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January 9, 2014
The Rotary Club of Cape Coral will again kick off the city's major events schedule with Festival of the Arts this weekend. The two-day event will be held along Cape Coral Parkway from 10 a.m. to 5 p....
Festival of the Arts should be moved to 47 Terrace like other activities have been. The Christmas tree lighting should stay the same though due to the fact that it is only a one day affair but mostly held in the evening. CCP is a main road, in and out of the City. It also impacts businesses along CCP negatively for the most part.
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Josh Radnor's "Liberal Arts" is an almost unreasonable pleasure about a jaded New Yorker who returns to his alma mater in Ohio and finds that his heart would like to stay there. It's the kind of film that appeals powerfully to me; to others, maybe not so much.
There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth.
Jesse, the character played by Josh Radnor (who also wrote and directed the film), has stayed in academia but surely in its least pleasant job. He is a New York City college admissions officer, turning young people away at the gates of Valhalla. He receives an invitation to a retirement party for Peter (Richard Jenkins), a professor who was one of his undergraduate heroes. Jesse returns to Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, a campus so beautiful I now understand why I subscribed to the Kenyon Review for years: Its pages must have absorbed the grace of the campus.
The retirement is far from perfect, because Peter has to admit to himself that he has no desire to retire. Richard Jenkins is the kind of actor you can easily imagine being someone's beloved mentor and understand why he would surrender that role with reluctance. At a party, he introduces Jesse to Zibby (Elizabeth Olsen), a 19-year-old daughter of friends, who is studying improv theater. Did I mention that Jesse is 35?
It's not so much that they fall in love as they fall in love with idealistic conversation. Zibby still lives in a world where such talk is common. Jesse is starved for it. The fresh promise of his undergraduate years has never been replaced for him by the working world. Their 16-year age difference is undeniable, but the young student finds his age to be one of his attractions, as young students have been known to do.
Also on the campus, we meet two familiar types. One is Nat (Zac Efron), who wears a deliberately absurd hat to signal "I am not like anyone else," and utters philosophical aphorisms as if he is the campus Thoreau. The other is Dean (John Magaro), never seen without holding a copy of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. It is to Radnor's infinite credit that he never explains why the novel is a telltale character marker.
We also meet Judith (Allison Janney), Jesse's professor of romantic poetry and another huge role model. Janney brings to the character that acerbic wit she does so easily, and they have a scene together I wouldn't dream of spoiling for you.
Elizabeth Olsen is the film's most enchanting asset. In performance after performance, she has grown in assurance and appeal. Yes, she is separated from Jesse by 16 years, but she is not a victim in their relationship. She and Radnor have an ease together, a delighted comfort, that is so much more attractive and plausible than the ludicrous thrashings of "love" in so many pictures.
"Liberal Arts" has been criticized in some quarters as a sitcom, in part because Radnor stars in a famous one, "How I Met Your Mother." Those who see it that way are well-guarded. God forbid that they would ever "fall for anything." I strive to leave myself vulnerable.
There is a word to explain why this particular film so appealed to me. Reader, that word is "escapism." If you understand why I used the word "reader" in just that way, you are possibly an ideal viewer for this movie.
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Taqueria My Taco is a family owned Mexican restaurant managed by Jorge Garduno, Maria, their son George and their daughter Vanessa established on June 20, 1994. A year prior from being established in Highland Park, they began in the city of Bell behind Suliks market on the corner of Salt Lake Blvd and Bell Ave, CA only selling tacos on the weekends. They had a customized taco cart selling their specialty "tacos de barbarcoa de borrego – lamb tacos and consume de chivo – goat stew". This recipe is the heart and specialty of My Taco today, it is the recipe given by Jorge's late father who was a cook in Mexicalli, BC. Their tacos cart selections were limited and they only offered tacos of lamb, carne asada, chicken, lengua, and tripas.
The first year My Taco opened in Highland Park the taco cart was located in the front of the shopping mall of York Square Center, tacos could be purchased Friday – Sunday late night from 5pm-12am in the front of the parking lot. My Taco started solely as taqueria selling 10 different tacos such as lamb, carne asada, chicken, al pastor, chorizo, longaniza, buche, tripas, cabeza, carnitas and offering limited food items.
In 2006, My Taco expanded and remolded with bold vibrant colors and stylish art from Mexico. The menu expanded new dishes such as hard shell potato tacos (grandma's secret recipe, Maria's late mother), costillas de puerco, fish tacos, shrimp tacos, carne asada fries, aguas fracas, flan and much more... Our menu captures family dishes and recipes that highlight distinguish flavors and savory ingredients of our Mexican heritage through our food.
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Two Jonathan De Guzman goals helped Swansea to brush aside Stoke City 3-1
Two Jonathan De Guzman goals helped Swansea to brush aside Stoke City 3-1 at the Liberty Stadium.
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All three Swansea goals were of real quality after a flat first period, with young defender Ben Davies scoring his first goal in senior football before Jonathan de Guzman curled home an excellent free-kick.
With nine minutes to go, De Guzman got his second of the game after a delightful Danny Graham flick, and there was time for an injury-time consolation from Michael Owen for Stoke.
Both sides made significant changes from those that faced FA Cup replays in midweek. Garry Monk came back into the Swansea side that made six changes. Ki, Michu and Ashley Williams were recalled, whilst Leon Britton was rested and Chico Flores injured. For Stoke, Kenwyne Jones, who was has been the subject of a rejected bid from Swansea, was dropped in favour of Peter Crouch.
Swansea started brightly, and Pablo Hernandez forced Begovic to tip wide of the post before noticing that he had been flagged offside. A minute later Michu was teed up by Itay Schechter, but could only fire high over the bar on his left foot.
Stoke's best chance came when Matthew Etherington played a one-two with Charlie Adam but slided his shot wide of the post from eight yards with Crouch well placed in the middle.
The hosts then spurned the best chance of the first half when Angel Rangel dispossessed Matthew Etherington near the goal line, and his cross was perfect, finding Michu seven yards out. The Spaniard, looking for his 14th Premier League goal of the season, could only head the ball inexplicably wide.
Swansea took the lead four minutes into the second half when left-back Davies ventured forward, shrugged off Walters and surged into the area before providing an accomplished finish, rolling the ball past Begovic.
Five minutes later, the home side's lead was doubled. Adam bundled over Michu 20 yards out, and De Guzman curled a free-kick home expertly into the top left-hand corner.
With 20 minutes to play, substitute Cameron Jerome somehow managed to miss from three yards, after a cross into the box fell at his feet via the head of Ashley Williams.
Swansea wrapped things up with a wonderful team move ith nine minutes to go. The ball was played into the feet of Graham, and the striker played a delightful one-touch flick round the corner to De Guzman, who finished with ease.
There was still time for Owen to grab a consolation for Stoke with a glancing header in stoppage-time, but there were few cheers from players or supporters following the striker's first goal for the club.


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Book Review on Bodmin Moor Explorer
The excellent Bodmin Moor Explorer has given our book 'Remapping High Wycombe: journeys beyond the western sector' a nice little review on their blog - read it here.
I strongly recommend spending a while reading Bodmin's blog, it really personifies the English 'Earth Mysteries' Psychogeographical School (or that should be College in the druidic sense).
The book is also now available to buy from Crockatt & Powell's Booksellers on Lower Marsh, London SE1.
We'll hopefully get some copies into Wycombe bookshops at some point.


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James Baldwin was born on this day in 1924. He was a public intellectual, a civil and human rights freedom fighter and a literary giant. In his honour here are a few of his quotes:
- "American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it."
- "Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."
- "Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
- "Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality."
R.I.P. good brother. You spirit, wisdom and intellect is sorely missed.


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First of all folks, forgive me if this was suggested in a previous thread already (I searched for it, but didn't find anything).
As faNAtics might know, Vizar's original concept was titled "Detector" and showed a Caucasian warrior with red cape and slightly altered helmet and armor. This version also was used alot in the European NA comics.
If Mattel comes to producing Vizar for the MotU Classics line, what would you say if they'd go the same routine with Detector that they went with Zodak?
Means: First of all, Vizar is released as a regular figure.
A while later, Detector is released (probably as bonus figure), with the biography linking him to Vizar, but making him a separate character.
Vizar is relatively unexpensive to produce anyway (aside of him not needing many new molds, they even could reuse Webstor's hook), and Detector would only need a new paint job, head and extra cape. It would offer fans a way to get both versions, as well as add a "new" character for the MotU cosmos.
The only problem there is that Vizar is not quite the most popular and prominent NA character, thus it's up to question if he's even on the horizon within the next couple of years, and if there would be enough demand to justify a Detector refresh down the road. Personally, I don't think that's Vizar's high on Mattel's radar, and Detector probably is even more obscure than Wun-Dar. But aside of potential sales, it would be a nice thing to do IMO.


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Falling in Reverse Stream Their New Album 'Fashionably Late' in Its Entirety
Even though the new Falling in Reverse album is titled 'Fashionably Late,' the band's fans are getting a taste of it a bit early.
The group is streaming their second studio album on their official Youtube page, and you can listen to it in full below (one song plays after the other). The disc itself will not be available until June 18 but Falling In Reverse have already been making waves with their two singles from the record, 'Alone' and the title track 'Fashionably Late.'
Falling in Reverse will celebrate the release of the new disc with a live performance June 18 at The Roxy in L.A. The concert will also be streaming live on the band's official site. For more details on the release show, go here.
When they rolled into New York City for a show earlier in the year (check out our photos), we picked their brain about new material. Frontman Ronnie Radke replied, "Let's just say people are going to be floored when they hear it, they're going to lose their mind. There's no explanation that can describe the best unless you hear it."
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The day before Thanksgiving, a charming young woman at the pharmacy drive-thru smiled and said, "I see you're already in the Christmas spirit."
The day before Thanksgiving, a charming young woman at the pharmacy drive-thru smiled and said, "I see you're already in the Christmas spirit."
I had hardly noticed, but my radio was pouring Burl Ives and "Have a Holly, Jolly Christmas" into her window. It was a month early for me to get in the spirit, but I suppose she didn't know I remain a Scrooge until Christmas Eve.
I had just finished a tiring trip from DeKalb County to Marshall County, to Etowah and back to DeKalb on medical missions. As I drove the circuit, we sampled three radio stations — from Chattanooga, Huntsville and Birmingham — playing nothing but Christmas music.
The stations started their marathon of "White Christmas" and "Little Drummer Boy" around Halloween, but this was our first day of listening in the car. The music sounded fresh and nostalgic at the same time, so we hummed and sang along. But long before Santa Claus gets here, I will have had my fill of holiday sounds.
Merchants now turn on the Christmas music and roll out the Santa Claus stuff just after Labor Day and charge ahead. They barely nod as they speed through Halloween. Then they transform Thanksgiving from a Rockwellian day for families into a shopping orgy for idiots.
The bride and I have finally reached the age when we know what's good for us, so we watch where we go and when.
We overeat at Thanksgiving, as we are supposed to do, but then scurry to the shelter of home before angry armies occupy the streets and surge into the stores, flailing their karate hands in the air, stomping over kids and old folks — all for the righteous cause of buying a cheap TV.
When we got home Wednesday afternoon, I told my brother in Florida local drivers already had switched into Godzilla mode. With only a few hours left to buy food for the feast, they sped through traffic lights and stop signs, cut off other drivers and entered into the wanton frenzy they usually reserve for a forecast of snow — the Godzilla effect.
We used to fight hostile masses to buy Christmas gifts, but we take to the field no more. The bride and I can find just the right present for one another in the J. Peterman catalogue online. For the others, we shop at the bank.
It is hard to say when our roles in holiday celebrations changed, but they have.
We used to pride ourselves on being able to choose the perfect gift for each person. Now we have no idea what would please a young person, so we give them cash to buy their own. An impersonal approach, but one we can manage.
We no longer host big gatherings. We leave the hosting to the younger generations,
with a token contribution from us. The children know I still drive a big double-cab pickup and so reserve a safe parking spot for us.
Strong arms embrace us at the car, take our parcels and help us up the steps. We are a bit unsteady on our feet, so all eyes stay alert as we make our way through the crowd. Everyone asks about our health.
Instead of serving ourselves, we hear, "What would you like to drink?" "Let me fix you a plate?" "How about some more dressing and gravy?"
When we leave, a younger driver backs the truck out, points it toward the road and opens the doors for us. We feel pampered.
One good thing about becoming old and frail is our families still respect their elders. I have always appreciated that quality, but I never imagined myself being the elder. Now I relish the special treatment, but it somehow makes my throat draw tight.
So here we are at home in loose clothes and slippers. The fireplace is burning low and the television lights the room. I am typing, but I think I will ask the bride to switch to a music channel, the one playing "Adeste Fideles" and "Stille Nacht."


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Jerry Lightfoot's 23-year-old daughter died Jan. 3, 2006, when she lost control of her vehicle and crashed into a tree.
PIERSON -- While everyone is out getting the best deals for Black Friday, Jerry Lightfoot quietly spent some time cleaning the overgrown spot where his daughter died.
"She was a hard worker who was trying to get ahead," a tearful Lightfoot said of his daughter Erin Lightfoot.
His 23-year-old daughter died Jan. 3, 2006, when she lost control of her vehicle and crashed into a tree. A statue of an angel marks the spot there now. The site of the crash is just around the corner from Jerry Lightfoot's home on County Road 3 in Pierson.
"I miss her very much," Jerry Lightfoot said as he deftly clipped away brush that threatened to cover the area Friday morning. "Every time it gets untidy I come and clean it."
The father said his daughter was returning from Daytona Beach where she had been looking for an apartment to live. She had been to Santa Fe, N.M., and had returned, looking forward to attending college.
"She went looking for an apartment and the plan was I was going to go with her the next day to continue finding a place," Jerry Lightfoot said. "She was almost home but she never got there."
Erin Lightfoot was killed when her pickup went out of control and flipped into a ditch on C.R. 3 near Lake Winona Road before Jan. 3, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Erin Lightfoot, the first fatality of 2006 in Volusia County, was wearing a seat belt, troopers said.
Erin Lightfoot was a 2001 graduate of Taylor High School, where she was active in the Future Farmers of America and a correspondent for The News-Journal Campus Page.


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Lynch uncertain about a run for US Senate
US Representative Stephen F. Lynch told the Globe this afternoon that he hasn't yet made up his mind about running for the US Senate in the special election to fill John F. Kerry's seat. Just a day earlier, the strong message from the Lynch camp was that he would definitely be announcing his campaign next week.
The Globe and other news outlets reported today that he was running for the seat. The Globe story was based on interviews with people who had direct knowledge of Lynch's decision making.
If he decides to run, Lynch will make the announcement within several days after Kerry's expected confirmation as President Obama's secretary of state, those people said.
A recent poll showed Markey leading Lynch in a direct match-up by about 10 points. That survey was commissioned by the National Association of Government Employees, a major union that typically backs Democrats, and conducted by Massachusetts pollster David Paleologos.
The same poll showed former senator Scott Brown leading Markey in a potential match up, 49 percent to 39 percent. In a theoretical Brown-Lynch race, Brown would lead Lynch 42 percent to 33 percent.
If Lynch enters the race, it presents a major quandary for organized labor. A former ironworker and former president of Ironworkers Local 7, Lynch has deep roots and many friends in labor, and will be pushing hard for union support in the Democratic primary. Without a large union army turning out voters against Markey, he could have a hard time toppling his colleague from Malden, whose liberal positions might appeal more to the party's base.
Steven Tolman, president of the AFL-CIO of Massachusetts, estimated that Lynch, by virtue of his labor background, already has the support of about 50 percent of the movement's members in Massachusetts. It is not clear, however, if Lynch can lock up the two-thirds majority needed to win the AFL-CIO's endorsement, Tolman said. It is also not clear if the AFL-CIO will endorse in the primary, or sit out the race and wait until the general election, he said.
"Sometimes we have to embrace a spirited Democratic primary, and sometimes it makes people uncomfortable because of friendships but, in politics, we have to be prepared to make decisions,'' said Tolman, a former Democratic state lawmaker who served with Lynch in the state House and state Senate. "What is clear is he has an awful lot of long-term commitments and friendships in labor. We grew up with him.''


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See that title there? Yeah, its got two meanings. I am tricksy like that.
I stopped raiding a while back because I was going to join the Air Force (although I have more recently decided to do Navy instead). It turns out that the application process for an officer takes a looooong time which leaves me able to raid. I knew it would look awfully shady to my old guild if I stopped raiding while we were farming BT/Hyjal ad naseum and all of a sudden now that Sunwell was out I could raid again. I also wasn't crazy about the atmosphere in the guild, it felt stagnant and even if my coming back to raiding didn't look shady, I would not have wanted to raid there anyway. So I started looking elsewhere. Which brought me to new and exciting place #1, a server called Moonrunner.
The last thing I wanted to do was go backward in progression so I made sure to hook up with progression raiding guild which brings me to new and exciting place #2, Sunwell Plateau (yes, I had to google 'plateau' to spell it correctly).
A screenshot of the fun that Sunwell brings –
For anybody keeping score at home, that is 52k damage in 2 seconds. Needless to say, I died. And here's the rub: thats not a totally freak occurence, either me or the other tank took ridiculous bursts like that a couple times. But at the end of the day he died (second kill for the guild, first for me) and I got me a new neck piece – http://wowhead.com/?item=34178


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Bringing your dog to work may take the bite out of stress and improve overall job satisfaction for the whole office.
A new study suggests having dogs at work may provide healthy benefits for their owners as well as some other employees.
"The differences in perceived stress between days the dog was present and absent were significant," researcher Randolph T. Barker, PhD, professor of management at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Business, says in a news release. "The employees as a whole had higher job satisfaction than industry norms."
Previous studies have already shown pets can provide a number of stress-busting benefits for their owners, such as lowering blood pressure and providing social support.
But researchers say this is the first study to measure the effect of employees' pet dogs in the workplace on employees' stress and job satisfaction.
Although the findings need to be confirmed in larger studies, researchers say the results suggest that dogs may buffer the effects of stress for their owners and make the day more enjoyable for others who come in contact with them.
"Dogs in the workplace can make a positive difference," Barker says. "The effect of pets in reducing the impact of stress and enhancing communication found in other settings may extend to the workplace."
Dogs a Bonus for Their Owners
In the study, researchers looked at the effects dogs have on their owners at work, as well as other employees' stress levels, perceived support, commitment to their employer, and job satisfaction.
The employees worked at a service-manufacturing retail company in Greensboro, N.C., that has about 550 employees. About 20 to 30 dogs are at the company headquarters each day.
Over the course of a typical work week, researchers collected saliva samples in the morning and surveyed the employees throughout the day. The saliva samples were analyzed for the stress hormone cortisol.
The results showed that cortisol levels were similar in the morning for all employees, but self-reported stress levels declined during the course of the day for employees who had their dogs with them.
Meanwhile, self-reported stress levels increased during the day for dog owners who did not bring their dogs to work.
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Researchers also found that having dogs at work fostered unique dog-related communication between employees that may improve job performance and satisfaction.
For example, employees without a dog would request to take a co-worker's dog out on a break. This resulted in positive exchanges between employees, as well as breaks involving exercise, another known stress reducer.
"Pet presence may serve as a low-cost wellness intervention readily available to many organizations and may enhance organizational satisfaction and perceptions of support," Barker says. "Of course, it is important to have policies in place to ensure only friendly, clean, and well-behaved pets are present in the workplace."
The results appear in the International Journal of Workplace Health Management.
SOURCES:Barker, R. International Journal of Workplace Health Management, March 2012.News release, Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Coloration, in biology, the general appearance of an organism as determined by the quality and quantity of light that is reflected or emitted from its surfaces. Coloration depends upon several factors: the colour and distribution of the organism's biochromes (pigments), particularly the relative location of differently coloured areas; the shape, posture, position, and movement of the organism; and the quality and quantity of light striking the organism. The perceived coloration depends also on the visual capabilities of the viewer. Coloration is a dynamic and complex characteristic and must be clearly distinguished from the concept of "colour," which refers only to the spectral qualities of emitted or reflected light.
Many evolutionary functions have been suggested for the effects of coloration on optical signaling. An organism with conspicuous coloration draws attention to itself, with some sort of adaptive interaction the frequent result. Such "advertising" coloration may serve to repel or attract other animals. While conspicuous coloration emphasizes optical signals and thereby enhances communication, coloration may, conversely, suppress optical signals or create incorrect signals and thereby reduce communication. This "deceptive" coloration serves to lessen detrimental or maladaptive interactions with other organisms.
Coloration may also affect an organism in ways other than its interaction with other organisms. Such nonoptical functions of coloration include physiological roles that depend on the molecular properties (e.g., strength and type of chemical bonds) of the chemicals that create colour. For example, dark hair is mechanically stronger than light hair, and dark feathers resist abrasion better than light feathers. Coloration may also play a part in the organism's energy budget, because biochromes create colour by the differential reflection and absorption of solar engery. Energy absorbed as a result of coloration may be used in biochemical reactions, such as photosynthesis, or it may contribute to the thermal equilibrium of the organism. Nonoptical functions of coloration also include visual functions in which coloration or its pattern affects an animal's own vision. Surfaces near the eye may be darkly coloured, for instance, to reduce reflectance that interferes with vision.
Emitted light, the product of bioluminescence, forms a portion of the coloration of some organisms. Bioluminescence may reveal an organism to nearby animals, but it may also serve as a light source in nocturnal species or in deepwater marine animals such as the pinecone fishes (Monocentris). These fishes feed at night and have bright photophores, or bioluminescent organs, at the tips of their lower jaws; they appear to use these organs much like tiny searchlights as they feed on planktonic (minute floating) organisms.
Because many pigments are formed as the natural or only slightly modified by-products of metabolic processes, some coloration may be without adaptive function. Nonfunctional coloration can, for example, be an incidental effect of a pleiotropic gene (a gene that has multiple effects), or it can result from pharmacological reaction (as when the skin of a Caucasian person turns blue in cold water) or from pure chance. It seems unlikely, however, that any apparently fortuitous coloration could long escape the process of natural selection and thus remain totally without function.
Regardless of its adaptive advantages, a particular coloration or pattern of coloration cannot evolve unless it is within the species' natural pool of genetic variability. Thus a species may lack a seemingly adaptive coloration because genetic variability has not included that coloration or pattern in its hereditary repertoire.
Because humans are highly visual animals, we are naturally interested in and attentive to biological coloration. Human attention to coloration ranges from the purely aesthetic to the rigidly pragmatic. Soft, pastel colorations aid in increasing work efficiency and contribute to tranquil moods; bright, strongly contrasting colours seem to contribute to excitement and enthusiasm. These phenomena may be extensions of the basic human response to the soft blue, green, and brown backgrounds of the environment as opposed to sharply contrasting warning colorations found on many dangerous organisms. It is possible that much of the aesthetic value humans attach to coloration is closely related to its broad biological functions.
Human interest in coloration has led to biological studies. The classical work by the Moravian abbot Gregor Mendel on inherited characteristics, based largely on plant coloration, formed the foundation for modern genetics. Coloration also aids in the identification of organisms. It is an easily perceived, described, and compared characteristic. Related species living in different habitats, however, frequently have strikingly different colorations. Since coloration is susceptible to alteration in various functional contexts, it usually lacks value as a conservative characteristic for determining systematic relationships between all but the most closely related species.
Related articles of interest include animal behaviour; mimicry.
Structural and biochemical bases for colour
Organisms produce colour physically, by submicroscopic structures that fractionate incident light into its component colours (schemochromes); or chemically, by natural pigments (biochromes) that reflect or transmit (or both) portions of the solar spectrum. Pigmentary colours, being of molecular origin, may be expressed independently of structural colour and are not altered by crushing, grinding, or compression. Structural colours are often reinforced by the presence of biochromes and are altered or destroyed by crushing, grinding, or compression.
Structural colours (schemochromes)
The physical principles of total reflection, spectral interference, scattering, and, to some extent, polychromatic diffraction, all familiar in reference to inanimate objects, are also encountered among tissues of living forms, most commonly in animals. In plants these physical principles are exemplified only by the total reflection of white light by some fungi and bacteria and by the petals of some flowers and barks, and by some spectral interference in certain sea plants.
Total reflection of light—which imparts whiteness to flowers, birds' feathers, mammalian hair, and the wings of certain butterflies—often results from the separation of finely divided materials by minute air spaces. Secretions or deposits in tissues may also contribute to the whiteness; for example, the fat and protein in mammalian milk and the calcium carbonate in the shells of mollusks, crustaceans, certain echinoderms, corals, and protozoans.
Fractionation of white light into its components occurs in organisms (chiefly animals) through interference: the incident light penetrates the animal structure and is reflected back through successive ultrathinly layered films, giving striking iridescence, even in diffuse light, as a result of the asynchrony between the wavelengths of visible light that enter and those that return.
Brilliant interference colours may display variety or be predominantly of one kind, depending upon the relative thicknesses of layers and interlaminar spaces giving rise to the colours. Such colours also are changeable with the angle of vision of the viewer.
Purely prismatic refraction of light (sometimes confused with interference iridescence) is probably rare in animals and is limited to instances in which direct beams of light impinge upon certain microcrystalline deposits. Polychromatic diffraction—e.g., by natural, fine gratings or regular fine striations—may be observed among certain insects, but, like prismatic refraction, it is conspicuous only when a direct beam of light strikes such structures and they are viewed at an angle.
A special instance of diffraction, often referred to as the Tyndall effect (after its discoverer, the 19th-century British physicist John Tyndall), results in the presence of blue colours in many animals. The Tyndall effect arises from the reflection of the shorter (blue) waves of incident light by finely dispersed particles situated above the dark layers of pigment, commonly melanin deposits. In these blue-scattering systems, the reflecting entities—whether very small globules of protein or lipid, semisolid substances in aqueous mediums, or very small vesicles of air—are of such small size as to approximate the shorter wavelengths of light (about 0.4 micron). The longer waves, such as red, orange, and yellow, pass through such mediums and are absorbed by the dark melanin below; the short waves, violet and blue, encounter bodies of approximately their own dimensions and consequently are reflected back.
Two types of coloration may act in combination; in some instances, for example, structurally coloured and pigmented layers may be superimposed. Most of the greens found in the skin of fishes, amphibians, reptiles, and birds do not arise from the presence of green pigments (although exceptions occur); rather, they result from the emergence of scattered blue light through an overlying layer of yellow pigment. Extraction of the yellow pigment from the overlying cuticle of a green feather or of a reptilian skin leaves the object blue.Denis Llewellyn Fox Edward Howland Burtt
Pigments (biochromes)
Plants and animals commonly possess characteristic pigments. They range in plants from those that impart the brilliant hues of many fungi, through those that give rise to the various browns, reds, and greens of species that can synthesize their food from inorganic substances (autotrophs), to the colourful pigments found in the flowers of seed plants. The pigments of animals are located in nonliving skin derivatives such as hair in mammals, feathers in birds, scales in turtles and tortoises, and cuticles and shells in many invertebrates. Pigments also occur within living cells of the skin. The outermost skin cells may be pigmented, as in humans, or special pigment-containing cells, chromatophores, may occur in the deeper layers of the skin. Depending on the colour of their pigment, chromatophores are termed melanophores (black), erythrophores (red), xanthophores (yellow), or leucophores (white).Frank A. Brown
Chemical and biochemical features
The colour of a chemical compound depends on the selective absorption of light by molecules whose size or vibrational wavelengths or both lie between 3000 and 7000 angstroms (one angstrom equals 10-7 millimetre). Selective absorption of visible light results from retardation in the relative speed or vibrational frequency of the many rapidly vibrating electron pairs found in a compound. Sufficient modification in the frequency of vibration imparts to the whole molecule a special motion, or chemical resonance, that absorbs entering light rays of matching frequency with the evolution of heat; the residual, unabsorbed light is transmitted to the eye.
If the molecular resonance involves short, rapid waves, the shorter visible light waves are absorbed (i.e., violet and blue) and the compound appears yellow or orange; red-appearing substances, having slightly longer resonance values, absorb light from the blue and green regions; and blue and green compounds result from cancellation of light in the red or orange realms. Black substances absorb all light equally and completely; white compounds absorb no light in the visible spectrum. The colour reflected by a pigment usually includes all the wavelengths of visible light except the absorbed fraction; the observed colour of a compound thus depends upon the dominant wavelength reflected or transmitted.
The more important natural pigments may be grouped into (1) classes whose molecules lack nitrogen and (2) those that contain nitrogen. Of the nonnitrogenous pigments, by far the most important, conspicuous, and widely distributed in both plants and animals are the carotenoids. Naphthoquinones, anthraquinones, and flavonoids are other nitrogen-free pigments that occur in animals, all being synthesized originally in plants, as are the carotenoids. But unlike the carotenoids, the others have a limited distribution in animals, and little is known of their physiological attributes in either kingdom.
Prominent among the nitrogenous biochromes are the tetrapyrroles, including both the porphyrins (i.e., the red or green heme compounds present in the blood of many animals and the green chlorophylls of many plants) and the bile pigments, which occur in many secretions and excretory products of animals and in plant cells. Equally prominent are the melanins, which are dark biochromes found in skin, hair, feathers, scales, and some internal membranes; they represent end products from the breakdown of tyrosine and related amino acids.
Below are outlined the basic colours, sources, and metabolic features of some representative biological pigments.
Nonnitrogenous pigments
The carotenoids constitute a group of yellow, orange, or red pigments of almost universal distribution in living things. Carotenoids generally are insoluble in water but dissolve readily in fat solvents such as alcohol, ether, and chloroform. They are readily bleached by light and by exposure to atmospheric oxygen and are also unstable in acids such as sulfuric acid.
Carotenoids occur as two major types: the hydrocarbon class, or carotenes, and the oxygenated (alcoholic) class, or xanthophylls. Some animals exhibit a high degree of selectivity for the assimilation of members of one or the other class. The horse (Equus caballus), for instance, absorbs through its intestine only the carotenes, even though its green food contains mostly xanthophylls; the domestic hen (Gallus domesticus), on the other hand, stores only members of the xanthophyll class, as do many fishes and invertebrates. Other animals, including certain frogs, Octopus species, and humans, assimilate and store both classes in the liver and in fat deposits.
Carotenoids are synthesized by bacteria, fungi, algae, and other plants to highly evolved flowering forms, in which they are most conspicuous in petals, pollen, fruit, and some roots—e.g., carrots, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, and citrus fruits. All animals and protozoans contain carotenoids, although the blood plasma of a number of mammals (e.g., swine, sheep, goats, some carnivores) is almost entirely free of these pigments. The livers of animals often yield carotenoids; all animals depend upon a nutritional supply of vitamin A or one of its precursors, such as carotene, for maintenance of normal metabolism and growth. Carotenoids are relatively more concentrated in such structures as ovaries, eggs, testes (some animals), the liver (or the liver-like analogue of invertebrates), adrenal glands, skin, and eyes. In birds, carotenoid pigmentation may be conspicuous in the yellow tarsal (lower leg) skin, external ear, body fat, and egg yolk (especially in poultry) and in red-coloured feathers. Carotenoids are also found in the wings or wing covers of many insects and in the milk fat of cattle.
The quinones include the benzoquinones, naphthoquinones, anthraquinones, and polycyclic quinones.
Benzoquinones occur in certain fungi and in roots, berries, or galls (abnormal growths) of higher plants, from which they can be recovered as yellow, orange, red, violet, or darker coloured crystals or solids. Small quantities of pale-yellow crystals of coenzyme Q, often called ubiquinones, are almost universally distributed in plants and animals. The ubiquinones impart no recognizable coloration to an organism because of their very small concentrations; they play an important role, however, as respiratory enzymes in catalyzing cellular oxidations.
Naphthoquinones are encountered in some bacteria and in the leaves, seeds, and woody parts of higher plants. They can be recovered as yellow, orange, red, or purple crystals. They are soluble in organic solvents and have been used extensively as dyes for fabrics. Among the naphthoquinones of biochemical and physiological importance are the K vitamins. Another series within the naphthoquinone class manifests conspicuous red, purple, or sometimes green colours in a few animal types. These are the echinochromes and spinochromes, so named because they are conspicuous in tissues and in the calcareous tests (shells) of echinoids, or sea urchins.
The anthraquinones occur widely in plants but in only a few animals. These brilliantly coloured compounds have found wide application as dyes and as chemical indicators of acidity or alkalinity.
Polycyclic quinones
The polycyclic quinones occur in some bacteria, fungi, and parts of higher plants. One of the more interesting representatives is the aphin group, so called because of their initial recovery from the hemolymph (circulating fluid) of several coloured species of aphids; aphids parasitize plants, as do the other quinone-assimilating insects.
The biochromes in the class of flavonoids, another instance of compounds lacking nitrogen, are extensively represented in plants but are of relatively minor and limited occurrence in animals, which rely on plants as sources of these pigments. Flavonoids consist of a 15-carbon skeleton compound called flavone (2-phenylbenzopyrone), in which one or more hydrogen atoms (H) is replaced either by hydroxyl groups (-OH) or by methoxyl groups (-OCH3). Flavonoids occur in living tissue mainly in combination with sugar molecules, forming glycosides. Many members of this group, notably the anthoxanthins, impart yellow colours, often to flower petals; the class also includes the anthocyanins, which are water-soluble plant pigments exhibiting orange-reds, crimson, blue, or other colours.
The variety of anthoxanthins is greater than that of anthocyanins, and new anthoxanthins are continuously being discovered. A prominent flavonoid is the pale-yellow flavonal quercitin, first isolated from an oak (Quercus) but widely distributed in nature. A weak acid, it combines with strong acids to form orange salts, which are not very stable and readily dissociate in water. Quercitin is a strong dyestuff; it yields more than one colour, depending on the mordant used. A yellow pigment isolated from the wings of the butterfly Melanargia galatea possesses chemical properties closely allied to those of quercitin. Other well-known anthoxanthins include chrysin, found in the leaf buds of the poplar (Populus), and apigenin, found in the leaves, stem, and seeds of parsley (Petroselinum) and the flowers of the camomile (Anthemis).
The anthocyanins are largely responsible for the red colouring of buds and young shoots and the purple and purple-red colours of autumn leaves. The red colour becomes apparent when the green chlorophyll decomposes with the approach of winter. Intense light and low temperatures favour the development of anthocyanin pigments. Some leaves and flowers lose anthocyanins on reaching maturity; others gain in pigment content during development. Often an excess of sugars exists in leaves when anthocyanins are abundant. Injury to individual leaves may be instrumental in causing the sugar excess in such cases. Anthocyanins also occur in blossoms, fruits, and even roots (e.g., beets) and occasionally in larval and adult flies and in true bugs (Heteroptera).
A typical anthocyanin is red in acid, violet in neutral, and blue in alkaline solution. Thus, the blue cornflower, the bordeaux-red cornflower, the deep-red dahlia, and the red rose contain the same anthocyanin, the variation in colour resulting from the different degrees of acidity and alkalinity of the cell sap. More than one anthocyanin may be present in a flower or blossom, and the colours of many flowers are caused by the presence of both anthocyanins and plastid pigments in the tissues. Moreover, small genetic changes in varieties or species may be associated with the development of different anthocyanins.
No physiological functions seem to have been definitely established for the flavonoids in animals and plants. It has been pointed out, however, that flower colour is valuable in attracting bees, butterflies, and other pollen-transporting visitors that implement fertilization in plants; brightly coloured fruits have improved seed dispersal by animals attracted to them as food.
Nitrogenous pigments
Tetrapyrroles, porphyrins, and their derivatives
A biologically important class of water-soluble, nitrogenous 16-membered ring, or cyclic, compounds is referred to as porphyrins. The elementary structural unit of all porphyrins is a large ring itself composed of four pyrrole rings, or cyclic tetrapyrroles. This basic compound is known as porphin.
Porphyrins combine with metals (metalloporphyrins) and protein. They are represented by the green, photosynthetic chlorophylls of higher plants and by the hemoglobins in the blood of many animals.
Many invertebrates display in their skins or shells porphyrin pigments (or salts of them), some showing fluorescence (i.e., the emission of visible light during exposure to outside radiation). In addition, various porphyrins occur in secretory and excretory products of animals, and some kinds, predominantly the phorbides, which result from the breakdown of chlorophyll, have been recovered from ancient natural deposits such as coal and petroleum and from muds of long-buried marine and lacustrine strata. Ooporphyrin is responsible for the red flecks on the eggshells of some plovers and many other birds. The African turacos (Musophagidae) secrete a copper salt of uroporphyrin III into their wing feathers. This deep-red pigment, turacin, is readily leached from the feathers by water containing even traces of alkali. The green plumes of these birds owe their colour to the presence of turacoverdin, a derivative of turacin.
Hemoglobins are present in the red blood cells of all vertebrate animals and in the circulatory fluids of many invertebrates, notably annelid worms, some arthropods, echinoderms, and a few mollusks. The hemoglobin molecule consists of a heme fraction and a globin fraction; the former consists of four pyrrole moieties (porphin) with a ferrous iron (Fe2+) atom in the centre. The globin fraction is a protein that may constitute more than 90 percent of the total molecular weight of hemoglobin. Hemoglobins have the capacity to combine with atmospheric oxygen in lungs, gills, or other respiratory surfaces of the body and to release oxygen to tissues. They are responsible for the pink to red colours observed in combs and wattles of birds and in the skin of humans and other primates. Particularly prominent are portions of the face, buttocks, and genital areas of baboons.
Chlorophyll is one of the most important pigments in nature. Through the process of photosynthesis, it is capable of channeling the radiant energy of sunlight into the chemical energy of organic carbon compounds in the cell. For a detailed account of this process, see photosynthesis. A pigment very much like chlorophyll was probably the first step in the evolution of self-sustaining life. Chlorophyll exists in several forms. Chlorophylls a and b are the chief forms in higher plants and green algae; bacteriochlorophyll is found in certain photosynthetic bacteria.
The chlorophylls are magnesium porphyrin compounds in which a cyclic tetrapyrrole is attached to a single central magnesium atom. They contain two more hydrogen atoms than do other porphyrins. The various forms differ in minor modifications of side groups attached to the pyrrole groups. In higher plants, chlorophyll is bound to proteins and lipids aschloroplastin in definite and specific laminations in bodies called chloroplasts. The combination of chlorophyll with protein in chloroplastin is of special significance, because only as a result of the combination is chlorophyll able to remain resistant to light.
Among the metabolic products of certain porphyrins, including the heme portion of hemoglobin, is a series of yellow, green, red, or brown nonmetallic compounds arranged as linear, or chain, structures rather than in the cyclic configuration of porphyrins. These are the so-called bilins, or bilichromes. Small quantities of the red waste compound, bilirubin (C33H36O6N4); a green product formed from it by the removal of two hydrogen atoms, biliverdin (C33H34O6N4); and various other chemically similar compounds occur in normal tissues and may be conspicuous in excretory or secretory materials under normal circumstances and certain pathological conditions. The bile pigments, although first identified in mammalian tissues or products (e.g., in the bile of the gall bladder), are by no means confined thereto. Various members of the bilichrome series are encountered in invertebrates, lower vertebrates, and in red algae and green plants.
Although the bile pigments of animals arise in all probability from the catabolism of heme precursors, there is evidence that bilirubin, accompanied by iron salts, promotes the synthesis of new hemoglobin when injected into humans, dogs, or rabbits suffering from secondary anemia.
In addition to the chlorophylls, plants also contain linear bilichromes, which have especially important roles in green plants. Among them are the blue phycocyanins and the red phycoerythrins, which serve, in red algae, as accessory pigments in photosynthesis. Another example is phytochrome, a bilichrome pigment of blue colour, which, although present in very minute quantities in green plants, is indispensable in various photoperiodic processes.
Phytochrome exists in two alternative forms: P660 and P730. Of these, P730 triggers the germination and respiration of seeds (and of spores of ferns and mosses), the flowering of long-day plants (or inhibition of flowering in short-day plants), etiolation (growth in darkness), cuticle coloration, anthocyanin synthesis (e.g., in apples, red cabbage, and turnips), and several structural and physiological responses. P660 is capable of reversing many physiological reactions initiated by P730. Even very brief exposures to light absorbed by P660 delays flowering in some short-day plants otherwise geared to flower by previous exposure to light of such wavelength that only the P730 phytochrome is involved. Much yet remains to be learned about the biochemistry of phytochromes and the reactions catalyzed or otherwise regulated by them.
Indole pigments
These pigments produce buff, red-brown, brown, and black colours. Melanins occur widely in the feathers of birds; in hair, eyes, and skin of mammals, including humans; in skin or scales or both of many fishes, amphibians, and reptiles; in the ink of cephalopods (octopus, squid); and in various tissues of many invertebrates.
Melanins are polymers (compounds consisting of repeating units) of variable mass and complexity. They are synthesized from the amino acid tyrosine by progressive oxidation, a process catalyzed by the copper-containing enzyme tyrosinase. Extractable in very dilute alkali, melanins are also soluble when fresh and undried in very dilute acid solutions; they are bleached by hydrogen peroxide, which is sometimes applied to growing hair to create a blond effect, and by chlorine, chromate, and permanganate.
Pale-yellow, tawny, buff, reddish, brown, and black colours of hair and some feathers can arise from the presence of melanins in various phases of formation or subdivision in granules. The dark, light-absorbing sublayers of melanin that intensify reflected structural (Tyndall) blues or iridescent displays in feathers were mentioned above. Black melanins and brown melanoproteins occur in many invertebrate animals. Certain worms and many crustaceans and mollusks exhibit melanism in the skin.
The degree of natural melanization depends upon relative concentrations of copper and of the copper-containing enzyme tyrosinase. Dark hairs contain higher traces of copper than pale hairs do; should the intake of copper fall substantially below a fraction of a milligram per day, new fur emerges successively less dark. This trend is reversed by restoring sufficient copper to the diet.
All human skin except that of albinos contains greater or lesser amounts of melanin. In fair-skinned persons the epidermis, or outermost layer of the skin, contains little of the pigment; in the dark-skinned races epidermal deposits of melanin are heavy. On exposure to sunlight, human epidermis undergoes gradual tanning with increases in the melanin content, which helps to protect underlying tissues from injurious sun rays.
Like melanins, the indigo compounds are excretory metabolic breakdown products in certain animals. But, in contrast to the melanins, their distribution as conspicuous pigmentary compounds is very limited, and they are not dark but red, green, blue, or purple.
One of the most common members of this group is indigo, or indigotin, which occurs as a glucoside (i.e., chemically combined with glucose) in many plants of Asia, the East Indies, Africa, and South America. It has long been used as a blue dye.
Phenoxazones and sclerotins
Once confused with melanins, biochromes such as phenoxazones and sclerotins show a similar colour series (yellow, ruddy, brown, or black). Genetic research, notably with reference to eye pigments of the fruitfly, Drosophila melanogaster, has resulted in the description of a class of so-called ommochromes, which are phenoxazones. The ommochromes not only are conspicuous in the eyes of insects and crustaceans but have also been detected in the eggs of the echiurid worm Urechis caupo and in the changeable chromatophores in the skin of cephalopods. In addition to being responsible for the brown, vermilion, cinnabar, and other colours of insect eyes, ommochromes are also sometimes present in the molting fluid and integument. They are distinguished from the melanins by solubility in formic acid and in dilute mineral acids, by manifestation of violet colours in concentrated sulfuric acid, and by showing reversible colour changes with oxidizing and reducing agents. The ommochromes, which are derived from breakdown of the amino acid tryptophan, include ommatins and ommins. The ommatins, although complex in chemical structure, are relatively small molecules. The ommins are large molecules, in which the chromogenic moiety is seemingly condensed with longer chains, such as peptides (amino acids linked together).
Sclerotins arise as a result of an enzyme-catalyzed tanning of protein. Certain roaches secrete a phenolase enzyme, the glucoside of a dihydroxyphenol, and a glycosidase. Mixing of these substances results in the release of the phenolic compound from glucose and its combination, via a reaction catalyzed by the phenolase, with protein; the products are pink, ruddy, and ultimately dark-brown polymers that are incorporated into the insect's body cuticle and egg cases. Similar reactions take place in the carapace (the shell covering the body) of certain crustaceans.
Purines and pterins
Although the purine compounds cannot be classed as true pigments—they characteristically occur as white crystals—they often contribute to the general colour patterns in lower vertebrates and invertebrates. That purines are excretory materials is illustrated by the uric acid (or urates) and guanine found in the excrement of birds and of uric acid found in that of reptiles. Uric acid has also been detected in the mucus excreted by sea anemones, and urates are present in small amounts in the urine of higher apes and humans.
The white, silvery, or iridescent chromatophores, both stationary iridocytes and changeable leucophores, of some fishes, amphibians, lizards, and cephalopods contain microcrystalline aggregates of the purine guanine; a layer of white skin on the underside of many fishes, called the stratum arginatum, is particularly rich in guanine.
Closely related to the purines and formerly classed among them are the pterins, so named from their notable appearance in and first chemical isolation from the wings of certain butterflies. Both purines and pterins contain a six-atom pyrimidine ring; in purines this ring is chemically condensed with an imidazole ring; pterins contain the pyrazine ring. Pterins occur as white, yellow, orange, or red granules in association with insect wing material.
Flavins (lyochromes)
Flavins constitute a class of pale-yellow, greenly fluorescent, water-soluble biochromes widely distributed in small quantities in plant and animal tissues. The most prevalent member of the class is riboflavin (vitamin B2).
Flavins are synthesized by bacteria, yeasts, and green plants; riboflavin is not manufactured by animals, which therefore are dependent upon plant sources. Riboflavin is a component of an enzyme capable of combining with molecular oxygen; the product, which is yellow, releases the oxygen in the cell with simultaneous loss of colour.
Miscellaneous pigments
The chemical constitution of many pigments remains imperfectly known. Only a few of the more conspicuous examples are mentioned below.
Copper-containing proteins called hemocyanins occur notably in the blood of larger crustaceans and of gastropod and cephalopod mollusks. Hemocyanins are colourless in the reduced, or deoxygenated, state and blue when exposed to air or to oxygen dissolved in the blood. Hemocyanins serve as respiratory pigments in many animals, although it has not been established that they perform this function wherever they occur.
Iron-containing, proteinaceous pigments, hemerythrins are present in the blood of certain bottom-dwelling marine worms (notably burrowing sipunculids) and of the brachiopod Lingula; the pigments serve as oxygen-carriers.
Pale-green pigment, hemovanadin, is found within the blood cells (vanadocytes) of sea squirts (Tunicata) belonging to the families Ascidiidae and Perophoridae. The biochemical function of hemovanadin, a strong reducing agent, is unknown.
A relatively rare pigment, actiniochrome occurs in red or violet tentacle tips and in the stomodeum (oral region) of various sea anemones. The pigment plays no recognized physiological role.
Adenochrome is a nonproteinaceous pigment that occurs as garnet-red inclusions at high concentrations in the glandular, branchial heart tissues of Octopus bimaculatus. The compound contains small amounts of ferric iron and some nitrogen and gives a positive reaction for pyrroles. It is believed to be an excretory product.Denis Llewellyn Fox Edward Howland Burtt


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Recently, my husband and I were invited over to a friend's house for dinner. They had prepared an unbelievable spread, and when it came time for dessert, they offered not one, but two choices—ice cream or cake. Without blinking an eye, my husband declared, "Both please." We all laughed out loud, acknowledging the universally accepted truth that one is only allowed a single dessert, while he proceeded to enjoy both a scoop and a slice. As I watched my husband savor both, I couldn't help but think that a philosophy of "both please" could be something I could get on board with. It might not be a philosophy to help American waistlines, but it's certainly a philosophy that might push our debates about the Common Core English Language Arts into new, more fruitful directions.
I started thinking about this after participating in a teen book club here in D.C. This year, I've had the pleasure of working with PEN/Faulkner to facilitate a book club for teen mothers at Cardozo High School. We meet together at lunch, read a book, and we discuss it. I have to admit that on my first day I was a little nervous. It was a curious emotion because I've spent years teaching English doing just what I was about to do, read books with teenagers. However, there was something different about this experience. Our time together wasn't influenced by grades, test scores, or college admissions. Instead, it was just about reading for fun, discussing what interested you in a book.
The second we opened up the book, it felt different. Students laughed out loud at parts, asked questions about what was going on, and when it came time to discuss were eager to share what they thought. We never talked about metaphors, allusions, or the theme of the book—we just talked about whatever interested us. As the weeks went on, I couldn't wait for the book clubs, and I wasn't the only one. After each session, girls would share that they don't read any of their books for English class, but that they loved this one. In fact, girls who had to miss a session asked for copies of the chapter they missed to be left behind so they could catch up. As I sat through the book clubs, I couldn't help but wonder—why doesn't every high school English class feel like this? Are we, as English teachers, alienating children from the joy of reading?
I wonder if in our altruistic desire to be rigorous, preparing students for the challenges beyond high school, we have forgotten that reading is something you should enjoy. It should be something that you can connect to your own experiences. It should be something that teaches you a little bit about how to live life. It should be something you engage with, ask questions of, and test your own experiences against. Sometimes it seems that in some of our moves to improve reading and writing comprehension we've deformed reading and writing into solely a process of dissection, searching for metaphors and symbols, parsing apart the text with a fine tuned scalpel.
This is something we have to be exceptionally wary of with the implementation of the Common Core. The Common Core explicitly commands teachers to do close readings of text. Such close readings focus on the text itself, and often call on instructors to slow down reading of a text, going piece by piece, often re-reading and analyzing portions of text. A researcher at Thomas B. Fordham Institute recently crafted a set of guidelines for English teachers based on the close reading approach (often referred to as New Criticism literary theory) embraced by the Common Core. The author makes suggestions such as devoting more time to a text so it can be read and re-read and focusing predominately on text-centered questions (versus questions that ask for personal connections to the text).
Now, as a former English teacher myself, I want to make clear that I in no way aim to argue that we should not approach some texts with a New Criticism/close reading approach. In fact, when reading a complex text, it is often very necessary. However, I worry that with Common Core implementation, English departments will begin to solely honor close reading as the only way to read a text, spending lots of time on a few texts, dissecting the text for literary concepts such as metaphors, rhetorical devices, and symbolism, and in the process turning some kids off to reading. Close reading certainly has a place in one's reading world, but it shouldn't be the only exposure kids get to reading in their classes.
We've got to make room in our English curriculums (and I would argue in all disciplines) for reading for fun. In the English world, we call this reading for fluency in that the reading is quick and for enjoyment versus for analysis, the mode honored in close reading. One doesn't stop to analyze the text, slice and dice it, highlighting the assertions, similes, and anadiplosis. One zooms through the pages, laughing with the author, enjoying the plot, pulling over a friend to talk about if the main character should have done X or Y. This is what we did in my book club, and it works to turn kids on to reading.
As districts start implementing the Common Core, I hope that English departments, like my husband, will say "both please." Yes to close reading, and yes to reading for fun. While our debates in the education world seem to quickly swing from one side of the pendulum to another, the sweet spot might indeed not be on the fringes but in the middle. Let's have them analyze the symbols in Lord of the Flies, but why not also bring in some contemporary young adult literature for kids to read? There's no reason that they are mutually exclusive, but with Common Core and its battery of high stakes tests solely valuing close reading, it's up to forward thinking school boards, school leaders, educators, and parents to demand both in the classroom. –Allison Gulamhussein


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110,000 New Cancer Cases Recorded in Texas in 2012
AUSTIN, Texas - There is good news in the battle against cancer in the United States, although the latest data show serious challenges remain on several fronts.
Greg Cameron, director of communications and market strategies for the High Plains Division of the American Cancer Society in Texas, says overall death rates continue to decline for all of the most common cancers, including lung, colon, prostate and breast.
"This has been going on since the 1990s - the early 1990s, actually. So, this last report shows that from the year 2000 to 2009, cancer death rates have decreased in men, women and children."
The report says the types of cancers for which the death rates have continued to increase during the past decade include liver, pancreas, uterus and - among men - melanoma of the skin. In Texas, it's estimated there were 110,000 new cancer cases diagnosed last year, along with nearly 37,000 deaths.
Lung cancer remains the deadliest of all the types, both in the state and nationally. To help reduce that in Texas, Cameron says, the society is pushing for approval of a statewide smoke-free indoor workplace law.
"Several other states have done that and, statistically, those smoking rates have lowered and their lung cancer death rates have declined. So, we're hoping that 2013 may be the year that our state will go smoke-free."
The Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer is online at seer.cancer.gov.


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If aortic valve stenosis happens along with other heart problems, such as other valve problems, it can affect the decision of when to have surgery to replace the valve.
The following valve problems might happen along
aortic valve stenosis:
If you have aortic regurgitation in addition to aortic stenosis,
replacing your aortic valve will fix both problems. Deciding when to have surgery might depend on which problem is more serious, how severe the problems are, and if you have symptoms.
Your doctor might suggest a surgery to repair or replace the mitral valve and replace the aortic valve at the same time. But it is more risky to have
multiple-valve surgery than to replace a single valve. As a result, treatment of multiple valve problems depends on the combination of
problems and which problem is in more urgent need of treatment.
If you have
aortic valve stenosis along with coronary artery
disease, these heart problems work together to impair the
function of your heart and can lead to heart failure. Your heart cannot pump as much blood as normal to the body. And less blood reaches the heart muscle.
If you are going to have aortic valve replacement surgery, your doctor may suggest that you also have bypass surgery for coronary artery disease.
Having both surgeries at once can improve your heart's ability to pump blood and improve blood flow to the heart
If you have had a heart attack, and if your left ventricle is damaged, your heart might not be able to compensate for aortic stenosis. So you might get heart failure sooner. If the heart attack causes
damage to the heart muscle, valve replacement surgery may not completely
restore the heart's function. Damage to the muscle from the heart attack also
can increase the risk of valve surgery.
Other Works ConsultedNishimura RA, et al. (2014). 2014 AHA/ACC guideline for the management of patients with valvular heart disease: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. Circulation, published online March 3, 2014. DOI: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000031. Accessed May 1, 2014.
ByHealthwise StaffPrimary Medical ReviewerRakesh K. Pai, MD, FACC - Cardiology, ElectrophysiologyMartin J. Gabica, MD - Family MedicineSpecialist Medical ReviewerDavid C. Stuesse, MD - Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery
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Monday, September 26, 2011
First Chichibu single malt already selling like... erm... Ichiro's Malt
Ichiro Akuto says the first single malt from Chichibu distillery is already being bought up about half a month before the official launch date in Japan.
The first expression of whisky from the distillery, which opened at the start of 2008 and therefore could not release whisky (which must be aged 3 years) until this year, will be released on Oct. 10 in Japan. It had its launch in Europe at Whisky Live Paris on Saturday. There are 7,400 bottles, half of which are destined for the foreign market.
All of the foreign bottles have already been bought up.
It was aged in 200-litre Bourbon barrels and is a vatting from 31 barrels. Akuto says the great differences between night and day temperatures at the distillery mean that the whisky has matured unusually quickly. It is cask strength at 61 percent alcohol.
A very rough translation of Akuto's comments on the taste of the dram: it has a citrus-peel fragrance, followed by lemon or orange dried fruits and, finally, a sweet flagrance similar to caramel or toffee. In the mouth, it has a creme caramel-like sweetness, with a creamy and thick feel on the tongue. A complex woodiness from the barrel lingers, according to Akuto.
The bottling will be launched in Japan on Oct. 10 at the Palace Hotel Omiya in Omiya, Saitama Prefecture, at the Whisky Party 2011. The event starts at 5pm. Tickets cost 6,000 yen.
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Allison Robert, wow.com's excellent druid columnist, recently posted an excellent article asking "what has happened to all the feral tanks?" She gives a list of complaints, which I reprint below:
Complaint #1: Bears just aren't as visually compelling as other tanks.
Complaint #2: Gear consolidation had a more demoralizing effect on druids than other tanks.
Complaint #3: The need to use DPS leather has resulted in an uncomfortable opportunity cost associated with gearing bear tanks.
Complaint #4: Early Wrath weaknesses in 5-mans left a bad impression on players, and this bled through to raid content.
Complaint #5: Bear gameplay is boring. Too much of the bear's effectiveness is baked into talents rather than being determined by player skill.
Complaint #6: Gear consolidation often results in druids looking insanely stupid in caster form.
Complaint #7: If the raid needs more tanks, it's easier and faster to gear up a plate class than a druid.
Complaint #8: A druid who's dual-specced into healing or DPS has more difficulty returning to tanking than other classes.
I think she has some great points, but I also have some criticisms of her article. The way I see it, these complaints can be summarized into five areas: effectiveness, aesthetics, fun, gear, and opportunity costs. I'll cover each in a little more detail, in what I consider increasing order of importance.
Bears were not as capable a tank as other classes in early Wrath.
This was certainly true, back when our AoE was a cone attack and before Savage Defense was implemented. We had an HP/armor advantage over other tanks, but it was small; we had no block ability, which led to us taking a good bit of damage from trash; and holding threat was hard. However, those problems have been fixed for quite some time now, so I don't think that's still affecting class/role decisions.
Bears don't usually get to see gear upgrades because we're always stuck in form, and our gear looks like crap anyway, being a hybrid of rogue leather and tanking jewelry.
This point is very real; but it really depends on how much concern you have for your appearance. Me, I've always been a numbers guy. I get more of a thrill out of seeing 500 more HP, or 200 more DPS, than I do by seeing a new boot upgrade. Plus, I LIKE looking like a bear when raiding; it's very visually distinctive. I typically have to mark our other tanks with raidmarks for identification purposes, but everyone always understands me on Vent when I say "run to the bear to get cleansed," etc. It would be very nice to have something on the form that changed as your gear evolved, though. One of the comments recommended having tattoos, or scars, or some other kide of visual representation, and I wholly support that idea. Also, our animations could use some reworks; the forms look great, but the attacks are underwhelming. Overall, while looks are nice, I don't think post people care too much about looks, if the gear/abilities are good.
Bears are boring tanks compared to the other classes.
As with aesthetics, this is more a matter of personal opinion and grass-is-greener syndrome than anything else. I still have plenty of fun when tanking. (Psst. Try changing some stuff up if you're bored. Glyph Berserk and try to top DPS meters. Do a couple NINJABARE pulls. It's okay. Really.) I think people have a valid argument that ferals have a smaller toolbox than the other tanks do; we have some warrior abilities, but our druid abilities are limited, mainly because of the form restriction mechanic. If Pallies can bubble others while tanking, why can't I brez or innervate someone? Hell, let me use ALL my druid baseline abilities in feral form, and we'll have all kinds of tools to use. (moonfire for pulling, hurricane for AOE tanking, Roots/Cyclone for adds, etc.) Kalon mentioned this in his latest post.
Bears are much harder to gear than plate tanks, due to stat consolidation and poor itemization.
This is a VERY common complaint…common enough that I decided to run the numbers and check. Let's look at TOC 25 (normal). There are 10 leather drops (of which 5 are caster) and 16 plate drops, of which 5 are tank plate, 4 are caster, and 7 are DPS plate. There's an equal number of tank plate and melee leather items. While this seems balanced in theory, it's actually not. Let's assume a 25m raid with 3 tanks, 6 healers, and 16 DPS (typical comp).
- Plate tank items: Desired only by three specs, of which you only have 3 (maybe 2, if druid is tanking). Let's say a bear tanks half of the time, so your roll odds (or people you have to compete with on DKP) are 1 in 2.5, or 40%.
- Leather melee DPS items: Desired by the rogue, hunter, enhancement shammy, kitty druid, and bear druid. There are 16 DPS slots in the raid. Some quick mental math tells me, assuming random dps class distribution, that roughly 1 in 4 DPS slots goes to one of the above 4 DPS classes; so your chance of winning an item is 1 in 5. This is slightly mitigated by hunters/enh shammies having mail items to pick from as well, so we'll call it a 1 in 4.5 chance, or 22%.
So, it is almost twice as hard for a bear to get upgrades as a plate tank, unless your guild runs with tank priority for loot drops. Yuck. Combine this with Opportunity Cost (see below) and I think you have the main reason that feral tanks are disappearing.
Opportunity Cost
The raid stands to lose the least by a feral tank switching roles.
I can't back this up with numbers, but in general, Druids and Paladins are the most flexible tanks, since they can both dualspec dps or heals. Combine this with the fact that spellpower leather and caster plate is very easy to get off-spec, and that heals are much harder to find than dps, and guess who gets to be the one to switch to benefit the raid? Great! Thanks for switching! BTW, for many guilds, you now can't roll on tank plate/leather, so you get dropped even farther behind the gear curve, and before you know it, you're a fulltime healer. Druids take this much harder because they're much more likely to have a resto off-spec. (According to armorydatamine, roughly 60% of ferals are also specced resto, while slightly under 40% of protadins are also specced holy.)
Is this fixable? Sure, but Cataclysm's going to shake things up anyway (heh), so we'll have to see how it goes. Until then…learn to be fluid. :P