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Pourquoi l'anglais, me direz-vous ?
Parce que.
Non, je n'ai pas d'autre argument.
Pourquoi ce reflet ?
Parce que.
Et non, je n'ai toujours pas plus d'argument.
Photo HDR prise le 18 juillet 2019, Grande Rue, à Alençon, en Normandie...
I can already sense the arguments brewing with this one :P
43002 stands next to 800009 at Paddington, with the former having been at the head end of 1L48 (0929 dep. off Swansea) and the latter having worked 1P40 (0945 dep. off Great Malvern.)
Nebkota Railway eastbound freight passes through town behind F9, FP7 (54-55.) Sadly, the railroad is gone; a tour in my Google Subaru (not the one on the left) reveals that although this downtown strip still exists, most of these storefronts appear to be blank ones...except for what appears to be stored plywood or other remains of a previous business concern. The main street here - 25 years ago - looks like commerce is happening and people are out and about; the angle parking that Jeff admires seems to be in use. When I lived in Alliance (about 80 miles southwest of this town), there was a big argument over angle vs. parallel parking when they renewed downtown's main street. Now I don't think either city has anything to worry about as in my last visit to Alliance there were a lot of empty storefronts as well. Such is the trend for the once vaunted small town America. And in Alliance I could blame the one or two big box stores at the west end of town (there was no WalMart as I recall), but here it's a long drive to any of that. The population numbers show a shrinking number of people over the last few years. For those who want to "get away from it all", this would be a good place! But there are some good things going on; a look at a couple ranches where the owners are trying to preserve the prairie, and make a living on it, is a testament to the resilient character of those who keep it happening Out Here.
I forgot it was Extraterrestrial Abductions Day.
There seems to be an argument on who abducts who. The astronauts say they get to abduct the aliens. The aliens are positive it means the astronauts are the ones who get abducted.
For information on Extraterrestrial Abductions Day, see www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/March/extabductday.htm
"Kerfuffle is a word of Scottish origin meaning a mess or an argument. (Suspicion: onomatopoeia for the sound of a flustered chicken fluffing its feathers.) Kerfuffle is applied more broadly than wank and may mean any kind of argument, including some very serious ones."
You gotta love words!! and wild turkeys!!
Thank you for your visits, thoughts and inspiration!!
Northern Flicker ( Red-shafted Flicker) These two males were having a argument. The one on the right took a poke at the chest of the one on the left and almost fell off of its perch. It is native to most of North America, parts of Central America, Cuba, the Cayman Islands, and is one of the few woodpecker species that migrate. It is the only woodpecker that commonly feeds on the ground. There are over 100 common names for the Northern Flicker. Among them are: Yellowhammer, clape, gaffer woodpecker, harry-wicket, heigh-ho, wake-up, walk-up, wick-up, yarrup, and gawker bird. Many of these names are attempts at imitating some of its calls. Shot through a window covered in rain drops as it was pouring outside. Handheld 1/800sec, f8 iso 3200. IMG_4559
Cara Na Mara, better known as Bad Eddie was washed up on a beach at Bunbeg, Donegal in the 1970's during a storm. It became a major tourist attraction and featured in Clannad's 1985 video. It's now starting to break up and there are arguments over whether it should be removed or a replica put in its place.
It must be breeding season or something. These birds always stay really high up, so not the easiest to catch without the zoom but you will get the idea here.
I am home now but I still have many photos to sort from my time in Emmaville.
Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) bulls having an argument on a Sea Lion Island beach in the Falkland Islands.
Created for Saturday Self-Challenge ~ Your interpretation of Nature
With this challenge, I was finally able to pay a tribute to Kataza, a young adult baboon, who was at the centre of a controversial argument between those of us who love to have these wild animals roaming free in our area, and so called "Wildlife Officials" who continue to mess around with Nature. Kataza was removed from his troop in the hills in my picture, and "planted" him in a troop much closer to Cape Town. There was an outcry as this poor young guy struggled to be accepted by the troops in the new area, and it was only when it appeared that he was about to be killed by the new troop that he was moved back to his existing family.
That wasn't good enough for the "officials", however, and our celebrations were cut short about two weeks later, when "they" decided to move him to a wildlife sanctuary, some 2000 km to the north. We are told that he has finally settled down after months of torment, but I can only imagine him sitting in the hot bushveld, and dreaming of the days when he was free to roam the windswept hills of the southern Cape Peninsula.
I took the picture of the hills this morning, and added a painterly texture in Photoshop, and then added my picture of Kataza, taken just before he was taken away.
A local kid enjoying the views from a rock next to the viewpoint on top of The Treasury.
WARNING: If you go to Petra and want to take "the photo" of The Treasury you may have to pay extra fees to local scammers or have an argument with them.
We are in the Norwich, NY freight house along with two of Conrail's finest.
On the left is conductor Frank Eldred. On the right is engineer Jim Dundon.
Frank was born a New York, Ontario & Western man, and moved to the DL&W after the O&W died.
Jim was born and bred a Lackawanna man.
They worked for the DL&W mainly between Scranton, PA, Binghamton, NY, and Utica, NY. On this day, they have just tied up the Norwich job, on the Utica Branch, filling out time slips, and calling in the mark-off. They go OD at 0530, so from the looks of the clock on the wall, they got in in under 8 hours. It's not bad for a railroad job.
Frank appears to be telling a bit that I'm sure must be taken with a grain of salt. Jim has already started to smell it by the looks on his face. Frank loved to BS, and Jim loved to go along with it. The two were companions like the oldest and youngest of siblings. Arguments, teasing, drinks, and good fun, They called each other "Pal" with great sarcasm and admiration. Jim had several names for Frank, and they all started with "Hook Nose"______, and you, my dear reader, fill in the blank with any derogatory name you can think of. "SOB", comes to my mind. It was all in good jest.
These two were "The Greatest Of All Time" when came to railroading.
Frank Eldred could switch cars blind folded with his hands tied behind his back and never miss a beat.
Jim could run a 75 car freight so smooth that Franks coffee filled to the brim in the caboose would never spill a drop.
Okay, so I'm exaggerating a bit. Frank taught me well. Ha!, and he showed me how to do the right things on the ground, even at 15 years of age.
Jim taught me the handling of a locomotive that you'd never get from an instructor in Atlanta or Jacksonville these days. Of matter of fact, much of those train handling moves of yesteryear are completely frowned upon by today's management.
Yes, I'm sure there are many "GOAT's" out there working the rails all over the world, but in my eyes, these two were the Greatest Of All Time and always will be.
Vincent van Gogh (1853- 1890) Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear 1889 Oil paint on canwvas
This famous self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh expresses his artistic power and personal struggles
Van Gogh painted it in January 1889, a week after leaving hospital. He had received treatment there after cutting off most of his left ear (shown here as the bandaged right ear because he painted himself in a mirror). This self-mutilation was a desperate act committed a few weeks earlier, following a heated argument with his fellow painter Paul Gauguin.
Van Gogh's fur cap secures his thick bandage and wards off the winter cold. Created in harsh conditions, this self-portrait demonstrates Van Gogh's determination to continue painting, reinforced by the objects behind him: a canvas on an easel and a Japanese print, an important source of inspiration. Above all, it is Van Gogh's brushwork and powerful handling of colour that declare his renewed ambition as a painter.
Tree Swallow; Handsome aerialists with deep-blue iridescent backs and clean white fronts, Tree Swallows are a familiar sight in summer fields and wetlands across northern North America. They chase after flying insects with acrobatic twists and turns, their steely blue-green feathers flashing in the sunlight.
Franz Fuchs verübte Serien von Briefbombenattentaten sowie Rohrbombenanschläge. Während er selbst sich auf die Organisation Bajuwarische Befreiungsarmee BBA berief und auch sein Verteidiger argumentierte, daß Fuchs kein Einzeltäter sei, sondern als Mitglied der BBA handelte und somit "nur" Beitragstäter sei, machte der Staatsanwalt mit dem im Bild zitierten Satz klar, daß die BBA keine Organisation mehrerer Personen ist, sondern einzig und alleine aus Franz Fuchs selber besteht....
Franz Fuchs wurde verurteilt zu lebenslanger Haft in einer Anstalt für geistig abnorme Rechtsbrecher.
Um die lockeren Schrauben des Franz Fuchs geht es hier jedoch nicht und auch nicht um den Franz Fuchs im Fuchsbau, sondern um den zitierten Satz des Johannes Winklhofer geht es hier.
"Franz Fuchs is the BBA, the BBA is Franz Fuchs", said the prosecutor about the terrorist Franz Fuchs (series of attacks with letter bombs and pipe bombs), who claimed to be part of an organisation he called "Bajuwarische Befreiungsarmee" (Bajuvarian Liberation Army - BBA)
The prosecutor expressed with this sentence, that the BBA is not an organization of many people, that it only consists of one person, namely Franz Fuchs and that Franz Fuchs is a single perpetrator and not an abettor, as he himself and his lawyer claimed.
I use this sentence as an example.
Comparing the two sentences "weaving is living and living is weaving" and "Franz Fuchs is the BBA, the BBA is Franz Fuchs" it is clear that the first sentence means that when one is not weaving he/she is not living.
Digital drawings with ArtRage, Processing/ Bearbeitung and Writing with Acdsee Photoshop,
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Fifty one metres at 15:54pm on an beautiful summer afternoon on Saturday 17th July 2021, off Woolacombe Road and Broad Walk in a garden in Blackheath, South East London.
Here we see an adult female Eastern Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), munching on some kitchen scraps.
The Grey (or Gray) squirrel, you either love 'em or you hate 'em. Cute and fluffy little funsters or destructive critters who ruin trees, kill bird chicks and trees and damage our homes... oh and it's their fault we lost our native Red squirrels as well!
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I get it and I see both sides of the story of course. For my part, I am a nature, wildlife and landscape photographer who prefers the company of animals and natural beauty to fellow humans who are systematically plundering Mother Earth's resources and killing off her beautiful creatures at an alarming rate! I believe there is a natural order of things, creatures kill other creatures to survive, they adapt to situations and when mankind encroaches on their territory to make a fast buck, those animals sometimes adapt to survive and the order changes. That is the balance of nature which is ever changing and affected by us..... the dumbest of the great apes.
Some species are driven out by others, some may be destined to become extinct, the fittest will survive, and sometime a species will need intervention and help from mankind in order to survive... usually as a direct consequence of mankind's own actions in destroying the animal kingdom's natural habitat of course.
I adore these little fellas and at almost sixty years old, I never grew up knowing red squirrels at all. I've seen reds in Scotland and black squirrels in Stanley Park on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, but in my beloved home country of England I have always known and loved the cute little Greys. They visit my garden and give me hours, days, weeks of happiness and wonderful photographic opportunities, and I see them in Parks and forests all around me, so it's time to offer up an insight into the Grey squirrel, much loved, much hated... a sort of Marmite rodent if you will.
WHAT EXACTLY IS A SQUIRREL?
The word 'Squirrel', was first recorded in 1327 and hails from the Anglo-Norman word 'Esquirel', from old French 'Escurel', which was a reflex for the Latin word 'Sciurus'.The Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) is also known as the Eastern Grey squirrel or simply grey squirrel depending on the region of the world it is found. It is a tree squirrel, of the squirrel family Sciuridae including over one hundred arboreal species native to all continents of the world other than Antarctica and Oceania. Tree squirrels live mostly in trees, apart from the flying squirrel. The best known genus is Sciurus, containing most of the bushy tailed squirrels which are found in Europe, North America, temperate Asia as well as central and south America.
The scientific classification for the Eastern Grey is:
KINGDOM: ANIMALIA PHYLUM: CHORDATA CLASS: MAMMALIA ORDER: RODENTIA FAMILY: SCIURIDAE GENUS: SCIURUS SUBGENUS: SCIURUS SPECIES: SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS
They were first noted by German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist - Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788.
A mammal and rodent, predominantly herbivorous they are none the less an omnivore with a life span of between two and ten years. They can grow to 70cm in length and weigh up to 8kg. There are more than two hundred and sixty species of worldwide squirrel, the smallest being the African pygmy squirrel at just 10cm in length, whereas the Indian giant squirrel is three feet long! The oldest fossil of a squirrel, Hesperopetes, dates back to the late Eocene epoch period Chadronian period of 40-35 million years ago. The tree squirrels rotate their ankles by 180 degrees, so that the hind paws pointy backwards gripping tree bark which enables them to descend a tree headfirst.
Originally native to Eastern and Midwestern United States of America, they were first introduced into the United Kingdom in 1876 in Henbury Park, Macclesfield in Cheshire when Victorian banker Thomas V. Brocklehurst released a pair of Greys that he brought back from a business trip to America after their attraction as pets had waned. Victorians had a penchant for collecting exotic animals and birds of the world, but trends came and went and subsequently animals were simply discarded into the wilderness. There are early records of greys released near Denbighshire in north Wales from private collections. Later introduced to several regions in the UK, they quickly settled and spread, colonizing an area of three hundred miles in a quarter of a century between Argyll and Stirlingshire in Scotland.
Introductions of the Greys between 1902 and 1929 (the year of the last recorded introduction), included: Regent’s Park in London, Berkshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, Devon, Warwickshire, Nottinghamshire, Suffolk and Hampshire. Grey Squirrels spread into Gloucestershire and eastern Wiltshire with animals coming directly from the United States or from Woburn. One hundred greys were released in Richmond Park in Surrey in 1902, Ninety one into Regent’s Park between 1905 and 1907 and a further ten New Jersey imported greys were introduced into Woburn Park in Bedfordshire.
Predators include hawks, weasels, raccoons, bobcats, foxes, domestic and feral cats, snakes, owls, and dogs, African harrier-hawks in Africa and... oh yes, Mankind pretty much everywhere who despise, mistreat, cull or eat it .
FACTS, MYTHS AND THAT POXY PARAPOX!
The massive decline in native red squirrels blamed upon the spread of the invasive greys has always been perhaps a little harsh as reds were already in a steep decline due to loss of habitat and disease and thus the greys simply took over the areas where the reds were dwindling. It's also a fact that reds were also seen as a plague, branded as pests who killed birds and damaged trees and the culling of reds almost brought them to the brink of extinction. Licenses to kill reds could still be obtained up until the seventies!
Reds suffered at the hands of mankind thanks to a combination of agricultural deforestation also linked with war and fuel needs which caused extinction in Southern Scotland and Ireland by the early eighteenth century, way before greys had been introduced. Harsh winters killed off the less hardy red population in the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Greys are more adept at finding food and adapting to locations and environments, but also carry the squirrel poxvirus (SQPV) which although not particularly harmful to them, is a serious infection for the reds.
Parapox in red squirrels causes swollen lesions around the mouth, eyes, ears and nose also the front paws and sometimes genitals and skin ulcers and kills a red within fifteen days. There is no definitive correlation between the spread of the virus and the spread of the Greys, it actually arrived in several areas before the greys began to colonize there. An epidemic virus was observed in Red squirrels from at least 1900 with isolation attempts failing, and the first case of Parapox in the UK was in 1980 in the county of Norfolk. Greys cannot transmit the virus to reds via saliva or faeces, but reds can between each other from bodily secretions and at animal feeders in gardens. The transmission from greys to reds is though to come from parasites. Eight to ten per cent of reds survive the virus, and there is some evidence that reds are slowly building an evolved resistance.
Greys are seen as pests to forest land, stripping bark from trees during May and June, and are also capable of destroying household bins, water pipes, causing roof damage not to mention taking eggs and killing young chicks of ground nesting and songbird populations. They also take from bird feeders and there is a whole industry for creating squirrel proof feeders these days.
THE CULLING OF GREY SQUIRRELS
Grey squirrels have limited legal protection and can be legally controlled all year round by a variety of methods including shooting and trapping. Methods of trapping and killing include Drey poking and shooting, Tunnel trapping using spring traps set in accordance with BASC’s trapping pest mammals code of practice. They can also be shot using a shotgun or powerful air rifle or up until September 30th 2014 poisoned by Warfarin (Now outlawed).
Whilst professional trapping and extermination is hopefully done as humanely as possible, there have been cases, many of them where cost savings have been gained by battering the squirrels to death! Grey squirrels are trapped in ghastly metal contraptions for hours and hours, wearing themselves out frantically trying to escape by gnawing at the metals bars. They bite the floor and scratch at them with their claws and do not get a moments peace or rest through absolute fear. Once the traps are retrieved, each squirrel, terrified will be thrown into a sack and smacked on the head countless times with a blunt instrument. When a mother is slaughtered, her babies who are totally dependent on her, will die a slow death of thirst and starvation.
There is an argument for the control of Greys on many grounds but also a counter argument that Culling does not work, and has not on countless times where, once a population of greys have been culled, the nearest group will move back in and claim the land. The university of Bristol concluded that there was little evidence that culling greys to save red squirrels was effective, and that perhaps finding a way of boosting red squirrel immunity to the poxvirus or planting areas of yew trees where reds are known to thrive and spending money on research into positive moves might be a better option.
In Ireland, the re-introduction of the Pine marten, a species made extinct originally by the very same land owners who also wish to do the same to the grey squirrel, has seen the rapid demise of the grey and the re-introduction of the native reds. Red squirrels are smaller and more nimble than their grey counterparts, and as such can get to the very ends of tree branches where neither the pine martins, nor more importantly the heavier greys can, thus surviving and thriving. As a result in Ireland, the grey squirrel population has crashed in approximately 9,000 km2 of its former range and the reds has become common once more after a thirty year absence... oh and Pine Martens are protected again!
In Scotland, Pine Martens exist in areas where Red squirrels thrive, and greys do not. So perhaps there is a lesson here, as in England where there are no pine martens, the greys are prolific breeders. So there is an argument against the barbarity of shooting and poisoning greys, and if, as so many believe, the greys MUST be controlled, how about a more humane and natural method that nature intended.. with re-introduction of predators. Just a thought!
So a few facts and figures on the greys and to wrap up, from a purely personal perspective I love these little guys, as I do almost every creature in nature other than those eight legged beasties that shall not be named and for which I have a deep and powerful phobia that borders on paranoia!
I could no more harm an animal deliberately than eat a McDonald's McRib (Once saw how they are made and let me just say... eeeuuuuuwwwww!!).
They are small, cute, cuddly, furry, they photograph beautifully, have great personality and make me smile. They trust me enough to take food from my hand in parks, and I can't bare the though of ugly, hairy land owners sticking a shotgun in their face and blowing them away! I appreciate they can be a pest, a problem, a menace, that their PR managers might have a bit of a problem winning you over when they flay small chicks alive on your lawn or decimate the songbird population by stealing their eggs.... and perhaps there is a need to keep the population under control and try and re-establish the red population.....
Yep I get that....
I just hope we can solve the problem more humanely to create a peaceful coexistence of the reds and greys in different areas. A man can dream can't he.
Paul Williams June 18th 2021
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Nikon D850 Focal length: 600mm Shutter speed: 1/400s Aperture: f/8.0 iso400 Hand held with Tamron VC Vibration control set to ON (Position 1) 14 Bit uncompressed RAW NEF file size L (8256 x 5504 pixels) FX (36 x 24) Focus mode: AF-C AF-Area mode: 3D-tracking AF-C Priority Selection: Release. Nikon Back button focusing enabled 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points Exposure mode: Manual exposure mode Metering mode: Matrix metering White balance on: Auto1 (4860k) Colour space: RGB Picture control: Neutral (Sharpening +2)
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El kathakali es un tipo de representación artística característica del estado de Kerala, en el sur de India. Combina una especie de danza lenta con teatro mudo en el que destaca una expresión facial muy exagerada. El argumento se basa en las historias tradicionales del hinduísmo.
Antes de comenzar la representación propiamente dicha, los actores, todos hombres, aunque representen papeles femeninos, se maquillan en el escenario, delante del público. Se trata de un maquillaje muy elaborado.
En la primera parte de la representación un narrador va explicando el significado de los principales gestos que usarían luego los actores en su representación.
East Midlands Trains Meridian 222006 heads north on the Midland Main Line at Barrow on Soar with a service from St Pancras, 4th April 2009. Built by Bombardier in 2004/5 as a nine car unit it was reduced to an eight car unit in late 2006 when MSO vehicle 60536 was removed and added to 222016 to argument it to a five car unit. In 2008 222006 was again reduced (to a seven car unit) when MSO vehicle 60546 was removed and added to 222010 to argument it to a five car unit
An aerial argument between two red kites. This interaction is usually over in a flash and you often don't appreciate the fact that one of them has turned upside down in the process.
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
Mai hauria pensat que, tenint una arcaica Kodak Pocket de 1895, l'hi buscaria una germana fabricada lleugerament més tard (el 1896). Però hi ha diversos arguments al respecte.
En primer lloc, compta amb la única distinció de conservar una plaqueta de la botiga on fou venguda, suposo que el mateix 1896. I es que aquesta correspon als desaparescuts grans magatzems El Siglo, de Barcelona. En efecte, la plaqueta llegeix: "Grandes Almacenes de El Siglo, Barcelona". I a sobre es preserva l'etiqueta amb el preu al interior ("30 pesetas"!!).
La vaig trobar en una venda a internet, tot i que el darrer propietari no era gaire llunyà, del mig de Occitania. Ara ha tornat a 20 km d'on fou venguda per primer cop, he he.
Per altra banda, també cal cosiderar que, tot i que produida només l'any seguent que l'altra Kodak Pocket, incopora molts canvis en l'estil i la mecànica: el cuir fi i grana ha canviat per un de negre i mes gruixut, i sobretot l'obturador és completament diferent, essent del tipus "sector" i molt igual a altres models de Kodak, com la Bulls-eye. El visor també canvià de rodó a quadrat.
Encara hi ha un darrer motiu: tot i que li manca una senzilla molla per a poder funcionar, compta amb les dues bobines del seu inusual format 102, el que em permetrà improvisar rodets per a aquesta càmera, i fer servir la seva "bessona", o aquesta mateixa i aconsegueixo reparar l'obturador.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_Kodak_(1895)
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magatzems_El_Siglo
Sembla que l'edifici del c/Pelai no és l'original on s'hauria vengut la càmera, sino que estava situada a Les Rambles, fins que s'incendià el 1932.
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I would never have thought that, having an archaic Kodak Pocket from 1895, I would look for a "sister" made slightly later (in 1896). But there are several arguments about it.
First of all, it has the unique distinction of keeping a plaque from the retailer who sold it in 1896. And more important, this corresponds to the disappeared department stores El Siglo, in Barcelona. In fact, the ivory-like plaque reads: "Grandes Almacenes El Siglo, Barcelona". And on top of that, inside, the label with the price is still preserved ("30 pesetas" !!).
I found it in an internet sale, although the last owner was not far away, from southern France (Occitanie). Now it’s back almost "home", 20km from where it was first sold, ha ha (yes, it was made in Rochester, NY, but hey...)
On the other hand, it should also be noted that, although produced only the following year than the other Kodak Pocket, it incorporates many changes in style and mechanics: the fine and maroon leather has changed to a black and thicker one. , and especially the shutter is completely different, being of the "sector" type and very similar to other Kodak models, such as the Bulls-eye. The viewfinder also changed from round to square.
There is one last reason: although it lacks a simple spring to operate, it has two precious spools of its unusual format 102, which will allow me to improvise roll film (cutting 120 back paper and using 35mm film inside) for this camera, and use its "twin", or this one, if I manage to repair the shutter.
www.earlyphotography.co.uk/site/entry_C447.html
camera-wiki.org/wiki/Pocket_Kodak
www.kodaksefke.nl/pocket-kodak.html
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The El Siglo department store stood in Les Rambles, Barcelona, till 1932, when a fire destroyed the building. Later it appears the store was rebuilt in nearby Carrer Pelai.
Ezekiel 31:15 “This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘On the day that it descended into Sheol, I shut down its water supplies, covered over its deep water, and shut down its rivers. As a result its abundant water sources dried up, and I caused Lebanon to mourn for it. All the trees of the field wilted because of it.’”
“The United States Military just entered the Great State of California and, under Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest, and beyond. The days of putting a Fake Environmental argument, over the PEOPLE, are OVER. Enjoy the water, California!!!” –
Donald J. Trump
Shutting off the water: this is the United Nations’ Agenda 21—sustainable development—in action in California. You know their dialectic: problem, reaction, solution. Their manufactured problem (PSYOP)—the boogeyman in the closet—is climate change. Their solution: net-zero. They will cut off fossil fuels and lock me away in my 15-munite city neighbourhood (gulag archipelago): good-bye freedom of movement. They will silence my pro-fossil fuel speech, labeling it as mal-dis-mis information: good-bye free speech. Then comes the climate lockdowns: good-bye freedom of assembly. The end result: I will own nothing and be happy. All of us will be equally poor. Equality for all! Anti-civilization…anti-human…woohoo!
In this post-Christian era, the rise of nihilism will lead to an authoritarian system that revolves around surveillance and data: digital IDs, biometrics, digital currencies, and social credit scores. Nihilistic Darwinism will ensue, resulting in genocide: “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.” People already accept social Darwinism: euthanasia and abortion. What about covid? Oh, I guess you are too dumb to understand that one! What happened during covid was an eye-opener. Nowadays people lack moral fortitude. They are fearful and cowardly. They can be easily whipped up into an authoritarian mode. They have lost all commonsense and discernment. Their consciences have been seared.
Deconstructing the moral foundations of the West will only destroy it. When this happens, you can kiss democracy and free market capitalism good-bye! At the moment, we only have a resemblance—a counterfeit—of the two. We, however, will soon lose both. Once gone, they will be lost forever—the boot on the face of humanity. As for me: my hope is in the Lord Jesus Christ! God’s moral laws are perfect! If you disagree, you are a sinner…buahahaha!
These two Willets were fighting for a couple of minutes, trying to choke each other out with their beaks.
Aquest son els dos gegants masculins de Berga, el vell a l'esquerra i el nou (de finals s. XIX) a la dreta. Com podeu veure, els seus arguments son pesants... i plens de punxes!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaOnPQ5HEPM
Foto presa a la Patum Extraordinaria del setembre. La Patum SEMPRE es fa per Corpus (entre maig i juny), però aquest 2016 es va donar una 2ª Patum extraordinaria el setembre, en motiu del centenari de la coronació de la Verge de Queralt, patrona de Berga.
La Patum és la celebració més intensa i especial de Catalunya. Em falten paraules per poder-la descriure.
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Those are the "male" giants of the town of Berga, showing their "arguments". They were built arround 1850-1890, and are part of the celebrations of La Patum. On the other side, the tradition of giants in the local festivities is found all arround Catalonia and Europe. In fact the giants, like the "dwarves" are an adopted element in the Patum, not being in the medieval core of the festival.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantes_y_cabezudos
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaOnPQ5HEPM
The Patum is a festival held in the Catalan town of Berga each year in Corpus Christi. It's a unique event in all over the World. It's so speciall that it's part of UNESCO World Heritage. It's origins are in the middle ages, although in its current form it dates from the last decades of the XIX Century. It beggins in wednesday of Corpus till sunday of Corpus.
More info about La Patum de Berga: