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Dec 23rd 2010 5:03PM @Dungeoncrawl Regardless of how many of us there are equality and freedom are ideas that we should all be able to get behind. . . Further, it was left up to nature and guess what, homosexuals exist. Not just in humans either but many species. Homosexuality is a response to over population but instead of leaving these homosexuals to die they realized that they were useful to society as care providers teachers gathers etc. they didn't have families of their own so they could care for children as others gathered food and what have you. so actually it makes perfect natural sense.
BioWare responds to same-sex romance complaints about Dragon Age {Joystiq}
Dec 23rd 2010 4:47PM @Claws I'll say it again. It is natural as it happens in nature all around us and it definitely natural in humans. Just because gay sex doesn't lead to procreation doesn't make it any less valid as sexual expresion.
BioWare responds to same-sex romance complaints about Dragon Age {Joystiq}
Dec 23rd 2010 3:51PM @Claws It's not unnatural at all, in fact. You can observe homosexuality in many species large and small. It's usually a natural response to over population. . . Just sayin'
12 Days of Joyswag: Enslaved Collector's Edition resin statue and game {Joystiq}
Dec 15th 2010 1:37PM I haven't picked up Enslaved yet because it was that or Castlevania. I went with the latter because it was longer and has Shadow of the Collossus style boss fights. I would love to play this game and display this statue proudly.
Joyswag: All games from Direct2Drive 'Spring Sale' [update] {Joystiq}
May 6th 2010 4:30PM EDI (Tricia Helfer amirite?)
Swag Saturday: Darksiders for the PS3 + loot galore! [update] {Joystiq}
Jan 9th 2010 2:22PM Zaicalian
Joyswag: PS3 Holiday Games Bundle {Joystiq}
Dec 17th 2009 2:29PM Oh-so-naughty, but it's been nice.
Pacifist Priest dings 80 on Friday {WoW}
Sep 2nd 2009 5:19PM Well, I guess if we're being sticklers he did do Dalaran fishing quest which require you fish and fishing does kill the fish. Unless he threw them all back. Which I doubt.
GLAAD fights homophobia in online communities like WoW {WoW}
Jul 21st 2009 1:52PM As a gay man (who is a gamer and has played WoW for many years) hearing these things does not personally bother me because I am confident enough in myself to know that what some 14 year old types out in their parent's basement is not intended to be malicious. However, I do understand why statements like this are hurtful especially if you understand where they come from.
Think about if you had a disabled friend and you said you thought everything bad/boring was lame. How would they feel about that? Same with Gyped, or jewed, or retarded. These statements came to be out of hatred. These words do not have "new" or "multiple" meanings they are words that were used to be synonamous with bad, or evil, or sneaky, or dishonest. So don't trick yourself into thinking these statements have morphed or turned into something not based in hate. They are and you are perpetuating this stereotype everytime you say it.
This is not say I haven't said some of these things. I've even said "That's gay" before. We all do it just don't be surprised if you get flak for it.
White, protestant, hetero-normative males don't often experience discrimination in the form of semantics so they don't often think about it. Here's to hoping the do in the future.
65% fewer Arena teams in Season 5 {WoW}
Mar 24th 2009 6:38PM I think people are beginning to realize that arena broke the game and puts class balance way to much in the foreground. Wow can't be all things to all people. I understand Blizzard wants an eSport but I'm tired of everything feeling to samey.


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Re: [OS] US/CHINA/ECON - U.S. defers China currency manipulator decision: report
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Congress on International Economic and Exchange Rate Policies.
1. It must be issued before Oct. 15 each year, and
2. There must be a written update on developments six months after the
initial report is made
On 4/2/10 09:28, Bayless Parsley wrote:
question, matt.
these Treasury reports -- one April 15, next one in October -- are they
the only times the US can officially label a country as a currency
manipulator? would Obama be able to do this in, say, July or August?
or is it, pick one: April or October
Matt Gertken wrote:
Also the June G20 summit has repeatedly been named as a major
opportunity for the US, Japanese and Europeans to pressure china
Jennifer Richmond wrote:
Yes, Matt and I are talking about doing something on this. There
was mention of this in the financial report I sent out too. We can
rep for now and we will collect our thoughts.
Bayless Parsley wrote:
original article here. scroll down to relevant parts on issue of
currency manipulator.
i know Obama has to do something about unemployment but with
today's jobs release being neutral (hey, at least it didn't get
worse, is what he's thinking), plus the fact that we know his
admin likes to leak to the NYT, i think we should rep this or
write a cat 2
April 2, 2010
Tensions Easing, Obama Talks With Chinese Leader
By MARK LANDLER and ANDREW JACOBS
WASHINGTON - In an hour-long telephone conversation, President
Obama told the Chinese president Thursday night that the United
States and China needed to press Iran on its nuclear ambitions to
ensure the country "lives up to its international obligations,"
the White House said.
But there were no immediate indications after the chat that
China's president, Hu Jintao, had signaled whether China would
support additional United Nations sanctions against Iran. Mr.
Obama has said he wants new sanctions "within weeks."
In a statement describing the conversation between the two
leaders, the White House said President Obama had welcomed Mr.
Hu's decision to attend a nuclear security summit meeting in
Washington later this month. And Chinese television reported that
Mr. Hu expressed a desire for healthier ties, while stressing
Beijing's sensitivity about Taiwan and Tibet. The two talked while
Mr. Obama was on Air Force One, on his way back from a trip to New
The chat lasted so long that the presidential jet had to be held
for 10 minutes on the tarmac at Andrews Air Force Base after
landing so that Mr. Obama could finish up the conversation,
according to pool reports.
Although there is still no agreement on sanctions among members of
the Security Council, where China holds a veto, tensions between
China and the United States have ebbed significantly in recent
days. The countries are now working together to deter Iran's
nuclear ambitions and with the Obama administration is backing off
a politically charged clash over China's currency.
American officials had feared that Mr. Hu would skip the talks to
express China's anger over recent diplomatic clashes, including a
White House decision to sell arms to Taiwan and President Obama's
meeting with the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader.
But this week, the drumbeat of bad news - and an underlying
narrative of a rising China flexing its muscles against a
debt-laden United States - has suddenly given way to talk of
For now, the United States is setting aside potentially the most
divisive issue in the relationship, deferring a decision on
whether to accuse China of manipulating its currency, the
renminbi, until well after Mr. Hu's visit, according to a senior
administration official. That decision, the official said,
reflects a judgment that threatening China is not the best way to
persuade it to allow the renminbi to appreciate against the
Many economists expect China to act on its own to loosen the tight
link of the renminbi to the dollar - a policy that keeps the
currency's value depressed and makes China's exports more
competitive in global markets.
Still, the administration's decision not to force the currency
issue now could carry political risks at home. Lawmakers on
Capitol Hill have introduced legislation calling for trade
sanctions against China if it does not change its currency policy.
And unions and manufacturers cite the undervalued Chinese currency
as a major culprit for lost jobs.
The White House would not comment on the currency issue, but an
official said that if China did not take action on its own, the
administration could raise the issue again at the Group of 20
summit meeting in June. The White House welcomed Mr. Hu's visit as
proof that its policy of engaging with China on strategic issues
of common interest had paid off.
"We have an important relationship with China, one in which there
are many issues of mutual concern that we work on together," said
a White House spokesman, Bill Burton. "But there also will be
times where we disagree. I think this proves the point that
despite those disagreements, we can work together on issues like
nuclear proliferation."
The relationship between the countries was also affected last week
when Google, citing Chinese censorship, began redirecting users in
China to its uncensored Hong Kong search engine.
On Wednesday, China appeared to throw its support behind new
United Nations sanctions aimed at putting pressure on Iran over
its nuclear program. The Security Council has been stymied by
China's insistence on diplomacy over sanctions.
After meeting with Chinese officials in Beijing, Iran's nuclear
negotiator on Friday warned the West to back away from "threats"
and suggested that China was less inclined to support sanctions
than many believed.
"Many issues came up in talks on which China accepted Iran's
position," Saeed Jalili, the negotiator, said during a news
conference. "We jointly emphasized during our talks that these
sanctions tools have lost their effectiveness."
In its own statements on Friday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry
appeared to steer clear from any commitment for sanctions, saying
that all parties should "step up diplomatic efforts, and show
flexibility, to create the conditions to resolve the Iranian
nuclear issue through dialogue and negotiation."Still, earlier
this week, Mr. Obama expressed optimism that the major powers
could unite this spring behind a resolution that would apply new
pressure on Iran over its nuclear program.
The administration has engaged in intensive talks with Chinese
officials to demonstrate to Beijing the destabilizing effect of a
nuclear-armed Iran. A crucial advance, officials said, came in
early March when an American delegation, led by Deputy Secretary
of State James B. Steinberg and the National Security Council's
senior director for Asia, Jeffrey A. Bader, visited Beijing.
Mr. Hu's visit will take place only two days before the Obama
administration faces a deadline to decide whether to label China a
"currency manipulator," meaning that it intervenes in currency
markets to gives its exporters an artificial advantage. Pressure
in the United States has been building to take that step, which
could initiate a Congressional process that would lead to slapping
tariffs on Chinese imports.
But given the potential for embarrassing Mr. Hu - and for sending
bilateral relations into another tailspin - the administration
decided not to report on April 15, one of the deadlines set by
Congress and the Treasury Department to issue a report on possible
currency manipulation.
Nicholas R. Lardy, an economist at the Peterson Institute for
International Economics in Washington, said the Treasury
Department could delay the deadline for weeks. "As a practical
matter, they've got a lot of wiggle room," he said. Mr. Lardy
added that he thought it was unlikely that China would have agreed
to a visit by Mr. Hu unless there was at least an informal
assurance by the Treasury that China would not immediately be
named a currency manipulator.
Lawmakers signaled that they would not be easily mollified if the
administration gave Beijing a pass on its currency.
"The most important issue in the Chinese-American relationship is
currency," said Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York,
who introduced a bill threatening China with trade sanctions. "It
relates to American jobs, American wealth and the future of this
country. This issue should not be traded for another."
Relations between the countries began to fray in November, soon
after Mr. Obama went to China on a state visit that was more
circumscribed than American officials would have liked.
In the months that followed, tensions increased. American
officials accused China of thwarting a climate change deal in
Copenhagen and Chinese leaders threatened to punish the United
States for a $6 billion weapons deal for Taiwan. In February,
China's Foreign Ministry called in the American ambassador for a
scolding about Mr. Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama, whom China
calls a separatist.
But then came a thaw. In recent days, public statements in Beijing
and Washington hinted at fading tensions. Mr. Steinberg, the
deputy secretary of state, declared that United States did not
support independence for Taiwan and Tibet. And Mr. Obama, at an
event on Monday for China's new ambassador to Washington, offered
generous praise for China.
Mark Landler reported from Washington, and Andrew Jacobs from
Beijing. Sewell Chan contributed reporting from Washington.
Daniel Grafton wrote:
U.S. defers China currency manipulator decision: report
Friday, April 2, 2010; 9:12 AM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration will defer a
decision on whether to name China a currency manipulator until
well after President Hu Jintao visits Washington for a nuclear
proliferation summit, the New York Times reported on Friday.
The paper, citing an administration official, said the decision
reflected a judgment that threatening China was not the most
effective way to persuade Beijing to allow the yuan to
appreciate against the U.S. dollar.
A U.S. Treasury report that would have published the decision on
whether to brand China a currency manipulator had been scheduled
for release on April 15.
China said on Thursday that Hu would attend a summit on nuclear
security days before the Treasury decision was expected, and
diplomats said Beijing had agreed to join in talks with Western
powers about a fresh round of U.N. sanctions against Iran.
Those moves indicated an easing of tensions between the two
world powers after a rocky period characterized by disputes over
China's Internet controls, U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, and
Obama's meeting with exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalia
President Barack Obama and Hu spoke for about an hour while
Obama was flying back to Washington late on Thursday from
political fundraising events in Boston.
(Reporting by Jeff Mason, Editing by Sandra Maler)
Daniel Grafton
Intern, STRATFOR
Jennifer Richmond
China Director, Stratfor
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This recent article from December 22, 2007 issue of BMJ discusses some medical myths that are popular in health and try to rediscover the medical truth
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Our University of Toronto colleagues have a wonderful online collection to share. It features approximately 4500 full page plates and other significant illustrations of human anatomy selected from the Jason A. Hannah and Academy of Medicine collections in the history of medicine at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
There are ninety-five individual titles represented, ranging in date from 1522 to 1867.
You can browse this collection by body region, view the highlights, or just search the plates .
View this collection online here.
Thanks to David Rothman for the link!
Here is a curation at The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). There is a wonderful online gallery of illustrations by Villemard from 1910 imagining what life would be like in the year 2000.
It is fascinating to see that folks in the early 20th century did not even imagine the things human race has developed so fast…
So, how things will look like in 2100?
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Here is an excellent short (8min.) video that may lead you to think more about your kids' and even your own education and future opportunities.
World is indeed is getting smaller, more connected and ironically more complicated.
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Here is a website by the U.S. National Library of Medicine that continues the theme of Harry Potter books.
Do Mandrakes Really Scream? Magic and Medicine in Harry Potter.
From the about page:
"There is more to the Harry Potter series than a child hero or a fantasy adventure —many of the characters, plants, and creatures in Rowling's stories are based in history, medicine, or magical lore. Death, evil, illness, and injury affect the characters of Harry Potter's imaginary world. In describing their experiences, Ms. Rowling has drawn on important works of alchemy and herbology. These works and other links to Harry Potter books are examined in this exhibition."
Isn't it fun to re-read HR that way?
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This is an unusual post for my Friday Fun and Learn series. This time I would like to share with you a very nice webcast by the Library of Congress, titled – "Origins of Life and the Universe"
TITLE: On the Origins of Life and the Universe
SPEAKER: John Mather, Craig Mello
RUNNING TIME: 136 minutes
Two 2006 Nobel Prize winners addressed the fundamental questions pondered by many through the ages: the origins of life and the universe. The event, "On the Origins of Life and the Universe: An Afternoon with 2006 Nobel Laureates Craig Mello and John Mather," was sponsored by the John W. Kluge Center and the Science, Business and Technology Division of the Library of Congress, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Launch the webcast here.
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Let's be a bit serious this Friday. This is another excellent video from the CommonCraft team, this time about using social bookmarking while working on the Web.
Personally, I use del.icio.us for years now and find it incredibly useful in organizing my web browsing online.
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For more comprehensive and health sciences oriented review of this subject, you can also take a look on an article Michelle Purdon and I published last year:
Here is a funny overview of what happens when the Web crashes
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Greetings everyone. Long time lurker, first time poster. I'm hoping that some of you would be kind enough to share your experience and expertise with me.
I recently acquired what appears to be an very gently used Kahr K9. I checked the serial number and believe that the pistol was made around 1995. I have put about 600 rounds through the weapon (on six separate trips to the range) using WWB and Blazer FMJ ammo, and a very little bit of Winchester JHP. The problem is that I usually get one or two failures in the course of 100 rounds, typically due to FTE's. That failure rate is concerning since I'd like to make this my CC pistol. I keep the weapon clean and lubed and make an effort not to limp-wrist the pistol, but I cannot seem to make it through 100 rounds with a failure. I can't honestly blame the pistol (yet) though since I am definitely not an expert shooter.
What is my next step to try to remedy this problem? Should I have the gun inspected? Before I drop $90 on a holster I'd like the pistol to operate at close to 100%. I'm to the point where I'm toying with the idea of selling the pistol and picking up a PM9, mainly because of the malfunctioning problem, but also because I'm struggling with the though of marring up the finish on this pretty K9 by CC'ing it. I do also like the idea of the increased versatility of the PM9......
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Why does Civil 3D not have options to edit 3D polylines? Specifically linetype scales. I read what was posted previously and a tip someone gave was explode it to 2D, do a pedit, print and then exit drawing without saving. This is not acceptable. This is a survey file provided to me as a base for design and the 3D polylines are tops of banks. Carlson Survcadd allows you to edit 3D polylines. Why doesn't Civil 3D?
In Civil 3D, we use features lines instead of 3D polylines. In the 2013 version of the program, the feature line styles respect the linetype and scale settings.
You can edit the elevations of 3D polylines through the properties palette. The feature line objects provide a more elegant solution, IMHO.
It's no opinion Lisa, it's fact.
If I can add to Lisa and Matt's comments, feature line editing is easier and more powerful (not all of these tools work on 3d polys) and you can have true curves.
Okay. Here is another issue. The surveyor located the centerline of a stream which I am profiling. I had to profile using station and elevation in a file because after attempting to create a surface from his contours(because that is sufficient to my need), C3D would not accept his elevated contours.
It just seems to me that to have the software perform, I have to somehow re-create the survey drawing provided to me by someone else. His points are all on a single layer so I could not use those to create a surface as many of them have elevations that would throw the surface out of whack. I do not have time to relayer 1000 points.
I do not understand why C3D seems to have lost its user-friendliness towards working with data from other platforms.
I would ask the surveyor to send an xml file of the surface if possible. It is easy for them to create if they use LDD.
I don't know what kind of points you were provided with. But if they were anything like LDT - Aecc points, you can convert them to Civil cogo points. Then you can create point groups based on the description and/or elevation and change the layer that way or you can build the surface directly from a point group.
If you list one of the contours that C3D rejected and post the results. There may be someone that has a suggestion about how to handle them.
BTW Many of the Featureline editing tools also work on 3D Polylines. I don't have a list of those so you'll just have to try them. I do know that Insert and Delete PI work.
Civil 3D "Did not accept his contours." That strikes me as odd.
You can feed Civil 3D absolute garbage, and it will "accept" it.
Try as a last resort to using Contours provided by others as the basis for a surface. The absolute best possible surfaces are created by a handful of "spot shots" and the remainder being breaklines.
If brealklines are not available, then the LandXML approach I concurr with.
When you are building the surface you need for your profile, remember that you can use a boundary to exclude points not needed and also that you may set upper and lower elevation limits for your surface, which exclude all of those pesky points at elevation 0 or in outer space. Also, you can use the simplify surface tool to eliminate excess points, such as clustered control points on a benchmark. Processing and editing your points before starting to draw and design saves many headaches.
I hope this smooths out the process a little.
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Q: It doesn't seem rational for a young man to give his girlfriend an expensive engagement ring when he proposes. My thought is that the most efficient use of that dollar is to invest it into something that a young couple would value most e.g. a down payment on a first house, etc. The diamond market is a monopoly and diamond prices are manipulated so that prices are always high. Can you construct a concise and logical argument that young men across the world can use to not buy diamond rings? After all, you already are offering the most valuable thing that you have (your heart) to your soon-to-be bride. In this age, why is a token like an overpriced rock still needed?
In response to this penny-pincher's question, economist Tim Harford replied, "I tend to agree with you."
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We just picked a basket of figs off the tree. They're super messy and duper sweet. And they're for Adam. The Duke.
If Adam doesn't come over and eat them all, then we'll be making fig newtons. Homemade!
We just picked a basket of figs off the tree. They're super messy and duper sweet. And they're for Adam. The Duke.
If Adam doesn't come over and eat them all, then we'll be making fig newtons. Homemade!
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Wow! I am jealous! Planted 2 fig trees (named them Adam & Eve) and we have just one fig Guessing Texas heat may be just too much for them…maybe next year?
We live in NE Tenn… I now have 3 bigger fig trees… 2 Celeste, 1 Brown Turkey… AND 2 'baby' Brown Turkey… LOVE fresh figs… Texas heat… I lived in Mobile, Al in the early 70′s… The house we rented had a separate Garage—AND behind the garage was a BIG fig tree— canned all of the tree's figs in jam and just figs that summer… Mobile is ON the GULF… hot…!
FIGS! My favorites! I bought a fig last year….it died. I was heartbroken. RIP Phineaus. I tried again this year. My new fig Thor is thriving but he's still just a baby. I'm crossing my fingers that someday I'll have beautiful figs like you guys do.
Love that you and Lori are naming your fig trees. Awesome names by both of you.
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who names my trees! We have two Meyer Lemons named Lucy & George; the figs are Caesar, Newton, and Calpurnia; the Olive Tree is Olivia. I haven't named my Laurels yet because I have too many of them, if there is such a thing…..
What variety are they?
We are not 100% sure, but we believe they are called Strawberry Figs. That is what the nursery told us when we originally bought the tree.
I so want a fig tree right now! Will have to start keeping my eye out for a good deal, but first need to figure out how to rid my other trees of all the millions of bugs killing them.
We used the Monterey Garden Insect Spray which contains spinosad to help "right the balance" of good bugs vs bad bugs in the garden. It still takes time to establish a good ecosystem in a new garden, but yours will be there soon.
These figs look divine and I am so jealous! We've had such a mild summer that our figs are still green…waiting for some ripening warmth and sun. Thanks for giving me hope and sharing such gorgeous photographs!
Wow. Those are gorgeous, almost too pretty for words.
Aloha, I would love to use this fig photo for an ebook I'm creating. I would give you full credit of course. Please let me know if that is ok with you.
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Nuda | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Ctenophora |
Class: | Nuda |
Order: | Beroida |
Family: | Beroidae Chun, 1879 |
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Nuda is a class of ctenophores or comb jellies. The class contains a single family, Beroidae, with two genera, Beroe and Neis, and the group is more commonly referred to as the "beroids". They are distinguished from other comb jellies by the complete absence of tentacles, in both juvenile and adult stages. Beroe is found in all the world's oceans and seas, and the monotypic Neis occurs only near Australia; all beroids are free-swimmers in the plankton.
Some members of the diverse genus Beroe may occasionally attain a length of up to 30 centimetres (12 in), though most species and individuals are less than about 10 cm; Neis cordigera is among largest species in the class. The sack-like body of the Beröe species may be cylindrical in cross section, or compressed to varying amounts by species, while Neis is somewhat flattened and characterized by a pair of trailing gelatinous "wings"that extend beyond the aboral pole[vague].
Like other comb jellies, the body wall of nudans consists of an outer epidermis and an inner gastrodermis, separated by a jelly-like mesoglea. The mesoglea has pigments that give many nudan species a slightly pink color; Neis cordigera may be yellowish or a deep orange-red.
Mouth opening and muscles[edit]
Nudans have a very large oral cavity, allowing them to swallow prey whole. While swimming, and particularly while pursuing prey, it can close this mouth like a zipper so that the nuda maintains a streamlined profile. The nuda "zips" its mouth closed from each end, and the "lips" seal shut by forming temporary inter-cellular connections. The whole ctenophore nerve network is within the "lip" of the Nuda of about 40 nerve cell Fort records (Neurit), this bundle of compacted.
The palate is caused by the interplay of three different types of muscle open and closed: In the mesoglea lost both ring around the longitudinal axis of the animal and arranged radial, radially outwards from the inside running muscle fibers; they interact with longitudinal, so längsseitig oriented fibers, which the epidermis.
Nudans have only smooth muscle fibres.
Directly inside the mouth opening can be found in the lining of the gap characteristic finger-like excesses, Macrocilia. In this first 1844 of JGF Will described and 1965 by George Adrian Horridge with her today named structures are conical shaped by a common plasma membrane surrounded bundles of two to three scourges (cilia), which, as in the comb plates of ribs to a functional unit connected. The individual, between 35 and 60 micrometres in diameter long and 5 to 10 micrometres thick cilia together in a hexagonal cross-sectional structure, and are perpendicular to the direction of common connected by crossbars, a separate membrane, which they divide their neighbor scourges would have it they are not. Each cilium shows the typical eukaryote construction of nine external and two internal microtubules.
The scourge cells, in which the cilia from individual basal bodies arise, to the Schlundauskleidung by an average of thirty degrees to mundabgewandten side and, stacked on top like roof tiles. Thus, the macrocilia always point in the direction of the interior of the throat. This is where is the effective strike, which is prey parts in synchronized waves like a conveyor belt transported in the stomach and the throat muscles promoted this process.
Macrocilia run in a three toothed top of this is stiff enough to the soft outer wall to rip even larger prey like other ctenophores; proteolytic enzyme penetrate into the resulting wounds, make the victim then quickly escape.
Macrocilia also function as teeth, and can be used in the same way as the tentacles of Tentaculata.
Affairs channel system[edit]
From the main drag from stomach like all ctenophore channels in all regions of the body. Each rib will comb through its own meridional canal furnished directly below this location. He owns at the Nuda species many fine ramified excesses, some of which deal with the gap unite, but others end up blind. To that end mouth running the meridional canal in a circle around the mouth lying ring channel.
Statocyste and polepieces[edit]
As with all ctenophores, is at the mundabgewandten side Gleichwichtsorgan, statocyst, including the clock for the ribs arranged on the ridge platelets determine. The shock pulse, unlike in the Lobata, is not through the ridge between platelets oblique scourge forwarded tapes, but the fact that the individual comb platelets in turn fall, like dominoes, the subsequent platelet influence.
Immediately below the statocyst is an inlet lined with sensory cells, which contains epithelial tissue has to mouth out in two opposite narrow bands scourge continues, in the throat level of ctenophore run and as a polepieces. You call a strike by its water flow on the statocyst shows and are used by the Nuda-Arten at its border with finger excesses, the papillae occupied whose function is still unclear, but probably also sensory perception.
Unlike other groups of ctenophores put them to continue their movement almost exclusively comb ribs.
Nudans feed on free swimming animals with soft bodies, primarily from other ctenophores, certainly larger than they themselves can be. They actively hunt for prey, which they usually devour whole. Some species use their macrocilia as teeth to take smaller chunks from the prey.
As invasive species[edit]
In the late 1980s the ctenophore species Mnemiopsis leidyi was introduced into the Black Sea, probably through ballast water, which led to the collapse of the local anchovy population. In 1997 another ctenophore species arrived--Beroe ovata, a predator of Mnemiopsis leidyi. The Beroe population underwent an initial explosion, until the numbers of both ctenophores stabilized. Nevertheless, both Mnemiopsis leidyi and Beroe ovata remain today in the Black Sea. The same phenomenon is occurring at the beginning of the 21st century in the Caspian Sea.
All species reproduce sexually, and have both female and male gonad. Although no detailed figures are available, it is assumed that self-fertilization is the exception among nudans.
The fertilized eggs hatch into miniature versions of the adult animal, rather than distinct larval forms. They already lack the tentacles and Tentakelscheiden, otherwise they are similar to the Cydippea stadum.
History of the species[edit]
There are no known fossil nudans, so the phylogenetic evolution of the group from the comparison with other modern representatives of Rippenquallen tapped to be. In the traditional system, the Nuda form a class distinct from the Tentaculata, which all have at least rudimentary tentacles. This division, after provisional results of morphological and molecular studies, however, probably does not reflect the actual relationships within the ctenophores.
Although the scheme is still in the river and does not have an independent assessment of the available evidence, seems to be a family from the order Cydippida, Haeckelidae, in the closer relationship of Nuda species to belong neither Cydippida still Tentaculata would therefore cladistic taxa included not all offspring of their joint Vorfahrens and would therefore is not recognised as a valid taxon in modern schemes.
The monophyly of Nuda itself, is however widely accepted, due to the complete lack of tentacles, and the presence of macrocilia as a common secondary feature, or synapomorphy.
There are approximately 25 species, grouped into two genera in the single family Beroidae. The family and order were named in 1825 or 1829 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz.
- The genus Beröe includes nearly all types of class and is distributed worldwide. One of the best known is reflected in the North spread Melonenqualle (Beröe gracilis). In Beröe species is mundabgewandte (aboral) side down.
- The genus Neis is monotypical, containing only one species, Neis cordigera(Lesson 1824), and is found only in the waters around Australia. In this type are located on the aboralen page two bogenartige progress rates, so that the middle intermediate aborale Sinnespol unlike the Beroiden not at the extreme end of the body is located (Note Artname cordigera: heart). The bogenartigen Fort sentences extend along the flanks of the animal and are Längsverlauf divided so that the impression of two sides "double wings". At the edges of these four "wings" is one rib band. The remaining four ribs on the lost tapes (relative to the "side wings") "upper" and "lower" body half. The ctenophore typical eight ribs number of bands is obtained, even if the tapes because of the particular body shape into two different groups - long training.
This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. (April 2010) |
- G. I. Matsumoto, GR Harbison:In situ observations of foraging, feeding, and escape behavior in three orders of oceanic ctenophores: Lobata, Cestida, and Beroida.Marine Biology. '117 ', 1993, p. 279th
- S. Tamm, SL Tamm:A giant nerve net with multieffector synapses underlying epithelial adhesive strips in the mouth of Beroe.In the Journal of Neurocytology. '24 ', 1995, p. 711st
- S. Tamm, SL Tamm:Dynamic control of cell-cell-adhesion and membrane-associated actin during food-induced mouth opening in Beroe.In the Journal of Cell Science. '106 ', 1993, p. 355


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Last Summer I bud grafted a rootstock (had a failed w + t graft) and the bud looks viable so far. It is a V shape ( 2 stems) so I am wondering if I can/should do a whip and tongue on the other stem. I have more varieties than rootstock space but I don't want to hurt the chances of the Jefferies bud growing well. Thanks! |
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Thanks both of you. I guess if they both take I can adjust sizes later if it is an issue. This grafting and trying out new varieties is great fun. |
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I have this friend who is always behind the times. It's as though she's five years behind the cutting edge of pop culture and general interests. I know that sounds as though I'm being snobbish and it would be if I was writing about one isolated event, but her entire like is being lived as though it's 2005.
Recently, she asked me if I'd ever been to a tapas restaurant before.
Anyway, I don't bring her up solely for the purpose of mocking. It's just that with new General Manager Dan Duquette's latest move in Baltimore, I was briefly reminded of her. You see, the Orioles are shaking up their scouting department, essentially dissolving the team's professional scouting department, and reassigning those scouts to the amateur side.
It's basically the opposite of the first move that Alex Anthopoulos did when he became General Manager of the Toronto Blue Jays.
The reasoning:
As you get more video and statistical analysis on a player, the longer they're in professional baseball, it's not as vital to have them seen by eyes, professional eyes. Players establish a record of their work. Some of the trends that the statistics track, they're not trends that professional scouts would normally see in a short look.
I agree with every thing that Duquette says there, but I don't see it as a justification for getting rid of pro scouts. As far as trends go, you could say the exact same thing about statistics.
Yes, we use numbers a lot on this blog, but that's not because we discount scouting reports. It's simply because we're not scouts and nor are we capable, try as we might, to watch every single game of baseball that's played in a given season.
If Duquette feels as though there's a lack of value being added to the organization from his pro scouting department, get new scouts.
Considering how much of a Major League roster is constructed out of players who didn't come up through their team's system and the very fact that you compete against other organizations on a nightly basis in the summer, I can't understand why you wouldn't want as much information as you can possibly get about players on other teams.


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ROGERS, Ark. - Defending champion Jiyai Shin, the No. 1-ranked golfer in the Rolex Women's World Golf Rankings, will return to the P&G NW Arkansas Championship presented by Walmart in September with hopes of winning her second title. Tickets are now on sale for the tournament held at Pinnacle Country Club in Rogers, September 10 - 12.
Shin carded a bogey-free final-round 64 and held off Angela Stanford and Sun Young Yoo in a sudden-death playoff to win the 2009 Championship. Her final round included five birdies on the back nine and seven total. She finished the tournament at 9-under 204. The win was part of tremendous season in which Shin posted three victories and 12 top-10 finishes to become the LPGA's 2009 Louis Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year winner. Shin became the first South Korean to lead the LPGA Tour Official Money List in 2009 with over $1.8 million earned.
In April, at a ceremony held during the Masters in Augusta, Ga., Shin was honored as Female Player of the Year by the Golf Writers Association of America. The following month, Shin became the top-ranked player in the world according to the Rolex Rankings following the retirement of Lorena Ochoa.
Shin held the No. 1 spot for seven weeks before emergency appendectomy surgery forced her out of two tournaments. She reclaimed the No. 1 ranking on July 26 following a victory at the Evian Masters Presented by Societe Generale in Evian-les-Bains, France. Shin carded a one-stroke victory over three players who tied for second, including 2010 P&G NW Arkansas Championship sponsor exemption Alexis Thompson. The second-place finish gave Thompson, a 15-year old who turned pro in June, her best finish as a professional.
Shin's victory at the Evian Masters was her first of the season. She previously finished third or tied for third in four tournaments - the HSBC Women's Champions, the KIA CLASSIC Presented by J Golf, the Sybase Match Play Championship and the LPGA Championship Presented by Wegmans. Shin has posted eight top-10 finishes in 10 starts this season.
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A man should be in charge of something. He should see how hard it is to be boss, to make decisions and pay the price. Of all the things I've learned in surgery, it's not the slicing and dicing that stand out. It's leading. When I walk into the operating room, everyone looks to me. If things don't work out, I gotta deal with it. Learning to lead is a rite of passage that we men have lost. Cultures used to leave boys in the wild, things like that. Women have menstruation they bleed, which is physical, and they learn to cope with harm. Men have no equivalent. We get hair on our chest, our testicles drop, and then all of a sudden we can be tried as an adult. I suggest coaching, for a start. Not only do you move around a lot, which burns calories, but coaching a bunch of kids once a week trains you to be a better member of whatever team you're on at work or at home every day.
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At the end of this week, the INS will revoke the bond that has kept him out of its Aurora detention center for the past year ("Out at Home," March 9). So if Nguyen wants to stay out of prison, if he wants to see the sun instead of being held in lockdown 23 hours a day, if he wants to enjoy a semblance of freedom, he has no choice other than this: Somehow, he must get to Vietnam -- the homeland he left when he was four -- by Friday.
"I feel like it's over...life's over with," Nguyen says. "The only option they gave me was either you go back to Vietnam, or you go back to jail." He doesn't remember anything about his native country, doesn't know anyone there -- but he knows that living there has to be better than living behind bars here.
There's just one problem: Vietnam doesn't want Nguyen, either. The Vietnamese government refuses to permanently take back criminals -- even criminals who, like Nguyen, have done their time.
And then some.
Then-fifteen-year-old Nguyen was arrested in 1992 after leading Jefferson County cops on a high-speed chase while he drove a restaurant-robbery getaway car; charged as an adult, he was found guilty of aggravated robbery and sentenced to thirteen years. He served almost half that before his early release for good behavior in the summer of 1997. But Nguyen didn't have anywhere to go then, either: In 1996, President Bill Clinton had pushed through an immigration reform act that, among other things, requires the deportation of immigrants convicted of crimes ranging from manslaughter to domestic violence to aggravated robbery. (This same law recently fouled out Rockies pitcher Pedro Astacio, who'd confessed to domestic violence as part of a plea deal; two weeks ago he was allowed to withdraw his guilty plea and stay in the country pending a July trial.) And if those immigrants had nowhere to be deported to -- for example, if their homeland refused to take them back -- they could be held indefinitely by the INS. And so Nguyen went straight from the Colorado Department of Corrections to the INS facility in Aurora, where he remained until his lawyer, Jim Salvator, finally got him released on bond pending a hearing.
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You are so right Diane. There is still much opportunity in the tea industry. Now the issue of huge sums of money does make it harder for the little guy or gal I'm afraid. Ultimately I believe innovation will rule.
I hadn't seen that Shark Tank episode. I'll have to search for it. The show is a blast!
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Oh, Diane… are there 7 short fellows marching behind you whistling while they work heading out to the tea "mines"? There are many points of view about the tea business in the U.S. that are open debates but there are 3 things that it would be perilous to ignore:
1. The tea industry (us included) continues to sell the "big times for tea are just ahead" story while ignoring incovenient facts: sales, store closings, needle barely budging on % of tea vs. coffee drinkers and other real world data (not cherry-picked data). Yes, the appeal of tea is improving and is more successful but it has not gotten anywhere near the predictions that were made 3-5 years ago. Blame it on tea, blame it on the general economy but the rose colored glasses need to come off and the industry needs to look at other ways to solve challenges rather than hoping dynamic growth will make it all better.
2. The comparison to specialty coffee growth is a particular blind spot. Our time is not 30 years ago when the expectations for a coffeehouse were realized. What people want is different, smartphones, tablets, social media, WiFi (or not)… all of these things and how they have changed the patterns of our lives did not exist when Starbucks and other coffeeshops were able to comfortably become the next big thing. If we knew what we did now about tea and you could transport the tea industry back 30 years into that growth period, things would be much easier. But we can't, and the "model" for what the tea industry thinks customers want in a tea shop vs. what customers (in levels enough to be profitable) REALLY want remains a riddle.
3. At the very time we are trying to import a higher appreciation of tea into the U.S., some of the biggest tea drinking countries in the world are losing the tea habit to a younger generation that is less interested in tea. In many cases it is a lifestyle they no longer identify with or they are being seduced by all things western, including coffee. If the cultural home of tea is struggling to get people to embrace tea, how much growth can really be achieved in the U.S.? Moderate growth, yes, boomtown growth looks like wishful thinking so far.
We need to try harder to connect the dots, see what is really happening. Yes, the Shark Tank sale was exciting news but the purpose of that sale was to distribute and sell the teas nationally through the Jamba Juice chain, which has yet to happen). German teashop franchises came and died, Other "concept" teashops, cafes, "bars" – gone, gone, gone. We need to challenge ourselves to be sharper, more flexible and faster moving. But then, you already know that, tea ninja ;)
Thanks Michelle and Guy. Tea ninja? Rather than trying to respond to all Guy's interesting points, I'll just say that Starbucks (even them) spending so much money on a specialty tea chain and then starting to or experimenting with changing or converting the stores into a 'cafe' concept bodes well for the potential of loose tea. They've also bought a juice company and not grown it much to date but they're always someone to watch in terms of where trends may be going. As you know Guy, experience can be the best teacher and we both have learned from feet on floor what did and didn't work…and hopefully are thinking creatively in the directions that did. I saw a surprising number of high school and college agers in our store..more than I had ever expected. They were intensely into great tea. We saw alot of things that surprised us. Most business is follow the leader… but being outside the box, being radically unique in a way that grabs, surprises and delights/excites people is the golden ring entrepreneurs reach for.
Right now we are seeing the growth of gluten-free, vegan, raw, organic….health. Remember any successful vegeterian restaurant chains? I don't. There was one that got going and fizzled/disappeared. Now Veggie Grill is growing like wild-fire spurred on by the desire for healthy food and because our lifestyles have brought about dietary-induced serious medical problems, and because Veggie Grill knows how to make and market the food with mass appeal.Times they are a changing and in a good way for tea. By the way, one of the Sharks wanted badly to invest in another tea concept….home parties for tea, in the Canadian version of that show, and lost out to two other Sharks (or Dragons up there) who wanted it enough to put in even more. These 'guys' are not dumb and invest where they see great return and growth opportunities.
Michelle, so true!


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In order to be enforceable, clauses in agreements made under the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth) ("WR Act") must "pertain to the employment relationship". This concept will continue to apply to enterprise agreements made under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) ("FW Act"). This case indicates that a clause in a workplace agreement providing for income protection insurance may be prohibited content and unenforceable because it does not so pertain, and the decision also provides guidance on the meaning of "matters pertaining to the employment relationship".
The Sydney Ferries Corporation (SFC) operates ferry services on Sydney Harbour and Parramatta River. In 2006, it entered into a collective agreement with the Australian Maritime Officers Union. The agreement included a clause requiring SFC to "insure its Maritime Officers for income protection insurance for long term illness and injury equivalent to 75% of his/her salary".
SFC did not enter into such an insurance arrangement and in 2008 the union sought a declaration from the Federal Court that SFC had breached the clause. However, SFC argued that the clause was unenforceable because the obligation to provide income protection insurance was "prohibited content".
The WR Act provides that "a term of a workplace agreement is void to the extent that it contains prohibited content". In turn, the regulations define "prohibited content" to include, among other things, a "matter that does not pertain to the employment relationship".
Therefore, the issue before the Court was whether an obligation on an employer to provide income protection insurance for its employees pertains to the employment relationship.
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Benefit was contingent: the Court noted that the benefit of the income protection insurance would only be provided to the employee if they became ill or injured while they were employed by SFC. In other words, the benefit was contingent. The Court found the contingent nature of the benefit did not necessarily render the clause as one not pertaining to the employment relationship, noting that long service leave pertains to the employment relationship, even though an employee only becomes entitled to leave if they remain employed for the requisite period. Accordingly, in the Court's view, the clause was not unenforceable on that ground.
Premium payable to third party: the Court also considered whether the fact that SFC was required to pay money to a third party (the insurer) meant the clause did not pertain to the employment relationship. The Court rejected this argument, finding that the "mere fact" that the payee is a third party is usually irrelevant to this determination. For example, superannuation payments are made to a third party - the superannuation fund - and superannuation is clearly a matter pertaining to the employment relationship.
Injury/illness need not occur at work: under the clause, income protection benefits would be paid regardless of whether the illness or injury occurred while the employee was at work. Further, if an employee became ill or injured and started to receive the insurance benefits while they were employed, they would continue to receive those benefits even after their employment ceased. The union argued that in this respect the income protection insurance scheme was analogous to superannuation. However, the Court noted that the quantum of superannuation that accrues to a particular employee directly relates to the employee's service: the higher an employee's salary and the longer they work, the greater the superannuation benefit they accrue. The Court also noted that superannuation benefits arise "solely in consequence of the employee's service", however the benefits under income protection insurance could become payable if an employee was injured away from work in a context "entirely unconnected with the employer and employee relationship".
Benefit proportionate to employee's income: the Court also rejected the argument that the amount of the benefit was directly related to the employment relationship because it was proportionate to the employee's income. Instead, the Court found the total amount of the benefit payable depended on the length of an employee's illness or disability, which was not connected to the employment relationship.
Premiums were a reward for services: the union argued that the premiums paid by SFC to the insurer were effectively part of the employee's reward for services provided to SFC as their employer. However, there was no evidence that the premiums were paid in lieu of providing remuneration to the employee.
The Court refused the union's application for the declaration, finding instead that the income protection insurance clause did not pertain to the employment relationship and was therefore void and unenforceable.
The FW Act, the bulk of which is expected to commence operation on 1 July 2009, provides that an enterprise agreement may only deal with "permitted matters". This term includes matters pertaining to the relationship between an employer and employee.
"Permitted matters" also include matters pertaining to the relationship between an employer and a relevant union. This will significantly extend the range of matters that may be dealt with in an enterprise agreement. Parties making a new agreement under the FW Act must ensure that it deals only with permitted matters, and does not include matters unrelated to the employer/employee relationship or the employer/union relationship.


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