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The March 2009 challenge is hosted by Mary of Beans and Caviar, Melinda of Melbourne Larder and Enza of Io Da Grande. They have chosen Lasagne of Emilia-Romagna from The Splendid Table by Lynne Rossetto Kasper as the challenge.
The most important part of this challenge is the hand-made Spinach Egg Pasta. She is also going to use Lynne's recipes for béchamel (white) sauce and her own zucchini based turkey ragu.
It was a new kitchen, so she wanted to be prepared. Her children watched in awe as she spun around, faster and faster and when she stopped she had on a red hat and was holding her scale.
First she gathered the Béchamel sauce ingredients and pot by the stove, then spun around and around in a blur and when she stopped she had on a slinky turquoise dress and carried her trusty whisk. The children's eyes nearly popped out of their heads. Béchamel sauces need a lot of whisking, so she shared that task with the kids, too.
The day before she had partnered with her friend, The Mighty Flame, after she donned her ninja outfit and chopped up the zucchini for the ragu. Today he was helpful again with the Béchamel, but the kids kept their distance since he was so hot. She would never tell them just how hot…too much information.
While the kids took a nap, she returned to her normal appearance and made good use of her rolling pin, starting with snake shaped pieces of the dough
In the afternoon Flame helped her get a big pot of water boiling. The kids, awake again, found it fascinating to see how bright green the pasta looked as it came out of the boiling water
Flame did the spinning around thing and when he stopped he was dressed in green and wielding a spatula. As the Daring Baker of the female persuasion added the Béchamel sauce to the baking pan, he spread it out to a thin layer. She layered on the pasta, ragu sauce and more Béchamel, with El Spatulla helping with spreading when needed.
By this time everyone was a bit tired and ready for the gorgeous lasagna to go into the oven to bake. Milk and cookies were enjoyed all around.
As she tucked the kids in to bed later that evening, she thought to herself, "and this morning I was just a mild-mannered housewife". Thus ends the story for the March Daring Baker Challenge…pure fiction.
If you haven't yet visited, please visit the NEW Daring Kitchen blog (Click on logo at right of this post...@X#!*Blogger isn't letting me do an actual link!), home of these super heroes and of the Daring Bakers and Daring Cooks. It has a blogroll so that you can visit lots and lots of other Daring Bakers' blogs to see what super heroes they have been this month in creating their own version of the delicious lasagna.
Many thanks to Ivonne, Lis, Patricia (for the logo and hero images) and Steve for the new site. It's awesome, people. Go take a look and you can see patricia's super heroes of the kitchen who inspired my little story.
Lasagna of Emilia-Romagna (Lasagne Verdi al Forno)
(Serves 8 to 10 as a first course, 6 to 8 as a main dish)
Preparation Time: 15 minutes to assemble and 40 minutes cooking time
10 quarts (9 litres) salted water
1 recipe Spinach Pasta cut for lasagna (recipe follows)#1
1 recipe Béchamel Sauce (recipe follows)#2
1 recipe Turkey Zucchini Ragu (recipe follows)#3
1 cup (4 ounces/125g) freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano
The ragu and the béchamel sauce can be made up to three days ahead. The ragu can also be frozen for up to one month. The pasta can be rolled out, cut and dried up to 24 hours before cooking. The assembled lasagna can wait at room temperature (20 degrees Celsius/68 degrees Fahrenheit) about 1 hour before baking. Do not refrigerate it before baking, as the topping of béchamel and cheese will overcook by the time the center is hot.
Assembling the Ingredients:
Have all the sauces, rewarmed gently over a medium heat, and the pasta at hand. Have a large perforated skimmer and a large bowl of cold water next to the stove. Spread a double thickness of paper towels over a large counter space. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (180 degrees Celsius). Oil or butter a 3 quart (approx 3 litre) shallow baking dish.
Cooking the Pasta:
Bring the salted water to a boil. Drop about four pieces of pasta in the water at a time. Cook about 2 minutes. If you are using dried pasta, cook about 4 minutes, taste, and cook longer if necessary. The pasta will continue cooking during baking, so make sure it is only barely tender. Lift the lasagna from the water with a skimmer, drain, and then slip into the bowl of cold water to stop cooking. When cool, lift out and dry on the paper towels. Repeat until all the pasta is cooked.
Assembling the Lasagna:
Spread a thin layer of béchamel over the bottom of the baking dish. Arrange a layer of about four overlapping sheets of pasta over the béchamel. Spread a thin layer of béchamel (about 3 or 4 spoonfuls) over the pasta, and then an equally thin layer of the ragu.
Baking and Serving the Lasagna:
Cover the baking dish lightly with foil, taking care not to let it touch the top of the lasagna. Bake 40 minutes, or until almost heated through. Remove the foil and bake another 10 minutes, or until hot in the center (test by inserting a knife – if it comes out very warm, the dish is ready). Take care not to brown the cheese topping. It should be melted, creamy looking and barely tinged with a little gold. Turn off the oven, leave the door ajar and let the lasagna rest for about 10 minutes. Then serve. This is not a solid lasagna, but a moist one that slips a bit when it is cut and served.
#1 Spinach Egg Pasta (Pasta Verde)
Preparation: 45 minutes
Makes enough for 6 to 8 first course servings or 4 to 6 main course servings, equivalent to 1 pound (450g) dried boxed pasta.
2 jumbo eggs (2 ounces/60g or more)
10 ounces (300g) fresh spinach, rinsed dry, and finely chopped; or 6 ounces (170g) frozen chopped spinach, defrosted and squeezed dry
3&1/2 cups (14 ounces/400g) all purpose unbleached (plain) flour (organic stone ground preferred)
Working by Hand:
A roomy work surface, 24 to 30 inches deep by 30 to 36 inches (60cm to 77cm deep by 60cm to 92cm). Any smooth surface will do, but marble cools dough slightly, making it less flexible than desired.
Note: although it is not traditional, Enza has successfully made pasta with a marble rolling pin, and this can be substituted for the wooden pin, if you have one.
Plastic wrap to wrap the resting dough and to cover rolled-out pasta waiting to be filled. It protects the pasta from drying out too quickly.
Mixing the dough:
Mound the flour in the center of your work surface and make a well in the middle. Add the eggs and spinach. Use a wooden spoon to beat together the eggs and spinach. Then gradually start incorporating shallow scrapings of flour from the sides of the well into the liquid. As you work more and more flour into the liquid, the well's sides may collapse. Use a pastry scraper to keep the liquids from running off and to incorporate the last bits of flour into the dough. Don't worry if it looks like a hopelessly rough and messy lump.
With the aid of the scraper to scoop up unruly pieces, start kneading the dough. Once it becomes a cohesive mass, use the scraper to remove any bits of hard flour on the work surface – these will make the dough lumpy. Knead the dough for about 3 minutes. Its consistency should be elastic and a little sticky. If it is too sticky to move easily, knead in a few more tablespoons of flour. Continue kneading about 10 minutes, or until the dough has become satiny, smooth, and very elastic. It will feel alive under your hands. Do not shortcut this step. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap, and let it relax at room temperature 30 minutes to 3 hours.
Stretching and Thinning:
If using an extra-long rolling pin work with half the dough at a time. With a regular-length rolling pin, roll out a quarter of the dough at a time and keep the rest of the dough wrapped. Lightly sprinkle a large work surface with flour. The idea is to stretch the dough rather than press down and push it. Shape it into a ball and begin rolling out to form a circle, frequently turning the disc of dough a quarter turn. As it thins outs, start rolling the disc back on the pin a quarter of the way toward the center and stretching it gently sideways by running the palms of your hands over the rolled-up dough from the center of the pin outward. Unroll, turn the disc a quarter turn, and repeat. Do twice more.
Stretch and even out the center of the disc by rolling the dough a quarter of the way back on the pin. Then gently push the rolling pin away from you with one hand while holding the sheet in place on the work surface with the other hand. Repeat three more times, turning the dough a quarter turn each time.
Repeat the two processes as the disc becomes larger and thinner. The goal is a sheet of even thickness. For lasagna, the sheet should be so thin that you can clearly see your hand through it and see colours. Cut into rectangles about 4 by 8 inches (10 x 20 cm). Note: Enza says that transparency is a crucial element of lasagna pasta and the dough should be rolled as thinly as possible. She says this is why her housekeeper has such strong arms!
Dry the pasta at room temperature and store in a sealed container or bag. (NOTE: Since I was making the lasagna the same day, I didn't dry the pasta sheets.)
#2 Béchamel
Preparation Time: 15 minutes
4 tablespoons (2 ounces/60g) unsalted butter
4 tablespoons (2 ounces/60g) all purpose unbleached (plain) flour, organic stone ground preferred
2&2/3 cups (approx 570ml) milk
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
Freshly grated nutmeg to taste
Using a medium-sized saucepan, melt the butter over low to medium heat. Sift over the flour, whisk until smooth, and then stir (without stopping) for about 3 minutes. Whisk in the milk a little at a time and keep the mixture smooth. Bring to a slow simmer, and stir 3 to 4 minutes, or until the sauce thickens. Cook, stirring, for about 5 minutes, until the sauce thickens. Season with salt, pepper, and a hint of nutmeg.
#3 Turkey Zucchini Ragu
1/2 lb ground meat (beef or turkey - I use turkey)
1-2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 medium onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 medium squash, cut into chunks (any summer squash, but zucchini works best)
1 15 oz. can tomato sauce
1 15 oz can diced tomatos in juice
2 teaspoons oregano
1 teaspoon dry basil
1/4 teaspoon dry rosemary
note - fresh oregano, basil and rosemary can be used - use twice as much, or more, to taste
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
In large skillet heat oil over medium high heat. Brown ground meat. Set aside.
Using same pan, cook onion and garlic until transluscent and barely brown, about 5 minutes, stirring now and then.
While meat and then onions/garlic cook, put half of squash in a blender. Add 1/2 of the can of tomato sauce and 1 tablespoon of water. Pulse blender, removing top and stirring every couple of pulses, until mixture is broken down but still chunky. Once onions have finished, pour this mixture into the pan. Lower heat to simmer and deglaze the pan with the tomato mixture, scraping up the browned bits.
Return browned meat to the pan and stir. Put the rest of the squash into the blender, add rest of tomato sauce, pulse the same way the first batch was done. Add this batch to the pan of meat mixture and stir.
Add diced tomatoes, herbs, salt and pepper to pan, stir.
Return to boil, cover, turn down heat and simmer at least 2 minutes, stirring about every 10 minutes to avoid scorching. (The longer the sauce simmers, the better it will taste.)
note - this sauce tastes even better if allowed to cool and left in the refrigerator overnight to blend the flavors. Reheat over low heat until simmering.
Verdict: This is not a heavy, gut busting lasagna, but a delicate, savory and delicious version. We liked it very much. It seemed to be best the day it was made and didn't taste as good a few days later…the pasta seemed dry and the sauce not so creamy. It is a bit of work, but would be a nice celebration dish.


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IBM retirees: 110,000 to be moved off health plan
IBM retirees will receive money instead to buy their own health insurance. The company says the costs of keeping Medicare-eligible IBM retirees on its own health plan would triple by 2020.
IBM plans to move many retired workers off its health plan and give them money to buy coverage on a health-insurance exchange. The move is part of a corporate trend away from providing traditional retiree health benefits as costs rise.
The company says it acted after projections showed that costs under its current plan for Medicare-eligible retirees will triple by 2020 and that the increases would be paid by retirees through premiums and out-of-pocket costs.
An IBM spokesman said Saturday that the change will affect about 110,000 retirees who are eligible for Medicare.
Under the change, IBM will make annual contributions to health-retirement accounts. Retirees would use the money to buy Medicare Advantage or supplemental Medigap policies through a private Medicare exchange.
The change affects medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage.
The company is meeting with retirees around the country to explain the change. About 1,300 retirees attended the first one this week in San Jose, Calif. The next is planned for Monday in Austin, Texas.
IBM acknowledged that "some retirees may be skeptical" about the changes. But it said the health exchange, Extend Health, will offer benefits not now available under IBM's group plans and possibly at lower cost to retirees.
Spokesman Douglas Shelton said IBM capped health subsidies to retirees in the 1990s, and so higher costs would mostly lead to higher premiums and out-of-pocket costs for retirees.
Other large employers are also moving away from retiree health benefits. American Airlines parent AMR Corp., for example, is seeking approval for the change from a federal bankruptcy court judge.
A Kaiser Family Foundation report issued last month found that among companies with at least 200 workers, 28 percent that provide health benefits also offer retiree coverage.
The study's authors said few large employers have turned over benefits for workers or retirees to private exchanges like Extend Health. But they said 29 percent of companies with at least 5,000 workers are considering it.
The authors said there could be "a significant change in the way that employers approach health benefits and the way employees get coverage, with employers playing a less active role."


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DDB1: damage-specific DNA binding protein 1, 127kDa
Chromosomal Location: 11q12-q13
Mapping Data
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Mapping of each SNP onto the gene structure. Each SNP can be listed as: --- (noncoding), 5UT (5'UTR), 3UT (3'UTR). If a SNP occurs in a coding region its effect on the amino acid translation is shown. All translations are done from the Entrez RefSeq curated mRNA sequence (Acc. No.: NM* or XM*) for each gene.
PCR Primers (FASTA)
A FASTA formatted list of the PCR primers used to generate over-lapping amplicons (~800-1000 bp). A description of primers and the standard PCR conditions are
Color FASTA Sequence
The final reference sequence generated for this gene as a colored FASTA sequence in order to easily locate gene features. Variations are shown in red, exons are shown in blue, and protein translations are included in the coding regions.
A FASTA formatted file of the complementary DNA (cDNA) that contains 5' UTR, exons, and 3' UTR regions. This sequence is translated for mapping of nonsynonymous SNPs to protein amino acid positions. Most cDNA sequences used are downloaded directly from LocusLink gene data page for the candidate gene being studied. Generally the primary cDNA found at LocusLink is used for mapping when multiple splice variants are present.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. – Green Bay Packers wide receiver Randall Cobb was in obvious pain at the end of practice. The team's top pass-catcher, Cobb stayed on the field anyway.
Only afterward did he admit he should have been smarter with the biceps injury that's been bothering him since an Aug. 3 scrimmage. By the end of Tuesday's practice, Cobb was wincing, holding his right arm close to his body and clearly in pain during an 11-on-11 competitive team period.
"Yeah, I have some pain in it. So (I'm) just dealing with that," Cobb said. "The hardest part for me is, I'm a tough guy, I want to be on the field. I don't like missing practice. I hate missing practice. So trying to be smart and be tough at the same time is difficult for me, but I understand that I have limitations and I have to be smart about it. But it's hard and difficult at times."
Asked if he was smart Tuesday, Cobb replied simply, "No."
The Packers can't afford to lose Cobb, who led the team in receiving last year (80 receptions, 954 yards, eight touchdowns). Not only is wide receiver Jordy Nelson sidelined for the rest of camp after having a nerve procedure done on his knee, but Cobb and his versatility are vital to the Packers' offense.
Coach Mike McCarthy undoubtedly would prefer Cobb not try to be a tough guy. It was McCarthy who stopped right guard T.J. Lang, who was dressed for practice, from participating Tuesday because of a back injury Lang planned to play through.
"Whether I agreed with it or not, it's his decision, so I had to go with it," Lang said. "Randall, I know he's been battling through some pain and it really comes down to a pride thing. You don't want to be missing time if you don't have to. If your injury is not allowing you to do your job to the best of your abilities, then it might be a better idea to make sure you're healthy before you get on the field again.
"It really comes down to being smart, making sure you're always communicating if something is bothering you. There's a fine line - a lot of guys just try to tough it out. There's a lot of pride there."
Cobb was held out of the team's preseason opener Friday night against Arizona. After practice, McCarthy sounded as though Cobb would be told to take some time off.
"In Randall's case, it's something that we understand what the injury (is), and we wouldn't put him out there if we thought he was in jeopardy of moving forward and getting healthy," McCarthy said. "But every case is different. . In Randall's case, it's probably something he's going to be battling for a while."
Cobb, who missed the 2011 regular-season finale as a rookie with a groin injury and missed last year's regular-season finale with a knee injury, said he believes playing through pain serves a dual purpose: It prepares him for when something happens to him when the games count and he has to stay on the field, and that practice is vital because he needs the work.
"I know at some point during the season I'm going to be in pain and I'm going to have to play and I'm going to have to be productive when I do play. So trying to push through right now is more of a mindset for me," Cobb explained.
Asked if he was happy with the camp he's had to this point, Cobb replied, "No I haven't. I still feel like I have a lot of work to do, and that's another reason why I don't want to miss practice."


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Consider $2n$ coordinates $x_1,\ldots,x_n,y_1,\ldots,y_n$ and the quadratic form $q = \sum_{i=1}^n x_i y_i$. Now call $O(q,A)$ (orthogonal group of $q$) the group of $(2n)\times(2n)$ matrices, with coefficients in a commutative ring $A$, which preserve $q$. (This is an algebraic group over $\mathop{\mathrm{Spec}}\mathbb{Z}$.) When $A$ is a field of characteristic $\neq 2$, the determinant restricted to $O(q,A)$ takes its values in $\{\pm 1\}$, its kernel $O(q,A) \cap SL(2n,A)$ defines a subgroup $SO(q,A)$ of index $2$. When $A$ is a field of characteristic $2$, the determinant is identically $1$ on $O(q,A)$ but there is still a subgroup of index $2$, which one might still denote $SO(q,A)$, defined by the so-called "Dickson invariant", also known as quasideterminant or pseudodeterminant, and it is relatively straightforward to give an explicit polynomial in the coefficients of $A$ which defines an equation of $SO(q,A)$ inside $O(q,A)$ (see, Dickson's book, Linear Groups, theorem 205 on page 206).
Now for an arbitrary ring $A$, there is still a subgroup $SO(q,A)$ of $O(q,A)$, which is the kernel of a morphism $\deg$ of $O(q,A)$ to the group $(\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z})(A)$ of idempotents of $A$ (so, when $A$ is connected, $SO(q,A)$ is a subgroup of order $2$) natural in $A$ and which coincides with $\frac{1}{2}(1-\det)$ when $2$ is invertible in $A$ and with Dickson's invariant when $2$ is zero in $A$. This is due to H. Bass ("Commutative Algebras and Spinor Norms over a Commutative Rings", Amer. J. Math. 96 (1974), 156–206).
Concretely, this means that there exists a polynomial $\deg$ in $4n^2$ variables over $\mathbb{Z}$ such that, modulo the ideal $I$ of relations defining $O(q,A)$, we have $\deg^2 = \deg$ and $\det = 1-2\deg$. And $I_0 := I+(\deg)$ is the ideal defining $SO(q,A)$.
My question is: can one give an explicit expression of $\deg$ (as a polynomial in $4n^2$ variables), or perhaps an explicit set of equations of $SO(q,A)$ (e.g., Gröbner basis of $I_0$ for some term order)? (At least for the particular quadratic form $q = \sum_{i=1}^n x_i y_i$ if not in general.)


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Paul: Obama 'histrionics' over cuts
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is charging that President Barack Obama is full of "histrionics" about what will happen if the sequester kicks in.
"I think the sequester happens and it will be in some ways a yawn because the histrionics that are coming from the president saying, 'Oh, we're going to shut down and get rid of meat inspectors' — I mean, is anybody not going to stand up and call his bluff on that ridiculousness?" Paul said on CNN on Tuesday night.
Obama has warned that the sequester — in which $1.2 trillion automatic cuts to government spending begin March 1 — could have wide-ranging, devastating effects to the nation, leading to furloughs for some government employees that could mean, among other effects, fewer meat inspections.
Paul's take? The sequester doesn't go far enough.
"I mean, for goodness sakes, it was his proposal. He proposed the sequester, it was his idea. He signed it into law, now he's going to tell us that, 'Oh, it's all our fault?'" Paul said. "I voted against the sequester because I didn't think it was enough."
He added: "It's a pittance. I mean, it's a slowdown in the rate of growth. There are no real cuts happening over 10 years."


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"Think of a disease and there is probably a medicine there that affects the G-protein-coupled receptor." - Sven Lidin, chairman of the Nobel prize committee, on the 2012 chemistry award to Messrs. Lefkowitz and Kobilka.
GPCRs are the largest family of cell surface receptors being integral to the number of cellular and physiological functions, including light sensing, smell, appetite control, insulin secretion, and blood pressure modulation. TimTec GPCR Ligands library, ActiTarg-G, currently counts 2,300 molecules available in various formatting options.
The ActiTarg-G Collection is a plated screening set of molecules that contain chemical lattices present in compounds reported in the technical or patent literature to possess GPCR-ligand properties. From our collection of over 7000 compounds in more than 15 different chemical series we have assembled a pre-filtered diversity collection of 2300 compounds that should provide a high value screening library of drug-like molecules for identifying synthesis direction for the development of new GPCR ligands. Structural constraints and novel pendants within these lattices provide the structural variability to identify new chemical directions for hit optimization.
Compounds are available for cherry-picking and/or as a collection in 96, 384-well plates and in vials. Contact us for structural info, formatting options and pricing.
G-protein coupled receptors are a ubiquitous super family of proteins with hundreds of members having been identified and cloned. These receptors generally have a seven-membrane spanning alpha-helical topography, and while these receptors are similar in overall structure and function, they differ in key amino acid residues. The potential for this super family of receptors to reveal small molecule modulators of a significant biological function has been responsible the focus of intense drug discovery efforts.
Compounds with structural features and molecular lattices that are present in a large number molecules described in both the patent and technical literature that possess GPCR activity have been identified, and assembled as indicated below.
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G-Protein-Coupled Receptors are the largest gene families in the human genome and, rightfully so, have become the leading molecular target in 2008. In 2009 SBS April meeting in Lille, France, followed-up with screening trends report stating that "GPCRs are expected to replace protein kinases as the most common molecular target used by HTS laboratories."
Anti-inflammatory therapeutics development is closely linked to exploring G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) family. For example, one of the successful finds zeros down on an adenosine receptor from GPCR family called A2A that counteracts inflammation and responds to organs in distress.
Xu F, Wu H, et.al. Structure of an agonist-bound human A2A adenosine receptor. Science. 2011 Apr 15;332(6027):322-7
Amy Swinderman. NIH researchers show how adenosine receptor is 'switched on,' shed light on drug interaction. Drug Discovery News. Code: E04111101. 04-11-2011
Lefkowitz RJ: Seven transmembrane receptors: something old, something new. Acta Physiol (oxf) 2007;190:9-19
Lander ES, Linton LM, Birren B, Nusbaum C, Zody MC, Baldwin J, et al: Initial Sequencing and analysis of the human genome. Nature 2001;409:860-921
Venter JC, Adams MD, Myers EQ, Li PW, Mural RJ, Sutton GG, et al: The sequence of the human genome. Science 2001;291:1304-1354
Overington JP, Al-Lazikani B, Hopkins AL: How many drug targets are there? Nat Rev Drug Discov 2006;5:993-996
Xiao SH, Reagan JD, Lee PH, Fu A, Schwandner R, Zhao X, et al: High throughput screening for orphan and liganded GPCRs. Comb Chem High Throughput Screen 2008;11:195-215
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Coach Luiz Felipe Scolari heaped praise on Chile after his Brazil side moved into the World Cup quarter-finals thanks to a 3-2 penalty shootout victory over their South American rivals.
With the scores level at 1-1 after extra-time, Neymar's penalty in the shootout proved decisive when Chile defender Gonzalo Jara smashed the final spot-kick against the post.
Julio Cesar saved two penalties in the shootout as the hosts booked a last-eight encounter with Colombia, who were 2-0 winners over Uruguay.
Brazil were pushed to the very end by Chile, who could have won the absorbing contest in Belo Horizonte had Mauricio Pinilla's shot in the last minute of extra time gone in rather than hit the crossbar.
Scolari paid tribute to Jorge Sampaoli's side and insisted his own team showed tremendous spirit to remain in the competition.
He told FIFA.com: "We knew when the draw was made we were going to be in for a tough time.
"They're a very organised team with a good tactical system and fine players.
"Every credit to Chile but this penalty shootout win says a lot about us and about our desire to progress.
"The players can have a break now and, as they recover, we'll have a look at how we won, go through all the tricky situations we were in and a whole lot of other details.
"The idea is to build on this. When you win like this you come out stronger. We're going to tell them that so they can appreciate what they've done."
Brazil had taken the lead through a goal awarded to David Luiz - even though it appeared to come off a Chile player - before Chile netted a deserved equaliser through Alexis Sanchez.
Brazil's win also saved English referee Howard Webb from becoming the country's public enemy number one after he found himself at the centre of huge controversy when he disallowed a goal by Brazil forward Hulk for handball.
Sampaoli believes his side were unlucky to bow out of the tournament and can be proud of their efforts.
He said: "I'm not happy. We gave everything we had and we were up against a whole stadium, against the hosts and we didn't go through.
"Our players made history and they did their country proud. We had possession of the ball, we put in a lot of effort, we took more risks and we fought till the end.
"If that (Pinilla) shot hadn't hit the bar, then everything might have been different. But it wasn't. I hope that the pain that we're feeling right now becomes something else in the future.
"With time we'll look at it differently and we'll come to appreciate what this team has done."
"There's huge pressure in representing our country, and it was tough on a psychological and emotional level." - Julio Cesar
Man of the match Cesar insisted Brazil's victory went a long way to erasing the hurt caused by their World Cup exit at the hands of Holland in South Africa four years ago.
He said: "We had a good first half and created a lot of chances. After the equaliser Chile came into the game and made life hard for us.
"All we can do is thank the fans and our team-mates for keeping the faith.
"There's huge pressure in representing our country, and it was tough on a psychological and emotional level.
"I got very emotional four years ago, and today I was crying again, but this time out of happiness.
"Not many people know what I've been through, but I knew my international career wasn't over.
"We've got three more steps to go now and I want to see Brazil celebrating. That's my big dream."


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You sit down to eat. How will your meal affect your blood glucose? If you're on insulin, how much should you take? Turns out that counting carbohydrate will not always give you the answer. Food can affect you in strange ways.
Do you know about the pizza effect? In a blog on glycemic index, I mentioned how plain pizza had a much higher glycemic index than a deluxe pizza with all the toppings. Plain dough and sauce raises your blood glucose way faster.
What I didn't mention was that all that carbohydrate in the deluxe pizza will get into your bloodstream eventually. You just don't know when, unless you check your blood glucose every hour for four hours or even more. That's because the fats and protein in the toppings slow down the absorption of carbohydrate. As a result, your blood glucose might spike two to five hours after the meal.
Other meals that combine lots of carbohydrate with fats and/or proteins could have the same effect. Jan Chait posted here five years ago about a big spaghetti fest she had with her husband. The pasta was covered with a fatty sauce, with a side of garlic bread and lots of butter. Because of the fats (the pizza effect,) her blood glucose levels were up for two days, instead of just spiking high for an hour or two.
One commenter posted on HealingWell.com that he injected enough insulin to cover the carbohydrate in a big Chinese meal, including lots of fried food. Two hours after eating, his glucose was 171, the same as it had been before the meal. But three hours later his sugar was over 500! It took him days to get back in control.
Sometimes the pizza effect is helpful, like at bedtime. A bedtime snack that includes a small amount of fat and protein can help keep overnight levels from going too low. That way you don't get a rebound effect in the morning.
If you're not taking insulin, a delay in rising glucose is often a good thing. Your body will have more time to crank up its phase 2 insulin response. But that doesn't always work. If the delayed spike happens all at once, your insulin might still be overwhelmed.
If you are taking insulin, the pizza effect is an even bigger deal. You might inject insulin to cover the first 1–2 hours after your meal, but the carbohydrate in the meal will not be in your blood yet. So you might go low. Then a couple of hours later when the glucose kicks in, the insulin will have worn off, and you'll be way too high.
On Health Central, a person helping her son use a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) found out that he needed to take a small amount of insulin immediately, then take an extended bolus for up to six hours, to avoid spiking.
Science writer Gary Taubes wrote that high glucose numbers after a fatty meal aren't the fault of the fat. In Taubes' view, fats won't cause a glucose rise without the carbohydrate. If you just ate the pizza toppings and not the crust, you'd be OK.
There may be more to the pizza effect than just delayed carbohydrate absorption, though. Studies show that eating fats can increase inflammation and insulin resistance.
Not everyone experiences the pizza effect. This comment thread features many people with diabetes saying they never experienced the effect, though they ate pizza and monitored frequently to look for it.
Chinese Restaurant Effect
The pizza effect is not the only thing that can throw you off. Dr. Richard Bernstein described what he called the "Chinese Restaurant Effect," in which glucose levels spike far higher than a low-carb meal could have possibly caused.
Bernstein cites a person with Type 1 whose glucose went from 90 to 300 after eating a head of lettuce. Lettuce has very little carbohydrate content, so how could this happen?
Bernstein explains:
The upper part of the small intestine contains cells that release hormones into the bloodstream whenever they are stretched, as after a large meal. These hormones signal the pancreas to produce insulin in order to prevent the blood sugar rise that might otherwise follow digestion of a meal. Large meals cause greater stretching of the intestinal cells, which in turn secrete larger amounts of these hormones.
Since a very small amount of insulin released by the pancreas can cause a large drop in blood sugar, the pancreas simultaneously produces the less potent hormone glucagon to offset the potential excess effect of the insulin.
Glucagon raises blood glucose by telling the liver to break down starch into glucose. So the two hormones should balance out, but in a person with diabetes, the insulin won't kick in, just the glucagon. So eating large amounts of anything, "even sawdust" says Bernstein, could raise your blood glucose.
Seems like it's best not to eat big meals at all, to avoid the Chinese Restaurant Effect. To avoid the pizza effect, if you are going to eat things like pizza, keep the portions small and check your blood glucose several times in the hours following, because you don't know when you'll spike. Make sense?


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Strawberry Legend
A Cherokee Legend
In the Beginning of the Cherokee World In the beginning, there were two worlds: The heavenly world called ga-lun-la-ti, which was placed high in the heavens, and the lower, dark world where the forces of evil lived. Ga-lun-la-ti was populated with beings in animal, human and plant forms. All creatures spoke the Cherokee language and lived together in harmony. The Earth was but a ball of water on which gigantic fish and reptiles lived. The universe of the Cherokees depended on harmony and balance. Light was balanced by dark; things of goodness balanced by things that hid from the light of day in the shadows of the darkness.
In the beginning there was no sun, but a Great Tree of Life grew in the center of Ga-lun-la-ti. It lit the world so all could see and cast its light down on the dark waters below. So it was that the Creator lived by the Tree of Life where he tended the plants and cared for the animals. Sometimes, the waterfowl, the hawks, and eagles flew down in the darkness below; giant turtles and muskrats swam on the water's surface and bathed in the pale light of the heavenly tree. The Creator led a solitary existence. When his work was done, he sat by the Tree, admiring his world around him and below. Sometimes he became lonely and longed for a companion, perhaps a daughter who would sit beside him in the evening, watching his creation live and grow.
Then, the Creator made a young lady whose beauty and grace touched his soul. He knew that she, too, would long for someone to run and play with so he created a man in his likeness and taught his children the things that he knew.
The Creator found that his daughter laughed and sang too much; and she talked constantly. She asked too many questions. Why do the leaves of the Tree of Life shine? Who created the Upper World? Who named the plants? Creator still loved her, for this was his daughter, but this constant laughter and questions, what could he do? The Creator had told them many times to stay away from the Tree of Life and not to play around its trunk. But like all curious children she had to see why her father said these things. First Man would insist that she not go to the tree but every day First Woman would climb the tree to its highest limbs. One day she found a hole in the bottom of the trunk and started to go in. First Man was again insistent that she stay away from the tree but to no avail. She went in and fell out of the bottom of Ga-lun-la-ti.
Creator returned home to find First Woman was missing. He asked First Man "where is my daughter?" to which the young man replied "I told her not to go into the hole in the bottom of the tree, but she would not listen." Creator did not know what to do as he peered over the side of Ga-lun-la-ti and saw his daughter falling toward the awesome ball of water.
Creator summoned the birds of the sky, to catch his daughter that she might not drown. They created a great blanket with their wings on which they caught her. But, where should they put her? As they flew above the deep waters, the grandfather of all turtles surfaced. "Here, place her on my back," he said. The birds descended with the young woman, henceforth known as "Sky-Woman," and placed her on the surface of her new home. But it was not large enough, the Muskrat volunteered to find land and dove to the bottom of the waters and brought up mud, which he placed on the turtle's back. When she touched the Earth that Muskrat had brought, it grew in all directions, becoming the Earth that we know today as Turtle Island. The Creator knew that she would need more and so he sent down the plants and animals to take care of his daughter. He sent down the deer, buffalo, bear, rabbits, and squirrels to provide food and clothing. He sent the medicines of the plant people; cedar, sage, bloodroot, oak, and most importantly tobacco. Along with many others things, to provide for his future generation the Kituwah, the Cherokee.
When the First Woman, or Sky Woman, was happy with this world Creator sent First Man down to help take care of his creation. First man and First Woman were now husband and wife. They were happy and all things were good, but as in all good things bad will come and First Woman and First Man began to fight and argue.
Harsh words were said on both sides, and finally the wife said that she was leaving. Grabbing a few belongings, she began walking away from First Man. "I am going to find another place to live," she told her husband, "You are lazy and pay no attention to me." In a short time, the husband regretted his harsh words and tried to find his wife so he could apologize. Eventually, he realized that she was too far ahead, and he prayed to the Creator to help him. "Slow her down, Creator, so that I might tell her how much she means to me," he asked. "Is her soul one with yours?" Creator asked. First Man replied "We have been one since the beginning of our time. We have been one since you have breathed life into our souls and we shall remain one until the end of time itself."
Touched by the man's anguish, the Great Spirit intervened. Seeing the way First Woman was walking he began to make plants grow at her feet to slow her down. To one side grew the blackberries and to the other grew huckleberries, but still she walked on. Again he made the plants grow and to one side grew the gooseberries and to the other grew the service berries, but still she walked on. The Creator knew that this would have to slow her down and so he went to his garden and grabbed a handful of strawberry plants and threw them to the Earth.
When they landed at First Woman's feet they began to bloom and ripen, First Woman looked down to see the beautiful leaves and berries of the strawberry plant and stopped to taste just one small berry. As she plucked and ate the berries she forgot her anger. Finding a basket among her belongings, she quickly filled it, and longed for her husband once more. First Man, hurrying on his way, was surprised to see his wife returning, and oh! how his heart did soar. She was smiling! She dipped her hand into her basket, and got a berry and placed it in his mouth. He smiled foolishly, and gave thanks to the Creator. Taking his hand, his wife led him back down the path to their home, feeding him strawberries on the way.
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you expect what never
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Thomas Jefferson
"Just Ask Permission"
Does the first Amendment gives us the right to desecrate the American flag?
Or is the flag a sacred symbol of our nation, deserving protection by law?
Tough call?
"The Solution"
For those who want to light Old Glory on fire, stomp all over it, or
spit on it to make some sort of "statement", I say let them do it.
They MUST get permission from three sponsors.
First, you need permission of a war veteran, perhaps a Marine who
fought at Iwo Jima for starters ....
The American flag was raised over Mount Surabachi upon the bodies of
thousands of dead buddies. Each night spent on Iwo meant half of
everyone you knew would be dead tomorrow, a coin flip away from a
bloody end upon a patch of sand your mother couldn't find on a map.
Or maybe ask a Vietnam vet who spent years tortured in a small, filthy
cell unfit for a dog. Or a Korean War soldier who helped rescue half a
nation from Communism, or a Desert Storm warrior who repulsed a bloody
dictator from raping and pillaging an innocent country.
That flag represented your mother and father, your sister and brother,
your friends, neighbors, and everyone at home.
I wonder what they would say if someone asked them permission to burn
the American flag?
Next, you need a signature from an immigrant. Their brothers and sisters
may still languish in their native land, often under tyranny, poverty
and misery.
Or maybe they died on the way here, never to touch our shores. Some
have seen friends and family get tortured and murdered by their own
government for daring to do things we take for granted every day.
For those who risked everything simply for the chance to become an
American ... what kind of feelings do they have for the flag when they
Pledge Allegiance the first time?
Go to a naturalization ceremony and see for yourself, the tears of
pride, the thanks, the love and respect of this nation, as they finally
embrace the American flag as their own.
Ask one of them if it would be OK to tear up the flag.
Last, you should get the signature of a mother, not just any mother ....
You need a mother of someone who gave their life for America. It doesn't
even have to be from a war. It could be a cop, or a fireman, maybe a
Secret Service or NSA Agent.
Then again, it could be a common foot soldier as well.
When that son or daughter is laid to rest, their family is given one
gift by the American people, an American flag.
Go on, I dare you, ask that mother to spit on her flag or burn it.
I wonder what the founding fathers thought of the American flag as they
drafted the Declaration of Independence? They knew this act would drag
young America into war with England, the greatest power on earth. They
also knew failure meant more than just a disappointment. I meant a noose
snugly stretched around their necks. But they needed a symbol, something
to inspire the new nation. Something to represent the seriousness, the
purpose and conviction that we held our new idea of individual freedom.
Something worth living for. Something worth dying for.
I wonder how they'd feel if someone asked them permission to toss their
flag in a mud puddle?
Away from family, away from the precious shores of home, in the face of
overwhelming odds and often in the face of death, the American flag
inspires those who believe in the American dream, the American promise,
the American vision ...
Americans who don't appreciate the flag don't appreciate this nation.
And those who appreciate this nation appreciate the American flag.
Those who fought, fought for that flag.
Those who died, died for that flag.
And those who love America, love that flag, and defend it.
So if you want to desecrate the American flag, before you spit on it or
before you burn it ... I have a simple request:
Just Ask Permission
NOT from the Constitution
NOT from some obscure law
NOT from the politicians or the pundits
Instead, ask those who defended our nation so that we may be free today.
Ask those who struggled to reach our shores so that they may join us in
the American dream. And ask those who clutch the flag in place of their
sacrificed sons and daughters, husbands and wives
who defended this Great Country so that others may be free.
Go on, I dare you, ask the above to spit on their flag or burn it.
For we cannot ask permission from those who died wishing
they could, just once, or once again, see, touch or kiss the flag.
They gave their lives defending it, the flag that stands for our Great Nation
The United States of America ...
"The Greatest Nation On Earth"
If You Do Not Like MY Solution About
Asking Permission
To Burn My American Flag
Al Varelas - USMC
Highly Decorated Vietnam Veteran
26th Marine Combat Regiment
Khe Sanh Combat Base
be very honored, if you would accept this award.
It is my small way of saying how much I appreciate
all you have done for me and others ....
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assert_select(*args, &block)
An assertion that selects elements and makes one or more equality tests.
If the first argument is an element, selects all matching elements starting from (and including) that element and all its children in depth-first order.
If no element if specified, calling assert_select selects from the response HTML unless assert_select is called from within an assert_select block.
When called with a block assert_select passes an array of selected elements to the block. Calling assert_select from the block, with no element specified, runs the assertion on the complete set of elements selected by the enclosing assertion. Alternatively the array may be iterated through so that assert_select can be called separately for each element.
If the response contains two ordered lists, each with four list elements then:
assert_select "ol" do |elements| elements.each do |element| assert_select element, "li", 4 end end
will pass, as will:
assert_select "ol" do assert_select "li", 8 end
The selector may be a CSS selector expression (String), an expression with substitution values, or an HTML::Selector object.
Equality Tests
The equality test may be one of the following:
true - Assertion is true if at least one element selected.
false - Assertion is true if no element selected.
String/Regexp - Assertion is true if the text value of at least one element matches the string or regular expression.
Integer - Assertion is true if exactly that number of elements are selected.
Range - Assertion is true if the number of selected elements fit the range.
If no equality test specified, the assertion is true if at least one element selected.
To perform more than one equality tests, use a hash with the following keys:
:text - Narrow the selection to elements that have this text value (string or regexp).
:html - Narrow the selection to elements that have this HTML content (string or regexp).
:count - Assertion is true if the number of selected elements is equal to this value.
:minimum - Assertion is true if the number of selected elements is at least this value.
:maximum - Assertion is true if the number of selected elements is at most this value.
If the method is called with a block, once all equality tests are evaluated the block is called with an array of all matched elements.
# At least one form element assert_select "form" # Form element includes four input fields assert_select "form input", 4 # Page title is "Welcome" assert_select "title", "Welcome" # Page title is "Welcome" and there is only one title element assert_select "title", {count: 1, text: "Welcome"}, "Wrong title or more than one title element" # Page contains no forms assert_select "form", false, "This page must contain no forms" # Test the content and style assert_select "body div.header ul.menu" # Use substitution values assert_select "ol>li#?", /item-\d+/ # All input fields in the form have a name assert_select "form input" do assert_select "[name=?]", /.+/ # Not empty end
# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/testing/assertions/selector.rb, line 184 def assert_select(*args, &block) # Start with optional element followed by mandatory selector. arg = args.shift @selected ||= nil if arg.is_a?(HTML::Node) # First argument is a node (tag or text, but also HTML root), # so we know what we're selecting from. root = arg arg = args.shift elsif arg == nil # This usually happens when passing a node/element that # happens to be nil. raise ArgumentError, "First argument is either selector or element to select, but nil found. Perhaps you called assert_select with an element that does not exist?" elsif @selected root = HTML::Node.new(nil) root.children.concat @selected else # Otherwise just operate on the response document. root = response_from_page end # First or second argument is the selector: string and we pass # all remaining arguments. Array and we pass the argument. Also # accepts selector itself. case arg when String selector = HTML::Selector.new(arg, args) when Array selector = HTML::Selector.new(*arg) when HTML::Selector selector = arg else raise ArgumentError, "Expecting a selector as the first argument" end # Next argument is used for equality tests. equals = {} case arg = args.shift when Hash equals = arg when String, Regexp equals[:text] = arg when Integer equals[:count] = arg when Range equals[:minimum] = arg.begin equals[:maximum] = arg.end when FalseClass equals[:count] = 0 when NilClass, TrueClass equals[:minimum] = 1 else raise ArgumentError, "I don't understand what you're trying to match" end # By default we're looking for at least one match. if equals[:count] equals[:minimum] = equals[:maximum] = equals[:count] else equals[:minimum] = 1 unless equals[:minimum] end # Last argument is the message we use if the assertion fails. message = args.shift #- message = "No match made with selector #{selector.inspect}" unless message if args.shift raise ArgumentError, "Not expecting that last argument, you either have too many arguments, or they're the wrong type" end matches = selector.select(root) # If text/html, narrow down to those elements that match it. content_mismatch = nil if match_with = equals[:text] matches.delete_if do |match| text = "" stack = match.children.reverse while node = stack.pop if node.tag? stack.concat node.children.reverse else content = node.content text << content end end text.strip! unless NO_STRIP.include?(match.name) text.sub!(/\A\n/, '') if match.name == "textarea" unless match_with.is_a?(Regexp) ? (text =~ match_with) : (text == match_with.to_s) content_mismatch ||= sprintf("<%s> expected but was\n<%s>", match_with, text) true end end elsif match_with = equals[:html] matches.delete_if do |match| html = match.children.map(&:to_s).join html.strip! unless NO_STRIP.include?(match.name) unless match_with.is_a?(Regexp) ? (html =~ match_with) : (html == match_with.to_s) content_mismatch ||= sprintf("<%s> expected but was\n<%s>", match_with, html) true end end end # Expecting foo found bar element only if found zero, not if # found one but expecting two. message ||= content_mismatch if matches.empty? # Test minimum/maximum occurrence. min, max, count = equals[:minimum], equals[:maximum], equals[:count] # FIXME: minitest provides messaging when we use assert_operator, # so is this custom message really needed? message = message || %(Expected #{count_description(min, max, count)} matching "#{selector.to_s}", found #{matches.size}) if count assert_equal count, matches.size, message else assert_operator matches.size, :>=, min, message if min assert_operator matches.size, :<=, max, message if max end # If a block is given call that block. Set @selected to allow # nested assert_select, which can be nested several levels deep. if block_given? && !matches.empty? begin in_scope, @selected = @selected, matches yield matches ensure @selected = in_scope end end # Returns all matches elements. matches end
Use @output_buffer to set the context.
You can use assert_select to test helpers, just have to set the @output_buffer before you do.
Code example
class CurrencyHelperTest < ActionView::TestCase setup do # can use helper methods here @output_buffer = currency 54.78 end test 'currency use a div' do asert_select 'div' end end


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Recently I had posted a link to a "study" conducted at Pepperdine University about the diet of Northeastern coyotes, compared to Western coyotes' and a possible link to the spread and/or perpetuation of Lyme Disease in the Northeast.
On March 4, 2018, I wrote an article sharing, in part, the publisher of Maine Sportsman Magazine, Jon Lund's, observation that the increased population of coyotes in Maine was causing an increase in Lyme Disease-carrying ticks which in turn was the cause of up-turns in the incidences of the disease. I wrote: "In the March 2018 edition, he asks, "Are Coyotes to Blame for Increase in Ticks?" His simple explanation is that the presence of an increased population of coyotes in Maine is causing a reduction in the fox population – the trickle-down effect of an increase in ticks, particularly the tick that carries Lyme disease. The reality is that coyotes compete with and kill, directly and indirectly, the red fox that is sufficiently more adept at killing the small rodents that carry and perpetuate the Deer (Lyme) tick. In an effort to mitigate what appears to be a festering and growing incidence of Lyme disease in Maine, Lund is wondering if it is time, due to the necessity of a public health risk, to make a more serious effort at reducing the coyote population."
According to the Meta-Analysis linked to, their conclusions do not support Lund's theory. While I only have the Abstract of the study, I can only provide what is written there. But first, let me explain something in case readers don't know what a meta-analysis is. A meta-analysis is "a statistical analysis that combines the results of multiple scientific studies." (Source)
In this instance, scientists simple took data from 18 different studies about coyote diet and determined that while coyotes in the Northeast readily ate more deer, they proportionately did not eat more or less small predators (like the fox that Lund claims eat the rodents that carry the Lyme tick). The Abstract states: "Our results show that deer occur significantly more in the diet of Northeastern coyotes than in the diet of Midwestern coyotes, while small mammals occur significantly less. The occurrence of rabbits, hares, birds, vegetation, and fruit do not differ significantly by region. This supports the hypothesis that Northeastern coyotes, due to their larger size and hybridization with wolves, are better adapted at hunting large prey. Although Northeastern coyotes eat fewer small mammals than Midwestern coyotes, small mammals are still a common component of the Northeastern coyote diet. Thus the abundance of Northeastern coyotes is not likely to be positively correlated to the incidence of Lyme disease."
It's worth pointing out a few things. Again I'll state that I don't have access to the full study, however, there does seem to be some degree of contradiction but that contradiction may be insignificant.
Second, it appears from this information that because the Northeastern coyote eats far more deer, due mostly in size and cross-breeding with wolves, it may be due to a bigger appetite because the animal was bigger than the Western coyote. A conclusion on my part.
Third, this information clearly states that Northeastern coyotes eat fewer small mammals than their Western counterparts, but evidently not enough to make any sort of difference.
Fourth, this study concludes that it is "not likely" fewer small mammals consumed "positively correlated to the incidence of Lyme disease."
It would appear that this analysis has only proven that Northeastern coyotes eat more deer than Western coyotes.
There is nothing conclusive, that I can see, that the presence of an increased population of coyotes has no effect on Lyme ticks.
Do any of the studies have data that go back to a time before the "Eastern coyote" became an invasive species? Have any of these studies taken place in long enough periods of time to take into account a changing coyote diet due to changing conditions on the ground? In other words, depending on conditions on the ground, a coyotes' diet can have large fluctuations in amount and prey diet. Are these factored in? Will a changing diet also change the incidence of Lyme disease?
There are a lot of questions that remain unanswered. Because of this meta-analysis, I wouldn't be too quick to disregard Jon Lund's hypothesis about the direct correlation between coyotes and Lyme disease.
What got along superbly before the invasive species arrived. I would surmise we could get along marvelously without them now.


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The ABS conducted a Business Generosity Survey in respect of 2000-01. During that period, businesses gave $1,447m to organisations or individuals, of which arts and culture activities (namely the performing arts; the creative arts; museum, art gallery and library activities; and zoological or botanical parks and gardens operation) received $70m. This comprised $40m of sponsorship, $23m of donations and over $6m of 'business to community projects' funding. Sport and recreation activities received 43% of the total given by businesses to organisations or individuals. For additional information see the section Funding for sport and recreation. Other activities covered by the survey were community service and welfare, health, education and training, and environmental activities.