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Il Fritillary Spotted minore (Melitaea trivia) è una farfalla del Nymphalidae famiglia. Si trova nella parte meridionale della Ecozona paleartica. In Europa si è talvolta chiamato "deserto fritillary", ma questo nome si riferisce più precisamente al nordafricano relativo M. deserticola. L'apertura alare è 15-23 mm.
The Lesser Spotted Fritillary (Melitaea trivia) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found in the southern part of the Palearctic ecozone. In Europe it is sometimes called "desert fritillary", but this name more accurately refers to the North African relative M. deserticola.The wingspan is 15–23 mm.
Texas Trivia
WORLD'S FIRST CHAMPIONSHIP JACKRABBIT ROPING
CONTEST BEGAN AS "HARD-BRAINED" PUBLICITY STUNT DURING
1932 ANNUAL ODESSA RODEO, HELD AT 3RD AND GRANT STREET
SITE DESPITE OBJECTIONS FROM OUT-OF-TOWN DO-GOODERS.
LOCAL SHERIFF OPPOSED EVENT, BUT MAYOR AND JUDGE RULED
NO VIOLATION OF TEXAS LAW. COWGIRL GRACE HENDRICKS ROPED
"RABBIT FROM HORSEBACK IN FIVE SECONDS FLAT, WINNING OVER
NUMEROUS MALE COMPETITORS. NOTORIOUS CONTEST REVIVED IN
1977 CAUSING COAST-TO-COAST OUTCRY. MIDLAND ANIMAL LOVER
DELAYED ACTION BY LIBERATING CAPTIVE JACKRABBITS. EVENT
PROCEEDED ON SCHEDULE WHEN FORMER PRISONERS RETURNED AT
FEEDING TIME. SEVEN ROPERS COMPETED ON FOOT. JACK TORIAN
PLACED FIRST WITH A SIX SECOND SCAMPER. IN 1978 HUMANE
SOCIETY BLOCKED ALL FUTURE ROPINGS WITH COURT ORDER.
NO. 12 1990
HERITAGE OF ODESSA FOUNDATION
Author received the following letter by email in March 1999 from Jon Hendricks.
Concerning your information on the history of Odessa, I found a few errors that I felt needed to be brought up concerning the 1932 jackrabbit roping in which my grandmother Grace Hendricks was the one who roped the jack- rabbit in 5 seconds flat!!!! She told me many years later that she had gone to the event dressed up since she had been to a tea.
She was convinced to enter the event, which she did and walked to the center of the arena to prepare to rope the rabbit. She told us that she saw the rabbit heading for her so she roped it in self defense!!! She was not on horse back that I remember from her stories.
She was also the first woman Justice of the Peace in Ector County.
Please feel free to contact me if I can provide more info!!!
Sincerely,
Jon Hendricks
Jackrabbit roping is now illegal in Texas. :-)
Made in my 6 x 9 Fabriano Venezia journal using s Sharpie and watercolors and a uni-ball Signo white gel pen.
Post veliger juvenile.
Late stage post veliger juvenile, larger than many adults; may be because shell reabsorbed during change to adult (disputed by Forbes & Hanley), or because of individual size-variation. Shell entirely translucent white. No operculum or periostracum. Overall shape ovoid.
1: spire, 2.5% of height, exposed adjacent to 2: top of body whorl.
3: body whorl 100% of height.
4: sculpture of ribs and grooves commenced formation on all faces.
5: aperture 100% of shell height, gently-curved linear as on adult but wider.
6: outer (palatal) lip bent into aperture.
7: no columellar or parietal lip on body whorl on inner side of aperture.
11.7 mm high. Orkney 1975.
Full SPECIES DESCRIPTION: flic.kr/p/CGERbH
Sets of OTHER SPECIES:
Early-stage post veliger juvenile has helicoid spiral shell, as usual for gastropods, but lacks operculum and periostracum. Shell entirely translucent white. After this stage the size of the spire relative to body whorl reduces with growth until entirely enveloped by body whorl. Measurements are of this individual; others may vary.
1: body-whorl ovoid.
2: distinct small spire of three convex whorls with distinct sutures, 15.5% of shell-height.
3: body whorl 92% of height.
4: D-shaped aperture 84% of shell-height; wide open basally, narrowing adapically.
5: adapical angle about 25º.
6: very short, thin columellar lip basally; no other lip on body whorl on inner side of aperture.
7: thin, semi-circular palatal (outer) lip.
8: no sculpture apart from fine prosocline growth lines.
6.4 mm high. Orkney 1975.
Full SPECIES DESCRIPTION: flic.kr/p/CGERbH
Key id. features: flic.kr/p/BSzH7X
Sets of OTHER SPECIES:
Mantle extended over entire exterior of shell; stretched so translucent enough for pinkish shell to be discerned.
1: whitish inhalent siphon with yellow tip and opaque white marks.
2: spray of very fine grey particles on mantle.
3: fine grey particles aggregated into small blotches on adult.
4: pitch-brown/black pigment blotches interrupting pale yellow border on mantle rim.
5: unobtrusive, pale yellow border on mantle rim.
6: distinct, broad, peripheral chamfer on dorsal surface of foot.
7: whitish blotches, but not extensive well-defined lines, on dorsum of foot.
Height (longest shell-dimension) 8.5 mm. Menai Strait, Wales. March 2011.
Full SPECIES DESCRIPTION: flic.kr/p/Cfnfpb
OTHER SPECIES:
Can you name this lake in Snohomish county?
The winner gets to choose between a scratched up 52mm UV filter, a warm PBR that has been sitting on my fly tying desk for a month, or a pair of stinky Brooks Defiance 2s.
BTW.. prizes must be picked up in person before trash day Friday.
Trivia questions pertaining to the Mercury, Gemini & Apollo moon landings by NASA in the 1960s. Daniel followed all missions closely Daniel followed the landing avidly in 'The Astronot' (www.TheAstronot.com).
I'm not dead.
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Sorry for the long absence. It may not yet be over, sadly; I still have some other projects on my plate, and desktop modding just isn't a priority. I have no intention of abandoning it entirely, however. There are still plenty of ideas that I want to play with, just don't expect a blitz for a while.
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Enigma
Anyone who's e-mailed me about Enigma deserves my deepest apologies. I'm doing my best to respond to as many of you as possible, but there are still hundreds of messages that have gone unanswered, some of them for months, and I feel terrible about that. If I ever run into some money, I'll hire an assistant to respond to them all. I know it's become cliché to say something like this, but it's humbling to see how passionate and genuinely appreciative you are, and I really have read each message.
Since interest clearly has yet to die, I'm making it a goal to release Enigma 3 by the end of the year. Rather than piling on with new functions, I want to keep the focus on making it easier to set up and use:
- As I've talked about in the past, my chief objective for this is to make Enigma part of a fully-developed Litestep theme. Beyond the eye candy, this would ideally let the user switch between skins, profiles and templates using shell-integrated controls. (For those who aren't interested in a shell replacement, don't worry - the package will still and always be available as a Rainmeter module.)
- Setting modesty aside for a moment, I believe a lot of Enigma's success comes from its detailed documentation and its (albeit crude) installer tool, which made it far more accessible to the average user. The only other Rainmeter suite I've seen with any such automation is Vista Rainbar. This has been a successful policy, and if possible, I hope to continue it by streamlining the installation of Litestep and the Enigma theme as much as possible.
- I realize the existing version has some problems that need fixing. The Location skin is still plagued by servers thinking it's a web crawler and cutting it off, so the search is still on for a permanent provider. I also realize that MoxaWeather is no longer working - this is the fault of Weather.com, who shut down the convenient XML feed that we've all been using. I know there are talks going on between Weather.com and the Rainmeter community, and they've asked that skin developers refrain from exploiting a well-known loophole to fix the problem until they've worked out a deal. I'm happy to oblige.
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Liquid Crystal Discourse
still exists, technically. I got to write one post, and then, naturally, Real Life™ swept in and buried it like a hurricane. I've heard from a few people who were disappointed about that, so I'm now reaffirming my commitment to the blog. My plan is to post at least once a week.
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Desktop
As you can tell, another reason I haven't posted in a while is that very little has changed. I'm no longer running Google Desktop, because, well, I don't use it anymore. Autohotkey, Rainmeter and Notepad pretty much joined forces to render it obsolete.
I'm really looking forward to Windows 7, which shall, I'm sure, initiate a new stage of evolution for my dear laptop.
See the notes for more trivia.
Theme:
- NOOTO VS. Requires patched uxtheme.dll - patcher here.
- Wallpaper: Remnants, by freelancah, resized and rotated.
Startups:
- Autohotkey.
- Launchy.
Programs running:
- Rainmeter. Skin: Enigma, customized with Amana Icons.
- Yod'm 3D 1.4.
Trivia (foreground) is a classic racing yacht of the 12mR class. The ship was built by Camper & Nicholsons, of Gosport, in 1937, beginning to successfully compete with the other Twelve metres in the same year. In 1938 owner MacAndrew steered her so successfully that at Cowes Week he won 21 prices, including the King's Cup. Between 1958 and 1987 the 12mR class was used for the America's Cup, the oldest and most prestigious trophy in sports.
After a long and varied career elsewhere, and sailing under the names of Norsaga and Phoenix, respectively, Trivia participated in the America's Cup Jubilee off Cowes, Isle of Wight, in 2001, back in the waters of the Solent where she was originally built and also restored. She is now owned by Trivia GmbH, of Hamburg, and home to the Baltic waters off Kiel, Germany.
(Nikon FM3A, Velvia 50)
More classic yacht photos:
www.flickr.com/photos/oliversesemann/3104652515/
www.flickr.com/photos/oliversesemann/3104652501/
Sectioned adult shell to show interior.
1: entirely white whorls of juvenile shell enveloped by final adult whorl.
2: apical part of enveloped juvenile shell.
3: entirely-white, thick shell deposited by internal mantle.
4: very thin layer of pinkish shell material deposited in grooves by external mantle.
5: ribs whitish as little, or virtually no, pink shell material deposited on them.
6: exterior (palatal) lip reflected into interior of shell, not visible from exterior of aperture.
Height 12.4 mm. Orkney 1975.
Full SPECIES DESCRIPTION: flic.kr/p/CGERbH
Sets of OTHER SPECIES:
1: juvenile foot translucent colourless with distinct opaque white lines.
2: lines absent from chamfered peripheral border.
3: juvenile mantle translucent, dingy buff-white.
4: fine grey/black particles coalesce to form spots grouped into dark discs.
Shell height 9.3 mm. Anglesey, Wales, September 2015. Leg. J. Light.
Full SPECIES DESCRIPTION: flic.kr/p/CGERbH
Key id. features: flic.kr/p/BSzH7X
Sets of OTHER SPECIES:
Juvenile.
1: cephalic tentacles translucent whitish, as head, with opaque hyphen-like white streaks.
2: orange mantle-border and other adult colours not yet developed.
3: exposed spire and white shell of juvenile.
Shell length 9.2 mm. Anglesey, Wales. September 2015. Leg. J. Light.
Full SPECIES DESCRIPTION: flic.kr/p/CGERbH
Sets of OTHER SPECIES:
Trivia is a classic racing yacht of the 12mR class. The ship was built by Camper & Nicholsons, of Gosport, in 1937, beginning to successfully compete with the other Twelve metres in the same year. In 1938 owner MacAndrew steered her so successfully that at Cowes Week he won 21 prices, including the King's Cup. Between 1958 and 1987 the 12mR class was used for the America's Cup, the oldest and most prestigious trophy in sports.
After a long and varied career elsewhere, and sailing under the names of Norsaga and Phoenix, respectively, Trivia participated in the America's Cup Jubilee off Cowes, Isle of Wight, in 2001, back in the waters of the Solent where she was originally built and also restored. She is now owned by Trivia GmbH, of Hamburg, and home to the Baltic waters off Kiel, Germany.
More classic yacht photos:
www.flickr.com/photos/oliversesemann/3104652515/
www.flickr.com/photos/oliversesemann/3104652501/
1: three pitch-brown/black dorsal marks on shell (central mark smaller than usual on this specimen).
2: mantle generally dark but no distinct pitch-brown/black blotches near orange rim.
3: many distinct opaque yellow lines on dorsal surface of foot.
Height (longest shell-dimension) 10.8 mm. Menai Strait, Wales. August 2010.
Full SPECIES DESCRIPTION: flic.kr/p/CGERbH
Sets of OTHER SPECIES:
PARA MI AMIGOS QUE ME SIGUEN.DESPUES DE UN POCO MAS DE 24 HORAS MI AMIGO ANGIE DE PR, FUE EL QUE COINCIDIO CON LA DESCRIPCION DEL NUESTRA AVE, POR LO QUE SE VA A GANAR UN VIAJE A NUEVA GUINEA DE DONDE ES NATIVA ESTA AVES,.
LAS AVES DEL PARAISO CORRESPONDE EN REALIDAD A UN GRUPO DE AVES MAS DE 40 ESPECIE DE LA MISMA FAMILIA, Y UNA DE ELLA ES EL SIMBOLO DE LA BANDERA DE NUEVA GUINEA, SUELE HABITAR EN SELVA DE NUEVA GUINEA Y SALAWATI, Y CON DON SU PICO GRANDE SE ALIMENTA DE ARTROPODOS Y DE FRUTAS. EN LA QUE ESTA CORRESPONDE TIENE LA CARACTERISTICA DE SER DE UN PLUMAJE AMARILLO Y UN MANTO EN EL PECHO DE COLOR NEGRO EN UN MACHO.ADEMAS EN LA COLA TIENE 12 FILAMENTOS TIPO ALAMBRES DE AHI SU NOMBRE DE AVE DEL PARAISO DE 12 ALAMBRES.
DEBO AGRADECER AL SANTUARIO EL NIDO,EN EL ESTADO DE MEXICO POR PERMITIRME FOTOGRAFIAR ESTA ESPECIE, LO CUAL NO ESTA PERMITIDO Y CON PERMISO DE LA DIRECCION DE ESE FORMIDABLE SANTUARIO DE AVES PUEDO PUBLICAR, ESTA BELLA AVE.
EN REALIDAD ME TOMO UN POCO DE TIEMPO AVERIGUAR EL NOMBRE PORQUE CUANDO LA TOME PERDI LA NOTA DE SU NOMBRE Y EN TODOS MIS LIBROS DE REFERENCIA DE AMERICA DE CUALES TENGO UN EJEMPLAR DE CADA PAIS PRACTICAMENTOS NO APARECE, Y LUEGO DE INVESTIGACION EN LA WEB PUDE DARME CUENTA QUE ES UN AVE DE OCEANIA ,O SEA DEL OTRO LADO DEL MUNDO, ASI COMO IBA ADIVINARLO TAN FACIL.
Mr. Bill's Trivia night at Eugene City Brewery!
Bianca, Angela, and Jolene doing their best to get the emcee's attention. You can see why Team Awkward Situation is Mr. Bill's favorite.
Q: In what city and state did the Wright Brothers make their first famous flight?
Q: What was the first animated cartoon, starring Mickey Mouse, to feature sound?
Q: What nation borders on both the Black Sea and the White Sea?
Bueno queridos amigos aqui les dejo esta trivia. Como buen conocedores de las aves no deben de tener ningun problema en identificar con lo que se muestra, la especie de ave y al flor en la que se encuentra.
On Wednesday, January 29 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm, the Transit Museum, in downtown Brooklyn, opened its doors after hours for a trivia showdown hosted by trivia masters Stuart Post and Chris Kelley. Photo: MTA / Patrick Cashin
Opaque shell is white internally and externally, apart from thin external pale-pinkish/pale-brownish layer deposited by external mantle in grooves dorsally and laterally; ribs receive less pigment so paler than grooves.
No pitch-brown/black marks on shell.
Aperture a gently bowed slit along entire height of shell, positioned ventrally on living animal.
1: extension of aperture at posterior forms exhalant-siphonal canal.
2: wide extension of aperture at anterior forms inhalent- siphonal canal.
3: curved groove, and ribs protrude as teeth, but no lip on body-whorl on inner side of aperture.
4: outer (palatal) lip curved out of sight into interior of shell.
Height (longest shell-dimension) 9.6 mm. Ardnamurchan, Scotland. April 1976.
Full SPECIES DESCRIPTION: flic.kr/p/Cfnfpb
Albums of OTHER SPECIES: