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Not all zombies are the standard shufflers and shamblers, some are a bit more…freakish. Mwahahaha
1. Manus Necrotis
Best characterized by Thing from The Addams Family, the Manus Necrotis is a severed hand that retains enough necromantic essense to remain mobile. These zombie hands are largely an annoyance to most folk, lacking teeth or or claws and most tend to enter advanced decomposition after three to five weeks. Some Mani retain their original arm as far up as the shoulder socket, these tend to be slower, but having greater mass tend to last a bit longer in terms of necrogen loss, but are also seen as snacks by other undead.
2. Death Siren
Few would use the word sexy to describe a zombie, but to an extent the Death Siren is just that. Her clothes are frayed and torn, but her figure is filled out and hard to ignore. As a greater zombie, the Death Siren has regained some vestiges of her mortal demeanor even as her more delicate features slough off. The Death Siren preys on those who are too drunk or indifferent to notice her graveyard stink.
3. The Regurgitator
a bloated and rank zombie, the regurgitator has no arms, having already eaten them. It is a large and aggressive zombie that's primary mode of attack is to produce a thick and viscous spray of necrotic acid. This acid is not very strong, but it carries a melange of toxins, parasites, and poisons. Victims thusly sprayed are usually weakened and blinded so that the Regurgitator can subdue them and eat their corpse. If driven deep enough into hunger the Regurgitator will turn on it's more fleshy zombie compatriots.
4. The Relentless Crawler
Somewhere along the road, this zombie was broken in half and from the ribcage down is naught but congealed viscera and scraps of flesh. While not fast, these zombies are incredibly tenacious and tend to bite through ankle tendons and attack without warning or notice. Once noticed, they are slow enough to avoid and easy to flank and destroy.
5. The Spider Zombie
This greater zombie started as a relentless crawler, but through hunting it's own kind and feasting on the living, the spider zombie was able to increase it's strength and potence. As it grew stronger, this crawler started attaching severed limbs to it's body until it was little more than a head and torso in the middle of far too many arms. Unlike the slow crawlers, the spider zombie is fast and nimble for a zombie, plus it is an excellent climber. It prefers to lurk quietly in high places and to drop down unannounced on unsuspecting prey. Spider Zombies are very good at grappling and subdual attacks.
6. Rib-Maw Zombie
Necrophagic consumption is not a matter of chewing, digestion and absorption, but a brutal and violent puncturing and draining. The Rib-Maw zombie is not a naturally occuring undead, but one tailor made to hunt and destroy other undead, as in feuds and wars between necromancers. The core aspect of the Rib-Maw is the conversion of the rib-cage into a hinged jaw like structure that is able to quickly rip into a soft and half rotten zombie to draw out it's necrogenic material in the fasted and most efficient manner possible. Rib-Maw zombies look like normal shambling type zombies until they open their chests to reveal sharpened ribs and a gullet slick with blood. They have no aversion to using their rib-bite on living victims.
7. Blood Incubators
Some of the most human looking of the zombie freaks, Blood Incubators are very sanguine and tend to not show much in the way of rot or decay. These undead exist for the sole purpose of creating more zombies. When a blood incubator encounters groups of the living, it will approach and when it is close enough, usually a few feet at best it will vomit forth a gout of blood. While not as debilitating as necrotic acid, this blood is seething with zombie tainted necrogen. Those who have open wounds, or get this infected blood in their mouth, eyes, or any other mucus membrane is as infected as a zombie bite victim and have 1D6 hours before they die and become a zombie themselves.
8. The Chain-Zombie
This zombie was stitched together from many corpses, each ut off at the waist and disemboweled. The torsos were attached to create a macabre centipede like zombie that move halfway between crawling and half slithering like a giant snake. This huge undead, often consisting of a dozen or more corpses, is a living siege ram that can batter down walls, break apart infantry formations and the like.
9. Wolf-Bite Zombie
This zombie has had it's human teeth removed before it was reanimated. In their place, animal teeth most often wolf and boar teeth have been stitched into place with metal wire. Wolf-Bite zombies have a greatly enhanced bite attack and like said wild animals have a more animalistic aspect to their demeanor.
10. The Leech
Opposite the Wolf-Bite, the Leech zombie has significant bone loss and bone damage. While unable to bite, the Leech will attack it's prey and use it's tongue like a drill and then suck out the victim's blood, brains, or whatever it desires. This opportunistic zombie seldom goes for ankles or necks, but instead perfers the mouth, eye socket, or other reachable orifice.
11. The Infernal
Something other than necrogen animates this zombie, it's eyes glow red and it moves with speed and intent. Thankfully, Infernal Zombies are short lived as their high level of activity and inability to consume necrogen limits how long their corpse holds together. Most Infernal break down after two to three weeks of activity.
12. The Rotting Tank
The Tank was a man of action before his death and he died with his boots on and still wrapped in his plate mail. As a zombie he retains his plate mail and it now as much holds it together as protects it from foes. At first a tank might not seem a zombie, but once the smell is noticed, it should not take long for the truth to become apparent. Once the tank slays a foe, it's weapon held in place by a locking gauntlet the tank lifts it's visor revealing a rotten melon of a face hungry for flesh
13. The Swollen Zombie
With ruddy flesh that is shiny and painfully distended, the swollen zombie shuffles near the front of the pack. it's eyes bulge a stream of bloody spittle runs from it's lips. The zombie is quite normal until it is hit with a piercing weapon. This zombie is full of both decomposition gases as well as a soup of infected blood, necrotic acids, and just freaking nasty puss. The struck section pops in a shower of fluid and escaping gas.
14. The Monsterous Zombie
This massive zombie was once an ogre, but now, with a collection of stitches holding it together it is a war machine. While slower than most zombies, the Monsterous Zombie is incredibly strong, able to break doors and shields with it's heavy punches. It's bite is also large, capable of removing a head or a limb up to the elbow.
15. Rot-Wing Zombie
A macabe collection of membrane and brutally lightened corpse, the rot-Wing zombie can fly in a clumsy and gliding fashion. These zombies usually last for a few hours of use before their wing membranes tear, dropping them to earth as small and pathetically weak zombies.
16. The Knight Entropic
A specially constructed zombie, the Knight Entropic has been grafted to the corpse of his horse so that the two cannot be parted. As a greater undead zombie, the Knight unstands the use of basic weapons and some grasp of tactics. The amalgam creature actually can feed from either the human and horse mouths.
17. The Shell-Zombie
This zombie collects things, most notable being body parts taken from other zombies. After a while, the original zombie is hidden under a coat of torn flesh and dangling limbs. This provides a good deal of armor, but makes shell zombies slow. Most shell-zombies are ambush hunters, lurking in one place until sometihng suitable comes by to investigate the heap of rotting meat.
18. The Half-Zombie
Recently infected, this mortal is in the last few minutes of their life, with the infection almost complete. The zombie urges, the hunger for human flesh, are becoming manifest at the same time their bodies are dying, with the mind remaining largely intact. The victims often weep, beg, or rant in anger as they wrangle with bouts of vomiting, explosive emptying of the bowels and hemorraging from their point of infection.
19. The Melted Zombie
This zombie has spent a good deal of time inactive and unmoving. As such, decomposition has done a number on it's corpse. Much of the body fat and non-muscle flesh has entered a semi-fluid state leaving the creature a shuffling weeping horror of puss and necrotic slime. Most melted zombies are getting close to the end of their operation existance.
20. The Lurker
The Lurker Zombie is recently turned, with the last vestiges of the mind fading as undeath takes final hold of the corpse. The lurker appears human save for the vitrification of the eyes, which usually turn a milky white. The sorrow of the lurker is that the almost human zombie returns to familiar places, often encountering family and friends, only to turn on them in a heartbeat, tearing out their throats to feast of their blood and living essence.
21. Large-Mouth Zombie
With their cheeks ripped open and faces covered in blood, large-mouth zombies often resemble clown-zombies. These zombies are gluttonous feeders, tearing off chunks of flesh too large for their mouths, in the process ripping their own flesh to make room for the hunks of meat.
22. Creepy Little Dead Girl
A staple of every zombie movie, the CLDG appears to be a normal girl around the age of 6 years. This zombie rocks quietly nibbling on a piece of human flesh until someone comes close enough that it can attack. Like a land mine, the CLDG can infect one opponent before fleeing or being destroyed.
23. The Elder Zombie
After years of survival, the elder zombie has gained a level of sentience that is frightening. While the original person is long sense dead, the zombie has regained access to the better part of their memories and has staved off it's own decay and is on the cusp of advancing to the next level of undead evolution, becoming a ghoul. The Elder Zombie is driven by a maniacal hunger for more necrogen, and for the flesh of the living.
24. The Bloody Bone
This zombie is not much more than a bloody spinal column with a skull and thin bony arms. Like a Relentless Crawler, the Bloody bone drags viscera behind it, but unlike that slow undead the bloody bone is a quick and agile scuttler. The end of the spinal column is sharp and the bloody bone feeds primarily by jabbing it through the heart of a victim, living or dead.
25. The Hollow-Dead
This zombie has been flayed of it's skin, and cleaned like a hunted animal. It is tormented by the hollowness of it's body as well as its continued existance. Hollow-dead make for superb trackers and hunters as their burning need to feel full draws them relentlessly towards their next victim.
26. The Heckler
This odd creation is proof that somewhere there is a necromancer with a sense of humor. The Heckler is a human skull perched on top of ten spidery fingers. The skull brays and laughs loudly and it scuttles around, all the while rolling it's rotten eyes and making rude noises. Hecklers can bite for minimal damage but their real value is as early warning systems and spies.
27. Pretty Dead Girl
Ala Norbert the Creepy, the Pretty Dead Girl is a specially preserved corpse of an attractive young woman. This zombie often has her mouth locked shut just so she doesnt get any funny ideas.
28. The Soldier
This zombie was a good and valiant man who perished in a bitter and pointless war, his name and face forgotten. As a quiet zombie, the soldier wanders the battlefield, wrapped in the tangling wire that took his life. Now he shares his wire and pain and loss with anyone foolish enough to get too close. This zombie is unique in that it can feed through it's gore dripping wires.
29. The Slug
The Slug was a morbidly obese person on like and is now a grossly fat zombie, driven to ever increase it's own mass. As it fed voraciously the Slug rose in power until it became a greater undead zombie, and uses it's influence to control other lesser zombies to bring it more food to eat, be it living, infected, or other weaker zombies. The Slug is borderline immobile but it terribly strong and it's hide is very resilient.
30. Two-Scoops
This zombie was formerly in a laboratory for necromantic examination, where it was restrained while it's skull was opened and the brain was removed. The zombie now shuffles about aimlessly and blind. when it does find a victim, it will respond with shocking brutality and will rip open a victims skull and with two scoops of it's rotting hands pull out their still warm brain to dump in it's empty cranium.
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The animating essence of necromancy is commonly known as necrogen, a shortening of Necrogenesis Essence. This material is present in small amounts in all animated undead, and the greater the concentration of the substance, the more potent the undead in question becomes. Skeletons and zombies tend to have very small amounts of necrogen, while liches contain the highest concentrations.
Necrogen in it's free state is a green vapor that is slightly denser than air, is noxious to breath but not in itself lethal. Prolonged exposure to necrogen stregthens undead who 'respirate' the substance, and causes a gradual weakening of the living including chronic illness, coughing up small amounts of blood, tooth decay and increasing lividity of the skin.
Zombies can be broken into two general categories, the common shuffling or shambling zombie, and the greater zombie. While a great zombie will retain roughly the same appearance as a common zombie, the greater zombie has as benefit of more concentrated necrogen, has regained a semblance of it's intelligence. This does not, however, restore any sense of ethics, morality, or the like. Greater Zombies tend to organize and lead packs of common zombies and demonstrate tool using abilities and problem solving skills.
Some greater zombies are able to demonstrate some restored memories, such as occupational skills and rudimentary communication. This is deceptive as said zombie might remember it's mortal life and even some people from that life. This comes with a sense of detachment as a greater zombie with memories is still a zombie and will remorselessly hunt down and kill their friends and family.
most of the time, zombies have little interest in each other, but this is because most zombies encountered as created at the hands of mortal, or immortal sorcery and are artificial undead. Naturally occuring undead and feral undead, that is zombies and such that survive the death of their master, must gain necrogenic sustainence where they can. This mode of feeding is only done by zombies and other undead that are considered to be the lesser forms of undead. Greater forms of undead such as vampires and liches either have refined modes of feeding or have sufficiently concentrated their essence to no longer require it.
Zombies will turn on each other to consume the necrogen of their peers to sustain their undeath. While this usually appears as the meaty ripping and eating of other zombies, there is nothing biological about the act. As the zombie consumes it's peer, it is absorbing their necrogen. While one type of zombie might devour a corpse whole, it is no different than another zombie that rips out another zombie heart and eats just that part. Most of the act is symbolic of the energy transferal occuring between two undead.
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LITCHFIELD PARK, Ariz. – Scott Rohrer of York, S.C., shot a 77 Saturday and continues to skillfully play the par-72 Gold Course of The Wigwam Resort to take a commanding lead of the 18-hole individual stroke play competition (Level V) in the second round of the 2012 Special Olympics North America Golf Invitational Tournament. In the 9-hole individual stroke play competition (Level IV), John Stapleton of Elkridge, Md., shot a personal best 43 on the par-70 (36-34) Patriot Course for a three-shot leading heading into the final round.
Rohrer and Stapleton are among 203 golfers from 19 programs representing the United States and Canada competing in five levels of competition at the 13th annual tournament. KPMG, The PGA of America, USGA and PGA Tour are presenting sponsors of the 2012 tournament.
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Rohrer shot 83-77—160 to lead the field by 18 shots. Rohrer was the record-making gold medalist at the 2010 Special Olympics National Golf Invitational Tournament when he shot the 18-hole and 54-hole individual stroke play record of 71-75-75—221 at the Highlands Golf Course in Lincoln, Neb. Last year, he played in the Level III Unified Sports team play 18-hole competition with his father, Jeff, winning the gold medal for the top men's division. Tyler Whitehurst of Dunedin, Fla., the 18-hole individual stroke play gold medalist in 2011, remains in second place heading into the final round with an 86-92—178.
In the 9-hole individual stroke play competition (Level IV), Stapleton shot his personal best score by five shots for a 50-43--93, Stapleton overcame a first-round three-shot deficit to Ian Swain of Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, who shot 47-49—96.
Kyle Bugge and Jake Hemelstrand (partner) of Bellevue, Neb., shot a second-round 88, including a birdie on the difficult par-4 15th hole, for a total of 174 and a nine-shot lead in the 18-hole Unified Sports team play competition (Level III) on the Gold Course. This is the first national tournament for Bugge and Hemelstrand, who are "having a blast" per Kyle, and stayed on after their round to cheer for the remaining teams to finish. Jesse Pease and Keith Pease (partner) of Sioux City, Iowa, remain in second place with 90-93—183.
Two teams are tied for the lead of the 9-hole Unified Sports team play competition (Level II) on the Patriot Course. The team of Brent Apo-Hruska and John Moen (partner) of Bellevue, Neb., Friday's leaders, shot a 40-49—89 to share the second-round lead with Chris Ringot and Terry Ringot (partner) of St. Louis, Mo., who shot 44-45—89, including a birdie at the par-5 fifth hole. Chris Conant of Richmond, S.C., and Nick Short (partner) of Atlanta, Ga., shot the day's best 9-hole team score of 44 for a two-day total of 90 and third place heading into the final round.
The individual skills competition (Level I) tests competitors in six different shot-making skills and the highest score wins. Shane Molovinsky of Rockville, Md., held his first-round lead by scoring 74 points Saturday for a two-day total of 146. Stanley Frederick of Frederick, Md., stayed in second place, scoring another 67 points Saturday for a two-day total of 134.
About the 2012 Special Olympics North America Golf Invitational Tournament
The 13th Annual Special Olympics North America Golf Invitational Tournament is being held Sept. 6-9, 2012, at The Wigwam Resort in Litchfield Park, Ariz. Special Olympics golf is part of the worldwide Special Olympics sports movement for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. More than 200 golfers representing 18 U.S. states and Canada are competing in one of five levels of competition at the tournament. Opening Ceremonies began the tournament on Thursday, with three competitive golf rounds played Friday through Sunday. Awards ceremonies for the golf competition will take place immediately following the final round on Sunday.
Special Olympics Golf allows athletes to grow in the game as they gain experience. Level I competition consists of an individual skills contest, where six golf skills are tested. Level II is Unified Sports alternate shot team play, where a Special Olympics athlete is paired with a golfer without intellectual disability for 9-hole competition. Level III is Unified Sports team play, pairing Special Olympics athletes and golfers without intellectual disabilities for an 18-hole competition. Levels IV and V are individual stroke play 9-hole and 18-hole competitions, respectively. Tournament rounds begin daily at 7:00 a.m., Sept. 7-9, with Levels II & IV being played on the Patriot Course and Levels III & V on the Gold Course.
The Special Olympics golf program began in 1988 with the assistance of The PGA of America and USGA. Since then, both associations contribute to the growth of the program with grassroots training, rules education, tournament administration and national program financial support. The PGA Tour also provides ongoing financial support to the program. PGA Tour player Padraig Harrington and LPGA Tour player I.K. Kim are Special Olympics ambassadors for golf. Currently, more than 19,000 Special Olympics athletes participate in golf training and competition within 49 U.S. Special Olympics programs. Worldwide, more than 50 countries offer Special Olympics golf programs.

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Here's my favorite in-a-hurry casserole filled with southwestern flavors. It involves throwing together a lot of convenient ingredients like canned beans and tomatoes, and frozen corn, but it's unbelievably good when you need an emergency dinner. While it's in the oven, steam a big batch of broccoli or prepared stir-fried collard greens, and make a salad or a raw veggie platter. Adapted from Vegan Express. Photos by Evan Atlas.
Serves: 6
- One 16-ounce can pinto or pink beans, drained and rinsed
- One 16-ounce can black beans, drained and rinsed
- One 16-ounce can crushed tomatoes
- One 4-ounce can chopped mild green chilies, or
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- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
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- Salsa for topping
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Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
Combine both kinds of beans, tomatoes, chilies, corn, scallions, cumin, and oregano in a mixing bowl. Mix thoroughly.
Lightly oil a wide, 2-quart casserole dish and layer as follows: 5 tortillas, overlapping one another; half of the bean mixture; half of the nondairy cheese. Repeat the layers.
Bake the casserole for 15 minutes, or until the cheese is bubbly. Let stand for a minute or two, then cut into wedges or squares to serve. Pass around salsa and optional vegan sour cream to top each serving.
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Played Like a Raven – Terrell Suggs
With the Ravens trailing 17-7, and having just punted the ball back to New England, giving Tom Brady a chance to really put the game away early in the 2nd half, T-Sizzle came through with the play of the day for B'More. Brady dropped back to pass, Suggs b-slapped New England left tackle Matt Light, and proceeded to do his best James Harrison impression (hey, I hate to admit it, but that guy is making a living off this exact play) by stripping the ball from Brady just as he went to release it. The pigskin rolled into the end zone, where Dwan Edwards fell on it to bring the Ravens to within 3 – and the game was tense for the remainder.
On the play, Sizzle became the Ravens all-time leader in sack yardage with 437 yards. Suggs now has 2.5 sacks through 4 games – a pace, if he can keep it up, that would give him double digit sacks in a season for the first time since 2004.
Did Not Play Like a Raven – Mark Clayton & Chris Carr
While there were plenty of Ravens to touch the ball in between these two, the game in New England basically came down to:
- The first Raven to touch the ball; and
- The final Raven to touch the ball.
The first Raven to touch the ball, Carr, made the ill-advised decision to bring the opening kickoff out from 5 yards deep in the end zone. He proceeded to make it to only the Baltimore 18 yard line before being hit and fumbling the ball away to the Patriots, setting up their extremely early 3-0 lead. Later in the half, he again returned a ball that he could have simply knelt for a touchback on, only getting to the 24. Carr was replaced by Ledarius Webb before halftime; Webb twice took touchbacks, but also threw in a 38 yard return on his only attempt – 3 yards shy of Carr's longest on the season. Carr is averaging only 24.5 yard per kick return in 2009 – unfortunately that is right on par with his career average of 24.7 (Yamon Figurs averaged 24.7 ypr for the Ravens in 2007; in 2008 his number dropped to 21.0.)
The final Raven to touch the ball, Clayton, is the obvious goat. It was a shame, too, as Clayton was having his best game since the opener against Kansas City, when he pulled in 5 passes for 77 yards and 1 TD. He had managed only 4 catches for 55 yards total in the games against San Diego and Cleveland, but was up to 5 receptions for 45 yards (3 coming on the final drive) when his potential 6th bounced off his numbers and ended the Ravens' comeback bid. Actually, Clayton had his potential 6th reception bounce off his hands not once, but TWICE – the first time in the end zone 3 plays prior. Admittedly, that first catch would have required a much higher level of difficulty, but I get the feeling that up at the World Wide Leader, Cris Carter and Keyshawn Johnson were smiling and nodding at one another.


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Regulation of Cardiac Ion Channel Function: The Na+ channel (SCN5A, LQT3) and two K+ channels, HERG (LQT2) and KVLQT1 (LQT1) are linked to the inherited Long QT Syndrome and are responsible for cardiac action potential initiation and termination for each heart beat. Appropriate activation of these channels terminates each action potential allowing the next heart beat to occur in a normal fashion. Macromolecular signaling complexes involving channels may serve multiple functions including assembly, trafficking, targeting, and recycling of the channel proteins. Dynamic, beat-to-beat regulation of cardiac ion channels is likely to be precisely controlled given that both acquired and inherited ventricular arrhythmias are usually episodic and precipitated by some stimulus or stress. Moreover, such regulation may underlie the responses to cardiovascular challenges and stresses that eventually lead to maladaptive "electrical remodeling" with cardiac arrhythmias.
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As you've no doubt noticed by now, Sex and the City 2 takes place largely in Abu Dhabi, where Carrie and the girls are spending a week at a swanky hotel, wearing ridiculously opulent clothing and generally enjoying the kind of vacation the rest of us could never dream of affording. There's a lot of fun to be had in watching that luxury, but the absence of New York City may be a bummer for longtime fans of the show, who came to see New York as the fifth lead character over six seasons.
Still, there's time in the film for a visit to one major Manhattan landmark-- the Bergdorf Goodman department store, located right across the street from the Plaza Hotel. The four ladies visit the registry counter at the beginning of the film, but in the spirit of Carrie Bradshaw and her footwear obsession, Warner Bros. scheduled the film's press conference in the upstairs shoe department. Surrounded by sparkly Loboutins and Manolos, the five lead actors-- Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis, Kim Cattrall and Chris Noth-- and the movie's writer/director Michael Patrick King gathered to answer questions about the messages and goals of the new movie, their experiences filming the Abu Dhabi scenes in Morocco, and how the gay community has embraced the series over the years.
I'll be honest-- I wasn't that crazy about the new movie, as you can tell reading my review. But I'm an unabashed fan of the show, and the press conference was kind of thrilling just for having all of those actors, whose characters I've followed for nearly a decade, right there with me next to the Jimmy Choos. And if I'm allowed to project a little, I think the actors wound up having more affection for the series than the new movies as well. The best moments of the press conference were when Chris Noth or Cynthia Nixon would make references back to the series, or everyone talked about the cultural impact of the characters. That section of the press conference is transcribed below, and if you've ever watched the show, you'll definitely want to check out what they all had to say. Sex and the City 2 is in theaters this weekend.
Why do you think that gay men identify with the show?
Michael Patrick King: I always said the reason that Sex and the City actually became present in people's mind as it had is there was a voice that needed to be heard. And, at that time, it was the single girl as leper voice; the outsider, anyone who wasn't married in their 30s, when society told them they should be married. So, I think anyone who's ever been an outsider, whether it be due to your sexual orientation or your anything – your gender, your race, your anything – these four girls have moved through the world trying to claim themselves. If gay men, women, children, animals, like this movie, I think it's because of the story about looking for love, maybe with someone else, but of course looking for a love of yourself in this great society that we have. I think that the villain, in any great story you need one, and I think ours is still society. I think society tells you to be some way and the individual always pushes through that bag, punches their way out.
Sarah Jessica Parker: I really think it's this ability to articulate emotion, embarrassing and candid and intimate, and the humorous way of observing our emotional journeys, that a lot of my gay friends really, really love. And it's taken maybe the straight community, the men, a little bit longer.
Cynthia Nixon: Right from the very beginning there was a very conscious decision made that we would never see these people's parents, we would never see their siblings-- because they were each other's family. And I think certainly for many gay people and for many non-gay people that's reality now. Maybe you have a family that you come from that you love or maybe you have trouble with them, but that you come to New York and you create your own.
These characters have kind of defined being a fun and fearless woman. Can you talk about that experience in playing them?
Kristin Davis: We're different in life, our characters are different, yet we're very, very together. Sometimes the characters disagree – like Charlotte judges Carrie [in the movie] and I love that part of the story line because I think we do this in life. And then, luckily, she has enough time and honest conversation to realize, "That's really unfair of me to judge my friend and try to put my own preconceived notions on my friend." But I love the fact that what we've created all together and what Michael has created in the writing for us are these really powerful women who can each be powerful in their own right and still be together.
Kim Cattrall: I think the most powerful thing for me is that we have encouraged a lot of women to change the way they feel about being single, about having careers, all the story lines about getting married and then being deserted, being alone, being lonely. I think we've addressed them and encouraged them to come together, and I think that's a very powerful thing. In this era of post-feminism I think that we've helped define what it is to be successful, smart, and also feminine.
Sarah Jessica Parker: I tend not to ponder too much what we may or may not have done because I like hearing from other people what they think. But I will say that in an era that there is this beacon which we seem to be moving toward where women are really unkind to one another and call each other kind of horrible names, and there's a vernacular that our ears have adapted to which I find really objectionable. I really, really love how these women love each other, and I love how decent and honorable they are toward one another. I love how much they respect one another. I love that they were never made to be friends. Their DNA is so radically different from one to the next and they have found this incomparable friendship that is really, truly inspiring to me and it changes the way I think about my friendships constantly. It changes the way I look at friendships, the way I respond to friends' choices, and that is in large part the writing. Well, it's not even in large part, it is the writing. For me, when I look at a lot of what's available on television and I see how women treat each other it's stunning to me, it's arresting, and I like that there is some place that we still like to illustrate that women would much rather be allies than adversaries.
Cynthia Nixon: There was a time when Charlotte and Miranda were having a big fight about Charlotte's decision to stop working and to focus on having a child, and Miranda was very disapproving and Charlotte really called her on it. Charlotte said, "Isn't that what the feminist movement is about? It's not about you have to work or you have to stay home; it's about choices." And I think that, as Sarah said, these four women are so different from each other and they have such different points of view and they've made such different life choices, but they love each other and they're not shy about offering their opinions to each other and their advice. And I think that that's one of the things that I'm proudest of. I think we're a feminist show, but being a feminist show doesn't mean yeah you have to have a career, or you have to not be married, or you have to be married. That really, for these four women who are very close but very different, we see a whole range of what's available out there and what direction you might want to take your life in.


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This article first appeared in Aviation Week & Space Technology.
After two years on the ground for technical problems, an upgraded version of the system designed to protect the U.S. from ballistic missile attack is finally flying again. But the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has significant challenges not only to employing the modernized Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system but also incrementally improving other systems that protect areas abroad.
The Boeing-led GMD missile shield executed a long-awaited flight test of the Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI), carrying an upgraded version of its hit-to-kill mechanism, after repeated slips. The Raytheon Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) Capability Enhancement 2 (CE 2) failed to intercept its first ballistic missile target during a December 2010 test, and since then engineers have been working to isolate and fix a high-frequency vibration issue that affected the upgraded EKV's guidance system.
The GBI launched Jan. 26 at 2 p.m. local time from Vandenberg AFB, Calif. and did not have a target to intercept. The objective was to fly the system and its kill vehicle through "stressing" conditions to collect data.
The MDA did not definitively say what went wrong with the guidance system during the December 2010 failure, but spokesman Rick Lehner said the problem "did not show itself during extensive pre-test ground testing and [occurred] only in a space environment." Boeing spokesman Scott Day says that "therein lies the demand and the challenge: developing a ground-test capability that could recreate a problem, which had only been observed in space, allowing us to understand the phenomenon and develop solutions."
Boeing actually had to build a ground-based system that could recreate the high-frequency vibration conditions "mimicking the stresses of space flight and EKV maneuvers outside the Earth's atmosphere and gravitational pull.".
Greg Hyslop, vice president for Boeing's GMD program, calls the failure "one of the toughest challenges facing the aerospace industry," underscoring the complexity of the problem, especially given Boeing's challenges with lithium-ion batteries grounding its new 787 commercial airliner fleet.
Early results of last month's flight test appear promising. Lehner says experts will pore through troves of telemetry data to assess the exact performance of the interceptor. "Data collected during the test will anchor digital and hardware-in-the-loop models for the EKV," he says.
But the ultimate goal is to pit the GMD, with its upgraded kill vehicle, against a target. Prior to the flight test, the MDA had said it would conduct the intercept attempt between March and June; since then test officials have not said when this demonstration will take place.
Mating of the EKV CE2s with their boosters has been on hold while the government-industry team sorted through the technical issue.
Though the GDM and EKV CE 2 were grounded for two years, the legacy system in silos in Vandenberg AFB and Fort Greely, Alaska, remained on alert.
However, the return to flight for the GMD was a relief for many policymakers closely watching activities in North Korea. Pyongyang unleashed a rash of bellicose rhetoric, saying last month that it would target its maturing missile fleet against the U.S. and continue with nuclear tests. The GMD is specifically designed to counter an attack from North Korea, and it is only influential as a deterrent to aggression if it can intercept targets in flight testing.
While the flight test appears to put the GMD back on a growth path, the MDA still faces a host of challenges. A dearth of research expertise is among the top priorities that need to be addressed by the incoming director, Vice Adm. James Syring, according to Philip Coyle, who was associate director for national security and international affairs in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in 2010-11 and previously was the Pentagon's chief tester.
Among the reasons for what some say is a "brain drain" at the MDA was the caustic management style of Syring's predecessor, Army Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly. Industry officials note that some of the MDA's top experts left during O'Reilly's tenure due to his biting management and micromanaging.
Hand in hand with that problem is an overarching morale slump at the agency, as well, they say.
Syring will also have to make some tough calls about how to proceed programmatically. O'Reilly deviated from his predecessor, Air Fore Lt. Gen. Trey Obering, in doggedly pursuing technologies to achieve "early intercept" of ballistic missiles -- a kill at or before a threat missile reaches apogee. In doing so, he proposed testing of Predator unmanned aircraft outfitted with modified Raytheon MTS-B electro-optical/infrared sensors to provide tracking data early after a threat missile's launch. O'Reilly also pushed the development of the Precision Tracking Space System (PTSS), a satellite constellation designed to track missiles from early after launch through their midcourse, as they cool in space.
Experts at the National Academies of Sciences proposed last September that the MDA terminate the PTSS because they questioned the system's capability, especially in light of the high cost of performing from space.
Coyle points out that determining what to do with these sensor systems will be among the issues facing Syring during his first budget cycle as MDA director.


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Nutrition research writer Sayer Ji is founder and chair of GreenMedInfo.com – a consumer advocacy site offering 'the world's largest natural medicine database,' with a searchable index linking to more than 19,000 biomedical study abstracts. This article, first published May 23, 2012, is reproduced with kind permission from Sayer Ji. ©2012 GreenMedInfo.com all rights reserved.
The tissues discussed are nerves, liver, beta cells (pancreas), hormones, heart, and cartilage/joint/spine.
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It may come as a surprise to some, especially those with conventional medical training, but the default state of the body is one of ceaseless regeneration. Without the flame-like process of continual cell turnover within the body – life and death ceaselessly intertwined – the miracle of the human body would not exist.
Consider the fact that every two days the enterocytes lining your intestines are completely replaced, and that within 100 days almost every atom and molecule within your body has been excreted, breathed out, or sloughed off, only to be replaced by new ones from the food you ate, the water you drank or the air you breathed in, in the interim.
In times of illness, however, regenerative processes are overcome by degenerative ones.
This is where [wholistic] medicine may perform its most noble feat, nudging the body back into balance with foods, herbs, nutrients, healing energies; i.e., healing intention.
Today, however, drug-based medicine invariably uses chemicals that have not one iota of regenerative potential; to the contrary, they almost always interfere with bodily self-renewal in order to suppress the symptoms against which they are applied.
Despite the outright heretical nature of things which stimulate healing and regeneration vis-à-vis the conventional medical system which frowns upon, or is incredulous towards, spontaneous remission in favor of symptom suppression and disease management – over the course of the past few years of trolling MEDLINE we have collected a series of remarkable studies on the topic.
Nerve Regeneration
There are actually a broad range of natural compounds with proven nerve-regenerative effects. A 2010 study published in the journal Rejuvenation Research, for instance, found a combination of blueberry, green tea and carnosine have neuritogenic (i.e., promoting neuronal regeneration) and stem-cell regenerative effects in an animal model of neurodegenerative disease.(1)
Other researched neuritogenic substances include:
1. Curcumin (compound in turmeric)
2. Lion's Mane Mushroom
3. Apigenin (compound in vegetables like celery)
4. Blueberry
5. Ginseng
6. Huperzine (from 'fir moss')
7. Natto (from fermented soybeans)
8. Red Sage (compound in root of a type of salvia native to China and Japan).
9. Resveratrol (compound in grapes, red wine, purple grape juice, peanuts, some berries)
10. Royal Jelly
11. Theanine (amino acid derived most commonly in Camellia sinensis teas, esp green tea)
12. Ashwaganda ('Indian ginseng')
13. Coffee (trigonelline)
There is another class of nerve-healing substances, known as remyelinating compounds, which stimulate the repair of the protective sheath around the axon of the neurons known as myelin, and which is often damaged in neurological injury and/or dysfunction, especially autoimmune and vaccine-induced demyelination disorders.
It should also be noted that even music and falling in love have been studied for possibly stimulating neurogenesis, regeneration and/or repair of neurons, indicating that regenerative medicine does not necessary require the ingestion of anything.
Rather, a wide range of therapeutic actions may be employed to improve health and well-being, as well.
(To view the first-hand biomedical citations on these neuritogenic substances, visit the GreenMedInfo Neuritogenic Research page on the topic.)
Liver Regeneration
Glycyrrhizin, a compound found within licorice, and which we recently featured as a powerful anti-SARS virus agent, has also been found to stimulate the regeneration of liver mass and function in the animal model of hepatectomy. Other liver regenerative substances include:
1. Carvacrol (a volatile compound in oregano)
2. Curcumin
3. Korean Ginseng
4. Rooibos (aka 'bush tea')
5. Vitamin E
[Note: another substance in this category that Sayer Ji may discuss in future is Milk Thistle.]
(View the first-hand biomedical citations on the GreenMedInfo Liver Regeneration research page.)
Beta-Cell Regeneration
Unfortunately, the medical community has yet to harness the diabetes-reversing potential of natural compounds.
Whereas expensive stem cell therapies, islet cell transplants, and an array of synthetic drugs in the developmental pipeline are the focus of billions of dollars of research annually, our kitchen cupboards and backyards may already contain the long sought-after cure for type 1 diabetes.
The following compounds have been demonstrated experimentally to support regeneration of the insulin-producing beta cells, which are destroyed in insulin dependent diabetes, and which once restored, may (at least in theory) help restore the health of the patient to the point where they no longer require insulin replacement.
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1. Gymenna Sylvestre ("the sugar destroyer")
2. Nigella Sativa ("black cumin")
3. Vitamin D
4. Curcumin (from the spice turmeric)
5. Arginine (amino acid)
6. Avocado
7. Berberine (found in bitter herbs such as Goldenseal and Barberry)
8. Bitter Melon
9. Chard (yes, the green leafy vegetables)
10. Corn Silk
11. Stevia
12. Sulforaphane (especially concentrated in broccoli sprouts).
(View the first-hand biomedical citations on the Beta Cell Regeneration research page.)
Hormone Regeneration
There are secretagogues, which increase the endocrine glands' ability to secrete more hormone.
And there are substances that truly support regeneration of hormones which have degraded (by emitting electrons) into potentially carcinogenic "transient hormone" metabolites.
One of these substances is vitamin C. A powerful electron donor, this vitamin has the ability to contribute electrons to help resurrect the form and function of estradiol (estrogen; E2), progesterone, testosterone, for instance.(2)
In tandem with foods that are able to support the function of glands, such as the ovaries, vitamin C may represent an excellent complement or alternative to hormone replacement therapy.
Cardiac Cell Regeneration
Not too long ago, it was believed that cardiac tissue was uniquely incapable of being regenerated.
A new, but rapidly growing body of experimental research now indicates that this is simply not true, and there is a class of heart-tissue regenerating compounds known as neocardiogenic substances.
Neocardiogenic substances are able to stimulate the formation of cardiac progenitor cells which can differentiate into healthy heart tissue, and they include the following:
1. Resveratrol
2. Siberian Ginseng (Eleuthero)
3. Red Wine Extract
Another remarkable example of cardiac cell regeneration is through what is known as fetomaternal trafficking of stem cells through the placenta.
In a recent article we discussed the amazing process known as "fetal microchimerism" by which the fetus contributes stem cells to the mother which are capable of regenerating her damaged heart cells, and possibly a wide range of other cell types.
Cartilage / Joint / Spine Regeneration
As for the spinal cord, curcumin and resveratrol have been shown to support improved recovery from spinal cord injury.
(Over a dozen other natural compounds hold promise in this area, which can be viewed on our Spinal Cord Injury research page.)
As for degenerative joint disease, i.e., osteoarthritis, there is a broad range of potentially regenerative substances.
(With 50 listed on our osteoarthritis research page.)
Ultimately, regenerative medicine threatens to undermine the very economic infrastructure that props up the modern, drug-based and quite candidly degenerative medical system.
Symptom suppression is profitable because it guarantees both the perpetuation of the original underlying disease, and the generation of an ever-expanding array of additional, treatment-induced symptoms.
This is the non-sustainable, infinite growth model which shares features characteristic of the process of cancer itself – a model, which by its very nature, is doomed to fail and eventually collapse.
Cultivating diets, lifestyles and attitudes conducive to bodily regeneration can interrupt this pathological circuit, and help us to attain the bodily freedom that is a precondition for the liberation of the human soul and spirit, as well.
– Sayer Ji
1. "NT-020, a natural therapeutic approach to optimize spatial memory performance and increase neural progenitor cell proliferation and decrease inflammation in the aged rat," Rejuvenation Res. 2010 Jun 29. Epub 2010 Jun 29. PMID: 20586644
2. "Photo-induced regeneration of hormones by electron transfer processes: Potential biological and medical consequences." Radiat Phys Chem Oxf Engl 1993. Updated 2011 Aug ;80(8):890-894. PMID: 21814301
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Rovio's latest instalment in the Angry Birds franchise is an RPG, which is quite different from the physics-based gameplay that has made the series an international hit. Called Angry Birds Epic, the game was soft-launched in Canada, Australia and New Zealand earlier this year, but is available globally now.
Angry Birds Epic follows a free-to-play model that is becoming increasingly popular with mobile game studios. The game follows a turn-based RPG format which sees players battling pigs with a team of birds. Along the way, players can acquire and upgrade weapons, potions and armor, level up and unlock new characters. Users also have access to a crafting engine that allows them to create new parts for use in battle scenarios.
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Why did the owner of a barbecue restaurant become vegan and choose the way of the vegan diet giving up the very popular barbeque restaurant?
I was the owner of a barbecue restaurant, and the restaurant was very busy and hard to handle the operation even if I had 15 employees work. I enlarged
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I put up some Profile Expectations a few days ago, and have been trying to encourage people to read them and follow them, but I thought it might be helpful to have a place to talk about it a bit more, since they are different from your average forum rules.
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The reason behind using real names and photos is that we're trying to give the forums and community the feeling of real people having a conversation, rather than, say, a flower named "blue giraffe" talking to a logo. I know a lot of forums don't require this kind of commitment, but we really want to create a place where people respect and care for each other, which is much more likely when people seem like people.
Also, with all the struggles these days with copyright and intellectual property, the more real you seem to people, the less likely they are to treat you in a way you don't like. As we grow this site and have more designers and contributors, we want them to be seen as real people whose designs matter and should be treated with respect. You'd be surprised at what a simple change like using a photo and real name can do.
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text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - My favorite singers Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in My favorite singers Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Music View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message sarryJoined: 26 Apr 2010Posts: 4 Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 4:59 pm Post subject: My favorite singers Hello. My name is sarry. I am a Japanese junior college student. I love to sing songs and listen to music. I like The Beatles and the Japanese rock band L'Arc-en-Ciel. Do you know L'Arc-en-Ciel? Now,I study English, so I practice singing The Beatles. Recently,I sang "Help!" and "Yesterday". What music do you like the best? I hope to talk peoples of the world. Thank you Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Music All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Student Forums----------------ComputersCurrent NewsCultureEnglish SchoolsFamilyFilm and CinemaFoodHealth and FitnessHelp CenterHobbiesHolidaysLearning EnglishLiteratureMaking FriendsMusicOpinionsPetsScienceSportsThe Strange and MysteriousTOEFL and Other English ExamsTravel You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Dave's ESL Cafe is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Banner Advertising | Bookstore / Alta Books | FAQs | Articles | Interview with Dave Copyright © 2018 Dave's ESL Cafe | All Rights Reserved | Contact Dave's ESL Cafe | Site Map Teachers College, Columbia University: Train to Teach English Here or Abroad Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group


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Family trauma from toddler's death will be lasting
RIDGEFIELD -- Mere chance saved Barbara Baughman from a lifetime of guilt and sorrow.
A mother of six, Baughman moved with her family to Ridgefield from Somers, N.Y., 12 years ago. The process took two weeks and several 20-mile shuttles back and forth.
On one run, the children brought a friend along, got distracted and forgot 1-year old Emma in the back seat. She stayed there 45 minutes until Baughman realized she had been left in the car.
Luckily, one of the other children had left a window open after getting sick on the drive over. On a balmy summer day, that open window might have saved Emma from dying in the heat.
"I can't even begin to describe the horror that went through my mind," said Baughman, 59. "From mind," said Baughman, 59. "From that point on, I would always put a note on my rearview mirror that said, `Where's Emma?' "
The lingering memory of that day drew Baughman to the lawn outside the Ridgefield Police Department on Tuesday, when police first confirmed the death of a Ridgefield boy after being left in a car Monday "for an extended period of time."
Fifteen-month-old Benjamin Seitz was supposed to have been taken to day care Monday morning by his father, who was on his way to work. But sources have told The News-Times that Kyle Seitz instead went straight to work, parked his car and went inside, not realizing until late in the day that his son was still in back.
For Baughman, the boy's death brought back painful memories.
"We were all horrified for the baby, but also for the parents," she said. "I recognize the pain they must be going through."
That pain will be deep and lasting, and won't be confined to the parents alone, said several area psychologists and counselors who deal with family trauma.
"Clearly it will be devastating to the family," said Judith Shapiro, a licensed family therapist in Ridgefield. "There will be long-term ramifications in terms of regret and guilt."
Liz Jorgensen, a trauma expert and director of Insight Counseling in Ridgefield, likened the effect on Benjamin's parents to what war veterans often encounter.
"The kind of grief you would experience, whether it was an accident or miscommunication (leading to Benjamin's death), is the most devastating to recover from," said Jorgensen. "You would instantly manifest post-traumatic stress disorder."
Sources reported that when Kyle Seitz realized Benjamin had been in the car all day, he drove straight to Danbury Hospital, where the boy was pronounced dead aroundt 6 p.m. Seitz was so distraught that he curled into a fetal position and sobbed uncontrollably, the sources said.
A variety of techniques can be used to lessen the long-term effect of such heart-rending experiences, Jorgensen said, from hypnosis to behavior modification.
"It takes a very long time and it's not easy to break such an awful memory," Jorgensen said.
Deborah Matthews, a psychologist with the Child Guidance Center of Southern Connecticut, said feelings of guilt and responsibility can affect siblings as well as parents.
Children often show behavioral changes, and some find it hard to comprehend the death of a sibling.
"Typically, an older child would understand the finality of it," Matthews said. "But the parents will repeatedly have to explain to the younger child that the child who has passed on is not coming back."
Seitz and his wife, Lindsey Rogers-Seitz, have two daughters under 10.
Matthews said she has not dealt with a case of just this type, but has encountered many situations where family members have felt some degree of responsibility for a child's death.
"Some come to terms with it better than others and still go on to live happy lives," she said. "But for all parents that lose a child, it stays with them forever.'
Police have declined to discuss the possibility that Kyle Seitz would face criminal charges, as occurred in two recent Connecticut cases where parents left children in cars unattended. In those cases, one in Orange and one in New London, parents were charged with risk of injury to a minor, though neither case was fatal.
Police have said they will have no further comment on the case until the medical examiner's ruling on the cause of death, which could take several weeks.
A memorial service is scheduled for 3 p.m. Sunday at Jesse Lee Memorial United Methodist Church in Ridgefield.
The Seitz case helped prompt Connecticut Sens. Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal to write last week to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, asking for the launch of a "Look Before You Lock" campaign to prevent similar tragedies.
"We understand that with a limited budget you must carefully plan where to focus your campaign, but we ask that as you are targeting your resources that you consider focusing more of your campaign in Connecticut to align with the spike in frequency of these heartbreaking incidents in our state," the letter said.
Baughman, too, thought something should be done. When she and Emma, now 13, came to the Ridgefield Police Department on Tuesday, they brought a stack of static-cling stickers bearing a message about the danger of leaving children unattended in cars.
But the Seitz family itself was never far from Baughman's mind.
"This family needs as much support as they can get," she said. "What they have to deal with on a daily basis, it's truly a horror."


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Inspired by conversations on the FOOD52 Hotline, we're sharing tips and tricks that make navigating all of our kitchens easier and more fun. Today, we're sharing ways to use bottarga.
The workmen who built the Egyptian pyramids may have subsisted on onions, bread and beer, but just a few centuries later their descendants were enjoying their flatbread topped with bottarga. Sometimes referred to as "the poor man's caviar," bottarga has been a Mediterranean staple ever since.
What is bottarga exactly?
Bottarga production is the same today it was in ancient Eqypt: tuna or grey mullet roe is salted, pressed, dried and then coated in beeswax for preserving.
How do you use it?
The Lebanese bravely eat their bottarga in slices with raw garlic and dunked in olive oil, but the deep orange roe is most often shaved or grated to adorn everything from pasta to compound butter with its bright, briny flavor. Like anchovies or caviar, it adds salt and umami, but with a feathery texture and personality all its own.
Where do you get it?
Bottarga is made in Europe, Asia, and now the U.S. You can find it in specialty food shops, or in a variety of online retailers. Below, we share some tips and tricks for working with this saline treat.
Handling Bottarga
Nick Anderer of Maialino in New York City suggests using a mandolin to shave the roe, and a microplane to grate it. We were surprised -- and delighted -- to learn that he leaves the natural casing intact.
Cooking with Bottarga
Flatbread: Italians like to shave bottarga over a paper-thin flatbread called carta da musica. In her cookbook, A Girl and Her Pig, April Bloomfield includes a recipe involving nothing more than carta da musica, bottarga, butter, flaky sea salt, red pepper flakes and extra virgin olive oil.
Pasta: Another Italian tradition is bottarga with pasta -- most notably, spaghetti alla chitarra con bottarga. At Maialino, Anderer makes a simple sauce with garlic, olive oil, parsley and white wine. Slicked in this sauce, spaghetti is served on a bed of grated bottarga and finished with yet more bottarga.
Eggs: Anderer's celery salad with soft boiled egg and shaved bottarga (pictured above) is crunchy, creamy, and salty all at once. Or try bottarga grated over scrambled eggs.
Vegetables: Shaved or grated bottarga is great for livening up fresh vegetables. Try it with boiled potatoes, raw zucchini, asparagus or green beans.
Storing Bottarga
Bottarga can be kept in the fridge for up to a year, as long as it's vacuum sealed or wrapped tightly in plastic.
Are you a bottarga fan? If so, how do you like to prepare it?
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