The city of Boston never runs short of fun and entertainment and one venue that shines brightest in the dynamic cultural scene of Downtown Boston is the historic Orpheum Theatre.
Located at 1 Hamilton Place, close to Park Street and Downtown Crossing, Orpheum Theatre is a famous live music venue of the city.
It hosts a good variety of musical artists, comedians, speakers and others throughout the year. Formerly known as the Boston Music Hall, the Orpheum at Boston, Massachusetts epitomizes the cultural richness of the region.
The theatre was first appeared on the horizon in 1915 as part of Loews Theatres chain. In 1916, it was opened again after interior decoration by architect Thomas W. Lamb. Its main entrance was at Washington Street that time that was later shifted to the present old alley entrance after that was converted to a retail store.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra was one of the first performers at Orpheum Theatre who debuted with Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky here.
The venue has gone through many good and hard times during its long history and also went through major renovation and refurbishment phases. Today, it symbolizes the history of arts and culture in Boston and attracts many patrons and tourists every year.
Orpheum Theatre MA is a charming and attractive live venue that gives an old and antiquated feeling from its fa?ade and interior. The general ambiance of the place is quite fantastic and you can feel the history in the air all over the place. There are many others venues in Boston that are more equipped technically and otherwise, but the charm and appeal of Orpheum cannot be replicated.
The Orpheum provides full-on satisfaction for concertgoers. Whether you sit in the orchestra section or balcony, you are bound to enjoy the show. The lighting and acoustics are equally good befitting every kind of music act irrespective of genre.
Over the years, several major national and international acts have performed at Orpheum Theatre MA and entertained their fans here.
Orpheum Theater has a fantastic performance history comprising of many notable acts of the 20th and 21st century. While the Grateful Dead made many appearances here in 1970"s, Kiss on their Alive! Tour and Bruce Springsteen on a Born to Run tour also stopped at the Orpheum in the same decade.
The 80"s brought the likes of U2 and Warren Zevon while John Legend, Tori Amos, Cure and Counting Crows also perform here during 1990"s.
Orpheum Theater has hosted the biggest and brightest names of music and stage world. The venue has been home music and comedy shows by Trey Anastasio, Scissor Sisters, Ani Difranco, Sigur Ros, Smashing Pumpkins, Bob Saget, Margaret Cho, Raconteurs and others. You can catch the likes of Modest Mouse, Oasis, Ryan Adams, Travis, Stephen Lynch, Brian Wilson, Interpol and Bob Dylan, here.
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Horatio Alger Award Recipient
Larry Lawson receives 2018 Horatio Alger Award
Algonquin, IL (February 14, 2018) – HeartcoR Solutions, a clinical services company and ECG Core Lab, announced today that company founder and CEO Larry Lawson has been selected for membership to the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, Inc.
Lawson joins 11 other business, civic and cultural leaders from across North America in receiving 2018 honors. For more than 70 years, the Horatio Alger Award has been annually bestowed upon admired leaders who have succeeded despite facing adversities, and who have remained committed to higher education and charitable efforts in their local communities.
Lawson learned early in life that grit, determination and confidence would take him far. Diagnosed with a serious bone deficiency at age six, he was required to wear a metal leg brace that impaired his walking and left him a frequent victim of ridicule.
He began his career writing and producing music but moved into health care as a sales representative at Johnson & Johnson. Lawson started his first company, LifeMed, Inc. in 1983. From there, he continued to establish medical monitoring companies, eventually focusing on cardiology. Today, Lawson leads a team of cardiac monitoring and research experts at HeartcoR Solutions, an ECG Core Lab that provides research and clinical trial management services to pharma, medical device and biotech companies worldwide.
"It's fitting that Larry works in an industry that specializes in the heart, as it is clear from both his business and philanthropic efforts that he has a genuine desire to help those in need," said Matthew Rose, president, Horatio Alger Association and 2013 Horatio Alger Award recipient. "We are certain that his life story will have a profound impact on our Scholars and inspire them to rise above their own adversities. We are proud to welcome Larry into the Association as part of this outstanding 2018 new Member Class."
Lawson is an active member of TMCx, the Texas Medical Center's Accelerator program, and GOOSE Society of Texas, an organization that provides funding and mentorship to startup companies in life science, energy, and emerging technologies. Lawson has gifted scholarships and funds to various schools and universities, including a $1 million donation to the science and engineering department of his alma mater, Lamar University. He has also donated to entrepreneur centers and facilities for the disabled.
Lawson has received numerous accolades, including election into the Gulf Coast Music Hall of Fame for his tenure with The Clique, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Hall of Fame 2009, and Houston Technology Center's Lifetime Achievement Award in Health Sciences in 2017.
"As a child, I was fortunate to have parents who believed in me and encouraged me to pursue my dreams, despite the serious physical challenges I faced," said Lawson." Understanding that many of these Scholars don't have this same type of support system to build them up, it is an honor and privilege for me to be a change agent in their lives. I am grateful that the Horatio Alger Association has welcomed me into this special organization so that I may continue to provide hope and opportunity to those who deserve it most."
Lawson and the Member Class of 2018 will be formally inducted into the Association on April 5-7, 2018, during the Association's 71st Horatio Alger Award Induction Ceremonies in Washington, D.C.
For more information about Horatio Alger Association and its Member Class of 2018, please visit www.horatioalger.org. To learn more about HeartcoR Solutions, visit www.heartcorsolutions.com.
About HeartcoR Solutions
Headquartered in Algonquin, IL, HeartcoR Solutions LLC. is a leading-edge ECG Core Lab providing 24/7 research and clinical trial management services to pharma, medical device and biotech companies worldwide. HeartcoR delivers non-invasive cardiovascular safety and efficacy services that enhance data capture, review and management in clinical research. Learn more at www.heartcorsolutions.com. Follow on LinkedIn, Twitterand YouTube.
About Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans:
Founded in 1947, the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, Inc. is dedicated to the simple but powerful belief that hard work, honesty and determination can conquer all obstacles. The Association honors the achievements of outstanding leaders who have accomplished remarkable successes in spite of adversity by bestowing upon them the Horatio Alger Award and inducting them as lifetime Members. Horatio Alger Members support promising young people with the resources and confidence needed to overcome adversity in pursuit of their dreams through higher education. Through the generosity of its Members and friends, in 2017, the Association awarded more than $18 million in undergraduate and graduate need-based scholarships across the United States and Canada, and also provided college support and mentoring services to its Scholars. Since 1984, the Association has awarded more than $125 million in college scholarships to more than 25,000 deserving young people. For more information, please visit www.horatioalger.org.
Barbara Tabor, APR / (651) 450-1342 / barbara@taborpr.com

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Eight days ago on June 12, Janet Reading sent me an Email. Her broody hen had died on the nest. The eggs were cold. She moved them to the top of the Aga and wondered what the right incubation temperature for the eggs might be.
I keep chickens but I am no expert. A friend of mine had hatched eggs on the top of the Aga so I knew that it could be done. I flew onto the internet and found this useful site. Emails raced back and forth.
I was so pleased. Over the next few days the little chick seemed to get under my skin. I wondered what she was like/how were they were coping/what was going on at The Aga, Chateau Reading. Eventually my curiosity erupted. I just had to know. This was the response, publication kindly granted by Janet.
Well, our little Henrietta is very loud and active. She goes for a run in the garden when the weather allows, which is not often at the moment. She is growing fast. She lives on top of the Aga in a plastic fish tank. She has a bowl of chick crumbs and one of water, which has to be changed 2 or 3 times a day. We made her a little cardboard box/cube with a hole at the front at the warmest end of the house. She does seem to prefer standing on it than being inside. We've introduced her to our one remaining hen who was completely disinterested, but better than going for her.
My biggest worry is that she's going to grow up thinking I'm her Mother and she lives in the kitchen, but we'll cross that bridge later.
She likes me to make a house with my hand on the grass and then she uses it like she would her Mother and dives in and out.
We have a wormery for composting, so yesterday she got her first taste of worm. We held it for her just like we'd expect her Mother to do for her. Then we threw another, very little worm on the ground and made her find it for herself.
Well, you will realise from this, that this tiny bundle of feathers is seriously impacting on our lives. We decided to try to hatch the other 3 eggs on the Aga, I'm not certain how this will be, but I'm not prepared to risk losing another broody hen.
The chicken in the photo is a barba d'uccle.
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An adventurous uncertainty with RPG paragraphs, while survival created by the Chibig studio. During the play in Deiland, we notice the coupons of the epeba calling Arco, occupying the imperceptible venus storing the enchanted crystal. Deiland then funded on Kickstarter simulates the adventure from the preparation of Chibig. Thanks to the organized funds, investors managed to give a rung on the PC level while PS4. The game reports about the hecemans of the Arco juvenile. Exists the greenest of the small once spent on the thinnest planets in space. Their point is the awakening of the magic of the crystals found in the interiors of these affable globes. A well-known pupil came to the title star Deiland, which is naturally very small, that he realizes this well-known from among the tales Quite Prince.Deiland so entertainment glued to clubs of uneven specimens. In massive essence, there is current travel implementation, but at the same time, it is full of engineering from RPGs and survival factors. The complement is a roughly one hundred orders. Their conduct exists but on the contrary with half of the trained encouragement. The apologet wants to take care of the total sum of himself – Arco craves cost, rest, and sickness. Chwat sieje, or flora, preserves about breeding also attracts results; he can both catch the sea bream. However, some of today's functions ask for humanitarian medicines. We have been working last in the frames of the crafting system with elaborate remains of information – at the same time, the developers have also arranged fifty of them. They allow not only hard to make objects irreplaceable to synekrza, but also dishes for drumming or cocktails with new advantages. And Deiland brings out the twelve tastes of fortresses. In addition to the frolics in, Deiland Download will be rushing us to push back the invaders' invasions. We are trying to make use of the prepared curses with them using the armor. Entertainment also creates a daily distribution of blossoming faces. The nobleman acquires a try to move on to intensify his intensity, head, flexibility, and form, which happens in oppositions with more severe enemies. Deiland Download on a PC network and the PS4 is proficient. Performed is marked by a cartoon treatment and interesting eye with warm colors. The daily system also deserves to be accepted by the ill-considered mood.


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On the new tugs Baltic Fleet raised the flags of the auxiliary fleet of the Navy
In the Baltic solemn flag-raising ceremony of the auxiliary fleet of the Navy (Navy) on the new Russian tug "RB-394" and "RB-395" project 90600.
The ceremony was attended by representatives of the command of the Baltic Fleet, the Baltic naval base unit support vessels BF, tug crews.
For the needs of CF in 2011-2012. 5 vessels built for this project. Currently, three of them ("RB-27", "RB-20" and "RB-42") already perform assigned tasks as a part of the Baltic and the Leningrad naval bases. The new tugs "RB-394" and "RB-395" are included in the squad support vessels BF. At the end of 2013 the fleet will go another vessel of this type.
Tugs 90600 project designed to perform towing and berthing operations at the port, the roads and in the coastal areas, as well as for fighting fires, oil spills, and perform other functions.
Vessels built at the Leningrad Shipbuilding Plant JSC "Pella". Harbor tugs of this project include a wide range of technical features, powerful engine, economical and easy to use.
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Eurotunnel enjoys 'best year' despite Brexit concerns
Impressive growth in car and truck shuttle traffic helped offset a 4% drop in passengers
Wed, Mar 1, 2017, 11:42 Updated: Wed, Mar 1, 2017, 11:59
Eurotunnel warned last July that the Brexit-hit pound would impact earnings in 2016 and 2017, but results are better than expected.
The boss of Channel Tunnel owner Eurotunnel has cheered 2016 as its best year ever as the group shrugged off Brexit fears and the impact of terrorist attacks to post a surge in profits.
Eurotunnel said impressive growth in car and truck shuttle traffic helped offset a 4 per cent drop in passengers on the high-speed Eurostar rail, which it said was "badly affected" by the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, Brussels and Nice.
The group saw net consolidated profit nearly triple to €200 million last year, from €75 million in 2015, as it recovered from a tough 2015 and early 2016, when services were disrupted by the Calais migrant crisis.
Underlying earnings rose 7 per cent to €514 million.
The group's trading cheer confirms that last summer's worries in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote were overdone.
Eurotunnel warned last July that the Brexit-hit pound would impact earnings in 2016 and 2017 amid fears the plunging pound would put Britons off travelling abroad.
But on unveiling its annual results, chairman and chief executive Jacques Gounon said: "2016 was the best year in our history."
He added that the group had improved its earnings' outlook for the next two years, pencilling in earnings growth to €530 million this year and €560 million in 2018.
Eurotunnel said car traffic on the passenger shuttle reached its highest level since 2000, up 2 per cent at 2.6 million in 2016, while its truck services enjoyed an "exceptional" year, with traffic up 11 per cent to a record 1.6 million.
This comes after a tough 2015 and early 2016, when Eurotunnel faced heavy disruption to its services as migrants in Calais made repeated bids to cross to Britain.
Cross-Channel coach traffic fell 8 per cent as demand was hit by the terrorist attacks, while Eurostar traffic dropped to 10 million from 10.4 million in 2015.
But Eurotunnel said Eurostar traffic recovered in the final three months of 2016 to rise by 2 per cent, helped by a record December, when it saw passenger growth of 9 per cent.
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NFL Draft 2014: So You Drafted a Badger, Chris Borland Edition
If you're lucky enough to draft Chris Borland, you're getting a practically perfect run-stuffer.
By Andrew Rosin Updated May 8, 2014, 2:08pm CDT
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I have this theory. It's one of those pop culturally-forced metaphors that blogs often like to do. You compare an athlete or a team to something in pop-culture. Like you have the great Evan Anderson, and he compares favorably to Sick of it All's "It's Clobbering Time."
So, I look at Chris Borland and I see him like I would see Daniel Bryan. Supremely talented, but as the combine showed, he's not likely to get into the first round for reasons stupid and otherwise.
First, let's talk the good. Borland brings a massive amount of skill to the table. Despite his official 4.83-second 40-yard dash time, as the tape shows, this is a sideline-to-sideline sort of run-stuffer. The lateral quickness is great. The instincts are supreme. And he's good at getting off blocks and attacking the run. He was also one of the most productive Badgers ever, ending his career with 419 tackles, 49.5 tackles for loss, 16.5 sacks, 15 pass break-ups, 16 quarterback hurries and the UW record for most forced fumbles with 14.
This goes to show you that there's actually a little more to Borland's strengths than just being the tackling machine the narrative would have you believe. Borland's small frame and quickness allow him to absolutely be useful as a pass-rusher coming off the edge. It's tough for a 6'8 guy to get a good bead on him, that's for sure.
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But now let's discuss the weaknesses. And there are some, both legitimate and otherwise. We'll start with the short arms. Yes, shorter arms does make it easier to get stuck when a blocker engages you. But Borland has two strengths that can temper that. He's got that intangible motor that separates the great from the good, and one of his biggest strengths is his ability to hand fight off blockers.
And then there's the height thing. He's 5'11. That psychological pricing gimmick dings him. But that being said, he will be 4 inches shorter than the average tight end that he has to cover, and with the evolution of the position to a more athletic and necessary weapon in an NFL passing game, the question of will Borland hold up in pass coverage does have some legitimacy.
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If you're drafting Borland, though, you're not planning on seeing what he can do against a Jordan Cameron type. And as his college numbers show, Borland's instincts and coverage do translate to the passing game as well as the running game.
On the pass rush, while Borland is able to shoot the gaps and get in quarterbacks' faces, he doesn't have a move set if he's engaged. In fairness, he seems smart enough to develop one at the pro level, but the way Bret Bielema coached, he never needed to.
Borland did have a tendency to get dinged up along the way, as well. He missed most of 2010 with an injury, he missed a game in 2012 and had to miss most of the Illinois and all of the Iowa game with injuries this year.
All in all? While the lazy comparison to Borland is as a Zach Thomas type, Borland reminds me more of an E.J. Henderson. The 40-time will keep him out of the first round, but the instincts and motor will help Borland carve out a strong NFL career with multiple hundred-tackle seasons along the way.
In short, if your team drafts Chris Borland, you aught to chant "Yes!"


Malignant mesothelioma is a form of cancer that is typically associated with exposure to carcinogens found in asbestos, a fibrous material once commonly used in home insulation, auto parts, and in the manufacture of vinyl products (such as flooring). Although mesothelioma is quite rare, when it does strike, it does so aggressively, with tumors growing and spreading at an alarming rate. Early detection is crucial in the efficacy of treatment, but often mesothelioma goes undiagnosed until it has reached the later stages, leaving its victims with few options outside of palliative care.
Exposure to asbestos was most common in people who worked in certain industries that brought them into constant contact with asbestos-containing materials. People who worked in home construction, for example, often worked without adequate protection against asbestos inhalation and ingestion while installing home insulation containing the material. Also, asbestos is often seen in the "popcorn ceilings" so popular during the 1970s and 1980s. It was also prominently used in the manufacture of auto parts and vinyl flooring, so factory workers were also often exposed to asbestos on a daily basis for hours at a time.
There are pockets across the globe of people who are being diagnosed with mesothelioma, but who never worked a day in their lives in a factory producing asbestos-containing products, nor in construction. However, some towns where asbestos processing plants and factories have been defunct for years are now seeing an increase in the incidence of malignant mesothelioma, presumably because of the nearness of airborne asbestos fibers.
Since mesothelioma has a long latency period (the time from initial carcinogenic exposure to the actual diagnosis based on symptoms), many diagnoses are not made until years and even decades after the time when the person was exposed to the asbestos fibers that caused their cancer to develop.
The state of California is geologically comprised, in large part, of a type of rock called "ultramafic rock," which can give rise to naturally-occurring asbestos. According to reports from X, 44 out of California's 58 counties contain ultramafic rock in their crust, rendering the state a hot spot for naturally-occurring asbestos. Although asbestos is not dangerous to living creatures when it remains below the surface of the earth, when deposits of asbestos are exposed to the elements, erosion by wind and water can carry the fibers aloft, thus allowing them to be breathed in by any people who may be nearby—and increase their risk of developing mesothelioma exponentially.
There have been reports of mesothelioma occurring in children who have never had direct contact with asbestos themselves. However, children who lived near asbestos-producing factories or deposits of asbestos that were exposed to the elements were at greater risk of developing the disease, and some cases of childhood mesothelioma have been seen in children whose only exposure to asbestos was the fibers leftover on the surface of their parent's clothing at the end of his or her workday. Thus, even secondhand asbestos exposure in relatively minute quantities can carry a heavy risk of mesothelioma development.
Asbestos is not the only risk factor involved in the development of malignant mesothelioma. There are several others, some of which are only recently being discovered.
Recent research has shown that asbestos may not be the only fiber that gives rise to mesothelioma cancer. There are fibrous minerals occurring in nature with a similar molecular structure to asbestos, such as chabazite and erionite. There have been reports of people living near large erionite deposits developing mesothelioma in spite of never having been exposed to asbestos a day in their lives.
Genetics seem to play a large role in mesothelioma development, as well, for some people who had daily exposure to asbestos over the course of decades were never diagnosed with mesothelioma in spite of their long-term exposure.
However, studies have shown that people with multiple risk factors are the most likely to develop mesothelioma. For example, people who worked with asbestos and who smoked cigarettes for a long period of time carry a greater risk of developing mesothelioma than people who worked with asbestos but did not smoke.
Mesothelioma is most commonly diagnosed in males who are at or past the age of retirement. Although there is an association between gender and age and the development of mesothelioma, it is thought that this correlation is due to the long period of dormancy that mesothelioma has, and the fact that during the time when asbestos insulation was most commonly used in homes, many construction workers handling it were young males, having since retired and become symptomatic, decades after their days of being exposed to asbestos on a regular basis.


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Do you know what is Slither.io and how can play game ?
Steve Howse invented the massively multi participants play game into Slither.io, which is playable on mobile devices like iOS and Android as well as web apps. The snake-like character that participants manipulate eats multicoloured particles that enlarge or big naturally on the game's surface as well as those where other participants dish out to one another in order to enlarge. To expand the fastest snake on the console is the game's mission
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The widely used web game Agar.io from 2015 and the vintage arcade game Snake are both equivalent in thought to Slither.io.Through marketing from numerous well-known YouTubers, including PewDiePie, the game attracted attention and quickly reached the top of the Android Market. By July 2016, Alexa put the web browsing special edition of Slither.io in the top 1,000 globally popular websites, whereas the iOS version claimed the top spot among the most popular applications on the Google Play store. The game was developed available for Android smartphones on March 27, 2016. The game received generally decent reviews, with some criticising its poor playability and the expensive cost for players to eliminate adverts while appreciating its look and customizability.
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The platform's mobile version was listed as the 250th most successful globally by Alexa by July 2016, but after that, it started to lose reputation, falling beneath 1,000 by October 2016, until largely stabilising at around 1,700 by January 2017. Slither.io's worldwide position began to decrease in April 2017 and reached 2,800 by September 2017. According to the same timespan, the game has been installed upwards of 68 million times in smartphone platforms and enjoyed upwards of 67 million times in computers, providing with a daily revenue of US$100,000.
Controlling a snake, often recognised as a "slither," throughout a broad region while eating granules, eliminating and swallowing other participants to increase size, and eventually growing the thickest and biggest in the game, is the game's purpose. Participants' avatars move constantly once they are born into the digital reality. The user will death if the head of their snake runs into the head of another snake. The body of the destroyed avatar transforms into colourful, bigger, dazzling granules that other gamers can eat. These granules, which are left over after an avatar "dies," are larger and more size than "regular" granules, which freely grow all over the environment and match the colour of the avatar.Compared to granules released by other snakes, ordinary granules do not provide as much bulk. In different parts of the world, "Fight" granules will show up on their own. When consumed, they provide more bulk than granules left behind by other snakes. Hunt granules stay away from snakes and run away until they get close. By accelerating, pursuit granules can be acquired.
The participants may utilise their charge, which accelerates the sprite, by holding down and touch the backspace, directional arrow, left or right controller button, or dual the touchscreen display on a smart phone. When the click is depressed or a finger is removed from a touchscreen on a smartphone device, the snake will cease utilising its speed. A snake drains energy as a participants boosts, which causes the snake's length to significantly decrease as the player boosts. Where the slight increase was applied, the weight that was lost shows up as a row of tiny granual
Where the slight increase was applied, the weight that was lost shows up as a row of tiny granules By ingesting the granules, the missing bulk can be recovered. The enhance granules coincide with the hue of the portrait, just as the granules that fallen players lose.
To smart and outlast competitors, employ the boost function. Gamer user frequently wrap their slither around inside a smaller defender's in a tighter circle unless the competitor, caught in the widening circle, smashes into the participants. This is a prevalent tactic employed by competitors to destroy competitor.
A boundary surrounds the elliptical gaming surface, keeping players inside. The user perishes instantly without changing into granules if a snake touches the boundary. Each location has score board that are shown at the upper right, listing the top ten participants with the 10 largest snakes from all of the other slithers on that location.
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Corn smut is a plant disease caused by the pathogenic fungus Ustilago maydis that causes smut on maize and teosinte. The fungus forms galls on all above-ground parts of corn species. It is edible, and is known in Mexico as the delicacy huitlacoche; which is eaten, usually as a filling, in quesadillas and other tortilla-based foods, and in soups.

Etymology
In Mexico, corn smut is known as huitlacoche (, sometimes spelled cuitlacoche). This word entered Spanish in Mexico from Classical Nahuatl, though the Nahuatl words from which huitlacoche is derived are debated. In modern Nahuatl, the word for huitlacoche is cuitlacochin (), and some sources deem cuitlacochi to be the classical form.

Some sources wrongly give the etymology as coming from the Nahuatl words cuitlatl  ("excrement" or "rear-end", actually meaning "excrescence") and cochtli  ("sleeping", from cochi "to sleep"), thus giving a combined mismeaning of "sleeping/hibernating excrement", but actually meaning "sleeping excrescence", referring to the fact that the fungus grows in between the corns and impedes them from developing, thus they remain "sleeping".

A second group of sources deem the word to mean "raven's excrement". These sources appear to be combining the word cuitlacoche for "thrasher" with cuitla, meaning "excrement", actually meaning "excrescence". However, the avian meaning of cuitlacoche derives from the Nahuatl word "song" cuīcatl , itself from the verb "to sing" cuīca . This root then clashes with this reconstruction's second claim that the segment cuitla- comes from cuitla ("excrement").

One source derives the meaning as "corn excrescence", using cuītla again and "maize" tlaōlli . This requires the linguistically unlikely evolution of tlaōlli "maize" into tlacoche.

Taxonomy
U. maydis is the best known and studied of the Ustilaginomycetes, a sub class of basidiomycota, and so is often used as the exemplar species when talking about its entire class.

Characteristics
The fungus infects all parts of the host plant by invading the ovaries of its host. The infection causes the corn kernels to swell up into tumor-like galls, whose tissues, texture, and developmental pattern are mushroom-like. The galls grow to 4 to 5 inches in diameter. These galls are made up of hypertrophied cells of the infected plant, along with resulting fungal threads, and blue-black spores. These dark-colored spores give the cob a burned, scorched appearance; this is the origin of the generic name Ustilago, from the Latin word ustilare (to burn).

Biology

Life cycle

When grown in the lab on very simple media, it behaves like baker's yeast, forming single cells called sporidia. These cells multiply by budding off daughter cells. When two compatible sporidia meet on the surface of the plant, they switch to a different mode of growth. First, they produce one or another pheromone, and begin producing one or the other type of pheromone receptor - this depends on mating type a or b, as determined by alleles at two unlinked mating loci. If this signalling is successful they then send out conjugation tubes to find each other, after which they fuse and make a hypha to enter the maize plant. Hyphae growing in the plant are dikaryotic; they possess two haploid nuclei per hyphal compartment. In contrast to sporidia, the dikaryotic phase of U. maydis requires infection of the plant to grow and differentiate, and cannot be maintained in the laboratory.

Proliferation of the fungus inside the plant leads to disease symptoms such as chlorosis, anthocyanin formation, reduced growth, and the appearance of tumors harboring the developing teliospores.These teliospores help to overwinter the pathogen into the next season. They survive in the soil.

Mature tumors release spores that rain and wind then disperse. Under appropriate conditions, a metabasidium is formed in which meiosis occurs. Resulting haploid nuclei migrate into elongated single cells. These cells detach from the metabasidium to become the sporidia, thus completing the life cycle.

Host/pathogen conflict
Plants have evolved efficient defense systems against pathogenic microbes. A rapid plant defense reaction after pathogen attack is the oxidative burst, which involves the production of reactive oxygen species at the site of the attempted invasion. As a pathogen, U. maydis can respond to such an oxidative burst by an oxidative stress response, regulated by gene YAP1. This response protects U. maydis from the host attack, and is necessary for the pathogen's virulence. Furthermore, U. maydis has a well-established recombinational DNA repair system. This repair system involves a homolog of Rad51 that has a very similar sequence and size to its mammalian counterparts. This system also involves a protein, Rec2 that is more distantly related to Rad51, and Brh2 protein that is a streamlined version of the mammalian Breast Cancer 2 (BRCA2) protein. When any of these proteins is inactivated, sensitivity of U. maydis to DNA damaging agents is increased. Also mitotic recombination becomes deficient, mutation frequency increases and meiosis fails to complete. These observations suggest that recombinational repair during mitosis and meiosis in U. maydis may assist the pathogen in surviving DNA damage arising from the host's oxidative defensive response to infection, as well as from other DNA damaging agents.

Proteome
U. maydis is known to produce four Gα proteins, and one each of Gβ and Gγ.

Management

There are many ways to control and manage corn smut; however, corn smut cannot be controlled by any common fungicide at this time, as Ustilago maydis infects individual corn kernels instead of infecting the entire cob, like head smut. Some beneficial ways to contain corn smut include resistant corn plants, crop rotation, and avoiding mechanical injury to the plant. A mechanical injury can cause the corn to become easily accessible to Ustilago maydis, enhancing infection. Additionally, clearing the planting area of debris can help control corn smut, as the teliospores from corn smut overwinter in debris. This is not the best practice, though, because corn smut can also overwinter in the soil; crop rotation is recommended. Lastly, as excess nitrogen in the soil augments infection rate, using fertilizer with low nitrogen levels, or just limiting the amount of nitrogen in the soil proves to be another way to control corn smut.

Environment

Although not all the conditions that favor growth of Ustilago maydis are known, there are certain environments where corn smut seems to thrive, depending on both abiotic and biotic factors. Hot and dry weather during pollination followed by a heavy rainy season appear to improve the pathogenicity of corn smut. Furthermore, excess manure (and therefore nitrogen) in the soil also increases pathogenicity. Not only do these abiotic factors increase infectability, they also increase disease spread. High winds and heavy rain also increase disease spread as the spores of corn smut can be more easily transmitted. Other biotic factors largely have to do with the extent by which humans interact with the corn and corn smut. If corn debris is not cleared at the end of the season, the spores can overwinter in the corn fragments and live to infect another generation. Finally, humans wounding the corn (with shears or other tools of the like) present the opportunity for corn smut to easily enter the plant.

Uses

Model organism
The yeast-like growth of U. maydis makes it an appealing model organism for research, although its relevance in nature is unknown. The fungus is exceptionally well-suited for genetic modification. This allows researchers to study the interaction between the fungus and its host with relative ease. The availability of the entire genome is another advantage of this fungus as model organism.

U. maydis is not only used to study plant disease, but it also is used to study plant genetics. In 1996, a study on U. maydis genetics led to the discovery of synthesis-dependent strand annealing, a method of homologous recombination used in DNA repair. Other studies in the fungus have also investigated the role of the cytoskeleton in polarized growth. It is largely due to work with U. maydis that the function of the breast-cancer gene BRCA2 is now known.
The fungus is mostly studied as model organism for host pathogen interaction and delivery of effectors protein

Industrial biotechnology
Ustilago maydis is able to produce a broad range of valuable chemicals such as ustilagic acid, itaconic acid, malic acid, and hydroxyparaconic acid. With this ability it is gaining more and more relevance for industrial applications.

Culinary uses

The fungus has had difficulty entering into the American and European diets as most farmers see it as blight, despite attempts by government and high-profile chefs to introduce it. In the mid-1990s, due to demand created by high-end restaurants, Pennsylvania and Florida farms were allowed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to intentionally infect corn with huitlacoche. Most observers consider the program to have had little impact, although the initiative is still in progress. The cursory show of interest is significant because the USDA has spent a considerable amount of time and money trying to eradicate corn smut in the United States. Moreover, in 1989, the James Beard Foundation held a high-profile huitlacoche dinner, prepared by Josefina Howard, chef at Rosa Mexicano restaurant.  This dinner tried to get Americans to eat more of it by renaming it the Mexican truffle and it is often compared to truffles in food articles describing its taste and texture.

Native Americans of the American Southwest, including the Zuni people, have used corn smut in an attempt to induce labor. It has similar medicinal effects to ergot, but weaker, due to the presence of the chemical ustilagine.

Recipes of Mexico
A simple Mexican-style succotash can be made from chorizo, onions, garlic, serrano peppers, huitlacoche, and shrimp with salsa taquera. The mild, earthy flavors of the huitlacoche blend nicely with the fats of the chorizo and bond to mellow out the heat from the peppers and salsa.

Another Maya favorite on the Riviera Maya (Cancun to Tulum) is to add huitlacoche to omelettes. Once again, its earthy flavors bond with the fats that cook the eggs to mellow the flavors into a truffle-like taste.

Huitlacoche is also popular in quesadillas with Mexican cheese, sautéed onions, and tomatoes.

The blueish color transforms into the recognizable black color only with heat. Any dish with huitlacoche must include a slow simmer of the fungus until it becomes black, which also removes most of the starch of the corn, and what is left is a black oily paste.

Availability
In Mexico, huitlacoche is mostly consumed fresh and can be purchased at restaurants or street or farmer's markets throughout the country and, to a much lesser extent, can also be purchased as a canned good in some markets and via the internet. Farmers in the countryside spread the spores around intentionally to create more of the fungus. In some parts of the country, they call the fungus "hongo de maiz", i.e. "maize fungus".

Nutritional value
When corn smut grows on a corn cob, it changes the nutritional worth of the corn it affects. Corn smut contains much more protein than regular corn does. The amino acid lysine, of which corn contains very little, abounds in corn smut.

See also

References

External links

 U. maydis Genome at the Broad Institute
 MUMDB giving easy access to U. maydis genes

Edible fungi
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Maize diseases
Mexican cuisine
Ustilaginomycotina

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SOIL SERIES: A Social Drawing
The 2017-2019 Archive
Research and Conversations
The Newport/Bethel Project
Community Studio
Projects and Exhibitions
Bird Closet
SOIL SERIES: A Social Drawing was a process of serial socially engaged research facilitated by artists Francesca Fiore and Hillary Wagner in collaboration with the rural community of Bethel in Appalachian Ohio. From 2017 to 2019, SOIL SERIES took many forms including conversations, public programs, projects, and collective imagining. A drawing in the most expansive sense, SOIL SERIES was an exercise in relational mark-making. By creating the conditions for new conversations and possibilities around artmaking, the public, and social imagination, SOIL SERIES proposed social drawing as the generative engine for community-initiated action.
SOIL SERIES organically evolved into the art collective, Bird Closet, and was dissolved in 2019. You can find us at birdcloset.com.
An early map of the SOIL SERIES social drawing in process. (Hillary Wagner, September, 2017.)
A village of approximately 3,000 residents located in the foothills of the often mythologized region of Appalachia, Bethel is Hillary's hometown. Like many communities in the region, Bethel is experiencing widespread disinvestment, rising poverty and food insecurity, and a staggering opioid epidemic. While the village was once home to small, family-operated farms like those that existed in Hillary's family, mounting financial pressures have driven most agricultural producers to cede their lands to larger operations. Increasingly, Bethel residents find employment outside the village in low-wage retail and service occupations. Meanwhile, the village's storefronts and grocery stores blink in and out of business, and a perimeter of fast food restaurants and dollar stores thrives.
Elizabeth Catte writes in What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia (Belt Publishing, 2018), "Appalachia is, often simultaneously, a political construction, a vast geographic region, and a spot that occupies an unparalleled place in our cultural imagination" (p. 10). As the region took on symbolic significance during the 2016 presidential election and an emergency operating levy on the local ballot for Bethel's schools threatened to end all arts and special programs had it not narrowly passed, Hillary and Francesca, who is from Philadelphia, began a long-term dialogue about place, lived experience, and art's capacity to engender possibility. Believing that lasting, sustainable change must originate with bottom-up collective action, Francesca and Hillary developed social drawing as a methodology for community-based praxis rooted in a deep understanding of place.
Documentation of Community Studio artists collaboratively painting a map of Bethel with earth pigments sourced from the soil on the Empower Youth Ranch, Bethel, OH, 2017.
Social Drawing
Social drawing builds upon Joseph Beuys's theory of social sculpture, which emerged out of lectures he performed in the 1970s. Beuys's social sculpture imagines all of society as one immense work of art similar to the Wagnerian "Gesamtkunstwerk," or "total work." Believing in the transformative potential of human creativity through participation in the collective total work, Beuys asserted the fundamentally democratic nature of creativity and insisted that the work of an artist is not a specialized profession but a way of conducting one's life. He famously declared (borrowing from German Romantic poet, Novalis), "every human being is an artist."
Modifying social sculpture to respond to the specific scale, needs, and pace of a community such as Bethel while emphasizing the intimacy and immediacy that characterizes drawing, Francesca and Hillary framed their role as facilitators of and participants in a collective work in which conversations and connections would become marks in a relational drawing. They posited that by marrying drawing methodology to socially engaged practice, social drawing could access drawing's raw potentiality and trigger the creation of new images, forms, and possibilities emerging from within the community. They titled the social drawing SOIL SERIES, referencing a term in soil taxonomy that indexes fundamentality, continuousness, and place. Following a code of ethics that prioritized horizontality and collaboration, Francesca and Hillary hoped their authorship would someday devolve upon the wider community of Bethel, and the social drawing would become a self-sustaining engine for change.
Learn more about SOIL SERIES:
SOIL SERIES Artists
Francesca Fiore is an artist from Philadelphia whose process-based and relational work explores collectivity, intimacy, history, and memory through research, pedagogy, performance, video, installation, and text. She holds a MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design and received her BFA in Visual Arts from Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts.
Hillary Wagner is an artist from Bethel, Ohio, a village in Clermont County where her family farmed for generations. She received her MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design and a BA in Fine Arts from Mount Vernon Nazarene University. She primarily works in sculpture and installation, but also in video, sound, photography, text, and drawing. Driven by a strong relationship to materiality, her work deals with questions of origin and place, memory and labor, stewardship and nurture; and how these concerns intersect with her feelings of alienation and displacement.
Matthew Kosinski is our resident poet and editor. Matt is from New Jersey and he holds an MFA from The New School. His work deals with appropriated text, stock photography, religion and myth, the convergence of image and object, socioeconomic disenfranchisement, and manufactured desires. Read Matt's poetic contributions to the project here.


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La barbaforte, chiamata anche cren, rafano di Spagna o rafano orientale (Armoracia rusticana L.) è una pianta erbacea perenne appartenente alla famiglia delle Brassicacee. La pianta è probabilmente originaria dell'Europa sudorientale e dell'Asia occidentale.

Caratteristiche

Si tratta di una pianta rustica e perenne, alta circa 52 cm, con foglie grandi e ruvide, di colore verde intenso. I fiori compaiono all'inizio dell'estate: si tratta di piccoli fiori bianchi con quattro petali disposti in croce e riuniti tra loro in racemi.

Coltivazione
È coltivata, per la radice dalla quale si ricava la salsa, sia in Europa sia in Nordamerica e in Asia occidentale.

Il rafano cresce bene in un terreno asciutto e fertile, in mezz'ombra o in posizione soleggiata. La semina del rafano assomiglia a quella delle patate: si interrano pezzi di radice a una decina di centimetri di profondità. Il periodo più indicato è la primavera. Non è possibile coltivare il rafano partendo dai semi perché il rafano rusticano non ne produce, i semi che si trovano in commercio sono di raphanus sativus (remolaccio), non di rafano rusticano. Le piantine vanno distanziate di una trentina di centimetri l'una dall'altra, in file distanti tra loro 52 centimetri. La pianta non ama la siccità; pertanto, quando scarseggiano le piogge, è opportuna l'annaffiatura.

Utilizzo fresco in cucina

La radice di rafano intatta non ha quasi nessun aroma. Quando invece viene tagliata o grattugiata si attivano degli enzimi che scindono la sinigrina in isotiocianato di allile, la molecola responsabile del sapore piccante. Il rafano grattugiato deve essere utilizzato immediatamente o al massimo conservato in aceto. La polpa, una volta esposta all'aria o al calore, comincerà a perdere il suo gusto pungente, a scurire di colore e a diventare sgradevolmente amara nel tempo.

La radice del rafano ha un sapore dolce, leggermente piccante e soprattutto fortemente aromatico e balsamico (si avverte decisamente nelle vie respiratorie e causa lacrimazione). Il rafano è riconosciuto come prodotto agroalimentare tradizionale della Basilicata e, con il nome di cren o kren, del Veneto e del Trentino Alto-Adige.

Il rafano costituisce un ingrediente comune nella cucina tradizionale lucana, dove viene utilizzato per la preparazione della cosiddetta rafanata, in cui la radice grattugiata fresca è unita a formaggio pecorino e uova sbattute, per la preparazione di una frittata alta anche alcuni centimetri, pietanza tipica del periodo di Carnevale. Il rafano crudo è il condimento principe dello 'Ndrupp'c, o "intoppo", il ragù tipico della città di Potenza: viene grattugiato fresco, direttamente sul piatto di ragù appena preparato, in aggiunta al formaggio, e subito portato in tavola. Utilizzato in tal modo viene ironicamente definito dai Potentini "u tartuf' d'i povr' òmm" (trad. "il tartufo dei poveri"; letteralmente, "il tartufo dei poveri uomini").

Nella cucina triestina, il rafano grattugiato fresco è usato come condimento essenziale per gli antipasti a base di prosciutto cotto in crosta di pane o di prosciutto cotto tipo "Praga" e sul bollito misto di carne, assieme alla senape.

Il rafano viene anche utilizzato per creare un surrogato del wasabi.

La salsa
Dalla radice grattugiata macinata e ridotta in pasta, con l'aggiunta di aromi come aceto, pangrattato, mela ed eventualmente un po' di zucchero, si ottiene una salsa piccante che viene accompagnata ad affettati, carni bollite, pesce affumicato e altre pietanze. Si usa, in particolar modo, nella cucina ebraica, in quelle tedesca ed Est europea. In Italia è diffusa soprattutto nel Triveneto, in particolar modo in Friuli-Venezia Giulia e in provincia di Treviso, e la salsa prende il nome di cren (o kren) dal tedesco. È onnipresente come accompagnamento dei piatti a base di carne pure nella cucina sudtirolese, in particolare assieme allo speck. In Alto Adige inoltre è usanza portarne una porzione in chiesa in occasione della messa di Pasqua. Il kren così benedetto si dice abbia la virtù di allontanare i serpenti per un anno intero da chi ne abbia consumato in questa festività.

Un'altra salsa di rafano viene preparata nella misura delle tre parti, cioè una parte di maionese, una di mollica di pane (ammollata nel latte, spremuta e infine ridotta in poltiglia) e una di radice grattata finemente, il tutto corretto di sale, talvolta anche un cucchiaio di zucchero, e con un'aggiunta di aceto, che servirà alla conservazione e a dare un pH corretto, onde evitare il botulino a breve termine. Non si presta ad essere invasata. Può conservarsi qualche giorno in frigorifero.

Aspetti nutrizionali
100 grammi di rafano forniscono 48 calorie, hanno un alto contenuto di vitamina C, un contenuto moderato di sodio, acido folico e fibre alimentari. Un cucchiaio di rafano (circa 15 grammi) non fornisce alcun significativo contenuto di nutrienti. Il rafano contiene oli volatili, in particolare olio di senape e isotiocianato di allile.

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Collegamenti esterni

Prodotti agroalimentari tradizionali della Basilicata
Cucina lucana
Brassicaceae
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Artist, lithographer, archaeologist. He was born in Crimea in the family of the German colonist artist Johann Ludwig Gross. He learned painting art from his father. In 1837 he graduated from Simferopol Gymnasium, in which his father was a teacher of drawing. He traveled through the Crimea a lot, making sketches. In 1846, he arrived in Odesa, where in 1846–1847 years lithographed "Views of Crimea" were published in the lithography of Alexander Braun that made the author famous. In 1850, there were exhibitions of his Crimean views in Odesa, and in 1852 — in Kherson. While living in Odesa, he made many sketches of the city, as well as the events of the Crimean War of 1854–1855, printed in the printing houses of O. Braun, P. Franzow and L. Nitzsche. In 1858–1883, he was a teacher of drawing at the Kerch Kushnykovsky Maiden Institute. Simultaneously from 1862 to 1884 he worked as a staff artist and assistant director of the Kerch Museum of Antiquities, in 1884–1891 he was the director of the museum.
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