Overtrapping can occur under some situations, but it has been the experience of trappers and marsh-owners generally that it is almost impossible to overtrap a normal muskrat population. It is far better to overtrap an area than to undertrap it. Keep populations of predators, as foxes, raccoons, and minks within reasonable limits. The annual drain on the muskrat by predators may become very serious.

The CMS team claimed they had seen a bump in their data corresponding to a particle weighing in at 125.3 gigaelectronvolts (GeV) - about 133 times heavier than the protons that lie at the heart of every atom. They claimed that by combining two data sets, they had attained a confidence level just at the five-sigma point - about a one-in-3.5 million chance that the signal they see would appear if there were no Higgs particle.

While the European pear is, at its finest, buttery and surrenders to the slightest pressure, Asian pears are firm, very crisp, hugely juicy and sweet and, in some cases, highly aromatic – spicy almost.

Kavad had quickly ordered that a new Catholicos should be chosen for the Church, ending a hiatus of twenty years in which Shah Khusrau had prevented the office being filled.