Greetings from the art studio at Williamsburg Northside Preschool! As the Atelierista at WNP, it is my great pleasure to explore artistic expression with our 2- and 3-year- old learners. Recently, the Seahorse class has been exploring the wonderful world of shapes. Shapes, along with color and texture, are primary attributes with which children begin to categorize and make sense of their world. In the art studio, we look in depth into what makes a shape such as number of sides and type of sides (straight or curved). Once they can identify shapes, children delight in recognizing them in their environment, especially on their clothing. Once we start looking we can find shapes everywhere!
We began with the square, noticing that it has four sides that are all straight.
Next, the triangle with three straight sides.
Then the tricky circle with only one curvy side. The Seahorses delighted in discovering that we all have circles in our eyes!
We put circles together in a pattern to create polka dots.
Then we stretched out our squares into rectangles with two long straight sides and two short straight sides. Next the rectangles were repeated in a pattern to create stripes.
Finally we squished our circles down into ovals, and looked at how sometimes oval eggs hatch!
Throughout our shape explorations, we thought about spatial relationships: far apart, close together and the all-time favorite, overlapping!
In addition the Seahorses created their own shape books to take home and continue to add to. What a fabulous time we have had with shapes!


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Bowers & Wilkins and Emirates launch E1 "tailored for flying" headphones
By Becky Roberts
The E1s are bespoke versions of B&W's P7 Wireless over-ears, and are set to feature as part of Emirates' First Class cabin experience.
Aiming to take the First Class flying experience to new heights, B&W and Emirates airline have come together to produce what the two companies claim are the first headphones "exclusively tailored for flying".
The E1s don't appear to be a huge departure for the British headphone brand as far as hardware or design is concerned - they borrow the P7 Wireless's drive units, fine-tuned to the cabin noise and entertainment systems of Emirates' First Class Private Suites.
B&W engineers spent hours on board the aircraft optimising the E1s' active noise-cancelling functionality, and claim they will "completely cancel ambient engine noise".
The E1s are also designed for comfort on long transatlantic flights, featuring a soft leather design with memory foam cushioning in the headband and earcup.
Those in Economy Class will have to remember to pack their own wireless noise-cancelling headphones, such as the B&W PX, AKG NC60NC Wireless or Lindy's sub-£100 BNX-60.
The B&W E1s will debut on Emirates' new Boeing 777 First Class cabin in December, and will be rolled out on all Emirates' A380 and Boeing 777's First Class Private Suites from April 2018.
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Becky is the managing editor of What Hi-Fi? and, since her recent move to Melbourne, also the editor of Australian Hi-Fi magazine. During her eight years in the hi-fi industry, she has been fortunate enough to travel the world to report on the biggest and most exciting brands in hi-fi and consumer tech (and has had the jetlag and hangovers to remember them by). In her spare time, Becky can often be found running, watching Liverpool FC and horror movies, and hunting for gluten-free cake.

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YouTube is more than just a place to watch your neighbor's cat jump from the counter to the top of the fridge for some sweet, sweet nip. It's a platform for some of the world's most creative minds to entertain, excite, and educate.
To showcase this, YouTube launched a full 360 campaign celebrating some of its most notable creators, including VICE News, which brings hard-hitting, deeply embedded journalism to some of the world's most important stories.
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Hi there. I am stuck on c. I proved (b) using Rouches theorem.
To calculate the integral in c, I was not sure what to do. I am guessing you use the result in (b) somehow, but I thought that Rouche's theorem only tells you about the number of zeroes and not what they are, so I am not sure how (b) helps me to solve c
Thanks

A: Hint: the numerator is the derivative of the denominator. So count the poles and zeros inside the contour and then apply the argument principle.
A second hint, if you have trouble counting the poles: $z^4+z+4$ has real coefficients, what does this say about its roots?

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The two largest religions in the world—Christianity and Islam—face restrictions in the most places, with Christians facing harassment in slightly more countries.
Religious restrictions continue to spread globally in Pew Research Center's ninth annual study of laws and social hostilities in 198 countries, although most countries still rank low to moderate on a study scale researchers devised.
Less than half of the countries, 42 percent, ranked high or very high on Pew's scale of restrictions including both laws and social hostilities, up from 40 percent in 2015 and 29 percent in the baseline study period of 2007, Pew said.
"Since some of these countries are among the world's most populous (such as China and India), this means that a large share of the world's population in 2016—83 percent—lived in countries with high or very high religious restrictions," Pew said, as compared to 79 percent of the world's population living in those countries in 2015.
In spite of the rankings and variables, religiously motivated harassment and restrictions of varying amounts, whether from the government or society, were reported in 187 of the countries studied. The findings are up from 169 countries in 2015 and indicate the most widespread harassment since 2007.
Rankings are based on a composite of government restrictions, including laws, policies, and actions by officials, which had increased, and hostilities perpetrated by organizations and social groups, which had remained stable. In its study, Pew devised a 10-point scale based on several indicators and divided the countries into five regions, the Americas, Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Middle-East/North Africa.
Christians were most likely to face governmental and social harassment in the Asia-Pacific region, Pew said. There, governments in 30 percent of the countries harassed Christians, and social groups in 27 percent of the countries had done so. Across the globe, Christians were harassed in 144 countries, up from 128 countries in 2015.
Muslims were most likely to face harassment by both governments and social groups in Europe, where governmental harassment was found in 28 percent of the countries and social harassment in 36 percent. Globally, Muslims were harassed in 142 countries in 2016, up from 125 the previous year.
Jews, who comprise 0.2 percent of the world's population, faced harassment in 87 countries, most often perpetrated by individuals rather than the government.
Egypt, Russia, India, Indonesia, and Turkey had the highest levels of both government restrictions and social hostilities in 2016, among the world's most populous countries. In government restrictions alone, China ranked highest, with India ranking highest in social hostilities.
When considering government restrictions alone, 55 countries comprising 28 percent of those studied ranked high and very high on the scale, Pew said, compared to 50 countries or 25 percent in 2015.
When considering societal harassment, the 54 countries that ranked high or very high on the scale in 2016 were virtually unchanged from the 53 countries ranking high or very high the previous year, remaining stable at 27 percent.
Ranking highest in government restrictions in addition to China, Russian Egypt and Turkey were Iran, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Turkmenistan, Syria, Algeria, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Eritrea, Morocco, Brunei, Singapore, Western Sahara, Azerbaijan, Laos, Burma, Iraq, and Mauritania.
Ranking highest in societal harassment in addition to India, Russia, and Egypt were Syria, Iraq, Nigeria, Palestinian territories, Israel and Bangladesh.
Government restrictions included efforts to ban particular faiths, prohibit conversion, limit preaching or give preferential treatment to one or more religious groups. Social hostilities included religion-related armed conflict or terrorism, mob or sectarian violence and harassment over religion-based attire.
Researchers studied more than a dozen sources of public information, including reports from the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, various European groups, the United Nations and many independent, nongovernmental organizations, Pew said.
DIANA CHANDLER is Baptist Press' general assignment writer/editor. A version of this article originally appeared at Baptist Press.


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Max Hahn (geboren am 30. April 1981 in der Stadt Luxemburg) ist ein luxemburgischer Ingenieur und Politiker. Er ist für die Demokratische Partei (DP) Mitglied der Abgeordnetenkammer, dem Parlament des Landes, sowie Gemeinderat und Beigeordneter (Schöffe) in seiner Heimatgemeinde Dippach.

Werdegang
Hahn wurde am 30. April 1981 in der Stadt Luxemburg geboren. Er wuchs in Bettingen auf, einem Ortsteil von Dippach, wo er noch heute lebt. Hahn besuchte die Grundschule in Schuweiler und die Handwerkerschule in Limpertsberg. Anschließend nahm er ein Studium der Elektrotechnik an der Universität Luxemburg auf, in dessen Verlauf er sich auf den Bereich der erneuerbaren Energien spezialisierte und das er als Jahrgangsbester abschloss. Hahn arbeitete dann für einige Jahre in einem Ingenieurbüro, bevor er sich beruflich neu orientierte und von 2010 bis zu seiner Wahl ins Parlament 2013 als Ausbilder bei der Feuerwehr seiner Geburtsstadt tätig war.

Politik
Hahn ist seit 2005 Mitglied der Demokratischen Partei. Von 2010 bis 2014 leitete er die nationale Jugendorganisation der Partei, mit Stand Mai 2019 ist er 1. Vizepräsident der DP sowie Vorsitzender des Bezirksverbandes Süd.

Bei der Kommunalwahl Ende 2005 wurde Hahn in den Gemeinderat von Dippach gewählt. Das Wahlergebnis führte zu einer Koalition seiner DP mit der LSAP, die eine Mehrheit von einem Sitz besaß, und bei der zu Beginn vereinbart wurde, dass der Posten des 2. Schöffen die ersten drei Jahre der LSAP, die folgenden drei der DP zufiel. Hahn wurde dann auch an einem Freitag Anfang 2009 auf sein neues Amt vereidigt. Allerdings hatte sich bereits zuvor die DP-Gemeinderätin und 1. Schöffin Gaby Schaul mit beiden Parteien überworfen, war anschließend ausgetreten und hatte als nun unabhängige Abgeordnete mit der oppositionellen CSV einen Machtwechsel vereinbart. Daher wurde bereits am darauffolgenden Montag die gesamte Gemeindeleitung abgewählt, was Hahn die Bezeichnung "Schöffe für ein Wochenende" einbrachte. Bei der nächsten Kommunalwahl 2011 änderten sich dann die Mehrheitsverhältnisse erneut, Hahn ist seither wieder Schöffe.

Bei der Kammerwahl 2013 landete Hahn im Wahlbezirk Süd, bei drei gewonnenen Mandaten für seine Partei, auf dem vierten Platz. Da der vor ihm liegende Claude Meisch auf die Regierungsbank wechselte, konnte Hahn zum 5. Dezember 2013 dessen Mandat übernehmen. Bei der Kammerwahl 2018 konnte Hahn sein Mandat verteidigen. Er leitet im Parlament den Ausschuss für Familien und Integration und ist stellvertretender Vorsitzender der Ausschüsse für Wohnungsbau, für Umwelt und für Mobilität und öffentliches Bauwesen.

Privates
Hahn hat eine Schwester, Patricia, und einen Bruder, Pit. Er spielte Fußball im Verein von Schuweiler und ist Vorsitzender des Tennisvereins von Dippach.

Weblinks
 Max Hahn auf der Website der Demokratischen Partei (französisch)
 Max Hahn auf der Website der Deputiertenkammer (französisch)
 , veröffentlicht 2009 auf der Website der DP

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Anticipating aftershocks
Supercomputers help USGS and Southern California Earthquake Center scientists improve seismic forecasts for California
VIDEO: Stampede and Stampede2 help USGS and Southern California Earthquake Center researchers develop improved seismic forecasts for California. view more
Credit: Sean Cunningham, TACC
Southern California has the highest earthquake risk of any region in the U.S., but exactly how risky and where the greatest risks lie remains an open question.
Earthquakes occur infrequently and depend on complex geological factors deep underground, making them hard to reliably predict in advance. For that reason, forecasting earthquakes means relying on massive computer models and multifaceted simulations, which recreate the rock physics and regional geology and require big supercomputers to execute.
In June 2017, a team of researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey and the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) released a major paper in Seismological Research Letters that summarized the scientific and hazard results of one of the world's biggest and most well-known earthquake simulation projects: The Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast (UCERF3).
The results relied on computations performed on the original Stampede supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, resources at the University of Southern California Center for High-Performance Computing, as well as the newly deployed Stampede2 supercomputer, to which the research team had early access. (Stampede 1 and Stampede2 are supported by grants from the National Science Foundation.)
"High-performance computing on TACC's Stampede system, and during the early user period of Stampede2, allowed us to create what is, by all measures, the most advanced earthquake forecast in the world," said Thomas H. Jordan, director of the Southern California Earthquake Center and one of the lead authors on the paper.
The new forecast is the first fault-based model to provide self-consistent rupture probabilities from the very short-term -- over a period of less than an hour -- to the very long term -- up to more than a century. It is also the first model capable of evaluating the short-term hazards that result from multi-event sequences of complex faulting.
To derive the model, the researchers ran 250,000 rupture scenarios of the state of California, vastly more than in the previous model, which simulated 8,000 ruptures.
Among its novel findings, the researchers' simulations showed that in the week following a magnitude 7.0 earthquake, the likelihood of another magnitude 7.0 quake would be up to 300 times greater than the week beforehand. This scenario of 'cascading' ruptures was demonstrated in the 2002 magnitude 7.9 Denali, Alaska, and the 2016 magnitude 7.8 Kaikoura, New Zealand earthquakes, according to David Jacobson and Ross Stein of Temblor.
The dramatic increase in the likelihood of powerful aftershocks is due to the inclusion of a new class of models that assess short-term changes in seismic hazard based on what is known about earthquake clustering and aftershock excitations. These factors have never been used in a comprehensive, statewide model like this one.
The current model also takes into account the likelihood of ruptures jumping from one fault to a nearby one, which has been observed in California's highly interconnected fault system.
Based on these and other new factors, the new model increases the likelihood of powerful aftershocks but downgrades the predicted frequency of earthquakes between magnitude 6.5 and 7.0, which did not match historical records.
Importantly, UCERF3 can be updated with observed seismicity -- real-time data based on earthquakes in action -- to capture the static or dynamic triggering effects that play out during a particular sequence of events. The framework is adaptable to many other continental fault systems, and the short-term component might be applicable to the forecasting of minor earthquakes and tremors that are caused by human activity.
The impact of such an improved model goes beyond the fundamental scientific improvement it represents. It has the potential to impact building codes, insurance rates, and the state's response to a powerful earthquake.
Said Jordan, "The U.S. Geological Survey has included UCERF3 as the California component of the National Seismic Hazard Model, and the model is being evaluated for use in operational earthquake forecasting on timescales from hours to decades."
ESTIMATING THE COST TO REBUILD
In addition to forecasting the likelihood of an earthquake, models like UCERF3 help predict the associated costs of earthquakes in the region. In recent months, the researchers used UCERF3 and Stampede2 to create a prototype operational loss model, which they described in a paper posted online to Earthquake Spectra in August.
The model estimates the statewide financial losses to the region (the costs to repair buildings and other damages) caused by an earthquake and its aftershocks. The risk metric is based on a vulnerability function and the total replacement cost of asset types in a given census tract.
The model found that the expected loss per year when averaged over many years would be $4.0 billion statewide. More importantly, the model was able to quantify how expected losses change with time due to recent seismic activity. For example, the expected losses in a year following an magnitude 7.1 main shock spike to $24 billion due to potentially damaging aftershocks, a factor of six greater than during "normal" times.
Being able to quantify such fluctuations will enable financial institutions, such as earthquake insurance providers, to adjust their business decisions accordingly.
"It's all about providing tools that will help make society more resilient to damaging earthquake sequences," says Ned Field of the USGS, another lead author of the two studies.
Though there's a great deal of uncertainty in both the seismicity and the loss estimates, the model is an important step at quantifying earthquake risk and potentially devastation in the region, thereby helping decision-makers determine whether and how to respond.
Aaron Dubrow
aarondubrow@tacc.utexas.edu
@TACC
http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/
Seismological Research Letters
United States Geological Survey, National Science Foundation
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GEOPHYSICS/GRAVITY
California Earthquake Probabilities (IMAGE)
Anticipating Aftershocks (VIDEO)
https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/-/anticipating-aftershocks
http://dx.doi.org/10.1785/0220170045


charged - Mercedes - fabulous cars for high-class people!
The Mercedes S-Class family will be complemented by an updated model with new bumpers and optics, dashboard and salon equipment, motor range and electronic driver's assistant. The charged S models will also get a set of improvements. In particular, last year photo-spies caught Mercedes-AMG S 63 Coupe on tests. Now the S 63 cabrio car opened a new tests season on the famous Nurburgring.
If you like driving Mercedes-AMG GT R, but you would like to take two passengers with you on the rear seats, and then you see exactly the car you need. In fact, it's almost undisguised restyled coupe C63 with aerodynamic modifications, hinting at the "charged" variant R. However, it may be new Black Series, because the producer thought of the revival of the name.


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Approaches to the Use of Geometry in Architecture: A study of the works of Andrea Palladio, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Frank Gehry
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Geometry deals with form, shape, and measurement and is a part of mathematics where visual thought is dominant. Both design and construction in architecture deal with visualization, and architects constantly employ geometry. Today, with the advent of computer software, architects can visualize forms that go beyond our everyday experience. Some architects claim that the complex forms of their works have correlations with non-Euclidean geometry, but the space we experience is still Euclidean. Given this context, I have explored possible correlations that might exist between mathematical concepts of geometry and the employment of geometry in architectural design from a historic perspective. The main focus will be to describe the two phenomena historically, and then investigate any connections that might emerge from the discussion. While discussing the way geometry has been approached in architecture, I have focused on the Renaissance, Modern, and Post-modern phases as they have a distinct style and expression. Andrea Palladio, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Frank Gehry's works will be case studies for the Renaissance, Modern, and Post-modern phases respectively. One of the important conclusions of this study is that architects use geometry in a more subconscious and intuitive manner while designing. Certain approaches to geometry can be determined by the way an architect deals with form and space. From the discussions of the works of Palladio, Wright, and Gehry, it can be concluded that from a two-dimensional simple approach to form and space in architecture, there has been a development of thinking about complex forms three dimensionally. Similarly, in mathematics, geometry has developed from a two-dimensional and abstract description of our surroundings to something that can capture the complex and specific nature of a phenomena. It is also shown that architects rarely come up with new concepts of geometry. Significant developments in geometry have always been in the domain of mathematics. Hence, most correlations between geometry in architecture and geometry in mathematics develop much later than the introduction of those concepts of geometry in mathematics. It is also found that the use of Euclidean geometry persists in architecture and that later concepts like non-Euclidean geometry cannot be used in an instrumental manner in architecture.
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Srinivasan, Urmila (2009). Approaches to the Use of Geometry in Architecture: A study of the works of Andrea Palladio, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Frank Gehry. Master's thesis, Texas A&M University. Available electronically from http : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /ETD -TAMU -2009 -05 -608.
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My character creation tutorial To Create a Character was awarded a Daily Deviation on March 5, 2011. Check out this work if you have a need for a quality character guide!
Marriage is a funny thing. I have never known the marriage that is fantasized by every couple. For me, marriage has always been an agreement between two individuals to live under a single roof. One complains, one takes it lying down; they both fight like mortal enemies. Wedding photos make me sick. I see a couple, a smiling, laughing couple who cannot wait to share each other's lives. Their only thought is of the love for their partner. That soft, downy feeling, burning hot on occasion, that will never leave.
Lush green woodland surrounded him on all sides, positively teeming with life. Ants marched unceasingly in an orderly line through the underbrush like a tiny army journeying grimly to the battlefield. Deer and elk flitted between tree and brush, only seen at the edge of his eyesight.
In a story—whether it be told on stage, on screen, or in print—knowing your main characters inside and out helps create a well rounded and interesting plot. It also makes writing them easier too. In this guide, a companion to To Create a Character, I'll attempt to help put skin and flesh on the bare bones of a character, to create "character," and to discover things about them that you—the creator—never knew.
"Promise me, Alex. Swear on Ian's grave that you'll return. You'll come home."
It all began with sushi.
How would they have known it was poisoned? How would they have known who poisoned it?
Jack Starbright and Alex Rider had decided to spend the eve of the younger's fifteenth birthday at a sushi bar in downtown London. It was a festive evening, filled with light laughter and meaningless yet memorable conversation.
Alex, he'd ordered the "Surprise Platter." It was loaded with all sorts of oddities from octopus sushi to shrimp ebbi, a relatively tame selection.
Jack had stuck with what she knew, an order of simple sushi and a salad. She took her first bite with no problem, marveling at the quality of the food. The next was not so easy, she'd begun to sweat, her face had turned a horrid shade of green, and she had weakly requested the use of the bathroom.
It makes me hate myself deeply.
You, like I used to, don't know what they're really doing.
You do not yet realize they are bullies.
"Don't feed me that! You're the only one who could have possibly pulled this off!"
Henry Bray was normally a patient and forgiving man. Being the headmaster of a school, it was quite necessary at times to pardon students and staff alike of their misjudgments. He believed that no-one was truly bad, truly too far gone. Joy had flared in his heart when he had found that an infamous drug dealer that had been selling to his students had been arrested and sentenced. But of course his mood had been ruined when he learned that the student who plagued his thoughts and mind had been the one to—-how do the kids say it now-a-day?—-"bust" the merchant, and then promptly brought into police custody.
The boy had been a model student. Always turning in homework, studying hard, honorable intentions, and exceptionally skilled at sports. That all changed when his former caregiver and uncle had died. Ian Rider.
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Thank you glimmerofthemoon for my literature tag!
In which I hopefully start to do something.
Ever since I discovered AMVs (anime music videos) in 2008, I have wanted to make one. Two. As many as I could. Like everything else I do I didn't just want to make AMVs, I wanted to create masterpieces. I still do.
Many things have held me back in my life. Fears, doubts, lack of empowered thought.
It sounds silly to some people, but this is something I want to do. I want to be myself. I don't want to be a cookie-cutter Christian for my family, an awkward sister for my friends, and a puppet for my parents. I want to be Nina. That curious girl that always has her nose stuck in a book. Nina spends copious amounts of time online. Nina will learn Japanese. Nina likes dresses that go to her knees. Nina loves anime, which can contain language, be violent and gory, but is much more entertaining and deeper than any American serial she has ever seen. She listens to metal, techno, world, international, foreign, and rarely domestic music. She will dress as a boy when she goes to her next convention.
No, Nina is not like the other young women her parents may know. Yes, Nina knows much, much more than she lets her family know.
And no matter what they think, Nina is Nina, and she won't change on the whims of others. It doesn't matter if they believe that they have her best interests in mind. Nina knows what's good for Nina.
That's why I have to do this. I want to do something that is completely me. I have spent my whole life ashamed of who I am. I have poor self-esteem and I've finally had the chance to step back and realize that. I need to change. I need to start now, not tomorrow. I've had enough of procrastination.
Therefore I set out on this journey of self-discovery. I am getting a new wardrobe and decor. I will exercise and eat healthy. I will do what I love. I have changed and come a long way from what I was a few years ago. Not all of it was for the good, but I can either let the circumstances beat me down or use them to become better.
Laying in a bed to recover leaves one a lot of time to think. Despite other sentiments, this chapter of my life may have been the best thing to happen to me. I have met more caring people in the past three years than I thought could possibly exist. I used to be a lukewarm neutral party, full of apathy and self-pity. I have made actual decisions now. I know where I stand in many issues.
And I know where I stand in the issue of me.
Someone important to me dared me to change. He stayed by my side when not even my parents knew what to do. He watched me cause myself pain from the day he met me. All I can say to him now is: "I hope to do you proud."
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I REALLLLLLYY love to write stories.
Good short story tips here.
Background History: Born into a family of three, my sisters and brothers are: Greenleaf the she-cat, Hollowcry the she-cat, and Badgertail the tom-cat. My mother is Cedarclaw and my father is Hollowingtail.
Thank you Junryou-na-Kokoroaway for my Avatar!
Personal Quote: "Failing's not falling down, it's staying down when your hit."


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Palmer Appointed to National Legal Mentoring Consortium Executive Committee
The Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism is pleased to announce that Chief Counsel Mark C. Palmer has been appointed to the executive committee of the National Legal Mentoring Consortium (NLMC), one of the nation's preeminent legal mentoring organizations.
Palmer joins the Commission's Executive Director Jayne R. Reardon on the executive committee. Reardon was appointed in 2012.
"Mark is a nationally recognized leader in legal mentoring and has taken the Commission's program to the next level," said Reardon. "Mark's wealth of experience and focus on using technology to create an improved mentoring experience will be extremely valuable to the NLMC executive committee. At the Commission, he is currently moving our primarily web-based mentoring program to a dedicated online platform, which will not only increase efficiency but improve engagement between mentors and mentees."
The NLMC promotes the mentoring of lawyers, legal professionals, and law school students by sharing ideas, approaches, skills, policies, and programs that have succeeded in helping develop successful lawyers of good character.
One of the NLMC's signature events is its biennial National Legal Mentoring Consortium Conference. The conference brings together leaders in legal mentoring to discuss best practices, new technology, and innovative techniques.
The next conference will be held on October 6-8, 2022, at Loyola University School of Law in Chicago. The Commission on Professionalism will co-host the event, which will focus on online mentoring. Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Anne M. Burke will be featured as the keynote speaker.
At the Commission, Palmer administers the Illinois Supreme Court's Lawyer-to-Lawyer Mentoring Program, which was launched in 2011.
The program pairs new and more experienced attorneys for a year-long curriculum that not only introduces new attorneys to the practice of law but also teaches them how to build careers grounded in professionalism. Under Palmer's leadership, the Commission's unique curriculum has become nationally recognized and is often replicated in other organizations.
During his tenure, Palmer has expanded the reach of the Commission's mentoring program to more than 100 organizations across the state. Since 2011, more than 8,000 mentors and mentees have participated in the program. Of these, 99% say they would recommend the program to other attorneys.
Palmer speaks and writes nationally on the topic of legal mentoring, including speaking at the NLMC's 2016 and 2018 conferences and contributing to publications including "The Lawyer's Guide to Mentoring, 2nd Edition," the Illinois Bar Journal, and the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. His reach has even extended overseas to organizations in London and Beijing interested in the Commission's lawyer mentoring model.
Both legal and non-legal mentoring are pillars of Palmer's civic activities. He is a program administrator for the Commission's Lawyer-to-Lawyer Mentoring Program at the Champaign County Bar Association, a mentor in the University of Illinois I-Promise and Varsity I Mentoring Programs, and served as a mentor and past president of the Champaign-Urbana One-to-One Mentoring Foundation.
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Is there any info on what is the max party size in ARR ?
I don't think they've announced any changes from 1.0 in regards to party sizes yet. Still 8 as far as we know.
Eight seems like a really big party to me... hell, two more people and it's the size of a raid in most games.
I wonder what party size content will be balanced against.. for instance does a dungeon through the LFG system require 8 people? That might make for some very serious queue times.
I'm curious what kind of stat bonus you get with 8. I really wish I had paid attention to what the bonus was with 4 during my hands on.
They didn't really answer. That was taken from the live letter back in November.
I believe nothing has change as far as the max 8 party members for most of the endgame content, but you can see on the ARR dungeon video that they have 4. So I imagen that there will be 4 and 8 members dungeon content and Yoshi-P said that raids will be 24 members. That is why alot of endgame LS are recruiting to get the 24 members number for raids.
Since eight is quite a lot for an instance I have a small hope that the chocobo companions are good enough to use as a "stupid" party member for instances as well. When I played SWTOR with one of my brothers and a friend we always used a companion as the last party member. Partly because it was more convinient, but also because it was quite fun to have an additional thing to consider and use.
Personally I prefer a more intimate 4-5 man party. Easier to build, easier to converse, easier to arrange with friends. The bigger the party, the harder everything is. I'm also reminded of all the full-alliance raids in FFXI where no one was -allowed- to talk because managing that many people was just a huge headache for the leader.
I would agree actually. Eight is quite a lot and while it doesn't have to go as low as four, I would be happy with less than eight for sure.
I totally agree. FFFXI's full party of six was just fine, but I actually enjoyed smaller ones. It's probably going to be eight men in again. Not sure what the reason is. Just to be different from FFXI perhaps?
Good thing about the instanced dungeons is that you don't need a full party, and you can go in at higher levels than recommended, like we did with our 4 level 35's for Toto-Rak.
Overleveled for FATE? You get NOTHING! You LOSE! Good DAY, Sir!
Overleveled for dungeon? NO PROBLEM!
Seems a bit backwards to me. The one that actually requires a bit of planning you could just faceroll, while the one you might stumble upon completely by accident acts like it doesn't even want you there.
FATE's awards are probably different than a dungeons?
The one FATE I did I was too high to get any reward from, but perhaps FATEs are more about XP than items whereas dungeons are more about items than XP? Just a thought.
If that were the case, why bring up the fact that you "can" do it? That's like saying I can work as a game designer for SE. They won't pay me or acknowledge my work, but I can still do it!
Because if you want some item that drops from a dungeon you can get a higher level group to do it just for the loot instead of the XP.
I guess that'd be fine, though it seems like something of a shame to restrict the rewards as such. Either the FATEs become leveling tools that get boring quickly through repetition, or they become rarities that one can't expect to experience with any consistency.
This is all starting to smack of a poorly constructed incentive system.
I'm just guessing here, you know my experience with FATE was limited in my hands on, and I didn't even bother to check the treasure when we finished Toto-Rak because I wanted to get on to another scenario they had outlined.
I figured as much, but I'm feeling chatty and didn't want to kill the conversation.
Though in fairness to them, I'm also very, very tired. I don't even trust myself to do any work because of my impaired judgment.
First of all, be happy that the party sizes is 8. At release of 1.0 the max party size was 10, it was crazy trying to get 10 people together but it was fun for leveling in guildleves. Fate is open world attacks, probably SE don't want for a level 50 come and mess around level 20 fate and try to take the rewards from the players that needs them.
Dungeons will have a level sincronization and are intance so other than your group, you cannot mess with anybody else. Other than the achivement; dungeon gear is usually untradedable so you cannot take any advance by trying to sell it and the gear will be so low if you are a level 35 on a lv15 dungeon that it will be really useless for you.
I think that is the main reason for allowing higher levels to hit the dungeons while fate not, it was aggrevating when a lv50 player will come to a lv10 behest and grab all of the mobs just to mess with the players doing the behest in 1.0.
Yeah, I should be grateful and appreciative that it's better than 1.0!
seems like that's the defense for everything ARR related. It doesn't matter if it's content seen in dozens of other games that isn't particularly exciting/engaging. its waaaaay better than 1.0.
it needs to be more than just "better than 1.0" for people to pay for it. I'm talking non-fanboys.
I figured that was a bit obvious. I don't see what the complaint is with encouraging higher levels refrain from lower level F.A.T.E.s. I mean if fate was about killing mobs etc for exp/loot, It really wouldn't be fun for that over lvled *** to be there when he should just go do a F.A.T.E. for his level. It was always annoying seeing that level 30 at the level 20 behest killing the exp for everyone. Didn't matter if you didn't invite him, he'd just run around killing the mobs anyway, defeating the whole purpose.
But that's kind of the problem. If these FATEs are really so fun, people WILL do them whether you give them a reward or not. And if they're not, then that's obviously not good either.
This is where you can see an incentive system starting to show signs of weakness: when you have content that people want to do, but you don't reward them for doing it. As important as anything else, successful games align player goals with enjoyable tasks. Narrow windows for completing content (especially in a game that will probably suffer from a lack of content, at least a little bit) suggest that the content is being managed poorly as a finite resource.


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Finally, the details that you've been waiting for are here! Previously announced their Asia Fanmeeting tour cities in December 2018, MAMAMOO has firmed up more details for the Singapore leg of the tour which will be taking place on April 27 at ZEPP @ BIGBOX.
Having successfully wrapped up their shows in Bangkok and Jakarta, MAMAMOO performed to a whopping 5,000 crowd with a power-packed setlist of 12 songs (including encore) for each show. The 4-member girl group also surprised fans by donning local traditional costumes, gifting fans a memorable time at their Fanmeetings. Fans in Singapore can definitely look forward to yet another surprise from MAMAMOO at the upcoming Fanmeeting, and get to hear them perform the latest tracks from their 9th mini album that was recently released.
All tickets will be available for sale via APACTix, both online and offline at the outlet, on March 22 (Friday) from 10am onwards. Every ticket holder (except Category 3) will also be enrolled into a lucky draw to win soundcheck party passes, exclusive group photo opportunity with MAMAMOO (10 persons per photo), or receive a signed polaroid on the show day. All ticket holders will also receive an Official Poster and stand a chance to play games with MAMAMOO on stage.


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Gospel TV & Film
2015 Stellar Awards Hosts + Nominees Announced, Erica Campbell & Ricky Dillard Top Nominations
Will the 30th Anniversary Stellar Gospel Music Awards be the best one yet? Last year, Central City Productions announced its new date and location for the 2015 show – and recently unveiled nominees and co-hosts for the March 28th taping taking place at the Las Vegas Orleans Arena.
Comedian and syndicated radio personality, Rickey Smiley returns to co-host the 30th Anniversary show alongside David & Tamela Mann, of gospel music and television fame.
Hailed as "gospel music's biggest night," this year's Stellar Gospel Music Awards features live performances by The Walls Group, Tasha Page-Lockhart, Mali Music, Deitrick Haddon's LXW, and Beverly Crawford among others.
For a full list of 2015 Nominees, visit: http://thestellarawards.com/nominees.html
The Stellar Awards will also present five special categories highlighting the top radio stations serving urban Gospel music audiences nationwide. The awards honor terrestrial radio and internet programs that broadcast Gospel music, including the top Gospel Announcer of the Year.
"I am pleased that God has blessed us with the staying power of the Stellar Awards brand, and we are celebrating our 30-year anniversary as the most respected name in Gospel music and in the faith-based community today," says Don Jackson, founder & Executive Producer of the Stellar Awards. "Our 2015, 30th anniversary 'Stellars' will give thanks to those who have contributed to the success of the Stellar Awards in tribute and in song, bringing back some of the greatest names in the genre as well as featuring many of the nominated artists of 2015. I am also grateful that Central City Productions, the producers of the Stellar Awards will be celebrating 45 years in business as one of the leading television production companies in the media industry."
In addition to recognizing the year's most outstanding contributions in gospel music, The Stellar Awards will also bestow special honors upon President Barack Obama with the Thomas A. Dorsey Most Notable Achievement Award and Bishop Paul Morton with the James Cleveland Lifetime Achievement Award. Andrae Crouch and Al "The Bishop" Hobbs will be celebrated posthumously for their significant contributions to the industry with the Dr. Bobby Jones Legends Award.
The taping at The Orleans Arena is open to the public, and tickets are on sale now through (www.orleansarena.com). Ticket prices range from $50 – $200. Special student pricing for balcony seating is available for $35. In addition to the awards ceremony, there are a number of ancillary activities that celebrate and recognize outstanding achievement in the genre which are open to the public: the Stellar Awards Pre-Show is held on Friday, March 27 at 7 pm and the Stellar Gospel Radio Awards and Showcase on Saturday, March 28 at 11 am; both events require the purchase of a $30 ticket.
For additional details, visit the Stellar Awards website http://www.thestellarawards.com
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General auto insurance quotes are now prepared in real time for motorists using the automated system at the Auto Pros company. Agencies underwriting general plans are now available at http://autoprosusa.com/insurance.
Liability insurance in the U.S. is generally referred to as state level protection in most parts of the country. The Auto Pros company is now introducing this state level protection through its advanced search platform online. This company has added general auto insurance quotes through its real time system to provide access to basic coverage at http://autoprosusa.com/insurance.
The quotes preparation process during the use of this search tool is offering new options for car owners to view plans and pricing online. All general providers that are quoting plans rely on basic information from consumers who are interested in viewing the new prices available. A zip code is the popular format now requested through the search platform.
"Every general policy that is searchable online comes direct from agencies in all states in the USA to introduce different discounts and incentives to car owners who might have limited resources to find this pricing using offline resources," said an Auto Pros company source.
The advantage of searching for general insurance plans online is removing most of the research work average drivers conduct through phone support systems or direct mail programs offline. The general plans offered and quoted online are mixed in with more complex plans that were first added to the system for research last year.
"Every price displayed through the system is in effect for this year and is designed to complete one part of the research process for motorists who are selecting companies based on low prices," said the source.
The Auto Pros company is developing additional ways that consumers can research auto companies online to find services and pricing through the system tools. The insurers that are included in the search system are now able to generate a quote for a warranty plan when motorists access http://autoprosusa.com/auto-warranty.
All plans that are offered when using this modified tool are provided direct through U.S. agencies. These underwritten plans include full pricing and links that can be used to purchase these plans after quotes are locked in online.
The AutoProsUSA.com company is one of the top independent sources that American motor vehicle owners depend on daily to locate exact insurance pricing. The company research tools have been installed online to offer updated pricing and an expanded listing of national companies. The AutoProsUSA.com company is continuing its trend of supplying different solutions to vehicle owners online to find auto parts and warranty programs. These new services are now part of 2014 systems that are included for consumer benefit on the company website.


Articles / Alcoholic Drinks 2018 – Drinks All around?
As Euromonitor's latest annual research is finalised, 2017 is surfacing as a vintage year. The industry's global volume growth might not appear positively intoxicating at first glance but at 1%, it is actually its strongest performance in half a decade.
It is a broad-based and potent cocktail of renewed buoyancy. From lager entering positive territory for the first time since 2013 on the back of the seemingly infinite premiumisation narrative to expanding non-alcoholic portfolios pushing the often maligned segment into the limelight, beer appears frothy rather than flat. But it doesn't end there.
Shots of optimism were also prevalent in spirits where volume performance – at a perhaps uninspiring yet solid 1.5% – is also the strongest since 2012, driven as much by blended Scotch's belated return to its historic trajectory as it was by the much vaunted Ginaissance that is currently in full swing. Registering a consistently accelerating 5% volume growth for the year, 2017 was English gin's most stellar performance since at least the early 2000's.
Nevertheless, it was –yet again- brown spirits and their over-proof allure as the wider category's de facto drivers that remained the protagonists. Beyond the Scottish usual suspects, it was whiskies across the board as well as cognac that continued capitalising on artisanal credentials, authentic and resonant stories and mixology entering the mainstream. Tequila also largely retained last year's decade-high spike as the transition from shots to sipping and aspirational consumption takes the edge out of what was once a stiff drink.
But wine appeared to have robust legs too with still light grape varietals gaining momentum on the back of millennial-pink iterations reaching escape velocity. Red and white variants also fared relatively well but it was the rising rosé tide that provided a refreshing crisp finish to the wider wine segment. Other sparkling wine's widely covered boom was likewise related to its casual and unpretentious positioning while vermouth's mixability credentials catapulted it into positive territory for the first time in years with the category ultimately registering its strongest performance in nearly a decade.
Is it time for celebratory toasts then? Not quite. Ale's gradual deceleration highlights the craft segment's underlying saturation issues ultimately bubbling to the surface. Flavoured lager languishing into negative territory for the first time ever is another cautionary tale on the faddish limitations of flavour sophistication initiatives.
And vodka, still seemingly trapped in a downward spiral, remains a prescient reminder of both the danger of complacency and the unrelenting nature of cyclical generational consumer movements.


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ACCIDENT INJURY DAMAGES
No two cases are alike, and procedures vary with the nature and complexity of the legal and evidentiary issues involved. The following is a very general outline of the stages of a civil action
Every case begins with the filing and service of a Summons and Complaint. The Complaint will contain one or more "causes of action" such as "Breach of Contract" or "Misrepresentation".
COMPLAINT FILING
SERVICE OF COMPLAINT
After the Summons and Complaint have been filed with the court, they must be properly served on the defendant(s). If the defendant(s) will accept service, he/she may sign an "Acknowledgment of Service." Otherwise the documents will have to be formally served or hand delivered to each defendant.
The Defendant(s) has 21 days (28 days by mail) from the date of service of the Summons and Complaint to serve on the Plaintiff(s) either an Answer to the Complaint or a pleading challenging the sufficiency of the Complaint. Failure to answer will constitute default and default judgment may be entered by the clerk or requested and entered by the Plaintiff.
RESPONSE TO COMPLAINT
Once the Complaint and Answer have been filed both parties commence "discovery" procedures by which the evidence necessary to prosecute both sides of the case. Depending on the nature and complexity of the case, one or more of the following discovery devices may be used by the parties:
INTERROGATORIES
Written questions which must be answered under oath.
REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS
Demands for production of documents by the parties involved.(cd's, dvd's, reports, video's, etc)
Requiring the parties to say which allegations they affirm and which they deny.
The parties may be required to appear in the attorney's (either Plaintiff's
SUBPOENA DOCUMENTS FROM THIRD PARTY
Documents may be subpoenaed from 3rd parties such as banks and employers.
If a party fails or refuses to comply with discovery requests, it may be necessary for the party propounding the discovery to make a motion in court to compel responses. If the court grants the motion, further responses will be made. If those responses are still inadequate, another motion may be made and the court can sanction (fine) the resisting party. In extreme cases, the court can even terminate the action in favor of the moving party.
DISCOVERY MOTIONS (IF APPLICABLE)
TRIAL SETTING
Throughout the case, the court will set a series of Case Management Conferences and Pre-trials to be attended by attorneys for all parties. These hearings are designed to determine whether the case is ready for trial. When the court feels that a case is ready for trial, it will set the date for trial and make orders concerning completion of discovery and final preparation for trial.
Settlement negotiations may proceed throughout the trial. Often, the court will require the parties to try a mediation of the issues or will send the case to "Case Evaluation" before the trial date. Case Evaluation is before three attorneys to help settle the case and suggest an amount for the Case Evaluation Amount/Award; if any of the parties are not satisfied they may reject the Case Evaluation Amount/Award and continue the matter for trial. Settlement negotiations generally become more intense as the trial date approaches.
SETTLEMENT NEGOTIATIONS/CASE EVALUATION
The vast majority of cases settle before trial. However, if the parties cannot settle the case, the only way to resolve the issues is by way of trial. The Plaintiff will present proofs, then the Defendant will have an opportunity to cross-examine those proofs. Once the Plaintiff rests or closes its proofs, then the Defense presents its proofs and the Plaintiff will have the opportunity to cross-examine. Once the Defense rests, the Plaintiff may present a rebuttal and the closing arguments from each side. Some trials may last an afternoon, and some trials may last days or weeks or until the parties have presented their proofs and rebuttal.
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Watch: The National Debut High Violet Lead Track "Terrible Love" on "Fallon"
On last night's "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon", epic Brooklyn rockers the National played the opening track from their forthcoming LP, High Violet, due May 10 in the UK and May 11 everywhere else via 4AD. "Terrible Love" has a crescendo and horns and chiming guitars passed down from the Edge. It's a song by the National. Check it out below.
And head to their website to see some shaky in-studio footage of the group recording the new album, as well as a picture that looks a lot like the High Violet album cover (above). UPDATE: That cover-looking image has been confirmed as the face of High Violet.
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ANNAPOLIS, MD – The Governor's Coordinating Offices – led by the Governor's Office for Children along with the Anne Arundel County Partnership for Children, Youth and Families – today presented best practices on engaging communities around issues of inclusivity, women's empowerment, and youth engagement to 25 members from U.S. embassies and consulates from around the globe. These members are participating in a course on public diplomacy provided by the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service Institute. The event was held in Crownsville, Maryland.
The Governor's Coordinating Offices consists of seven unique offices who use a shared services model to save taxpayers' money. Staff from these offices coordinate services, programs, and policy issues across the state to connect the people of Maryland with needed resources statewide. Each office has a specific mission.
This event included staff from the Governor's Office for Children who presented on youth engagement; the Governor's Office on Crime Control and Prevention who presented on issues surrounding juvenile justice; the Governor's Office on Small, Minority, and Women Business Affairs who presented on matters involving women's empowerment, entrepreneurship, and minority-owned businesses; as well as the Governor's Office on Community Initiatives who presented on building more vibrant communities, celebrating diversity, and disseminating needed resources to Maryland communities.
The Governor's Office for Children works with state agencies, Local Management Boards, and community organizations to promote a stable, safe, and healthy environment for Maryland's children, youth, and families. Learn more by visiting our website at goc.maryland.gov and connect with us on Facebook.


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John Carter, Warlord Of Mars Omnibus
by Chris Claremont
Author(s): Chris Claremont
Artist(s): Frank Miller
Subject: Graphic novels: superheroes|graphic novels
Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA
Imprint: Marvel - US
Availability: Not available, publisher indicates Out of Print
Marvel's top talents of the 1970s take on Edgar Rice Burroughs' savage swordsman of Barsoom! John Carter, a hunted soldier on the Western frontier, is transported to an alien world filled with six-armed aliens, sinister super-science and the love of his life, the incomparable Dejah Thoris! A must-have science-fiction epic in the Mighty Marvel Manner! Collecting JOHN CARTER, WARLORD OF MARS #1-28 and ANNUAL #1-3.
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Marvel Visionaries: Chris Claremont
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1Growth and development
2Respiratory pigments
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(Redirected from Crustacea)
Temporal range: 511–0 Ma
Cambrian to present
Abludomelita obtusata, an amphipod
Clade: Pancrustacea
Groups included
Thylacocephala? †
Branchiopoda
Phyllopoda
Sarsostraca
Remipedia
Cephalocarida
Thecostraca
Tantulocarida
Branchiura
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Mystacocarida
Copepoda
Ostracoda
Myodocopa
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Phyllocarida
Hoplocarida
Eumalacostraca
Cladistically included but traditionally excluded taxa
Hexapods
American lobster
Edible shrimp
The Crustacea are a subphylum of arthropods with 67,000 described species. They are part of the phylum Arthropoda. Crustaceans include crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. They are relatives of insects. If the Arthropods are regarded as a superphylum, then the insects and crustacea would be phyla (see List of animal phyla). The group has an extensive fossil record, reaching back to the Cambrian.
Most crustaceans are aquatic, mostly marine. Some have moved onto land permanently. Crustaceans that live on land include some crabs, and woodlice. Crustacea range in size from a parasite 0.1mm long, to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span of up to 14 ft (4.3 m) and a mass of 44 lb (20 kg). The North Atlantic lobster can weigh more than 40 pounds.
Most crustaceans are mobile, but some become sessile after their larval stage. Barnacles are crustacea which become attached to rocks on the sea shore. Some are parasitic, like fish lice, and tongue worms. Crustacea usually have separate sexes, however some are hermaphroditic. Their eggs eventually hatch into larvae.
Crustaceans are a subphylum in the phylum Arthropoda, so they have a tough exoskeleton, a series of jointed appendages, and a segmented body. Crustaceans have three major body parts. They are, front to back: head,[1] thorax,[2] and abdomen.[3] They have two pairs of antennae, and two eyes. The mouth has two mandibles. Most breathe with gills, although sime land crabs have developed lungs. Lobsters and crabs have hard outer skeletons (exoskeleton), and tend to preserve well as fossils. As adults, they moult their shells as they grow in size.
Most large crustaceans crawl along the bottoms of streams, rivers, and the ocean, sometimes coming on land. Because they move along the ground under the water, they are called benthic creatures. Even though lobsters and shrimps can swim a bit, they usually walk along the bottom of the body of water in which they live.
More than 10 million tons of crustaceans are produced by fishery or farming for human consumption, most of it is shrimps and prawns. Krill and copepods are not as widely fished, but they have the greatest animal biomass on the planet, and form a vital part of the food chain.[4][5]
Growth and development[change | change source]
All crustacea must replace their exoskeletons with new ones in order to grow. They replace their exoskeletons by moulting. Moulting is controlled by hormones. A new exoskeleton is then secreted to replace the old one. While they wait for their new exoskeleton to harden it can be dangerous. They may be preyed on by larger predators and not be able to defend themselves. Most crustaceans moult many times between hatching and adulthood.
Shrimp nauplius larva
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The main body cavity is an open circulatory system: blood is pumped into the haemocoel by a heart.[6] Malacostraca have haemocyanin as the oxygen-carrying pigment, while copepods, ostracods, barnacles and branchiopods have haemoglobins.[7] This indicates something very unusual: a phylum (or subphylum) with such a fundamental difference between the physiology of its member groups.
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Body structure of a typical crustacean – krill
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I love the concept of the book but it's likely that the judgments on women based on their outer appearance would affect my enjoyment of reading the book. Good review though. Thanks!
Oh, lucky you, getting to tour Wales. Wish I could be there.
Not sure Wildman is for me, but I got a chuckle out of the girl vs. car dilemma. Enjoyed your review.
Lucy, the protagonist notices appearances, but he cares about personality and character too.
Linda, I enjoyed Wildman, but it's definitely more geared toward teenage boys or to readers trying to understand that perspective. The car vs girl dilemma was classic! This book can be quite funny at times.
All, I'm traveling with limited access to the internet. I'll catch up with your reviews when I'm back online.
Isn't that true that many people judge based on appearances not on personality and character? It brings me to the question what a book should describe - the way it is or the way it should be? Surely there is not always the same answer.
Enjoy the final week of your UK sabbatical!
Beautiful Welsh countryside. Look forward to your post about your traveling adventures. The YA book Wildman sounds like a fun read. Nice review.
Margy, one of my favorite covers.
troutbirder, yes, this book is meant for teens.
Petra, excellent point! I think honesty is especially important in YA. This book does a great job of being true to a teen boy's voice and the young men he befriends, but although appearances make strong impressions, personality and character factor the most to the protagonist. Still, I wish there had been a scene when the MC realized that the fat minor character was more than her weight. As it is, that passage stands out as a fat shaming cliche in an otherwise more thoughtful narrative.
cue, Wildman was indeed a fun read. I'm home now and once I've settled in, I'll blog more about Wales.


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Doctors vs Mamata: Tribal confrontation?
Shikha Mukerjee
The writer is a senior journalist in Kolkata.
Published : Jun 17, 2019, 1:12 am IST
Updated : Jun 17, 2019, 1:12 am IST
The problem with this demand is that it is the craving of the injured ego as well as injured bodies of the doctors on strike.
Outbreaks of lower levels of violence have happened across West Bengal since the NRS incident. (Photo: ANI)
Every side in the confrontation between doctors and the West Bengal government wants justice; it is a demand that is being kicked around like a football, in the play-off for the clinching goal. Meanwhile the ill, injured and incapacitated proletariat who need the low cost or cashless services of the public health system have been converted into spectators, desperately hoping that a solution will be found.
The doctors, junior and senior, working in public hospitals or in private moth-eaten or plush establishments, in West Bengal and across the country, are like a tribe, bound together by their induction into an elite order of knowledge and practice that bestows on them the power of being almost omniscient. The regularity with which emotionally hyper "patient parties" violently confront staff, nurses and doctors across the country does not make what happened in West Bengal a singular instance of violence. Nor does it make what happened at Nil Ratan Sircar Hospital excusable or defensible, in any way.
What makes the situation singular is, however, the fusing of politically generated violence in general in West Bengal with the violence against a tribal order, namely doctors. What makes it intriguing is that there is at the same time the cross-country, far bigger and better orchestrated, tribal mobilisation against the injustice to their brethren in specifically Kolkata and only by reluctant extension, the rest of West Bengal. What is different is that the protests are not against coercion tactics of the State, armed with absolute authority, against agitating doctors. West Bengal, unlike other state, has not as yet invoked ESMA (Essential Services Maintenance Act), followed by arrests or deregistration or other lawfully permissible measures to break the protest.
The two advisories issued by the Union home ministry on Saturday point to the link between spiralling political violence under Mamata Banerjee's watch and the expansion of this violence into other spaces, namely hospitals and a specific class of persons, that is, doctors. The violence, the degree of injury and the identity of the organised mob that attacked the junior doctors and caused serious injury was already linked in the articulation of political support for the doctors on strike; Dilip Ghosh, state party chief of the Bharatiya Janata Party said, "Providing security to the doctors is the responsibility of the chief minister of any state. Mamata Banerjee is not controlling or arresting the anti-social elements because they are her voters." Other voices, including a not-so-junior, already-employed, doctor working in a different healthcare facility in Kolkata, spread outrage about the attack, criticising and comparing the chief minister's actions in other situations, the CBI raid against the Police Commissioner, her largesse to community clubs et al to her reaction to the NRS incident.
Disentangling the jumble of facts, interests and issues is complicated by the new dynamics that the agitation has revealed as the likely trajectory of politics and activism in West Bengal. The war cry of the activists in the state is very similar to the war cry of doctors in Delhi — Save the Saviours. It reeks of exceptionalism, converting the entirely natural demand of the junior doctors at NRS into an elite mobilisation as a backlash against proletarian pampering by the Mamata Banerjee-headed government.
An aggrieved and disillusioned upper crust is hitting back at Ms Banerjee; they are either disappointed or disapprove of the ways in which she has mobilised the masses, empowering and including what was once the fringe and making them pillars of the establishment. Part of the inclusion is what the BJP consistently attacks — Ms Banerjee's politics of appeasement of the Muslim community at the cost of the majority community. The same intelligentsia had in 2007 lined up for Ms Banerjee when she fought the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front on the Singur-Nandigram land acquisition issue. The faces are the same — Aparna Sen, Kaushik Sen et al. This suggests that the Save the Saviour slogan of the doctors is part of a bigger call — Save the State — because it has been overrun by the Trinamool Congress' recruitment of overindulged wastrels vividly captured in Ms Banerjee's invitation to unemployed "bokhate chhele" to join her party.
The welter of voices has not succeeded entirely in drowning out the anguish of patients and their families who need urgent attention in the public hospitals affected by the doctors' agitation. But these other voices are not part of the line-up that is demanding a honourable solution to the problem, the first of which is that Ms Banerjee should dump her "ego" and visit the site of the violence, NRS. The problem with this demand is that it is the craving of the injured ego as well as injured bodies of the doctors on strike.
Outbreaks of lower levels of violence have happened across West Bengal since the NRS incident. The six-day strike has meant hardship, death and deteriorating services in public hospitals in the state and across the country. A day or two into the strike, the insistence of the doctors and those standing in support with them that the government, meaning Ms Banerjee, should meet them at the specified location was forgivable. Tempers were raised, feelings ran high and the shock of the encounter was recent. Six days on, the insistence on NRS as the only place for the meeting with the government and only with Ms Banerjee is worrying.
Reaction, resistance and retribution are acting against restitution of normalcy. The efforts of senior doctors, all of them eminent professionals, have failed. The agitation has escalated to the level of an all-India movement by doctors and the Union government against Mamata Banerjee.
The mobilisation is, notably, not all doctors against all random episodes of violence by the public in government hospitals and even private establishments. It is not all doctors demanding safety and security at the workplace. If it were, then Ms Banerjee's announcement that all demands have been met and the State is putting in place measures to make the workplace safer should have been seen as a cave-in by the government and the intermediate steps to get back to work would have been taken. The rejection of her invitation to talks suggests the agitation is about more than doctors concerned about their safety. It is a mobilisation by forces determined to deliver a backlash.
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Full collaboration suite. Excellent usability. Excellent anti-spam and anti-phishing engine. HIPAA-compliant.
Not compatible with Microsoft Exchange. Occasional glitches when receiving calendar invites from external servers. No built-in way to send encrypted email.
Google G Suite Business is a robust, secure, and feature-rich service that's a good one-stop email-hosting shop. It tends not to play nicely with emails and calendaring originating from Microsoft, but you can find a comparable replacement for nearly everything in G Suite.
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While Gmail is the highlight of Google G Suite, there are plenty of other ways to collaborate with your team. Google Hangouts lets you engage in video conferencing as well as share your screen to solve problems collectively and run remote meetings. If your organization standardizes on Google Calendar, then you can also combine that and Google Hangouts to manage conference room resources. It's also possible to edit documents in real time with other team members,. However, Microsoft Office 365 Business Premium and a number of competitors that have built their own email hosting services by reselling MicrosoftOffice 365, such as web hosting provider, GoDaddy Web Hosting, can also boast all of these features. One of the major challenges with any email system is that email itself is an objectively terrible form of communication. Google has made sure to provide enough alternate channels of communication to ensure that whatever the conversation is, you will be able to choose an appropriate medium in which to conduct it.
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On the plus side, Google boasts a large number of third-party integrations. However, when compared to its privacy promises, that obviously means that some data sharing will take place. How much, however, is largely under your control, though that control really amounts to deciding whether or not you want to integrate with a particular app. It then becomes a "buyer beware" scenario in which it's just a best practice to stay fully informed about how information will flow and how it will be shared in a particular integration scenario, and then weigh that reality against the benefits gained.
To help, Google has a rich developer application programming interface (API) available and many organizations have taken advantage of this. The G Suite Marketplace has a wealth of integration options available, including DocuSign, Freshdesk, Salesforce, among many others. If you hunt long and hard enough, you can typically find your favorite app in the list.
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Bottom Line: Google G Suite Business has come a long way since its inception, evolving from an also-ran into a full-on competitor of the more mature Microsoft Office Suite. While it still has compatibility issues with Microsoft, overall the service is very robust and reliable.


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