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Raytown Charley convinced about the Sis Live A2 575 ??

The Grade A2 Sis Live A2 575 has attracted Ballycaum Lass, Knockrammer Dash, Ballymac Camp, Raytown Charley, Up In Time and Honeymoon Clara. They will race over 525 yards flat at Shelbourne Park on Wednesday, 31^st October for getting their share out of the ?350 prize money of the race.

None of the entries has tried their luck at the open level, but are well seasoned for the grade that they have to race through tonight.

The seven to four entry for tonight, the two-year-old, Raytown Charley, has raced in a Grade A2 race just once, but made the most out of the chance by winning over the rest of the competition.

He started racing just this season, and has accumulated experience over two race tracks. He has won only twice ever since the 2012 campaign took off.

The first time that the two-year-old won was on 7^th September, 2012 over 525 yards. He had drawn the fourth trap, and got the chance to lead only near the wire. Last Bid?s son settled the race by the margin of a neck?s mark, and cornered, Bing Saturn, as the runner-up.

The last two races of the Mongey trained have boosted his chances for landing the race tonight.

The black hound qualified as the runner-up in a Grade A4 Book Your Christmas Party A4 525 on 10^th October, 2012 at Shelbourne Park over 525 yards.

He found the race to be a challenging task after breaking from the fourth trap, but still ran in for the wire. Making the most out of every chance that came his way, the two-year-old missed the winner?s prize money by the negligible margin of a neck.

The winner, Drumcrow Miller, completed the trip in 29.19 seconds.

The most recent successful attempt of the black hound out of, Choice Bud, was on 20^th October, 2012 over 575 yards. Taking flight from the fifth box, and racing with sheer determination had him making it to the other end of the wire after racing for 31.57 seconds.

St Mullins Pride had to make peace with the second position after missing the opportunity by good three lengths.

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Ozone's impact on soybean yield: Reducing future losses

ScienceDaily (Oct. 30, 2012) ? People tend to think of ozone as something in the upper atmosphere that protects Earth's surface from UV radiation. At the ground level, however, ozone is a pollutant that damages crops, particularly soybean.

Lisa Ainsworth, a University of Illinois associate professor of crop sciences and USDA Agricultural Research Service plant molecular biologist, said that establishing the exposure threshold for damage is critical to understanding the current and future impact of this pollutant.

"Most of my research is on measuring the effects of ozone on soybean, determining the mechanisms of response, and then trying to improve soybean tolerance to ozone so that we can improve soybean yields," she explained.

Ozone is highly reactive with membranes and proteins and is known to damage the human lung. It also harms plants, slowing photosynthesis and accelerating senescence. As a result, they take in and fix less carbon, reducing yield. Ainsworth said that ground level concentrations of ozone are already high enough to damage crop production.

"Ozone reacts very quickly once it enters the leaf through the stomata," she explained. "It can form other oxygen radicals and also hydrogen peroxide. Then a series of cascading reactions causes a decrease in photosynthesis, reducing stomata conductance."

The plant's response to ozone mimics a hypersensitive response to a pathogen attack. "At quite high concentrations of ozone, you can get leaf bronzing, stippling of the leaves, and necrotic spots," Ainsworth said. "At really high concentrations, you get cell death." The metabolic changes then feed forward to affect plant productivity.

Ainsworth's group conducted a two year study in 2009 and 2010 at the Soybean Free Air Concentration Enrichment (SoyFACE) facility at the U of I South Farms. It was the first dose-response experiment to look at ozone and soybean under completely open-air conditions.

They investigated the responses of seven different soybean genotypes to eight ozone concentrations. The plants were exposed to ozone concentrations ranging from ambient levels of 38 parts per billion up to 200 parts per billion. "This is quite high, but unfortunately, those kinds of concentrations are what very polluted areas of China and India are looking at today," Ainsworth said.

The researchers found that any increase above the ambient concentration was enough to reduce seed yield: roughly half a bushel per acre for each additional part per billion.

"This is significant," Ainsworth said. "Especially considering that background concentrations of ozone today vary year to year, anywhere from about 38 to 39 parts per billion to about 62. That can be 15 bushels per acre from one year to the next that farmers are losing to ozone." The researchers compared the results of this study, which used modern genotypes, with results from experiments conducted in controlled environments in the 1980s. They found that the responses of the modern genotypes were similar to those of the older genotypes.

"Breeders haven't inadvertently bred for ozone tolerance in more modern lines," Ainsworth said. "They're still sensitive to ozone, which means that farmers are still subject to these yearly variations in ozone and are losing yield accordingly."

Potential increases in background ozone are predicted to increase soybean yield losses by 9 to 19 percent by 2030. Levels were particularly high during this year's growing season because most days were sunny and warm, and thus they were favorable for ozone formation. Peaks on many days exceeded 80 parts per billion, twice the known sensitivity threshold.

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1. Amy M. Betzelberger et al. Ozone Exposure-Response for U.S. Soybean Cultivars: Linear Reductions in Photosynthetic Potential, Biomass and Yield. Plant Physiology, October 2012 DOI: %u200B10.%u200B1104/%u200Bpp.%u200B112.%u200B205591

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95% Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark in IMAX

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Average Rating: 7.1/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 2

Featuring bravura set pieces, sly humor, and white-knuckle action, Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of the most consummately entertaining adventure pictures of all time.

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User Ratings: 808,555

Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is no ordinary archeologist. When we first see him, he is somewhere in the Peruvian jungle in 1936, running a booby-trapped gauntlet (complete with an over-sized rolling boulder) to fetch a solid-gold idol. He loses this artifact to his chief rival, a French archeologist named Belloq (Paul Freeman), who then prepares to kill our hero. In the first of many serial-like escapes, Indy eludes Belloq by hopping into a convenient plane. So, then: is Indiana Jones afraid of anything? Yes, snakes. The next time we see Jones, he's a soft-spoken, bespectacled professor. He is then summoned from his ivy-covered environs by Marcus Brody (Denholm Elliott) to find the long-lost Ark of the Covenant. The Nazis, it seems, are already searching for the Ark, which the mystical-minded Hitler hopes to use to make his stormtroopers invincible. But to find the Ark, Indy must first secure a medallion kept under the protection of Indy's old friend Abner Ravenwood, whose daughter, Marion (Karen Allen), evidently has a "history" with Jones. Whatever their personal differences, Indy and Marion become partners in one action-packed adventure after another, ranging from wandering the snake pits of the Well of Souls to surviving the pyrotechnic unearthing of the sacred Ark. A joint project of Hollywood prodigies George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, with a script co-written by Lawrence Kasdan and Philip Kaufman, among others, Raiders of the Lost Ark is not so much a movie as a 115-minute thrill ride. Costing 22 million dollars (nearly three times the original estimate), Raiders of the Lost Ark reaped 200 million dollars during its first run. It was followed by Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1985) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), as well as a short-lived TV-series "prequel." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

In Theaters: Sep 7, 2012 Limited

On DVD: Oct 21, 2003

Box Office:$3.1M

Paramount Pictures

Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/indiana_jones_and_the_raiders_of_the_lost_ark_in_imax/

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