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You would be hard pressed to find a feline photographer who would argue that a 100mm macro lens is suitable for photographing cat wrestling. But when the fangs come out and the fur starts flying (timing always unpredictable), I had to use what was already mounted, narrow depth of field and uncertain focus not withstanding.
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Una donna prepara il fufu.
Il fufu ĆØ un piatto africano a base di tuberi, come manioca o igname, e/o banane, dal quale si ottiene una pasta semi-solida e appiccicosa, simile a una polenta, che viene servita come accompagnamento a zuppe, salse e stufati.
Ć un alimento base essenziale in Africa occidentale, particolarmente popolare in Ghana, e viene preparato bollendo e schiacciando gli ingredienti fino ad ottenere una consistenza omogenea e collosa.
A woman prepares fufu.
Fufu is an African dish made from tubers, such as cassava or yams, and/or bananas, which yield a semi-solid, sticky paste, similar to polenta, served as an accompaniment to soups, sauces, and stews.
It is an essential staple food in West Africa, particularly popular in Ghana, and is prepared by boiling and mashing the ingredients until they reach a smooth, sticky consistency.
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Occasionally, a loving couple in Japan is refered to as a mandarin duck couple. Such couples are called "Oshidori-Fufu" in Japanese(Oshidori=mandarin duck. Fufu=couple.)
You would be hard pressed to find a feline photographer who would argue that a 100mm macro lens is suitable for photographing cat wrestling. But when the fangs come out and the fur starts flying (timing always unpredictable), I had to use what was already mounted, narrow depth of field and uncertain focus not withstanding.
Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin.
French actor of Spanish origin Louis de FunĆØs (1914-1983) was one of the giants of French comedy alongside AndrĆ© Bourvil and Fernandel. In many of his over 130 films, he portrayed a humorously excitable, cranky man with a propensity to hyperactivity, bad faith, and uncontrolled fits of anger. Along with his short height (1.63 m) and his facial contortions, this hyperactivity produced a highly comic effect, especially opposite Bourvil, who always played calm, slightly naive, good-humored men.
Louis de FunĆØs (French pronunciation: [lwi dÉ fynÉs]) was born Louis Germain David de FunĆØs de Galarza in Courbevoie, France in 1914. His father, Carlos Luis de FunĆØs de Galarza had been a lawyer in Seville, Spain, but became a diamond cutter upon arriving in France. His mother, Leonor Soto Reguera was of Spanish and Portuguese extraction. Since the couple's families opposed their marriage, they settled in France in 1904. Known to friends and intimates as āFufuā, the young De FunĆØs was fond of drawing and piano playing and spoke French, Spanish, and English well. He studied at the prestigious LycĆ©e Condorcet in Paris. He showed a penchant for tomfoolery, something which caused him trouble at school and later made it hard for him to hold down a job. He became a pianist, working mostly as a jazz pianist at Pigalle, the famous red-light district. There he made his customers laugh each time he made a grimace. He studied acting for one year at the Simon acting school. It proved to be a waste of time except for his meeting with actor Daniel GĆ©lin, who would become a close friend. In 1936, he married Germaine Louise Elodie Carroyer with whom he had a son, Daniel (1937). In 1942, they divorced. During the occupation of Paris in the Second World War, he continued his piano studies at a music school, where he fell in love with a secretary, Jeanne BarthelĆ©my de Maupassant, a grandniece of the famous author Guy de Maupassant. They married in 1943 and remained together for forty years until De FunĆØs' death in 1983. The pair had two sons: Patrick (1944) and Olivier (1947). Patrick became a doctor who practiced in Saint-Germain en Laye. Olivier was an actor for a while, known for the son roles in his father's films, including Le Grand Restaurant/The Big Restaurant (Jacques Besnard, 1966), FantĆ“mas se dĆ©chaine/Fantomas Strikes Back (AndrĆ© Hunebelle, 1965) starring Jean Marais, Les Grandes Vacances/The Big Vacation (Jean Girault, 1967), and Hibernatus (Edouard Molinaro, 1969) with Claude Gensac as De FunĆØsā wife, a role she played in many of his films. Olivier later worked as an aviator for Air France Europe.
Through the early 1940s, Louis de FunĆØs continued playing piano at clubs, thinking there wasn't much call for a short, balding, skinny actor. His wife and Daniel GĆ©lin encouraged him to overcome his fear of rejection. De FunĆØs began his show business career in the theatre, where he enjoyed moderate success. At the age of 31, thanks to his contact with Daniel GĆ©lin, he made his film debut with an uncredited bit part as a porter in La Tentation de Barbizon/The Temptation of Barbizon (1945, Jean Stelli) starring Simone Renant. For the next ten years, de FunĆØs would appear in fifty films, but always in minor roles, usually as an extra, scarcely noticed by the audience. Sometimes he had a supporting part such as in the Fernandel comedy Boniface somnambule/The Sleepwalker (Maurice Labro, 1951) and the comedy-drama La vie d'un honnĆŖte homme/The Virtuous Scoundrel (Sacha Guitry, 1953) starring Michel Simon. In the meanwhile, he pursued a theatrical career. Even after he attained the status of a film star, he continued to play theatre. His stage career culminated in a magnificent performance in the play Oscar, a role which he would later reprise in the film version of 1967. During this period, De FunĆØs developed a pattern of daily activities: in the morning he did dubbing for recognized artists such as Renato Rascel and the Italian comic TotĆ², during the afternoon he worked in film, and in the theater in the evening. A break came when he appeared as the black-market pork butcher Jambier (another small role) in the well-known WWII comedy, La TraversĆ©e de Paris/Four Bags Full (Claude Autant-Lara, 1956) starring Jean Gabin and Bourvil. In his next film, the mediocre comedy Comme un cheveu sur la soupe/Crazy in the Noodle (Maurice RĆ©gamey, 1957), De FunĆØs finally played the leading role. More interesting was Ni vu, ni connu/Neither Seen Nor Recognized (Yves Robert, 1958). He achieved stardom with the comedy Pouic-Pouic (Jean Girault, 1963) opposite Mireille Darc. This successful film guaranteed De FunĆØs top billing in all of his subsequent films.
Between 1964 and 1979, Louis de FunĆØs topped France's box office of the year's most successful films seven times. At the age of 49, De FunĆØs unexpectedly became a superstar with the international success of two films. FantĆ“mas (AndrĆ© Hunebelle, 1964) was France's own answer to the James Bond frenzy and lead to a trilogy co-starring Jean Marais and MylĆØne Demongeot. The second success was the crime comedy Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez/The Gendarme of St. Tropez (Jean Girault, 1964) with Michel Galabru. After their first successful collaboration on Pouic-Pouic, director Girault had perceived De FunĆØs as the ideal actor to play the part of the accident-prone gendarme. The film led to a series of six 'Gendarme' films. De FunĆØs's collaboration with director GĆ©rard Oury produced a memorable tandem of de FunĆØs with Bourvil, another great comic actor, in Le Corniaud/The Sucker (GĆ©rard Oury, 1964). The successful partnership was repeated two years later in La Grande Vadrouille/Don't Look Now - We're Being Shot At (GĆ©rard Oury, 1966), one of the most successful and the largest grossing film ever made in France, drawing an audience of 17,27 million. It remains his greatest success. Oury envisaged a further reunion of the two comics in his historical comedy La Folie des grandeurs/Delusions of Grandeur (GĆ©rard Oury, 1970), but Bourvil's death in 1970 led to the unlikely pairing of de FunĆØs with Yves Montand in this film. Very successful, even in the USA, was Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob/The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (GĆ©rard Oury, 1973) with Suzy Delair. De FunĆØs played a bigoted Frenchman who finds himself forced to impersonate a popular rabbi while on the run from a group of assassins. In 1975, Oury had scheduled to make Le Crocodile/The Crocodile with De FunĆØs as a South American dictator, but in March 1975, the actor was hospitalised for heart problems and was forced to take a rest from acting. The Crocodile project was canceled.
After his recovery, Louis de FunĆØs collaborated with Claude Zidi, in a departure from his usual image. Zidi wrote for him L'aile ou la cuisse/The Wing and the Thigh (Claude Zidi, 1976), opposite Coluche as his son. He played a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, who is waging a war against a fast-food entrepreneur. It was a new character full of nuances and frankness and arguably the best of his roles. In 1980, De FunĆØs realised a long-standing dream to make a film version of MoliĆØre's play, L'Avare/The Miser (Louis de FunĆØs, Jean Girault, 1980). In 1982, De FunĆØs made his final film, Le Gendarme et les gendarmettes/Never Play Clever Again (Tony Aboyantz, Jean Girault, 1982). Unlike the characters he played, de FunĆØs was said to be a very shy person in real life. He became a knight of France's LĆ©gion d'honneur in 1973. He resided in the ChĆ¢teau de Clermont, a 17th-century monument, located in the commune of Le Cellier, which is situated near Nantes in France. In his later years, he suffered from a heart condition after having suffered a heart attack caused by straining himself too much with his stage antics. Louis de FunĆØs died of a massive stroke in 1983, a few months after making Le Gendarme et les gendarmettes. He was laid to rest in the CimetiĆØre du Cellier, the cemetery situated in the grounds of the chĆ¢teau. Films de France: āAlthough fame was a long time coming, Louis de FunĆØs is regarded today as not just a great comic actor with an unfaltering ability to make his audience laugh, but practically an institution in his own right. His many films bear testimony to the extent of his comic genius and demonstrate the tragedy that he never earned the international recognition that he certainly deserved.ā
Sources: Steve Shelokhonov (IMDb), Films de France, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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August 17, 2011;
JONES SODA!
I seriously love this stuff and you can't find it anywhere around here except for in the Old Navy. :D
So, today I woke up at 6:30 in the morning, got ready, and Cal picked me up to head up to college to help him move in. We did all that, me having to hang clothes and put things away because he is on the third floor and my knee doesn't like steps. Then we kinda relaxed a tiny bit, ate lunch with his parents, and I rode back to town with them - stopping at an antique place on the way home.
Then my mom and I went one our last day of my summer trip. We went to the mall, where I got a new bra at Aerie and then to Old Navy where I got some sweatpants and Strawberry Lime Jones Soda. Then we went to eat supper at Boone County Tavern, it wasn't too bad I had a veggie quesadilla. Then we went to Kohls, and I got a new purse, two new shirts, and a pair of tennis shoes for PE. Then we went to Sam's and Staples.
It was a good last day of summer.
I start school tomorrow. It's my last first day of high school. :D
sooc besides copyright, please don't remove copyright or use without asking.
YIPPIE SKIPPY ANOTHER FREAKING TUMBLR FAMOUS PHOTO! And even with this copyright they removed it. Really, really. I hate Tumblr.
Sorry for the rant, it just really angers me.
Why do they pose like this when I am looking through the mail and thinking about paying the bills? I don't know. It is merely my job to take the photos - and always have the camera ready...should be viewed in conjunction with the photos before and after this one in my 'stream.