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Found this week in Poole - any help identifying the species of Crab this limb belongs to would be much appreciated and, more interestingly, the 'jelly' in the other photos. Could this be a Comb Jelly?
Hi TRW,
Yes it certainly looks like a comb jelly. You can just see a hint of the iridescence that these wonderful little jellies are known for. In water when alive, they they hover with lines of these iridescent cilia motoring them along like a little alien space craft! - truely worth looking for.
The crab leg is that of the edible crab, Cancer pagurus. The colour is an initial clue, coupled with the bristled nature of the leg, and the build of the leg in general. Definately from the edible crab.
Judging by the degree of wear showing on the tip of the claw - how rounded the tip is - this crab molted some time ago. Or maybe this is the old shed leg of a freshly molted crab.
It may not at first seem to be an interesting find, but take a good look at legs of the crab species we have around our shores and they can tell a lot about the species and lifestyles, Cancer pagurus is a heavily build bottom dwelling crab. Small specimens are easily found under rocks on the lower shore, whereas the bigger specimens are generally caught off-shore. They are at home on a rocky seabed, but can equally be found to be excavating large pits in silty sands looking for shellfish. Powerful crabs, these are the ones you see in the fish shops with the "pie-crust" edge to the shell - a big unmistakable crab. Thank you for posting the photo.
Thanks a lot Andy.
Re the Comb Jelly, if anyone else can help with a specific ID, I'd love to hear it ... or maybe 'Comb Jelly' is as specific as is possible just from a phoo - it was about an inch long
Comb jelly or Ctenophora is a big group, a Phylum (our Phylum includes mammals,birds,reptiles,amphibians,seasquirts), but NBN gateway at http://data.nbn.org.uk/speciesInfo/taxonomy.jsp?searchTerm=ctenophora&spKey=NHMSYS0000065974 lists (when you click the "lower taxa" plus box) just 3, the 2 common ones Pleurobrachia pileus (sea gooseberry) & Beroe Cucumis, & the occasional Bolinopsis infundbulum with a more complicated structure.So this is definitely Pleurobrachia pileus, eg http://www.ispot.org.uk/node/247819 , & live http://www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/species.asp?item=E50.
Thank you so much rhossilian, I'd not been able to tie this down

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List of Americans Abroad
Howard, Onyewu face off: Standard, Everton draw in UEFA Cup.
U.S. players have seen their numbers dwindle in English Premier League.
Beasley helps Rangers get off to good start.
Hahnemann's 10 saves stymie Man United, earn Reading 0-0 draw.
Adu negotiates with Benfica after MLS, Portugese power, agree to $2-million transfer fee.
Dalby North End romance ends with work permit denial.
Beasley reported to be near deal with Glasgow Rangers.
Bernardo's Italian training could benefit U.S. future.
Friedel, Rovers left to rue what should have been.
Onyewu is hopeful, but unsure of his Newcastle future.
Hahnemann is ranked No. 1 among Premier League goalkeepers.
Bocanegra hopeful Fulham can make late surge.
McBride's strong play makes him Fulham 'Player of the Month.'
Solid play earns Howard permanent spot, lucrative deal with Everton.
Keller clean sheet gives 'Gladbach 0-0 draw with Aachen.
Mönchengladbach used Keller shutout for rare victory.
Onyewu finally makes his move; he's loaned to Newcastle United.
Marseille must wait as Onyewu mulls Magpies offer.
Robles opts against MLS, signs with Kaiserslautern in Germany.
Onyewu move to Marseille is completed, Standard says.
Americans Abroad
(Thursday, October 2, 2008) -- Americans are generally seeing less action in Europe's top leagues, but United States attacker Freddy Adu received his first start for Monaco, which dropped a 1-0 decision September 24 to defending champion Paris St. Germain in the Coupe de France.
In a reserve-heavy lineup, Adu was teamed with 21-year-old Colombian Juan Pablo Pino on the Monaco front line.
Adu gave an account of his first start on his "100% Freddy" blog, appearing on Monaco's web site
"Because there were a lot of new guys playing, it took a little while for the team to settle in on the field," Adu wrote. "We started the game in a traditional 4-4-2 with Pablo Pino and I upfront. During the game, I think that I had some good touches and put in a good performance. I was able to show flashes of my speed and skill on a number of occasions.
"On one play in the first half, I was isolated on the left touch-line, just outside the box. I beat two defenders to the end-line and swung a dangerous ball into the penalty area. It was a great opportunity and the crowd roared. In the second half, I should have been in on goal twice but was whistled for offside. I was so close to my first goal, but it was not to be.
"We went down 1-0 and as the game went on, (Monaco coach) Ricardo (Gomes) made some changes to bolster our attack. I was substituted with just over 20 minutes to play to make way for Park Chu-Young. I would have loved to finish off the game and see if I could have brought the sides level, but I think the expression in France is, 'C'est la vie.' "
On Sunday, it was back to the bench for Adu, who came on in the 79th minute in Monaco's 2-0 setback to visiting Lille.
Ten minutes before Adi entered, Lille went ahead 1-0 on a goal by Yohan Cabaye, an advantage expanded by a tally by Ludovic Obraniak in the 87th minute.
Also in the Coupe de France, American goalkeeper Quentin Westberg got a rare start, but his second-division side Troyes fell 3-1 to FC Metz.
U.S. defender Carlos Bocanegra sat out reserve-heavy Rennes' advancement in the Cup, needing to win in a penalty-kicks tiebreaker after a 2-2 draw with Le Mans.
In France's Ligue 1, Bocanegra continued to lead the Rennes defense, most recently in the club's fourth clean sheet of the season, 1-0 over Nice.
In Belgium, U.S. central defender Oguchi Onyewu and Standard de Liège are riding high, taking over sole possession of first place in the Jupiler League and tonight advancing to the second round of the UEFA Cup.
Onyewu played 90 minutes for Standard, which defeated visiting Everton 2-1 for a 4-3 aggregate triumph in the UEFA Cup first-round series.
Standard won the game and series on Milan Jovanovic's penalty kick in the 79th minute. Alex Witsel put Standard ahead in the 22nd minute, but Phil Jagielka equalized for the Toffees in the 67th minute.
Onyewu's teammate with the U.S. men, keeper Tim Howard made five saves.
Standard took over sole possession of first place in the Jupiler League by downing second-place Anderlecht, 2-1. With Onyewu hoing the distance, Standard raised its mark to 5-0-1 with 16 points, three points ahead of Anderlecht (4-1-1).
In the German Bundesliga, it was back to the bench for U.S. midfielder Michael Bradley, who debuted for last-place Borussia Mönchengladbach September 20, playing 65 minutes in a 1-0 loss to Hertha Berlin.
Since then, Bradley did not play in two subsequent matches. In the DFB Pokal (German Cup) second round, Mönchengladbach went to Energie Cottbus and lost 3-0 with Cottbus oddly scoring all three matches on penalty kicks. On Saturday, 'Gladbach fell 1-0 at Hamburg SV.
Things went better for U.S. defender Steve Cherundolo. After missing a full month with a leg injury, he returned to his right-back spot and helped a fine defensive effort in Hannover 96's 1-0 upset of Bayern Munich.
U.S. defender Heath Pearce came on in the 82nd minute and helped kill off the match for Hansa Rostock, which defeated St. Pauli 3-0.
Young American-eligible defender Neven Subotic helped Borussia Dortmund defeat VfB Stuttgart 3-0.
Despite scoring three goals for Villarreal in an exhibition match three weeks ago, U.S. striker Jozy Altidore did not appear for the club in its last three league matches in a busy stretch for the Spanish Primera Division.
Altidore was on the bench when Villarreal defeated Numancia 2-1, but he did not dress for a 2-0 home victory over Racing Santander or Saturday's 1-0 triumph at Sporting Gijon.
In Scotland, U.S. midfielders DaMarcus Beasley and Maurice Edu did not suit up for Glasgow Rangers' 3-0 decision over host Hibernian.
In Norway's Tippeligaen, American keeper Troy Perkins had an exceptional night in goal, but it was for naught as Vålerenga fell 1-0 to visiting Viking.
Striker Vincenzo Bernardo, a member of the United States under-20 men's pool, has signed a three-year professional deal with Napoli of Italy's Serie A.
Currently with the Napoli reserve team, the 18-year-old New Jersey native saw his fortunes rise this fall after a strong performance in an exhibition against the club's first team a few weeks ago.
"Its a dream come true, I'm very thankful" Bernardo told SoccerTimes correspondent Chris Courtney, author of the blog Letters From Vagabondia.
Elsewhere in Italy, American midfielder Danny Szetela has become a stalwart for Brescia, which is 1-1-4 with seven points, tied for 12th in Serie B.
Robert Wagman is SoccerTimes senior correspondent. Gary Davidson is SoccerTimes publisher and managing editor.
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"And then you tell your mother about the block, the frustration, the ineptitude, the despair....You outline your problem, and you mention that the bear has a fifty-five-inch waist and a neck more than thirty inches around but could run nose-to-nose with Secretariat. You say the bear prefers to lie down and rest. The bear rests fourteen hours a day. And you go on like that as long as you can. And then you go back and delete the 'Dear Mother' and all whimpering and whining, and just keep the bear."
"For me, the hardest part comes first, getting something—anything—out in front of me. Sometimes in a nervous frenzy I just fling words as if I were flinging mud at a wall. Blurt out, heave out, babble out something —anything —as a first draft. With that you have achieved a sort of nucleus. Then, as you work it over and alter it, you begin to shape sentences that score higher with the ear and eye."
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The Week Ahead: Gujarat Polls, Infosys Moves to NYSE, Kochi Biennale
Monday, Dec. 10: Finance Ministry officials meet stakeholders to discuss how to lure more foreign investment in the capital markets.
PC Jeweller Ltd. will open its initial public offering for subscription today. The company plans to sell 45.13 million shares at between 125 rupees ($ 2.29) and 135 ($ 2.47) rupees apiece to raise 5.64 billion rupees to 6.09 billion rupees.
Tuesday, Dec. 11: Bharti Infratel Ltd., the telecom tower unit of Bharti Airtel will open its IPO for subscription today. The company hopes to raise as much as 45.3 billion rupees ($821 million). The subscription will close on Friday.
Wednesday, Dec. 12: The Kochi- Muziris Biennale, an international exhibition of contemporary art begins today in the southern Indian city of Kochi, Kerala.
Indian tech giantInfosys will switch its U.S. listing from the Nasdaq Stock Market to the New York Stock Exchange. Infosys will be replaced by Facebook in the Nasdaq-100 index.
Thursday, Dec. 13: Voting in Gujarat begins today. The election to the state assembly will be held in two phases. The second phase is on Dec. 17.
The fourth and the last test match between India and England begins today in Nagpur, in the state of Maharashtra.
Friday, Dec. 14: Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik is expected to visit India, following an invitation from his Indian counterpart, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde. On the agenda is an agreement that would loosen visa rules.
Members of tribal communities from the Philippines, Thailand and India will take part in the Mei-Ram-Ew Festival near the northeastern Indian city of Shillong. The festival, which ends Dec. 15, will showcase the culture and food of the indigenous people.
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Potential starter Wood has brush with adversity
By Eric Single / MLB.com
ATLANTA -- An off-day Thursday doomed Braves reliever Alex Wood to his most challenging appearance as a Major Leaguer in the seventh inning of Friday's 6-0 loss to the Giants. The rookie left-hander surrendered two earned runs and three walks after walking just one hitter in his first five big league appearances.
"I don't particularly walk people ever, much less three in a single inning, so it was definitely really out of the order to me," Wood said. "I feel like it never fails -- if we get rained out or have an off-day the day before I throw, I'm never quite as sharp. That definitely won't be happening again. I'm one of those people that has to come out and throw every day. It's just one of those things."
Wood gave up an RBI double to Buster Posey and walked three of the first five batters he faced in the seventh. Then with the bases loaded, he was called for a balk that brought Hunter Pence home from third as the final San Francisco run.
"I can't remember the last time I actually balked in a game, so it might as well have been in my fifth Major League appearance," Wood said. "I don't even think I balked in college. It might have had to be in high school, maybe."
Wood was more frustrated by the uncharacteristic walks and looked back on the balk as nothing more than a casual misstep. Wood said that his cleat stuck into the ground as he was coming into his set position, causing the brief pause that caught the umpire's eye.
"I'm sure any time they see a new guy out there, too, they're a little harder on the new guys than on [Paul Maholm] or [Tim Hudson]," Wood said. "It's just one of the things where you just got to put it in the past and move on."
Despite his rocky outing, Wood may have moved closer to returning to his natural role as a starter Friday with the news that Brandon Beachy would be scratched from his expected return from Tommy John elbow reconstruction surgery during next Tuesday's doubleheader against the Mets.
While the Braves have not specifically named any potential replacements for Beachy and won't until after the San Francisco series, Wood would appear to be one of the less complicated candidates to get the start in Beachy's place. Wood spent his entire amateur and Minor League career as a starter before he was called up May 30 to help restock a depleted Braves bullpen.
"It's obviously a little different where it's been a couple weeks now since I started, but it's one of those things where it's probably easier for me to go out there and start than it is for me to go back-to-back days and stuff like that at this point because I'm starting to get used to it," Wood said.
The Braves will make a decision on who will start Tuesday's doubleheader against New York along with Maholm after Sunday night's game.
"For a long guy, you can still probably get three or four innings, five innings out of him if we had to," manager Fredi Gonzalez said of Wood. "I'm kind of open. We're seeing how we get through these next couple of days and see how our options are."
No timetable for Beachy after delayed return
ATLANTA -- That Brandon Beachy suffered a minor setback in his recovery from Tommy John surgery was far from surprising. It was the timing of that setback -- less than a week before Beachy was set to return to the rotation -- that frustrated the Braves right-hander, who was called a "perfectionist" multiple times by Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez in his discussion of the recovery process.
"Not worried about it at all, it's just unfortunate the timing of it," Beachy said after Saturday night's 6-5 win over the Giants. "I wish it would've happened three weeks ago instead of right now."
Gonzalez listed off the Atlanta pitchers who had navigated their share of bumps in the road in recovering from Tommy John surgery before Saturday's game to give some perspective on Beachy's latest obstacle. That list included fellow starters Tim Hudson and Kris Medlen as well as reliever Jonny Venters, who has undergone the procedure twice in his career.
"[A setback] happens more than pitching on your 12-month anniversary of your Tommy John," Gonzalez said.
Both Beachy and Gonzalez said the Braves had not yet established a new timetable for the right-hander's return. It all depends on how the extra fluid in his elbow clears out over the coming days and weeks, but Beachy was encouraged when the MRI performed on his elbow Saturday morning revealed no structural damage.
"Structurally everything's good," Beachy said. "It's just some inflammation, extra fluid in there, and we're just going to give it some rest. It'll clear out."
"The last time I spoke to Beach and Bubba [head athletic trainer Jeff Porter], we were just going to back off a little bit and let that thing calm down and then restart," Gonzalez said before Saturday's game. "They didn't give me a timeframe, how many days or anything like that. They're just going to kind of let it cool down or settle a little bit before you do anything."
Beachy threw 69 pitches over just three innings and struggled with his control in his final rehab start with Triple-A Gwinnett before complaining of the elbow tenderness that led the Braves to scratch him from his Tuesday start.
"No timetable, we'll just see," Beachy said. "As soon as we get it out of there, I'll start throwing again."
Eric Single is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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New York - Investors are stepping back after a strong week on major US indexes.
The Dow Jones industrial average is down 27 points at 13,964.30
shortly after the opening bell Monday.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index slipped 1.3 points to 1,516.60 and the Nasdaq composite is down 0.9 points to 3,193.
With little in the way of indicators in the US and a light earnings schedule Monday, Europe is weighing on markets.
Greece's farmers launched a campaign of daily anti-austerity highway blockades Monday, as the conservative-led government insisted deep spending cuts are working.
European Union Central Bank President Mario Draghi says that if the euro continues to rise, the trading bloc's monetary policy could shift.
That could be damaging to US exporters. - Sapa-AP


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If we can resist the impluse to turn this into a political debate and leave that for the appropriate forum, that would be most appreciated. That thread will probably devolve into the usual sides with the appropriate vitriol infused. Lets try to stop this from doing the same.
This is a horrible reminder what kind of evil sh!t exists in this world. Every time I hear this type of news, I lose a bit of hope for humanity...good people can't even even enjoy a movie. The thought that 14 lost there lives and young children are among the injured or killed is disgusting. Unreal!! Imagine, some people are now waking up and finding out they lost a loved one..Nuts!!
CNN reporting that the killer's name is James Holmes. 1 shotgun, 2 handguns, 1 "AK-type" rifle, smoke grenades. FOX reporting killer has no military background.
My guess is the "AK-type" rifle was modified to make it fully-automatic. I do not think you can purchase it as a fully automatic. Maybe someone with more knowledge of gun can enlighten us.
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watch this azzhole try to justify himself in some way by saying he was "inspired" by the Batman villains.
Death would be too much of an easy way out for this piece of trash
It's times like this when I question whether we should allow "cruel and unusual" punishment.
Terrible for the victims and their families.
I'm of the mindset where I want citizens to be licensed to own guns (hand or rifles) in any state. What I tried to communicate is that I want some sort of significant punishment for those who sell guns/explosives illegally (don't know if this is the case here). Also, although I agree that a citizen should be able to legally own a gun, I am not in favor of a person being allowed to stockpile weapons and ammunition.
EDIT: Sorry, crash. Saw your comment after I posted this. I'm out of the discussion.
It's the nut behind the bolt.
Not that it matters b.c it doesn't or that anyone feels sorry for movie studios but this probably has cost the studio millions. I imagine people will be scared to go out and see it this weekend. It is sad b.c when we live in fear, these lunatics win.
one of the most @#$@ed up parts of this story is that the mom said she wasn't surprised at all that it was her son who did the shooting. While no one called her to wake her up during the night, when she saw her son's name on the news report, she called in to the police to tell them that "you have the right person".....if the mother wasn't surprised at all, that means she had a damn good feeling that this sort of thing might actually happen...shouldn't she have told someone, anyone, about the possibility of this happening....maybe have gotten her son some psychiatric help?
Have they figured out how society has wronged this ahole that made him feel he had the right to kill innocent people in a theater?
We are lucky here in America. I am not trying to make light of this situation but this tragedy is commonplace in other parts of the world. We hear about something like this happening and we are all shocked, but some people have to live with this sort of stuff every day.
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Chinese artist Xu Bing explores China's growth in Mass MoCA exhibit
NORTH ADAMS -- From the tons of construction debris hanging in 100-foot-long, bird-like shapes at Mass MoCA, it is a reach to think of their creator, Xu Bing, as a printmaker.
But calligraphy was Xu's calling and the art form on which he built his reputation in his native China before coming to the United States in 1989, where he taught, worked and won a MacArthur Foundation "genius" fellowship in 1999 for his "capacity to contribute importantly to society, particularly in printmaking and calligraphy."
It was when Xu, now 57, returned to Beijing in 2007 to head the Central Academy of Fine Art that his art took this particular turn. Where he had previously focused largely on language and its manipulation, he now addressed a rapidly changing environment and its social costs.
"China today and the China I left are very different," he said through a translator in an email interview. "So 'Phoenix Project' comes from this different place. I often say that wherever you live, you will confront the problems you find there. When you have problems, you have art."
His "Phoenix Project," commissioned in 2007 and exhibited at two venues in China before coming to Mass MoCA, where it opens to the public on Wednesday, is a metaphor for the urban renewal symbolic of China's economic growth, but one, he says, that comes at human cost.
Made from tons of debris left by the construction of new Chinese office towers, it was delayed two weeks in shipment to the United States, forcing postponement of was to be a Saturday opening.
Besides a pair of mythical phoenix sculptures, the new exhibition will include other signature works from Xu's career including "1st Class," a faux tiger skin made of 500,000 cigarettes, and "Background Story," a lightbox designed to look like a traditional scroll painting, but created from shadows cast by debris.
All of them speak to Xu's practice of
rethinking the ways humans communicate and connect in order to find new ways of understanding culture and history.
While 'The Phoenix Project' talks about "the problems that are exposed by the high speed-process of modernization and urbanization in China," he said. "It's really talking about the connection between labor and capital."
It touches, he said, "on the connection between the accumulation of wealth in China today and the lives of migrant workers, who come to the cities from the countryside. It's dealing with what lies behind the luxuries of urbanization."
Xu chose the image of a bird, he said, because the sculpture was originally to be placed in a glass atrium between two Beijing skyscrapers.
"The atrium looked to me like a cage," he said. "And I had drawn this image of a bird in a cage many, many years ago. Trying to fly out of the cage with a branch in its mouth to make a nest with as if the cage was not there. It [is a] very sad image. So I thought of that image when I saw the atrium. I thought of this image of flight and decided to make Phoenix.
"The phoenix has many implications in China," he explained. While Western tradition connects it to ideas of rebirth and renewal, in China, Xu said, "it primarily represents the unrealizable aspirations of the people."
He said he intended the work "to touch on the connection between the accumulation of wealth in China today and the lives of migrant workers, who come to the cities from the countryside."
None of the debris used to make the sculptures came from old buildings being demolished, he said. "It is the trash and excrement from the creation of these new buildings. It's dealing with what lies behind the luxuries of urbanization."
Mass MoCA director Joe Thompson, who curated the show, said Xu's work, like that of other major contemporary Chinese artists commissioned to create works at Mass MoCA, has "a combination of narrative power and theatrical strength."
He mentioned specifically Cai Guo Qiang's "Inopportune" of 2005 and Huang Yong Ping's House of Oracles" in 2006-07.
"They have very direct images that translate remarkably well given all the issues you think there'd be between culture and time and distance and language," he said. "I think all these artists have a talent for communicating big bold ideas directly in tough materials."
While the phoenixes, when shown in Beijing's new downtown, "acted as a foil," Xu said, "to the splendor of these buildings," at Mass MoCA they will have an entirely different context.
"Mass MoCA is a center for imperial American art," Xu said, "not art that is politically imperialistic, but work that, through its scale and power, has this dominant quality.
"A work like 'Phoenix' can only emerge from today's China because China has a certain kind of power today. And there is an odd tension between America's industrial or economic power and China's power when this work is displayed here.
"It's fascinating," he said, "when something that embodies the power of Chinese people, of Chinese peasants, of what is seen as the lowest level of China, of Chinese power more broadly, is brought into a place representing another kind of power that it is completely unrelated to."
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A team of health visitors will be at a Balby supermarket on June 14 to promote the antenatal services they offer to Doncaster parents.
The health visitors, who work for Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust, will be with the Health Bus outside Tesco from 9.30am until 11.30am.
One of the organisers, health visitor Sarah Green, said: "We offer a range of help and advice not only on the health and well-being of the baby but also advice to mums and dads too."
Health visitors can also support residents as they prepare for parenthood. All parents are welcome to attend.