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Character type: Dragonrider
Rank: Wingrider
Age: 28
Gender: Female
Sexual Preference: Bisexual
Sorley is often mistaken for a teenage boy at first sight, but after a closer look its quite clear that there's a ton of femininity to this woman. She keeps her black hair to a short crop thats taken in quite close on the sides and left a little longer on top, enough to have a short fringe of uneven bangs that hang just into her eyes. She has delicate, angular features a cute button nose and slightly tilted grey eyes that always seem to have residual eye shading around them.
Sorley isn't a tall women, only about 5'5 and she puts off an air of being stronger than she actually is. She's quick and agile yes, and she will tough through wing excercises, but she doesn't have the brute strength for things like a ton of pushups or throwing around firestone for hours. She can do the normal routine and be a little sore for it, but anything overtly strenuous will kick her ass. However she's limber as hell and can sprint circles around alot of folk.
If her tattoos are anything to judge by, though, she's not a woman who's too afraid of pain. Her right arm is a solid collection of intricate and heavily shaded designs, a thing that took her several turns to get finished and hurt like nothing else. She has a second, smaller piece, a cliche bit of work that depicts a dragon in flight on the left side of her lower back. But really, if someone's into that sort of thing and impresses then, duh, they should have a dragon put on them.
Sorley is one of those snotty hot shots that is infuriatingly good at what she does. Riding fits her like a glove and she knows it and sure isn't afraid to let everyone else know it. She's as bad as any conceited bronzerider and, frustratingly, she has the record to back it up. Well, at least performance-wise, her behavioral record isn't as shining. She breezed through weyrling training, graduated at the top of the class and even managed to pull out a daring rescue of a wingmate during the First Fall. No one can fault her performance, even though her attitude leaves much to be desired.
This is a woman who doesn't have an understanding of pain and suffering. She's never lacked for anything, had to go hungry (or even eat anything of questionable quality), been given hand-me-down clothes or had to deal with being told no. To her, she's untouchable and this feeling of invincibility only makes her even more unbearable. It also makes her completely insensitive to people who have been through hardship; life has been so easy for her and she doesn't get that it isn't the same for everyone. To her people tend to just be whiners and it can't really be *that* bad. Truly, starving can't be all *that* terrible, right?
Obnoxious, arrogant, selfish and spoiled. Sorley might have been a prim and proper little Holder girl at one point, but she's far from that now. Everything that she could never do or be has come out in excess. She drinks, she cusses, she jumps in the furs with anyone who's a little pretty or willing (and then makes sure she goes between a whole lot to avoid any unwanted accidents). All the behaviors that were suppressed up until she moved to the Weyr are everything she's throwing herself into with a great amount of enthusiasm.
Not that this is to be confused with joy. These things make her content to an extent and at least on the outside she seems pretty pleased with life, but she's not exactly happy. She's not totally lost in the grief the had encompassed her whole being, but it hasn't completely let her go either. It shows when you would expect it, after she's had a bad day or is letting stress get to her, when she drinks too much, and then it likes to broadside her unexpectedly. In the middle of drills, for example. Most days its fine, some days she hides up in her Weyr with a bottle of strong spirits which usually only makes it worse until it puts her out for the night.
She still misses Gravinor, probably always will, and the haunting memory of him keeps her far away from being interested in finding love again. Even if she were, the crippling fear of losing another lover doesn't let her get too close. She'll sleep around, even make some friends but anyone she threatens to get too attached to get dropped like a sack of garbage.
Birthplace : Unnamed Hold, 8.423.9.13
Sorley came from a very wealthy family. Her great-grandfather had gained control of a small mine that had a high yield of precious stones and turned it into a great deal of marks. Aside from being able to sell the raw stones, he hired smiths to turn out finished gems as well as a couple who could piece together what came to be some very highly sought after bits of work. Jewelry, knives… all things fancy that catered to the higher society of Pern. By the time Sorley's father took charge the holding was worth a pretty mark indeed.
Her parents doted on her and her siblings, although with only two girls out of seven children, their daughters took the majority of the cosseting. That also meant they got the full force of their very protective parents and siblings. Her parents were always very hidebound, nearly backwards in their thinking. They were a higher class than the rest, driven by strict rules of propriety. Faranth forbid one of their pretty little daughters utter a dirty word or have wrong thoughts about a boy before they were married to them. They were especially horrified by the degraded lifestyle of the Weyrs. After all, who knew what they were getting up to while they were busy not fighting thread. This was environment Sorley grew up in, and it wasn't so terrible. She wasn't fond of the oppressiveness, but she tolerated, especially when she realized the boy she'd been madly in love with for as long as she could remember was her arranged husband.
Not many got that sort of luck; she'd heard stories of girls being wed off to the most horrible of men. But Gravinor, one of her father's miners, he was something else and he actually loved her right back. They spent all of their time together, dreamed of their future. Sorley was even open to talking about children to him, something she never thought she would be open to.
They even talked crazy fantasies about running away to a Weyr and impressing dragons. This was mostly in joking, though Sorley had a curiosity about the place her parents hated so. It wasn't enough to accept the search token that was offered her when she was seventeen, though. She had a happy, easy life ahead of her with Gravinor, she didn't need some big flying beast or immoral people as intriguing as they might be.
They were married when Sorley was twenty and she bore him a child two turns later. Sorley was never a fan of children, but Gravinor loved their daughter enough for both of them. They had another turn together before Gravinor was killed in a mining accident.
It was as if Sorley's world had ended. The joy had been sucked out of life and she lost all will to be in it any further. It was the arrival of another search dragon to their hold that brought any liveliness to Sorley. Thread was coming, they said. They needed soldiers to fight it, they said. You'd be good for a dragon, they said.
Whatever, she said and decided to go. She wanted to die, well at least she could do it seeing a place she'd had interest in, riding a dragon. Or something. Her parents were furious, but there was little they could, especially when they saw that their precious child was showing signs of at least attempting to recover. And really, someone of such high standing was better than impressing a dragon so chances were she would get over this little thing of hers and come home after the hatching.
Except little blue Kasheth had other plans. He claimed Sorley and the girl was thrown into the world of being a rider. Weyrlife was a whole other world and having Kasheth did wonders to begin helping Sorley heal. It gave her something to live for at least and after a short time they realized that they were bloody *awesome* at their new role.
Graduation came and went, turning out a whole different person than the girl that went in. Sorley and Kasheth flew brilliantly, showing up their wingmates regularly and winning a fair few of inter-wing races and competitions. Thread started falling and far from the many that were traumatized by the awful experience, Sorley was stoked. Not only had they gotten away unscathed, her and Kasheth had managed to save one of their wingmates from plummeting to his death.
And when the call from Ista came she was happy to sign up to go. A tropical paradise full of poor buggers for her to show off to? Awesome. Besides, she'd already slept with most of the people who were of any interest at Telgar, it was time for a change.
Unnamed Daughter
Husband: Gravinor
Sorley's Dragon: Blue Kasheth
Colour: Blue
Age: 5
Weyr of Origin: Telgar
Wing: Red Tide
Kasheth possibly the smallest male in the Weyr, and he carries himself in a way that shows he knows it, but is not satisfied with it. He stalks through life with his hackles up, glaring down anyone who gets in his way. Though little, he's a very strong creature who will happily spend time working hard to get stronger. He doesn't have the size to compete, so he'll have the muscles to make up for it.
There isn't much to make him stand out; he's a dull greyish-blue that doesn't have much shine to it and this clearly bothers him as well. So his answer? Gleaming decoration! He's a bit of a hoarder of shiny things and he'll happily show it all off; he wants everyone to know he's got a thoroughly impressive stash. There's plenty he can wear around the Weyr, showing off, even his fighting straps have a bit of bling sewn into them (though these are inexpensive bits of glass, just in case something gets on them). There are some great benefits to having a rider that comes from a wealthy family after all.
Kasheth is a tough as nails blue that doesn't have the ability to back down from anything. He doesn't have an option, either you win or you die and this is the the way he views everything. He came from a huge clutch of overly dominant dragons and, being the smallest male of the bunch, he had to fight to get anywhere. He clawed his way to the top of the food chain, earning (or forcing) respect from his peers, even some of the bronzes. Though small, he's strong and has the grit to back up his muscles. This dirty determination to get it done is what makes him a good threadfighter. He doesn't love it, but its a necessary war that he fights because that's his job, and he has the pride to do it well.
He's a rough guy who's usually on the defense. Because he was so used to being stepped on, pushed around as a hatchling and always having to fight for everything that he's always ready to take on whatever needs to be taken on. Underneath the swagger and tough talk there's a big heart. He struggles to express himself and has a only a very basic understanding of emotions, but he will occasionally fumble his way around them when necessary.
Truthfully though, Kasheth would love to teach. He was never the most clever of the class; when it came to learning flight patterns or how thread fell, he struggled. He may have dominated physically, but it took longer for him to pick up the rest. Now that he knows it though and continues expand his understanding, he finds he loves it and would be happiest passing the knowledge on. And maybe there's a part of him that loves the idea of being put in charge and showing that he's better than the little underdog he was once.
His rider can be a struggle for him sometimes. Of course he loves her dearly and they are one hell of a fighting team, but sometimes he just doesn't know what to do with her. The things she feels can be overwhelming and completely beyond his ability to deal with. It worries him and makes him angry when she loses herself in sadness, or drinks herself into oblivion and there's frequent battles between the two over these issues. Despite this, he's aggressively proud of his rider and nobody better say a thing against her.


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So what is the reason that this museum was opened for? When the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum was constructed it was already understood that not all the archeological items that were discovered and collected around the world could be housed there. This is why back in 1907, the decision was made to built another building to house the rest of the collection by Wilhelm von Bode, the Kaiser Museum curator.
More than a million visitors come to the museum each year. This museum today is considered a world heritage site, especially for its unique architecture and the unique collections it possesses.
What to See at the MuseumAt the museum anyone can see a few amazing historical exhibits; the Pergamon altar, a marble altar built in the 2nd century BC, in the Greek city of Pergamon, and remained almost intact. Also on display are 113 meters of the Frieze altar. The market gate from Miletus from the Roman period, the Ishtar Gate which was the eighth entrance to the city of Babylon, the façade of the Shata Palace, and a milk room directly from the milk room in Syria. Visitors can also admire the other exhibits from Near Eastern cultures such as Babylon, Assyria, and other great empires of the ancient world.
More at the museum is the fascinating Islamic Museum. The Islamic Museum used to sit at the entrance to the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, but was moved here. Among the displays is the façade of the Palace of Shata, today located South of Amman in Jordan. This frontal façade was given as a gift from the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II to the Kaiser Wilhelm II
There is also an ancient collection of statues from marble and bronze at the museum, and architectural elements from ancient Greece and Rome such as mosaics and jewelry.
Pergamon Museum during World War IIDuring World War II the building of the museum was badly destroyed. This is also the reason that many of the artifacts were stored ahead of time in a shelter for their protection. Full models were covered by a protective layer. Until today one can see damage to the building from the war on its North side.
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Closing the Loop' – Circular Economy Revolution Film Screening
March 5, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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They called us geeks, dorks, dweebs, and other such derogatory type names in hopes to make us feel inferior. But seems the joke is indeed on them! We have invaded the mainstream media, we help control you're TV, your entertainment, your reading habits and such. We're spreading across the global more rapidly with each passing year.
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'Limited' was created as part of a competition between a group of designers, where we all took the stock photo of the basketballer and created whatever we wanted. There was a time restriction of one week, and at that point we'd all present our designs.
My direction was to have the basketballler launching at the hoop for a slam dunk. Contraints are holding him back from doing so such as gravity, the opposition, skillset – everything is trying to force him not to. But, with will and the desire of the basketballer, he forces himself to make the dunk.
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Nomura Securities Co., Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc., today announced that it has priced a twenty-year Green Bond[1] issue valued at 10 billion yen for the Japan Housing Finance Agency (JHF).The JHF Green Bond is the first green bond in Japan aimed at mortgage loans for energy-efficient houses.
Nomura acted as bookrunner for the offering.
JHF supports the stable provision of fixed-rate housing loans to help improve the living standards of people in Japan. JHF's products include Flat 35S, a mortgage loan which offers lower interest rates on energy-efficient and earthquake-resistant homes over a certain period of time.
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A stock option is just an option to buy a specific number of share of stock at a future date. A vesting option is basically a spin on that. Where the two get similar, though, is when a company is issuing the options to its employees.
A vesting option is when an employee gains rights to stocks provided by the employer over time. So, for example, an employer would earn 100 shares of stock today. They would then be vested, so he would gain access to the shares over time according to a set out schedule. Something like 20 shares after one year 20 more after the second year and then the remaining 60 after the third year. These are used for things like retirement funds and it allows the employer to give the employee an incentive to stay with the company. Further, the idea is that all 100 stocks will be issued to the employee at the current stock price as of when they were vested (in our example, the price as of today). So, the employee also has an incentive to work hard to raise the stock price over the next few years so that he can sell his shares, when he receives them, for a profit.
An employee stock option is basically the same as a vesting option. The only difference is that an employee stock option is just that, an option. It does not create an obligation on the behalf of the employee, he does not have to purchase the stocks in the future. [more on stock options here – I Am Applying to Startups. How Should I Be Thinking About the Stock Options?]
I hope this answers your question. But, if you are still confused and feel you want to consult with someone who can walk you through your problem, check out LawTrades for a free consultation with an experienced startup attorney.


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This was a typical example of a well used pipe. The rim had a chip taken out from repeated tapping it on a hard surface. Thick lava covered the rest of the rim and the rock hard cake was very thick. The main challenge was the original stem had a fingernail size broken off at the bit. The opening was so large, exposing the entire airway, it had me wanting to try my hand at replacing a whole section instead of my usual patching holes and rebuilding bits.
I found a damaged donor stem and took a pic side by side, feeling like Dr. Frankenstein.
I used a cutting wheel on my dremel and cut out a section pretty close to what I needed. Here it is upside down so you can see the funnel area.
A little filing and it fit the area, I wanted the edge of the bit to line up on the stem side, not worrying about it protruding on the other side.
I put a pipe cleaner wrapped in clear tape in the airway, charcoal and black CA glue to seal it in.
After drying, I filed and sanded and touched up the button end and some micro bubbles that always seem to pop up. More sanding and buffing and it has a smooth mirror shine. But against the light you can see the repaired area. I went back already and reworked some of the areas but I'm still not happy with the result.
The rest of the restoration was a light bowl topping, sanding, restain and buff. There were a few putty fills I replaced with clear CA glue and Briar chips. There is a large leaf shaped lighter area on the front of the bowl.
I broke the first rule of stem repair in my concentrating on my method of repair. MAKE SURE THE BEND IS CORRECT before doing all the glueing, filing, sanding and buffing. I was working on the pipe separately and didn't notice my mistake until I assembled the pipe for buffing! Somehow the stem had straightened out way too much!
Too much heat from the heat gun will also soften the CA glue areas and destroy all your efforts at repair! I avoided that by wrapping a damp paper towel on the bit end to lessen the heat damage. With a pipe cleaner inserted, I was able to put the proper bend in the stem with no further damage to the repair area.
I'm done for now but I might come back and tweak the bend of the stem just a bit and rework the repaired area AGAIN. Thanks for looking, hope you enjoyed my repair approach.


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When Seattle-based online real estate giants Zillow Group and Redfin jumped into directly buying and selling homes to the consumer, the real estate market was blazing hot. Now things are starting to slow down — a trend foreshadowed by Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman — at a time when both companies have ramped up their commitment to these new programs.
UPDATE: Zillow Group shares dip 20% after Q3 earnings
Zillow and Redfin will give updates on their home sales businesses this week as part of their quarterly financials. While Redfin has been buying and selling homes for more than a year, this will be the first time we see numbers from Zillow's program, which just kicked off in April and hadn't completed any sales in the previous quarter.
Both companies are hoping that buying and selling homes directly can open up a new revenue stream and simplify the often vexing sales process. But the move is a risky bet against the backdrop of a national housing market that is starting to shift as more houses hit the market and buyers frustrated by sky-high prices are sitting out.
"Buyers have just said 'enough is enough. I am not going to pay those prices,'" Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman said at the 2018 GeekWire Summit. "When you have wages growing very slowly, relative to housing prices, and then you add to that that interest rates are starting to move up, you reach a breaking point. And we have reached that breaking point."
UPDATE: Zillow reported its third quarter earnings Tuesday afternoon, and the company posted $11 million in revenue from the Zillow Offers program, and the Homes segment that program falls under reported a loss of $16 million. Zillow purchased 168 homes and sold 36 homes through Zillow Offers in the third quarter.
The pace of Zillow's buying and selling homes is speeding up. In October alone, the company bought 130 homes and sold 32, Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff said on a call with investors. It won't be long, Rascoff says before the company is buying and selling as many homes in a week as it did in the third quarter.
Zillow expects to generate $30 to $40 million in revenue from Zillow Offers in 2018, which is down from earlier projections in May of $125 to $255 million. It expects to hold 300 to 550 homes in inventory, down from 300 to 1,000 homes.
GeekWire chronicled the first house Zillow ever purchased directly over the summer, a 15-year-old, four-bedroom, two-bath ranch-style home in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler, Ariz. Zillow purchased the house in May for $410,000 and put it on the market a few weeks later for $425,000.
Zillow aims to turn around and sell the houses it buys in roughly 90 days. The Chandler home sat on the market a little longer — about 4 months. Zillow reduced the price and it eventually sold in late September for $403,000.
Zillow spokesman Viet Shelton called the Chandler house an "outlier." He warned that looking at the sale price alone does not show whether Zillow made or lost money on a given home. Baked into the process is a fee — usually around 6 to 9 percent of the home's price, but it's different on each transaction — that Zillow charges for the convenience of doing the work of sprucing up, listing and selling the house.
Shelton explained that Zillow tries to price the houses, both when it buys and sells them, as close to fair market value as possible. Zillow isn't looking to make huge profits on each house. Instead it is relying on volume, and that convenience fee, to bring in small profits on each place that add up to a big number.
"It's too early to estimate how many sellers might choose to sell (to Zillow) or what our typical net profit per transaction might be, but as an example, if 5 percent of sellers select this method, that is 275,000 transactions," Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff said on a call with investors earlier this year. "For illustrative purposes at scale, using $250,000 as the typical home value, a $3,500 net profit per transaction would result in a nearly $1 billion profit opportunity annually."
Shelton pointed to several other deals in the Phoenix area that he said give further insight into what Zillow is trying to accomplish. Two of the four examples sold above Zillow's list price and two others were slightly below.
- The first ever completed sale through Zillow Offers was a two-bedroom condo in Mesa, Ariz. Zillow purchased that unit, which is part of the Superstition Lakes community, in early June for $180,000. It was originally priced at $195,000 and sold July 13 for $188,000.
- Another two-bedroom condo, this one within the Phoenix city limits, sold for $408,000 on July 27. Zillow bought the unit June 12 for $407,000 and originally listed it at $410,000.
- A four-bedroom house in Glendale, Ariz. sold on July 18 for $236,000, which was $6,000 above Zillow's list price. The company paid $220,000 for the house and originally listed it at $230,000.
- Zillow bought a four-bedroom home in Gilbert, Ariz. in mid June for $335,000. Zillow sold the house about five weeks later for $353,000, $8,000 more than the list price.
Zillow Offers is designed to work well in both hot and cool housing markets. Zillow has as much insight into the market as anyone and can adjust if major changes appear on the horizon. Shelton says Zillow Offers can prosper in a down market because buyers will be more inclined to go with a quick sale rather than having to deal with the home sitting on the market for months.
Redfin started testing its direct home buying and selling operation, Redfin Now, in 2017. In August, Redfin removed the "experimental" tag, doubling down on the program and announcing its intention to staff up Redfin Now and expand beyond Southern California. As part of Redfin Now's evolution to a long-term business, Redfin started breaking out its quarterly results under a new reporting group called "properties."
Redfin spent $17 million buying homes in the second quarter, up from $6 million in the first quarter. Redfin sold all 17 of the purchases it made in the first quarter, with second quarter sales totaling $9 million, up from $3 million three months ago.
Redfin has said it made money on each home it bought and sold. However, the properties segment lost about $100,000 overall in the second quarter.
"Every home we've sold has sold for a higher price than we paid for it," Kelman said during a call with investors. "But there's a difference between a gain on a sale and profit. Once you account for the cost of our labor, renovations and capital, Redfin Now has been about break even. The good news is that we expect as we get bigger within a market and build more software to manage the renovation process we'll be able to spend less time and money bringing each Redfin Now home to market."
Kelman warned of a slowing housing market back in August, saying that frustrated buyers tired of getting beaten out on offer after offer were deciding to sit out. Speaking at the GeekWire Summit three months later, Kelman showed concern that if the real estate market turns drastically, the company could be left with a large inventory of homes on its books that it can't sell.
"And so I did say that in the earnings call, and I did walk down the hall to the Redfin Now team and say, 'Take it easy on the number of houses you buy, because we could end up unable to sell them,'" Kelman said.
Shares in both companies have been hit hard in recent months. Redfin and Zillow have both seen their stocks decline about 30 percent since early August on investor fears of a declining real estate market, while the Nasdaq Stock Market has dropped about 14 percent in that same time frame.
Zillow will report its latest financials later today. Analysts surveyed in advance expect Zillow to report earnings of $0.17 per share on $344.29 million in revenue. Redfin's earnings will come out Thursday, and analysts expect it to post earnings of $0.02 per share on $139.27 million in revenue.
Zillow and Redfin are different companies in a lot of ways. Zillow makes a majority of its revenue from advertising and lead generation tools for real estate agents, while Redfin is closer to a traditional real estate brokerage that is enhanced by technology.
Though the two companies are now on the same turf, buying and selling homes directly, they don't compete in that arena because they aren't in the same markets. Redfin and Zillow are competing with a crowded field of companies in the so-called iBuyer movement — where sellers will take a discounted price in exchange for the certainty of a fast sale — such as Opendoor and OfferPad, as well as several new startups.
Alternative home sales transactions have always been a part of the market, but tend to make up a small percentage of all sales, says Mike Grady, COO of Seattle-area brokerage Coldwell-Banker Bain. However, with 6 million homes to be sold in 2018, according to Grady, there's still money to be made in the iBuyer market and someone is going to gain an advantage in that area.
Programs like Zillow Offers and Redfin Now have gotten a lot of hype, but Grady doesn't see them as a transformative force in real estate.
"I just don't see very many sellers willing to take that much less no matter what the market is like," Grady said, "It's just not human nature to say 'I'm going to let you have 15 percent of my equity in order for me to save 60 days on the market,'" Grady said.


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|The Ink Room in Norwich where I visited in September to get more tattoos!
Ok so I know tattoos aren't for everybody but I love them and if you follow my blog and social media then sometimes you are gonna see some ink.
I don't know why I am so late in posting about my latest tattoos, I had these both done back in August and it is now November already! Not quite sure how over two months have managed to pass and I haven't blogged about them.
Time has just gone so quickly and to be honest, I have been having a bit of a blog identity crisis lately so have been unsure what content to feature and what not to feature but that's a whole other blog post...
Anyway, on to the tattoos!
I booked both of these with the lovely Rebecca who runs The Inkroom Norwich way back in February after searching for local artists online. She always has a waiting list (all good tattooists usually do!) and while I felt SO impatient at having to wait nearly half a year, the tattoos were well worth it.
I know each and every person is different but personally I don't think tattoos should be done on a whim. They should be planned and then sat on for at least 6 months to ensure you definitely like the design, placement and of course still want it at all.
My dad has one tattoo on his arm (a skull and crossbones, funny enough in the same place as my new skull tattoo) and he has always said he regretted getting it pretty much straight after having it done.
He had gone along with a couple of friends who intended on having a tattoo done when he was about 17 and upon walking in and seeing what his friends were getting done (they were all into motorbikes at the time) decided to get one himself. Because of his regret, dad was always concerned when I showed an interest in tattoos at a young age - understandable really given his experience - but I am definitely not one of those who has lived to regret mine in fact the more I get the more I love them. I have 11 now (with my 12th booked with Rebecca for next March).
I enjoy the entire process when it comes to getting a tattoo from planning it to getting it done to how they look afterwards. Even the ones I had done years ago (I realised when writing this I had my first one done 16 years ago now!) and know I wouldn't choose to have done today I don't regret. They were what I wanted at the time and to me tattoos are almost like diary entries; when I look at my inkings or talk about them I am reminded of who I was and what I was doing back then.
Anyway, I digress, onto the tattoos....
I had two done with Rebecca, the first was a geometric bunny on the back of my left tricep. As many of you will know we used to have bunnies and they were the first pets I ever had. I never understood how people could love their pets so much until I had my own so this tattoo is to represent them.
The second is a skull wearing a crown. The reasons behind this one are far less sentimental; I just bloody love skulls and I loved the idea of a sassy skull wearing a crown (cos every girl needs a crown right?) I wanted said crown slightly wonky too to represent that I am not perfect but still a queen nonetheless (ha!)
I am so pleased with them, especially now they have both healed up nicely! Of the whole process the healing is the worst part because it gets so itchy! I found myself slapping the skull in the end to stop the temptation to scratch.
My next tattoo is going to be on the same arm as my sassy skull and but on the forearm. I like the idea of creating the illusion of half sleeve without having a full on half sleeve (if that even makes any sense?!) I prefer when the tattoos remain separate as appose to looking like one full tattoo, just my preference.
Next time I am getting angel wings because, while I am not religious, I am very spiritual and fiercely believe in devine intervention and fate. I also feel like my nan has followed me around and guided me since she passed away when I was nine because of a few experiences I have had and like the idea of having the angel wings in memory of her. I totally get that it is each to their own when it comes to the afterlife and a lot of people think it is a load of crap but I do truly believe something happens after life (or at least hope something happens!)
That is also why I love tattoos too and peoples reasons behind having them; they are unique to that person and that person only. Like a piece of jewellery, they mean everything to the owner and probably nothing to everyone else.
I really can't wait to have my next tattoo, weirdly enough I have just realised that the date in March that I am having it done is three days before the date Nan passed away and two days before her sisters 80th birthday. Spooky!
It is obviously meant to be.
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Conference Program
Important Dates:
March 1, 2017 – Deadline for Paper Proposals and Fellowships
April 28, 2017 – Early Registration ends
May 31, 2017 – Last Day to Register
Times and panels are subject to change.
Wednesday, June 14
Training Session One: 9:00am to 12:00pm
1) Introduction to Network Theory, Michael Heaney
2) Introduction to ERGM/TERGM, Skyler Cranmer
Lunch: 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Training Session Two: 1:00pm to 4:00pm
1) Introduction to Network Analysis in R, Bruce Desmarais
2) ERGM/TERGM in R, Philip Leifeld
Thursday, June 15
Training Session Three: 9:00am to 12:00pm
1) Network Visualization, Katherine Ognyanova
2) Weighted-Edge ERGMs (GERGM), James Wilson
Lunch: 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Training Session Four: 1:00pm to 4:00pm
1) Network Partitioning, Scott Pauls
2) Latent Factor Models for Dynamic Networks, Shahryar Minhas and Michael Ward
Plenary Talk: 4:30pm to 5:30pm
William P. "Chip" Eveland, Jr. (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1997) is Professor of Communication and (by courtesy) Political Science at The Ohio State University (2000-present). He previously was on the faculty at the University of California at Santa Barbara (1998-2000) and associate researcher for the National Institute for Science Education (1996-1998). Eveland has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles in communication, political science, psychology, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; his publications have garnered over 2500 citations according to Web of Science. He also has contributed chapters in numerous edited volumes including The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication, The SAGE Handbook of Public Opinion Research, The SAGE Sourcebook of Advanced Data Analysis Methods for Communication Research, The Sourcebook for Political Communication Research, and Communication and Social Cognition. His academic achievements have been recognized with the International Communication Association's Young Scholar Award (2003) and the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication's Krieghbaum Under-40 Award (2007), among others.
Eveland's research focuses on the role of political communication – both mediated and interpersonal – in developing informed and participatory citizens of democracy. Over the past decade his work has highlighted the important role of the structure and content of political communication networks in this process. In doing so, he has employed methods ranging from whole network data, national sample surveys, experimentation, and naturalistic observation. Much of Eveland's scholarship in this area seeks to contribute to (a) more sophisticated concept explication and measurement of network characteristics, (b) an understanding of the sorts of communication content that flows through political networks; (c) an understanding of the implications of disagreement and difference (including political and racial difference) in discussion networks and their effects on political knowledge and engagement.
Eveland's plenary talk will highlight the variety of methodological approaches available to scholars of political networks. It will briefly touch on a number of specific studies and their findings with the goal of demonstrating some of the challenges and opportunities that these methods provide for generating a more comprehensive and accurate picture of the creation, modification, and effects of political networks.
Welcome Reception: 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Thursday Local Activity: Pins Mechanical Company
Friday, June 16
Panel Session One: 9:00am to 10:30am
1) Meaning of Networks in Language
- The Role of Networks in Explaining Uptake of ICT for Political Communication
- Romain Ferrali, Guy Grossman, Melinda Platas Izama, and Jonathan Rodden
- Voters of the Year: 19 Voters Who Were Unintentional Election Poll Sensors on Twitter
- William Hobbs, Lisa Friedland, Kenneth Joseph, Oren Tsur, Stefan Wojick, and David Lazer
- Re-Examining Everyday Political Communication
- William Eveland, Anand Sokhey, Ashley Brent, and Chrissy Ladam
- Examining the Education Policy Discourse: Efficiency vs. Equity
- Nancy Duchesneau, Sarah Reckhow, and Sarah Galey
2) Coordinated Participation and Engagement
- The Law of Small Neighborhoods: Coordination in Networks
- Marco Pelliccia and Arupratran Daripa
- Charismatic Bridging: Network State versus Predictors of Election
- Brian Rubineau, Yisook Lim, Michael Neblo, and David Lazer
- International Agricultural Development Network Structures Across Multiple Places and Regions
- Jessica Rudnick, Meredith Niles, and Mark Lubell
- Measuring Political Polarization among the General American Public
- Nick Rogers and Jason Jones
3) Environmental Governance
- The Role of Social Networks in the Sustainability Transformation of Cabo Pulmo
- Alfonso Langle-Flores, Peter Ocelík, and Octavio Pérez-Maqueo
- Ratifying Environmental Agreements: A Joint Analysis of Exogenous Influences, Network Dependence, and Spatial Effects
- Tobias Bohmelt, Benjamin Campbell, Skyler Cranmer, Bailey Fosdick, and Frank Marrs
Panel Session Two: 10:45am to 12:15pm
1) American Party Networks
- The Role of Caucuses in Partisan Entrenchment in Congress
- Jen Victor
- Nominations and Coalition Politics: Detecting Party Factions in Network Data
- Rachel Blum and Hans Noel
- Message Diffusion in the Extended Party Network: A Network and Text Approach to Campaign Communication
- Michael Kowal
- Network Clusters of Thought Leaders on the American Right
- Justin Gross
2) Methods: Data Collection
- Length Bias in Networks in Unknown Populations: The Case of Lobbying Coalitions
- Michael Heaney and Jesse Crosson
- Mapping Conceptual Networks
- Nicholas Beauchamp, Peter Levine, and Sarah Shugars
- All Roads Lead to Lagos: Road Networks and the Legacies of Extractive Colonialism
- Philipp Hunziker, Carl Muller-Crepon, Matthew Simonson, Lars-Erik Cederman and David Lazer
- Mapping Meaning: Using Text Networks to Model Survey Short Response Text
- Meredith Rolfe
3) Discussion Networks
- You Disgust Me! Campaigns, Emotions, and Political Discussion Networks
- Anand Sokhey, Carey Stapleton, and Jenny Wolak
- Contextual Constraints on Discussion Partner Choice and Correct Voting
- Talbot Andrews, and John Barry Ryan
- Do Ideologically-Mixed Hashtags Signal Cross-Ideological Engagement?
- Warren Allen and Shawn Gaulden
- Investigating the Dynamic Interplay Between Political Ideology and One's Social Network: A Longitudinal Study of College Freshmen
- Paul Stillman, Andrew Luttrell, Skyler Cranmer, and Richard Petty
Mentoring Lunch: 12:15pm to 1:45pm
Panel Session Three: 1:45pm to 3:15pm
1) Homophily in Networks
- Does Social Tie Strength Moderate Affective Polarization on Facebook?
- Jaime Settle
- Polarized Networks? New Evidence on Voters Political Communication Networks
- Ross Butters, Chris Hare, and Bob Huckfeldt
- Shifting Demographics: Understanding How Ethnically Diverse Networks Influence Hispanics/Latinos' Willingness to Engage in Online and Offline Political Talk
- Andrea Quenette and Alcides Velasquez
- Inferring Preferences Without Talking: Using Limited Visual Information to Guide Political Discussant Choice Via Homophily
- William Eveland, Steven Kleinman, and Jacob Long
2) Methods: Inference
- A New Database and Software for Inferring Public Policy Diffusion Networks
- Bruce Desmarais, Frederick Boehmke, Mark Brockway, Jeffrey Harden, Scott LaCombe, Frindolin Linder, and Hanna Wallach
- Inferential Approaches for Network Analysis: AMEN for Latent Factor Models
- Shahryar Minhas and Michael Ward
- A Little Jiffy Method for Community Detection in Network Data
- Burt Monroe
- The Effects of Shocks on Interacting Social Networks: An Agent-Based Model and Experimental Evidence
- Zeev Maoz, Keith Burghart, Michelle Phillips, and Luba Levin-Banchik
3) Voting Together
- Social Proximity and Friends-and-Neighbors Voting in Local Elections
- Matthew Pietryka, Donald DeBats, and Sarah Johns
- Understanding Gender and Political Participation: Assessing the Relationship Between Networks and Dispositions
- Paul Djupe, Amanda Friesen, and Anand Sokhey
- From Chatter to Action: How Social Networks Inform and Motivate in Rural Uganda
- Jenn Larson, Janet Lewis, and Pedro Rodriguez
- Networks, Turnout, and Strategic Voting in the 2015 Canadian Election
- Jack Reilly and Debra Leiter
Panel Session Four: 3:30pm to 5:00pm
1) Congressional Communication and Policymaking Networks
- Race, Ethnicity, and Collaboration in Congressional Letter-Marking Networks
- Nicole Kalaf-Hughes and Russell Mills
- Varying-Coefficient Models for Dynamic Networks
- Jihui Lee, Gen Li, and James Wilson
- The Role of Social Networks for Women in Politics
- Yoonjung Lee and Jesse Hammond
- The Name-Dropping Connections of Congress
- Lindsey Cormack and Stephen McArdle
2) Collaboration and Governance
- Boundaries of a Network or a Boundary of Networks? Dynamic Network Approach to Issue-Specific Latent Networks and Actual Networks of Regional Collaboration
- Chang-Gyu Kwak and Richard Feiock
- Reconstructing Racist Networks and Communities by Modeling Diffusion of Memes and Language
- Oren Tsur and David Lazer
- A Network Model for Continuous-Time Textual Communications with Application to Government Email Corpora
- Bomin Kim, Zachary Jones, Bruce Desmarais, and Hanna Wallach
- Advocacy Coalitions and the Structure of Environmental Policy Networks
- Georgia Pfeiffer, Adam Henry, and Thomas Dietz
3) Comparative Political Parties
- Leadership in Networks
- David Siegel
- The Inner Life of Political Parties - How Patronage Networks Influence Leadership
- Isabelle Borucki
- Revealing Enablers and Dampeners of Party Switching: A Meta Analysis of Network Panel Data
- Jose Manuel Magallanes
Poster Setup: 5:00pm to 5:30pm
Poster Session: 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Friday Local Activity: Italian Village Food and Drink Tour
Saturday, June 17
Panel Session Five: 9:00am to 10:30am
1) Social Media, Opinion, and Organizing
- A Social network Analysis of the Resistance Twitter Ecology
- Jose Marichal, Ryan Mundy, Jack Rockwood, Alex Egertson, and Jinny Milani
- Understanding the Effect of the Travel Ban on Non-English Language Tweets in the United States
- Bryce Dietrich, Caglar Koylu, Caroline Tolbert, and Courtney Juelich
- Experimental and Observational Evidence of Selective Sharing on Social Media
- Julia Kamin
- Who Protests? Using Social Media Data to Solve Ecological Inference Problems in Studies of Mass Behavior
- Paul Zachary, Chris Fariss, and Ted Chen
2) International Relations and Conflict
- The Unintended Effects of International Interdependence: An Endogenous Model of Trade Network Formation and Effect
- Olga Chyzh
- Friends and Enemies: Using Event Data to Detect Positive and Negative Security Communities
- Jesse Hammond
- External Support Networks in Civil Wars
- Elizabeth Menninga
Panel Session Six: 10:45am to 12:15pm
1) Judicial Networks
- Leaders and Followers: Mapping the State Supreme Court Citation Network
- Shane Gleason, Scott Comparato, and Christine Bailey
- Judges to Judges: The Impact of Selection Methods on State Supreme Courts
- Kristen Renberg
- Assessing the Administrative Law Network
- Robert Bond, Michael Nelson, Judkins Mathews, and Chris Fariss
- A Network Approach to Influence: Interest Group Composition and Dissensus on the Supreme Court
- Sahar Abi-Hassan, Janet Box-Steffensmeier, and Dino Christenson
2) Comparative Legislatures
- Networks and Social Influence in European Legislative Politics
- Philip Leifeld, Thomas Malang, and Laurence Brandenberger
- Inferring Influence Networks from Longitudinal Bipartite Relational Data
- Frank Marrs, Benjamin Campbell, Bailey Fosdick, Skyler Cranmer, and Tobias Bohmelt
- Measuring and Modeling Accomplishment in Congressional Legislation Networks, 1789-2014
- Lefteris Anastasopoulos and Anthony Madonna
- Look Who's Talking: Bipartite Networks as Representations of a Topic Model of New Zealand Parliamentary Speeches
- Ben Curran, Kyle Higham, Elisenda Ortiz, and Demival Vasques Filho
3) Regional Governance Networks
- Institutional Fit and Wildfire Risk Governance
- Matthew Hamilton, Paige Fischer, and Alan Ager
- Climate Adaptation, Sea-Level Rise, and Complex Governance in San Francisco
- Mark Lubell and Matthew Robbins
- Understanding the Democratic Potential of Placemaking
- Ryan Salzman and Marisa Yerace
- Political Homophily and Information Sharing in Urban Water Governance
- Emily Bell, Adam Henry, and Gary Pivo
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Electronic death certification makes sense for GPs and relatives
Enabling GPs to issue death certificates electronically would save GP time as well as inconvenience for bereaved relatives, argue Dr John Havard and Dr Akash Karki
Technology has the capacity to introduce substantial efficiencies across the board. In general practice we now issue electronic prescriptions to a pharmacy of the patient's choice without the need for paper or signature. Every prescription is numbered and tracked so the old prescription pads are becoming obsolete.
Other official documents like sickness certificates (Med3) are also issued electronically on ordinary A4 paper meaning that official certificate pads are essentially redundant.
Death certificates (Medical Certificates of Cause of Death) however elude this progress, just at the time when we are requested to issue them within five days irrespective of weekends. Only one book is allowed per practice and, as doctors are increasingly part-time or working in different locations, this means that the appropriate urgency is thwarted.
It seems sensible to GPs on the frontline that issuing death certificates should be done by the appropriate doctor electronically from any location. Approximately 1% of the average practice list dies every year. This adds up to a lot of inconvenience for bereaved relatives having to collect a certificate from the patient's surgery. The same applies for hospital deaths, where relatives might have to travel a long way and wait a long time to collect this vital piece of paper.
Scotland has already had such an electronic system in place for two years
It should be possible for GPs to fill out the death certificate and supply relevant extracts from notes remotely, using an online death certification portal. Medical examiners (once appointed – the Government having delayed their introduction til next year) could then authorise death certificate release, after carrying out the appropriate checks.
Scotland has already had such an electronic system in place for two years, so there is a precedent for this.
After all, only death and taxes are certain in life - and your tax return can be filed online!
Dr John Havard and Dr Akash Karki are GPs in Suffolk
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In the scheme of death administration problems, the existence of a paper certificate seems a pretty small problem.
What about the requirement for a doctor to view a body after death for cremation? Urgent, pointless and often onerous, depending on how far the patient is from the surgery.
What about the need for a doctor to have physically seen the patient within 2 weeks of death? I recently had a patient sent for post mortem because none of the several clinicians who had been face to face with him in the 2 weeks before his expected death was a doctor, although the doctor was involved by phone. (One of the clinicians was the surgery's Urgent Care nurse practitioner)
Reform needed!
Agree there are other aspects which could be improved around death certification and cremation. There is a proposal for implementing medical examiners next year which was part of a reform that has been delayed for several years! We will see if this helps.
Although relatively small, added up over time the paper paper certification is a significant workload issue that will not go away. This is something that can be changed as they already do it in Scotland.
Furthermore if done electronically, death certification can be easily scrutinized by the proposed medical examiner remotely. This may help avoid scenarios that you describe re post mortem in expected death and allow more common sense to prevail.


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Stanford's Program on Human Rights (PHR) hired Nadejda Marques as its new program manager, according to a press release from the Freeman Spogli Institute.
Marques, who previously worked as the research coordinator for the Cost of Inaction Project at the Harvard School of Public Health, has 15 years of experience in human rights activism.
Marques said that PHR has several planned activities for the year aimed at responding to and capitalizing on student interest in human rights. The main focus of the year will be around issues addressing human trafficking. This topic will be explored in depth during a workshop with Madeleine Rees and Stanford faculty and graduate students in December, as well as in the Sanela Diana Jenkins Speakers Series in the winter and a conference in the spring designed to further develop an ongoing human trafficking research agenda.
"The problem with trafficking is that criminal and immigration law haven't worked so far to cure the problem," said Helen Stacy, director of the PHR and senior fellow at the Center for Democracy Development and Rule of Law (CDDRL). "Numbers are going up, trafficking is more and more being run by underground rings that run drugs, run arms and now people. So the problem is growing and because it's now part of this large, illegal black market; the violence and the brutality is also getting worse."
Marques emphasized both the severity of the problem as well as its potential for richness in academic study, making it an ideal focus for Stanford's human rights initiative.
"It's a pressing issue, of course, but also the way that human trafficking correlates with urban violence . . . the way it correlates with exploitation and labor rights . . . the way it correlates with immigration . . . All those things come together, and it's a very, very rich topic academically as well as serving something for activists," Marques said.
"There are so many ways [to teach human rights]," she continued. "There are ways to use art, to use drama, to use music . . . and that's really empowering."
Another initiative, the Human Rights Collaboratory, will hold workshops that focus on issues of human well-being and the environment. PHR will also focus on developing human rights curricula to help high school and college teachers incorporate the study of human rights into their classroom — whether they teach math, science or humanities.
Finally, PHR will also hold a regional human rights series, which will focus on Latin America this year — an appropriate emphasis, given Marques' background — and will continue to sponsor the Undergraduate Human Rights Fellowship.
"We want to grow the undergraduate student community that works on human rights," Stacy said.
Marques, a native of Brazil, was born during the country's authoritarian period, making human rights a pressing issue for her on a very personal level.
"I experienced abuse of civil rights from an early age," she said. "I always wanted to be involved with human rights."
Marques lost her father to the dictatorship — he was tortured and killed when she was nine months old. Her mother then fled Brazil and lived as a refugee until she and Marques were reunited with the help of Amnesty International a year later.
Stacy said that Marques' experience greatly colors her work in human rights.
"[Marques] has her own personal perspective from her own life and her family's life . . . that means she is intensively empathetic, has a deep desire to see changes in the world and the humor and persistence to persist at difficult problems," Stacy said.
While Marques was forced to confront human rights issues early on in her personal life, she soon started tackling them professionally as well. She has worked as a foreign correspondent for the Washington Post, has a long history of working with Human Rights Watch in Brazil and Angola and, prior to coming to Stanford, worked at the Harvard School of Public Health as a research coordinator for the Cost of Inaction Project at the François-Bagnoud Xavier Center for Health and Human Rights.
"I think Stanford — [along with] many schools around the state and the world — is moving forward with this human rights education and trying to develop human rights within [its] curriculum and to get students interested," she said.


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charging station Keba P30 KeContact serie c Type 2S shutter ( shutter ) is ideal for house , Garage , or Parking: business within or outside (IP54). This charging station will allow you to enjoy your EV through a system reload Mode 3 (IEC61851 ), simple, reliable and fast.
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CarPlug team configures and tests all charging stations before delivery. A simplified installation guide will be provided with the delivery. This way, be sure that the charging station will be easy to install and will work well.
Your charging station will be configured depending on the option. This option will be changed later.
Any charging station installation must be performed by a certified electrician.
Your charging station is Plug & amp mode; Play. Once a car is connected, the charging starts automatically. More informartions the charging station to free access .
Your charging station is always locked and charging is permitted only when passing a valid RFID card on the reader of the charging station. If you buy the RFID cards CarPlug with the charging station, they will already be set and will activate your charging station. It is also possible to add yourself any RFID card by suite.Plus information about the RFID card access.
This is possible only if the series Keba c is linked to a series Keba x RJ45 cable. In this case, the charging station C can header uses remotely connected via charging station x.
This option allows you to make your charging station available to everyone, thanks to MyCarplug management software, RFID card or app, fix the resale price of your electricity, and automatically receive payments on your account. You can also encode cards RFID in the software to create free access. It is useful if you do not know who will take care of your charging station. Online access to the management software you will be provided purchase. More information on paid access card or RFID App .
KEBA is an Austrian company based in Linz which manufactures for 50 years solutions in the field of automation. Since 2009, KEBA has sold smart charging stations that are suitable for all electric vehicles, and has become a reference in the field.
Keba charging station meets European standards and is compatible with all electric vehicles. Its handling is of type 2. Manufacturers typically provide with a charging cable with a type 2 connector to the charging station. If this is not the case, you will find charging cables type 2 in the category charging cables for electric cars .
Load up to 10 times faster than on a simple domestic plug.
Adjust the power load to your installation. The load power is adjustable between 3.7 and 22 kW through DIP SWITCH switches. These switches can set the charging current to the following amperages: 10A, 13A, 16A, 20A, 24A or 32A
"auto recovery" allows, in case of power failure, overheating or failure of the RCD, to take charge as soon as the power is restored.
Keba charging station P30 is CE and ISO9001 and complies with all European directives on safety. The charging station blocks the cable during the charging, and releases it only when the charging session is done
In addition, the charging station has a DC leakage detector, and therefore it becomes unnecessary to install expensive upstream type B RCD. A conventional differential type A is enough.
The KEBA charging station P30 serves charging station c "slave" and needs a charging station series x "master" to be managed remotely KEBA P30 SERIES X . A total of x serial charging station can handle up to 15 series c charging stations. The management software into the series x charging stationssecures maximum instantaneous consumption for all charging stations, and thus avoid blowing the breaker when all charging stations are in charge.
The series c KEBA communicates only by RJ45 Ethernet cable to be connected to a Keba x or switch for remote management. A Keba c needs a Keba x to be controlled remotely. There's no 3G or Wifi on Keba c.
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Birds' eggshells are primarily composed of calcite, an abundant polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). However, the eggshells of some species are coated with spherules of vaterite, a rare and thermodynamically unstable polymorph of CaCO3, the function of which remains unknown. Here we experimentally test the mechanical and physiological effects of the vaterite coating on eggshells of the Greater Ani Crotophaga major, a tropical cuckoo. Vaterite removal did not affect vapour conductance rates across the eggshell, indicating that the vaterite coating does not influence gas exchange during embryonic development. By contrast, nanoindentation revealed that the hardness and elasticity of vaterite is similar to that of calcite, and white light interferometry showed that the vaterite layer increased the total thickness of the shell cuticle by up to 10%. Furthermore, calculations of contact mechanics found that when two eggs come into contact, the depth of the surface deformation caused by the contact is far less than the thickness of the vaterite coating. These results suggest the layer of vaterite spherules may act as a 'shock absorber' for the underlying calcite shell, protecting it from mechanical damage caused by collision with other eggs in the nest and reducing the risk of eggshell fracture during incubation.
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