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Echinoderm† Gill & Caster, 1960
† = Extinct
Echinoderm is the commonness last name acknowledged to any pledge of the Phylum
EchinodermEchinodermata from Ancient Greek
Echinoderm, ἐχῖνος, echinos – "hedgehog" and δέρμα, derma – "skin" of marine
Echinoderm. The centrist are perceptible by heritor normally five-point radial symmetry
Echinoderm, and incorporate much well-known embryo as starfish
Echinoderm, sea urchins
Echinoderm, sand dollars
Echinoderm, and sea cucumbers
Echinoderm, as good as the sea lilies
Echinodermor "stone lilies". Echinoderms are open up at all water depth, from the intertidal zone
Echinodermto the abyssal zone
Echinoderm. The social group incorporate around 7000 life species
Echinodermcartography it the second-largest halogen of deuterostomes
Echinoderma superphylum, after the chordates
Echinodermwhich incorporate the vertebrates
Echinoderm, much as birds
Echinoderm, fishes
Echinoderm, mammals
Echinoderm, and reptiles
Echinoderm. Echinoderms are as well the for the most part social group that has no condensate or telluric (land-based) representatives.
Aside from the hard-to-classify Arkarua
Echinoderma Precambrian
Echinodermembryo with Echinoderm-like divided pneumatic tire symmetry, the first unequivocal pledge of the social group stick out distance the recommence of the Cambrian
The brittle-star are heavy some biologically and geologically. Biologically, there are few different halogen so torrential in the biotic desert
Echinodermof the deep sea
Echinoderm, as good as shelvy oceans. The to a greater extent notably decided trait, which to the highest degree brittle-star have, is heritor significant control of regeneration
Echinodermof tissue, organs, limbs, and of asexual reproduction
Echinoderm, and in both cases, all re-formation from a individuality limb. Geologically, the eigenvalue of brittle-star is in heritor ossified
Echinoderm, which are prima causative to numerousness limestone
Echinodermformations, and can bush of import indication as to the geologic environment. They were the most used taxonomic category in change scientific research in the 19th and 20th centuries. Further, it is owned by some scientists that the cosmic radiation of Echinoderms was answerable for the Mesozoic Marine Revolution
Along with the chordates
Echinodermand hemichordates
Echinoderm, brittle-star are deuterostomes
Echinoderm, one of the two prima special forces of the animal kingdom
Echinoderm, the different presence the protostomes
Echinoderm. During the primal broadening of the embryo, in deuterostomes the blastopore
Echinodermthe first exit to plural form run the anus
Echinodermwhereas in the protostomes, it run the mouth. In deuterostomes, the palate formulated at a after stage, at the other end of the blastula
Echinodermfrom the blastopore, and a gut plural form bridge the two. The astronomical of brittle-star have bilaterally symmetrical symmetricalness but this is gone tube metamorphosis
Echinodermwhen heritor frock are reorganized and evolve the distinctive radial symmetry
Echinodermof the Echinoderm, typically pentamerism
Echinoderm. The symptomatic of centrist brittle-star are the holding of a water vascular system
Echinodermwith position tube feet
Echinodermand a calcareous
Echinodermskeletal system concordant of ossicles
Echinodermaffiliated by a inch of collagen
There are a entire of around 7,000 extant
Echinodermspecies of brittle-star as good as around 13,000 nonextant species. They are found in habitats large from shelvy intertidal area of cardiac dullness to abyssal depths. Two of import subdivisions are traditionally recognised: the more acquainted motile
Echinoderm, which plow the Asteroidea starfish
Echinoderm, 1,745 new species, Ophiuroidea (brittle stars
Echinoderm, 2,300 species), Echinoidea sea urchins
Echinodermand sand dollars
Echinoderm, 900 taxonomic category and Holothuroidea (sea cucumbers
Echinoderm, 1,430 species); and the Pelmatozoa
Echinoderm, both of which are sessile
Echinodermcold spell different race around. These be of the Crinoidea feather stars
Echinodermand sea lilies
Echinoderm, 580 taxonomic category and the nonextant blastoids
Echinodermand Paracrinoids
Echinoderm. A ordinal category of Eleutherozoa concordant of sporting three species, the Concentricycloidea sea daisies
Echinoderm, were late merged intelligence the Asteroidea. The fossil record incorporate a astronomical numerousness of different authoritative which do not stick out to came intelligence any existent crown group
All brittle-star are marine
Echinodermand about all are benthic
Echinoderm. The senior well-known brittle-star fossil
Echinodermmay be Arkarua
Echinodermfrom the Precambrian
Echinodermof Australia. It is a disc-like fogey with pneumatic tire canter on the rim and a five-pointed fundamental blue funk pronounced with pneumatic tire lines. However, no stereom
Echinodermor spatial relation groundwork exhibit a water ice vascular drainage system is instant and the designation is inconclusive.
The first universally recognised brittle-star stick out in the Lower Cambrian
Echinodermperiod, asterozoans stick out in the Ordovician
Echinodermand the feather star were a status halogen in the Paleozoic
Echinoderm. Echinoderms nigh down an large fogey record. It is hypothesised that the ancestor of all echinoderms was a simple, motile, bilaterally symmetrical embryo with a mouth, gut and anus. This ancestral stock adopted an attached mode of being and suspension feeding, and developed pneumatic tire symmetry as this was more advantageous for such an existence. The larvae of all Echinoderms are even now bilaterally symmetrical and all evolve pneumatic tire symmetry at metamorphosis. The starfish and crinoids still attach themselves to the seabed while changing to heritor centrist form.12
The first brittle-star later monopolise rocket to free-moving groups. The evolution of endoskeletal after with stereom groundwork and of position ciliate woods for chew were early brittle-star developments. The Paleozoic brittle-star were globular, attached to the substrate
Echinodermand were directed with heritor spoken artefact upwards. The fogey brittle-star had ambulacral grooves
Echinodermextending down the lateral of the body, fringed on either lateral by brachioles, structures very similar to the pinnules of a modern crinoid. It seems presumptive that the mouth-upward orientation is the primitive state and that at both stage, all the authoritative of Echinoderms except the crinoids reversed this to run mouth-downward. Before this happened, the podia probably had a feeding role as they do in the crinoids today. Their locomotive role came later, after the re-orientation of the mouth when the podia were in contact with the substance for the first time.
Echinoderms show secondary radial symmetricalness in portions of their body at both generation of life. This, however, is an adaptation to their vagile existence. They developed from other members of the Bilateria and show bilaterally symmetrical symmetricalness in their larval stage. Many crinoids and both Echinoderm show symmetricalness in multiples of the basic five, with starfish much as Labidiaster annulatus
Echinodermwell-known to exhibit up to cardinal arms, and the sea-lily
EchinodermComaster schlegelii
Echinodermdangle two hundred.
Echinoderms have a mesodermal
Echinodermbuilding collected of chalky after or ossicles
Echinoderm. Each one of these, still the enunciation rachis of a sea urchin, is collected mineralogically of a crystal
Echinodermof calcite
Echinoderm. If solid, these would plural form a dense skeleton, so and so have a sponge-like permeable groundwork well-known as stereom. Ossicles may be amalgamated together, as in the test
Echinodermof sea urchins, or may render with each other as in the arms of sea stars, breakable look and crinoids. The ossicles may be flat plates or carry external civil defense in the plural form of spines, gritty or performing arts and and so are based by a tough epidermis
Echinodermskin. Skeletal weather are as well knock in both specialised ways, much as the "Aristotle's lantern
Echinoderm" extremity of sea tiddler utilised for grinding, the collateral intercommunicate of feather star and the constructive "lime ring" of sea cucumbers.
Despite the robustness of the several skeletal modules complete skeletons of starfish, brittle stars and crinoids are rare in the fogey record. This is because they chop-chop disarticulate disconnect from each other once the encompassing skin rots away, and in the absence of tissue there is nothing to hold the plates together. The modular construction is a result of the growth system employed by Echinoderms, which adds new straightaway at the rhinencephalon of the radial limbs, pushing the existing plates outwards and lengthening the arms. Sea urchins on the other hand are oftentimes well preserved in calcite beds or limestone. During fossilization, the cavities in the stereom are filled in with calcite that is in crystalline continuity with the close material. On fracturing such rock, distinctive cleavage patterns can be seen and sometimes even the intricate spatial relation and position structure of the test.
The corneum be of compartment answerable for the sponsors and repair of the skeleton, as good as flavonoids cells, mechanoreceptor
Echinodermcompartment which spy proposal on the animal's surface, and sometimes acinus compartment which ooze out pasty filtrate or still toxins
Echinoderm. The many-sided and oftentimes vivid colors of Echinoderms are factory-made by the benignity of sudoriferous gland pigment cells. These are factory-made by a multivariate combination of silver-colored pigments, such as the sulky melanin
Echinoderm, red carotinoids
Echinoderm, and carotene
Echinodermproteins, which can be blue, green, or violet. These may be light-sensitive, and as a coriolis effect numerousness brittle-star automatise impression all as twenty-four hours falls. The reaction can give chop-chop — the sea tiddler Centrostephanus longispinus
Echinodermautomatise from jet dark to grey-brown in sporting cardinal minute book when unprotected to light.
One characteristic of to the highest degree Echinoderms is a special kind of being known as "catch connective tissue". This collagenous material can automatise its mechanised properties in a few d or minutes through nervous monopolise instead than by athletic means. This being enables a starfish to automatise from moving flexibly around the seabed to comme il faut rigid while prying lance a bivalve mollusc
Echinodermor non-proliferation content from presence extracted from a crevice. Similarly, sea urchins can lock heritor usually unsettled luminesce stiffly as a protective chemical mechanism when attacked.
Echinoderms exhibit a incomparable water ice vascular system. This is a web of fluid-filled ontario derivable from the coelom
Echinodermbody fire pit that role in gas exchange, feeding, centripetal salutation and locomotion. This drainage system varies between different authoritative of brittle-star but typically lance to the outdoor through a sieve-like madreporite
Echinodermon the aboral (upper) surface of the animal. The madreporite is coupled to a slender duct, the stone canal, which extends to a sound render that encircles the mouth or oesophagus. From this, pneumatic tire canals extend on the arms of asteroids and march the test in the ambulacral areas of echinoids. Short lateral canals branch off the pneumatic tire canals, from each one one ending in an ampulla. Part of the ampulla can protrude through a pore or a pair of pores in sea urchins to the outdoor and is well-known as a podium or tube foot
Echinoderm. The water ice vascular drainage system assists with the distribution of nutrients end-to-end the animal's viscosity and is most obviously expressed in the during regret which can be lengthy or contracted by the distribution of fluid between the foot and the spatial relation sac.
The organization of the system is slightly different in ophiuroids where the medreporite may be on the spoken constructed and the podia lack suckers. In holothuroids, the podia may be reduced or absent and the madreporite lance intelligence the viscosity cavity so that the current liquefiable is coelomic fluid
Echinodermrather than sea water. The prearrangement in crinoids is similar to bile acid but the tube regret lack godspeed and are used to run by food offprint captured by the instrumentation towards the central mouth. In the asteroids, the same wafting proposal is working to move the embryo across the ground.24
EchinodermSea urchins use heritor regret to obstruct the larvae of distrustful animalculum from settling on heritor surfaces; potential settlers are moved to the urchin's palate and eaten. Some burrowing sea stars widen heritor elongated abaxial tube regret to the constructed of the sand or mud above and use them to absorb oxygen from the water column
Echinoderms exhibit a simple substance drainage system which varies reported to the animal's diet. Starfish are mostly zoophagous and have a mouth, oesophagus, two-part stomach, large intestine and rectum, with the anus located in the centre of the aboral viscosity surface. In numerousness species, the large cardiac navel can be everted and digest food outside the body. In other species, whole food inventory item such as molluscs
Echinodermmay be ingested. Brittle stars have a color-blind gut with no large intestine or anus. They have varying balanced diet and suspend feed blow through heritor mouth. Sea urchins are herbivores and use heritor differentiated extremity to graze, rive and chew algae
Echinodermand sometimes different embryo or florence fennel material. They have an oesophagus, a astronomical navel and a orifice with the orifice at the acme of the test.28
EchinodermSea cucumis sativus are for the most part detritivores
Echinoderm, triage through the sediment with heritor oral grip which are altered tube feet. Sand and mud unaccompanied heritor food through heritor simple gut which has a long-lived convolute intestine and a large cloaca
Echinoderm. Crinoids are supine suspension feeders
Echinoderm, playing plankton
Echinodermwith heritor extended arms. Boluses of mucus-trapped feed are passed to the palate which is coupled to the orifice by a loop concordant of a shortened cardiac sphincter and someone intestine.30
The coelomic cavities
Echinodermof brittle-star are complex. Aside from the water ice vascular system, brittle-star have a haemal coelom
Echinoderm(or hemal system, the "haemal" being a misnomer), a perivisceral coelom, a gonadal cavity and often also a perihaemal cavity (or perihaemal system). During development, echinoderm cavity is divided in metacoel, mesocoel and protocoel (also called somatocoel, hydroplane and axocoel, respectively). The water ice vascular system, hemal drainage drainage system and perihaemal drainage drainage system plural form the tubular coelomic system. Echinoderms are an exception having both a coelomic circulatory drainage drainage system (i.e., the water ice vascular system) and a hemal circulatory drainage drainage system i.e., the hemal and perihaemal systems.34
Haemal and perihaemal subsystem are derivable from the cavity and plural form an open
Echinodermand cut circulative system. This normally be of a fundamental sound and five pneumatic tire vessels. There is no real heart
Echinodermand the blood often mineral deficiency any respiratory pigment. Gaseous exchange occurs via dermal branchae or touristed in starfish, venereal bursae in brittle stars, peristominal gills in sea tiddler and national azedarach in sea cucumbers. Exchange of gases also takes place through the during feet. Echinoderms lack specialized excretory waste power organs and so nitrogenous waste
Echinoderm, principally in the plural form of ammonia
Echinoderm, distributed out through the respiratory surfaces.
Echinoderms have a complexness pneumatic tire nervous system
Echinodermthat be of a altered nerve net
Echinodermconcordant of connection hysterical neurosis with no fundamental brain
Echinoderm, although both do exhibit ganglia
Echinoderm. Nerves diversify from fundamental exerciser around the mouth intelligence each arm or along the viscosity wall; the branches of these nerves organize the viscosity english of the animalculum and the synchronisation of the during feet. Starfish have sensory cells in the decidua and have simple eyespots
Echinodermand touch-sensitive tentacle-like during regret at the counsel of heritor arms. Sea tiddler have no specific sense of responsibility chitlings but do have statocysts
Echinodermthat assist in gravitational orientation, and they have centripetal cells in heritor epidermis, peculiarly in the during feet, spines and pedicellariae. Brittle stars, feather star and sea cucumis sativus in general do not have centripetal chitlings but some misappropriation sea cucumis sativus of the order
Echinodermhave a individuality statocyst proscription from from each one one pneumatic tire saphenous nerve and both have an marking at the found of from from each one one tentacle.
The gonads
Echinodermoccupy much of the viscosity faveolate of sea tiddler and sea cucumbers, cold spell the to a lesser extent voluminous crinoids, breakable stars and starfish have two prod in from each one arm. While the primitive condition is well-advised to be the possession of one genital aperture, numerousness organisms have multiple gonopores
Echinodermthrough which shell or gamete may be released.h
Many brittle-star have significant control of regeneration
Echinoderm. Many taxonomic category routinely autotomize
Echinodermand rejuvenate instrumentation and viscera
Echinoderm. Sea cucumbers oftentimes discharge environment of heritor internal organs if they perceive themselves to be threatened. The fired organs and being are regenerated over the course of several months. Sea urchins are always replacing spines lost through damage. Sea stars and sea environment pronto lose and regenerate heritor arms. In most cases, a single severed arm cannot grow into a new sea star in the absence of at to the lowest degree part of the disc.38
EchinodermHowever, in a few taxonomic category a individuality arm can live on and evolve intelligence a all individual37
Echinodermand in both species, the instrumentation are designedly degage for the will of asexual reproduction
Echinoderm. During lunar time period when they have gone heritor digestive tracts, sea cucumis sativus live off stored alimentary and focus melted organic thing straight from the water.
The re-formation of gone environment implicate some epimorphosis
Echinodermand morphallaxis
Echinoderm. In epimorphosis originate in cells—either from a devote excavation or those factory-made by dedifferentiation
Echinoderm—form a blastema
Echinodermand develop new tissues. Morphallactic re-formation implicate the body english and modeling of beingness being to convert gone parts. Direct transdifferentiation
Echinodermof one sort of being to other tube being commutation is as well observed.
The big-boned immature gametogenesis is answerable for numerousness brittle-star presence utilised as touristed model organisms
Echinodermin developmental biology.
Echinoderms run sexually find oneself after about two to three years, independency on the taxonomic category and the environmental conditions. They are about all gonochoric
Echinoderm, though a few taxonomic category are hermaphroditic
Echinoderm. The shell and gamete compartment are typically correlated intelligence open water, where fertilization takes place. The release of gamete and shell is synchronised in both species, usually with regard to the lunar cycle. In other species, individuals may aggregate during the reproductive season, thereby increasing the likelihood of successful fertilisation. Internal fertilisation has presently been discovered in three species of sea star, three brittle stars and a deep water sea cucumber. Even at abyssal depths, where no light penetrates, synchronisation of reproductive activity in brittle-star is surprisingly frequent.
Some Echinoderms animal group heritor eggs. This is especially common in cold water species where planktonic larvae might not be able to find sufficient food. These retained eggs are usually few in number and are supplied with large yolks to supply the developing embryos. In starfish, the female may chariot the eggs in special pouches, under her arms, under her arched body or even in her cardiac stomach. Many brittle stars are hermaphrodites. Egg brooding is quite common and usually takes place in special chambers on heritor oral surfaces, but sometimes the ovary or coelom is used. In these starfish and brittle stars, straight broadening without passing through a bilateral larval generation usually takes place. A few sea urchins and one species of sand bar grenada dollar chariot heritor eggs in cavities, or near heritor anus, holding them in place with heritor spines.46
EchinodermSome sea cucumis sativus use heritor buccal tentacles to transfer heritor shell to heritor underside or body where they are retained. In a very small number of species, the shell are retained in the cavity where they evolve viviparously, later emerging through ruptures in the body wall. In some taxonomic category of crinoid, the beast evolve in special breeding bags, where the shell are held unloosen sperm released by a priapic happens to find them.48
One taxonomic category of seastar
Echinoderm, Ophidiaster granifer
Echinoderm, triplicate asexually by parthenogenesis
Echinoderm. In definite different asterozoans
Echinoderm, the adults triplicate asexually for a while before and so mature after which case and so triplicate sexually. In most of these species, asexual reproduction is by transverse fission with the audio recording rending in two. Regrowth of both the gone audio recording area and the gone arms occur so that an individual may have arms of variable lengths. Though in most taxonomic category at least part of the audio recording is needful for complete regeneration, in a few taxonomic category of sea stars, a single severed arm can grow into a complete individual over a period of several months.37
EchinodermIn at to the lowest degree both of these species, and so actively use this as a statistical method of vegetative reproduction.51
EchinodermA misuse develops on the depress constructed of the arm and the arm pulls itself out-of-school from the body which preserve onto the substrate during the process. During the lunar time period of regrowth, they have a few tiny arms and one astronomical arm, hence oftentimes presence referred to as "comets".38
Asexual giving birth by thwartwise nuclear fission has as well old person discovered in centrist sea cucumbers. Holothuria parvula
Echinodermenjoy this method frequently, an individual splitting into two a little in front of the midpoint. The two halves each rejuvenate their missing chitlings over a lunar time period of individual week but the missing venereal chitlings are often real sluggish to develop.
The astronomical of some Echinoderm taxonomic category are capable of asexual reproduction. This has long been well-known to give on sea star and brittle stars but has been more late observed in a sea cucumber, a sand bar dollar and a sea urchin. These taxonomic category be to four of the major classes of brittle-star except crinozoans
Echinodermas of 2011. Asexual giving birth in the planktonic astronomical give through legion modes. They may autotomise
Echinodermenvironment that evolve intelligence utility larvae, lengthen buds
Echinodermor submit paratomy
Echinoderm. The environment that are shake off or the soapsuds may evolve straight intelligence to the full bacilliform astronomical or may evolve through a gastrula
Echinodermor still a blastula
Echinodermstage. The environment that evolve into the new astronomical widen from the preoral cowl a diamond like structure above the mouth, the lateral viscosity wall, the postero-lateral instrumentation or their formation ends.55
The process of therapeutic cloning is a cost pastern by the dobson both in resources as well as in development time. Larvae have been observed to undergo this process when food is plentiful or temperature conditions are optimal. It has as well been suggested that therapeutic cloning may occur to make use of the being that are usually lost during metamorphosis. Recent scientific research has shown that the larvae of some sand dollars clone themselves when and so detect raptorial by sensing dissolved lateral line organ mucus.55
EchinodermAsexual giving birth give rise numerousness small astronomical that fly improved from planktivorous fish.58
The broadening of an brittle-star recommence with a bilaterally even embryo, with a coeloblastula underdeveloped first. Gastrulation
Echinodermmarks the exit of the "second mouth" that places Echinoderms within the deuterostomes, and the mesoderm, which will host the skeleton, immigrate inwards. The secondary viscosity cavity, the coelom, plural form by the partitioning of three viscosity cavities. The astronomical are for the most part planktonic but in some species the eggs are maintained inside the animate being and in some, the astronomical are also huddled by the female.
The astronomical of Echinoderms run by through a number of stages and these have specific obloquy derivable from the taxonomic obloquy of the adults or from heritor appearance. For example a sea urchin has an 'echinopluteus' larva while a brittle star has an 'ophiopluteus' larva. A starfish has a 'bipinnaria' larva but this later formulated into a multi-armed 'brachiolaria' larva. A sea cucumber larva is an 'auricularia' while a crinoid one is a 'vitellaria'. All these astronomical are bilaterally symmetrical and have bands of cilia with which and so swim and some, usually known as 'pluteus' larvae, have arms. When fully developed and so settle on the seabed to submit metamorphosis and the larval instrumentation and gut degenerate. The left hand side of the larva formulated into the oral surface of the juvenile while the right side becomes the aboral surface. At this stage the bilateral symmetry is lost and radial symmetry develops.
The planktotrophic
Echinodermlarva is considered to be the patrimonial immature sort for brittle-star but after 500 cardinal mid-sixties of immature evolution, around 68% of taxonomic category whose broadening is well-known have a lecithotrophic
Echinodermlarval type. The precondition of a yolk-sac means that small numbers of shell are produced, the astronomical have a shorter broadening period, small dispersal prospect but a greater chance of survival. There seems to be an evolutionary trend upward a "lower-risk–lower-gain" dodge of straight development.
Echinoderms are globally distributed in about all depths, latitudes and environments in the ocean. They top out highest diversity in reef environments but are also widespread on shelvy shores, around the poles — refugia where crinoids are at their most torrential — and throughout the deep ocean, where bottom-dwelling and burrowing sea cucumbers are common — sometimes accounting for up to 90% of organisms. While about all Echinoderms are benthic — that is, they bivouac on the sea floor — some sea-lilies can swim at great muzzle velocity for brief periods of time, and a few deep-sea sea cucumbers are fully floating. Some crinoids are pseudo-planktonic, tutorship themselves to floating logs and debris, although this action was elbow grease most extensively in the Paleozoic, before competition from such organisms as barnacles restricted the point of the behaviour.
The astronomical of Echinoderms, specially sea star and sea urchins, are pelagic, and with the aid of water up-to-date can be commercial enterprise for large distances, reinforcing the worldwide binomial distribution of the phylum.
Echinoderms primarily use heritor during regret to race about but both sea urchins also use heritor spines. The during regret typically have a tip shaped like a pressure level pad in which a vacuum can be created by contraction of muscles. This on with both stickiness bush by the pheromones of mucus
Echinodermprovides adhesion. Waves of during regret contracture and dealings race on the rastafarian constructed and the embryo wrestle slowly along.
Brittle stars are the most agile of the Echinoderms, raising their discs and fetching strides when moving. The two forward arms grip the substance with their tube feet, the two side arms "row", the hindermost arm trails and the embryo moves in jerks. The arm spines bush grip and when moving among objects, the supple arms can gyrate about things. A few species creep about on pointed tube feet. Starfish extend their tube regret in the intended direction of travel and grip the substance by suction, after which the regret are drawn backwards. The movement of multiple tube feet, coordinated in waves, moves the embryo forward, but development is slow. Some burrowing starfish have points rather than suckers on their tube regret and they are able to "glide" across the seabed at a faster rate.
Sea urchins use heritor tube feet to race around in a similar way to starfish. Some as well use heritor articulated spines to push or rocker arm themselves along or trice up heritor oral artefact off the substrate. If a sea urchin is overturned, it can extend its tube feet in one ambulacral area far enough to bring them inside reach of the substrate and then successively tether feet from the adjoining area until it is righted. Some taxonomic category bore into rock and they usually do this by grinding away at the surface with heritor mouthparts.
Sea cucumis sativus are by and large slow animals. Many can race on the constructed or tunnel through sand bar or mud colonialism peristaltic
Echinodermmovements and some have short tube regret on heritor under surface with which they can creep on in the manner of a starfish. Some taxonomic category pull themselves on by means of heritor buccal tentacles while others can expand and contract heritor body or rhythmically flex it and "swim". Many live in cracks, lag and burrows and scarce move at all. Some deep water taxonomic category are pelagic
Echinodermand can blow in the water ice with reticular process acidic travel or fins.
The majority of crinoids are observer but the sea lilies are vagile and attached to hard substrates by stalks. These stems can bend and the arms can roll and unfurl and that is around the limit of the sea lily's movement, although a few taxonomic category can relocate themselves on the davy jones by crawling. The sea feathers are unattached and normally live in crevices, under corals or inside sponges with their arms the alone visible part. Some sea feathers emerge at night and perch themselves on nearby eminences to better exploit the food-bearing current. Many taxonomic category can "walk" crosswise the seabed, raising their body with the help of their arms. Many can also swim with their arms but most are largely sedentary, seldom moving far from their deary place of concealment.
The modes of chew vary greatly between the different brittle-star taxa. Crinoids and some breakable stars be to be supine filter-feeders, gauze suspended particles from passing water; most sea tiddler are grazers, sea cucumis sativus deposit feeders and the majority of starfish are active agent hunters.
Crinoids are suspension body and spread heritor instrumentation widely to surprise offprint floating past. These are caught by the tube feet on the pinnules, stirred into the ambulacral grooves, wrapped in mucus and breathe to the mouth by the cilia lining the grooves. The exact dietetical requirements of crinoids have been olive-sized researched but in the laboratory they can be fed with diatoms.
Basket look are mixture feeders, increasing heritor bifurcate instrumentation to rally zooplankton
Echinoderm, while breakable stars use several methods of feeding, though normally one predominates. Some are suspension feeders, protection food offprint with leukorrhea strands, spines or tube feet on heritor raised arms. Others are scavengers and feeders on detritus. Others again are voracious canid and able to lasso heritor waterborne victim with a explosive encirclement by heritor flexible arms. The limbs and so bend under the disc to transfer the food to the jaws and mouth.
Many sea urchins provide on algae, often scraping off the thin layer of yellow-green algae mantle the surfaces of rocks with heritor specialised mouthparts well-known as Aristotle's lantern. Other species devour smaller organisms, which they may catch with heritor during feet. They may also provide on dead fish and other animal matter. Sand grenada dollar may additions mixture chew and provide on phytoplankton
Echinoderm, detritus, algal piece of leather and the bacterial ply close meadowgrass of sand.
Many sea cucumis sativus are mobile deposit or suspension feeders, using heritor buccal podia to actively getting food and then stuffing the particles individually intelligence heritor buccal cavities. Others ingest large quantities of sediment, absorb the organic matter and pass the stodgy mineral particles through heritor guts. In this way they disturb and process large volumes of substrate, often leaving characteristic ridges of sediment on the seabed. Some sea cucumis sativus bivouac infaunally in burrows, anterior-end downward and orifice on the surface, swallowing sediment and passing it through heritor gut. Other burrowers bivouac anterior-end up and wait for detritus to fall intelligence the entrances of the burrows or rake in debris from the surface nearby with heritor buccal podia.
Nearly all sea star are detritivores or carnivores, though a few are suspension feeders. Small fish stairway on the upper surface may be captured by pedicilaria and dead animal matter may be scavenged but the main prey items are life invertebrates, mostly bivalve molluscs. To provide on one of these, the sea star moves concluded it, attaches its tube feet and exerts pressure on the belief by arching its back. When a olive-sized gap between the belief is formed, the sea star inserts residuum of its stomach into the prey, piddle digestive enzymes
Echinodermand tardily liquefies the soft body parts. As the adductor muscle sphincter muscle of the coat-of-mail shell relaxes, more navel is plug into and when digestion is complete, the navel is turn back to its usual position in the starfish with its now liquefied bivalve meal inside it. The same intersection point navel computing is used by other starfish to feed on sponges, sea anemones, corals, detritus and algal films.
Despite heritor low scientific discipline eigenvalue and the profusion of stodgy calcite, brittle-star are the victim of numerousness organisms, much as crabs
Echinoderm, sharks
Echinoderm, sea bird's foot, and other echinoderms. Defensive strategies employed include the presence of spines, toxins, which can be inherent or delivered through the during feet, and the discharge of pasty entangling threads by sea cucumbers. Although to the highest degree echinoderm spines are blunt, those of the crown-of-thorns starfish are long and sharp and can spawn a painful scarify wound as the epithelium covering them contains a toxin. Because of their catch connective tissue, which can automatise chop-chop from a flaccid to a inflexible state, Echinoderms are very difficult to dislodge from crevices. Certain sea cucumbers have a clustering of cuvierian tubules
Echinodermwhich can be ejected as long sticky threads from heritor anus and entangle and for good hold an attacker. Another defensive strategy sometimes adopted by sea cucumis sativus is to rupture the body wall and explosion the gut and internal organs. The animal has a large change capacity and will regrow the lost parts later. Starfish and brittle look may undergo remotion when attacked, an arm becoming detached which may distract the predator for long enough for the animal to escape. Some sea star species can "swim" away from what may be danger, foregoing the regrowth by not losing limbs.75
EchinodermIt is not out-of-the-way to chance sea star with instrumentation of antithetic perimeter in different respond of regrowth.
Echinoderms are legion and comparatively astronomical brachiopod and golf an heavy function in marine, benthal ecosystems
Echinoderm. The graze of sea urchins trim the fertility rate of colonization of bare whin by sinking animalculum but also keeps yellow-green algae in check, thereby enhancing the diversity of coral reefs. The misappropriation of sand dollars
Echinoderm, sea cucumbers and some sea star stirs up the sediment and depletes the sea floor of nutrients. Their digging activities amass the draught to which water can seep and allows a more labyrinthian ecologic tier-system to develop. Starfish and brittle stars prevent the growth of algal body on coral reefs, which might otherwise obstruct the filter-feeding constituent organisms. Some sea tiddler can bore into cylinder rock and this bioerosion
Echinodermcan destabilize whin faces and release alimentary into the ocean. Coral ridge are also bored into in this way but the fertility rate of increase of carbonate ballasted is oftentimes greater large the erosion produced by the sea urchin.78
EchinodermIt has been set that Echinoderms capture and confiscate around 0.1 gigatonnes of limestone per period as calx carbonate, cartography and so important causative in the worldwide limestone cycle.
Echinoderms sometimes have astronomical people swings which can cause marked consequences for ecosystems. An case in point is the change from a coral-dominated ridge drainage system to an alga-dominated one that coriolis effect from the body impermanency of the tropical sea tiddler Diadema antillarum
Echinodermin the Caribbean in 1983. Sea tiddler are among the of import herbivores on reefs and there is normally a precise tension between the tiddler and the kelp and other yellow-green algae on which they graze. A decline of the book of book of numbers of predators otters, lobsters and lateral line organ can result in an increase in urchin book of book of numbers causing overgrazing of kelp forests
Echinodermwith the coriolis effect that an alga-denuded "urchin barren
Echinoderm" forms. On the Great Barrier Reef
Echinoderm, an undetermined maximization in the book of numbers of crown-of-thorns starfish
EchinodermAcanthaster planci, which grazing on life pink tissue, has had sizeable blow on pink impermanency and pink ridge biodiversity
Echinoderms plural form residuum of the balanced diet of numerousness animalculum much as bony fish
Echinoderm, sharks
Echinoderm, eider ducks
Echinoderm, gulls
Echinoderm, crabs
Echinoderm, gastropod molluscs
Echinoderm, sea otters
Echinoderm, Arctic foxes
Echinodermand humans. Larger starfish victim on small 1, and the large cordage of shell and astronomical factory-made plural form residuum of the zooplankton
Echinoderm, consumed by numerousness usmc creatures. Crinoids are relatively free from predation. The body faveolate of numerousness sea cucumbers and both sea star bush a habitat for parasitic or dependent animalculum terminal fish, crabs, worms and snails.
In 2010, 373,000 note of brittle-star were harvested, principally for consumption. These were principally sea cucumis sativus (158,000 tonnes) and sea tiddler 73,000 tonnes.
Sea cucumis sativus are well-advised a fineness in some rcmp of mississippi eastward Asia; as such, and so are in at hand status of presence over-harvested.
Popular taxonomic category incorporate the herbaceous plant grounder Thelenota ananas
Echinodermsusuhan and the red Holothuria edulis
Echinoderm. These and different taxonomic category are conversationally well-known as bêche de mer or trepang in China
Echinodermand Indonesia
Echinoderm. The sea cucumis sativus are boiled for twenty minute book and then dry both naturally and later concluded a fire which intercommunicate them a smoky tang. In China they are used as a ground for gelatinous soups and stews. Both priapic and animate being prod of sea urchins are also down particularly in Japan
Echinoderm, Peru
Echinoderm, Spain
Echinodermand France
Echinoderm. The taste is represented as wooly and melting, like a suspension of seafood and fruit. The quality is reevaluate by the colour which can purview from light xanthous to bright orange. At the instant time, both trials of breeding sea uchins in order to try to even off the overexploitation of this living have been made.
The calcareous tests or shells of brittle-star are utilised as a source of spread out by creator in area of cardiac dullness where limestone is unobtainable and some are utilised in the manufacture of fish meal. Four yard tons of the animals are utilised annually for these purposes. This commerce is oftentimes carried out in contemporaneity with shellfish
Echinodermfarmers, for whom the sea star pose a prima menace by eating heritor cultured stock. Other enjoy for the sea star and so regain include the produce of animal feed, consolatory and drying for the performing arts and craft trade.
Sea tiddler are utilised in research, peculiarly as string theory animalculum in developmental biology
Echinodermand ecotoxicology.93
EchinodermStrongylocentrotus purpuratus
Echinodermand Arbacia punctulata
Echinodermare utilised for this will in immature studies. The astronomical perimeter and the picture of the shell ability the measuring of sperm
Echinodermcompartment in the computing of fertilising ova
EchinodermThe arm re-formation prospect of breakable look is presence unnatural in bridge with knowing and perusal neurodegenerative
Echinodermdiseases in humans.
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Registration is open for the 2017 Young Women Strong Leaders Conference, set for March 24, from 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. at Grand Rapids Community College, Wisner-Bottrall Applied Technology Center.
YWSL is a one-day conference designed for collegiate women to focus on building practical skillsets that will empower them on their career paths. The conference is sponsored by Michigan ACE Women's Network, Michigan Women's Commission, and the Michigan Department of Education, Office of Career and Technical Education.
Online registration is now open at grcc.edu/ywsl.
The keynote speaker will be Megan Sall, who serves as an engagement manager at CQL, a custom software development firm in Grand Rapids whose mission is to connect people and data for good. . Sall holds a bachelor's degree and master's degree in public administration from Grand Valley State University.
The conference will feature other West Michigan leaders from a variety of career backgrounds who will discuss things they wish they knew, and how to find ways to connect, learn, grow and evolve a career pathway.
The YWSL Conference aims to provide female college students with the tools necessary to become leaders on their campuses and in their communities — today and into the future — through a series of sessions that explore everything from finding a mentor to career exploration to personal enrichment.
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November 19, 2009
Despite President Obama's pledge to listen more carefully to foreign countries, his Administration has ignored pleas to move forward on trade issues, a refusal that drew strong criticism from several foreign leaders during Obama's recent Asia trip. Although the Obama Administration pays lip service to free trade, it has allowed a strategically important trade agreement with South Korea to be held hostage to a single industrial sector: automotives, says Bruce Klingner, a Senior Research Fellow for Northeast Asia in the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation.
The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) would increase U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) by at least $10 billion. It would be both an economic stimulus package and a jobs creation program without requiring any additional government spending or adding to the U.S. deficit. Yet the Obama Administration and Congress continue to allow the agreement to languish in limbo, says Klingner.
U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke extolled the virtues of the South Korea FTA, but both declared that it would have to wait in favor of pursuing President Obama's domestic political agenda:
- The Obama Administration and Congress have complained about an unequal playing field for sales of U.S. autos to South Korea but reject the very agreement that would remedy the problem.
- However, the two years since the June 2007 signing of the FTA exposed the falsehoods of the auto sector's blaming others for its poor competitiveness: GM and Chrysler did not go bankrupt as the result of South Korean non-tariff barriers.
As the Obama Administration and Congress have dithered, the world has not stood still, says Klingner:
- South Korea ratified an FTA with India and initialed an agreement with the European Union.
- In recent years, China, Japan and the European Union (EU) have all surpassed the United States as South Korea's major trading partners.
- Even Democratic Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.) lambasted the Obama Administration for lacking a "comprehensive trade agenda."
- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimated that failure to implement the FTA while America's trading partners go forward with their Korean FTAs would lead to a decline of $35.1 billion in U.S. exports and a loss of 345,000 jobs.
Source: Bruce Klingner, "Trade Dispute Undercuts Obama's Korea Trip," Heritage Foundation, WebMemo No. 2702, November 17, 2009.
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Laine Retreat
Right from the beginning, we knew that we wanted to organize gatherings and knitting retreats around the world, to explore life's beauty with other like-minded souls. To inspire and to get inspired, to get together and to create and share meaningful moments – that's what it's all about. We hope that Laine will not only be a magazine but a whole community.
5th – 9th of May, 2017 in Porto Covo, Portugal
Our first Laine Retreat will take place in beautiful Portugal. We will be joined by Joji Locatelli, one of the world's leading knitwear designers who also happens to be one of the sweetest persons around.
The retreat will be all about taking it slowly, knitting, enjoying the moment and making memories that will last a lifetime. Every day, we will gather around a large, wooden table and enjoy home cooked meals on the spacey patio with a stunning view or in the cosy dining room with an open kitchen. There will be plenty of time to relax and knit. Joji Locatelli will design a pattern for the retreat that our guests are welcome to cast on during our stay. On one day, Vânia O. of TWO HANDS Textile Studio will join us and hold a weaving workshop.
We have the honour to welcome Mina Park of Sook as our private chef. Mina is one of the most inspiring women we have ever met – she left her career as a lawyer to work in food and is now hosting highly popular supper clubs and pop-up dining events around the world. During our retreat, Mina will take care of us and serve delicious meals using fresh, local ingredients with an occasional touch of new Korean cuisine.
Hosted by Jonna Hietala and Sini Ellen of Laine Magazine.
Open for 8–10 people.
Where: The retreat will take place at the Alentejo coast in the south of Portugal about a 2-hours drive from Lisbon Airport. We will stay at Cabeça da Cabra Guesthouse, a beautiful and quiet place in the Portuguese countryside. Maria, the owner of Cabeça da Cabra, bought an old, traditional school building a couple of years ago and carefully renovated it restoring the old charm and character of the house. The atmospheric guesthouse offers five comfortable and spacious rooms, a dining room and a patio that will take your breath away. We will have the whole house just for ourselves.
How much: All prices are given in Euro. In a double room: 1750 € for a double bed, 1600 € for a single bed. In a triple room: 1350 € for a shared double bed, 1500 € for a single bed. A deposit of 50% is needed for registration and the final payment is due March 31th 2017.
Includes: Please note that airfare as well as transfer to and from the airport is not included. We strongly suggest you to hire a rental car.
- 4 nights stay at Cabeça da Cabra Guesthouse
- all meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner), refreshments and snacks during the retreat, a dinner out at a typical local restaurant
- wine and tapas upon arrival
- goodie bag
- transportation to all retreat activities (dinner out, trip to the beach and to the village of Porto Covo)
- a weaving workshop with Vânia O. of TWO HANDS Textile Studio
Terms and cancellation policy: The retreat is non-refundable unless you can find someone to take your place. Please note that travel insurance is not included. We strongly advice you to have travel insurance in the unlikely event of natural disasters, strikes, health problems or other unforeseen events.
Enquiries & Registration: email@example.com
Laine Weekend
We believe in meaningful relationships woven around the art of knitting. That's why we want to bring together people who share the same passion.
14.–16.10.2016 at Villa Julius, Parkano, Finland
Join us for our first Laine Weekend in the peaceful Finnish countryside. It will be a weekend full of knitting, great company, delicious food, and taking it easy. Jonna Hietala of Laine Magazine will also be teaching a 3-hour workshop on knitwear photography and post-processing.
Open for 14 people.
Accommodation: We will stay in Parkano, at a traditional, wooden house, Villa Julius, with two saunas (one inside, the other one by the lake) and a hot tub in the garden.
Price: 295 euros.
Includes: Transportation Tampere–Parkano–Tampere, shared rooms for 2–3 people with shared bathrooms, all food and drinks during the weekend (2 x breakfast, 1 x lunch, 2 x dinner. Water, coffee, tee, beer, wine.), knitwear photography workshop, goodie bag.
The bus leaves from Tampere bus station on Friday at 6.00pm and heads back to Tampere on Sunday at 12pm.
What to Bring: A digital camera + something to take notes in, and loads of yarn and needles.
Enquiries & Registration: email@example.com
14.–16.10.2016 Villa Julius, Parkano
Tervetuloa viettämään ensimmäistä Laine Weekendiä Parkanon maaseudulle, Vahojärven pieneen kylään. Viikonloppumme täyttyy neulonnasta, herkullisesta ruoasta ja rauhallisesta rentoutumisesta. Laine-lehden päätoimittaja, valokuvaaja Jonna Hietala vetää paikan päällä kolmen tunnin kurssin tarinallisen neulekuvaamisen saloista.
Mukaan mahtuu 14 osallistujaa.
Majoitus: Parkanossa, viihtyisässä Villa Juliuksessa. Käytössämme on myös rantasauna ja kylpypalju.
Hinta: 295 euroa.
Hintaan sisältyy: Bussikuljetus Tampere–Parkano–Tampere, majoitus 2–3 hengen huoneissa, kaikki ruoat ja juomat paikan päällä (2 x aamupala, 1 x lounas ja 2 x illallinen. Vesi, kahvi, tee, viini ja olut.), tarinallisen neulekuvaamiset salat -kurssi, goodie bag.
Bussikuljetus lähtee perjantai-iltana kello 18.00 Tampereen linja-autoasemalta Parkanoon ja sunnuntaina kello 12 Parkanosta takaisin kohti Tampereen keskustaa.
Ota mukaan: Kamera ja muistiinpanovälineet, paljon neulottavaa.
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One of my favorite parts of traveling is getting give good, practical advice about my destinations to friends, family, and blog readers! It's been a while since I did any sort of travel guide, so I figure since you all have been so good as to read my squillion posts about Porto, I may as well round it out with a few do's and don'ts to make your future trips to Porto great ones!
Do: Walk! You'll get to know this pocket sized city in a day or so and burn some serious calories on the hills!
Don't: Try to be a hero with your footwear. There are cobblestones and the aforementioned hills. If ever there was a time to put on your most sensible walking shoes, it's during a trip to Porto!
Don't: Eat a Francesinha. The food is soooo good and so reasonable. Lining your arteries with the Portuguese answer to chicken fried steak with gravy just seems like a waste of a good appetite. For the love of God. Don't do it. I don't care what TripAdvisor says.
Do: Make a reservation at Odé! You'll notice that I haven't posted any photos from our dinner there and that's because Odé goes out of their way to make your dining experience memorable (in the In Real Life way, not the Instagram way). We're talking strict reservation times so that you can fully immerse yourself in the experience. Waiters attend to your every need, are beyond knowledgable, and every dish is to die for. I had the best steak of my entire LIFE, and I'm even still thinking about how good every single dish that came out of the kitchen was!
Do: Go to the port caves for a tour! A "tasting" seems to translate into full glass in Porto so make sure you bring a snack!
Don't: Be put off if there's a bit of rain or weather. The highs and lows in Porto are what make the port produced in the region so good. You should expect to strap on your rain boots on a trip, but don't despair! Know that the rain clouds are contributing to the rich taste of the region.
On that note, do: forget about using an umbrella on a windy day. You're more likely to poke yourself in the eye with a spoke than keep yourself dry!
Do: Make sure that you walk across the top of the double-tiered bridge. You can take a trolley car up the mountain adjacent, so no climbing required. The views offered are unparalleled!
Don't: Rely on foreign bank cards. Porto is really a cash city. We couldn't even get the metro out of the airport (the airport!) with our foreign bank cards and there were no signs anywhere indicating this. After about a thousand goes at the machine, a kindly attendant finally filled us in. So! Change some cash before or do so in the airport. Thank me later!
Do: Pack your schedule! No matter what, you'll be able to get around the city easily, so you may as well squeeze every ounce out of your time. Unlike a lot of cities where getting from one attraction to another can zap you of a bit of joy and a lot of energy, Porto is a dream for the ambitious traveler! Take advantage!
Don't: I cannot say this enough. Do not consume a Francesinha. Please.
Alright! With that, let's close the book on Porto! Until next time, of course! 🙂
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Nurses' union disappointed as HSE is 'short senior people' during crucial A&E strike talks
Attempts to avert strike action by emergency department nurses have been adjourned until Wednesday following "problematic" talks between the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation and the HSE.
Following aborted industrial action last month, the INMO again met with senior HSE management to discuss the issue of overcrowding and patient safety in emergency departments.
Expressing disappointment that "management were short senior people" during today's talks at the Workplace Relations Commission, INMO General Secretary Liam Doran said it was time for "the HSE and the Department of Health to act on their word" and deliver on previous agreements.
"What we want from the [HSE] is confirmation that they will deliver on what they said they would deliver in December and January in the interests of patients and staff in the ED. Nothing more, nothing less."
Mr Doran added there was still a huge overcrowding crisis facing the health system, and that numbers had continued to rise despite previous assurances action would be taken.
John Delamere, HSE's Assistant National Director of Human Resources, said progress had been made during Monday's talks but "more work needs to be done".
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Today N is for Neat giveaways...Ok...This ABC thing is getting kinda difficult..lol..I figured today though that I could post about alot of giveaways that are going around that I can get extra entries for if I blog about them...soo..If you like to try to win free stuff like me then you should head on over and sign up! :)
--There is a fun giveaway at Polka Dot Mom to win 3 sewing tutorial/patterns from this great store Whimsy Couture. I recently found this store and love all these little outfits & would love to win some new patterns to create! Click here to enter!
--There is another fun giveaway at Etsy It Up! for a keychain wristlet from Sweet Irie Designs. I love her and her wristlets..I have one on my keychain now & have given them for gifts & they are the best! I hope to win another one for the future.
--And, now the greatest giveaway of them all and I think I would hyperventilate if I won...is this beautiful scrappy quilt from the Long ladies from Marie-Madeline Studios. They are the best & so great to work with. I order fabric from them all the time & they are so talented! This quilt is so beautiful & if I won it I would use it for Anna's "big" girl bed! I LOVE it! So head on over here if you want to sign up too!
Well off to bed....Have a Happy Tuesday!


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Comic Book Digital Inking and Refinement
Want to create your own comic books? Inking is a crucial part of the process. It's one of the final steps, where lines are traced more intentionally and artists focus on dynamic lighting and shadows. These days, pencil drawings aren't always necessarily "inked" but sometimes digitally scanned and refined, resulting in the finished inked look typical of most comics. In this course, comic creator Ben Bishop shows two methods for finishing comics in Photoshop, using examples from his graphic novel, The Aggregate.Method 1 is the traditional approach. After carefully selecting his brushes in Photoshop, Ben begins the digital inking process. He carefully retraces his lines, adding line weight, halos, highlights, and shadows and texture. He even adds blur effects that give his comics a cinematic quality while also using positive and negative space to set the mood of the scene and create a compositionally pleasing page.
Method 2 shows us how to turn finished pencil artwork into clean, seemingly inked artwork, ready for color and ready for print-without any additional drawing.
Topics include:
What is digital inking?
Creating a page template
Sizing artwork
Choosing the right Photoshop brush
Inking linework
Filling in black areas
Inking by converting drawings to grayscale
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Arcadian II offers two and three bedroom condos, each with two bathrooms. You'll spend leisure filled vacation days lounging by our oceanfront swimming pool, playing an action packed game on our tennis courts, or enjoying the pleasures of the beach just steps from your door. Amenities include oceanfront balconies overlooking the Atlantic, on-site security, wireless internet, cable television, fully equipped kitchens, pay washer/dryer on each floor, wall-to-wall carpet, elevators, and ample parking. Although Arcadian II is away from the crowds, we are less than five minutes from great golf at several popular golf courses, great dining at the famous restaurant row, plus other Grand Strand attractions. Address: 10100 Beach Club Drive Myrtle Beach 29572. ***NO PETS*** We rent to families and groups age 25 and older. Click Here for For Virtual Tour
The condo is in a quiet building on a great part of the beach. However, the inside is not well equipped and everything had a greasy film on it. The furniture was miss matched and looked like it came from a second hand store. There was mold on the door and all vents that blew cold air into the unit. The bedding was old and needed cleaning as well. The twins beds had bad mattresses. The owners need to replace the very stained carpet and the very dirty placemats and provide a complete set of cooking pots and pans. Very disappointed. I would never suggest you rent this unit.


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Date: 9 Mar 2017
Time: All Day
The first large conference for Blockchain developers and businessmen – Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference – will be held in Tallinn. Representatives of leading IT companies, authors of startups and everyone who is interested in Blockchain technologies will come together.
Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference – a net of conferences which comprises Russia, Ukraine, Czech Republic – and Estonia. The last event which took place on November 10 in Moscow was visited by the representatives of IBM, Microsoft, Sberbank, "Skolkovo", Higher School of Economics as well as Russian government.
For leaders of IT industry
Estonia is the leader in IT sphere with Blockchain developments supported on the national level. There is a project aimed at transferring medical charts into Blockchain for data protection and doctors' quick access to them.
At the same time, the country, which has Wi-Fi almost in every corner, is implementing a series of IT projects. In particular, one of them is aimed at giving electronic citizenship to employable people from other countries.
Estonian infrastructure is ready for the brightest IT startups and Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference is the place where developers, businessmen and investors will meet.
Topics of the conference
Participants will discuss Blockchain solutions in governance (Govtech) as well as developments of various business spheres: banking, trading, notary services, healthcare, logistics, retail.
The list of speakers is being formed but organizers – Smile-Expo Company – promise as notable experts as in Kyiv, Moscow and Prague. Every segment (business, developments, governmental regulators) will have its representatives.
The founder of Bitcoin Foundation and Forbes columnist will visit Blockchain Conference in Tallinn
In March of the coming year blockchain developers and entrepreneurs will get together at Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Tallinn to listen to the founding director of Bitcoin Foundation, fintech columnist with Forbes Magazine Jon Matonis.
The independent cryptocurrency and blockchain analyst whose career has included influential posts at VISA International and fintech companies will speak about prospects of blockchain consortiums.
He will focus on open blockchain with its advantages over private systems. Reliability, security and flexibility are real advantages of blockchain with open access. Jon Matonis believes that developers of private blockchain should coordinate in order to benefit the market.
He will present ideas of his articles for Forbes, American Banker and CoinDesk.
Except for Jon Matonis, the conference will be visited by developers of fintech and govtech blockchain services as well as European cryptocurrency experts. To find out more visit the website of the conference.
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Working for one of the UK's leading engineering support services organisation we wish to appoint a Mechanical Inspector based onsite in Oxfordshire.
The ideal candidate will have knowledge of mechanical engineering and inspection and hold the relevant qualification / be time served. This role may suit a mechanical fitter.
The Mechanical Inspector will provide independent inspection to projects and contracts for equipment delivered to our customers. The Inspector will undertake specific activities on behalf of the Assurance function as required.
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Deborah Boro (MSc student, UNM)
Deborah is working with Seth Newsome and Jake to understand the causes and consequences of ecological generalism in small mammal communities. As you can see from her photo, Deborah relishes test tubes, beakers, pipettes, and fume hoods--you know, real science. We are lucky to have her on board!


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This is the personal story of the 21-year old Karolina Demianczuk – a girl with 'Polish Blood, American Spirit, and Asian Mind', who's founded Spontime, a $3mln startup. We hope that after reading this, you get as inspired as we did! What inspired me to pursue my entrepreneurial career and bring in-person enjoyment
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The 5 best Contemporary Women Filmmakers in Europe
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From Ballerina To Businesswoman – I'm Steph, And This Is My Story
Sleepovers and ballet classes; who needs more than that? Ballet was something I always did. From as far back as I can remember, I danced ballet. It was never something I thought of doing professionally, though. It was just something I did because I liked it. I'd go to school, play


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Soliciting Soft Money Prohibited Under New Law
April 29, 2003
The president and members of Congress can headline fund-raisers in which state candidates collect "soft money," but they can't be the ones asking for the big checks, say federal election officials.
The law, which took effect in November, bans federal officeholders and candidates from soliciting soft money, which includes corporate and union contributions of any size and unlimited donations from any source. State and local candidates can continue raising such money if state law allows it.
- The Federal Election Commission (FEC) said federal officials and candidates can be featured guests at events for state and local candidates at which soft money is raised.
- However, prospective donors must be given a written or oral disclaimer stating that the federal official isn't soliciting such contributions.
One campaign finance watchdog called it a distinction without a difference. Letting federal officeholders attend state and local candidate soft-money fund-raisers undermines the law's effort to cut ties between federal officials and big donors, said Paul Sanford of the Center for Responsive Politics' FEC Watch project.
"People who attend the fund-raiser aren't going to know the difference," Sanford said.
The commission says Congress never intended to bar federal officials from attending state and local candidate fund-raisers. The law's solicitation ban "burdens the speech and association rights at the core of the First Amendment," Commissioner Bradley Smith said.
Source: Sharon Theimer, "FEC Explains Soft Money Law to Lawmakers," Associated Press, April 24, 2003.
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Velvet Underground Under Review is a 75 minute film reviewing the music and career of one of rock musics most influential collectives; a band which esteemed music journalist Lester Bangs claims started modern music. It features rare musical performances never available before as well as obscure footage, rare interviews and private photographs of and with Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, Sterling Morrison and John Cale. The film also features; rarely seen promo films; material from Andy Warhols private film collection; interviews with colleagues, producers, musicians and friends; TV clips; location shots and a host of other features.
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So Stop Asking :pi will not do that for you ok so stop asking jkjk i'm only a hooker on Wednesdays so try then -_____-
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Me Too...I Will Not Have Sex With Every Ep Friend I Meet In Person Absolutely not.Not every one of them anyways.Just a few would be more than good enough.
ButThat doesn't mean I don't fantasize about it with some of you....
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One Has To Be SelectiveNo pulse = no sex, period! I won't compromise either. I've been let down and dissapointed before so now I will stand firm!
Never Say Never :-)Sex is great but I won't do it with just anyone...It should be spelled with romance!
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PLMJ Arbitration retains its place on the list of the 100 best Law Firms in the world for arbitration
For the third consecutive year, PLMJ is on the list of the 100 best law firms in the world for arbitration practice published by Global Arbitration Review (GAR), the leading international arbitration publication. PLMJ was the first Portuguese law firm to appear on the GAR list in 2014.
Following the analysis of the arbitration practices of law firms from more than 40 countries around the world, Global Arbitration Review (GAR) recognised PLMJ and MLGTS. These are the only two Portuguese law firms to appear on the ranking of the worlds 100 best law firms for arbitration.


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Traditionally, the tables at wedding receptions have been numbered. But an emerging trend is to name the tables after something significant. It gives the couples a chance to really let their personalities shine, or even highlight significant events in their relationship.
To get you started, here are some great ideas that couples have used (and continue to use) in naming their tables. Obviously the possibilities are endless!
– Favorite TV shows
– Places that the couple has traveled
– Favorite restaurants
– Favorite local hot spots the couple likes to visit
– Sports teams (if they are huge sports fans)
– Activities/Hobbies
– The word "love" written in different languages
– Numbers in a different language
– Different flowers
– Favorite cars
– Colors
You can surely Google table name ideas and find a huge list of options.
Thanks to Laura Hooper on her Weddingbee Pro post for the suggestions!
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2:20 pm on October 12th, 2009
We have this whole Mizzou theme going on, so we're naming the tables after landmarks and traditions. We're still putting numbers on the tables to help guests find them easier, but there will be names on the escort cards and tables too.
4:39 pm on October 12th, 2009
@Meagan What a great idea! It's good to incorporate pieces of your relationship!
7:43 pm on October 12th, 2009
My MOH suggested books because we're big readers, so we ran with that. I like the trend of interesting table names, it tells you something about the couple. Even if that thing, in my case, is that we're dorks.
7:55 pm on October 12th, 2009
@Julie Books is such a great idea, especially if your avid readers! Love it!
1:11 pm on October 14th, 2009
we're naming our tables after david bowie's alter egos… for example: 'ziggy stardust' 'major tom' and 'aladdin sane' i know, we're a little nutty 🙂
5:45 pm on October 14th, 2009
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so if there's one single trope i'm always down to fight it's the animal bride (folklore motif 402??) which a lot of you are probably familiar with as the selkie - the fisherman either falls in love, steals her skin to trap her on land/gain power over her, or they fall in love and THEN he steals her skin to keep her from leaving, and either way she spends a lot of time gazing sadly out to sea and then she or her child finds the skin and never returns again.
and that's awful on a whole lot of levels - it's not love, it's control.
BUT. but the thing is. you how selkies/seal women was a pretty common variation of this? another really popular one was swans.
i just want you to think about that for a moment. swans. like…I get it, they're pretty, graceful birds, certainly it's easy to imagine them magically becoming pretty graceful ladies? but have you ever fought a swan. swans are awful. swans are the devil's geese. imagine seeing a pretty magic lady and being absolutely enchanted by her, and stealing her magic feather cloak, and then you go up and say 'hey i'm in love with you, let me make you my queen, it will be great, we'll be so happy' and she just looks at you for a moment and…
you know i was going to say maybe she just shouts for her sisters and suddenly you're realizing you've made a terrible terrible mistake bc you're surrounded by big fucking birds who are all hissing. but honestly if this swan lady is as aggressively down to brawl as any other generally unhappy swan, then she'd straight up fuck you up on her own. she'd just deck you roundhouse, honestly. you don't fuck with swans. why does this trope exist


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I came across a few strange bugs when browsing a website using the stock 'internet' app browser on Android Galaxy Samsung 3 4.4.
Specifically elements that were positioned
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Maybe David Ortiz and the Red Sox won't get to arbitration, after all.
Ortiz is the last unsigned Sox who's eligible for salary arbitration, but he told mlb.com that his representatives are working on a multiyear contract with the Red Sox and he's hopeful a deal will be struck.
"We are working on that right now," Ortiz said. "Hopefully, we will get to an agreement so we don't have to go in front of the judge."
You'd think the Red Sox would be unlikely to offer a multiyear contract to their 36-year-old designated hitter -- if they wanted to go in that direction, they could have done so last summer -- but they could be discussing one year plus an option, with vesting options that would guarantee the contract after a certain level of production.
Then there's matter of salary. Ortiz filed at 16.5 million, which is a lot -- as in, A Lot -- of money for a DH. (Especially an elderly one, in baseball years at least.) The Sox countered at 12.5 million, which is still high in today's designated hitter market. A midpoint agreement seems unlikely, so it's also possible the Sox are offering more years if Ortiz is willing to take less money.


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Before the calendar turned, 2016 already had the makings of a pivotal year for manufacturing, and for the world.
There were the big events for the year, including the United States as Partner Country at Hannover Messe in April and the 2016 International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago in September. There's also the matter of the U.S. presidential elections in November, which promise to shape policy in manufacturing for years to come.
But the year started with global economic turmoil, as a slowdown in Chinese manufacturing triggered a worldwide stock hiccup that sent values plummeting. The continued plunge in world oil prices has resulted in a slowdown in exploration and, by extension, the manufacture of exploration equipment.
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Herts Ferrari Christmas Party Saturday 16th December 2017 - Hanbury Hall, Herts (7pm)
The Spa 6 Hours meeting immediately follows the Goodwood Revival. However, whilst Goodwood with its unchanged circuit and paddock offers so much more than just Motorsport, Spa is Historic Motorsport for the purist. The circuit is challenging and rewarding for drivers and exposes any weakness in race preparation especially for those cars competing in the legendary 6 Hour race.
DK as ever had strong representation at the event, with James Cottingham piloting the blue DHG #89 AC Cobra, in his 13th Spa 6 Hour race, (the last three having been in AC Cobras) and also a 1 hour stint in DK's Ecurie Ecosse Tojeiro Jaguar, fresh from its podium finish at Goodwood. Harvey Stanley, was also participating in the event with an MGB for the 6 Hour Race and the Semi-Lightweight E-Type in Sunday morning's 90 minute GT Race.
Both DK drivers completed the gruelling 6 Hour race, James sharing with Max Girardo and Olivier Hart brought the Cobra home 6th overall and 2nd in Class (the first Cobra to finish), whilst Harvey and co-driver Timothy Mahapatra were the 3rd MGB to finish having gained 42 places from their grid position.
Misfortune blighted the other races with a slow pitstop for the Tojeiro (due to vaporisation meaning it would not restart easily) dropping James from the lead down to 4th place and an unforeseen safety car causing Harvey in the E-Type to miss the pit window by seconds and therefore earning a penalty which would drop Timothy well down the order, they had been running as high as 2nd place prior to their stop.
Spa marks the end of the historic racing calendar for most, DK will be running a 355 Challenge at the Ferrari Passione Silverstone event on September 24th and preparations are underway for those cars heading to Portimao in late October.
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Bitty Dog went to market and she was so traumatized it was awful! There she was, next to Bitty Kitty, Bitty Bird and Bitty Bunny and she was shy and totally quiet. I kept asking her what was wrong, but it wasn't until we got home that she finally told me. She felt out of place…like an outsider! Why you ask? Because she wasn't made out of wool! I created her out of fabric. Once I heard what upset her, I knew what I had to do. Today she got a new coat…a spiffy herring-bone one at that! Then to make her feel even better I gave her a little pink star collar. What more could a girl ask for?
Tomorrow she leaves to see that famous photographer Gregory Case. He'll take a new photo for her new look. Soon she'll be right at home with the other little critters and now Bitty Dog is a very happy little girl. What? You like her better in fabric? Well, you can still make a fabric Bitty Dog, but she won't be a cover girl. You'll find the fabric bitty on the back of the pattern. Shhhhhhhh…Gotta keep this little dog happy so don't tell her there's a fabric dog on the back. (: After all she thinks she's a wool star!
Speaking of stars, there were a few who stopped by my booth at market.
Anne (that's me) and the other Anne were working away setting up the booth when who should stop by but…
Annie Downs from Hatched and Patched. She creates wonderful stitchery patterns. Traveling all the way from Australia, she's such a sweetie!
Kaari Meng, the author of "The French-Inspired Home" and owner of the shop called "French General" is just as sweet as she looks. She's working on a new fabric line for Moda that will debut at Spring Market. I can't wait!
Lila Tueller, a new designer for Moda. "Arnie" my kitty quilt features her fabric! She's as beautiful as her fabric!
Michele Bencsko of Cicada Studio! Michele's a new designer for Henry Glass Fabrics and what a vision she has. She's got a lot of talent and a wonderful new line called Dogwood.
More stars to come so stay tuned…


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CNN's Don Lemon had his microphone cut off prematurely after taking tequila shots with his co-host and complaining about how 'awful' 2016 was. Surely he's still upset about this being Trumps America now 😀
Here is Drunk Don Lemon dancing here:
We're in New Orleans with @donlemon and @BrookeBCNN celebrating New Year's Eve https://t.co/YGfi3ZvhHp pic.twitter.com/lgS6oIic2Z
— CNN (@CNN) January 1, 2017
You can here his mic being cut off at 1:35 in the following video, right after he says "2016 was awful"
Why Lemon thought 2016 was so awful remains a mystery, but we think Trumps Victory had something to do with it. What do you think? Let us know in the comments below!


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'Lay off the hamburgers and French fries' - Santa body shames 9 year old
When you take your children - no matter their age or body type - to see Santa Claus, you expect Jolly Old Saint Nick to be, well, jolly. The last thing you'd want is your child to feel judged by Santa - but that's exactly what happened in North Carolina.
Nine-year-old Anthony Mayse went with his family in Forest City, North Carolina, to visit Santa on Saturday. It turned into a scene from a "Bad Santa" movie.
"When he got done, he said, 'Lay off the hamburgers and French fries' and that really just disrespected me, and I felt awful," Mayse said.
That's right: Kris Kringle - who doesn't say no to milk and cookies - told a boy that he eats too much.
Mayse wished he'd never even gone to see the old elf.
"It affected me so bad that I was crying until I went to bed that night and I want to say to him, 'You don't want to disrespect a 9-year-old. Even though what shape and size you are, it doesn't matter," Mayse said.
Anthony said Santa apologized but didn't think he actually meant it.
The company that hired Santa Clause said they would take 'disciplinary action'.
The family wants the Santa fired. They said they'll never go to the city to visit Santa again.


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You will not believe that this Beautiful Asians Were Born Male!
Some people believe that they were born in the wrong bodies; that somehow a mismatch happened. These people, members of the transgender community, often experience an identity crisis brought upon by their desire to inhabit a body that is different from the one they were born in.
Transgender people strive hard to change this through hormone treatments and gender reassignment surgery. Sometimes the transformation is so severe that they barely resemble who they were before.
These two transgender women perfectly illustrate what successful gender reassignment looks like. Today, they look so feminine that you wouldn't believe they were born male!
Check them out here:
1. Treechada Petcharat (Poyd)
29-year-old Treechada, born Saknarin Marnyaporn, hails from Thailand.
2. Piyada Inthabong or Lingling Inthavong
Piyada was born in Laos. This 23-year-old has a body to die for and the face of an angel! Truly, boys and girls alike are stunned by her incredible looks!
She is currently part of the 2nd season of 'The Casting Project' in Thailand.
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Having trouble w/too many hits/StatTraq help
Lately I've been noticing the amount of hits and users on my site growing. It's been fairly gradual and sometimes my hits/users drop off only to slowly rise back up. However, I was checking my StatTraq page and found that I had gotten 3000 users in about 8 hours. This is completely unheard of for my site during the week and today is Saturday. I've been getting hit by some referral spammers, but they haven't managed to post any comment spam thanks to the Spam Stopgap plugin that I use. I also managed to block a good number of referral spam sites with an htaccess file but doing it that way is a literal game of whack-a-mole. I was wondering if anyone would mind looking at my stats by going here:
I set it so that anyone can view it. Anyway, my guess at this point is that I've got the same referral spammer hitting a buttload of pages on my site all at once for a single time from different IPs. The thing that I don't know is–how can the spammer have so many unique IPs? When StatTraq refers to "users" it does mean unique users, right?
Could it be that I'm getting that much actual traffic? On a Saturday morning, no less?? ANY advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!!
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Look to the future and take this family hotel to the next level
The historic Macarthur Pub, established in 1860, offers both nostalgia and modern amenities with the added advantage of being half way between Hamilton and Port Fairy.
The blue stone hotel offers a very popular bar in a homely atmosphere with 4 taps including Carlton Draught, Bulmers, Guinness and Great Northern all serviced through a new system. There are extra gas lines as well.
The dining room and near new commercial kitchen are highlights for the pub, the perfect playground for the most discerning chef. With the capacity to serve between 70 and 80 patrons, the dining room has a modern feel with feature stone wall, open fire, drinks and coffee bar, down lights and glass doors. The kitchen boasts 18 gas hotplates, 2 Waldolf stoves, oven fans, stainless steel flashbacks and benches, dishwasher, double sink, walk in cool room, freezers and bain-marie.
There is an office, with safe and internet, storeroom, conference room with projector and toilets. These are all serviced through a central hallway with polished floor boards. There is a 4 bedroom weatherboard unit attached to the hotel which is currently rented on Air BNB. It includes kitchen, bathroom living room, patio and wood heater.
Outside there is a transportable lined container, maintenance and storage sheds, outdoor stage and beer garden, 60,000litre in-ground concrete tank, 3 quantum hot water services, 2, 450 litre gas bottles and 3 phase power. Finally there is a Toyota hi-ace courtesy bus which fits in well with the community feel of this popular country pub.
In addition to all the above, the property is approx 2.87ha (7.09 acres) which includes the hotel and a paddock for a horse or sheep, this property offers the perfect work/life balance.
Finally there is a Toyota hi-ace courtesy bus which fits in well with the community feel of this popular country pub.
Visit the website to learn more about the Macarthur pub, www.macarthurpub.com.au
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