. Since all of UCLA Anderson's students take the same exact courses from the same professors, non-FEMBA Flex students essentially become the control group of this educational experiment. It's easy enough to figure out which models are working best. As Mamer puts it, even in FEMBA Flex, "the exams will be the same."


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The purpose of the Meharry Clinical and Translational Research Center (MeTRC) grant is to cultivate minority researchers by funding their projects, and building an infrastructure of laboratories, training, and support staff. Budding scientists compete for pilot projects, in hopes their research ideas will mature into collaborative projects with other investigators. In time, they become fully funded researchers who are able to attract external funding and operate independently.
Translational research is a branch of scientific research that has developed in recent years which translates lab discoveries into actual treatments patients can use. The scientists in the Meharry Translational Research Center look for treatments for diseases and health disorders that disproportionately impact minorities. Areas of emphasis include infectious diseases (especially HIV/AIDS) and women's health.
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- Cook pasta according to package directions, omitting fat and salt.
- Meanwhile, heat oil in a Dutch oven or large pot over medium-high heat. Add onion and garlic, and sauté 2-3 minutes, until onion is tender. Stir in tomatoes, bring to a boil, then reduce heat to medium. Simmer about 5 minutes, until sauce thickens slightly.
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The Army Corps of Engineers has assured the community that they have repaired the levees to pre-Katrina status. That is simply not adequate or acceptable. Pre-Katrina status means that with hurricane winds and water pressure, they could burst again.
This time of year, weather reports all across the country capture our attention.
Communities all over the world are vulnerable to the ever-changing threats to life and property brought upon us by damaging storms. Hurricane and tornado season is an especially shaky time of year and the season is upon us once again.
One could argue that weather conditions are controllable, but that is not my purpose in this story. My purpose is to call attention to the aftermath of such storms and our shameful response.
One such aftermath we are all too familiar with is the tragic breech of the levee system in New Orleans almost two years ago. I walked along a section of this system a few months after Hurricane Katrina hit. The levee that was supposed to shield the Lower Ninth Ward and St. Bernard Parish is nothing but a low pile of dirt. One can see the high waters pressing on the other side by simply standing a few feet back.
The Army Corps of Engineers has assured the community that they have repaired the levees to pre-Katrina status. That is simply not adequate or acceptable. Pre-Katrina status means that with hurricane winds and water pressure, they could burst again.
The residents of the Lower Ninth Ward and St. Bernard Parish cannot move back in under these conditions. Is that the kind of future we're trying to guarantee?
Recent inspections of the levee system in New Orleans by Dr. Robert Bea, engineering professor from University of California in Berkeley, show that weak spots continue to exist in the whole system. I am not an engineer, but it seems to me that rebuilding the levees with the same materials that caused them to break in the first place is inviting the same result.
Furthermore a Dutch engineer, not wanting to be identified, says the floodgates and pumps in the city's drainage channels, "they may be doomed to fail in the next big storm." The Corps of Engineers argues that they will check on them. There is no evidence that these mechanisms have been fully tested. They must be tested now. We cannot not wait for them to be tested under hurricane conditions. Hurricane season is upon us now.
I do not understand what we are waiting for? An historical, culturally rich city was completely devastated in one of the worst disasters of our time. The actual storm was not the major damaging cause. The eye of the storm did not hit New Orleans. We all know it was the aftermath flooding that caused the horrific loss of life and property.
I do not know any other city in this country that would have to wait this long to have their infrastructures repaired the right way. There is really no excuse for the delayed response to Hurricane Katrina's aftermath flooding. There is absolutely no excuse for setting New Orleans up for another disaster. Hurricane season is upon us. Fix those levees now. Fix them the right way not the same old way.
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
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What makes you Essex? Is it all fake tan, boy racers and white stilletos? Or is being from Essex more than the Essex Man steroetype?
We have compiled a list of 20 things that we think sum up our county but if you have any more, feel free to share them in the comments section below the article.
1. Putting speakers worth more than your car in your car
We've all seen it. A £300 Ford Fiesta fitted with the top of the range Pioneer sound system parked under Pitsea flyover. (I have to admit I'm guilty of this!)
2. Having your roots in the East End of London
Now this doesn't apply to everyone, but a lot of people living in England's finest county can trace their family tree back to the East End of London. Whether it was your mum, nan, or great-great-great-grandmother a lot of today's Essex families have strong roots in the country's capital. And the love of pie and mash and the Cockney dialect moved with us - ain't that right me old china?
3. You want to scream every time someone asks you if you know Joey Essex/Sam Faiers/any of the cast of TOWIE
The runaway success of ITV2's The Only Way Is Essex has made our county famous across the country but it also lead to anyone from outside Essex asking if you know any of the cast and if you frequent Sugar Hut.
4. This is the only jam in your cupboard and you laugh at anyone who dares to offer you any other brand
Tiptree jam: Wilkin & Sons has become a store cupboard staple for every Essex resident
Let's face it, before "shopping local" was the done thing, the only jam your mum had in the cupboard was from Tiptree. The factory has been churning out classic strawberry as well as the fancy-sounding Apricot with Armagnac Conserve (reserved for Christmas only in my house) since 1885.
5. Forget any other teams, its either the Blues or the U's for you
Blues: Southend United's Barry Corr celebrates a goal during Southend v Chesterfield
U's support: The crowd watch Colchester United v Crewe Alexandra
Following local football may mean you will never reach the dizzying heights of the Champions League but the rollercoaster of following your local team makes all the freezing cold nights stood on the terraces worthwhile.
6. You swear your mum's aunt's cousin's son saw comedian Phill Jupitus in Leigh once
Home: Comedian Phill Jupitus poses on Leigh seafront
Jupitus-spotting has become a bit of an Essex pastime. The funnyman was born on the Isle of Wight but chose Leigh to live with his family. His cartoons have already attracted throngs of people through the doors of the community centre and the Never Mind the Buzzcocks star was also made an honorary graduate from the University of Essex for his contribution to the performing arts. And his performance with the Blockheads at Village Green definitely cemented his place as one of our own.
7. School trips were either to Colchester Zoo, Marsh Farm or Colchester Castle
Knights battling at Colchester Castle for a Bank Holiday event
...It was that or picking your own strawberries.
8. You've seen some of the biggest bands in the world right on your doorstep
V Festival 2013 at Hylands Park, Chelmsford
Every year, Chelmsford hosts V Festival which sees thousands of people pour into the city for one weekend. Even better for an Essex resident which means you are first in line for tickets and can even pop home (or to a mate's) for a shower. This year's lineup for August 16 and 17 is yet to be announced but even if your favourite band isn't playing, the fact such a huge event is held in the county means you'll probably go along anyway. The only real question is - red or yellow?
9. Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without watching the pantomime
The cast of 2013 14 Colchester Mercury Panto Sleeping Beauty
Ashley Emerson as Flynn Rider Rapunzel panto at Basildon's Towngate Theatre
"Oh no it isn't! Oh yes it is!" (insert more hilarious panto-based jokes here)
Love it or loathe it, being taken to the panto is a yearly tradition not easily broken. Christmas just isn't the same unless you've been dazzled with brightly-coloured costumes and booed the nasty villain. Sometimes you got to go with school and it meant the inevitable lengthy discussions over which "best" friend would sit next to you and singing all the way home on the coach. This year we even get the Hoff in Southend!
10. Most Saturdays in your teens were spent here
Hours of shopping: Lakeside shopping centre
Needed school shoes? Or just fancy eating McDonalds and doing a spot of window shopping? Then Essex's answer to Westfield was the place to go. The hours you spent trying on hairclips in Claire's or trying to convince your mum that those heels really weren't too high for school made up a large proportion of Essex teenager's formative years.
11. Every time this sign is "improved" it brightens your day
Basilwood: Top, the original Basildon sign on the A127, middle, the sign was given a Remembrance Day makeover and, bottom, the Olympic rings were added to the sign to mark the 2012 Games
Put up on the A127 on a roundabout at the Basildon slip road, the £90,000 "Basilwood" sign has dominated the headlines and attracted criticism and fans in equal measure. The sign was part of a £400,000 project commissioned by Basildon Council to boost the local economy.
Locals have made their own mark on the Hollywood-esque sign. In 2011, 15-year-old Army Cadet Bobby Baker put the "ah" in Armistice Day when he fixed a giant poppy onto the sign. In 2012, it was also adorned with the Olympic rings to mark the start of the Games.
12. You had to explain how to navigate these while a passenger in a visitor's car
Sadlers Farm: The many-roundabouted A13 junction was given a £63million makeover
Greenstead roundabout: Colchester junction sees an average of 30,000 traffic movements a day (image courtesy of Google Earth)
"No you get in the right lane then the left then go round the roundabout! Not that roundabout - the other one!" Many a taxi journey, trip home in a friend's car or ride to the shops with your nan became a hair-raising experience as those unfamiliar with the unorthodox layout of several mini roundabouts surrounding a gargantuan one became stymied by the road ahead.
The A13 junction at Sadlers Farm was recently revamped but some drivers are still unsure whether it was for the better...
13. You took a picnic to the beach or stood in the pouring rain to watch an airshow
Southend Airshow: A Concorde wows the crowds at the 1988 event
...and the Red Arrows were always the best bit
Clacton Airshow: The Red Arrows perform over the seafront in 2012
The regular Southend summer airshow was scrapped last year when Southend Council withdrew its funding, but it is being revived for 2014 with the promise it will be bigger and better than ever.
2014 marks the 23rd year of the Clacton Airshow which will be held on August 21 and 22. Last year, the airshow won the best event category at the 2013 Essex Tourism and Hospitality Awards.
14. It will ALWAYS be Peter Pan's
Peter Pan's playground (pictured above in 1996) became Adventure Island (below)
Rollercoaster: Adventure Island's pink and yellow Rage rollercoaster dominates the park
Peter Pan's Playground was created on the site of the Sunken Gardens on Southend seafront. It was renamed Peter Pan's Adventure Island and is now Adventure Island. For many people who fondly remember being flung upside down in the Barracuda (losing all the bus fare in your pocket) it will always be called Peter Pan's.
15. Going to London is called going "up town"
Up town: But we are always glad to get home
"What you up to this weekend?" "Oh I'm going up town." Essex residents are blessed with being only 40 minutes from the capital. Whether you want to watch a show, take a Boris bike along the Thames path or just fall out of bars in Soho, London is the place for you. The best part is when you are finished with the hustle and bustle of the city you can retreat home.
16. You've walked up the longest pier in the world (but always get the train back)
...and are equally proud of the county's smaller piers in Walton and Clacton
Clacton Pier
17. When someone tells you to meet them at Bas Vegas you head straight here
Festival Leisure: Affectionately known as Bas Vegas
With a myriad of restaurants, bars, nightclubs, bowling and even a wakeboarding centre Festival Leisure Park in Basildon has affectionately been nicknamed Bas Vegas. Opened in 1997, it has proved hugely popular with families and clubbers alike.
18. Summer involves sitting on one of the county's many beaches and eating ice cream
Clacton beach
People have been visiting the seaside in our county for generations...
Southend seafront
...and it's still as popular as ever
Southend: Top, families enjoy an Rossi Ice Cream on Southend seafront and, above, not a spare inch of space on Three Shells beach at the height of the summer season
19. You've heard every Essex girl joke going
Essex girl: Martina Cole
We all know the stereotypes. But if you believe the many jokes written about Essex girls you would think the county is full of blonde, perma-tanned women who always wear white stilettos and dance around their handbags. In reality, some incredibly talented people called Essex home including author Martina Cole and sportswoman Fatima Whitbread.
20. But you know there is nowhere else you would rather call home
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Apple isn't saying anything but the Cupertino-based technology company appears to have itself a new market.
A report by Global Equities Research suggests that more than 350,000 textbooks were downloaded within three days of Apple debuting its new iBooks textbook store.
Last week Apple announced its new focus on digital textbooks and its intention to change the education game.
At an event in New York City Apple released details of a partnership with four major textbook publishers, who are responsible for 90 percent of the nation's textbooks, to make textbooks available on Apple platforms like the iPad.
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In certain Latino communities, fraud occurs because of a misunderstanding regarding the authority of a "notary public", which translates to "notario" or "notario publico" in Spanish. In many Latin American countries a "notario" refers to someone who has the authority to render legal services. Unscrupulous "notarios" who are not attorneys often rely on this misunderstanding to exploit immigrants. Furthermore, they charge immigrants excessive application fees without ever submitting applications to the immigration authorities or may induce deportation by submitting applications for relief for which the immigrant is not eligible for or did not request.
- Misrepresenting Legal Credentials
This involves individuals who falsely claim to be attorneys, or wrongly suggest that they are able to appear before the immigration agencies or court. They take advantage of immigrants who will unknowingly pay exorbitant fees for their services. Their lack of real qualifications and skills may cause them to miss deadlines or file incorrect and incomplete forms, as well as false claims with the government. Simply stated, by misrepresenting their qualifications, these individuals can have a detrimental impact on the immigrants with whom they work. For example, immigrants who take advice from and work with these individuals may waive their right to obtain legal residency, be unnecessarily deported, or become subject to civil and/or criminal liability for the filing of false claims.
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Under this type of fraud, a provider will typically provide inaccurate or false information to the immigrant concerning his or her eligibility for an adjustment of status under a particular law. In these cases, the immigrant is usually not aware that he/she has been a victim of fraud until they receive a letter of ineligibility from immigration authorities. Frequently, however, the provider knows the immigrant is not entitled to relief, or ineligible, but will file the application with immigration authorities regardless.
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Generously add salt.
Boil until fork-tender.
Drizzle olive oil on a sheet pan.
Arrange cooked potatoes on the cookie sheet with plenty of room between each potato.
With a potato masher, press down on each potato until it mashes, but is still held together by the skin.
Sprinkle potatoes with salt, pepper, and rosemary.
Bake at 450 degrees for 20-25 minutes, until golden brown. (Serves 4-6)
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2/3 cup icing sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups flour
2 tbsp vanilla soy milk
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1/2 cup icing sugar
With an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar together until fluffy.
Add the vanilla and mix.
Pour in the flour and mix until combined.
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Anyone who needs chat software on their website (eg. ecommerce sites)
See how all the benchmark sites promote their services.
Homepage redesign based off our mockup:
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Basic soil testing analyzes nutrient content and fertility status. Results include fertilizer and lime recommendations. Additional tests are available for nutrient management plans, environmental issues, potting mixes, compost, manure and water usage. Each sample should contain about 1½ cups of dry soil from 6 to 7 inches deep. Consult our soil testing publications for specific instructions. Results are typically provided within two weeks.
Cost: $20 per sample.
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Fee: $2 per lid.
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Polio transmission continues on Pakistan–Afghanistan border
[ISLAMABAD] Researchers have made valuable progress in identifying the genetic structure and transmission patterns of polio strains circulating along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, one of the remaining global reservoirs of the wild virus.
Virologists from the National Institute of Health in Islamabad screened more than 30,000 people living along the border between 2005 and 2007. They identified and sequenced 111 polioviruses, in an attempt to trace their origins and transmission routes.
The researchers isolated the virus from patients with Acute Flaccid Paralysis, a condition characterised by a sudden onset of muscle weakness, a common sign of polio.
The study, published in the Virology Journal last month (22 February), showed that, despite intense immunisation campaigns and efforts to reduce the number of cases, uncontrolled transmission of wild type1 polioviruses has continued in the region.
Salmaan Sharif, a co-author of the paper based at the NIH, told SciDev.Net the findings would help researchers and officials identify communities that are reservoirs for wild poliovirus, and design more targeted immunisation campaigns.
"Persistent pockets of polio transmission along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan are key epidemiological challenges owing to insecurity and conflict problems," the researchers said.
Syed Sohail Zahoor Zaidi, head of the virology department at NIH, said eradication efforts needed to be co-ordinated on both sides of the border, and that "parallel immunisation activities in affected areas of both countries are a must".
He called for greater monitoring of children and migrating communities in conflict-hit regions through the involvement and training of locals, and for the involvement of religious leaders and military personnel in awareness-raising activities.
Aid agencies operating in the region warned that the ongoing conflict in the region has seriously hampered vaccination efforts.
Cathy Williams, a spokesperson for UNICEF's (UN Children's Fund) polio eradication unit in Pakistan, said many WHO and UNICEF vaccination staff feared for their lives if they did their jobs, "particularly when some have already lost their lives on duty in the tribal areas".
Public trust in vaccination staff is also at "its lowest ebb", according to Hussain A. Gezari, the WHO's envoy on global polio eradication, told SciDev.Net.
Last month an alliance of 200 aid groups wrote to the US Central Intelligence Agency criticising its decision to use a fake polio vaccination scheme in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad, as part of US efforts to find Osama Bin Laden last year.
"Undeniably, the fake polio vaccination drive ... gravely harmed the public trust and put [the continuation of] our polio and other vaccination and immunisation programmes at stake," Gezari said, adding that some families in north-west Pakistan were refusing to allow their children to be vaccinated, amid fears the medication they were being offered was fake.
"Staff from the UN's different agencies — including UNICEF — fear a serious backlash if [we] re-visit these areas," he said.
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blue crab
Callinectes sapidus
, from the
="swimmer", and
="savory") is a
found in the waters of the western
Atlantic Ocean
, the Pacific Coast of Central America and the
Gulf of Mexico
On the Pacific Coast of Central America it is largely ignored as a food source as picking the meat is considered too difficult.
It is the
State Crustacean and the subject of an extensive fishery.
They can deliver an extremely painful pinch and are noted for being particularly aggressive and difficult to handle safely by novice recreational crabbers.
Distribution and ecology
The blue crab is native to the western edge of the
Atlantic Ocean
Nova Scotia
It has been introduced (via
ballast water
) to
waters, and has been observed in the
Baltic Sea
North Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Black Sea
The natural predators of the blue crab include
, rock fish,
, some
, and cownose
sting rays
. The blue crab is an
, eating both plants and animals. Blue crabs typically consume thin-shelled
small fish
and nearly any other item they can find, including
, other blue crabs and human waste .
Male and female blue crabs can be distinguished by their "aprons", or their abdomens. Male crabs have a long, narrow apron, while mature female crabs have a wide, rounded one. A common
is to remember that if the apron looks like the Washington Monument, the crab is male; if like the U.S. Capitol, it is female.
Chesapeake Bay Blue crabs undergo a seasonal migration; after mating, the female crab travels to the southern portion of the Chesapeake, fertilizing her eggs with sperm stored up from the last mating months or almost a year later . In November or December, the female crab releases her eggs. The crabs hatch in a larval form and float in the mouth of the bay for four to five weeks, then the juvenile crabs make their way back up into the bay.
There is evidence that blue crabs in eastern North America, are able to control populations of the invasive
green crab
, Carcinus maenas; numbers of the two species are negatively correlated, and C. maenas is not found in Chesapeake Bay, where blue crabs are most frequent
Commercial importance in the United States
Chesapeake Bay
, located in
, is famous for its blue crabs, and they are one of the most important economic items harvested from it.
In 1993, the combined harvest of the blue crabs was valued at around 100 million U.S. dollars. Over the years the harvests of the blue crab dropped; in 2000, the combined harvest was around 45 million dollars. Late in the twentieth century, the
Maryland Department of Natural Resources
created stricter guidelines for harvesting blue crabs to help increase populations . These include raising the legal size from 5 to 5¼ inches (from 12.7 to 13.3 cm) and limiting the days and times they may be caught.
While blue crabs remain a popular food in the Chesapeake Bay area, the Bay is not capable of meeting local demands.
Most whole blue crabs sold in restaurants in Maryland are shipped into the region from
North Carolina
, Alabama, Mississippi and
and many crabcakes are made of crabmeat imported from overseas especially Mexico and Venezuela.
At least one well-known "traditional Maryland" seafood restaurant actually imports a Southeast Asian crab, an industry there that employs about 15,000 people.
In the past U. S. crab meat was picked and processed by a labor force comprised almost exclusively of African-American females. They received transportation to and from work usually on old school buses and were paid by the picked pound with company coins or chits which could be converted to cash at the week's end. That labor force in the U. S. has today been replaced by a Latin American female work force. Some seafood shops being socially sensitive offer crab meat processed both in the U. S. and in Latin America the differences in the quality of the two products being little to none; the Latin American product being about $2.00 a pound less expensive.
The coastal towns of
Little River
South Carolina
, and
, host annual Blue Crab Festivals each May.
Harvesting techniques
Blue Crab
Blue crabs are commercially harvested by using a trap known as a "crab pot" and referred to as "crab traps" by Southerners (Hear "Song for Johnny" by Georgia artist Vic Waters.) (similar to a
lobster pot
). The crab pot is made out of wire mesh (older designs of wood and wire also exist, as well as all metal varieties) and is
in shape. The crab pot usually contains two "entrances" for the crabs that prohibit exit. These are in the form of a tapered
that allows the crab to squeeze through in one direction only. A crab pot is baited with any of several types of meat, including
, chicken or
and more recently mesh bags filled with razor clams. The bait is placed in a holding compartment, a separate meshed enclosure in the center of the pot which is accessible through a door on the bottom of the crab pot. This design attracts the crabs through the entrances while preventing them from completely removing the bait. The pots are distributed throughout the crabber's harvesting area in long straight lines and are checked approximately once a day for captures or depleted bait. Crabs that are caught are removed, and the pot is re-baited for the next day.
Crabbers sort the crabs into males ("Jimmies"), immature females ("Sallies"), and mature females ("sooks" or "she-crabs"); females bearing eggs are also known as "gravid." Catch limits for females are more restrictive than for males, and when sold, the buyer will want to know whether he is buying males or females. Those crabs with signs of getting ready to molt or shed are called "busters" or "peelers" and are also separated from the rest, and placed in shedding tanks. These tanks are usually raised and made of concrete blocks, about 3 feet by 5 feet in size. The water is constantly circulated bay or river water, and the crabs are separated into tanks according to the molting stage, determined by a pinkish spot on the swimming fins which gradually turns red, before visible signs of the shell separation are visible. This continual resorting helps prevent the harder shelled crabs from eating the ones that are beginning to actually shed. Once the shed happens, the pressure of the needing-to-be-larger crab helps the shell to crack, and the crab then backs out of the shell. At this point it is extremely vulnerable because the new shell is a gelatinous papery substance which does not protect the crab. Right after shedding, you can observe the crab becoming noticeably larger because the new shell also expands until it hardens, which takes about 48 hours. Crabbers are constantly tending the tank, and after the expansion, the crabs are removed and iced or flash frozen for transportation to market as soft shell crabs. In well tended shedding tanks there is about a 10% mortality rate. If the shedding process is not managed, the mortality can be as high as 50%.
For the recreational crabber, there exist a variety of crab traps. (Recreational crabbers rarely use commercial pots.) The design of a trap can vary widely, but the common varieties are made out of wire mesh. The crab trap is usually
in shape although cylindrical designs are also used. The crab trap contains some form of "entrance" for the crabs, such as hinged panels, that are typically closed as the trap is raised from the water. Like the commercial pots, the crab trap is baited with any of several types of meat, chicken usually being the easiest to obtain. The bait is placed in a holding spot in the middle of the trap usually in some form of clip allowing the crab direct access. This design has the potential to more easily allow the crab to escape with the bait but the trap is usually checked frequently enough (every 15 to 30 minutes) to prevent this from happening.Some recreational crabbers add the catch from the traps to a "keeper pot" that holds the live crabs until a substantial harvest is accumulated. When the keeper pot is appreciably full, the contents are prepared for a "crab feast" or for sale.
Crabs can also be caught with a
. While this method generally allows one to catch more crabs than other recreational methods, it requires more effort and equipment. This method is used by advanced recreational crabbers and some smaller commercial operations. Other recreational methods involve line crabbing (using a single baited line similar to
) or simply wading through the water with a
dip net
. Crabs can also be taken from a slow-moving motorboat. During the day, crabbers will operate the boat in shallow, grassy waters (flats) and use a long-handled net to scoop them from the bottom, where they can be easily seen moving about. At night, the crabs swim in deeper water. By scanning the water ahead of the boat using a spotlight, the crabs are easily seen and caught. Crabbing after sunset is prohibited in many areas.
Handling caught blue crabs can be quite a challenge. Even when out of the water, they will lunge towards movement they consider a threat. Experienced commercial crabbers deftly and quickly grab with one hand by a back fin close to the body those crabs that escape onto the deck. They rarely, but occasionally also feel the severe pain of a nip. Commercial crabbers usually respond to such pinches by ripping the claw from the crab's body and then prying the pinchers off their hand.
Recent research by scientists at
North Carolina State University
and the
University of Maryland
is leading to a new kind of crab harvest that could help the population recover – blue crabs grown and harvested from freshwater ponds, instead of from the sea.
The researchers discovered that crabs can tolerate a salinity level of only .3 parts per thousand, which is about the same level found in coastal tap water. They did further work to determine the best set of circumstances for raising crab: population density, food rations, and habitat structure in ponds.
Cooking & Eating
Blue crabs are most often eaten in the hard shell. Steaming them in large pots with water, vinegar and seasoning (
Old Bay Seasoning
is a popular variety in Maryland) is the norm on the East coast. The crabs are placed on a raised tray (with holes for the steam), in large cooking pots similar to pot used for cooking pasta. There is water under the tray. As the crabs are layered into the pot large amounts of the seasoning is sprinkled between the layers. The lid is then placed on the pot and kept at boiling until the crabs turn red.
However, places like
New Orleans
, and
Savannah, Georgia
, tend to boil them in water and heavy cajun seasoning which is similar to boiling
Stores carry this as "Crab Boil" or "Shrimp Boil" spice, which is added to the water, and the crabs are immersed in the water. Again, they are done when they turn red.
The cooked crabs are cracked by hand but most diners will use a small knife to pry the shell apart and cut the unwanted parts from the crab. However in many
cultures, the eggs (and sometimes the ovaries) of a female crab are eaten along with the meat, sometimes dipped into
black vinegar
. Thus it is common to purchase live crabs at a time of the year (usually autumn) when they are most fertile, so they will produce the eggs that are considered a delicacy, at the same time turning the ovaries into a more edible and enlarged orange variety. Within these cultures, it is also common advice not to eat crab meat and
together. A small wooden mallet is often used to crack the claws to remove the meat therein.
Male Crabs have an apron on the underside. This is used as a tab, similar to a beverage can. The apron is pried up with the knife, pulled back and cut off. This then reveals an area in the rear of the crab where the knife can be inserted to pry the upper and lower shells apart. The upper shell is usually discarded. The gills known locally in Maryland as "devil" are removed and discarded. There is also the crab's digestive system, considered a high delicacy by some crab eaters but usually removed. Known as 'tomalley' or, in Maryland and Virginia, referred to as 'mustar' or 'mustard', probably referring to the dark yellow color, similar to Dijon mustard.
The meat is pulled out and eaten directly. Crab shells can be very sharp and because the interior of the crab comprises a series of compartments separated by a somewhat pliable but still sharp shell, getting the meat out is also a lot of work for the relatively small amount of edible crab meat.
The picked meat, especially the large chunks from the backfin area, can also be used to make
crab cakes
, crab
, crab dip, or other dishes. Larger pieces of meat are preferred by customers, but since they fall apart easily, a cook has to carefully fold in crab meat, rather than stir it. Traditionally crab cakes were fried, but many people today prefer broiled (
Picked crab meat is also sold commercially, and the canning operations have huge crab picking 'houses' traditionally manned by local women, often the wives of watermen. These women manage to completely remove the meat, sorted into lump, claw, backfin, and the other smaller bits, in less time than the casual crab eater takes just to get into one crab, remove the gills, and pry out the lumps. Today, most picking houses are still usually staffed by women, but they are more often foreign workers with temporary work visas. Inability to get work visas has resulted in shutting down of many picking houses and a loss of markets for watermen in 2009.
Crabs caught just after molting (before the new shell has had time to harden) are prepared as
soft shell crabs
. Soft shell crabs are prepared by first cutting out the gills, face, and guts. The crab is then battered in flour, egg, and seasoning, then fried in oil until crispy. The result can be served as an
, or in a sandwich. When served between bread slices or crackers, the legs stick out on either side, and the entire crab is consumed, legs and all.
Blue crabs average 15% edible meat, and that meat is high in
vitamin B
. Just three ounces of crab meat contain a full day's
of the vitamin.
Origin of Blue Color
The origin of the blue crab hue stems from a number of pigments in their shell, including Alpha-crustacyanin, which interacts with a red pigment, astaxanthin, to form a greenish-blue coloration. When the crab is cooked, the Alpha-crustacyanin breaks down, leaving only the astaxanthin, which turns the crab red-orange.
C. E. DeRivera, G. M. Ruiz, A. H. Hines & P. Jivoff (2005). "Biotic resistance to invasion: Native predator limits abundance and distribution of an introduced crab" (PDF). Ecology 86 (12): 3367–3376. doi:10.1890/05-0479.
Report: Number of Blue Crabs in Bay Remains Below Long-Term Average
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
, July 28, 2008
Baltimore Sun, 2007
Researchers Turning Freshwater Farm Ponds into Crab Farms
Newswise, Retrieved on October 19, 2008.
External links
Crab Diagram
Blue Crab Life Cycle
The Maryland Blue Crab
Blue crab fact and information website.
Boy crabs boogie to bring females out of hiding
- the wild dance of male blue crabs propels a jet of pheromones to attract would-be lovers,
New Scientist
, 7 April 2008
Chesapeake watermen fear blue crab not coming back
Associated Press
, July 16, 2008
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I'm breaking up with eBooks (and you can too)
I want to break up with eBooks. Don't get me wrong, eBooks is dead sexy and great arm candy at parties, as well as a magnet for attention and memorable experiences. But man…eBooks makes for a crap boyfriend. This relationship is as dysfunctional as it gets. And I'm too old and jaded to put up with dysfunction. I need a smoldering hot boyfriend who is a wildcat in the bedroom but kisses gently, is unfailingly honest and kind, and sends me cute messages during the day. And that ain't eBooks.
eBooks is to libraries what that awful boyfriend (or girlfriend) was to you. Think about it. And when I say "eBooks" I mean the whole messed up situation–the copyright nightmares, the publishers, the fragmented formats, the ridiculous terms of service, the device incompatibility, the third-party aggregation companies libraries do business with–all of it. eBooks is the guy who takes advantage of your good nature and generosity only to exploit every last weakness you have for his own personal gain. The guy your family loved the first time they met him, who swept you off your feet, but who everyone came to regard as that unwanted interloper who would never leave. Well, my friends, it's time to boot eBooks' ass to the curb. There are better boyfriends to be had.
eBooks ignores you
eBooks totally ignores everything you say. We in libraries have not been included at the table for negotiations on digital copyright, terms of service, licensing conditions, technology integration, none of it. And yes, that stinks. And yes, we've complained about it enough. We haven't been heard largely because we've been too polite and too quiet for too long. It's our fault. We removed ourselves from the equation by not being more proactive as a profession through the professional organizations and lobbyists we expect to speak for us. But even now that some of us are getting louder and angrier, we're still being ignored by the entire eBooks industry, with very few exceptions (hi Gluejar, you guys rock). So my opinion is that we should walk away and take our fuck-me heels with us. That's what our moms would tell us to do.
eBooks drew you in with wine and roses, but now makes you fetch him beer and Cheetos
Remember how tantalizing eBooks seemed several years ago? How sexy, how intoxicating? Everything seemed perfect because we were caught up in the glossy image of our desires…not the reality standing in front of us. eBooks…in…the…library! Holy ceiling cat!!!11one! We were like kids on our first trip to the candy store.
Now, eBooks' idea of a date is ordering a cheese pizza from the cardboard pizza joint down the street. Maybe he'll turn on some bromance comedy on Netflix, but more than likely he'll play Skyrim by himself for hours, ask for a beer, and tell you to get lost. For your birthday eBooks might actually put toppings on the pizza (think Penguin's misguided experiment at NYPL with embargoed popular titles) and buy a bottle of $5 wine. And he expects you to be grateful…after all, hey…toppings! For libraries, our crappy pizza is our crappy eBooks selection. We can't buy from most of the major publishers, and even for those we can buy from we have extreme restrictions or highly inflated costs. And our attention negligent boyfriend's actions, in eBooks' case, are the lack of development of usable download processes, fair-use-friendly terms of use, and privacy options in keeping with libraries' professional values and ethics. In short–dude…the dates are terrible and yet we keep going on them, hoping that maybe we'll go somewhere nice eventually. Please, darling. We know better.
eBooks slept with your sister
Remember how eBooks said he could only do so much for you, that he just didn't have the emotional capacity to truly love but that for you, he was going to try? Yeah, and then he went and slept with your sister. Likewise, eBooks slept with consumers and gave them what eBooks never gave us as libraries–full selection, right-quick downloads, and sharing rights. We got no love at all, but our prettier sister, the consumer, got a better deal. Still not everything, as she also has to put up with restrictive DRM, licensing and not owning, and privacy violations…but in the end she stole our man and our man went willingly. Of course, he still texts us now and again to make sure we're still interested–hinting that he might come back to us with the same relationship agreement our sister got. Yeah, right.
eBooks says you'll move in together, but you never do
You've wanted to wake up next to someone awesome for a long time–and eBooks keeps promising it will happen. But his playboy nature always wins out–he still wants his own place. Likewise, publishers continually feed libraries the line that they're "experimenting with different models" and "hope to continue to work positively with libraries in the digital space." Uh huh. Libraries and eBooks aren't shacking up anytime soon, not for real…not as long as publishers continue to falsely view us as a threat instead of a partner.
I feel that we in libraries are actually doing a disservice by offering what's "barely good enough." We give people the false impression that they can get their eBooks through their libraries. How many libraries are upfront with information about how we can't/don't offer books from the most popular publishers? How many libraries are upfront with the limited formats people can get on their devices of choice? Instead, most libraries tout their subscription to a single eBook service like it's the second coming. We say "we have eBooks!" and "they work on most devices!" without listing the caveats, perhaps hoping that people won't notice until they're already chest deep in the browsing or download process and only then see what the limitations are. Why in hell are we covering for a bad situation? Who gains from us putting the happy face on the dismal eBook situation in libraries? It's certainly not libraries–we haven't gained shit. It's certainly not our users–in fact, they're the biggest losers. It's the publishers who gain–who choose to license to libraries under any terms whatsoever (they get our money and we accept crappy prices and use limitations). And it's the middleman companies who gain–who whore themselves out for the highest profit, lying to both sides by telling the publishers that libraries are screwing them and the libraries that the publishers are the ones doing the screwing. Walk away, my friend. Walk away.
I'm out.
So that's it folks. eBooks and I are done. eBooks in libraries are a non-starter, their path has been set for the foreseeable future, and their future is determined by people who are not us. Not by the people who love books, who believe in their power to change lives, but by those who produce them for profit. No, not by the authors (as we all know, they see far too little profit for their labors), but by the publishers…the, until recently, necessary middlemen in the process between creators and consumers. Now that they're not necessary to the process anymore, largely due to their inflexibility and inability to change in the face of rapidly shifting market conditions, they have attempted to salvage their failing business model with high prices, limited licensing policies, and technology so locked down that it remains impenetrable to many people.
If I hear one more publisher talk about "increasing friction," I am going to punch that publisher in the face with a pair of book-shaped brass knuckles and discuss the option of dramatically increasing friction cheese-grater-style somewhere else on their physique. Don't push me Penguin.
Publishers have painted themselves into a corner, a corner that will eventually eat them alive. But until that happens, until the market shakes out, there is little libraries can do that is in keeping with our core ethics and values.
For a decade now I have been speaking, writing, and advocating on a local, national, and international level for positive eBooks integration and implementation in libraries. I've spoken to technologists, educators, publishers, librarians, authors, lawyers, and legislators. I've been frustrated by how long it took everyone to start paying attention, but at long last in the past year or two people are finally listening. Everyone on "the right side," insofar as I see it, agrees that the DMCA needs to be radically revised, that copyright exemptions need to be extended for libraries into the digital domain, but no one has the power or political clout to override the lobbyists' dollar signs in the capitol. So, what are we left with as librarians in our role to advocate for our communities' needs? Nada, zilch, zero, zip.
At our recent regional library consortium meeting, I said I wouldn't give more money to OverDrive, beyond the bare minimum that the consortium's contract required of us, and only until we can legally terminate our contract–at which point I personally want out of OverDrive. The title selection is awful and getting only more so month by month, their policies are restrictive, and their business practices are unethical–including trading away core librarian values (user data privacy, no commercial endorsements). I'm not going to give any money to 3M or Baker & Taylor either unless things change on their end, just for the record.
Yes–our residents want eBooks. But does that mean that we trade away our core values and ethics to provide anything, under any terms? Does it mean that we spend our residents' limited tax dollars on sub-par products with sub-par usage terms and no ownership or longevity guarantees? Or is the fact that people want eBooks from their libraries and we can't get them going to turn out to be enough reason to stop the madness and engage in a massive national boycott of the societal conflagration that we are faced with for the future of digital information?
So why keep up the ruse that eBooks are in libraries and all is awesome? Why continue the whitewashing? I'm personally done with the whitewashing. I'll continue to support positive steps toward eBook independence like Open Library, Gluejar, the Hathi Trust, DPLA, Project Gutenberg, and projects like those undertaken at the Douglas County Public Library and Califa. However, I'm finished promoting an inferior eBook product to our patrons. I'm finished throwing good money after bad money. And I'm finished trying to pointlessly advocate for change when change has to come from places waaaaaaay above my influence level or pay grade.
eBooks, you shitty boyfriend you…you are dead to me. I will tolerate your continued existence, but will pay you no mind. You don't deserve a single byte of my brain's bandwidth.
So what now? I plan on turning my attentions to the next frontiers of music and video content–places where we just may be able to effect some positive change before things go to hell in a handbasket yet again. Multimedia library licensing situations are even more early-stage than those which we face with eBooks. And so perhaps there is still hope. Do I plan to single-handedly take on the RIAA or the MPAA? No, that would be simpering idiocy. What I do plan to do is to seek out and reward publishers, aggregators, and creators who are willing to distribute their content under terms favorable to both them and to library communities, including insisting on DRM-free content. Yes, this most likely means a lack of popular content–but most of us have zero for popular digital content for music or movies today, at least legally. At least this way we're offering something to our users, likely content they wouldn't stumble across on iTunes or Netflix, and we're rewarding business models that work for us…not against us. Models that work for our users, not against them. And that, my friends, is what we are supposed to do as librarians.
So, to close–fuck eBooks. I'm off to get myself the boyfriend I deserve.


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Doctors Without Borders reported that from Sept. 21 through Sept. 26, more than 278 people, including 96 children, have been killed from the attacks. U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power has condemned the Syrian government and Russia for "unleashing a savagery" against people they're labeling terrorists.
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Women?s Cross Country Runner of the Week ? No. 3
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Hillary Holt of College of Idaho has been named the NAIA National Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week, the national office announced Wednesday. Holt was selected based on her performance from Sept. 17 - 23 and was chosen out of a pool of conference/independent runner of the week selections.
Holt, a junior from Boise, Idaho, took home medalist honors at the Runners Soul/Erik Anderson Cross Country Invitational in Spokane, Wash., on Sept. 22. She set the school record with a finish of 17:23 in the 5,000-meter race. Her time smashed the previous standard by 22 seconds. In a field of 150 runners mixed with NCAA Division I athletes, she won the event by 16 seconds over the 2011 national runner-up. She helped the fourth-ranked Lady Yotes to the team title.
Holt and teammate Greg Montgomery, who won the NAIA National Men's Cross Country Runner of the Week award, are the second College of Idaho teammates to sweep the weekly awards. The first were Austin Basterrechea and Travis Sharp, who accomplished the feat in the first NAIA men's outdoor track and field weekly award in 2011.
For complete results of the Runners Soul/Erik Anderson Cross Country Invitational, click here.
For the complete NAIA Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week calendar, click here.
For more information on NAIA women's cross country, click here.
Nominees: Jamie Barnes, Davenport (Mich.); Talisa Budder, Haskell (Kan.); Jamie Cullins, Evergreen (Wash.); Benodine Kosom, Wiley (Texas); Zahri Jackson, Xavier (La.); Kelsey Klettke, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho); Dana Miller, Waldorf (Iowa); Keaton Gaffney, Cumberland (Tenn.); Makena Lidie, Spring Hill (Ala.); Jessa Sughroue, Doane (Neb.); Sarah Williams, Peru State (Neb.); Brielle Lund, Tabor (Kan.); Bay Baker, Sterling (Kan.); Chloe Brown, Belhaven (Miss.); Hana Jiraskova, Point Park (Pa.); Valinn McReynolds, William Penn (Iowa); Annie Hills, Loyola (La.); Chelsee Lisk, St. Ambrose (Iowa); Rhianna Grossman, Carroll (Mont.); Liz Mosbach, Mount Mercy (Iowa); Ellie Staker, Embry-Riddle (Fla.); Rachael Hart, Rocky Mountain (Mont.); Kayla Byrd, William Carey (Miss.); Kayla Renner, Rio Grande (Ohio); Ashley Mast, Mount Vernon Nazarene (Ohio); Meagan Wright, Milligan (Tenn.); Gianna Gambera, Ave Maria (Fla.); Hannah Endrizzi, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Liciane St. Jean, Warner (Fla.); Kristina Duncun , Johnson & Wales (Fla.); Brittni Kent, Science & Arts (Okla.); Bethany Jones, Southeastern (Fla.); Kendra Mann, Oklahoma City; Emily Weber, Saint Mary (Neb.); Abby Jahn, Illinois Tech; Hannah Kellerman, The Master's (Calif.).
2012 NAIA Women's Cross Country Runners of the Week
Week 1 (Sept. 12): Hannah Helker, Oklahoma Baptist
Week 2 (Sept. 19): Sarah Kortze, Concordia (Neb.)
Week 3 (Sept. 26): Hillary Holt, College of Idaho


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Unfortunately, I'm going to have to bow out as well. Things are not as free for this weekend as I'd previously thought, and I need to deal with some family issues.
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CLERMONT, Fla.—Defending national champion #1 Tufts University (4-1) used a five-run fifth inning to earn a 9-0, five-inning, mercy-rule victory over UMass Boston softball (1-4) Wednesday evening at the NTC Spring Games Main Complex.
After holding the Jumbos to four runs through four innings, the Jumbos scored five two-out runs, with four of the runs coming unearned.
Freshman pitcher Jillian Shepherd (Norwood, Mass.) had her best outing of her young career, allowing just one earned run over 2.2 innings pitched in relief. The young right-hander allowed six hits and walked one, while registering her first two collegiate strikeouts. Sophomore Emily Gray (New Bedford, Mass.) got the start and allowed five hits and four earned runs over two innings.
Lyndsey Capra (Lowell, Mass.), Natalia Bouyea (East Longmeadow, Mass.) and Kaitlyn Morse (Arlington, Mass.) each recorded a hit apiece for UMass Boston. Capra and Bouyea each reached base two times after being hit by a pitch, while Morse recorded the Beacons' lone extra-base hit with a double in the third inning.
Tufts cleanup hitter Cassie Ruscz carried out the brunt of the damage for the #1 ranked Jumbos, as she finished the game 3-for-4 with three RBI, including a walk-off RBI single that plated two runners. Left fielder Sara Hedtler finished 2-for-2 with two runs scored and two RBI out of the second spot in the lineup.
Senior pitcher Lauren Giglio moved to 2-0 with the win by allowing three hits and striking out six over five innings.
The Jumbos jumped out to a 4-0 lead after two innings thanks to a big two-run double from Ruscz in the bottom of the first and some strong base-running in the second inning.
UMass Boston responded with their best rally of the day in the top of the third, when Morse and Bouyea recorded two of the Beacons' three hits. After the leadoff hitter was retired, Morse rocketed a sharp grounder through the infield and past the center-fielder, for her second double of the season. Bouyea followed with a looper into left-field and took second base when the pitcher was off the circle, to put runners at second and third with one out. Giglio shut the Beacons down from there, inducing a grounder back to the mound and a fly out to center field to end the rally.
Shepherd came in in the bottom of the third and worked her way in-and-out of trouble over the next two innings. After loading the bases with one out in the third, Shepherd forced back-to-back pop-ups to get out of the inning. In the fourth inning, she struck out Tufts' All-American catcher Jo Clair with a runner on second and then with two runners on, she forced a groundout to end the inning.
Tufts proved to much for the Beacons in the fifth though, as the Jumbos crossed the plate five times on four singles, a hit by pitch and two UMass Boston errors.
UMass Boston will wrap up their Florida trip Wednesday when they take on Washington & Jefferson College (9 a.m.) and Trinity College (11 a.m.) at the NTC Spring Games Main Complex.