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The Saola, Vu Quang ox or Asian biocorn, also, infrequently, Vu Quang bovid (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis), is one of the world's rarest mammals, a forest-dwelling bovine found only in the Annamite Range of Vietnam and Laos. Cousin to cattle, goats, and antelopes,[2][3] the species was defined following a discovery of remains in 1992 in Vũ Quang Nature Reserve by a joint survey of the Ministry of Forestry and the World Wide Fund for Nature.[4] The team found three skulls with unusual, long, straight horns kept in hunters' houses. In their article, the team proposed "a three month survey to observe the living animal", but more than 20 years later, still no sighting of a saola in the wild had been reported by a scientist. However, a living saola was photographed in the wild in 1999 by a camera trap set by the World Wide Fund for Nature and the Vietnamese government's Forest Protection Department (SFNC). Van Ngoc Thinh, the WWF's Vietnam country director, said, "This is a breathtaking discovery and renews hope for the recovery of the species."[5][6]
In late August 2010, a saola was captured by villagers in Laos, but died in captivity before government conservationists could arrange for it to be released back into the wild. The carcass is being studied with the hope that it will advance scientific understanding of the saola.[7][8] Sometimes, these animals get caught in snares that have been set to catch animals such as wild boar, sambar, and muntjac deer that come to feed on the crops the farmers have planted. This has become a problem, especially with the illegal fur trade, for medicines, restaurants, and food markets.[9] More than 26,651 snares have been removed from habitats where the saola has lived for years.[10]
Habitat and distribution[edit]
The saola inhabits the Annamite Range's moist forests and the eastern Indochina dry and monsoon forests. They have been spotted in steep river valleys at about 300 to 1800 m above sea level. These regions are distant from human settlements, and covered primarily in evergreen or mixed evergreen and deciduous woodlands. The species seems to prefer edge zones of the forests.
Saolas stay in mountain forests during the wet seasons, when water in streams and rivers is abundant, and move down to the lowlands in winter. They are shy and never enter cultivated fields or come close to villages. To date, all known captive saolas have died, leading to the belief that this species can never live in captivity.
The saolas belongs to the family Bovidae-a mammal that is a member of the cattle family-, and genetic analysis places it in the tribe Bovini; its closest relatives are cattle, true buffaloes, and bison. However, its simple horns and teeth and some other morphological-branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features are typical of less-derived or 'primitive' bovids.[11] Saolas are antelopes, in the sense that an antelope is any bovid that is not a cow, sheep, buffalo, bison, or goat. How many individuals exist is unknown, as only 11 have been recorded alive.
Physical characteristics[edit]
An adult saola stands at about 80–90 cm at the shoulder, with its entire body length measuring around 150 cm (the tail measures additionally out to about 25 cm) and weighs 90–100 kg. Its hair is straight, short, and surprisingly soft for an animal partly adapted to a montane habitat, and is usually of a medium chocolate brown color (though some have been noted to contain variations of a reddish tone). However, this is not uniform, with both the neck and belly a slightly paler shade, as well as various white markings scattered across its body, such as white patches on the feet, vertical stripes across the cheeks, and splotches on the nose and chin. Also, a medial black dorsal strip extends from between the shoulders down and back to fade out into the top of the tail. The tail itself is tricolored and splits evenly into three horizontal bands of medium brown, cream, and black, with the cream blending into the white band that extends across its rear.[12] It bears round pupils with dark-brown irises and a cluster of white whiskers about 2 cm long that protrude from the end of the chin with a presumably tactile function. It also possesses a long tongue that can extend up to about 16 cm, with its upper surface covered in fine, rearward-pointing barbs, presumably to aid in eating.[12]
All saolas also possess a pair of slightly diverging horns that closely resemble the parallel wooden posts commonly used to support a spinning wheel (which is also the source of their namesake).[3] They are generally dark-brown or black and can measure from about 35–50 cm long; twice the length of their head.[12] The horns of the males and females bear little to no significant variations. Their skin is 1–2 mm thick over most of the body, but thickens near the nape of the neck, and at the upper shoulders, it thickens to 5 mm. This unique adaptation protects them against both predators and rivals' horns during fights.[13]
Local populations report having seen saolas traveling in groups of two or three, rarely more.
The saola possesses a pair of highly developed maxillary glands on either side of its snout, each comprising a rectangular shallow depression of about 1.5 cm deep along the upper muzzle. The depression is covered by sparse, flattened hair with rows of pores scattered throughout.[12] The entirety of each gland is covered by a muscular flap that can raise up to about 3 cm to expose scent glands used in marking territory. It then subsequently can rub the underside against objects, leaving a musky, pungent paste. The saola's colossal scent glands are thought to be the largest of any living mammal.
Behavior and reproduction[edit]
They walk with a gentle, quiet, slow nature. When they sleep, they have their fore legs tucked under their bodies, necks extended, and the chin resting on the floor. Villagers reported that saolas are active in the mornings, afternoons, and nights, but not when the sun is overhead.
They are calm in the presence of humans, letting humans pet them and eating out of their hands. However, they have an intense fear of dogs. When they feel threatened, they contract defensive positions which involve the snorting and thrusting of their heads forward, exposing their long, straight horns. Their ears are pointed up and straight back with arched backs and stiff postures. Occasionally, they secrete the paste from their maxillary glands as a defensive reaction, which is usually and most commonly observed with dogs. Saola vocalize with bleats.
To mark their territories, saolas open a fleshy flap located over their maxillary glands on either side of the snout and rub it over a rock or place of territory, leaving a strong, musky paste. To defecate and urinate, saolas drop their hind legs and lower the lower body, urinating and defecating separately, which is not new for bovid species.
Saolas spend a significant amount of time grooming themselves. They lick their faces and eyes most often and lead into their shoulders and fore legs. They frequently lick their muzzles to disperse flies, as well.
Very little information is available about their reproductive and pregnancy cycles; however, they give birth to single calves. A female saola held captive died pregnant with a male calf, which was well formed and had distinguishable features. For lack of information and proper resources, scientists estimate the gestation period as similar to those of Tragelaphus species; that is, about 234 days.A Saola's offspring is in the summer.
They are reported to eat small leafy plants, especially fig leaves and stems, along rivers. While little is known about the full range of their diet, saolas in captivity generally subsist on a diet of leafy plants such as a Asplenium fern species (also known as spleenwort), broad dark-green plants of the Homalomena genus, and various species of broad-leaved shrubs or trees of the Sterculiaceae family. They have shown to have a greater preference for the unidentified plant of the Sterculiaceae family/Sterculia genus.[12] Seldom have they been reported eating during periods of darkness, most likely due to their diurnal nature. The animal seems to have a browsing diet, considering its small incisors.
The name saola has been translated as "spindle[-horned]" although the precise meaning is actually "spinning-wheel post horn". The name comes from a Tai language of Vietnam, but the meaning is the same in the Lao language. The specific name nghetinhensis refers to the two Vietnamese provinces of Nghệ An and Hà Tĩnh while Pseudoryx acknowledges the animal's similarities with the Arabian or African oryx. Hmong people in Laos refer to this beast as saht-supahp, a term derived from Lao meaning "the polite animal", because it moves quietly through the forest. Other names used by minority groups in the Saola's range are lagiang (Van Kieu), a ngao (Ta Oi) and xoong xor (Katu) [14] In the press,[7] saolas have been referred to as "Asian unicorns". The appellation is apparently due to the saola's rarity and apparently gentle nature and perhaps because both the saola and the oryx have been linked with the unicorn. No known link with the mythical beast is known; nor with the "Chinese unicorn", the qilin. The saola has been an easy target for hunters due to its docile nature. Additionally, it is occasionally caught by snares set by villagers for wild boar. Feral and domestic dogs present another threat, as the ecology of the area historically has included a canine predator. In several instances, the villagers hang the horns of the saola as a symbol of honor. Such trophy hunting endangers the species as a whole because they have very little defense and can be overpowered quite easily. Little money is available to fund the awareness of the endangered status of this species, let alone for its conservation, so trophy hunting continues with no regulation.
Another large threat to the saola species is habitat fragmentation. Due to their shy nature and preference for undisturbed forests, the habitable region for the saola continues to shrink. They are restricted to high mountain areas where perhaps a few dozen to a few hundred animals remain.
In 1992, the saola was discovered within the restricted mountainous region that separates Vietnam and Laos. Only a few hundred of them are reported in the wild. The horn cores of the adult saola are exceptionally long, and the genetic name Pseudoryx refers to the superficial resemblance of the oryx (tribe Hippotragini). As compared to other bovid genera, Pseudoryx differs significantly from all described in appearance and morphology. The Bovidae are composed of two major subfamilial clades, based on molecular investigations of ribosomal mitochondrial sequences of a large taxon sample. The first clade corresponds to Bovidae and assembles members of the tribes Bovini (cattle and buffaloes), Tragelaphini (African spiral-horned bovids) and Bosalaphini. The second clusters all other bovids, which is composed of Caprini (goats and muskox), Hippotragini (horse-like antelopes), and Antilopini (gazelles). Phylogenetic information for deciphering Bovidae evolution can be found in mitochondrial and nuclear sequences.[15]
The Saola Working Group was formed by the IUCN Species Survival Commission's Asian Wild Cattle Specialist Group, in 2006[16] to protect the saolas and their habitat. This coalition includes about 40 experts from the forestry departments of Laos and Vietnam, Vietnam's Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vinh University, biologists and conservationists from Wildlife Conservation Society, and the World Wide Fund for Nature.[17]
Due to the saola being critically endangered, a group of scientists from the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology in central Hanoi, within the Institute of Biotechnology, has looked into a last resort effort of conserving the species by cloning. This can prove to be quite difficult because cloning even the most well-known mammal can be difficult. It would be even more so with a mammal about which researchers know little to nothing, such as the saola.[3]
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Other rarely seen large mammals of the Indochina peninsula, also discovered in the 1990s:
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NEW YORK – It is no accident the New York Rangers are surging just as Henrik Lundqvist is finding his Vezina Trophy form.
Daniel Carcillo, Rick Nash and Derick Brassard scored less than 10 minutes in, and Lundqvist made 37 saves as the Rangers routed the Philadelphia Flyers 4-1 on Sunday night.
Chris Kreider got his team-leading 12th goal in the second period to help the Rangers win their third straight and fourth in five (4-0-1). Lundqvist has allowed just eight goals in New York's past four games.
"I got tested early, and you gain confidence when you make a couple of good saves," said Lundqvist, who has given up fewer than three goals in four of his last six starts. "I'm happy with the way I am playing.
"It definitely helps when we play the way we play in front of me and make good decisions all over the ice."
New York, 8-2-1 in its last 11, is tied in points with Washington for second place in the Metropolitan Division — one ahead of Philadelphia. The Rangers have won seven straight against the Flyers at home, outscoring them 28-8.
Ray Emery rebounded after the rough first period and finished with 31 saves for the Flyers, who lost 6-3 on Saturday to Tampa Bay — ending a 10-game, home-winning streak. Philadelphia had won seven of eight before the weekend sweep.
"It's frustrating," Emery said. "I've got to make some saves, and we've got to come out better. Anytime you put yourself in a hole like that against a team that is playing well like they are, you don't give yourself much of a chance."
Lundqvist lost his shutout bid when Mark Streit scored a power-play goal 6:49 into the third. Rangers coach Alain Vigneault offered no theories about how Lundqvist has gotten back on his game after an up-and-down first half.+
"To tell you the truth, I am just focused on one thing with him — stopping the puck," he said. "How he does it, I don't really care that much."
The Flyers were hurt by being short-handed six times in the first two periods.
"A lot of guys kill a lot and get a little tired, and the other guys are sitting on the bench and just waiting to get back onto the ice," captain Claude Giroux said. "We need to find a way to stay out of the box."
The Rangers came out flying and grabbed a 2-0 lead just 2:42 in on goals 28 seconds apart by Carcillo and Nash.
Sloppy play by the Philadelphia defense contributed to both. The first came at 2:14 when Carcillo forced a turnover by Streit behind the net. Carcillo charged out in front and backhanded a shot past Emery for his second of the season and his first in three games with the Rangers since he was acquired from Los Angeles.
Before that goal was announced, New York celebrated again when Nash netted his 11th of the season and fourth in four games. Philadelphia defenseman Braydon Coburn lost the puck behind the net to Kreider, who quickly sent a pass out to the charging Nash for a shot from the right circle.
New York had a two-goal lead despite recording only four shots.
"They were way quicker than us in the first period, had the puck more than us in the first period, and we ended up getting down right away," Flyers coach Craig Berube said. "We've got to be more ready."
Philadelphia got its offense cranked up when Rangers defenseman Dan Girardi was sent off for interference at 6:20. The Flyers had six shots during the advantage but Lundqvist was sharp and turned them all aside.
Things didn't go nearly as well for Emery, who replaced an ineffective Steve Mason on Saturday after two periods. He gave up his third goal of the period at 9:24 when Brassard one-timed a shot from the left circle after Mats Zuccarello fed a pass to him from the left corner. Brassard, who has eight goals this season, has scored in consecutive games after going 10 without one.
The game turned a bit chippy late in the period, with Philadelphia's Scott Hartnell being called for roughing with 1:45 left. Carcillo, formerly of the Flyers, yapped at several players on the Philadelphia bench after he took the seat closest to the partition between the two sides.
Carcillo fought Luke Schenn off a faceoff before the midway point of the second period.
"I just got here, and from what I can see, when we do the little things right and play the game plan that we want to play against our opponents, we seem to have success," Carcillo said.
Emery was much sharper in the second, allowing only Kreider's power-play goal with 6:42 left and stopping 14 other drives. His best save came with 10:13 remaining when he denied Zuccarello on the doorstep.
NOTES: Philadelphia had a 17-13 shots edge in the first period. ... Emery stopped all seven shots he faced Saturday. ... The Rangers are 19-2-1 when they score first. ... The Flyers had killed 26 consecutive penalties, dating to Dec. 28 at Edmonton, before Kreider's goal. ... Philadelphia C Vincent Lecavalier earned his 500th NHL assist.


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I hope not.
It just makes the uniforms look too busy.
Plus I'm not a fan of overzealous patriotism that feels the need to plaster the flag all over everything.
You mean to tell me the Red, White, and Blue Eagle tattoo I got on my back isn't the best way to show that I love my country. Damnit.
-(Columbus Resident)
I'd say Dave Brandon has got a lot of negativity on his plate right now, I highly doubt he's even thought about that.
There is no money to be made off of it, do Brandon won't consider it.
I could see it for the Air Force game, seeing as they are a service academy and it is the weekend before 9/11. Other than that I don't see it happening. This is based off of my opinion and not any real facts, of course.
Not a fan of it myself, but I would rather put the flag on our uni's for the Air Force game.
EDIT: Beaten to the punch by ForeverBlue. Curses.
why we don't always have the flag on the jerseys. The class move would be to keep it there full time.
The flags were added for the nebraska game where there was some other military appreciation stuff happening (special flyover and the cards used to make the flag in the south half of the stadium). I think they were then just left on for the last home game.
This is something that doesn't bother me at all. It looks classy and sends a good message. Don't make the entire jersey red, white, and blue, but to me how they did it looks very cool
There are a lot of things we could put on the jerseys that would make a good statement, but you can't just put them all on there and leave them there. Otherwise in a few years we'd have a flag on one shoulder, a pink ribbon on another, a Mott patch on one butt cheek, and patches up and down the back for every player that's ever worn the number.
While I could have done without the changes to the facemask & Sugar Bowl Jerseys and definitely the alternates worn against MSU, my two cents is that I liked most everything else done last year that pertains to the uniforms. I loved the UTL jerseys, although I hope that was a one time deal and the Ath. Dept. does not try to bring them back for subsequent future NIGHT games. As far as the numbers on the helmets and the US Flag patch on the jerseys, I hope that both of them are hear to stay.
I believe we did it for the Nebraska game...I want to say it was the military appreciate game or something.
We just left the flag on the jerseys for the Ohio game because they were present the week before.
At least that is my recollection...
I think if we just have the new mascot wear a flag patch on his costume or run around waaving a flag, then we should be covered in that department
Well since those were two of the best games of the year, I hope so. Plus I like the way they look. I can't find a picture from last year, but here's Larry Foote with one on his jersey.
Wait a minute, wait a minute....I've GOT it. If we just take the whole "additional patch" idea thing and expand it a bit we just might have a way to raise enough money to satisfy DB once and for all.
Now picture him with a winged helmet on.......
We're not the military or a political candidate, we're representing Ann Arbor and the State of Michigan. We're all good patriots here, so we don't need to tell anybody we love the US.
If anything, how badass would a onetime State of Michigan patch be - say at the Ohio game??
The state flag is actually mostly shades of maize and blue anyway...
When is the adidas contract up again?
Actually whenever somebody complains about it, another year is tacked on to the contract


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Time to take on some Vitamin C, people! Here are three ways to broil winter's best fruit, the grapefruit. My favorite is to mellow a grapefruit's natural acidity with a bare sprinkle of brown sugar and a heady mix of cinnamon and cumin. Weight Watchers, just 2 Weight Watchers PointsPlus! Choose Broiled Grapefruit as a healthy breakfast recipe, sure, but for dessert on a deep-freeze January night? Only a lawn chair tucked under the shade of the thick leaves of a grapefruit tree could be more enticing.
First published in 2010. Recipes and photos updated and republished in 2014.
"... it turned out great. I'll make it again definitely ..." ~ Anonymous
I'm hear to tell ya, cooking can be hazardous to your health. Exercise too, but that's another story.
You see, when you love to cook, it's easy to fixate on food, plotting lunch while finishing breakfast (who me?), strategizing supper while fixing lunch (who you?).
The upside of focus is Home Management 101, a smart strategy for wellness, balance and frugal living. Thinking ahead ensures there's milk in the fridge, chicken thawed for dinner and that too-ripe pears don't go to waste. But. But. BUT. (And Butt.) The downside is that focus places altogether too much attention on food.
So many days, I want food to be an afterthought, not a forethought. Banish, please, the fascination with the breadths (did someone just mention bread?) and depths of food preparation, its origins, its endless variations.
Progress is simple morning grapefruit embellished with only an ingredient or two already in the spice drawer, pantry and refrigerator.
Tis the season for citrus! Starting late in the year, oranges, tangerines and grapefruit roll in from Florida. Texas and other warm climes. Thank goodness we don't take this whole 'eat local' idea so seriously as to forgo citrus!
RECIPES for BROILED GRAPEFRUIT
Time to table: 10 minutes
Serves 2
- 1 grapefruit, halved crosswise
THE SPICY WAY (my favorite)
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar (raw 'demerera' sugar and cane sugar are especially good, what are these sugars?)
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon cumin
- 1 – 2 tablespoons applesauce (or something like Apple Cranberry Compote)
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar (raw 'demerera' sugar and cane sugar are especially good)
- 1 – 2 tablespoons Greek yogurt (what is Greek yogurt?)
Move an oven rack to the top (or second top) position and set the broiler on high. Line a baking sheet with foil or use an oven-safe dish.
SPICY WAY With a back of a spoon, mash the sugar and spices until a sandy mixture, then spill evenly onto each grapefruit half. Broil for 3 to 6 minutes or until the grapefruit begins to puff and the sugar begins to caramelize.
FRUITY WAY Spoon applesauce over top of the grapefruit. Broil for 3 to 4 minutes until the grapefruit begins to puff and the applesauce warms through.
THE YOGURT WAY Sprinkle the grapefruit with sugar and broil for 3 to 4 minutes until the sugar begins to caramelize. Spread yogurt over top.
Serve and savor!
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11 Best Business Books for CIOs in 2011
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Are you looking to unravel the mysteries of power within your organization? Do you need insight into how to foster innovation within your department? What do you know about the concept of "brainsteering" as a means to address project tasks and overcome bottlenecks? All of these leadership topics and more are addressed in the 11 best business books for CIOs to add to your reading list in winter and spring 2011. The authors behind these titles include a psychiatrist, a multimedia entertainment titan and current or former executives from Accenture, Deloitte, McKinsey and Verizon Communications, and other top organizations. More information about each book can often be found at referenced publishers' Web sites and/or the authors' personal pages. You'll also find these available for sale on bookseller sites such as Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com, among others. Specific dates of publication were not available for all books; in these cases the month of publication has been provided. Publication dates are subject to change. These 11 business books are sure to boost your leadership IQ:
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Giuliana Rancic apologized on-air Tuesday to Zendaya for a comment she made on "Fashion Police" the day prior about the dreadlocked hairstyle the 18-year-old wore to the Oscars.
"Something I said last night crossed the line," Rancic said, after noting that the show "pokes fun at celebrities in good spirit."
The line crosser? After noting the heaviness of Zendaya's hairstyle in comparison to her recent pixie cut, she'd continued: "I feel like she smells like patchouli oil or weed. Maybe weed."
Zendaya posted a statement hours after the show aired, calling the comment "not only a large stereotype but outrageously offensive"...


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I saw this operator in use today in a code example. I must say when I figured what it does my geek side went "YES!!!!".
It resembles an old "if" abbreviation:
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A cervical vertebra from the Early Cretaceous of Victoria represents the first Australian spinosaurid theropod dinosaur. This discovery significantly extends the geographical range of spinosaurids, suggesting that the clade obtained a near-global distribution before the onset of Pangaean fragmentation. The combined presence of spinosaurid, neovenatorid, tyrannosauroid and dromaeosaurid theropods in the Australian Cretaceous undermines previous suggestions that the dinosaur fauna of this region was either largely endemic or predominantly 'Gondwanan' in composition. Many lineages are well-represented in both Laurasia and Gondwana, and these observations suggest that Early–'middle' Cretaceous theropod clades possessed more cosmopolitan distributions than assumed previously, and that caution is necessary when attempting to establish palaeobiogeographic patterns on the basis of a patchily distributed fossil record.
1. Introduction
Palaeobiogeographic scenarios have had a major influence on debates regarding the evolution, diversity and palaeoecology of non-avian dinosaurs [1,2]. The most prevalent relate to apparent differences between the Cretaceous dinosaur faunas of Laurasia and Gondwana, with 'characteristic' taxon sets identified in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres [2]. Until recently, these scenarios posited that Laurasian biomes were characterized by diverse ornithischian clades (e.g. hadrosaurids, ceratopsians and ankylosaurs) and a theropod fauna composed largely of coelurosaurians (e.g. tyrannosauroids, ornithomimosaurians and dromaeosaurids). In contrast, ornithischians and coelurosaurs were considered rare in Gondwana, with a theropod fauna dominated by abelisauroids and carcharodontosaurians. Within this framework, more detailed scenarios interpreted Cretaceous dinosaur distributions as evidence for various Gondwanan fragmentation hypotheses [3]. Such scenarios are difficult to test owing to uncertainties in palaeogeographical reconstructions, differing opinions over identification of taxa from key localities, and poor sampling of Gondwanan Cretaceous dinosaur faunas [1,2]. Consequently, little consensus exists on these issues.
New discoveries from the late Early Cretaceous of Australia provide much needed data on dinosaur distribution across Gondwana. These finds permit more detailed comparisons between Australian dinosaur faunas and those from elsewhere than had been possible previously [4–7]. Here, we describe the first spinosaurid theropod from the Early Cretaceous of Australia, which has major implications for Early–'middle' Cretaceous theropod palaeobiogeography. A previous report of an Australian 'spinosauroid' (i.e. megalosauroid) based on an isolated ulna from the Eumeralla Formation of Dinosaur Cove, Victoria [4] is erroneous: reappraisal indicates that this specimen represents a neovenatorid allosauroid [5,6,8].
2. Material and methods
Museum Victoria, Melbourne (NMV) specimen P221081 is an isolated cervical vertebra, lacking most of the neural arch (figure 1a–e). It is from the Eumeralla Formation of the Otway Group (late Aptian–early Albian, Early Cretaceous: [9]) at the 'Eric the Red west' site, east of Crayfish Bay, Victoria, Australia. A full description of NMV P221081 are presented in the electronic supplementary material: features of systematic and taxonomic significance are discussed below. The small size of the specimen (maximum centrum length = 42 mm) and the lack of fusion between the centrum and neural arch suggest that the vertebra pertains to a juvenile.
3. Results
The character state combination present in NMV P221081 supports its referral to Spinosauridae on the basis of character distributions gleaned from recent large-scale theropod phylogenies [8]. Presence of a single, anteriorly situated pneumatic foramen ('pleurocoel') demonstrates referral to the major clade Tetanurae, which consists of megalosauroids (formerly 'spinosauroids'), allosauroids and coelurosaurs. Within Tetanurae, the strongly opisthocoelous centrum is seen in derived members of Allosauroidea and Megalosauroidea. Two additional features, subdivision of the pneumatic fossa by a simple, short accessory lamina (figure 1e,h), and an elongate centrum (length : height ratio > 2.0), both support referral to Spinosauridae, a widely distributed clade of Cretaceous megalosauroids. The pneumatic fossa in some carcharodontosaurians is also subdivided by a lamina, but in this clade, the lamina is a more substantial buttress of bone that divides the fossa into two widely separated openings, rather than the slender sheet of bone present in some spinosaurids. NMV P221081 can be further excluded from Carcharodontosauria as it lacks camellate internal bone structure (a condition in which the bone contains numerous small, irregular pneumatic spaces). In most respects, NMV P221081 is effectively identical to the cervical vertebrae of the European spinosaurid Baryonyx walkeri (figure 1f–i; Natural History Museum, London R9951; [10]), sharing all of the above mentioned character states and the same overall morphology as the latter taxon. Given the fragmentary nature of NMV P221081, its lack of autapomorphic features and its marked similarity to material of several spinosaurid taxa, we refrain from naming the specimen and do not refer it to any named spinosaurid taxon, regarding it as Spinosauridae gen. et sp. indeterminate. Full discussion of the phylogenetic significance of each of these features, and comparisons with other theropod taxa, is provided in the electronic supplementary material.
4. Discussion
Three scenarios have been posited for the Cretaceous fragmentation of Gondwana [3]: initial separation of Africa from the rest of Gondwana ('Africa first' model); a split between a conjoined South American/African continent (i.e. western Gondwana) and the remaining Gondwanan fragments ('Samafrica' model); and almost simultaneous separation of all Gondwanan continents ('Pan-Gondwana' model). Smith et al. [4] noted the shared presence of megaraptoran theropods in South America and Australia, which they interpreted as support for continuing Early Cretaceous faunal interchange between eastern and western Gondwana. These authors, therefore, rejected the 'Samafrica' model and suggested that South America, Antarctica and Australia retained connections to each other ('Africa first' model) [4]. Subsequently, Agnolin et al. [6] used Sørensen's similarity index (SSI, values between 0 and 1, higher values indicating higher faunal similarity: see the electronic supplementary material) to assess the similarity between dinosaur faunas on different palaeocontinents. These broader-scale comparisons incorporated numerous reidentifications of Australian dinosaur specimens, and led these authors to modify their previous views. They concluded that the 'Samafrica' model could not be rejected, but that the Australian dinosaur fauna was most similar to that from South America, with major differences between the faunas of Laurasia and Gondwana. Agnolin et al. [6] obtained SSIs of 0.55–0.72 when comparing the Australian fauna to those of other Gondwanan continents, contrasting with 0.43–0.58 when compared with Laurasian continents. Among the Laurasian continents, European faunas were deemed most similar to those from Gondwana.
However, the SSI values presented by Agnolin et al. [6] are not useful in identifying patterns of faunal connectivity (see the electronic supplementary material for additional details). Firstly, this test is inappropriate for distinguishing palaeobiogeographic hypotheses, as it does not take clade history into account, but looks at distributions within a single timeslice. As a result, it is not clear whether similarities detected by SSIs reflect genuine palaeobiogeographic signals or 'homoplasy' (caused by regional extinction, earlier vicariance or geodispersal). Secondly, this test is strongly dependent on the number of clades compared, so that sampling issues (e.g. collection effort or amount of available fossiliferous rock in different regions) can have a strong influence on the result: poorly sampled areas might (wrongly) appear either highly similar, or totally dissimilar, to a well-sampled area, because sampling failure is interpreted as genuine clade absence. Thirdly, there is no taxonomic equivalency in the clades selected by Agnolin et al. [6]: some represent paucispecific-derived clades, while others are much more inclusive. These arbitrary taxonomic divisions can bias the results, as they can mask the true levels of underlying species-richness. Finally, there are several instances in which the presence/absence scores used in the analysis of Agnolin et al. [6] contradict existing taxonomic accounts (e.g. there are currently no known stegosaurs from the North or South American Cretaceous ([11], contra [6])). Reanalysis of a corrected dataset based on Agnolin et al. [6], and including the material described herein, shows no unambiguous support for the Gondwanan affinities of Australian dinosaur faunas (see the electronic supplementary material). The highest SSIs obtained by comparison with the Australian fauna are for South America and Europe (both 0.70), the second highest values, for comparisons between Australia and either Antarctica or Asia (both 0.67), are almost indistinguishable from this figure. These values are all much higher than those calculated for comparisons between Australia and the remaining Gondwanan continents (Africa, India and Madagascar, which range from 0.2 to 0.52; see the electronic supplementary material). If this analysis is restricted further, to include only Early–'middle' Cretaceous faunas, the highest SSI values obtained are between Australia and Europe (0.76) or Asia (0.73), whereas the SSI for South America is 0.67 (see the electronic supplementary material). A literal reading of these results implies that the taxonomic composition of Early–'middle' Cretaceous dinosaur faunas was broadly similar over large areas and none of these results provides strong support for the traditional split between Laurasian and Gondwanan dinosaur faunas. These results also offer weak support for the 'Africa-first' hypothesis of Gondwanan fragmentation, as SSI values comparing Australia and Africa are consistently lower than those for South America (see the electronic supplementary material).
We propose that the presence of an Australian Cretaceous spinosaurid, in combination with other recent Gondwanan discoveries of clades previously thought to be restricted to Laurasia (e.g. tyrannosauroid and dromaeosaurid theropods, ankylosaurid ankylosaurs, iguanodontian ornithopods: [6,7,12]), provides evidence for the cosmopolitan distribution of many dinosaur clades during the Early–'middle' Cretaceous. These discoveries are mirrored by other work that has revealed the presence of many formerly 'Gondwanan' clades in Laurasia, such as rebbachisaurid sauropods, and abelisauroid and carcharodontosaurian theropods [8,13,14]. Additionally, recent phylogenetic analyses have identified sister-group relationships between Cretaceous genera that cross the Gondwanan/Laurasian 'divide': for example, the Australian neovenatorid theropod Australovenator is the sister-taxon of the Japanese Fukuiraptor [8], and the Australian titanosaurian sauropod Diamantinasaurus is most closely related to Opisthocoelicaudia from Mongolia [5]. Consequently, NMV P221081 is part of a growing body of evidence that seriously undermines the prevalent view of pronounced north–south differences between Early–'middle' Cretaceous dinosaur faunas. Nevertheless, we recognize that some dinosaur clades are more abundant or diverse in particular regions at this time (e.g. titanosaurian sauropods are much more abundant in South America than Europe: [14]). However, clade abundance will be strongly influenced by local and regional variations in palaeoenvironmental conditions [15], not just biogeographic history. Abundance measures are not, therefore, appropriate criteria for establishing general distribution patterns (which are reliant on additional factors, especially palaeogeography and regional extinction), as they have sometimes been used in the past (see [1,3]). Moreover, abundance and diversity patterns are both strongly influenced by a plethora of sampling biases, geological, biological and anthropic [14,16,17], which have not generally been accounted for in analyses of dinosaur palaeobiogeography. Until such analyses are carried out in concert with rigorous, quantitative cladistic biogeographic analyses [1], few definite conclusions can be drawn about the finer-scale patterns that might exist within a more cosmopolitan, possibly pan-global, Early–'middle' Cretaceous dinosaur fauna.
We thank M. Cleeland and G. Caspar, who collected NMV P221081. P.M.B. and R.B.J.B. thank T.H.R. and P.V.-R. for their hospitality and invitation to work on this material, and D. Pickering for access to collections. S. Brusatte and an anonymous referee provided useful comments. Funding was provided by the ARC (P.M.B., awarded jointly to P.M.B. and B.P. Kear), Cambridge Philosophical Society, Museum Victoria and Trinity College, Cambridge (R.B.J.B.).
- Received May 3, 2011.
- Accepted May 26, 2011.
- This journal is © 2011 The Royal Society


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Jane A. Nelson
Oct. 13, 1920 ñ
Feb. 10, 2011
A. Nelson (nee Anderson) passed away peacefully Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011,
at Sunshine Gardens Nursing Care Facility in Spokane, Wash., at age 90.
She was born Oct. 13, 1920, to Elsie and Eric Anderson
at Augustana Hospital in Chicago. She lived there and met and married the
one love of her life, Carl A. Nelson.
After having two children, they moved to Waukesha and
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died in 1995. She later moved in 2009 to Spokane, where she resided at the
time of her death.
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Elsie, and one grandchild, Alexis.
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May 3, 2005, was the final day for proposed legislation to pass in either the House or the Senate and still have a chance of passing in the other chamber of the Alabama legislature. Among the dozens of bills that died were HB 352, HB 716 and SB 240. Virtually identical, these bills purported to protect the right of teachers "to present scientific critiques of prevailing scientific theories" and the right of students to "hold positions regarding scientific views." In language reminiscent of the Santorum language removed from the No Child Left Behind Act, they specified that "[t]he rights and privileges contained in this act apply when topics are taught that may generate controversy, such as biological or chemical origins." Two similar bills died at the end of the 2004 legislative session.
In a post on the Panda's Thumb web log, Bob Collins of Alabama Citizens for Science wrote "We were better organized this year, and it worked!! Thanks to everyone who called, wrote, faxed, talked to their legislators and/or testified. We made a difference!!!!" The next challenge ahead in Alabama, Collins adds, is the state textbook adoption process: "This summer and fall, the Alabama State Board of Education will pick science textbooks for our schoolchildren. They will also decide whether to continue use of the embarrassing 'Evolution Disclaimer' pasted in the front of every elementary, middle and high school textbook that mentions anything that happened over 6,000 years ago."


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Senior forward Dion Acoff has been named a Preseason All-American by Soccer America it was announced on Friday morning. Additionally, three Gauchos have been named to the TopDrawerSoccer.com Top 100 Upperclassmen list.
Acoff was one of 25 players honored by Soccer America. The transfer from Creighton is a three-time All-Missouri Valley Conference pick and was a 2010 NSCAA All-Midwest Region selection.
For the complete list of Soccer America's Preseason All-Americans, click here.
On the TopDrawerSoccer.com Preseason Top-100 list, Machael David is No. 6 on the list, Fifi Baiden is No. 15, Dom Sarle is No. 30 and Peter McGlynn is listed at No. 98. For the complete list, click here.
TopDrawerSoccer.com also ranked the top-20 players in each conference and six of its Big West selections were Gauchos, including the top-three. David, Baiden and Sarle make up the top-three, respectively. McGlynn is sixth, Acoff is seventh and Achille Campion is No. 14. To view the complete list, click here.
UCSB will officially open the 2012 season on Sunday, Aug. 26 at Loyola Marymount. The Gauchos will return home on Sept. 7 to host Valparaiso at 7:30 p.m. at Meredith Field at Harder Stadium.
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PSP-DuBois investigating Thursday death of Reynoldsville boy
REYNOLDSVILLE — DuBois-based Pennsylvania State Police are investigating the death of a two-and-a-half-year-old Reynoldsville boy stemming from an incident that took place on Grant Street Extension in the Reynoldsville Borough at 8 a.m. on Thursday.
Police are being assisted in the investigation by the Reynoldsville Ambulance Service, the Reynoldsville Police Department, the Jefferson County District Attorney's Office and the Jefferson County Coroner's Office.
The investigation is ongoing.


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Date: Monday, January 6, 2014
Time: 8:00 am
Location: PHYS 401
A New Differential Absorption Lidar Using Raman Cells to Measure Subhourly Variation of Tropospheric Ozone Profiles in the Baltimore - Washington D.C. region
This proposal will detail the theory and background necessary for the ground based tropospheric ozone Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) system at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD 38.99° N, 76.84° W, 57 meters ASL), with initial results from 500 m to 10 km in Summer 2013. Current atmospheric satellites cannot peer through the optically thick stratospheric ozone layer to remotely sense boundary layer tropospheric ozone. In order to monitor this lower ozone more effectively, NASA has funded the ground based Tropospheric Ozone Lidar Network (TOLNET) which currently consists of five stations across the US. The Goddard instrument is based on the Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) technique, which transmits three wavelengths, 266, 289 and 299 nm. Ozone is absorbed more strongly at 266 nm and 289 nm than at 299 nm. The DIAL technique exploits this difference between the returned backscatter signals to obtain the ozone number density as a function of altitude. The transmitted wavelengths are generated by focusing the output of a quadrupled Nd:YAG laser beam (266 nm) into a pair of Raman Cells, filled with high pressure Hydrogen and Deuterium. Stimulated Raman Scattering within the focus shifts the pump wavelength and the first Stokes shift in each cell produces the required wavelengths. With the knowledge of the ozone absorption coefficient at these two wavelengths, the range resolved number density can then be derived. A interesting scientific validation data set will be examined, which yields accurate initial results. There are currently surface ozone measurements hourly and ozonesonde launches occasionally, but this system will be the first to make continuous routine ozone profile measurements in the Washington, DC - Baltimore area.


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Classic Color Combinations: Pink & Green
At first consideration, the pairing of pink and green might bring to mind 1970s preppy style, or perhaps 1950s kitchens and bathrooms — not exactly the kind of look most of us want to emulate today. But this combination, when skillfully handled, can be calming, invigorating, chic, or just plain fun.
- Designer Emily Henderson's vision for the Oh Joy! studio uses pink and green in their most vibrant versions.
- The bright grass-green lamps in this dining room, shot for Vogue and found on Dustjacket, look lovely against its pale pink walls.
- Pink toile and sage green make for a perfect pair in this dining nook, from Rue Magazine.
- Pink and green in their most preppy forms are boosted with white in this room from Better Homes & Gardens.
- The peachy-pink walls and celadon blinds of this bedroom, from Sarah Gilbane Interiors, make a perfectly pretty pairing.
- Emily Henderson must love this combination too, because she's at it again in her own guest bedroom.
- In this room, from the book Decorate Workshop by Holly Becker, via The Curated House, the shades are both muted for a quiet, elegant look.
- An emerald and blush combination for a formal but fun home office, from Charlotte Home & Garden via Emily A. Clark.
- This room, from Design Public, only has a hint of pink, but doesn't it look lovely on those sage green walls?
- Ok, so the pink here is just coming from the flowers, but the combination of emerald and pale pink is lovely, especially with the edition of wood, black and white. From Designer Grant K. Gibson.
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Sunday, May 10, 2009
Dennis Sunday Pages
I've probably posted this Sunday page before in a post on another topic with other people's art, but it's worth its own post.
I love these early Dennis The Menace Sunday pages. They are masterpieces of design and layout.
Ist of all the whole page is layed out well, each panel fits and contrasts well with all the other panels.1st of all Ketham has a very "modern" style. In other words, it's graphic, has some angles; it's not made of generic 40s spheres and pears. But that knowledge and foundation is behind his variations on it.
He started out as an animator and designed this character for some navy cartoons in the 40s.You can see him starting to break away from the purely generic Preston Blair style here. It's half pears and spheres style, and half "modern" style.
Ketcham doesn't think in terms of designing each little piece. Instead, he crafts the whole composition as a design, and then goes and fills it in with details that conform to rather than detract from the overall graphic statement. His use of negative shapes is phenomenal. Each neg space is a design in itself.
I like how that desk is in silhouette while the characters are full color. There is so much information in the shapes that make up the desk, that there's no question what it is - and note how small the details are in comparison with the overall shape of the desk. Small details don't break up a large image. Big details compete with the objects they are part of. This should be taught in every cartoon school today!
Even the curling lamp neck makes a really beautiful negative shape that then in turn relates to all the other shapes, both positive and negative around it.
His poses are always strong, definite and customized to the story and the characters.
Pure silhouettes were a standard technique in old comic strips. Ketcham was an expert. I noticed that the lines of action of the adult characters in silhouette are less extreme than the lines of action in the younger characters. Makes perfect sense to me
Someone told me that Ketcham didn't do all the Sunday pages himself, but whoever did was following his style very closely.
To me, this kind of work is real design - it's not just abstract stylized shapes for the sake of them.
Everything is tightly controlled and thought out, has a purpose and reads very clearly. There is no wonkiness about it.
Check out Ger's site for lots of great Ketcham art.
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- Ger Apeldoorn said...
John, I also have trouble believe that this (and other early pages) is not by Ketcham. If you have the Fantagraphics collectioon, you can see that it follows his early style just as well as the later Sundays follow his later style. So either the ghost was following Ketcham's progress very closely or Ketcham had a hand in the early years himself. I also beliee that Mr. Wilson waas shown and naemd in the Sundays first, something I don't think would have happened if Al Wiseman (the first and most important ghost Ketcham use don the Sundays) and his writer (the name escapes me now) had total freedom, which they did have later on when Ketcham moved to Switzerland. Also, if you have a look at the recent Hogan's Alley article about the current Dennis artist, you'll see how much control Ketcham kept over his successor, often correcting or redrawing sketches long after he was supposed to have given it over.
- Niki said...
I actually found a Dennis web page a while back, but it only had single panel pages.
- HemlockMan said...
I love seeing silhouettes done in comics. When they're done well. Carl Barks used them from time to time--often in backgrounds. He was great at it, too.
When I was a little kid I used to wonder if some of the comic artists wrote their own stories. One day I was reading a Carl Barks Uncle Scrooge story and in the background there was a tiny silhouette of a "man" (a duck, really) leading an elephant by the trunk. Seeing that one tiny detail, I suddenly realized that only the man who wrote the story could have illustrated that panel. In that instant I knew that this guy was writing AND drawing the stories. Of course I didn't even know Barks' name, then. I was only eight years old and Carl Barks was just a cog in the corporate wheel. All I knew was that his duck stories were the best.
- Larry Levine said...
Henry King Ketcham was a cartooning giant.
- Shawn Dickinson said...
You should check out this book, "Where's Dennis?--The Magazine Art of Hank Ketcham", which has a lot of his non-Dennis cartoons and illustrations. Really great stuff:
- Hans Flagon said...
I don't think it is Ketchum. Anyone that has the Ketchum biographys around might check and see which assistant might have been coached thru this.
Possibly Wiseman before he got it under his belt better? Did the Sundays use the assistants before any comics were put together?
I think it may not be Hank because of Dennis and his parents faces. The closing panel is the most like Ketchums daily panels especially for Dennis and Alice, although hang is still a bit off.
The line and layout is certianly there though.
- Ted said...
Wouldn't this be a good place to plug Cartoons For Victory, what with its Hook cartoons and your commentary?
- smbhax said...
Love the silhouettes. Thanks for the insights and the background on Ketcham.
This inspired me to look up some info on him, and I found he was born right here in Seattle, WA. Wikipedia says he took up painting full time after he stopped doing the strip in 1994--can't seem to find much at all in the way of photos of his paintings on the internet, drat. :|
Oh! And a mini-bio on him on imdb.com
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0450477/bio (second one)
mentions that he stopped doing the Sunday strips in the mid-80's, so maybe that's what the person who mentioned he didn't do them all was thinking of. Since the one you posted's from '52, that would mean it's his own work, unless he was part-timing them way back then, but I haven't come across any mention of that.
- Pilsner Panther said...
Ketcham was an amazing draftsman, but the content of "Dennis" got to be very repetitive after a while. Maybe after the strip became a TV show? Formula thinking set in, as it often does when creative people have a lot of money waved under their noses.
Hank did some watercolor paintings of early jazz bands and jazz dances that are really beautiful. Too bad I don't have them to post, but they're probably under copyright, and I'd be sued if I did. That, I don't need.