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20.2.08 - Rice plants - Dewi Sri, the goddess of rice.

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Rice, to the Balinese, is more than just the staple food; it is an integral part of the Balinese culture. The rituals of the cycle of planting, maintaining, irrigating, and harvesting rice enrich the cultural life of Bali beyond a single staple can ever hope to do. At the beginning of planting time, after the water buffalloes walk the rice fields several times to prepare them, ceremonies are held to carry the young stems of rice that have been nurtured in a special nursery. On each section of the rice fields, the corner nearest to Gunung Agung will receive the honor to be the first place to receive the young stems of rice. The water level in each section is perfect; little streams of water effortlessly flow from the highest section up on top of the hill to the very bottom section. The planning and responsiblity of the irrigation and planting schedule are arranged through subak, a Balinese system that ties together rice cultivation with its water temple system. Historical evidence dates this system to around the 11th century, yet the yield per acre of a Balinese rice field is about the highest in the world!

Before planting, throughout growing time, at harvesting, ceremonies are held and offerings are presented to Dewi Sri, the goddess of rice. In the middle of rice fields far from the village, you often find little shrines with netaly presented flowers, fruit, and offerings for Dewi Sri. And the vista of beautifully sculpted rice field terraces will always be in your memory...

 

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This picture I took in 2007--still not knowing much about photography but novices tend to get lucky. This little bee was posing for me long enough to capture a few really good shots and it is rare to also have the pollen in such a good focus... so here it is. I had to enlarge with Genuine Fractals--and again, no loss as a result.

 

The upper left flower was really wilted and the green in the background was way too bright so I decided to use Nik's trial again. I used the Dfine to reduce noise, the Sharpen to increase sharpness only on the bee and the center of the flower the bee is on, and then used a color treatment called Indian Summer all over. I chose center lighten and border darken--that is a really cool function in Nik's ColorEffects! And finally, since the wilting flower just stayed looking wilted, I used CS5's new blending brush and the regular paint brush to put a little more (albeit artistic) life back into that flower. I also painted the background a bit to keep the painted look more consistent. It is interesting what a bit of tinkering can do! the whole process took about 15 minutes and it is a descent picture now.

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The Wood Stork (Mycteria americana) is a large American wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. It was formerly called the "Wood Ibis", though it is not really an ibis.

 

The adult is a large bird 83-115 cm (33-45 in) tall and 140-180 cm (58-71 in) in wingspan. Males typically weigh 2.5–3.3 kg (5.5-7.3 lbs); females weigh 2.0–2.8 kg (4.4-6.2 lbs)[2], although large birds are up to 4.5 kg (10 lbs).[3] It appears all white on the ground, with blackish-gray legs and pink feet. In flight, the trailing edge of the wings is black. The head is dark brown with a bald, black face, and the thick downcurved bill is dusky yellow. Juvenile birds are a duller version of the adult, generally browner on the neck, and with a paler bill.

 

This is a subtropical and tropical species which breeds in much of South America, Central America and the Caribbean. The Wood Stork is the only stork that presently breeds in North America. In the United States there is a small and endangered breeding population in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, along with a recently discovered rookery in southeastern North Carolina. On the other hand, in Santa Catarina state (Brazil), its decline seems to have been reversed: after an absence between the late 1960s and the mid-1990s, the species is now again regularly encountered there, in particular in the Tubarão River region[4]. It is likely that the Paraná River region's wetlands served as a stronghold of the species, from where it is now re-colonizing some of its former haunts[5]. Globally, it is considered a Species of Least Concern by the IUCN due to its large range[6].

 

The Wood Stork is a broad-winged soaring bird that flies with its neck outstretched and legs extended. It forages usually where lowering water levels concentrate fish in open wetlands; it also frequents paddy fields. Walking slowly and steadily in shallow water up to its belly, it seeks prey, which, like that of most of its relatives, consists of fish, frogs and large insects, and sometimes lizards and rodents. It catches fish by holding its bill open in the water until a fish is detected[7].

 

In the United States. the Wood Stork favors cypress trees in marshes, swamps, or (less often) among mangroves and nearby habitat.[8]

 

A resident breeder in lowland wetlands with trees, the Wood Stork builds a large stick nest in a forest tree, with up to twenty-five nests in one tree.[8] Breeding once a year, a female lays 3-5 eggs in the typical clutch. The eggs are incubated 27–32 days by both sexes. Wood Storks' reproductive cycle is triggered when waterholes dry up sufficiently to concentrate fish in sufficient numbers for efficient feeding of the chicks. Each chick weighs approximately 2 ounces (60 grams). is helpless and is unable to fly. Competition for food is fierce, and if food is scarce, only the older chicks will survive. Week-old chicks are fed about 15 times per day, and they grow rapidly. By 14 days, each will weigh 10 times its hatching weight. At 28 days, each is 25 times heavier. During the breeding season, Wood Storks need over 400 pounds (180 kg) of fish to feed themselves and their offspring. When the weather is very warm, parents also collect water and bring it to the nest to drool on and into the mouths of the chicks. By the time the young are 4 weeks old, both parents leave the nest to search for food, and this continues until the chicks “fledge” or leave the nest. Young may continue to return to the colony for another 10 to 15 days to roost or to try to get food from their parents. A colony is considered successful if its parents average at least 1.5 fledged young per nest.[9]

 

Each adult will defend its nest against various predators. Corvids, vultures, grackles and striped skunks will attempt to pick off eggs.[9]. Raccoons are the leading predator of nests, and can cause almost complete colony nesting failure when water dries under nests in drought years.[10] Adults are rarely preyed on, but unwary ones have been picked off by American alligators. [11]

Wood Stork alighting, Hontoon Dead River, in Florida

 

This species seems to have evolved in tropical regions; its North American presence probably postdates the last ice age. A fossil fragment from the Touro Passo Formation found at Arroio Touro Passo (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) might be of the living species; it is at most from the Late Pleistocene age, a few 10,000s of years ago.[12] North American fossils from that time are of an extinct larger relative, M. wetmorei. This was probably a sister species; both occurred sympatrically on Cuba at the end of the Pleistocene.

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St. Stephen's Basilica Roman Catholic basilica in Budapest, Hungary. It is named in honour of Stephen, the first King of Hungary (c 975–1038), whose mummified fist is housed in the reliquary.

 

Equal with the Hungarian Parliament Building, it is the one of the two tallest buildings in Budapest at 96 metres (315 ft) - this equition symbolises that worldly and spiritual thinking have the same importance. According to current regulations there cannot be taller building in Budapest than 96 metres (315 ft). It has a width of 55 metres (180 ft), and length of 87.4 metres (287 ft). It was completed in 1905 after 54 years of construction. Much of this delay can be attributed to the collapse of the dome in 1868 which required complete demolition of the completed works and rebuilding from the ground up.

 

The architectural style is Neo-Rennaissance; it has a Greek cross groundplan. The façade is anchored by two large bell towers. In the southern tower is Hungary's biggest bell, weighing over 9 tonnes (8.9 LT; 9.9 ST) . Its predecessor had a weight of almost 8 tonnes (7.9 LT; 8.8 ST), but it was used for military purposes during World War II. Visitors may access the dome by elevators or by climbing 364 stairs for a 360° view overlooking Budapest.

 

(Wikipedia)

 

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Famous and impressive, both at a distance and nearby, with marvelous views over the capital of Hungary.

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Part of "Cessez-le-feu", a set dedicated to Amnesty International's call to Israel and Hezbollah for an immediate cease fire in Lebanon. Fontaine des Innocents, Paris - Aug. 7, 2006.

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Curious item on the menu at Ippuku (japanese izakaya) in downtown Berkeley. What is a momo thigh?

PHP Quick Generator, INAICTA 2010's nominee.

 

Indonesia ICT Award 2010, Jakarta Convention Center, Jakarta, 23-24 July 2010.

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Le troisième arc-en-ciel dans la même soirée! - The third rainbow in the same evening! On July 1, on at least three occasions there was sunshine while it rained. I saw three rainbows, the first around 6:15pm, the second around 7:05pm and the third around 8:35pm, each time lasting several minutes. The next evening, at around 7:30pm on July 2, there was again a rainbow for about 15 minutes! This time, I went outside to get better views. -- Le 1er juillet, à au moins trois occasions il a fait soleil pendant qu'il pleuvait. J'ai vu trois arcs-en-ciel, le premier vers 18:15, le deuxième vers 19:05 et le troisième vers 20:35, durant plusieurs minutes à chaque fois. Le soir suivant vers 19:30 le 2 juillet, il y a eu encore une fois un arc-en-ciel durant une quinzaine de minutes! Cette fois-ci, je suis sortie dehors afin d'avoir des meilleures vues. Album Rainbow - Arc-en-ciel set. A rainbow will be seen differently by each person. Un arc-en-ciel sera vu différemment par chaque personne.

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From Ayinger Privatbrauerei in Bavaria, Germany:

 

Celebrator Doppelbock.

 

Doppelbocks ("double bocks") were probably first brewed in the 17th century by monks in Bavaria - a stronger version of bock beers that originated in Einbeck, Germany. Doppelbocks are usually rich, malty lagers; usually dark-colored; the names often end with the suffix "-ator." Ayinger Celebrator is probably little changed from the doppelbock first brewed at Ayinger in 1878; Ayinger's doppelbock was once called "Fortunator" but this global classic is called "Celebrator" around the world now.

6.7% alcohol-by-volume (abv)

Merchant du Vin

 

On draft, at ...

Lyon Hall

Arlington (Clarendon), Virginia.

30 October 2015.

 

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El sello es la representación de la persona a quien pertenece, que debía ser en él reconociada. La elección de imágenes por parte del sigilante se basaba en la consideración del sello como un signo de identidad., además de los motivos heráldicos, aparceciendo en el sello formando parte de elementos del equipo del caballero cuando iba a la guerra, como el escudo y las cubiertas del caballo. Posteriormente se acompañaron de adornos variados. Los heráldicos fueron los de mayor difusión.

Los primeros sellos reales de Navarra, pertenecientes a Sancho VI el Sabio y a su hijo Sancho VII el Fuerte, aportan importantes informaciones sobre el primer sello real navarro, el de Sancho VI de 1193 y sobre la aparición de las cadenas, las armas del Reino de Navarra.

 

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Internet mail, or “e-mail,” is a neat thing as it takes the postal system out of the loop and allows us to communicate with friends and/or family almost instantaneously…even those on the other side of the globe.

 

And while all of us enjoy a good joke or two, they tend to get old when you’ve seen them 50 times. My biggest pet peeve is when the same person forwards the same e-mail over and over again over the course of several months. I admit, my memory might be no longer than a mosquito’s butt, but come on! Even I can remember having sent certain pictures/jokes previously.

 

All that rambling having been said, I admit to getting a chuckle out of the Asian food store pictures. Sometimes, things are best not translated. The one above is the cleanest of all that have been sent (again) most recently.

 

I also like the pro gun, 2nd amendment “posters” floating around out there. On the surface, this one resonates pretty loudly and seems to scream “double standard.” But then again, isn’t it true that if so many Americans weren’t armed to the teeth, the President, regardless of his name or the color of his skin, might not need so much protection in the first place? It only takes one wacko to make trouble.

 

But hey…the girl is kind of cute. What gun totin’ guy wouldn’t like a girl that can probably shoot straighter than him?

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Nicolas Sarkozy on stage. Behind him, supporters are merging into the huge screen above, showing the crowd in front of them.

 

Part of "Sarkozy in Bercy"

Thorsten Rinne en su conferencia "Continuous Improvement in PHP projects", peloteando al público ;-)

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July 8, 2022 PHP Ride--Park Hill Peloton, Denver, Colorado.

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"Avery Island’s most spectacular feature was developed by the late Edward Avery McIlhenny, known as "Monsieur Ned" by his French speaking friends and associates. Much of the world knows about TABASCO® Pepper Sauce, made for over 125 years on Avery Island, Louisiana. Not as many people know that Avery Island is actually a salt dome that extends some eight miles beneath the earth's surface. Or that the protruding "island" part of the formation is home to the world's most beautiful sanctuaries for the preservation and study of flora and fauna.

 

It was on Avery Island, where salt and pepper meet, that Edward McIlhenny helped save the snowy egret from extinction. In 1895 when the bird was being hunted for its plummage, McIlhenny built an aviary on Avery Island and captured and raised eight wild egrets. After they had raised their hatches and were ready to migrate, McIlhenny freed them. The egrets returned the next spring and every spring since. The egrets and herons return by the thousands to the rookery now called "Bird City". Not surprisingly, Jungle Gardens is a birder's paradise, home to hundreds of species of resident and migratory birds.

 

McIlhenny did much more to ensure that feature generations had an ideal spot to enjoy and study the beauties of nature and to observe plants and flowers from around the world in his 200 acre Jungle Gardens. The gardens are home to a large collection of camellias. Thousands of plants represent some 600 varieties, including imports from Japan and France, as well as varieties that McIlhenny developed on Avery Island. You will see acres upon acres of bright azalea flowers that carpet the landscape in the spring. Massive live oak trees are prevalent throughout the gardens, along with brilliant wildflowers and groves of evergreens. The Chinese Garden contains a Buddha sculpture dating back to 1000 A.D."

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Addiction 5. My Baby!

 

Miniman is my baby. She is the tiny baby kitten I adopted 5 months ago from the streets.

 

She was maybe 1 week old and I was supposed to keep her just for the night... Then for the weekend, and the rest you know!

 

People keep telling me she's either ugly or "different". She's got a tiny head and she has no defined colour, but I don't care, she's my baby and I love her very much.

 

I think she arrived in my life at the best time and made me very happy during hard times. I love her.

 

Her official name is Miniman (my mom's cat is called Michoman and she is a smaller version of him, so... yeah, I'm silly!), but we calll her Mina most of the time. Her necklace says MINI <3 and she's got about 10 more nicknames.

 

Can one be addicted to a cat? I am!

 

This was like the hardest picture to take! She kept moving and fighting her way away from my arms haha... I love her!! Have I said that too many times?!

 

Best picture of Mina. Taken by my sister!

 

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Pour voir en diaporama les séries "A tous les 100 pas/ "...

 

Concept original de DIdier Bonaventure qui nous ouvre la voie :

la série A tous les 100 pas de Didier Bonaventure

 

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In every 100 steps ? It is a kind of advance, a course, a ballade. It is, while leaving at home, 100 steps after 100 steps (that is to say in all 2400 step and thus 24 sights) photographs of what was in front of me.

 

So, every day, during 24 days, on Flickr, on the same place and at the same hour, the picture of previous the day is replaced by a new image.

 

To keep the track of the past images, they are placed in a message under the image which changes. It is thus necessary to reserve 24 successive places from the dépos of the first image.

 

This choice of presentation has the effect of showing the messages of the visitors and their comment on the image which was, for them, that of day.

 

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À tous les 100 pas ? C'est une sorte de cheminement, un parcours, une ballade. C'est, en sortant de chez moi, 100 pas après 100 pas (soit en tout 2400 pas) 24 photos de ce qui était devant moi.

 

Au-delà de cette ballade donc, à tous les jours, même heure (14H), et ce pendant 24 jours, j'écrase la photo de la veille, pour la remplacer par une nouvelle de cette série. Aussi, pour garder la trace des images substituées, je les place au fur et à mesure dans un message sous l'image qui change (ceci explique pourquoi j'ai réservé 24 espaces). Notamment, ce choix de présentation a pour effet, comme pour une seule image, de montrer les messages des visiteurs venus voir et commenter l'image qui fut, pour eux, celle du jour.

 

Dire, montrer, faire les choses autrement, être soi ― donc différent ― c'est forcément prendre le risque de ne pas se faire comprendre, n'est-ce pas ?

 

Et à partir du 13 décembre.... à qui le tour ?

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