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There is no inflation.The goobermint has been printing and borrowing as fast as they can but don´t worry.....even though ground beef is $3.25 a pound......don´t worry....there is no inflation.
Maybe the Obama lovers are smarter than we thought. They get an endless array of tax-free benefits, plus lots of free time to do a little off-the-books hustling on the side.The vast, hard-working middle class gets to struggle along juggling work, paying ever-higher bills, and hearing about Obama´s ceaseless vacations, celebrity-a-thons, and supposed political craftiness.
Out here in the real world,we have seen TREMENDOUS inflation in the last 4 years or so: groceries (!), gas, local taxes, insurance premiums, tires and oil for the car, cellphone bill, local tv/internet, etc. WAY above any increase in wages (I haven´t had a pay increase in 5 years! My husband, fortunately, has gotten a hefty raise, or we´d be in big trouble.)
My company has limited raises to 2% for most of the 9 years I´ve worked for them, 3% if you invent fire. That alone has made us lose ground every year for the last several.
The Obamminist Has Achieved His Greatest Goal: The TOTAL SUBJUGATION Of YOU!
In the 2014 election year the question posed to voters must be: it´s been 6 years, is it still Bush´s fault?
We are getting a lower standard of living and it will get lower as a result of debt load brought to us by your local politician.It is what you get when you focus on dragging down the successful instead of growing the overall economy. History is replete with real cases and we are crazy to stay on the road to serfdom we currently travel.Cronies and sycophants are the only winners.
It could have been different if States like Iowa had voted for Romney instead of Obama.
Obama won´t rest until everything is "fair"..we´ll all be living in sub-standard housing and begging for food stamps, but hey, it´s fair.
"Let me be clear. I just vacationed in Hawaii, and my airfares and my limo service, even with a rude interruption, didn´t cost me a thing. I don´t know what you Americans are complaining about. I had a great time, golf, lots of golf, and I didn´t spend a lot of money. Nor, come to think of it, did I spend a lot of time with the wife & kids. Isn´t that right, Michelle? If fact, I plan on going back in February once that old white guy, John Bonehead, increases my credit card limit. So, you folks gotta do better in planning your next vacation in Hawaii."
We were so close...we almost had a chance.For the first time in almost 4 years businesses I work with were upbeat, new ad campaigns and product re-branding plans were being made. Virtually all of that ended Nov 7, 2012.I hope all the those who didn´t vote because Romney wasn´t perfect are happy. We knew we had to counteract the media cheerleaders and rampant fraud with massive turn out.The first paychecks of 2013 are starting to come in, the blind followers of the "smartest man in the world" may finally have their eyes opened but it´s too late now.If we couldn´t get him out of office with this economy in a regular election, what are the chances that no matter what he pulls he will be impeached?ZERO.
As they say in Spanish, "estamos jodidos",!
Food is much more expensive, our last heating oil delivery was $4.49/gallon, our real estate taxes have skyrocketed, commuting costs have risen, and my doctor charged me $200 for a five-minute office visit--all on top of no raises for the last six years.Not to mention that our now-meager savings are earning less than 1%.
Who can possibly be surprised, except the clueless dem voter pawns? A vote for 0bama & Congressional dem pols was a vote for higher prices & flat wages. ...It always works out that way no matter what the dem pols´ campaign rhetoric. They always promise the opposite from what they deliver!
I did not vote for the guy who is in office again. I cannot even bring myself to say his name.
check out ´Twitchy.com´...if you can believe the ´tweets´ from unhappy Obama voters....???
Wait until the March reports come out.Wait until full time employees become part time.Wait until employees see bigger deductions in their paychecks.Maybe it´s good they are creating death panels because those on Social Security will live in poverty.So sick of Zippy harping on the middle class. Either you can survive or you can´t today.
Thanks to demonrats and their undyling admiration for FDR, we´re going to experience a 1930s style depression again.

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> The 4GB memory restriction of an Intel node would be too > restrictive for some of our users. The majority I suspect are reading this triggered me to look at the specs of the new Mac. after all, the PPC is a reasonably nice architecture, and afaik isn't maimed by 32b-isms. anyway, ignoring Apple's inane marketing-twit-speak, the specs are: dual PPC G4/1000 256K onchip L2 2M per-CPU DDR sdram L3 cache 133 MHz FSB, 3 slots of PC133 (non-ddr) sdram 4 64x33 PCI slots, builtin 1000bT 360W max power. personally, 2M seems strangely small for DDR, since it's not either fast or wide. probably a single chip. they'd obviously be much better off (at least from a beowulf perspective) by biting the bullet and finally engineering a decent dram bus. 3 dimms also means it has no ram-size advantage over commodity (ia32) parts. builting gigE is interesting. in short, a nice workstation, but not well-suited to cluster nodes.
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I totally understand where those people are coming from, but why are those people even contemplating looking at something they know they'll never use anyway. If I were those people I'd be looking into the X2's, X3's, i3's, or i5 duals and leave this other stuff to the people that are actually gonna use it. I see absolutely no reason for 90% of the users here to worry about/"upgrade" to the X6's when they come out. Sure it's great for marketshare so by all means go for it, but not if you're gonna complain that it's not slaughtering or making your 4Ghz dual or tri obselete lol. :shadedshu Kei
That's not what the OP claims. No way to know which one is accurate. I tend to believe the OP more, but 3.2 would be nice. There really aren't any major optimizations compared to current cores according to rumors. But the thing that's wrong with these from an enthusiast perspective is that I'm willing to bet they won't clock anywhere near as well as Gulftown. This is still too little too late from AMD. They should've tried to jump straight to octo core or something to leapfrog Intel.
Which is exactly what i was saying, and deemed a fanboy because i was stating facts. A faster architecture and faster clocks with programs designed to use the less dense faster cpu will outperform something with more cores and less clocks when programs arent designed to use upwards (mostly) of 2 cores. Its simple, i have had AMD through all the days and now have i5. Why? Because its simply faster in every aspect without the burnt wallet feeling i7 leaves you with. I game, my i5 is faster than a 955 in all games i play (i used to have 955 both at 4ghz) so its easy to see why i would have an i5 over Phenom 2. Another thing ive been saying. Of course im deemed a fanboy because im blatently saying im tired of crap, AMD.
"Too little too late" isn't necessarily the way I'd look at AMD; their strategy often has been not leapfrogging cutting-edge tech like the ATI/nVidia duo, but rather to offer value, particularly in the lower segments. They haven't anywhere near the R&D budget of Intel, though working on things like the 22nm fab process with IBM and others certainly helps. Those strategic alliances keep them alive (and thank goodness for the sake of competition-driven pricing, not that Intel doesn't do what it pleases anyway), but can't keep AMD "on top."
AthlonXP and Athlon64/X2 disagrees, sir. Everybody and their brothers mothers cousin had an NF4 and 64/X2 combo back in the day
It doesn't have to out-perform i9. All it needs is shorten the gap, or keep it from widen. Keep the prices reasonable.
Technically Istanbul supports DDR2. But the thing is how many motherboard vendors are ready to give away supportive BIOS updates for their old AM2+ boards? I think not many, if not any.
DDR2 support saves me £100 by allowing me to move my old memory on my 790GX board across... maybe I'm just skint
Man I hope they do. I don't want to upgrade my board just yet. Its funny I got into building computers because my other hobby (Firearms) is very expensive. Now my PC building is starting to rival that! Why cant collecting stamps me this fun?! I would save so much money.
I'm looking at it from an overclocking stand point, if the chip default clock rate is pretty high, then it shouldn't be that much of a strain on the chip to get some really high numbers, and yeah most apps aren't multithreaded but people keep forgetting that the OS is...
lol....I didn't know the 955 @ 4Ghz was holding you back from being slow? (sorry had to take that cheap shot at you lol) Just tell the truth you wanted a new toy...it's fine we all do that, it's why we're here really. None of us have really needed to upgrade from performance problems for like 5 years lol. Seriously though I totally agree that the i5 is a smokin bargain, I thought about picking one up as my first Intel processor in a pretty good while. I want one just for fun, surely not for any speed issues...I'm not a benchmark king lol. I wonder what the pricing will be like on these, I'm getting more curious about them now though 4 cores is still enough for what I do. 6 cores would help in a few occassions, but I could live without it........price dependant I'll still probably pick one up for fun. Kei
I can't rememer where but i read this, but I remember some source saying that Hyper threading does have some adverse effects in gaming. I'll try and see if I can remember the link.
If the resolution was higher (1920x1200 for example) the numbers would be even closer. In my opinion price + heat output isn't worth going i7 for gaming.
Well since im more into benching than gaming then yes the 955 was holding me back. At the time of 955 purchase i had 3 280s With 2 280s running on my 955 i got around 18-21k. With the i5 at 4ghz i got 27k. So yea i needed more power. But it is worth going i5 considering the price is almost identical for a 965 and 750.
there is a slight chance like super maybe that i get on of these soon i will keep the forums up to date on it
I have people setup in the shadows outside your bedroom window....we will know if you hold out on us. Kei
crosshair II is still getting updates as we speak as is the M3A78T which window lol i have two places i live


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Picture twilight in Los Angeles: the city's labyrinth of eight-lane freeways is jammed with millions of cars, engines burping pollutants into the air. The people in those cars may be drowning in a sea of smog, but they at least can take solace in seeing a scarlet sunset blazing across the horizon.
According to urban legend, air pollution enhances the beauty of a sunset. And pollution does indeed change the appearance of sundown, but whether it tips it in the direction of beauty is a matter of personal taste—and the overall amount of that pollution in the air.
Be it the azure of high noon or the orange glow of dusk, the colors of the sky result from sunlight interacting with molecules in the air, primarily nitrogen and oxygen, which cause it to be deflected in all directions, a phenomenon called Rayleigh scattering. All wavelengths of light are scattered, but they are not scattered equally. According to John W. S. Rayleigh's approximate scattering law, colors with shorter wavelengths are scattered the most: violet, followed by blue, then green, and so on.
During the day, when the sun is directly overhead, light travels only a short distance through a relatively thinner section of the atmosphere. But as the sun edges toward the horizon, the light must travel increasingly longer paths and is scattered by more air molecules. By the time it reaches the end of this journey (our eyes), "most of the blue has been scattered out of that beam" explains Stephen Corfidi, a meteorologist at the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). What remains are the warmer hues of yellow, orange and red, which blend into a yellowish-orange sunset.
Yet, scattering by nitrogen and oxygen can only explain how sunsets can be orange and perhaps reddish, not how the sky can blush blood red. "In an atmosphere with no junk at anytime, you'll never get a sunset that would make someone with normal color vision say, 'Wow that's red!'" says Craig Bohren, professor emeritus of meteorology at Pennsylvania State University. "It is certainly true that the 'pollution' results in redder sunsets."
To get a red sky, you need aerosols, explains A. R. Ravishankara, director of chemical sciences at the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo. Aerosols are solid or liquid particles suspended in the air that originate from both natural processes and human activity.
Natural aerosols come from forest fires, mineral dust kicked up by sandstorms, sea spray and volcanic eruptions, among other things. Volcanoes, which have produced some of the most spectacular sunsets in history, can inject sulfuric acid droplets into the stratosphere, the layer of the atmosphere between 10 to 35 miles in altitude. These droplets can be swept across the globe, painting brilliant crimson twilights wherever they go. Following the 1883 eruption of Indonesia's Krakatoa, brilliant sunsets appeared around the world, one of which is said to have inspired Norwegian artist Edvard Munch's painting, The Scream.
But "in a large city, you can ignore natural aerosol products for the most part" because the number of aerosols produced by human activity far exceeds natural sources, says Sergey Nizkorodov, a chemist at the University of California, Irvine. Human-generated aerosols can enter the atmosphere directly, as is the case with soot emitted by internal combustion engines in cars and trucks, he explains. Aerosols are also produced when molecules in the gaseous state enter the atmosphere and react with other chemicals, he adds. A classic case: burning fossil fuels releases sulfur dioxide gas into the air, which then turns into sulfuric acid aerosols.
Most particles suspended above cities scatter radiation, preferentially removing the cooler violets and blues in the spectral palette and enhancing the red, Nizkorodov says. In this sense, these particles scatter light much the same as do oxygen and nitrogen molecules.


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The events leading to the transformation of the estate at Arlington into a national cemetery have previously been discussed on this forum. But this excellent article is a worthy addition to the board: How Arlington National Cemetery Came to Be | History & Archaeology | Smithsoni The article explains how the estate was confiscated at the beginning of the war, and how it was used as an instrument of revenge by Quartermaster General Montgomery Meigs (who was a logistical genius). General Meigs' enmity towards Robert E. Lee (And all other Virginians who served the CSA) was probably unmatched among Union generals. The estate was converted into a cemetery in 1864, but in the end, many years later, the Lee family prevailed in the Federal Judicial System, and recovered the ownership of the property. Custis Lee chose to take a cash settlement, rather than having the already 20,000 buried there removed. It was the right decision for the Lee family, as the money was needed to restore the family fortune. However, I can't help but wonder if Custis Lee would have relished having all traces of federal occupation removed from the estate. As for General Meigs, he later joined his family members, being buried in a very prominent place on the property. One has to wonder what his reaction was when the Lee family prevailed in the USSC. As an aside, Mrs. Lee's young cousin, William Orton Williams, who told her in May of 1861 that she would have to leave her beloved home, soon became a CSA officer. Along with a fellow officer (Also a cousin), he set out on a bizarre scheme, impersonating a Union officer. He was soon recognized, captured, tried as a spy, and hung. Col William Orton Williams (1839 - 1863) - Find A Grave Memorial Robert E. Lee (by Freeman) — Vol. III Chap. 12 The story is discussed in this chapter by Freeman. Last edited on Mon Jun 17th, 2013 03:23 pm by Texas Defender |
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I'm gonna be honest here, TD, and say I haven't yet clicked a link. But do I remember correctly that the settlement was after Mrs. Lee' death? On Custis Lee's potentially wanting all traces of the occupation gone I think that at the end of the war he might have wanted that. But by the time the settlement was completed I'd think that no matter how he would have felt that it probably no longer mattered beyond effectively being paid for the estate. You have to figure that the federal government had occupied the land for so long by the time of the settlement that there would likely always be a little anger over that and he probably also wouldn't want to be constantly reminded of that whenever he looked at Arlington House or the grounds. What's most interesting is that she could have gotten the property back much sooner than her son go the payment for it. She did try paying the back taxes on it and the government refused to accept. That reminds me so much of Lee's citizenship papers going "missing" so he never regained his citizenship until over a hundred years after his death. I've never bought that whole missing bit, those papers were deliberately "misplaced" so as to punish him for his role in the war. And the refusal to accept the back taxes on the property was the same thing. |
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Hellcat- Mrs. Lee died in 1873 and the court case wasn't finally resolved until very late in 1882. As for the tax- the Congress authorized a special tax on property within districts that were in: "Insurrection." A tax was levied on Arlington, and Mrs. Lee, who was ill at the time, sent a relative to pay it. He was turned away by the authorities, who said that Mrs. Lee had to appear in person to pay the tax. The tax wasn't paid, which led to an auction in 1864. The Federal Government was the only bidder. As for Custis Lee, he had little money and no inheritance other than Arlington. Taking a cash settlement was the only reasonable option for him, since the Government apparently paid the fair market value for the property in 1883. George Washington Custis Lee - Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial |
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There's a Wolfe Tones song that the Celtic and Ireland fans like to sing which contains a very poignant chorus for the current state of Irish football.
Soccer supporters out there will know the song I'm talking about. Officially it's called "The Celtic Symphony," a celebration of all things related to Glasgow Celtic, their Parkhead Paradise and the jungle that is home to the most fervent Hoops die hards.
It also celebrates, among other things, everything from Paul McGrath in the live version to the Rah on the record, politically incorrect as it is in the current climate of peace and goodwill to all men in Ireland, which may explain why the Tones are nowhere near as popular now as they were during The Troubles.
The old South Terrace chant of "Here We Go" also features in the song when the Green Army sing it, and on more than one occasion I have heard travelling Irish fans go straight from the "Celtic Symphony" to an "Ole Ole Ole" chorus from the glory days of the Charlton era.
Doubtless the song got another airing in Bratislava and Vienna and Krakow on Monday night as the Green Army descended on the Slovakian town of Zilina from all nearby cities with Ryanair airports.
Their brief, as always, was to follow the Irish team with the blind faith of true believers, worshippers at the altar of the God fearing Giovanni Trapattoni.
All was changed, however, as they headed east on Monday morning, the memory of that Dublin demolition at the hands of Russia last Friday night still fresh in their weary heads.
Never mind the 3-2 scoreline and the narrow defeat from the biggest game yet at the wonderfully appointed and nearly full Aviva Stadium.
Team Ireland and Team Trap were destroyed in Ballsbridge last Friday night, the manager and his caveman tactics cruelly exposed by a Russian team playing total Dutch football inspired by their own imported manager, Dick Advocaat.
Dick is well known to us as a purveyor of real pain by the way. He was in charge when Holland had the World Cup last 16 game over within 20 minutes in Orlando back in 1994 on a day when Packie Bonner cried as he apologized for his error to his teammates in the dressingroom afterwards.
Advocaat's midfield cut through Big Jack's long ball game like a knife through butter on that raging hot afternoon in the Orange Bowl.
By the way, the stadium was known on the day as the Oranje Bowl thanks to the oranje clad Dutch fans, none of them in sponsored World Cup mini-skirts from what I can remember!
He may be almost as old as the 71-year-old Trapattoni, but Advocaat's memory of that Orlando win is still vibrant and very valid.
On Friday night, he met another Irish team intent on playing long ball and only long ball, so Advocaat adapted the lessons from his Dutch pass and Ireland were dead and buried, this time after 50 minutes when Shirokov landed the third of three Russian goals, all without reply.
Ireland did stage a late rally, albeit one inspired by a Robbie Keane goal from a penalty awarded in the 72nd minute after his dive that was every bit as treacherous as the Thierry Henry handball in Paris last November.
They even got within sniffing distance of an incredible draw thanks to a Shane Long goal six minutes later, but any reward for that inept performance by the home team would have been so wrong.
All of which now brings me back to the Wolfe Tones and the "Here We Go -- Again" song.
This column is being constructed on Tuesday morning Irish time, just hours before Trapattoni's battered team returned to action against the Slovaks in Zilina and without the injured Kevin Doyle.
The "Here We Go -- Again" bit refers to the pressure the manager is now under after yet another disastrous display by an Irish side that hasn't qualified for anything since the doomed World Cup bid of 2002.
On this very page last week, you'll have seen reference to the need for Team Trap to take a leaf out of Big Jack's book and give an ailing nation a lift on the football field.
Sadly, the only thing they took from Jack's book was a penchant for the long ball game -- and without the quality of players available to Charlton all those years ago.
Trapattoni, lest you forget, is on €1.8 million a year in our money at a time when the ordinary man and woman is struggling to see the ends never mind make them meet.
That partly explains why he has been subjected to criticism of a venomous nature in the days and nights since that horror show against the Russkies.
Ireland were brutal on Friday night, and mostly because of Trapattoni's tactics and his decision to stick with two central midfieldera against a three man Russian midfield for all of 60 minutes.
It was so plain to see that Ireland were being outnumbered in the centre of the park that even those high in the new stands at Lansdowne Road were able to shout it at the bench from the time of the first goal, in the 10th minute as it happened.
Their shouts fell on deaf ears. Trap didn't make a change until the hour mark and by then it was too little too late, even if two goals followed when parity was established in the midfield trenches.
The manager has been sticking to his guns ever since, even in the wake of damning quotes from Richard Dunne in the immediate aftermath of the game which suggested the players are not at all happy with the manager.
He will continue to play 4-4-2 because he doesn't have the players to do anything else apparently, and he doesn't stop his players from playing a short game despite the evidence to the contrary.
And he's not looking for excuses for the Russian defeat, but the first goal was offside and the third one was a "lucky" deflection.
Watching Trap explain himself on Saturday was so sad and so reminiscent of recent events with previous Irish managers.
It had echoes of the worst times under Brian Kerr and Steve Staunton, men who weren't allowed to get away with the slightest error by a media waiting to pounce on their every mistake as we did with Trap on Saturday and Sunday and Monday.
So here we go -- again. The Irish soccer team is in crisis, the manager is under pressure like never before and the critics are having a field day.
It wasn't supposed to be like this under Giovanni Trapattoni. He's the world class manager who's going to bring the good times back to Irish football.
Yet, on Friday night's evidence, we're back in the doldrums for all Trap's reputation. His team, like this country, is on its knees.
Zilina may change things, you'll know that before you read this, but one thing is crystal clear this morning – Giovanni Trapattoni has got to start earning his corn and justify that criminal salary.
Sideline Views
SOCCER: Silly line from the Northern Ireland manager Nigel Worthington, who described the Faroe Islands as a British style team managed by a British manager before their European qualifier on Tuesday. Brian Kerr, whose father hails from Belfast, is not a British manager and the jibe will have surely riled him. Worthington, by the way, did refer to the mainland on three occasions when we interviewed him in Dublin recently regarding the forthcoming Carling Nations Cup tournament at the Aviva. Maybe he was referring to the Aran Islands!
GAA: So the GAA won't be getting horny next year. Croke Park officials have abandoned plans to introduce hooters to signal the end of playing time in their inter-county games. The trial was proposed for the 2011 National Leagues but the cost is proving prohibitive for the time being at least. Guess that's a hooter for the hooters! Since the restaurant chain of the same name are now in England, maybe they could open in Ireland and sponsor the GAA's Hooters!
RUGBY: Leinster go to the Twin Towers on Saturday for a Heineken Cup game against Saracens at the new Wembley but they may travel without their injured star Brian O'Driscoll. His hamstring problem is not good news for club or country with the Autumn Internationals, the Six Nations and the World Cup all on the radar. Like the soccer team, the rugby side can't do without its best players.
Richard Dunne told it like it was when he criticised Giovanni Trapattoni's tactics on RTE television straight after the humiliating defeat to Russia on Friday night. Well done Richard.
Some claim Liam Brady was little more than a translator in the Irish camp when he worked alongside Giovanni Trapattoni. Judging by his performance as an analyst on RTE television after a Trap inspired embarrassment against Russia on Friday night, he is now little more than an apologist for the Italian.
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warrenpoint00 | Oct 13, 2010, 08:37 PM EDT
Great,great song that Celtic synphony Cathal.So good to hear the Irish diaspora chant it where ever they may be.Is,nt it just great to be Irish.So much passion,culture and heritage from a time before time began.
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plasticpaddy | Oct 13, 2010, 04:35 PM EDT
Geroge I think you mean the championsip, there is no second division, hasn't been one since 1993. Also most small nations recruit from their diaspora, most of them consider themselves Irish. anyone who has been to Glasgow or Liverpool would realise this.
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GeorgeDillon | Oct 13, 2010, 02:37 PM EDT
Dervan, don't be a dope. You complain about Worthington referring to the mainland, but did it ever occur to you that the 26 County team is composed of players who play in Britain, many of them born in Britain, who speak with British accents, whose fans sing songs they learned in the stadia of Maanchester, and whose style, insofar as the team has a style, is identical to that of the English Second Division?
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PhlutiePhan | Oct 13, 2010, 01:19 PM EDT
Robbie Keane probably took a dive. However, to equate this with Thierry is just not "cricket".
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Chieftain | Oct 13, 2010, 12:00 PM EDT
Bloody shame...we have the talent however we cannot just work well together to get some wins.
The constant long ball is a gobshite's way to play football
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SLIPPERY SLOPE: Melting glaciers in Asia could leave millions of people without enough food and water, experts say.
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Melting glaciers in Asia could cause food shortages for up to 60 million people who live in the region's major river basins, a new study finds.
But the research, published yesterday in Science, found that the shrinking glaciers will have less of an impact on Asia's freshwater supply than estimated in the last report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
That 2007 report suggested loss of glaciers and snowpack could eventually leave "hundreds of millions" of people in Asia without sufficient water. It has also come under fire for an error-riddled paragraph that claimed Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035.
But the new study by researchers in the Netherlands suggests that increased rainfall in some river basins will blunt the effect of the disappearing snow and ice.
The scientists, led by Walter Immerzeel of FutureWater and Utrecht University, examined how climate change will affect five major Asian rivers -- often referred to as the region's "water towers" -- that together supply water to more than 1.4 billion people, roughly one-fifth of the world's population.
They include the Indus, which begins in the Tibetan Plateau and runs through Pakistan; the Ganges, which traverses India and Bangladesh; the Brahmaputra, which winds through the Himalayas into India; the Yangtze and Yellow rivers, which run through China.
Previous studies, including the IPCC report, had suggested that global warming could accelerate the melting of mountain snowpack and glaciers that feed the river systems, and lead to major water shortages by the end of this century.
But such predictions have been hard to quantify, the new study notes, because of limited data.
Some basins to suffer more than others
The Dutch research team tackled the problem by examining the role glacial meltwater plays in each river basin, compared with other sources of freshwater -- rainfall and melting snowpack.
They found that the role of meltwater varied widely from basin to basin.
"We show that meltwater is extremely important in the Indus basin and important for the Brahmaputra basin," they wrote, "but plays only a modest role for the Ganges, Yangtze and Yellow rivers."
In the Indus basin, for example, they conclude that meltwater supplies nearly one and a half times more water than does rainfall downstream. But in the Brahmaputra basin, meltwater contributes a quarter of the water supplied by downstream rains.
Given those differences, the scientists said, it's also clear that some basins would suffer more than others in coming decades if climate change continues at its current pace.


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In a summer community on the coast of New Hampshire at the turn of the last century, a girl is drawn into a passionate affair with a man nearly three times her age. Fortune's Rocks is the story of Olympia Biddeford privileged, well educated, and mature beyond her years and her affair with John Haskell, who is married with three children. Drawn together on the night of the summer solstice, the pair set in motion a series of events with far-reaching consequences for all involved. This is a haunting novel about an unforgettable young woman and the tragic consequences of reckless love.
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Wigan Warriors will celebrate "Paddy's Day" a week early to mark the 200th appearance of Ireland international winger Pat Richards.
The Warriors have asked fans to wear green in celebration of the goalkicking winger's landmark appearance against Catalan Dragons at the DW Stadium tonight.
Richards, who is set to represent Ireland in the World Cup later this year, will go into the match needing one more try to reach 150 for the club and to climb into the top 10 of Super League's all-time tryscorers.
The popular Richards, who turned 31 last month, is in his eighth season in Super League, having made his debut against the Catalans in a 38-30 defeat in Perpignan in the French side's inaugural match in February 2006.
"Pat has been here that long I see him as a Wiganer," said Warriors coach Shaun Wane.
"He is a great player and he loves playing for the club.
"Pat has been real quality and I think on Sunday at Castleford it was his best game of the season for us."
Richards, who has scored tries in six of the last seven home league games against the Dragons, said: "That is good to hear coming from Mr Wigan himself.
"I have been here a long time. It just goes to prove how much I love the place, I just keep extending my contract every time."
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"Saints' away form hasn't been too bad and they had two wins here last year which will give them even more confidence."
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"They're coming off the back of a good win, in the same way that we are, so it's two of the form teams playing against each other."
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Venus flytrap
Venus flytrap | |
Leaf | |
Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
(unranked): | Core eudicots |
Order: | Caryophyllales |
Family: | Droseraceae |
Genus: | Dionaea |
Species: | D. muscipula |
Binomial name | |
Dionaea muscipula Sol. ex J.Ellis |
Distribution | |
Synonyms[citation needed] | |
The Venus flytrap (also Venus's flytrap or Venus' flytrap), Dionaea muscipula, is a carnivorous plant native to subtropical wetlands on the East Coast of the United States. It catches its prey—chiefly insects and arachnids— with a trapping structure formed by the terminal portion of each of the plant's leaves and is triggered by tiny hairs on their inner surfaces. When an insect or spider crawling along the leaves contacts a hair, the trap closes if a different hair is contacted within twenty seconds of the first strike. The requirement of redundant triggering in this mechanism serves as a safeguard against a waste of energy in trapping objects with no nutritional value.
Dionaea is a monotypic genus closely related to the waterwheel plant and sundews, all of which belong to the family Droseraceae.
The Venus flytrap is a small plant whose structure can be described as a rosette of four to seven leaves, which arise from a short subterranean stem that is actually a bulb-like object. Each stem reaches a maximum size of about three to ten centimeters, depending on the time of year;[2] longer leaves with robust traps are usually formed after flowering. Flytraps that have more than 7 leaves are colonies formed by rosettes that have divided beneath the ground.
The leaf blade is divided into two regions: a flat, heart-shaped photosynthesis-capable petiole, and a pair of terminal lobes hinged at the midrib, forming the trap which is the true leaf. The upper surface of these lobes contains red anthocyanin pigments and its edges secrete mucilage. The lobes exhibit rapid plant movements, snapping shut when stimulated by prey. The trapping mechanism is tripped when prey contacts one of the three hair-like trichomes that are found on the upper surface of each of the lobes. The trapping mechanism is so specialized that it can distinguish between living prey and non-prey stimuli such as falling raindrops;[3] two trigger hairs must be touched in succession within 20 seconds of each other or one hair touched twice in rapid succession,[3] whereupon the lobes of the trap will snap shut in about one-tenth of a second.[4] The edges of the lobes are fringed by stiff hair-like protrusions or cilia, which mesh together and prevent large prey from escaping. (These protrusions, and the trigger hairs, also known as sensitive hairs, are probably homologous with the tentacles found in this plant's close relatives, the sundews.) Scientists have concluded that the Venus flytrap is closely related to Drosera (sundews), and that the snap trap evolved from a fly-paper trap similar to that of Drosera.[5]
The holes in the meshwork allow small prey to escape, presumably because the benefit that would be obtained from them would be less than the cost of digesting them. If the prey is too small and escapes, the trap will reopen within 12 hours. If the prey moves around in the trap, it tightens and digestion begins more quickly.
Speed of closing can vary depending on the amount of humidity, light, size of prey, and general growing conditions. The speed with which traps close can be used as an indicator of a plant's general health. Venus flytraps are not as humidity-dependent as are some other carnivorous plants, such as Nepenthes, Cephalotus, most Heliamphora, and some Drosera.
The Venus flytrap exhibits variations in petiole shape and length and whether the leaf lies flat on the ground or extends up at an angle of about 40–60 degrees. The four major forms are: 'typica', the most common, with broad decumbent petioles; 'erecta', with leaves at a 45-degree angle; 'linearis', with narrow petioles and leaves at 45 degrees; and 'filiformis', with extremely narrow or linear petioles. Except for 'filiformis', all of these can be stages in leaf production of any plant depending on season (decumbent in summer versus short versus semi-erect in spring), length of photoperiod (long petioles in spring versus short in summer), and intensity of light (wide petioles in low light intensity versus narrow in brighter light).[citation needed]
When grown from seed, plants take around four to five years to reach maturity and will live for 20 to 30 years if cultivated in the right conditions.[6]
The plant's common name refers to Venus, the Roman goddess of love. The genus name, Dionaea ("daughter of Dione"), refers to the Greek goddess Aphrodite, while the species name, muscipula is Latin for "mousetrap".[7]
Historically, the plant was also known by the slang term "tipitiwitchet" or "tippity twitchet", possibly an oblique reference to the plant's resemblance to human female genitalia.[7][8]
Prey selectivity
Most carnivorous plants selectively feed on specific prey. This selection is due to the available prey and the type of trap used by the organism. With the Venus flytrap, prey is limited to beetles, spiders and other crawling arthropods. In fact, the Dionaea diet is 33% ants, 30% spiders, 10% beetles, and 10% grasshoppers, with fewer than 5% flying insects.[9] Given that Dionaea evolved from an ancestral form of Drosera (carnivorous plants that use a sticky trap instead of a snap trap) the reason for this evolutionary branching becomes clear. Whilst Drosera consume smaller, aerial insects, Dionaea consume larger terrestrial bugs. From these larger bugs, Dionaea are able to extract more nutrients. This gives Dionaea an evolutionary advantage over their ancestral sticky trap form.[10]
Mechanism of trapping
The Venus flytrap is one of a very small group of plants capable of rapid movement, such as Mimosa, the Telegraph plant, sundews and bladderworts.
The mechanism by which the trap snaps shut involves a complex interaction between elasticity, turgor and growth. In the open, untripped state, the lobes are convex (bent outwards), but in the closed state, the lobes are concave (forming a cavity). It is the rapid flipping of this bistable state that closes the trap,[4] but the mechanism by which this occurs is still poorly understood. When the trigger hairs are stimulated, an action potential (mostly involving calcium ions—see calcium in biology) is generated, which propagates across the lobes and stimulates cells in the lobes and in the midrib between them.[11] It is hypothesized that there is a threshold of ion buildup for the Venus flytrap to react to stimulation.[12] The acid growth theory states that individual cells in the outer layers of the lobes and midrib rapidly move 1H+ (hydrogen ions) into their cell walls, lowering the pH and loosening the extracellular components, which allows them to swell rapidly by osmosis, thus elongating and changing the shape of the trap lobe. Alternatively, cells in the inner layers of the lobes and midrib may rapidly secrete other ions, allowing water to follow by osmosis, and the cells to collapse. Both of these mechanisms may play a role and have some experimental evidence to support them.[13][14]
If the prey is unable to escape, it will continue to stimulate the inner surface of the lobes, and this causes a further growth response that forces the edges of the lobes together, eventually sealing the trap hermetically and forming a 'stomach' in which digestion occurs. Digestion is catalysed by enzymes secreted by glands in the lobes.
Oxidative protein modification is likely to be a predigestive mechanism of the Dionaea muscipula. Aqueous leaf extracts have been found to contain quinones such as the naphthoquinone plumbagin that couples to different NADH-dependent diaphorases to produce superoxide and hydrogen peroxide upon autoxidation.[15] Such oxidative modification could rupture animal cell membranes. Plumbagin is known to induce apoptosis, associated with the regulation of Bcl-2 family of proteins.[16] When the Dionaea extracts were preincubated with diaphorases and NADH in the presence of serum albumin (SA), subsequent tryptic digestion of SA was facilitated.[15] Since the secretory glands of Droseraceae contain proteases and possibly other degradative enzymes, it may be that the presence of oxygen-activating redox cofactors function as extracellular predigestive oxidants to render membrane-bound proteins of the prey (insects) more susceptible to proteolytic attacks.[15]
Digestion takes about ten days, after which the prey is reduced to a husk of chitin. The trap then reopens, and is ready for reuse.[17]
The carnivorous diet is a very specialized form of foliar feeding, and is an adaptation found in several plants from soil poor in nutrients. Their carnivorous traps were evolutionarily selected to allow these organisms to survive their harsh environments.[18]
The "snap trap" mechanism so characteristic of Dionaea is shared with only one carnivorous plant genus, Aldrovanda. This relationship was thought to be coincidental, more precisely convergent evolution, for most of the 20th century - some phylogenetic studies even suggested that the closest living relative of Aldrovanda was the sundew.[19] It was not until 2002 that a molecular evolutionary study conducted by Ken Cameron, from the University of Wisconsin, indicated that Dionaea and Aldrovanda did in fact share a most recent common ancestor by analysis of combined nuclear and chloroplast DNA sequences.[20][21] They also identified Drosera regia as both plants' closest living relative.
Another study,[19] this time appearing in the New Phytologist, presented evidence for the evolution of snap traps of Dionaea and Aldrovanda from a flypaper trap like D. regia, based on molecular data. The molecular and physiological data implies that Dionaea and Aldrovanda snap traps evolved from the flypaper traps of a common ancestor with the Drosera; the living evidence of a link between Drosera and Dionaea is D. regia and its remnant characteristics.
In this evolutionary model, pre-adaptations to evolution into snap-traps were identified in several species of Drosera, such as rapid leaf and tentacle movement. The model proposes that plant carnivory by snap-trap evolved from the flypaper traps driven by increasing prey size. Bigger prey provides increasingly higher nutritional value, but large insects can easily escape the sticky mucilage of flypaper traps; the evolution of snap-traps would prevent escape and kleptoparasitism (theft of prey captured by the plant before it can derive any benefit from it), and would also permit a more complete digestion.[19][20]
Proposed evolutionary history
Carnivorous plants are generally herbs, and their traps primary growth. They generally do not form readily fossilizable structures such as thick bark or wood. As such, there's no fossil evidence of the steps that would link Dionaea and Aldrovanda, or with their common ancestor with Drosera. Despite that, it's possible to extrapolate an evolutionary history based on phylogenetic studies of both genera. So, the researchers proposed a series of steps that would ultimately result in the complex snap trap mechanism:[19][20]
- Larger insects usually walk over the plant, instead of flying to it,[22] and are more likely to break free from sticky glands alone. Therefore, a plant with wider leaves must have adapted to move the trap and its stalks in directions that maximized its chance of capturing and retaining such prey - in this particular case, longitudinally. Once adequately "wrapped", escape would be more difficult.[22]
- Then, evolutionary pressure selected the plants with shorter response time, in a manner similar to Drosera burmannii or Drosera glanduligera. The faster the closing, less reliant on the flypaper model the plant would be.
- As the trap became more and more active, the energy demanded to "wrap" the prey increased. Therefore, plants that could somehow differentiate between actual insects and random detritus/rain droplets would be in advantage, thus explaining the specialization of inner tentacles into trigger hairs.
- Ultimately, as the plant relied more in closing around the insect rather than gluing them, the tentacles so evident in Drosera would lose its original function altogether, becoming the "teeth" and trigger hairs — an example of natural selection hijacking pre-existing structures for new functions.
- Completing the transition, at some point in its evolutionary history the plant developed the depressed digestive glands found inside the trap, rather than using the dews in the stalks, further differentiating it from the Drosera genus.
The Venus flytrap is found in nitrogen- and phosphorus-poor environments, such as bogs and wet savannahs. Small in stature and slow growing, the Venus flytrap tolerates fire well, and depends on periodic burning to suppress its competition.[23] Fire suppression threatens its future in the wild.[24] It survives in wet sandy and peaty soils. Although it has been successfully transplanted and grown in many locales around the world, it is found natively only in North and South Carolina in the United States, specifically within a 60-mile radius of Wilmington, North Carolina.[25] One such place is North Carolina's Green Swamp. There also appears to be a naturalized population of Venus flytraps in northern Florida as well as an introduced population in western Washington.[26][27] The nutritional poverty of the soil is the reason that the plant relies on such elaborate traps: insect prey provide the nitrogen for protein formation that the soil cannot. The Venus flytrap is not a tropical plant and can tolerate mild winters. In fact, Venus flytraps that do not go through a period of winter dormancy will weaken and die after a period of time.[28]
Venus flytraps are popular as cultivated plants, but have a reputation for being difficult to grow.[2] Successfully growing these specialized plants requires recreating a close approximation to the plant's natural habitat.
Healthy Venus flytraps will produce scapes of white flowers in spring; however, many growers remove the flowering stem early (2–3 inches), as flowering consumes some of the plant's energy, and reduces the rate of trap production. If healthy plants are allowed to flower, successful pollination will result in the production of dozens of small, shiny black seeds.
Plants can be propagated by seed, although seedlings take several years to mature. More commonly, they are propagated by division in spring or summer.
Venus flytraps are by far the most commonly recognized and cultivated carnivorous plant. They are sold as houseplants and are often found at florists, hardware stores and supermarkets. During the past ten years or so large quantities of cultivars (cultivated varieties) have come into the market through tissue culture of selected genetic mutations. It is through tissue culture that great quantities of plants are raised for commercial markets.
The registered cultivars include (name of registrant in braces):
- Dionaea muscipula 'Akai Ryu' {Ron Gagliardo}[29]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Alien' {Guillaume Bily}[30]
- Dionaea muscipula 'B52' {Barry Meyers-Rice}[31]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Blanche Hermine' {Guillaume Bily}[32]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Bohemian Garnet' {Miroslav Srba}[33]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Clayton's Red Sunset' {Colin Clayton}[34]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Coquillage' {Guillaume Bily}[35]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Cupped Trap' {Steven Stewart}[36]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Dentate Traps' {Barry Meyers-Rice}[37]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Fondue' {Guillaume Bily}[38]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Fused Tooth' {Peter D'Amato & Thomas Carow}[39]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Green Dragon' {Marcus Erbacher & M. Stoeckl}[31]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Holland Red' {Marcus Erbacher & M. Stoeckl}[31]
- Dionaea muscipula 'JA1' {Julio Alberto González Domínguez}[40]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Jaws' {Leo Song, Jr.}[41]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Justina Davis' {Barry Meyers-Rice}[31]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Korean Melody Shark' {Jang Gi-Won & Wook Hyon (Max) Yoon}[42]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Korrigans' {Guillaume Bily}[43]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Louchapates' {Romuald Anfraix}[44]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Microdent' {Gayl Quenon}[45] [originally published as Dionaea muscipula 'Microdents'][46]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Mirror' {Dieter Blancquaert}[47]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Orange Neat Trap' {Jae-Hwan Lee}[48]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Petite Dragon' {Robert Ziemer}[49]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Red Burgundy' {Marcus Erbacher & M. Stoeckl}[31]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Red Neat Trap' {Jae-Hwan Lee}[50]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Red Piranha' {Edward Read}[51]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Royal Red' {Geoffrey Mansell}[31]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Sawtooth' {Barry Meyers-Rice}[52]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Scarlatine' {Lucien Blacher}[53]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Scarlet Bristle' {Real Keehn Concepts}[54]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Small Fast' {Jae-Hwan Lee}[55]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Viper Trap' {Jae-Hwan Lee}[56]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Wacky Traps' {Barry Meyers-Rice}[31]
The Dionaea Dentate Traps Group includes registered cultivars bearing shortened, triangular teeth, such as 'Dentate Traps', 'Red Piranha', and 'Sawtooth'.[52]
An unofficial list includes many more names, with more added annually. None of these "variation names" are officially recognized unless the name is properly documented, registered and accepted by the International Registration Authority for carnivorous plant cultivars, the International Carnivorous Plant Society.
Published but unregistered cultivar names include (name of nominant in braces):
- Dionaea muscipula 'Big Mouth' {Tony Camilleri}[31]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Clumping Cultivar' {Peter D'Amato}[31]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Dentate' {Peter D'Amato} [established as Dionaea muscipula 'Dentate Traps'][31]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Dente' {Peter D'Amato} [established as Dionaea muscipula 'Dentate Traps'][31]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Kinchyaku' {Katsuhiko Kondo}[31]
- Dionaea muscipula 'Red Rosetted' {Peter D'Amato}[31]
Currently, there are estimated to be more than 3–6 million plants in cultivation compared to only 35,800 plants remaining in nature.[57] Several prominent plant conservationists suggest that the plant be labeled as Vulnerable.[57] Precise data on the distribution of population sizes in 1992 from the Office of Plant Protection suggests a more dire state for the species. Every size class in red is slated for eventual extinction with the green ones persisting longer. Smaller populations may go extinct for stochastic reasons and, since small population are more numerous in nature now and contribute more to the total number of plants remaining in the species, most of this unique and remarkable carnivorous plant species may be going extinct soon. Note that the figure of 35,800 plants in 1992 is over 20 years old and may not accurately reflect the current situation.[citation needed]
In alternative medicine
Venus flytrap extract is available on the market as herbal remedy, sometimes as the prime ingredient of a patent medicine named "Carnivora". According to the American Cancer Society, these products are promoted in alternative medicine as a treatment for a variety of human ailments including HIV, Crohn's disease and skin cancer, but "available scientific evidence does not support the health claims made for Venus flytrap extract".[58]
See also
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- ^ a b "Venus flytraps". The Carnivorous Plant FAQ. Retrieved 2005-06-13.
- ^ a b Raven, Peter H.; Evert, Ray Franklin; Eichhorn, Susan E. (2005). Biology of Plants (7th ed.). W.H. Freeman and Company. ISBN 0-7167-1007-2.
- ^ a b Forterre, Yoël; Skotheim, Jan M.; Dumais, Jacques; Mahadevan, L. (27 January 2005). "How the Venus flytrap snaps" (PDF). Nature 433 (7024): 421–425. doi:10.1038/nature03185. PMID 15674293.[dead link]
- ^ Cameron, Kenneth M.; Wurdack, Kenneth J.; Jobson, Richard W. (2002). "Molecular evidence for the common origin of snap-traps among carnivorous plants". American Journal of Botany 89 (9): 1503–1509. doi:10.3732/ajb.89.9.1503. PMID 21665752.
- ^ D'Amato, Peter (1998). The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants. Berkeley, California: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 0-89815-915-6.
- ^ a b "Background Information on Venus Fly Traps—Venus Fly Trap naming and history". FlyTrapCare.com. 2008-04-04.[dead link]
- ^ Rice, Barry (January 2007). "How did the Venus flytrap get its name?". The Carnivorous Plant FAQ.
- ^ Ellison, DM; Gotelli, NJ (2009). "Energetics and the evolution of carnivorous plants—Darwin's 'Most Wonderful plants in the world'". Experiment Botany 60 (1): 19–42. doi:10.1093/jxb/ern179. PMID 19213724.
- ^ Gibson, TC; Waller, DM (2009). "Evolving Darwin's 'most wonderful' plant: ecological steps to a snap-trap". New Phytologist 183 (1): 575–587. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02935.x/pdf.
- ^ Hodick, Dieter; Sievers, Andreas (1989). "The action potential of Dionaea muscipula Ellis". Planta 174 (1): 8–18. doi:10.1007/BF00394867.
- ^ Ueda, Minoru (2010). "The trap snaps shut: Researchers isolate the substance that causes venus flytraps to close". ChemBioChem. Wiley. doi:10.1002/cbic.201000392. Retrieved November 29, 2012.
- ^ Williams, S. E. 2002. Comparative physiology of the Droseraceae sensu stricto—How do tentacles bend and traps close? Proceedings of the 4th International Carnivorous Plant Society Conference. Tokyo, Japan. pp. 77–81.
- ^ Hodick, Dieter; Sievers, Andreas (1988). "On the mechanism of closure of Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula Ellis)". Planta 179 (1): 32–42. doi:10.1007/BF00395768.
- ^ a b c Galek H, Osswald WF, Elstner EF (1990). "Oxidative protein modification as predigestive mechanism of the carnivorous plant Dionaea muscipula: an hypothesis based on in vitro experiments". Free Radic Biol Med. 9 (5): 427–34. doi:10.1016/0891-5849(90)90020-J. PMID 2292436.
- ^ Hsu YL, Cho CY, Kuo PL, Huang YT, Lin CC (Aug 2006). "Plumbagin (5-Hydroxy-2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone) Induces Apoptosis and Cell Cycle Arrest in A549 Cells through p53 Accumulation via c-Jun NH2-Terminal Kinase-Mediated Phosphorylation at Serine 15 in Vitro and in Vivo". J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 318 (2): 484–94. doi:10.1124/jpet.105.098863. PMID 16632641.
- ^ Produced by Neil Lucas (2009-12-07). "Plants". Life. BBC. BBC One. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p90d6.
- ^ AM Ellison (2006). "Nutrient limitation and stochiometry of carnivorous plants". Biology 8: 740–747.
- ^ a b c d Gibson, T. C., and Waller, D. M. 2009. Evolving Darwin's 'most wonderful' plant: ecological steps to a snap-trap. New Phytologist, 183(3): 575–587. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02935.x PMID 19573135
- ^ a b c Cameron, K. M., Wurdack, K. J., Jobson, R. W. 2002. Molecular evidence for the common origin of snap-traps among carnivorous plants. American Journal of Botany, 89(9): 1503–1509. doi:10.3732/ajb.89.9.1503
- ^ Rivadavia, F., K. Kondo, M. Kato, and M. Hasebe. 2003. Phylogeny of the sundews, Drosera (Droseraceae) based on chloroplast rbcL and nuclear 18S ribosomal DNA sequences. American Journal of Botony 90: 123–130.
- ^ a b "Venus flytrap origins uncovered". BBC News. 2009.
- ^ W. Schulze, E.D. Schulze, I. Schulze, and R. Oren (2001). "Quantification of insect nitrogen utilization by the venus fly trap Dionaea muscipula catching prey with highly variable isotope signatures". Journal of Experimental Botany 52 (358): 1041–1049. doi:10.1093/jexbot/52.358.1041. PMID 11432920.
- ^ Leege, Lissa. "How does the Venus flytrap digest flies?". Scientific American. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
- ^ Darwin, C. R. 1875. Insectivorous Plants.
- ^ Schnell, D. E. 2002. Carnivorous Plants of the United States and Canada. 2nd ed. Timber Press. ISBN 9780881925401
- ^ Giblin, D. Nd. Dionaea muscipula. Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.
- ^ "International Carnivorous Plant Society". Carnivorousplants.org. Retrieved 2013-08-26.
- ^ Gagliardo, R. (June 1996). A new cultivar of Dionaea muscipula Ellis. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 25(2): 50.
- ^ Bily, G. (December 2010). Dionaea muscipula 'Alien'. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 39(4): 117–120.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Registered Cultivar Names: Dionaea. International Carnivorous Plant Society.
- ^ Bily, G. (September 2012). Dionaea muscipula 'Blanche Hermine'. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 41(3): 116–120.
- ^ Srba, M. (September 2007). Dionaea muscipula 'Bohemian Garnet'. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 36(3): 68–70.
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- ^ Meyers-Rice, B. (March 2000). Dionaea 'Dentate Traps'. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 29(1): 14–21.
- ^ Bily, G. (September 2011). Dionaea muscipula 'Fondue'. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 40(3): 95–98.
- ^ Carow, T. (December 2004). Dionaea 'Fused Tooth'. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 33(4): 100–101.
- ^ Domínguez, J.A.G. (December 2011). Dionaea 'JA1'. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 40(4): 136–140.
- ^ Song, L. (December 2001). Dionaea 'Jaws'. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 30(4): 111–116.
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- ^ Bily, G. (June 2010). Dionaea 'Korrigans'. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 39(2): 36–45.
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- ^ Ziemer, R. (June 2007). Dionaea muscipula 'Petite Dragon'. In: New Cultivars. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 36(2): 53–56.
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- How to grow a Venus flytrap
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- The Mysterious Venus flytrap
- Discovery explains how the Venus flytrap snaps.
- How Venus flytraps Work
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- Carolina Beach State Park, "Flytrap Trail"
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AP and Jamario average, combined, 21.2 points per game from the shooting guard and small forward position. There are 19 teams in the league whose starters at those spots average more than 30 points per game.
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Terence G in Mississauga wants to change the jump ball rule:
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At the start of a game, a tip-off determines who gets first possession - I get that. The opposing team then gets it for the 2nd and 3rd quarters (and it goes back to the other team in the 4th) - that I don't get i.e. the possessions basically even out. Doesn't it make sense to reward the team that 'won' the tip-off?
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No, not beside is name in the list of coaches of the year).
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I'm scalping this from Arun over in the comments section this morning:
I was wondering what you meant about Andrea losing some of his shooting technique. Are there any specific signs that we can look for in his shooting form to confirm this?
Check out his legs. Specifically how straight-legged he shoots sometimes. Flat-footed. He got his legs into the shot a lot more last year. And watch the arc. He's firing line drives.
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James V, Toronto
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National Safety Awareness Week
January 19-27, 2012
National Safety Awareness Week at Killington educates skiers and riders about slope safety awareness by partnering with the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) to promote Your Responsibility Code and Smart Style.
National Safety Awareness Week Activities & Promotions
Free Lift Ticket Voucher with Helmet Purchase
Guests who purchase a helmet at any Killington Sports location or through the Killington E-Store during the week of January 19-27, 2013 will receive a voucher for a free lift ticket, valid any day starting January 28, 2013 through the end of the 2012-13 season.
Safety Awareness Display and Kids Prize Raffle
Kids are welcome to visit the Safety Awareness Display area inside Ramshead Lodge for coloring, stickers, tattoos, visiting with Ambassadors, photo opportunities and the chance to take a safety quiz. Plus, kids can enter to win a free helmet and other prizes.
Safety Awareness Video
We are excited to present a video starring Killington staff titled Share the Fun-Share the Mountain. This video welcomes guests to our resort and educates them about skier and rider safety awareness.
More Information About Safety Awareness
An assortment of safety awareness flyers, cards and stickers will be available throughout the resort. In addition to National Safety Awareness Week posters, look for messages featuring Your Responsibility Code, Smart Style, Check Your Speed and information that explains Vermont state law regarding on-hill collisions as well as the consequences of skiing and riding outside the ski area boundary.
Heads Up! Gondola Cabin
See if you can spot the K-1 Express Gondola cabin designed with a variety of safety messages including Heads Up!, Know the Code, and Smart Style to help promote safety awareness.
Out on the Hill
Ambassadors, patrollers and instructors will be handing out Know the Code stickers and cards, Smart Style stickers and a Freestyle Terrain User's Guide to guests. Plus some Ambassadors will wear bright yellow jackets that display important safety awareness messages based on Your Responsibility Code and give away prizes to guests who successfully answer a safety awareness quiz.
NSAA National Safety Poster Contest
As part of the HEADS UP! campaign, NSAA has developed a safety awareness poster contest for kids. The national contest targets 4th, 5th and 6th graders, but any elementary-age child can participate. Kids are welcome to create a poster relating to any one of the seven points of Your Responsibility Code or one of the four elements of Smart Style. Go to www.nsaa.org for more details on the national contest.
Local Safety Poster Contest
In order to promote slope safety awareness and education to elementary school children, several area schools are participating in Killington's local poster contest. The contest rules call for 4th and 5th graders to create posters illustrating one of the seven points of Your Responsibility Code or one of the four elements of Smart Style. Poster entries will be on display around the resort throughout the season.
Posters will be judged in two categories:
- Best Overall Safety Message
- Most Creative Design
Two winners and two runner-ups will receive prizes. Killington winners and runners-up will be entered in the NSAA National Poster Contest.


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