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Message from Joseph Schubert "Joseph Schubert Same species again, the females are incredibly variable. The species name of this one's sister species (mutans) is the Latin word for changing, a reference to the fact that females are highly variable in appearance."
I have put up a LEGO Cuusoo project for the 30th anniversary of TMNT (in 2014), where I thought it would be a great idea to release a set of the classical Turtle Party Wagon.
Very disappointing that it wasn't a Maratus, but I forgave it quickly. This was a tiny little spider that was very good at jumping the moment that I got it in focus, and a split second before I fired the shutter ;-)
Message from Joseph Schubert "Joseph Schubert Same species again, the females are incredibly variable. The species name of this one's sister species (mutans) is the Latin word for changing, a reference to the fact that females are highly variable in appearance."
Perfumed Valley.
Erhaben Verbreitung Farben steigenden Tal umgebenden Herzen,
strofe che mostrano l'amore potente verde scuro brillante abita apparente,
addurno'r llygaid gogoneddus adar lleddfol gorffwys,
consommer vue ardente tremblantes sauvages jaunes ombres falaises,
الحزم الكاسح المقدمة الأزرق,
красивая здоровая горящий трубы правило,
krzycząc Zaskoczony tłuste noce błogosławione zwierząt,
sublustri melodiis sperare languiditas scriptor mutans calendis,
drømme ensomhet løsøre damper lukter,
colectarea întuneric simțit venele paradis umbrind,
μαγευτική κινούμενα ουρανούς γυμνό φτερά αετού γαλήνιο,
מעיין נעורים מפוסלים שחר מקנא שליטה מכונפת,
nyugodt titkok Ingatlan alatta kellemes baráti vendég,
aukso sidabro summers greitai žolės gėlės šiaudų,
sour aklè blanch vag l ap desann byen lwen reziste,
鼓動パルスは静かに下降無限の谷呼吸不朽のだろうと思う.
Steve.D.Hammond.
Modena - Italia
È stata capitale, dal 1598 e per diversi secoli, del ducato degli Este (fino all'annessione al Regno d'Italia nel 1859) ed è un'antica sede universitaria ed arcivescovile. Dal 1947 la città è anche sede dell'Accademia Militare dell'Esercito e dell'Arma dei Carabinieri.
Il Duomo, la Torre Civica (Ghirlandina) e la Piazza Grande della città sono state dichiarate patrimonio dell'umanità dall'UNESCO.
Anticamente fu un insediamento etrusco, poi gallico, quindi, nel 183 a.C., colonia romana, col nome di Mutina. Questo toponimo viene messo in relazione con l'etrusco "mutna", o "mutana", "tomba", a sua volta forse derivato da una radice anteriore che dà nome ad un "rialzo di terreno", una "collina". Successivamente Modena venne abbandonata fra il V e il VII secolo, causa le numerose inondazioni dei fiumi Secchia e Panaro, gli abitanti si rifugiarono nel vicino borgo più a ovest, Cittanova. Tornò a ripopolarsi gradualmente intorno alla sede vescovile, che aveva assunto la guida della città ed il vescovo Leodoino la fece cingere di mura nell'891. Durante la signoria dei vescovi, venne eretta la nuova cattedrale. Il potere vescovile ebbe termine con l'autonomia comunale nel 1135 ma, nel 1249, con la battaglia di Fossalta, Modena ghibellina venne sconfitta da Bologna guelfa e, nel 1288, si consegnò agli Estensi di Ferrara. Ma Modena diventa veramente la 'città estense' solo dopo il 1598, quando il duca Cesare trasferisce da Ferrara a Modena la capitale del suo ducato. Uno Stato destinato a barcamenarsi con alterne fortune nelle lotte tra le potenze italiane ed europee, e che malgrado le ripetute occupazioni da parte degli eserciti stranieri (i francesi nel 1702; gli austriaci nel 1742) resisterà fino all'unificazione dell'Italia, con una sola interruzione nel periodo napoleonico.
Te večeri kada je došao moj ujak Šile da kupi cigare, listao sam neki Alan Ford u trafici. “Jel ti u funkciji čamac?” upita me on. “Znaš da je kod mene čamac uvek spreman”- odgovorih mu. – “Oćemo u zoru na pecanje?” – “Odlična ideja”- rekoh.
Još je bio mrak kad smo se našli ispred marine gde mi je vezan kabinaš. Sa njim je bio neki krupan čovek. Čvrsto mi stesnu ruku i tiho reče: ”Dragi”.
Tad mi prolete kroz sanjivu glavu-pa ja ovog čoveka od nekud znam- Šile prekinu tisinu: ”I on će sa nama u Male Vode. ” Ubacismo štapove u čamac dok se motor zagrevao. Klizili smo nizvodno Dunavom. Njih dvojica su nešto raspravljali o fudbalu dok sam ja razmišljao odakle mi je poznat ovaj tamnoputi proćelavi gorostas.
Već je počelo da rudi, pucala je zora. Ugledah čaplju kako stoji na nekoj grani dok ih je voda nosila. Potegoh aparat pa okrenuh čamac u pravcu ptice. Nije se uplašila. Prvi snimak –mutan, drugi u stranu, treći-nije loš a čamac se približavao životinji. Gledala nas je dok je pozirala. Zatim četvrti pucanj – “dobro je, rekoh!” Tek tada odlete kao da me je čula. Dok sam zadovoljno gledao na displeju kako je fotka ispala,čuh ujaka: “Jel znas Boki ko je ovaj čovek sa nama?”
Kazah: ”Poznat mi je, al ne mogu da se setim.” – “ E, koji si ti grobar.” – nastavi Šile, pa to ti je dudogodišni igrač Partizana!, dve sezone najbolji strelac španske Saragose! A i u Turskoj je palio i žario. Tek tada se setih! Pa to je Dragi Kaličanin! Kao klinac sam visio na jugu Partizanovog stadiona i oduševljavao se majstorijama mog novog poznanika.
Rekoh:”Baš mi je drago što idemo na pecanje zajedno, izvini sto te nisam prepoznao, prošlo je dosta vremena.” – “Ma nema veze, važno da si ti lepo fotografisao onu ptičurinu” koja se nazirala u daljini.
Tog dana ništa nismo ulovili. U povratku smo svratili na Šveb kod Vlade u kafanu te uz belo vino i smudja naterah mog nekadšnjeg idola da se priseti zanimljivih dogodovština po svetu.
Boki
I won't have tomorrow, To face myself? ('A`)y-~ I've had enough.
Because I pull out Żubrówka from freezer and so dranked it every day.
The second bottle will make me wasted.
My room was rolling and spinning WOW, Hey freezer is dance and run away.
My bed is 500km far away and higher than Everest. I'd like climb my bed.
And I'm falling bed. And step on nikon cam.
Why nikon? CUZ it's a Not 日本光学 No way!
I’d like a die anymore but I was still alive. Holy S
As I awoke today I was still alive too.
What is store in tomorrow.
Life is such a thing. when come END?
Tanya has gone. Mutan has gone. Chacha has gone. Yuki has gone.
Nene
«Ave maris stella,
Dei Mater alma
atque semper virgo
felix coeli porta.
Sumens illud ave
Gabrielis ore
funda nos in pace
mutans Evae nomen.
Solve vincla reis,
profer lumen caecis,
mala nostra pelle,
bona cuncta posce.
Monstra te esse matrem,
sumat per te preces
qui pro nobis natus
tulit esse tuus.
Virgo singularis
inter omnes mitis,
nos culpis solutos
mites fac et castos.
Vitam praesta puram,
iter para tutum
ut videntes Jesum
semper collaetemur.
Sit laus Deo Patri,
summo Christo decus,
Spiritui Sancto
tribus honor unus.
Amen.»
in the Capital city the filthy rich lives in Stratos-scrapers and levitating palaces, at ground level those with regular employment and some status lives...
Then at what is known to most as The cellar levels the poor and factory workers live in just above starvation and misery, if you travel even deeper to the grotto parts of the undercity hoards of savage mutants and outcast aliens and renegade droids live most people who doesn´t have to travel down here with out a platoon of bodyguard federations soldiers and 2-3 defense Bots and a dozen of pathfinders...
This is of cause not even the deepest levels, there are all sorts of rumors of different deep-city Abyssal levels...
since the contact between the different levels in the city, few above cellar-level knows anything about the deeper levels, some say there is huge mutated Dinos running around eating everything, some say a huge biological fleshy mutated mass spread it´s tentacles through the deepest levers incorporating all organic and some inorganic matter in to it´s huge swelling bloated mutant body... but the deepest levels are yet unexplored by "Civilized surface dwellers"
This picture depicts a common trap made by mutants and deep-level scum, the lure-trap goes like this, a mutant with special radio-active attributes such as tapping in to radio-messages or someone who has accidentally swallow a piece of communication tech and gotten this trait in that manner...
...anyway one of these gangers homes in on the radio of a random spacecraft and does his best to convince the victim pilot that they are ground control, then slowly lures the pilot down towards the landing strip which in reality is one of the vents leading deep in to the planet core...
before this the whole pack of underhivling scums have constructed a fake landing coarse and when the pilot lands they wait until the engines are turned off, then they all strike at once, coming from all corners with chains, hooks, chainsaws, pipes, magnets, tentacles and so on...
the pilot then usually tries to start his ship again, but since most spacecraft especially small fighter are lightweight because of economic reasons the pure mutant-body-weight is enough to pull it down, at the same time as they cling to the ship all starts bashing and hacking it, tearing it apart piece by piece in hope to maim it enough to prohibit flight, then at most time there will be fighting among the Hive-scum on which parts they are "the rightful" owners of, many are starving carnivores who see the pilot as a juicy pice of meat behind the thin crystal canopy...
Some pilots choose to eject themselves, with is an almost certain death at this cluttered level of the city, with metal and pipes sticking out everywhere and concrete wall, still the choose certain death rather than being ripped apart by brawling aliens and mutants fighting over dinner...
Throughout the span of recorded human history, Pinecones have served as a symbolic representation of Human Enlightenment, the Third Eye and the Pineal Gland.
Conifer Pine Trees are one of the most ancient plant genera on the planet, having existed nearly three times longer than all flowering plant species. The Pinecone is the evolutionary precursor to the flower, and its spines spiral in a perfect Fibonacci sequence in either direction, much like the Sacred Geometry of a rose or a sunflower.
Our “Pine”al Gland, shaped like (and named after) the Pinecone, is at the geometric center of our brain and is intimately linked to our body's perception of light. The Pineal modulates our wake-sleep patterns and circadian rhythms, remains uniquely isolated from the blood-brain barrier system, and receives a higher percentage of blood flow than any other area of the body save the kidneys.
It is considered by many to be our biological Third Eye, the "Seat of the Soul," the “Epicenter of Enlightenment” -- and its sacred symbol throughout history, in cultures around the world, has been the Pinecone.The Egyptian Staff of Osiris, dating back to approximately 1224 BC, depicts two intertwining serpents rising up to meet at a pinecone. Modern scholars and philosophers have noted the staff’s symbolic parallels to the Indian “Kundalini,” a spiritual energy in the body depicted as coiled serpents rising up from the base of the spine to the Third Eye (Pineal Gland) in the moment of enlightenment. Awakened Kundalini represents the merging and alignment of the Chakras, and is said to be the one and only way to attain the “Divine Wisdom” bringing pure joy, pure knowledge and pure love.
Depictions of Hindu deities are also interwoven with both literal and symbolic representations of serpents and pinecones. In some cases, Hindu gods are carved, sculpted or drawn holding a pinecone in outstretched hand. Shiva, the most prominent god in the Hindu tradition, is consistently depicted with a head, or coiled hair, shaped in marked similarity to a pinecone and interwoven with a serpent or serpents.
In addition to spiritual consciousness and enlightenment, pinecones have also historically been used as symbols of everlasting or eternal life. Ancient Assyrian palace carvings, dating back to 713-716 BC depict four-winged God-like figures purposefully holding aloft pinecones, or in some cases, using a pinecone to pollinate their depiction of the Tree of Life -- a tribute, perhaps, to both the Pinecone’s immortality symbolism and its role as an icon of enlightenment.In yet another culture’s tribute to the Pinecone as symbolic of spiritual ascension and immortality, a statue of the Mexican god “Chicomecoatl” (“Seven Snakes”) again depicts the deity offering forth pinecones in one hand, and an evergreen tree in the other.
The Greeks and Romans also incorporated the Pinecone into their elaborate systems of religious belief and mythology. Dionysus, later known as Bacchus to the Romans, was continually depicted ca rrying a “Thyrsus,” a fennel staff woven with ivy and leaves and topped with a pinecone. The Thyrsus, purported to drip with honey, was regularly used as a sacred instrument at religious rituals and fetes.
Romans later built an enormous bronze sculpture, the “Pigna,” in the shape of a huge pinecone three stories tall. According to a popular medieval legend, the sculpture stood on top of the Pantheon, as a lid for the round opening in the center of the building's vault. The Pigna is confirmed to have served as a large fountain overflowing with water next the Temple of Isis in Ancient Rome, however, the gigantic statue now sits directly in front of the Catholic Vatican in the “Court of the Pinecone.”Catholic religious tradition is intricately interwoven with pinecones, perhaps most prominently atop the sacred staff carried by the Pope himself. The Coat of Arms of the Holy See, found on the Vatican flag among other places, features a stacking of three crowns suspiciously similar in shape to a pinecone. The very name, “Holy See,” appears to many to be a direct reference to the Third Eye…
Pinecones also turn up as sources of “illumination” in the church, such as candleholders and lamps, seemingly symbolic of the spiritual illumination the Third Eye represents. All of these factors lead conspiracy theorists and philosophers to accuse the Catholic church of using Christianity/Catholicism as a veil to blind the public to true spiritual enlightenment: The awakening of our Pineal Gland.One theory proposes that the Pinecone was actually the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, purported in Genesis to have been eaten by Eve at the urgings of a serpent, and leading to the eviction of mankind from the Garden of Eden. This concept proves particularly provocative given the consistent reappearance of pinecone images with serpents and snake references across cultures.
The Bible itself alludes to pinecones and the Pineal Gland on several occasions, sometimes quite specifically. Beginning in Genesis, Jacob wrestles all night with God, and is commanded to change his name to Israel. The bible then purports the following:
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: “For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. And as he passed over Peniel the sun rose upon him.
--Genesis 32:30-31
(Literal Biblical translation of the word “Peniel” means “Face of God”)
In another interesting passage, Matthew seems to provide an uncannily similar description of the Third Eye to texts of the Yogic and Hindu spiritual traditions. This verse is also interesting because the Pineal Gland is the only part of the brain that is “single,” not possessing a left and right hemisphere.
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be single, your whole body shall be full of light.
--Matthew 6:22
Matthew’s description also appears pertinent to recent pineal experimentation conducted in amphibians. Pineal supplementation in frogs, which possess a more prominent Pineal Gland, results in a physical “lightening” of their entire skin pigmentation. The Pineal Gland in some reptiles actually still contains “rods“ and “cones“ as in our retinas, and is capable of directly perceiving light.
This final verse from Hosea, seems to more directly address the connection between spirituality and the Pinecone/Pine Tree:
O Ephraim, what more have I to do with idols?
I will answer him and care for him.
I am like a green pine tree;
your fruitfulness comes from me.
--Hosea 14:8
In addition to critical theories relating to Christianity and the Catholic Church, conspiracy theorists also point to the presence of pinecones in Freemason architecture and symbolism as another example of organized spiritual oppression. They believe the Freemasons fully understand the spiritual significance of the Third Eye, and regularly pay iconic tribute to it, while continuing to placate the masses with a doctrine of religious and cultural dogma.
Pinecones regularly appear framed in Freemason Octagons on the ceilings of Masonic Lodges, and Large Freemason sculptures on the side of the Whitehall Building in the New York Financial District goes so far as to depict two enormous intertwining snakes spiraling up to a pinecone overlooking Battery Place (which is striking similarity to the Staff of Osiris).
Psychopharmacologist Rick Strassman believes the Third Eye/Pineal Gland to be the source of the psychedelic Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) in our bodies. Strassman has hypothesized that large amounts of DMT are released in our bodies during heightened states of spiritual consciousness, such as birth, death and near-death experiences -- or perhaps during the awakening of our Kundalini in a moment of Enlightenment.
Synthesized DMT, or plants containing DMT are often used as recreational psychedelics, or in shamanic ceremonies, such as the Ayahuasca ceremony originating in South America. DMT and/or Ayahuasca users often report intensely entheogenic experiences of spiritual awakening, contact with entities of supernatural or spiritual origin, and the dilation or compression of time.
It is worth noting that among reports of thousands users experiences with Ayahuasca, the Serpent is documented as the the most commonly appearing archeatype in their spiritual/psychedelic visions.
Pinecone related similarities have also shown up in Crop Circles. Although Crop Circles are typically representative of a wide range of items and ideas, the two featured here reflect noteworthy Pinecone/Third Eye parallels…
As with many iconic symbols throughout history (the Swastika, the Christian Cross, the All-Seeing-Eye on the dollar bill), the totemic power of the Pinecone has been used by a broad spectrum of both positive and negative cultural forces throughout history to reference and allude to Spiritual Enlightenment and the Third Eye.
Modern-day organizations appear to be toting the Pinecone’s symbolic power over the masses, while simultaneously disguising its true importance -- and may even be seeking to chemically block or poison our Third Eye via Fluorinated public drinking water.
Third Eye Pinecone Talismans represent a reclamation of the emblematic power and natural beauty of the Pinecone, the Pineal Gland, and the ancient historical heritage accompanying one of Mother Nature’s most compelling organic symbols.
Third Eye Pinecone Necklaces and Talismans are made from the polished cross-section of a living pinecone, sustainably harvested in unique micro-climates, and specially cut, dried, cured and encased in protective resin. They are elegant, natural, unique, and symbolize the evolution of collective consciousness while harnessing the potent spiritual energy of the Pineal Gland and of the Third Eye.
thirdeyepinecones.com/history-symbolism
Is fluoride in your water and toothpaste preventing you from spiritual awakening?
No fewer than four people have posed this question to me in the past ten days, so let’s talk about how fluoride might affect spiritual enlightenment.
The theory, in short, is thus: The pineal gland enables a person to become spiritually awakened and exposure to fluoride causes the pineal gland to calcify. Crusty pineal gland = zero enlightenment.
I’m not a doctor or a medical professional of any kind. I’ve never dissected a human brain to observe the pineal gland, calcified or otherwise. And I’m willing to bet that neither have you. How can we know if this is true? Forget about knowing in some empirical way, because you’d have to be able to study at least a few hundred enlightened people, and look inside their brains to boot. That would be fascinating, but good luck with that. You’d have to prove that fluoride actually causes the pineal gland to calcify. Then you’d have to show a link between the pineal gland and spiritual awakening. And to make this all just a little more challenging, you’d have to devise a way to determine whether a subject was enlightened in the first place.
The addition of fluoride to drinking water and dental products is fairly recent, and isn’t practiced everywhere in the world. If this theory were true, one would expect that a) many more people became enlightened prior to the mass introduction of fluoride, with a sudden and sharp decline after b) people living in areas of the world where fluoride exposure is low would continue to have roughly the same or steady occurrence of enlightenment. And one might say that if a calcified pineal gland dulled one’s ability to awaken, it might also lessen the interest in spirituality in general. Yet, in countries such as the United States, the interest in spirituality has only increased to a fevered pitch, and we often hear reports of people awakening, read their blogs, buy their books, watch their interviews on TV or the internet.
Of course, a hundred years ago perhaps just as many people awakened, but very few became known. Now that we have the internet, the perceived prevalence of just about everything, from micro-niche sexual fetishes to spiritual enlightenment, has increased dramatically.
This, and other similar theories, are posted all about the internet. They are interesting, but their veracity can’t be known. It’s compelling to think there is something so clear, definable and actionable standing between you and the awakened state. Perhaps if you stop eating animal products, or grain or sugar…or become a breatharian and stop eating entirely, you’ll awaken. You’ll be pure enough. Or if you go away to some retreat with a spiritual master or program, where you can be away from your job and your family and your everyday life…because those things are holding you down and dulling your ability to achieve awakened clarity. Or, if you could take some DMT or sip some Amazonian tea with a shaman. There is this idea that one must either rid oneself of something or acquire something in order to wake up.
I was exposed to fluoride for a couple of decades. It did not prevent me from awakening. With that said, I stopped using toothpaste and drinking tap water a few years after awakening. Fluoride is classified as a pesticide by the FDA. In my opinion, it is not necessary to add fluoride to anything, so I chose not to expose myself to more of it than normally exists in nature. I drink professionally filtered water and I have brushed my teeth with natural and non toxic substances such as baking soda (bicarbonate) or pure olive oil soap such as savon de Marseilles. I put a teaspoon of pure Xylitol in my mouth after brushing and swish this around for five minutes (if you take up this practice, don’t swallow the Xylitol, spit it out but don’t rinse with water). Around the same time I stopped using all kinds of things that had chemicals in them, like shampoo. I started making my own hand creams, washing my face with natural ingredients like yogurt and rice flour, and removed all products from my home that had harmful chemicals, dyes or synthetic fragrances.
I don’t think this has anything to do with my pineal gland or the awakened state. It’s just healthier not to expose yourself to so many chemicals, carcinogens and irritants. So if you are concerned about the effects of fluoride, or any other pervasive substance in your environment, by all means remove it. Creating a healthy, supportive environment for the body is always a good thing. But do notice if you are falling into Magic Bullet thinking. “If I can just remove this.” or “If I can just add, acquire or achieve that.” It leads us in circles and also makes us gullible.
Notes
While I think Xylitol is great as a mouthwash since it kills S. mutans like a boss, I would never eat it. Some people chew gum with Xylitol in it, but it is very expensive and has little Xylitol in it. The most effective and economical way to use Xylitol is to just buy a tub of it and use a teaspoon after brushing. If you can manage to rinse with it after meals (carry a small container of it with you), all the better. It’s a very strange feeling to rinse your mouth with something that has the taste and texture of sugar in order to avoid cavities! But it does suppress S. mutans, and bacteria cause cavities, not sugar. Xylitol is fatal to dogs, even in fairly small quantities. Take the proper precautions if you have canine family members.
Savon de Marseilles and pure Castile soap are fantastic, natural and safe alternatives to all kinds of detergents, in the kitchen, bathroom and laundry. Make sure your bar of Marseilles soap says it’s 72% oil, or huile, and has no fragrance or dye.
Baking soda is quite abrasive, so I wouldn’t recommend using this every single day. Brushing with pure olive oil soap is the best. Use baking soda every other day or so. If you want to remove stains, you can break open a capsule of food grade activated charcoal and brush with that once a week, or month, depending on your needs.
In spite of not using any store bought dental products for a decade and not drinking fluoridated water, I’ve never had a cavity. The idea that we need these things, and that without them our teeth will crumble in our mouths, is untrue.
I don’t know which filtration system is best to remove fluoride from water. The area I live in does not fluoridate, but I still buy filtered water anyway because there are all kinds of other things in water, like chloramines, that I prefer to avoid. I believe the water is filtered first, then subjected to reverse osmosis.
Remember, you can’t remove every harmful thing from your environment. Do what you can, when you can, but don’t lose sleep over it.
This is from my super heroes / muntants series.
I did my best making the flame or light rays. View On Black
When I was a kid I was obsessed with the super powers, and want to fly and mutants and Xmen.
My first idea was to portray the problems of super heroes, I do not rule yet, but for pleasure I will play some of my favorites.
I edited the green of the wall a bit.
Saitis mutans
A tiny 3mm male jumping spider who waves his third legs in the air for the female spiders.
ID from Joseph Schubert Research Assistant (RA) at Monash University
The spacemen have meet nay strange creatures while traveling to distant worlds, These know by them selves as the Fabu-people seems to be a genetic experiment gone a rye and humanoid and earthly long extinct creatures? they them selves don´t know their origin but say they have legends about two ancestor races Known as battle beasts and Sylvanian families and might therefore be a crossbreed of these unknown races!
These are some examples of Mutant heads.
-Vader's mouth gut rubbed of some how...-
Red Mutan:
-Extreamly strong, and the most insane of all the mutants, it has no sanity left in its mind...
Brown mutant:
-Looks like a dog ths nicknamed the wolfmen. They have some sanity and some of them are even sane enough to help the normal humans, they can shoot a gun and and you can tame them with one simple item, a bone.
Sandgreen Mutants:
-Some of them apear reptilian in nature, others seem like troll like beings. These mutants are totally hate filled and will destroy anything in there way -even other mutants- They are smart enough to fire a gun but reckless enough to go against fait filled odds.
Grey Mutants:
-These mutants are totally brain dead, they rome around looking for something to eat, often humans, they are nicknamed the 'zombies' of the war.
Salgótarján, Hungary
Ötletgazda: A Mutáns Tehén / The Mutant Cow
The idea from A Mutáns Tehén / The Mutant Cow
További textúrázott képeim: www.flickr.com/photos/balazspapdi/sets/72157626303099230/
My older textured photos: www.flickr.com/photos/balazspapdi/sets/72157626303099230/
Textúra: www.flickr.com/photos/skeletalmess/collections/7215761567...
A species I found at Newcastle north of Sydney and together with David Hill named Saitis mutans because the females are so variable in colouration. You can download the paper in which it is described here (takes a couple of minutes to download) peckhamia.com/peckhamia/PECKHAMIA_103.1.pdf P.11. The genus Saitis is closely related to the genus Maratus (Peacock spiders), in both of these genera the males signal with their third pair of legs, but in most species of Maratus the males have colourful abdomens often equipped with expandable flaps, so they are a lot more showy, look at my "peacock spider" collection to see what I mean. In the last few weeks I have taken many photographs of new species of Maratus, so watch this space, you won't be
disappointed....
If you want to watch some entertaining videos featuring peacock spiders go to my YouTube channel www.youtube.com/user/Peacockspiderman
Saitis sp.similar to mutans that we have been observing for some years now,they are very tiny and difficult to find in the sands in which they live.Commonly called Brushlegged Jumping spider.
A random screenshot from the game, ''Days Gone'' which takes place in a post-apocalyptic world that is overrun by ''Freakers'' which are like zombies but are still alive, just mutated humans roam around eating non-mutated humans, et cetera.
The game takes place in a part of Oregon two years after the Freaker Virus outbreak where Deacon Saint John, a former member of the Mongrels Motorcycle Gang who is fighting to survive and to find his wife, Sarah... not going to get into the details but this screenshot is about the locomotive in the background that is at an abandoned sawmill that is where a huge horde of freakers (mutated feral humans) live and in the game, the freakers are scientifically named ''Homo Sapiens Mutans.''
The paint scheme on the locomotives that are in this game strongly resembles the Canadian National Railway scheme but lacks the CN ''wet noodle'' logos.
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O caju é muitas vezes tido como o fruto do cajueiro (Anacardium occidentale) quando, na verdade, trata-se de um pseudofruto.
O que entendemos popularmente como "caju" se constitui de duas partes: o fruto propriamente dito, que é a castanha; e seu pedúnculo floral, o pseudofruto, um corpo piriforme, amarelo, rosado ou vermelho.
Etimologia
Na língua tupi, acaiu (caju) significa noz que se produz.
Na tradição oral sabe-se que acayu ou aca-iu refere-se a ano, uma vez que os indígenas contavam a idade a cada floração e safra.
O pseudofruto e fruto (propriedades e beneficiamento)
O caju, o pseudofruto, é suculento e rico em vitamina C e ferro. Depois do beneficiamento do caju preparam-se sucos, mel, doces, passas, rapaduras. Como seu suco fermenta rapidamente, pode ser destilado para produzir uma aguardente o cauim. Dele também são fabricadas bebidas não alcoólicas, como a cajuína.
Muito antes do descobrimento do Brasil e antes da chegada dos portugueses, o caju já era alimento básico das populações autóctones. Por exemplo: os tremembé já fermentavam o suco do caju, o mocororó, que era e é bebido na cerimônia do Torém.
Existe uma variedade enorme de pratos feitos com o caju e com a castanha de caju.
De suas fibras (resíduo/bagaço), ricas em aminoácidos e vitaminas, misturadas com temperos, é feita a "carne de caju".
Fruto com pseudofruto.
O fruto propriamente dito é duro e oleaginoso, mais conhecido como "castanha de caju", cuja semente é consumida depois do fruto ser assado, para remover a casca, ao natural, salgado ou assado com açúcar.
A extração da amêndoa da castanha de caju depois de seca, é um processo que exige tempo, método e mão-de-obra.
O método de extração da amêndoa da castanha de caju utilizado pelos indígenas era a sua torragem direta no fogo, para eliminar o "Líquido da Castanha de Caju" ou LCC; depois do esfriamento a quebra da casca para a retirar a amêndoa.
Com a industrialização este método possui mais etapas: lavagem e umidificação, cozimento, esfriamento, ruptura da casca, estufamento.
A amêndoa da castanha de caju é rica em fibras, proteínas, minerais (magnésio, ferro, cobre e zinco), vitamina K, vitamina PP, complexo B (menos a vitamina B12), carboidratos, fósforo, sódio e vários tipos de aminoácidos.
Castanha de caju
No entanto, a castanha de caju não possui quantidades relevantes de vitamina A, vitamina D e cálcio. Acredita-se que a castanha do caju contribua no combate às doenças cardíacas. A castanha-de-caju ainda verde (maturi) também pode ser usada nos pratos quentes.
A castanha possui uma casca dupla contendo a toxina Urushiol (também encontrada na hera venenosa), um alergênico que irrita a pele. Por isso a castanha deve ter sua casca removida através de um processo que causa dolorosas rachaduras nas mãos. A castanha também possui ácido anacárdico, potente contra bactérias gram-positivas como Staphylococcus aureus e Streptococcus mutans, que provoca cáries dentárias.
O "Líquido da Castanha de Caju" ou LCC, depois de beneficiado é utilizado em resinas; materiais de fricção; em lonas de freio e o outros produtos derivados; vernizes; detergentes industriais; inseticidas; fungicidas e até biodiesel.
Do Brasil para a África e Ásia
Fruto nativo do Brasil, o caju foi levado pelos portugueses do Brasil para a Ásia e a África.
A mais antiga descrição escrita do fruto é de André Thevet, em 1558, comparado este a um ovo de pata. Posteriormente, Maurício de Nassau protegeu os cajueiros por decreto, e fez o seu doce, em compotas, chegar às melhores mesas da Europa. É muito cultivado nas regiões tropicais da América, África e Ásia. Os maiores exportadores mundiais de amêndoa de castanha de caju (ACC) são Índia, Vietnã e Brasil.
French
La noix de cajou ou anacarde (cachou au Québec) est le fruit de l'anacardier (Anacardium occidentale), arbre originaire du Nordeste brésilien et son amande comestible constitue le principal produit utilisé de cette plante. C'est un akène se développant en premier à l'extrémité d'un pédoncule juteux et comestible lui aussi qui est un faux-fruit appelé pomme de cajou.
La coque de la noix est composée de deux coquilles, l'une à l'extérieur de couleur verte et fine, l'autre interne de couleur brune et dure, séparées par une structure à cavités qui contient une résine phénolique caustique constituée de 90 % d'acide anacardique et 10 % de cardol appelée baume de cajou. Au centre de la noix se trouve une seule amande en forme de demi-lune d'environ trois centimètres de longueur, entourée d'une pellicule blanche. C'est la "noix de cajou".
Elle peut être consommée telle quelle ou servir en cuisine (comme l'arachide). Toutefois en Europe, elle est principalement commercialisée grillée et salée, en tant qu'apéritif au même titre que les cacahuètes.
Noix et pomme de cajou en développement sur l'arbre
Les noix de cajou font l'objet d'une préparation artisanale de la part de personnes aux revenus modestes qui les commercialisent localement. Ce traitement est différent de celui effectué industriellement et utilise le caractère inflammable de la résine contenue dans la coque. D'autre part, ce procédé ne nécessite pas de salage de l'amande qui peut être consommée telle quelle après décorticage.
Exemple de préparation au Brésil :
Sur un feu de bois amorcé par des fibres de noix de coco, est disposée une tôle d'acier sur laquelle sont étalées les noix ;
Les noix sont régulièrement remuées pour en harmoniser la température. Après quelques minutes, elles noircissent et de la fumée commence à s'en dégager;
Peu de temps après la résine des coques, qui sous l'effet de la chaleur suinte de l'enveloppe externe, s'enflamme violemment ;
Après environ cinq minutes de cuisson, la tôle est retournée et les noix éteintes dans le sable ;
Une fois refroidies, les noix sont décortiquées manuellement en brisant la coque carbonisée ;
Les amandes grillées obtenues par ce procédé ne présentent pas la même régularité de cuisson que par traitement industriel mais n'ont en revanche pas besoin d'être salées avant leur consommation.
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