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One of the most important reasons people visit amusement parks these days is because it offers a shared experience that allows for the creation of new, one-of-a-kind memories for families and friends. It’s a different way for people to interact with each other in an environment dedicated to fun. Happy Jellyfish Ride Screaming together on a roller coaster really does bring people closer together, which is why when we look at the top rides at amusement parks it is always the attractions that can be experienced as a group.
Another top reason people visit amusement parks is for the safe thrills. Not everyone is going to get to fly a jet, and not everyone wants to jump out of a plane, or go white water rafting, or drive a race car. Flying chair rides for sale All of these experiences can be safely replicated at an amusement park.
There are many other more specific reasons for visiting an amusement park. Some people go for the opportunity to interact and engage with their favorite characters and brands. Other people go for concerts, special events and seasonal celebrations. Some people visit because they are part of a group (church, school, company) while others visit just to make their kids happy.
Ultimately, amusement parks and theme parks are mass market activities that appeal in some way or another to the majority of people in a given community. While not everyone will visit every year, it is a sure bet that most people living with a certain radius of the park will visit at least a few times growing up and the again once they have kids of their own.
Clean up. If you bring a drink or snack to the playground, clean up your trash before you leave. When you do, the park will look nice when the next kid comes along to play and you will have shown that you’re a good playground citizen.
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This is an older photo. I have flat bars, different wheels (one wore out and the other was stolen), a 48t instead of the 46t here, Shimano 959 SPDs, a better seatpost (this one pictured came out in small pieces), a comfy and light Serfas seat. Lastly, the bike is set up as a single speed with FR (Shimano 105) brakes and a freewheel.
I have the flat bars because I couldn't figure out where to put brake levers on these handlebars because of the numerous hand positions - none of which are good for brake levers. I didn't want the silly cross levers.
As it turns out, working as a messenger in NYC with a single speed is faster than a fixed gear. As the traffic and congestion worsens and the j-walking pedestrians and NYPD become stupider, the need to carve through everything like tight New England single track becomes more apparent.
There is a certain glamor to high speed sprints through one of the busiest cities in the world on a very simple and lightweight bike with no brakes. On many days I miss it but on many days I don't.
At some point I would like a real road fork to improve the handling of this thing with brakes. With a new road fork (Easton carbon if I can) I would love a new stem and bars (Easton XC90 and Monkey Light) as well as a shiny new, red Chris King headset.
It will be hilarious to have such high end parts on a welded, Chinese-made track frame that's been through absolute hell. I figured I should keep the frame as long as it holds together, just as an experiment.
Of course that can change with my finances.
In this photo and the ones near it, I was visiting my long-time friend Stacey in her little apartment "across the street from the Long Island Sound" in Stratford, CT. She was in and out of the hospital in neighboring Bridgeport, CT for a serious blood clot in her leg. I would take the train from Grand Central Terminal to Stratford with my big red messenger bag and my bike. I rode from the train station downtown to her apartment a few miles away. From there I would borrow her car to drive to the hospital if she was there or just visit and help her with things in her apartment.
I took the time to go to the beach (which I miss) and just relax.
October 30, 2011
.... because they really do.
I have a wonderful job.
I need a dog, desperately. And I want to live with my cat again. I miss Reese, and it sounds so stupid, but I really don't care. Judge away. I have no shame of my attachment to my Kit-Kat. <3.
I've gotten quite a few questions on the Formspring!!! Keep them coming!
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Because Perth's platform 7 was otherwise occupied at the time these trains were due to call at Perth the suthbound train which should have use platform 4 (on left of shot) had to use platform 3 nearest camera. The five car train in platform 4 could not be accommodated in platform 3. yes.
Both trains were as usual extremely busy as can be seen.
Model: Nico Marino
He showed me this abandoned garage with graffiti. It was such a cool spot. This picture was actually not intentional. I was just messing around while he was making faces, but this is one of the best photos from the day.
He hates it though because it cuts off his forehead
Because they respect each other's abilities and not because they are the same rank, Kelcie and Jermaine, Pam Pope's assistant instructors, train together as equals, setting a positive example for their students
Created on the 9:18 AM train to work, Saturday, Sept. 26
Prismacolor Premier watercolor colored pencils, Prismacolor Ebony graphite drawing pencil, Prismacolor illustration markers, Prismacolor double-ended art marker, Prismacolor Artgum eraser, Prismacolor Premier pencil sharpener
Blick Studios acid-free drawing pad
9 x 12
2015
because my jaiku bud Zacharye is awesome!!! i was sporting it around for awhile...and flickrs finally let me upload!! yay!!!
OR how to dress like Chibbi!!
...because he's entertained and developed the minds of three infants-come-kidlets.
we love him in our house. don't you?
{this is my fabulous niece and goddaughter, she rocks, we call her chickpea, i have conversations with her on a regular basis and they aren't one-sided, if you know what i mean}
Adult E. fulgida (max. 1 mm) and 3.6 mm Rissoa parva (max. 5 mm). R. parva is the most frequently found small marine snail on most rocky shores of Britain. E. fulva is locally abundant in the south and west, but usually overlooked because of its tiny size.
West Anglesey, Wales, March 2014.
Full SPECIES DESCRIPTION BELOW
pdf available at www.researchgate.net/publication/393448855_Eatonina_fulgi...
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Eatonina fulgida (J. Adams, 1797)
Synonyms:Helix fulgidus J. Adams, 1797; Cingula fulgida (J. Adams, 1797); Cingulopsis fulgida (J. Adams, 1797); Pseudosetia fulgida (J. Adams, 1797); Coriandria fulgida (J. Adams, 1797); Rissoa fulgida (J. Adams, 1797). Rissoa atomus Brusina, 1866.
Current taxonomy: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139169
GLOSSARY below.
Shell description
Eatonina fulgida is one of the smallest marine snails in Britain with a maximum adult size of 1 mm high by 0.8 mm wide (Fretter & Graham, 1978) 01Ef flic.kr/p/2rdxaFJ .
The three or four swollen whorls of adults form a squat conoid with a blunt apex. The body whorl forms about 75% of the adult shell height and its distinct suture meets the previous whorl just below its periphery 02Ef flic.kr/p/2reufZQ . The shell wall is thin, glossy and lacks any sculpture other than very fine growth lines 03Ef flic.kr/p/2reubmT . The large rounded aperture is equal in height to 40% that of the shell. The peristome extends from below the periphery of the body whorl and encircles the entire aperture as white palatal and columellar lips, and an unobtrusive glaze on the parietal lip 02Ef flic.kr/p/2reufZQ . There is a distinct narrow umbilicus on some shells but it is closed on others 05Ef flic.kr/p/2reuGJ2 .
The ground colour of the adult shell is semitransparent white 02Ef flic.kr/p/2reufZQ , cream or light reddish brown 03Ef flic.kr/p/2reubmT showing some of the body within 02Ef flic.kr/p/2reufZQ . There are typically three opaque brown bands on the body whorl and two on the penultimate whorl 02Ef flic.kr/p/2reufZQ , but the more globose juveniles up to 0.5 mm with only one or two whorls are usually entirely opaque brown 04Ef flic.kr/p/2reubo1 . The brown juvenile whorls remain as the two most apical whorls on adult shells. Some adult shells are straw coloured with reduced or no opaque bands. On those with translucent reddish brown ground colour there is often little contrast with the brown opaque bands giving on superficial examination the impression of being uniformly brown 03Ef flic.kr/p/2reubmT . The brown bands are visible through the shell on the interior of the aperture 02Ef flic.kr/p/2reufZQ .
The semitransparent operculum is faintly horn-coloured 05Ef flic.kr/p/2reuGJ2 & 07Ef flic.kr/p/2reuGKK .
Body description
The flesh is translucent white with minute opaque white points, and the anterior and posterior pedal mucous glands are sometimes visible as opaque white features within the body 06Ef flic.kr/p/2ret8W1 . Sometimes the flesh has a yellowish hue (Jeffreys, 1867) 02Ef flic.kr/p/2reufZQ and the opercular disc, which protrudes from below the operculum, is partly yellow 07Ef flic.kr/p/2reuGKK .
The head has two fairly short, unpigmented, cylindrical cephalic tentacles, each with a black eye on the swollen base 07Ef flic.kr/p/2reuGKK . The eyes are rarely extended beyond the rim of the shell aperture 06Ef flic.kr/p/2ret8W1 . The broad snout has a bifid tip 06Ef flic.kr/p/2ret8W1 with a longitudinal slit mouth ventrally. The ctenidium is reduced to three or four filaments and there is no penis on males (Fretter & Graham, 1962).
The foot is truncated at the anterior, its sides are nearly parallel and the posterior is bluntly rounded 07Ef flic.kr/p/2reuGKK & 08Ef flic.kr/p/2reuGKu . The opening of the anterior pedal mucous gland is in a dorsal depression set back from the anterior edge of the foot (Fretter & Graham, 1978). The translucent white sole may show the opaque white anterior and posterior pedal mucous glands. The opening to the posterior gland is about 50% of the length back from the anterior of the foot with a medial groove to its posterior 08Ef flic.kr/p/2reuGKu .
Key identification features
Eatonina fulgida
1) Adult spire of 4 whorls raised into a squat conoid, maximum height 1 mm. 02Fe flic.kr/p/2reufZQ .
2) Umbilicus a narrow chink or closed 05Fe flic.kr/p/2reuGJ2 .
3) Usually two large and one small brown bands on body whorl of adult. Entirely brown at 2-whorl, 0.5 mm growth stage 04Ef flic.kr/p/2reubo1 .
4)Opercular disc partly yellow 07Ef flic.kr/p/2reuGKK .
5) Cylindrical cephalic tentacles.
6) Bifid snout.
7) Lives among small algae such as Dictyota dichotoma and on silt at bottom of rock pools on lower shore.
Similar species
Rissoella diaphana Alder, 1848 09Ef flic.kr/p/2reuGJT & 10Ef flic.kr/p/2reufXk
1) Spire raised into tall conoid, maximum height 1.95 mm.
2) Small, narrow umbilical chink.
3) Shell colourless transparent when live, milky white when vacant. Shows colours of pale or black body within shell.
4) On pale specimens white opercular disc with brownish opercular lobes. Some have black flesh and disc.
5) Cylindrical cephalic tentacles taper slightly to blunt tips.
6) Snout deeply and widely bifid.
7) On fine green and red sea weeds in rock pools, sheltered sea lochs and lagoons at marine and brackish salinities.
Rissoella opalina (Jeffreys, 1848) 11Ef flic.kr/p/2reug11
1) Rounded globular shell, maximum height 2 mm.
2) Small umbilical chink.
3) Transparent yellowish brown shell shows yellowish or white, wide hypobranchial gland with U shaped end and brown or black dots on body.
5) Cephalic tentacles deeply and widely bifid.
6) Snout slightly bifid,
7) On fine green and red sea weeds in rock pools, sheltered sea lochs and lagoons at marine and brackish salinities.
Rissoella globularis (Forbes & Hanley, 1852). 12Ef flic.kr/p/2reoGfk
1) Globular shell, maximum height 1 mm.
2) Open round umbilicus.
3) Transparent white shell shows brown viscera.
5) Short cephalic tentacles not bifid.
6) Snout bifid.
7) On fine green and red sea weeds in rock pools. Most British records from W. Scotland.
Embryonic and early juveniles of Littorina saxatilis (Olivi, 1792)
Similar to early stages of E. fulgida 13Ef flic.kr/p/2reuGJh
1) Globular shell at 1 mm height and less.
2) No umbilicus.
3) Shell brown at 2-whorl, 1 mm growth stage and at smaller sizes.
5) Cylindrical cephalic tentacles.
6) Snout not bifid.
7) Usually on rock surfaces on upper shore.
Habits and ecology
E. fulgida lives among small algae such as Dictyota dichotoma and Corallina, and on silt at the bottom of rock pools at MTL and below, and sometimes sublittorally. It feeds on diatoms living on the algae, detritus caught on the algae and on algal fragments (Fretter & Graham, 1978).
Crawling is lubricated by mucus from the anterior pedal gland 06Ef flic.kr/p/2ret8W1 which opens in a dorsal depression set back from the anterior edge of the foot. It can crawl on the substrate or inverted under the surface film of pools. Movement among algae is with the aid of copious mucus from the posterior pedal gland which is shaped into a thread in the groove running back from the gland opening 08Ef . flic.kr/p/2reuGKu It hardens into a strong thread on contact with sea water. It can also be suspended from the surface film of pools and used to move between the surface and the bed of the pool.
Respiration is with a ctenidium of three or four filaments.
E. fulgida has separate sexes which breed in spring in Britain. Males lack a vas deferens and penis; the only outlet for sperm is an opening at the anterior of the prostate which reaches to the anterior of the mantle cavity (Fretter & Graham, 1962). How sperm is transferred into the female is open to conjecture. In April at Plymouth, ova are laid singly in small tough spherical capsules, diameter 0.32 mm, and attached by a small portion of the surface to small seaweeds, such as corallines (Lebour, 1936 & 1937). The veliger stage is passed within the capsule and crawling juveniles with dark brown shell, diameter 0.16 mm 13Ef flic.kr/p/2reuGJh , emerge about two weeks later (Fretter & Graham, 1962). Growth is rapid and breeding probably continues into the summer when maximum numbers occur. By August in southern England, populations may consist mainly of various sizes of young individuals with a few surviving worn, full-sized 1 mm adults 04Ef flic.kr/p/2reubo1 . Numbers decline to a minimum in winter. Those surviving are mainly immature adults which turn into full size, 1 mm, mature adults by March ready to breed 08Ef flic.kr/p/2reuGKu .
Distribution and status
E. fulgida is a southern species occurring from the Mediterranean GBIF map www.gbif.org/species/4360408 to its northern limit in Orkney, Scotland, but it is absent from the North Sea UK NBN map species.nbnatlas.org/species/NHMSYS0021055441#tab_map
Acknowledgements
For use of images I gratefully thank Marc and Florence Cochu.
Links and references
Forbes, E. & Hanley S. 1853. A history of the British mollusca and their shells. vol. 3 , London, van Voorst. (As Rissoa fulgida)
p. 128 (shell) archive.org/details/historyofbritish03forb/page/128/mode/...
p.169 (animal) archive.org/details/historyofbritish03forb/page/169/mode/...
Plate LXXXI figs. 1 & 2 in Vol 4. archive.org/details/historyofbritish04forbe/page/n478/mod...
Rissoella globularis as Jeffresia globularis Plate CXXXIII fig. 5 in Vol.4
archive.org/details/historyofbritish04forbe/page/n582/mod...
Fretter, V. and Graham, A. 1962. British prosobranch molluscs. London, Ray Society.
Fretter, V. and Graham, A. 1978. The prosobranch molluscs of Britain and Denmark. Part 4 – Marine Rissoacea. Suppl. 6, J. Moll. Stud.
Graham, A. 1988. Molluscs: prosobranch and pyramidellid gastropods. Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series) no.2 (Second edition). Leiden, E.J.Brill/Dr. W. Backhuys. pp.662.
Jeffreys, J.G. 1867.British conchology. vol. 4. London, van Voorst. archive.org/details/britishconcholog04jeffr/page/42/mode/... (p. 43 as Rissoa fulgida)
Lebour, M.V. 1936. Notes on the eggs and larvae of some Plymouth prosobranchs. J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K., 20 (3): 547-65. plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/889/1/Notes_on_the_eggs_and_larva...
Lebour, M.V. 1937. The eggs and larvae of the British prosobranchs with special reference to those living in the plankton. J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K., 22: 105 – 166. plymsea.ac.uk/953/
Wigham, G.D. & Graham, A. 2017. Marine gastropods 2: Littorinimorpha and other, unassigned, Caenogastropoda. Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series) no.61. (344 pages). Telford, England. Field Studies Council.
Glossary
aperture = mouth of gastropod shell; outlet for head and foot.
bifid = divided into two parts by a cleft.
cephalic = (adj.) of or on the head.
conoid = approximately conical in shape.
diatom = microscopic aquatic alga with siliceous cell-walls.
ctenidium = comb-like molluscan gill; usually an axis with a row of filaments either side.
helical = of a spire which turns in three dimensions like a spiral staircase.
mantle = sheet of tissue that secretes the shell and forms a cavity for the gill, genital and renal openings, anus etc. in most marine molluscs.
MTL = mean tide level.
mucous = (adj.) of mucus or its production.
mucus = (noun) slimy substance secreted by mucous glands for lubrication, protection, etc.
oligogyrous = (of a spiral) having few turns.
opercular = (adj.) of the operculum.
opercular disc = part of foot which operculum rests on and is attached to as it grows.
operculum = plate of horny conchiolin, rarely calcareous, used to close shell aperture.
osphradium = organ for testing water quality (chemical and/or for particles) usually near ctenidium (gill).
pallial = (adj.) of the mantle (=pallium).
pedal mucous gland = gland in foot secreting mucus to lubricate crawling, form mucous tethering lines etc.
periphery = (of snail shell) perimeter of body whorl at its widest point. Sometimes marked by a keel or coloured band.
peristome = rim round shell-aperture, mouth or other opening.
suture = groove or line where whorls of gastropod shell adjoin.
umbilicus = cavity up axis of some gastropods, open as a hole or chink on base of shell.
veliger = shelled larva of marine gastropod or bivalve mollusc which swims by beating cilia of a velum (bilobed flap). Stage may be passed in plankton or within liquid-filled egg-capsule.
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1. Better photo of my #lazysundayquilt #lazysundayqal #isewwithsewlux @maychappell finished at what ...1 am last night. Queen sized beauty, 2. HST Nordika, 3. Had to finish this quilt top to get it off my design wall. Ohhhh darn. It's been a fantastically quilty weekend. ♡♥♡♥, 4. There you have it my May/June A Lovely Year of Finish goal is complete #ALYoF Now I can schedule the longarm rental. No way am I taking this on with my home machine, 5. Ahhhh new ironing board cover. Material from my mother and fantastic tutorial from Randi from ihavetosay, 6. March ALYoF finish, 7. Sew Happy Quilt QAL progress - December 2012
Because of the doorway construction, the black plastic over the Apple logo was removed last. Here, a worker is removing little-by-little.
I'm using this mess of a photo because of the situation...
One of the trucks has just arrived back on Treasure Island from Burning Man.
The camera that took the picture is a very dusty iPhone.
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- I wrote to R-Evolution (maybe Julia) about the focus. when they explained, I decided to use the photo. it's perfect.
Why can't you suction up a liquid with two straws if one of the straws is outside the liquid? Our teen patrons learned why at How to Trick Your Friends and Hack Your Brain with Science program for teens ages 12-18 (July 24, 2014)
Dernière réalisation pour les challenges "comme un Lundi" (n°3): image vintage, encres, peinture, chiffre 3 et date du jour!
Un art journal qui commence à prendre forme...
Bon, je viens de m'en rendre compte: cette fois ci, j'ai oublié les coulures...Lol
Because a bank's exact need for liquidity is difficult to know in real time, depositors have incomplete information about its ability to survive a run. The incomplete information means that a bank is not automatically incentivized to hold enough liquid assets to survive runs. Regulations similar to those implemented recently can change the bank’s incentives so that runs are less likely.
At this Becker Brown Bag, Douglas Diamond of Chicago Booth discussed how these regulations can be improved.
Black LGBT No on 8 Protest in South Los Angeles 11-23-08 Photo Credit: Lydia Marcus
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JOIN BLACK LGBT OF LOS ANGELES
IN A PEACEFUL MARCH TO PROTEST
THE PASSAGE OF PROPOSITION 8!!!!
The protest began at 11am in Leimert Park, turned into a march at 11:30am that proceeded on the sidewalks along Crenshaw and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvds, then returned to Leimert Park to end. Approximately 200 people were at the protest - mostly from the Black community - with a few White, Asian, Latino, and other supporters. Reverend Freda Lanoix and others spoke to the protesters. She made a point of saying (and I'm paraphrasing) that although it's great to go protest in West Hollywood, it's was important for the Black community to make a stand in their own "hood" too. A nice touch during one of the speeches was that the speaker (sorry I don't know the name) asked that we think of someone who is no longer with us to come support us and walk alongside us at the march. Then she asked us to call out the names. I yelled out Vito Russo - who not only was a huge influence on me for writing the seminal gay film book "The Celluloid Closet" - but who was also a prominent gay activist during the original AIDS crisis as a member of ACT UP. The only Yes on 8 protesters were a Black man and woman who followed alongside the march route in a large RV that had a few Yes On 8 signs in the windows. They never spoke to the crowd, but honked a bunch of times as they passed. The honking didn't really make any sense to me because usually cars that honk as they pass the protesters are honking in support. The protest/march was completely peaceful and it was great to see the fight from the side of Black LGBT since the the Black community has been scapegoated for coming out to the polls and voting Yes on 8 in such large numbers. - Lydia Marcus
Because of the color difference the much larger darker bird appears closer in size in these photos. It is larger than the familiar common wild pigeons and unlike them, all members of the species wear the same suit.
It's nice to be given flowers for no other reason than 'just because'. Thanks to my lovely husband.
Hope you are all having a lovely Friday & have a great weekend too x
Another explore - thanks all x
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Placerville received its name because of placer mining in the vicinity. The ghost town is located 17 miles East of Horseshoe Bend. The townsite was selected December 1, 1862; and by December 16 there were 6 cabins in the camp. By the early summer of 1863, the town had 300 buildings and a population of 5,000. At the meeting of the first legislature held in Lewiston in 1863, the citizens obtained a charter for their city. Father Mesplie, a Catholic priest, held the first church service January 4, 1864, and in that same year a stage line was established between the Basin and Wallua to carry Wells Fargo express. It ran every other day from Placerville and went through in four days. By July 1864, 4500 claims had been recorded in the that district.