China, tortoise-like, is extending its head cautiously beyond its carapace, taking slow, painstaking steps.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Wal-Mart Stores' tortoise-like digital pace may yet pay off.
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Brill blames the tortoise-like pace of government rule-writing on due process run amok.
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One such slowpoke route is the M42, along 143nd Street, which cuts across Times Square, where the traffic continues to move along at a tortoise-like pace.
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"The era of Merkel meant incrementalism and calculated decision-making," she said, in a nod to what was often seen as Merkel's tortoise-like decision-making on major issues.
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And of course, Tortoise, like its rivals, still has to prove it can build and deploy the new technology at scale (something self-driving car companies are still working on).
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In addition to forcing committee markups of the proposal to move at tortoise-like speed, Democrats have taken their fight to the House floor, forcing Republicans to take a series of votes to adjourn.
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This poor fellow has probably never beaten anybody at a stop light before, and this is likely his best chance ever, since I'm in the most tortoise-like of all vehicles, an original Volkswagen Beetle.
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LESS TORTOISE, MORE HARE: The Hill's Julian Hattem reports: The RNC is slamming the State Department's "tortoise-like" review of Hillary Clinton's emails and demanding the release of emails belonging to her aides before the election.
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Even the agency's tortoise-like progress in introducing the new braking system has proved a challenge — many of the upgraded engines have failed initial testing and have been pulled from service, resulting in canceled trains and furious commuters.
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The Republican National Committee (RNC) is slamming the State Department's "tortoise-like review" of emails to or from three senior Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonLewandowski on potential NH Senate run: If I run, 'I'm going to win' Fighter pilot vs.
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If she's going for a water-themed dish (each ingredient is made up of elemental "taste gems"), she might fight an armarock, a huge, tortoise-like creature covered in spikes that occasionally spins at incredible speeds, suddenly becoming a top-of-death.
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For months, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. hewed to a tortoise-like strategy for the 2020 presidential race: Repeatedly delaying his final decision, he hoped to skirt a long stretch of campaigning as a front-runner with a target on his back.
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A bas relief on a fragment of a limestone bowl depicts two humans and one tortoise-like creature dancing. Figure 13.
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A recurring joke involving Stewart imitating Senator Mitch McConnell in the voice of Cecil the Turtle, implying McConnell's tortoise-like appearance and mannerisms.
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A Shellcreeper, as depicted in promotional artwork for Mario Bros. A tortoise-like enemy first appeared in the 1983 arcade game, Mario Bros., called Shellcreepers (simply called "turtles" in JapanTrophy description from Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Nintendo and HAL Laboratories, 2008).
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The Azure Dragon (Qing Long, ) is considered to be the primary of the four celestial guardians, the other three being the Zhu Que (Vermilion Bird), Bai Hu (White Tiger), Xuan Wu (Black Tortoise-like creature). In this context, the Azure Dragon is associated with the East and the element of Wood.
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This tortoise, like most reptiles, also needs to be able to regulate its own temperature, by moving between sunny and shady spots. It therefore needs a large garden where it can move about, so as to seek both natural sunlight, as well as shade, when necessary. It needs a dry habitat, as constant moisture is particularly bad for it.
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Reptilian, tortoise-like humanoids whose heavy shells and armored hide protect them from all but the worst of the lunar rain. They have turned this protection into a racial profession of trading. Their society is strange, but it has been shown to place importance on dreams and visions, a peculiarity given they are otherwise fairly sophisticated.
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Counillonia was a medium-sized dicynodont (skull length of ) currently known only from a single skull that's missing the lower jaws. However, it likely resembled other closely related dicynodonts, particularly Dicynodon itself, and so was probably a squat, sprawling quadruped with a short tail and a large head with nearly toothless jaws and a tortoise-like beak, sporting a pair of prominent tusks.
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Yongtai Fortress is located in the north foot of Tiger mountain, Sitan Township, Jingtai County. It is also called Yongtai tortoise city because of its tortoise-like castle. It is the most representative and well preserved military castle of Ming Dynasty along the Silk Road. Historically, it is an important part of the Ming Great Wall, which is built as a border defense system.
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Repelinosaurus was a medium-sized dicynodont (largest skull length of ) currently known only from skulls missing lower jaws and the rest of the skeleton. However, it likely resembled other kannemeyeriiform dicynodonts, and so was probably a heavily built, stocky-limbed quadruped with a short tail and a large head with nearly toothless jaws and a tortoise-like beak, sporting a pair of prominent tusks.
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Taoheodon was a medium-sized dicynodont (basal skull length over long) currently only known from an incomplete skull and lower jaw. Based on the anatomy of other closely related dicynodonts such as Dicynodon, Taoheodon was probably a squat, sprawling quadruped with a short tail and a proportionally large head. Like other dicynodonts, Taoheodon was almost entirely toothless, sporting only a pair of tusks and a tortoise-like beak.
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Adult scabies mites are spherical, eyeless mites with four pairs of legs (two pairs in front and two pairs behind). They are recognizable by their oval, ventrally flattened and dorsally convex tortoise-like bodies and multiple cuticular spines. No demarcation into cephalothorax or abdomen occurs, and the mite's surface has folds covered with short bristles. The front legs end in long, tubular processes known as suckers, and the hind legs end in long bristles.
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Doedicurus and Glyptodon by Robert Bruce Horsfall Glyptodonts possessed a tortoise-like body armour, made of bony deposits in their skin called osteoderms or scutes. Each species of glyptodont had a unique osteoderm pattern and shell type. With this protection, they were armored like turtles; glyptodonts could not withdraw their heads, but their armoured skin formed a bony cap on the top of their skull. Glyptodont tails had a ring of bones for protection.
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"The Skywhale", commissioned for the centenary of Canberra. The Skywhale was a work commissioned by the ACT Government for its Centenary year. The ABC described the work as a "hot air balloon in the shape of a tortoise-like animal featuring huge dangling udders made from four hectares of nylon". The budget for the project was $300,000 and has been the subject of comments made by ACT Chief Ministers Jon Stanhope and Andrew Barr.
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In traditional Kerala cuisine, Neyyappam is cooked in a bronze pan called appakara (:ml:അപ്പക്കാര) (also known as Paniyaram Pan in Tamil Nadu), about 8 inches in diameter, having three or more large cavities and thereby giving the dish a tortoise- like shape. Recipes vary from place to place, especially the ingredients chosen to prepare the batter. Many cuisines use variations on this pan for similar dishes. A substitute for an appakara is the special pan used to prepare Æbleskiver, the Danish puffy ball-like pancake dessert.
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Maya numeral zero. Although zero became an integral part of Maya numerals, with a different, empty tortoise-like "shell shape" used for many depictions of the "zero" numeral, it is assumed to have not influenced Old World numeral systems. Quipu, a knotted cord device, used in the Inca Empire and its predecessor societies in the Andean region to record accounting and other digital data, is encoded in a base ten positional system. Zero is represented by the absence of a knot in the appropriate position.
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However, fossils of Eunotosaurus show that the pelvis is in the normal tetrapod position and is placed over the ribs rather than within them, as in modern turtles. Many fossils have been found showing a semi-rigid, turtle-like rib cage, one which presumably necessitated a tortoise-like fashion of walking. Eunotosaurus was considered the ancestor of turtles up until the late 1940s. In his 1956 book Osteology of the Reptiles, American paleontologist Alfred Sherwood Romer claimed that Eunotosaurus could not be included within Chelonia based on the available evidence.
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The pagoda has nine tiers of eaves and a crowning spire, along with artwork of stone carvings at the corners of the stone platform that makes up its base. The interior of the pagoda is hollow and lacks a staircase to reach the higher floors. Its style of eaves in gradual tiers resembles that of other Tang pagodas, such as the Small Wild Goose and Giant Wild Goose pagodas. Near the arched doorway leading into the pagoda is a colossal stone body of a bixi, a Chinese mythical beast in the shape of a tortoise-like dragon.
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Thliptosaurus was a small dicynodont (skull length of only long), but it displays several characteristics indicative of maturity in dicynodonts. Only the skull is known, but like other related dicynodonts it would have been a squat, sprawling quadruped with a short tail and a large head with a tortoise- like beak. Thliptosaurus appears completely toothless, lacking even in the distinctive tusks found in some other dicynodonts (including the closely related Dicynodontoides), although teeth may be obscured by the lower jaw if they are present. The post cranial skeleton is unknown, but probably resembled that of other kingoriids, such as Kombuisia.
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The scutum originally had an oval shape, but gradually the curved tops and sides were cut to produce the familiar rectangular shape most commonly seen in the early Imperial legions. Famously, the Romans used their shields to create a tortoise-like formation called a testudo in which entire groups of soldiers would be enclosed in an armoured box to provide protection against missiles. Many ancient shield designs featured incuts of one sort or another. This was done to accommodate the shaft of a spear, thus facilitating tactics requiring the soldiers to stand close together forming a wall of shields.
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The snout was relatively elongate like in other stahleckeriids, and had a toothless tortoise-like beak at the front. Like some other Triassic dicynodonts, Lisowicia was completely toothless and lacked even the tusks typical of most dicynodonts. Instead, it had a pair of short and thick triangular projections from the maxillary jaw bone behind the beak called caniniform processes, similar to those of the related Ischigualastia and other stahleckeriids. Likewise, comparing the proportions of the quadrate bone at the back of the skull to those of Ischigualastia suggests that Lisowicia had a broad skull that was roughly wide between each quadrate at the jaw joints.
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The skull of Ufudocyclops superficially resembles Angonisaurus, being relatively tall and notably broad behind the snout, with large, sideways facing eyes and prominent tuskless caniniform processes on the maxilla that project away down and forwards from the snout, flaring out slightly to sides, with blunted tips. The lower surfaces of the maxilla are heavily pitted and rugose, as is the premaxilla and the palate on the roof of the mouth. These textures correspond to the eponymous tortoise-like keratinous beak typical of dicynodonts like Ufudocyclops. The isolated tip of the premaxilla demonstrates that these pits are superficial and do not continue deeper into the bone, as the inner texture of the bone is smooth and tabulate, and so are not foramina.
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Her vocals, displaying a "strange mix of fragility and strength", have also earned comparisons to "early-90s [...] femme-led indie outfits like Tsunami and Scrawl" as well as Mimi Parker, with her more subdued drumming on tracks such as "Sara Lee" and "Minding One's Business" casting them in "Tortoise-like post-rock hues". MacKaye's baritone guitar playing has been described as being more repetitive, textured, hypnotic and understated in comparison to Farina's drumming. Overall, the album has been described as "the love child of Things We Lost in the Fire-era Low and One Beat-era Sleater-Kinney", as well as a collection of "likably moody lo-fi sing-alongs". The sound has also been likened to "post-post-hardcore".
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His most famous work is the Fontana del Bacchino in the Giardino di Boboli, near the entrance to piazza Pitti in Florence. It shows a dwarf at the court of Cosimo I, ironically nicknamed Morgante (the giant of the poem Morgante by Luigi Pulci), portrayed nuded and sitting on a tortoise like a drunken Bacchus. Two more of Cioli's works (collaborations with Giovanni Simone Cioli) are to be found in the giardino di Boboli - the Uomo che vanga (digging man) and the Uomo che scarica il secchio in un tino (man emptying a bucket into a vat). Other works of his include a Satyr with a flask in the Museo del Bargello and sculptures of personifications of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture on the tomb of Michelangelo Buonarroti in the basilica of Santa Croce.
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The primary antagonist of the movie, Gilgilgan is a tortoise-like bioweapon from outer space used to conquer Japan primarily by living on a diet of nothing but metal and slowly grows larger into two other forms. It possesses an extremely thick hide that prevents most attacks from harming it and for attacks it can fire yellow eye beams and green poison from its mouth that acts like a very strong acid. In his second form Gilgilan adds the ability to move underwater with the powers of his first form still intact. Once it eats its creator Gilgilgan will change into its third form which appears more like a demon where it can fly and its powers include finger lasers, bladed wings that can also fire energy beams, and has three whip-like tails.
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The third and best preserved specimen of Ufudocyclops—BP/1/8208, which would become the type specimen—was not discovered until 2014 and then collected in 2017 as part of a series of joint excavations by the Evolutionary Studies Institute of the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) and the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom). The skull was found upside down and isolated in a metre thick block of greenish grey fine grained sandstone, alongside an undescribed large cynodont skull that had fallen out of the main exposure of rock in the field. The earlier specimens BP/1/5530 and BP/1/5531 were shown to be identical in form to the type specimen of Ufudocyclops, prompting a reinterpretation of the two fossils as specimens of Ufudocyclops, and not Angonisaurus as originally believed. The genus Ufudocyclops was named from the Xhosa word ufudo, meaning "tortoise", in reference to its toothless, tortoise-like beak, and the Ancient Greek cyclops, referring to the very large size of the pineal foramen ("third eye").
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