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Prior to the CXBL event last weekend, we had the chance to talk to the two time defending CXBL champion Nick Slowiak. Slowiak will be playing for Montreal Heat this season. Slowiak's PSP team, Houston Heat, just defeated Dynasty at the Chicago Open, and Slowiak turned in a great performance.
Who is currently on the Montreal Heat roster for this season?
It is a mix of Houston Heat, a Dynarat (Ryan Greenspan), and some elite Canadians!
You won the CXBL championship last year, do you think you will be able to repeat as champions this year?
We have actually won the CXBL 2 years in a row and it has been awesome. There is a lot of tough competition up here and with there being fewer teams, the talent has really been concentrated. I believe we can win, and cannot wait to start playing!
Which team will pose your biggest threat this weekend?
I don't really know there is a team that poses any threat to us. We have a great amount of talent and have guys who have played in this league for quite awhile. We are really the only ones who can control our destiny.
With PSP Chicago just last week, has it affected the amount of time you have had to prepare for this event?
Actually, coming off the PSP Chicago event I feel the team will be stronger. We did very well and have some very hungry players from here in Canada. Add Ryan Greenspan who is one of the best all time players in the world and I'd say we're pretty ready. We have practice on the layout and we treat it just as we would a PSP event. I'd say we prepare better then most.
What do you enjoy most about coming to Canada to play in the CXBL?
I really enjoy the competition and just being able to play so much paintball. I've been coming up here and playing in the CXBL since 2007 and absolutely love it. The league does a fantastic job with all aspects of the game.
When it comes down to the Richmond Cup later this year, what two teams do you think will be playing for the championship?
When we get to the Richmond Cup time, I'm not really sure what two teams will make it. It is hard to tell when no one has played yet. I'd like to think that we will be there and I am very excited to play and watch games this weekend!
Is there anyone you would like to thank or shout out to?
I would like to thank GI Sportz, DLX, CK, the whole Heat family, and PB Access.


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One of the precursors to the Oulipo, and cult-author extraordinaire, Raymond Roussel is one of those authors that everyone of a certain aesthetic leaning likes to rave about. He is the admiration of many a literary fan-boy, and if there was an international fiction cosplay festival, his hat, cane, and 'stach would adorn many a nerd.
That said, his books still aren't as widely read as they should be. Part of that is due to the fact that for the longest time Calder was the only publisher of Locus Solus and Impressions of Africa. Calder is a great home for both of these books (the quality of the Calder list taken as a whole will likely never be replicated), but there were various distribution and availability issues.
Thankfully, last summer Dalkey Archive issued Impressions of Africa in Mark Polizzotti's new translation.
I haven't read this version, but knowing the book, and knowing Mark, I'm 100% sure that it's brilliant. And for those of you unfamiliar with this book, here's the Dalkey description:
In a mythical African land, some shipwrecked and uniquely talented passengers stage a grand gala to entertain themselves and their captor, the great chieftain Talou. In performance after bizarre performance—starring, among others, a zither-playing worm, a marksman who can peel an egg at fifty yards, a railway car that rolls on calves' lungs, and fabulous machines that paint, weave, and compose music—Raymond Roussel demonstrates why it is that André Breton termed him "the greatest mesmerizer of modern times." But even more remarkable than the mindbending events Roussel details—as well as their outlandish, touching, or tawdry backstories—is the principle behind the novel's genesis, a complex system of puns and double-entendres that anticipated (and helped inspire) such movements as Surrealism and Oulipo. Newly translated and with an introduction by Mark Polizzotti, this edition of Impressions of Africa vividly restores the humor, linguistic legerdemain, and conceptual wonder of Raymond Roussel's magnum opus.
Anyway, the main point of this post is to gush on about Roussel in context of this fantastic essay by Alice Gregory that went up on the Poetry Foundation website earlier this week.
First of all, anything with the subtitle "the upside of crazy" is effing awesome in my book. But more importantly, this is a really interesting look at Roussel's odd being and its relation to his very strange works. You really have to read the whole article, but here are a few bits:
"Whatever I wrote was surrounded by rays of light," a young Raymond Roussel told his psychoanalyst, Pierre Janet. "I used to close the curtains, for I was afraid that the shining rays emanating from my pen might escape into the outside world through even the smallest chink; I wanted suddenly to throw back the screen and light up the world." Roussel was speaking literally, and Janet, who would treat Roussel for years, was taking notes.
Though nobody knows for sure, it's suspected that Roussel first started seeing Janet in the years just before World War I, almost a decade after that first ecstatic experience he described in their early sessions. The manic spell coincided with the editing of La Doublure, a novel in verse that took most of Roussel's adolescence to complete and that he believed "would illuminate the entire universe" when it was published. When it finally was published in 1897, La Doublure was ignored by critics. The reception to his obsessively detailed and obviously unsalable work ushered in a lifelong series of public disappointments for Roussel, a writer whose work was met—in his own words—with "an almost totally hostile incomprehension."
In later sessions with Janet, Roussel proved himself to be outlandishly hubristic and deluded about his chances at fame, predicting, for instance, that he would "enjoy greater glory than Victor Hugo or Napoleon." Over dinner recently, I quoted this prophecy to a friend and roussellâtre (what one calls a Roussel enthusiast), and he laughed. "That's what's so insane about him," my friend shouted over the restaurant's ambient noise. "He actually thought that what he wrote was normal, that people would like it, that he deserved—and would find—a mainstream audience!" [. . .]
Roussel's world is strange because it is so specific, and his imaginative audacity reminds me of nothing so much as anime. Like Hayao Miyazaki movies—in which buses look like cats, amphibious girls have mouths full of salubrious saliva, monsters vomit up bathhouse employees, and decapitated spirit heads cure leprosy—Roussel's works are littered with inconceivable amalgams. But at least in anime, there are protagonists with motives, however simplistic—they avenge family members, fall in love with characters that look like themselves, and seek adventure in parallel worlds. Roussel's characters, if they can even be called that, express almost nothing a reader could identify as emotions. Bearing witness to the products of Roussel's imagination isn't nearly so unnerving as the moment that comes—quite late, it seems—when you are finally struck by the severe lack of human feeling. Janet outlines what he understands to be some of Roussel's aesthetic principles: "The work must contain nothing real," he deduces, "no observations on the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary combinations." [. . .]
Roussel's eccentricities were sundry and systematic. His biographer, Mark Ford, generously identifies them as "attempt[s] to screen out or neutralize the anxieties of living." He fasted for days, wore garments for only limited amounts of time (collars, once; neckties, three times; suspenders, 15 times), and started and stopped work always on the hour. Roussel's love for his own mother bordered on the erotic, and when she died, he had a pane of glass inserted into the lid of her coffin so that he could look at her corpse just a bit longer. There are more impish examples too, like his habit of tearing pages from his favorite books so that nobody could see what he was reading and then devouring them in the back seat of a chauffeured car. Most telling of what was clearly a personality disorder was Roussel's conduct at social events, where "he became so afraid of causing offence, or of himself being offended, that he would pre-empt all potentially upsetting topics by asking an endless series of factual questions."
That last little bit is so amazing . . . I think I'm going to employ it next time I'm anxious at some social event . . .
But seriously, you should check out this article and then read the new translation of Impressions of Africa.
The new issue of Bookforum arrived in the mail yesterday. Traditionally, the summer issue (covering June/July/Aug) has a significant special section—last year it was "Utopia/Dystopia" and the year before was "Fiction Forward," with a focus on six new writers.
This year's special section is Best Sellers and opens with an essay by Ruth Franklin on the history and contents of best-seller lists. (Or, as she points out, fast-seller lists, since "the pace of sales matters as much as the quantity.") There are also interesting essays by Gerald Howard and Michael Dirda, along with short overviews of a variety of best-sellers, from Cormac McCarthy's The Road to Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago to Jaws.
In terms of the normal reviews, there's a piece by former Harper's editor Roger Hodge on Intern Nation (a sweetly provocative choice considering Hodge's exit from Harper's and all that turmoil), a review by Eric Banks of Raymond Roussel's Impressions of Africa and New Impressions of Africa, one by Leo Robson on Bohumil Hrabal's Vita Nuova and Gaps, and a fascinating looking piece by J. C. Hallman on Janet Reitman's Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion. (Yes, I suppose I am on a bit of a cults kick right now.)
Most of these pieces aren't available online, but seriously, a subscription is $18/year. Pony up, people. (I feel like there is something interesting going on in today's culture—we've gone from demanding everything for free to being completely willing to pay small amounts of money for the ease and convenience of having something at hand. Publishers always freak out about piracy, without admitting that if they made a very simple, convenient way to buy reasonably priced material—and FYI, $29.95 for an ebook is a long cry from "reasonable"—in the way readers want, at the time that they want, piracy won't be all that much of an issue. Anyway.)
I regret not exploring UbuWeb more in the past. . . . In addition to their new streaming audio feed, today there's a post about Salvador Dali's Impressions de la haute Mongolie. Hommage a Raymond Roussel (1974-75) complete with full video.
The "videografía", written in collaboration with its director José Montes Baquer and produced with Sony-Cologne and WDR, narrates the exploration of Dalí to the remote land of Mongolia in search of the Great White Mushroom. Salvador Dalí, a consummate expert in media manipulation, invites the spectator to become his accomplice and partner in what it seems a drug-induced "trip" to a faraway and distant land where wonderful treasures are hidden.
And the literary connection?
The homage that Dalí pays to himself in the film is made extensive to the figure of his beloved Raymond Roussel (1877-1933), the author of Locus Solus (1914) and Nouvelle Impressions d'Afrique (1932) whose homonymic puns where so celebrated by the Surrealists, and are the base for Dali's explorations of the double-image and the macro/micro reality on which his own impressions are based.
Although U.S. distribution for Calder books is a totally crapshoot, it looks like you can order Roussel's Impressions of Africa and maybe Locus Solus online or from your local bookseller. Shouldn't have any problems getting How I Wrote Certain of My Books from Exact Change, and really, you should buy and read all three. He was one of the best . . .
I Remember Nightfall by Marosa di Giorgio (trans. From the Spanish by Jeannine Marie Pitas) is a bilingual poetry volume in four parts, consisting of the poems "The History of Violets," "Magnolia," "The War of the Orchards," and "The Native. . .
This review was originally published as a report on the book at New Spanish Books, and has been reprinted here with permission of the reviewer. The book was originally published in the Catalan by Anagrama as Joyce i les. . .
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Three generations of men—a storyteller, his father and his son—encompass this book's world. . . . it is a world of historical confusion, illusion, and hope of three generations of Belgraders.
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Mario Benedetti (1920-2009), Uruguay's most beloved writer, was a man who loved to bend the rules. He gave his haikus as many syllables as fit his mood, and wrote a play divided into sections instead of acts. In his country,. . .
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Was Born: March 23, 1958. Bologna, Italy
Bio: Serena Grandi is an Italian actress... She started her acting career in 1980 playing a supporting role in the comedy La Compagna di viaggio by Ferdinando Baldi. In 1980 she played the role of Maggie in the controversial film The Anthropophagous Beast, directed by Joe D'Amato. This film is well known among horror movie fans for its extreme gore sequence. After several films, she took a starring role in Tinto Brass' Miranda, which gave her the status of a superstar in her native Italy...


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|2 or 3 credits. Why does U.S. environmental law work reasonably well to achieve its declared objectives, but energy law does not? Since the 1973 Arab oil embargo, every president has declared as a central goal of national policy for the United States to become less dependent on imported oil, but until recently our "addiction" to imported oil (in the words of George W. Bush) increased. Will the recent boom in shale gas and unconventional oil change all that and turn the United States into an energy exporter? This research seminar examines national energy law and policy since World War II with the objective of understanding why the legal techniques that we have applied have been so unsuccessful in achieving their declared objectives. We focus particularly on policies intended to stimulate renewables and other alternative sources of energy, including energy efficiency. This course considers renewables not in isolation but in dynamic interrelationship with policies toward conventional fossil sources of energy. A third unit is by arrangement with the instructor. Enrollment limited to twenty-five. Self-scheduled examination (Web) or paper option.
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In Figure 26 we compare differentially four calibrations (heavy dotted lines) of the V-band Cepheid PL relation with the FC97 Hipparcos-based relation (solid horizontal lines). The first two comparisons (in the upper two panels) are with the relations given by Madore & Freedman (1991; hereafter MF91), derived from self-consistent sets of LMC Cepheid data whose stars either had complete BVRI observations (MF91.1 containing 32 Cepheids) or complete BVRIJHK observations (MF91.2 containing 25 stars).* These first two solutions indicate the sensitivity of slopes and zero points to sample selection, which are considerable, but within the quoted statistical uncertainties: ± 0.11 and ± 0.20, respectively for the slopes, and ± 0.05 and ± 0.09 mag, for the zero points. So as to make the subsequent comparisons consistent, the original Sandage & Tammann (1968) calibration (ST68.1 in the lower left panel) has been placed on the modern Hyades/Pleiades Galactic cluster distance scale by applying a single offset of +0.13 mag derived from the average difference between the absolute magnitudes of the Cepheids used in the 1968 calibration updated to Feast and Walker (1987), their Table 2. This distance scale corresponds to a Hyades modulus of 3.27 (see Pel 1985) and uses the Pleiades main sequence, at a modulus of 5.57 (van Leeuwen 1983) to effectively correct for the over-metallicity of the Hyades with respect to the older Galactic clusters in which the Cepheid calibrators are found.** Finally, the FW87 calibration itself is plotted in the lower left panel. In all panels the dashed horizontal lines represent the fiducial Hipparcos calibration flanked by thin parallel lines at ± 0.10 mag.
Figure 26. Differential comparison of
recently published V-band
PL relations (heavy lines) relative to the Hipparcos calibration (thin
lines). Plotted is the difference [V - V(Hipparcos)]
versus log P, in the sense that if Hipparcos is brighter the difference
shown is positive.
The error bars of all of the plotted previously published relations overlap with errors quoted for the Hipparcos solution (a formal uncertainty was not given by ST68, so we have arbitrarily assigned them an error of ± 0.05 mag). However, the offsets are not randomly distributed, with each of the solutions appearing to be systematically fainter in V with respect to the Hipparcos calibration by about 0.1 mag. We discuss the significance and possible implications of this difference in the following sections.
* Tanvir (1997) has suggested that there may be small corrections (ranging from 0.02 to 0.09 mag) to the published I-band magnitudes of these LMC Cepheids arising from the originally sparse sampling and consequent averaging of their light and color curves. For the past five years we have been obtaining new VI CCD observations of the LMC calibrators at Las Campanas and now also at Siding Springs Observatories. These new data are designed to address those concerns.
** At the February 14, 1997 meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in London on February 14, 1997 F. van Leeuwen and C.S. Hansen Ruiz reported a true distance modulus of 5.29 ± 0.06 mag for the Pleiades cluster, based on Hipparcos trigonometric parallaxes. Following the Venice Meeting in June 1997 the value had changed only slightly to 5.33 ± 0.06 mag (C. Turon, private communication). If adopted, this Pleiades modulus would make the Galactic-cluster-based calibrations approximately 0.3 mag fainter than the FC97 solution plotted in Figure 27. At this point in time, the Galactic cluster zero point appears to be in a state of flux, and we will not comment on it further, except to note that the Hipparcos calibration will undoubtedly converge on a more accurate zero point than we have access to at this precise moment.


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|History: World Golf Championships
The first three jointly sanctioned championships—the Accenture Match Play Championship (now Dell Technologies Match Play), the NEC Invitational (now Bridgestone Invitational) and the American Express Championship (now Mexico Championship)—were launched in 1999 with Jeff Maggert winning the first event and Tiger Woods the latter two. The addition of the World Cup was announced in December 1999 and was played as a World Golf Championships event from 2000-06. The 2008 season marked the 10th year of the World Golf Championships, and the World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions in Shanghai, China, was added to the series in 2009.
The World Golf Championships' events feature players from around the world competing in varied formats. World Golf Championships' events have been contested on five continents and in 10 countries and feature some of the largest purses in professional golf. The Asian Tour joined the International Federation of PGA Tours as a full-fledged member in November 1999, while the Canadian Tour was named an associate member in March 2000. The Tour de las Americas joined the Federation as an associate member in 2007. In step with global growth of professional golf, the International Federation of PGA Tours announced an expansion and restructuring of its membership in June 2009 to include additional professional golf tours, including—for the first time—women's golf tours. As part of the restructure, the Canadian Tour and the Tour de las Americas became part of the full-fledged membership, and the following professional golf organizations became members of the International Federation of PGA Tours: China Golf Association; Korea Professional Golf Tour Corp.; Professional Golf Tour of India; LPGA Tour; Ladies European Tour; Australian Ladies Professional Golf Tour; Japan LPGA; Korean LPGA; Ladies Asian Golf Tour.
The operational aspects of the World Golf Championships continue to be overseen by a committee composed of the original members of the Federation (Asian Tour, European Tour, Japan Golf Tour Organization, PGA TOUR, PGA Tour of Australasia and the Sunshine Tour).
Grupo Salinas, Dell Technologies, Bridgestone and HSBC are the umbrella sponsors of the World Golf Championships. Rolex is the official sponsor. Fields for the World Golf Championships are filled primarily through the Official World Golf Ranking, which is endorsed by all the sport's major professional organizations and governing bodies, and individual Tours' tournament winners as well as leaders of Tours' official money lists/orders of merit.
The 2015-16 World Golf Championships season began in Shanghai, with Russell Knox winning his first World Golf Championships at the HSBC Champions at Sheshan International Country Club in November 2015. Cadillac continued to host the Cadillac Championship in South Florida in early March, a tournament won by Adam Scott to make for his second World Golf Championships victory. As the event moves to Mexico in 2017, Grupo Salinas will be the new title sponsor. Dell Technologies sponsored the Dell Technologies Match Play for the first time in 2016 as the event also moved to a new home in Austin, Texas. Held April 1-6 at Austin Country Club, Jason Day won the event for the second time, coming out of a tight race to the finish with Rory McIlory in the semifinals and ultimately emerging 5&4 over Louis Oosthuizen in the finals. The World Golf Championships' season concluded at the Bridgestone Invitational at its historic home at Firestone Country Club. Dustin Johnson won his third World Golf Championships title over Jason Day with an all-world Sunday 66 .
The 2016-17 World Golf Championships season starts again in Shanghai, at Sheshan International Golf Club October 27-30. The Mexico Championship will mark its inaugural year at Club de Golf Chapultepec March 1-5. The Dell Technologies Match Play continues with another exciting edition at Austin Country Club in Texas' capital city March 22-26. The World Golf Championships' season concludes at the Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio, returning back to its late summer dates of August 2-6.
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Rex Ryan Reportedly Wants Geno Smith to Start over Mark SanchezAugust 31, 2013
With Mark Sanchez on the shelf due to a shoulder injury, the door is open for Geno Smith to be the New York Jets' starting quarterback in Week 1. According to Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News, though, head coach Rex Ryan and the Jets' brass agree that Smith should be the starter regardless of Sanchez's health.
Although Ryan has been a staunch supporter of Sanchez over the past few seasons, Mehta is reporting that he and general manager John Idzik are in agreement that the Smith era should begin immediately.
According to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network, Sanchez is unlikely to start against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 1, as he is still nursing a deep shoulder bruise suffered in a preseason game against the New York Giants.
Smith fell significantly in the 2013 NFL draft after most considered him a surefire first-round pick. The Jets selected him in the second round, and it became abundantly clear that he would be in direct competition with Sanchez.
Sanchez and the Jets had a nightmarish 2012 campaign, as he threw for less than 3,000 yards with 13 touchdowns and 26 turnovers. The Jets have given Smith every opportunity to win the starting job this offseason, and while it can be argued that Sanchez has performed better, his injury makes the decision much easier.
Smith looked sharp early in training camp, but an ankle injury suffered in New York's preseason opener stunted his progress. Smith did throw for 199 yards in the Jets' third preseason game, but he also threw three interceptions, so he has been far from perfect in his own right.
If nothing else, Smith is something different. Sanchez did help lead the Jets to two AFC Championship Games, but much of that had to do with New York's dominant defense. Their defensive prowess has declined, however, so the Jets need a quarterback who can win games.
It remains to be seen if Smith can be that guy, but it has become clear that Sanchez can't get the job done.
According to Pro Football Talk, even Jets offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg prefers Smith over Sanchez.
Sanchez has had plenty of opportunities to prove himself, but it seems as though the Jets are finally ready to move in a different direction. There will inevitably be some talk about Sanchez reentering the lineup when he returns if Smith struggles initially, but the Jets seem to be committed to Smith for now.
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Petfinder via Kohana module by Soon Van
Petfinder is an online, searchable database of animals who need homes and this module wraps their API into an easy to call batch of methods.
Easily connects a Kohana 3.2 powered website with the Petfinder API and display pet or shelter information as needed from its database.
Initially developed for use at Little Hills of Kentucky Animal Rescue.
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Homogenisation of results
The returned object data from the API can be in either XML or JSON format. To help make things easier, the module will just parse either format and send back an array of the data so you don't have to work out if you need to use the XML or JSON format of extracting its values.


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Community School Programs
The YMCA Community School Programs (CSP) offer interest based clubs over the lunch hour and after school in 18 elementary schools in London and St. Thomas. These programs are made possible through the support of the United Way, in partnership with the London District Catholic School Board and Thames Valley District School Board. Our literacy based clubs promote positive life skills such as physical activity, healthy lifestyles, and self-esteem. We offer a wide range of exciting clubs that are based on students' interests within each school such as Mini Chefs, Yoga Kids, and Video Drama, as well as clubs which offer vital services to the school community such as Homework Club and Breakfast Club. In addition to clubs running during the school year, PD Day Programs and the Summer Fun Club, are offered at selected schools.
Financial assistance is available to families that would like to participate but cannot afford the full cost of the program to ensure that children are able to participate regardless of financial barriers. Community School Programs offer a means for families to participate in interest based programs right in the school community.
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Students enrolled in the following schools are invited to participate in Community School Programs.
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Program brochures are sent home seasonally with students through the school. Completed registrations can be returned to the student's school office where they will be collected by a YMCA Director. If your child is enrolled at one of the listed schools and you would like a program brochure or more information please contact the assigned YMCA Community School Program Director.
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Dreaming : three vocalise and six songs in different styles for young voices / words and music by Dorothy Hill Mewes.
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Contents note: Vocalise no. 1 -- Vocalise no. 2 -- Vocalise no. 3 -- The wild rose -- The willow -- Dreaming -- Meine liebe mutti -- Gabrielle's song (two settings).
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Cape and Islands Deanery uses MegaMeeting video conferencing to conduct meetings, trainings, seminars, collaboration between locations, quarterly assemblies, and other special events between multiple Episcopal Dioceses in Massachusetts and around the country. MegaMeeting has saved us countless dollars and man hours by allowing us to conduct these events online instead of in person. The video, built-in audio, screen sharing, noteboard, chat, whiteboard and a number of other functions has been a huge asset to the way we conduct business.
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Quick evolution leads to quiet crickets
Attack of the flesh-eating parasitoid maggots!! Mutant mute crickets run rampant in tropical paradise!! The headlines may sound like a trailer for a cheap horror flick but in fact, these sensationalist sound bites accurately describe the situation on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. The "flesh-eating parasitoid maggots" are the offspring of the fly, Ormia ochracea, which invaded Hawaii from North America, and the mutant crickets are the flies' would-be victims. The flies follow the chirps of a calling cricket and then deposit a smattering of wriggling maggots onto the cricket's back. The maggots burrow into the cricket, and emerge, much fatter, a week later killing the cricket in the process. But this fall, biologists Marlene Zuk, John Rotenberry, and Robin Tinghitella announced a breakdown in business-as-usual in this gruesome interaction: in just a few years, the crickets of Kauai have evolved a strategy to avoid becoming a maggot's lunch but the strategy comes at a cost...
The evolution in this story hinges on what is probably a single mutation affecting wing shape in male crickets. Normal males have specially-equipped wings with a scraper and teeth that produce a chirp when rubbed together. Mutant males, on the other hand, have wings more like those of a female, without the noise-making features, turning them into something of an auditory cross-dresser: mutant males are silent like females and cannot chirp to attract a mate.
The island of Kauai is testimony to how quickly natural selection can operate under the right conditions. Between 1991 (when they started monitoring the situation on Kauai) and 2001, Marlene Zuk and her colleagues documented major declines in the island's cricket population. The crickets seemed to be no match for the parasitic flies. In one study, 30% of calling males were infested with the parasite, and in 2001, the island was virtually silent: the team heard only one cricket call! Such intense parasitism represents strong selective pressure favoring any genetic change that helps the crickets evade the flies. And in 2003, the team discovered the result of that selection: the cricket population had bounced back! The island was again crawling with crickets but of the silent sort. When the team investigated further, they discovered the wing mutation. Between the late 1990s and 2003, in just 20 or so cricket generations, Kauai's cricket population had evolved into an almost entirely silent one!
So is that it? Problem solved by evolutionary ingenuity? Well, not quite... Natural selection is not a magic bullet; it simply selects the variants that work at a given time, in a particular environment, from what's available in the population. Silent wings may be the key to avoiding parasitic flies but they are also a serious liability when it comes to the local singles scene, since females locate mates by following their chirps. Currently, mutant mute males are dealing with their dating woes by hanging out near their literal "wingmen" the few calling males remaining in the population. Female crickets are attracted to these callers but may get distracted by a mutant mute male en route.
A silent male that intercepts a female has made it over one hurdle, but even then, his mute wings are a major handicap in terms of reproductive success. Typically, a male cricket that has attracted a female would then perform a courtship song to seal the deal, but mutant males have no voice for that sweet-talking. For most female crickets, the lack of a courtship song would be a serious turn-off. However, Kauai's females seem to be a bit less choosy and are willing to accept a silent male as a mate. Marlene Zuk and colleagues hypothesize that the Kauai population has evolved to be less choosy than other populations because of the high frequency of mute males on that island.
So far, the mute males' bait-and-switch strategy for finding a mate seems to be working after all, the frequency of the mutation has skyrocketed, and all those males carrying the mutation must have been fathered by mute males who had some mating success. Will this strategy succeed in the long run? It's hard to say. The mute wings mutation is a trade-off a brokered deal between selection for survival (avoiding parasitism) and sexual selection (attracting a mate). At the moment, because of the intensity of parasitism, selection for survival seems to have gained the upper hand, increasing the frequency of the mute wings mutation. But as calling males become rarer, calling might become more valuable in terms of reproductive success, shifting the balance of power towards sexual selection and increasing the frequency of normal wings in the population. Or because of the difficulty of locating their now nearly silent hosts, the fly population could crash, again changing the way that natural selection acts on the crickets. But whatever the ultimate fate of the Kauaian cricket population, their potential for rapid evolution is well-documented. These crickets have undergone major evolution in the past few years, and we should expect further evolutionary changes in their future.
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Cricket photo provided by Cook Islands Biodiversity & Natural Heritage; parasitized cricket photo provided by UC Riverside; the cricket wing images are provided by The Royal Society, Marlene Zuk, John Rotenberry, and Robin Tinghitella, from the Biology Letters paper referenced above
Understanding Evolution © 2018 by The University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, and the Regents of the University of California


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Saturday, 3 July 2010
Defeated Andy Murray is 'the Scot' once again
The Sun which was bigging up Andy Murray as a "brilliant Brit" when he got through to the semi-finals at Wimbledon has today described him as "the Scot" following his defeat by Rafa Nadal.
The Sun's Charlie Wyett reports from centre court: "There will be those in the 'Anyone But Murray' camp who will have been delighted with this match, believing the Scot is going down the same path as Tim Henman who lost four SW19 semis and failed to win a Grand Slam."
In a piece designed to wind up the Scots, the Sun last Thursday ran a story headlined Hurray for Murray from Surrey, which variously described the tennis star as "England-based Andy" the "Home Counties tennis maestro" and the "the Surrey-based Brit".
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BRUNSWICK, Maine � A former Navy navigator is moving part of his jet-overhaul business from Virginia to the former Brunswick Naval Air Station in Maine.
The CEO of Tempus Jets, Scott Terry, was familiar with the air station because he used to fly P-3 Orions from it. The jet overhaul work moving to Maine is now being done at Newport News International Airport.
Steve Levesque from the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority says the Maine base offers the business more space to expand. The company plans to hire 25 workers by year's end, and to double that next year. Levesque says there's the potential for up to 200 jobs.
Levesque says the company fits perfectly with redevelopment agency's plans to target aviation-related businesses.
Tempus is based at Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport in South Carolina.


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I am 9 wks pregnant is it safe to take the
200 mg to treat my yeast infection? It is only one pill but I am still unsure if it is safe...please help?
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I expect I will return to a 'regular' diet one of these days, but not yet. You also mentioned
problems. I have a damaged
from years ago, and when I get dehydrated, I get little tiny kidney stones that it takes a while to clear. Again, mine is an usual situation, but I did get some small kidney stones while on Diflucan (a rather high dose for several months, which is unusual) and it has taken a while for them to clear.
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For the past month now I have been having intermittent dull, sometimes burning pain in my right
- nothing really bad that sends me to the ER, but bothersome nonetheless. At the same time I started noticing foam in my urine and started feeling really rundown, tired, with loss of appetite. Dipstick urinalysis, urine culture came back negative. Was put on Macrobid for 7 days and I started feeling better overall except for foam and appetite.
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I have been taking ketoconazole for about 1.5 months (just stopped taking it) and am now taking 100mg
and 250mg lamisil pills at the same time once per day. Is it true that this can damage my kidneys? Should I be concerned at this point? The reason I ask this is that I'm starting to notice alot of saliva in my mouth since I started the fluconazole + lamisil course (i am on day 2 now) and with the saliva is a thick sweet taste.
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anal fistula. surgically resolved Yeast Infection on penis for over a year. wife treated. Took
. Stopped skin peeling but not irritation/redness. 2007 had ultrasound no signs of liver problems. continued to drink. In 2008 CBC elevated liver enzymes post antifungal. Follow up CBC normal Diagnosed with GERD. Taking a PPI has helped my stomach pain, but not pain in my esophagus. Scope showed no ulcers but a hiatal hernia. Been having esophagus pain for over a year.
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Then about a year later i can down with one that was monistat resistant and then i went to the ob/gyn and got a round of oral
everyother day for two weeks and it worked. Now about four years later i came down with one this last may. I went to the doctor and she gave me a one time pill of fluconazole and it stopped all the symptoms except for buring. Well i burned at the tip of my vagina all summer and as fall came the burining subsided.
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Fungus infection started about 6 months ago in my groin area, I started treatment with different creams and finally after 2 months DR gave me
, which makes it better. I had protected sex with unknown girl in that time (short unprotected oral sex -Fellatio), maybe after 1 or 2 weeks I had burning and itching sensation in my whole scrotum and even burning inside of my penis.
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Then she began having multiple accidents, making frequent trips to the bathroom, and crying that it hurt to urinate - however, a dip test was negative (we're waiting on culture results). She is on the 2nd day of
(4ml/2x daily) - no improvement yet - and has a referral to a urologist. She uses the potty during the day, but wears a diaper overnight. She has been potty trained for about a year, and the UTIs didn't begin until after this.
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Thrush is a fungal infection and needs treatment by antifungals which can be purchased over the counter at the pharmacy or your doctor can prescribe the cream and/or an oral one dose medication like
. With oedema this can be a hormonal imbalance if this is happening just before your periods. If not, oedema in the legs can be from kidney or heart conditions, from injury or from some medications.
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by day 4 the discomfort was getting worse, itchy Urethra, rectal, pain, etc... I was prescribed
for possible Yeast infection. The next day about halfway through the day I was in severe pain from the testicles up to my left flank. Saw my Doctors PA and they took a urine sample. Sample actually came back clean and I went home. 3 hours later the pain was getting worse and I was starting to feel nausea, but no fever.
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I have read a lot online and wonder if it is worth me trying the two known nsu treatments which I have not had...doxycycline for one week or one dose of
in case it is thrush? 2. Is there any infection that could survive the above that doxy would kill? Perhaps step or straph? 3. If I take the two treatments I mention which my gp said I could try if I wanted, would I put liver or kidney in danger as so should I wait 4 weeks? Huge thanks in advance.
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I went to the doc today because I knew I had a uti but this is my first yeast infection ever. They gave me
for the yeast infection and 250mg ampicillin that I have to take two at a time 3 times a day. My question is does anyone have experience with either of these meds and do they work quickly? I'm super miserable.
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A couple of days ago my doctor prescribed sulfamethoxazole for a urinary tract infection, (which turned out to actually be a
stone) and ever since i started taking it i have had burning, itching, and swelling also a small amount of bleeding around my Vaginal opening (including labia). Could this be an allergic reaction?
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I was positive for a yeast infection. my doc gave me an antibiotics called
200mg (take one every 3 days). Also a cream to put on affected area called Nystatin/Triamcinolone.I didnt use the cream like i was suppose to (twice a day for 7 days). I finished the medicine and still had burning at end of urination. I went back to the doctor and and tested my urine again and it was clean.
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by day 4 the discomfort was getting worse, itchy Urethra, rectal, pain, etc... I was prescribed
for possible Yeast infection. The next day about halfway through the day I was in severe pain from the testicles up to my left flank. Saw my Doctors PA and they took a urine sample. Sample actually came back clean and I went home. 3 hours later the pain was getting worse and I was starting to feel nausea, but no fever.
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32yo f PCOS Asthma Fibromyalgia Chronic Fatigue IBS
stones No appendix, gallbladder, or uterine lining Countless allergies Cold sores on lips a couple times a year for all my life First genital outbreak March 2013 No access to healthcare
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Would you reccomend to take 150mg of the antifungal drug
? it seems that is a recommended treatment..
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This may be due to your hormone levels. Sometimes swollen feet can be indicative of
or heart problems. With Thrush, you can get this in your mouth as well as down below. So you will need a one dose oral capsule called Fluconazole which costs £10 from the chemist without a prescription. Oral thrush medication is a gel called Daktarin for the mouth only and is about £3-£4 at the chemist. You can also buy Canesten from the chemist for vaginal problems.
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should take a few days to a week before you feel any benefit. Do not wash with soap and shower gels as these will dry your genitals and aggravate the skin. Use soaps that are not perfumed and those that have a pH level to suit the skin. Baby washes will be fine too. Wear cotton underwear and nothing tight. Make sure that you have a good healthy diet and cut down on fizzy drinks, and processed and sugary foods. Fungus loves sweet.
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II with the last outbreak being almost two years ago, on the 15th Jul 08 I came out with what seemed like a penile yeast infection, I was treated with one
150 and Lotrisone cream for 14 days, went away well, I also was taking Zocor (40 mg for 2 month) for my hereditary high cholesterol. Around the 14th August 08 I was unusually very stressed about a business deal and later had some unusual dizziness, (It was accompanied by a short bout of dry long coughs), went away quickly..
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One woman found out that the smell was coming from a cracked tooth that her dentist was unable to find, but was discovered by a different dentist. 7. Some smells can come from liver or
diseases, or from acid reflux in the stomach-- Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), or gas from the stomach-- laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) 8. Some smells can come from having a bad mix of bacteria in the intestines, and somehow the smell comes out through the sinuses or lungs.
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Some smells can come from liver or
diseases, or from acid reflux in the stomach (GERD), or gas from the stomach (LPR) 8. Some smells can come from having a bad mix of bacteria in the intestines, and somehow the smell comes out through the sinuses or lungs. The best solution that I have seen is The Schwarzbein Principle by Dr. Diana Schwarzbein, MD. 9. There is a disease called atrophic rhinitis, which involves the decay of the mucus membranes in the sinuses.
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One woman found out that the smell was coming from a cracked tooth that her dentist was unable to find, but was discovered by a different dentist. 7. Some smells can come from liver or
diseases, or from acid reflux in the stomach-- Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), or gas from the stomach-- laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) 8. Some smells can come from having a bad mix of bacteria in the intestines, and somehow the smell comes out through the sinuses or lungs.
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I came back from holiday and visited my Doc who in turn suggested it may be Thrush and so gave me 4No. Azithromycin and 1No.
tablets to take immediately on the 12th Nov. This initially relieved the pressure that was building up, but it returned again in a slightly different disguise. The Doc now thinks it's a UTI or swollen Prostate (he did a rectum check) and a blood test is scheduled this Friday.
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But, quite frankly, an untreated UTI can lead to
failure and that would be a pretty Serious Adverse Event, no? Also, sometimes it's the maddeningly mudane sx that can be hardest to manage. Everyone focuses on the anemia, the neutropenia, the platelets etc... Once I finish the tx meds I am not sure how long they will follow me for (will find out tomorrow) but it will definitely be until 24 weeks post EOT.
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- Prior to the ones I took for my UTI, the last antibiotics I received were for a middle ear infection last spring, via a single IM injection. - I have been taking a lot of
recently. Whenever I went into the walk-in clinic about 4 weeks ago, the doctor said that I had a vaginal yeast infection and gave me a 150 mg pill to take orally while we waited for the results of my culture.
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I now also take PERINDOPRIL 8mg x 1 for raised B/P and because of almost constant Oral/Groin Candida 50mg
x 1 for 28 days currently on day 16. Xmas '05 evening approx 3/4 hrs after eating heavy rich Xmas dinner I started to suffer from pain around my Tummy-button which came in waves, approx 2/3 mins between pains and lasting 12/15 secs, I was extremely nauseas. I was admitted to Hospital in the early hrs of Boxing Day morning.
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Just to let you know, I have lupus (sle), sjogren's syndrome, raynaunds, fibromyalgia, interstital cystitis, ibs, reflux, possible adrenal fatigue which I see my kidney dr. next month,
stone )fast forming crystals from
infection), I have 2 lithotripsys and currently several small stones in both kidneys that aren't blocking anything. In October I was in the hospital for celluitis and msra staff infection. A bout 3 months ago I was diagnosed with barrets .
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(Advil, Nuprin, Motrin, Excedrin IB etc) Ketoprofen (Orudis KT)
infection (
disease, diabetes) Liver Disease Naproxen (Aleve) Promethazine (Phenergan, Promethegan) Riboflavin (B2, Hempseed Oil) Amphetamines - Substances or Conditions which can cause false positives Ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, propylephedrine, phenylephrine, or desoxyephedrine (Nyquil, Contact, Sudafed, Allerest, Tavist-D, Dimetapp, etc) Phenegan-D, Robitussin Cold and Flu, Vicks Nyquil Over-the-counter diet aids w
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this can't be done for the head region as it can be very dangerous and cause a seizure if used there 2. Do give
200 mg a try....it works well for some people & worked for me! Other drugs I've cycled are doxycycline 200 mg twice a day & erythromycin-septran. 3. Do read Dr Burrascanos guidelines...don't be careless with add ons (meds other than antibiotics) he's listed as mandatory....I didn't and nearly had a seizure from low magnesium. 4. Don't lose hope....
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text: Your average hole-in-the-wall smoke shop, this is not. Cigars International Hamburg is more of a destination than a store, tempting all comers into spending some serious time there. As the largest freestanding cigar store in America, it offers an unbelievable selection of cigars spread across two floors, a cigar-rolling station (of course), two fully-stocked bars, two levels of outdoor deck seating, a pool table, a huge selection of humidors and pipes, and tons of seating and TVs for taking in the game while you relax. The Tinder Box is never going to look the same again. [Scouted by Scott]


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Green renovated home near the bay, ocean, local restaurants and shops. Sunny, bright and airy. This home has dishwasher, washer-dryer, a restaurant style ''state of the art'' Kitchen Aid gas range with electric convection oven, double door refrigerator, large counter space with an island and a deep double pan sink. The living room is spacious featuring sky lights, large beamed cathedral ceiling, and a four season enclosed front porch to catch the evening sunset or take a relaxing afternoon snooze. The basement has a washer dryer. Large, flat back yard w/ grill and picnic table. Easy commute to Boston via Pemberton water shuttle, 20 mins). No smoking.
Quiet family neighborhood. No parties, reunions, groups.
Dear Cheryl
I wanted to thank you for a wonderful vacation.My husband and i had a wonderful time and the house is beautiful.We know we want to rent again next summer as soon as my husband finds out about his vacation we will call you.
I love cooking so the modern kitchen was much appreciated.
We took long walks on the beach and ate out a couple of times.
I loved the little shopping village down the street from the house and did our shopping there.My husband also really appreciated the cable T.V.as he is a Red Sox fan.Thanks again for everything.
Our visit to Nantasket was great - the beach is amazing and the town has alot to offer as well as being a short distance to Boston which we also enjoyed.
We were disappointed in the cottage.
After a 11 hour drive we had to wait for the owner to finish cleaning up after her family party - not fun with two tired kids. When we did get in 3 hours after stated check in and 1/2 hour after what the owner thought was the time we'd requested - not sure how she thought that - the standard of clean was not what I expected.
Biggest disappointment was the phone not working. A phone is advertised but you can not use it due to interference from the nearby towers. When we asked to have this corrected we were expected to meet the service guy - while on vacation!
The pictures show the lovely front area of the cottage. The bedrooms are nothing like it and are not pictured.
The location is good. It is a short walk to shops and the quiet end of the beach as well as a lovely walk along the inlet side of the peninsula.
We were very pleased that we were permitted to bring our small dog with us.
We were there for a family wedding and the extended family all rented cottages for the week. From the selection I visited it is well worth paying a little more or shopping around.
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Under the hood, the 2103 Peugeot RCZ facelift is coming with the 1.6 liter THP engine with its 260 HP mentioned above, along with the 1.6 liter turbo petrol with two outputs, 156 HP and 200 HP, and the 2.0 liter diesel unit generating 163 horsepower and 340 Nm of torque. The Peugeot RCZ facelift is coming with front-wheel drive and the model seen in the images posted below is a pre-production concept car. More details on the 2013 RCZ will be announced once the model will hit the production line.


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Newly discovered artifacts typically support or refine our historical knowledge. The Julsrud Collection of bizarre ceramic figurines, if proven authentic, would rewrite history. Judging the evidence on this, I'd say there's a 20% chance history needs an overhaul.
The Julsrud Collection
In 1945 Waldemar Julsrud, a German merchant, found a half buried clay figurine in Guanajuato Mexico. Julsrud, also an amateur archaeologist, couldn't connect this piece to any past Mexican civilization. He hired a local worker to dig around the area, paying him one peso for every additional figurine unearthed. Within several years, Julsrud's home was overflowing with 33,000 specimens ranging from instruments and pottery to giant monkeys and dinosaurs.
Julsrud published a booklet titled Enigmas del Pasado, alerting the world to his strange collection. In it, he described the anatomically correct details depicted on the dinosaurs, centuries before fossils had been officially discovered. He theorized this could be evidence man coexisted with dinosaurs.
Journalists from Fate Magazine and the LA Times traveled to Mexico to review the collection. Both journalists published articles stating they believed the art to be authentic, dating back to ancient times as opposed to being a recently perpetrated hoax. The LA Times challenged scientists to conduct serious inquiries into the matter.
After receiving national exposure, the science community almost reluctantly looked into the sensational story. Amerind, a non profit organization specializing in native American antiquities, sent archaeologist Charles DiPeso to Mexico to assess the situation. DiPeso visited the dig site and collection for just two days before broad brushing everything a hoax. He theorized all 33,000 artifacts had been fabricated and planted by locals within recent years.
DiPeso's conclusions drew scrutiny in some circles, including Charles Hapgood, a Professor of Anthropology from University of New Hampshire. He publicly questioned DiPeso's claim of individually analyzing all 33k artifacts within 4 hours.
Like DiPeso, Hapgood visited Julsrud in Mexico. Upon finishing his 6 week study, he declared the relects genuine. Hapgood published a paper refuting DiPeso 's main argument that the escavation sites were fabricated.
To further his point, Hapgood got permission to dig under the local Police Chief's house, built near the escavation site 25 years prior. With Mexican officials present, including Dr. Eduardo Noguera, Director of the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, more figures were discovered.
The Julsrud Collection has not been proven fake to this day, despite several unpublicized efforts. In fact, paleontologists discovered in 1993 certain saurapods (apatasaurus, diplodocus) had spinal crests. Until then, these beasts were thought to have smooth backs. Every picture, toy, movie reflected this misunderstanding, but the Julsrud dinosaurs were anatomically correct.
My take on this? The scientific community needs to seriously regard this anomaly until it can produce proof positive it is a hoax. Avoiding the topic without a smoking gun only fuels lingering suspicion, especially since validation of the little clay dinos would flush evolution down the crapper.


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Define the following terms in the income tax ordinance Royalties, Speculation business, Tax payer
According the income tax ordinance it means any amount paid or payable for :
a. The use of any patent, invention, design, model, trademark, secret formula etc.
b. Any amount paid or payable for the use of copyright artistic or scientific work, or video tapes for T.V. Or radio.
c. Any amount paid or payable for the right to receive any sounds or visual images through satellite cable or similar technology for T.V. And Internet.
Example :- Some time private companies pay the royalty to show the cricket match through satellite cable in our country played in any part in the world.
d. Any amount which is received to supply any technical or commercial knowledge or experience or skill is also called royalty.
e. The right to use any industrial, commercial or scientific equipment.
f. The disposed of any property right referred above.
Explanation :-
In the above cases royalty means any amount paid or payable as considered for the transfer of rights to use the assets.
It means any business in which contract for the purchase and sale of any commodity (including stock and shares) is periodically or ultimately settled otherwise than by actual delivery or transfer of the commodity. Following are not included in business :
a). A contract by person during the manufacturing or mercantile business to guard against loss through future price fluctuations for the purpose of fulfilling the other contracts for the actual delivery of the goods.
b). IN case of stocks and shares a contract by a dealer or investor to guard against loss in his holding through price fluctuation.
c). A member of stock exchange or forward entered in to a contract in the course of transaction to guard against any loss which may arise in the ordinary course of the persons business.
Under income tax ordinance tax payer means;
a). A person who receives income which is chargeable to tax.
b). Representative of a person
c). A person responsible to collect, deduct and deposit it with the govt.
d). A person required to furnish a return and pay tax.
Explanation :-
Following persons are required to file the return,
1. Every company.
2. If total income of any person exceeds than specific amount in a tax year.
3. Any person who owns a motor vehicle.
4. Any person who travel abroad except Hajj or Umrah.
5. Subscriber of a telephone or mobile.
6. Member any club who pays admission fee more than specific amount.
7. If the income of the person has been charged to tax in any of the proceeding years.
Exemptions :-
Following persons are exempted to file the return of their total income,
a) A disable person
b) An orphan below 25 years of age.
c) A widow.
d) A non-resident in respect of immoveable property.


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Hungary Hit by Second Rating Downgrade to Junk on Premier Orban's Policies
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's drive to consolidate power at the cost of delaying an International Monetary Fund bailout prompted Standard and Poor's to become the second ratings company in a month to downgrade the country's debt to junk.
Hungary's sovereign-credit ratings were cut one step to BB+ from BBB-, S&P, which had rated the eastern European nation at investment grade since 1996, said yesterday in a statement, assigning a negative outlook. Moody's Investors Service lowered its assessment to Ba1, the highest junk grade, on Nov. 24, while Fitch Ratings has assigned its lowest investment grade, BBB-.
Lawmakers are scheduled to approve changes to a draft central bank law tomorrow and pass the bill next week, which the European Central Bank said today may "undermine" monetary policy independence. The IMF and the European Union cited the draft for breaking off financing talks with Hungary last week. IMF backing would bolster policy credibility, S&P said.
"S&P didn't wait for the conclusions of the negotiations with the IMF on a new program as a sign that the policy backdrop has deteriorated substantially," Benoit Anne, head of emerging- markets strategy at Societe Generale SA in London, said today by e-mail.
The European Commission hasn't decided on whether to resume financial aid talks with Hungary, the EU executive's representative in Budapest, Tamas Szucs, said in an e-mail today. Earlier today, Olivier Bailly, a spokesman for the Commission, told reporters in Brussels that preliminary formal discussions over an aid package will begin in January.
Debt Sale, Forint
Hungary sold 30 billion forint ($128 million) in 12-month bills today, 10 billion forint less than planned, as the average yield surged to 7.91 percent, the highest in almost 2 1/2 years. The yield on Hungary's 2022 bond climbed 41 basis points, or 0.41 percentage point, to 9.385 percent, the highest in a month.
The forint weakened to 307.43 per euro at 3:32 p.m. in Budapest from a Dec. 20 close of 300.37. It's lost 13 percent since June 30, the worst performance among more than 170 currencies tracked by Bloomberg. The forint fell to a record against the euro last month and the government struggled to meet its targets at debt auctions before the Moody's downgrade.
Hungary's five-year credit-default swaps, which measure the cost of insuring state debt against non-payment, rose 43 basis points to 617, a three-week high. They were the ninth-highest in the world yesterday, according to data provider CMA, which is owned by CME Group Inc. (CME) and compiles prices quoted by dealers.
'Unconditional Talks'
The central bank raised its benchmark interest rate to 7 percent on Dec. 20 from 6.5 percent, which was already the EU's highest. Policy makers said they may increase borrowing costs further if risk perception and the inflation outlook deteriorate "substantially."
The government asked for IMF aid last month to ensure debt financing next year as yields soared and S&P signaled its potential downgrade. The Cabinet is aiming for an agreement in the first few months of next year. The country is ready for "unconditional talks," Tamas Fellegi, the minister in charge of negotiations, said Dec. 16.
"We believe S&P's move may be followed by Fitch and rating downgrades are likely to intensify pressure on the government to make the required amendments to the constitution," Eszter Gargyan, an economist at Citigroup Inc. in Budapest, said today in an e-mailed note. "Even if talks are delayed until spring 2012, the government is likely to be pushed into a position where it has to accept conditionality."
'Unorthodox' Measures
Orban shunned IMF aid after taking office last year to protect what he called "unorthodox" measures from oversight. Hungary will have the highest debt level and slowest economic growth among the EU's eastern members next year, the European Commission forecast on Nov. 10.
The steps included the effective nationalization of $13 billion of private pension-fund assets and extraordinary industry taxes to control the budget, which had a deficit of 182 percent of the Cabinet's full-year target at the end of November.
Hungary also forced banks to swallow losses on foreign- currency mortgages. The measures may hinder economic growth and are "likely to depress investment and job creation in the short term," S&P said.
Orban, backed by a two-thirds parliamentary majority that allows him to unilaterally change the constitution, pressed ahead with consolidating his power.
'Almost Total Takeover'
Ruling-party lawmakers ousted the chief justice of the Supreme Court, narrowed the jurisdiction of the Constitutional Court, wrote a new constitution, replaced an independent Fiscal Council with one dominated by the premier's allies, created a media regulator led by ruling-party appointees and chose a party member to lead the State Audit Office.
The draft central bank law, which seeks to expand the rate- setting Monetary Council, add another vice president and strip the central bank chief of his right to appoint deputies, is part of a government drive toward an "almost total takeover" of the institution, Magyar Nemzeti Bank President Andras Simor said Dec. 15. A separate plan to merge the financial regulator and the central bank and demote the central bank president also violates EU rules, Simor has said.
"Changes to the constitution and the functioning of some independent institutions, including the central bank and the constitutional court, have undermined Hungary's institutional effectiveness," S&P said. "The predictability of Hungary's policy framework continues to weaken, harming Hungary's medium- term growth prospects."
'Serious Doubts'
The European Commission has "serious doubts" about the central bank law and President Jose Barroso conveyed his "strong concerns" in a letter to Orban, Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen, a spokeswoman, told reporters in Brussels Dec. 20. The Commission hasn't received a response to the letter from Hungary, Bailly said today.
The ECB today took issue with both the draft central bank law as well as a bill ruling party officials plan to approve next week, allowing them to demote the head of the central bank to vice president of a combined institution with the financial regulator.
"Three major revisions of the central bank law in 18 months are incompatible with the principle of legal certainty," the Frankfurt-based ECB said in a statement today.
Risk Assets
Investors are shunning riskier assets and demanding higher yields as European leaders grapple with the euro area's sovereign-debt crisis, which started in Greece more than two years ago and is threatening to infect weaker economies.
S&P is studying the outcome of an EU summit earlier this month to streamline fiscal policies before deciding whether to go ahead with its threat to cut the credit rating of 15 euro- region nations, the company said on Dec. 9.
Hungary's downgrade by S&P addresses the euro crisis, rather than Hungary, the Economy Ministry said in a statement yesterday, according to state-run news service MTI. Hungary is a victim of "that struggle" and indirectly of "financial attacks."
"This decision by S&P is very visibly not based on an evaluation of the facts about the Hungarian economy and financial system, but is a form of pressure being exercised by market players with an interest in strengthening the dollar region and weakening the euro zone," the ministry said, according to MTI.
Orban plans to cut debt from 81 percent of economic output last year and is seeking to keep the budget deficit within 2.5 percent of gross domestic product next year.
Economic Growth
Hungary's economic growth may slow to 0.5 percent in 2012 from 1.4 percent this year, the European Commission said Nov. 10. Debt may fall to 75.9 percent of GDP this year before rising to 76.7 percent in 2012, the EU's executive branch said.
"S&P purposely ignored that there has recently been a positive change in the gauges that serve as the basis of the evaluation," the Economy Ministry said.
Hungary needs "disciplined" budget policy, debt reduction and the "revving up of the engines of growth" to shield the country from the negative effects of the euro crisis, it said.
The government aims to complete as much of its 4 billion- euro foreign-currency debt issuance plan as possible in the first half of 2012, Laszlo Andras Borbely, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the State Debt Management Agency, told reporters today. The state probably won't issue Eurobonds before completing IMF aid talks, he said. It doesn't see "panic" selling of Hungarian debt after S&P's downgrade, Borbely said.
The government is also cutting spending and raising taxes to save as much as $4 billion a year by 2013 as part of the so- called Szell Kalman plan to overhaul the economy.
The implementation of the Szell Kalman plan, which includes trimming welfare spending, making state administration more efficient and putting in place policies that encourage investment, may "dissipate or even reverse" downward pressure on Hungary's ratings, S&P said.
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When one of your all-time word heroes shares your words.
I've written a hundred million times about how important Anne Rice has been in life. She influenced many of my choices, from why I decided to study the fine arts to my fascination with ancient history to my feeling towards religion.
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Long Run heading to Kempton for King George after pleasing reappearance
Sam Waley-Cohen is looking forward to riding Long Run in the King George at Kempton after his Haydock run.
Last Updated: 25/11/12 12:10pm
The amateur felt the outing was just what was needed ahead of the William Hill King George VI Chase.
Long Run, owned by Waley-Cohen's father Robert and trained by Nicky Henderson, had to settle for second place in the Haydock feature for the second successive season, but connections hope it has not taken as much out of him as it did 12 months ago.
The target again is the King George which he won in the 2010/11 season and was runner-up to Kauto Star last Christmas.
"We were pleased with the run. We thought it was a good introduction to the season and gives us a good platform to go to the King George on," said Waley-Cohen.
"It's always disappointing not to win, but he's run up to a similar mark to his first runs of the season over the last couple of years.
"He's got to improve from there, but in all his previous seasons he has and we hope he will again. He ran a good race on Saturday and you always have to decide in one of those races whether that's the day to go to the bottom of the tank, and it wasn't.
"We were keen to avoid a repeat of his hard race against Kauto Star last year. It was very much about doing what you can but not leaving your whole season at Haydock."