#objective junior synonym

[snakemanaustralia]

Taxonomic vandalism 2023 - Microelapidae named a second time!

Fake science ...

Mol Phylogenet Evol . 2023 Mar;180:107700. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107700. Epub 2023 Jan 2. Ultraconserved elements-based phylogenomic systematics of the snake superfamily Elapoidea, with the description of a new Afro-Asian family Sunandan Das 1, Eli Greenbaum 2, Shai Meiri 3, Aaron M Bauer 4, Frank T Burbrink 5, Christopher J Raxworthy 5, Jeffrey L Weinell 6, Rafe M Brown 7, Jonathan Brecko 8, Olivier S G Pauwels 9, Nirhy Rabibisoa 10, Achille P Raselimanana 11, Juha Merilä 12

Micrelapidae Das et al. 2023, is NOT a new discovery. It is in fact an illegally coined objective junior synonym of Micrelapidae Hoser, 2013 and hence the name must be exclusively attributed to the original scientist who discovered and named the family, Raymond Hoser, 2013 and not the later copycats. Hoser (2013) can be downloaded as pdf at: http://www.smuggled.com/issue-17-All.pdf

[students-day-with-smartwatch]

The Effects of Ragging on Students

The Effects of Ragging on Students

Ragging is the action of scolding, teasing, criticizing or nagging a person. It is generally committed by the senior students. Ragging often takes place in hostels. There are a few senor students in every hostels  The new students were subjected to simple teasing and mock interviews. Today, it has degenerated into torture of the innocent. The new students who resist and complain to authorities are tortured the most. Ragging has some positive effects, but it should be discouraged. Effective steps need to be taken to deal with this problem.

The accurate meaning of the word ‘ragging’ is ‘to tease’, but even the dictionary says it is an archaic meaning. The main objective of ragging means of an interaction they get close and know one another. But in practice, it is nothing but a kind of torture. It is a form of an abuse on the newcomers of educational institutions in India.

Ragging is any disorderly conduct whether spoken or written or by an act which causes annoyance, hardship or psychological harm to a student. It is generally committed by senior students upon the first year students.

Ragging generally takes place in colleges and hostels. There are many tales of torture and humiliation that are associated with ragging. The new students feel that they are in for a series of practical jokes at the hands of the senior students. Once they fall into the clutches of the latter, they do not find a way to escape. There are a few senior students in every hostel who do not take enough interest in studies. They indulge in raging, bullying, etc. They create an image of themselves as rowdies. No one dares to interfere with their ways.

Ragging originated in the west. But today, it has reached the Indian society too. Young students enrolled in India’s 504 universities are plagued by ragging. At the start of every academic session, the media brings the news of suicides by new entrants, who no longer can bear the disgrace, ignominy and dishonor inflicted on them by their seniors. Ragging has caused intense fear and shattered the trust and ability of the new students to make send judgment about the people around them.

Some people feel that it is a socio cultural problem. The truth is that in some cases, ragging has occasionally ended in fighting, serious injuries, and even deaths, leading to the ruin of some brilliant carriers.

Senior students tease the new students about their looks and manners. The tall and the short, the fat and the lean, all become easy targets. Students wearing glasses, have their glasses snatched away and are made to read without them. A few of them are made to bow before the senior students and are forced to greet them with folded hands. Sometimes the eatables brought by the new students are eaten by the seniors in the formers presence. Ragging may be in the form of a mock interview of the new entrants. The senior students would take the position of interviews, while the new students become the interviewees. Sometimes they are asked indecent questions and are made to make obscene gestures.

A new student who resists becomes a target of harassment. He may be falsely accused of stealing a thing or things from a senior. He would be put on a mock trial. During the trial, he might be forced to admit his guilt. If he does not admit his guilt, he is pressurized by physical threats and humiliation.

In the beginning, ragging was an amusing practice. It has degenerated into an evil. It has become a synonym for torture’. The Supreme Court of written or by an act which adversely affects the physique or physique or psyche of a fresher or a junior student is an act of ragging. But if through ragging the decency and morals are violated or one’s body gets injured or if any wrongful restraint or criminal intimidation is involved in it, then ragging becomes a legal offence. Ragging in India commonly involves serious abuses and clear violations of human rights. The Supreme Court has taken a strong stand tocurb ragging. Ragging has been declared as a criminal offence.

India’s first and only registered anti ragging NGO, Society against Violence in Education SAVE has claimed that ragging is widely and dangerously prevalent in engineering and other academic institutions, mainly in the hostels.

For such cases, there are certain punishments in UGC’s anti ragging guidelines which include a fine up to rupees twenty five thousand, cancellation of admission, withholding of scholarship debarring from appearing for examinations, suspension or explosion from hostel and rustication  from institution for period of one or four semesters. Even the institutions where raging is prevalent could be punished. By withdrawing of afflation or other privileges and daring any degree and withholding grants.

The real pictures was revealed by reporting, CURE [Coalition of uprooting ragging from education]. Between July 2003 and June 2008, there were cases of deaths, 10 attempted suicides and 14 left college’s only 54 percent cases sought police intervention. The most affected areas are west Bengal. Utter Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh. The Supreme Court accepted its report ad directed educational institutions at very minimum to expel the guilty. It also allowed institutions to resigester police cases against accused.

Most authorities have tackled the problem with iron hands. More effective steps need taken to deal with the evil. The institutes should arrange counseling session for fresher’s so that they can speak their mind. Anti ragging cells should also be established. A fresher party should be organized by the institute itself within two weeks of the start of the academic session so that the junior and senior students can easily interact with one another.21

[snakebusters]

Scientific Fraud! Newly discovered species of sea snake is not so new after all! Media release dated 1 April 2020 - Yes April Fool's day!

The widely publicized alleged discovery of a new species of sea snake in north-west Australia on 1 April 2020 has been exposed as a scientific fraud. In a supposedly peer reviewed paper, a group of so-called scientists alleged they had found a new species of sea snake in Western Australia and proceeded to formally name it Emydocephalus orarius, Nankivell et al. 2019. It can now be revealed that their alleged work is nothing more than a thinly veiled fraud in that their key findings had in fact been lifted from a 4 year old paper that had already discovered and named the very same species. In a brazen lifting and theft of the works and findings of Australian scientist Raymond Hoser, Nankivell and his gang of thieves rehashed a four year old paper of Hoser and prostituted it as peer reviewed scientific discovery in an online journal Zootaxa. Nankivell and the gang of thieves used the exact same specimens, morphology and findings of Raymond Hoser, including the same holotype specimen of their allegedly newly discovered species that Hoser had used four years prior. Yes, Raymond Hoser, better known as The Snake Man had identified and named the exact same sea snake species as separate to better known northern and eastern species in the same genus four years earlier. The name assigned was Emydocephalus teesi Hoser, 2016, named in honour of highly respected human rights lawyer, Alex Tees of Bondi in New South Wales, Australia. As this name has a four year date priority over the bootleg name, it is Emydocephalus teesi Hoser, 2016 that is the correct name and that which must be used. The 2020 paper by Nankivell et al. fraudulently markets the contents of their 2020 paper as their own original work and discovery. They have repeated this dishonest behaviour with numerous media releases and posts on social media (e.g. Facebook, twitter, etc), including a patently false series of claims alleging they had discovered the species when doing fieldwork, when in actual fact, Hoser had done the hard yards over preceding decades. Importantly, Snakeman Raymond Hoser had been onto it and published his findings many years prior. While authors overlooking or ignoring earlier important papers was common in years past, it is rare in the present time due to the fact that scientific papers are databased and widely accessible almost immediately after publication. Significantly Nankivell admits to having read the earlier Hoser paper, but cites a blog post by a friend of his (Wolfgang Wuster), cited as Kaiser et al. (2013) as a basis to ignore the rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature and unlawfully over-write the Hoser name. In terms of a reviewer, it would be impossible to miss the obvious fact that the key evidence and findings in both the 2016 and 2020 papers are effectively identical. At the time Hoser’s 2016 paper was published he was widely accused by a gang of thieves known as the Wolfgang Wuster gang of “Taxonomic vandalism”, which is a nefarious practice of recklessly renaming species that have already been named. Hoser challenged this claim on the basis his newly discovered species of sea snake had significant morphological and molecular divergence and were reproductively isolated. Ironically, it is the actions of Wuster's closwe friend Nankivell and his et al. who in 2020 have actively engaged in taxonomic vandalism and scientific fraud. Zootaxa is the online journal that published the fraudulent Nankivell paper. It is a holotype PRINO paper and shows the hazards of the internet in terms of the ability of pseudoscientists to be able to rush bad science or non-science into print and without any serious forms of editiorial control or peer review. The only journal Zootaxa has developed a reputation as being a holotype PRINO, or peer reviewed in name only journal, because it frequently publishes fake science and bootlegs of the works of genuine scientists. Taxonomic vandalism as practiced by Nankivell and his listed co-authors, is not just fraudulent and unscientific, but it is also highly illegal as Australia has signed several international conventions forbidding it and binding all scientists to the rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature which expressly forbids taxonomic vandalism. In any event, one thing is clear and undeniable. The allegedly newly discovered species of sea snake from Western Australia is not so new after all. It was formally discovered and named 4 long years ago. The most recent case of scientific fraud by Nankivell has been heavily promoted on social media by his good mate, Wolfgang Wuster, a serial law breaker and fraudster from Wales in the UK. Wuster has set out to destroy the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature and regularly tells others to ignore the rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. He aggressively encourages friends and members of his cohort of thieves to plagiarize and steal works of others and market their discoveries as their own. Wuster's cohort have illegally renamed dozens of previously named species in a practice known as Taxonomic Vandalism, including works of 1800's greats like John Edward Gray and Leopold Joseph Franz Johann Fitzinger, throwing the science, taxonomy and nomenclature of reptiles and other animals into chaos, with enormously negative public health and wildlife conservation outcomes. Members of Wuster's cohort have recently been convicted of child sex offences, theft, shootings and other serious crimes. They also run hundreds of fake social media accounts and heavily attack sites like Wikipedia in order to peddle their warped agenda and mislead people into believing that they are a majority of reptile scientists, when in fact they are merely a side group of thieves and trouble makers. The two relevant papers are as follows: Hoser, Raymond T. 2016. A previously unrecognized species of sea snake (Squamata: Serpentes: Elapidae: Hydrophiinae). Australasian Journal of Herpetology 33:25-33. Full text available at: http://www.smuggled.com/Issue-33-25-33.pdf and James H. Nankivell, Claire Goiran, Mathew Hourston, Richard Shine, Arne R. Rasmussen, Vicki A. Thomson, Kate L. Sanders, 2020. A new species of turtle-headed sea Snake (Emydocephalus: Elapidae) endemic to Western Australia. Zootaxa (PRINO - Online), 107(3):517-523. Full text available at: https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4758.1.6

In terms of the fake claims of a new species of sea snake allegedly discovered this April Fools Day!

From Nankivell et al. (2020) who stole the basis of their paper from Hoser, 2016. They wrote: "Hoser (2016) named Emydocephalus populations from coastal Western Australia and the Timor Sea as a new species; however we follow the recommendations of Kaiser et al. (2013) and consider names published outside of the peer-reviewed literature post 2000 to be unavailable." Problem one was that Hoser (2016) was in fact peer reviewed and Problem two is that the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature administered by the ICZN, which governs scientific names of species, does not mandate for peer review to make names available to use, which is a good thing as the majority of the millions of scientifically named organisms were not named via peer review - including quite ironically Nankivell et al. (2020)! (The online Journal Zootaxa is notoriously PRINO, meaning peer reviewed in name only). Nankivell et al. (2020) then wrote: "On the basis of nuclear DNA, mitochondrial DNA and morphological evidence we regard the coastal Western Australian E. annulatus as an evolutionarily distinctive new species with no available name." before renaming the species as an objective junior synonym (meaning this name is illegal and must not be used, with the correct senior name with date priority being used instead), "Emydocephalus orarius sp. nov. Fig. 5, 7A–B Holotype. WAM R165708. Adult male collected in Shark Bay (25°15`38”S, 113��08`19”E), WA on 10/02/2006 by G. Parry." And so there is absolutely no doubt as to from where he stole his alleged discovery .... From Hoser, 2016. "EMYDOCEPHALUS TEESI SP. NOV. Holotype: A preserved specimen number R165708, at the Western Australian Museum, Perth, Western Australia, obtained from Shark Bay, Western Australia, (shot dead) caught on 10 February 2006. The snout-vent length is 660 mm, tail length is 132 mm and weight is 245.0 grams. The Western Australian Museum is a government-owned facility that allows inspection of its holdings. Paratypes: Specimen number R47852 from the Western Australian Museum, Perth, Western Australia collected from Barrow Island, Western Australia, Lat. 115°40‘E Long. 20°8‘S in December 1975. Specimen number R28469 from the Western Australian Museum, Perth, Western Australia collected from Barrow Island, Western Australia, Lat. 115°25‘E Long. 20°45‘S on 9 September 1966. The Western Australian Museum is a government-owned facility that allows inspection of its holdings. Diagnosis: Emydocephalus teesi sp. nov. would previously have been identified as E. annulatus. However it is readily separated from that taxon by having 21-23 body bands in females, versus 24-25 in females of E. annulatus. In males there are 19-21 body bands versus 22-30 in E. annulatus. These same characteristics separate E. teesi sp. nov. from the otherwise similar E. chelonicephalus and E. szczerbaki. Complete melanism is known to be common in E. annulatus and E. chelonicephalus, but is effectively unknown in Emydocephalus teesi sp. nov. and E. szczerbaki. Melanistic E. teesi sp. nov. seen in Ashmore Reef, WA retain remnants of cross-bands on the lower flanks as whitish or lighter flecks on the rear of the relevant scales. Emydocephalus teesi sp. nov. commonly (but not always) has 3 postoculars, versus a standard 2 in E. annulatus, E. chelonicephalus, E. ijimae and E. szczerbaki (and some E. teesi sp. nov.). The three postocular condition in Emydocephalus teesi sp. nov. is caused by the usual larger lower postocular (seen in other Emydocephalus) instead being two smaller ones. ..." Full text of Hoser 2016 is available at http://www.smuggled.com/issue-33-pages-25-33.pdf

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[wemblingfool]

"Contrary to what you may have read elsewhere, in books or on Wikipedia, or in one of those so-called "scientific" journals, the largest dinosaur of all time was not Brachiosaurus, or Supersaurus, or Argentinosaurus, or Amphicoelias, or Bruhathkayosaurus. Not by a long shot.

The newly described Stratoposeidon taylori trumped them all. Represented by a complete articulated skeleton from Hell's Attic National Desert in Utah, Stratoposeidon was morphologically similar to Brachiosaurus, only eight times larger.

With a shoulder height of 44 meters and a neck 68 meters long, Stratoposeidon was tall enough to browse from the payload compartment of a Saturn V rocket. If Stratoposeidon stepped on a bull elephant, its foot would entirely cover the resulting puddle of elephant juice.

Stratoposeidon is estimated to have weighed 17,920 tons (35 x 8 x 8 x 8). When it defecated, a bolus of macerated plant material five meters in diameter and weighing 65 tons would drop from a height of 25 meters, fall for just over two seconds, and hit with enough force to level a barn.

Stratoposeidon's feet had a total contact area of 650 square meters, and they exerted a pressure of 270,000 Newtons per square meter (39 pounds per square inch) when the animal was standing still. Immediately following the publication of the initial description, an anonymous poster on the Dinosaur Mailing List pointed out that the specimens known as Brachiosaurus may simply be juvenile stratoposeidons, in which case Stratoposeidon would become an objective junior synonym of Brachiosaurus! However, this has not yet been demonstrated.

Furthermore, the authors that described Stratoposeidon have already responded; they threatened to petition the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature to preserve the name. One possible outcome of an ICZN ruling would be to sink Brachiosaurus in favor of Stratoposeidon, on the grounds that the former is only represented by juveniles and does not reflect the mature morphology of the taxon."

Lol no

[zamancollective]

Self-Portrait

By Phillip Neman

This oil painting by Phillip Neman explores how the cultural dichotomy between his life as a first-generation American and his distant, almost mythicized conception of his family’s homeland of Iran blurs his self-image. Set against the backdrop of his college dorm room, the painting examines the gaps that exist between how he perceives himself and how others perceive him, illuminating how one’s heritage can simultaneously serve as a catalyst for self-understanding and external misinterpretation.

Neman’s work in painting and in mixed media often centers around the issue of being born into a culture associated with an unfamiliar physical place. Ironically, his face is not visible in his portrait and is instead replaced by fragments of a geographic map of Iran. This serves to question how others see him – as someone reduced to their ethnicity – simply because the audience is prevented from making a more nuanced connection to the figure’s facial expression or demeanor. However, by essentially making Iran’s topography synonymous with his own skin, Neman also nods toward the quiet yet ineludible, enduring connection that his lineage establishes between body and homeland.

As a California native whose Jewish family is effectively barred from returning to Iran safely, Neman grew up embracing and celebrating the new place that his parents chose to call home. The objects surrounding his figure are representative of the process of adolescent identity-building, touching on how one’s sense of self can stem from much else than heritage. By treating intimate home objects and souvenirs with the same care as the body and Iran’s map, Neman’s self-portrait serves to mend the internal struggle of being caught in the crosshairs of modern, youthful Mizrahi-American identity.

Phillip Neman is a junior at the University of California, Santa Barbara studying Chemistry and Visual Art. In his free time, he enjoys reading, playing tennis, and painting. Click here to reach him.

Published August 25th, 2019 

[writingwitchly]

The little loop

Pairing: Sirius Black x reader

Word count: 2k

Warning: sadness / mentions of war

A/N: So. SO. Soo. S O. The new Tumblr mobile actualization is being a total @#$%, school is asfixiating me, my sleepless hours keep getting worse, my brain isn’t helping, and I’m surrounded by  t e n s i o n s, with a 105% of probabilities of receiving the whole bad mood discharge on my head... A real fun ride. Anyway, this is for @herondalesucks​, cuz we need more sweet beans in this world and we should thank them when we meet any. Enjoy!

“Honestly,” you pant as you drop the grocery bags on the kitchen’s counter, “You didn’t miss anything too thrilling.”

The clinging cans and ripping of plastic fill up the silence that follows your remark, until your friend finally speaks up,

“Anything would be more thrilling that constantly looking at these same walls, Y/N.” Her head is bent over the rest of the shopping bags, but you can guess her sad expression by the off tone in her voice.

Yesterday, as Sirius and you attended a party at Marlene’s place, thinking about your redheaded friend’s comments if she had been there made the firewhisky’s usual burn bitter, and the same taste now invades your mouth after lying to her. The night was quite something. A moment of escape in the darkness of the actuality.

A little strangled sound coming from near the sink wakes you up from your reverie.

“Oh Lils…”

In a swift movement, your friend buries her face in the crook of your neck and, for the first time in years, she lets her feeling flow in salted water.

The Potters have been hiding for now exactly ten months, with the prohibition of participating to friend gatherings, Order missions, and any other type of outside trips -- including grocery shopping, which you’ve taken care of today as Batilda needed some rest.

For the energy balls that are Lily and James, this boredom is literally a synonym of long and painful death.

“Listen,” you whisper in her ear as you caress her flaming hair, “We’ll fix this, okay? Sirius and I will stay over tonight, so we can try to cook something special and then play some dare games.”

With a childish smile, she pulls away from her hideout, but still grasping to your waist as to life. “And can we build sheet-and-chairs forts and have a pillow fight and sing songs by the fireplace?”

“Of course,” you laugh, “Just like in the old days.”

Her heart a little lighter now, you decide to resume your emptying of the plastic bags, without much of a result as James storms in after a little while.

“Y/N!”

His rib crunching hug is worthy one of Hagrid’s, and it startles you the double as it comes from behind your back.

“Ow- James.” You pat his hands, and end up trying to get them off you.

“‘m so happy to see you,” he says excitedly, his tic of pushing his glasses up on his nose freeing you.

“Me too,” you breathe for air more than you say, red in the face.

The young man standing in front of you looks as clumsy as he did back in your teen years, which builds up his part of his charm, but you note some new seriousness deeply rooted in his eyes. It certainly is a consequence of having to deal with his responsibilities as an adult, then a husband, and finally a father, but you know for sure it is also the result of all you had to face right after getting out of your golden years, right after life as you knew it split into burning hell and awkward chaos.

“What are you two doing here? We’re waiting for you in the living room!” he asks.

“Well, we still have to…” His wife gestures toward the kitchen’s counter, where a considerable pile of food still waits to be stored in the cupboard.

You glance at her puffy eyes and the dark circles that underline them. It seems like all of the energy has been drained out of her body, which before was athletic and brisk, and now still is, but in an exhausted way. Her usual playful expression is just a shadow, a ghost that can be remembered only by those who have witnessed it in the past, and you’re not sure that her formerly joking voice can produce anything now but neutral comments or motherly encouragements.

Trying to ignore the feeling of pity that Lily would be ashamed to know she inspires you, you gently grab her wrist. “The cans won't fly away, Lils, let’s go.”

Still sniffing, but with her fine pink lips stretched in the attempt of a smile, the young woman nods.

As you turn toward the door, your mind registers a look of complicity traveling from her to her husband, but you don’t give it much importance. Couple things, you think. After all, you too have similar expressions sometimes.

“Where’s my little Harry?”

The living room, sunken in a semi-darkness when you arrived a while ago, is now lightened by reduced magical fireworks, much to the eleven-months-old baby’s amusement. Tiny fingers try to catch the bright glows, Harry’s young mind surely making up stories of its own to explain the bizarre shots of lights that he keeps failing to grab.

By the child’s side, on the carpet, Sirius lies on his abdomen, wand swirling to direct the fairy-like spots from his godson’s nose to the roof, and back. The huge grin of happiness plastered on his face, so different from the usual expression of worry that now accompanies him everywhere, tightens your chest. He keeps shouting at Harry, encouraging him to stretch higher to get to his goal, already teaching him the right attitude to face life. When the baby’s giggling convulsions involuntarily throw him off-balance, the man’s hand is there, always, to catch and steady him, which leads to more roaring guffaws and chirp-like laughter.

“Are you okay?”

Now, the roles are flipped: it’s Lily’s time to ask, and James’ turn to pat you.

Tears run down your cheeks, but you couldn’t place the emotion that generates them. Your heart is heavy with a mix of admiration for such a tender scene, for such a pure love. But also with the sight of your boyfriend playing with a baby -- a child that maybe, one day, you two will have the chance to mother too -- and acting like a father. And, unfortunately, the knowledge that this could happen outside, under a warm sun, in the green garden of a happy house, in a world at peace.

You used to think bitterly about having to fight at your young age, about seeing your dreams crush in the perspectives of suffering, about your colored horizon suddenly being replaced by a scale of dark, shapeless sorrow. But looking at Harry, at his pure green irises and his messy hair, you understand how much more he will have to face, growing in a world where innocence is replaced by uncertainty. How much braver he will have to be. And, even if you’re not a seer, even if you can’t declare prophecies like the one that links this infant’s path to that of evil and agony, you have the feeling that he will indeed be.

A warm chest pressed against your back causes your tensed muscles to relax, an exploit that only Sirius can achieve lately.

“Don’t cry, darling,” he whispers in your ear, “Or I might cry too.”

James and Lily take it as a joke, and chuckle a bit. So do you but, deep down, you sense truth in his words. This is a time when everybody, even the strongest, are susceptible of breaking down.

“I’m sorry,” you say gloomily, rubbing what’s left of the tears from your face.

Harry’s moans attract your attention, and you crouch down to take him in your arms, his naive wide eyes warming your interior.

“What do you guys think about putting Mr. Potter Junior to bed and cooking some pasta?” you ask between to pecks on the baby’s fleshy arms.

“Not yet.”

Not yet? You thought that Lily wanted to get a bit distracted.

“Yeah, not yet, Y/N,” her husband seconds her, scratching the back of his neck. “Harry still has a- mission to complete.”

“A mission, Harry?” you smile as you tickle the child’s belly. “What can it be?”

“You can tell Y/N now, Harry.” Sirius’ voice is warm and excited.

James starts shifting his weight from feet to feet, exaggeratedly beaming at you or his son, you can’t tell. “Come on, Harry, tell her to say yes.”

Even Lily seems affected by whatever got into the boys, because she repeats the Word yes over and over as she caresses the baby’s feet.

Harry’s innocent look bounces from each one of you to the next one -- probably not understanding what is going on, like me, you think -- until it finally comes back to his balled fist, which he starts munching.

Immediately, you are assaulted and the child is ripped from your arms.

“He’s going to swallow it!”

“Open his fist! Open it!”

“Don’t you- It’s not here!”

“Harry, spit!”

“Come on, Harry, listen to Daddy!”

“I told you this was the hell of a bad idea!”

In the agitation, neither of the three notices a small object falling on the floor. As you bend down to retrieve it, you distinct its silvery color in contrast with the red carpet. You take the little circle between two fingers and expose it to the light of the still moving fireworks.

Wait a minute: a circle?

“Sirius?”

Three heads jerk in your direction.

“Wha-”

“Surprise, darling.”

Everything, everything, in this moment is perfect. Your boyfriend’s goofy grin, his blushing cheeks, his glowing eyes, your friends’ relieved expressions, Harry’s bubbly drooling, and the little metallic jewel in your hand.

“Sirius, is this a marriage proposal?” you ask, feeling your skin prickle.

“Is this a yes?” he answers, as nervous as you are.

You’re grateful that nothing stands in the way, because you would have knocked out even a dozen of Death Eaters to get to him right now. Your body collides with his in a kiss that you hadn’t shared in a long time. It’s one of those passionate affection demonstrations you used to give each other in your first years as a couple, but that were now replaced by constantly covering each other’s back or worrying to death because of the other’s delay.

You feel his mint breath on your upper lip, and his teeth tugging your lower one. How long had it been since you last took the silky texture of his hair between your fingers? Apparently, he feels the same about the presence of his hands on your waist, as he hugs you tighter.

Your friends have the delicacy to look away until you two finish kissing, which takes so long that James rolls his eyes when you do. “There is a minor in the public.”

Lily pinches him with her free hand, and drags him toward the kitchen despite his waits and I want to see her say nos.

Your chest heaving up and down is on perfect synchrony with Sirius’, and your arms are still safely locked around his neck.

“You didn’t answer, darling.”

“Well, you didn’t properly ask, Black.”

He tries to suppress a smile, but fails.

How is it that you can still, and always, win?

“Fine.” His fingers softly force your hands open and grab the little cold loop from it. With a meticulous slowness and a wink that makes your heart melt, one of his knees reaches the ground, while the other, like his eyes, look up at your face. “Y/N L/N. To honor all the years of mutual love we have demonstrated each other, and still plan to do, would you grant me the-”

“Do you want to marry him or not?”

James’ intruding face quickly disappears back through the next room’s door frame, and through your giggling you hear Lily scolding him.

“Sirius Orion Black. It is with great pleasure that I-”

“Yes! She says yes!”

“James!”

“But Lily- If I hadn’t helped them, these two would still stealthily look at each other with fish eyes from the opposite corners of the room!”

“So would you if Y/N hadn’t stepped up!”

“What does this mean?”

“That they can handle their own thing by themselves.”

Ignoring their discussion, Sirius slides the shiny ring on your finger, enjoying the sight of it.

“Ready to become a Black, Y/N?”

“I’ve always been, Sirius.”

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George Floyd gets a frog named in his honour. He also had a turtle named in his honour as well. George Floyd was recognized by having a new species of turtle named in his honour.A peer reviewed paper has formally named a recently discovered species of Australian Saw-shelled Turtle Wollumbinia georgefloydi Hoser, 2021 in honour of George Floyd. Floyd was bashed and killed by four police officers at Minnesota, USA, in 2020 and his death sparked outrage and protests globally. The naming of this turtle in honour of George Floyd follows a massive three volume monograph on the Australasian Tree Frogs published by Hoser in 2020 in which Hoser announced the formal discovery of 62 new species. One of those new to science species was also named in honour of George Floyd. At that time, Raymond Hoser wrote: “The species is named in honour of the late George Floyd, a victim of an unprovoked attack by four thug police officers at Powderhorn, in downtown Minneapolis, USA, on 25 May 2020.” A second frog species was also named Kumanjayiwalkerus kumanjayi in honour of Kumanjayi Walker a 19 year old Aboriginal (Black) Australian who was unlawfully shot and killed by a police officer in 2019. Hoser wrote: “The species Kumanjayiwalkerus kumanjayi sp. nov. is named in honour Kumanjayi Walker, another indigenous Australian victim of an execution by a racist white Australian police officer in the Northern Territory (NT), being one of over 400 such victims in Australia since 1990. The 19 year old was shot and killed by NT Police Officer Zachary Rolfe in November 2019.” Hoser also wrote: “The world is full of memorials and species named in honour mass murderers, thieves and despots and it is appropriate that victims of these people should also be honoured occasionally.” The frog paper was published in hard copy on Friday 5 June 2020 and following publication of this paper, a number of people have heeded Hoser’s words and toppled statues of racists and murderers and thrown them into rivers and lakes. The paper naming the new turtle species in honour of George Floyd was published on 16 August 2021. Wollumbinia georgefloydi occurs in the wet tropics region of north Queensland, Australia, bounded by the Burdekin Gap in the South and found as far north as about Cape Flattery. Hoser also named another newly discovered species Wollumbinia darnellafrazierae Hoser, 2021. Wollumbinia darnellafrazierae is named in honour of Darnella Frazier. Born 2003 in Nashville, Tennessee to parents LaTangie Gillespie and James Frazier. She has three brothers and one sister. Most of Darnella’s life, however, has been spent in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After being active in varsity basketball, she graduated from Roosevelt High School in that city. She is an American woman who (at age 17) video recorded the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and then posted her video on Facebook. Because Frazier’s video contradicted the initial Minneapolis police account of Floyd’s death, it sparked global protests regarding police abuse, lies and corruption. Demonstrations demanding justice for Floyd exploded over the summer of 2020 involving an estimated 26 million U.S. citizens in more than 2,000 cities across the nation. Similar protests took place in over 60 nations around the world. The Frazier video sparked the greatest level of demonstrations and protest in human history. More immediately her video led to more intense monitoring of police behaviour around the world including investigations of past acts of police killings of unarmed black men, women, and children. Without her video, the Floyd death would have been ignored and the victim blamed.The genus name Myuchelys Thomson and Georges, 2009 was illegally coined as a genus name to over-write Wollumbina Wells, 2007 by a pair of taxonomic vandals and police protected criminals, Scott Thomson and Arthur Georges. The name Myuchelys is an objective junior synonym of Wollumbina and the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) has ruled that the illegally coined Myuchelys should never be used. In spite of the ICZN ruling of 2021 against the thieves, Thomson and Georges have aggressively promoted their illegal name online, including on wikipedia pages that they obsessively control and so a warning against their reckless misinformation is given here.Raymond Hoser, is the world’s foremost expert on reptiles and frogs. He has authored numerous major books on wildlife, handles the world’s deadliest snakes on a daily basis, does reptile shows for kids and adults and invented Reptile Parties for birthday parties, which are now copied by businesses worldwide and hailed as one of the greatest wildlife conservation and education initiatives in recent times. To date he has discovered and named over 350 species of reptiles, as well as discovering and naming dozens of species of frogs and mammals. Not as well-known is that in 1990 Hoser was bashed by several police in a police station in Melbourne, Australia and nearly killed in the same manner George Floyd died. Hoser escaped that attack with a broken nose, smashed back and arms and required surgery and years of ongoing medical treatment. He also got hit with a series of falsified criminal charges which he eventually beat. Hoser's story was published in the best-selling books The Hoser Files and Victoria Police Corruption - 2. The Victoria police officer who led the attack on Hoser, Richard George Valentine was found guilty in the courts of unlawful assault at the same time Hoser's name was cleared of the false charges, but Valentine kept his job in the police where he could continue to engage in acts of corruption and brutality. The lead police witness against Hoser was a rent-a-witness, being a police protected criminal and pedophile named Brett David Winduss, whom even Valentine could not protect forever and was eventually jailed for a vicious attack on young girl in Kew, Melbourne. The unprovoked attack on Hoser by the corrupt police was sparked after Hoser complained in writing of another police officer (Ross Bingley) who was corruptly protecting a gang of criminals attacking taxi drivers in the 1980's. While an internal police investigation also found against Bingley, he too kept his job. Hoser noted "Watching the attack on George Floyd on TV, brought back the memories of the pain and suffering I suffered at the hands of Valentine and his gang of thugs 30 years ago. ... it hit a raw nerve. ... even now I suffer 24/7 pain in my back, elbows and hands as a result of several police jumping on top of me on the floor of the Kew Police station. ... this sort of vicious attack you never recover from." For further information and hi res. photos of the relevant new species contact Raymond Hoser in Australia on: +61412777211

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Reptile parties man honours dead American. George Floyd is recognized by having a new species of turtle named in his honour.A peer reviewed paper has formally named a recently discovered species of Australian Saw-shelled Turtle Wollumbinia georgefloydi Hoser, 2021 in honour of George Floyd. Floyd was bashed and killed by four police officers at Minnesota, USA, in 2020 and his death sparked outrage and protests globally. The naming of this turtle in honour of George Floyd follows a massive three volume monograph on the Australasian Tree Frogs published by Hoser in 2020 in which Hoser announced the formal discovery of 62 new species. One of those new to science species was also named in honour of George Floyd. At that time, Raymond Hoser wrote: “The species is named in honour of the late George Floyd, a victim of an unprovoked attack by four thug police officers at Powderhorn, in downtown Minneapolis, USA, on 25 May 2020.” A second frog species was also named Kumanjayiwalkerus kumanjayi in honour of Kumanjayi Walker a 19 year old Aboriginal (Black) Australian who was unlawfully shot and killed by a police officer in 2019. Hoser wrote: “The species Kumanjayiwalkerus kumanjayi sp. nov. is named in honour Kumanjayi Walker, another indigenous Australian victim of an execution by a racist white Australian police officer in the Northern Territory (NT), being one of over 400 such victims in Australia since 1990. The 19 year old was shot and killed by NT Police Officer Zachary Rolfe in November 2019.” Hoser also wrote: “The world is full of memorials and species named in honour mass murderers, thieves and despots and it is appropriate that victims of these people should also be honoured occasionally.” The frog paper was published in hard copy on Friday 5 June 2020 and following publication of this paper, a number of people have heeded Hoser’s words and toppled statues of racists and murderers and thrown them into rivers and lakes. The paper naming the new turtle species in honour of George Floyd was published on 16 August 2021. Wollumbinia georgefloydi occurs in the wet tropics region of north Queensland, Australia, bounded by the Burdekin Gap in the South and found as far north as about Cape Flattery. Hoser also named another newly discovered species Wollumbinia darnellafrazierae Hoser, 2021. Wollumbinia darnellafrazierae is named in honour of Darnella Frazier. Born 2003 in Nashville, Tennessee to parents LaTangie Gillespie and James Frazier. She has three brothers and one sister. Most of Darnella’s life, however, has been spent in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After being active in varsity basketball, she graduated from Roosevelt High School in that city. She is an American woman who (at age 17) video recorded the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and then posted her video on Facebook. Because Frazier’s video contradicted the initial Minneapolis police account of Floyd’s death, it sparked global protests regarding police abuse, lies and corruption. Demonstrations demanding justice for Floyd exploded over the summer of 2020 involving an estimated 26 million U.S. citizens in more than 2,000 cities across the nation. Similar protests took place in over 60 nations around the world. The Frazier video sparked the greatest level of demonstrations and protest in human history. More immediately her video led to more intense monitoring of police behaviour around the world including investigations of past acts of police killings of unarmed black men, women, and children. Without her video, the Floyd death would have been ignored and the victim blamed.The genus name Myuchelys Thomson and Georges, 2009 was illegally coined as a genus name to over-write Wollumbina Wells, 2007 by a pair of taxonomic vandals and police protected criminals, Scott Thomson and Arthur Georges. The name Myuchelys is an objective junior synonym of Wollumbina and the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) has ruled that the illegally coined Myuchelys should never be used. In spite of the ICZN ruling of 2021 against the thieves, Thomson and Georges have aggressively promoted their illegal name online, including on wikipedia pages that they obsessively control and so a warning against their reckless misinformation is given here.Raymond Hoser, is the world’s foremost expert on reptiles and frogs. He has authored numerous major books on wildlife, handles the world’s deadliest snakes on a daily basis, does reptile shows for kids and adults and invented Reptile Parties for birthday parties, which are now copied by businesses worldwide and hailed as one of the greatest wildlife conservation and education initiatives in recent times. To date he has discovered and named over 350 species of reptiles, as well as discovering and naming dozens of species of frogs and mammals. Not as well-known is that in 1990 Hoser was bashed by several police in a police station in Melbourne, Australia and nearly killed in the same manner George Floyd died. Hoser escaped that attack with a broken nose, smashed back and arms and required surgery and years of ongoing medical treatment. He also got hit with a series of falsified criminal charges which he eventually beat. Hoser's story was published in the best-selling books The Hoser Files and Victoria Police Corruption - 2. The Victoria police officer who led the attack on Hoser, Richard George Valentine was found guilty in the courts of unlawful assault at the same time Hoser's name was cleared of the false charges, but Valentine kept his job in the police where he could continue to engage in acts of corruption and brutality. The lead police witness against Hoser was a rent-a-witness, being a police protected criminal and pedophile named Brett David Winduss, whom even Valentine could not protect forever and was eventually jailed for a vicious attack on young girl in Kew, Melbourne. The unprovoked attack on Hoser by the corrupt police was sparked after Hoser complained in writing of another police officer (Ross Bingley) who was corruptly protecting a gang of criminals attacking taxi drivers in the 1980's. While an internal police investigation also found against Bingley, he too kept his job. Hoser noted "Watching the attack on George Floyd on TV, brought back the memories of the pain and suffering I suffered at the hands of Valentine and his gang of thugs 30 years ago. ... it hit a raw nerve. ... even now I suffer 24/7 pain in my back, elbows and hands as a result of several police jumping on top of me on the floor of the Kew Police station. ... this sort of vicious attack you never recover from."

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Mentoring And Also Mentoring For Specialists

In recent years there has been a substantial increase in the demand for mentors and also trainers. The driving forces behind this are: executives, managers and also other professionals are progressively expected to show that they are embarking on considerable professional development; the workplace and also business work atmosphere is coming to be even more competitive; the impact of the arising industrial countries is requiring radical changes in the skill mix required of managers and also other experts in the established nations; the variety of individual and expert skills, knowledge, as well as expertise needed to succeed in today's international service setting. As this need has actually boosted, so has the diversity of roles played and also the range of services used. Indeed, there are a lot of variants as well as mixes of mentoring and also mentoring, that it is progressively hard to separate in between them and virtually impossible to categorise the variants readily available.

Work environment mentoring is, regardless of looks, a structured, arranged, aspect of the organisation's training as well as growth task. It is, however, generally rather separate from ordered training activities and also from the official appraisal process accomplished by the line-manager. This official, hierarchical partnership that exists between a individual and their line-manager is typically not a appropriate car for a mentoring relationship. Mentoring normally takes the kind of a personal, one to one partnership, where a more elderly individual, a minimum of one placement higher than the line-manager of the individual being mentored, aids a much more junior one to make development, typically as part of a organized growth program, such as monitoring fast-tracking, planning for a much more senior post, or leading a stage of work environment task, such as a project. The mentor offers advice and suggestions, in a helpful and non-threatening way, however in a layout and style which is developed by the organisation's human resource department and afterwards monitored by that department. The goal is to provide the recipient with support that will certainly allow them to progress with confidence and to attain their personal work environment purposes as well as the goals set for them by the organisation.

In an organisational setting, training has actually generally belonged to the managerial duty played by line-managers, or even more experienced staff members, that reveal much less knowledgeable associates the best ways to perform an task, or set of tasks, properly. This is by default part of the cyclical procedure of developing an individual's abilities, reviewing their efficiency, appraising their progress, executed by the line manager. If the line supervisor does not execute the coaching directly, they will have arranged for an knowledgeable staff member, generally within the same group as the individual being trained, to supply the coaching. In this context, training is, in effect, the mentor of a ability till the skill is discovered and also can be consistently performed, individually, to the necessary criterion. Although most of this sort of mentoring is supplied by people that are extra seasoned, it is not always the instance that they are much more senior. Frequently, since the coach is explaining or demonstrating a ability, or process, the trainer can be a younger person, yet somebody who can passing on their skills to others that are much less experienced because activity.

Today, the typical duties of advisors and also trainers can still be seen at work. However, in many organisations, and particularly in most business markets aside from the hefty markets and also manufacturing, there has actually been significant adjustment. The main modifications have been in the widening of the series of coaching techniques as well as the combining of mentoring as well as coaching right into one method, typically under the title of Training. Despite the most effective efforts of some academics as well as management experts, senior managers in some organisations, as well as the human resource purists, the terms coach as well as coaching, and the duties, are currently used mutually in lots of company fields. The major reason for this is that people are requiring as well as expecting their mentor-coach to have a vast array of abilities that includes the very best features of both categories. Many organisations are additionally establishing mentor-coaching systems that additionally combine the very best practices of both. The result is that, progressively, the terms are in effect synonymous, as well as what one individual or organisation will certainly identify as Mentor, an additional will classify as Coach.

Also, many people are setting up to deal with a individual train, whose function is a mix of advisor and also trainer. This is similar to the partnership between a sporting activities individual, as an example athlete, as well as their character trainer, which between individuals and their personal physical fitness instructor. In business as well as professional development globe, the result is a crossbreed of mentoring as well as coaching that lots of people currently identify as Personal Mentoring.

The perfect mentor is a person that has actually been learnt mentoring strategies, as well as has a blend of ideal work experience, certifications, and also general service understanding, that can be used to lead and recommend a particular mentee. Furthermore it is crucial that the mentor is a individual that has an interest, if not a interest, for aiding others to create, fulfil their possibility, as well as accomplish their and also the organisation's objectives.

The perfect trainer is a person who has been trained in coaching strategies, has a broad range of experience as well as know-how, has expertise as well as understanding of existing business task as well as fads, as well as an understanding of just how an individual's job and expert advancement should be tailored in order to assist that individual in being successful in attaining their growth goals.

As can be seen, there great resemblances in the two functions, and also, as a result, the differences are virtually indistinguishable as well as they are now regularly incorporated. Both are expected to have ideal expertise and experience, both have to be proficient in: listening actively; interaction methods; having the ability to recognize the job and personal setting of the individual being trained; developing a relationship and establishing a relationship; asking appropriate questions; routing the coachee to various other sources helpful when appropriate; identifying, agreeing and also establishing objectives; helping to devise action plans to achieve the goals; assisting to monitor and make adjustments to the strategies; and ultimately, knowing when it is time to end the connection.

A instructor deals with people and also organisations in order to help them to accomplish greater levels of performance and-or specific goals. The trainer will, by requirement, take into account previous performance and occasions, yet concentrates on actions as well as goals for the future. The method is activity oriented, focusing on where the customer is currently, where they wish to remain in the future, and also exactly how ideal to obtain them there. This structure knows to those associated with calculated preparation or project management, as it is the foundation of both. The coach takes this simple, structured technique, and builds on it to establish a plan of action that will enable them to assist their customer achieve their goals.

For individuals, the advantages can be lots of, including helping the private to: stay clear of making errors in their service or individual lives; attain much more, in less time; minimise current troubles; effectively get ready for potential problems; be happier with their personal and-or job life; attain job or personal growth targets; change occupation or profession instructions; come to be much more effective and also influential in all areas of their life; be much more attractive to others, in their job and specialist growth and-or their personal life.

For organisations, the advantages are comparable. They include: gaining from a person who has a broad range of expertise; acquiring independent, impartial, objective, suggestions and also assistance; obtaining enhancements to performance, top quality levels, customer contentment, shareholder value; acquiring raised dedication and also complete satisfaction levels in operational as well as administration team; boosted personnel retention; supporting other training and also advancement task; visible evidence that the organisation is dedicated to developing and also boosting; developing an effective process for organisational growth.

The role of mentoring as well as training has actually altered substantially over recent years. However, the modifications are generally accepted as being positive ones, and today trainers are approved as an essential feature of the development process, both for individuals and for organisations. As always, excellent care has to be taken to guarantee that the instructor and also any process that is embarked on is appropriate for the customer, but with this caveat, it is currently clear that coaches have an crucial role to play in the growth of people and also organisations in today's organisation world. As the rate of change as well as the intricacy of service task rises, it is certain that coaches will continuously play a crucial role in assisting individuals and also organisations handle that change as well as intricacy better.

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It Looks Disney Is All Collection to Master Their Electronic Footprint

Baby Activities And Active Enjoyment Parents need a website that they know will entertain kiddies and still let them to develop the skills they need to sense comfortable about utilising the computer keyboard and mouse, while at the same time frame, comfortable enough to steer drop-down choices, nav bars, and call to activity buttons on the own. The internet is a superb position to build assurance for children of most ages and typical entry allows them the ability to interact and grow with today's technology at their particular vintage disney games .

Video Produces A Full New World Thanks to YouTube and Google, almost every premium site offers a range of movie shows with their internet visitors. The use of Multimedia is an engaging way to entertain and train customers about their current services and products, solutions, or information product, however for kids... something with a little bit more "oomph" is needed. Anything slightly more magical.

Brilliant Lights, Color and Video Activities You will know straight away if you have found an internet site that may get the children press of agreement, because it could make you, the parent, a tad bit more interested in learning a vibrant colored link and you would want to know in the event that you click it, what will occur next? A perfect exemplory case of this is from the web Disney Sport developed from the film "Ratatouille" where you fit wits contrary to the computer to perform a storage game.

Free Stuff The Kids May Enjoy Best of all, parents can allow the children enjoy on the web games as long as they wish to and never having to spend a dime. Also the Download games are free for 30 minutes, therefore the kids may know immediately if it's too much, or when they like the game and might are interested as a birthday present, etc. Most of all, you because the parent have offered your youngster a great, secure and instructional place to be while online.

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'Disney junior games'is not only about activities, but also includes music and stories that exude the Disney aroma in a marvelous method to impart fun and joy to every participant. It also offers line that inspire a healthy lifestyle and habits for pre-schoolers. Several parents recognize enjoyment learning games and also recommend them. Disney offers plenty of entry-level activities for three-year-olds, portrayal a great website to introduce children to the PC. Games presenting Mickey Mouse, Useful Manny, Lightening McQueen, etc. are on the basis of the favorite Disney characters of children. Kids will soon be thrilled to connect to animation stars from the Disney Playhouse.

More, the activities are organized completely to present appropriate choices for each age group. The majority of the games are informative, nevertheless several are entertainment-oriented and intended for enjoyment and leisure. A few video games, such as for instance'Koko's Shade Field'and'Quincy and the Miraculous Units'are dedicated to Shades and Shapes, that assist children to learn and identify shades and object shapes. Besides, the complete leisure is vibrant with attractive shades and pleasant however vibrant music. The web site is child-friendly and allows easy navigation, to ensure that children can simply access their decision games.

Most of the Disney junior activities are clear to see for the appropriate age-group and the helpful software helps kids to understand things at a glance. Yet another intriguing truth relating to this online venture is that it provides several language options. So, people who are not really acquainted with British can select the right native language from the language record offered on the site. After the language is placed, the site will become interacting in the selected language and the games is likewise on the basis of the picked language. That is an extra gain for kids as they will not need to blink and consider for every single following step.

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The Research Is On After vintage disney board games  a lot of time searching through young ones party favors, kiddies toys, kiddies names, young ones issues, and so on, parents could find a number of websites that meet their tough criteria, but might not go the'two thumbs up'rules by the kids - even when they are actually great websites, kiddies might not be so enthusiastic about butterfly facilities, prehistoric dinosaurs, and photographs of the solar system after about 15 minutes.

Baby Games And Active Fun Parents need a web site they know can entertain young ones and still allow them to produce the skills they should feel comfortable about utilizing the computer keyboard and mouse, while at the same time frame, comfortable enough to steer drop-down selections, nav bars, and contact to action links on the own. The internet is a good place to create confidence for kids of ages and normal accessibility allows them the opportunity to interact and develop with modern tools at their particular pace.

Movie Generates A Whole New World Because of YouTube and Bing, virtually every advanced website supplies a range of video films for their web visitors. The utilization of Media is definitely an participating solution to entertain and teach customers about their recent products, solutions, or news object, but also for kids... something with slightly more "oomph" is needed. Anything slightly more magical.

Vivid Lights, Color and Movie Games You will know instantly when you have discovered a website which will get the children press of approval, as it could make you, the parent, a little more interested in learning a vibrant colored url and you would want to know in the event that you press it, what'll happen next? An ideal exemplory case of that is from the internet Disney Game made from the film "Ratatouille" wherever you fit wits against the pc to perform a storage game.

Free Material The Young ones May Love Best of all, parents may allow the children perform on line games so long as they would like to without having to pay a dime. Also the Get games are free for thirty minutes, therefore the children will know instantly if it's way too hard, or if they like the overall game and may possibly are interested as a birthday surprise, etc. Most of all, you while the parent have offered your child a great, safe and academic destination for a be while online.

Disney is a high brand name, in regards to reports, games and games for children. With an established familiarity in house holds, Disney is synonymous with kids-entertainment for most people. Disney junior activities, a new on the web software for children outdated between 2 and 7 has obtained recognition in a quick course of time. Actually, it is just a multi-platform company, and its game titles are designed to ask parents, i.e., parents and grand-parents to join young ones to and get the Disney experience.

'Disney junior activities'is not merely about games, but also contains audio and reports that express the Disney aroma in a wonderful method to share enjoyment and joy to every participant. Additionally it presents line that inspire a healthier lifestyle and habits for pre-schoolers. Many parents appreciate enjoyment learning activities and also recommend them. Disney presents plenty of entry-level games for three-year-olds, portrayal a great portal to add kiddies to the PC. Activities featuring Mickey Mouse, Useful Manny, Lightening McQueen, etc. are on the basis of the favorite Disney heroes of children. Kids is likely to be thrilled to interact with cartoon stars from the Disney Playhouse.

Further, the games are organized perfectly to provide appropriate possibilities for every single age group. The majority of the activities are informative, however a couple of are entertainment-oriented and intended for enjoyment and leisure. A few game titles, such as'Koko's Color Field'and'Quincy and the Magic Units'are predicated on Colors and Patterns, which help kids to learn and identify shades and thing shapes. Besides, the complete leisure is brilliant with desirable colors and nice however energetic music. The web site is child-friendly and enables easy navigation, so that children can very quickly accessibility their selection games.

All the Disney junior games are easy to understand for the relevant age-group and the pleasant screen helps kiddies to comprehend things at a glance. Still another interesting reality concerning this on line opportunity is so it provides a few language options. Therefore, people that are not familiar with English can select the right indigenous language from the language number offered on the site. After the language is defined, the site will become interacting in the chosen language and the activities may also be on the basis of the picked language. That is an additional benefit for kids as they will not have to flash and consider for every single subsequent step.

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Padian & May (1993) argued that Crurotarsi is an objective junior synonym of Pseudosuchia due to having the same content, despite being defined differently. Is this how objective synonyms work?

Nope.

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The Write Place: The Everywriter’s Desk

by Lisa Hiton

Looking for the right advice on pursuing the writer’s life? You’ve come to the write place!

The summer before my junior year in high school, my soon-to-be teacher, Ms. Tanimoto, assigned two books to incoming AP students: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White. The Scarlet Letter was forgotten as soon as it was finished; I instantly detested Hawthorne’s penchant for moral allegories surrounding evil and sin, finding it all a bit too on-the-nose and heavy-handed. The Elements of Style, however, became an instant mainstay to my writerly temperament.

It seemed strange to be assigned a reference book to read cover to cover. I’d only ever used reference books like dictionaries, thesauruses, and encyclopedias as touchstones during reading and writing assignments—brief interruptions to expand my knowledge and/or revise my work.Upon reading Strunk and White’s masterpiece, however, my understanding of reference books changed entirely. Though the book is a mere 87 pages, my peers seemed to begrudge the assignment or blow it off entirely. I, on the other hand, found my attention rapt.

The Elements of Style is a reference book on the rules of English rhetoric, yes, but the attitude and dogma of its writers, Strunk and White, make it as much a manifesto as a convincing collection of laws governing the way we (ought to) speak and (must) write. The seriousness of tone and voice in these pages presents us with far more than a reference for grammar and usage, but rather, a true understanding of style in and of itself—that rhetoric is more than grammar and syntax, but a true translation of our consciousness into clear, material words. Such gravitas became most apparent to me when I arrived to page 52. Amid the section on misused words and expression, Strunk and White lay out the difference between nauseous and nauseated as follows:

Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means “sickening to contemplate”; the second means “sick to the stomach.” Do not, therefore, say, “I feel nauseous,” unless you are sure you have that effect on others.

Besides thinking of the many times I had misused “nauseous”, I actually laughed out loud. Amidst the seriousness in the rule there was a deep sense of snark. From the seriousness came a great deal of humor.

Since that first reading encounter with The Elements of Style, my well worn copy has remained with me. Whether I’m writing an academic paper, a cover letter, an author’s bio, a poem, a book review, or anything else, Strunk and White are there reminding me to be as clear as possible.

MY ELEMENTS OF STYLE

As I continued to grow in my writing life, I found that other books became constant sources of aid and knowledge, so much so that my desk had its own section of books at the ready, for whatever obstacles befell a given blank page. And over the years, the kinds of references have grown to fit my own writerly needs. And as I visit my friends who are writers, I notice some trends from desk to desk.

Here’s my working writing desk, fit with all I need! I’ve got my laptop, notebooks, pens, reference books, books to review, and some of my favorite books that I keep near me for inspiration. In the drawer of my desk, I keep mailing materials for my stack of chapbooks to sign and send to those who request it.  

Regarding reference books, every writer’s desk seems to contain The Elements of Style by Strunk and White, a dictionary, and a well-worn thesaurus. My desk currently has my hardcover copy of The Elements of Style, The New Roget’s Thesaurus in Dictionary Form, and Soule’s Dictionary of English Synonyms. Especially for those of you dreaming up holiday wish-lists, Maira Kalman’s illustrated version of The Elements of Style may be just the special book to add to the collection for you.

While I used to keep a desk-sized Merriam-Webster Dictionary on hand, I find the synonyms and thesaurus more useful these days, perhaps especially as I revise my first book of poems. When I find myself overusing the same verbs and adjectives, I can quickly reach for one of these books and get some inspiration. I’ve converted, these days, to using apps for dictionary and etymology. I especially like the free dictionary.com app, which allows you to click on a word three times and open up its dictionary page. The app also offers audio pronunciation.

Dictionaries are important resources, ones which can’t quite be replicated online. Each nation has its favorite, from the Oxford English Dictionary, to Merriam-Webster’s, to the Macquarie. While I don’t keep Merriam-Webster on my desk at this moment, I do keep it at my fingertips, using their online resources when I’m in need. Further, I’ve found the Merriam-Webster twitter to be a source of great comfort and comedy amidst America’s dire political landscape. While it is easy to look up a word online, the physical books—dictionaries, thesauruses, etc.—encourage more meandering through the worlds of words. Without the instant gratification that comes from looking up a word, you may stumble upon an etymological note that takes you to another page, and so on, until you’ve learned new things about words and perhaps found an even better way to say whatever it is you set out to put on the page.

These are my three most used reference books right now. I’m really excited about this new, hardcover copy of The Elements of Style, especially!

Another particularity of a writer’s desk seems to be a given writer’s tools. Do you do most of your writing on a computer? In a notebook? With an old refurbished typewriter? I personally use multiple tools to get my writing done. Certain parts of my writing process involve pen and paper, while others are done on my laptop. Many writers have a kind of obsession with their objects. For example, I only write with fine point uniball pens in black or purple ink. I use fine point, black sharpie markers for my writing to-do lists. And, as you'll see from a glimpse at my desk, I'm as particular about notebooks as I am about pens!

I keep a few different notebooks with different purposes going at a time. Here you’ll see two Shinola notebooks, which I love because they engrave your name for free—a great holiday gift, indeed!—my Moleskine planner, my to-do list pad, and a grey notebook where I keep notes on books as I read them. 

Another important element of a writer’s desk is its proximity to field guides. In my dream writing room, this might include specific maps, atlases, and encyclopedias. Currently, I’m working on poems and essays about my time spent in Greece on the island of Thassos and in the city of Thessaloniki. To that end, I have acquired field guides that can help me re-orient myself to that location. Names of trees, fish, flora, fauna, and foods are different in other places. I’ve also become a collector of field guides, including one that has images and names of specific kinds of lighthouses. What field guides might help you with a particular piece you’re working on right now?

As a field guide collector, these are some of my favorite possessions, found in random parts of the world, flea markets, and antique stores. Right now, I’m revising poems about my time in Greece on the island of Thassos. These field guides help inspire precision in describing water, fish, beaches, shells, and the like. 

Besides reference books and field guides, it seems that craft books or books about writing and reading are a mainstay on my desk too. Some of my absolute favorites are:

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

The Writing Life by Annie Dillard

Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose

Blue Pastures by Mary Oliver

Having these books on my desk is a reminder of my own intellectual inheritance as a writer, as well as a great source of guidance and inspiration to me.

EXPANSIVE FIELDS

There are of course many other must-have books, tools, and resources that writers need to have at the ready. A comparative study of writers’ desks would be ideal. In the absence of access to the likes of desks by Dr. Seuss, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Stephen King, JK Rowling, and the rest, here are some starter ideas by genre that you might consider as you expand your own writer’s desk. And of course, send us picture of your own desks and favorite desk necessities on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter by tagging us or using the hashtags: #everywritersdesk.

A Poet’s Guide to Poetry

Poetry has its own rules and vernacular that may give writers pause. From reference books, to prompting books, there are many craft resources for poets looking to understand lines, stanzas, and the soul of poetry as they grow their own volumes of poetry. Here’s a wishlist of some of my most beloved/ragged/well-loved books on poetry:

A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver

The Triggering Town by Richard Hugo

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

A Poet’s Guide to Poetry by Mary Kinzie

A Poet’s Glossary by Edward Hirsch

The Art of the Poetic Line by James Longenbach

A Little Book on Form: An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry by Robert Hass

Rules for the Dance by Mary Oliver

The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide by Robert Pinsky

ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound

Keeping Things Novel

For all you novelists, there are also a whole host of books to guide you in the writing of fiction.. Here are a few additions you might want to make to your #everywritersdesk:

How Fiction Works by James Wood

Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook by David Galef

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers by John Gardener

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose

Mastering Suspense, Structure, and Plot: How to Write Gripping Stories that Keep Readers on the Edge of Their Seat by Jane K. Cleland

Nonfiction

If creative nonfiction is where your writing practice is focused, there are all kinds of books available for your #everywritersdesk too! Nonfiction is a huge category, which could include journalism, biography, autobiography, and more. This list is focused on the literary spirit of creative nonfiction:

Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg

To Show and to Tell by Phillip Lopate

On Writing Well by William Zinsser

You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction by Lee Gutkind

Writing True: The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction by Sondra Perl and Mimi Schwartz

Inside Story: Everyone’s Guide to Reporting and Writing Creative Nonfiction by Julia Goldberg

Crafting the Personal Essay: A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Nonfiction by Dinty W. Moore

As these books serve the writing life, there are also those books that are so well-loved that they seem to live on our desks. Right now, the collected works of Sylvia Plath and Frank Bidart have been near me at all times, just like a security blanket for my authorial heart. What books do you find stay off the shelf? Tag them in your #everywritersdesk photos.

Of course, there are many other books that may guide you on your journey. Many craft books and writers’ resources can also be found on my series blog, “Reading Like a Writer” where I recommend specific craft books in conjunction with the genre of Write the World’s monthly writing contests. We can’t wait to see your additions to #everywritersdesk by tagging us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook!

About Lisa

Lisa Hiton is an editorial associate at Write the World. She writes two series on our blog: The Write Place where she comments on life as a writer, and Reading like a Writer where she recommends books about writing in different genres. She’s also the interviews editor of Cosmonauts Avenue and the poetry editor of the Adroit Journal.

[isabellestillman]

Strong (In)Dependent Woman

From an evolutionary perspective, humans are not meant to be alone. Darwin and our seventh-grade science teachers would have us recall that the foremost objective of any living thing is to procreate. Our species requires the meeting of two distinct individuals to do so: we need a second human to survive.

From the perspective of my elite, liberal, feminist upbringing, a young woman ought to survive on her own. In my world, engagements before age 25 are met with shock if not opprobrium, breaking up with him is encouraged in favor of “doing you,” career-based choices are lauded over those that prioritize relationships. ‘Survival,’ in my case, often seems synonymous with ‘self-reliance.’

Run fast, be smart, get dirty, eat what you want—and don’t ever think you need a man to make you whole: it’s a crucial set of tips, an education in womanhood of which too many girls and women are deprived. It’s one that I’ve taken seriously throughout my adolescence. But having internalized its expectations of autonomy, I’ve begun to scold myself for longing, for loneliness, for the slightest whiff of dependence.

It is this capacity to scold that I now question.

Will was my blind date to a wine-and-cheese dorm party my junior year of college: an unfamiliar face with mountain-man hair, his gangly frame swimming in a sport coat, paired perfectly with beat-up trail running shoes. It was a first sight thing. That night we didn’t leave our corner of the room once. We traded thoughts on the Green Mountains and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, privilege and justice, the scenes at the tables where we’d grown up eating dinner.

The next week, we went for burgers and beers in town. Four days later, I wrote in my journal, “Something I know for sure: I am falling in love.” From then on, we saw each other every day. We’d drive down dirt roads to catch sunsets and eat pancakes in bed and try to figure out how to be good in the world.

We were so different; that was what drew me in. I craved something other, something to shatter the carefully sculpted perspectives I’d held for the first two decades of my life. Will challenged me, his mind full of questions I’d never wondered and convictions I’d never entertained. I was spellbound by his way of seeing the world, hungry for the way he made me eat away at my own beliefs. For a while, I thought that was what it meant to find a partner.  

But over time, our differences began to wear, revealing themselves not just as day-to-day misunderstandings but as existential crises. Little things at first: Will was a minimalist, the owner of roughly five shirts, a couple pairs of shorts, and a laptop from 2007. I like clothes (whatever!), enjoy dinner out, spent $30 on Amazon for a poster to hang in my dorm. The first winter of our relationship, I bought a new sweater. I wore it to his house and waited in his bathroom, talking to him through the curtain as he finished showering with his simple bar of soap. I caught my reflection in the mirror—the sweater suddenly egregiously bright—and felt immediately sick to my stomach: You don’t need this sweater, or any of the countless things you have. You’re wasteful and spoiled. Your priorities are all off. What is wrong with you?

Maybe you know the feeling–when minor lifestyle choices bear the weight of character traits, criteria for judgment. Will managed to keep his world view consistent down to the last detail—living only on bread and peanut butter, listening only to music with ‘real’ messages, keeping as much distance from his phone as possible. And, in contrast, I was shallow, asinine, silly, out of touch with the systems and structures of the world.

It was more than just wardrobe choices. It was Big Ideas About How To Live: my drive to change the world and his fear of unbridled ambition; my need for light-hearted frivolity, his reading of my laid-backness as a failure to scrutinize my surroundings; my trusting of certain ideas, his only constant being skepticism.

As these chasms grew, my strength depleted. And the same person who made me question my worth was the one I turned to for affirmation. If Will couldn’t spend the afternoon with me, I wondered what it meant and begged him to assure me it was nothing. When I felt unseen or inferior, I would escape to his dorm room to feel his hands in my hair, the band-aid of physical touch. I could never hear the words “I love you” enough. I needed him to say I was smart, insightful, vibrant: that he loved me even with my flaws. I needed him to tell me I was good.

It ended almost as suddenly as it started. A phone call three months after graduation. And soon, I began to wonder if my ‘flaws’ had really been flaws at all.

That summer, I moved to Boston to get my Masters in Education, knowing that what I needed to work on was being good enough for myself.

And it worked.

I became the strong independent woman my upbringing had enshrined. I got a 4.0 GPA at Harvard, took on double the required teaching load, created a new social circle, read and wrote more than I had in years. I got drinks and kissed by the Charles and met people’s friends and sometimes stayed the night. I dated around.

In the midst of all this, my best friend broke up with her long-term boyfriend. It was a long time coming, but nonetheless sad, difficult and dark. It was also, as our group of girlfriends agreed, a great time for Zoey to “work on herself.” “Time to do you,” we said. “Time to become the strong independent woman you envisioned when you made this decision.” Plant a garden, we suggested. Make a scrapbook, join a soccer league, play poker, paint. Make yourself happy. Be independent.

It was funny, hearing myself counsel Zooey. So convinced that I knew what she needed—to do things that ‘made her independent’—advising her with ostensible confidence, but never quite sure how, exactly, I’d arrived at my own self-discovery. I’d certainly tried to learn to cook, to train for a half marathon, to finish the Sunday crossword, to skateboard. But deep down, I knew it wasn’t these things that had gotten me where I was.

I was afraid, when Daniel came along that February, that I hadn’t yet solidified my independence, that I was still vulnerable to other people’s ideas of what would make me ‘good.’ But as we spent more time together, that fear sort of dropped away. Eventually it stopped occurring to me at all, because with Daniel I never felt like there were expectations. I felt like my own self, at my very best. The most perceptive observer, eagerest listener, funniest banterer, caringest ally, cleverest referencer, insightfulest reflector, outgoingest adventurer, sweetest lover: peak Isabeller. Not because I was trying. Because Daniel somehow brought it out.

In the spring of 2017, I got a job teaching at a school I believed in, in Denver, which I knew would suit me better than Boston. I didn’t want to leave Daniel, but in my strong independent heart I knew better than to base a career choice on some guy I’d been dating a few months. Even if I did suspect, as I still do, that he might be the guy. As my friends, family, and culture had taught me, I sided with my strong independent woman self.

It was a tearful (sobful, really) sunrise parting, imbued with the understanding that staying together would be essentially impossible. He was a third-year medical student, I a first-year teacher, the number of three-day weekends sub-three, the distance a seven-hour, two-thousand-mile journey.

I pushed. I said, “Let’s leave the option open,” and, “It might be worth a try.” He smiled noncommittally, saying it didn’t make sense, that it would be more pain-inducing than joyful. The rational side of me saw his reasoning as legitimate. The strong independent side of me saw single life as ‘the right thing’ for me. But the feeling side of me still believed that it was possible. That when something makes you feel like the best you, holding on makes the most sense.

Now, lying on the floor of my new, empty apartment, my mind rings, “I need you.” And in some ways, I do. I need people in my life who inspire me. I need to laugh often, which we did. I need places where I know my best self comes standard. Just like I need these things from my friends. Why is it that different to need from a partner? Why is it that different to need from a man, a lover?

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If you have a minute, Google “strong independent woman”: the how-to’s are endless, not to mention simple, degrading, sexist, and frankly absurd. (My personal favorite: lovepanky.com’s “How to be a Strong Independent Woman that Men Love.”)

Our society puts so much value on independence: make your own choices, discover your own happiness. Look in the mirror and say, “I look fly in this sweater, and I’m keeping it!” It sounds empowering. But it’s just another “women should ____.” A sexist expectation. A pigeonhole that’s exhausting at best, inhuman at worst. Being human means at least sometimes reveling in relying on others, in the beauty of finding your best self with other people—in a dependence that secures your survival, rather than threatens it.

I’m working on a theory of two kinds of dependence: in type one dependence, we rely on others to make ourselves believe we are good and worthy. In type two dependence, we rely on others because with them, we simply are that way. The fine line between the two gets lost easily in the fog of romantic feelings.  

It’s only a hypothesis, with a mere 23 years of evidence behind it, but it passes the common sense test. A woman’s choice of whether and how to depend should be just that: hers.

[magnusmadssen]

10 New Non Fiction to read during winter.

Hey kids! Winter is coming, and there are bound to be days where you will be spending more times indoors – whether it is at your local library or in the comfort of your own home. Luckily there is some awesome new non fiction available in the junior non fiction collection at your local library! Check out these books that will help you brush up on your English/grammar skills, prehistoric animals, and so much more!

Enjoy!

Planetarium.

Check out the latest book which is part of the “Welcome to the museum series”, a collection of books where the museum is open all hours!

Welcome to the planetarium! A book that houses a huge collection of astronomical objects and enables you to explore the universe in all its glory!

Hands down, one of the best books on planets!

Have a look at other books in the series, such as Animalium, Historium and Dinosaurium,

    The science of warfare : the ferocious facts about how we fight.

Want to learn the science of warfare? Then this is the book for you! This ferocious books of facts of how the best in warfare fight will tell you all you need to know. From medieval trebuchets and siege towers to the tanks and high-powered aircraft of today, it is an eye-opening introduction to the mechanics of warfare.

    Lizards.

Whether they already own one, or beg for one each Christmas and birthday, children love pets, and PET PALS is the perfect title for any pet-loving child out there. From where they sleep to what they eat, and how you can make them feel safe and at home, this book provides all the pet care advice you could possibly need. Adorable photos, and gentle, accessible text, makes this the perfect guide for all pet carers – whether they own a pet or not!

    Amazing transport : journey through the history of transport.

Fasten your seat belts and get ready to zoom through the history of transport and discover incredible facts about all kinds of vehicles along the way. With wonderfully intricate illustrations from Chris Mould, Amazing Transport tells the story of some of science’s most recognisable inventions in a way you’ve never seen before. Prepare yourself for the journey of a lifetime.

Hands down, one of the coolest books on transport I have ever seen! Ideal for anyone who is interested in transport and history!

    My first dictionary.

My first dictionary contains core words, with clear definitions, simple spelling tips and fun wordplay activities. This is a great book to help improve children’s reading, writing and spelling.

    My first thesaurus.

My first thesaurus is an easy-to-use word finder containing more than 100 key words and more than 1,000 secondary words, as well as synonyms and antonyms. Simple example sentences and amusing cartoons clarify and visually reinforce word meanings while making the process of discovery fun. The thesaurus can be used alongside its companion title, My first dictionary.

    Weather and the seasons.

This book is a good introduction to weather and the seasons, describing what is a cloud, why rainbows form, and how animals migrate for the winter, and includes four weather-related science projects.

    Taniwhasaurus : the true story of finding the dinosaurs of Zealandia.

Tells the story of Joan Wiffen, a self-taught fossil hunter who discovered the first evidence of dinosaurs in New Zealand.

  Maria Montessori.

New in the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Maria Montessori, the pioneering teacher and researcher. Maria grew up in Italy at a time when girls didn’t receive an equal education to boys. But Maria’s mother was supportive of her dreams, and Maria went on to study medicine. She later became an early years expert – founding schools with her revolutionary educational theories and changing the lives of many children. This moving book features stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline with historical photos and a detailed profile of the educators life.

10 New Non Fiction to read during winter. syndicated from https://paintballreviewsgun.wordpress.com/

[snakebusters]

Wuster gang of thieves illegally try to rename four genera of gecko.

the latest batch of taxonomic vandalism by the Wuster gang, has now ripped off the works from three papers I, Raymond Hoser published more than a year back. Their taxonomic vandalism now includes overwriting 1840's names from Leopold Joseph Franz Johann Fitzinger. Their next batch of 4 illegally coined names are as follows: Sundagekko Wood et al. 2019 was created in an act of taxonomic vandalism and is an illegal objective junior synonym of Scelotretus Fitzinger, 1843. The latter name is the only legal and correct name according to the rules of the ICZN. Japonigekko Wood et al. 2019 was created in an act of taxonomic vandalism and is an illegal objective junior synonym of Sparsuscolotes Hoser, 2018. The latter name is the only legal and correct name according to the rules of the ICZN. Rhacogekko Wood et al. 2019 was created in an act of taxonomic vandalism and is an illegal objective junior synonym of Alexteescolotes Hoser, 2018. The latter name is the only legal and correct name according to the rules of the ICZN. Archipelagekko Wood et al. 2019 was created in an act of taxonomic vandalism and is an illegal subjective junior synonym of Extentusventersquamus Hoser, 2018. The latter name is using the taxonomy of all relevant authors, the only legal and correct name according to the rules of the ICZN. The relevant Hoser papers are: Hoser, R.T., 2018a. A significant improvement to the taxonomy of the gecko genus Gekko Laurenti, 1768 sensu lato to better reflect morphological diversity and ancient divergence within the group. Australasian J. Herpetol. 38, 6–18. Hoser, R.T., 2018b. A revised taxonomy of the gecko genus Ptychozoon Kuhl and Van Hasselt, 1822, including the formal erection of two new genera to accommodate the most divergent taxa and description of ten new species. Australasian J. Herpetol. 38, 19–31. Hoser, R.T., 2018c. A revised taxonomy of the gecko genera Lepidodactylus Fitzinger, 1843, Luperosaurus Gray, 1845 and Pseudogekko Taylor, 1922 including the formal erection of new genera and subgenera to accommodate the most divergent taxa and description of 26 new species. Australasian J. Herpetol. 38, 32–64. The taxonomic vandalism paper, published online only and without zoobank references is: Wood et al. 2019. Parachute geckos free fall into synonymy: Gekko phylogeny, and a new subgeneric classification, inferred from thousands of ultraconserved elements. bioRxiv preprint first posted online Jul. 28, 2019; doi: http://   dx.doi.org     /10.1101/    717520.