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Posted by EHS Insight Staff on October 11, 2016 at 9:16 AM
Ecolab plays a major role in solving global challenges that revolve around natural resources, but how does its safety program impact its own employees?
Photograph by Daniel Acker — Bloomberg
How often does your company assess safety performance? At Ecolab, that occurs every month. Its systems are capable of helping them identify not only the current risks in their processes, but also potential areas of concern as well.
Not only that, but Ecolab's robust tracking capability allows it to hone in on areas that need the most attention. Finally, it's able to actually measure the effectiveness of all its safety initiatives.
So, What are the Results of These Increased Capabilities at Ecolab?
As a result of their safety program, the leadership team at Ecolab has managed an impressive improvement in two major safety metrics.
First, the Total Vehicle Accident Rate has dropped since 2014. In just one year, the company reduced that rate from 3.09 per million to 3.06 per million.
That's a 35 percent reduction since 2012.
Similarly, Ecolab's Total Recordable Injury Rate (TRIR) has dropped 23 percent since 2012. During the year from 2014 to 2015, the number per 100 employees dropped from 1.55 to 1.42. That translates to a negative 8.4 percent year over year reduction in the TRIR.
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What's the secret? One of the keys to Ecolab's safety program success is its ability to be proactive with every aspect of the program. Employees actively seek out risk at each and every one of their facilities in order to address safety problems before they occur.
Being able to juggle large pools of data is part of the equation: Ecolab logged more than 82,000 safety observations in 2015 alone. The company also completed 35 percent more safety audits in 2015 than they had in the previous year.
Knowing how to assess all that data is another part of the equation. Finally, knowing how to act on the implications of data analysis is the final piece of the safety puzzle.
As a result of its program success, Ecolab was named to the 2016 Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index. "We are honored to be recognized for this commitment, which is inherent in our work to make the world cleaner, safer and healthier," Ecolab Chairman and CEO Douglas M. Baker, Jr. said in a release.
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Q: Image ignore max-width on load, but accepts it after toggling the max-width, or resizing the window I have some divs and an image inside, and the css is working as I want it (almost), except that when I refresh the page or load it for the first time, the image width takes the entire div width, which ignores the css properties. It only notices the css properties when the window is resized (e.g. by 1px), or if in google developer tools, I toggle the max-width off and then back on, or if I toggle the parent div display off and then back on.
You can see this is the case in this video I just took:
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Energy insight: The UK's Energy Sector & the 'Internet of Things'
By Londondiciembre 23, 2014diciembre 20th, 2021ES insight
By Joshua Eldridge & Neeraj Shah, Consultants, London
It has been widely prophesied that the so-called 'Internet of Things' (IoT) will transform almost every aspect of 21st century life; from health, transport and energy to the connected home. Countless column inches have been devoted to fuelling IoT hype and consequently people expect much from this burgeoning concept. But what is the IoT? Gartner provides a useful definition, conceptualising the IoT as "the network of physical objects that contain embedded technology to communicate and sense or interact with their internal states or the external environment".
At this point it is common for technology writers to include a selection of impressive, but inflated (and ultimately useless) predictions about the number of connected devices that will be in existence by 2030, or some other date in the near future. This is unhelpful because taken as a whole; the IoT is an incomprehensible prospect. However, there are insights to be gained from more targeted examinations, and as such focus shall be given to the system level effects of the IoT in the UK energy sector.
Smart Energy: From meter to grid to city
In particular, the IoT promises to help the UK deliver a more secure, reliable, cost-effective and low carbon energy system. The IoT will help the energy grid to become 'smarter' by enabling integration of renewable energy generation – both small and large scale, better matching demand with supply, and helping householders and industry to reduce their energy consumption. A tangible articulation of the IoT can be evidenced by the forthcoming roll-out of smart meters.
What are smart meters? Metering devices with sensors that enable two-way communication between the meter and the central system. Smart meters will put an end to estimated billing by measuring exactly how much energy is actually used, at what cost, and in real-time.
Smart metering technology has the capacity to empower consumers by giving them greater control over their electricity and gas use, and by increasing competition in the retail energy market. It is hoped that this empowerment will not only change the way people think about their energy consumption but provide consumers with the level of understanding about energy usage and pricing to be able to compare tariffs easily and make switching suppliers easy.
Smart meters are a key part of the wider transition to a smart energy grid, but it is crucial that the rollout is a success. The Data and Communications Company (DCC) have considerable responsibility for the fate of smart meter rollout in the UK, having been licensed to establish and manage the necessary smart metering communications infrastructure. Unfortunately it is a highly complex task, like any other nationwide infrastructure programme, and the project has already been subject to delay and upward cost revisions. However, if time and cost risks are mitigated, smart meters have the potential to open up the retail market, lower barriers for supply market entrants, trigger a wave of competition and ultimately empower consumers.
The successful rollout of smart meters will play a crucial role in the development of the smart energy grid, a modernisation that promises so much for the UK energy system of the future. The IoT has the capacity to transform the energy grid through enhanced demand management that will use real-time data to respond to the behaviour of both energy suppliers and consumers and make it easier to accommodate intermittent renewables. In turn, smart energy grids will constitute an essential building block upon which 'smart cities' will be built, but what, exactly, are 'smart cities'?
Cities already use data to improve performance at a departmental level so that they operate more efficiently. 'Smart cities' takes this idea further by exploring how cities can use data insights to solve or at the very least mitigate common concerns affecting cities, from congestion and public health, to climate change and peak energy demand management.
Political Intelligence attended Policy Exchange's recent Smart Cities Conference where speakers and panellists discussed how data could be used to drive the development of smart cities in the UK. Speaking at the conference, Peter Madden, Chief Executive of the Future Cities Catapult, one of seven 'Catapults' launched by Innovate UK (responsible for funding, supporting and connecting innovative businesses to accelerate sustainable economic growth), highlighted how the UK has not yet been able to apply the concept of 'smart cities' at a city-wide scale.
'Future City Glasgow' – a pilot which recently beat 29 other cities to win funding for a £24 million programme to demonstrate "how technology can make life in the city smarter, safer and more sustainable", will determine whether the UK can create smart cities. The capacity to demonstrate the viability of sufficiently 'smart' energy grids will impact strongly on this determination, and their findings should go some way to informing more accurate predictions about the future of smart cities in the UK.
As with all emerging technologies that promise solutions to previously intractable problems, it is important to separate the hype from the deliverables and focus on the details. The extent to which the IoT will practically help the UK to meet legally binding climate targets and achieve domestic energy objectives will be of paramount interest. As usual, the devil will be in the detail, and smart meters (as a tangible expression of the IoT) are a case in point. However, if smart meters can deliver the expected benefits in terms of demand management, cost reductions and market transformation then the UK will move a significant step closer to possessing a truly 'smart' energy grid upon which smart(er) cities may be built.
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Sometime during the 1850s, Frederic S. Cozzens boarded a Cunard Line steamship in Boston, bound for Nova Scotia. The travel sketches which resulted appeared afterwards in his book, Acadia; or, a month with the Blue Noses (1859). While in Nova Scotia, Cozzens visited a Mi'kmaq encampment about a mile from Sydney, Cape Breton, and recorded his impressions:
It was a little cluster of birch-bark wigwams, pitched upon a carpet of greensward, just at the edge of one of the loveliest harbors in the world.... When our file-leader reached the wigwam of the chief, he went down on hands and knees, lifted up a little curtain or blanket in front of the low door of the tent, crawled in head first, and we followed close upon his heels.
Inside, Cozzens found that
A circle of poles, say about ten feet in diameter at the base, and tied together to an apex at the top, covered with the thin bark of the birch-tree, except a space above to let out the smoke, was all the protection these people had against the elements in summer or winter. The floor, of course, was the primitive soil of Cape Breton, in the centre of the tent a few sticks were smouldering away over a little pile of ashes: the thin smoke lifted itself up in folds of blue vapor until it stole forth into the evening air from the opening in the roof. Through this aperture the light--the only light of the tent--fell down upon the group below.... Around the central fire a broad green border of fragrant hemlock twigs, extending to the skirts of the tent, was raised a few inches from the ground. Upon this couch we sat....
As Cozzens left, he noted that the encampment, with its "birch-bark wigwams; the canoes that lined the beach; the paddles, the utensils; the bows and arrows; [and] the parti-colored baskets, [are all] independent of [and]...earlier than [any of] our arts and manufactures."
The traditional Mi'kmaq shelter–the conical wigwam–was constructed from poles covered with birchbark strips which were sewn together with spruce. Wigwams varied considerably in height and in ground circumference, depending on the season of the year. In winter they were built for warmth, shelter and mobility, scattered through the woods as the Mi'kmaq followed game.
Before construction began, the ground was leveled with an adze or hoe. Heat was provided by a central fireplace bordered with stones, and smoke escaped through an opening where the poles met at the top of the wigwam. Small fir branches were spread on the earthen floor, and over these were laid woven reed mats and moose or other skins. The wigwam was warm and comfortable, easily erected and well suited to the Mi'kmaq nomadic way of life.
In summer the Mi'kmaq lived in larger, oblong-shaped wigwams clustered in villages near the water. Some 46 summer locations have been identified throughout Nova Scotia, where 200-300 residents of each village took advantage of seasonal fishing.
Permanent structures came later, as the Mi'kmaq were encouraged to settle on lands reserved for them. Schools and churches, constructed mostly under the sponsorship of government agencies or religious bodies, signified this transition to a new way of life. The Big Harbour Island school in Cape Breton, photographed by Clara Dennis in the 1930s, was one example.
Margaret MacPhail later wrote in The Halifax Chronicle-Herald (16 June 1950) that the island community had experienced many negative changes over the years–there had been no grants for canal repairs, the five miles of road were unimproved, the school was closed, and the mail route and post office had disappeared. Indeed, as a result of the federal government's Centralization Policy, the community's entire population, both native and white, had dispersed by 1949–the reservation was completely vacated and the native population moved to Eskasoni.
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Mi'kmaq guides from Bear River at camp near Weymouth, N.S.
Photographer: J.A. Irvine
Reference no.: J.A. Irvine Nova Scotia Archives Photo Drawer - Indians - Micmac Guides
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Isaac Sack in front of wigwam, Nova Scotia Provincial Exhibition
Reference no.: J.A. Irvine Nova Scotia Archives Album 35, no. 86
"Indian Church in Millbrook Micmac Reservation"
Photographer: E.G.L. Wetmore
Reference no.: Nova Scotia Archives Photo Drawer - Places - Hilden
"Big Harbour Island, Malagawatch, Indian School"
Photographer: Clara Dennis
Reference no.: Clara Dennis Nova Scotia Archives accession 1981-541 no. 373CB
"Micmac wigwams, Nova Scotia"
Date: ca. 1863- ca. 1873
Photographer: Joseph S. Rogers
Reference no.: Walter Kauzman Nova Scotia Archives accession no. 1989-268, no. 15
Mi'kmaq group in ceremonial dress of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Photographer: A.R. Cogswell
Reference no.: A.R. Cogswell Nova Scotia Archives accession no. 1992-414, no.72
"Indian Camp with Sim Pictou"
Photographer: anonymous
Reference no.: Historic Restoration Society of Annapolis County Nova Scotia Archives accession no. 1985-514
Mi'kmaq encampment at Tuft's Cove, Halifax County
Reference no.: Joseph S. Rogers Nova Scotia Archives Rogers' Photographic Advertising Album, 1871, p. 18
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What Is The Tax Underpayment Penalty? (Solution found)
An underpayment penalty is a fine levied by the IRS on taxpayers who don't pay enough of their estimated taxes or have enough withheld from their wages, or who pay late. To avoid an underpayment penalty, individuals must pay either 100% of last year's tax or 90% of this year's tax.
What is the underpayment penalty for 2020?
The standard penalty is 3.398% of your underpayment, but it gets reduced slightly if you pay up before April 15. So let's say you owe a total of $14,000 in federal income taxes for 2020. If you don't pay at least $12,600 of that during 2020, you'll be assessed the penalty.
The penalty is 5% of the unpaid taxes for each month or part of a month that a tax return is late (unpaid tax is the total tax shown on your return reduced by amounts paid through withholding, estimated tax payments, and allowed refundable credits).
How do I calculate my underpayment penalty?
The IRS will send a notice if you underpaid estimated taxes. They determine the penalty by calculating the amount based on the taxes accrued (total tax minus refundable tax credits) on your original return or a more recent one you filed.
Is underpayment penalty waived for 2021?
The IRS has announced (Notice 2021-08) that it will waive the addition to tax under IRC Section 6654 for an individual taxpayer's underpayment of estimated tax if the underpayment is attributable to changes the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) made to IRC Section 461(l)(1)(B).
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If you file your 2021 Tax Return after the deadline and you did not get an extension, then you will be assessed a penalty of 5% of your balance due per month or part of a month a return is filed late (for up to five months).
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the act of paying someone too little for the work they do, or an occasion when this happens: the act of paying less than is necessary or less than the value of something, or an occasion when this happens: She received a bill for underpayment of more than $1000. 6
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If you didn't pay enough tax throughout the year, either through withholding or by making estimated tax payments, you may have to pay a penalty for underpayment of estimated tax. Generally, taxpayers should make estimated tax payments in four equal amounts to avoid a penalty.
How can I avoid 1040 underpayment penalty?
Generally, most taxpayers will avoid this penalty if they owe less than $1,000 in tax after subtracting their withholdings and credits, or if they paid at least 90% of the tax for the current year, or 100% of the tax shown on the return for the prior year, whichever is smaller.
Does the IRS waive underpayment penalty for 2020?
The AICPA recommends the IRS provide taxpayers relief from underpayment and late-payment penalties for the 2020 tax year if: The taxpayer paid 70% (90% if adjusted gross income (AGI) exceeds $150,000) of the amount of tax shown on their U.S. income tax return for the prior year; or.
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Parasitic Plants: Corpse Flower, Mistletoe, and Dodder
Linda Crampton
Linda Crampton is a writer and former science teacher with an honors degree in biology. She enjoys writing about science and nature.
Rafflesia arnoldii is a species of corpse flower and a parasitic plant.
Rendra Regan Rais, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 License
Parasitism: A Frequently Successful Lifestyle
Parasitic plants have the ultimate plant lifestyle. They get their food or water from another plant instead of making food or obtaining water on their own. The host does the heavy lifting and the parasite benefits. The relationship between the two plants can be very successful for the parasite, as long as it doesn't kill its host.
Parasitic plants often have root-like structures called haustoria that penetrate the host and enter its xylem or phloem. Xylem contains vessels that conduct water and minerals upwards from the soil. Phloem contains vessels that transport food made by photosynthesis downwards. The haustoria absorb nutrients and food from the xylem and phloem, which the parasite uses.
One interesting parasite is Rafflesia, which is also known as the corpse flower due to the distinctive odor that it produces. Rafflesia arnoldii produces the largest and perhaps the smelliest flower in the world. (The titan arum is often said to produce the largest flower in the world, but as explained later in this article it doesn't deserve this honor.) The mistletoe that is popular at Christmas is also a parasite, as is dodder, which often forms a heavy growth on its host and withdraws a considerable amount of food.
Dodder growing on an elder (or elderberry) plant
Bogdan, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 License
Classification of Parasitic Plants
Over 4,000 species of parasitic plants exist. Most of them are flowering plants. Successful, ongoing parasitism is an easy way to make a living, since the parasite doesn't have to expend or absorb as much energy as would be expected in order to fulfill its needs.The parasites may be either holoparasites or hemiparasites.
Holoparasites get all of their food and nutrients from a host plant. Rafflesia and the dodder are holoparasites. The term "hemiparasite" refers to an organism that gets some of its nutrients from its host but also performs photosynthesis (the process by which non-parasitic plants make their own food). The mistletoe is a hemiparasite, since it needs materials from its host but carries out its own photosynthesis.
A successful parasite doesn't kill its host. If it did, it would no longer have the food, nutrients, or water that it requires. The host of a parasite is sometimes killed, however.
Rafflesia or the Corpse Flower
Rafflesia is found in the forests of Indonesia and Southeast Asia. It's an example of extreme parasitism. Rafflesia has no stems, leaves, or roots and lives inside the vines of another plant. Its body consists of filaments that spread through the vine and obtain food from the host. Rafflesia is classified as an endoparasite since it lives inside another plant. The only part of the parasite that is visible to the outside world is the flower.
The flower first appears as an orange swelling or bud on the branch of a vine. This bud gradually enlarges. In Rafflesia arnoldii, the bud is about the size of a cabbage when it's mature. It opens up over a period of four days, producing a huge orange, pink, and red flower that may be more than three feet wide. The flower has five tough, leathery petals covered with lighter colored bumps or warts. In the center of each flower is a deep pit that contains a disk of spines. The reproductive structures are located under this disk. Male and female Rafflesias are separate plants.
The flower is not only large but also very smelly. In fact, the smell is often likened to that of decaying flesh and the flower is sometimes known as the corpse flower. The smell attracts carrion insects that normally feed on the dead bodies of animals. As the insects move from flower to flower, they act as a pollination agent. The flowers exist for only a few days. After this time, they begin to decompose and become black and slimy.
The central part of a Rafflesia pricei flower
Dick Culbert, via flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 License
Many species of Rafflesia exist. They belong to the Rafflesiaceae family. The parasites grow in rainforest vines belonging to the Tetrastigma genus. The largest flowers are around thirty-nine inches in diameter and weigh about fifteen pounds.
The Titan Arum: Another Corpse Flower
Although Rafflesia is often claimed to be the largest flower in the world, that honor is sometimes given to Amorphophallus titanum, or the titan arum. This plant is also known as the corpse flower due to the foul odor that it emits. The plant is native to Sumatra and isn't parasitic.
The titan arum may be close to ten feet tall. There are usually many years between each "flower" emergence, an event that is often exciting for viewers. Unlike Rafflesia, the titan arum produces a large compound structure called an inflorescence that contains many smaller flowers, or florets. Some people mistakenly think that the inflorescence is a flower. Therefore Rafflesia really does deserve the honor of being the largest single flower on Earth. The titan arum is shown in the video below.
Population Status of Rafflesia
At least some species of Rafflesia are thought to be endangered, although this is somewhat difficult to determine because most of the plant is hidden and the flowers exist for such a short period of time.
There are several reasons for the endangered status. Habitat destruction presents a major difficulty for Rafflesia, but another problem is the very specific requirements of the parasite's life cycle. Potential problems for the parasite are listed below.
The Rafflesia plant is able to survive in only certain species of vine.
Many of the plant's flower buds fail to open.
Flowers live for only a few days.
Male and female flowers must be open at the same time.
The male and female flowers must be close enough for flies to transfer pollen from the male to the female.
True mistletoes belong to the sandlewood family, or the Santalaceae. The latter term is a very appropriate family name for the European mistletoe, the traditional species of the Christmas season. All members of the family Santalaceae are parasitic to some extent.
The Mistletoe Plant
Hundreds of species of mistletoes exist. They can be found around the world and grow on the branches of many different types of host trees. Both true mistletoes (genus Phoradendron) and dwarf mistletoes (genus Arceuthobium) are found in North America. The European mistletoe (Viscum album) has been introduced to some parts of the continent. True mistletoes affect mainly deciduous trees, although some species grow on conifers. Dwarf mistletoes affect only conifers.
A true mistletoe inserts its haustoria through its host's bark to obtain water and minerals. The parasite requires these nutrients in order to make its food. Its leaves contain chlorophyll, and it produces its own food by photosynthesis, so it's classified as a hemiparasite. (The prefix "hemi" means "half".)
True mistletoes living in North America have small, green leaves that are oval in shape and are thick and leathery. They are evergreen plants. They form clumps, which may be hanging or upright. The clump is sometimes known as a witch's broom. The structures are especially noticeable in winter when the host tree has lost its leaves. Some birds build their nests in witch's brooms.
This European mistletoe attached to a silver birch tree has formed a witch's broom.
Andrew Dunn, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 License
The development of a structure resembling a witch's broom isn't always caused by mistletoe. Other organisms and a hormonal problem in the tree can also cause the abnormal growth.
Flowers and Berries
True mistletoe plants are dioecious, which means they are either male or female. The female plant's flowers are small and greenish yellow in color, and the berries are usually white. They may have a yellow, orange or pink tinge, however, depending on the species.
The berries have a sticky pulp, which is important in the distribution of the seeds. When a bird eats the berries, the seeds pass undigested through its digestive tract, still inside their sticky covering. They are released into a new area in the bird's droppings. If they land in a suitable spot on a tree, they germinate and send haustoria into their host. In Europe, the mistle thrush eats mistletoe berries as part of its diet, while in Australia the mistletoe bird does the same thing.
Does Mistletoe Damage Its Host?
Mistletoe may or may not damage its host. A large host with only a few mistletoe clumps may not be significantly affected by the parasite, but a small host with lots of clumps can be seriously weakened and may eventually die.
Most people consider the parasite to be a pest, except perhaps at Christmas when the tradition of kissing under the mistletoe is enjoyed. The plant has had a reputation as a magical and mystical plant since ancient times. The tradition of kissing someone under a mistletoe at a winter festival seems to be a very old one. Its origin is uncertain. Many theories attempt to explain the tradition, but none of them have been proved.
In the UK, mistletoe is becoming less common. Instead of treating the plant as a pest, some people are deliberately adding the parasite to trees in their garden to help preserve it. Seeding a tree with mistletoe is definitely not a good idea in North America, where the parasite can spread to other trees and cause damage.
Mistletoe berries
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Is Mistletoe Poisonous?
Mistletoe berries and leaves (Phoradendron and Viscum species) are poisonous to humans and to pets, although the degree of toxicity depends on the species of mistletoe and the amount of plant material that is eaten. The toxins can cause gastrointestinal upset, including nausea, stomach cramps, and diarrhea, as well as blurred vision. They can also cause a slowed heartbeat, which produces a drop in blood pressure.
Although most people seem to agree that mistletoe is poisonous, especially the berries, the potential seriousness of the poisoning is somewhat controversial. Surveys have shown that many people experience only minor consequences after ingesting part of the plant. It's important to realize that the results may have been different if the surveys had been done with people who had eaten a different species or quantity of mistletoe, however. In addition, individual responses to a toxin or to a specific concentration of the toxin may be different.
Mistletoe is known to be toxic to dogs, cats, and horses as well as humans. In pets, mistletoe poisoning is occasionally fatal. Therefore the plant should be kept out of reach of both children and animals. A doctor or vet should be consulted if any of the plant is eaten.
A field dodder
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Dodder
Dodder is the common name of a group of parasitic plants in the morning glory family, or the Convolvulaceae. It's sometimes known as Cuscuta, which is the first word in its scientific name. Multiple species of dodder exist. The plant is said to be filiform, which means that its body resembles filament, thread, or yarn. It has a widespread distribution and is found in both temperate and tropical parts of the world.
The stems of a dodder range from yellow to red in color. It may appear to have no leaves, but these are present in the form of tiny scales. The dodder stem wraps itself around the stem of its host in a spiral pattern and is sometimes known as strangleweed. Older names for the plant include devil's hair and devil's guts. The alternate names are understandable considering how much harm the plant can do. Dodder obtains its food from its host and can create serious infestations.
Dodder is an annual plant. Native North American dodders have small, cream-colored flowers. Some plants produce thousands of seeds which remain viable for many years. The video below shows a time-lapse view of a dodder's attack on its host.
The Life of a Dodder Plant
Dodder seeds germinate in the soil, just like the seeds of non-parasitic flowering plants. The young dodder detects organic compounds that are released into the air by nearby plants and grows towards one of them, which becomes the parasite's host. In a sense, the dodder is "smelling" its possible hosts, although unlike us it isn't perceiving the smells consciously. Nevertheless, it responds to the smell by changing its behavior, just as we often do when we detect a new odor. The dodder may grow around multiple plants and can have more than one host. Once it has found a host, the dodder's roots die.
The dodder sinks "suckers", or haustoria, into its host. It's often a very serious pest, since it absorbs the food that the host plant has made for its own use. It's been discovered that some dodders can carry out a small amount of photosynthesis, but this doesn't seem to provide a significant amount of food. A host plant and a mistletoe may survive together for many years, but this isn't the case with dodder and its host. The parasite often forms dense and damaging coverings around other plants. It can be a great nuisance to gardeners and farmers and may cause major economic losses.
Cuscuta epithymum, the common dodder
Isidre blanc, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 License
The Problem of Parasitism
Parasites are interesting organisms. They have developed a method of living that is often very successful and reduces the effort required to survive. From their point of view, parasitism is the ideal relationship.
Parasitic plants may present no problem to humans or cause only a minor problem. Sometimes, though, they become an enemy that needs to be defeated. Scientists are gradually learning more about the relationships between the plants and their hosts. This should help researchers find more effective ways to control the parasites that have harmful effects on human lives.
Rafflesia arnoldii information from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew
Facts about a colossal blossom (Rafflesia arnoldii) from Harvard Magazine
Titan arum facts from the University of California Botanical Garden
Mistletoe facts from Concordia University of Edmonton
12 Things to Know about Mistletoe from the National Wildlife Federation
Dodder facts from the Missouri Botanical Garden
Information about the dodder plant from the University of California Integrated Pest Management Program
Question: Why are dodder and mistletoe considered parasites?
Answer: A parasite is an organism that lives in or on another organism and obtains nutrients from it. The organism that supplies the nutrients is known as the host. Dodder is classified as a parasite because it absorbs nutrients from its host. It has no roots when it's mature and gets food, water, and minerals from the host. Mistletoe is classified as a hemiparasite. (The prefix "hemi" means half.) Mistletoe absorbs water and minerals from its host, but makes its own food via photosynthesis.
Question: How can you kill the parasitic plant dodder?
Answer: The first step is to inspect plants regularly and to remove any dodder seedlings that are seen. If the parasite is discovered after its roots have died, its stems should be removed by hand to prevent the distribution of its seeds. Unfortunately, while this may reduce the spread of the infestation, it won't remove it. The haustoria inside the host plant can produce new dodder plants. This means that the host may have to be removed in order to remove the dodder. Cutting some plants to a point below the dodder attachment area, such as by mowing or pruning, may save them.
It may take persistent treatment in more than one year to completely remove dodder, since its seeds are easily spread from one place to another. If the parasite keeps on returning to an area despite a person's best efforts, it might be necessary to apply a pre-emergent pesticide to soil to stop seeds from germinating and seedlings from emerging. A plant nursery or other source of pesticide information should be consulted about the choice of an effective herbicide and its safe use. The use of a pesticide should never be taken lightly. In a garden instead of an agricultural area, a herbicide probably won't be needed.
© 2012 Linda Crampton
Linda Crampton (author) from British Columbia, Canada on March 25, 2017:
Hi, Joshua. The strangler fig is classified as an epiphyte—a plant that grows on another one—but not a parasite. It doesn't enter its host, but it does eventually kill it.
Joshua on March 24, 2017:
is the strangler fig a parasitic plant?
Linda Crampton (author) from British Columbia, Canada on July 03, 2015:
Thank you very much for the comment, adevwriting. I appreciate your visit.
Arun Dev from United Countries of the World on July 03, 2015:
Rufflesia must stink really bad.......... Anyways, fascinating hub :)
Linda Crampton (author) from British Columbia, Canada on September 24, 2014:
Thank you for the kind comment, ologsinquito. The world definitely is fascinating!
ologsinquito from USA on September 24, 2014:
This world certainly is fascinating. I really like how you presented this article, which kept me glued right to the end.
Linda Crampton (author) from British Columbia, Canada on August 26, 2012:
Hi, Ingenira. Thank you very much for the comment! I'm fascinated by plants, too, especially the unusual ones like parasitic plants. They are very interesting to study.
Ingenira on August 26, 2012:
I am always fascinated with plants, and what a joy indeed to read this informative articles. If you are organizing a tour to the forrest or park, do count me in !
Hi, GoodLady. Parasitic plants can certainly be very annoying and troubling! Sometimes they are beautiful and relatively harmless, though. Parasitism in the plant kingdom is an interesting way of life. Thanks for the comment.
Penelope Hart from Rome, Italy on August 21, 2012:
Fascinating. I knew so little about parasites before reading your in depth feature on the different types of parasites and parasitic plants. I can now see how important it is to understand the relationship between the parasitic plant and its host. There is a parasitic plant in England (can't remember its name) that is spreading everywhere and causing massive damage because it is so powerful- Wish i could remember what it's called - blind spot, sorry. It takes over gardens in the suburbs of cities - ruining them. Be nice to be able to get rid of it!
Thanks for the comment and for all the votes, Peggy. It is very interesting to learn about parasitic plants by seeing them on the television and in videos when they can't be seen in real life!
Peggy Woods from Houston, Texas on August 19, 2012:
We often see mistletoe growing in trees here in the south. I found this article to be very interesting. I have never seen the other two types of parasitic plants in person that you featured in this article. We missed seeing (and smelling) the corpse flower when it was in bloom at our natural science museum here in Houston. Naturally it was featured on local television stations, so we viewed it that way.
Good subject. Up, useful and interesting votes.
Thank you very much for the comment and the vote, teaches. I think that parasitic plants are fascinating, even though they can be troublesome.
Dianna Mendez on August 19, 2012:
Wow, this is a little scary! To think that a simple walk around the park or field could possibly hold some interesting parasites. Fascinating read and voted way up!


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Barnaby Joyce, Turnbull's nightmare or the Nats gift to Labor
It's official, Barnaby Joyce will soon be only a heart-beat away from being Prime Minister.
What is going on? What went wrong with the rumoured Liberal plan to keep Wokka on the payroll until after Turnbull got back in? Will Barnaby even be re-elected, given Tony Windsor's threat to nominate as an independent who would at least represent his electorate and not sell out local farmers' by giving their water to Shenhua mining? Is Barnaby the best man to arrest the National's slow but inexorable shuffle into extinction?
As news of Joyce's anointment as Nationals Leader filtered out Thursday, a mob of LNP loyalists in the ABC rushed to put a positive spin on the member for New England's elevation, occasioned neither by merit nor popularity but by old bull Warren Truss's retirement. Rumours of a challenge proved unfounded and no-one outside the Nationals could explain the process of acclamation or herd instinct which gave Barn the nod in the end. One thing is certain. A Barnaby explanation is unlikely to help.
ABC TV news showed an image of Joyce and Turnbull in profile in the Canberra afternoon sun, hayseed and spiv picking their way across press cables in the grounds of parliament house. It was not a reassuring image; not an election-winning look. The pair are at best an odd couple but many in MSM were keen to give the marriage of convenience a boost. Few bothered to note the different religions of the pro-foreign investment PM and his new keep the bastards out agrarian socialist deputy. It can't last and it won't work.
A few, such as Bernard Keane foresee disaster. With Robb's resignation, Turnbull will lack capable and experienced hands on deck. An embattled PM will have to contend, moreover, with a deputy who is a maverick on fiscal policy and foreign investment. Tony Abbott had to drop him after four months as shadow finance minister. Joyce seemed set on playing the role of fiscal village idiot. Debt was so huge, he once alleged that Australia would soon default on its foreign debt. Just what you need, really in an aspiring deputy PM.
Someone on ABC's The Drum gushed that Joyce would certainly get the Nat's brand 'out there', whatever that may be, in an echo of the Liberal mantra. Bugger policy, just get the message out. No-one, however, would quibble with the 'out there'. Another thought Barnaby said what he thought, unwittingly identifying his Achilles heel. Joyce's cringe-worthy grandstand over Johnny Depp's dogs has clearly worked well for him in some quarters. 'Bugger off back to America' certainly has a ring about it.
Who knows 'We decide whose dogs come into this country' could be an election winner in the way that a similar slogan worked for John Howard after the Tampa crisis. The country's been barking mad on migration since.
Dubious claims and dog-whistling aside, what seems clear is that the Nationals are now packaged on MSM as a kind of circus who merit a cheer for giving us Joyce, a favourite clown, an outspoken but amiable and benign buffoon who will entertain us as a celebrity in the razzle-dazzle Luna Park of our national politics. Soft focus; no hard stuff. Jokey blokey.
Little space is made so far in the popular imagination for the real Barnaby whose unabashed populism, his loose grasp of fiscal policy and his capacity to shoot from the lip could well and truly cruel the coalition's chances in the next election. Now he's got the job, let's not over-think the selection process.
Can Barnaby handle his responsibilities? So far most of these would appear to be well beyond him. Veteran cat herder as he may be in the national's cupboard of a party room, with big Wokka as backup, he may now have to muster a whole coalition or front the despatch box while his PM is overseas innovating, posing for photographs with soldiers or selling off more of the farm, as befits any hot-eyed zealot of the cargo cult of free trade deals, the Liberals' new evangelical religion.
With Wokka out to pasture, the new bull will need to do the mysterious things that Nats do in the name of leading the party. His critics say he has neither the discipline nor the character. Voting, it seems is rare, but somehow consensus is forged. Perhaps it's a young-bull old-bull tussle. Even here, while Barnaby has the seniority and the scars to prove it, he may struggle a bit to exert authority given his unpopularity and his volatility. At least there's only ten of them in parliament to contend with.
While Barnaby's struggle to be boss of his party mirrors something of the same in Toff's Corner between Malcolm and the many Liberals who can't stand the man, his need for approval may also gee up his populist anti-foreign investment and debt rhetoric, heedless of its effect on the economy. Some of these are as well-presented and enlightened as his views on the climate.
"Look … I just – I'm always sceptical of the idea that the way that anybody's going to change the climate – and I'm driving in this morning and we're driving through a frost – is with bureaucrats and taxes. All that does is … it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. I make you feel guilty so I can get your money and put it in my pocket and send reports backwards and forth to one another."
Dear old Barnaby, the sheep-wrangling syntax mangler, has some funny old views on a whole range of issues. He's a cheerful climate change denialist who opposes same sex marriage because a diamond is not like a square. He warned us in 2010 of approaching economic Armageddon. Carbon tax, he notoriously claimed would kill sheep farming.
"It'll be the end of our sheep industry. I don't think your working mothers are going to be very happy when they're paying over $100 for a roast."
Joyce is also capable of picking a fight in court as when in October last year he accused Tony Windsor of profiteering out of selling property to Shenhua. Windsor threatened to sue.
But let's not laugh at Barnaby. It's too easy to rubbish the Nationals as an historical atavism, a party which has long since lost its relevance, party which is in terminal decline. Small in numbers it may be, but those numbers matter to the Liberals. Let's remember that in 2010 without his leadership of the revolt against the carbon tax, Tony Abbott would never have seized the leadership from Malcolm Turnbull. Chances are, the way things are lining up, Barnaby could well be the Bill-Shorten-for-PM camp's best ally.
February 12, 2016 · Posted in Political Comment ·
4 thoughts on "Barnaby Joyce, Turnbull's nightmare or the Nats gift to Labor"
Audioio says:
An "agrarian socialist" who sells farmers out to foreign-owned corporations? Robb capable? Only of sacrificing our sovereignty to those same corporations.
I enjoy your blog, Urban, but these descriptions are waaaaaaay off the mark.
You do need a pretty big mark for Joyce, Audioio. Nailing a jelly to wall would be easier. Spot on, of course, about his selling out.
I intended 'capable' ironically for a Trade Minister who has gleefully sold us down the river with his TPP. Not a scrap of evidence that any of his deals benefit Australia but a lot to show that multinationals are vastly advantaged by our servility. Re-reading, I am can see that I have been guilty of giving Robb a bit of a boost.
If Robb or Joyce are the answer we are asking the wrong questions.
Joyce was still owning his agrarian socialism on ABC a few years ago. Go here to listen to his spiel
http://www.abc.net.au/site-archive/rural/nsw/content/2011/06/s3237860.htm
And in this recent interview with the AFR, Joyce is happy to profess his agrarian socialism.
http://www.afr.com/news/politics/national/nationals-deputy-leader-barnaby-joyce-is-mad-and-knows-it-20160211-gmr4w2
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'Stomping Deniers'?
Posted on | October 27, 2010 | 9 Comments
In my American Spectator column this morning, I noted that Joshua Green of The Atlantic Monthly had been quick to use the phrase "brutally attacked" to describe Tim Profitt's stomping of MoveOn activist Lauren Valle.
Well, was it an "attack"?
Green now coins the term "stomping deniers" to describe people who've questioned the Left's narrative of this incident. When I first saw the TV news video of the incident Monday, my comment was: "I'm hesitant to jump to conclusions about what actually happened in this kind of made-for-TV publicity stunt." It seemed to me that there had to be some kind of back-story to the incident, and I didn't feel like we had the whole story.
Good hunch there, because Red State has posted this video showing what happened before the now-infamous stomping incident:
As you can see for yourself, Valle lunges at Rand Paul's vehicle as he arrives at the Lexington event, thrusting her sign through the open window of the vehicle. This certainly appears to corroborate Profitt's account of his concerns:
Profitt told the Associated Press that he and one of his friends had talked to police officers at the scene, trying to warn them that Valle "was getting ready to do something," but the police answered, "That's not our job." When the Republican candidate arrived, Profitt and his friends tried to block Valle's path to the candidate because they were "concerned about Rand's safety," Profitt told the AP.
I'm not denying anything, nor do I wish to justify Profitt's stomping of Valle. But there were clearly extenuating circumstances here. Profitt tried to do the right thing, warning police of his worries about Valle. Police failed to act on that warning. Valle's lunge toward the vehicle certainly could have caused Profitt to be "concerned about Rand's safety," and what we initially saw on the TV news video was not the whole story.
At this moment, I'm sitting here with MSNBC on the TV in my office, listening to Chris Matthews pretend that the Red State video doesn't exist, that and that Valle did nothing to provoke the incident that followed her lunge at Paul's vehicle.MSNBC also is ignoring Valle's felony record. So far, Joshua Green hasn't acknowledge Valle's involvement in the Louisiana eco-vandalism incident, nor has he acknowledged the Red State video.
Who's the "denier" now?
UPDATE: Profitt interviewed by a Lexington TV station:
"She's a professional at what she does," Profitt said, referring to the MoveOn.org activist, "and I think when all the facts come out, I think people will see that she was the one that initiated the whole thing." . . .
"Well I'll just say it, if the police had done what they were supposed to do, it would have never happened," Profitt said.
In both of these assertions, Profitt is correct. Police were warned about Valle and failed to act on that warning. And she is indeed a professional protester.
Wow. You know who's about to show the Red State video? Keith Olbermann.
UPDATE II: OK, Olbermann just aired the video and generally mocked the idea that anyone would have thought Valle posed a threat to Paul. Olbermann then showed a statement by a MoveOn.org official, to the same effect, and brought on a Democrat "strategist" to discuss how the incident would affect the election.
Olbermann thus abets the purpose of Valle's stunt, i.e., to affect the Kentucky election.
Somebody in the comments, please feel free to link video of Olbermann discussing "disruptions" at health-care townhalls, so that we can compare his treatment of those citizen-activists to his treatment of Valle.
UPDATE III: Looking for a copy of the MoveOn.org official's statement, I went to their Web site and found this ad where they're claiming the Illinois Republican candidate for Senate is a tool of corporate "front groups."
Yeah. Republicans are corrupt tools of Big Money. Like bankers who loan millions of dollars to crooks.
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9 Responses to "'Stomping Deniers'?"
Ordinaryavggal
October 27th, 2010 @ 8:38 pm
She comes at Paul not once, but TWICE in that video. The first time straight towards his window, shoving the sign in at him. With her hood up, like the freaking Unibomber. Then, around the :50 mark, she comes around the front of the vehicle jogging straight for him again. Watch closely and you'll see a red sweatshirt/blonde wig come around the front straight as Paul as he is walking away from the car. That is when the takedown and restraint happens. After her second attempt.
At this point, while yes the stomp was wrong, I have no sympathy for her. You go after a political candidate, no one knows motive, you get held off and then you run around the car and go after him from a different angle? I'm thinking you get what you deserve.
October 28th, 2010 @ 4:33 am
Wow, that video changes everything. When someone rushes a high-profile public official like that, they're a clear and present danger. Obviously, it's easy to look back in hindsight and say "oh, she's just a harmless kook." But there are plenty of dangerous kooks out there, so you can't just give kooks the benefit of the doubt. The guys who restrained her were completely justified, and it's awful that the 24 hour news cycle caused this story to come out completely backwards.


ASIA ECONOMY – On Monday, Asian equities traded lower amid the anticipation of investors about the report of China on export and import numbers.
The trade data could potentially give additional insight about the Chinese's economic standing. Meanwhile, Caixin PMI numbers, one of the recent economic data released in January, revealed a slowdown in China.
As of 8:40 PM ET (01:40 GMT), Both the Shanghai Composite and the Shenzhen Component dropped 0.5% and 0.7%. Further, the Hang Seng Index dropped 1.6%.
Meanwhile, there have been reports that showed the delayed movement of the People's Bank of China for market entry to Visa and Mastercard. Consequently, this news received some attention.
PBOC made no formal acknowledgment regarding their submissions. This is despite their move to submit applications to the central bank more than a year ago. This was according to a report from the Financial Times, citing two sources familiar on the matter.
Asian shares and US stock futures slipped on Monday after a sudden drop in China's exports.
Additionally, the report stated that the situation could inflict trouble in the future US-China trade deal.
"One could suspect that it's because of the trade war, but then again American Express (NYSE: AXP) was approved. Somebody said, 'Well Amex is smaller, so there's less impact on the market,' but nobody really knows. There are a lot of variables. We are communicating with the central bank on and off, but there's no clear reason," a source said as cited on the report.
In other news, there was a 0.7% decline in the KOSPI of South Korea. The ASX 200 of Australia made 0.2% loss as well. Meanwhile, the Nikkei 225 of Japan cut its operations due to a public holiday.
On Monday, Asian shares and US stock futures dove following a sudden decline in Chinese exports. Further, the drop in Chinese exports directed towards worsening effects in the world's second-biggest economy. It also intensified concerns regarding a sharper slowdown in global growth and corporate profits.
There was a 0.8% drop in the E-minis for the S&P 500 (Esc1), hinting an increase in risk aversion. Moreover, spreadbetters moved towards a softening start for Europe. Meanwhile, there was 0.4% in the FTSE futures.
The recent China data revealed that there was a drop of 7.6% in imports year-on-year in December. During the same month, analysts forecasted that there was 5% increase while exports suddenly fell 4.4%, confounding expectations for a 3 percent gain.
The weak data heightened worries about US tariffs on Chinese goods. Consequently, these fears began to take a heavy toll on the softening economy of China.


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It's time to look at one of the recent Rayman games. You could make a strong case that this is the one which finally put Rayman back on the map. His games had ceased for quite a bit, but this one made him mainstream again. Although, since the character has vanished once more we will need more games like this one. It's a fun enough title. While lacking some of the charm of other side scrollers it is nonetheless a solid title for all fans of the genre.
The game starts off with Rayman and his friends lounging around on someone's tree. The poor old lady can't even think straight with how much noise they are making so she grabs her buddies and goes to confront Rayman. Rayman quickly turns this into a battle, but the senior citizens defeat him and his friends. Rayman must now save his friends and stop whatever heroic/evil plan the old lady has in store. The question you must ask yourself is if you should root for Rayman…or the old lady?
Naturally the gameplay is pretty fun. It's your classic 2D platformer with a few unique items thrown in to match Rayman's style. You can throw punches as well as hold for a charged hit. You can glide with your head that functions as a helicopter and in general have a lot of good movement options. You must get to the end of the level and free whatever fairies are trapped. However, just beating the levels will not be enough as you'll quickly figure out.
There are a lot of roadblocks in the story that serve as a way to artificially extend the game. You need to collect a great number of spirit orbs in order to beat the game. This means that you must either replay most levels at least once or grab a bunch of them during the level. The latter is easier, however you may enjoy each level a little less with how much longer it takes to complete them. I never like when a game forces you to explore like this. You're effectively penalized for being too good at clearing the levels. I will say that this does enact a heavy toll on the game and is one of the reasons why it falls short of the other platformers.
The other reason is that the story is just pretty bad. I'm talking Crash levels of bad. Rayman is actually not as likable as Crash which I'm shocked about. He's quick to violence and the guy doesn't seem to care about anyone other than himself. It really doesn't help you think that he is even remotely heroic. I have my doubts after this game. You never get invested into the plot because it is virtually nonexistent and Rayman is too annoying to root for. The game also gets a little iffy with the character designs, adding some fanservice to the fairies that Rayman is saving. I can certainly say that this was not quite how I pictured Rayman to play out.
Still, as I mentioned the core gameplay is fun which is good. The levels are actually pretty solid. If you don't care about reaching the ending and just play each level straight through you'll enjoy them a lot more. They only drag on when you have to explore them. As a result, you'll really look forward to the boss fights which show up during the final levels and the aerial stages. Those are always very short and are fun to get through. It's the optimal experience if you ask me. Adding in a secondary gameplay style almost always works out for the best so Rayman did a good job there.
Another good thing Rayman did was add the unlimited lives feature. I feel as though this is immensely helpful for the levels given how long they are. You'll probably die quite a few times so you'll be glad that you don't have to backtrack too far. That would get very old very quickly.
I thought the graphics were pretty good. The character designs are on point and the levels are good looking. It's not as colorful as other games, but that's likely intentional to get that slightly grittier. I gotta give the soundtrack a thumbs down though. I'm not sure what the game was going for with the various lyrical themes that showed up but they really didn't mesh well with the game. It got worse whenever you would die since you'd have to hear the theme yet again.
As far as replay value goes, Rayman has quite a bit at its disposal. As you collect orbs new levels open up and you get more unlockables. You get new costumes, characters, etc. Naturally you can also go after all of the PS3 trophies to really try and put yourself at the top. As the story itself is already longer than many platformers this makes for a game with a great amount of content that will last for quite a while.
Overall, Rayman Origins is a mixed bag. As a game it fulfills it's job of having quality gameplay but aside from that it ends up faltering in the home stretch. It's not the most complete game so you just have to decide why you are playing it. If you are here for the gameplay then you are all set. If it's for the overall experience then you may want to look elsewhere. Either way I'll look forward to the next Rayman title as I feel like it should improve upon the flaws of this one.
It's time to greet the return of Bubsy! I admit that I never got to play the original games back in the day but this one looked fun enough. Plus, it was the only game where I could make the most out of my Amazon mobile app. I'm definitely glad that I didn't get it for full price since it's only around 1 hour long, probably even less than that. It is a fun game and the sad part is that the gameplay is actually completely on point. What ends up hurting it is really just the length.
The plot starts with Bubsy's favorite yarn getting kidnapped by some aliens. He decides that it's up to him to get it back and gives chase. You then fight through 15 levels of platforming and boss fights as you make it to the end and get the yarn back. It's a pretty low key plot when you think about it. There are only two real cutscenes, an intro and an ending. After that it's just about making your way through the levels.
Each level is around 2 minutes long. You can glide and double jump which means that you are able to enter Kirby levels of cheese here. You can just glide past everyone and you're set. You rarely have to ever stop so just go full speed through it all. Bubsy is really overpowered but to make it fair you also die in one hit to anything. The main advice I can give you is simply don't get hit. Even if you do, there are checkpoints every 5 seconds and you get 10 lives per level. The odds of you actually getting a game over are incredibly slim. So it's fair to let you know that this game's difficulty level is at rock bottom. There are no challenges to be had here, it's just about enjoying the game.
In that sense it's very much like Snoopy. For the record, this game is better than Snoopy. Both games are at a similar length, but the gameplay is smoother here. The levels are very high so you have a lot of freedom to run and jump. Too much freedom probably but the landscapes do look nice. Jumping on the enemies is always the way to damage them so the game doesn't make you learn much. If the game was longer this would be an easy 7. With a hype plot/cool characters it would be an easy 8. Alas, smooth gameplay isn't enough to reach the big leagues, especially when you're only 1 hour long.
While the gameplay is very fast, the title does force you to slow down quite a lot when the boss fights occur. That's because the bosses are only vurlnable after they do a combo of attacks and the villains aren't in any kind of hurry. As a result you just keep dodging and dodging until you can counter. These opponents are easily longer than the level and the 4 bosses that you face are likely longer than the 11 normal platforming levels in the game. Food for thought. The bosses are long, but not difficult though so you'll mow em down.
Even for 10 bucks this doesn't feel like it has a lot of value. For replay value you can go back and try to collect all of the gems/beat every level without dying. I'll give the game credit for not making this mandatory, but I just don't see myself going back and doing all of that. It just doesn't seem worth it but it's nice for people who are huge fans I guess. It'll make the length at least a little more reasonable.
The graphics are really good though. It looks like a PS4 game. Granted, the game goes for a very simple look intentionally so it's hard for it not to look great. With few character models to come up with, they can work on making them all sparkle. Unfortunately the soundtrack isn't quite up to snuff. The tunes are very generic and I heard the complete OST after completing the game. It just won't do anything for you and will be forgotten almost instantly. It's a shame but not every game puts a lot of effort into this area.
As for Bubsy himself, he's a reasonable character I suppose. He definitely does talk a lot throughout each level but since recording time was limited prepare to hear the same phrases over and over again. It can be fun in an ironic way I suppose. There are also references to other series like Mario and Sonic during the levels which is nice to see. At the end Bubsy hints that a sequel could come out someday. I'd probably get it, but like this one I'd wait til I could get it for a good price. Especially if it's this short.
Overall, Bubsy is technically a pretty fun game. If you just want a fun experience and don't care about the length then go for it. However, I can't really recommend it all that much because of how short it is. You'd be better off getting one of the Mario games instead as those are fun and long. It'll be interesting to see how this one compares to Yooka Laylee since that's another modern revisit to the old era. This one seems like it would win in gameplay but if that one wins in everything else then either way Bubsy is doomed. If only Bubsy had invested more time into coming up with cutscenes to pad the length.