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CAMP ALLEGHANY, Dec. 14, 1861.
DEAR REPUBLICAN:--Yesterday, our scouting party, while lying in ambush near Slavan's Crossing, several miles in advance of our old camp, "Bartow," and about fourteen miles from this place, discovered the advance guard of the enemy advancing down the road towards them. Our brave fellows waited until they approached quite near, when they opened fire upon them, killing and wounding eighteen out of the twenty-three men. In a very few minutes the main column of the enemy came in sight, when our scouts were compelled to retreat. They came into camp about dusk, and made their report, when preparations were immediately commenced for the work we knew we had to perform the morrow.
This morning at 4 o'clock, the "long roll" alarmed every man from his slumbers, and the firing of the pickets heralded the advance of the enemy. At 9 o'clock they made their appearance, and commenced an attack in heavy force both on the right and left flanks of our camp[.] They were gallantly met in an open field by the 12th Georgia, 52nd and 31st Virginia regiments, and Hansborough's battalion; and although our brave fellows were outnumbered five to one, they charged upon the foe, and put them to complete route. They soon rallied, however, and advanced in stronger force, and succeeded in taking possession of our Commissary Depot, but in a very short time they were driven from the place with great slaughter. This was on our right. On our left the enemy got among the trees which had been felled for the purpose of clearing the ground, and were protected to some extent from the fire of our musketry, but our artillery was brought to bear upon them, and they were soon compelled to leave their coverts and take to their heels.
Captain Miller of the Rockbridge artillery, with his battery, and the Howitzer of the "Lee Battery" of Lynchburg, were conspicuous in performing this service, and made tremendous havoc among the enemy. The enemy finding all their efforts futile, and that they were met at every point with iron hail, which carried death among their ranks, withdrew from the field, leaving us in possession of it, though our victory was dearly won.
In the early part of the engagement, the brave and chivalrous Captain P.B. Anderson, of the "Lee Battery," fell mortally wounded, and died in a few minutes.
Captain James Deshler, of the regular artillery, was shot through both thighs, and it is feared will not recover.
Capt. Mayneham, of Hansborough's Battalion, was shot through the heart and instantly killed; and a number of other gallant and valuable officers were severely, some of them dangerously wounded.
Our gallant Commander, Col. Edward Johnson, of the 12th Georgia, who commanded during the battle made several narrow escapes, as his clothes bear testimony that several balls passed through different portions of them, without, I am happy to say, inflicting any injury. He was in all parts of the field, and, musket in hand, encouraged the men by his presence and example to repel the enemy.
The fight commenced at eight o'clock, and about half-past one, the enemy gave up in despair and retired from the field, after suffering a heavy loss, both in killed and wounded. The exact number we could not ascertain, as those who fell in the early part of the fight were carried off in ambulances. Their loss cannot be less than 300 or 400, as there were some eighty or ninety left dead on the battle ground, in addition to the number of their wounded. Our loss is about twenty five killed, and sixty wounded, some of them very badly.
The wounded Yankees and prisoners who fell into our hands, state the force they had to be 5,000. They came from Cheat Mountain and Huttonsville, and evidently expected to surprise us. They were mistaken in their calculations, as the bloody sequel shows.
Our effective force was only about 1,300 men, but every man was a host within himself, and felt fought as though the fortunes of the day depended upon him alone.
At 6 o'clock in the evening, Col. Scott's 44th Virginia Regiment arrived in camp, but they were not then needed.
We expect another fight to-morrow, and should it come off, you may set it down as certain to result in a worse thrashing for the Hessians than we gave them today.
After the death of Captain Anderson, your correspondent was placed by Colonel Johnson in command of the "Lee Battery," Lieutenants Raine and Massey both being absent.
The duties which have thus devolved upon me, together with a want of paper, prevent me from entering more fully into the details of the fight. In another letter you shall have full particulars.
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Dan Markingson was enrolled in an anti-psychotic drug trial at the University of Minnesota. He committed suicide almost ten years ago, during the course of the drug trial. When Dan was initially enrolled in the study, a doctor at the University of Minnesota determined that Dan "'lack[ed] the capacity to make decisions regarding [his] treatment.'" Consequently, Dan probably could not have provided informed consent to participate in the study. As the study progressed, Dan's mental state deteriorated and his mother asked to have him removed from the study. However, despite his mother's request, the University of Minnesota refused to end Dan's participation. Subsequently, Dan committed suicide.
In recent years, it has been reported that the study's design may have been flawed and that the trial investigators may have been influenced by financial conflicts of interest – the study was funded by he pharmaceutical industry. However, the University of Minnesota has not only refused to open a new investigation into the issue, but also "appeared to threaten the leading bioethicist dissent, Dr. Carl Elliot." Subsequently, as previously reported on this blog, Dr. Elliot claimed that the consent documents for two separate patients enrolled in the trial were exactly the same, indicating ethical misconduct. Furthermore, Dr. Elliot has obtained additional documents that bring the study's administration into question. Despite this potential new evidence of misconduct, the University of Minnesota has refused to investigate the matter. As a result, Dr. Elliot has created an online petition in the hopes of initiating "an outside investigation." Read more here.
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Professor Carl Elliot claims that the consent documents for two schizophrenic patients enrolled in a drug study at the University of Minnesota are exactly the same. If Professor Elliot's allegation is true, consent may not have been properly obtained for the patients' involvement in the drug study. The consent questionnaire involves several open-ended questions, which the two patients answered in exactly the same way. Professor Elliot points out that such an occurrence is "improbable" and raises concerns about the university's examination of the patients as it relates to their ability to consent to involvement in the drug study. Mark Rotenburg, an attorney for the university, disputes the allegations. However, the university's methods for recruiting patients were previously questioned in 2004, following the suicide of Dan Markingson. Read more here.
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Depositary Receipts 101: The Individual Investor's Bridge to the Global Economy
Nick is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.
For over two decades, Akbar Poonawala has been creating depositary receipts – effectively foreign stocks that trade in local markets. Originally from Pune, India's most economically diversified and livable city, he has spent his professional career helping Deutsche Bank (NYSE: DB) bring far-flung investment opportunities within reach of local investors. In addition to establishing the first Indian stock on an American exchange in 1999 – the iconic Infosys – among the other 970+ DRs he oversees includes Finland's Stora Enso, the world's oldest company.
Nick Slepko: Talking with Deutsche Bank, Bank of New York Mellon (NYSE: BK), Citigroup (NYSE: C), and JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM) – not to mention the Hong Kong, London, and New York exchanges, particularly NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) – it becomes apparent that all are deeply invested in the business of depositary receipts, though their strategies vary and the role DRs play in their overall business can be quite divergent. What are depositary receipts, and what's so great about them for individual investors?
Akbar Poonawala: Essentially, the depositary receipts Deutsche Bank facilitates are the bridge between investors and companies in countries all around the world.
DRs can be issued in the form of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) or Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs). As the names suggest, ADRs are issued in the US market, whereas GDRs are principally issued in non-US markets. DRs enable international investors to acquire and trade foreign securities without concern for the differing settlement timetables and other problems typically associated with investing directly in overseas markets.
However, I think what is so great about them was best summed up in a letter I received from a school teacher in Boston whose shares of [India's] Infosys had been doing well. He wrote, "Thank you for making a company like this accessible to individual shareholders like me..."
DRs reduce the volatility in investment portfolios by offering wider choices to investors. The world is made up of far more than US securities, and in some cases, the non-US securities offer fantastic potential and appreciation. You can pick the risk you want and pick the markets and sectors you want to go into. If you want exposure to minerals, technology, fashion, then why are you just looking at those US securities? Why not look at a wider portfolio that can allow you diversify even further? (And hopefully get you better returns.) Many of these depository receipts offer much better, much higher (even dividend yields) return of interest to individual investors.
Slepko: Can you explain all the different ADR levels?
Poonawala: ADRs comply with US rules, regulations, and do all the US filings required depending on their gradations. ADRs have three levels. The higher the level, the higher the threshold of pain, which is to say, the higher the threshold you have to meet to comply with the regs. In 1999, Deutsche Bank helped Infosys with its first ADR launch. Infosys chose to do a Level-3 capital raising ADR launch on the NASDAQ.
Level-1 is non-capital raising, and not on a US exchange.
Level-2 is capital raising, and on a US exchange.
Level-3 is capital raising, and on a US exchange, and complies fully with Sarbanes-Oxley and US GAAP – these are the whole enchilada.
Level-1s don't have to meet or comply with the same level of regs as do Level-2 and Level-3. Nestle for instance is a Level-1 ADR, and is not listed on the exchanges, but is listed over-the-counter. All the Level-1s will be on OTC or OTC Pink.
Level-2 is non-capital raising as well – meaning they don't raise new capital, they just make existing foreign shares available to US investors to invest as if they were US securities.
As for Level-1s, take Daiwa Securities in Japan (which is a Level-1 and traded over-the-counter in the US). With a Level-1, Daiwa doesn't capital raise, they just say that for foreign investors interested in shares of their company they appoint Deutsche Bank to be the depositary bank and then [Deutsche Bank] can create ADRs on the back of underlying local shares.
So, let's say an institutional investor like CalPERS wants to buy USD 5 million worth of Japanese exposure because it believes Japan is currently a better risk than the US or Europe. So it comes to a depository bank, in this case Deutsche Bank, and asks us to help them buy USD 5 million worth of Daiwa. Now Daiwa isn't raising new capital, but by virtue of the fact that Deutsche Bank is the depositary bank, we will take possession and keep in custody in Tokyo the ordinary shares and then issue American securities of Daiwa.
Also, when the dividend comes, Daiwa pays in yen and we then convert that into dollars for the holders of the ADR. Moreover, if there's an annual general meeting (and depending on the terms and conditions) we pass on the voting rights to the end investors.
We are the bridge.
Slepko: Why are there only four bridges? Why can only Deutsche Bank, Bank of New York Mellon, Citigroup, and JPMorgan create depositary receipts?
Poonawala: In theory, any financial institution can become a depositary bank, but the FI has to be a trust company in the US, or a bank with trust powers. Additionally, this FI has to be a registered transfer agent with the SEC. These two requirements could be barriers to entry for other institutions intending to get into the DR business.
Slepko: Why is Deutsche Bank the only non-American bank in the club?
Poonawala: The DR business of Deutsche Bank is a legacy Bankers Trust [US] business. Historically, many banks – American and non-US – have been in the DR space, including Irving Trust [US], Nomura [Japan], HSBC [UK], Chase Manhattan Bank [US], and Marine Midland [US]. The industry has consolidated over the years through various acquisitions: Bank of New York Mellon buying Irving's book, HSBC acquiring Marine Midland's book which in turn was acquired by BNY, Deutsche Bank buying Bankers Trust, etc. For many years now there have only been these four remaining players in the DR business.
[continued in "DR 102: Depositary Receipts 102: Going Global for Individual Investors Has Never Been Easier"]
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Rated 4.5 / 5 stars August 3, 2013
But why *does* he drown himself and his child? The only thing I can think of is that he thinks the only alternative for his child than death with suffering is death without suffering. Was he protecting the child......from pain? Am I right?
Rated 2 / 5 stars March 7, 2013
Really choppy animation, but of course that can be forgiven. The story is really where this movie suffers. In no reality would a father ever do something like this. We're supposed to sympathize with the father, and we do until the end when he just completely 180s and kills his daughter and himself. Just mean spirited and very jarring.
Did you stop to consider why he would do that?
Rated 1 / 5 stars October 28, 2012
Looks like the girl rly missed her dad :(...
This story makes cry...*sniff*
Rated 4 / 5 stars October 15, 2012
Da Fuq.
What the hell was that guy's problem?? Oh, yeah, his love died.
So why not kill their kid and suicide?
"that was his only option", pff.
Anyways, the art, music and animation were all good, so, 4 =D
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To the south-west is the campus of the University Brighton. A number of outdated 1960s buildings will be replaced by part of the stadium. The university's playing fields lie to the west.
The Brighton-to-Lewes railway line and A27 dual carriageway run from west to east just to the north of the arena, with Falmer Station immediately west of the stadium. On the other side of the A27 is the University of Sussex, which has signed an agreement allowing its car parks to be used on event days.
The bus-and-coach park lies immediately east of the stadium. Together with the railway station, the shared-use car parks and satellite park-and-ride sites, it will provide the key to the innovative transportation strategy. This is the ONLY site in the area where it is possible to implement a sustainable transport policy.
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INDIANAPOLIS – Owner/general manager Jerry Jones isn't panicking despite the uncertainty regarding backup quarterback
Jones said the Cowboys spoke with Orton's agent and have made it clear they want the quarterback to return, but Orton hasn't indicated his plan one way or the other. Orton's still under contract, so the only way he can get out of the deal is by getting cut or retiring.
"Let me put it like this, I haven't talked to him and we haven't talked to him directly about anything that has to do with him not playing," Jones said. "I'm assuming he's going to play."
Jones is taking an optimistic approach and said he isn't worried about the possibility of Orton retiring, which is reportedly a consideration.
Orton plays a vital role on the team as the only backup at the position while starting quarterback
Jones said he hasn't told Orton's agent he needs an answer by a specific day, but he did acknowledge the importance of having a solid backup quarterback this season. Orton provided relief for the Cowboys by putting up quality numbers when Romo was unable to play in Week 17, throwing for 358 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions in the season finale against the Eagles.
"I could say to him directly our last time we were together and the last experience relative to being with this football team made it very rewarding and worthwhile to be on the team and I hope it was rewarding for (him)," Jones said. "I can say that. That was a good example of money well spent in my mind and shows you where we might be if we need him for an extended period of time. That's almost what I would, in some manner, say to him. The answer is that as I sit here today, we want him."
Orton is due $3.25 million this season and would count $4.3 million against the cap. For now, Jones assumes that Orton will stick around and earn his contract. Jones said he can logically look at the situation and think Orton would want to play.
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At the end of a grueling lame-duck session, President Barack Obama spoke to the press about the session's highs and lows. He said that his "biggest disappointment" was not being able to pass the DREAM Act, and pledged to keep fighting for immigration reform.
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Students living in university or private halls shell out an average £117 a week in rent – compared with just £59 paid 10 years ago – the survey found.
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Pete Mercer, NUS vice-president, said: "Student rents have skyrocketed, leaving fewer reasonably priced accommodation options for students from lower and middle income backgrounds who are really feeling the pinch.
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In this video renowned paleontologists Bob Bakker and Peter Larson visit the CK Preparations lab in Montana to examine the incredible discovery by Clayton ("Dino Cowboy") Phipps of the remains of a tyrannosaurid and some sort of ceratopsian dinosaur preserved together (and touching) in a single block of rock from the Hell Creek Formation. Both skeletons are articulated, nearly 100 percent intact, and in a wonderful state of preservation. Teeth matching those remaining in the tyrannosaurid jaws are preserved imbedded in the ceratopsian skeleton. The predator's skull, which is speculated to be that of a Nanotyrannus, shows signs of being kicked in. Early analysis of the geology of the matrix encasing the find suggests that the two battling dinosaurs may have gotten trapped in mire or overcome by a sudden environmental catastrophe, like a cave-in. Was this a unique moment frozen in time of a battle between a predator and its prey? Do the two "combatants" represent entirely new genera of dinosaurs? These questions require further study and preparation of this very unusual fossil.
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I posted this picture a few days ago on Facebook and got a ton of comments. Apparently, I am not the only one that does this. I also thought this was something new, but a friend pointed out that I did this since I was 14 (9th grade sleepovers). My husband is really creeped out by it and he has to physically push my arm back down. Has anyone else ever experienced this? Does anyone know what causes this? The human body sure does weird things!!
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Another Experimonth I am working on is "My how you have grown". I started out by posting a recent picture of me:
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From there the converstation went into Horror Movies, favorites, and what we like about them. I mentioned that I like being scared and that adrenaline rush you get from the suspense. I didn't put any thought into why until I received this comment:
"Kiki, do you think your "need for scary/adrenaline rushes" is a result of genetics or your environment growing up?"
My head started spinning!! I needed to respond right away because I never thought about the things I do now being a reflection of either genetics or my environment. So, I responded immediately. This is what I wrote:
"ooohhh, good question!! Most "people" would say it probably stems from my parents divorce when I was 10. Until I left for college,I had to deal with my parents crazy relationships (my parents got along with each other fine, it was their boyfriends/girlfriends that was crazy). I guess I really never had "normal" growing up, so I like horror/suspense movies because they aren't "normal".
I love goofy/raunchy comedies as well, but NOT romantic comedies (unless the couple does NOT end up together). I find romantic comedies fake (yeah, i know, a pot calling the kettle black)....I get so mad when they end up together in the end because in the real world, that isn't how it works. It frustrates me and I actually get angry at the movie!! Blue Valentine was good because (spoiler alert!) they didn't end up together.
So there is my environmental factor in a nutshell....however, I do believe that there is genetics involved as well. My mom loves Dean Koontz (horror/suspense novelist) and my dad loves crime books. I am the only one in the family though that takes it to an extreme, but that is the way I am, no gray area, all black and white.
A psychologist would love this right now. haha
That was all just a quick blurb off the top of my head, however, that question was really good and i will be thinking about this for awhile!!"
Now, like I said, this is all off the top of my head and I really want to spend more time thinking about this as I find it extremely interesting. So, the reason for my blog isn't just to share my thoughts, but also get thoughts from others on either my response above or what they think about genetic vs environmental factors playing a role in their current life.
Courtesy Mark RyanEver wonder how something as big as a sauropod dinosaur was able to grow so large? Sauropods were those huge, long-necked quadrupeds estimated to have weighed anywhere from 50 to 120 tons, and with lengths of up to 200 feet. Just seeing the skeleton of any one of them – the Apatosaurus, Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Ultrasaurus or any their kind – you just know those Jurassic giants had to be on a constant eating binge to maintain their massive size. But just how much food could a single area supply? Doesn't it make sense that these critters would have eaten up any food source within the reach of their extensive necks? Then what would they do?
A new study of sauropod teeth has produced some strong evidence that the giant herbivores migrated during times of drought or other environmental stresses, searching for new untapped food and water sources. Geochemist Henry Fricke of Colorado College in Colorado Springs along with student colleagues Justin Hencecroth and Marie E. Hoerner studied the teeth of various Camarasaurus specimens comparing the ratio of oxygen isotopes found in the enamel with the ratio found in the sedimentary rock deposits where the teeth were found. By sauropod standards, Camarasaurus was one of the smaller ones, but it's the most common sauropod found in the Morrison Formation deposits.
Courtesy Public domainDuring its lifetime 145 million years or so in the past, a Camarasaurus's teeth would absorb the isotopes ratio of its environment, that is the ratio of the oxygen isotopes found in the local water supply. So Fricke's team sampled 32 camarasaur teeth, taking measurements of the younger enamel found near the base of each tooth with the older enamel near the crown. In some cases, the isotopes ratios in the enamel matched those of the sedimentary rocks from where the teeth were found. But some enamel didn't match. This meant the dinosaur must have migrated at some time to higher ground, more than likely in search of a better food source.
"In a theoretical sense, it's not hugely surprising," Fricke said. "They are huge — they would probably have eaten themselves out of house and home if they stayed in one place."
So the camarasaurs did what any hungry animal would do: they headed out in search of more food, even if it meant a migration of 200 miles into the higher regions and back. Seasonal droughts were probably another factor. The highlands would have had more rainfall and therefore more vegetation and water. When the wet season returned to the basin so would the camarasaur herds. Fricke estimates the seasonal herbivore hikes took around five months to complete. He also thinks if one kind of sauropod migrated, other genera probably did the same, and an analysis of their teeth would probably show similar results.
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Sometime on or around October 31st, the world's population will hit seven billion people.
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That's all fascinating and all, but...what about me? Luckily, the BBC has come to the rescue with a lovely little interactive that's, well, all about me. Or you. Whatever.
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Courtesy Wikimedia Creative CommonsHalloween is coming up soon and what better way to scare the tar out of everybody than with another Black Plague story.
Researchers from Germany and Canada have now determined that the pathogen existing today that infects the human population with bubonic plague is the same one that caused the horrific pandemic known as the Black Plague (aka Black Death) during the Middle Ages,
In the 14th century (1347-1351) the the plague devastated much of Europe. It was brought on by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and thought to have originated in China. Rats, infested with fleas carrying the bacteria, spread the fatal pathogen via the trade routes and across Europe, wiping out one-third of the human population. This is a conservative estimate; some claim as much as 60 percent of the population was eradicated!
Whatever the case, imagine even a third of all your acquaintances, friends, and relatives suddenly dying from what one 14th century chronicler described as "so virulent a disease that anyone who only spoke to them was seized by a mortal illness and in no manner could evade death."
And it was an extremely horrible death, to say the least, as Michael Platiensis makes clear in his writings from 1357:
"Those infected felt themselves penetrated by a pain throughout their whole bodies and, so to say, undermined. Then there developed on the thighs or upper arms a boil about the size of a lentil which the people called "burn boil". This infected the whole body, and penetrated it so that the patient violently vomited blood. This vomiting of blood continued without intermission for three days, there being no means of healing it, and then the patient expired."
[Above quoted in Johannes Nohl, The Black Death, trans. C.H. Clarke (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1926), pp. 18-20]
The Black Plague was the second of three great waves of plague that raged across Europe during historical times. The first, known historically as the Plague of Justinian, took place in the 6th century and affected the Byzantine Empire and much of Europe. The last major wave, known as the Great Plague of London, killed about 100,000 of the city's population in 1664-65. In the two centuries that followed, waves after wave of the plague continued to devastate the European population although on a lesser scale. These outbreaks although sometimes as virulent, were often more isolated regionally or within a city and kept Europe's population from rebounding for a good century and a half.
The plague presents itself in three ways: bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic. All three infections are caused by Y. pestis. With bubonic plague, the lymph nodes become painfully swollen into what are termed buboes – hence the name bubonic. Scepticemic plague, the rarest of the three forms, infects the blood. Both bubonic and scepticemic, if left untreated, result in death between 3-7 days after infection. Pneumonic is the most contagious since it infects the lungs and is easily spread through the air in a spray of water droplets. It's also the most lethal and usually kills its victims in one to three days. Each form can present itself on its own or can progress into all three. It's thought the Black Plague was mainly a combination of the bubonic and pneumonic forms. (The practice still used today of saying, "Bless you" after someone sneezes is a holdover from the 14th century plague) The only defense against the pandemic was avoidance of fleas and the fatally sick. Not easy to pull off when rats and the afflicted were widespread. Infected families were generally quarantined, their houses marked with a red cross, and left to fend for themselves.
The plague had a tremendous effect on European life in the Middle Ages. The Hundred Years' War actually paused briefly in 1348 for lack of soldiers. The plague had wiped out too many of them. Economically, wages rose sharply because the workforce was also greatly reduced. Shop owners suffered because no one dared step outside the confines of their own homes, so supplies rose and prices dropped. The removal of the rotting corpses required relatives either doing it themselves and further risking infection, or paying premium prices for some other poor schlub to do it. The dead were buried as quickly as possible, often in mass graves.
In the recent research which appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Johannes Krause and his colleagues extracted DNA from the tooth enamel of five corpses from one of these 14th century mass burial sites in London (under the Royal Mint!). Using the latest technology to sequence the DNA fragments, the researchers from the University of Tubingen in Germany, and McMaster University in Canada, decoded a circular genome called pPCP1 plasmid that comprises about 10,000 positions in the Y. pestis DNA. When they compared it with the genome of the pathogen's current strain, the genetic information appeared to have changed very little over the past six centuries. (It should be noted that the researchers suspect the pathogen that occurred in the 6th century may have been a now-extinct strain of Y. pestis or one completely unrelated to bubonic plague.)
So, that means the very same nasty contagion – the one that terrorized and devastated so much of Europe for so many centuries in the Middle Ages - is still with us today. Luckily, the bubonic plague can be held at bay with antibodies if treated in time. But what happens if Yersinia pestis mutates into a strain against which current antibodies are useless? If that doesn't make the hair on the back of your neck stand on end, I don't know what will.
Happy Halloween!
SOURCES and LINKS
Scientific Computing story
The Black Plague by Dr. Skip Knox, Boise State
Plague symptons and signs – in case you get it
Nifty Black Death quiz – thanks Liza!
Courtesy Photo by Heather Rousseau ©Denver Museum of Nature and ScienceThe last talk I attended at the Geological Society of America (GSA) convention this past week was one of my favorites. It was an update of the Snowmastodon Project given by Kirk Johnson, chief curator at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (DMNS). Just one year ago, a construction worker bulldozing for a dam-building project at the Zeigler Reservoir near Snowmass Village in Colorado unearthed a mammoth tusk. Paleontologists and archaeologists from the Denver museum were called in, and excavation of a small portion of the drained reservoir bottom soon got underway. The museum crew worked for just one month, until November 14, 2010, when snowfall halted the project. Then last spring scientists returned to the site and were allowed just 51 days to excavate the fossil deposits before the Snowmass Water and Sanitation District resumed their expansion work on the reservoir.
This time more research experts from the US, Canada, and England joined the dig along with a slew of interns and volunteers, totaling some 233 people working on the project. Over the next seven weeks excavation at the Zeigler Reservoir site progressed at a frantic pace. According to Johnson, anywhere from 15 to 90 diggers were on site each day digging out fossils from the ancient peat and mud deposits, from what once were the shores of a small glacial lake. Despite the short window of opportunity, the sheer number and diversity of fossils from the dig site has been truly remarkable.
Courtesy Dantheman9758 at en.wikipediaOf the nearly 5000 bones and skulls exhumed from the Snowmass fossil site, more than 60 percent were of mastodons (Mammut americanum) representing at least 30 individuals in various stages of life. The other 40 percent of the fauna included mammoths (Mammuthus columbi), camels, horses, giant bison (Bison latifrons) and ground sloths (Megalonyx jeffersonii), otters, muskrats, minks, bats voles, chipmunks, beavers, bats, rabbits, mice, salamanders, frogs, lizards, snakes, fish, and birds, and iridescent beetles. No large carnivore remains were found in the deposits, and human remains were absent as well, although archaeological techniques were used during the dig just in case any were uncovered.
Flora from the prehistoric tundra environment included pollen, green leaves and cones, and tree logs, some with their bark still intact.
So far, age estimates for the deposits range between 43, 000 to 130,000 years old although further dating tests should narrow that down.
The talk included several photos of what Johnson termed "Flintstone moments", i.e. shots of field workers posing with massive mammoth or mastodon femurs or tibia. And Johnson marveled at the incredible state of preservation of many of the fossils displayed. Some of the bones, he said, still emitted a very strong funk.
In terms of sheer number of bones and ecological data, Snowmastodon ranks up there as probably one of the best high altitude Ice Age ecology sites in the world, and certainly the best mastodon fossil site. A team of researchers at the DMNS lab will spend the next year and a half cleaning, cataloging, and analyzing all the fossils found at the Snowmass dig site, water was to be reintroduced into the reservoir on Oct. 13. Despite the loss of the site, the field crew did a tremendous job in the time they were given to excavate the fossil-rich site. And Kirk Johnson didn't hide his excitement. In closing his talk, he said "It was one hell of a year!"
The Snowmastodon Project website
Photo set on Flcker
Courtesy motnworbWe've seen it before. Through the years the human race has had to endure attacks by giant creatures of all sorts.
First, a humongous lizard larger than any known dinosaur crushes Tokyo and incinerates the rubble with his bad breath. Then super-sized spiders from another dimension terrorize northern Wisconsin only to be reduced to sludge by clever scientists. Later, gigantic ants run amok in New Mexico destroying property and people until the US Air Force, Navy, AND the Army are called in to destroy them. And now on top of all that, there are reports that large numbers of giant snails are terrorizing south Florida. When will this madness end?!
Of course the first three examples are pure fiction. Godzilla never really existed, spiders from another dimension can't enter ours through wormholes, and the idea of gigantic ants is just stupid. But unfortunately the giant African snails infesting south Florida are all too real. And as you can see by the accompanying photo these suckers are huge. Some can grow up to 15 inches in length and weigh two pounds! Think of the slime trail!
These giant African land snails (Achatina fulica) are illegal in many countries including the US, but it appears some have gotten in. The snails are sometimes used in a traditional African religious ceremony where practitioners ingest their slimy gastropod juices (goodness gracious!) and word is that a woman from Africa may have smuggled them through customs under her dress in 2010. Okay.
Like many invertebrates, giant snails are hermaphroditic, possessing both male and female reproductive organs. After mating each partner can produce offspring, as many as 200 at a time, and up to 1200 a year! These things are worse than rabbits… and as big as rabbits, too.
Look at the photo again. Whoa!
Two sisters in a residential neighborhood in Miami-Dade County discovered some of the snails in their yard and showed one to a fruit fly inspector who then alerted officials at Florida's Department of Agriculture. The agency didn't want to bother the armed forces so they canvassed about a square mile surrounding the sisters' house on their own and hand removed all the giant African land snails they could find. A few days later they scoured the area again and found even more.
The problem with this particular species of giant snail is that it likes to eat about 500 different types of plants, and can sometimes carry a strain of non-fatal meningitis that's contagious to humans through contact with the gastropod (like drinking its juices – duh), so eradication of A. fulica is deemed a high priority.
This isn't the first time Florida has been invaded by giant African land snails. In 1966, the state spent about a million bucks getting rid of 18,000 of them.
SOURCES and LINKS
Story on abcnews.com
Miami Herald story
Online News website story
More photos of giant snails
More about giant African land snails
Courtesy Mark Ryan
"Got no checkbooks, got no banks,
Still, I'd like to express my thanks.
I've got the sun in the morning
And the moon at night."
Words and music by Irving Berlin
The simple sentiments found in the lyrics of Irving Berlin's "I've Got the Sun in the Morning and the Moon at Night" are at the core of a self-administered therapy technique that has proven helpful for folks who suffer from depression.
Researchers from the University of California-Riverside and Duke University in North Carolina recently reviewed medical literature regarding a technique known as Personal Activity Interventions (PAIs). PAIs involve using simple, self-administered techniques such as counting your blessings, acting kindly towards others, showing gratitude (i.e. writing thank you notes), and meditating positive feelings about others, among other things, and according to the study, showed significant positive results for people suffering from depression. The affliction can be disabilitating, and there are a lot of sufferers out there, something like 100 million people worldwide.
Depression, according the study, is "a heterogeneous condition with molecular and biochemical origins that are still not fully understood." It goes on to say that the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that less than 10 percent of those who do suffer get treated for it. The reasons for lack of proper treatment range from economic distress to stigma to the lack of medical resources and providers. When resources are at hand, conventional treatments usually involve patients talking with a therapist or taking pharmaceuticals, or both. But the authors note that the current drug therapy is not quite up to par.
"Response rates to a single antidepressant are generally considered to be 60%–70%, with over 80% of the drug effect accounted for by placebo effects. Even with this relatively high percentage of ''responders'' to drug treatment, initial pharmacotherapy produces remission in only 30%– 40% of the depressed population."
Harnessing the Power of Positive Thoughts and Emotions to Treat Depression
This brings to mind how some new television commercials are touting taking an additional drug that may be helpful if your regular anti-depressant isn't quite doing its job. They urge you to ask your doctor if the advertised drug is right for you. So, essentially what the drug companies are saying is if one of our drugs isn't doing it for you, just take more. What happens when the new drug doesn't work? I think you're asking for trouble going down that road.
But I like this idea of using PAIs. The study claims the improvement rate from their use is remarkable and longer lasting than traditional talk and drug therapies. What's particularly interesting is that PAIs carry almost none of the obstacles involved with conventional treatment methods. Often when a patient is in the depths of depression it can be difficult for them to find the motivation to seek out traditional therapies. The steps involved in finding a therapist, setting up an appointment, getting themselves to the therapist's office, can appear daunting when struggling with depression. Many current anti-depressants can take weeks to become effective, or can produce unwanted side effects, or even carry a stigma of embarrassment for some patients. As mentioned before, the lack of economic resources or treatment accessibility can also block a patient from getting treatment. But doing Personal Activity Interventions involve none of those obstacles, and since PAIs are self-administered, any successful results can empower a user and bolster his or hers self-esteem. The method can also give an additional sense of accomplishment because the therapy doesn't involve the aid of outside factors such as therapists and drugs. The resulting elevated mood can raise productivity and creativity levels, and enhance personal relationships.
So, empirically, PAIs seem to be effective in reversing a downward mood spiral. I figure anything that proves helpful in battling depression can't be bad, and that includes traditional talk and drug therapies. It's interesting to note that besides in Irving Berlin's song some of the techniques found in the PAIs method such as expressing gratitude, wishing others well, and meditating can also be found in many 12-step recovery programs, such as Alcoholics Anonymous.
The review appeared in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine and is available free online to download here.
Courtesy Mark RyanChina has been producing some remarkable and groundbreaking dinosaur fossils in recent years that have caused paleontologists to reconsider long-held views. A recently described feathered dinosaur is no different. Xiaotingia zhengi, discovered in the Jurassic shales of the Liaoning Province, has been in the news lately because it supposedly knocked the well-known, so-called proto-bird Archaeopteryx from its perch as the earliest bird.
The study by paleontologist Xu Xing and his colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing appears in Nature. Their research, it seems, has determined that Xiaotingia and Archaeopteryx share many features that make the two of them more bird-like dinosaurs than dinosaur-like birds. Do you see the difference there? I guess I do. Anyway, essentially what it means is that Archaeopteryx has been pushed back a little and is just a bit more distantly related to birds than previously thought. The classification places both Xiaotingia and Archaeopteryx in with avian-like carnivorous dinosaurs such as deinonychosaurs, dromaeosaurids, and troodontids. The recent spate of fossils coming out of China can't help but alter some our old views of the middle to late Jurassic fauna. Many dinosaurs (including non-avian ones) living during that time were equipped with bird-like features: e. g. long arms, feathers, wishbones, etc. They were all over the place.
But all you diehards out there in the Archaeopteryx-is-a-bird camp need not despair just yet. Dr. Xu himself admits that some of the conclusions in the study are based on pretty weak evidence. Archaeopteryx continues to rank as an exceptional transitional fossil (along with Xiaotingia). Its place in the transition has just shifted slightly, that's all. Further studies and new fossils will no-doubt shake up the branches of the avian family tree again.
Story at Pharyngula
New York Times story


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