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THIBODAUX -- The Lafourche Parish School Board will provide the Thibodaux High School swim team with a temporary practice space after a scheduling conflict forced them from their usual pool.
The team normally practices at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, said Rhoda Caldwell, School Board vice president.
But because the pool will be in use this semester during the teams practice time, they were forced to find another place to swim.
At Wednesday nights meeting, the board will decide whether to pay a $1,000 a month to rent the Thibodaux Municipal Pool for the team. The arrangement would last for three months, Caldwell said.
The meeting starts at 7 p.m. at the Lafourche School Board building, 805 E. Seventh St. The meeting is open to the public.
"Other schools that dont have pools have done similar things," said Caldwell, adding that no school in the parish has a pool because they are expensive to maintain.
Because swim teams dont make money from games and booster clubs like football and baseball teams, the board feels compelled to rent the space, said board member Julie Breaux.
"They did look around and were unsuccessful," Breaux said. "There was some deliberation, and they decided to help the team. The kids interest is the first thing at heart."
The School Board will also decide whether to allow Entergy, a local power company, to use areas of Central Lafourche and South Lafourche high schools in case of an emergency.
"The only thing theyre using it for is a staging area during a storm," said Mary Curole, South Lafourche principal.
Curole said that part of the campus had been used in this way in the past.
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How Would We Implement A Carbon Tax? (Almost) Everything You Need To Know
by Richard W. Caperton
If you had told me on Tuesday morning that I was about to spend my day at a standing room only event that had nothing to do with the election, I would've said, "But, I'm not planning to go to a David Petraeus news conference!" Ah, but it turns out that there are other topics that bring out the masses. I did, in fact, spend the day at a standing room only event that had nothing to do with the election.
The topic? Carbon taxes, of course.
Yesterday, the American Enterprise Institute hosted a conference to talk about anything and everything related to the economics of carbon taxes. Normally, a full-day conference with more than a dozen speakers on a tax issue in DC will be lucky to get more than a few dozen attendees, even with a free lunch. Carbon taxes, though, are different. The enthusiasm for this issue is such that there were over 200 attendees, many of whom stood for half the day.
What makes carbon taxes different? Simply put, people across the political spectrum now know that putting a price on carbon is an indispensable tool for dealing with our climate and budget problems, and that a carbon tax is the most politically viable path forward. This dynamic has created an exciting amount of momentum that now needs to be turned into policy.
Not only is the political situation ripe for a carbon tax, but yesterday's AEI conference demonstrated that the thought leadership is ripe as well. That's not to say that there's agreement on the best way to design a carbon tax; the ultimate design will likely be about political decisions as much as policy ones. But, the implications of different policy choices are largely known, which was the focus of the conference.
The benefits of a carbon tax would be tremendous. According to the Brookings Institution's William Gale, the amount of money a carbon tax could raise is roughly comparable to the size of the Bush tax cuts, indexing the alternative minimum tax for inflation, or the budget sequester that's part of the upcoming fiscal cliff. Instituting a carbon tax would make it much easier to deal with our country's budget crisis, because it would give us another tool for solving the problem. And, a carbon tax can get significant reductions in greenhouse gas pollution. Allen Fawcett presented findings from the Energy Modeling Forum that show a multitude of technology development scenarios that get to 50 percent reductions in greenhouse gases with a carbon tax.
Broadly speaking, there are two questions about designing a carbon tax: how to collect the money, and what to do with the money? Neither of these is simple, and virtually every option involves tradeoffs.
First, let's talk about collecting the revenue. Do you want to cover the entire economy, just the energy sector, or even a smaller subset of industries? As Rob Williams of Resources for the Future pointed out, most of the greenhouse gas reductions with a modest carbon tax will come from the electric power sector, which would seem to indicate that you could only deal with a small part of the economy and get almost all of the benefits at much lower political cost. At the other extreme, you could cover things like agricultural-related methane emissions, although the mechanics of this are much more complicated.
After deciding how much of the economy to cover, you also need to decide where to assess the tax, which Jack Calder of the International Monetary Fund discussed. You can assess the tax very far upstream, where fossil fuels enter the economy (at the mine mouth or wellhead, for instance). This is relatively simple and gets at every use of fuels, but the problem is that it puts a tax on fuels that ultimately don't get burned and contribute to climate change. Oil used as a feedstock for plastics production, for instance, doesn't add to greenhouse gas pollution, nor does coal burned in a hypothetical power plant with carbon capture and storage technology. All things being equal, Calder's ultimate recommendation is to make a carbon tax as similar as possible to our existing tax system, which should minimize administrative challenges and unintended consequences.
What about complementary policies? That is, what should happen with the state renewable energy standards, federal incentives, and EPA regulations after a carbon tax is put in place. While the conventional wisdom among economists is that these other policies simply make a carbon tax more expensive, Karen Palmer from Resources for the Future argued that these policies often deal with externalities – including positive externalities – that a carbon tax doesn't fix. And, the lesson from the acid rain program is that EPA needs to have the authority to go above and beyond a carbon tax based on up-to-date information about the costs and benefits of further pollution reductions.
Second, after you collect the revenue, you need to do something with it. The biggest issue is that a carbon tax is most likely to be regressive; that is, it has a disproportionate impact on poor people. Modeling by Aparna Mathur at AEI finds that a $15 carbon tax is effectively a tax of 3.54 percent of the income of the poorest decile of the population, but just .63 percent for the wealthiest. Terry Dinan, a senior advisor at the Congressional Budget Office, has studied seven different ways to deal with this problem, and found that while there is no perfect solution, doing some sort of income tax or payroll tax rebate has a very positive effect.
Of course, once you have a pot of money (which will still be large even after fixing the regressivity problem), you want to spend the money wisely. RFF's Williams proposed three uses: cutting pre-existing taxes, reducing the deficit, and valuable public spending. In the short term, it's worth noting that simply reducing the deficit is probably not as valuable as spending on infrastructure, including clean energy infrastructure.
This is just a small sample of the issues that will come up in designing a carbon tax, and many of these choices don't have options that are immediately obvious as being the "best" way to design the system. But it's clear that we know the implications of different policy choices. After yesterday's conference, no one should ever say that we don't know how to design a carbon tax. The bigger issue is that politicians need to decide what they want a carbon tax to achieve and then plug in the right policy tools.
And this is where the slowdown begins. Of the standing room only crowd at AEI, there was almost certainly no consensus on any of the important questions. Is the primary goal of a carbon tax to reduce the deficit? Or to offset corporate income tax reductions? Or to raise money for clean energy investments? Or to simply cut pollution, with all of the money going back to consumers?
This issue will come to a head in 2013, and Climate Progress and CAP will have recommendations for building a progressive carbon tax. Be on the lookout for new work on this issue in the coming weeks.
Richard W. Caperton is Director of Clean Energy Investment at the Center for American Progress.
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"Modeling by Aparna Mathur at AEI finds that a $15 carbon tax is effectively a tax of 3.54 percent of the income of the poorest decile of the population, but just .63 percent for the wealthiest."
This is potentially very socially regressive already. The deal that Norquist, or somebody, was proposing was that, to agree to this massive 0.63 percent increase, the wealthiest decile should get an major income tax cut.
It seems like a carbon tax could be used to fund disaster relief, linking cause and effect.
An income tax rebate is a very hollow offer for the 47% who are already too poor to pay income tax.
It's nice to see movement here, but $15 a ton is too low to cause a switch to clean energy.
If we are serious, it needs to be higher.
If the carbon tax is going to be collected at its end use, we need to look at two other key sources of CO2: logging and livestock production. Logging in the US accounts for around 400 Mt of CO2 annually, and some believe that the figure for meat production is even higher. Here is my own research on the emissions cost of industrial logging in the United States:
As with energy, there would be ancillary benefits. Houses would be built from durable, inert materials, and by eating less meat our diet would be healthier- and cheaper, too.
It is great to see movement on this. Above all something needs to be done within a reasonable time frame.
Taking Obamacare as an analogy: There were many nansayers who ceaselessly bandied excuses like "More study is needed." Or "It should do this and not that." to delay action. The result was the can was kicked down the road for nearly two full decades.
We can not wait with climate. We need to take aggressive action now and we can make adjustments as we go. We'll figure it out. Let's take a leadership role with this in the world.
Australia introduced a $23 a tonne carbon price on the first of July. The revenue has allowed income taxes to be lowered and pensions and other government benefits to be raised so its overall effect is mildly progressive. There is no reason why a US carbon price couldn't also be progressive overall.
I would like to see a portion of the carbon tax going to two things:
1) Infrastructure – Developing an infrastructure bank that not only targets the clean energy sector but transportation/mass transit, waterways, wastewater, land reclamation, drinking water, retrofitting buildings, etc. It would also be great if States could receive a percentage of the carbon tax funds to start their own state-based infrastructure banks to bolster local, small businesses.
2) Social Security – We "borrowed" $2.67 trillion from SS to "balance the budget" over the years. We need to put that money back and never touch it again.
"Oil used as a feedstock for plastics production, for instance, doesn't add to greenhouse gas pollution, nor does coal burned in a hypothetical power plant with carbon capture and storage technology."
I strongly disagree with both points. Unless tax has been applied prior to making plastic a lot of energy is used to obtain & process it and then more energy to dispose of plastic after use. Mining, crushing & shipping coal produces large amounts of dust containing arsenic & heavy metals. Cleaning coal requires large amounts of water which becomes polluted with arsenic & heavy metals so it requires storage in ponds like tailings ponds in tar sands. They are, however, not built as well so they leak and often overflow.
There is no such thing as clean coal!
Useful follow-through blog and commentariat. I think TAX says it best. For what is needed. 'Trading schemes' etc appear to show how a market approach does not work. Without, I'd suppose, willing and able parties to them.
"What makes carbon taxes different? Simply put, people across the political spectrum now know that putting a price on carbon is an indispensable tool for dealing with our climate and budget problems,"
What make a carbon taxes perfect is that it does a lot of things with one cast of the stone. .
The main one I think is psychological. It tells people on a personal level… Hey this is serious we, each of us, has to do something about this problem.
And that personal message say… Hey, its not going to be trivial. And hey there are going to have to be sacrifices.
It also, on a practical level, gives us a mechanism to confront the emissions at the source and at the point of consumption.
Its transparent, ist flexible, its nimble or it can be all these things and more.
But mainly it is inevitable. And we need to get on with it.
However, the tax wont be enough. At some point when the message gets through people will have to accept/should accept rationing and ww2 action in tackling this scourge we have released on ourselves and our future.
Global warming talk heats up as think tanks revisit idea of a carbon tax
It's strange that there was no discussion of Fee and Dividend in the article (collect a fee on carbon from fossil fuel companies and distribute all revenues to every legal resident on a per-capita basis). It is revenue neutral and progressive (most lower income people would make far more in dividends than they pay in higher prices).
It would stimulate investment and innovation and create millions of jobs. And, by the way, it would significantly lower CO2 emissions.
Whatever policy is put in place, we need to also put a tariff on goods coming from countries without there own fee on carbon. This would protect american companies and, more importantly, get other countries to reduce their emissions. If we are the only ones to reduce emissions, it won't really matter what we do.
Is the proposal just a tax leveed at the mine or well-head and then handed back (at least some of the revenue) as income tax rebates?
From where, then, do the needed incentives to change our behaviors come into play? We need those too!
Officials can't count on spending the revenue for anything to fight climate change, Grover didn't bless that for the GoOPers. sheesh
Here in BC, the provincial government levied on July 1, 2008, North America's first broad-spectrum revenue-neutral carbon tax: CAD$10/Tonne CO2 emitted, rising $5/Tonne/year. It's now $30/Tonne CO2 emitted. The tax covers all combusted fossil fuels purchased at final point of sale in the province. It's easy to administer and generates now about $1.2B annually in revenue. Every penny (by law) goes to reducing personal income tax and corporate tax, both of which are now low. BC has the lowest personal income tax in Canada (up to $119k declared income) and amongst the lowest corporate taxes in the G7 countries. The tax is having an impact (based on only four years of data): our per capita gasoline consumption for example has fallen 6% since July 1, 2008, relative to Ontario (the comparison factors out the impact of the recession on gas consumption). Our overall use of diesel, natural gas and light fuel oil is also falling. Meanwhile, our economy is growing at faster than the Canadian average and our clean tech sector is thriving, stimulated by the tax. Two points that made our approach politically acceptable: a) the revenue neutrality directed toward income/corporate tax reductions; b) the annual scheduled increases, which have been a key factor in encourage longer-term thinking and associated behavioural changes.
-Tom Pedersen, Exec. Dir., Pacific INstitute for Climate Solutions, UVic
Presumably, the tax would be applied to the actual carbon emissions resulting from the manufacture of plastics. Oil that goes into the plastic does not generate CO2 and would not be charged. I agree that CO2 sequestering is not likely to be economical or effective. But if the CO2 is not released into the atmosphere, of course the CO2 tax would not be paid.
Not a rhetorical question: What is the policy, tax or other, that actually gets us to do what is necessary? What policy will start a WWII like reindustrialization headed towards a GHG neutral and eventually GHG negative society? Is a GHG tax and tariff set high enough to make wind and solar cheaper than nat gas sufficient?
Not if it's a refundable tax credit. If a low-income person's income tax due was (for example) $162, and the amount withheld from his/her pay during the year was $153, normally that person would owe $9. If the carbon tax credit was $500, that same person would get a refund of $491.
I think all sources of GHGes should be included, cement production, methane leaks, everything. This is probably too simplistic but if the tax is high enough then issues like wood vs. steel for home building should work themselves out.
The tax raises the price of energy, so it affects individuals in proportion to the amount of energy they use. But it's refunded as a flat rate per person. People who use a lot of energy (generally higher income) end up with a net loss, people who use less energy (generally lower income) have a net gain. The net result is progressive.
The rebate check can and should have enclosed a slip that says, "Did electricity cost you too much last year? If you use part of this refund to buy CFL or LED light bulbs you will lower next year's electric bills." Or, "Did gasoline cost you too much last year? If you use part of this refund as the down payment on a car with better gas mileage you will lower next year's gas bills."
Taxing imports on their carbon footprint is key to success, otherwise jobs might even end up in other countries.
A per capita check would hold 2/3 of Americans harmless. Go to the Carbon Tax Center to see the data. That's actually far more progressive than is necessary.
To give you a yardstick to compare different proposals.
$10 per ton of CO2 emissions raises about $55 billion in annual revenues.
If the tax were imposed at the first point of sale–the minehead, wellhead or border crossing–and passed on 100% to consumers–each $10 per ton of tax would add about 10 cents per gallon at the pump and about 1.2 cents per kWh at the meter.
A federal price on carbon is an essential first step. There is an emerging consensus among economists that the smartest way to do that is a carbon tax that embraces the following principles:
•It reduces emissions by 80% by 2050. It's based on our best science, and adequate to do the job.
•It's revenue neutral. All the taxes are recycled into the economy. Government keeps none of it.
•It's progressive. For lower-income Americans, the tax refunds match or exceed the taxes paid in.
•It's comprehensive. Markets sort the entire economy based on carbon use, which spurs innovation.
•It protects business from unfair domestic and international competition with border taxes and credits.
•It's capital neutral. Government should not try to pick (and risk "locking in") winning technologies.
•It starts small. About 10-cents-a-gallon and a penny per kilowatt hour would be enough to start.
•It increases predictably until we hit our emission goals. Businesses need predictable energy prices.
•It's easy to administer at home and to copy abroad. It's one time—at the first point of sale—the mine head, wellhead or border crossing. We already collect sales taxes from these businesses. It doesn't repeal, prevent or discourage any other private, state, regional, national or international strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with other taxes, tradable permits, regulations or subsidies to alternative fuels. And, it works in countries with widely different economies.
For the good of our nation, and to preserve a livable world for future generations, Congress needs to enact a revenue-neutral tax on carbon.


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- Orthopaedic Surgery
- Locations
- Boston: Massachusetts General Hospital
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- MassHealth
- Medicare
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- OSW - Maine
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- OSW - New York
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Dr. Vrahas was recruited to Boston in 1999 to develop an orthopaedic trauma program across Partners, which consists of Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Vrahas' goals were to:
- Meet and exceed the standards for clinical orthopaedic trauma care provided by major trauma centers around the county,
- Develop an educational program for residents and fellows, and
- Develop clinical and basic research programs
These efforts over Dr. Vrahas' tenure have led to a Trauma Program that is now nationally and internationally recognized for excellence.
Dr. Vrahas' clinical interests include pelvic and acetabular (hip socket) fracture fixation, fracture non union, and hip surgery. He is an internationally renowned pelvic and acetabular surgeon, who lectures frequently about this topic.
Research & Publications
- Research Summary
Dr. Vrahas is dedicated to understanding the human biological and clinical processes associated with traumatic orthopaedic injuries, and educating his peers and students. Toward this end, he has published prolifically on relevant topics like the cellular response to injury, the efficacy of certain orthopaedic implants and using gene therapy for fracture healing. Dr. Vrahas is very proud to have served as mentor to dozens of young orthopaedic residents and fellows interested in orthopaedics trauma surgery and research.
- Publications
Select publications:
Thomas SH, Arthur AO, Howard Z, Shear ML, Kadzielski JL, Vrahas MS. Helicopter emergency medical services crew administration of antibiotics for open fractures. Air Med J. 2013;2:74-79.
Okike K, Lee OC, Makanji H, Harris MB, Vrahas MS. Factors associated with the decision for operative versus nonoperative treatment of displaced proximal humerus fractures in the elderly. Injury. 2013;4:448-455.
Menendez ME, Neuhaus V, Bot AG, Vrahas MS, Ring D. Do psychiatric comorbidities influence inpatient death, adverse events, and discharge after lower extremity fractures?. Clin Orthop. 2013;10:3336-3348.
Liu W, Zhou D, Liu F, Weaver MJ, Vrahas MS. Mechanical complications of intertrochanteric hip fractures treated with trochanteric femoral nails. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2013;2:304-310.
Ferreira E, Porter RM, Wehling N, O'Sullivan RP, Liu F, Boskey A, Estok DM, Harris MB, Vrahas MS, Evans CH, Wells JW. Inflammatory cytokines induce a unique mineralizing phenotype in mesenchymal stem cells derived from human bone marrow. J Biol Chem. 2013;41:29494-29505.
Fayaz HC, Haas N, Kellam J, Bavonratanavech S, Parvizi J, Dyer G, Pohlemann T, Jerosch J, Prommersberger KJ, Pape HC, Smith M, Vrahas M, Perka C, Siebenrock K, Elhassan B, Moran C, Jupiter JB. Improvement of research quality in the fields of orthopaedics and trauma: A global perspective. Int Orthop. 2013;7:1205-1212.
News & Events
Vrahas named Lovett Professor of Orthopedic Surgery
Mark S. Vrahas, MD, vice chairman of the Department of Orthopædic Surgery, recently was named the Robert W. Lovett Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School (HMS).
Four New Professors of Harvard Medical School in Orthopaedic Surgery
Harvard Medical School promoted Francis J. Hornicek, MD, PhD, Orhun K. Muratoglu, PhD, David C. Ring, MD, PhD & Mark S. Vrahas, MD to professors of Orthopaedic Surgery.
Harvard Medical School welcomes the Harvard Medical School Orthopedic Trauma Initiative
The primary purpose of this Initiative is to foster collaboration amongst the orthopedic trauma services at all four Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals in Boston: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Boston Children's Hospital; Brigham and Women's Hospital; and Massachusetts General Hospital.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Frank Thomas not only showed up, he apologized.
The Big Hurt returned to the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday after missing six workouts while complaining he was underpaid. But he insisted his boycott wasn't about money.
"I did look like a poster boy for greed over the weekend, but that is not the case," Thomas said. "I've never been greedy. I've had a couple of opportunities to be the highest-paid player in this game, and I didn't want to be there."
Thomas ackowledged that fans, whose favor he regained by hitting .328 last year with 43 homers and 143 RBIs, probably would turn on him.
He began his news conference by reading a statement in which he apologized to baseball fans, sports fans and his teammates. He said he would discuss the situation with his teammates one on one.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg recommended on Tuesday building a network of flood walls, levees and bulkheads as part of a $19.5 billion proposal to protect New York City from future storms and the dangers posed by climate change.
The mayor also urged the creation of an entirely new neighborhood, similar to Battery Park City, on the east side of Lower Manhattan. He said the neighborhood, which he suggested be called "Seaport City," would create space for thousands of new residents and shield Lower Manhattan from future storms.
The fate of most of the 250 proposals in the 430-page report, titled "A Stronger More Resilient New York," largely will fall to the successor to Mr. Bloomberg, who is slated to step down Dec. 31. Still, the mayor pledged he would use the balance of his third term to "lock in" commitments and advance as many of the proposals as possible.
"The plan is incredibly ambitious—and much of the work will extend far beyond the next 203 days…but we refused to pass responsibility for creating a plan onto the next administration," said Mr. Bloomberg, standing at the Brooklyn Navy Yard with a sweeping view of the East River and the Manhattan skyline at his back. "This is urgent work—and it must begin now."
Mr. Bloomberg plans to amend his budget proposal for the fiscal year beginning July 1 by adding roughly $250 million in capital expenses to cover some of the recommendations he outlined Tuesday, his aides said. Of the total $19.5 billion price tag, which is to be spent over a decade, roughly $10 billion is to come from a combination of federal aid and capital funding already allocated in the city budget.
The mayor's aides said they were hopeful another $5 billion would come from federal aid already appropriated by Congress. That leaves a gap of $4.5 billion that remains unfunded. The $19.5 billion price tag, though, doesn't include the cost of building "Seaport City."
Mayoral candidates Christine Quinn, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, and Joe Lhota, who leads in polls for the GOP slot, both lauded Mr. Bloomberg's recommendations. Ms. Quinn said strengthening the city against climate risks is the "single most important infrastructure challenge of our time," and Mr. Lhota commended the mayor for a "comprehensive" road map and vowed to "continue" many of the projects.
A number of environmentalists and community leaders said they were still examining the report, but they said the mayor deserved high praise for crafting the blueprint.
Nicole Gelinas, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, said the price tag is a serious concern. "Despite the talk of federal funding, a good chunk of this (probably most) would have to come out of our capital budget, at a time when debt service is already rising and constraining the budget," she wrote in an email.
Last year, following superstorm Sandy, Mr. Bloomberg created a task force to recommend steps the administration should take to fortify New York's 520-mile coastline against future storms and help the city become less vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The Oct. 29 storm killed 43 people in the city and caused $19 billion in damages and lost economic activity.
Mr. Bloomberg said a "giant barrier" across New York harbor is impractical and unaffordable, but smaller barriers are feasible and could have prevented substantial flooding that the city experienced during Sandy.
The mayor said the city would work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to ensure a system of permanent levees, flood walls and other protective measures is built along the eastern shore of Staten Island. The Staten Island project would rise as high as 15 to 20 feet, protecting communities flooded during Sandy.
The corps has the money for this project, Mr. Bloomberg said, and the administration will work with the City Council to include a city match of roughly $50 million in the municipal budget that is expected to be approved later this month.
The mayor also proposed flood walls and levees in Red Hook, Chinatown, the Lower East Side, East Harlem, Hunts Point and in front of Bellevue Hospital and other medical institutions on Manhattan's East Side. Some of these barriers could be permanent, in the form of planters and elevated esplanades, while others might be temporary, such as walls with removable panels, he said.
Eventually, the mayor said, the city should extend these systems up the Harlem River and around the West Side of Manhattan, in addition to locations in the other boroughs.
Mr. Bloomberg said some of the proposals may be controversial because they could block views. "But the alternative is to get flooded out—or worse," he said. "We can't stop nature, and if we're going to save lives, and protect the lives of communities, we're going to have to live with some of the new realities."
The report also includes proposals to protect the city's health care system and critical utilities, such as power and telecommunications. Mr. Bloomberg recommended requiring hospitals to meet higher standards to protect their electrical equipment, emergency power systems and water pumps. The report recommends similar requirements for nursing homes and adult-care facilities.
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Memory loss in healthy older adults is on the rise, as are preventive treatments—but there is little evidence that these remedies are effective.
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The recently announced BRAIN Initiative, referred to as the Apollo program for neuroscience, needs more funding and better goals to live up to the hype.
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The release of non-native organisms into the environment by high school teachers should not be used as an argument to stop teaching by hands-on demonstration.
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This is a valid way of inserting missing words, as the Shulchan Aruch in Yoreh De'ah in סימן רעו - דין תלית הדלוג Paskens: א: טָעָה וְדִלֵּג תֵּבָה אוֹ יוֹתֵר, יָכוֹל לִתְלוֹתָהּ בֵּין הַשִּׁיטִין אֲבָל לֹא בָּרֶוַח שֶׁבֵּין דַּף לְדַף. If he erred and missed a word or more, he can hang it between the lines, but he may not put it in the space ...
The oldest written Torah Sheb'al Peh (though not exactly a manuscript) would seem to be the recently-discovered mosaic of the ancient shul in Beit Shaan. The Hebrew Wikipedia article about that shul (which was destroyed 1300 years ago, and existed a few hundred before that) can be found at this link. Here is their image of the mosaic (I hope I'm allowed to ...
The Mahara"l of Prauge, in his commentary to Megilas Esther called Ohr Chadash, (after offering the more basic suggestion that this denotes something Mordechai would do on a constant basis), explains that even when Mordechai had an option to use an alternate route, he would make a point of going in front of Haman and not bowing down. The Ohr Hachayim ...
As you yourself say, the Muslim claims have never been backed up with proof. If there would be proof, why would they not inform us? That seems ample proof that it's a baseless claim. There are various proofs that the Torah we have is essentially identical to the original (with some minor spelling variants). One is the fact that all Jews have the same ...
The earliest printed sources that mention the bans of Rabbeinu Gershom ben Yehuda, one of which is the ban on polygamy, appear to be the Machzor Vitry (§575) and two teshuvot of the Maharam of Rotenberg (§153 and §1022). A much easier source to find (and read) is the anonymously-authored Sefer Kol Bo, which was probably composed in the 14th century. There ...
Ohr Chadash - Maharal M'Prag asks this question and answers that Mordechai intentionally made sure to be in the areas where Haman was going to show he was not going to bow down. לא יכרע, זהו אף שהיה יכול מרדכי ללכת בדרך אחרת שלא יהיה פוגע בו ולא יכעס המן
During the Second Temple Period, there were different sects with different interpretations of Judaism. The descendants of the Pharisees wrote the Talmud, which defined Orthodox Judaism as we know today. (What follows is from Rabbi Shneur Leiman's lecture on yutorah.org) The Dead Sea Scrolls belonged to a sect that was clearly not the Pharisees; it includes ...
Traditional Judaism regards the oral law as the primary means of interpreting the written law - i.e. the Pentateuch and the rest of the Old Testament. The oral law is a combination of specific laws which the Tradition says were transmitted by God to Moses at Sinai and a code of various methods of exegesis by which to derive laws from the Bible. This second ...
A good place to start would be here, on Hebrew Wikisource. It looks like their texts would meet all of your criteria.
You mean his ban on polygamy? I was told that we don't actually have its text today; hence so much debate as to its contents and limitations.
There is a sefer by Efraim Urbach called "Ba'alei HaTosafot" (in Hebrew) that discusses them and analyzes, Masechta by Masechta, who the anonymous authors might be.
The perspective of Orthodox Jews vis-a-vis the Dead sea scrolls varies from non recognition, ambivalence, to outright excitement. For those who do not view it as a life altering find see them as 1. Either a validation of what was already known to them ie. Small variance in textual differences due to a very solid mesorah. 2. the other non canonical scrolls ...
It's a Yiddish abbreviation for Kein Ayin Hora - or in Hebrew Bli Ayin Hara. Simply stated without the evil eye; we're not discussing [something] in order to get [it] punished due to our jealousy.
Nechama Leibowitz, in this letter, outlines her approach to this question. I think a basic level of intellectual honesty demands that if someone says a good pshat, that we use it. If they got it right, they got it right. To the sources regarding kisvei hakodesh written by an apikores, I think one must distinguish between the ideas and the physical books. The ...
Sort of what Josh wrote in his comment, it seems to have to do with the fact that the usual accent for this word would be on the ב, and it's moved to the ש because of nasog achor.1 Mishpetei Halashon Ha-Ivrit explains it as follows: Basically, this nasog achor would require (based on the rule of dechik2) that the first letter of the following word have a ...
Apparently, at least in the last couple of centuries, the Keter was jealously guarded and people indeed were not permitted to make copies of it. (There may well have been other copies of it from Rambam's times or the next couple of centuries after that, but if so, they either haven't survived or are unknown.) One important source that we do have - R. ...
Wikipedia's article "Tosafot", quoting the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia's: The edited tosafot owe their existence particularly to Samson of Sens and to the following French tosafists of the thirteenth century: (1) Moses of Évreux, (2) Eliezer of Touques, and (3) Perez ben Elijah of Corbeil.
Hebrewbooks.org has a lot of seforim, though mostly in PDF format. (You can get their Shas and Rambam as text files.) Torat Emet Sefaria has a lot of text sefarim, coupled with crowdsourced English translations. Wikitext (idea taken from here, h/t YEZ) Mechon Mamre, Hebrew and English Tanach, as well as many, many other sefarim. (idea taken from here, h/t ...
The oldest actual manuscript fragment appears to be the Cairo Genizah scroll fragment (in the Cambridge University Library Genizah collection) studied by Professor Shamma Friedman containing the Bavli's Chullin 101a - 105a. Opinions to the exact date vary, from "at latest 7th century(600's CE)" to Dr. Stephan Reif's estimate of around 750 CE. A picture and ...
http://www.onlinesiddur.com/ does a pretty good job with providing the full text. very nice
Mechon Mamre's free offline resources may be what you're looking for.
For starters: in Ashkenazic custom (which I think the questioner was assuming), the kesubah has already been signed (i.e. executed) before the chupah, so the reading is nothing more than a pause between parts of the ceremony. It's accomplishing nothing of a halachic nature any more than reading the latest stock numbers would be, hence many rabbis have been ...
Sefaria is a great resource for this sort of thing. See their developer documentation, and terms of use for more information. They return results in JSON or JSONP. Each translation has its own copyright issues which you'll have to deal with distinctly. However, "codex" might be too strict of a term when talking about translations.
The two main texts you probably want to see, in terms of the Masoretic texts, are the Leningrad and Aleppo Codicies, available online here and here respectively. See here for many more old scanned manuscripts.
The berachah is in Siddur R. Amram Gaon, and almost identically in Siddur R. Saadyah Gaon. Both of them also say that it should be prefaced with Vayechulu and the berachah on the wine.
All of the risonim (starting from Rashi and Tosafot) take up the task of determining the correct wording of the gemara. All of the commentators who do this maintain that the version they correct it to is the correct version, and whatever they saw on the page had gotten mangled. The Bach's emendations were speculative, based on the opinion that it solves ...
There is no "book" of the rulings of Rabbeinu Gershom. Many items are referenced by later Rishonim in Ashkenaz as takkanot (rulings) of Rabbeinu Gershom, but there is no authoritative list in any one place. There is also no English translation for most of the following, which may be why no one has quoted them: The earliest attributions to Rabbeinu Gershom ...
Turn the lower-right corner of the text toward you and up toward your eyes, so that you'll be looking at the text from an oblique angle. The alephs will seem to pop out of the page. I think it's because they uniquely have a major line running top-left to bottom-right.
G-d gave all the laws to Moses, and he passed it on to his students orally until the time of R' Yehudah, who wrote everything down in the mishnah in a concise way (Gitin 60a). We accept everything written there, since it came from G-d Himself. However, by that time, disputes had already risen over things that had to do with logic (which we are expected to ...
Usually the Tosfot commentary for a particular masechet was compiled by a particular Tosafist. Based on clues ranging from outright self identification to alignment of particular shitot, rulings, we can identify a large majority of the authors.
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With God of War: Ascension's release date fast approaching Santa Monica Studio is ratcheting up the game's promotional efforts lest any fans of the series are still oblivious to its many charms.
The latest GoW: Ascension trailer showcases three previously unseen maps – Bog of the Forgotten, Labyrinth of Daedalus, and the Walls of Troy – and gives us a glimpse at some of the unique ways you can get the drop on your opponents.
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God of War: Ascension will be released on March 12th in the US and March 15th in the UK.
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I recently purchased 2 120gb ocz ssd's and my goal is to install windows 7 64 bit to them in a raid 0 array. What I've ended up with is 2 computers torn apart, my tv disabled, a bleeding thumb and no sleep in the last 24 hours (its a long story).
Im using ich9r to manage the array and I made sure sata was set to raid in the bios. Using intels interface during the boot I created a raid 0 array. My machine boots to the windows install disk and i see the array as a single drive as expected. For good measure i load the raid drivers from a usb stick and procede with the install. It looks like it finishes the first phase before the restart and then restarts. It then restarts and when the raid drives are listed (the place where you can hit ctrl i to setup your raid) it shows one of the drives as "error occurred"
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Take a 'Moonrise Kingdom' tour with Bill Murray
A few days removed from seeing Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom" and the Cannes brouhaha that came with its opening night premiere last week, I have to say, I'm looking forward to seeing it again. It's just so charming in all the ways Anderson's previous films are meant to be, but, for me, aren't quite.
"The Royal Tenenbaums" is so far his most successful film financially and critically, but after giving it another look recently, I found I liked it even less than I did back in 2001 (which already wasn't much). I'd put "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" on that lower tier as well. Both films are just overwhelmingly affected and don't strike the balance his better works do.
I'm mostly okay with "Fantastic Mr. Fox" and "The Darjeeling Limited." The former is a fun romp and the latter has a lot of soul. But "Rushmore" and "Bottle Rocket" have always been tops for me, because the emotion just feels much more authentic. "Moonrise Kingdom" can count itself in that territory, I feel.
One of the stars of Anderson's latest, Bill Murray, is no stranger to the director, having collaborated with him on all but one of his films. And in "Moonrise Kingdom," he plays on the fringe with just the right accent, while Bruce Willis and, most especially, child stars Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward, get the more substantial performance showcases.
With that in mind, Focus Features has released a nifty little featurette with Murray giving a tour of the film throughout a few of its various sets. It's a great opportunity for some wry Murray humor. "I play a man in the film," he says simply, before quipping that he still hasn't seen "Bottle Rocket" (the one Anderson film that didn't feature the actor).
In introducing some of the other actors featured in the film, Murray offers: "Edward Norton, he does a lot of psycho work. He's playing against type. Bruce Willis, playing a policeman. Type cast, I guess. Tilda Swinton's in this one, too. She's tall. She's Scottish. She's pretty. She can do whatever she wants."
What the three-minute clip is really great for, however, is showcasing Adam Stockhausen's production design, which is some of the best seen on an Anderson film yet (and was also noted in Guy's less enthusiastic review). There will be a lot of period pieces in play this year, so contemporary design will, as ever, have a tough time making a go of it. But I truly think Stockhausen's work and Kasia Walicka-Maimone's costumes deserve some serious consideration. The latter in particular does a great job of reflecting the characters visually.
And Murray himself might even pop up in the Focus awards mix, though not for this film. He's playing FDR in Roger Michell's "Hyde Park on Hudson," which debuted a trailer last week.
Have a look at the Murray-guided tour below. "Moonrise Kingdom" opens this Friday, May 25.


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Here's the steps to reproduce my scenario:
- Open Visio 2013, start a new UML diagram.
- Add one class.
- Add another class.
Add an association between the two classes.
The diagram should now look like this:
Move the rightmost class a bit downwards.
Result: connector hasn't moved along. See:
Expected: The association should've stuck to the second class.
The reason I'm writing this as a SU question and not a bug on MS Connect is twofold. First, I'm afraid I'm missing something here and that I should use Visio differently to make the expected behavior work. Second, if this is a bug I'd still love to know if there's someone that knows a way around this.
I've tried searching ([1], [2], [3]) as well as making the connector stick to various parts of the UML class box, none of it helps.
I've also repeated the experiment with two Flowchart Process Shapes, and an UML directed association between the two: in this case the connector does move along.
What am I missing here?


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im trying to merge more than 20 xml files into one, any of them contains more than 7000 nodes code that im using for that is like this
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im trying to merge more than 20 xml files into one, any of them contains more than 7000 nodes code that im using for that is like this
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I Solve the problem using INTERSOLV 3.11 32-BIT ParadoxFile (*.db) driver
That the jdbc-odbc driver for paraodx don't support update, i found paradox driver from corel PdxJdbc.jar but i don't conw how to use it
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Taxonomic TreatmentAlpert, G. D., 2007:
Figures 3, 4, 9, 10, 15, 16, 19 - 24
Gregg (1958) described this species and included an illustration of a worker in dorsal view. Additional figures are provided here.M. madagascarica was described from a small series of workers collected along with termites from a stump with a field label T4403. Moszkowski (1955, p. 34) described the associated drywood termite as a new species, Cryptotermes kirbyi Moszkowski, gave the field label as T- 4403, and described the collection locality in more detail [14 km. East ( 23 & # 730; 20 ° S , 43 & # 730; 48 ° E ) of Tulear , along Fiheranana River , Madagascar , coll. H. Kirby , 7. VI. 1935 , in large dead stump].On February 10, 1993 , Phil Ward , Emile Rajeriarison and the author discovered a series of M. madagascarica from Berenty Reserve , 15 m, 25 & # 730; 01 ° 3.9 ' S , 46 & # 730; 18 ° 21.8 ' E ; spiny forest, in an Alluaudia sp. log in association with termites. On July 11, 2000 , the author returned to this locality with Pascal Rabeson and Emile Rajeriarison and collected several nest series of M. madagascarica in a dead hardwood tree (local Malagasy name Kelegnogne) in association with the termite Cryptotermes kirbyi. These nest series included larvae, pupae, workers, queens, males and ergatoid males.Additional material examined from Madagascar : Toliara , Reserve Prive Berenty , Foret d'Anjapolo , 21.4 km 325 & # 730; NWAmbosary , 24 & # 730; 55 ° 47 ' S , 46 & # 730; 12 ° 35 ' E , 65 m, spiny forest / thicket, 7 Feb 2002 ( coll. Fisher-Griswold Arthropod Team ) CASENT 0004524 , 1 ergatoid male, CASC ;Reserve Prive Berenty , Foret de Malaza , Mandrare River , 8.6 km 314 & # 730; NWAmbosary , 25 & # 730; 0 ° 28 ' S , 46 & # 730; 18 ° 22 ' E , 40 m, gallery forest, 6 Feb 2002 ( coll. Fisher-Griswold Arthropod TeamBLF 5474 ) CASENT 0004525 , 1 worker, CASC ;Parc National d ° Andohahela , Foret de Manantalinjio , 33.6 km 63 & # 730; ENEAmbosary , 7.6 km 99 & # 730; EHazofotsy , 24 & # 730; 49 ° 1 ' S , 46 & # 730; 36 ° 36 ' E , 150 m, spiny forest / thicket, 12 - 16 Jan 2002 ( coll. Fisher-Griswold Arthropod TeamBLF 4837 ) CASENT 0004526 , BLF 4840 , CASENT 0004529 , 2 workers, CASC .
Worker-queen intermorphs were present in low numbers among the series of workers. Two intermorphs exhibiting rudimentary wing articulations were present among 51 workers. Other intermediate stages of intermorph development were also present and this is consistent with the variation in development of ovarioles from six to two (Hoelldobler et al., 2002 b).
Several ergatoid males (Figs. 19, 21, 23) were collected along with typical winged males (Figs. 20, 22, 24) within the same colony at more than one location. These ergatoid males are almost identical to workers with the following exceptions, presence of male genitalia, large welldeveloped eyes and typical male antennae. The presence of both winged males and an ergatoid male caste in the same colony is exceptional in ants and warrants further study.
Gregg, R. E., 1958:
Worker. - Length, 6.91 mm.; head length (excluding mandibles), 1.50 mm.; head width, 1.08 mm.; head index, 0.72; thorax length, 1.83 mm.
Head, even without the mandibles, distinctly longer than broad (about 1 and 1/3 times longer than broad), widest in the occipital region and tapering concavely to the mandibular insertions where it is narrowest; occipital margin broadly and shallowly excavated, and concave. Head decidedly convex antero-posteriorly as well as transversely; gula convex; median cephalic groove very weakly indicated, becoming obsolete on the clypeus where it is replaced by a low, rounded carina, posterad. Frontal area absent, its position taken by a broad, curved epistomal suture which delimits the posterior border of the clypeus, and extends between the widely separated frontal carinae. The carinae are straight, parallel, and prominent where they cross the clypeus as trenchant ridges to its anterior margin, abruptly divergent and almost transverse at the antennal insertions, and again turning sharply backward through right angles, and continuing posteriorly to the region of the vertex, flaring slightly. The surfaces of the head below the carinae are broadly concave, forming shallow but distinct antennal scrobes, bounded and overhung by the carinae, though open ventrally. Median lobe of clypeus nearly quadrate, weakly and concavely truncate anterior to its small carina, and bidentate, that is, armed with two, small, blunt teeth projecting forward, and separated by a distance equal to the base of either. Lateral clypeal lobes narrow, sinuate, convex, and separated, from the genae by faint lines continous with the median portion of the epistomal suture. Ocelli absent; no ocellar pits. Compound eyes reduced to mere vestiges composed of 6 to 8 very minute and indistinct ommatidia; located on the sides of the head, at a point barely past the center as measured from the mandibles to the occiput, and on the edge of the scrobe. Mandibles stout, convex, anterior margins feebly carved to nearly straight, the masticatory border bearing five, heavy, blunt teeth, the apical ones best developed and the others diminishing slightly in size. Antennae 11-segmented; scapes short, flat, about 2 1/2 times as long as wide, with convex anterior and straight posterior margins; scapes almost fill the upper and deeper portions of the cephalic scrobes where they are overarched by the facial carinae. Funiculi longer than the scapes, decidedly flattened, but with the upper surface weakly convex and the lower surface flat to almost imperceptibly concave; funicular segments 2 to 7 much broader than long and gradually increasing in size; last three segments much larger, forming a spatulate club, the penultimate and antepenultimate members of which are nearly as broad as long, the terminal segment longer than broad and twice the length of the penultimate.
Thorax long and narrow, about 2 1/2 times as long as broad, and narrower than the head; humeri well-developed, Pro- and mesonotum fused with no trace of dorsal sutures; meso-epinotal suture distinct and slightly impressed, especially laterad. Entire thorax including epinotum, marginate to submarginate laterally, the bordering ridge continuing transversely across the front of the pronotum, setting off a distinct collar which joins the head at a low level. The margins continue also to the epinotal angles which then terminate in broad, dentate processes at the same level as the thorax, and finally turn ventrally to border the declivious face of the epinotum. Dorsum of the thorax moderately convex from side to side, feebly from anterior to posterior ends; basal face of epinotum nearly horizontal, but passing through an abrupt, slightly concave angle to the vertical declivity; basal face twice as long as the declivious face. Thoracic pleurae and epinotal sides vertical but noticeably concave. Petiole almost flat dorsally, subquadrate except that the posterolateral corners are divergent and produced into prominent teeth; the posterior border is broadly excised. The dorsum is separated from the sides, front, and back walls by marginate borders, the walls concave in each case, descending and converging mesially toward the midline, thus producing the appearance of a flaring, cuneate, petiolar node. Anterior peduncle short and constricted; posterior peduncle hardly more than an acetabulum for the condyle of the postpetiole. Petiole armed with a thin, translucent, median, ventral, blade-like keel, pointed at its middle. Postpetiole 2/5 wider than long, almost flat dorsally, marginate on all borders, but the ridge more rounded than the corresponding one on the petiole; anterior and lateral walls vertical and not tapering mesially, the post-petiolar node being thus no broader than the body of the segment. Anterior peduncle short, posterior- peduncle obsolete, the postpetiole joined to the gaster by a wide face, though leaving a deep constriction between the two. Ventral surface of postpetiole produced into a short, triangular, transverse tooth, as a ventral extension of the anterior wall. Mesothoracic spiracles appear to be covered by backward extending flaps developed from the tops of the pro-mesothoracic pleural sutures. Epinotal spiracles large and easily visible. Petiolar spiracles located at the base of the anterior peduncle, postpetiolar spiracles laterally on the node of this segment. Spiracles present on the first three gastric segments.
Gaster elongate, about as long as the combined lengths of the thorax, petiole and postpetiole, or a little shorter; elliptical, rounded and convex in all directions, the anterior border blunt while the posterior end terminates in a somewhat pointed pygidium that is faintly concave on its dorsal aspect, but deflected ventrad. Abdomen furnished with a small sting, partly concealed.
Coxae stout and bulbous. Femora inflated, especially of the meso- and metathoracic legs (about 1 1/3 times as long as broad), and laterally compressed, their ventral surfaces longitudinally grooved for the reception of the tibiae. Tibiae stout and partly compressed but less so than the femora. Foretibia armed with one small spine and a large, pectinate spur; the lower side of the fore-basitarsus pectinate for its full length, its apex ending in three stout teeth. Mesotibia provided with a small, barely pectinate spur, and three, stout apical teeth, two of them approximated; meso-basitarsus armed with three terminal teeth. Metatibia and meta-basitarsus idential with those of the middle leg, though more strongly developed. All tarsi equipped with large claws.
Sculpture - Clypeus, frons, genae, and antennal scrobes covered with fine, longitudinal striae, essentially parallel, but which fade out posteriorly, leaving the vertex, occiput, and posterior part of the genae, smooth and very shining, interrupted only by piligerous punctures. Anterior third of the gula similarly striate, posterior portion smooth and shining. Mandibles longitudinally striate and punctate. Entire dorsum and pleurae of thorax, including the epinotum, longitudinally striate (somewhat oblique on the pleurae), but the striations slightly finer than that of the cephalic sculpture, and diverging to the epinotal corners. Top of the petiole showing well-separated, hair-bearing punctures, its sides striate. Postpetiole and gaster with similar but finer punctures, and a faintly coriaceous texture. All areas of the body, even where most heavily striated, bright and shining due to absence of inter-strial sculpture. Legs and antennae also smooth and shining.
Pilosity: Short, scattered, yellow hairs on all surfaces of the head and thorax, many of them arising from discernible punctures especially on the vertex, occiput, and petiole. Hairs are longer and more readily visible on the mandibles, front margin of the clypeus, gula, coxae, lateral surfaces of the legs, and particularly the lower surface of the petiole and gaster. Pubescence limited to the funiculi, postpetiole, and gaster, on which areas it merges with the erect hairs so that it is difficult to distinguish one from the other. Pilosity is most abundant on the gaster.
Color: Head, including the mandibles, dark red-brown to blackish brown, the frons, center lobe of clypeus, anterior genae, and center of the occiput, lighter in color; thorax, petiole, and postpetiole red-brown; gaster, legs, and antennae partly yellowish brown.
Holotype: Worker; collected 15 km. east of Tulear, Madagascar, on June 7, 1935 by Harold Kirby (?). Collection notes accompanying it state that the ants were found in a stump and associated with T -[termites?] 4403. Deposited in the author's collection.
Paratypes: Eight other specimens; 4 workers, 1 female (see below), and 3 winged female pupae (1 pigmented), collected from the same nest as the holotype.
Female: Length, 9.09 mm.; head length (excluding mandibles), 1.54 mm.; head width, 1.12 mm.; head index, 0.73; thorax length, 2.67 mm. (dealated).
The female caste is so similar in many ways to the worker in this genus that one is reminded of the parallel situation in ponerine genera. It is, therefore, necessary to point out only the salient features of the queen which separates it from the worker caste. There follows a brief diagnosis.
The female is winged, although the single adult specimen before me had become deaelate, so fully expanded wings for description are lacking. Three pupae, however, have well-developed wing sacs. The female caste differs from the worker by its overall large size, the cephalic and thoracic striae or rugules which are a trifle coarser, the presence of large, flat, oval, compound, eyes at the middle of the sides of the head, composed of a great number of ommatidia (longest diameter of the eye slightly less than the distance from its anterior edge to the insertion of the mandible), three distinct ocelli on the vertex, and the anterior clypeal teeth which are smaller and blunter. A pronounced, arcuate pro-mesonotal suture is present, the mesoscutum has distinct parapsidal furrows, the scutellum is separated by a well-marked suture, and the metanotum is distinguished by deeply impressed boundaries. The epinotum shows the posterior corners rounded (denticles reduced to slight carinae), and the basal face is rounded, passing gradually into the declivity without an angle, the whole segment narrower than in the worker. Petiole and postpetiole are smaller and both are more quadrate than the corresponding segments of the worker, where they are slightly transverse. Dorsal surfaces of both are furnished with fine, curved, transverse striae. The pleurae, and sides of the petiole and postpetiole have enough minute interstrial sculpture to cause a faint dullness to the otherwise shining surface. Pilosity over most of the body is sparser, especially on the gaster. Whether this is natural or due to a worn specimen, it is impossible to tell at present.
In Wheeler's key to the species of Metapone (1919), this ant runs to couplet 5 because of the bluntly bidentate clypeus. At the time this key was produced, there were two species known having the character mentioned, and madagascarica may be distinguished from them in the following manner.
From tillyardi it differs by larger size (6.91 vs. 5.5-6 mm.), a more quadrate petiole which is somewhat more excavated behind, by a rectangular and transverse (rather than oval) postpetiole, and in color which is dark reddish brown to black on thorax and head in contrast to castaneous brown of tillyardi . The head is proportionately longer also (1.38 vs. about 1.25 times as long as broad).
From bakeri it can be separated by a relatively longer head (1.38 vs. less than 1.25 times as long as broad), the presence of five rather than four mandibular teeth, a posterior clypeal suture, striate sculpture of the body (in contrast to smooth), petiole less deeply excised behind, shorter and stouter legs with more inflated femora, red-brown color instead of black, and a difference in size, which is indeed very notable (9.1 vs. 6.4 mm.). It should be stated that these comparisons are between the females of the two species owing to absence of the worker of bakeri which has yet to be discovered. The differences in dentition and in body sculpture however, leave no doubt of the distinctness of these forms.
M. madagascarica is to be distinguished from gracilis , a species which Wheeler described in 1935, again on the basis of the females. It has larger size (9.1 vs. 7 mm.), the ocelli are all nearly the same size, the anterior one being only slightly larger than the laterals in contrast to that of gracilis , antennal scapes almost 3 times as long as broad (not 4 times), and the petiolar node has a concave anterior surface, the dorsal surface weakly convex and from above subquadrate, being only minutely wider than long (1 and 1/3 times longer than broad in gracilis ).
Prom jacobsoni , it differs in larger size (9.1 vs. 6.4 mm.; only the female of jacobsoni has been described), head 1 1/4 times as long as broad instead of 1 1/2, clypeal suture visible, eyes almost in the exact middle of the head, epinotum more than one-half as wide at the rear as at the front, petiolar node 1 1/4 times wider than long ( jacobsoni about 1 1/3 longer than wide), anterior wall of petiole concave, peduncle less than one-half as long as the node, postpetiole a little wider than long (not fully quadrate), and postpetiole with curved, transverse striae rather than shagreened. In many respects the two ants are very similar, to judge from Crawley's description, but the above differences appear to hold and should serve to distinguish them.
From johni it may be told by the shape of the antennal scapes which are broadest in the middle, whereas in johni they are predunculate at the base, broadening apically (or as Karawajew puts it, "ham-shaped" - schinkenartige Form). This situation obtains also in M. greeni . Mandibles have 5 teeth instead of 4, the clypeus is bidentate rather than truncate and feebly concave, and the petiole is less convex dorsally and lacks a tooth posteriorly following the ventral lamella, but the node has sharper and more tooth-like posterior corners. The postpetiole displays a pointed transverse process instead of three, rounded transverse ridges.
Type locality: Tulear, Madagascar (H. Kirby)


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