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Addison, A. (editor). "The Children's Book of Questions & Answers". London: Berkeley Publishers Limited, 1974.
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Grand question of the day: how do they harvest that clam juice, what exactly IS it, and why not oyster juice?
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How many pillars with white tips can you find in the water next to the "Zijlpoortsbrug" ...
Who is not allowed to pass this bridge a) bikes b) pedestrians c) cars ...
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I think my hallmark/trademark might be that I see more beauty in things than others, and I can never pick my favorite shot! For instance, as the sun set over the San Clemente Pier, I loved all the light!
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Celebrating Dr. E's LAw of Moving Dimensions ^& Dynamic Dimensions Theory dx4/dt=ic which derives from Homer's Odyssey! "Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home. Tell me, too, about all these things, O daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them." --Homer's Odyssey! herosodysseyphysics.wordpress.com
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And I am mounting some on plexiglass/acryllic--front mounting them! Some I am printing on lossy fuji-crystal archival paper too, and then front mounting 40"x60" versions to plexiglass--will send photos!
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Some (almost) final edits for my Los Angeles Gallery Show! Printing them on metallic paper at 13" x 19" and mounting and framing them on a 4mm 18x24 white mat and 2" dark wood frame. Also printing some 40" x 70" whihc is over three feet by five feet! Wish you all could come (and hang out with the goddesses)!
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Preparing for some gallery shows this fall to celebrate 300,000,000 views! Printing a few dozen photographs in ~ 30"x40" formats and mounting/framing. Here are some close-to-final edits. HDR photography 7 exposures shot at 1EV and combined in photomatix: 36 megapixel Nikon D800E with the awesome Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens. 45SURF Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography!
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Today was one of those days. I took a picture of my water streaked windshield and slapped a few lightroom filters on it, made a few adjustments, and hope no one notices.
April 7 morning: RV Rescue Designer Melody Rose answers questions from the crowd at the RV Rescue site.
This is a pop art project, where i use comic strip/book art that has the word 'question' or ? marks shown in them, and recreate them into paintings. Its amazing how many jokes end and begin with a question. These paintings will be small, 4" x 4" in size. Ether these will be glue to surfaces on the street or saved for a possible show in the future.
Peanuts. another i am not a fan of, but its a classic.
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On Tuesday, April 2, 2019, the LBJ Library’s Future Forum held an event to honor the victims of the deadly series of mystery package bombs planted in Austin in 2018 and to discuss media coverage of the bombings. Austin journalists and media consumers discussed ways in which racial biases shaped the unfolding story of the bombings and considered strategies and ideas for reducing the reflection of biases in future news reporting.
The panelists were John Bridges, executive editor of the Austin American-Statesman; Eric Byrd, vice president and chief operating officer of the nonprofit MEASURE Austin and director of transitional and supervised independent living for SAFE Alliance, an Austin nonprofit serving abuse survivors; DaLyah Jones, assistant producer for All Things Considered and a KUT evening host; and Eric Tang, PhD, associate professor in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department and director of the Center for Asian American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Moderator of the panel was Erna Smith, lecturer at UT Austin’s School of Journalism.
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"What is a Caspian Gull?" is one of the more frequent questions coming in to BirdGuides. Back in 1982, when Peter Grant produced his seminal book Gulls: a Guide to Identification (revised edition 1986), which was really the starting point to modern gull identification, there was just the Herring Gull. There were Herring Gulls with pink legs and others with yellow legs, and that was about it. Of course Grant recognised that the southern forms were different subspecies, but he did not cover the more easterly birds in any detail. It was Ronald Klein who, before 1994, first discovered that some of the thousands of coloured and metal rings that he read on German landfill sites came from the Ukraine. He further noticed that these birds had a very distinctive appearance. Martin Garner was the first person to rumble these birds in the UK, not by reading rings, but by recognising them from their appearance. This he reported in his 1997 British Birds papers on "Identification of Yellow-legged Gulls in Britain". Of course when he wrote these papers, the name "Yellow-legged Gull" was ambiguous.
It was already well known that yellow-legged "Herring Gulls" from the Mediterranean moved north after the breeding season, but now birds from further east were doing the same - and they looked different. For a start, they didn't have yellow legs - but still they were all called Herring Gulls. To this day, field guides have not moved far beyond this position, and those that have do not give adequate treatment to these birds. Indeed the name "Caspian Gull" does not appear in any of them! To be fair, most of the progress in taxonomy and identification has happened after they were due at the printers.
Various names have been used for these birds, including Steppe Gull and Pontic Gull, but since Lars Jonsson's paper in Alula, Volume 4 3/98 "Yellow-legged Gulls and yellow-legged Herring Gulls in the Baltic" in which he presented reasoned arguments against the use of these names, the name Caspian Gull has gained widespread acceptance.
There is now increased clarity on the taxonomy of "large white-headed gulls" and it seems there are between 8 and 10 species knocking about between Europe and Asia. The clearest and most recent summary of all this is by Pierre Yesou, Dutch Birding Vol 24, No 5, 2002, "Systematics of Larus argentatus-cachinnans-fuscus complex revisited".
Most taxonomists seem finally to have agreed what mere birders have suspected for some time: that what was the Herring Gull in Europe is actually 3 good species, but at the time of writing, the BOURC has yet to agree, so the position of Caspian Gull and Yellow-legged Gull for the UK lister is still ambiguous.
The pink-legged gulls of Britain and other northern countries are still called Herring Gulls Larus argentatus, the yellow-legged ones from the Mediterranean, the Atlantic coast of Iberia, Morocco and the Atlantic Islands are called Yellow-legged Gulls Larus michahellis and the ones that have pale pink or pale straw-coloured legs, and which breed north of the Black Sea, in the Ukraine and east of there, are called Caspian Gulls Larus cachinnans.
Both Yellow-legged Gulls and Caspian Gulls have been moving north and northwest in recent years, and some Caspian Gulls have remained to breed in Poland and eastern Germany, a minority in mixed pairs with Herring Gull and Yellow-legged Gull. Where their breeding ranges overlap, Yellow-legged with Herring Gull in western France and Yellow-legged with Caspian Gull in Romania, there are far more pure than mixed pairs.
More good news is that the majority of individuals of these three species are quite easy to identify at all ages (but some are tricky). Now "quite easy" is a relative term. One has to go through some pain and dedication before getting to this level of confidence.
The normal sequence that intending gull-watchers go through is to find one or two Yellow-legged or Caspian Gulls of their own. They then realise how "easy" it all seems to be, and so wonder what the fuss was about. They then get something horribly wrong in front of their peers, suffer embarrassment and humiliation (in their mind) and become somewhat disillusioned about the whole thing. This is a cyclical process, which proceeds by correctly identifying more and more gulls, interspersed with cock-ups. I have been there, got the tee-shirt, book and seen the film and I still get it wrong sometimes. The seasoned gull-watcher has a very healthy respect for the problem, but if you don't make public mistakes, then you are not trying hard enough!
So why is it so hard? It is because they are gulls and no matter what rules you try, some individuals will always break them. Large gulls are incredibly variable because of a number of factors including age differences, racial differences, moult timing differences, amount of exposure to sun, to name a few.
The seasoned gull-watcher also wonders today how it was that such a cracking and distinctive gull as Caspian Gull was overlooked for so long – both by taxonomists and by birdwatchers. This is because, regrettably, things that are taxonomically lumped are considered less interesting and so receive less attention than those that are split. Also, it is believed that, as in the case of Mediterranean Gull, these birds have only been coming north and west in more recent decades.
Finding and identifying a Caspian Gull
It is a disappointing day if, in southeast England, in winter at least, a day's gull-watching at a landfill or a reservoir roost does not produce a few Yellow-legged Gulls and at least one Caspian Gull. Caspian Gulls outnumber Glaucous and Iceland Gulls together in our neck of the woods.
The easiest ages to pick out are 1st-winters and adults. There are enough of these around to make it well worth looking for them. So these are the only two ages that we will deal with here. This is not intended to be a definitive identification guide, so we will only describe the most typical birds - but, being gulls, there is considerable variation.
Imagine trying to tell the difference between Yul Brynner and Telly Savalas from a written description – far better to see some pictures of these two follically challenged gents. So the first step is to get some idea of what you are looking for. Fortunately, there are enough websites around with a wide range of pictures of Caspian Gulls to give one an idea. A good place to start is Rudy Offereins' site, which has a comprehensive index to other gull sites, as well as an excellent collection of pictures of Caspian Gulls:
www.xs4all.nl/~calidris/gullindex.htm
Birding World magazine, Vol. 13, No. 2, February 2000; also has a very good collection of pictures: "Caspian Gull Identification Gallery" by Theo Bakker, Rudy Offereins and Rik Winters.
What is the first thing that hits you while scanning a large flock of gulls and shouts Caspian Gull at you? Usually, whatever the age, it is its face: a gleaming white head, a small beady eye, and a long (sometimes very long), snouty, slender bill. Any adult "herring gull" during October to November with a pure white head is worth a second look, and this can be a useful indicator into December too (this also applies to Yellow-legged Gull). By the turn of the year it is becoming less useful as Scandinavian Herring Gulls (argentatus), with a similar shape, become white-headed too.
What is the list of things that you should check out when you think you have found a likely candidate?
The canonical 1st-winter Caspian Gull looks like this:
A white head nestled in a "shawl" of dark streaks around the hind neck.
A variable amount of "eye shadow" and an indistinct line from eye to eye across the nape.
A long, narrow, parallel-sided bill attached to a gently sloping forehead – sometimes recalling a huge Slender-billed Gull.
Uniform, dark, unpatterned greater and median coverts, with whitish tips. This gives the impression of uniformly dark greater coverts bordered by two parallel white lines. Some birds can have patterned greater coverts, especially on the inner ones (near the tertials).
White underwing and axillaries – really concentrate when the wings are raised! (white underwings in older birds are less relevant)
A pale panel on the inner primaries caused by pale, translucent inner webs, more obvious than Yellow-legged Gull.
Scapulars with pale greyish bases and with narrow single anchors with a thin dark shaft, or small triangles, or no anchors and just a thin shaft streak. The scapulars contrast paler than the wing coverts. There is a three-way contrast of grey mantle, brown wings and white body.
Tertials dark brown with a whitish "thumbnail" on the end of every feather.
A white tail with a broad even-thickness black tail-band. Any "herring gull" with a black (not dark brown) tail band and a clean white tail-base and rump is promising for Caspian or Yellow-legged Gull.
A white corridor from the chin, through the breast, all the way to the under tail coverts.
A characteristic structure: long bill, long neck, long legs, long wings.
Legs usually long and spindly, especially when viewed from the front or rear, greyish/whitish pink.
Just about all of these rules are broken by individual 1st-winter Caspian Gulls, but if you get a hit on most of them you are probably in with a shout.
The canonical adult Caspian Gull looks like this:
A smart, elegant, long-winged, long-legged, white-headed gull with a characteristic face.
A long, slender, parallel-sided bill, often pallid, even limey in colour, attached to a gently sloping forehead.
A small dark eye (bullet hole) (but 30% of birds have pale eyes).
Dorsum (= back and wing-coverts) shade darker than British Herring Gull, but lighter than Yellow-legged Gull.
A large white tip on P10 (outermost primary) and a long white tongue on the inner web of P10 (watch it preening).
Grey tongues protruding in to the black on the upper-side of the primaries in flight.
A broad black band on P5 (this is hard to see unless you get a photo or videograb of a stretched wing).
Long, slender legs, whitish-pink/pale straw (not yellow, but not as pink as Herring Gull)
Some birds have the appearance of an enormous Common Gull because of their long wings and a lot of white in the wingtip (this impression can be even more marked in some younger subadult birds which have a greenish bill with a black ring).
Again, most of these rules can be broken in perfectly good adult Caspian Gulls.
Apart from its appearance, if you are ever fortunate enough to hear a Caspian Gull call, it is quite remarkable: more like a donkey than a Herring Gull! Whatever the age, its behaviour on landfills is often quite distinctive, being aggressive to other birds, while holding its long wings outstretched like an albatross. They seem to be hyperactive; they wander about a lot; they waddle and seem to have big feet, like a duck; they frequently look for a lost egg between their legs; they peck and jab at other gulls - but note, the others can do some of these things on occasion too, especially michahellis. (Another difference is its breeding habitat: it differs from the other two, preferring low flat islands in lakes rather than cliffs and steep slopes.)
Traps for the unwary:
Yellow-legged Gull (michahellis) and Scandinavian Herring Gull (argentatus) can sometimes sport a remarkably long bill.
Michahellis is also very white-headed but normally has a heavier bill, yellower legs and different wing pattern.
Argentatus Herring Gulls acquire a very white head in the latter half of the winter. They can be a pitfall because they can have a similar shape to Caspian Gull but helpfully they lose their head streaks later than British birds (argenteus) and are unlikely to appear white-headed much before mid January.
Some adult argentatus Herring Gulls can have a very similar pattern to P10, and a narrow black band or a black mark on the outer web of P5 but are shorter legged.
Adult argentatus Herring Gulls from the north can be as dark as or darker than Caspian Gulls.
Both adult argentatus and michahellis can occasionally have a dark-looking iris.
Some eastern/Finnish adult Herring Gulls can sometimes look similar to Caspian Gull.
Occasionally, even very white-headed 1st-summer Lesser Black-backed Gulls can look like a Caspian Gull.
As well as misidentifying other species as Caspian Gulls, you can also be put off perfectly good Caspian Gulls because a 1st-winter has patterned greater coverts, or heavily marked scapulars or even a dark underwing. Birds of any age may have a shortish bill, or stout legs or an adult may have a pale eye. With some of these birds you cannot always be entirely certain you have not got one of mixed parentage. It seems likely that Caspian Gulls show as much variability as better-known forms such as Herring Gull, so not all should be expected to conform to the average appearance described above.
Once you have got the hang of 1st-winter and adult Caspian Gulls, you will recognise the look and structure in other ages. You will see very few juvenile birds: they are rare because most have moulted to 1st-winter plumage by the time they reach the UK.
All photos used from this gallery are to be credited: UNR Med/Brin Reynolds.
Questions: please contact brinr@unr.edu.
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The National Palace of Mafra, the Franciscan convent and its church is a truly magnificent monument to visit. Being one of the most important Baroque buildings in Portugal it was financed with the gold from Brazil (a Portuguese colony at the time) and it’s a symbol of the absolutist reign of D. João V. Its construction started 1711 and ended up with a palace with over 1200 rooms, from which the library is the most magnificent example. Housing about 40.000 books from the 18th century is the biggest and richest in the world from its age. Since law to science books many relics can be seen there.
Still, due to the Napoleon invasions this library was not finished as it has no paintings to decorate it. The monks had to run away from the invaders and never completed the work. This Napoleonic invasion also made the Portuguese Royal Family seek refuge in Brazil taking with them the best and most important pieces from the palace. These can only be seen in Brazil nowadays, as the family in its return left them there. But there are still many, many great historical pieces to be seen.
The church included in the building is completely stunning, and it houses the largest and finest collection of Italian statues from the 18th century existing in Portugal. It also has a group of six organs, with themes specifically made to be played on them and thus is impossible to be reproduced anywhere else in the world, and the famous 96 bells which play musical themes once a week. These last two features are unique in the world by their dimension, complexity and richness.
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The Chief Executive's Question and Answer Session on the Policy Address (2018.10.11)
In 1978 a 28-year-old economic advisor by the name of Ben Nitay was questioned on US national TV in a courtroom style debate regarding the Zionist state of Israel.
Among the many questions the young man answered with sincerity and candor, was one about the core of Arab-Israeli conflict.
His answer was that “the real core of the conflict is the unfortunate Arab refusal to accept the state of Israel.”
That was the truth in 1978, just as was in 30 years before 1948. It is the truth today, just as it was then.
He emphasized that, between 1947 and 1967 while the Palestinians had possession of the West Bank and Gaza that was taken from Israel in the Arab-Israeli War, the Arabs could easily have exercised self-determination and attempted to establish a Palestinian state, but they did not.
He said that “For 20 years we didn’t hear a word about Arab self-determination. But, in fact, what we did hear, those of us living in the Middle East, was about ‘driving the Jews into the sea.’”
Mr. Nitay drove home his point: “So let’s keep in mind that what we are talking about here is not the attempt to build a state, but to destroy one.”
The Arab objective remains “the destruction of the Zionist state of Israel.”
About the only thing that has changed about the facts of that interview between 1978 and 2013 is Ben Nitay’s name.
Today, Mr. Nitay spends his waking hours defending and protecting Israel and, as he has all of his life long, reminding the world of the true Arab objective.
Some days he is as a voice crying in the wilderness as he leads Israel from the Prime Minister’s office. Today his name is Benjamin Netanyahu.
If you were to watch the video of his testimony in 1978, you would see his passion for an Israel living in peace, and his equal passion to defend her against those who would seek to destroy her.
The fact is that Israel has done nearly everything possible to maintain peace and to protect her citizens while the Arabs and Muslims continue to plan Israel’s destruction.
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This is a picture from a piece of performance art by native artist James Luna. The work calls into question the ways in which museums display native art by having Luna display himself as if he were a museum piece.
Daniel Ellsberg, Patricia Ellsberg, and filmmaker Judith Ehrlich, answered questions after a sold out screening of the Oscar nominated documentary, 'The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers' at the Embarcadero Center Cinema in San Francisco.
Some videos from the Q&A
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbDbMbkqpqc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZctUNfMvRFE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhOlVwo2K2A
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohJ97tYA8ag
Ellsberg is appearing at as many screenings of the film as possible because he thinks it could inspire people to tell the truth. He had just come from the east coast, so it was like answering questions after 1 am.
A list of cities where the film is opening including some where the Ellsberg and/or the filmmakers will be appearing is at
www.mostdangerousman.org/in-theaters/
In the film, Ellsberg is shown speaking at and getting arrested at a 2008 Iraq protest. I took these photos of him at the protest
www.flickr.com/photos/ari/tags/ellsbergarrest/
And at a 2007 Iraq protest
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He also said Afghanistan Ambassador Karl Eikenberry's cables which were leaked to the New York Times should get more attention, and congress should call Eikenberry to testify about them under oath.
They can be read at
nytimes.com/2010/01/26/world/asia/26strategy.html
And Ellsberg talks about the cables in this video
rethinkafghanistan.com/blog/?p=1573
Ehrlich said Ellsberg will be turning 79 this year and had been arrested 79 times at protests, and they hoped to have a special celebration for his birthday.
People talked to Ellsberg and asked him to sign copies of his book, ' Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers' until he had to introduce the next screening.
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Rotierende Skulptur aus Lianen Findling, fluoriszierendes Klebeband, schwarze Totenkopf Büchse und Schwarz Licht
Skulptur, Objekt, Video, Installation, Fotografie
Markus Wintersberger 2014
Each spring, Ford School faculty and staff nominate dozens of outstanding student research and service projects for recognition at the Gramlich Showcase of Student Work. Established in 2008 to honor internationally renowned economist and former Ford School dean, Ned Gramlich, this event features exceptional student work on a broad range of local, national, and international policy challenges.
For students, the showcase is an opportunity to share their academic work and service engagement with the broader community – to teach others about major policy challenges, to respond to thought-provoking questions, and to engage in dialogue about complex problems. For guests, the showcase represents an opportunity to learn about contemporary domestic and international problems, and the policy interventions designed to tackle them.
The 8th Annual Gramlich Showcase of Student Work took place at Joan and Sanford Weill Hall on Wednesday, March 18, 2015.
Learn more about Ned and his legacy at the Ford School and at the University of Michigan: fordschool.umich.edu/news/2014/celebrating-ned-gramlich-t...
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The castle of Leiria, built in the 12th century, is the most famous monument of the city of Leiria, especially because it’s a beautiful medieval castle where besides the military function it’s very visible the Palatial character. This is not common in Portuguese castles, since the vast majority of them always maintained a military purpose and were never converted into residences like in other European countries. The palace dates from the15th century and presents an elegant Gothic style.
Besides, it also shows the religious functions it accumulated with the military and administrative roles in the ruins of the Gothic Nossa Senhora da Pena Church.
Signs of the Templar Knights, which run the castle and protection of the area re visible throughout the castle.
The city of Leiria was founded in 1135 by the first Portuguese king, Dom Afonso Henriques, in a very wealth territory and as a way to secure the re-conquered area from the Moors. The richness in the trade of cereals, olive oil, wine, fruit, as well wood, mining industry, wool, leather and pottery made of this region a very important place in the medieval Portugal being used many times as residence for the Royal Family and Royal Court.
Questions on any subject the government is responsible for are put to the government in the chamber. A government minister or spokesperson answers and members follow up with supplementary questions.
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Radio 4's Any Questions programme comes to Leeds Grand Theatre. Managing Director, Opera North, Richard Mantle and Jonathan Dimbleby. Picture: Daniel Oxtoby
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Les moches ont-ils plus d'inhibitions que les autres ?
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