For instance, Forbes ranked media mogul and talk show host, Oprah Winfrey as the top earner " Forbes magazine ’ s annual ranking of the most powerful celebrities ", with earnings of $ 290 million in the past year.

In May 2010, Lineker resigned from his role as columnist for The Mail on Sunday in protest over the sting operation against Lord Triesman that jeopardised England ’ s bid to host the 2018 World Cup.

Gam is also important in that it inhibits the host RecBCD nuclease from degrading the 3 ’ ends in rolling circle replication.

and familiarise the host governments with the Government ’ s objective of taking the peace process to its

A dinner party is a social gathering at which people eat dinner together, usually in the host ’ s home.

Inside a bacterial host, the restriction enzymes selectively cut up foreign DNA in a process called restriction ; host DNA is methylated by a modification enzyme ( a methylase ) to protect it from the restriction enzyme ’ s activity.

As a result, the host favors endosymbiont ’ s growth processes within itself by producing some specialized cells.

Adaptation of the endosymbiont to the host ’ s lifestyle leads to many changes in the endosymbiont – the foremost being drastic reduction in its genome size.

Endoparasites can exist in one of two forms: intercellular parasites ( inhabiting spaces in the host ’ s body ) or intracellular parasites ( inhabiting cells in the host ’ s body ).

The cowbird ’ s parasitism does not necessarily harm its host ’ s brood ; however, the cuckoo may remove one or more host eggs to avoid detection, and furthermore the young cuckoo may heave the host ’ s eggs and nestlings out of the nest.

Many adult endoparasites reside in the host ’ s gastrointestinal tract, where offspring can be shed along with host excreta.

Among protozoan endoparasites, such as the malarial parasites and trypanosomes, infective stages in the host ’ s blood are transported to new hosts by biting-insects, or vectors.

The current format of the tournament involves 32 teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation ( s ) over a period of about a month ; this phase is often called the World Cup Finals.

A qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, is used to determine which teams qualify for the tournament together with the host nation ( s ).

ICMP Echo Request attacks ( Smurf Attack ) can be considered one form of reflected attack, as the flooding host ( s ) send Echo Requests to the broadcast addresses of mis-configured networks, thereby enticing many hosts to send Echo Reply packets to the victim.

* Serial communication link between the controller and the terminal server acts as a bottleneck: even though the data between the host PC and the terminal server travels at the 10 / 100 / 1000Mbit / s network speed it then slows down to the serial speed of 112. 5 kbit / s or less.

Note: In the Defense Data Network ( DDN ), a packet-switching node is usually configured to support up to thirty-two X. 25 56 kbit / s host connections, as many as six 56 kbit / s interswitch trunk ( IST ) lines to other packet-switching nodes, and at least one Terminal Access Controller ( TAC ).

The cuckoo's egg itself mimics the eggs of the host species, reducing its chance of being rejected.

The adults inject the eggs into a paralysed host, which they begin to consume after hatching.

The eggs of tettigoniids are typically oval shaped and laid in rows on the host plant.

The antennae are important for detecting host odors, as well as odors of breeding sites where females lay eggs.

The process of oviposition in Dolichomitus imperator: 1 Tapping with her antennae the wasp listens for the vibrations that indicate a host is present ; 2 With the longer ovipositor, the Wasp drills a hole through the bark ; 3 The wasp inserts the ovipositor into the cavity which contains the host larva ; 4 Making corrections ; 5 Depositing eggs ; 6 Depositing eggs.

This would allow eggs to be laid without the host fighting back, and probably also to suppress the host's immune system so that it can't destroy the eggs or shake off the paralysis.

If the host removes the cuckoo's eggs, some cuckoos will return and attack the nest to compel host birds to remain subject to this parasitism.

Ectoparasitic arthropods may rely on host-host contact ( e. g. many lice ), shed eggs that survive off the host ( e. g. fleas ), or wait in the external environment for an encounter with a host ( e. g. ticks ).

For example, some parasitic species prey on a host organism and then lay their eggs on it for their offspring to feed on it while it continues to live or on its decaying corpse after it has died.

In depositing her eggs, the female also deposits pollen she picked up from her original host fig.

The eggs are passed through the feces of the definitive host and it is the ingestion of these eggs that lead to infection in the intermediate host.

Experiments have shown that Common Cuckoo chicks persuade their host parents to feed them by making a rapid begging call that sounds " remarkably like a whole brood of host chicks.

They qualify as parasitoids because many of them will cause the starvation of the host's chicks by competing with them for food, and many others either will remove host eggs when laying eggs in host nests, ( sometimes eating the eggs removed ), or the chick will eject or kill the eggs or chicks of the host when they hatch.

Some hatchlings actually have hooked beaks adapted to attacking the host chicks and eggs, hooks that vanish before fledging.

Scientists have recently found that honeyguide chicks kill the hatchlings of the host nest in brutal attacks using their needle-sharp beaks just after hatching, much like what cuckoo hatchlings do, which are also hatched in other birds nest.

The scientists also found that these blind, featherless chicks sometimes are three times heavier than host chicks.

Although traditionally tick-borne diseases are thought to be caused when the parasite bites its host, it has been shown that Red Grouse chicks can be affected when they eat ticks with which they come into contact.

Unlike for example certain cuckoos, neither the chicks nor adults destroy the eggs or kill the chicks of the host.

The chicks of the Koel hatched about 3 days ahead of the host chicks.

The young Koel does not always push out eggs or evict the host chicks, and initially calls like a crow.

Unlike as in some other cuckoos, the young do not attempt to kill the host chicks, a trait that is shared with the Channel-billed Cuckoos which are also largely frugivorous as adults.

It has been suggested that Koels, like some other brood parasites do not evict the host chicks due presumably due to the higher cost of evicting nestmates.

A small parasite may not be able to evict large host eggs or chicks from a deep Corvid nest without risking starvation and possibly accidental self-eviction.

An alternate hypothesis that retaining host chicks might benefit the Koel chicks did not gain much support.