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22 May - Porkeri - Suðuroy - Faroe Islands.
Den færøske gås (Føroyska gásin) er formodentlig den ældste form for tamgås i Europa og muligvis direkte efterkommere af de tamgæs, som landnamsfolk medbragte fra Skandinavien og de Britiske øer.
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”The Viking Goose”
The Faroese have a special ‘goose culture’. In none of our neighbouring
countries can you see so many small flocks of geese in fields
and in larger or smaller enclosures in the cultivated areas
on the Faroe Islands.
The Faroese goose is thought to be a direct descendent of the
tame goose which the Landnam people brought with them from Scandinavia
and the British isles. It was in 1990 described as a separate
goose breed in the journal Skandinavisk Fjerkræstandard and
‘Geflugel Börse’ no. 15, 1993 stated that it believes the Faroese
goose to be the oldest tame goose breed in Europe. The goose
flock on the cover gives a good impression of the large variations
in colour of our geese. There are around 20 Faroese words which
describe the different colours and colour patterns.
On the mountain sides in the summer As shown by the picture
on the front page, we are in outlying land around the end of
September/beginning of October. The ‘goose families’ have been
driven together to be brought home from the still green mountain
sides. Each family, since being set out in May/June, has had
their own preserve in the area, where they have fed on the succulent
short summer grass without any form of feed supplement.
In fields in the winter
In the winter months, the geese roam in pairs freely in the
fields around villages. In some villages the fields are of such
good quality that the geese are not given food supplements in
the winter months either. However, most flock owners give the
geese a little feed just before and in the egg laying period.
The qualities of our small goose today are therefore first and
foremost the result of natural selection over many centuries,
where only the hardiest birds have been able to produce offs
pring.
Salted and dried as cold cuts - now however mostly as Christmas
fare
After 3-4 week’s fattening, the young geese are slaughtered.
Most were previously, after a simple dry salting, dried in the
wind for winter supplies. Even though this is still common,
most geese today end up on the Christmas table. A Faroese mountain
goose is therefore a unique culinary experience.
Written by Andrias Reinert
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whoa. sorry it took so long to put this up. i have been keeping pretty busy. which is a good thing, but also a not so good thing when i can't even get the info to you beautiful people. this picture isn't even that good. i'll draw a better one to promote this later.
so here goes:
MAY ISSUE!
the rules are the same as APRIL, with the following changes:
THEME: I'll See You In My Dreams.
(those words have to be somewhere in your image!)
COLORS: max of two: BLACK and BLUE.
Deadline:
MAY 4th
MAY 4th
MAY 4th
other than that, all the details are the same as APRIL's and the one before it.
i should probably make a general guideline list, and post it in the profile page or something. actually, soon test everything will have a website, then everything will be fine.
OH! and i forgot to mention: every contributor who makes it in each issue, gets a copy of the issue they are in. make sense? you don't have to pay for it (but the nice people make a small donation). just listen to your heart. those will be counted as artist proofs and won't be for sale as part of the edition.
Tell your friends! and if you have any questions, email me at: randrenfrow@gmail.com or testeverythingpress@gmail.com
Limited Edition Pieces
Lladró boutique
408 North Rodeo Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
(310) 385-0690
Photograph taken on February 18, 2008 by Robert G. Karol Copyright © 2008 All Rights Reserved.
Limited Edition Pieces
Lladró boutique
408 North Rodeo Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
(310) 385-0690
Photograph taken on February 18, 2008 by Robert G. Karol Copyright © 2008 All Rights Reserved.
#334: Yeah, that is JB in the latest issue of Practical Classics :D Available from today (Dec 1) in all good newsagents and supermarkets. Go buy!
Spoonful 6 is here!
We believe in a renaissance of WONDER!
Fill Christmas Stockings, New Year's Resolutions and the post Xmas slumps with golden pages and soulful words...
Authors: Hatice Aysun Mercimek Takcı, Sema Genç, Ayşenur Yalçın, Eda Özdemir
Abstract: The aim of this study is to explore the antibacterial, antioxidant, and DNA damage protection potentials of blackberry (Rubus fruticosus L) root extracts. Antioxidant activity of root extracts was researched by using DPPH˙ free radical scavenging and reducing capacity analysis. Methanolic extract of blackberry root system showed the maximum activity for TPC, TFC, DPPH˙, and ferric reducing capacity. Antibacterial activity of blackberry root extracts was screened against clinic isolates (Escherichia coli, Klebsiella spp., Proteus spp., Pseudomonas spp. and Staphylococcus aureus) by the Kirby Bauer method. Although the metanolic extract possessed a significant antibacterial activity at 100 mg/mL concentration, distilled water extract did not show any inhibition to clinic isolates. The protective effects of root extracts on pBR322 plasmid DNA against the mutagenic effect of UV photolysis of H2O2 were tested. All concentrations of methanolic and distilled water extracts were observed to protect DNA damage in the presence of H2O2 and UV. These results indicated that the presence of antioxidant substances of root system extract of blackberry (Rubus fruticosus L) can be effective against harmful effects of free radicals.
Keywords: Antioxidant activity, antibacterial activity, blackberry, DNA damage protective, root extract
A Piece of Today – The 365
No. 97/365
I don't think I'll ever get tired of seeing my photos in print. I encourage you to check out the new COG. Great issue, maybe the best one yet.
Authors: Yasemin Numanoğlu Çevik1, Mehmet Ali Kanat
Abstract: The venoms of the scorpions Androctonus crassicauda and Leiurus abdullahbayrami, scorpion species each of the two members of the Buthidae family, were analyzed by MALDI–TOF MS in a mass range between 1 and 50 kDa. For this, all of the scorpion venoms (n=11) were prepared to equal 2mg/mL concentration. After centrifuging the venoms at 15.000 rpm for 15 minutes at +4 ºC, the supernatants (n=11) were mixed with a matrix solution (α-CHCA) in Eppendorf tubes separately. The prepared scorpion venom-matrix (SVMx) samples vortexed. For the biomass analysis, a 1µL SVMx sample was spotted onto MALDI 96 MSP was placed in the Microflex MALDI-TOF MS. The system was operated in linear positive ion mode at a 1.000-50.000 Dalton (Da) mass range. A 60 Hz nitrogen laser was employed at 337 nm as the ion source. Interspecies differentiation was evaluated over peptide and protein molecules in this mass range. The similarities and differences between two different scorpion species were revealed with the principal component analysis study, which was conducted with spectral patterns including peptide and protein profiles. The similarity rate of the LAB-123 and the LAB460 scorpion venoms of the same species was found as 66% while the similarity rates of venoms of the ACR species to the LAB species ranged from zero to 37%. It was demonstrated that scorpion venoms belonging to two different species from the Buthidae family can be differentiated with the help of dendrogram and gel profile, CCI color matrix, 3D or 2Dscattering profile, spectral mass loading data formed by peptide and protein spectral patterns of eleven scorpion venoms. It is anticipated that this approach, which was used for the first time with the application of MALDI-TOF MS-based PCA analysis for the differentiation of scorpion venoms, will be useful in differentiating venoms with different spectral patterns.
Keywords: Androctonus crassicauda, Leiurus abdullahbayrami, Scorpion, Buthidae, MALDI-TOF MSPCA analyse
Since I have been getting rid of the majority of our household items (so we can sell the house and move), I’ve been going through old files and eliminating thousands of ancient once-important paperwork. It is surprising at how many times our family was featured in newspaper articles... dozens and dozens of times in the 1990s. Here is a full page article on Carol’s trip to Guatemala (I don’t know how the kids ended up in the picture too. They always seemed to make it into the newspapers or TV... even for doing nothing at all.)
22 May - 2009 - Porkeri - Suðuroy - Faroe Islands .
”The Viking Goose”
The Faroese have a special ‘goose culture’. In none of our neighbouring
countries can you see so many small flocks of geese in fields
and in larger or smaller enclosures in the cultivated areas
on the Faroe Islands.
The Faroese goose is thought to be a direct descendent of the
tame goose which the Landnam people brought with them from Scandinavia.
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22 May - 2009 - Porkeri - Suðuroy - Faroe Islands.
”The Viking Goose”
The Faroese have a special ‘goose culture’. In none of our neighbouring
countries can you see so many small flocks of geese in fields
and in larger or smaller enclosures in the cultivated areas
on the Faroe Islands.
The Faroese goose is thought to be a direct descendent of the
tame goose which the Landnam people brought with them from Scandinavia.
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Yes thats the news, it took about 2 months + christmas + rebuilding the website, but now its out! Issue 2 of 4 of the 'tides that bind us' story arc!
This is the cover, featuring the sinister Brother Ruben it's already up on the website which you can check out here:
FREE GORGEOUS 'Kareena Zereofos' Hummingbird print with our FIRST 15 Subscribers & 5 Spoonful 6 Buyers! HOORAY & HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!!!
Spoonful 6 is here!!!
We believe in a renaissance of WONDER!
Fill Christmas Stockings, New Year's Resolutions and the post Xmas slumps with golden pages and soulful words...
FREE GORGEOUS 'Kareena Zereofos' Hummingbird print with our FIRST 15 Subscribers & 5 Spoonful 6 Buyers! HOORAY & HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!!!
No-one took me up on my extra ticket, so I drove alone in my big golden boat to sit in a dark cavernous Unknown to watch the New Issue and the Softies play this very fine evening!
Authors: Sk Injamamul Islam, Moslema Jahan Mou, Saloa Sanjida, Sarower Mahfuj, Md. Ashraful Alam, Yeasmin Ara
Abstract: The White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) has been the most pathogenic in the shrimp and other crustacean industries across the world in terms of production and financial benefits. Invertebrate vectors, freshwater, and sediments spread it horizontally as well as vertically from diseased broodstock to post-larvae. It is an exceedingly contagious disease that may cause entire mortality within 3–10 days of an outbreak under standard culture conditions. The sequencing and characterization of several WSSV strains have begun to reveal information regarding pathogen biology, pathogenicity, and WSSV must bind to the shrimp digestive system to infect it, and failure to do so results in ineffective infection. The Penaeus monodon chitin-binding protein (PmCBP), as well as the viral envelope proteins VP24 and VP28, are required for viruses to bind to the shrimp digestive system. In this study, we have shown the molecular interactions between PmCBP-VP24 and PmCBP-VP28 complex and speculated about the first steps of virus ingression in shrimps for the first time.
Keywords: PmCBP, VP24, VP28, molecular interaction, WSSV