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Amazing to find birds just outside the house we stayed in. Spotted here is: The brown honeyeater (Lichmera indistincta). It is a medium-small brownish bird, with yellow-olive panels in the tail and wing and a yellow tuft behind the eye. Around the third property we stayed in - Reunion Beach House. Extended Family Trip to Western Australia from 7 to 16 Jun 2016. (photo by Ben Cho)

The Common Wanderer (Pareronia valeria) is a medium sized butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the Yellows and Whites, and is found in India.

 

Female:

 

First Form. Upper-side: black; the markings bluish white. Fore wing: cell with two streaks, the anterior one from the extreme base, the posterior one from the end of the basal third, but extending beyond tho anterior streak; below and beyond the cell is a series of streaks in the interspaces; tho streaks very irregular in length, that in interspace 1 the longest, angulated anteriorly and divided longitudinally from near its base, the streak in interspace 3 short and broad forming an elongate spot, those in the anterior interspaces more or less obliquely placed; beyond these streaks follows a subterminal transverse series of spots, of which the spot in interspace 3 is shifted inwards and those opposite the apex curved backwards. Hind wing: costa and dorsum broadly white; cell and the interspaces beyond with a series of streaks and sub-terminal spots, more or less as in the fore wing but more regular; the streak in cell and interspace 1 divided longitudinally, the subterminal series of spots evenly curved. Underside: similar to the upperside, but the ground-colour dull, dusky and diffuse, the markings broader but less clearly defined; the apical area on the fore wing obscured by a powdering of whitish scales. Antenna, head, thorax and abdomen much as in the male but darker. Second Form. Very like the first, the markings both on the upper and under sides similar, but the ground-colour on the upperside of the hind wing at base of interspace 1 a, over the whole of interspace 1, area of cell and at base of interspace 2 suffused with bright yellow. On the underside the same areas are dull ochraceous. The extent of the bright yellow colour on the upper-side and of the dull ochraceous tint on the underside is variable, in some specimens more restricted, in others it spreads further towards the costa.the common form of female mimics glassy tiger to avoid predation. the philomela form is rare and identified by yellow coloration at the base of the wings. this form is reported more in north-east India.[1] According to Wynter-Blyth this form mimics Danais aspasia, which is not found west of Myanmar. He rejects the assumption that the wagtail carries the eggs of D. aspasia to India. It seems that in bygone era the D. aspasia might have been found in India in the past along with the Common Wanderer and later eliminated.

 

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareronia_valeria

  

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Large cabinet by John Cox Jr New York City

This is the last of the Kohler devon in the Staunton Masonic building in downtown this is the 4th floor bathroom this is the only one working the stall next to it has one as well but it’s blocked off and has no water most likely to be replaced soon sadly

Background

 

Melbourne's first public square, an initiative of the Melbourne City Council was the City Square which dates back to 1968 was considered by many to be a planning failure. Its redevelopment in the 1990s failed to address serious flaws in its design as a public space and it was during this decade that the first plans for a new square were hatched by the Victorian state government.

First plans

 

The site selected was immediately south of the Hoddle Grid and included the Princes Gate Towers of the former Gas and Fuel Corporation, Jolimont Yard and the Princes Bridge railway station (which was itself the former site of a 19th-century morgue).[1] The government sought to remove what were considered to be two of Melbourne's great eyesores, demolishing the 1960s Gas and Fuel Corporation buildings which obstructed a vista of heritage buildings along Flinders Street including St Paul's Cathedral.

Design competition and controversy

 

An architectural design competition was announced by premier Jeff Kennett in 1997 that received 177 entries from around the world.[2] The design brief was to better connect Flinders Street to the Yarra River and to enhance and complement the neighbouring heritage buildings including St Paul's Cathedral and Flinders Street Station. Several shortlisted designs, which included entries from high profile architects Denton Corker Marshall and Ashton Raggatt McDougall, were displayed to the public. The winner, however, announced in 1997 was a consortium of Lab Architecture Studio directed by Donald Bates and Peter Davidson from London, Karres en Brands Landscape Architects directed by Sylvia Karres and Bart Brands and local architects Bates Smart.[3] The original design which was costed at between A$110 and $128 million included several five-storey "shards", two of which were free-standing on the north-western edge of the precinct. These two structures were intended to provide a framed view of St Paul's Cathedral from the St Paul's Court part of the new plaza, accentuating its size in a similar perspective inspired by the piazza of St. Peter's Basilica. A series of interconnected laneways and stairways would connect Flinders Street to the Yarra River with the open square featuring a large viewing screen for public events. These elements were widely supported by the design community and promoted as fulfilling the design criteria whilst also embracing the growing popularity of Melbourne's laneways. However, Lab's design was also source of great controversy causing outrage among heritage advocates, primarily due to the positioning of one of the shards.

 

SBS were announced as an anchor tenant of the office space component of Federation Square. While office space was always intended as a way to fund some of the construction of the square, it was intended that tenants be public or cultural organisations in line with the philosophy of the public space. ACMI and the National Gallery were announced as other major tenants.

Construction

 

After a change of government during its construction, and the incoming Labor administration ordered a significant design revision to appease conservative critics. A later report drawn up by the University of Melbourne's Professor Evan Walker postulated that the westernmost shard would interfere with a so-called "heritage vista", a view of the cathedral from the middle of the tram tracks on Princes Bridge to the south.[4]

 

Budgets on the project blew out significantly mainly due to the cost of covering the railyard and modifications to the design and there were long delays.[5][6] Among measures taken to cut costs was concreting areas originally designed for paving.

 

The final cost of construction was approximately A$467 million (over four times the original estimate) and funding came primarily from the state government with small contributions from the City of Melbourne, federal government, private operators and sponsors.[7]

 

The square was opened on 26 October 2002.[8] Unlike many Australian landmarks, it was not opened by the reigning monarch, Elizabeth II, nor was she invited to its unveiling; she visited Federation Square in October 2011.[9]

Further expansion

 

In 2006 Federation Wharf extended Federation Square to the Yarra River, by redeveloping the vaults under the Princes Bridge into cafes and ferry terminals with elevator access to Federation Square.

 

Several proposals have been prepared for the area now known as Federation Square East, including covering the remaining area of railyards to the east of the main square. This has included proposals for office towers and, more recently, a combination of open space and a hotel.[10]

Location and layout

Federation Square from Eureka Tower Skydeck.

 

Federation Square occupies roughly a whole urban block bounded by Swanston, Flinders, and Russell Streets and the Yarra River. The open public square is directly opposite Flinders Street Station and St Paul's Cathedral. The layout of the precinct is designed to connect the historical central district of the city with the Yarra River and a new park Birrarung Marr.

Live d'EZ3kiel Extended à l'Hexagone de Meylan le 12.10.2012. Photos : Yann Nguema.

 

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Pretty much a bare shell at the moment, its looks like this Volkswagen Camper T2 will eventually hit the road again. It just needs an engine, lights, doors, bumpers, glass, an interior...

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Type_2

Live d'EZ3kiel Extended à l'Hexagone de Meylan le 12.10.2012. Photos : Yann Nguema.

 

Personally I wouldn't put my name on my plate. Rolls-Royce Phantom EWB - Wan Chai, Hong Kong

ADK64 by geekhack user

from KeyboardBelle

Alps64 from reddit user

Repurposed AEKII Stabilisers

Custom Acrylic Plate in “Glass Green” from Ponoko

SKCM Orange Alps from Donor AEKII

 

Stock Apple Extended Keyboard keycaps from Donor AEKII

 

Mini USB cable White Paracord with Grey Heatshrink from Zap Cables

 

Custom 60%Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Sleeve from Don @ TheBoard Podcast

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You know what they say about “an Apple a day”?

 

This was a board that I took a great deal of fun in putting together. I really wanted to give some vintage Alps switches a try, so when I saw an old AEKII from Australia, and a ALPS64 PCB kit up for sale, I knew it was meant to be.

 

I had seen several people do similar things with Apple boards from the 80s and 90s, but I wasn't sold on the cases that they had used. The ADK64 was directly inspired by the Apple boards of yester year; from the shape and angle, to the badge placement, and I couldn't have found a better choice. The wee Apple badge in the top left was harvested from the same board that the keycaps and switches came from. With the case being 3D printed, it has some lines from the process across it, at some point I do want to have a crack at smoothing them out via an acetone vapour bath, but that's still a wee ways off yet; I'd hate to ruin the board like a chump.

 

Nothing special about the switches here. The Alps switches are a type that I have had little experience with, but from what I have seen (or felt), they are super smooth out of the factory, and have really nice tactility. I'd love to get my hands on some vintage Alps linears at some point, as I imagine they could only be better.

 

The plate here I designed myself and had it cut through Ponoko. I set it up with some of my favourite features for a 60% board, and even added an Alps logo under the spacebar just for a bit more character.

 

The keycaps were all or nothing, and I was stoked to have been able to fine a board that was in as good a condition as the donor here was. There are a couple of oddities, like the “Home' and “Page Up” placement, and the “Backslash” is actually “Backspace”. That's the downside with having a sculpted profile keyset, each row is a different profile and shape, so sometimes you just have to make do. I cleaned up the caps as best as I could, and the yellowed spacebars is only due to it being made from a different type of plastic Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene

(ABS, think LEGO) and the rest of them from Polybutylene Terephthalate (PBT); ABS tends to yellow from exposure to sunlight, and PBT is a lot more durable in many ways, you can “fix” it in a number of ways, but I like the character it adds.

 

The cable is just some nice complementing colours, and the sleeve is also just for fun; can never say no to those guys.

 

For all you Apple purists, the AEKII was from a time where as a company, they were helping pave the way, and I'm more than happy to have a part of that in my collection. These days, some of you know that I can't stand Apple, so this is almost like me flipping them the ole middle finger.

Victorian Alpine Huts survey, for Parks Victoria 1994-5.

The Wonnangatta pastoral lease extended from Mt McDonald on the west, the head of Coleman Creek on the south, Mt Darling on the east and Mt Selwyn on the north{ Spreadborough & Anderson run plans}. The property was taken up by William Bryce in 1866 and the homestead extended. A family cemetery was also established nearby, accommodating two of their ten children and William's wife Annie who died in 1914{ Siseman: 20-1}. After Annie's death, the station was sold to a Mansfield partnership who engaged James Barclay as the resident manager at the property. Barclay and his hired hand, John Bamford, were both found dead in 1918, resulting in an extensive unresolved police investigation of their murder and initiating a tale which has since been retold many times{ ibid.}. This aspect of the place is perhaps the most significant culturally to the regional community. In 1934 it was purchased by the Guys of Crooked River, a noted mountain cattle family, in the persons of Alex and his sons Arthur & Jack. They used it as a base for their large alpine cattle grazing holdings, along with Guys (Snowy Plains) and Howitt (Howitt Plains) huts, taking their cattle from the high plains into the valley for the winter. Left largely unoccupied the homestead fell into disrepair and was burnt in 1957, reputedly by a party of walkers. Then it consisted of two gable roofed verandahed wings clad with timber, one sited at right-angles to the other. To replace the lost homestead, this hut was built almost immediately (in 1 week) by the Guys, Eric Traill and George Annand, just below the homestead site, using some of the old home's roofing iron in conjunction with corrugated iron packed in by horse from Crooked River{ Griffiths, p23-4}. Timber harvesting in the area during the 1960s left tracks which provided ready but difficult access for 4WD vehicles and the valley became a challenge for drivers rather than just a destination for cattlemen and walkers{ see Griffiths: 22}. The traffic into the valley increased dramatically and with better road access has increased yet again more recently. After a period when it was owned by Bob Gilder of Glen Falloch (1972-), the Victorian Government purchased Wonnangatta in 1988, halting around 130 years of grazing on the vast river plain and provoking fears of fire in the valley{ see T Griffiths, p22}. The Alpine National Park surrounding the site was declared in 1989. Truscott (2002) notes that this place became a symbol of the mountain cattlemen's struggle to maintain alpine grazing leases in the face of environmental concern about the effect of summer cattle grazing in sensitive environments.

27-09-2022 - McDonnell Douglas KC-10A Extender 84-0189 at RAF Mildenhall

The head tube is painted green. That titanium thing between the head tube and the headset is an extender, made for me by Jim Merz. I supplied the mateial and the design. Not sure if Jim wants to make any more of them, this alloy was super tough to machine. I forget the alloy now but it's significantly tougher than 6Al/4V. Got it from a local Boeing subcontractor that had surplus/drops. Way strong!

 

To use it, you also need a steerer that's longer, by 3 cm (or more), than a steerer cut for the old headtube length.

 

Though the headset is a threadless style, the steerer is threaded, just a little at the top for those two thin jam-nuts.

 

That stem was made in '85. It originally clamped to a stub of 7/8" Cr-Mo brazed in the top of the steerer — the previous, shorter steerer, back when I liked my bars lower. Currently there's a bolt-in quill that the stem clamps to, but if I decide I like this bike after I get it dialed, and I still like this stem, then I will braze in a stub to replace the current quill — as God and Rene Herse intended.

 

The pinch bolt to clamp the stem to the steerer stub is hidden inside the stem "lug", and the hole is blind on the other side. Even though it's just one bolt, it is a high-strength 8 mm bolt (most people use 6 mm or even 5 mm) and it has never slipped.

 

The pulley gives variable leverage (rising rate) to the front brake. Stops on a dime without needing much hand strength. Yes I know hydro disk brakes do that too, but this was pretty good for an '84 bike, with a brake designed in the early '50s

Pictured here is sort of recently transferred TE1089 (LK60 AGO) on route 114 turning around the roundabout at Ruislip Manor towards Mill Hill Broadway, these were transferred from Edgware after 204 got the WDEs, and 10 of these were sent to fully deck the U3, convert the U2 to DEs fully and send the DELs for H17. Nice buses in my opinion and great to see them have a new life on another route and can have native Metroline TEs do other route. This route was also retained recently.

Extended exposure shot of my friend Tim with a Samurai sword. We didn't get the results we were aiming for, but they came out neat nonetheless.

The parish guide to All Saints Church, Wighton says that at the time of the Domesday Book [1086] the lordship of the manor of Wighton extended into 'many towns' and had previously been held by King [later Saint] Edward the Confesor himself. Later the church was given to the Prior and Convent of Norwich by King Henry II. The first recorded vicar was Peter in 1281.

 

www.flickr.com/photos/barryslemmings/sets/72157594320530431/ to view the whole set.

 

The present building dates much later than this and the visitor is presented with a splendid Perpendicular church of about 1450 which is aligned on the 14th century tower of a previous but smaller building. This 14th century tower spectacularly collapsed as recently as 1965 and was not rebuilt until 1975 thanks to the generosity of Mr Leeds Richardson, a Canadian who had traced his family history to Wighton and who donated $100,000 [£41,000] towards the cost of the rebuilding. The new tower is strengthened internally with an 'H' section of steel encased in concrete. Mr Richardson also assisted in the recasting of the original bell and the purchase of four more from a redundant church at Maidstone, Kent.

 

The interior of the church is light and airy, well-lit by its big Perpendicular windows. There are two aisles with the northern one serving as a kind of informal agricultural museum [see pictures] with several implements or machines on show. This was particularly apt as my visit coincided with the harvest festival and there was an additional seasonal display of coloured gourds and marrows in the porch.

 

Wighton is also one of several Norfolk churches I have seen to retain a hand-drawn hearse carriage similar to a large pram. The font is 15th century and crisply carved. There is some 15th century stained glass but lighting conditions on the day of my visit precluded decent photography of it. Three wooden carvings from the former rood screen have been incorporated into the organ case.

 

Outside the eastern end of the church, underneath the chancel window, there are the foundations and one wall of a vestry-type building with a [now blocked] door into the chancel. I have never seen such a structure in this position before. The surviving wall retains three narrow windows. The southern porch is a large affair with a room above which may have served as lodging for an extra priest or for teaching.

 

A notice in the church apologises for the bat droppings inside but explains that while the church is cleaned regularly, the bats are even more 'regular' in their habits. In Britain bats are a protected species and may not be harmed or removed, even from an historic church.

 

Unusually Wighton's church is located in 'Kirkgate Street' a strange use of the Scottish name for a church but I wondered if - in this instance - the name might be derived from Dutch or even Anglo-Saxon origins.

A Bald Eagle extending out to grab a shad he spotted in the late afternoon Sun on the Mississippi River.

 

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All ready for battle.

One of the communication rooms at Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker in Cheshire (Not that secret, I found it).

20110625 - defqon.1 2011 - extended @ walibi world - biddinghuizen - nederland

  

enjoy our girls collection : sexy party babes

  

discover the full event : defqon.1 2011

  

remember the past editions : defqon.1 2010 2008 2007

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Must not make a "That's what she said" joke...

 

Featured on Life in Plastic: nerditis.com/2014/06/18/life-in-plastic-toy-review-extend...

Julia Schempff Bollinger 1932 She was german and spoke german on the phone to one of her friends so noone else would understand them. She would forget and say english words in between that would get the kids laughing at her. When the kids-Winnie, Joyce, Norman- would get all riled up, she would say "Be quiet, you get me all het up!" She was a small lady. Winnie would go and stay with her overnight a lot when she was a kid. Winnie liked her a lot. Aunt Lena lived with her and Winnie would help her with her chores and they would have fun. Winnie would like to watch Aunt Lena cook-she was funny when she would stir things.

You know the shocker, imagine the spread of the...ouch. Susan folded her legs at the thought. City Bar in Boston here.

La Universidad de la Fraternidad de Agrupaciones Santo Tomás de Aquino continúa extendiendo su oferta académica en distintas ciudades de la provincia.

 

www.ufasta.edu.ar/noticias/2014/04/08/apertura-de-carrera...

ADK64 by geekhack user

from KeyboardBelle

Alps64 from reddit user

Repurposed AEKII Stabilisers

Custom Acrylic Plate in “Glass Green” from Ponoko

SKCM Orange Alps from Donor AEKII

 

Stock Apple Extended Keyboard keycaps from Donor AEKII

 

Mini USB cable White Paracord with Grey Heatshrink from Zap Cables

 

Custom 60%Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Sleeve from Don @ TheBoard Podcast

________________________________________________

 

You know what they say about “an Apple a day”?

 

This was a board that I took a great deal of fun in putting together. I really wanted to give some vintage Alps switches a try, so when I saw an old AEKII from Australia, and a ALPS64 PCB kit up for sale, I knew it was meant to be.

 

I had seen several people do similar things with Apple boards from the 80s and 90s, but I wasn't sold on the cases that they had used. The ADK64 was directly inspired by the Apple boards of yester year; from the shape and angle, to the badge placement, and I couldn't have found a better choice. The wee Apple badge in the top left was harvested from the same board that the keycaps and switches came from. With the case being 3D printed, it has some lines from the process across it, at some point I do want to have a crack at smoothing them out via an acetone vapour bath, but that's still a wee ways off yet; I'd hate to ruin the board like a chump.

 

Nothing special about the switches here. The Alps switches are a type that I have had little experience with, but from what I have seen (or felt), they are super smooth out of the factory, and have really nice tactility. I'd love to get my hands on some vintage Alps linears at some point, as I imagine they could only be better.

 

The plate here I designed myself and had it cut through Ponoko. I set it up with some of my favourite features for a 60% board, and even added an Alps logo under the spacebar just for a bit more character.

 

The keycaps were all or nothing, and I was stoked to have been able to fine a board that was in as good a condition as the donor here was. There are a couple of oddities, like the “Home' and “Page Up” placement, and the “Backslash” is actually “Backspace”. That's the downside with having a sculpted profile keyset, each row is a different profile and shape, so sometimes you just have to make do. I cleaned up the caps as best as I could, and the yellowed spacebars is only due to it being made from a different type of plastic Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene

(ABS, think LEGO) and the rest of them from Polybutylene Terephthalate (PBT); ABS tends to yellow from exposure to sunlight, and PBT is a lot more durable in many ways, you can “fix” it in a number of ways, but I like the character it adds.

 

The cable is just some nice complementing colours, and the sleeve is also just for fun; can never say no to those guys.

 

For all you Apple purists, the AEKII was from a time where as a company, they were helping pave the way, and I'm more than happy to have a part of that in my collection. These days, some of you know that I can't stand Apple, so this is almost like me flipping them the ole middle finger.

They tend to colonise the local canals in the Black Country. Suspect the out compete the local wild foul for food. Can be aggressive in terms of protecting the young had a few hissing fits as I walked past the group.

extendable trailer for wind blade

It was a gorgeous day at the zoo! T-shirt weather and all of the animals were active...well most of them ^__^

 

At the Philadelphia Zoo

 

Better on black

 

My photos on Flickriver

 

Please check out my 2013 Zoo Set.

[order] Passeriformes | [family] Turdidae | [latin] Turdus pilaris | [UK] Fieldfare | [FR] Grive litorne | [DE] Wacholderdrossel | [ES] Zorzal Real | [IT] Cesena | [NL] Kramsvogel

 

Measurements

spanwidth min.: 39 cm

spanwidth max.: 42 cm

size min.: 22 cm

size max.: 27 cm

Breeding

incubation min.: 10 days

incubation max.: 13 days

fledging min.: 12 days

fledging max.: 15 days

broods 2

eggs min.: 5

eggs max.: 7

 

Physical characteristics

 

Large, bold, long-tailed, often noisy thrush, with rather rakish form both on ground and in the air. Plumage more boldly variegated and richly colored than any other west Palearctic thrush, with blue-grey head, vinous-chestnut back, grey rump, and almost black tail obvious on ground, and heavily speckled breast and flanks, white vent, and black undertail obvious from below. Combination of grey rump, black tail, and white underwing diagnostic. Flight characteristically leisurely. Commonest call diagnostic. Sexes closely similar, little seasonal variation.

 

Habitat

 

Breeds in middle and higher latitudes of west Palearctic, in subarctic, boreal, and temperate zones, in woods of birch, pine, spruce, alder, and mixed species, usually in open growth or on fringes of moist areas with grass cover. Often along rivers or in groups of trees in fens or bogs, in sheltered but cool and humid situations.

 

Other details

 

Turdus pilaris is a widespread breeder in central and northern Europe, but winters across much of the continent, which constitutes >75% of its global wintering range. Insufficient information was available to assess the species's status using wintering population data, but its European breeding population is extremely large (>14,000,000 pairs), and was stable between 1970-1990. Breeding populations in most countries (including Russia) were stable or increased during 1990-2000, and the species probably remained stable overall.

This thrush inhabits a major part of Eurasia, from central Europe and Scandinavia to eastern Siberia. It is a species of the taiga, which has considerably extended its breeding area to the west, and colonised Iceland and Greenland. Inside the European Union it has colonised Belgium, the Netherlands and eastern France. Most birds are migratory and winter in western and southern Eur

 

Feeding

 

Wide range of invertebrates, also fruits from late summer to early winter. Feeds on ground and in trees and bushes. When collecting food for young, adult usually eats small items itself, will collect items in a pile before carrying them off.

 

Conservation

 

This species has a large range, with an estimated global Extent of Occurrence of 10,000,000 km². It has a large global population, including an estimated 28,000,000-48,000,000 individuals in Europe (BirdLife International in prep.). Global population trends have not been quantified, but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e. declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern. [conservation status from birdlife.org]

 

Breeding

 

Breeds late Apr to late June in Scandinavia, May-June in Lapland. Nest site is in tree, placed in crotch of branch against trunk, or on side branch, exceptionally on ground or in depression anmong rock. Nest, bulky though compact structure with outer parts of grass reinforced with twigs, roots, etc, lined with thick layer of mud, and inner lining of fine grasses and a few roots. 5-6 eggs, incubation 10-13 days, by female only.

 

Migration

 

Migratory, though in some years of winter abundance of food some resident or move only short distances. Winters mainly in western, central, and southern Europe, Turkey, and Iran, also south to Canary Islands and Persian Gulf states. Usually reaches southernmost parts of Europe only in bad winters and rarely occurs on North African coast in good numbers. Birds flock prior to departure, becoming increasingly restless and making local movements. Spring passage generally more visible than in autumn with some impressive continual movements of birds often totalling several thousand passing along lines of hills or valleys in a matter of hours. Sudden movements of large numbers as a consequence of severe weather are commonplace across the entire wintering range. Individuals do not necessarily return to same area in successive winters with some subsequently recovered in winter up to 1600 km distant. Southward migration begins late September or early October and continues into November. Return often begins early, birds wintering in south-central Europe making partial return movements in February. Main arrivals in Norway from mid-April and in Sweden and Finland from late April.

Banksy in Beurs van Berlage (Amsterdam)

Padres y alumnos de los planteles entregados por el presidente Danilo Medina, que asistieron al acto de inauguración, se muestran felices por la gran ayuda que estos constituyen para cada una de las familias pobres de la zona.

 

Foto: Ángel Álvarez Rodríguez/Presidencia República Dominicana

Nota de prensa:

presidencia.gob.do/noticias/la-romana-recibe-25-aulas-mas...

Flickr Group Roulette today stops on WordaWeek. This week's word is Sophisticated.

 

so·phis·ti·cat·ed

adjective

 

1. Having acquired worldly knowledge or refinement; lacking natural simplicity or naiveté.

2. Very complex or complicated.

 

Being the simple and naive man that I am, I associate sophistication with the extended pinky. Wait, maybe that is hoity-toityism?

EOS 5D Mark II

EF 70-200mm F4L IS USM

Extender EF1.4xII

Panasonic VW-VMS2

SLIK PRO-MINI

 

View On Black

La comunidad educativa recibió con júbilo seis nuevas escuelas inauguradas por el presidente Danilo Medina.

 

Foto: Ángel Álvarez Rodríguez/Presidencia República Dominicana

Nota de prensa:

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