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Massive fires destroy residential building in LA

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Israel’s parliament votes to dissolve itself

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Protests greet Prince William and Kate at Cavaliers-Nets

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Carl Maria von Weber, Konzertstück f-moll für Klavier und Orchester, Op.79. Alfred Brendel & London Symphony Orchestra: great compositions/performances

Carl Maria von Weber, Konzertstück f-moll für Klavier und Orchester, Op.79. Alfred Brendel & LSO

  Czarmuzyki Ewa Chamiec

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Schumann – Theme And Variations On The Name ‘Abegg’ (Evgeny Kissin),: great compositions/performnces

Schumann – Theme And Variations On The Name ‘Abegg’ (Evgeny Kissin)

  Yuki Nakamura

King’s College Cambridge 2008 #14 In the Bleak Midwinter Harold Darke

  spiritdei

Sviatoslav Richter – Strauss – Burleske in D minor (1961),: great compositions/performances

Sviatoslav Richter – Strauss – Burleske in D minor

  Classical Vault 1

Richard Strauss
Burleske in D minorSviatoslav Richter, piano*** USSR State Symphony Orchestra
*** Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor

Recorded live, December 1961

Haiku – La Tour Eiffel, poetic thought by George-B (the smudge and other poems

Haiku – La Tour Eiffel, poetic thought by George-B

It feels unreal 
La tour Eiffel top’s clouded:
black-in-white makes grays.

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Horowitz plays Debussy L’isle joyeuse,: great compositions/performances

Horowitz plays Debussy L’isle joyeuse

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Debussy
L’isle joyeuse (1904)

Played by Vladimir Horowitz

Schubert – 4 Impromptus, D. 899 / Op. 90, Maria João Pires,: great compositions/performances

Schubert – 4 Impromptus, D. 899 / Op. 90 (Maria João Pires)

MrPalika123

00:00 – No. 1 in C minor, Allegro molto moderato
11:05 – No. 2 in E-flat major, Allegro
15:50 – No. 3 in G-flat major, Andante
21:40 – No. 4 in A-flat major, Allegretto

Maria João Pires, 1996

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Chorioactis geaster: Devil’s Cigar a fungus

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Chorioactis
Chorioactis geaster
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Pezizomycetes
Order:	Pezizales
Family:	Chorioactidaceae
Genus:	Chorioactis Kupfer ex Eckblad (1968)[1]
Species:	C. geaster
Binomial name
Chorioactis geaster (Peck) Kupfer ex Eckblad (1968)[1]
Distribution in Texas (above), and Japan (below) shown in red and dark green, respectively.
Synonyms
Urnula geaster Peck (1893)[2] Chorioactis geaster (Peck) Kupfer (1902)[3]

Chorioactis is a genus of fungus that contains the single species Chorioactis geaster.^[4] The mushroom is commonly known as the devil’s cigar or the Texas star in the United States, while in Japan it is called kirinomitake ( キリノミタケ^?). This extremely rare mushroom is notable for its unusual appearance and disjunct distribution: it is found only in select locales in Texas and Japan. The fruit body, which grows on the stumps or dead roots of cedar elms (in Texas) or dead oaks (in Japan), somewhat resembles a dark brown or black cigar before it splits open radially into a starlike arrangement of four to seven leathery rays. The interior surface of the fruit body bears the spore-bearing tissue known as the hymenium, and is colored white to brown, depending on its age. The fruit body opening can be accompanied by a distinct hissing sound and the release of a smoky cloud of spores.

Fruit bodies were first collected in Austin, Texas, and the species was named Urnula geaster in 1893; later it was found in Kyushu in 1937, but the mushroom was not reported again in Japan until 1973. Although the new genus Chorioactis was proposed to accommodate the unique species a few years after its original discovery, it was not until 1968 that it was accepted as a valid genus. Its classification has also been a source of confusion. Historically, Chorioactis was placed in the fungus family Sarcosomataceae, despite inconsistencies in the microscopic structure of the ascus, the saclike structure in which spores are formed. Phylogenetic analyses of the past decade have clarified the fungus’s classification: Chorioactis, along with three other genera, make up the family Chorioactidaceae, a grouping of related fungi formally acknowledged in 2008. In 2009, Japanese researchers reported discovering a form of the fungus missing the sexual stage of its life cycle; this asexual state was named Kumanasamuha geaster.

History

The fungus was first collected in Austin, Texas, in 1893 by botanist Lucien

Spent seed pods of kiri, the empress tree

Marcus Underwood, who sent the specimens to mycologist Charles Horton Peck for identification. Peck described the species as Urnula geaster in that year’s Annual Report of the New York State botanist, although he expressed doubt about its generic placement in Urnula.^[2] In 1902, student mycologist Elsie Kupfer questioned the proposed classification of various species in the genera Urnula and Geopyxis, as suggested in an 1896 publication on the Discomycetes by German mycologist Heinrich Rehm. She considered Rehm’s transfer of the species to the genus Geopyxis illogical:

“Even externally the fungus does not closely answer Rehm’s own description of the genus Geopyxis under which he places it; the texture of the apothecium is described as fleshy, the stem, as short and sometimes thin; while in this plant, the leathery character of the cup and the length and thickness of the stem are its noticeable features.”

Working with Underwood’s guidance, Kupfer compared the microscopic

Chorioactis geaster. These specimens appeared along a foot trail to the Blanco River through the upland rim rock Live Oak – Ashe Juniper – Cedar Elm woodland savanna in a wildlife preserve near Fischer Store Road, Hays County, Texas. They seem to be associated with Cedar Elm trees. Found on January 12, 2006

structure of the hymenium (the fertile, spore-bearing tissue) of the Texan species with a number of similar ones—Geopyxis carbonaria, Urnula craterium, and Urnula terrestris (now known as Podophacidium xanthomelum). She concluded that the Texan species was so dissimilar as to warrant its own genus, which she named Chorioactis.^[3] Although this taxonomical change was opposed in later studies of the fungus by Frederick De Forest Heald and Frederick Adolf Wolf (1910)^[5] and Fred Jay Seaver (1928, 1942),^[6][7] Chorioactis was established as a valid genus in 1968 by Finn-Egil Eckblad in his comprehensive monograph about the Discomycetes.^[1][8

this pressed: 10 Most Amazing Mushrooms (cool mushrooms) – ODDEE

10 most amazsing mushrooms

The Brain mushroom (Gyromitra esculenta)

 

1. The Brain mushroom (Gyromitra esculenta)

The Brain mushroom (Gyromitra esculenta)

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this pressed for your right to know: Californian students vent fury at soaring cost of public universities | The FRANCE 24 Observers

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Californian students vent fury at soaring cost of public universities

United States/students

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Hundreds of students from all over California, unhappy with plans to raise tuition for the state’s public university system, held a raucous protest in San Francisco on Wednesday. They clashed with police and tried to stop a regent – a member of the board that governs the university system – from entering the building where the measure was being debated.

The video below shows students blocking the regent’s way. The regent starts to panic, and several police officers arrive to form a circle around him. They attempt to get him past the students, before giving up and ushering him away from the scene.

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A spike in my stats (#euzicasa): Multumesc de vizita: mumai bine va doresc la toti…

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UN appeals for record $16bn in aid

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Saint of the Day for Monday, December 8th, 2014: St. Romaric

Saint of the Day for Monday, December 8th, 2014

St. Romaric

In the account of St Amatus of Remiremont it is related how he brought about the conversion to God of a Merovingian nobleman named Romaric, who became a monk at Luxeuil; and how they afterwards went … continue reading

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today’s holiday: Day of the Beaches

Day of the Beaches

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quotation: Sentence first, verdict afterwards. Lewis Carroll

Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) Discuss

today’s birthday: Eli Whitney (1765)

Eli Whitney (1765)

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this day in the yesteryear: Pope Pius IX Defines Immaculate Conception as Dogma (1854)

Pope Pius IX Defines Immaculate Conception as Dogma (1854)

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ll était une bergère

Il était une bergère (Version playback instrumental) – Mister Toony

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LES PAROLES :

Il était une bergère
Et ron et ron petit patapon
Il était une bergère
Qui gardait ses moutons, ron ron
Qui gardait ses moutons

Elle fit un fromage
Et ron et ron petit patapon
Elle fit un fromage
Du lait de ses moutons, ron ron
Du lait de ses moutons

Le chat qui la regarde
Et ron et ron petit patapon
Le chat qui la regarde
A un p’tit air fripon, ron ron
A un p’tit air fripon

Si tu y mets la patte
Et ron et ron petit patapon
Si tu y mets la patte
Tu auras du bâton, ron ron
Tu auras du bâton

Il n’y mit pas la patte
Et ron et ron petit patapon
Il n’y mit pas la patte
Il y mit le menton, ron ron
Il y mit le menton

La bergère en colère
Et ron et ron petit patapon
La bergère en colère
Tua son p’tit chaton, ron ron
Tua son p’tit chaton

Elle fut à son père
Et ron et ron petit patapon
Elle fut à son père
Lui demander pardon, ron ron
Lui demander pardon

Mon père je m’accuse
Et ron et ron petit patapon
Mon père je m’accuse
D’avoir tué mon chaton, ron ron
D’avoir tué mon chaton

Ma fille pour pénitence
Et ron et ron petit patapon
Ma fille pour pénitence
Nous nous embrasserons, ron ron
Nous nous embrasserons

La pénitence est douce
Et ron et ron petit patapon
La pénitence est douce
Nous recommencerons, ron ron
Nous recommencerons

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Overdue Library Book Returned after 65 Years

A copy of Gone with the Wind has been returned to John R. Rogers High School in Spokane, Washington, after a very long absence. A slip inside the book shows that it was checked out of the school library by Betty Mandershied, one of the school’s students, on January 4, 1949. The book resurfaced this past October in Maine when Wayne Hachey discovered it in his father’s basement. Once Hachey saw that it belonged to the library, he offered to ship it back. In return, the school promised to waive the book’s nearly $500 in late fees. More… Discuss

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Synonyms:	depravity
Usage:	Seeing the various turpitudes of modern society shook her faith in humanity. Discuss.

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this pressed: France – Paris electric car infrastructure to go nationwide – France 24

France Autolib France Paris electric car infrastructure to go nationwide inShare 0 print © Patrick Kovarik/AFP | An Autolib user connects the vehicle to a charging station in Paris Text by Tony TODD

Latest update : 2014-12-08

French industrial giant Bolloré, the company behind Paris’s hugely successful “Autolib” electric car-sharing scheme, plans to create a network of 16,000 public charging points across country, the Economy and Finance ministry announced Monday.

French Economy and Finance Minister Emmanuel Macron said the company would be investing 150 million euros to create the network for electric and hybrid vehicles over the next four years.

His ministry, as well as the environment ministry, would be looking at giving Bolloré tax relief for installing the charging stations on the public highway.

The ministry is also considering increasing the rebate for buying a new electric or hybrid car, which is currently up to 6,300 euros depending on the level of CO2 emitted, to 10,000 euros.

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Slain hostage’s family blames U.S. rescue attempt

Slain hostage’s family blames U.S. rescue attempt

LONDON — Relatives of Luke Somers, an American photojournalist killed during an attempted U.S. rescue mission in Yemen over the weekend, have blasted the American government for what they say was unnecessary military action that prompted his al Qaeda captors to slay him.

Play Video Sunday Morning Inside the unsuccessful rescue mission of Luke Somers Two hostages held by al Qaeda militants have died after an unsuccessful American rescue mission in Yemen. David Martin reports.

According to a senior Obama administration official, the U.S. believes a militant shot the two men during the Saturday raid by dozens of U.S. Special Forces in the mountains of Yemen, CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan reported.

President Obama authorized the raid on short notice, believing there was an “imminent danger” to Somers’ life. The 33 year old, who was born in Britain but lived most of his life in the U.S. and held dual nationality, had been held by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) for more than a year.

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