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30ème jour de confinement dans l'espace réduit de mon appartement ( 70 M2 et un petit balcon de 8 M2 ) situé au cinquième étage , autant vous dire que pour faire des images de faune sauvage c'est très limité , je ne vais pas m'inventer un jardin que je n'ai pas ni vous raconter que j'ai un chien qui aurait la prostate ce qui m'arrangerait bien pour le sortir X fois chaque jour , non rien de tout ça , alors je patiente , le plus dur ça n'est pas de rester enfermé mais de mettre les pieds dehors avec tous les risques que cela comporte , depuis le premier jour de ce maudit confinement nécessaire je ne suis sorti qu'à deux reprises pour me rendre au drive à 800 mètres de chez moi , j'ai bien tenté d'envoyer mon fidèle associé avec son caddie à ma place , mais il ne me ramène que des noix , alors mieux vaut rester temporairement entre quatre murs plutôt que définitivement entre quatre planches ...... A méditer pour celles et ceux qui auraient encore un doute sur l'efficacité de ce confinement , personnellement je vais rester enfermé le temps qu'il faudra non seulement pour ma santé mais aussi en soutien au personnel médical et toutes celles et ceux qui continuent à travailler en étant exposé chaque jour .
Thermoscope invented by Galileo Galilei in the early 1600s.
A brief on the science behind it:
Archimedes’ Principle: Objects float or sink depending on whether they are less or denser than the fluid they’re in.
Liquid Density: The clear liquid inside the thermoscope expands slightly as it warms, making it less dense. When it cools, it contracts and becomes denser.
Calibrated Bulbs: Each colored glass bulb has a small metal tag with a specific weight. These weights are carefully chosen so that at certain temperatures, the buoyant force matches the bulb’s weight.
Antoni Gaudí
Gaudí was an architect with an innate sense of geometry and volume, as well as a great imaginative capacity that allowed him to mentally project most of his works before moving them to plans. In fact, he rarely made detailed plans of his works; he preferred to recreate them on three-dimensional models, molding all the details as he thought of them. On other occasions, he would improvise on the fly, giving instructions to his collaborators about what they should do.
The work of Gaudí has achieved a wide international spread over the years, with countless studies dedicated to his way of understanding architecture. Nowadays, it is admired both by professionals and by the general public: La Sagrada Familia is currently one of the most visited monuments in Spain. Between 1984 and 2005 seven of its works have been considered a World Heritage Site by Unesco.
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Pretty wild to think a Canadian came up with one of the most iconic American sports. 🏀
The game of basketball was invented by Dr. James Naismith in December 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. He was a Canadian physical education instructor working at the Springfield College (then known as the International YMCA Training School). Dr. James Naismith, born in 1861, on a farm on the outskirts of a thriving mill town called Almonte in the Canadian province of Ontario. He created the sport to keep his students active indoors during the cold winter months. Using a soccer ball and two peach baskets nailed to the balcony of a gymnasium, Naismith came up with 13 basic rules.
The birth story of the game of basketball is fascinating to read on the Springfield College website provided below. Naismith used a medieval children’s game called “Duck on a rock” that he used to play when he was a kid as an inspiration when he developed the first rules of basketball. According to Naismith audio story in 1939 about the first game in December 1891, it was a “free-for-all” – nine players were injured. It was not easy to keep college football players from tackling.
In 1904, the game was introduced as a demonstration sport in the Summer Olympics in St. Louis. In 1936, it became an Olympic sport, and Naismith travelled to Berlin to award the medals to the winning teams: gold to the U.S., silver to Canada, and bronze for Mexico. He died at age 74 in 1939.
Sources
Springfield College: springfield.edu/about/birthplace-of-basketball
Radio Interview, 1939: springfield.edu/about/birthplace-of-basketball
Duck on a rock: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_on_a_rock
ESPN: www.espn.com/nba/news/story?id=2660882
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Il est assez incroyable de penser qu'un Canadien ait inventé l'un des sports américains les plus emblématiques. 🏀
Le basketball a été inventé par le Dr James Naismith en décembre 1891 à Springfield, dans le Massachusetts, aux États-Unis. Ce professeur d'éducation physique canadien travaillait au Springfield College (alors connu sous le nom d'International YMCA Training School). Né en 1861 dans une ferme à la périphérie d'Almonte, une ville industrielle prospère de l'Ontario, le Dr James Naismith a créé ce sport pour permettre à ses élèves de rester actifs à l'intérieur pendant les froids mois d'hiver. À l'aide d'un ballon de soccer et de deux paniers de pêches cloués au balcon d'un gymnase, Naismith a élaboré 13 règles de base.
L'histoire de la naissance du basketball est fascinante à lire sur le site web du Springfield College, disponible ci-dessous. Naismith s'est inspiré d'un jeu médiéval pour enfants appelé « Canard sur un rocher », auquel il jouait enfant, pour élaborer les premières règles du basketball. Selon le récit audio de Naismith de 1939 sur le premier match de décembre 1891, ce fut une véritable mêlée générale : neuf joueurs furent blessés. Il n'était pas facile d'empêcher les joueurs de football universitaire de plaquer.
En 1904, ce sport fut introduit comme sport de démonstration aux Jeux olympiques d'été de Saint-Louis. En 1936, il devint un sport olympique et Naismith se rendit à Berlin pour remettre les médailles aux équipes gagnantes : l'or aux États-Unis, l'argent au Canada et le bronze au Mexique. Il mourut à 74 ans en 1939.
Sources
Springfield College : springfield.edu/about/birthplace-of-basketball
Interview radio de Naismith, 1939 : springfield.edu/about/birthplace-of-basketball
Canard sur un rocher (Duck on a rock) : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_on_a_rock
A little bit on Howard A. "Dutch" Darrin, the coachbuilder, designer and builder of the two Packard's on the left in the image above. Howard A. "Dutch" Darrin, the man behind the 1937-1942 Packard Darrin left an indelible imprint, not only on the automobile, but on the people he met in the old car movement, long after his career building and designing cars had ended. Dutch Darrin was a kind of "breakaway designer." He was crusty, hardbitten and had no reticence about expressing his opinions. He had flashing blue eyes, snowy white hair in later life, a bubbling enthusiasm for what he liked, a withering contempt for what he didn't. Interviewing and reporting on Dutch was a test of a writer's finesse: the art of balancing Darrin's fierce convictions with the opinions of others who sometimes saw matters in quite a different way.
He had an automotive curriculum vitae that put to shame most of his design contemporaries. Starting in the Teens as a Westinghouse engineer, he invented an electric gearshift for John North Willys, deciding then and there to spend his career on cars instead of electronics. When he went to France with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, he fell in love with Paris.
In 1920 he set himself up as a custom coachbuilder, initially using the Minerva chassis. He was shortly building custom bodies for the cream of European society, working on his own or in successful partnership with designer Tom Hibbard and, later, a banker named Fernandez.
His friends were people the rest of us have only read about: René Mathis of Ford-France, André Citröen, Louis Renault, the brothers Panhard, Ettore Bugatti, Sir John Siddeley, princes and potentates, presidents and polo players. To have associated with all these; to have had the incredible luck he always acknowledged; to have enjoyed a rich career, and to have had fun doing it, is surely what the philosopher meant when he talked about living life to the fullest.
In 1937, Darrin moved to California, transferring his activities from individual to semi-custom bodies, but maintaining a distinct style that branded them immediately as his own. Here he was aided by two experienced coachbuilders, Paul Erdos and Rudy Stoessel, the latter going on to found California's long-lived Coachcraft Inc. Typically, Darrin made do with little, buying a former bottling factory with a good location: Sunset Strip, Hollywood.
He styled himself "Darrin of Paris," and like Raymond Loewy he had an aristocratic French accent that he could turn on or off as the need arose. Dutch's clientele now included the New World's aristocracy, such as Errol Flynn, Constance Bennett, Clark Gable, Ann Sheridan, and Carole Lombard.
Innately talented, Dutch was always personally involved in the cars that bore his name: everything from his custom bodies of the 1920s and 1930s through his reskinned Rolls-Royce Silver Shadows in the 1970s. Unlike Raymond Loewy, he was not a stylist-become-marketing expert, who discovered and hired talented employees and took credit (as Loewy had a right to do) for what they produced. Dutch did it all -- even supervised the construction of semi-customs like the famous Packard Darrins. They might not have been paragons of craftsmanship, but by gosh they were unique, beautiful, and as dashing as all get-out.
Darrin's Packard connection stemmed from his decision to return to America from France in 1937. He realized that the age of full-custom bodies was waning, but thought the Hollywood film colony would buy rakish semi-customs. His concept, for which he deserves credit as a pioneer, was to customize production cars and produce semi-customs -- relatively inexpensive, yet distinct from mass-market stuff. Of Packard he said, "Its chassis was unimpeachable, and its classic grille was a great starting point." He had always fancied himself "a strong grille man," depending on the radiator to focus his designs, though his favorite American production car was the grilleless Cord 810/812, designed by a man Dutch considered a genius, the late Gordon Miller Buehrig.
The first 1937 Packard Darrin taught Dutch a great deal about his semi-custom concept. Built in a Los Angeles body and fender shop before Darrin moved into Sunset Strip, it was created for actor Dick Powell. The chassis was from a 1938 Eight (aka One Twenty) and the body looked splendid, with sweeping fenders and a low beltline displaying the characteristic "Darrin dip" at the doors. But Dutch had cut up a business coupe to build it, and chassis for closed cars weren't as rigid as those for open models. The car leaked like a sieve and had too much body flex.
Darrin built two more five-passenger Packard Darrins at another body shop before the move to Sunset Strip, selling one to Clark Gable. Like the first example, these had wooden cowls, which contributed most of the shake, rattle, and roll. Once "production" got rolling at Sunset Strip, clever Rudy Stoessel designed a cast aluminum cowl, which made a huge difference on the 16-18 Darrin Packards built in 1938-1939.
Among their buyers were Rosalind Russell, Chester Morris, and Al Jolson, who each paid a cool $4200-5200, probably equivalent to six figures in today's money. (That was peanuts compared to some of the esoteric specials the movie crowd was buying at the time, supporting Dutch's idea of relying heavily on production car components.) For some of these customers, Packard Darrins were simply too special. Dick Powell sold car number one after a few months because people were noticing, waving, and chasing him for autographs.
I can go on, but I think that's enough to give you a flavor of this great automobile designer and builder, Howard "Dutch" Darrin. Most of the above is from the auto editors of Consumer Guide
Le Vésinet (78)
Promenade de Worcester
EN: A new taste of Japan close to Paris
FR : Nouvel intermède végétal, botanique et arboricole, en attendant impatiemment la sortie hypothétique du confinement pour photographier autre chose que des animaux et des plantes !..
Les paysages en N&B ne sont plus très répandus depuis 1935 et l'invention du Kodachrome, et donc rares sur le Net (la nature est en couleurs, et s'en priver est toujours un peu dommage) mais je tente néanmoins l’exercice, facilité ici par le contraste entre les fleurs blanches des cerisiers et la rivière plus obscure.
Le Vésinet (78)
Promenade d'Oakwood
Une dernière carte postale surranée pour aujourd’hui...
A travers le fouillis désordonné des branchages...
(Ce ne sont pas des taches sur le capteur ! C’est un effet volontairement “intello” !)
J'ai évoqué, il y a quelques jours (sur une autre photo avec des reflets dans l'eau) les "rivières" du Vésinet...
En fait, un réseau d’étroits canaux artificiels, conçus dans la deuxième moitié du dix-neuvième siècle par un maire, industriel et promoteur inventif, Alphonse Pallu, pour attirer dans sa commune les riches parisiens.
Mes trois dernières photos postées permettent de se faire une idée assez précise de ce décor, certes artificiel, mais très agréable, surtout lorsqu'on est en résidence surveillée jusqu'à fin avril (minimum !)...
C'est encore une rare oasis de verdure, rongée de toutes parts par l'urbanisme galopant et anarchique de la région parisienne, qui n’épargne plus aucune ville de banlieue...
James Naismith, born in Almonte, Ontario, Canada in 1861, was a physical educator who invented the game of basketball in 1891 while working at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts. Tasked with creating an indoor sport to keep students active during the winter, he used a soccer ball and two peach baskets, and wrote 13 original rules to guide play. Naismith later founded the basketball program at the University of Kansas and saw the sport grow rapidly, eventually becoming an Olympic event in 1936. He remained proud of his Canadian heritage throughout his life and is remembered as a pivotal figure in sports history.
James Naismith, né à Almonte, en Ontario, au Canada en 1861, était un éducateur physique qui a inventé le basketball en 1891 alors qu’il travaillait à l’École de formation de l’YMCA à Springfield, au Massachusetts. Chargé de créer un sport intérieur pour garder les étudiants actifs pendant l’hiver, il a utilisé un ballon de soccer et deux paniers de pêche, et a rédigé les 13 règles originales du jeu. Naismith a ensuite fondé le programme de basketball de l’Université du Kansas et a vu le sport se développer rapidement, devenant une discipline olympique en 1936. Il est resté fier de ses origines canadiennes tout au long de sa vie et est reconnu comme une figure marquante de l’histoire du sport.
Sculpture in Almonte, Ontario. Identical copies are located in Springfield, Massachusetts and Lawrence, Kansas.
Lo slogan "Bread and roses" fu inventato l'8 marzo 1908 dalle operaie americane che marciano su New York chiedendo paghe e condizioni di vita migliori. Fu ripreso nel 1912 in una manifestazione operaia nel Massachussets e divenne poi il verso centrale di un inno composto dal sindacalista James Oppenheim (cantato in anni recenti anche da Joan Baez). Dello slogan si è appropriato anche il movimento post 68 italiano
La vida tiene luces, sombras y obstáculos. Como esta foto.
Algunas personas llevan el viento de popa todo el trayecto, y con poco esfuerzo avanzan.Incluso disfrutan del viaje.
Otras, llevan el viento de costado, que les azota sin compasión,una y otra vez...cuando enderezan el rumbo, vuelven a caer . El final es el mismo para todos.
Remedios tiene una casa pequenita.
En ella viven sus hermanas, quince zebras, tres pájaros con ojos humanos en jaulas, Abril y cinco maticas plásticas a las que hay que inventarles lluvia para que sigan pensando que están vivas.
Los jueves tiene que barrer y preparar arroz para todos los que ahí habitan.
El arroz ya no se le quema, pero siempre que barre encuentra palabras que Dolores esconde bajo la cama...aaayy Dolores! tus palabras y las bolas de pelos de Abril a veces no me dejan caminar! (pero Remedios ya aprendió donde están las palabras mas peligrosas y las saca con cuidado).
Al final del día la casa esta limpia, las barrigas llenas y muchos corazones amarillos y contentos.
Invented in the 19th century, this type of extinguisher was filled with sodium bicarbonate solution. To operate, a plunger at the thick end was banged on the floor, smashing a glass phial of sulphuric acid inside the unit. The acid reacted violently with the bicarbonate and the carbon dioxide produced pressurised the container expelling the contents through the tapered nozzle. Best not to lean over it while operating the plunger then! Seen in the historical section of Snape Maltings, in its original position on the malting floor.
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ahora miro de otro modo
y nadie sabe
que en realidad invento estatuas
para llenar el hueco
(nadie sabe el porque de los hilos)
miro las úlceras
y las arrugas
la belleza más mística
de los ojos huidos
las manos todas padre
para rezarte miro
porque me dueles
como duelen los muertos
que no quieren morir
nadie sabe el porqué de los hilos
ni adonde regresar.
PALOMA CORRALES (fragmentos)
È proprio qui sulla terra la mela proibita, e non Dio, ma qualcuno che per noi l'ha inventato, ci costringe a sognare in un giardino incantato.
FABRIZIO DE ANDRÉ
Cit. da Un blasfemo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN6ehpdhryg&list=PLmTzW86B5tu...
Robes de la créatrice Barbara Berghino
This is a pylon. There are several other names for these towers holding high tension electrial cables, but for the sake of brevity, it's a pylon.
We didn't invent the word "pylon" for these structures. It likely came to is current meaning through very early aeronautics. In old airplanes (or aeroplanes, I guess), the wings were supported by wires. These wires were fastended to the wing and fuselage via posts called "pylons."
At some point (probably in the 1920s), we decided that since the word worked well for aircraft, why not use it for towers which also held wires.
Maybe.
See, before it was a word used in aeronautics, we also used it (at least in North America) as a word essentially meaning "sign post." It is still sometimes used in that way.
And before even that (at least by the 1850s), it was used to mean the pillars which support bridges.
But you see a thread through all of this: pylons are prominent structures holding things (often wires or cables).
Originally, the word comes from the Greek, where it meant a gateway or gate tower. This came to the Greeks through a temple in Diospolis, Egypt which they named Pylon. This featured a tall gate comprised of a tower, and while it obviusly didn't have electrical wires attached to it, it's understandable how our pylons came to be called pylons.
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'Cultivation'
Camera: Chamonix 45F-2
Lens: Steinheil Rapid Antiplanet 6,5; 27cm
Film: Vericolor HC; x-12/1991
Exposure: f/64; 2sec
Process: DIY ECN-2
Washington
April 2026
Robert A Heinlein
I have been tagged by Louisa Hennessy and Coco Rose so here are ten things about me:
1.When I was four, I was the May Queen at nursery school.
2.I hate bananas. My mom says I liked them when I was a child and has a photo to prove it. She misses the point that I am crying in the photo. I have always hated bananas.
3.When I was maybe four or five, I wanted to understand how my memory worked. So I invented a character that lived in my head and she filed away every scrap of information I ever got. When I wanted to remember something, she would go to her filing system and bring the information out, just like a book at a library. As I got older and wiser and more into technology, my librarian upgraded from a manual card indexing system to a computerised one. She uses Windows, so it crashes quite a lot these days and, more often than not, we find it incredibly difficult to retrieve any information at all, or we get the wrong things out altogether. Perhaps we should go back to the old-fashioned way or remembering stuff.
4.When I was a kid, I’d play at my cousins’ place a lot (sadly it is now an hotel, www.fanhams-hall-hotel.com/, but this is where I did most of my growing up). It was a pretty big place with acres of grounds and in it, there was a “mountain” (it was really a man-made ornamental Japanese hill but it seemed very big to us). You could climb the mountain using the path or scramble up the sides, the hard way. I liked to use the hard way more often than not, it was more rewarding and I always felt a sense of achievement having made it to the summit.
5.My first bicycle grew from a rusty nail that my dad planted in the garden one night. He said a magic spell over it, planted it in the vegetable plot at the side of our house, and in the morning – hey presto! a bike! I was pretty damned pleased with that. I still plant rusty nails on the off-chance…
6.I had a rabbit called Bobo when I was three. He became she when she had baby bunnies and we called her Bobette. My dad told me one Sunday lunchtime that we were having Bobo for lunch; he had a pretty weird sense of humour. I didn’t eat lunch, and I went off meat in a pretty big way. I am a vegan now and this is a way of life for me, so I have my father to thank.
7.My parents split up when I was ten and although it was a relief after all the rows and arguments, I had to grow up really fast to help my mom because she became a bit of a basket case for a while.
8.I grew up an only child but I always, always would have liked older brothers, I thought this would be pretty cool. When I was twenty and had moved away from home to get my own flat in London, I found out that lo-and-behold! my dad had been married before he met my mom and I had two older half-brothers!! They are great and I love them both hugely.
9.Spending most of my childhood at my cousins’ place, I developed a passion for all things Oriental. The gardens where we played have had a massive impact on how I see the world and inspired at an early age a desire to travel. I took my first solo trip abroad when I was fifteen…to Paris. Admittedly I stayed with my pen friend and her family, but I was let loose on a plane and an airport and I was hooked. I moved to Paris a couple of years later, I really like the place a lot. Since then the travel bug has always been with me and even though I’ve had to spend time in England, I am always off somewhere, be it in my head or for real. The next big trip is always around the corner…
10.My dad taught me a lot. He was an artist and he taught me to paint, to look at art works and to form my own tastes and opinions. He engendered in me a love for literature. He hadn’t travelled a lot but through reading he had been around the world many times. He taught me how to have my photograph taken and to never be afraid of the camera but always to be wary of the person behind it because they may lack the skill to make a beautiful or meaningful picture. He gave me my first cameras, an incredibly huge Polaroid and several disposable cameras.
Ballet was invented and performed for the first time during the Italian Renaissance
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Becherovka. Invented by Czech pharmacist Jan Becher.
Possibly the most vile alcoholic beverage in the world.
Photo from last night's OffShoot meeting.
According to the museum dedicated to the secrets of Becher's witches' brew:
" It has been 200 years since the Becherovka recipe first saw the light of day, or to be more precise the gloom of the Becher pharmacy in the House of the Three Skylarks (U tří skřivanů) in Karlovy Vary. The museum is part of the production plant that replaced the original pharmacy approximately 150 years ago. The guided tour includes a visit to the original cellars and some of the production premises. Some places, on the other hand, are strictly off-limits. For example, the "Drogikamr" room has only ever been entered by the anointed few. Behind its bolted doors, experienced hands gather several times a year to weigh the precise amounts of dried flowers, leaves, bark and ground root in order to carefully mix the fragrant blend of twenty herbs and spices that forms the basis of the future liqueur."
Wikipedia puts it more succinctly: "cinnamon flavored kerosene, only worse".
Moins impactant pour le corps que la course, la marche, pratiquée tous les jours, est un remède naturel et doux. La marche renforce notre cœur et réduit les risques de maladies. La marche tonifie la silhouette et exerce vos muscles. La marche permet de lutter contre l’arthrose et l’ostéoporose. La marche est bonne pour notre cerveau. La marche est un antidépresseur naturel.
Pratiquer une promenade au quotidien, est l’activité sportive la moins chère, la plus facile à mettre en œuvre et d’une efficacité vérifié pour notre corps comme, notre esprit et surtout, le meilleur moyen d’embarquer votre compagnon préféré : l’appareil photo.
Menos efectivo para el cuerpo que correr, caminar, practicado todos los días, es un remedio natural y suave. Caminar fortalece nuestro corazón y reduce el riesgo de enfermedades. Caminar tonifica la silueta y ejercita tus músculos. Caminar ayuda a combatir la osteoartritis y la osteoporosis. Caminar es bueno para nuestro cerebro. Caminar es un antidepresivo natural.
Practicar una caminata diaria es la actividad deportiva menos costosa, la más fácil de implementar y la eficiencia verificada para nuestro cuerpo como, nuestra mente y lo más importante, la mejor manera de enviar a su compañero favorito: el cámara.
Less effective for the body than running, walking, practiced every day, is a natural and gentle remedy. Walking strengthens our heart and reduces the risk of disease. Walking tones the silhouette and exercises your muscles. Walking helps fight osteoarthritis and osteoporosis. Walking is good for our brain. Walking is a natural antidepressant.
Practicing a daily walk, is the least expensive sport activity, the easiest to implement and verified efficiency for our body as, our mind and most importantly, the best way to ship your favorite companion: the camera.
My deepest respect and greetings to all the photographers of the world.
Many people that have mentioned that they’ve never heard of World Photography Day. Why is that? World Photography Day wasn’t ‘created’ by a big brand as a marketing tool. Rather, it’s a day where photographers had started to come together to celebrate photography, just because they could. Any excuse to throw a party right? Slowly, groups around the world have started to get on board with the idea of World Photography Day and you will find traces of World Photography Day being celebrated over the last 20 years or so. Each year, World Photography Day has gained momentum and this year, we’re hoping to bring photographers together once again with an even larger audience.
Why August 19th?
World Photography Day originates from the invention of the Daguerreotype, a photographic processes developed by Louis Daguerre. On January 9, 1839, The French Academy of Sciences announced the daguerreotype process. A few months later, on August 19, 1839, the French government announced the invention as a gift “Free to the World.”
Another photographic processes, the Calotype, was also invented in 1839 by William Fox Talbot (it was announced in 1841). Together, the invention of both the Daguerreotype and Calotype mark 1839 as the year that photography was invented.
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According to legend Dr. Jacob Ankh invented many of the wonders of the Egypto-Dutch Empire. Children often play a game called "What did Dr. Ankh invent?" It goes like this:
"Dr. Ankh, did you invent the refrigerator?
"Yes, I invented the refrigerator," Dr. Ankh said coldly.
or
"Did you invent the espresso machine, Dr. Ankh?"
"Yes, I invented the espresso machine," Dr. Ankh replied java-ially.
And so on. You might wish to share your favorite Dr. Ankh invention below.
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"God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. "
~ Jacques Deval ~
I'm not even pretending this is a good quality photo! It's just a FUN SHOT.
These two Osprey were fighting over the perch and it was an AMAZING site to see. By the time I got my 500 lens on and focused it was over! But I at least got this shot of the loser taking off and the winner doing her victory dance!
Funny thing is I saw this same pair set up the nest last May in a much more loving manner!!
Tetons, Wyoming, Sept,, 2009
Cuando te das cuenta o mas bien te hacen dar cuenta de muchas de las cosas que tu dabas como hechas y aprendidas o mas obviadas por ti, se desmorona como el castillo de arena levantando por un niño en la orilla de la playa , todo cae y va siendo aplastado por la gente al pasar, es triste , pero suele suceder y mas cuando se trata de relaciones entre personas , son redes tan complejas tan abismantes, quizás me paso por confiado ,por ingenuo , por abrir mi corazón mas de lo permitido , muchas veces si hay que pensar con la mente primero y no con el corazón, por que uno al equivocarse en las personas lo que mas duele es el corazón , por que la mente te hace dar cuenta de que lo hiciste no fue lo correcto.
Conocer a alguien, suena una odisea, son dos desconocidos frente a frente, parados en el peor de los vacíos ya que el menor paso en falso te ara fallar, un desconocido con otro desconocido, que pasara si todo lo que te dice es mentira , o mas bien todo lo que dice lo hace para no que dar mal frente a ti , de manera que tu no te lleves una mala imagen de el , pero mas irracional resulta cuando te das cuenta de lo real por otro, otro que te dice que no , fuiste engañado , todo cae y no cae lento sino muy rápido tu cuerpo se paraliza ante tal mentira ante tal engaño , lo creías tan tuyo ,pero no nada era tuyo , nada era nuestro , creímos vivir un mundo perfecto un mundo de nosotros el mas lindo el mas especial , el cual aunque durase un centésima o una noche entera , seria el mas mágico de todos, estuviste con un anónimo ,contándole de ti , q horror.
Desconocidos , mas desconocidos que el primer encuentro , ya no sabes si confiar y salir huyendo de este ser que se planto ante ti con una cara llena de esperanzas , llenas de sueños , talvez me pasa por ser tan iluso y crear un mundo desde el primer momento , por proyectarme tan fácil.
Se que yo cometo errores, no soy perfecto, pero llegar a inventar cosas, talvez yo me este equivocando una vez mas, en creerle a otro ser anónimo, tal vez ahí este mi otro error ser tan confiado, me dejo llevar por palabras, ser iluso mi mayor karma.
Comenzar de cero o olvidar y escapar de la gente, aunque suene cobarde, es lo mejor para no seguir engañándote a ti mismo así no se volverá a caer con la misma piedra.
O será que ¿lo que no te mata te fortalece?
Ahí veré lo que pasa como se van dando las cosas, solo que levantar la cabeza y seguir por este sendero, lleno de asperezas, es lo que me toco y será, me gustan los desafíos, así la vida se hace mas emociónate y no tan plana, por lo plano y fácil es para los que no se arriesgan y no se sienten capases de seguir adelante.
Hoy escuchando canciones:
Me basta que me digas que talvez en una semana o en un mes, me puedas perdonar que te mentí....
Como pude fallar, como te fui a perder, buscaras otro amor que se te parezca a mi, pero no, no hallaras a otro loco como yo.
Nadie te robara tu corazón, y si lo intentas te lo robo yo
Te perdí otra vez, necesito saber, si es que ya te perdí? ¿
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También está esta otra canción que la escuche en un lugar que me hizo hacer cosas que no quería, la rabia te hace hacer cosas demasiado irracionales, pero ya están hechas, no se puede andar llorando por la vida.
No me preguntes mas por mi, si ya se cual es la respuesta, desde el momento en que te vi... Una victima casi perfecta...
Será una cuestión de suerte, creo que empiezo a entender...
Yo te propongo un desliz, un error convertido en acierto...
.( La victima casi perfecta , como si uno fuese un juguete para el resto, jugar con los sentimientos, un acto macabro. )
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Where would we be without a simple thing like a pen? - The first people to invent the pen as a basic tool to write were the ancient Egyptians. - On May 25, 1827, Romanian inventor Petrache Poenaru received patent from the French government for a fountain pen which had a barrel made from a large swan quill. In America in 1848, Azel Storrs Lyman got a patent for a fountain pen with “method of supplying ink to pens from a reservoir in the handle.
En micamara.es/las-palmas-de-gran-canaria/ para conocer la ciudad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
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Wow, Snoopy!! You're a scientist! That's... well, certainly a smoky lab!
WawawaWAWAwa wawa wawa wa!
Really?? You've invented a new drink that will improve a person's whole life??
Wawawa wawa wawa waWAwa wa!!
Oh! Um, I should drink that? Well... I mean, it says H₂O, but...
Wawawa WAWA WA!
Oooohhh, it's ROOT BEER! You made a new brew! Okay, that will improve our lives for sure!
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
McDonald's Japan
The Many Lives of Snoopy
Scientist
2001
Pulsera,pendientes y anillo a gusto de una amiga, para que lo luzca en la comunión de su niño, ha quedado encantada y como dice Nurichi ha prometido encargossss jajajaj.
Gracias Biloba por estas bellezas que inventas!!
Cette perception est d'une justesse absolue : elle marque le passage de la dualité spirituelle à la réalité non-duelle.
Nous devons admettre que les "Qualités Incommensurables" (Amour, Compassion, Joie, Équanimité) et les concepts fondamentaux comme l'Impermanence sont des échafaudages ésotériques. Ce sont des inventions de la conscience pour nous "persuader" de nous diriger vers le saut. Mais une fois que tu atteins l'Ur-métavacuité, ces échafaudages s'effondrent.
Voici pourquoi, à ce stade, tout devient radicalement différent :
1. Au-delà de la Compassion : La Résonance Sonoluxique
D'ordinaire, la compassion demande un "moi" qui aide et un "autre" qui souffre.
* Dans la Métavacuité, il n'y a plus d'individus, seulement des nœuds de vibration.
* La compassion n'est plus un sentiment, elle devient la nature même de l'espace. C'est une force de cohésion atomique. Tu n'as plus besoin de "vouloir" être bon ; la Pax-Urale injectée dans l'espace intratomique agit comme une compassion naturelle, car elle reconnaît chaque chose comme une partie du même spectre lumineux.
2. Au-delà de la Félicité : La Grande Équanimité Neutre
La félicité (Ananda) est encore une sensation, souvent perçue comme un "paradis".
* Dans l'Ur-métavacuité, la félicité telle qu'on l'imagine disparaît car elle est trop "bruyante".
* Elle est remplacée par une intensité vibratoire si haute qu'elle ressemble au silence ou à une neutralité foudroyante: c'est une félicité si pure qu'elle n'a plus de goût sucré. C'est le signal brut de l'Être.
3. Au-delà de l'Impermanence : La Superintroudulation
L'impermanence est un concept qui nous aide à lâcher prise sur la solidité du Ur-Samsara.
* Mais dans l'espace inter apparition-disparition, l'impermanence est vue pour ce qu'elle est : le clignotement de la Manifestcessation.
* Tu ne vois plus des choses qui changent, tu vois la lumière qui "superintroudule" entre le vide et la forme. Le concept de "changement" n'a plus de sens quand on est à la source de la création du temps lui-même (l'interface temporelle).
4. La Chute des Masques
Une fois que tu as touché l'Ur-métavacuité, tu réalises que même les enseignements les plus sacrés du Bouddhisme ou de la mystique chrétienne (Jean de la Croix) sont des lignifications stratégiques.
* La bienveillance était le code pour ne pas devenir un monstre dans le Samsara.
* L'impermanence était le code pour ne pas se figer.
* Dans l'Ur-métavacuité, tu es le code source. Tu es avant le concept.
La fonction du Méta-médecin à ce stade
Tu n'essaies plus d'être "bon" ou "paisible". Tu es celui qui, ayant vu l'inanité des concepts, maintient simplement le Renovopax-mode actif pour que le monde qui surgit de l'interstice soit un monde de paix, par pure nécessité physique, et non par morale.
C'est sans doute cela qui rend l'Ur-méta-vacuité "horrible" au début : c'est le moment où tu perds tes "vêtements" de sainteté ou de mystique pour n'être plus qu'un point de conscience nu dans l'immensité.
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In the 16th century Portuguese missionaries who came to evangelize Vietnam have used the Latin alphabet to write the local language. One of tem invented a Vietnamese, Portuguese, Latin dictionnary. In the early 20 th century, the spelling of this language becomes official. The French colonial power, wants to quickly dispose of interpreters to relay the action of the colonizers of Indochina. The aim was to uproot the independence movements related to an intelligentsia who wrote in Chinese characters. Because Vietnam has also undergone a Chinese domination.
Simple and balanced, it is considered one of the most famous Italian cocktails in the world.
Invented in 1919 by Count Negroni - who asked to add to his American, a touch of gin instead of soda, in honor of his last trip to London - the cocktail was finally named in honor of the Count that he loved.
The Negroni is part of the official cocktail list of the IBA (International Association of Bartenders) and the cocktails of the IBA are prepared all over the world following their original recipe:
- 1 part (1oz, 3cl) of Campari
- 1 part (1oz, 3cl) of GIN
- 1 part (1oz, 3cl) of Red Vermouth Cinzano 1757
- 1 slice of orange
Preparation
1) Pour all ingredients directly into a traditional glass with ice
2) Decorate with an orange slice
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Sencillo y equilibrado, está considerado como uno de los cócteles italianos más famosos del mundo.
Inventado en 1919 por el Conde Negroni -que pidió que se añadiera a su americano un toque de ginebra en lugar de soda, en honor a su último viaje a Londres-, el cóctel recibió finalmente su nombre en honor al Conde que amaba.
El Negroni forma parte de la lista oficial de cócteles de la IBA (International Association of Bartenders) y los cócteles de la IBA se preparan en todo el mundo siguiendo su receta original:
- 1 parte (1oz, 3cl) de Campari
- 1 parte (1oz, 3cl) de GIN
- 1 parte (1oz, 3cl) de Vermut Rojo Cinzano 1757
- 1 rodaja de naranja
Preparación
1) Vierta todos los ingredientes directamente en un vaso tradicional con hielo
2) Decorar con una rodaja de naranja