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myxomycete forming sporangia. I'm not sure what the genus is here - the sporangia are a little bit too young. Can anyone suggest what it is?
Vendo Casa a forma gi fragola gigante di STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE, fragolina dolcecuore anni 80.
La casa è completa di scatola ORIGINALE e tutti gli accessoti:MOBILI, CUCINA, MESTOLI, ARNESI DA GIARDINAGGIO, FRAGOLE, CESTO X GIARDINAGGIO, INNAFFIATOIO.
Se si preme la mega foglia sopra le fragole, sembrerà che sta ctescendo la piantina poichè ha un meccanisco a pompetta.
Dimensioni chiuse: 30cm x 15cm
Dimensioni aperte: 30cm x 50cm
E' perfetta:non manca nulla.
Le bamboline sono sono mai state incluse e infatti non le ho mai avute per mia sfortuna
Prezzo € 60 (accetto pagamento postepay)
Spedizione a carico dell'acquirente:spedisco con Pacco Celere 3 €9.90 oppure o comunque accetto altri metodi di spedizione su vostra richiestavendo casa a forma di flagola STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE anni 80 FRAGOLINA DOLCE CUORE
Recruits receive a period of instruction from Drill Instructor Sgt Bowen on the 4th battalion parade deck during forming.
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photo from Ruth Midgley
What follows are Ruth's together with some of my best recollections. Apologies to those whose identities have been misremembered or which have not penetrated the fog on the Lune. Seriously, please highlight necessary corrections by posting a comment.
BACK ROW: Jennifer Hayton (?), Rosemary Ryder, Ruth Midgley, David Price, Brin Wynne, Caroline Bland, Catherine Barber, Moira Barber
BACK MIDDLE ROW: Jane Aynscough, Cherith Sanderson, Jennifer Vine-Hall, Elizabeth Wyganowska, Dorothy Haygarth, Judith Casson, Margaret Thompson, Paul Weinel, Roger Sharples, Brin Gornall, Dan Thurstan, Michael Cumpstey, Bill Hadwin, 'Stav' Staveley, Kristian Anderson
MIDDLE ROW: Sarah Bernfeld, (?) Jennifer Holden, Marcia Danson, Janet Lambert, David Hutton, Jim Park, Bernie Rushton, Stephen Neal, John Blacow, Robin Hainsworth, Reginald Hill
FRONT ROW: Marion Watson, Marjorie Thwaite, Valerie Skirrow, Rosalie Hartley, Jean Thornber, Kathleen Williams, Christine Gott, (?)
With many tugs at teenage heart strings !
Where is Alan Styles?
French postcard by Sonis, no. C. 943. Photo: Etienne George / Renn Productions. French poster for Astérix & Obélix contre César / Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar (Claude Zidi, 1999) with Christian Clavier and Gérard Depardieux.
French comic book hero Astérix by Alberto Uderzo and René Goscinny has become a major film franchise, both in animated and live-action form. Most notable is the feature Astérix & Obélix contre César/Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar (Claude Zidi, 1999), starring Christian Clavier, Gerard Depardieu, and Roberto Benigni. At the time of its release, the film was the most expensive production in French cinema of all time. It was a box-office success and would be followed by several sequels.
In 1927, the French comic book artist and scriptwriter Albert Uderzo was born in the town of Fismes, in the Marne department of north-eastern France. In the 1930s, Albert developed a fascination for American comic and animated cartoons and was particularly impressed with the works of Walt Disney. He was a poor student at school but received good grades in sketching and art-related lessons. By the 1950s, Albert had become a professional artist, and he met his partner René Goscinny in 1951. During the 1950s, Uderzo provided the artwork for moderately successful series such as the historical fiction series 'Oumpah-pah' and 'Jehan Pistolet' (both written by Goscinny) and the aviation comic series 'Tanguy et Laverdure' (written by Jean-Michel Charlier). Asterix debuted in October 1959 in the French magazine Pilote, created by René Goscinny and Uderzo. In 1961, the first stand-alone effort, 'Astérix le Gaulois' (Asterix the Gaul), was released. It was turned into an animation film, Astérix le Gaulois/Asterix the Gaul (Ray Goossens, 1965). The comic book series centres around the titular Asterix, the bravest warrior in a small town in the middle of Roman-occupied Gaul in the year 50 B.C. — and the one burg that has not surrendered to the occupation. Instead, with the help of a magic potion that gives him super-strength (and his best friend Obélix, who fell into a cauldron of the potion as a child, and as such is permanently superhumanly strong), he spends each instalment fighting and defeating the Roman army and keeping his village safe from harm. Asterix became one of the most successful European comic book series. There were many film adaptations, including the animation films Astérix et Cléopâtre/Asterix & Cleopatra (René Goscinny, Albert Uderzo, 1968), and Les 12 travaux d'Astérix/The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (René Goscinny, Henri Gruel, Albert Uderzo, Pierre Watrin, 1976). After the success of Astérix & Obélix contre César/Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar (Claude Zidi, 1999) with Christian Clavier as Asterix and Gérard Dépardieu as Obélix, followed more live-action adaptations including Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre/Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (Alain Chabat, 2002) with Monica Bellucci as Cleopatra, and Astérix aux jeux olympiques/Asterix at the Olympic Games (Frédéric Forestier, Thomas Langmann, 2008) with Alain Delon as Julius Caesar. Astérix & Obélix contre César/Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar combines plots of several Asterix stories, mostly Asterix the Gaul (Getafix's abduction), Asterix and the Soothsayer, Asterix and the Goths (the Druid conference), Asterix the Legionary (Obelix becoming smitten with Panacea) and Asterix the Gladiator (the characters fighting in the circus) but jokes and references from many other albums abound, including a humorous exchange between Caesar and Brutus taken from Asterix and Cleopatra, and the villain Lucius Detritus is based on Tullius Detritus, the main antagonist of Asterix and the Roman Agent (known as Tortuous Convolvulus in the English translation of the comic). "Asterix and Obelix Take on Caesar is not a masterpiece in any shape or form and has its problems but it is not an awful movie", Bethany Cox writes on IMDb: "In the French version there are enough deft touches in the script to amuse I think. The pacing is good, while the acting is fine. Christian Clavier and Gerard Depardieu are well cast in the title roles, while Roberto Benigni sinks his teeth into his role as the scheming centurion. In conclusion, nothing fantastic, but it isn't that bad."
The Asterix series has gone on to sell more than 400 million copies, translated into more than 100 languages internationally. It makes the series the best-selling European comic book series, and the second best-selling comic book series in history after 'One Piece'. René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo collaborated on the comic until the death of Goscinny in 1977. Uderzo then took over the writing until 2009. Since 1951, Uderzo was married to Ada Milani, with whom he had a daughter Sylvie Uderzo. He sold his shares of the company Editions Albert René (which owns the rights to Astérix) to the publishing company Hachette in 2007. He had a public falling out with daughter Sylvie who also owned shares of the original company and disagreed with her father's decision. After a few years of mostly working on short stories and comic strips, Uderzo announced his retirement in 2011. Since Uderzo's retirement, the work on Asterix has been handled by writer Jean-Yves Ferri and artist Didier Conrad under a deal that allows Lagardere-owned publisher Hachette to continue producing the series. The most recent book is 'L'Iris blanc' (Asterix and the White Iris), published in 2023. It is the first to be written by Fabcaro, and the sixth to be illustrated by Didier Conrad. Parc Astérix, a French theme park based on the property, has brought in 50 million visitors since opening outside Paris in 1989.
Sources: The Hollywood Reporter, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Here's teh finished dress form. It's more functional than beautiful, especially after the alteration ofr a more natural bosom (I took the original measurements while she was wearing a top with more lifting power than her slinky bias cut wedding dress...)
Part of Azzedine Alaïa: The Couturier
(May to October 2018)
Azzedine Alaïa’s innovations in stretch fabrics were at least as important as his elevation of leather. In his hands, these transformed the silhouette of the wearer.
Rather than creating clothes anchored at strategic points – conventionally, the waist and the shoulders – Alaïa’s bandage dresses cling to the wearer’s form, conscious of the entire body. The stretch fabric allows these minimal silhouettes to move freely.
Debuted in 1986, these variations on the ‘Bandelette’ (bandage) dress are clearly inspired by ancient Egyptian mummification, but also perhaps by the swaddling of infants. The garments join Western and Eastern traditions – highly fitted and precision-cut, with a body simply and sensually wrapped in cloth.
The dresses seem simple, but each band of fabric is precisely engineered and cut to specific dimensions, according to its place on the figure. These creations ushered in the notion of physique-delineating ‘bodycon’ dressing, the defining aesthetic of the early 1990s.
Conceived and co-curated with Monsieur Alaïa before his death in November 2017, the exhibition charts his incredible journey from sculptor to couturier, his nonconformist nature and his infectious energy for fashion, friendship and the female body.
Unlike many of his contemporaries, Alaïa personally constructed each garment by hand and refused to bow to the pressures of fashion week deadlines, instead working to his own schedule. His collaborative approach earned him an esteemed client list, including Greta Garbo, Grace Jones, Michelle Obama and Rihanna.
Rather than a retrospective, the show interlaces stories of his life and career alongside personally selected garments, ranging from the rare to the iconic and spanning the early 1980s to his most recent collection in 2017.
[Design Museum]
Forms in Space . . . by Light (in Time)
Installation by Cerith Wyn Evans in Tate Britain
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All the light fixtures in the hotel used to have backup gas lights in case the electricity went out. (And these are the guys who built a power plant for the hotel that made so much extra electricity, they gave the entire town of Estes Park free power.)
On opening night, the electric power went out, so they sent the Head Chambermaid to Room 217 (the Presidential Suite) to light the gas lamps.
Unfortunately, someone forgot to turn off the gas after testing them. When she lifted the candle to light the lamps, Room 217 and several floors directly above blew sky-high. Ms. Wilson (the chambermaid) was blown down into the room below and survived.
According to Stanley legend, she worked at the hotel for the rest of her natural life until she died in the 1950s.
She only took two days off before returning to work.
Bumblebees are social insects which form colonies with a single queen. Colonies are smaller than those of honeybees, growing to as few as 50 individuals in a nest. Female bumblebees can sting repeatedly, but generally ignore humans and other animals. Cuckoo bumblebees do not make nests; their queens aggressively invade the nests of other bumblebee species, kill the resident queens and then lay their own eggs which are cared for by the resident workers.
Bumblebees have round bodies covered in soft hair (long, branched setae), called pile, making them appear and feel fuzzy. They have aposematic (warning) coloration, often consisting of contrasting bands of colour, and different species of bumblebee in a region often resemble each other in mutually protective Mullerian mimicry. Harmless insects such as hoverflies often derive protection from resembling bumblebees, in Batesian mimicry, and may be confused with them. Nest-making bumblebees can be distinguished from similarly large, fuzzy cuckoo bees by the form of the female hind leg. In nesting bumblebees, it is modified to form a pollen basket, a bare shiny area surrounded by a fringe of hairs used to transport pollen, whereas in cuckoo bees, the hind leg is hairy all round, and pollen grains are wedged among the hairs for transport.
Like their relatives the honeybees, bumblebees feed on nectar, using their long hairy tongues to lap up the liquid; the proboscis is folded under the head during flight. Bumblebees gather nectar to add to the stores in the nest, and pollen to feed their young. They forage using colour and spatial relationships to identify flowers to feed from. Some bumblebees rob nectar, making a hole near the base of a flower to access the nectar while avoiding pollen transfer. Bumblebees are important agricultural pollinators, so their decline in Europe, North America, and Asia is a cause for concern. The decline has been caused by habitat loss, the mechanisation of agriculture, and pesticides.
In 1494, the Jewish square unter the name of Schulhof (Schoolyard) formed the central center of the Jewish Town which was first mentioned in 1294 as the "schoolyard of the Jews". The Jewish city stretched to the north to the church of Saint Mary on the Strand, the western side was bounded by the Deep Ditch, the east side by the Tuchlauben. The south side was formed by the square Am Hof/At Court. The ghetto comprised 70 houses arranged in a way that their back walls formed a closed bounding wall. The ghetto could be entered through four gates; the two main entrances were on Wipplinger street (Wiltwercherstrass). The square was surrounded by fifteen houses and five streets led to it. Around 1400, 800 inhabitants lived here: traders, creditors, scholars in Kammerknechtschaft (Servi camerae regis (Latin: "servants of the royal chamber", German: "Kammerknechtschaft") was the status of the Jews in Christian Europe in the Middle Ages).
On the place itself was located the synagogue (mentioned for the first time in 1204), the only stone building among the private and communal houses, which occupied a third of the square in the west, the hospital (now Jewish square No. 10, House of the Cooperative of the Dressmakers), the house of the rabbi and the Jewish school on the grounds of the municipal garden (now the Collaltopalais), which was one of the most important in the German-speaking world. Here famous rabbis taught and worked and turned the city into a center of Jewish knowledge. After the school, the square then was named "Schoolyard". Later, this name was transferred to the smaller square of the Jewish Garden lain to the north behind the church At Court, which still today is listening to this name. The original school yard has been given the name "New Square" (on the Newn plac) since 1423, since 1437 it is called Jewish square.
For the construction of the memorial to the Austrian Jewish victims of the Shoa excavations were carried out from July 1995 to November 1998. These are regarded as the most important urban core investigations in Vienna. On the eastern half of the square were furthermore found the dry-stone walls, a well and cellars of a whole block of houses, which had stood here at the time of the synagogue. The in 1995 excavated remains under the Jewish square of the in 1421 destroyed synagogue bear testimony of the medieval community life and its destruction. In 2000, the Museum Jewish square was opened as the second location of the Jewish Museum in Vienna. In this museum, a permanent exhibition on the history of the Jewish square as well as the foundations of the destroyed Or-Sarua Synagogue can be visited directly under the memorial (see also: Jews in Vienna).
The complete redevelopment of the square and its conversion to the pedestrian zone was completed in autumn 2000 with the inauguration of the Holocaust memorial. The city of Vienna was awarded the special prize of the City of Vicenza in Italy for the design of the Jewish square by the Dedalo Minosse International Prize's Jury.
Der Judenplatz bildete unter dem Namen „Schulhof“ bis 1421 den zentral gelegenen Mittelpunkt der Judenstadt, der 1294 als „Schulhof der Juden“ erstmals erwähnt wurde. Die Judenstadt erstreckte sich nach Norden bis zur Kirche Maria am Gestade, die Westseite wurde vom Tiefen Graben, die Ostseite von den Tuchlauben begrenzt. Die Südseite bildete der Platz Am Hof. Das Ghetto umfasste 70 Häuser, die so angeordnet waren, dass ihre Rückwände eine geschlossene Begrenzungsmauer bildeten. Durch vier Tore konnte das Ghetto betreten werden, die beiden Haupteingänge lagen an der Wipplingerstraße (Wiltwercherstrass). Der Platz wurde von fünfzehn Häusern umsäumt und fünf Straßenzüge mündeten in ihn. Um 1400 lebten hier 800 Einwohner: Händler, Kreditgeber, Gelehrte in Kammerknechtschaft.
Am Platz selbst befanden sich die Synagoge (erstmals 1204 erwähnt), der einzige Steinbau unter den Privat- und Gemeindehäusern, die im Westen ein Drittel des Platzes einnahm, das Spital (heute Judenplatz Nr. 10, Haus der Genossenschaft der Kleidermacher), das Haus des Rabbis und die Judenschule auf dem Grunde des Gemeindegartens (jetzt das Collaltopalais), die eine der bedeutendsten des deutschsprachigen Raumes war. Hier lehrten und wirkten berühmte Rabbiner und machten die Stadt zu einem Zentrum jüdischen Wissens. Nach der Schule führte der Platz damals seinen Namen „Schulhof“. Später wurde dieser Name auf den nördlich gelegenen kleineren Platz des Judengartens hinter der Kirche am Hof übertragen, der heute noch so heißt. Dem ursprünglichen Schulhof gab man seit 1423 die Bezeichnung „Neuer Platz“ (an dem Newn placz), seit 1437 heißt er Judenplatz.
Für die Errichtung des Mahnmals für die österreichischen jüdischen Opfer der Shoa wurden von Juli 1995 bis November 1998 Ausgrabungen durchgeführt. Diese gelten als die bedeutendsten Stadtkernuntersuchungen in Wien. Auf der östlichen Hälfte des Platzes wurden außerdem die Bruchsteinmauern, ein Brunnen und Keller eines ganzen Häuserblocks gefunden, der zur Zeit der Synagoge hier gestanden war. Die 1995 unter dem Judenplatz ausgegrabenen Überreste der 1421 zerstörten Synagoge geben Zeugnis des mittelalterlichen Gemeindelebens und dessen Vernichtung. Im Jahr 2000 wurde das Museum Judenplatz als zweiter Standort des Jüdischen Museums Wien eröffnet. In ihm sind eine Dauerausstellung über die Geschichte des Judenplatzes sowie die Fundamente der zerstörten Or-Sarua-Synagoge direkt unter dem Mahnmal zu besichtigen (siehe auch: Juden in Wien).
Die komplette Neugestaltung des Platzes und seine Umwandlung zur Fußgängerzone wurde im Herbst 2000 mit der Einweihung des Holocaust-Mahnmals abgeschlossen. Die Stadt Wien wurde für die Gestaltung des Judenplatzes von der „Dedalo Minosse International Prize's Jury“ mit dem Spezialpreis der Stadt Vicenza in Italien 2002 ausgezeichnet.
Los cuentos, mitos y leyendas son una forma de transmisión de la cultura popular a lo largo de los años. La profesora titular del área de Didáctica de la lengua y literatura de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad de AlmerÃa, Nieves Gómez, en uno de sus trabajos etnográficos, llevó esta semana a las aulas de los futuros graduados de Educación Primaria el entusiasmo por la transmisión de estas historias tradicionales con una actividad perfectamente combinada con las nuevas tecnologÃas. Con la colaboración de Juan DÃaz Sánchez, responsable del portal de podcasting Sin Guion, donde se alberga el programa dirigido por la propia Nieves Gómez, Leyendeando, realizó una actividad en la que los alumnos participaron contando de forma espontánea los mitos, leyendas y supersticiones que conocÃan sobre sus diferentes lugares de procedencia o por herencia popular. Gracias al equipo de Sin Guion estas historias se grabaron en el mismo aula y se divulgarán en forma de podcast dentro del programa Leyendeando en su portal web.
Muchos estudiantes mostraron su interés y gran conocimiento en esta materia y colaborarán en próximas ediciones del podcast Leyendeando, con temáticas como los mitos dentro del fútbol o centradas en localizaciones como Mojácar o Granada. Nieves destacó a sus alumnos la importancia de estas historias transmitidas mediante el boca a boca, llenas de tradición y coloquialismos propios de cada pueblo, como forma de llamar la atención de los más pequeños y cómo a través de puntos clave de estos cuentos se pueden extrapolar otras ideas para desarrollar originales actividades educativas en el aula.
Sin Guion es una iniciativa almeriense que busca promover el podcasting, forma digital de transmisión de datos, generalmente asociada a la radio digital. Este portal web alberga canales con diferentes temáticas. Además de Leyendeando, se encuentra el canal La Tercera Fase, sobre videojuegos; For Dummies, de ciencia y biologÃa; Los Danko, de tono cómico; Noches insomnes y Expreso, ambos a cargo del responsable del portal, Juan DÃaz, sobre música y reflexiones respectivamente, y que surgieron tras el germen del magazine Café y noche, podcast que Juan DÃaz realiza desde 2008 y que es la piedra angular del emprendedor portal SinGuion.es, que también tiene su versión en texto escrito en su fanzine descargable del mismo nombre.
Escrito por Celia S. Cañabate
For my fellow Bird Nerds! I couldn’t resist posting this crop. I love to zoom in on the feet of birds. They are beautiful, as well as prehistoric and dangerous looking to me. Great White Egrets are so elegant, but their feet are all business, with substantial claws. I also love the scales. This GWE was hanging out at Save Our Seabirds. He is wild, and he is free. I’m guessing he just likes the positive energy there and no doubt the occasional dropped fish during feeding time.
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