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Firehouse Theatre Opens ANY GIVEN MONDAY, 2/15
Firehouse Theatre Project has announced the third play of its American Inferno season, Any Given Monday by Bruce Graham, "the dean of Philadelphia dramatists" (Philadelphia Inquirer). Directed by Shanea N. Taylor and a proud part of the Acts of Faith festival, Any Given Monday runs February 14th through March 9th at Firehouse Theatre, with a special preview Thursday, February 14, and opening Friday, February 15th. Any Given Monday is recommended for mature audiences.
David Zimmerman plays Lenny, a middle-aged public school teacher, good father and loving husband. But when his wife, leaves him for a smooth-talking jerk who builds Walmarts and his daughter Sarah has a crisis of faith, Lenny's life turns upside down. While Lenny tries to console himself with pizza and Monday Night Football, his best friend Mickey thinks he has the perfect solution to his marital problems. This biting comedy discusses morality and religion, Old Testament vs. New, the relevancy of Jewish law and the consequences of infidelity. Praised as "wickedly smart" by Nytheatre.com, Graham's work twists and turns, leading the audience through this poignant, funny and emotionally intense play.
Both an acclaimed playwright (Coyote on a Fence, The Philly Fan) and a Hollywood screenwriter (Dunston Checks In, Anastasia), Bruce Graham is considered to be Philadelphia's "people-pleasing David Mamet, builder of stories that suck you in and make you want to stay" (Philadelphia Inquirer). Graham is also known for his award-winning play Something Intangible (Outstanding New Play - Barrymore Awards). Firehouse was one of the first theaters to produce Something Intangible during the 2010-11 season, and as a result were included in the published Dramatist's script.

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Sid Meier, the legendary creator of the Civilization franchise, has been tapped to deliver the opening keynote address at the 2010 Game Developers Conference, which means this could be the most addictive opening keynote speech ever delivered.
Unless of course the keynote isn't two hours of Sid playing Civilization, which it probably isn't. Instead, the keynote, titled "The Psychology of Game Design (Everything You Know Is Wrong)," will feature Sid arguing the importance of the psychology of the player versus historical and mathematical facts in forming the foundation of a successful game design.
Wake up, GDC event director Meggan Scavio has something to say!
"It's an honor to have Sid Meier, a true pioneer in game development, share his decade's worth of insight at the 2010 Game Developers Conference. We're also delighted to welcome so many other high quality lectures from the industry's leading developers."
Leading developers like BioWare's Armando Troisi, speaking on interactive storytelling in Mass Effect 2, and Ubisoft's Patrick Plourde, who will discuss designing Assassin's Creed II.
The 2010 Game Developers Conference will take place March 9th through the 13th in San Francisco. We'll be there, staying awake during a lecture on the psychology of game design so you don't have to.


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BOOK FACT excerpted from Trigonometric Delights by Eli Maor:
It is no coincidence that trigonometry up until the sixteenth century was developed mainly by astronomers. Aristarchus and Hipparchus, who founded trigonometry as a distinct branch of mathematics, were astronomers, as was Ptolemy, the author of the Almagest. During the Middle Ages, Arab and Hindu astronomers, notably Abul-Wefa, al-Battani, Aryabhata, and Ulugh Beg of Samarkand (1393-1449), absorbed the Greek mathematical heritage and greatly expanded it, especially in spherical trigonometry. And when this combined heritage was passed on to Europe, it was again an astronomer who was at the forefront: Johann Muller, known as Regiomontanus.
Regiomontanus was the first publisher of mathematical and astronomical books for commercial use. In 1474 he printed his Ephemerides, tables listing the position of the sun, moon, and planets for each day from 1475 to 1506. This work brought him great acclaim; Christopher Columbus had a copy of it on his fourth voyage to the New World and used it to predict the famous lunar eclipse of February 29, 1504. Regiomontanus's most influential work was his De triangulis omnimodis (On triangles of every kind), a work in five parts ("books") modeled after Euclid's Elements. As he states in his introduction, Regiomontanus's main goal in On Triangles was to provide a mathematical introduction to astronomy. Regiomontanus completed writing On Triangles in 1464, but it was not published until 1533, more than half a century after his death.
We are pleased to announce a new paperback edition is now available:
Trigonometric Delights
by Eli Maor
Trigonometry has always been an underappreciated branch of mathematics. It has a reputation as a dry and difficult subject, a glorified form of geometry complicated by tedious computation. In this book, Eli Maor draws on his remarkable talents as a guide to the world of numbers to dispel that view. Rejecting the usual arid descriptions of sine, cosine, and their trigonometric relatives, he brings the subject to life in a compelling blend of history, biography, and mathematics. He presents both a survey of the main elements of trigonometry and a unique account of its vital contribution to science and social development. Woven together in a tapestry of entertaining stories, scientific curiosities, and educational insights, the book more than lives up to the title Trigonometric Delights.
Maor also sketches the lives of some of the intriguing figures who have shaped four thousand years of trigonometric history. We meet, for instance, the Renaissance scholar Regiomontanus, who is rumored to have been poisoned for insulting a colleague, and Maria Agnesi, an eighteenth-century Italian genius who gave up mathematics to work with the poor–but not before she investigated a special curve that, due to mistranslation, bears the unfortunate name "the witch of Agnesi." The book is richly illustrated, including rare prints from the author's own collection. Trigonometric Delights will change forever our view of a once dreaded subject.
Eli Maor teaches the history of mathematics at Loyola University in Chicago. He is the author of To Infinity and Beyond, e: The Story of a Number, Venus in Transit, and The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History.


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enelpea ltd
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- Something natural warm and professional looking
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Apple Takes On Samsung in India
Apple Inc. in recent months has radically overhauled its iPhone operations in the crucial Indian smartphone market, attempting to break Samsung Electronics Co.'s monopoly. WSJ's Jessica Lessin reports. (Photo: Getty Images)
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I ... the ... I don't laying waste in India for years Apple stepping up its effort to compete in the important part ... I'm Jessica Lessin with The Wall Street Journal in San Francisco ... for EA is even if the actor has been a huge success around the world ... its sales in India have been eyeing ... and that's for a number of reasons including to the high cost of the device ... and also the unique way the distribution of phones works in India ... and he last Apple's vary depending on carriers' hopes sell their devices ... in any at mobile carriers don't really play as big a role in selling the phones ... meanwhile Samsung's got very day in the market still Apple's really stepping up its efforts to compete ... in the past couple months it increased its headcount there by about thirty percent to one hundred and seventy people ... it's working on new ways to get its phones directly to consumers by working with a national distributors and not as much carriers ... and is trying to get new projects in the market faster in eliminating the gap ... between the tweets that when they're available to us when they're in Oakland ... it's really the palate this is working I'll ask later ... Apple's sales about triple the I phone sales in India which has a big jump that was my very small number are still on the low hundreds of thousands analysts estimate ... I has about five percent share the market looks and sang about a forty percent


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I saw this guy in Paris outside Colette.  He made me think that maybe I should try wearing my cardigan a little looser and open, as opposed to always so buttoned-up.
The length on his cardigan is also perfect; it shows just a slice of shirt.
Monday, October 31, 2011
I saw this guy in Paris outside Colette.  He made me think that maybe I should try wearing my cardigan a little looser and open, as opposed to always so buttoned-up.
The length on his cardigan is also perfect; it shows just a slice of shirt.
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i love that the jeans look so raw, the texture is so natural.
Loose cardigans are a staple of French menswear. Paired with a shirt or just a t-shirt they always do the trick!
After looking at people today, I think I like too long sleeves. Yes, I know most men seem to like slightly short fit with the shirt showing. But it somehow looks too tidy. I saw a guy with a way oversized sweater, so it covered a lot of his hands today, and I couldn't help but notice how much more youthful and sexy it was. Kind of like a little kid in a way, but nice. So the looseness is good!
Men's Fashion and Style are complicated territories….
I have a cardigan that's a little looser but I don't wear it as often as the others in my closet. I'm not super duper keen on how it makes me look being 5'7" and all. I'm trying to stay lean looking! Haha
Love the cuffs! Exactly how I wear my jeans.
great silhouette, understated elegance
I agree with you. The outfit is perfect!
I want that whole outfit! Great cardigan and jeans!
something about this look makes it effortlessly fashionable. love the boots. they give the look a rugged feel.
Very cool jeans and shoes!
I like men with loose sweaters and cardigans.
I really love how passionate you are about details!
Sometimes it's the whole setup of a look and sometimes it really are just those little things that make an impact on a look that at first sight might seem not too extraordinary…..
and also agree with the sleeve lenght commentary from Martine…
Love the entire look… I'm especially in love with the jeans and boots! So classically rebellious!
I like this! I feel it is also a bit narcissistic saying this though, because this man is basically a male version of how I dress: short boots, dark straight-leg jeans, and a cardi. I also used to stick to more form-fitting cardigans, but looser ones are so much comfier, and easier to wear long sleeves under for cold days!
i adore colette…nice eye sart!!!
Yeap, loose cardigans are cool. But NOT loose pants.
Kisses from Greece!
now i simply adore colette…nice eye sart!!!
What an amazing cardigan!
the cuff on the pants is a little too short for me though!
I love a man in a cardigan at any age. But what happen to those two wonderful photos of our favorite female photographer that were up a few moments ago?
Nice candid shot. Love his rolled-up jeans and boots.
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I find cardigans on men very sexy.
I also love your photos…….the jeans are wonderful!
oui, tu devrais essayer… pour un look plus cool
nice. like the length of his cuffed jeans.
i hate buttoned cardigans! my brother wears them and i always shout at him, i think people think cardigans can be used as a type of waistcoat and i disagree with this, if i ever wear a cardigan its always unbuttoned :)
I highly dislike fitted cardigans. I tend to buy them a size up or fitted baggy. I like things to look refined, but still casual, which makes things look effortless.
hahha im seeing a trend here in the backs of mens shirts…
Slice of shirt, slice of sock, slice of skin. I see a deliberate theme here.
Let us know how you feel after loosening up a bit
I find very few things sexier than a man in a cardigan. End of story.
love a little 'peek-a-boo' tee.
Grandpa cardies rule.
yes, thank you! the whole look – not skin-tight- it's about time and i hope that more of this happens on the streets. he's got a good look, stylish and contemporary without looking like he's rocking tights and a sweater that was accidentally put in the dryer. bravo!
I tend not to button up my cardigan because I feel crushed when I do it, even though they're not tight on me. And I don't like to hide the dress/shirt I wear underneath. I wonder if that guy would mind..^^
I love the way he adjusted his jeans! Looks so effortless stylish!
You can only see a glimpse of his socks, but i think em make the whole outfit.
I like to play with lenghts as well… and those few "white centimeters" are everything but casual. :)
what a style
Frankly. I have no idea why everyone likes this.
I don't like it in the least. sorry.
It looks sloppy and unkempt.
I haven't a clue why everyone likes this?
It looks slipshod and messy.
Just my opinion. brutal.
Love the photo, very storytelling, the movement is perfect and just the right amount of info, could be a lovely litho also.
I love this image. It is so relaxed and effortlessly cool: so Parisian.
just to say
I love cardigans
like love!
they are so cosy and warm
I'm enamored of the hint of skin peeking between his denim cuff and sock.
The jeans and converse are a perfect match!
I love his boots…. fantastic!
I love how this takes the jeans and t-shirt combo somewhere less American with a simple cuff of the leg and that wonderful deep blue cardigan.
love his style!
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that's a look i wore in the late '80s / early 90′s downtown at nyu. still love it. wonder what the 40′s equivalent to that is now?
simple et efficace, j'adhère !
This is exactly what I look like from behind. It's kind of trippy, to be honest. Sometimes I start to show concern for my style when I constantly wear oversized cardigans but I'm pleased to see it has a Parisian undertone. Love it.
The slice of white shirt is the most important part of any casual outfit in my view ! It always bugs me when i look down to see my t-shirt has disappeared under my jumper ! !
Roll-up makes everything in this pic:-)
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the dried leaves of the deciduous tree Ginkgo biloba, used for symptomatic relief of brain dysfunction, for intermittent claudication, and for tinnitus and vertigo of vascular origin.
ginkgo/gink·go/ (ging´ko) the dried leaves of the deciduous tree Ginkgo biloba, used for symptomatic relief of brain dysfunction, for intermittent claudication, and for tinnitus and vertigo of vascular origin; also used in traditional Chinese medicine and in homeopathy.
n. pl. gink·goes also ging·koes
A deciduous, dioecious tree (Ginkgo biloba) native to China and having fan-shaped leaves used in herbal medicine. The female plants bear foul-smelling fleshy fruitlike structures containing edible seeds used in East Asian cuisine, while the male plants are often grown as ornamental street trees. Also called maidenhair tree.
an herbal product harvested from a tree that is native to China and Japan.
uses It is used for poor circulation, diabetes, vascular disease, cancer, inflammatory disorders, impotence, and degenerative nerve conditions. It is also used for age-related declines in cognition and memory. Ginkgo is generally considered to have some efficacy against dementia, sometimes estimated as being equivalent to a 6-month delay in disease progression.
contraindications It is contraindicated in people with coagulation or platelet disorders or hemophilia, in children, and in those with known hypersensitivity to this product.
ginkgoAlternative pharmacology
A tall tree native to China, the leaves of which have terpenoid derivatives known as ginkgolides A, B and C, as well as bilobalide and proanthocyanidins; as a group, these compounds have anticoagulant activity, act as free radical scavengers, increase the peripheral blood flow and are thought by some to slow age-associated memory impairment. The kernals are known in traditional Chinese medicine as bai guo, Salisburia adiantifolia, white nut, ying hsing and ying xing; the root is designated bai guo gen.
Chinese medicine
Gingko roots and kernels (with greater potency in the latter) are anthelmintic, antitussive, astringent, cardiotonic and sedative; gingko is used to treat alcoholic binges, asthma, bladder infections, cough, gonorrhoea and tuberculosis.
Herbal medicine
Gingko is used to increase cerebral blood flow, prevent blood clots, mood swings, tinnitus and vertigo, and may be effective in asthma and phlebitis.
Mainstream medicine
Mainstream pharmacologic research has shown gingkolides to be effective in treating cerebrovascular insufficiency, which causes lacunar defects of memory, migraines, strokes and vertigo.
—An herb from the Ginkgo biloba tree that some alternative practitioners recommend for the prevention and treatment of AD.
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Q. Have food supplements like Ginkgo Biloba been proven to delay memory disorders?
A. Many people are interested in the health benefits of food supplements, hoping that natural substances can have the same efficacy as drugs. The answer to this specific question is NO. A recent study that was published after testing 3,000 people has shown no difference between those who took Ginkgo and those who didn't. There is no food supplement, including Ginkgo Biloba that was scientifically proved to have the capacity to prevent or delay Dementia. Eating Romaine lattice, broccoli, cauliflower, and spinach have shown good results. Fish with Omega 3 have shown good results too.More discussions about ginkgo


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Living Like a Star
{Brad, Angelina and the kids racking up the frequent flier miles}
Don't we all love getting a glimpse into the fabulous lives of celebrities? US Weekly, People, even Star, there's something so addicting about getting the inside scoop on the stars. Not only do we like to see them at their "finest" (how can we forget Britney's little getting out of the car mishap, Lindsay's many lovely party pics, or the Olsen twins glued to the Starbucks and oversized shades), but we also love to see the way they live in their homes.
As I was browsing the Architectural Digest website, checking out what the recently appointed editor-in-chief Margaret Russell is doing for the magazine, I came across the "celebrity living room" feature. And like any juicy deets about celebrities, I just had to take a peak.
{Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, Beverly Hills}
{Angelica Huston, California Central Valley}
{Sting and Trudie Styler, London}
{Joshua Bell, Manhattan}
{Jennifer Aniston, Beverly Hills}
{Elton John and David Furnish, Los Angeles}
{Kimberly and Dennis Quaid, Los Angeles}
{Diane Keaton, Beverly Hills}
{Gerard Butler, New York City}
{Patricia Heaton and David Hunt, Los Angeles}
{Cher, Los Angeles}
{Sheryl and Robe Lowe, Santa Barbara}


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By Kevin Kelly
Ky. Dept. of Fish & Wildlife
Kentucky offers some of the finest deer hunting found anywhere, and the modern gun deer season stands as one of the most anticipated opportunities each year.
Its allure draws many anglers away from the water in November.
By Jeff Lilly
Outdoors Columnist
I wanted to start out this month's column with a question to readers and hunters in our community. Before asking the question, I'll set it up for you.
Gavin Dingman is an 11-year-old hunter who lives in Michigan. A couple of weeks ago Gavin harvested a nice 12-point trophy buck with a 30-yard shot from his crossbow.
By Lee McClellan
Ky. Dept. of Fish & Wildlife Resources
You arrive at the Holcomb's Landing Ramp just after dawn and look at the shoreline of Lake Cumberland. A line of damp rocks several inches thick rings the lake and the rip rap on the face of Wolf Creek Dam.
Your heart sinks. They are releasing a lot of water quickly through the dam and into the Cumberland River below it. The first smallmouth bass trip of the fall may be a bust.
Trail runners can enjoy a race through the fall woods while helping the Salato Wildlife Education Center, according to a news release.
The center, located on U.S. 60, west of Frankfort, will be hosting the sixth annual Running Wild 4-Mile Trail Run in Frankfort on Saturday, Nov. 1.
According to the release, the course will follow the Salato Center's HabiTrek, Pea Ridge and exhibit trails. These are primitive dirt trails complete with challenging hills, hairpin switchbacks, woods, prairies, brambles and all the obstacles that Mother Nature can supply.
They were not even recognized as a distinctive fish species until 1927. People for many years believed these fish only existed in Kentucky.
In 1956, the Kentucky legislature designated this species the "Kentucky bass" and made them the official state fish. Many anglers, especially in the south-central portion of the United States, still call the spotted bass a Kentucky bass.
Cooler temperatures and shorter days bring out the fall colors that paint Kentucky's landscape in warm hues before winter arrives.
At about the same time, the breeding instinct in whitetail deer stirs, putting them on the move and more frequently into the paths of motorists.
From staff reports
Youth hunters had a bang-up weekend, going 9-for-9 in harvesting deer during the annual event sponsored by the Anderson County Sportsman's Club with an assist from officers with Kentucky Fish and Wildlife.
The nine participating hunters bagged three bucks, two button bucks and four does, according to a news release.
"These are times that will never be forgotten for the youth and for the adults," organizers said in a news release. "Thank you to all the supporters, great or small."
Whether it's a Boone and Crockett or or a doe, The Anderson News wants to print photos of successful deer hunts.
Along with our monthly outdoors page featuring local hunter and fisherman Jeff Lilly, we routinely prints photos not only of successful deer hunts, but anglers holding up everything from a monster catfish to the smallest bluegill.
We ask that the names of those appearing in the photo are provided from the left, and that the game being shown is clean and presented in a dignified manner.
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These days you only get about 15 minutes of originality before someone grabs your idea, swirls it around into a slightly different shape, and then rereleases it as their own. That's a good thing really. But it does mean that mentioning Peppermint Linux immediately after mentioning Lubuntu is the appropriate thing to do, considering it came hot on the heels of Lubuntu's imprimatur.
I have to admit up front that I am not a netbook owner, a Linux Mint fan nor a proponent of cloud-based computing. If anything, I find it amazing that (for example) in the midst of so much negativity over Facebook's supposedly obtuse privacy policies, people are still interested in foisting all their computer habits out into the wild.
But it's always possible that you are one, two or even all three of those things. In that case, a Mint rendition of Lubuntu is probably quite attractive. The system profile is almost indistinguishable from its progenitor — roughly 100Mb on cold start. And the framework is obviously still Lubuntu, with the addition of Mint's flair — things like preinstalled Flash, or the Mint software upgrader.
But Peppermint subtracts almost all the standalone software that I mentioned yesterday, and in its place are shortcuts to web-based alternatives. You can see some of them in the screenshot — things like Pandora, pixlr, the Google suite, Facebook, Hulu and so forth. Almost everything is wired to run through Prism, which I don't really know as much more than a stripped out version of Firefox, intended to reclaim screen space for web-based applications.
Maybe that's the underlying principle here — tear out the generally accepted tools to make "space" for remote substitutes. I'm not sure I follow the logic, but if that's conventional wisdom, I won't fight it.
And I also wonder why there is such a press for lightweight systems among netbook users, when even some of the most basic models appear to have speedy processors and gigabytes of memory. Why squabble over the difference between a bland Ubuntu Gnome installation and a Lubuntu-based cloud-computing system when you have hardware that can probably handle either one?
Ultimately it all falls to preference, and we're back to the most important idea: Freedom to change and choose. So if Peppermint appeals to you because you believe you're sparing your netbook the effort of thrashing through the Gnome desktop, and at the same time undercutting the system requirements of Lubuntu … well, you are always welcome to use it.
But the clock is ticking, and there are only a few minutes left before someone carves up Peppermint, and rereleases it as something new. Move fast. 😉


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Tardigrades: Bears of the Moss
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Cover photo: A Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) photograph of Echiniscus darienae Miller, Horning and Dastych 1995, a new species of Heterotardigrade from the Australian Antarctic. The picture was taken at the Center for Electron Microscopy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The scale bar equals 10 um (0.010 mm). The photograph clearly shows two of the characteristics that distinguish this as a new species. One, the "accessory spine" on each of the interior claws of each leg and two, the position of the primary clava closer to the external cirri than the internal cirri.
Dr. William R. Miller is a Research Associate of the Department of Biology at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas. For thirty years, he has studied tardigrades from Montana, Greenland, the Great Barrier Reef, and Antarctica.
Tardigrades: Bears of the Moss
by William R. Miller
"Tardi what?" A question I am often asked, generally elicited by the SEM pictures of tardigrades on my office walls. With that opening, I get to explain an animal that you cannot see, has never been heard of, and causes you no harm. My story is about the adventure of discovery, the excitement of working with animals that few humans have ever seen. You fell into my trap when you picked up this booklet, so take a few minutes, read what follows, and maybe you too will be intrigued by Tardigrades, Bears of the Moss.
Tardigrada is one of several little known phyla of invertebrates located between the nematodes (roundworms) and the arthropods (crustacea, insects, ticks and mites). They are small, 0.2-0.5 mm in length, about the size of a dot made with a "fine" mechanical pencil. A big tardigrade can be seen with the naked eye, but the light must be just right.
|Figure 1. Heterotardigrada, Pseudechiniscus suillus.
Tardigrades look like miniature caterpillars with five body segments and four pairs of clawed legs (Figures 1 & 2). Like "higher" animals they have digestive, excretory, and nervous systems; separate sexes; and well-developed muscles. Like "lower" animals, they lack respiratory and circulatory systems. Instead, they breathe through their skin or cuticle and the whole body acts as a pump to circulate fluids.
The word tardigrade means "slow walker" which describes their rather sluggish, clumsy movement. They use their short legs and claws to cling to a substrate and waddle along like "Water Bears" or "Moss Piglets" (Kinchin 1994). Tardigrades are very common and have been found on every continent (McInnes 1994). They have been recorded in every biotope: both salt and fresh water; the humidity of rain forests, the altitude of mountains, the dryness of desserts, and the isolation of remote islands and Antarctic nunatacks.
Figure 2. Eutardigrada, Hypsibius antarcticus.
All tardigrades are aquatic. They need to be in water to live, to find food, to breathe, to reproduce, and to move. There are marine, freshwater, and limno-terrestrial species. The latter are subject of this booklet and live in the water droplets trapped in the space between the leaves of moss cushions, the thalli of lichens, and leaf litter. Here they share a micro-world with other organisms (collembola, mites, rotifers, and nematodes) and endure extreme environmental cycles from flood to drought.
The reason tardigrades are "interesting" is that hey have developed ways to survive these environmental swings. They survive times of flood or lack of oxygen by swelling up like a balloon (anoxybiosis) and floating around for a few days. They survive until the environment dries, then return to the active state for feeding, growing, and reproducing (Figure 3).
When the environment dehydrates in dry weather, tardigrades desiccate into a reversible state of metabolic suspension called cryptobiosis. They shrivel to about one-third their former size into a wrinkled "tun" (Figure 3). Individuals have been observed to come and go from the cryptobiotic state repeatedly and tardigrades have been reported to survive more than 100 years (Kinchin 1994).
Cryptobiosis is of great interest in the study of cryogenics and tardigrades have been subjected to laboratory experiments which verified their ability to survive. Tardigrades have tolerated temperatures below freezing at 0.05K (-272.95 degrees C) for 20 hours and -200 degrees C for 20 months. They have survived 120 degrees C, pressures of 1000 atmospheres, and high vacuums. In the cryptobiotic state, tardigrades have shown resistance to hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide, ultraviolet light, and X-rays (Kinchin 1994). We could speculate that tardigrades could be transported through outer space in their existing form.
Despite these "capabilities," tardigrades are still little understood. In the 200 years since the waterbear was first described, we have not identified any specific medical, commercial, or environmental effect of tardigrades. We have identified three Classes, five Orders, 15 Families, 94 genera and more than 750 species (Table 1).
Tardigrades are easy to collect. No special equipment is needed; most is available at the grocery store. Limno-terrestrial tardigrades can be found in moss cushions growing on rocks, soil, or the side of houses. Lichens that grow on the trunks of trees and rocks support a good mix of tardigrade species.
Figure 3. Life stages of limno-terrestrial tardigrades.
|Table 1. Classification of the Phylum Tardigrada
|Number of genera
|Modified from Kinchin 1994, * Marine tardigrades, others are primarily limno-terrestrial species.
To collect moss, simply pull off a clump of the cushion with your fingers and place it in a small paper bag. School lunch bags at work best. Do not use plastic bags since the moist moss will not dry and allow the tardigrades to become cryptobiotic. A pocket knife can be used to scrape lichens into a bag. For precise, comparative samples, use a core sampler, to collect equal areas. A cubic sample of moss can be analyzed for an internal habitat (Miller, Miller & Heatwole 1994).
Collect only a sufficient quantity for plant and animal identifications. Do as little environmental damage as possible. Write your collection code on the paper bag and on a map to mark the location. Enter the collection code in your field notebook along with the description of the location, plant type, substrate, conditions, and other relative data such as exposure, sea spray, or road dust.
Place part of the moss or lichen sample in bowls or cups and add 100 ml of distilled water. Plastic picnic cups work well. However, tap water containing chlorine may prevent your tardigrades from emerging from cryptobiosis. Keep the remainder of the sample for plant identification.
Figure 4. Egg of Macrobiotus sp.
To observe active tardigrades after only an hour or two of soaking, pipette a small quantity of the debris from the bottom of the bowl into a petri dish. Place the dish under a dissecting microscope at 40X. Normal transmitted light will work but reflected light directed from the side of the dish at a 45 degree angle produces a clearer image. Use a black background under the dish.
Tease the debris apart with a fine needle or insect pin taped to a pencil. Tardigrades will be seen wiggling on the bottom of the dish or crawling along a piece of debris. The first one is the hardest to see; the rest will be easy. For the best view, put a drop of water on a microscope slide, insert a tardigrade and drop on a coverslip. The action is spectacular, both the internal and external features can be seen, you will fall in love with tardigrades at this point.
Eggs are very important for identification of some species, so spending the time to look for them is necessary. They will appear as small white or bright sparkles, little Christmas tree ornaments or sea mines (Figures 4 & 5). Search under 40-80 power. This may be hard on the eyes but possible with practice.
To accumulate specimens for a study, let the sample stand in the water for 24 to 36 hours. Then squeeze the plant material with your hand or fingers to dislodge any remaining animals. The asphyxiated (anoxybiotic) specimens can be separated and moved with a micro-pipette or a very find inoculation loop (Irwin loop). Specimens should be preserved in small vials of Ethel alcohol at a 70% concentration or buffered formalin with a 5% solution. Insert a label with the collection code into the vile and mark the outside with a permanent marker.
To make slides, tardigrades are generally mounted in Hoyer's medium (Table 2) which acts both as a mounting medium and a clearing agent. Preserved or asphyxiated tardigrades may be mounted.
Figure 5. Tardigrade egg ornamentation.
|Table 2. Hoyer's Medium formula
|50 gm
|Gum arabic
|30 gm
|Chloral hydrate
|200 gm
|20 cc
|Mix at room temperature, in above sequence.
Center a drop of Hoyer's on glass slide and transfer specimens to the medium. Gently place a glass coverslip onto the drop. Close attention should be paid to the final location of the specimen as the cover slip will cause smaller specimens to flow with the medium as it evens out. To reduce the searching time later, use a fine pointed felt tip pen and place a dot on the coverslip to mark the location of the animal. Eggs are mounted in Hoyer's medium the same as the animals but because of their small size (0.050-0.100 mm) are more challenging to handle.
Slides should be immediately labeled with the collection code and put aside to dry for a couple of weeks. After drying, seal the coverslip by applying a coat of epoxy paint to the edge with a fine brush. Slides must be stored flat because the Hoyers never completely dries and the specimens will move if stored on their edge. Slides may be examined under medium power in a day or two. Slides should be dry and sealed before observing under oil emersion high power magnifications.
Most tardigrades can be identified to genus at the medium powers (200-400X). High power (1000X) is generally required for determining species. Tardigrades are generally drawn with a camera lucida attachment. Photography can be accomplished with camera attachments. A video image may be viewed on a television. Video may also be digitized on a personal computer, printed on a laser printer, and stored on a disk. Most of the drawings in this booklet are made from digitized video images, a technique that preserves dimensions and relationships of structures.
In your collection of moss of lichens, two basic types of limno-terrestrial tardigrades will be found. Armored specimens are in the Class Heterotardigrade, Order Echiniscoidae (Figure 1; Table 1). Naked specimens are in the Class Eutardigrada, Order Parachela or Apochela (Figure 2; Table 1).
The armored Heterotardigrades will have spotted, pitted, or sculptured dorsal and lateral plates of varying number, size, and shape (Figure 6). Many are red in color. They may have spines of varying length and thickness projecting from the plates (Figure 6). Heterotardigrades have four separate claws on each foot (Figure 8B). The mouthparts (Figure 7B) are often obscured by the cuticular plates. Variations of these features determine genus and species.
The naked Eutardigrades do not have the dorsal plates but a few may exhibit some reticulations, sculpturing, bumps, or even spines (Figures 10, 11). They have a pair of branched claws that vary in size and shape on each leg (Figure 8C-I). Detail of the buccal apparatus is generally visible (Figures 7C-I). Different genera and species may have placoids, teeth, and lamella of varying number and size and exhibit variation in other structures that can be used for identification.
Figure 6. External structures.
Figure 7. Buccal apparatus of various genera of tardigrades.
Members of the genus Echiniscus are cosmopolitan, armored Herteotardigrades of moderate size (0.10-0.35 mm in length). They are identified by the number, shape, and placement of their dorsal armored plates and spines or cirrus (Figure 6). A dentate collar on the fourth pair of legs has teeth and the internal claws may have spurs, the external claws are smooth (Figure 8B). The eggs are oval and deposited in the exuvium (Figure 5).
Figure 8. Claws of various genera of tardigrades.
Two general types of Echiniscus are recognized, the first has only one spine, the most anterior cirri "A." The granulation on the plates is dense and uniform. The internal claws have large curved spurs and the dentate collar on fourth pair of legs has many sharp teeth (Figures 6, 8B). The other type is distinguished by having several spines present on the edges of the dorsal plates (Figures 6, 14). They generally have red eyes, a double granulation composed of a very fine, uniform sculpture, and a courser set of depressions or pores of irregular size and arrangement. The dentate collar has small irregular teeth.
Pseudechiniscus are small (0.10-0.20 mm) red, armored Heterotardigrades with a pseudo-segmental plate inserted between median plate three and the terminal plate (Figure 6). They have large, black eyes and very fine granulation. The only appendages are a cirrus and clavae arising between the head and first plate, other appendages are absent (Figures 1, 6). Medial plates I and II are divides; median plate III is single. The internal claws on all legs have a spur just above base. A dentate collar is not present on the fourth pair of legs.
Milnesium is a genus of large (up to 1.0 mm in length), very common, cosmopolitan tardigrades. Milnesium is distinguished by its anteriorly sloping body, the very wide buccal tube, the muscular pharynx without placoids. Six oral papillae and triangular lamellae surround the mouth opening (Figure 7C). The claws are distinctive with a long, thin primary branch and a short, multi hooked secondary branch (Figure 8C). It is a carnivorous species and is occasionally observed eating nematodes. The mouth parts of rotifers and the buccal apparatus of other tardigrades may occasionally be observed in its gut.
Diphascon is a genus of medium-sized (0.20-0.40 mm), smooth, eyed tardigrades with long, thin bodies. The buccal tube is also very thin. The esophageal tube is very long, thin and leads to an elongated pharynx. Long, thin macroplacoids are present. A microplacoid and a septulum may be present (Figure 7D). Macroplacoids usually increase in size from the first to the last. Cuticular bars are often present at the base of hypsibius-type claws.
The Ramazzottius genus contains common cosmopolitan mid-sized (0.20-0.35 mm in length) tardigrades with a granular cuticle that has a pigmented (red or brown) pattern often appearing in longitudinal rows and transverse bands. The buccal tube is narrow, the pharynx oval to round (Figure 7E). An apophysis is preset as are two roundish, smooth macroplacoids, nearly equal in size. The claws are oberhaeuseri-type (Figure 8E) with the primary branch of the external claws very thin, long, and whip-like.
Hypsibius is a common genus of smooth tardigrade with or without eyes and up to 0.35 mm in length. They have a short, broad buccal tube and a round pharynx. In the pharynx is a large apophysis, two elongated, globular macroplacoids, and no microplacoid (Figure 7F). The claws are typical hypsibius-type in the 1-2-1-2 pattern (Figure 8F). The eggs are generally smooth and left in the cuticle, but some species do leave free eggs with small projections (Figure 6C).
Dactylobiotus is a large (0.30-0.50 mm), smooth, aquatic genus of tardigrade. A broad buccal tube leads to an oval pharynx with two slender macroplacoids, the first twice the length of the second (Figure 7G). No microplacoids are present. The large, thin claws are connected at their base with a chitinous bar (Figure 8G). The eggs have small, cone shaped projections and are laid free (Figure 6D).
The Macrobiotus cf. harmsworthi group contains medium to large (0.20-0.50 mm), cosmopolitan tardigrades with a smooth cuticle and eye spots. The supported buccal tube is wide. The oval pharynx has three macroplacoids and a large microplacoid (Figure 7H). The claws are Y shaped with small lunules. Eggs have prominent projections that look like cones rising from the surface (Figure 6A). Eggs are required for identification.
Figure 10. Isohypsibius cf. sattleri
Members of the Macrobiotus cf. hufelandi group are large (0.30-0.50 mm), white tardigrades with a smooth cuticle and eye spots. The supported buccal tube is moderate in width. Two macroplacoids and a microplacoid are found in the elongated pharyngeal bulb. The first macroplacoid is longer than the second and often constricted to appear as two (Figure 71). They have Y-shaped claws with prominent lunules and accessory points (Figure 8I). The eggs are deposited free, with ornamentation that resembles inverted egg-cups or goblets (Figure 6B). Many species in this group are very difficult to separate even for experts. Eggs are required.
Figure 11.
The Minibiotus genus is composed of small (0.10-0.25 mm), smooth tardigrades with large eye spots. They have three round equal sized macroplacoids in a round pharyngeal bulb and a tiny microplacoid (Figure 7J). The stylet supports are joined to the buccal tube at the midpoint of its length. The claws are small of the hufelandi type with large accessory spines and large lunules (Figure 8J). The eggs have smooth dome-like projections (Figure 6E).
Naked Eutardigrades hatch as small versions of the adults and grow by molting through instars that are similar but larger. The armored Heterotardigrades change from one molt to the next, achieving their distinctive morphology as adults. Changes include the number and size of dorsal spines, texture of plates, and the appearance of the gonopore.
The active life of a tradigrade may last only a few months, although it may be spread over several years if interrupted by cryptobiotic periods. Growth and molting occur throughout the active life and from six to 12 instars are common (Higgins 1959). Molting begins with the 'simplex' stage where the feeding apparatus is lost. The old cuticle is shed and left behind. Then a new feeding apparatus is regenerated. Tardigrades do not feed during molting which may take hours to a few days.
Tardigrades exhibit both sexual and asexual reproduction. Parthenogenetic strains are known where females produce females, without fertilization. For bisexual limno-terrestrial tardigrades, periods of reproduction occur quickly because of the erratic nature of cryptobiosis. Many tardigrades leave their eggs in their discarded skin when the molt. Others release their eggs free into the environment. Egg producing activity generally declines in the winter.
The egg may be smooth, have rounded projections, thin spines, or robust cones. Some projections are split or branched and the surface of the egg may be smooth, pitted, or patterned (Figures 4, 5). The size, shape, and pattern of the projections and the surface of the egg are the only known differences between some species of tardigrade, thus eggs are needed for identification.
The buccal apparatus of tardigrades show great variation in detail but great similarity in structure and function. Generally the mouth and buccal tube are flanked by two piercing stylets. A pharyngeal tube leads to the bulbus, sucking pharynx that opens into the alimentary system (Figures 7). Mouthparts are used in identification. The claws also show great diversity from simple, smooth sword-like to multi branched tree-like structures (Figures 8). They are heavily used in taxonomic determination.
As with any biological project one must first find the general, basic knowledge of the subject upon which to build observations and develop questions. Three major references for tardigrades are available today. The first, Fresh-Water Invertebrates of the United States (Pennak 1978) provides a good general overview and simple key but was published 20 years ago and is not taxonomically current. The second, Il Philum Tardigrada (Ramazzoti & Maucci 1983) is the last monograph that attempted to list and describe all known species. It is in Italian but an English translation is available. Finally the third, The Biology of Tardigrades (Kinchin 1994) provides an updated summary of the state of knowledge and theory of tardigrades but does not describe species. All three have good bibliographies.
Most libraries will have journals such as Invertebrate Biology that have published papers about tardigrades. In the last twenty years, six international symposia devoted to tardigrades have been held. The third (Nelson 1982), the fourth (Bertolani 1987), and the sixth (McInnes & Norman 1996) have produced excellent volumes from the papers presented. Copies of published articles are generally available from living tardigradologists for the cost of a polite letter.
It is generally believed that tardigrades in the cryptobiotic state can be carried on the winds. This would account for their worldwide distribution. Tardigrades have been found on remote volcanic islands where dispersion could only have been by wind or birds. The debate is supported by circumstantial evidence and awaits direct proof. What is not understood is why some apparently suitable microhabitats are not inhabited and why tardigrades may be more common in temperate and polar regions than in the tropics.
Do animals that undergo cryptobiosis have fewer generations? Does cryptobiosis allow tardigrades to inhabit microenvironments that most other animal groups would find too harsh? Are the most advanced tardigrades the ones that have been in the most stable environment for the longest time? From what did tardigrades evolve?
Eighty percent of the tardigrades described are Eutardigrades. Is this the actual makeup of the phylum or result of the collections of the last 200 years being concentrated in terrestrial mosses and lichens? Are there more species to be found? Will there be more new marine tardigrades because the salt water environment is less studied and harder to sample?
We know little of how tardigrades go about living normally. What do tardigrades do when active in the moss? Tardigrades have been observed eating nematodes, rotifers, and each other, but how often and how many? How do they find food or each other? Are they drawn to or away from light, cold, heat, oxygen or CO2? Are tardigrades positively or negatively associated with their microscopic neighbors: nematodes, rotifers, and springtails? How do they fit into the micro ecosystems? What are the effects of pollutants on tardigrades? Comparisons of tardigrades from moss and lichen samples from pristine localities and those exposed to air, chemical, or thermal pollution has not been done.
Our records of world distribution are based on only a few hundred observations (McInnes 1994). Most of those collections are from Europe. The other continents have very few records. The reports of tardigrades in the United States are scarce and scattered (Figure 12). Patterns of distribution within localities and affinities for or against particular environments or elements of the habitat are only now beginning to emerge. Almost any verified collection will add to our knowledge of distribution.
Figure 12. Number of reports of tardigrades by state in the United States, per McInnes 1994.
The tardigrade lives a paradox. How does it maintain life while passing through the freezing or boiling points where the water molecule needed for metabolism expands as it changes states? How does it prevent the cells from rupturing? Answers to these puzzles are beginning to emerge with research. For example, in the anhydrobiosis type of cryptobiosis a tun is formed as the tissue dries out and the water is replaced by the disaccharide sugar trehalose. Metabolism is stopped and the trehalose forms membranes that inhibit the expansion of the remaining fluids (Roser and Colaco 1993).
Many puzzles about tardigrades and life await to be solved. For example, only ten years ago Kristensen (1987) stated that the 130 plus species of the genus Echiniscus were completely parthenogenic, that is composed of only females. He proposed that over time males became smaller and less frequent as a percentage of the population. Thus the presence of large and abundant males is thought to be a statement of an evolutionarily older and more primitive condition. Pilato (1979) speculated that parthenogenesis was an adaption for successful passive distribution of cryptobiotic tardigrades because a single animal reaching an isolated location has better chance of surviving and procreating than if two individuals of different sexes are required.
About the same time, Dastych (1987) identified males in the genus Echiniscus by describing differences in the gonopores of specimens collected in the Himalayas and Antarctica. A few years later Claxton (1991) reported Echiniscus with large and numerous males in the mountains of Southern Australia. Then Miller and Heatwole (1994, 1996) found males on the Mawson Coast and in the Prince Charles Mountains of East Antarctica. Most recently, Claxton (1996) has described several new species of Echiniscus from Australia that exhibit sexually dimorphic characteristics in additional to the gonopore. Because of this recent evidence, we must rethink the basic assumptions of the role of parthenogenesis and cryptobiosis as adaptations for survival in harsh, isolated situations.
Like a puzzle or a mystery, the pieces of evidence unfold, one report at a time. You work with your data, you read what others find, and you look for patterns of sameness or contradiction. You challenge how each fact fits into the puzzle. This is the adventure of science. There are many biological puzzles waiting to be answered by the observant student. Most tardigrade work does not require expensive equipment, only the tools found in a biology classroom. It just takes a little interest and patience.
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Experts can be a great source of information. To contact an expert write and explain who you are, what you are doing, and ask for copies of papers that are relevant to your work. If you seek additional help, first ask permission to submit questions and/or specimens. An expert will not mount your specimens nor identify your whole collection. Most will be glad to assist by confirming examples of your identifications.
When sending specimens to an expert, send only a few good examples of each type of animal you have found. If they are Macrobiotus, you must have eggs. Each slide must be clearly labeled and sealed with epoxy paint. Include a data sheet that identifies each slide, your identification, and questions; leave space for the specialist to write a response.
For shipment use a small sturdy slide box, many science supply houses have a good one that holds 25 slides. Use tissue to pack the slides so they do not rattle. Tape the box tight. Pack the slide box in the center of a shipping container surrounded by plastic "peanuts."
When shipping specimens internationally, use the following statement on the green customs slip to clearly describe what you are sending and avoid explanations of what tardigrades are: "Preserved, dead insects on microscope slides for scientific research." Expect the package to be opened in the other country, so include a page that gives your return address, phone number, fax numbers, etc. Tardigrades are not endangered species. Do not sent moss or lichen with soil attached; most countries do not allow soils to be imported. If you are requested to send unmounted specimens, send them in small vials of formalin, not alcohol.
If you find something important enough to warrant publication, like a new species, ask your specialist to help you with the paper. Remember an author on a scientific paper should contribute to the science, not just pick up the moss.
Pick up some moss or scrape a lichen from a tree. Soak it in a dish. Look at it under a scope. A whole micro-ecosystem is there. Try it and you'll be ready when a student asks for an idea for a unique science project or wants to learn about something different. Add tardigrades to your classes by developing a simple project that can be repeated annually.
Tardigrades offer low cost, visible results, and great biology questions. In addition, you teach sampling, field work, lab preparation, observation, measurement, identification, literature, and writing. And maybe the adventure of finding something new, the reward for wrestling with Tardigrades: Bears of the Moss.
Bertolani, R. (Ed.) 1987. Biology of Tardigrades, Selected Symposia and Monographs No. 1, Unione Zoologia Italia. Mucchi Modena, 380 pp.
Claxton, S.K. 1991. A study of tardigrade populations in mosses and lichens from a temperate rainforest and dry sclerophyll forest in New South Wales, MS thesis, Macquarie University, pp. 77.
Claxton, S.K. 1996. Sexual dimorphism in Australian Echiniscus (Tardigrada, Echiniscidae) with descriptions of three new species, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol. 116, 13 33.
Dastych, H. 1987. Two new species of Tardigrada from the Canadian Subarctic with some notes on sexual dimorphism in the family Echiniscidae, Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologishen Museum Hamburg, Vol. 8, pp. 319-334.
Higgins, R.P. 1959. Life history of Macrobiotus islandicus Richters with notes on other tardigrades from Colorado, Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, Vol. 78, pp. 137 154.
Kinchin, I.M. 1994. The Biology of Tardigrades, Portland Press, London, pp. 186.
Kristensen, R.M. 1987. Generic revision of the Echiniscidae (Heterotardigrada), with a discussion of the origin of the family, In Bertolani, R. (Ed.) 1987. Biology of Tardigrades, Selected Symposia and Monographs No. 1, U.Z.I., Mucchi, Modena, pp. 261-335.
McInnes, S.J. 1994. Zoogeographic distribution of terrestrial/freshwater tardigrades from current literature, Journal of Natural History, Vol. 28, pp. 257-352.
McInnes, S.J. & Norman, D.B. 1996. Tardigrade Biology, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol. 1-2, pp. 1-243.
Miller, W.R. & Heatwole, H.F. 1995. Tardigrades of the Australian Antarctic Territories: the Mawson Coast, East Antarctica, Invertebrate Biology, Vol. 114, pp. 27-38.
Miller, W.R. & Heatwole, H.F. 1996. Tardigrades of the Australian Antarctic Territories: the Northern Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, Vol. 116, pp. 245-260.
Miller, W.R., Miller, J.D. & Heatwole, H.F. 1996. Tardigrades of the Australian Antarctic Territories: the Windmill Islands, East Antarctica, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol. 116, 175-184.
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Pennak, R.W. 1978. Fresh-Water Invertebrates of the United States, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 803.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Japan's annual whale hunt is a commercial slaughter of marine mammals dressed up as science, Australian lawyers argued Wednesday as they urged the United Nations' highest court to ban the hunt in the waters around Antarctica.
Australia's case at the International Court of Justice, supported by New Zealand, is the latest step in years of attempts by governments and environmental groups to halt the Japanese whaling fleet's annual trips to harpoon minke and fin whales for what Tokyo argues is scientific research allowed under international law.
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"Japan's research programs have been legally conducted for the purposes of scientific research, in accordance with the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling," Japan's Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Koji Tsuruoka said outside the courtroom. "Australia's claim is invalid. Japan's research whaling has been conducted for scientific research in accordance with international law."
But Australia argued that the scientific whaling program, under which thousands of whales have been killed in factory ships plying Antarctic waters, was set up simply to sidestep the 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling.
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Shikata also said that Japan would be challenging the court's jurisdiction to hear the case, but did not elaborate on the reason for the challenge.
Australia is presenting its legal arguments this week and Japan will make its case starting July 2. New Zealand also gets a chance to outline its arguments July 8.
The Sea Shepherd environmentalist group, whose pursuit of Japanese whalers ensures the hunt makes news each year, said that the opening of the case was a victory for whales and vindication of the group's controversial tactics in confronting the harpooners in the icy waters of the Southern Ocean.
"Without that, trade considerations would have been more important than the slaughter of whales in Australian waters and the Antarctic whale sanctuary," said Geert Vons of the Dutch arm of Sea Shepherd, who was in court to watch proceedings.
"It's a shame it's taken 10 years, but it is good that Australia is making this public statement by bringing this case against Japan."
Campbell sought to broaden the dispute by casting Japan's decision to kill whales as undermining the global consensus to protect the broader environment.
"There is now broad recognition ... that the environment and its constituent elements are a common resource which has to be safeguarded and managed by collective action," he said.
He also highlighted the devastating effect of wide-scale whaling before it was reined in by the 1946 convention, saying that the global blue whale population was estimated at 235,000-307,000 before whaling. A 1998 estimate put the population at "a mere 2,280 worldwide," he said.
The court will take months to issue a final and binding decision on the legality of Japan's hunt.
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The Abel Prize 2009, one of the most prestigious prizes in mathematics, has been awarded today to the Russian-born mathematician Mikhail Gromov for "his revolutionary contributions to geometry".
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A date for your TV diary: next Tuesday, the 31st of March 2009, at 9pm, BBC2 will screen the Horizon programme Alan and Marcus go forth and multiply, in which actor and comedian Alan Davies explores his fear of maths with mathematician and author Marcus du Sautoy. Together they will visit the fourth dimension, cross the universe and explore infinity, and along the way Alan does battle with some of the toughest maths questions of our age. Let's hope he's done some swotting with Plus first!
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The Abel Prize 2009 will be announced tomorrow, March 26th, and you will be able to view the ceremony live in the Abel prize webcast. The ceremony announcing the winner of one of the most prestigious pirzes of mathematics will begin at 11am UK time (12 noon Norwegian time), and soon after Plus will give you more details.
You can find out more about previous winners of the Abel Prize on Plus.
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If you enjoy the Plus podcasts, then you might also like a maths podcast published by Peter Rowlett, the University Liaison Officer of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. On his travels he records short interviews with interesting mathematicians talking about their career and work. There are also episodes on the history of mathematics and on mathematical news, and the webpage also contains a blog.
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This is your final reminder of the Plus new writers award, our writing competition which gives you the chance to become a Plus author, and win an iPod and signed books by some of the best popular science writers around. The deadline is March 31, so get writing now — we're looking forward to reading your entries!
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Are entries with two authors eligible for the contest?
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Yes, though if you win, you'll have to share the prize...
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Do pictures count....I mean, if they count on them? I've got a really neat picture file that's worth, probably, a trillion mathematicos.
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May I send two entries?
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The answer to the previous two questions is: yes, you can send two entries, and pictures are very welcome as part of articles, or with a good explanatory article, but not on their own unfortunately.
We're looking forward to your entries!
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First World War sailor's letter finally delivered after 98 years
A FORGOTTEN letter from a mystery First World War sailor has found its way to his granddaughter after almost a century.
The letter, dated 1916, was discovered behind a fireplace in Kirkwall, Orkney, and signed "Your Blue Jacket Boy."
It was addressed to the serviceman's family in Wales and was sealed and stamped, but never posted.
Staff at Orkney Library wanted to identify the author and made appealled on their blog, which led to a distant relative in Canada suggesting the sailor may be David John Phillips from Llanelli.
He contacted Mary Hodge in Chester, who recognised the writer as her grandfather.
Mrs Hodge, who is planning a visit to Orkney to pick up the letter addressed to her great-grandparents 98 years ago, said: "I've got shared ancestry with my friend in Canada. He's interested in his family history, so he keeps an eye on the Orkney Library and Archive's blog.
"He called me about a week ago and said, 'I think you'd better get in touch with the archive folk at the Orkney Library, because I've seen a post on their blog and I'm sure it's about your grandfather.'
"I knew instantly it was my grandfather. I recognised the name and address on the picture of the letter. It was a mixture of high emotion, shock and disbelief.
"I'm not really a big user of the web, but thank goodness for the internet. This letter may never have come home without it.
"It's overwhelming to have a little piece of my beloved grandfather, after all this time."
David John Phillips, known as Dai, was stationed in Orkney during the First World War.
It is understood he served on HMS Cyclops, a depot and repair ship based at Scapa Flow.
He married Orcadian Catherine Isabella Coghill Johnston in 1919 before returning to Llanelli where the couple had two children and opened a greengrocer's shop.
Catherine's family lived in Bridge Street, Kirkwall, where the letter was discovered in 1980. It was handed to Orkney Library last year.
It is thought the envelope may have been propped up on the mantelpiece ready for posting, but slipped down the back unnoticed.
In the letter, Mr Phillips asks to be remembered by his family and mentions sending a handkerchief with a picture of a sailor on it.
Thank goodness for the internet. This letter may never have come home without it
Assistant archivist Lucy Gibbon said: "We posted the blog last year and asked our followers to help us find out the author's real name, and if he had any descendants.
"We meantime also worked with the local paper in Llanelli to get the story out.
"It certainly captured the imagination of our blog followers."
Ms Hodge, 60, added: "I don't live in Llanelli any more, so I missed the articles in the local paper.
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Spring is supposed to begin in a couple of days- it certainly doesn't feel like it here. It's still flipping freezing and hope is waning in these parts. But as the snow melts (and we pray we don't get any more) I can start thinking about outdoor living again!!! In the warmer months I spend as much time as humanely possible outside, it just makes me happier. So when we bought our house I knew I HAD to get a patio installed sooner rather than later. Luckily, we did to get to design and install a fabulous one last summer thanks to the fine folks at Quikrete ,Pavestone and Chris Miller Brick Paving. If you are thinking of adding a patio or re-doing one at your home this spring I thought a little step by step may be helpful!
We have a long narrow yard, but after living in the city for years it felt like a farm to us.
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3. Place the pavers on the level surface. I used the Venetian Stone™ Combo 80mm in charcoal and in 4 different sizes to achieve a slightly more "natural stone" look. The grey color is great and works nicely with the classic New England style of our house.
6. Pour and sweep in QUIKRETE HardScapes Polymeric Jointing Sand – this product is so great because it joins the blocks together to keep out insects and grass growth, while remaining flexible to give with the freeze thaw cycles throughout the year. Unless you live somewhere that is always warm where you don;t have to worry about such things, in which case I congratulate you for being so smart.
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