Sylkat, that means I get paid the lowest rate of benefits for mobility paid by the disability living allowance. And I should be entitled to free bus travel all over the country, but haven't secured that yet and still pay full-price like a "mug" as we might say over here.
Shrox, I'm afraid I'm at a loss as to what you mean by wad up. My intuition says it's something to do with water though.. Am I close?
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 5:15 pm Post subject:
Fudo wrote:
Sylkat, that means I get paid the lowest rate of benefits for mobility paid by the disability living allowance. And I should be entitled to free bus travel all over the country, but haven't secured that yet and still pay full-price like a "mug" as we might say over here.
Shrox, I'm afraid I'm at a loss as to what you mean by wad up. My intuition says it's something to do with water though.. Am I close?
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 6:09 pm Post subject:
Plesiosaurs gave birth to live young, as opposed to laying eggs, which is rare among reptiles.
This was proven by a well preserved specimen of Polycotylus, meaning, "much cupped vertebrae" due to the shape of it's vertebrae, and it lived in the late Cretaceous period. The specimen was found with a single foetus inside it, about 40% of it's size. It was found in the 1980s but only described in 2011. Gestation is believed to be about 2/3rds complete, based on findings from Nothosaurs, a relation to Plesiosaurs.
Until this discovery, many Palaeontologists believed that the Plesiosaurs would have laid their eggs on land, like a turtle, at least the smaller Plesiosaurs such as Cryptoclidus. There was debate on how the larger Plesiosaurs would have reproduced as they were too cumbersome and sluggish to risk dry land. They were simply not built for time spent on land. And the same goes for the smaller members of the Plesiosaur family.
Because Plesiosaurs gave birth to a single offspring at a time (at least in most cases) they would have undoubtedly have provided parental care for their child in order for it to reach maturity and survive and reproduce. Therefore Palaeontologists and biologists have suggested that Plesiosaurs' social lives and structures were much more similar to Dolphins and Whales than to other reptiles.
Icthyosaurs also gave birth to live young, as proven by a specimen of Opthalmosaurus, which had died during labour, and was preserved along with it's baby. _________________ THINGS I LIKE
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Parasaurolophuscolobus. Parasaurcolobus. Colobusaurolophus.
....And Nunchucks are my friends.
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 6:25 pm Post subject:
Goddess Tarot
Temptation; Associated with The Devil in a traditional deck
Meaning: Tempted by forces one cannot control. Something deep and dark within the psyche is personified as temptation or addiction. Envy, sensual desires, gluttony. Experiencing the envy of others. Feeling a lack of control. The need to be controlling.
Reversed: Freedom from temptation. Mastery over something previously controlling-a habit, a person or a wound from the past. Transforming a weakness into a strength. The acceptance of one's darker or shadow self.
It's interesting to me, anyway, for many reasons. Both upright and reversed. _________________ Do you bury me when I'm gone?
Do you teach me while I'm here?
Just as soon as I belong
Then it's time I disappear
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 8:12 pm Post subject:
TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
Goddess Tarot
Temptation; Associated with The Devil in a traditional deck
Meaning: Tempted by forces one cannot control. Something deep and dark within the psyche is personified as temptation or addiction. Envy, sensual desires, gluttony. Experiencing the envy of others. Feeling a lack of control. The need to be controlling.
Reversed: Freedom from temptation. Mastery over something previously controlling-a habit, a person or a wound from the past. Transforming a weakness into a strength. The acceptance of one's darker or shadow self.
It's interesting to me, anyway, for many reasons. Both upright and reversed.
Geez! At first I thought the bottom text said "May the lord kill U"!
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 8:41 pm Post subject:
shrox wrote:
TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
Goddess Tarot
Temptation; Associated with The Devil in a traditional deck
Meaning: Tempted by forces one cannot control. Something deep and dark within the psyche is personified as temptation or addiction. Envy, sensual desires, gluttony. Experiencing the envy of others. Feeling a lack of control. The need to be controlling.
Reversed: Freedom from temptation. Mastery over something previously controlling-a habit, a person or a wound from the past. Transforming a weakness into a strength. The acceptance of one's darker or shadow self.
It's interesting to me, anyway, for many reasons. Both upright and reversed.
Geez! At first I thought the bottom text said "May the lord kill U"!
Haha! That's the name of the goddess this card represents.
Nyai Loro Kidul, a seductive mermaid goddess, is associated with Temptation. She Symbolizes the mysterious hidden forces of the ocean-forces whose powers must be respected. In Java, where Nyai Loro Kidul is still honored, many know better than to swim in the waters where she rules. It is believed that she searches there for mortals to serve in her undersea realm. To appease the goddess, people leave offerings of coconuts, clothes and even fingernail clippings by the oceans's edge-all of which are eagerly accepted by the green sea's swirling waters.
Nyai Loro Kidul's elusive powers reflect the temptation of illusion, of beauties which enslaves rather than enrich, of uncontrollable desires and passions. Every one has a dark side within themselves that can turn them from their highest purpose, what Jung would call the shadow. Many of us ignore our shadows, hoping it will simply go away. Instead we may find our shadow appearing where we least expect it: in the form of a person who bothers us, an addiction that enslaves us, a darkness we will not own. The appearance of this card invites us to own our weaknesses-and grow stronger despite them. _________________ Do you bury me when I'm gone?
Do you teach me while I'm here?
Just as soon as I belong
Then it's time I disappear
Yay thanks guys & gals for sharing more of the good stuff. Keep it up and one day we'll get a sticky thread... If people can tear themselves away from talking about cats for long enough to notice jk
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 1:15 pm Post subject:
Dear Rabbitears, If Polycotylus and her baby were the sizes they said, then a woman weighting 100 pounds would be carrying-gestating a baby weighing 40 pounds...that's not counting the water/amniotic fluid or afterbirth!!
AAAAGH!
No wonder she died!
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 2:39 pm Post subject:
That had me wondering too.... But I suppose we are very different animals to them, and their babies would have been a lot more developed than human babies, they had to be in order to be able to swim and evade predators. It must be a lot trickier to grow up in the sea than it is on land, in a lot of ways at least.
Also humans have a terribly inefficient birthing / reproductive system. _________________ THINGS I LIKE
Parasaurolophus, Plesiosaurs, Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs, Music, Tuna, Chocolate milk, Oreos, Blue things
Parasaurolophuscolobus. Parasaurcolobus. Colobusaurolophus.
....And Nunchucks are my friends.
Reminds me of that episode with the, I think it was frog spawn that are born bigger than the actual frog and then shrink a bit. Can't post videos to wp atm though, so even if I found it I couldn't share it lol
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Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:12 am Post subject:
Fudo wrote:
Not sure.. I'm so darn "special" I just answer the questions. Someone else fills it out.
I am currently on income support (with the severe disablement premium ) and DLA middle rate care and low rate for mobility.. So whatever one applies to those benefits.
Sorry I couldn't be clearer..
That's alright, the whole system seems a mess, I don't think anyone really understands it. It could be ESA as I think they are trying to condense a lot of the benefits, supposedly making it simpler.
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It could be ESA as I think they are trying to condense a lot of the benefits, supposedly making it simpler.
