#exchequer

[mwittier]

The Smitten Sister’s first day outside. In which obnoxiousness has fewer walls.

Miss Clarinet, Miss Corduroy, and Miss Demeanor carry on like baby dinosaurs.

[birdgenetics]

Mottling

There are believed to be multiple mottling alleles, all of them recessive to non-mottling. They cause different chick down patterning and varying amounts of white. I am not going to cover all of the alleles, all you need to know that mottling is mo and nonmottling is Mo+

There is some debate as to whether the less even pattern found in exchequer birds is a different allele or if the neat, v-shaped white mottles could simply be achieved through selective breeding. My thoughts? Probably both. Uneven mottling can be turned into neat mottling through selective breeding, but there are some alleles that are messier than others.

It is believed that mille fluer is buff columbian but with extra modifiers, specifically melanizers like the pattern gene and melanotic to create spangling.

The interruption of pigment production by the mottle also helps create this neat spangle. It takes longer for a bird to produce pheomelanin than it does eumelanin. So the mottle interupts pigment, then the bird produces eumelanin, then pheomelanin. That is why the double laced wheaten pattern that you find in dark Cornish gives black edges around the mottles on Spangled Cornish.

The bird works with what it has. If there is no melanin present in the feather at all, the bird will not produce a black edge around the mottle, as evidenced by this red mottled Ancona photographed by Breeding Chickens with Sander.

The black in the spangles can also be diluted to blue or white using the blue and dominant white genes. This cute "Golden Neck" d'Uccle is genetically mille fluer with the dominant white gene.

Mottled is unique in that a mottled bird changes with every molt. The initial chick down looks pied, as seen by these mottled Cochin chicks from Murray McMurray hatchery.

Pied is gene present in many species that give an animal colored patches on top and white patches on the bottom. (See pied guineas, peafowl or pied ducks.) But mottled is not the same mutation as pied. Pied remains the same pattern throughout an animal's life.

The first chick molt gives the same impression

(photo from One Hundred Dollars a Month.)

However, with respective juvenile molts the white becomes more and more evenly distributed over the bird until you get the first adult plumage: the first time the mottling is evenly distrubuted over the whole bird.

With each respective adult molt the bird gets more and more white but distribution continues to be relatively even. (different bird but you get the point)

Now lets cover some oddities. The Ayam Tulak has what looks almost like pied plumage and based on the pictures, the pattern may remain constant throughout its life. However, there are none here in the US and its inheritance is unknown. I would like to know if it is allelic with mottling or if it is true pied (or something else.)

White crests in Polish (this one being a white-crested chocolate) is also theorized to be allelic with mottling.

If you look at the chick down, it is very similar to mottled chick down.

Also, while most of the white distribution on white crested blacks is on their crests, some do have a few tiny mottles on their bodies. Personally, I have seen a white crested black with some mottles at a show.

White crested black is recessive to nonmottled but codominant with at least one other mottling allele.

White crested Polish when crossed with Tolbunt Polish (Tolbunt is gold laced with mottling) produced white crested black and white crested mottled chicks.

[shakespearenews]

New discoveries about John Shakespeare: financial ruin and government corruption | OUPblog

A golden age for some, crooked and dishonest for others? Perhaps William Shakespeare grew up thinking this way about Elizabeth I and her ministers as disaster befell his father.

...by 2018 we had uncovered over twenty new manuscript references to John Shakespeare among the Exchequer writ files. It was clear that in 1573, John Shakespeare’s troubles were only just beginning. Two cases and one man, the professional informer James Langrake, ensured that the Exchequer pursued John for debt into the next decade, by which time his business and credit were ruined and his son William a grown man...

...Ultimately nothing changed, and William Shakespeare grew up knowing that the government treated local men without influence in very different ways from the entrenched back-scratching of the Court and the Westminster bureaucracy. As so many of his plays attest, justice, power and corruption were never far from the creative imagination of a playwright who had experienced this uncertain world first-hand. 

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[marklakshmanan]

“Chess was prohibited by a council at Paris (1213) and by an edict of Louis IX (1254); no one paid much attention to these demurrers; the game became a consuming pastime among the aristocracy, and gave its name to the royal exchequer- a checquered table or chessboard on which the revenues of the state were reckoned.”

Quoting Will Durant in The Age of Faith, Chapter XXX, p838, Simon and Schuster, 1950. He references CH Haskins in Studies in Medieval Culture, Oxford, 1929, p122

[trinethramnews]

రాయితీ పెండింగ్ చలాన్ల చెల్లింపుల ద్వారా ప్రభుత్వ ఖజానాకు భారీగా ఆదాయం సమకూరింది

Trinethram News : హైదరాబాద్: రాయితీ పెండింగ్ చలాన్ల చెల్లింపుల ద్వారా ప్రభుత్వ ఖజానాకు భారీగా ఆదాయం సమకూరింది. మొత్తంగా 3.59 కోట్ల పెండింగ్‌ చలాన్లకు గాను ఇప్పటివరకు రాష్ట్రవ్యాప్తంగా 1,52,47,864 (42.38 శాతం) చలాన్లు చెల్లించారు. వీటి ద్వారా రూ. 135 కోట్ల ఆదాయం వచ్చినట్లు ప్రభుత్వం వెల్లడించింది. హైదరాబాద్ కమిషనరేట్ పరిధిలో రూ.34 కోట్లు, సైబరాబాద్‌ పరిధిలో రూ.25 కోట్లు, రాచకొండ పరిధిలో రూ.16 కోట్లు ఆదాయం వచ్చింది. రాయితీపై చెల్లించేందుకు మరో నాలుగు రోజులు మాత్రమే గడువు ఉండటంతో త్వరగా చెల్లించాలని పోలీసులు సూచించారు. గడువును మరోసారి పొడిగించే అవకాశం లేదని స్పష్టం చేశారు. గతేడాది డిసెంబర్ 27నుంచి పెండింగ్ చలాన్లు చెల్లించేందుకు 15 రోజులు అవకాశం కల్పించిన ప్రభుత్వం.. సాంకేతిక సమస్యల కారణంగా జనవరి 31 వరకు పొడిగించిన విషయం తెలిసిందే

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[attud-com]

Hindustan Aeronautics Offer for Sale Subscribed 19.68 Times by Retail Investors

On Friday, the offer for sale (OFS) by Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) opened for retail investors and was subscribed 19.68 times as of 11:50 am, according to data on the NSE website. The retail portion of the OFS had 585,179 shares available, and the company received a total of 2,30,297 share bids. At the time, HAL shares were trading at Rs 2,597.40 on NSE, which was up Rs 101.05 or 4.05%. The floor price of the issue was set at Rs 2,450 per equity share.https://twitter.com/SecyDIPAM/status/1638862612808237060The non-retail portion of the HAL OFS had opened on Thursday and was subscribed 4.5 times. The Ministry of Finance announced yesterday that it would exercise the green shoe option, as the OFS had received a good response. The OFS comprised of a base issue size of 1.75% or 58.51 lakh shares, with an option to retain an equal quantum of oversubscription.The government proposed on Wednesday to sell up to 3.5% in HAL at a floor price of Rs 2,450 per share. If fully subscribed, the OFS would fetch around Rs 2,800 crore to the exchequer. HAL is a Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE) under the Defence Ministry, with the government currently holding 75.15% of the company.The proceeds from the HAL OFS would add up to the government's disinvestment kitty for the current fiscal. So far, the government has mopped up Rs 31,106.64 crore from disinvestment and share buyback in CPSEs. However, last month, the government had revised its estimates of disinvestment revenue for the current fiscal to Rs 50,000 crore, down from the budget target of Rs 65,000 crore.