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Georgina Starr
Pinksummer: "Freud holds that there is a very strong link between artistic creation and childhood, childhood as a mix of memory and repression and he associates the idea of childhood with that of death: childhood memories are often inhabited by the dead. In many of your works the idea of childhood is central, we are thinking of "Party", one of works we most love, in which, you told us of being inspired, regarding the preparation of foods and decorations, by the birthday parties that your parents organized for you when you were a child, but also for the "Bunny Lake" saga you start from the end of the movie/thriller of Premiger, thinking : Bunny Lake has been saved, but what kind of teenager will she be? What does childhood represents for you, in your works?"
Georgina Starr: "I am interested in the fact that childhood can only exist in a fictional way because we only have it as a memory, it will never be how it really was again. This is something that I've touched upon in many works, but especially the Bunny Lake series. My whole memory of the film was from seeing it when I was a child. This memory uncovered a much more personal story of what was going on around that time in real life. My relationship and memory of my sister became a kind of parallel to what was happening in the movie.
The idea of missing children, abduction and revenge were all subjects that were close to me as well as subjects that are dealt with in the fictional film. Both 'Bunny Lake' and 'Targets' deal with a person who is angry about something that happened in the past and feels a need to reek havoc by taking revenge. I saw parallels with my sister who was 'saved' from being abandoned and Bunny who was also 'saved' at the end of the film. And that's why I ask in my text in The Bunny Lakes book, "Could we save her? We all tried. Deep down, I think she didn't want to be saved at all". Just because Bunny was safe it doesn't mean that the trauma won't affect her. In the same way my sister was safe with us, but this wasn't enough."
P: At your nice party, in all cases, nobody came, the expectations of happiness have been frustrated and it became something of very very sad, and the essence of Bunny Lakes is epitomized by the pink, fatty characters, reminiscent of the seventies, on black background of the cover of the white vinyl record that is the soundtrack of the project. The dripping of the pink letters is very sinister. Both in Party and Bunny Lake there is a strong pessimism: do time and reality sweep away the illusions of happiness and life?
G.S: I think all my works have a dark sinister side, however happy and colourful they may look from the outside. In the fiction of The Party, the woman is seen to be having a really fantastic time alone. However we know from reality that having a party with no guests is actually a sad and depressing experience and that no amount of glitter and colour can change that. But the piece is more complex than that, because as well as it existing as a video (a fiction), it was actually me having the party, which I did in reality for 3 days alone. So it works on many levels.
P: when we came to London to see Bunny Lake Drive In installed in a old factory, we noticed, more than when you presented Bunny Lake Collection at pinksummer and at the Venice Biennale, that your work could be interpreted like a sort of metaphor of memory, we are thinking of the whole of the show, so precise, but in particular of the pierced screen, in whose back you projected parts of the movies Bunny Lake is Missing and Target, that have to be considered primary materials, which you colonialzed and re-invented to create a new story.
G.S: Anthropology has always been studying this negotiation between individual imagery and collective images. What does cinema represent for you?
P: I have always been fascinated by the power of the filmic image. As a child growing up my mother was obsessed with movies from the 40's and 50's. We would watch the films together and sometimes I would prefer to live through these film than in any real life situations.
As a child there was always a blur between fiction and reality. I was much more taken in and affected by films then. I have a very strong memory of certain films that I watched, and these merge together with what was going on in real life when I saw the films. In my work from 1995 Visit to a Small Planet I rewrote the script for the original film from memory, but I included what was going on in my own life when I watched the film aged 10. I re-enacted moments from the film and from real.
In the Bunny Lake work instead of re-enacting I followed on from the what happened in the movie and took it further, imagining what certain characters would do next and interpreting their next moves to create a new work.
P: We know that you recently met the actress that in '65 interpreted the missing and saved child, Bunny Lake, the same young actress that together Sharon Tate, the murdered pregnant wife of Polansky, is in the image you choose for the invitation card of pinksummer show . What did she tell you? What does she remember? Why do you wanted to meet her? How many other movies she did?
G:S: Yes I met Suky Appleby the actress who played Bunny Lake. It was always in the back of my mind that I would like to meet her. I knew that she only ever played in the two movies "Bunny Lake is Missing' and 'Eye of the Devil' so it would be hard to track her down as she was only 5 year old and the films were made. This year I started to work on a synopsis for a film script and I had been thinking a lot about the actress and who or how she was now. I'd spent the whole summer writing (fiction) about her and when I got home I decided it was time to try find her. Through a series of weird coincidences I was able to write to her, still not knowing if it was actually her. But it was. We met last month and spent 5 hours together.
She talked very openly about her experiences on the two films. She told me everything in great detail and could describe the sets and the other actors and directors as if it was yesterday. For various reasons I can't go into too much detail about all this right now, it was all very personal to her and she was deeply affected by her experiences. What I found very interesting was the parallels between my fictional Bunny Lake and the real 'Bunny Lake', and there were some fascinating and strange crossovers. My new script is still being developed and I hope to use my fictional version of her character as a starting point for this new narrative.
The second film that 'Bunny' was in was the first feature film that Sharon Tate made in 1966. The film was released with a documentary about Tate (All Eyes on Sharon Tate) and highlighted that she was a new and up and coming star to watch. Sharon Tate never really had the time to let her light shine as she was murdered in 1969 aged 26.
P: Your project are tales, sometime are many parts that shape a tale, every work is a fragment of a tale, a clue, a phrase underlined in your imagery. Telling stories means to be here and now, but at the same time to be far away in another time and space. What does it mean for you? When do you feel that a story is finished?
G.S: I suppose the story could go on forever but sometimes you just instinctively know its time to end. I have worked on the Bunny Lake theme now for over 4 years, I never thought it would go on so long. Usually my pieces take a year or less to make. It's more about how much interest I can sustain in the subject. I've said before that I can get bored easily, but in this case I didn't, there was always a new part to explore. I knew it was coming to an end when I re-constructed the garden in Rome. Bunny had come full circle, from the first time I saw her in the garden in the Preminger film, to her introduction into my work in the video and photos in The Bunny Lakes are Coming, she transformed again in The Bunny Lake Collection and Bunny Lake Drive-In, and now she was back inside the garden.
P: What will you show at pinksummer?
For this last episode in the Bunny Lake series I will show a new video installation, Inside Bunny Lake Garden. The piece began at the Villa Medici in Rome where I re-constructed the garden from the last scene in the Otto Preminger movie. This garden, complete with an impenetrable brick wall and child size grave, was used to film the video for Inside Bunny Lake Garden. I will show a two-screen video projection which simultaneously follows the action in the final sequence of the real movie (Bunny Lake is Missing), alongside the movements of a young Bunny Lake look-a-like imprisoned in the re-constructed garden. There are subtitles on the video which narrate a text I wrote and was published in the recent book The Bunny Lakes. The text shows that the Bunny Lake theme not only took its references from the two 1960's films, but also from a more personal real life history. The garden in Rome no longer exists so I have had a scale model made which I will also show. It is identical to the original and was also used to film parts of the video work.


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Patterns of trunk spine growth in two congeneric species of acanthocephalan: investment in attachment may differ between sexes and species
JESÚS S. HERNÁNDEZ-ORTS, JUAN T. TIMI, JUAN A. RAGA, M. GARCÍA-VARELA, ENRIQUE A. CRESPO, FRANCISCO J. AZNAR
Journal: Parasitology / Volume 139 / Issue 7 / June 2012
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 February 2012, pp. 945-955
Acanthocephalans have evolved a hooked proboscis and some taxa have trunk spines to attach to their definitive hosts. These structures are generated before being used, thus a key question is how investment in attachment could optimally be allocated through the ontogeny. The number and arrangement of hooks and spines are never modified in the definitive host, but it is unclear whether these structures grow during adult development. A comparison of the size of trunk spines between cystacanths and adults of Corynosoma cetaceum and C. australe indicated that spines grow in both species, but only in females, which also had significantly larger spines than males. This sexual dimorphism did not result from pure allometry because the body of females was smaller, and did not grow more than that of males. However, having a longer lifespan, females would need to withstand the extreme flow conditions prevailing in marine mammals for longer, inducing different investment and development schedules for spines. Patterns of spine growth also differed between species: fore-trunk spines grew in both species, but hind-trunk spines did only in C. cetaceum. In conclusion, investment strategies on attachment may differ, not only between congeneric species of acanthocephalan, but also between sexes of the same species.
Between Turing and quantum mechanics there is body to be found
Francisco J. Varela
Journal: Behavioral and Brain Sciences / Volume 13 / Issue 4 / December 1990
Ways of coloring: Comparative color vision as a case study for cognitive science
Evan Thompson, Adrian Palacios, Francisco J. Varela
Journal: Behavioral and Brain Sciences / Volume 15 / Issue 1 / March 1992
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 May 2011, pp. 1-26
Different explanations of color vision favor different philosophical positions: Computational vision is more compatible with objectivism (the color is in the object), psychophysics and neurophysiology with subjectivism (the color is in the head). Comparative research suggests that an explanation of color must be both experientialist (unlike objectivism) and ecological (unlike subjectivism). Computational vision's emphasis on optimally "recovering" prespecified features of the environment (i.e., distal properties, independent of the sensory-motor capacities of the animal) is unsatisfactory. Conceiving of visual perception instead as the visual guidance of activity in an environment that is determined largely by that very activity suggests new directions for research.
On the ways to color
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 May 2011, pp. 56-74
Synchronization of neuronal responses in the optic tectum of awake pigeons
Sergio Neuenschwander, Andreas K. Engel, Peter König, Wolf Singer, Francisco J. Varela
Journal: Visual Neuroscience / Volume 13 / Issue 3 / May 1996
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 June 2009, pp. 575-584
Multiunit activity was recorded in the optic tectum of awake pigeons with two electrodes at sites varying in depth and separated by 0.3 to 3.0 mm. Autocorrelation and cross-correlation functions were computed from the recorded spike trains to determine temporal relationships in the neuronal firing patterns. Cross-correlation analysis revealed that spatially separate groups of cells in the tectum show synchronous responses to a visual stimulus. Strong synchronization occurred in both superficial and deep layers of the tectum, in general with zero-phase shift. The response synchronization in the avian optic tectum resembles that observed in the mammalian cortex, suggesting that it may subserve common functions in visual processing.
Thermally oxidised sunflower-seed oil increases liver and serum peroxidation and modifies lipoprotein composition in rats
Carmen Garrido-Polonio, M. Carmen García-Linares, M. Trinidad García-Arias, Sara López-Varela, M. Camino García-Fernández, Antonius H. M. Terpstra, Francisco J. Sánchez-Muniz
Journal: British Journal of Nutrition / Volume 92 / Issue 2 / August 2004
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 March 2007, pp. 257-265
Print publication: August 2004
Peroxidation of LDL and other lipoproteins is thought to play a central role in atherogenesis. Dietary thermally oxidised oils may increase atherogenic risk in consumers by increasing their oxidative status. The present paper compares the effects of two diets containing unused sunflower-seed oil (US) or sunflower-seed oil repeatedly used in frying (FS) (both 15 g/100 g diet) on weight gain, food efficiency ratio, serum lipid levels and lipoprotein composition, and the content of thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances (TBARS) in the liver, serum, and lipoproteins in growing Wistar rats. After sixty potato fryings the FS contained 27·7 g polar material/100 g oil and 16·6 g oligomers/100 g oil. The FS-fed rats had a significantly lower weight gain and food efficiency ratio. Liver-TBARS increased due to the consumption of the highly altered oil and showed a significant linear relationship (all r<0·68; P>0·002) with the ingestion of thermally oxidised compounds. Serum-, VLDL-, LDL- and HDL-TBARS were significantly higher in the FS-fed rats (all P>0·001). Concentrations of serum total and non-esterified cholesterol and phospholipids were significantly higher in the FS-fed rats (P>0·05, P>0·05, and P>0·001, respectively). Serum triacylglycerol concentrations did not vary between the two dietary groups. Total and esterified cholesterol and phospholipid levels increased significantly in the HDL fraction (P>0·05, P>0·05, and P>0·001, respectively) of the FS-fed rats. HDL-cholesterol and HDL-phospholipids were significantly correlated with liver-TBARS (r<0·747; P>0·0001), VLDL-TBARS (r<0·642; P>0·003), LDL-TBARS (r<0·475; P>0·04), and HDL-TBARS (r<0·787; P>0·0001). The data suggest that the rat increases HDL as a protecting mechanism against the peroxidative stress induced by the consumption of a diet containing the thermally oxidised oil.
Redrawing the Map and Resetting the Time: Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences1
Shaun Gallagher, Francisco J. Varela
Journal: Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume / Volume 29 / 2003
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2020, pp. 93-132
Print publication: 2003
In recent years there has been some hard-won but still limited agreement that phenomenology can be of central and positive importance to the cognitive sciences. This realization comes in the wake of dismissive gestures made by philosophers of mind who mistakenly associate phenomenological method with untrained psychological introspection (e.g., Dennett 1991). For very different reasons, resistance is also found on the phenomenological side of this issue. There are many thinkers well versed in the Husserlian tradition who are not willing to consider the validity of a naturalistic science of mind. For them cognitive science is too computational or too reductionistic to be seriously considered as capable of explaining experience or consciousness. In some cases, when phenomenologists have seriously engaged the project of the cognitive sciences, rather than pursing a positive rapprochement with this project, they have been satisfied in drawing critical lines that identify its limitations.
On the one hand, such negative attitudes are understandable from the perspective of the Husserlian rejection of naturalism, or from strong emphasis on the transcendental current in phenomenology.
9 - Why a proper science of mind implies the transcendence of nature
By Francisco J. Varela
Edited by Jensine Andresen, Boston University
Book: Religion in Mind
Published online: 02 December 2009
Print publication: 28 June 2001, pp 207-236
The main intuition that animates this chapter (a substantially modified version of Varela 1997 and 1998) is that the natural roots of mind are permeated by the depth inherent in direct, lived experience. I will develop this intuition in two steps. First, the very thrust of a proper scientific analysis of mind, i.e., in the context of the cognitive sciences, leads to the need for a detailed examination of experience itself. Second, examined experience and scientific analysis can have an explicit, non-dual relationship, i.e., a mutual determination, that avoids the extremes of both neuro-reductionism and ineffability.
My contribution to this volume is to focus on the significance of human experience per se, and only by implication to consider that particular domain of human experience we call "religious." This can be rephrased in a more constructive sense: rather than being concerned with religious experience conceived in its most obvious theological context, I am more interested in the larger domain of a (Jamesian) sense of religion as the quest for meaning and values in life. Hereafter, I will describe this simply as "spiritual experience," and I will subsume religious experience under it. This distinction is indispensable if one is to take into account a number of non-theistic traditions such as Buddhism, Taoism, gnosticism, etc., for which the common ground is, precisely, a disciplined and transformative examination of human experience.
Commonly in spiritual traditions, human experience is not taken at face value, but it is examined in one way or another. In contrast, cognitive science has been almost entirely interested in cognitive faculties in ordinary, unexamined life.
Autopoiesis and Lifelines: The importance of origins
Evan Thompson, Francisco J. Varela
Journal: Behavioral and Brain Sciences / Volume 22 / Issue 5 / October 1999
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 October 1999, pp. 909-910
Lifelines provides a useful corrective to "ultra-Darwinism" but it is marred by its failure to cite its scientific predecessors. Rose's argument could have been strengthened by taking greater account of the theory of autopoiesis in biology and of enactive cognitive science.
Fully embodying the personal level
Francisco J. Varela, Pierre Vermersch
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 December 1998, pp. 777-778
The target article concludes that it is essential to introduce the personal level in cognitive science. We propose to take this conclusion one step further. The personal level should consist of first-person accounts of specific, contextualized experiences, not abstract or imagined cases. Exploring first-person accounts at their own level of detail calls for the refinements of method that can link up with neural accounts.

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Home > Academics > Undergraduate Programs and Admissions > UG Research and Awards > Undergrad Research
There are a variety of research opportunities for undergraduate students at the University of Michigan. In fact, approximately 130 undergraduate students research on EECS faculty projects in a typical year; many of these are paid positions. Students are encouraged to approach their faculty advisor for advice.
Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering (SURE) & Summer Research Opportunity Programs (SROP)
The SURE program provides support to undergraduate students for 10-12 weeks during the summer to work with an EECS faculty member on a research project defined by the faculty. Applicants for EECS SURE projects should list on the application their top three areas of interest in preference order (application deadline: January). Non-UM students who also meet SROP qualifications can apply to these projects through the SURE application process, which has a mechanism for identifying SROP candidacy.
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Students are encouraged to contact individual faculty about doing independent research in an area of mutual interest. EECS 499, Directed Study, can be taken for 1-4 credits. It provides an opportunity for undergraduate students to work on substantial research problems in EECS or areas of special interest such as design problems. For each hour of credit, it is expected that the student will work an average of three or four hours per week and that the challenges will be comparable with other 400 level EECS classes. An oral presentation and/or written report will be due at the end of the term.
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Rotational hitting is a relatively "new" philosophy of hitting instruction that has caught the attention of many players and is somewhat debated due to its difference from the conventional linear hitting instruction of old. Promoted more heavily and brought to the attention of more little coaches by former Major League ballplayer, Mike Epstein, the rotational swing is supposed to produce more bat speed as opposed to the more traditional "linear" swing.
The whole theory behind all of this is that what the majority of amateur coaches are teaching and what all successful hitters are actually DOING is something completely different. Basically it is a way of teaching that closely analyzes the way the pros swing, and attempts to mimic that as much as possible.
So what is linear hitting??
The linear swing is the way of teaching that has hitters taking the hands and feet straight to the ball in a "linear" fashion. Here are some popular sayings used by the more familiar linear philosophy.
Stride toward the pitcher
Swing down at the ball
Squish the bug
Form the power V at contact
These are some of the teaching methods that the rotational hitting philosophy debunks. As the linear style of teaching says to get your hands and feet moving in a straight line toward the pitcher, the rotational style is very different.
How is rotational different??
The rotational method of teaching says that you will generate more bat speed and therefore more power, not if you stride, but if you use more of your hips and legs generate more TORQUE. This involves beginning the swing already in an athletic stance with the legs somewhat spread, so that the swing involves more of a weight transfer, rather than a stride.
Just take a look at the batting stance of Albert Pujols below. His stance has his legs spread and somewhat squatting in an athletic position before the ball gets there. That way when he starts his swing, he's already in a position to generate lots of power. He never strides. He just lift the front foot a little, and powerfully rotates.
Rotational teachers say that the swing should lead with the hips, and that the shoulders and hands follow, allowing the batter to generate a high amount of torque with the swing. When this happens, the batter actually ends up with most of the weight on the front foot, and his back foot is almost lifted off the ground. This also debunks the "squish the bug" theory.
They also say that if the arms are completely extended at the time of contact, as to form the "power-V", they cannot be generating the maximum amount of bat speed possible. And you are actually hitting with more power when you hit the ball a little further back in the strike zone and the arms will not be fully extended, but the back arm will be at a 90 degree angle when contact is made.
Those who embrace rotational hitting believe that the whole philosophy makes sense. The subscribers believe that teaching hitters to do something that the best hitters in the game aren't even doing doesn't make much sense. However, this approach does go against many of the things today's coaches were taught about hitting when they were growing up and playing.
This blurb was meant only to introduce you to rotational hitting. It only scratches the surface on the subject. The internet is full of great sites on the topic, including Chris O'Leary's site and Mike Epstein's site which you can reach by googling their names.
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Capital Bikeshare Celebrates One Year
The city's first bike sharing program turned one this past week. Capital Bikeshare, which started last September, is not only celebrating its first birthday, but also its millionth ride.
Residents from the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia came out to take part in the celebration, which was held at Yards Park in Southeast Washington.
Participants danced to tunes of The Reflex, ate Dip n' Dots and tried out various activities, including a paperboy race.
D.C. resident Hillary March participated in the race, which involved riding a paper route and tossing papers into a bin at each of the marked locations. The paperboy route was fun, March said, but it was much harder than she thought it would be. She threw none of her five papers into the bins.
The celebration also included hula-hooping lessons by HooperNATURAL and moonbounces where the children and even some adults got the chance to race against each other on the bungee run.
Two things residents spoke of the most were the free Capital Bikeshare helmets and birthday bash T-shirts for coming out to the event.
The bikesharing program now has 114 docking stations split between the District of Columbia, and Arlington, Va., for 1,110 bicycles.
"Based on the program's success and popularity, Capital Bikeshare will expand with additional stations in the fall of this year," said Josh Moskowitz, one of the project managers. "The District and Arlington have plans to expand the system by at least 60 stations, with 34 new stations being installed in the District."
The celebration also supported Car Free Day, which encourages the public to go car free or "car light" by bicycling, using public transportation, walking or carpooling.
Jessica Pan of Charlottesville, Va., wore a sign on her back that read, "honk (ironically) for car free day." Pan said her sign drew a lot of attention, and she was happy to support biking, which considers a silver bullet.
"People complain about gas prices, car prices, insurance, obesity and exercise," she said. "Biking is a solution to all of those."
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Phaedrotoma — род паразитических наездников из семейства Braconidae.

Распространение
Встречаются повсеместно.

Описание
Мелкие наездники (длина около 2 мм). От близких групп отличается несколькими признаками. У видов этого рода прямой затылочный киль снизу, симметричные и постепенно расширяющиеся в основании мандибулы, отсутствует , постепенно расширенный или параллельный первый тергит; жилка m-cu переднего крыла, расположена под углом к соседним жилкам. Лицо без бугорков-туберкул; перед передним глазком без отчетливого вдавления; лоб без пары отчетливых вдавлений над антеннальными впадинами, но весь лоб может быть вдавлен; затылочный киль присутствует латерально, не слегка изогнут вентрально и остается удаленным от гипостомального киля, около уровня середины глаза прямой или почти прямой, без поперечного киля или гребня; наличник более или менее выпуклый и сравнительно высокий; верхняя губа вентрально без выемки; мандибулы плавно расширены к основанию, максимум с выступающим килем; скапус, передний тазик и вертлуг слабо сжаты. Паразитируют на личинках двукрылых (Agromyzidae, Tephritidae, Ephydridae, Anthomyiidae, Scathophagidae, Drosophilidae).

Систематика
Около 200 видов. Род включён в подсемейство Opiinae, близок к родам , , , . Ранее включали в состав крупнейшего рода Opius. Род Phaedrotoma называют «таксономической свалкой» видов, почти не имеющих явных аутоапоморфий (за исключением отсутствия дорсопа). Скорее всего, это не монофилетический комплекс и он требует дальнейшего изучения.

Дополнения (2013)

= (not Fischer, 1963)

Классификация

 P. acharaviensis (Fischer, 1996)
 P. adentata (Fischer, 1980)
 P. aethiops (Haliday, 1837)
 P. agnesae (Papp, 1981)
 P. alconana (Fischer, 1964)
 P. alternantherae (Fischer, 1966)
 P. angiclypealis van Achterberg & Salvo, 1997
 P. artericus (Fischer, 1972)
 P. arundinis Fischer, 1964
 P. atomarius (Fischer, 1963)
 P. atomica (Fischer, 1962)
 P. atomosa (Fischer, 1963)
 P. australicola (Fischer, 1966)
 P. austriaca (Fischer, 1958)
 P. baezodedicata (Fischer, 2001)
 P. basiventris (Tobias, 1998)
 P. benignus (Papp, 1981)
 P. bigdeltana (Fischer, 1965)
 P. biroi (Fischer, 1960)
 P. biroica (Fischer & Beyarslan, 2005)
 P. bouceki Fischer, 1958
 P. brachyura (Fischer, 1972)
 P. brevimarginalis van Achterberg & Salvo, 1997
 P. britannicola (Fischer, 2006)
 P. brunnipes (Tobias, 1998)
 P. caesa (Haliday, 1837)
 P. capeki (Fischer, 1963)
 P. caucasi (Tobias, 1986)
 P. celsiformis (Fischer, 1959)
 P. circur (Fischer, 1963)
 P. cisbaikalica (Tobias, 1998)
 P. clypeata (Jakimavicius, 1979)
 P. coloraticeps (Fischer, 1996)
 P. complicans (Fischer, 1965)
 P. crassicrus (Thomson, 1895)
 P. curtinotum (Fischer, 1983)
 P. chasanica (Tobias, 1998)
 P. daghestanica (Telenga, 1950)
 P. daghoides (Zaykov & Fischer, 1983)
 P. danica (Fischer, 1984)
 P. decorata (Stelfox, 1949)
 P. dembelana (Fischer, 1963)
 P. denticlypealis van Achterberg & Salvo, 1997
 P. depeculator Forster, 1862
 P. diacriticus (Fischer, 1972)
 P. difficillima (Fischer, 1958)
 P. diversa (Szepligeti, 1898)
 P. diversiformis (Fischer, 1960)
 P. dudichi (Papp, 1982)
 P. ebriops (Fischer, 1978)
 P. efluxa (Papp, 2003)
 P. eunomia (Fischer, 1968)
 P. exigua (Wesmael, 1835)
 P. fallax (Szepligeti, 1896)
 P. femoralis (Jimenez, 1983)
 P. fictus (Fischer, 1969)
 P. fiduciaria (Fischer, 1969)
 P. fissilis (Fischer, 1969)
 P. fixa (Fischer, 1969)
 P. flaveola van Achterberg & Aguiar, 2009
 P. flavigaster (Fischer, 1957)
 P. flavitestacea (Fischer, 1958)
 P. gafsaensis (Fischer, 1964)
 P. glabroplasticus (Fischer, 1972)
 P. golbachi (Fischer, 1964)
 P. gregnar (Wharton, 1987)
 P. hellasensis (Fischer, 1990)
 P. heringi (Fischer, 1962)
 P. holorubrus (Fischer, 1972)
 P. horcomollensis (Fischer, 1968)
 P. instabiloides (Fischer, 1959)
 P. insularis (Ashmead, 1894)
 P. iuxtangelum (Fischer, 1978)
 P. kangarooensis (Fischer, 1988)
 P. katoi (Fischer, 1992)
 P. kovalevi (Tobias, 1998)
 P. laesa (Tobias, 1998)
 P. laetabilis (Tobias, 1998)
 P. laetabunda (Tobias, 1998)
 P. laetifica (Tobias, 1998)
 P. laplatana (Fischer, 1968)
 P. lasis (Fischer, 1979)
 P. latipediformis Fischer, 2004
 P. latita (Fischer, 1979)
 P. latitergit (Papp, 2003)
 P. leclyta (Fischer, 1996)
 P. lindbergi (Fischer, 1963)
 P. lissotergum (Tobias, 1998)
 P. luteoclypealis van Achterberg & Salvo, 1997
 P. luteopleuris (Tobias, 1998)
 P. magdalenae (Fischer, 1968)
 P. magnicauda (Fischer, 1958)
 P. mediocarinata (Fischer, 1963)
 P. megaera (Fischer, 1972)
 P. megaura (Fischer, 1972)
 P. melpomene (Fischer, 1968)
 P. mesoclypealis van Achterberg & Salvo, 1997
 P. mesoniger (Jimenez, 1983)
 P. minusculae (Fischer, 1967)
 P. mirabunda (Papp, 1982)
 P. monilicornis Fischer, 1962
 P. monticola (Szepligeti, 1898)
 P. moravica (Fischer, 1960)
 P. mujenjanica (Fischer, 1963)
 P. munda (Foerster, 1862)
 P. nanocorpus (Fischer, 2005)
 P. nanosoma (Fischer, 1989)
 P. neosoma (Fischer, 1966)
 P. nitidulator (Nees, 1834)
 P. noclya (Fischer, 1983)
 P. noguesensis (Fischer, 1968)
 P. nosamaensis (Fischer, 1990)
 P. novojariae (Fischer, 2006)
 P. nowakowskii (Fischer, 1959)
 P. oeconomica (Fischer, 1962)
 P. oleracei (Fischer, 1963)
 P. pamboloides (Tobias, 1986)
 P. pappi (Samiuddin & Ahmad, 2009)
 P. patnaensis (Samiuddin & Ahmad, 2009)
 P. peculiaris (Tobias, 1998)
 P. penthea (Tobias, 1998)
 P. phaseoli (Fischer, 1963)
 P. phoenicensis (Fischer, 1965)
 P. phytobiae (Fischer, 1959)
 P. platensis (Brethes, 1913)
 P. pontica (Fischer, 1958)
 P. portarthurensis (Fischer, 1978)
 P. porterodedicata (Fischer, 1983)
 P. postremus (Papp, 1980)
 P. propepactum (Fischer, 1984)
 P. pseudonitida (Fahringer, 1943)
 P. puertocisnensis (Fischer, 1964)
 P. pulchriceps (Szepligeti, 1898)
 P. pulchriventris (Fischer, 1958)
 P. pumilio (Wesmael, 1835)
 P. pylades (Fischer, 1969)
 P. pyrosoma (Fischer, 1966)
 P. quasipulvis Fischer, 1990
 P. quasiqvisti (Fischer, 1991)
 P. raphaeli (Fischer, 1968)
 P. recondes van Achterberg, 2004
 P. reconditor (Wesmael, 1835)
 P. remnus (Papp, 2003)
 P. renerrens (Fischer, 1983)
 P. reptantis (Fischer, 1957)
 P. rex (Fischer, 1958)
 P. rhodopicola (Zaykov & Fischer, 1986)
 P. ribeiroensis (Fischer, 1966)
 P. riocalaoensis (Fischer, 2004)
 P. rudiformis (Fischer, 1958)
 P. rudis (Wesmael, 1835)
 P. rufimarginata (Fischer, 1963)
 P. rugata (Fischer, 1992)
 P. sanensis (Fischer, 1979)
 P. sanmiguelensis (Fischer, 2001)
 P. scabriventris (Nixon, 1955)
 P. scaptomyzae (Fischer, 1967)
 P. sculptisaeva (Fischer, 2004)
 P. schlicki (Fischer, 1964)
 P. sedanca (Tobias, 1998)
 P. seiuncta (Fischer, 1959)
 P. seiunctus (Fischer, 1959)
 P. selimbassai (Fischer, 1993)
 P. seticlypeus Samiuddin & Ahmad, 2009
 P. signicella Fischer, 1991
 P. signifemur (Zaykov & Fischer, 1983)
 P. simplicornis (Fischer, 1968)
 P. sinecostulis (Fischer, 1983)
 P. smarti (Fischer, 1966)
 P. solanivorae (Fischer, 2005)
 P. speciosa (Fischer, 1959)
 P. spurca (Tobias, 1998)
 P. staryi (Fischer, 1958)
 P. subsimilis (Fischer, 1963)
 P. superlativa (Tobias, 1998)
 P. suturalis (Gahan, 1913)
 P. tacita (Haliday, 1837)
 P. tenfana (Fischer, 1996)
 P. testaceipes (Brethes, 1913)
 P. thoracotuberculata (Fischer, 1964)
 P. travancorensis (Fischer, 1966)
 P. trimaculata (Spinola, 1851)
 P. tuberculifer (Fischer, 1958)
 P. turneri (Gahan, 1919)
 P. umlalaziensis (Fischer, 1996)
 P. unicarinata (Fischer, 1959)
 P. urania (Fischer, 1968)
 P. variegata (Szepligeti, 1896)
 P. viennensis (Fischer, 1959)
 P. wachsmanni (Szepligeti, 1898)
 P. zomborii (Papp, 1982)
 P. zurucuchuensis (Fischer, 1965)

Примечания

Opiinae
Роды перепончатокрылых


You are lucky. That is kind of rare.
You will be selling it because it's an underpowered single engine boat that is a PITA to handle and dock.
All that being said You will have gained experience and will not lose too much money.
If your handy and like to putter (I am) a boat is a good choice to work on. It's fun and you get to ride your hobby.
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I would only own a twin.
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You only need a single engine. Sure, twins are super nice to have (you can turn in your own length--big deal) but the fuel and maintenance is a lot higher. This will be your first houseboat. That means if you really enjoy this hobby you will want something bigger, further down the road. If you don't want to continue, then it hasn't cost you as much and you have learned a lot.
I travelled over 3000 miles on my single engine houseboat, under all kinds of conditions. Having twin engines would have made life easier some times.. But, there are a lot of things that would have made life easier!
Well i bit the bullet and bought my first houseboat. A 1982 Gibson Lazycruz 50' with a single volvo 145a and 280 outdrive. I know it will be a pig to drive,but hey its big. So the fun begins on the remod. It is dry and really solid has spent the last several years under cover and got a great slip with the boat. So the questions will begin shortly!
Congratulations. Have fun with it.
Good work. If I were choosing an outdrive for that vintage boat, a Volvo 280 would top my list. They shift smoothly and are pretty much bulletproof. Volvo used them behind 350 chevys that they rated around 240hp and they performed admirably. It should serve very nicely behind a 145hp motor.
Congrats on your new houseboat.
Enjoy the heck out of it.


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After the breakfast, you will transfer to the people to Harbour for the ferry to Havelock Island – it is 38 km by sea route from Port Blair. After reaching over there, it's time to make your visit to the infamous Radhanagar Beach: it is among the most beautiful beaches in Asia. Experience the life-changing views over there and then you will return to stay at Havelock for the night.
After breakfast check out from the Hotel/resort, this day is optional for you for various water activities. A cab will be provided to you to reach the dive centre and then you can enjoy the water sports activities like Scuba diving, etc. Later reach the ferry point and get back to Port Blair as per the ferry timing advised. Spend the night at Port Blair.
Note: Ferry will be there in the ferry tickets provide to you, please report half n hour prior to departure.
Return home with sweet and unforgettable memories.
Complimentary 01 bottle of mineral water during Havelock stay.
Transportation: Ac Vehicle at Port Blair & Non A.C at Havelock.
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Fiat will cut 500 million euros of Europe's investments
Sergio Marchionne is always surprising. Yesterday, at the annual meeting of ACEA, European auto association, in Madrid, he said there will be a reduction on capital expenditure about 500 million euros for Fiat Group Automobiles in Europe. The reasons he has are the bad situation of European economy that according to him will last for more years than expected, the future of the continent, and over capacity problems. Marchionne is now focusing more outside of Europe as a strategy to depend less on Europe's troubled market and therefore the investments of the group, which according to him has cash enough, are going abroad: China, Russia, India, Brazil and the US. This cut affects the introduction of new generation Punto which was expected for beginning 2013 and has been Fiat's best selling model for years. Regarding this issue and possible alliances Marchionne pointed "with several people, and in some cases our architectures, including the one for the Punto, are involved in the talks". Meanwhile he said there is enough cash to continue to increase its stake in Chrysler from 58.5% they have now up to 61.8% paying 200 million euros. For the rest Marchionne said there are no conversations with the other owners of the company.
Fiat Punto MY 2012, based on Fiat Grande Punto launched in 2005. The product is getting old and its successor is being delayed, as sales figures drop everywhere
These are certainly bad news for Fiat's clients who are waiting for new models as the current range begins to look old. In the last 2 years Fiat Group Automobiles has launched 2 all-new models (Lancia Ypsilon and Fiat Panda), 4 rebadged cars (Lancia Thema, Voyager, Flavia and Fiat Freemont) and 2 concepts (Alfa Romeo 4C and Fiat 500 Zagato), while is expected the arrival of Fiat 500L and later the Alfa Romeo MiTo 5 doors, Giulietta SW and new Maserati Quattroporte. In one hand he is saying Fiat has enough money to buy Chrysler and in the other one he says no more money for Fiat models in Europe. There might be good reasons for this decision, but it is without any doubt a very risky one. Fiat is not the only one facing problems in Europe. French and Germans are also dealing with over capacity problems, sales drop and very bad perspectives for coming months. Eventhough Renault will introduce its new Clio in Paris/12, Peugeot has done the same with its 208 in Geneva/12. Opel will propose the new A-segment Adam in Paris/12, and Ford will show the new Mondeo also. Mainstream brands are moving. Fiat's decision is to delay launches waiting for better times. It can save money but it can be very very harmful for future sales as people will move to other brands if they can't find new models. And this bad scenario works even more when talking about Fiat's best selling car in Europe, the Punto. B-Segment is Europe's largest segment and Fiat should not compromise the future of this core product just because things are not as planned. The delay strategy can work with other segments in which Fiat is not strong (C, D, and so on), but in those small segments, where Fiat is known for doing the best cars, they can not hesitate. Instead they should develop more versions of future Punto, and not only 3 and 5 doors. The future will show how good this idea is.
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Hawk says:
I agree almost totally with you. But there is something you probably missed. The strategy to look mostly outside Europe in this period, facing the ongoing crisis, could be self-defeating for Fiat "Europe" while being quite positive for Fiat "World". Every car sold in Europe means a net income loss. Paradoxically, moving capital expenditure outside Europe would mean, in terms of profitability, a considerable adavantage for the global health status of Fiat. That's why, according to business management theory, this strategy would represent a win rather than an insane defiance.
This while the other mainstream brands seem to react carrying on what they have previously planned – well, Renault for example doesen't even have markets other than Europe on which bet.
Does the game worth the candle?
Juan Felipe says:
Good point. I agree. At the end it's a matter of globalization. Fiat is now more global and wants to depend less on European market, which is good. But Europe is and will be an important part of its global sales. Therefore they can not keep delaying the new cars, especially the ones that are really strong like the Punto. Sometimes you need to loose money to gain market, otherwise you won't earn money ever.
Sure, Europe should be the most important part of the Fiat empire but in this period it's suffering and has to deal with an overproduction issue. How to fix it it's not clear and easy though. Marchionne said: "E' vero Fiat ha deciso di rallentare il lancio dei nuovi modelli per la scarsità della domanda in Europa. Ma è altrettanto noto che molti altri concorrenti fanno il contrario, come Peugeot-Citroen, Opel, Renault e Ford perdono soldi nel Vecchio Continente". That sounds like: Fiat delayed the new models because of the lack of demand in Europe. But it's equally true that our competitors are acting in the opposite way losing money.
I partially agree with this statement for the reason that, as you mentioned, if you lose too much market share saving money you probably won't be anymore able to regain those shares when (and if) the crisis will be overtaken.
Hope Sergio won't "miss the boat".
Marchionne c'è la fa. Thanks for your comment. Keep reading my blog. In these days I am pretty busy with exams but I will continue posting. Ciao!
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DeWitte says:
IMHO it isn't a clever strategy.
You could save cash in the very short term, but in the future you will have to invest a lot of money for rebuilding FIAT's brand in Europe.
Marchio Sergionne says:
Yes, or be forced to give up on Europe entirely. It's extremely risky, and I personally think it'll end in tears.
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Wikipedia defines Alexander Surikov as a "Russian poet, artist, and a bright neofuturist of the mid-90s". The 90s are long gone, and Alexander Surikov (born in 1971) has become one of the most prominent relatively young Siberian artists. Born in Irkutsk, he lives and works in Krasnoyarsk, where he graduated from the Art Institute (1998) and studied at the Creative Workshops of the Academy of Fine Arts. Despite his academic background, he uses techniques of naive art, art brut and traditions of the Culture of Popular Laughter. But as a rule, Surikov's works are seldom percept as self-sufficient visual objects of naive art, they rather feature pictorial allusions that invite us to play intellectual games of our cultural memory.
With such a name (this is not a pseudonym) and Krasnoyarsk as hometown, Alexander Surikov was fated to be associated with his glorious namesake. So in his series "Surikov 7" he made a number of modernistic remakes of the most famous works by Vasily Surikov.
Surikov's carnival dadaism has nothing to do with depressive absurdism. The vital energy and bright colors of his works show almost curative qualities.
The artist's solo and group exhibitions were held at numerous galleries and museums of Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, New York and other cities.
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John Oliver's "dress like you don't belong there" Yankees stunt ends sadly hobo-free
Posted on April 8, 2016 by Neil deMause
John Oliver's stunt to put fans in premium New York Yankees seats who promise to dress like they've never been there before — a dig at team COO Lonn Trost, who defended the team's ticket resale restrictions because sitting next to non-rich folks would be a "frustration to our existing fan base" — ended up more of a costume party, with fans dressed as Ninja Turtles, sharks, unicorns, and dinosaurs ending up seated behind home plate.
All things considered, I've got to say that this is kind of disappointing. The ostensible goal of this gimmick was to point out the classism behind Trost's statement: He was implying that if fans could buy good seats for below face value, the ones who'd paid full price would be offended by having to sit next to the hoi polloi. (It's probable that Trost doesn't actually believe this, of course; he's more concerned that if fans can buy seats for below face value, he'll have a harder time selling them for thousands of dollars a pop.) Instead, it turned into two frat brothers from Villanova putting on cheap dinosaur outfits and sitting behind home plate, which is pretty much like every day at Yankee Stadium, only the dinosaurs the fans are dressing as aren't wearing number 13.
If Oliver's staff really wanted to drive home the point, they'd have given the tickets to somebody dressed like this: If nothing else, I'd have loved to have seen what happened when they went to sign up for the fingerprint scanning to get a fast pass through security.
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Red Wings owner Mike Ilitch just wrote John Oliver's show for next week
Posted on July 15, 2015 by Neil deMause
If you slept through the last week, this headline from Detroit Curbed probably has you utterly baffled:
Ilitch Responds to John Oliver's Critique of Stadium Deal
Yes, that's the owner of the Detroit Red Wings (and Detroit Tigers, and Little Caesar's Pizza) issuing a press statement in response to an HBO comedian's criticism of his deal to get $300 million in public subsidies for a new hockey arena. And what was Ilitch's response?
"This project is about so much more than a world-class sports and entertainment arena; it's about transforming a core part of our city for the benefit of the entire community," the statement said. "The new Detroit arena and The District Detroit will create 8,300 construction and construction-related jobs, as well as at least 1,100 permanent jobs. To date, the Detroit Downtown Development Authority has approved nine contracts worth $121 million, of which Detroit-based and -headquartered businesses have won more than 88% — or $106 million. Initiatives of this size, scope and impact — $1.8 billion dollars for our city, region and state — are almost universally public-private partnerships. The majority of this development is being privately financed, and no City of Detroit general funds are involved whatsoever."
That doesn't actually counter any of Oliver's criticisms, which amounted to pointing out that 1) Ilitch is getting $280 million in public funds, 2) Ilitch is worth an estimated $5.1 billion, 3) Detroit filed for bankruptcy the week before all this was approved, and 4) Little Caesar's Crazy Bread sucks. In fact, the majority of the development is not privately financed (it's 58% public, even by the Detroit Free Press's conservative math), and while city general funds aren't being used, development funds that would otherwise go to other city projects are, as is a gift of free city land.
In short: Watch John Oliver's show next week, because he just got handed a whole lot of new material. Thanks, funnyman Mike Ilitch!
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The punchline missing from last night's great John Oliver segment on stadium scams
I don't want to in any way criticize Last Week Tonight with John Oliver's outstanding segment last night, which did a terrific job hitting all the highlights of the stadium subsidy game. But I did want to add a side note to one of Oliver's examples:
Teams are shameless in manipulating cities' fears. In 1997, the Minnesota Twins even ran an ad showing a player visiting a child in hospital with cancer, and the tagline: 'If the Twins leave Minnesota, an 8-year-old in Wilmar undergoing chemotherapy will never get a visit from Marty Cordova. Which is less like the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and more like the Make-A-Threat Foundation.
All true! But it actually turned out to be even worse than that, as the Minneapolis City Pages reported at the time:
Then there was the TV ad aimed at prodding fans to rally the legislature, which depicted Twins outfielder Marty Cordova going to see a sick child at the Minneapolis Ronald McDonald House. "If the Twins leave Minnesota, an 8-year-old from Willmar undergoing chemotherapy will never get a visit from Marty Cordova," the announcer intoned, as the screen faded to black. To make matters even more repulsive, it turned out that by the time the ad aired, the patient had died.
Also, nobody had bothered consulting Twins outfielder Cordova, whose charity had sponsored the hospital visits, and who objected vociferously to being used for owner Carl Pohlad's stadium shakedown. The ad was quickly pulled, the Minnesota state legislature declined to fund a new Twins stadium, and the team moved to — er, that is, kept on plugging away at getting public stadium money out of Minnesota, until finally the legislature gave in. That'll show those lousy dead-cancer-kid-mongers, right?
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John Oliver on sports shakedowns: "We replace stadiums even faster than we replace Spider-Men"
And here's last night's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, which not only gave a great overview of stadium shakedown craziness (I'm especially pleased that the Milwaukee Bucks' magic basketball put in an appearance), but which culminated in a rousing speech that needs to be shown in the 4th quarter of every sports venue negotiation until the end of time. Put down your breakfast and watch now:
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Bath is a city in the ceremonial county of Somerset in South West England. It is situated 97 miles west of London and 13 miles south-east of Bristol.
The city was first established as a spa with the Latin name, Aquae Sulis (the waters of Sulis) by the Romans sometime in the AD 60s about 20 years after they had arrived in Britain (AD43), although oral tradition suggests that Bath was known before then.
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Home form the key for Bluebirds
CARDIFF CITY play their first home match of the season tonight against Port Vale with manager Lennie Lawrence warning his players, "Teams coming to Ninian Park will be fighting for their lives."
Lawrence believes his Bluebirds must improve their home form if they are to live up to the bookmakers' tag of 7-4 favourites to win the Second Division title this season.
City were never convincing at Ninian Park last season - they drew eight league matches in the Welsh capital while the heartbreaking play-off defeat against Stoke also occurred on home soil.
And with City billed as the red-hot favourites to win the Second Division crown, Lawrence is expecting visiting sides to defend en masse.
"We are the Manchester United of the Second Division. We've got to be mentally prepared for that. Teams will be coming here and playing as if their lives depended on it," he said.
"They will be going away thinking they've won the cup if they take a point from us at Ninian Park. This is what we've been focusing on in the last two or three days.
"Last season we conceded too many sloppy goals at our place. After I took over as manager we fell behind in three games - against Queens Park Rangers, Blackpool and Notts County.
"The games we won at home were all close games. We never walloped anybody and that's what we've got to start doing."
City won 11 league matches on their travels last season as well as the first leg of the play-off semi-final at the Britannia Stadium. Lawrence now wants his side to reproduce that form at home.
"We've been pretty faultless in away games. We have walloped sides even though the final score might not reflect that. We've now got to bring that same mentality to the home matches," said Lawrence.
"I've got to make sure my players don't think it's easy just because it's a home game. We partly overcame that towards the end of last season but we still conceded some silly goals."
After tonight City have another home match on Saturday, against Northampton and Lawrence said, "On paper we've got two games we should win.
"But last season we would win one and draw the second. I'll have a better idea of how well we're going to do at home this season on Saturday night."
City played Port Vale three times last season and won all three matches.
The Valiants, managed by Brian Horton, suffered a disastrous start to the season on Saturday, losing 4-1 at home to Tranmere.
But Lawrence, whose side opened their account with a 2-1 win at Oldham, is anticipating a difficult evening.
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Turtle festival is arranged by Forest Department, Village Panchayat, Kasav Mitramandal. Please call at respective villages directly to know about the festival dates and other details.
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