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FAQ About Student Health Insurance
Do I need to buy insurance?
All full time students who are attending college within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts are required by state law to have health insurance. Visit the Mass.gov website for information on Student Health Insurance Program and FAQs.
The Student Health Insurance Plan provides primary coverage for a full calendar year and has a national network of medical and mental health providers. Many students choose this plan in addition to continued coverage under the parent's plans. For those who feel their current coverage is adequate for major illness and emergencies, the Prepaid Health Center Option provides a low cost "bridge" between the Health Center and your HMO/PPO for common illnesses and injuries.
Will my daughter be able to use the services of the Health Center at Mount Holyoke College?
The services of the Mount Holyoke College Health Center are available to all MHC students irrespective of the decision to purchase the Student Health Insurance Plan or the Pre-Paid Health Center Option. A full description of MHC Health Center services is available online.
Will my health insurance cover payment of fees at the Health Center?
The majority of the services at the Health Center are provided free of charge, however there are charges for lab tests, medications, physical therapy and infirmary admissions of greater than 4 hours duration. The Health Center does not participate in any HMO or PPO networks and does not contract with any indemnity plans. Please check specifically with your insurance carrier regarding their policy for payment of lab, mental health visits, prescriptions, etc that are out of network.
What about coverage for Mental Health Services?
Mount Holyoke College, along with most colleges across the country has seen an increase in the number of students seeking support for acute and chronic mental health concerns. Annually 20-25% of MHC students contact our Counseling Service. Our Counseling Service provides assessment and brief intervention which for many students is all that is required. However there are a number of our students that do require referral or may prefer referral off campus to an area provider for ongoing support and therapy. Coverage for outpatient mental health services varies greatly among insurance plans. Many plans have this benefit managed separately with different referral procedures and provider networks. Please review this benefit in your current coverage carefully regarding referral process, definition of the network and out of network coverage.
How are referrals to specialists covered?
Please refer to the specific sections on the referral process and the outpatient benefits. If you choose not to participate in the Student Health Insurance Plan, contact your carrier regarding the availability of specialists within your provider network and procedures for referral. Many plans require the Primary Care Provider (PCP) to make the referral. The most common reasons for referral by the Health Center staff include: orthopedics, dermatology, infectious disease and mental health.
What about medications?
The Student Health Insurance Plan has a pharmacy benefit of $1000 annually. Refer to the enclosed brochure for details on co-pays. A local pharmacy works with the Health Center to electronically match insurance information and deliver prescribed medications to the health center daily. When the current and correct insurance information is verified, the student pays only the co-pay as defined by her insurance benefit. If the information is not available, not correct or the claim is denied, the student is responsible for payment in full at the time the medication is picked up. There is no medication benefit available under the Pre-Paid Health Center Option.
If my daughter has a chronic or pre-existing medical or mental health condition, should I buy the Student Health Insurance Plan?
Please refer to the enclosed brochure regarding pre-existing conditions. Also please note the design of this plan is to meet the needs of a generally healthy young population of women; therefore there are significant limitations on several areas of benefit. If you have adequate major medical insurance, you may consider purchase of the Prepaid Health Center Option to provide lab, etc with minimal travel, costs and improved coordination of care.
Does my daughter need to have a PCP in South Hadley?
The majority of students/families do not find this necessary. The clinicians at the Health Center have a wide range of experience in managing acute and chronic conditions. They also work very cooperatively and collaboratively with primary care and specialist providers outside of the area to manage chronic illnesses. Please talk with your daughter's providers for a recommendation for the management of her chronic illness. Consult your insurance plan regarding the availability of network providers or temporary/guest privileges while your daughter is in this area. Please remember this process may take several weeks.
Can students with Commonwealth Care plans waive the Student Health Insurance Plan?
No. Students who are subject to the QSHIP requirement (students in MA colleges) are not eligible for Commonwealth Care. Students may obtain health insurance through their parents' health insurance, health insurance offered by their employer, the school's QSHIP plan, or enroll in a Commonwealth Choice plan. Commonwealth Choice offers a wide range of commercial health insurance plans. There are special Young Adults Plans for 18 to 26 year-olds. Please visit the Commonwealth Connector's website for more details.
My daughter is very healthy, why would she need to come to the health center?
Please see the chart below for details on the most commonly seen illnesses and costs based on the various coverage options at Mount Holyoke.
All visits with the nursing staff, nurse practitioner and physician and counseling staff are without charge. Referrals to specialists are not covered by the Prepaid Health Center Option.
|Common Situation
|Health Center Charge
|Student Health Ins.
|Prepaid Health Center
|All Other Options Waived
|Cold/sore throat
|Throat culture
|Covered, no charge to student
|Covered, no charge to student
|Charged to student's bill
|Urinary tract infection
|Urinalysis and culture
|Covered, no charge to student
|Covered, no charge to student
|Charged to student's bill
|Based on family drug benefit
|Based on family drug benefit
|Neck/back or shoulder pain
|Physical therapy
|Covered, no charge to student
|Covered, no charge to student
|Charged to student's bill
|Abdominal pain
|Observation in Infirmary
|If greater than 4 hours
|Covered, no charge to student
|Covered, no charge to student
|Charged to student's bill
|Acute anxiety attack/
Observation in Infirmary
|Covered, no charge to student
|Covered, no charge to student
|Charged to student's bill


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Skip to comments.Pentagon Encircles Iran: Victory Would Take 3 Weeks
Posted on 05/02/2012 7:50:41 AM PDT by Strategy
As the US beefs up its military presence in the Persian Gulf region, Pentagon strategists estimate that they would need less than a month to defeat Iranian forces should a military conflict take place.
US Central Command (CENTCOM) believes it can destroy or significantly degrade Iran's conventional armed forces in about three weeks using air and sea strikes, a defense source told The Washington Post.
"We plan for any eventuality we can and provide options to the president," Army Lt. Col. T.G. Taylor, a spokesman at CENTCOM told the newspaper. "We take our guidance from the secretary of defense and from our civilian bosses in [Washington] DC. So any kind of guidance they give us, that's what we go off of [sic]."
(Excerpt) Read more at rt.com ...
The article is actually copied, without attribution, word-for-word, from the Washington Times.
The IRGC and Basij make the Saddam Fedayeen, Al Queda in Iraq, and the Taliban combined look like a joke.
Anyway, the goal, of course, is neither invasion or regime change. It's the elimination of Iran's ability to project power - the Air Force, ballistic missile forces, the regular Navy, and the IRGC Navy.
Good post. Thanks.
I agree, there's a hell of a lot more in the way of geopolitical considerations with Iran than there was with Iraq (at least as it relates to actually powerful countries). Afghanistan is a ridiculous balancing act, but I can't imagine having to deal with powerhouses like Russia and China getting involved.
Iran ain't worth it.
could we just torch ALL irans oil wells so they lose the only thing they have to offer?
Define "win".
We still haven't "Won" Iraq. Problem is we don't want to fight like WWII.
We firebombed civilian cities and turned areas into smoking rubble. We broke the will of the people long before we broke their armies.
We restored German civilization, somewhat. Their recent actions make me wonder just how much. The Germans still want a United States of Europe, and have it now with the EU.
Based on recent past experience about 10+ years is a reasonable estimate before we would pull out.
If we looked to WWII, who knows. A couple of months. The DOD has never won a war.
-—Problem is we dont want to fight like WWII.
We firebombed civilian cities and turned areas into smoking rubble. We broke the will of the people long before we broke their armies.-—
It amazes me that most Americans are, at the very least, indifferent to this shameful horror. The ends don't justify the means.
Modern precision strikes are far superior.
Great vanity, BTW, thanks for the link--I'd missed it the first time. Now I'm fully dreading October...
That is fascinating but not unusual for Russian papers with their very flexible standards for intellectual property. Can you post the URL? I seem to remember some WT headline about this. The number of similar stories mushrooming in the vernacular press in the middle east and Pakistan does make me think there is some sort of black propaganda operation underway. It is cheap and is a common psychological warfare ploy.
Seems to me that total victory and peace can be achieved in 30 minutes or less (or your bomb is free). Or whatever the flight time from an SSBN to their most inland city would be.
The first battle of Manasses pretty
much killed the "over in three weeks" meme.
We've seen this movie already.
McArthur swore the Chinese Army would stay put if the US continued to push the Norks back against the Chinese border.
They didn't.
If we invade Iran, the Russians will too. Even if they don't feel they have to.
And about 100 years to nation build.
Seriously! That term should be taken out of our lexicon entirely. Go in, kick ass, come home and tell them if they get uppity again, we'll be back!
But it worked. How many men on both sides would have died if we invaded Japan? How long would the war have lasted if we hadn't bombed Germany? In that war, the thinking was "You started this, and we will kill every one of you unless you stop NOW!"
I have had the privilege to speak with some of the officers who were involved in the bombing campaign, and whole point was to kill and demilitarize civilians. After action reports suggest the demoralization failed completely (Read some of David Grossman's work), but they did slow production and transportation of goods. It was a terror tactic. One that honestly didn't have the results that were expected.
Precision strikes are not as great as we are led to believe. You have know what and exactly where you target. Even then, if the target moves it gets away. The myth of surgical strikes is just that. A myth.
Sadly, the only way we could "win" Iran is kill enough of them that they stop. That is not something modern people like to think about, but it is how war was fought in the past. The theory of a quick, clean, war doesn't work if the other side is motivated to keep fighting in the rubble. We learned this in Iraq and Afghanistan. As many empires have learned before. If we are not willing to do that, then we need to seriously ask "Is this war something we need to do at all?"
Iran is not a direct threat to us. And starting a war because they might have nukes and be able to hit Israel is problematic at best. Preemptive wars are not very justifiable.
Its what comes next thats the sticky wicket.
Break stuff, leave with "get out of line again and we'll be back and REALLY pissed off" and then LEAVE.
The goal is not conquest or even peace. The goal is to get them to stop stirring up trouble on the world stage. Removing their capability to do that is realtively simple. As usual, the liberal BS about "what comes after" causes problems. The answer is: Ignore it entirely. Let them figure it out - or not.
They will never like us. They can however be taught to respect us.
Nation building over there is hopeless. Money won't solve the history of the people.
Nation building over there is hopeless. Money won't solve the history of the people.
If a war is needed, Obama will start the war.
Are some of the trappings the same? Yes. That is why it worked. We have a lot of the trappings of Rome and Greece, but our culture is more along the lines of the germanic tribes that took over Rome. Look deeper than the outward appearances.
Finally, someone else who can see a winning stratergy.
Note that victory is not given a clear definition. I presume that they mean simply making sure that their military is torn down enough so that they could not attempt to make and successfully utilize nukes against anyone. To even repeat the Iraq 2003 invasion, well, I fail to see how that would take 3 weeks. Just for starters, we would be facing a much larger nation that would be much more united and cohesive if they were attacked. The goal should be a combination of regime change along with any necessary strikes against the military, but without planning a military invasion. Let's not fool ourselves, the days of launching full scale invasions, one at a time, against any nation deemed a threat are over.
You're right. Last time we really won was WWII. I'd as soon have a different CIC before we get involved in anything. His "rules of engagement" would do nothing for our troops except get a lot of them killed.
Would take all of about an hour were you to do it properly, and that includes flight-time. In fact, all our boys could stay home for some R&R and still get the job done.
Exactly, consider the source. In this case the source is Russia Today, a source often cited by the kook conspiracy crowd, the anti-Semitic crowd, lefties, etc. There's no reason to give this story the slightest bit of credibilty. (it's almost like listening to MSNBC.....)
At any rate, others are right, the USA has not won a war for 50 years because they stopped playing by effective rules and started the "feel good" affluent sensitive new-age-guy years. If the US used WWII rules the war against Iran would be over in a week. And we would own them as a territory following unconditional surrender.
As it is, it is only the common fiction from Russia Today.
"Should", "Would", "Could", "maybe", "probably", "possibly".. etc, etc, etc... have been hearing it for ages.. Not Happening!
Don't we know, they are still "tightening sanctions".
"it will probably happen before the election"
I predict the same.
Absolutely correct.
In fact, most of what I've been hearing for over 30 yrs, latest during GWB administration, was why it shouldn't & can't be done, instead of how it should be done & why it can be done.
Some idiots continued to encourage Iranians to protest during 2009 Iranian elections, whilst knowing that they'd be killed, and there'd be a lack of international support for them. End result, numerous people were killed and the protests went nowhere.
Obi then sent a lovey dovey message to Iranian People, several months later, for their New Year "Norooz", telling them he is "working on it". What a hypocrite!
Thanks Strategy.
Every time I look at those pics of Obi bowing to the Saudi King, it reminds me of the Arab tradition of slavery (Servitude) - so Common with their black "servants", anyhow.
Obi's African (Keynan?) father would have been one such slave or, worse, servant. Perhaps proud of it.
Obi should have been more proud had he made it to the top job in an Arab land, hey.. even an African one would've done. Alas, he had no other choice. Especially with his liking for "Pink".
"Gholam-Hussein" (Servant of Hussein), as the Saudi Arabs did put it for their "black" and non-black slaves (servants), once upon a time at least, seems only Very appropriate, in Obi's case.
really meant Kenyan, lol
You're exactly right. Why is this being floated out there? To re elect Obama. I wouldn't put it past the SOB to start a war with IRan...just to get reelected....
On the other hand, I for one think Obama is one of the bravest presidents we've ever had. When I think of the courage it took, to take down Bin Laden...and those 40 LOOOOOOnnng minutes... I realize that he's the man.
I seriously compare Obama to people like Stonewall Jackson, Jeb Stuart and Custer at Manassas. He might be...no...he is braver than even Patton himself.
How about sending a SEAL team or two, whatever, to kill off those who matter in Iran? At least it'd be for real, compared to OBL stuff.
If the Iranian Regime was that much of a pest, why has that sorta thing not been done for more than 30 years?!
While am on this subject, hope that SOB does start a war w/ Iran. Like GWB said "bring it on".
Then again, can Obi Hussein get reelected after his 8 yr abomination is up? 'course not. So, like Carter.. another tragic legacy, this time on BHO's watch.
Lets hope if he does start a war with the mullahs regime in Iran. But then he should be held FULLY ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE RESULTS OF IT - 'course he can't be.
A problem is that he won't be able to see it thru. These things take longer than 4 or 8 yrs. By then the US will have another President and a different (interim) policy, so the saga will continue.
Unfortunately, for the US, it is a short term cycle that keeps going round and round, and it often backfires. The US political system, precisely for what it is, is not geared towards long term "foreign policies" - many stops & starts, detrimental all around..
Unlike with OBL fantasy, Obama will only get ONE CHANCE with the Iranian Regime. My bet is he ain't game. But, seriously, let's see it happen.
Yes...I blew that : )
-—Modern precision strikes are far superior, but "precision" is not a word one associates with World War II aerial bombing.-—
I realize that. My English family members experienced it 8-)
But that is what makes it wrong —indiscriminately bombing civilians.
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Brief Summary
Cercozoa are mostly heterotrophic protozoa dwelling abundantly in soil (where they are the most numerous eukaryotes) and in all freshwater and marine habitats. Some parasitize plants, invertebrate animals and other protists. A few have become algae by enslaving photosynthetic prey to form permanent cellular chimaeras. Free-living Cercozoa feed on bacteria, fungi, algae, other protozoa or even microscopic animals. They may be the most numerous predators on earth, but unlike most predators they generally lack a mouth as they can catch prey over much of their typically soft body surface.
Their ancestral body plan was a predatory, phagotrophic amoeboflagellate with one anterior and one posterior cilium. One lineage enslaved a green algal cell to become the chimaeric chlorarachnean algae, which still retain the nucleus (as a miniaturized nucleomorph), former plasma membrane (as the periplastid membrane), and chloroplast of the enslaved green alga. Cercozoa have diversified into so many distinct lineages that body plans have become extremely varied. Some have lost cilia altogether and become amoebae with thread-like (filose) or net-like (reticulose) pseudopodia for locomotion and prey entrapment. These filose or reticulose amoebae are either naked or have evolved rigid tests (like a shell), which happened independently for at least three groups (euglyphid, tectofilosid, and gromiid testate amoebae). Some have evolved radiating axopodia supported by microtubules to catch prey instead (Phaeodarea, desmothoracids) and thus mimic radiolaria or heliozoa. Others have abandoned pseudopodia and become pure flagellates, either gliding on surfaces or swimming in the plankton. Many have retained cilia (sometimes reduced to one or increased to four or more) and pseudopods. Cell surfaces of the flagellates are generally naked and quite soft, lacking the complex pellicles found in alveolates and excavates, but thaumatomonads have evolved a semi-rigid covering of complex silica scales, which still allows branching filopodia to be used for feeding and cilia to propel the cells by gliding.
Cercozoa were only recently recognised as a monophyletic group (Cavalier-Smith 1997) and were named Cercozoa in 1998 (Cavalier-Smith 1998). The name is based on the cercomonads, amoeboflagellates that are abundant in soil and freshwater, which were first discovered by Dujardin (1841) the father of protozoology, who first realised that protozoa were cells. Even earlier Dujardin (1835) had discovered the reticulose testate cercozoan amoeba Gromia. Cercomonad means 'tailed monad', because almost all cercomonads have an extensible pseudopodial tail that is typically drawn out along the posterior gliding cilium, sometimes obscuring it. Dujardin coined the name Rhizopoda (root feet) for organisms having filose or reticulose pseudopods. Unfortunately other authors later confusingly expanded that term to include also the unrelated Amoebozoa, which generally have broad lobose, non-root-like pseudopods. Cercozoa are now known to be one of the most diverse, speciose and ecologically important of all protozoan phyla and include the majority (not all) of eukaryotes with filose pseudopods or cilia that glide on surfaces instead of swimming (Cavalier-Smith and Chao 2003). Many lineages are currently known only from environmental DNA sequencing (Bass and Cavalier-Smith 2004; Bass et al. 2009), so cercozoan diversity must be even greater than is now appreciated.
Comprehensive Description
Relationships of Cercozoa to Other Eukaryotes
The closest relatives of Cercozoa are the Retaria (Foraminifera and Radiozoa; Cavalier-Smith 1999). Radiozoa are all marine unicellular organisms with microtubule-supported axopodia; they comprise the classical polycystine Radiolaria (with silica skeletons), the Acantharea (with strontium sulphate skeletons), which both also possess axopodia, and the curious floating and axopodially swimming Sticholonche which is not mineralized. Radiozoa now excludes the Phaeodarea, which despite their silica skeleton and axopodia, clearly belong in Cercozoa. Phaeodarea appear to be related to the filosan group known as Thecofilosea, which includes filose testate amoebae without silica scales and also the exclusively marine ebriid flagellates, which like the Phaeodarea have a hollow silica endoskeleton, which might therefore have been a common ancestral character for both groups. A hollow silica endoskeleton is unknown in any other eukaryotes. Two groups of Cercozoa (the euglyphid testate amoebae and the amoeboflagellate thaumatomonads) bear silica scales on their cell surface and are relatively closely related, but apparently not sisters. They have been grouped together as the Imbricatea.
Almost all Foraminifera are also marine. The best rRNA sequence trees show Retaria as monophyletic and as sisters to Cercozoa. However this conclusion remains controversial because some single-gene trees separate Foraminifera from Radiozoa and place them within the cercozoan Endomyxa. The fact that Foraminifera share a single amino acid insertion within polyubiquitin with Cercozoa can also be used to argue that Foraminifera and Cercozoa may be closer to each other than either is to Radiozoa (Bass et al 2005). However, a shared deletion in 18S rRNA suggests that Cercozoa are monophyletic and exclude Foraminifera. Multigene trees should soon resolve whether Foraminifera are closer to Cercozoa or to Radiozoa.
Irrespective of the uncertainty over the precise position of Foraminifera, and thus the monophyly of Retaria and Cercozoa, the grouping of Retaria and Cercozoa as the supergroup Rhizaria is extremely robust. This makes it highly probable that the common ancestor of both Cercozoa and Retaria was a marine benthic amoeboflagellate protozoan with reticulose pseudopods. The name Rhizaria was chosen for this supergroup to perpetuate Dujardin's idea enshrined in his name Rhizopoda, that slender root-like pseudopods were extremely important for the motility, feeding and general life style of a major group of eukaryotes (Cavalier-Smith 2002). Such tenuous root-like pseudopods can ramify around sediment particles and over surfaces to catch bacteria or eukaryotic prey over large areas or volumes with a minimal investment in protoplasm.
There are probably tens of thousands of rhizarian species with a net-like or thread-like body form which is the central lifestyle for the group which collectively constitutes the most abundant and speciose predators on earth in soils at the bottom of the oceans, lakes and rivers and in the plankton. This microscopic world of incredibly diverse thread or net like predators is ignored by textbooks but is ecologically far more important than lions, tigers, Tyrannosaurus, and wolves. Rhizarians have been the dominant predators for at least 550 million years. They appear to be most closely related to the chromalveolates. Recent multigene trees even suggest that they may have been derived from chromalveolate ancestors by the loss of photosynthesis.
Typically amoeboflagellates, flagellates or filose or reticulose amoebae, sometimes axopodial or parasitic. Most lineages have a strong propensity to form filopodia (often branching, with or without granular extrusomes) or reticulopodia or axopodia.
Most flagellates are not planktonic but glide on surfaces, e.g. soil particles, marine or freshwater sediments, plant stems or suspended particles of 'marine snow'. They use their posterior cilium as a ski, which adheres closely to the substratum; gliding is probably driven by kinesin molecular motors attached to ciliary membrane proteins that kinesin can move within the fluid lipid membrane by walking along the outer ciliary doublet microtubules. One recently discovered deep-branching filosan lineage (still unnamed), uniquely in eukaryotes, uses both its cilia for surface gliding.
The ciliary transition region bears two characteristic structures absent from all other eukaryotes: the proximal hub-lattice and the distal nonagonal fibre (Cavalier-Smith et al. 2008). In most Cercozoa the ciliary transition region (which lies between where the centriolar triplets end and the ciliary centre pair begins) is very short, but in a few groups that constitute a single derived clade (together with related amoebae) it is rather long, and their nonagonal fibre is obscured by a dense upper transitional plate (Spongomonadida, Thaumatomonadida, Cryomonadida, Pansomonadida, Glissomonadida). The anterior cilium is younger, and the posterior cilium the mature one; thus ciliary transformation occurs over two cell cycles as in other bikont eukaryotes. Cilia typically lack scales (except for the Thaumatomastix anterior cilium) or hairs; simple non-tubular hairs are present in some Allas (anterior) and in Aurigamonas (posterior).
Cercozoa are typically unicellular and uninucleate and undergo binary fission. But some are multinucleate plasmodia (Plasmodiophorida, Ascetosporea, Filoreta) or can temporarily form such plasmodia (many cercomonads and thaumatomonads; some chlorarachneans). Some, notably Phaeodarea and Plasmodiophorida typically undergo multiple fission. Sex is certainly known only in plasmodiophorids. Cysts are widespread.
Extrusomes (typically simple and rounded; more elongate in thaumatomonads; very long in cryomonads) are widely present in filosan flagellates and in granofilosans, but not in other cercozoan amoebae.
Evolution and Systematics
Discussion of Phylogenetic Relationships
Cercozoa fall quite clearly into two major groups, which are probably sisters: Filosa and Endomyxa. Filosa include all the gliding flagellates and amoeboflagellates, as well as numerous amoebae with filose non-anastomosing pseudopods, plus all the cercozoan algae (chlorarachneans, plus the euglyphid filose amoeba Paulinella which enslaved a cyanobacterium independently of the ancestral plant). Endomyxa include almost all the free-living reticulose amoebae and most of the cercozoan parasites, specifically including the plasmodial (multinucleate) parasites of higher plants (Plasmodiophorida) and of invertebrates (Ascetosporea). The name Endomyxa ('internal slime') refers to their intracellular parasitic mode of feeding and associated plasmodial body form. However, within Endomyxa there are some amoebae (e.g. Arachnula) that have both filopodia and reticulopodia, and within Filosa an amoeboflagellate (still unnamed but belonging to Novel Clade 2) has recently been found to have both types of pseudopods, as do just a few cercomonads. Future discoveries might further undermine this distinction, but at present one can think of Filosa as being ancestrally gliding amoeboflagellates (similar to cercomonads) and Endomyxa as ancestrally free-living reticulose amoebae (similar to Gromia, but naked) with only a non-feeding flagellate dispersal phase.
Within Endomyxa, the marine parasites of invertebrates (Ascetosporea) seem to be more closely related to the reticulose marine Gromia and Filoreta. Unsurprisingly, the land-plant parasites are closer to the predominantly terrestrial aconchulinid reticulose amoebae such as Arachnula and Platyreta that tend to eat fungi or algae. Thus parasitism evolved independently in the plant and animal parasites and their plasmodial body form is a convergent adaptation to parasitism; plasmodiophorids retained zoospores for dispersal; Ascetosporea did not.
Within Filosa there are similarly interesting phylogenetic patterns and marine-freshwater dichotomies, some major lineages (e.g. chlorarachneans) being exclusively marine, and others exclusively soil/freshwater (e.g. cercomonads and glissomonads, two groups of zooflagellate gliders). The basal branching order of Filosa is poorly resolved, suggesting very rapid radiation of the major lineages. Four early diverging early-diverging lineages are the zooflagellates that glide on both cilia, the chlorarachnean algae, the marine metromonad gliding flagellates (possibly including the metopiids), and the Granofilosea (naked filose amoebae with granular pseudopods). They all appear to have mutually diverged before cercomonads evolved. The other testate filose amoebae (euglyphids, tectofilosids) are phylogenetically interspersed amongst the large cluster of zooflagellates that has long ciliary transitional regions and dense upper plates (Thaumatomonadida, Spongomonadida, Cryomonadida, Glissomonadida, Pansomonadida). There are weak indications that Glissomonadida are sisters to Pansomonadida and that sainouroids (zooflagellates with exceptionally short centrioles and transition regions and vestigial anterior cilia) may be related to one or both of them and that Thaumatomonadida and Spongomonadida may be sisters, but multigene evidence is essential to resolve the branching order within the long-transition region cluster and to confirm that they are a clade that may be sister to cercomonads.
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The Nitpicker Is Sick of Grabby Bussers
A humorous rant about bussers who take food away from diners too quickly
The Nitpicker Is Sick of Perfectly Ripe, In-Season Tomatoes!
Jason Kessler, the Nitpicker, feels weighed down by the responsibility of eating the season's best tomatoes. Whatever will he do?
The Nitpicker Is Sick of Food Festivals
They're crowded, expensive, and underwhelming. So why can't the Nitpicker stay away from food festivals?
The Nitpicker Is Sick of Being Touched by Servers
The Nitpicker has had it up to here with servers patting him on the back. He's not your buddy! Oh, why won't they leave him alone?
The Nitpicker Is Sick of National Food Holidays
And all the other quasi-official "Food Days," too. Except, says the Nitpicker, National Pound Cake Day--he's looking forward to that one
I'm Sick of Candy Corn
It's ugly and it tastes bad. Why is it still on the market?
I'm Sick of Bar Food
When did we sign a social contract that said bars could only serve fried, fatty food?
I'm Sick of Fast Food Breakfast Hours
Show up after 10:30 and you're out of luck
I'm Sick of Food in Martini Glasses
It's an evil, evil idea
I'm Sick of Stinky Food on Airplanes
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Back in beta, I had made a post on this new tag in ColdFusion 9. It creates a Flash interface allowing the user to upload multiple files to the server. A pretty easy way to achieve something powerful. Back in beta, there was also a bug with the funtionality. It was that ColdFusion was not automatically passing back Success, Failure messages. With the release now, that has been taken care of, so we can revise the beta code.
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Lets take a look at how simple the code is
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Pa. frat seeks legal advice after member's suicide
ALTOONA -- The president and several members of a suspended Penn State Altoona fraternity have sought legal advice after a former member's family blamed an alleged hazing ritual for the young man's suicide.
Phi Sigma Kappa member Marquise Braham jumped from the roof of a New York hotel on March 14. Mike Paul, a spokesman for Braham's family, told the Altoona Mirror that information from Braham's laptop computer and cell phone contain a "tremendous" amount of information suggesting Braham committed suicide because of guilt and distress from unspecified hazing.
The local fraternity's president, Eric Traister, has denied hazing through his attorney, Ted Krol, who said his client planned to speak with Logan Township police, who are investigating the events before Braham's death along with campus police. But Krol said the other fraternity members stopped short of speaking to police after a grief counseling session at the school last week "turned out to be a rather aggressive cross-examination."
Penn State Altoona spokeswoman Shari Routch disputed that description, and insisted police were not involved in the grief counseling.
After the session, students were told that campus police were investigating and "a sign-up sheet was made available for them if they so chose" to speak to police, Routch said. Only one student spoke to police last week, she said.
Since then, the newspaper reported several other fraternity members have met with defense attorney Tom Dickey for advice. Dickey is a prominent criminal defense attorney in the Altoona area.
Dickey refused to specifically discuss the hazing allegations, or how the fraternity initiates new members, and said it may not be possible to prove why Braham killed himself.


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"She's a beautiful, amazing, compassionate human being who was thrown overnight into the middle of the media monster and has done an amazing job at staying true to herself and her family and friends," the friend says.
On Wednesday sources close to the couple verified that the pair, who dated for about a year, had parted paths.
"Yes, it's confirmed," one source says. "They've split."
Asked about the report, Clooney's rep, Stan Rosenfield, would only say: "We do not comment on George's personal life."
Clooney, 47, and the onetime Fear Factor winner, 29, came out as a couple at the Venice and Deauville film festivals in September 2007. That same month, Larson suffered a broken foot when the two were injured in a motorcycle accident in Weehawken, N.J.
Larson was the first girlfriend to accompany Clooney to the Oscars, stoking rumors of an impending engagement that Clooney quickly shot down.
No word yet on who, if anyone, Clooney will be bringing to the premiere of his next project, the Coen brothers movie Burn After Reading, co-starring pal Brad Pitt, which is due out in September.
Reporting by MARK GRAY
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We're going to go out on a limb here and say this is something you don't see everyday.
This image of a camel walking around a field was posted on social networking sites Reddit and Twitter last night, with claims that it was taken in Dublin.
We're not sure if he or she is a resident in the area, or if he just got the hump from a local circus and decided to stretch his legs.
Either way, he's certainly caused a bit of a story with Tallaght, the largest town is south Dublin, trending on Twitter overnight.
I knew they kept horses in the council estates in Tallaght but this is ridiculous! pic.twitter.com/QPN45CTJks— Niall Boylan (@niallboylan4fm) March 19, 2014
Just another normal day in Dublin when a camel strolls around Tallaght— Liam Whelan (@liam11) March 19, 2014
Camel sighting in Tallaght this morning just because Wednesday is the hump day of the week— Jane Fallon Griffin (@janefg92) March 19, 2014
There is just a random camel wandering around Tallaght apparently !!! Where do people get these things !!— lauren:) (@lauren_rk) March 19, 2014


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By Kayla Hoskinson
Valentine's Day is a messy holiday. According to very official and valid sources, the Catholic Church has, at one point in time, recognized a total of 11 days as Valentine's Day. What's more is that those saints who were associated with February 14th were not originally associated with romance. It wasn't until the 14th century that a romantic link developed, by means of a tale of questionable validity.
St. Valentine was supposedly persecuted for being a Christian by the Roman Emperor Claudius II in the third century. When he refused to convert, he was jailed and sentenced to execution. It seems he was very in love with his jailer's daughter, and the world's first valentine was a note he sent to her before his death, signed "from your Valentine." How sweet.
In my esteemed opinion, Jim Carrey had it right in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" when he said that Valentine's Day is "a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap."
So this Valentine's Day, my girlfriends and I spent a free-of-all-romantic-dates Saturday together. And by girlfriends I do not mean a small group of women I have intimate relations with, but a group of all my friends who are also single (which explains the free-of-all-romantic-dates part, naturally). A group of girls will do outrageous things to console themselves on a day they shouldn't need consoling—to punch Valentine's Day in the face, if you will. Our brilliant plan was to go to a shop we found near Washington Avenue and 12th Street to try on wedding dresses; you know, maybe get a bite to eat afterward.
Imagine a world of sequins and ruffles, of shine and itchy material. Think of the mountains of puffy sleeves, the rivers of silk weaving in and out of a forest of flower-patterned lace. Maybe by now we should have grown past the phase where trying on our mother's dresses is a form of amusement, but this is different. This shop provides us with an entertaining illusion of love and merriment, of eternal happiness and devotion until death do we part with the men who are not even in our lives yet…all without actually committing to anything serious.
It's easy to imagine what happens after a few hours of trying on dresses that single ladies have no business trying on. Bad things happen. We start talking. We start talking about bad things, like why we are all together when we could be making love with the man of our dreams on a bed covered in rose petals.
We turned to a nearby restaurant to provide us with the comfort food we needed to continue this dreadful conversation. The five pounds of chicken fried rice this place served went well with my hypothetical stabbing-in-the-heart of my first boyfriend, and everyone else also seemed to be concentrating on all the ways they'd ever been wronged in their lives. Despite all that's gone right, we could only conjure up memories of the boy who dumped us in fifth grade for Suzy (who wasn't even as pretty as we were) and of that bastard who cheated on us in high school.
None of this would have happened if it hadn't been for the fact that it was Valentine's Day. The day is a mess for all kinds of people, and there isn't much of a reason why it should exist. It puts attached men in the sticky position of being responsible for expressing all kinds of love and affection on one day, when it should be up to them to express love on any day they especially feel it . For single ladies (and men), they just have a special day (but really a month or so, given how early valentines and candies are put out in grocery stores) to be reminded of how no one loves them.
It would be best for everyone if we abolished the so-called holiday altogether. I'm not just being a bitter old maid—this abolishment would be for the greater good of mankind. Couples everywhere would be spared the damage caused by Valentine's Day arguments. Single men and women would no longer find themselves coming together in groups and wallowing in their miserable singleness.
Basically, whoever came up with this myth about St. Valentine and the jailer's daughter ruined February 14th for all of us.
Hoskinson, a sophomore English major, can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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'The Past,' 'Bethlehem,' 'Omar' among latest foreign Oscar entries as deadline nears
The deadline for Best Foreign Language Film submissions is now one day away. We're still waiting one some countries (including China), and there are usually a couple of post-deadline stragglers, but it's fair to say the field -- which now numbers 65 films -- is close to complete.And it's a field that just got even more competitive with a flurry of high-profile entries over the weekend, including a couple of Cannes award winners.
Chief among them is Iran's selection. Having won its first Oscar two years ago with Asghar Farhadi's "A Separation," and boycotted last year's competition for political reasons, the country has returned to the race -- and to Farhadi -- by submitting the director's French-Italian production "The Past."
It's at this point that I have to admit I called this completely wrong. I had initially thought that "The Past" -- by virtue of not being an Iranian production itself -- would not be eligible to represent Iran, though Academy rules stipulate only that "the submitting country must certify that creative control of the motion picture was largely in the hands of citizens or residents of that country." I was curious to see if Iran, which had shortlisted eight local productions alongside "The Past," would effectively punish Farhadi for defecting to work in Europe.
They haven't, and have probably acted in their own best interests by selecting Farhadi's Paris-set melodrama. "The Past" may not have been quite as breathlessly acclaimed as "A Separation" upon its Cannes premiere, with some critics likening it to highbrow soap opera, but it's still a highly Academy-friendly proposition: moving, tasteful and universally relatable, with strong performances from recognizable stars, including recent Oscar nominee Bérénice Bejo.
Sony Pictures Classics will no doubt campaign smartly for the film, and they're the company you want behind you in this category: they've won the award for the past four years running, after all. They also have a strong contender in another Middle Eastern submission, Saudi Arabia's groundbreaking "Wadjda" -- it's by no means unusual for them to have multiple horses in the final race, so it'll be interesting to see which film ultimately connects more.
"The Past" is a film Sony can feasibly campaign in general categories, too, as they did for "Amour" last year. The film likely hasn't quite the heft or the dazzling reviews necessary to make much headway in the Best Picture race, but Bejo -- who won at Cannes for her gutsy performance, and surprised viewers who knew her only for her bubbly (and voiceless) work in "The Artist" -- is a legitimate Best Actress prospect. Farhadi, meanwhile, nabbed a Best Original Screenplay nod for "A Separation," and could do so again, having now gained a lot of fans in the Academy.
Moving on, though remaining in roughly the same area of the map, both Israel and Palestine submitted films over the weekend -- and as many critics have already noted, their selections have rather a lot of narrative elements in common. I have yet to see Palestine's choice, Hany Abu-Assad's "Omar," which won the Special Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard division at Cannes. Reviews have been largely glowing for the tale of a young Palestinian baker drawn into a plot to kill an Israeli soldier, only to be arrested and tortured by Israeli forces who attempt to make him an informant.


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Sept. 21, 1961
Jimmy Phillips, 8, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy J. Phillips, was pictured holding 4-pound bass.
The youngster caught the monster fish out of the McKee pond. Jimmy, who was fishing with his father who didn't get a single bite, used an artificial night crawler to hook his catch.
Wyatt Shely was commissioned a Kentucky Colonel.
Jams Silas Stratton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Obed Stratton, accepted a teaching position with Lloyd High School at Erlanger.
Oct. 7, 1971
Salt River Independent Baptist
to host concert
Salt River Independent Baptist Church will host The Kentucky Mountain Trio in concert on Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. Salt River Independent Baptist is located at 1126 Salt River Road.
Lawrenceburg Church of God
hosts revival
Lawrenceburg Church of God invites the community to its spiritual revival Nov. 13-16, Sunday at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., and Monday-Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Evangelist Farrell Kyser will be the guest speaker.
New Hope Baptist Church
I am a sinner.
I often worry that my own sin is too great for me, and that God surely cannot forgive all of my wrongdoings.
Thankfully, I know that he can and will forgive you and me if we humble ourselves before him.
I enjoy reading the Old Testament books of Kings and Chronicles because I often can see glimpses of who God is.
These four books tell much of the rise and fall of kings of Israel and Judah. One such king was Manasseh, who learned a great lesson regarding God's great power and his willingness to forgive.
3rd annual House of Trees
The third annual House of Trees will be held Friday and Sunday, Nov. 18-20 at West Park Shopping Center, US 127 Bypass.
Wallace B. Cardwell, a 20-year Navy veteran, will celebrate his 65th birthday Nov. 11, Veterans Day.
Pictured are Cardwell, left, and his wife Charlotte.
Cardwell has a son, Wally, a daughter Rebecca, married to husband Robbie Barnes, a grandson, Tucker Barnes, and a dog, Hondo.
Nov. 9, 1961
Votes were cast by 2,597 voters on a sunny but cold election day.
Winning magistrate races were: Elmo Bruner, Democrat of the fourth district, beat out Everett Kays, Independent; and Elbert Stinnett defeated E.L. Shouse, Republican, as magistrate of the fifth district.
Unopposed were: James C. Hanks, first district; Arvin W. Crask, second district; Stanley Burge, third district; all Democrats, and Walter Drury, Republican, sixth district.
Dwayne Smith and Angela Robinson of Lawrenceburg announce the engagement and upcoming wedding of their daughter Jessica Rana Marie Smith of Lawrenceburg to Charles Powell of Lawrenceburg, son of David Brown and Cheryl Powell of Lawrenceburg.
Grandparents of the bride are George and Barbara Aldridge of Lawrenceburg and Jackie Smith and the late Annette Smith of Lawrenceburg.
Grandparents of the groom are Charles and Henrietta Powell of Lawrenceburg.
Fox Creek Christian Church
celebrates 170 years
Fox Creek Christian Church will host its 170th anniversary with a family and friends celebration Nov. 6 at 9:45 a.m.
The community is invited to join in the fellowship in the Christian Life Center, with special music presented by various local performers including the local gospel group Daughters Of The King. Worship services will begin at 11 a.m. with complete youth services being held in the church auditorium. Services will be followed by a potluck dinner at noon. Everyone is invited.
You wouldn't sign a contract or buy any significant product without doing due diligence to make sure the transaction was valid and the reward equaled the investment, would you?
Yet we place so little significance on "making our calling and election sure," risking our eternal security.
Many sincere individuals base their salvation on some emotional decision, or feeling, perhaps made as a child.
3rd annual House of Trees
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