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Chondrichthyan, (class Chondrichthyes), also called chondrichthian, any member of the diverse group of cartilaginous fishes that includes the sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras. The class is one of the two great groups of living fishes, the other being the osteichthians, or bony fishes. The name Selachii is also sometimes used for the group containing the sharks.
Many unique structural, physiological, biochemical, and behavioral characters make these fishes of particular interest to scientists. The dissection of a small shark is often the biology student's introduction to vertebrate anatomy. These fishes are, in a sense, living fossils, for many of the living sharks and rays are assigned to the same genera as species that swam the Cretaceous seas over 100 million years ago. More than 400 species of sharks and about 500 species of rays are known. Although by any reckoning a successful group, the modern chondrichthyans number far fewer species than the more advanced bony fishes, or teleosts.
The danger some sharks and stingrays present to humans makes these animals fascinating and, at the same time, fearsome. Perhaps for this reason, they figure prominently in the folklore and art of many tropical peoples who depend on the sea. The danger from shark attack, while very real, is remarkably uncommon and easily sensationalized. Quite frequently, little attempt is made to distinguish between dangerous and harmless species.
General features
Problems of taxonomy
The name Selachii refers to a category of fishlike vertebrates characterized by a skeleton primarily composed of cartilage. Selachii are given a variety of treatments by ichthyologists. Some authorities consider Selachii to be a class or subclass that contains all the modern sharks and rays; other authorities restrict the use of the name to an order of modern sharks and certain extinct ancestral forms. Under the latter system, the rays (including the sawfishes, guitarfishes, electric rays, mantas, skates, and stingrays) are ranked separately.
The chimaeras (Holocephali) bear many similarities to sharks and rays in skeletal structure, internal organs, and physiology. Ichthyologists commonly although not unanimously emphasize these similarities by grouping the modern and ancient sharks, rays, and chimaeras in the class Chondrichthyes, the cartilaginous fishes. Under this system, which is used in the present article, the sharks, skates, and rays are further grouped into one subclass, Elasmobranchii, and the chimaeras into another, Holocephali. Some authorities classify the elasmobranchs into one class (Selachii) and classify the chimaeras into another (Holocephali); however, assigning the two groups class rank implies a degree of distinctness equal to that of the amphibians (Amphibia), reptiles (Reptilia), birds (Aves), and mammals (Mammalia).
Distribution and abundance
The majority of sharks and rays are marine fishes, but many enter estuaries; some travel far up rivers, and a few are permanent residents of fresh water. Most species live in the relatively shallow waters of continental margins or around offshore islands; a few roam far out in the vast spaces of the oceans. Some live at great depths, in midwaters or on the bottom; others are surface swimmers or inhabit the bottom in shallow waters.
Once regarded as "trash" fish, sharks and rays are increasingly represented in the fisheries of most countries. With numbers of more highly valued bony fishes decreasingly rapidly, many fisheries are specifically targeting elasmobranchs as a primary commercial resource. Annual yields are as much as 750,000 metric tons (roughly 827,000 short tons), and most of this is sold fresh, dried, salted, or processed. This intense harvest is causing the reduction of many shark and ray populations and, in some cases, causing the commercial extinction of some species. One consequence of this depletion of these top-level predators may be a disruption of the food chain in marine ecosystems.
Economic uses of elasmobranchs
Sharks as food
The meat of sharks is marketed for food in all maritime countries. It may be prepared in various ways—fresh, salted, smoked, or pickled—offered in such forms as steaks, fillets, or flakes and under such misleading names as whitefish, grayfish, swordfish, sea bass, and halibut. The flesh is often rather strong tasting; however, this quality is one that can be removed by cleaning and washing and soaking the flesh in brine.
Since ancient times, Chinese people have used the fins of certain sharks and rays as the basis of an epicurean soup. To meet the demand for this product, they have imported fins from far distant countries. The fins are prepared for market by removing the skin and flesh, leaving only the gelatin-rich cartilaginous rays, which are dried before shipment.
Shark liver oil is used in various regions for tanning leather; for preserving wood; as a lubricant; as a folk medicine against rheumatism, burns, and coughs; as a general tonic; as a laxative; and as an ingredient of cosmetics. The liver of a basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) yields 80 to 600 gallons (about 300 to 2,300 litres) of oil, which was used in lamps until petroleum products replaced animal oils for illumination. The discovery about 1940 that the liver of the soupfin shark (Galeorhinus galeus) of California is peculiarly rich in vitamin A led to the explosive development of a special fishery in California for this species. It also prompted a search in other parts of the world for sharks having livers of comparable potency. Within a few years, however, the economic bubble burst with the invention of a method for manufacturing synthetic vitamin A. The Australian school shark, which was used originally for vitamin A, is now caught for fish fillets.
Other shark products
The hard scales provide an abrasive surface to the skin of sharks and some rays, giving it a special value, as a leather called shagreen, for polishing hard wood. When heated and polished, shagreen is used for decorating ornaments and, in Japan, for covering sword hilts.
Shark leather is made in several countries, including the United States, from the skin of certain shark species after removal of the scales by a chemical process. A luxury product, much more durable than cowhide, shark leather is used for footwear, belts, wallets, and other accessories. The most suitable skins for leather are from tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier), dusky sharks (Carcharhinus obscurus), sandbar sharks (C. plumbeus), blacktips (C. brevipina, C. tilstoni, and C. limbatus), sandtiger sharks (Carcharias taurus), and nurse sharks (Ginglymostoma cirratum, Nebrius ferrugineus, and Pseudognglymostoma brevicaudatum).
In Greenland, some Inuit make rope from strips of the skin of the sleeper shark (Somniosus microcephalus). Polynesians once added to the effectiveness of their war clubs with sharks' teeth. Sharks' teeth have some commercial value as curios. Traditionally the Maori of New Zealand prized the teeth of the mako shark (Isurus), which they wore as earrings.
Economic value of rays
About 126,000 short tons (roughly 114,000,000 kilograms) of rays are marketed for food in various countries about the world, principally in Europe and Asia. By-products in local demand are skins of scaleless species for drumheads; those of scaly species are used for shagreen. Livers are used for oil, fins for gelatin. People of many tropical regions—Polynesia, Oceania, Malaysia, Central America, and Africa—have used the spines of stingrays for such items as needles and awls, spear tips and daggers, and for the poison they contain. The entire tail of stingrays, complete with spines, has been used as a whip in various tropical areas.
The electric rays, or numbfish, have little commercial value. The ancient Greeks and Romans used the electric shock of Torpedo to relieve diseases of the spleen, chronic headaches, and gout. From the Greek word for electric ray, narke, comes the word narcotic. Today these fishes are worrisome to bathers who step on them and to fishers who may be shocked when hauling in their wet nets.
Danger to human life
Among the more than 400 known shark species, about 30 have been authoritatively implicated in unprovoked attacks on persons or boats; of these only about 15 species are considered dangerous, however. Hospital and other records attest to many attacks on bathers, divers, and people awash in the sea following sea or air disasters. There are also many documented cases of sharks attacking small boats. Many surviving victims have been able to identify the attacking animal as a shark; a few even reported the type of shark, such as a hammerhead (Sphyrna). In many instances, witnesses have seen the assailant clearly enough to determine the species. Fragments of teeth left in wounds of victims or in the planking of boats have often been large enough to provide ichthyologists with the means for precise identification; furthermore, there are cases where human-body fragments have been found in sharks caught, killed, and autopsied.
In 1958 the American Institute of Biological Sciences established a Shark Research Panel at the Smithsonian Institution and Cornell University to gather historical and current records of shark attacks throughout the world. For the 35 years from 1928 to 1962, inclusive, the panel listed 670 attacks on persons and 102 on boats. More recently, the International Shark Attack File (ISAF) documented over 1,600 unprovoked attacks between 1960 and 2007. Attacks occur most frequently throughout the year in the tropical zone between latitudes 21° N and 21° S; from mid-spring to mid-fall they extend as far north and south as the 42° parallels. For this reason, it was formerly believed that the most dangerous sharks lived in waters warmer than 21 °C (70 °F) and that the risk of attack was greatest in the tropics and in the summer months. It is now thought that this circumstance simply results from the fact that more people swim in warm water. It is known, for example, that the most dangerous shark—the great white shark, or man-eater (Carcharodon carcharias)—ranges into the cooler waters of both hemispheres. Two other dangerous species—the tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) and the bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas)—occur primarily in the tropics.
Along the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa and in other areas densely populated by sharks, public beaches have lookout towers, bells or sirens, and nets to protect bathers. Since 1937 Australia has used meshing offshore to catch the sharks. Gill nets suspended between buoys and anchors running parallel to the beach and beyond the breaker line have decreased the danger of attack. The nets enmesh sharks from any direction; although they touch neither the surface nor the bottom and are spaced well apart, they provide effective control. South Africa has used a similar protection system and has also conducted experiments with electrical barriers.
The shark species implicated in attacks on persons or boats are mostly large sharks with large cutting teeth. Size, however, is not a dependable criterion; some smaller sharks may bite or nip a bather, inflicting a minor wound. The largest species, the basking shark and the whale shark (Rhincodon typus), which grow to 12 and 18 metres (40 and 60 feet) respectively, subsist on minute planktonic organisms and on small schooling fishes. Although either might charge a boat if provoked, only two records of such occurrences have been reported, both in Scotland and both identified with the basking shark. More than 85 percent of all shark species are too small, too unsuitably toothed, or too sluggish or live at depths too great to be potentially dangerous. The most dangerous sharks include, in addition to the white shark, the hammerheads (Sphyrna), tiger (Galeocerdo), blue (Prionace), and requiem sharks (Carcharhinus).
Most stingrays live in shallow coastal waters. Some move with the tides to and from beaches, mud flats, or sand flats. Anyone wading in shallow water where they occur runs some risk of stepping on one and provoking an instant response: the ray lashes back its tail, inflicting an agonizingly painful wound that occasionally leads to fatal complications. Rays can be serious pests to shellfisheries, for they are extremely destructive to oyster and clam beds.
Natural history
Food habits
All sharks are carnivorous and, with a few exceptions, have broad feeding preferences, governed largely by the size and availability of the prey. The recorded food of the tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier), for example, includes a wide variety of fishes (including other sharks, skates, and stingrays), sea turtles, birds, sea lions, crustaceans, squid, and even carrion such as dead dogs and garbage thrown from ships. Sleeper sharks (Somniosus), which occur mainly in polar and subpolar regions, are known to feed on fishes, small whales, squid, crabs, seals, and carrion from whaling stations. Many bottom-dwelling sharks, such as the smooth dogfishes (Triakis and Mustelus), take crabs, lobsters, and other crustaceans, as well as small fishes.
The three largest sharks, the whale shark (Rhincodon typus), the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus), and the megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios), resemble the baleen whales in feeding mode as well as in size. They feed exclusively or chiefly on minute passively drifting organisms (plankton). To remove these from the water and concentrate them, each of these species is equipped with a special straining apparatus analogous to baleen in whales. The basking shark and the megamouth shark have modified gill rakers, the whale shark elaborate spongy tissue supported by the gill arches. The whale shark also eats small, schooling fishes.
The saw sharks (Pristiophoridae) and sawfishes (Pristidae), though unrelated, both share a specialized mode of feeding that depends on the use of their long bladelike snout, or "saw." Equipped with sharp teeth on its sides, the saw is slashed from side to side, impaling, stunning, or cutting the prey fish. Saw sharks and sawfishes, like most other rays, are bottom inhabitants.
Thresher sharks (Alopias) feed on open-water schooling fishes, such as mackerel, herring, and bonito, and on squid. The long upper lobe of the tail, which may be half the total length of the shark, is used to herd the fish (sometimes by flailing the water surface) into a concentrated mass convenient for feeding. Thresher sharks have also been observed to stun larger fish with a rapid strike of the tail.
Most sharks and rays do not school. Individuals are normally solitary and usually come together only to exploit food resources or to mate. During these encounters, some species may show specific dominance structures, usually based on size. Some species, however, will travel in large schools segregated by size, a habit that protects smaller individuals from being eaten by larger ones. Still other species form sex-segregated schools where males and females live in slightly different habitats or depths. When potential prey is discovered, sharks circle it, appearing seemingly out of nowhere and frequently approaching from below. Feeding behaviour is stimulated by increasing numbers and rapid swimming, when three or more sharks appear in the presence of food. Activity soon progresses from tight circling to rapid crisscross passes. Biting habits vary with feeding methods and dentition. Sharks with teeth adapted for shearing and sawing are aided in biting by body motions that include rotation of the whole body, twisting movements of the head, and rapid vibrations of the head. As the shark comes into position, the jaws are protruded, erecting and locking the teeth into position. The bite is extremely powerful; a mako shark (Isurus), when attacking a swordfish too large to be swallowed whole, may remove the prey's tail with one bite. Under strong feeding stimuli, the sharks' excitement may intensify into what is termed a feeding frenzy, possibly the result of stimulatory overload, in which not only the prey but also injured members of the feeding pack are devoured.
In most cases, sharks locate food by smell, which is well developed in nearly all species. Sharks also possess other important senses that allow them to find food, and the importance of each sense varies between species. Their lateral line system, a series of sensory pores along the side of the body for detecting vibrations, allows sharks to detect vibrations in the water. Their network of ampullae allows them to sense weak electrical signals given off by prey (see mechanoreception: Ampullary lateral line organs), and their eyes are often acute enough to discriminate the size, shape, and colour of their prey. The sum of these senses working together makes a well-integrated system for finding prey.
The majority of batoid fishes (members of the order Batoidei such as rays and allies) are bottom dwellers, preying on other animals on or near the seafloor. Guitarfishes (Rhynchobatidae and Rhinobatidae), butterfly rays (Gymnuridae), eagle rays (Mylobatidae), and cow-nosed rays (Rhinopteridae) feed on invertebrates, principally mollusks and crustaceans. Whip-tailed rays (Dasyatidae) use their broad pectoral fins to dig shellfish from sand or mud. Skates (Rajidae) lie on the bottom, often partially buried, and rise in pursuit of such active prey as herring. Skates trap their victims by swimming over and then settling upon them, a practice facilitated by their habit of hunting at night.
Electric rays (Torpedinidae) are characteristically bottom fishes of sluggish habits. They feed on invertebrates and fish, which may be stunned by shocks produced from the formidable electric organs. With their electricity and widely extensible jaws, these rays are capable of taking very active fishes, such as flounder, eel, salmon, and dogfish. Shallow-water electric rays have been observed to trap fishes by suddenly raising the front of the body disk while keeping the margins down, thereby forming a cavity into which the prey is drawn by the powerful inrush of water.
Most of the myliobatoid rays (seven recognized families of the suborder Myliobatoidei [order Myliobatiformes], which includes all the typical rays) swim gracefully, with undulations of the broad winglike pectoral fins. Some species, especially the eagle rays, frequently swim near the surface and even jump clear of the water, skimming a short distance through the air.
Manta, or devil, rays (Mobulidae) swim mostly at or near the surface, progressing by flapping motions of the pectoral fins. Even the largest often leap clear of the water. In feeding, a manta moves through masses of macroplankton or schools of small fish, turning slowly from side to side and using the prominent cephalic fins, which project forward on each side of the mouth, to funnel the prey into the broad mouth.
Chimaeras and ghost sharks (Chimaeridae) dwell near the bottom in coastal and deep waters, to depths of at least 2,500 metres (about 8,000 feet). They are active at night, feeding almost exclusively on small invertebrates and fishes.
Reproductive behaviour
Mature individuals of some species of sharks segregate by sex, coming together only during the mating season, when the males—at least those of the larger, more aggressive species—stop feeding. Segregation is a behavioral adaptation to protect the females. One principal courting activity used by the male to induce cooperation of the female in mating is the act of biting her and gripping her with his teeth. A male takes hold of a female in this way so that he can more easily insert a modified fin, called a clasper, into her cloaca. After mating, the sexes again separate. The pregnant females tend to keep apart from the other females of like size. As the time of parturition approaches, the pregnant females move to particular areas, which presumably have environmental properties especially suitable as nursery grounds. When giving birth to their young, they stop feeding, and, soon after parturition is completed, they depart.
Nursery areas vary with species. Some sharks—such as the bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas) and the sandbar shark (C. plumbeus)—use shallow waters of bays and estuaries; the silky shark (C. falciformis) uses the bottom far out on oceanic banks such as the Serrana Bank in the western Caribbean. The Atlantic spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias) bears its young mostly during the winter, far out on the continental shelf of northeastern America, almost two years after mating.
A few skates that have been observed mating may be characteristic of other rays. The male seizes the female by biting the pectoral fin and presses his ventral surface against hers while inserting his clasper, or in some species both claspers, into her cloaca. Male skates have one to five rows of clawlike spines on the dorsal side of each pectoral fin. These are retractile in grooves of the skin and are used to hold the female during mating.
The eggs of skates in aquaria have been observed to be extruded in series, usually of two eggs at a time but sometimes one. Rest periods of one to five days occur between extrusions. A female of a European skate, Raja brachyura, laid 25 eggs over a 49-day period in the National Marine Aquarium, located in Plymouth, Eng.
Although the mating of chimaeroids has not been observed, it is generally presumed that the mode of copulation is similar to that of sharks and that the male's frontal spine and anterior appendage of the pelvic fins are probably used in securing the female. Two eggs are laid simultaneously, one from each oviduct. They are often carried for a relatively long period before being laid, several hours or even days, each egg protruding from the female for the greater part of its length.
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vertebrate: The chondrichthyesThe sharks, rays, and chimaerids are usually marine, but some sharks have entered fresh waters (the Amazon) or even live there permanently (Lake Nicaragua). In size, sharks range from the whale shark, nearly 10 metres in length, to rather small species, three centimetres in…
muscle: Jawed fishes…other cartilaginous fishes (the class Chondrichthyes) have modified the structure of the first two arches; the cartilages of the anterior arch form the mandible and upper jaw (palatoquadrate), and modifications also have taken place in the second, hyoid arch. The posterior five gill arches of more primitive sharks, however, are…
fish: Annotated classificationClass Chondrichthyes (or Selachii) (cartilaginous fishes) Cartilaginous fishes. Lacks true bone (except in the roots of teeth). Gill clefts: 5–7 in Selachii, 5 gill openings occur on the lower surface of Batoidei, and only 1 in Chimaeriformes. Dorsal fin, fins, and fin spines rigid, not erectile,…
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In January 1996, parts of Virginia recorded up to four feet of snow during a record-breaking blizzard. When the Blizzard of 1996 was over, nine states had declared a state of emergency. One hundred people were dead.
Blizzards such as this one are the most severe forms of snowy weather, with winds of 35 miles per hour or greater and visibility of less than 1/4 mile. Winter storms and blizzards may not always be as dramatic as the one that blanketed the northeastern United States in 1996, but their potential to disrupt everyday activities is great. Schools close. Commerce is interrupted. Property damage can occur from flooding or structural collapse. These storms may not rival hurricanes or tornadoes in destructive power, but they are an effective annual reminder of our planet's dynamic climate.
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A team of scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Oregon Health and Sciences University has been awarded $5.5 million by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to study the structure and function of proteins secreted by pathogenic bacteria such as Salmonella, the bacterium that causes many food-borne illnesses. The team is led by Dr. Joshua Adkins and Dr. John Cort (PNNL), and Dr. Fred Heffron (OHSU).
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COLUMN: Obama never cared about U.S. economy
Many Republicans have accused Barack Obama of ignoring the economy. That's not true. The problem with Obama is not that he has ignored the economy, but that it was never his top priority in his first term as president, even as millions of Americans suffered the consequences of a devastating economic downturn.
Now, with many still struggling, we know the economy won't be Obama's top concern in his second term, either. On "Meet the Press" on Sunday, when the president was asked to name his top priority for the next four years, he first listed immigration reform. "That's something we should get done," Obama said.
The economy came after that, as the president continued: "The second thing that we've got to do is to stabilize the economy and make sure it's growing."
Obama's third priority for his new term is to manage the explosion in U.S. energy production "in a way that also deals with some of the environmental challenges that we have." Given that the energy revolution -- fracking and the discovery of huge new sources of gas and oil -- is a key driver of economic growth, Obama's third priority is, in effect, to put the brakes on his second priority.
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At the same time, even though Obama has long said he wants to pursue immigration reform, he didn't talk about it much in his standard stump speech. In fact, in the speech he used in the final days of the campaign, Obama didn't talk about immigration reform at all, unless one counts his accusation that Republicans want to "turn back the clock 50 years for women, and for immigrants, and for gays."
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"I always admired the president's courage for recognizing that 50 years from now, people would remember that all Americans had health care," Summers told Scheiber. "And even if pursuing health care affected the pace of the recovery, which was unlikely in my view, people wouldn't remember how fast the recovery from this recession was."
Scheiber himself attributed Obama's health care-before-the-economy position to the president's "strain of messianism." "Obama really was more focused on long-term, historically significant accomplishments than marginal, near-term differences in the pace of the recovery," Scheiber wrote. "On some level, Obama was prepared to accept (and I'm making up these numbers for argument's sake) three years of painfully high unemployment with health care reform rather than 30 months of painfully high unemployment without it. And the reason is the one Summers alluded to (before disputing): Health care was simply more historically important than avoiding those extra six months of pain."
For millions of Americans, however, that pain is still going on. Even if the national conversation has moved on to other issues, unemployment is still 7.7 percent, and it is only that low because many Americans have given up looking for a job. In November, the federal government's measure of those unemployed who are looking for work, plus those who want to work but have lost hope, was 14.4 percent.
But Obamacare is a reality. And the newly re-elected Obama still has that "strain of messianism." In the second term, legalizing millions of illegal immigrants will be a "more historically important" accomplishment for Obama than the prosaic task of improving economic conditions for suffering Americans. So that's what he's going to do.


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I usually only have to say the word "biryani" to put the twinkle into Desi's eyes, because it is one of his most favorite foods. And I can't deny that it puts a song in my heart too. Especially when it's as easy to make as this one is.
My biryani with mixed vegetables and lentils is very versatile, and you can try using all sorts of veggies in here. And so long as you have your spices right, it's hard to mess this one up.
I served this biryani with a vegan coriander raita made with tofu that's luscious and creamy and almost ridiculously good for you.
I want to put my feet up for the rest of my Sunday, so I'm going to make this a quick post. These have been unusually busy days for me which has meant less time for my blog, but rest assured I'll be back to a more frequent schedule pretty soon.
Biryani with Mixed Vegetables
- 2 cups vegetables , cut in a fairly small and uniform dice (I used carrots, red peppers, potatoes and green peas. You can also use zucchini, sweet potatoes or green beans)
- 1 cup rice
- 1/2 cup red lentils
- 1 tbsp canola or other vegetable oil
- 1 medium onion , finely diced
- 1 tbsp garlic , minced
- 1 tbsp ginger , grated
- 1 tbsp
- garam masala
- 1 tsp red chili powder
- 3/4 tsp turmeric
- 1/2 cup soy yogurt
- Salt to taste.
- Soak the rice and lentils together and set aside for half an hour.
- Heat the oil in a skillet.
- Add the onions and cook, stirring frequently, until they are golden brown.
- Add the ginger and garlic and stir for a minute.
- Add the vegetables except the green peas. Add garam masala, chilli powder and turmeric. Cook, stirring frequently, about 5 minutes until the vegetables begin to soften.
- Add the green peas and the soy yogurt. Mix well and cook another 5 minutes.
- Drain the soaked rice and lentils and add to the skillet. Mix with the vegetables.
- Add salt to taste.
- Add 2 1/4 cups of water and bring to a boil.
- Cover with a lid, turn the heat to low, and cook 15 minutes.
- Allow the biryani to stand for 10 minutes at least before removing the lid.
- Garnish with coriander and fried onions, if desired.
- Serve hot with Tofu-Coriander Raita (recipe follows).
Vegan Coriander Raita
- 1 package firm tofu
- 1/4 cup soy milk
- 1 tbsp grated ginger
- Juice of 1/2 large lemon
- 1 cup coriander leaves
- Salt to taste.
- Put all the ingredients into the bowl of a food processor and process until blended and smooth.
- Serve cold or at room temperature.
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OSWEGO — An alumnus who was the first in his family to have a passport and had his life changed by a study abroad experience through SUNY Oswego has made a generous gift to the college to pass on the opportunity of international experience to current and future students.
John Christian of the class of 1987, president and chief executive officer of CAPA International Education, and CAPA have pledged nearly $200,000 over three years to foster international education at SUNY Oswego.
"Ever since our founding more than 150 years ago, one of the hallmarks of an Oswego education has been the passion of our students, faculty and alumni for global engagement," said Oswego President Deborah F. Stanley at a recognition ceremony in honor of Christian and CAPA on Monday. "Through this extremely generous gift, John Christian and CAPA pass on to future students the transformative cultural experience he enjoyed through his education at Oswego. We are profoundly grateful."
Christian shared his own story including humble roots in Troy and a life-changing experience at Oswego.
"Study abroad doesn't just have an impact, but can truly transform lives," Christian told the students, faculty and staff gathered in the Hearth Lounge of the Campus Center. He noted that upon returning from his initial study abroad experience in London, "I had learned to appreciate learning, I learned about the world and my place in it, and I found something I had a passion for."
Global dedication
Christian's experiences both as a study abroad student and his work with Oswego's international education program under Dr. José Ramon Pérez would form the basis of his life's work.
"The world is an amazing teacher," Christian said. "All you have to do is listen."
Christian praised the college's global engagement and dedication to making it a prominent part of the academic experience.
"[As] I learn about the global engagement, the diversity of the faculty, the programs you have and the opportunities afforded to the Oswego student and faculty community, it's really impressive," Christian said. "I've been in this field for 23 years and I've worked with a multitude of institutions that are looking to do similar things."
"The global thinker is on all of our agendas, the global doer is the Oswego agenda," he added.
A gift by Christian and CAPA of $100,000 over three years will support the Presidents' International Initiatives, which will create opportunities for Oswego students, faculty and staff to infuse a global dimension into the teaching, learning and service mission of the college.
A separate gift will fund the José Ramon Pérez International Scholarship, which will provide two full need-based scholarships for learning abroad opportunities for Oswego students – one to the CAPA London Program and one to the Beijing semester program – each year for three years.
A total of six students will travel abroad under the scholarship during the grant period.
Present at the ceremony were the winners of the Pérez Scholarship: Lindsay King will travel to Beijing and Megan Haufe received a scholarship to study in London.
As part of the visit, Michael Woolf, CAPA's deputy president for strategic initiatives, spoke on "International Education and Higher Education: A Complex Affair" to launch the Institute for Global Engagement Speakers Series.


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It wouldn't be the holidays without a performance of a timeless Christmas classic from a boys' choir. And what better ensemble to see perform than the Vienna Boys' Choir? And who better to perform with them than international screen superstar Will Ferrell?
Well, it wasn't really the Vienna Boys' Choir on "Late Show With David Letterman" on Monday night, but it was Ferrell continuing his seemingly never-ending promotional tour for the upcoming "Anchorman 2." And the song he selected was "Christmas Time Is Here," first performed on "A Charlie Brown Christmas" on CBS in 1965.
Ferrell informed Letterman that he's been traveling with the boys' choir, doing three-hour shows around the country during this holiday season. All that and a movie to promote. There's nothing Will Ferrell can't do.
In fact, he also informed Letterman that he had never been a singer before the last six months.
But the most touching holiday moment came when Ferrell, backed by the choir, delivered a message of togetherness.
"You know, as I travel the country this holiday season, I've noticed one thing," Ferrell intoned in a chirpy falsetto. "That the holiday spirit is in all of our hearts. So please make this time of year a special time to love friends and family and be thankful for all of your blessings."
Leave it to Will Ferrell to help us remember the true meaning of Christmas.


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Hope, Part 2
By Sarah and Carmen Anthony Sacco
May 25, 2011
I (Sarah) don't want to sound trite when I take on this topic -- I think this one little word carries with it so much meaning -- both positive and negative. I shared in my introduction post a time in my life when I felt quite deeply the lack of hope -- probably better termed despair. What I have shared with few others is just how far into despair I was.
The week that I was diagnosed with HIV I was driving across the mountains of Colorado in a snowstorm headed to a speaking engagement. I was all alone on a mountain pass. Nobody else was foolish enough to be attempting the switchbacks in the storm. Truth be told -- I was just one wrong turn of the steering wheel -- one nudge of the gas pedal or the brakes at the wrong moment away from plunging down the mountain side. It was sure tempting to just quit looking through my tear-fogged eyes and end it all right there. No more waiting, imagining terrible endings to my life.
But I didn't do it. I now believe that God was there with me -- reminding me of some kids that I had committed to helping. I thought of how terrible it would be for them to get the news. And I very carefully, with shaking hands and pounding heart, finished that journey.
Sometimes now, looking back, it is hard to believe that I was ever in that place. Just the other day Carmen Anthony, Abbi and I were being interviewed about our lives with HIV for a TV spot to help our local AIDS Service Organization. The reporter was asking us about what it was like to be diagnosed with HIV. I was attempting to convey the fear, the hopelessness and the sense of shame that I felt. But Abbi was climbing up and down off of the sofa -- attempting to jump onto pillows, feeding her ponies flowers and singing "Old McDonald Had a Farm EIEIO and on that farm he had a dog and Bingo was his name-o ..." I had a terrible time not laughing with her 2-year-old enthusiasm, joy and life! There is something about little people that brings a sense of hope into even the darkest places. Hang around somebody like that for too long and you just might find yourself laughing and singing silly songs, too!
When I (Carmen Anthony) was first diagnosed with AIDS, lying in a hospital bed with 5 T cells and 6 weeks to live, a lot went through my mind, including what would happen to me after I died. I said I wasn't ready to die yet, and I am sure glad I chose not to. Now I have a beautiful wife and a beautiful daughter.
I spent about three weeks in the hospital and six months in an assisted living home eating "gourmet" food and learning how to walk again. All that time, I had my guitar with me, sitting on a music stand. I kept looking at it, wanting to play it, but I just didn't have the strength to do it. It wasn't just my body -- I had so much despair and anger in me it was hard to motivate myself to get healthy again so I could continue living.
I went to visit my doctor during this time and he asked me what I wanted to do for the next 20 years. I said to him "music -- I have a lot of songs to write" He told me "get off your A** and do it!" That started the ball rolling. My first song, Dead Man Walking, expresses that period (you can hear it on an earlier post.) Music gave me hope and a will to go on. I've been writing ever since -- songs of healing, love, peace, faith, worship ... songs that express my journey.
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Most of us keep a few basics on hand: pantry staples, first-aid items, cleaning and laundry products, personal-care items such as soap, shampoo, and deodorant.
Eyeing my list as I headed into town one day, I had to chuckle. Most of the half-dozen staple items on my list that day fell into two, three, or all of the above categories.
Later that day I made a list of my most common household staples. With one or two of the products on that list, I can clean just about any surface or object in and around my home, rustle up a decent meal (except for the vegetables), administer first aid for most common ailments, and clean /pamper my skin, hair, and teeth. (I'm a longtime passionate vegetable gardener and find many of these staple ingredients also help fight plant diseases, kill or repel insects, or provide plant nutrients.)
What's more, each of these products is inexpensive, readily available, natural, and safe *(free from potentially harmful dyes, fragrances, preservatives, and other additives). Here's the list along with a few of the ways I use each product.
In future posts, I'll have a lot more to say about the specific uses of each of these frugal-household staples. Stay tuned.
- Oatmeal: cooking staple, skin care
- Cider vinegar: antiseptic, hair rinse, window-cleaner, ingredient in salad dressings and pickling-brine ingredient, insecticide
- Corn meal: cooking staple, weed-killer, mild fungicide (plants and people), exfoliant, sand substitute for children's play table
- Honey: sore throat gargle (with cider vinegar), general-purpose sweetener, antiseptic for burns and wounds, skin moisturizer
- Eggs: versatile, nutritious food; hair restorative, skin care, ground shells used in horticulture, household stain removal
- Sea salt: cooking staple, gargle, eye wash, mouthwash, toothpaste substitute, sinus-cavity irrigation, bath salt, exfoliant, scouring power (with baking soda)
- Baking soda: general purpose household cleaner, toothpaste substitute, shampoo, deodorant (underarms, shoes, refrigerators, carpets, lunch boxes), itch-reliever
- Olive oil: salad dressings, cooking oil, ear-wax removal, skin softener
- Castor oil: superior skin conditioner, a drop tames hair frizz, quells inflammation (I don't use castor oil internally).
- Borax: shampoo (really!), laundry additive, general cleaning agent
- Epsom salts: relaxing bath, foot soak, laundry additive
- Fresh or powdered ginger root: spices entrees and deserts, quells nausea, reduces inflammation and pain
- Witch hazel: antiseptic, astringent, bruise-healer, relieves itching, reduces under-eye bags, under-eye puffiness, heals diaper rash
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The Veterans Commitee has seen fit to open the doors of the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown to Ron Santo. The late Cubs third baseman was voted in on December 5, 2011, almost exactly a year to the day that he died. Santo has some good credentials. He was a nine time All Star and a five time Gold Glove winner. He managed just a .277 career batting average and his 342 career home runs are certainly impressive, but Hall worthy?? In my mind, Santo was given a push by former teammate Billy Williams, who no doubt influenced the other voters on the commitee. I am not here to denigrate Santo, though. I am just stunned by the lack of respect shown to Luis Tiant.
I have written about the great El Tiante in this space before. None other than Peter Gammons has said that Tiant is the best player not enshrined in the Hall. As I said, Santo will be inducted, posthumously, this July. I spoke to Tiant a couple of seasons ago about this very subject, and it isn't something he'd be OK with. "If those ****** vote me in after I'm dead, I swear I'll come back and haunt them." I'm pretty sure he wasn't kidding. While Santo was the only one to receive the necessary 75% of the vote, Tiant was listed last with Buzzie Bavasi, Ken Boyer, Allie Reynolds and Charlie Finley for receiving less than three votes. The Veterans Commitee won't vote again on Tiant for another three years.
Remember the movie starring Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd, "Trading Places"? There's a new version starring Bobby Valentine and Terry Francona. Essentially, the pair has flip-flopped jobs. While Valentine has taken over as manager of the Red Sox, Tito has been hired by ESPN as a Sunday Night Baseball analyst and a member of the Baseball Tonight panel.
First caution flag of the Valentine era. How poor is his judgement, assuming it's true, wanting to add Bill Buckner to his staff? The goat of the 1986 World Series, back in a Sox uniform??? No way. While most politically correct people claim to have forgiven him, I don't think there's a Sox fan out there that would really want to see him back in town. There are just too many good baseball guys out there to make Buckner a Sox coach. It's like Valentine is going to test the water and see just how far he can push. Not a great idea and I think the Boston Brass has the good sense to realize it. If this is he Valentine mindset, I worry. I did say I'd give him the benefit of the doubt. Since his hiring, all we've heard is how great he is. As I tweeted the other night, if he is so great, why has he been out of the Major Leagues for so long? We shall see. And for the record, I still don't forgive Buckner.


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I would assume the various Mumakil we see would also be of the Haradrim tongue, such as Arpong-Dokh, Set-Akaji, Ku-Nerpag, Thangol-ya, and Kethat-sai.
Ah, I see what you mean; happened to be MIA in the game for a while, and didn't remember them...did notice them while doing Western/Central Gondor, though, and listed 'em.
You're right, though. Even though the self-titled 'Heirs of Castamir' as well as the Roving Threat Abrakhór all have Adûnaic names, the 'common' Corsairs and Haradrim don't.
One problem we're likely encountering is that in LotRO, we're dealing with inspired-by words (like with Dunlendish = Welsh) that are also quite likely transliterated. Good luck trying to hunt the words.
With the list I made, I noticed that in Western Gondor, there's a Corsair-camp by the name of Makham Mijann. In itself, nothing worth to notice, maybe. But then I remembered Nanduhirion, and the camp right outside the East Gate: Mekhem-bizru (within Moria, we have Anazârmekhem). Here, again, we have Turbine connecting a Mannish tongue with Khuzdul.
That is another connection to Middle Eastern/Central Asian languages. Unfortunately, I haven't yet found one that would work well.
I believe those "Easterling" names were compiled and stylized from Uzbek as Berephon suggested, quite carelessly though, I should say, as many of them are ultimately of Arabic or Persian origin. Been some time since I played anything but the Bingo story in earnest so I can't pick examples off the top of my head but I'll go and pick a few the next time I'm online
In addition, the place names in the Paths of the Dead were identified as Breton.
Berber tongues seem feasible as a basis for that of the Haradrim but that's pure speculation
Landroval: Kibilturg (Watchers of Elendil); Taurunion, Erohtar (Taters and Traders)
Crickhollow: Kibilturg (Tarciryan Knights); Zigilturg (Forever Notorious); Nuncle (Casual Wanderers)
I will work on a sailing ship and see the world just as my grandfather did.
Becoming a <?> will help me reach this goal.
Uncle <Alan?> can help me become a <?>
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I thought at first he wanted to be a sailor, but the word looks to be 5 letters with an F in the middle.
Signatures are overrated.
WAT? The sand-castle mentioned by Imrahil exist for real!
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Inside is a familiar scene
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~ Check my Kinship at Gladden server: The Fate of Middle Earth ~
Having read through a fair chunk of the History of Middle Earth, I am blown away by how many characters that did NOT make it into the books are in the game. HME is Chris Tolkien's epic 12-volume description of how his father wrote LOTR. With all the first drafts, third drafts, every excised paragraph JRR ever jotted onto a napkin... But it is obvious the devs read them, as there are so many single characters, mentioned once in a crossed out section that was discarded decades before the books were published, that are in the game. Amazing...
Visiting Draigoch's Lair over the course of the Anniversary Scavenger Hunt event I remembered how the urns that are part of the decor there bothered me with their familiarity. Not having time, then, to ponder, I promptly forgot it again.
Until the other day I picked up my copy of The Hobbit to read to the younglings.
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