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But in the first week of her second month Pauline's interest in her surroundings vanished. She was corresponding with Jennie Atwater and Jennie began to write of Dumont--he had returned to Saint X; Caroline Sylvester, of Cleveland, was visiting his mother; it was all but certain that Jack and Caroline would marry. "Her people want it," Jennie went on--she pretended to believe that Jack and Pauline had given each the other up--"and Jack's father is determined on it. They're together morning, noon and evening. She's really very swell, though _I_ don't think she's such a raving beauty." Following this came the Saint X News-Bulletin with a broad hint that the engagement was about to be announced.
"It's ridiculously false," said Pauline to herself; but she tossed for hours each night, trying to soothe the sick pain in her heart. And while she scouted the possibility of losing him, she was for the first time entertaining it--a cloud in the great horizon of her faith in the future; a small cloud, but black and bold against the blue. And she had no suspicion that he had returned from Chicago deliberately to raise that cloud.
A few days later another letter from Jennie, full of gossip about Jack and Caroline, a News-Bulletin with a long article about Caroline, ending with an even broader hint of her approaching marriage--and Dumont sent Pauline a note from the hotel in Villeneuve, five miles from Battle Field: "I must see you. Do not deny me. It means everything to both of us--what I want to say to you." And he asked her to meet him in the little park in Battle Field on the bank of the river where no one but the factory hands and their families ever went, and they only in the evenings. The hour he fixed was ten the next morning, and she "cut" ancient history and was there. As he advanced to meet her she thought she had never before appreciated how handsome he was, how distinguished-looking--perfectly her ideal of what a man should be, especially in that important, and at Battle Field neglected, matter, dress.
She was without practice in indirection, but she successfully hid her jealousy and her fears, though his manner was making their taunts and threats desperately real. He seemed depressed and gloomy; he would not look at her; he shook hands with her almost coldly, though they had not seen each other for weeks, had not talked together for months. She felt faint, and her thoughts were like flocks of circling, croaking crows.
"Polly," he began, when they were in the secluded corner of the park, "father wants me to get married. He's in a rage at your father for treating me so harshly. He wants me to marry a girl who's visiting us. He's always at me about it, making all sorts of promises and threats. Her father's in the same business that we are, and----"
He glanced at her to note the effect of his words. She had drawn her tall figure to its full height, and her cheeks were flushed and her eyes curiously bright. He had stabbed straight and deep into the heart of her weakness, but also into the heart of her pride.
The only effect of his thrust that was visible to him put him in a panic. "Don't--please don't look that way, Polly," he went on hastily. "You don't see what I'm driving at yet. I didn't mean that I'd marry her, or think of it. There isn't anybody but you. There couldn't be, you know that."
"Why did you tell me, then?" she asked haughtily.
"Because--I had to begin somewhere. Polly, I'm going away, going abroad. And I'm not to see you for--for I don't know how long--and--we must be married!"
She looked at him in a daze.
"We can cross on the ferry at half-past ten," he went on. "You see that house--the white one?" He pointed to the other bank of the river where a white cottage shrank among the trees not far from a little church. "Mr. Barker lives there--you must have heard of him. He's married scores and hundreds of couples from this side. And we can be back here at half-past eleven--twelve at the latest."
She shook her head expressed, not determination, only doubt.
"I can't, Jack," she said. "They----"
"Then you aren't certain you're ever going to marry me," he interrupted bitterly. "You don't mean what you promised me. You care more for them than you do for me. You don't really care for me at all."
"You don't believe that," she protested, her eyes and her mind on the little white cottage. "You couldn't--you know me too well."
"Then there's no reason why we shouldn't get married. Don't we belong to each other now? Why should we refuse to stand up and say so?"
That seemed unanswerable--a perfect excuse for doing what she wished to do. For the little white cottage fascinated her--how she did long to be sure of him! And she felt so free, so absolutely her own mistress in these new surroundings, where no one attempted to exercise authority over another.
"I must feel sure of you, Pauline. Sometimes everything seems to be against me, and I even doubt you. And--that's when the temptations pull hardest. If we were married it'd all be different."
Yes, it would be different. And he would be securely hers, with her mind at rest instead of harassed as it would be if she let him go so far away, free. And where was the harm in merely repeating before a preacher the promise that now bound them both? She looked at him and he at her.
"You don't put any others before me, do you, dear?" he asked.
"No, Jack--no one. I belong to you."
"Come!" he pleaded, and they went down to the boat. She seemed to herself to be in a dream--in a trance.
As she walked beside him along the country road on the other shore a voice was ringing in her ears: "Don't! Don't! Ask Olivia's advice first!" But she walked on, her will suspended, substituted for it his will and her jealousy and her fears of his yielding to the urgings of his father and the blandishments of "that Cleveland girl." He said little but kept close to her, watching her narrowly, touching her tenderly now and then.
The Reverend Josiah Barker was waiting for them--an oily smirk on a face smooth save where a thin fringe of white whiskers dangled from his jaw-bone, ear to ear; fat, damp hands rubbing in anticipation of the large fee that was to repay him for celebrating the marriage and for keeping quiet about it afterward. At the proper place in the brief ceremony Dumont, with a sly smile at Pauline which she faintly returned, produced the ring--he had bought it at Saint X a week before and so had started a rumor that he and Caroline Sylvester were to be married in haste. He held Pauline's hand firmly as he put the ring on her finger--he was significantly cool and calm for his age and for the circumstances. She was trembling violently, was pale and wan. The ring burned into her flesh.
"Whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder," ended Barker, with pompous solemnity.
Dumont kissed her--her cheek was cold and at the touch of his lips she shuddered.
"Don't be afraid," he said in a low voice that was perfectly steady.
They went out and along the sunny road in silence. "Whom God hath joined," the voice was now dinning into her ears. And she was saying to herself, "Has God joined us? If so, why do I feel as if I had committed a crime?" She looked guiltily at him--she felt no thrill of pride or love at the thought that he was her husband, she his wife. And into her mind poured all her father's condemnations of him, with a vague menacing fear riding the crest of the flood.
"You're sorry you've done it?" he said sullenly.
She did not answer.
"Well, it's done," he went on, "and it can't be undone. And I've got you, Polly, in spite of them. They might have known better than to try to keep me from getting what I wanted. I always did, and I always shall!"
She looked at him startled, then hastily looked away. Even more than his words and his tone, she disliked his eyes--gloating, triumphant. But not until she was years more experienced did she study that never-forgotten expression, study it as a whole--words, tone, look. Then, and not until then, did she know that she had instinctively shrunk because he had laid bare his base and all but loveless motive in marrying her.
"And," he added, "I'll force father to give me a big interest in the business very soon. Then--we'll announce it."
Announce it? Announce what? "Why, I'm a married woman," she thought, and she stumbled and almost fell. The way danced before her eyes, all spotted with black. She was just able to walk aboard the boat and drop into a seat.
He sat beside her, took her hand and bent over it; as he kissed it a tear fell on it. He looked at her and she saw that his eyes were swimming. A sob surged into her throat, but she choked it back. "Jack!" she murmured, and hid her face in her handkerchief.
When they looked each at the other both smiled--her foreboding had retreated to the background. She began to turn the ring round and round upon her finger.
"Mrs. John Dumont," she said. "Doesn't it sound queer?" And she gazed dreamily away toward the ranges of hills between which the river danced and sparkled as it journeyed westward. When she again became conscious of her immediate surroundings--other than Dumont--she saw a deck-hand looking at her with a friendly grin.
Instantly she covered the ring with her hand and handkerchief. "But I mustn't wear it," she said to Dumont.
"No--not on your finger." He laughed and drew from his pocket a slender gold chain. "But you might wear it on this, round your neck. It'll help to remind you that you don't belong to yourself any more, but to me."
She took the chain--she was coloring in a most becoming way--and hid it and the ring in her bosom. Then she drew off a narrow hoop of gold with a small setting and pushed it on his big little finger.
"And that, sir," she said, with a bewitching look, "may help you not to forget that you belong to me."
She left the ferry in advance of him and faced Olivia just in time for them to go down together to the half-past twelve o'clock dinner.
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Summary page for 'hsa-mir-767' (ENSG00000211583) - Project: LnCAP_AR_KnockIn
Basic Gene Stats
Species: Human
Gene Name: 'hsa-mir-767' (HUGO: N/A)
ALEXA Gene ID: 26991 (ALEXA_hs_53_36o)
EnsEMBL Gene ID: ENSG00000211583
Entrez Gene Record(s): N/A
Ensembl Gene Record: ENSG00000211583
Evidence: Known Gene
Gene Type: miRNA
Location: chrX 151312549-151312657 (-): N/A
Size (bp): 109
Description: hsa-mir-767 [Source:miRBase;Acc:MI0003763]
Data links for each library (displays expression data in UCSC Genome Browser)
Comparison: HS1442_vs_HS1441
C42 (HS1441) has 0 total reads for 'hsa-mir-767'. UCSC data links: (C | P)
AR_KnockIn (HS1442) has 0 total reads for 'hsa-mir-767'. UCSC data links: (C | P)
Link to other genes in the same chromosome region as 'hsa-mir-767'
Features defined for this gene: 2
Gene: 1
Transcript: 1
ExonRegion: 1
Summary of transcript specific features for 'hsa-mir-767' (ENSG00000211583)
ENST00000390228: | ER1a |
Summary of known expressed features
Expressed above background
Library | Exon Regions (Expressed/Total) | Known Junctions (Expressed/Total) |
AR_KnockIn: | 0/1 | 0/0 |
Detected at any level above 0
Library | Exon Regions (Detected/Total) | Known Junctions (Detected/Total) |
AR_KnockIn: | 0/1 | 0/0 |
Normalized expression data for each known or novel expressed feature of 'hsa-mir-767'
The following table summarizes the expression values of all known features of the gene 'hsa-mir-767' in each library. Known features (i.e. those that correspond to one or more EnsEMBL transcripts) are included regardless of their expression level. Novel features are only reported in this table if they are expressed above the level of intergenic background noise. The 'FID' column reports the unique Feature ID for the gene, transcript, exon region, exon junction, etc. The 'Name' column reports the Feature Name for the feature (e.g. E5a_E6a is the name of an exon junction corresponding to the connection of exons 5 and 6). The 'Type' column reports the type of the feature and may be one of the following: Gene, Transcript, Exon Region, Known Junction, Novel Junction, Known Boundary, Novel Boundary, Silent or Active Intronic Regions, and Silent or Active Intergenic Regions (see our manuscript for more details). The 'Base Count' column reports the number of nucleotide bases for the feature followed by the percent of these that do NOT correspond to repeats and the percent that are known to be protein coding in one or more EnsEMBL transcripts. The 'Supporting ESTs/mRNAs' column reports the number of ESTs and mRNAs that when aligned to the human genome support the expression of a feature (i.e. the sequence alignment coordinates match an exon junction or boundaries of an exon, retained intron, etc.). The 'Conserved Species' column reports the number of 'other' species for which there was at least 1 supporting EST/mRNA alignment. Finally, the remaining columns report the log2 expression value for each feature in each library. Bold values indicate expression above background. Each expression value is also a hyperlink to a view of the feature's corresponding genomic region in the UCSC genome browser. Expression data will automatically be loaded as custom GFF and wiggle tracks.
FID | Name | Type | Base Count (% unmasked | % coding) | Supporting Human ESTs/mRNAs | Conserved Species | C42 Log2 Expression | AR_KnockIn Log2 Expression |
G26991 | hsa-mir-767 | Gene | 109 (41% | 0%) | N/A | N/A | 0.00 (C | P) | 0.00 (C | P) |
T51969 | ENST00000390228 | Transcript | 109 (41% | 0%) | N/A | N/A | 0.00 (C | P) | 0.00 (C | P) |
ER272265 | ER1a | ExonRegion | 109 (41% | 0%) | 0 | 0 | 0.00 (C | P) | 0.00 (C | P) |
Figures displaying gene and feature expression levels in each library
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We hope the Pitch Music Showcase shines a high beam on all of that. As in the past few years, a panel of more than 30 local promoters, club owners, critics and all-around experts nominated a roster of bands for Pitch Music Awards, and area music fans vote to determine who wins in each category. The showcase lets some of the nominees show their stuff one last time before the votes are counted. Mostly, though, it's an excuse to throw a party with a bunch of bands.
Let's hope it doesn't rain. See, this year, part of the party will be outside ... we think. As of this writing, the bands and DJs who were supposed to play at the Hurricane have been moved because the Hurricane can't make up its mind about whether it's open. For now, we're planning for the bands to rock the Westport Beach Club and the DJs to throw down in the parking lot across from the Beaumont. Then again, by press time, another change could occur and the Hurricane's doors may magically whoosh open, allowing us to return to Plan A.
Whatever happens, do not be deterred. In fact, start early. The night kicks off at 8:30, and you don't want to miss the thrilling electronic pop of Namelessnumberheadman (Westport Beach Club), the delicious beats of SoundsGood's Miles Bonny (outside the Beaumont parking lot), the searing punk of the Shotgun Idols (the Beaumont), the ragged jam-soul of the Brothers Green (McCoy's), or the freakish tech-noise of Onemilliontinytinyjesuses (the Dark Horse). And that's just the first hour. Around 10:30, I'm going to have to consider suicide as an alternative to deciding among sexy jazz goddess Megan Birdsall (McCoy's), one-man thrash cyclone This Is My Condition (Beaumont), blade-slinging storytellers American Catastrophe (Beach Club), laugh-out-loud hip-hoppas Bacon Shoe (Dark Horse) and mad-skilled DJs Sku (Karma) and Ataxic (the Beaumont, outside). Ditto for just about every hour of the evening.
But I don't want you to worry about that. If you don't like what you hear in one venue, don't waste any time slam your drink and head somewhere else. And if you do like what you hear, then don't succumb to music writer's neurosis and begin worrying about what you might be missing. Stay and enjoy it.
That's my advice for the showcase.
I'd now like to take a moment to sum up the past year in Kansas City music, and I think I can do it in two words: hell, yes.
Almost all the bands, DJs and MCs who were hot a year ago are still on fire, and there's a fine crop of newcomers not only bringing fresh sounds to the scene but also showing that the local music gene pool is teeming like a four-day-old pork chop that slipped behind the stove. (I mean that in a good way.)
In fact, many of this year's Pitch Music Awards nominees, new and old alike, couldn't play the showcase because they were on tour. Fortunately, enough are in town that Thursday night's showcase and the awards ceremony next Friday, August 11, at the Uptown are both going to kick ass.
New local labels have turned up, and established imprints have grown stronger. Local studios have churned out pro-quality albums. Venuewise, though strongholds such as Kabal and the Hurricane shut down or changed formats, other favorites remain. Most notably, the Record Bar steams ahead as the single best addition to the live music scene in the past year.
Thursday at the showcase, just have a good time. Then grab a ballot and vote for the artists who impressed you most in fact, do 'em one better and purchase their CDs, too. Sign on as their MySpace friend, buy them shots, tell them you'll come to their next show. And when their next show comes, be there.
And please don't stop there. The artists on the ballot and in the showcase are all great, but they're still just a sample of what the area has to offer musically. Somewhere out there off the radio dial and playing for a room of 10 people, half of whom are too drunk to pay attention is your new favorite band, just waiting to rock your ass. Jason Harper
Contributing writers: April Fleming, Jason Harper, Aaron Ladage, Andrew Miller, Andy Vihstadt, Mike Warren


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We've ended on a sour note:
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GameStop in Vero Beach robbed at gunpoint, store employee tied up and left in back office
Photographer: Bob Leak/WPTV
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Posted: 02/21/2013
Deputies are investigating whether four suspects arrested in Georgia Wednesday night are connected to Tuesday's robbery at the GameStop in Indian River County.
At 9:10 Wednesday night, four suspects were arrested and are in custody in Camden County, Ga., based on robbery charges from Brevard County.
The vehicle they were in were stopped by Georgia authorities, a white Dodge Durango, fits the description of a vehicle seen on surveillance video from a store near the GameStop on State Road 60 in Indian River County Tuesday, according to a press release from the Indian River County Sheriff's Office .
Indian River County detectives are coordinating with Brevard County and Georgia investigators to determine the connection to the GameStop robbery.
A video game store employee was robbed and bound in the back office of the store as customers walked in, unaware that a crime was happening at about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, the Indian River County Sheriff's Office said.
The two men, armed with either a rifle or a shotgun, tied up the employee in an office at the rear of the video game store, the Sheriff's Office said.
After he was bound, at least two customers walked into GameStop, the Sheriff's Office said. The customers told investigators that nothing appeared to be amiss. One of the suspects walked out of the store carrying a large box and told the customers that someone would be able to help them shortly, the customers told deputies.
Two minutes later, the employee freed himself and told the customers he had been robbed, the Sheriff's Office said. He was not seriously injured but was emotionally shaken by the crime, Sheriff's spokesman Thom Raulen said.
The men attempted to destroy some surveillance equipment before they left GameStop. The Sheriff's Office retrieved the device for evidence, Raulen said.
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I need him to see how real it is out here. It builds character. I told him, 'College is like an investment. I'm investing my money in your future, and if I feel like you're a bad investment, I'm taking my money back.
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Ah, Americans talking about Canadian healthcare. It's like hearing from an old, crazy friend.
(For the record, Canadian healthcare is awesome. Consider any metrics from Americans who haven't lived there to be very likely cherry-picked to support their ideology.)
Please? How much more complicated do we have to make it before we do what the rest of the civilized world is doing?
I know Americans like to be different but it's gone too far.
the company not only gets to bill it as a perk of the job
Until you need to leave during peak time and find your battery depleted.
Officially the problem was lack of space in Hong Kong
...but let's just ignore that and come up with conspiracy theories.
Games, both downloaded and on optical media, are likely to be encrypted eight ways to Sunday on modern systems. Before you can even begin to emulate games from a modern console, you need the unencrypted binaries, or you need to resign yourself to running community-developed homebrew. This means extracting the console key from a console, which is not likely to be a trivial matter.
I'd be OK with it as long as I could annoy Jean-Luc.
I wouldn't be surprised if they're already doing this. An Android fork does take time, though.
Wouldn't retailers be required to treat these transactions as "Card Not Present" transactions, meaning that far fewer would accept them?
I believe the liability is increased to the merchant if they just accept a CC number + expiration + CVV, to which accepting this would be functionally equivalent.
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Not having to deal with (nearly as much) BS is why I work for a startup.
Look but don't touch.
God, you mention a possible solution to corruption and people start complaining "but there are so many variables!" Yes, yes there are. Politics is complicated.
If we're going to block every idea because it's not simple enough, we're simply going to be paralyzed, and I'm not a fan of that course of action.
False dichotomy. The government should provide public campaign financing with reasonable rules as to who can access the funds.
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The Needham Exchange Club would like to thank the Needham Community for a great . Your support and enthusiasm was overwhelming and your generosity was greatly appreciated.
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The climb ascends two very thin and discontinuous cracks that don't reach the ground on the east face. The rock is slightly overhanging for the first half of the climb (40'). Begin left of the cracks in a dihedral and climb 10' to a ledge. Traverse right to the base of one of the cracks. A #2 TCU (awkward placement) protects difficult moves over a bulging section. One more bulge higher up leads to the top. Protection is intermittent and challenging to place but solid. This climb has the potential to be 3 stars out of 5 but more ascents are needed to clean up the rock.
Very thin to 0.75" including brass and very small TCU's (#00 - #4). Double Ropes are helpful to minimize drag. Bring medium to large cams for the anchor. Down climb off the south end of the crag.
Check out the lycra! But the photo is clearly a fake, you can see Cyclops Rock in the background. Besides, Randy's taste isn't that good.
I believe that they used a body double (maybe Largo)!
I don't know about it being a fake, the rope is backclipped after all!
Yikes, Sherlock! You may have had something there if it weren't for the fact that Randy never wears tank tops (no farmers tan).
Looks like the route Church Bazaar or Hintertoisser Traverse perhaps - just a guess.
I thought "backclipping" is only a climbing gym phenomenon....right Randy?
Looks like a body double/photoshop fake to me (head clearly pasted on some more buff climber's body). Backclip, smack-clip, whaddah ya mean? Seems OK to me.


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I just had my first ematrix treatment yesterday...
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I just had my first ematrix treatment yesterday and my face is blotchy red, swollen and tingly/scratchy today. I keep reading no down time and can go back to normal activities...I look like I burnt my face off and certainly don't want to go anywhere. I had to go out today so I put a bunch of tinted moisterizer on and some powder and now my face feels worse! It has lines on it...like I slept for 48 hours on a creased pillow.
There is some downtime for sure and it is a bit uncomfortable too, they need to be more honest about that, they make it sound like you go in and get it down in 20 mins and can go back to work, and that is NOT the case, or at least with me anyway.
I had gone into the American Laser for another...
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I just had EMatrix done on my face last night. Fortunately, I had my decolletage done a couple of weeks ago so I was prepared for what my skin would look like post-treatment. I go to American Laser in Hinsdale IL and I'm very happy with them, although I only let the nurse practitioner on staff perform the EMatrix. I would NOT be comfortable with anyone else doing this to my face and I have built up a very good relationship with her.
This is NOT a little down time procedure! I looked like a burn victim for at least 3 days after having my decolletage area done and based upon my face this morning, I am expecting the same. The nurse used a high B setting on the d. area and a high B along the sides of my face where I have hyper-pigmentation. She explained that she would prefer to use a higher setting so I get more results due to the cost of the procedure. Higher setting = Lot of down time. Fortunately, I scheduled this so I don't have to be at work for 5 days; on the higher settings, you will need at least 2-4 days recovery time.
I am looking forward to seeing results and I will post updates every few days over the next couple of weeks.
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Takes about 5 days for recovery - without little dots.
(If go for program B and C).
The result is consider okay, and it's less invasive. Need to go for 3 sessions.
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They lock you in for a package treatment and you are basically on your own.
They will not refund your money after you make the committment.
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I hope you will get great results. Are you going to have a few more treatments? Is $750 the regular price for a single session?
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Hi KT,
Welcome to the community. From what I have read you are by no means alone. A number of community members have mentioned it took at least a week to heal. How long had you been thinking about this procedure done and what prompted you to do it? How's your face feel today? Please keep us updated.
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If you're any one of the hundreds of millions of people on Planet Earth that use Wikipedia, you may have experienced some frustration this morning while trying to access the user-based online encyclopedia. Wikipedia servers were down on the morning of August 6 due to cut cables between data centers in Tampa, Florida and Ashburn, Virginia. Normal operations resumed after a few hours.
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Wikipedia and its various associated sites were cut off at approximately 9:15 a.m. EDT, according to the Wikimedia blog. The blog also states that all sites, except for the mobile version, were back up by approximately 10:18 a.m. EDT. The mobile site services returned around 11:35 a.m. EDT.
Wikipedia has stated that it does not believe the cut cables were due to malicious intent.
From the Wikimedia blog post:
"At about 6:15am PDT, we were alerted to a site issue and our team found severed network connectivity between our two data centers. Upon checking with our network provider, they informed us that the outage was caused by a fiber cut between the two data centers.
The data centers - one in Ashburn, Virginia and the other in Tampa, Florida - are connected by two separate fiber links (for redundancy). While Ashburn serves most of the traffic, it needs to talk to our Tampa data center for backend services (e.g. database)."
A look at status.wikimedia.org shows that Wikipedia and its affiliated sites are now working fine, and the issue has pretty much been resolved.
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We started our Christmas celebrations today, at the Christmas party in Holly's kindergarten, where the girls made some very beautiful decorations. Happy weekend everyone, hope you have a lovely one. Much love Axx
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Thursday, 5 December 2013
Dark and stormy
Tonight we are brazing ourselves for another mega storm - so I found this picture from National Geographic very fitting. Busy busy here, and Audrey managed to sprain her ankle - so 3.5 hours were spent in the E:R. Happy Thursday everyone, and be careful out there!!!
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
Royal Copenhagen Christmas tables
Every year Royal Copenhagen has famous danish celebrities or artists, decorate their own Christmas table, encompassing Royal Copenhagen tableware. This year was the 50th anniversary, and I have picked my favourites from the awesome selection. If you're in Copenhagen - be sure to visit and see for yourself; I think it's quite a spectacle:
Catherine Raben Davidsen- artist
Oliver Gustav - creative consultant
Space Copenhagen - design studio
Thomas Rode + Thilde Maarbjerg- restaurateurs
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Green delight
Green green Christmas -mixed with a bit of gold, wood and white - Oh what a wonderful sight to behold. I'm seriously considering changing my current Christmas colourscheme after this.
Photographed by the fantastic Petra Bindel and styled by the equally cool Emma Persson Lagerberg, for Elle Interiör.
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text: Two new species and distribution records of the genus Acroleucus in Mexico (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeidae: Lygaeinae).ABSTRACT The genus Acroleucus Stil from Mexico is revised. Two new species A. calvatus and A. tensus are described and illustrated. New distribution records are presented, as well as comments on the host plants for some of the species. A revised key to Mexican species is included. Key Words: Heteroptera, Lygaeidae, Lygaeinae, Acroleucus, new species, Mexico RESUMEN Se revisa el genero Acroleucus Stal para Mexico. Dos nuevas especies, A. calvatus y A. tensus, son descritas e ilustradas. Nuevos datos de distribucion son presentados asi como comentarios sobre las plantas hospederas para algunas de sus especies. Se incluye una clave clave 1 v. Archaic A past tense of cleave1. clave 2 v. Archaic A past tense of cleave2. para reconocer las especies mexicanas. Translation provided by the authors. The genus Acroleucus Stal, 1874, belonging to the subfamily subfamily /sub·fam·i·ly/ (sub´fam-i-le) a taxonomic division between a family and a tribe. sub·fam·i·ly n. A taxonomic category ranking between a family and a genus. Lygaeinae (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae), contains 40 species (Brailovsky 1977, 1980, 1984; Brailovsky & Barrera 1984; Slater 1992). It is a Neotropical genus ranging from Mexico to Argentina, and is characterized by having the callus callus: see corns and calluses. callus In botany, soft tissue that forms over a wounded or cut plant surface, leading to healing. A callus arises from cells of the cambium. of the anterior pronotal lobe interrupted by longitudinal depressions flanking a distinct median carina Carina (kərē`nə) [Lat.,=the keel], southern constellation, representing the keel of the ancient constellation Argo Navis, or Ship of the Argonauts. Carina contains Canopus, the second brightest star in the sky. . In Mexico 5 species have been recorded. In this paper we add 2 new species, include a synoptic treatment for previously known taxa, and provide new distribution and host plants records for some species. Habitat.--Very little is known about the habitat requirements of the species of Acroleucus. Some species are collected on the foliage of Solanum nigrum L., and Solanum nudum H. B. M. (Solanaceae), on Ipomoea Ipomoea widespread genus of poisonous vines of the family Convolvulaceae; may contain various toxins including the indole alkaloid lysergic acid, furanoterpenes, indolizidine alkaloids (swainsonine). Includes I. asarifolia (salsa), I. sp. (Convolvulaceae), and Camellias (Theaceae), while others are associated with Tillandsia dasyliriifolia Baker, Tillandsia violacea (Baker), Tillandsia oaxacana L. B. Sm., and Hechtia podantha Mez (Bromeliaceae). All measurements are given in mm. Repositories for specimens and abbreviations given in the text are as follows: Colecci6n Entomol6gica del Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, D.F. (UNAM), Coleccion Entomologica del Instituto de Ecologia A.C., Jalapa, Veracruz (IEXA), and Texas A&M University, Collage Station, TX (TAMU TAMU Texas A&M University TAMU Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University TAMU Tyler Area Macintosh Users (Tyler, Texas) TAMU Tropical Aviation Meteorological Unit ). Acroleucus brevicollis (Stal) Lygaeus brevicollis Stal 1862: 311 This species is distinguished from other members Of Acroleucus by a combination of the following characters: coxae yellow with basal third brownish hazel, trochanters and bucculae yellow, head dorsally and antennal segment IV black to reddish brown, hemelytral membrane dark brown with apical apical /ap·i·cal/ (ap´i-k'l) pertaining to an apex. a·pi·cal adj. 1. Relating to the apex of a pyramidal or pointed structure. 2. margin widely hyaline hyaline /hy·a·line/ (hi´ah-lin) glassy and translucent. hy·a·line adj. Resembling glass, as in translucence or transparency; glassy. n. 1. , and pronotum dark brown with anterior, lateral, and posterior margin widely yellowish orange. Distribution.--Recorded from Mexico, San Salvador, Costa Rica, and Panama. Mexico: Chiapas: La Trinitaria, Comitan, Ocozocoautla and Ixhuatan. Estado de Mexico: Real de Arriba ar·ri·ba interj. Used as an exclamation of pleasure, approval, or elation. [Spanish, from Latin ad r (Temascaltepec), and Malinalco. Morelos: Cuernavaca. Nuevo Leon: Chipinque. Veracruz: Orizaba (Brailovsky 1977, 1980). New Records.--Mexico: 1 male, 1 female: Hidalgo Hidalgo, state, Mexico Hidalgo (ēthäl`gō), state (1990 pop. 1,888,366), 8,058 sq mi (20,870 sq km), central Mexico. Pachuca de Soto is the capital. , Hwy 105, 2.4 mi N Tlanchinol, Aug 1982, C. W O'Brien and G. Wibmer. 1 female: Oaxaca, Valle Nacional, Rancho Grande, 900 m, 13 Mar 1989, A. Cadena and L. Cervantes. 1 male: Oaxaca, km 58 Tuxtepec-Oaxaca, 28 May 1987, L. Cervantes. 1 female: Puebla, Xicotepec de Juarez, 13 Jul 1980, H. Brailovsky. 1 female: San Luis Potosi San Lu·is Po·to·sí A city of central Mexico northeast of León. It was founded in the late 1500s and is a mining, transportation, and industrial center. Population: 659,000. Noun 1. , Tamazunchale, 10 Apr 1980, H. Brailovsky. 1 female: Tamaulipas, Gomez Farias, Joya de Manantiales, 13 Mar 2002, I. Pacheco, A. Sanchez, and L. Cervvantes. 1 male, 1 female: Veracruz, Fortin de Las Flores (Estacion de Microondas), 10 Aug 1980, E. Barrera. 2 males, 1 female: Veracruz, Jalapa, 22 May 1982, E. Aranda. All the specimens deposited in UNAM. Host Plants.--Collected on Solanum nigrum L. (Solanaceae), Ipomoea sp., (Convolvulaceae), and Camellias (Theaceae). Acroleucus bromelicola Brailovsky Acroleucus bromelicola Brailovsky 1977: 124-126 (Figs. 1, 3) This species is recognized by having the coxae, trochanters, basal third of femora fem·o·ra n. A plural of femur. , head dorsally, and bucculae yellow, antennal segment IV dark brown, and hemelytral membrane dark brown with hyaline apex digitiform, extending toward the center of the membrane. Genital capsule. Circular in cross section; inner space with lateral arms subtruncated; space between arms with deep "V" concavity con·cav·i·ty n. A hollow or depression that is curved like the inner surface of a sphere. concavity, n 1. the condition of being concave. n 2. (Fig. 1). Paramere. Shaft robust; posterior projection broad, hemispheric; anterior projection elongate e·lon·gate tr. & intr.v. e·lon·gat·ed, e·lon·gat·ing, e·lon·gates To make or grow longer. adj. or elongated 1. Made longer; extended. 2. Having more length than width; slender. , slender; spur apically acute, weakly directed upward (Fig. 3). Distribution.--Only known from Mexico. Mexico: Puebla: Xicotepec de Juarez and Tehuacan; and San Luis Potosi: Tamazunchale (Brailovsky 1977, 1980). The records given by Brailovsky (1977, 1980) from Sonora (Alamos and Nogales Nogales (nōgä`lās), city (1990 pop. 19,489), Santa Cruz co., S Ariz. on the Mexican border with its adjacent city, Nogales (1990 pop. 105,873), Sonora, NW Mexico. There are copper, silver, and lead mines. ) are erroneous and belong to the new species A. tensus. New Records.--Mexico: 1 male, 1 female: Oaxaca, Ayautla, 700 m, 17 Mar 1989, A. Cadena and Cervantes. 2 females: km 55 Oaxaca-Tehuantepec, 1950 m, 5 Sep 1979, E. Barrera. 3 males, 3 females: Puebla, Cuetzalan, Santiago Yacuncualpan (Cuautanapaluyan), 940 m, 19 May 1995, E. Barrera and G. Ortega-Leon. 2 females: km 6.5 Breca-Huazor, nr Tilazo, 26 Apr 1998, E. Barrera and C. Mayorga. 1 female: Veracruz, Municipio Buena Vista, Iztaczoquitlan, 1000 m, 28 Jul 2000, E. Barrera and A. Ibarra. 2 females: Tamaulipas, Gomez Farias, Camino del Ejido ejido (āhē`thō) [Span.,=common land], in Mexico, agricultural land expropriated from large private holdings and redistributed to communal farms. El Azteca, 18 Sept 2003, Q. Santiago and Luis Cervantes. 1 female: Tamaulipas, Gomez Farias, El Cielo, 14 April 2003, I. Pacheco and Luis Cervantes. 1 female: Veracruz, km 13 Coatepec-Huatusco, 600 m, 12 Mar 1989, A. Cadena and L. Cervantes. The specimens are deposited in IEXA and UNAM. Host Plant.--Collected on Tillandsia dasylirufolia Baker (Bromeliaceae). Acroleucus calvatus Brailovsky and Cervantes NEW SPECIES (Fig. 6) Types.--Holotype female: Mexico: Chiapas, 31 mi SE Comitan, 18-19 Jun 1965, H. R. Burke, J. R. Meyer, and J. C. Schaffner (TAMU). Paratypes: 2 females: same data as holotype (TAMU, UNAM). Description.--Female (holotype). Dorsal coloration: Head yellowish hazel except for 2 short reddish brown irregular transverse marks restricted to the interocellar space; antennal segments I to IV reddish brown; pronotum yellowish orange with 2 large, irregular pale to dark brown spots at posterior lobe and transverse line; scutellum reddish brown to dark brown, middle third of apical half yellowish orange; clavus dark brown, claval commissure commissure /com·mis·sure/ (kom´i-shoor) a site of union of corresponding parts; specifically, the sites of junction between adjacent cusps of the heart valves. yellow; corium corium /co·ri·um/ (kor´e-um) dermis. co·ri·um n. pl. co·ri·a See dermis. dark brown, costal margin and apical angle yellow; hemelytral membrane ocher, and apical margin widely hyaline. Ventral coloration: Head including the bucculae pale yellowish orange; juga ju·ga n. A plural of jugum. and rostral rostral /ros·tral/ (ros´tral) 1. pertaining to or resembling a rostrum; having a rostrum or beak. 2. situated toward a rostrum or toward the beak (oral and nasal region), which may mean superior (in relationships segments I, III and IV dark orange hazel; rostral segment II yellowish hazel; propleura shiny orange with pale brown spot near middle third; prosternum yellowish white; mesopleura pale to dark brown, with anterior margin, posterior margin and acetabulum acetabulum /ac·e·tab·u·lum/ (as?e-tab´u-lum) pl. aceta´bula [L.] the cup-shaped cavity on the lateral surface of the hip bone, receiving the head of the femur. ac·e·tab·u·lum n. pl. dark to pale yellowish white; mesosternum dark yellowish white, and transverse line pale to dark brown; metapleura pale to dark brown, tinged with orange hazel marks, and anterior margin, posterior margin, and acetabulum pale to dark yellowish white; metasternum reddish orange; ostiolar peritreme yellowish white; coxae, and trochanters yellow; femora pale brown, tinged with orange hazel, and basally yellow; tibiae and tarsi tar·sus n. pl. tar·si 1. a. The section of the vertebrate foot between the leg and the metatarsus. b. The bones making up this section, especially the seven small bones of the human ankle. 2. reddish brown; abdominal sterna and genital plates pale brown, except middle third of sterna, posterior margin of sterna VI and VII, and pleural Pleural Pleural refers to the pleura or membrane that enfolds the lungs. Mentioned in: Pneumothorax pleural emanating from or pertaining to the pleura. margins yellow. Structure.--Rostrum reaching posterior margin of abdominal sternite III; rostral segment I reaching anterior margin of prosternum. Variation.--(1) Fore femur entirely pale brown, tinged with orange hazel. (2) Mesosternum brown, anterior and posterior margins yellow, and transverse line black. (3) Metasternum brown, with posterior margin yellow. (4) Posterior margin of abdominal sterna III to V yellow. Male--Unknown. Measurements (n = 1).-Female. Head length 1.05; width across eyes 1.60; interocelar space 0.95. Length of antennal segments: I, 0.45; II, 1.25; III, 1.15; IV, 1.40. Pronotum: Total length 1.25; maximum width across anterior lobe 1.50; maximum width across posterior lobe 2.50. Scutellar length 1.00; width 1.27. Total body length 8.18. Discussion.--This new species is related to A. orinocoensis Brailovsky, in having the coxae and trochanters yellow, hemelytral membrane ocher, with apical margin widely hyaline, head dorsally yellow with reddish brown to pale brown marks, restricted to the interocellar space and transverse line, and antennal segment IV black to reddish brown. In A. orinocoensis the pronotum, clavus, corium, prothorax, and metathorax are entirely yellow and the antenniferous tubercle tubercle (t`bərkyl') [Lat.,=little swelling], small, usually solid, nodule or prominence. dark brown to black. In A. calvatus the pronotum, clavus, corium, prothorax, and mesothorax are not entirely yellow, and the antenniferous tubercles are yellowish orange. Etymology etymology (ĕtĭmŏl`əjē), branch of linguistics that investigates the history, development, and origin of words. It was this study that chiefly revealed the regular relations of sounds in the Indo-European languages (as described .--From the Latin, caluata, meaning smooth. Acroleucus nexus Brailovsky and Barrera Acroleucus nexus Brailovsky and Barrera 1984: 96-97 Easy to recognize by having the coxae yellow with basal third orange hazel, trochanters yellow, bucculae black, hemelytral membrane dark brown with apical border narrowly hyaline and difficult to see, pronotum, scutellum, and clavus entirely dark brown, and head dorsally shiny orange with tylus, juga, and distinct median longitudinal stripe black. Distribution.--Only known from M6xico. Mexico: Morelos, Cuernavaca (Brailovsky and Barrera 1984). New Records.--1 male, 1 female: Oaxaca, Ixtepeji, Pena Prieta, Mar 2006, A. Franco (UNAM). Host Plant-Collected on Tillandsia violacea (Baker) and Tillandsia oaxacana L. B. Sm. (Bromeliaceae). Acroleucus signaticollis Stal Acroleucus signaticollis Stal 1874: 114 Clearly distinguished by the coxae, trochanters, and bucculae yellow, hemelytral membrane brown to ocher with contrasting dark brown veins, and apical margin widely hyaline; head dorsally yellowish orange with distinct black median longitudinal stripe, antennal segment IV black to reddish brown, and pronotum, corium, femora, and tibiae predominantly yellow to pale brown. [FIGURES 1-5 OMITTED] Distribution.--Recorded from Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, British Guiana. Mexico: San Luis Potosi: road Tamazunchale-Ciudad Valles (Brailovsky 1980). Acroleucus tensus Brailovsky and Cervantes NEW SPECIES (Figs. 2, 4-5, 7-8) Types.--Holotype male: Mexico: Oaxaca, km. 56, road Oaxaca-San Migue Sola de Vega, 1 Jul 1990, E. Barrera and A. Cadena (UNAM). Paratypes: 9 males, 7 females: same data as holotype (UNAM). 1 female: Oaxaca, Municipio Tlacolula, San Juan Guelavia, 16[degrees]58'00"N, 96[degrees]32'57"W 1600 m, 31 Dec 2004, H. Brailovsky and E. Barrera (UNAM). 16 males, 11 females: Oaxaca, 17 km SE de Huajudpan de Leon, 29 Jun 1996, E. Barrera and H. Brailovsky (UNAM). 2 males, 2 females: Oaxaca, Pochutla-Pluma Hidalgo, 3 Jun 1987, E. Barrera, F. Arias, and L. Cervantes. (UNAM). 1 female: Oaxaca, 2 km SW, El Camaron, 12 Jul 2000, E. Barrera, A. Ibarra, and C. Mayorga (UNAM). 2 males, 2 females: Guerrero, Atoyac-Nueva Delhi, Rio Santiago, 21 Apr 1988, A. Cadena, M. Garcia, and L. Cervantes (UNAM). 3 males, 1 female: Guerrero, Zihuaquio, 15 Apr 1988, L. Cervantes, M. Garcia, and A. Cadena (UNAM). 1 male: Michoacan, km 93 Uruapan-Playa Azul, Finca El Manguito, 1300 m, 26 May 1988, L. Cervantes and A. Cadena (UNAM). 1 male: km 90 Patzcuaro-La Huacana, 1400 m, 1 Jun 1988, L.Cervantes and A. Cadena (UNAM). 11 males, 12 females: Hidalgo, 5 km NE Pachuca, 24 Feb 1990, E. Barrera and H. Brailovsky. Collected in Hechtia podantha Mez (Bromeliaceae) (UNAM). 1 male, 2 females: Hidalgo, San Miguel Regla, Hueyapan, and Pena del Aire, 24 Feb 1990, 7-8 Jun 1990, H. Brailovsky and E. Barrera (UNAM). 1 male, 1 female: Hidalgo, Zimapan, 26 Mar 1997, H. Brailovsky (UNAM). 1 male: Queretaro, Jalpan de Amoles, 1180 m, 21[degrees]11'69"N, 99[degrees]37'84"W, 5 Nov 1997, E. Barrera and G. Ortega-Leon (UNAM). 3 males, 4 females: Guanajuato, Yuriria, 13 Mar 1997, E. Barrera and H. Brailovsky (UNAM). 2 females: Puebla, Coscatlan, 1050 m, 5 Jul 1979, 8 Sep 1979, E. Barrera and G. Ortega-Leon (UNAM). 1 female: Puebla, 6 km NW Teontepec, 1900 m, 14 Jul 1999, H. Brailovsky and E. Barrera (UNAM). 2 females: Puebla, 2.5 km SW de Zapotitlan, 1490 m, 13 Jul 1999, E. Barrera and H. Brailovsky (UNAM). 2 males: Puebla, 2 km N Calipan, 18 Mar 1993, E. Barrera (UNAM). 2 males: Puebla, San Juan Raya, 19 Jan 1992, H. Brailovsky, E. Barrera, C. Mayorga, and G. Ortega-Leon (UNAM). 1 female: Puebla, Atexcoco, 12 Mar 1994, E. Barrera and C. Mayorga (UNAM). 1 male, 1 female: Puebla, Axusco-Petlanco, 5 Nov 1988, E. Barrera, R. Barba, and L.Cervantes (UNAM). 1 female: Chiapas, Reserva El Ocote, 29 Apr-3 May 1993, E. Barrera (UNAM). 1 female: km 6 Motozintla-Siltepoc, 8 Jul 1988, A. Cadena (UNAM). 3 males, 5 females: Tamaulipas, Jaumave, el Salto, 1111 m, 23[degrees]21'23"N, 99[degrees]30'54"W, 12 May 2007, H. Brailovsky, E. Barrera and L. Cervantes (IEXA, UNAM). 1 male: Tamaulipas, Ciudad Victoria, Balcon de Moctezuma, 1000 m, 23[degrees]35'08"N, 99[degrees]11'10"W, 13 May 2007, H. Brailovsky, E. Barrera and L. Cervantes (UNAM). [FIGURE 6 OMITTED] [FIGURE 7 OMITTED] Description.--Male (holotype). Dorsal coloration: Head pale yellowish orange, except black apex of tylus, and juga; antennal segments I to IV dark brown; pronotum dark brown with narrow brownish ocher anterolateral margins; scutellum and clavus brown; corium brown with costal margin yellow; hemelytral membrane pale brown, apical border narrowly hyaline (difficult to see). Ventral coloration: Head yellow except brown to black bucculae; rostral segments I to IV brownish hazel; thorax thorax, body division found in certain animals. In humans and other mammals it lies between the neck and abdomen and is also called the chest. The skeletal frame of the thorax is formed by the sternum (breastbone) and ribs in front and the dorsal vertebrae in back. brown; mesosternum transversely yellowish hazel; ostiolar peritreme dark yellow tinged with pale brown marks; coxae yellow with basal third orange hazel; trochanters yellow; femora brown, basal third yellow; tibiae pale brown; tarsi brown, except each basal segment with anterior third dark yellow; abdominal sterna pale brown, pleural margins yellow; pygophore pale brown. [FIGURE 8 OMITTED] Structure.--Rostrum reaching anterior margin of abdominal sternite III; rostral segment I extending to anterior border of prosternum. Genital capsule: circular in cross section; inner space with lateral arms wide opened and robust; space between arms with "V" concavity slightly pronounced (Fig. 2). Paramere: shaft robust; posterior projection well developed, thick, subconical; anterior projection elongate, slender; spur apically acute, clearly directed upward (Fig. 4). Female.--Color and habitus habitus /hab·i·tus/ (hab´i-tus) [L.] 1. attitude (2). 2. physique. hab·i·tus n. pl. similar to male holotype. Spermatheca: bulb moderately broad; tube extremely elongate, slender and complexly coiled (Fig. 5). Variation.--(1) Pale to dark brown color of pronotal disk, scutellum, clavus and corium eventually black. (2) Head dorsally pale yellow, except black apex of tylus and juga. (3) Humeral hu·mer·al adj. 1. Of, relating to, or located in the region of the humerus or the shoulder. 2. Relating to or being a body part analogous to the humerus. humeral of or pertaining to the humerus. angles yellow. (4) Ostiolar peritreme yellowish white to pale brown, suffused or not with yellow marks. (5) Inner border of clavus, and claval commissure yellow to brown. Measurements (n = 10).--Male (female). Head length 0.63 (0.71); width across eyes 0.92 (1.01); interocular space 0.60 (0.65). Length of antennal segments: I, 0.22 (0.25); II, 0.62 (0.68); III, 0.54 (0.59); IV 0.78, (0.83). Pronotum: Total length 0.68 (0.72); maximum width across anterior lobe 0.83 (0.93); maximum width across posterior lobe 1.46 (1.64). Scutellar length 0.57 (0.62); width 0.77 (0.88). Total body length 4.62 (5.17). Discussion.--This new species is related to A. nexus Brailovsky, in having the bucculae, and scutellum pale brown to black, the hemelytral membrane pale to dark brown with apical border narrowly hyaline and difficult to see, coxae yellow with basal third orange hazel, and trochanters yellow. In A. nexus the head dorsally is shiny orange, except tylus, juga, and distinct black median longitudinal stripe, femora entirely reddish orange, rostrum rostrum /ros·trum/ (ros´trum) pl. ros´tra, rostrums [L.] a beak-shaped process. ros·trum n. pl. ros·trums or ros·tra A beaklike or snoutlike projection. reaching posterior margin of abdominal sternite III, corium black with costal margin narrowly yellow, and mesosternum with transverse line shiny brown to black. In A. tensus the head dorsally is yellowish orange except black apex of tylus and juga, femora brown with the basal third yellow, rostrum reaching anterior margin of abdominal sternite III, corium brown with costal margin widely yellow, and mesosternon with transverse line yellowish hazel. Etymology.--From the Latin tensus, referring to the narrow general shape of the species. Acroleucus tullus (Stal) Lygaeus tullus Stal 1862: 311 This species is separated by having the coxae yellow with basal third brownish hazel, trochanters and bucculae yellow, head dorsally and antennal segment IV black to dark brown, hemelytral membrane dark brown with apical margin widely hyaline, and pronotal disk dark brown with anterior and lateral margins widely yellowish orange, and posterior margin black or very narrowly yellowish orange usually restricted to the humeral angles. Distribution.--Widely distributed through Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama and Venezuela. Mexico: Chiapas: Ocozocoautla e Ixhuatan. Guerrero: Chilpancingo. Veracruz, Cordoba, Jalapa, and Orizaba. New Records.--M6xico: 1 male: Jalisco,12 mi S of Mazamitla, 5 Dec 1948. 2 males, 2 females: Oaxaca, km 41 Puerto Escondido-Sola de Vega, 855 m, 4 Jul 1990, E. Barrera and A. Cadena. 3 males: Oaxaca, Tlacolula, km 17 Tlacolula-El Carrizal, 2240 m, 17[degrees]03'52"N, 96[degrees]24'67"W, 4 Sep 2004, L. Cervantes y J. Calonico. 1 male: Oaxaca, km 111 Oaxaca-Puerto Escondido, 1443 m, 16[degrees]26'05"N, 97[degrees]01'58"W 1 Dec 2006, E. Barrera. 1 male: Oaxaca, San Pedro Yolox, Sta. Cruz Teoetotutla, 1167 m, 17[degrees]44'25"N, 96[degrees]33'48"W 1 Sep 2004, L. Cervantes and J. Calonico. 1 male, 3 females: Oaxaca, Portillo del Rayo, 18 Oct 1985, 30 May 1987, E. Barrera. 1 male: Oaxaca, San Mateo Yetla, 21 Sep 1982, A. Ibarra. 1 male: Oaxaca, km 176 Puerto Angel-Oaxaca, 18 Apr 1983, A. Ibarra. 1 female: Guerrero, Ixcateopan, km 4.5 road to Amealco, 1480 m, 13 Sept 2006, L. Cervantes and L.Lozada. All the specimens deposited in UNAM Host Plants.--Collected on the leaves of Solanum nigrum L. and Solanum nudum H. B. M. (Solanaceae). REVISED KEY TO MEXICAN SPECIES OF ACROLEUCUS 1. Hyaline apex of hemelytral membrane with digitiform extension toward center of membrane A.bromelicola Brailovsky 1'. Hyaline apex of hemelytral membrane not extended toward center of membrane, restricted to apical margin . 2 2. Bucculae black to pale brown; hyaline apex of hemelytral membrane narrow, difficult to see 3 2'. Bucculae yellow; apical margin of hemelytral membrane widely hyaline 4 3. Head dorsally shiny orange, except tylus, juga, and distinct black medial longitudinal stripe; basal third of femora black to dark brown; tarsi brown to black A. nexus Brailovsky & Barrera 3'. Head dorsally yellowish orange, except black apex and juga; basal third of femora yellow; tarsi brown except each basal segment with anterior third yellow A. tensus Brailovsky & Cervantes NEW SPECIES 4. Head dorsally yellowish orange, suffused with pale brown marks 5 4'. Head dorsally black to dark brown 6 5. Veins of hemelytral membrane black, contrasting with dark brown surrounding areas A.signaticollis Stal 5'. Veins of hemelytral membrane concolorous with surrounded areas A. calvatus Brailovsky & Cervantes NEW SPECIES 6. Posterior pronotal margin widely yellowish orange A. brevicollis (Stal) 6'. Posterior pronotal margin black or very narrowly yellowish orange A. tullus (Stal) ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We are much indebted to Dr. Joseph C. Schaffner (Texas A, & M. University, College Station) for kindly providing material. We thank Ernesto Barrera for comments on the manuscript, and Albino albino (ălbī`nō) [Port.,=white], animal or plant lacking normal pigmentation. The absence of pigment is observed in the body covering (skin, hair, and feathers) and in the iris of the eye. Luna for the preparation of dorsal view illustrations (each one at the Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico). Comments on the manuscript from anonymous reviewers are greatly appreciated. Support for the research reported in this paper was provided by UNAM-DGAPA, IN-223503-3. 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Come enjoy Niagara's Award-winning Musical Celebration of Canada! Full of music and laughs, The Oh Canada Eh? Dinner Show has been entertaining guests from around the world since 1994. Come to our log cabin theatre and enjoy a five course all-Canadian meal served by a cast of Canadian characters including hockey players, lumberjacks, mounties and more! Evening performances most nights of the week from April to October beginning at 6:15. Reservations required (guests must call a minimum of 6 hours prior to show time).
Whirlpool Jet Boats is celebrating 20 years as Niagara's Premier Family Attraction! Guests will see awe-inspiring scenery, learn about the historical landmarks, feel the thrill of the Devil's Hole Class Five White Water Rapids and experience the magnitude of the Whirlpool!
*This package is great for all ages (minimum 44 inches tall).
**Guests must attend Whirlpool Jetboat Tours first. Voucher for Safari Niagara & Oh Canada Eh! will be provided at Jetboat check-in. Guests are responsible for their own transportation to Safari Niagara and Oh Canada Eh!. No refunds or exchanges available.
Package Price: $112.95 + HST
Package Price: $76.95 + HST
Please Note: packages are a set price and cannot be combined with gift certificates