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Can A Brain Injury Cause Amnesia?
Despite the fact that Su Meck is twice the age of her classmates at Smith College, she fits in with them quite naturally. After a traumatic brain injury wiped her memory, she started her life from scratch 24 years ago, approximately the time when most of her college student peers were born. Following the accident she only had a vocabulary of 50 words, which made parenting her two children and nurturing her marriage difficult. Imagine the difficulty of raising children lacking a memory of your own childhood. Furthermore, at the time of the accident, traumatic brain injuries were not well understood, so doctors assumed that she had invented her own amnesia.
In the years since the accident, Meck has found a way to live a comfortable life, returned to school, had another child and written a memoir about her experiences. This is a remarkable achievement considering all the difficulties that brain injury survivors face, such as losing all childhood recollections and feeling alienated by her own family.
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We passed the place where we had seen red kites with Colin & Jan, and came on to Clifton Hampden with its handsome brick bridge. The afternoon light seemed to catch it just right.
Then, just a little further on, near Burcot, we saw red kites again and this time managed to get a couple of pictures. Even with the telephoto lens, you can't see much detail, but at least practised kite-spotters will recognise this as definitely being a red kite – the forked tail is such a give-away! It is amazing to remember how very rare these birds were until only a few years ago, and they really are a joy to watch in flight.
Further downriver, we found an idyllic overnight mooring spot near Dorchester (Oxfordshire), with the oddly-named Wittenham Clumps on the skyline. The little River Thame joins the river at Dorchester, and from here on downstream it is very definitely the Thames, whereas it is also known as the Isis upstream from here.

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North Korea Is Suspected in Bitcoin Heist
Pyongyang's hackers turn to cryptocurrency and banks as Kim regime hunts for funds
SEOUL—Investigators in South Korea are looking into North Korea's possible involvement in a heist from a bitcoin exchange that collapsed here on Tuesday, according to people familiar with the situation, as the sanctions-choked regime develops new ways to raise money.
The investigation into the hack of Seoul-based exchange Youbit, led by South Korean law enforcement and a state cybersecurity agency, is still in its infancy and a review of the malware code could take weeks, the people said.
But the people said there were telltale signs and historical evidence that North Korea was behind the Youbit attack. North Korean hackers in April targeted the same cryptocurrency exchange, operating under a different name, several of the people said. Yapian, the company that operates Youbit, suspended trading and filed for bankruptcy after Tuesday's hack.
The bitcoin heist follows similar suspected Pyongyang-directed offensives against other South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges—and an increasing number of attempts to steal from individual investors.
On Tuesday, the White House said North Korea directed this year's WannaCry ransomware attack, which locked digital files and demanded bitcoin payment for their release.
South Korean police and the Korea Internet & Security Agency said they had begun an investigation into the Youbit hack but were still determining the scope of the situation.
A North Korean cyber army of 7,000 hackers around the world has shifted tactics over the past two years to become more motivated by financial gain, pilfering from banks and, more recently, focusing on cryptocurrencies, according to cybersecurity researchers. North Korea has denied involvement in the hacking incidents.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has a critical need for funds as his regime advances its nuclear-weapons program in the face of tightened economic sanctions.
"North Korea is an ideal country to use hacking and financial tools like bitcoin," said Troy Stangarone, a senior director at the Korea Economic Institute in Washington. "They're experimenting with ways to earn back lost money from sanctions."
The bitcoin craze has created a unique opportunity, as a rush of new investors bet on a market they had barely heard of until recently, said Ryan Kalember, a senior vice president at Proofpoint Inc., a cybersecurity firm that published a recent report detailing Pyongyang's bitcoin campaigns.
"Much of the cryptocurrency system is highly vulnerable," Mr. Kalember said. "Because this world is moving so fast and now it's so lucrative, it's really exactly what a cybercriminal" is looking for.
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The bitcoin itself is supposed to be secure and safeguarded by a unique encryption code. But cyberthieves have breached cryptocurrency exchanges or so-called digital wallets, stealing encrypted passwords as well as bitcoins.
For North Korea, stealing bitcoin could be an attractive endeavor because of the cryptocurrency's ability to rise sharply in value over a relatively short period. The price of one bitcoin started this year at just under $1,000 and has experienced a frenetic rally, with choppy price swings, to as high as nearly $20,000 this past weekend.
The moves in bitcoin and other digital currencies starkly contrast most traditional financial markets in 2017, like stocks and bonds, where volatility has been historically low.
For average consumers, online marketplaces can convert bitcoin into regular cash that can be sent to bank accounts. But North Korea is allegedly swiping vast sums of bitcoin—significantly more than individuals typically own— and must also cover its tracks.
To do that, North Korea, in theory, could divvy up the bitcoin bounty into different accounts, then move the smaller sums in and out of different cryptocurrency exchanges. Each transfer would further erode the links to the original owners. Eventually, North Korea could create enough anonymity to cash out the bitcoin like anyone else.
South Korea is among the most active bitcoin markets, ranking No. 3 after the U.S. and Japan in terms of national currency trade volume, according to data firm Coinhills, which tracks digital currencies. South Korea has no legal protections for consumers who become victims of exchange hackings, unlike with its banks and securities firms, said Ahn Chan-sik, an attorney at Seoul law firm HMP Law.
But lax security protocols haven't repelled investors, a concern even for virtual currencies' biggest advocates. "Investors need to be more alert," said Kim Hwa-joon, the co-head of a cryptocurrency exchange industry group. "Consumers need to be more sensitive about where they put their money."
Exchanges are aware that security breaches present serious risks. One of South Korea's top exchanges by trading volume, Coinone, is headed by a former hacker. Since 2017, the company has worked with hackers who conduct mock attacks to try to breach its system.
Pyongyang's cyberwarfare capabilities first drew global attention for the hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2014, when the regime's cyber goals were more focused on obtaining military information, destabilizing networks or intimidating opponents.
North Korea has turned in recent years to increasingly sophisticated financial warfare.
North Korea was blamed for last year's cybertheft of $81 million from Bangladesh's central bank, followed by a $60 million theft this year from a Taiwanese bank. Cybersecurity researchers say North Korea was involved in other attacks in Mexico, Poland, India and the U.K.
The hackers have executed scams such as planting viruses into South Korean ATMs or point-of-sale devices to steal personal information, according to researchers. South Korean government groups and agencies withstand 1.5 million daily North Korean hacking attempts, law-enforcement and intelligence officials said.
Pyongyang's bitcoin interest has taken root more recently. North Korea targeted three cryptocurrency exchanges in South Korea between April and October, people familiar with that investigation said. That includes an April attack on a predecessor to Youbit, then known as Yapizon.
Steve Lim, chief strategy officer at the Coinone exchange, doesn't think the Youbit incident alone will dramatically curb bitcoin interest. "People will shrug it off in a few months' time, as long as there aren't any more of these kinds of incidents," he said.
Yapian said the security breach caused it to lose 17% of its total assets, but didn't specify the financial value of the losses. The value of the heist is difficult to determine as exchanges aren't required to provide information about their operations beyond registering their business when they first open.
On Dec. 1, Youbit purchased a one-year cyberinsurance policy from DB Insurance Co., a South Korean firm, with damage coverage up to about $2.8 million.
A spokesman at DB Insurance said Youbit hasn't filed a claim. Youbit has up to three years to do so.
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Youbit purchased a one-year cyberinsurance policy from DB Insurance with damage coverage up to about $2.8 million. An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the damage coverage was $2.8 billion. (March 29)
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I have not been doing any quilting for a long time and today, I got my comeuppance! When I teach fused appliqué , I ALWAYS tell students to make fusible fabric BEFORE cutting out shapes! You can surely see why?? When you are working with frilly, fanciful shapes , you DO NOT want to cut out your fabric shape and then stick the fusible on the back and have to cut ALL OVER AGAIN_ DO YOU????? You want to use a piece of your fabric large enough to cut your shape from , iron some fusible material to the wrong side using parchment paper so nothing sticks to the wrong place and THEN cut! Cut only ONCE! Easy peasy, eh? Well, guess who had to cut twice today? Guess whose trigger finger will be very stiff and sore tomorrow? Guess who is a total eejit?
You can see my problem and I decided to bare my soul and bear my shame for YOUR benefit. DO NOT FORGET TO PUT THE FUSIBLE ON THE BACK OF WHATEVER FABRIC YOU ARE GOING TO USE BEFORE YOU CUT! I am going to post this on the needleandthreadnetwork.blogspot.com I can almost guarantee that there will NOT be any more silly persons posting this week but check it out, just in case! Remember, forewarned is forearmed.
|This morning, I remembered the Steam a Seam ! Here is an 8.5"x11" photo of my peony with colours enhanced to help me see shapes and contrast. That long white thing is one of the patches- the largest one. You can see my problem!
|My little pin box for scale and that same piece of cut Reemay . GRRRR!!!


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The number of deaths across India due to swine flu reached 744 Friday (20th February 2015), with 41 more people, including a 23-year-old pregnant woman in Delhi, succumbing to the disease.
The woman, a resident of Krishna Nagar in east Delhi, was infected with swine flu during her pregnancy, while 33 year old women - a resident of Uttam Nagar succumbed to the disease last night due to delayed diagnosis. This was the eight death due to the viral disease in the national capital which has so far reported 1,917 cases.
Across India, the number of cases rose from 11,071 Thursday to 11,955 Friday, a health ministry official asserted.
So far, Rajasthan has reported 202 deaths, Gujarat 155 and Telangana 49. Twenty-seven people have died in Punjab while 20 have succumbed in neighbouring Haryana, six have died in Delhi, four in Kashmir and three each in West Bengal and Chandigarh.
However, no fresh case was reported in Himachal Pradesh Friday, though 16 positive cases and three deaths have been recorded till date in the state.
The northeastern states sounded a high alert after two women tested positive in Nagaland and Mizoram.
A woman in Mizoram was detected with swine flu, the first case in the state bordering Myanmar.
She was tested positive for swine flu in Aizawl. And she was in New Delhi for a short period and it is suspected that she contracted the H1N1 virus in the national capital," the nodal officer of Mizoram Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme, Pachuau Lalmalsawma, told.
Another woman in Nagaland's Dimapur too tested positive for the virus as the state's health and family welfare department sounded a high alert in all its 11 district units. The woman works in Chennai, and had come to Dimapur via Kolkata Feb 13.
As a result, the Assam, Tripura, Manipur and Meghalaya governments have also sounded high alerts and directed medical authorities to be ready to deal with any eventuality.
The northeastern states share international boundaries with China, Myanmar, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Nepal and there is frequent cross-border movement of people in the region - legally and illegally.
The cabinet secretary stressed that the states should ensure that the outbreak monitoring cells and necessary helplines function round the clock.The states have assured centre that adequate stocks of medicines were available and people were being made aware about the spread of the disease.
What is H1N1?
H1N1 is the very clinical-sounding official name for Swine Flu. (So named because the virus is very similar to one carried by pigs.) It's a flu virus and it spreads in the same way as seasonal flu: through direct contact with people who are already infected; through airborne cough and sneeze germs; and from sharing drinks and cutlery.
Prevention tips
- Concentrate on hand-hygiene!
Wash your hands often with soap and water. If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer. Help protect yourself from H1N1 Virus.
- Don't give germs a chance!
Clean your bathroom and kitchen surfaces constantly — and always cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze.
- Get vaccinated!
The fewer people who contract Swine Flu, the more difficult it is for the virus to infect others.
- Top up your vegetables!
Eating plenty of fresh vegetables – especially dark green, red or yellow vegetables which are rich in vitamins and antioxidants - will ensure your immune system is better able to fight off any infections.
Home Remedies
1. Have five duly washed leaves of Tulsi (known as Basil in English; medicinal name Ocimum sanctum) everyday in the morning. Tulsi has a large number of therapeutic properties. It keeps throat and lungs clear and helps in infections by way of strengthening your immunity.
2. Giloi (medicinal name Tinospora cordifolia) is a commonly available plant in many areas. Take a one-foot long branch of giloi, add five to six leaves of Tulsi and boil in water for 15-20 minutes or long enough to allow the water to extract its properties. Add black pepper and sendha (salt used during religious fasts), rock or black salt, or Misri (crystalised sugar like lumps to make it sweet) according to taste. Let it cool a bit and drink this kadha (concoction) while still warm. It will work wonders for your your immunity. If giloi plant is not available, get processed giloi powder from Hamdard or others, and concoct a similar drink once a day.
3. A small piece of camphor (kapoor) approximately the size of a tablet should be taken once or twice a month. It can be swallowed with water by adults while children can take it along with mashed potatoes or banana because they will find it difficult to have it without any aides. Please remember camphor is not to be taken everyday, but only once each season, or once a month. immunity. If giloi plant is not available, get processed giloi powder from Hamdard or others, and concoct a similar drink once a day.
3. A small piece of camphor (kapoor) approximately the size of a tablet should be taken once or twice a month. It can be swallowed with water by adults while children can take it along with mashed potatoes or banana because they will find it difficult to have it without any aides. Please remember camphor is not to be taken everyday, but only once each season, or once a month.
4. Those who can take garlic, must have two pods of raw garlic first thing in the morning. To be swallowed daily with lukewarm water. Garlic too strengthens immunity like the earlier measures mentioned.
5. Those not allergic to milk, must take a glass of hot or lukewarm milk every night with a small measure of haldi (turmeric).
6. Aloe vera (gwarpatha) too is a commonly available plant. Its thick and long, cactus-like leaves have an odourless gel. A teaspoon gel taken with water daily can work wonders for not only your skin and joint pains, but also boost immunity.
7. Take homeopathic medicines — Pyrogenium 200 and Inflenzium 200 in particular — five tablets three times a day, or two-three drops three times a day. While these are not specifically targeted at H1N1 either, these work well as preventive against common flu virus.
8. Do Pranayam daily (preferably under guidance if you are already not initiated into it) and go for morning jog/walk regularly to keep your throat and lungs in good condition and body in fine fettle. Even in small measures, it will work wonders for your body's resistance against all such diseases which attack the nose, throat and lungs, besides keeping you fit.
9. Have citrus fruits, particularly Vitamin C rich Amla (Indian gooseberry) juice. Since fresh Amla is not yet available in the market (not for another three to four months), it is not a bad idea to buy packaged Amla juice which is commonly available nowadays.
10. Last but not the least, wash your hands frequently every day with soap and warm water for 15-20 seconds; especially before meals, or each time after touching a surface that you suspect could be contaminated with flu virus such as a door handle or a knob/handle, especially if you have returned from a public place or used public transport. Alcohol-based hand cleaners should be kept handy at all times and used until you can get soap and warm water.


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Wherever fourth Republican president Rupiah Banda is today, he looks back and obviously prides in the respect with which he held the Office of President for Zambia.
There is no doubt that what happened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where President Michael Sata was booed, and several other international instances, are not only leaving a bitter pill in the mouth of any objective and genuine Zambian but tearing our glorious image apart.
That image of fledging democracy, a beacon of peace, a key liberator whose young democracy of less than three decades has given birth to four different presidents is slowly melting out.
After first Republican president Kenneth Kaunda came that flamboyant and eloquent ex-trade unionist Frederick J.T Chiluba then that astute and respected lawyer Levy Patrick Mwanawasa and on to the diplomat and think-tank Rupiah.
In the three years Rupiah served Zambia, no single Zambian, international journalists, not even those that have raped the profession at The Post, can point to a single incident of immeasurable disgrace.
Rupiah attended several international conferences, interacted with Zambians in the diaspora and met several Heads of State. There are those Heads of State he agreed with, and there are those he never agreed with.
Yet in all his interactions at home and abroad, Rupiah never reduced Zambia's prestigious Number One office to the ridicule Sata has successfully managed to do just under two years in office. What will it become of by 2016? The answer can be traced in what is happening at the moment.
A journalist on the sidelines of the African Union, Idriss Ali Nassah, did not hide his shock. He came across a President who was behaving like a boy heading cattle. At that point you can be ashamed to identify yourself as Zambian but the reality at home is very much reflecting on the international stage. Zambia has a President who's got no regard for the Office of the President or the people that gave him the mandate.
If it only happened in Ethiopia, one would forgive President Sata as first offender. This has happened in Botswana, London, Zimbabwe, Angola and the United States. On the local front, the list of these embarrassing incidents is endless. Even in church like the case was recently at the Cathedral, Sata is a shambolic figure in public. This explains why the man who once befriended every radio talk-show can nolonger face the same people he courageous addressed as opposition leader through a formal press conference now that he is head of state.
There is certainly an extent to which anyone can joke, better still, a Head of State because some jokes are expired. And this is what is happening with our dear Sata. His handlers know that bringing Sata before the press to answer questions will be a total disaster. He can't explain a thing, he is blank, his only strength are insults.
As much as Zambians are tolerating this nonsensical behaviour, the international stage has no time for a clown posturing as Head of State.
That young journalists was short of insulting our intellect. How did 'smart' Zambians end up with a thug for President? He should have wondered when he tweeted; "Zambians are some of the smartest people I know. How they came to be led by such truly baffles the mind. "My God, Michael Sata is an embarrassment each time he is opening his mouth!!"
This is a journalist with only a minimum of 24 hours interaction with Sata but purely knows that his mouth is worse than that of crocodile such that when its open, only flies will think it is a safe haven.
The engagement in a hostile exchange with the audience, behaving erratically with jokes and mocking other 'bald-headed' heads of state, and mistaking the African Union with Organisation for African Unity (OAU), the precursor institution which is now extinct, is not a minor incident that the country should gloss over.
The Patriotic Front (PF) government of Zambia has had a number of conflicts with other nations, including a gaffe by Vice President Guy Scott against the people of South Africa. President Sata has drawn boos from crowds during his public appearances in the past as well, including at the Lusaka fairgrounds. And this should raise enough alarms.
Like Dr Canisus Banda has noted, "It was NOT Michael Sata that was booed. It was Zambia, us as a people! He is our mirror, a reminder of our need to urgently change, to seriously improve our image. The booing of our head of state by non-Zambians is vital feedback for which we ought to be grateful! The message is that Zambia in its current state is offensive to the rest of Africa!"
This is true and the situation is getting worse by the day. Not a single Head of State outside the rank and file of Robert Mugabe has made an attempt to visit Zambia. It is that bad.
It is illogical to think Zambia does not need its neigbhours. We are a landlocked country and this makes use heavily reliant of good neigbourliness. This is why Rupiah made it a point Zambia's neigbhours were comfortable with him and the country. Ever wondered why the Zambian economy was booming under Rupiah? His ability to foster unity and treat those around him as human as possible made him a beacon of investment. He created a fertile environment for bilateral relationships and his fellow Heads of State trickled in with ease. No single President will have the pleasure to accept an invitation to Zambia if on foreign soil, its President behaves like a Nyau dancer.
If etiquette can be observed in a pit latrine what more in the Office of President where diplomacy and respect for oneself and its people is of utmost importance? Now, instead of being known for the good that we offer, our image as a country is that of thugs, thanks to a carefree Sata. How we miss that diplomacy endowed Rupiah, ever respectful of this country.


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Robert Burns' wonderful and much loved poem was given an amazing stage treatment at Perth Theatre in a production devised and directed by Gerry Mulgrew. The timing could not have been better coming just on the 250th celebration of Burns' birthday, and the start of Homecoming 2009.
But how to pad out a fifteen minute poem into an evening's entertainment? Retain the poem, of course, and add in some other Robert Burns poems and songs as well as some modern links in a Burns style.
The result was a 90 minute show which was a pure delight. This was Mulgrew at his storytelling best where the actors worked very hard with few props. As well as the main story, we met all the individuals in the pub, who took the chance to dress up as other characters in an extended party piece session. Nice turns from Andy Clark as Tam, and Kirstin McLean (last seen in The Lesson) as Meg, Robbie Jack as the Poet and Gerda Stevenson as the Muse.
As well as the excellent acting, the music played a big part here, as Annie Grace, Brian McAlpine and Aly Macrae tackled a large assortment of instruments with great gusto.
Great fun for a cold night in February. Let's have more like this in Perth.


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To hit a pillowy-soft greenside bunker shot, you don't need to swing harder to generate more spin. In fact, it's just the opposite: You want to swing a bit slower to make the ball come out "dead," as though you had tossed a horseshoe onto the green.
Set up as you normally would (i.e., weight slightly left, ball forward in stance, clubface a bit open) and make your usual bunker swing.
But as the clubhead makes contact with the sand, let go of the club with your right hand. This one-handed technique will kill the ball's speed, allowing it to come out softly and stop quickly.
But even though you're only using one hand, make sure to finish your swing. You want the clubhead to slow down as it reaches impact, not to stop or decelerate quickly—that's how you leave the ball in the bunker.
The next time you find yourself short-sided and in a greenside trap, try the one-handed approach to blast it close.


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- Manage the financial and administration activities to achieve financial objectives
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"Breeding-back" aims to restore or immitate extinct animals by selective breeding. This blog provides general information, the facts behind myths and news from various projects.
Sunday, 9 March 2014
New photos of the Tauros Project on Rewilding Europe
These are very aesthetic photos in my opinion. Unfortunately all the images are gifs so no-one can insert them. But I'll link some of the more interesting photos here:
The all known Maremmana x Pajuna "Manolo Uno"
A Limia cross calf, it's not apparent which combination it is, but obviously it has Highland in it:
Maremmana x Limia
(Maremmana x Pajuna) x Maremmana
"Manolo Uno"
Sayaguesa in Campanarios de Azaba
Maremmana with whatever cross calf:
Another Highland cross calf, exact combination not stated. Obviously is e//e, so I really wonder which combination it is.
What I - and I am sure a lot of other people too - really would like to see a document revealing all their crossbred animals (or at least the breed combinations that exist already) and qualitative photos showing what they look like, so that we know which crossbred animals we are looking at. This would be simply awesome, and certainly helpful for the Tauros Project's information flow.
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Pictures of the pure limit and Sayaguesa look better than the crosses... Maybe if they didn't use highland they would be farther along right now. Such a shame.ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes, Highland slows down the process quite a lot. I think there are too many breeds in the Tauros project with too many unwanted features, IMO they'd only need:Delete
* Sayaguesa
* Maremmana
* Pajuna
* Maronesa
* Podolica
I think this is a big mistake for the Tauros project. http://www.truenaturefoundation.org/watusi-bull-ubutaha-arrived-in-lorschReplyDeleteReplies
What exactly do you consider a big mistake? The highlands?Delete
Follow my link to the website of True Nature Foundation, please.ReplyDelete
It's great news that they are using Watusi. I don't understand why people get so emotional about trying to preserve some sort of taurine "purity" in breeding back the aurochs. The true aurochs must have been a very diverse animal to be as widespread as it was. Adding a little watussi can bring back some of that diversity which was probably naturally there in areas of overlap anyways. Plus it brings much needed traits into the mix.ReplyDelete
I think it might be a mistake to use the Watusi breed in this project. Why you want to use Watusi cattle? What Watusi cattle property needed for this project? Do you need cattle with big horns? There are indigenous livestock breeds in Europe with very large horns, such as Portugal barrosa breed. No need to cross Watusi cattle for a large horns. Another breed I would not use is the Highland breed, that breed has very little fat body. With the watusi cattle crossing a herd is get a very heterogeneous with genetics. This project will require many more generations for them to get a homogeneous cattle, that also happens now with the Heck cattle, it's quite heterogeneous. I think it would be even better to use Heck cattle or Texas Longhorn cattle that use Watusi cattle.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11 March 2014 at 22:14
I would like to point out that the True Nature Foundation is doing the Uruz project which is different from the TaurOs project. It is the Uruz project using the Watusi X Chianina cross which is in the first stages (no calves as yet the cows are not even yet pregnant). On surface value this seems a little extreme at first, but their second breeding group is going to be simpler and more elegant- perhaps a Sayaguesa cross with a similar old auroch like breed. They may keep the total down to as few as four breeds. A four breed program would be the simplest program to date. Hard to argue with a simpler program to much when the other major efforts, Heck, Taurus, and TaurOs cattle use many more breeds.ReplyDelete
The other neat thing about the Uruz project is that they hope to use genome editing at some point. I suspect the fact that they are using even four breeds though which is a very long term project means that they have little faith the genome editing technology will be ready soon. If it was ready now I suspect you could use a really genetically auroch like breed such as Sayaguesa and edit it into an Auroch faster than one could be bred back. You would simply need an inbred strain of Sayaguesa or even a tissue culture with its full genome mapped and a full genome of Auroch then map out and edit the different alleles and produce an edited Auroch/Sayaguesa clone from the tissue culture. If this technology were truly ready it might be a game changer indeed. The passenger pigeon de-extinction project intends to use these methods.
I really like Texas Longhorn cattle but you would have to be very careful to find or breed a useful strain not to introduce unwelcome traits like the piebald gene that has so plagued Heck cattle. If you had to breed a special strain just to include them I don't see how that is practical because it just adds more generations of breeding!
I bet the TaurOs project people simply had Highlands available and a good Maremmana bull handy and wanted to get started and using the Highlands was just expedient. It will take a long time but if they really do start to evaluate and cull animals based on Auroch genomes and correct sequences it could be a very scientific way to achieve something that is genetically more auroch. I think the technique here is called something like genome assisted selection- and it may seem counterintuitive but it is not breeding by phenotype but by genotype, and it could be a very good way to get to something that is very auroch like. The problem here is not with excluding cattle with obvious bad traits, but including cattle that truly have segments of auroch DNA not contained by other breeds. So if Highlands were a source for some Auroch DNA not readily found in other breeds, then including them is not a mistake at all. If they aren't useful they perhaps should have waited or simply used the highlands as embryo recipients and flushed say a single Maremmana X Sayaguesa cross for the embryos. However its done now, so we can only wait and see if anything good comes from it. Maybe the Highland crosses in the TaurOs program will just get culled when genome based selection really starts.
I also think it is silly to argue so much about heterogenous cattle. I think this blog has shown us a solution from the page about the Worth cattle. Linebreeding and inbreeding can be used to turn any heterogenous population such as Hecks into a homogenous and improved one such as the Worth Hecks. The purpose of all the crosses in Uruz, Taurus, and TaurOs cattle is simply to create heterogenous populations out of which homogenous populations can be selected. We could then cross several of the homogenous populations to produce bred back auroch populations with good heterozygosity or acceptable levels of hybrid vigour and variability so that they are not just inbred zoo animals when they finally arrive by whatever means.Replies
I have only a short answer for now: I'm going to provide some more information on the uruz project soon. Regarding Taurus: They actually only use 3-4 breeds as well: Heck, Sayaguesa, Chianina (and, but far less, Lidia). The Hortobagy population is another story, which I'll cover in the very next post.Delete
- Anonymous12 March 2014 at 21:21
You mentioned in your article on the Worth Heck cattle that a Sayaguesa hybrid from the ABU might add in a few missing features to the Worth cattle. It seems to me that Taurus cattle already have the Sayaguesa for truly primitive genes and traits, the Chianina for height, and Worth cattle a small Watussi influence for proper horn size. So crossing then stabilizing a Taurus X Worth lineage would simply be starting with animals that are farther along in breeding back and could be the fastest way to get closer to an Auroch phenotype.ReplyDeleteReplies
I think that Wörth Heck would diminish the size and slenderness of Taurus cattle if used on a wider scale. The ABU thinks of adding one large-horned Wörth cow (so that their traits can be selected more carefully), but I also suggested Watussi to them, I think Watussi would be more advantageous because they are taller, slenderer and their horns are way larger.Delete
- Anonymous17 March 2014 at 15:44
I agree, not on a wide scale, just small scale to start. I think either 1 Worth cow or 1 Watussi cow might be a good addition. To the ABU Taurus herd. Though really in the case of the Worth the reverse- adding a Taurus animal to a Worth herd seems better- the Worth animals seem like they have more to gain from Taurus than Taurus from Worth. Oddly despite the good Watussi influenced horns it does not seem that the Worth animals got all they could have from the Watussi. Perhaps it would be interesting to add Watussi back into Worth genetics! Though the same could be said of Sayaguesa.Delete
However, thinking of the Uruz scheme. It seems like Chianina, Watussi, and Sayaguesa could be the key ingredients. Why not just use an admixture of Chianina and Watussi to create an improved Sayaguesa?
Perhaps do something like create a herd of Sayaguesa bred for Auroch traits, then add in 1 Watussi cow and 1 Chianina cow. Castrate the bull calves from the F1 generation, then in the F2 and F3 generations just start to select out the individuals with the wrong color genes.
If such a herd were then released into a large natural area with large predators and allowed to breed freely save for occasional removals of individuals with incorrect traits, it could be an interesting experiment.
I think that endless combinations of a few breeds can be made up because of the large diversity of the primitive breeds.Delete
I absolutely agree that Wörth would gain more from Taurus than vice versa. Using a large Taurus bull as a breeding bull might be problematic because of the small size of the cows, but adding good Taurus cows to the herd, getting a bull of intermediary size that covers the cows might be less problematic, and by back-crossing with the Taurus cows a successive size increase could be achieved.
The problem with the Wörth individuals is that they are not an aurochs project but simply a herd with a maximum size of 20 individuals, what makes effective selection difficult.
What do you think about the horns of this bull? It's a barrosa bull of Portugal.ReplyDelete
This is other barrosa bull with great horns.ReplyDelete
The horns of those Barrosa are still thinner than those of average aurochs, and would get further diminished by crossing, and selecting for such a trait takes a long time. So Watussi would IMO still be a better option. Watussi are, btw, larger and taller and don't have such a bulldog face like Barrosa.Delete
The direction of the horns in the barrosa bull is much better than most Watusi bulls. Does the Watusi bull could carry genes for spots on the skin?ReplyDeleteReplies
The curvature is not necessarily better, especially in cows; but it would be pointless to use a breed for large horns that doesn't have the sufficient size/thickness. Some Watussi have the genes for spotting, but not all. Most Watussi in Germany actually have the wild type allele E+ but some weird modifers.Delete
- Anonymous14 May 2014 at 03:39
I'm no expert on breeding (a big horned and a small horned animal results in something in between?), but if what you say is true it would be even more interesting to use one of those specially bred watusi with ridiculously large horns (f.i. https://www.google.nl/search?q=lurch+watusi&client=firefox-a&hs=IWD&rls=org.mozilla:nl:official&tbm=isch&imgil=1eBIcFh2NE3wqM%253A%253Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fencrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com%252Fimages%253Fq%253Dtbn%253AANd9GcSA1vlqp-RpaPf_gWaFiYxgJO5uywmhx0fWW6aXG1bfOmNjMEdq%253B1360%253B1020%253B4lvz0K5dTfrzLM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.wikitree.co.kr%25252Fmain%25252Fnews_view.php%25253Fid%2525253D71695&source=iu&usg=__gwIjnrp5NzSt1j2Da8PrCA7woes%3D&sa=X&ei=50VzU4P1Au6z0QXR0IDwDw&ved=0CDgQ9QEwAw#facrc=_&imgdii=1eBIcFh2NE3wqM%3A%3BKZAmaRIMB8MbNM%3B1eBIcFh2NE3wqM%3A&imgrc=1eBIcFh2NE3wqM%253A%3B4lvz0K5dTfrzLM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.wikitree.co.kr%252Fwebdata%252Feditor%252F201206%252F09%252Fimg_20120609150011_d836c15b.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.wikitree.co.kr%252Fmain%252Fnews_view.php%253Fid%253D71695%3B1360%3B1020 ).ReplyDelete
Shape notwithstanding (although the sheer weight of those horns will have considerably altered the eventual form during growth), breeding with one of these animals will deliver the genes for much bigger horns into the population. In subsequent crosses with taurus-cattle those gigantic horns will get consistently watered down no?
- Anonymous14 May 2014 at 06:14
Thinking about it I guess that would also mean, that as a general rule (when crossbreeding) you shouldn't look too much for perfect (aurochslike) animals, but more towards animals with very exagerated features? As they will evently even out with animals, that have other another specific exaggerated feature....ReplyDelete


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Today's move comes after experts highlighted rising numbers of fatalities linked to the drugs. The change means it will be illegal to possess pregabalin and gabapentin without a prescription and it will be illegal to supply or sell them to others.
The drugs, which are used to treat nerve pain, epilepsy and anxiety, can bring about an elevated mood in users but can also have serious side effects, particularly when used in combination with other drugs.
In 2016, the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) raised concerns over medicinal misuse, illegal diversion of the drugs and addiction, and recommended that pregabalin and gabapentin should be controlled as class C Drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Act.
The government accepted the ACMD's advice and launched a public consultation to assess the impact on the healthcare sector. Pharmacies, doctors, pharmaceutical companies and patients responded to the consultation, which has been published today, backing the tighter controls of the drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations.
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Named after the character from The Godfather, Tassie legends Luca Brasi are equally a force to be reckoned with. Since 2009 the infectious enthusiasm of their melodic punk rock from down under has made its way into the hearts of many fans around the country. From their early days of noisy pub gigs to now the band have toured relentlessly, sharing the stage with the likes of Kisschasy, Violent Soho and The Smith Street Band along the way. Their popularity has seen them appear on the lineups of Laneway Festival, Party in the Paddock, Unify Gathering and Splendour In The Grass.
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Who was your first musical inspiration? Why? Who inspires you now?
My first inspiration was probably David Bowie. As I grew up, he was drilled into my veins via my Mum and her and Dad's collection of LPs. I was lucky enough to grow up with music everywhere in my house and I've never forgotten that influence. I have my parents to thank for listening to good music my whole life and my Dad to thank for pushing me into playing guitar. These days I'm inspired by the friends I've made in bands from all over the world, I'm always dumbfounded by how talented my friends are, and always push me to try better.
What advice do you have for someone who is about to set off on their first tour?
One of the top practical things I can think of is investing in some decent cases for transit. Apart from that hang out at shows afterwards and meet people, never say no to some water or free food. Watch every band playing, even just using basic manners is something people always remember. The first tours we did I am lucky enough to have met some of my best friends on.
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My biggest career mistake has been… What would you do differently now?
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In my opinion, the most important issue facing the music industry is… What do you think can change that?
The old dinosaurs in music are slowly dying out, but it's a long slow process, which needs to be sped up. Antiquated views on gender, pay, and treatment of artists need to be rid as soon as possible. The waking up of artists to the fact it doesn't have to be that way, and the courage and strength of women who have been treated as second-class citizens their whole lives, is inspiring. People in the industry are scared of change, of their empires and livelihood being threatened (which is nonsense) and speaking out by artists is important. I often hear that music and politics need to be separated, which is also garbage. If you have a platform then go stand on it and be heard. Music and musicians can do huge good and we're seeing it by a small few, of whom I'm super inspired by and wish to be more like.
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August 17 – The Triffid Brisbane
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Shippin' Out May 29-June 4: Hunted: The Demon's Forge, Black Ops PC DLC
New release slate led by Bethesda's fantasy action game, Escalation add-on for latest Call of Duty game for PC crowd; Sims 3: Generations and BioShock 2 Minerva's Den PC content also out.
It's the calm before the Electronic Entertainment Expo storm this week at retail, as Bethesda brings its fantasy action game to retail, Activision releases the latest map pack for Black Ops for the PC, and Electronic Arts releases the latest Sims 3 add-on.
Leading the pack this week is Hunted: The Demon's Forge for the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. In the game, players will take on the role of either the master swordsman Caddoc or the ranged-weapon expert E'lara as they work together to figure out what's behind a rash of disappearing townsfolk. Gameplay will focus on cover-based combat and puzzle-solving, coupled with exploration of dungeons, ruins, and urban areas.
Also out this week for the PC is the Escalation map pack add-on for Call of Duty: Black Ops. Previously released on the Xbox 360, the content includes four multiplayer maps: Hotel, set on top of a luxury hotel and casino in old Havana; Convoy, which offers up close-quarters combat when a US military convoy is ambushed; Zoo, set in a derelict Soviet-era animal park; and Stockpile, which is set in a small Russian town that contains secret facilities housing weapons of mass destruction.
The downloadable add-on also features a mode called Call of the Dead. The zombie-slaughtering co-op level will feature a storyline inspired by famed horror director George A. Romero (Dawn of the Dead) and features a '70s movie aesthetic that sees four action stars fending off hordes of undead around a ghost ship. It will feature the voices and likenesses of actors Robert Englund (Nightmare on Elm Street), Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Michael Rooker (The Walking Dead), Danny Trejo (Machete), and Romero (Night of the Living Dead) himself.
Gamers looking to pick up a new PlayStation 3 system this week can grab the $300 Limited Edition Call of Duty: Black Ops bundle. The pack includes a 160GB console, a copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops, and a copy of the game's first add-on pack, First Strike.
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An 86-year-old art enthusiast who was considered "a fixture" at The Carlyle was crushed to death just outside the famed Upper East Side hotel yesterday when a construction vehicle accidentally rolled over him, police said.
Morris Pinto was on his way to lunch at the Madison Avenue landmark near East 76th Street at about 12:30 p.m. when a backhoe being driven in reverse smashed into him, sources said.
"I feel like hell," Camila Pinto, his wife of 61 years, said from their nearby apartment. "I'm all mixed up."
The Pintos, who used to live in The Carlyle, had called the Upper East Side home since 1983, sources said.
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Okay, I see BTT everywhere, I'm finally going to try it out!
Okay . . . picture this (really) worst-case scenario: It's cold and raining, your boyfriend/girlfriend has just dumped you, you've just been fired, the pile of unpaid bills is sky-high, your beloved pet has recently died, and you think you're coming down with a cold. All you want to do (other than hiding under the covers) is to curl up with a good book, something warm and comforting that will make you feel better. What do you read?
Well, if and when I stopped crying so hard I couldn't see to read, I think it would have to be one of Jilly Cooper's Rutshire novels (minus the most recent, it was unfortunate), probably Rivals. These bonkbusters aren't high literature, but I love them. I love the Cotswolds setting as well as the glam trips to London and abroad. The characters really do feel like old friends (I actually think her characterization skills are some of the best I've ever come across). The books are funny, sexy, fun, and have happy endings. There are sweet heroines, nice guys, an eventually-reformed, totally gorgeous rake, charismatic villains, and horses and dogs galore. I've read them so many times I've had to get new copies. And, in this situation, it's a definite plus that I know them so well I'd barely need to pay attention at all.
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Booking Through Thursday - Comfort Food
Posted by tinylittlelibrarian at 9:30 a.m.
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Great question! It'd probably be Maeve Binchy for me, or a heart-stopping thriller by Nicci French.
- September 14, 2007 at 12:44 p.m.
- tinylittlelibrarian said...
Having just discovered Maeve Binchy, I think I could probably get engrossed in her and feel better.
- September 14, 2007 at 1:11 p.m.
- alisonwonderland said...
i'm not familiar with the Rutshire novels. i read my first Maeve Binchy a week or so ago - and i'm definitely interested in reading more.
- September 15, 2007 at 12:48 a.m.
- tinylittlelibrarian said...
Alison - me, too! I think I'm definitely going to become a Binchy fan.
- September 18, 2007 at 2:54 p.m.
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I finished another chapter. Serving like a flare in the night, it lit more of the final stages of the novel, Good-bye, Hello, and the Incomplete States series. Seeing those pieces, I re-arranged one chapter and wrote the beginning of another. As I wrote that, the segue off a previous chapter appeared. This was the opening to the final final piece. I laughed at the phrase even while I juggled pieces in my mind and saw it all come together with the ending already written. A chill thrilled me as I read the pieces. So satisfying and fun, visiting this world and these peoples, and all their myths, technology, travels, and adventures. They move into this last phase with hope, but I write with bittersweet inevitability.
It's been a fun journey with these concepts, and narrowing the focus of the concepts into a tighter and tighter frame. Once again, revelations and realizations surprised me. These mostly involved Kything, Kything, who began as Professor Kything, named in honor of the term from A Wrinkle In Time. Kything was not who they thought.
Kything was not who I thought.
There's more of him still to be revealed to me. The revelations and patterns remind me of a difficult Sudoku. After wrestling with logic and patterns, hunting for the final solution, a key square was just completed. With it came the insights to finish the puzzle.
Even as I think that it was a wonderful day of writing like crazy, I'm beginning to grow sad, because I see this marvelous journey coming to an end. Yes, a lot of writing remains, and then the the editing and revising marathon begins, but those are different skills, with a separate satisfaction to them, than the unbridled creative flow of raw writing.
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I'm excited to participate in the celebration of Epiphany's 60 years of ministry. It will be an honor for me to serve as a guest preacher, along with the other former pastors.
It is likely that God called me to Epiphany to give me an opportunity to experience ministry in a setting new to me — that of a growing suburban community.
I had already experienced life in a congregation of farmers, having grown up in St. Paul Lutheran Church in north central Ohio. My first parish, St. John Lutheran Church, was in a small town in Sidney, Ohio. When God's call came to serve Epiphany, I was in my thirteenth year of ministry at Old Trinity Lutheran Church, a metropolitan church in a large urban setting in downtown Columbus.
The call to suburban Epiphany came in 1979. I retired in 2000. That means I had the privilege of spending 21 years at Epiphany, a ministry which involved expansion of racial and ecumenical relationships locally, as well as numerous partnerships globally.
Following retirement, Cindy and I were commissioned by the former East German Synod of Mecklenburg to share development strategies we had learned at Epiphany with its congregations.
Cindy and I have three children: Steve (and Linda) in Cincinnati, Becky (and Doug) in Des Moines, and John (and Julia) in San Francisco. Each has two children, making us the proud grandparents of six. And, best of all, in June, we became the great grandparents of Elias.
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That Russia deployed this same tactic during the election is not a surprise, but it is cause for great concern.
But a narrow technical analysis would miss the main political and ethical challenge. Soviet bloc disinformation specialists preferred the art of exploiting what was then called 'unwitting agents'. So, there is no contradiction in their reading between being an honest American patriot and, at the same time, furthering the cause of Russia. You know, in the peace movement in the 1980s, we saw that people were genuinely protesting, say, the NATO double track decision, but at the same time advancing Russian goals. There is no contradiction.
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