From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #7190 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Wednesday, August 11 2021 Volume 14 : Number 7190 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Affordable Foreclosures in Your Area ["Home Foreclosure Listings" Subject: Affordable Foreclosures in Your Area Affordable Foreclosures in Your Area http://yeastinfection.buzz/rRBBQlixuSCyE5zREkaf48hJJ3WmbtdpJFtXH8nDJ6Qad7jr http://yeastinfection.buzz/eLYcA5EAzmA5kCF13Xx0Nrb66SujsAabYjaOvv9d2EcrAyMN outh Park: The Stick of Truth From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search South Park: The Stick of Truth SouthParkTheStickOfTruth.jpg Developer(s) Obsidian Entertainment Publisher(s) Ubisoft Director(s) Chris Brion Chris Parker Zane Lyon Producer(s) Todd Benson Matthew Singh Designer(s) Matt MacLean Programmer(s) Dan Spitzley Artist(s) Brian Menze Writer(s) Trey Parker Matt Stone Eric Fenstermaker Composer(s) Jamie Dunlap Platform(s) Microsoft Windows PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 PlayStation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch Release March 4, 2014 Genre(s) Role-playing Mode(s) Single-player South Park: The Stick of Truth is a 2014 role-playing video game developed by Obsidian Entertainment in collaboration with South Park Digital Studios and published by Ubisoft. Based on the American adult animated television series South Park, the game follows the New Kid, who has moved to the eponymous town and becomes involved in an epic role-play fantasy war involving humans, wizards, and elves, who are fighting for control of the all-powerful Stick of Truth. Their game quickly escalates out of control and brings them into conflict with aliens, Nazi zombies, and gnomes, threatening the entire town with destruction. The game is played from a 2.5D, third-person perspective replicating the aesthetic of the television series. The New Kid is able to freely explore the town of South Park, interacting with characters and undertaking quests, and accessing new areas by progressing through the main story. Selecting one of four character archetypes, Fighter, Thief, Mage, and Jew, each offering specific abilities, the New Kid and a supporting party of characters use a variety of melee, ranged, and magical fart attacks to combat with their enemies. Development began in 2009 after South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone approached Obsidian about making a role-playing game designed to look exactly like the television series. Parker and Stone were involved throughout the game's production: they wrote its script, consulted on the design, and as in the television program, they voiced many of the characters. 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Oriental hornets dig their nests underground by picking up soil in their mandibles, flying a short distance, dropping the soil, and returning to the nest to continue digging. The hornet's digging is correlated with insolation (solar energy). The more insolation, the more active the hornet. This daytime digging behavior of V. orientalis may be possible because of the ability of its cuticle to harvest solar energy. Cuticle The cuticle of the Oriental hornet contains yellow pigment that protects the cuticle from harmful UV radiation from the sun. The brown segments of the hornet's body contain melanin, which serves a similar purpose. The brown cuticle is composed of about 30 layers, the thickness of which increases from interior to exterior. The brown melanin pigment is found in these layers. The yellow cuticle is composed of 15 layers that contain yellow pigment. The yellow stripe contains xanthopterin in barrel-shaped granules. Electric potential Enzyme activity in the layer of yellow xanthopterin granules was demonstrated to be higher in hornets kept in dark environments and lower in those exposed to ultraviolet (UV) light. Measuring the electric voltage between the hypocuticle and the exocuticle of the yellow stripe shows a negative electric potential at the hypocuticle with respect to the positive exocuticle. If the yellow stripe is exposed to light, the potential difference between light and dark conditions increases. In dark conditions, the stripe decreases in electric potential. Pterins have a role in photoreception and phototransduction of near-UV light to blue light and pterins may play a role in photosynthesis. Some of the same researchers speculate that this is the energy for the heat organ (see #Thermo ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 03:09:17 -0400 From: "Vaccine Survey" Subject: Volunteers needed for COVID-19 Vaccine Survey Volunteers needed for COVID-19 Vaccine Survey http://productoon.co/VY4nOS_J2hQm_kYG5tOYUf_MyguAnZ5q1K-WZIy-7zMSBbPH http://productoon.co/qwZdxxIGhIAFlg7FDEkL0j8jmkFzrySXUvYrQjcHzWc27tWG hin a colony, the caste system is dominated by the queen that is the only reproductive female in the colony. Subordinate to the queen are the workers (daughters) and drones (sons). Like the queen, drones solely serve reproductive roles. The workers are responsible for the rest of the labor. Workers specialize in the performance of different tasks. Workers are responsible for foraging for food, providing shelter, defending the colony, and caring for the colony's brood, which consist of the queen's offspring. Communication Oriental hornets communicate through sound vibrations. The three main types of vibrations used to communicate are taps to the queen, awakening taps, and larval hunger signals. When workers tap while facing the queen, three effects are noted: the queen starts to search the combs for vacant cells in which to lay her eggs in, the workers go back to performing their typical duties, and hunger signals by larvae cease immediately and are not resumed for at least 30 minutes. The main purpose of these taps seem to be to encourage the queen to lay more eggs. Awakening taps by workers cause a general intensification of activities in the colony. The effects are minimal during the day. At night, however, the vibrations wake the whole colony, which causes the larvae commence their hunger signals and the workers to go forage for food to feed the larvae. Larval hunger signals produce no detectable changes in larval activity during the daytime. The workers, however, pay more attention and give more food to the cells that are in the vicinity of where the vibrations originated. At night, the larvae emulate each other's hunger signals and awake the whole nest. Kin selection and altruism V. orientalis hornets live in colonies in which the workers are all daughters of the queen, so the workers are all sisters. Social wasps are haplodiploid, which means that males are all haploid and develop from unfertilized eggs, while females are diploid and develop from eggs fertilized by drones. Queens commonly mate with only one drone. Each drone has only one set of chromosomes to pass on to its offspring. Thus, sister workers that share pate ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 04:14:33 -0400 From: "UPS Shopper Gift Card Chance" Subject: Leave your feedback and you could WIN! 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Conflict with bees The best place for hornets to find a combination of animal proteins (bees or larvae) and carbohydrates (honey) are bee hives. Oriental hornets have been known to cause serious damage to bee colonies. They are the primary pest that attacks honey bee colonies in many countries. In defense, Japanese honey bees have been shown to kill predatory hornets by surrounding them by forming a tight ball in which the temperature rises to lethal levels. Cyprus honey bees (Apis mellifera cypria) have developed a slightly different method for killing their major predator. They form a tight, smothering ball around the attacking hornet and kill it by asphyxiation. Sting Antibacterial effect of venom The venom of V. orientalis was tested on Gram-positive bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis, and Gram-negative bacteria, Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae. Venom extract was shown to be effective in inhibiting the growth of Gram-positive bacteria. The venom is therefo ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 05:18:48 -0400 From: "Protect Your Family" Subject: #1 Pocket-Sized Stun Gun-Flashlight #1 Pocket-Sized Stun Gun-Flashlight http://budspro.us/wlyPycuzTTqnIfL8u4ShCTicWqmO5zTN7Xaaa4Fc8gcwjaky http://budspro.us/pcYAflzkVWSkYgwYt9Zh97YvycmSs6dYzXlg82b5ebFVLOuNWg ere is a thermoregulatory organ in the thorax of V. orientalis. It maintains at 6 B0C (11 B0F) higher than the rest of the body, and 9 B0C (16 B0F) above ambient. (Specifically it is located in the dorsal part of the thorax, inward from the meso-scutal plate of the prothorax. This organ is near the median notal suture. It is 1 millimetre (3?64 in) in diameter and butterfly-shaped. The uppermost, hindmost side abuts the base of the forewings.) The authors speculate that this heat generation is powered by the #Electric potential (above) that some of the same authors have previously discovered and investigated. Research and experiments Israeli Space Agency Face of an Oriental hornet, photo taken in Masada National Park, Israel The Israeli Space Agency Investigation About Hornets (ISAIAH) was a project from Tel-Aviv University initiated in 1984 to explore the effects of near-zero gravity on oriental hornets, their development, and their nest-building instincts. The experiments were funded by the Israel Space Agency with the goal of discovering ways to prevent astronauts from suffering headaches, nausea, and vomiting during the missions. The sample of 230 Oriental hornets, flight hardware, and measuring instruments were all packed onto the Space Shuttle Endeavour, mission STS-47, in 1992. During the launch, 202 hornets died as a result of a malfunction in the water system that caused an abnormal increase in humidity. The surviving hornets lost their sense of direction, and unlike the control unit hornets, were unable to climb on the walls or stay in clusters. Instead, they stayed motionless and apart from each other. Roughly 3 to 4 days after returning to earth, the hornets started climbing on the walls again and building a nest. The surviving hornets lived for an average of 23 days, compared to an average survival of 43 day ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #7190 **********************************************