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Niki turns 40 & celebrates with an 80's party.
Her costume was Madonnas version of the classic Marilyn Monroe gentleman prefer blondes. This figurine is of Niki with her lovely long blonde hair.
The cake has the classic vinyl records of the 80’s.
God I’m showing my age ! I still remember cassettes! LOL !
Niki lives just around the corner from me. I could hear the music.
I was lying in bed last night wiggling my toes to the sounds of THE LOVE SHACK BABY at midnight.
By the sounds of it, a good time was had by all.
Have a great night Niki & DJ - Ren 10.
Niki is 40 & still Ab Fab. You go Girl !!
New website
kuala lumpur, malaysia
open pages of buried past, open hearts may never last.
i'm turning 22 tomorrow :)
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Would appreciate not having large/animated multi invite codes
Materials: oil on canvas. Dimensions: 76.2 x 63.5 cm. Source: paintings-art-picture.com/paintings/wp-content/uploads/20.... P.S. I have changed the contrast of the original photo.
NASA's Game Changing Development Program hosted a media day at one of its industry partners, Mezzo Technologies in Baton Rouge. GCD Program Executive Ryan Stephan visited Mezzo and spoke with reporters about NASA's involvement in local industry.
My studio shelves contain numerous old books with interesting illustrations that I've found at estate sales and the Goodwill. They are often plundered for collage materials when the mood strikes. The funny-looking camera on the right is an old Kodak Duaflex that has been adapted for digital TTV photography.
Materials we used at the cooking lesson, the first of the Art & Crafts in English seminars, that took place in the Penthouse.
Character: Hitogomira
Company: Elegab
Manufacturer: Elegab
Series: Dokuro Tarou Kaiju Series
Made In: Japan
Material: Black Vinyl
Height: Approximately 24 cm
Number of Parts: 6
Released: August 10, 2012
Original Price: $130
Limitation: 1
Packaging: None
Additional Info: This figure is a 1-off hand-painted by Naritada Shintani owner of Elegab. Naritada signed the right foot in black marker with his name and the date "2012. 7.25." July 25, 2012, is the date he completed the painting on this 1-off for the show. It was made available for sale at the "Summers Cauldron" exhibition held at FOE Gallery in Massachusetts on August 10, 2012. The purchaser of the figure would not receive it until the end exhibition.
The Summers Cauldron exhibition feature artist was Eric Talbot, Elegab, Mutant Vinyl Hardcore, and Paul Kaiju. The exhibition was held from August 10 to September 9, 2012.
"Hito" is Japanese for person(s)/human being and "gomira" can translate as being waste/rubbish/garbage. This kaiju is throwing up human beings to form his body.
Left foot markings:
©エレガブ
JAPAN
Right foot markings:
ヒトゴミラ
Dibujos materiales | Material Drawings is a series of hand-made materializations of generative computational designs. They are made of a custom-formula modelling paste, extruded by hand from a syringe, following a digital design that is projected line by line over the paper.
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Paper Color: Acia Red - Matt
Ink Color: Dark Gray
Edition: 18
Size: 36cm x 48cm
Weight: 200g/m2
Drawing for the mural painted in Phoenix. Color is painted with the same colors used in the mural.
To see the mural: www.flickr.com/photos/partybots/6916699118/in/photostream
Artwork by Karl Addison
For More Information: www.partybots.org/ or www.idrawalot.com
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As Karl Addison’s art and vision evolves—from blank slate, to paper, to mural, to installation, to unoccupied public space—our understanding and comprehension of the world around us begins to unfold as well. We may not notice his input, infiltrating our subconscious—our everyday—but it’s there. A beautiful woman’s face composed of negative space watching peacefully over a cemetery in Wedding, a fragile old Jewish woman towering over a decommissioned factory in Berlin, an urban zoo of imagined creatures deposited all over the globe, an abandoned room filled with 4,500 fat babies…Addison’s art and commentary on history and culture are everywhere, becoming part of the collective unconscious.
Through his travels to Italy, Israel, Japan, throughout the US, and his current residence in Berlin, Addison’s overarching theme of people and the spaces they occupy and interact with has taken shape. By focusing on pieces, which work to become part of public space rather than interrupt it, his intent to create regenerative art through murals and other mediums is being actualized. He has achieved this both independently and collaboratively with other contemporary artists and painters, most notably James Boullough. Addison’s recent and current collaborative projects also highlight his more narrowed focus of interconnectedness, “connecting humanity around the world with different cultures from different places,” he wants us to value tiny lines, details, to appreciate a world view and hopefully, start extolling minute details of our own.
It takes an extraordinary person, one with talent, courage, and patience, to express himself the way Addison does. To project his voice and vision for the world to see—to rip it out of a sketch book or a blank page in his mind—and produce it. To take it beyond the two-dimensional and spray paint, wheat paste, bomb, the side of a building with an illimitable piece of art. To exhibit in public space—on walls, on clothing, in art galleries—what a beautiful fucking thing. Art—“a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind” leaving the watching to the watched.
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Pótoprens, Haiti.
Flows of people, pigs, goats, like an exodus of unorganized ants of different colonies who have all lost their queen. Everyone here is a juggler. Juggling with all that is left. Balancing enormous heavy burdens on the heads, screaming "dlo, dlo, dlo!!" "Water, water, water!" Barking, singing in Kreole & cacophonic un-understandable sounds at first. Sweat, dust, lots of dust, heat, smells of damped trash, cleaned clothes hanging on barbwire, on trees or roofs to dry.
Cité Soleil.
Chaos into chaos. Naked children running, beautiful, smiling, suspicious & clever. "Blanc! Hey you! Chocolate?" The first words they address you if you're white. Being white here means not being Haitian. You can be Mauritanian - you will still be white. UN soldiers. Minustah. Logbase. Armed Militaries, armed gangs. The armed gangs enhance their "activity" of extortion especially in September - October. They have to find money to send their kids to school. Most of them with wearing their blue "Unicef" bag -part of the "Go-to-school" kit. But they still need the money for shoes and uniforms. Jealousy. Treachery. Haiti, Republic ONG - the NGO Republic. It's hard being thrown a tiny piece of bread and having to share it among so many people. It drives humanity crazy.
The effort of building some artisan labs in such a place. Project started, project financed, funds now finished. Structure, built. Machines, given. Training, given. Structures, robbed, often. Machines, half are already broken. Artists: amazing. Creative, brave. All they want is to earn their living by working, not being part of the gangs. But living and working in a place ruled by them, you can't pretend they're not there. They'll never let you forget they are. Not easy, not at all. Materials, often unavailable, or very expensive. Everything is imported. The challenge: for these labs to produce enough to sustain themselves. Producing, selling, to the rich “Blancs” who can afford it. We're doing it, every day, with a bit of luck, a lot of effort.
But working here, going every day down from Petionville, the "wealthy" neighborhood, to Cité Soleil, one of the poorest slums of the continent, and dealing with all this... It's sometimes just too much. You can't process everything in one Blanc's heart; sometimes it seems too spongy not to drown. It makes you scream from the inside, a long silent scream, before you can breathe in again and start putting the pieces of this scattered puzzle back together.
-Francesca D.
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Hello Welcome to the land of magic and fantasy.
The land of the cradle of religions and the first civilizations.
The land of Egypt
Today you go to a spot of Bhalla diligent in seeking described by you and by the private Mattmiz from other spots.
It is a land of green in the inner Western Desert of Egypt it
. Bahariya Oasis.
(I) lines for the blogger ,,,,,,,
Dear reader
I know you myself .......
Name / Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed Abbas
Area of work / artist automorphic revelation of the nature
Place of Birth / Albawity Bahariya Oasis Giza, Egypt
Artist automorphic inspiring talent drew inspiration from nature. God has blessed me with great artistic talent from an early age and that helped me that I was born in the Oasis and I lived and grew up under the skies and on the soil and between the folds of mountains and sand Abott and drank water from groundwater wells may like it so loving. And I hope the remains Sewa and Volkolorha People by nature and by the habits and traditions carries with it the fragrance of small oases of history and a solid go along with urbanization and civil rights. As for my paintings art, I cut many of the valleys and paths until you get the natural raw materials as well as gum trees, as well as stones from the slopes of the mountains in order to Ichkeul my paintings by the technical nature of all raw materials so that they are expressing a model of the oasis and its people and their customs and traditions. God has helped me in that he created many works even earn any great admiration of the Egyptians and foreigners from all over the world. It is also vBExperience I Ichkeul sculpture on the stone figures of important people and oases to be expressed in the model house Ziafti realize my dream and now that I have obtained a great admiration for all lovers of nature.
This little to acknowledge it and impart a quick look, which collected the proceeds from scientific about this spot (Bahariya Oasis) while working and going to the valleys and roads and mountains on foot on foot for the acquisition of natural raw materials such as sand, full colors and stones from the mountains and the gum trees to the drawing boards to the oasis, the old to remain a memory in the history of Egypt .........
Welcome to the oasis of art and dreams ...............( Bahariya Oasis Committee of God in the home)
For communication
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(II) - geographic location
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Bahariya Oasis is located in Western Sahara, Arab Republic of Egypt
And away from Cairo, 360 km south west of the Nile Valley and about 220 km away with the alignment of the country west of the Nile Valley, such as Matay and Samalut at a latitude 0''21''28%''0''28 longitude & North Tropic of Cancer.
It is the third time of configurations as described geological maps.
(III) - Description of natural
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This oasis is a low rectangle extending from the northeast to the southwest and the length along the low-about 130 km 'and a maximum width of the north side of this low about 45 km' and expand in the northeast it has significantly expanded and gradually narrows towards the southwest until it is finished south of the space, which is Part of the Oasis 'The area around the low (4000 km) four thousand square kilometers and in expanding the region is populated metropolitan' and this low four entrances and exits of vehicles are: -
(1) - from the north east the main road leading to Cairo, about 360 km.
(2) - Nabq coracoid and this way Mudug Sandstone was formerly the main entrance to the oasis before the paved road which passes next to the chirp coracoid from the north south of the Qattara Depression and ends on the outskirts of low oases, as well as Mount coracoid and then passes the road next to the tomb of Sidi | Muhammad Gaddafi, and people were Oasis formerly make this the tomb of Sheikh comfort station at the coming and going to and from Cairo, where the travel takes more than a week of heavy transport vehicles on this road.
(3) - Nabq Siwa in the north west and this meant to the oasis of Siwa, about 420 km and this goes towards the western direction informed Gharwd jacket and an oasis of Siwa and the lame even
Oasis Jacket (located low and Oasis jacket on the progress of 225 k m from the Bahariya Oasis, 162 KM east of the Oasis of Siwa and 55 KM to the east of the Oasis of the lame, one of the surrounded break important caravan, which is located on the road to Siwa _ Bahariya Oasis, as cut off convoys the distance between them and the Bahariya Oasis in 4 days and between the jacket and the lame in the leap from the stability of the sun Mushargaha to the west and the oasis is low on the body and led a long rosette Lake area of 12 km, the depth of this lake is not more than 14:00 either eye jacket rises the water level on the level of surface lake, a little oasis plantations neglected palm poor resorted to the Bedouin in the case of lack of food during a crossing of the oasis and the area of grassland, but no one inhabited only by going through convoys to rest first, and provide water II in the case of having, as the water-metal situation makes it unfit for drinking ...
(4) - peace in the south west and this meant the way to Farafra Oasis, about 200 km and this passes on the continent of Sheikh Abdullah and then mount the crystal and then the White Desert ......
For this low-eleven trail and a corridor to the beauty of the past and they
(1) - from the south east
* Path Manfalouty
* Path Aldchloty
* Path Roby
* Darb El Bahnasawy
They are paths leading to the Nile Valley and pass on Ahtaya acacia and chirp Eboumhariq routes and Rayyan north valley, watermelon stone and the cave south note that routes the four mentioned above be on the path to one while crossing Pegrd Eboumhariq, which has a length of about 375 km in the maximum display a 3 km, which starts from the eye sea sand as far north end on the outskirts of the Valley to the south and Eboumhariq Kharga oasis away from the Navy about 60 kilometers to the east is the tallest grade sand in the desert of Egypt in general note that Grude Western Sahara start from the northwest and ends in the south east.
(2) - and to the north
* Path cupola and ladle
* Path Seiwy
* Rummage thirteen
They Mwdien to El Alamein, Matrouh and Siwa and pass the valley of Abu Abosnan Algradik Qattara Depression, which lies about 320 km from Bahariya Oasis and gave a description of this area, not to my arrival there.
(3) - from the west
* Path Aletbinip
* Path of the continent of Gallstone
They Mwdien to Siwa Oasis and the jacket and eye function and Farafra.
Eye function) known to the Bedouin into misguided as guided her convoy was misguided in the desert and away its location from the Farafra Oasis 72 km M and Oasis Bahrain 173 km m which is strange really as it explodes in the top of a hill of sand is composed of 3 degrees with a rise in the first one meter on the surface of easily located in the north either second-class-oriented production by 3 m above the first layer and the third rise 5:00 p.m. on the second and stem the eye in a low place about two meters on the top of the hill, which is almost repression around him prevented him from tear and water, this eye is the finest water the desert and no eye on the bushes of palms and tamarind and jungle station, excellent for convoys traveling between the oasis of Farafra and Siwa through the paths of jacket _ lame they are of the wonders of the desert they really the headquarters for the convenience of convoys and tourism and to provide some water them if necessary, but no one reward them.
(4) - from the south west
* Trail corridor continent Sheikh Abdullah Mohammed
* White cave trail
They are doing to the mountain crystal cave and Beer White as the cave and Beer White is located in the northwest of the desert white and along the plateau Rev. Abu Saeed Al-Western set in the middle through the eye of stray and this is the second cave and white desert and the oasis of Farafra, where the mountain crystal away from the lower Bahariya Oasis 30 km, a the pearl of the desert where it emits light after the impact of sunlight at noon and in the moon nights, especially in winter, when the moon is vertically resurrected light on the crystal reflects the light of the north and south and the White Desert 60 km ......
Albawity .. ..
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City Center is the Bahariya Oasis was named Albawity proportion to the name of the Sheikh of the righteous to accept the oases of the ancient lands of the East and he stayed. He has suffered a lot until he reached the oasis and had the generosity and love of the people of the oases and settled and his name (Sidi Hassan Abu Ya'qub Yusuf ibn Yahya Albuwayty), one of the disciples of Imam Shafie his doctrine may God bless him 'and when he passed away of Imam Shafie year 819 AH blessings Sidi Albuwayty people Amama He was among the worshipers of the homes Ms. Karima (Nafisa may Allah be pleased with her). The stability of the land of Oasis request of her family buried them when dies did not fail the people of the oasis on the implementation of his will and has already set up a shrine to him was buried at the time of his death there Balbauwayty and close to the three eyes of their secrets Pmaihm they are a cure for every disease and belongs also their names to him what he was doing where they are : -
Water and wells and springs
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Eye Prayer
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Dubbed this name because he was wudoo including Sheikh Albawity and prayed beside her, because it close to him.
Appointed companion
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And named after Sheikh Albuwayty because he was sitting is the people of the oasis after receiving prayer tool for science and religion to the day you see people sitting Oasis after the Asr prayer in this place.
Appointed bucket eye and spears
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Already are medicine and healing every disease, even if neglected them, but remaining so far as to walk one night and by the way stray finds lantern lights the way for him and guide him even up to safety and their many blessings and secrets ........ Aynak Iain bucket and spears ........
Appointed Alepeshmo
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Roman is a term attributed to Sheikh Albuwayty means (00000000)
It is ironic that this hot Mjerian her eye on the boiling hot and cold stems from the earth from the same place and cold in its course, came from the south until it meets the hot and cold water in the course of one
That place is already Albawity oasis for hundreds of years old does not change Volklorh, customs and traditions, yet the old buildings where there are rocky hills, which was a natural oasis people exploit natural basis for their homes and taken them to the walls of the stones also.
There is this place the tomb of Shaykh (Ahmad Bin Ali) from the north.
It is the south west there is an area called the Western Wall, where the small hill called the continent blacksmiths because they are set up by some of the Accept from the west to Libya an ancient Vantsb name of that place to the title of this family blacksmiths, one of the oldest and largest families, the oasis and the area Albawity Indeed, so far, is the largest residence mismatch Sheikh (Sidi Mohammed Abbas) is a very Li Mohammed Abdullah. There is that area recently from the northern side resorts overlooking the orchards and palm trees directly from the old Oasis Hotel, which was established a few years this area has not changed from the folklore of this beautiful thing is our motto. There is also the oasis water springs from the eyes of groundwater and springs such as the ancient Roman male and listed their names
* Appointed Alepeshmo
* Appointed or snake
* Appointed Muftlp
Many of eyes Romanian old and modern groundwater wells of hot and cold.
After the study discovered that high ground water, sulfurous water treatment of some diseases.
There Trough Oasis sand dunes called chirp. Of which included his name, such as
* Grade debt
* Chirp horse
* Chirp or tippet
As well as the oasis there is a chain of mountains, and every mountain has a name, for example: -
Mount Hofuf
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This mountain is the tallest mountain oases Trough 12 kilometers long, and if you look a closer look you see snaking. It is apparent that the events with me his old Pharaohs. There are on this mountain paths of two-way and corridors, including the apparent meaning of them work there and there at the top of this mountain
Some of the stones heavy sand diabetes Iskhaddmunha apparent that the pharaohs in the making of their parentage .....
And you see there on the top of the mountain roads are paved from the top to the bottom of the visible than that of the easy workflow Abgal to flatten the stones mentioned earlier even Liato them to the place of their own making and see the many things that go on to explain the absence of the mind and pulls her thought and imagination and finally really a certificate of the Pharaohs and the ancient Egyptian.
oasesMount Pyramid
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And his name folks at Oasis cupola and ladle because they resemble cooking pots, three parts of this mountain fleece the first cupola and the eastern and western East scoop by scoop, and this configuration from God and not by humans.
Mount coracoid
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, Named so because it takes the form of a bird the crow, and this mountain is considered the main gate to the entrance of the oases of date by the way is paved as Zchrisabaka.
And the headquarters of this mountain in the northeast and on the outskirts of the entrance of low oases.
Mount Hammad
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Originally named Mount of Praise because convoys to express if they arrived to this area will praise the name of Allaah (God)
Maanoh because of the hardship in their travels.
Mount equitable
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And named this mountain of that name because it is located in the middle of the road between Albawity and space, therefore, called Mouncef.
Mount Giadp
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He called this name because it is different from the mountain, despite being the color black in the desert.
Mount Mtila Radwan
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This mountain, named so because the trail corridor as mentioned conducive to Grude jacket and Siwa. White and well appointed function and in the name of the original eye stray south of Farafra. Mark and has no known only to those knowledgeable ....
Mountain English
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It is situated Balbauwayty and called by that name, because this mountain, saw a lot of the suffering of the English up and down in the Second World War where she was their stay on this mountain black color steadfast and so far the remains of their buildings, it was called that name because he is a black box, which saw the course of things years of war and still tells us over the years about the events, which is formed by the configurations of factors, however, natural or man.
Effects.
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There are many of the Bahariya Oasis, the pharaonic, Coptic, and Romanian. Pharaonic it .......
Caves carved in the mountains, the bodies of the dead mummified in the coffins of pottery and stone valley, mummies, gold and Maqil of archaeologists that the oasis was inhabited (33) Thirty-three families in the era of the Pharaohs, Romans and were used as warehouses for grains, including wheat, had come to her arrivals request it. So far, and discovered by the Antiquities Authority, no more than (10%) ten percent and the rest in the ground and we conservers of him because he first civilizations of the world at large.
Heritage
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There are Roman ruins of buildings visible from and Coptic churches, it was a mud-brick and are found in the area of space and Mendicp. There are also oases ruins of buildings for the people of the old Oasis and that does not change the folklore arts of sculpture, drawing, art and customs and traditions. You see the buildings of each family and the shrine of sheikh mediates their buildings and see the ruins of buildings by Sqhob influenced by the gunshot wounds and of the ancients knew that it addressed the effects of the people of the oasis of Raiders of the target. There are also after the gates at the entrances to some of the areas and streets on the outside, which indicate that these places and streets were closed for fear of the invaders and intruders and bandits coming from the tracks and the mountains at night. There are also oases ancient mosques hundreds of years such as the Mosque Albawity and inclusive country and a mosque likeness and Elsafaip and inclusive angle Elsnose It was the first mosque raises his minaret of brick and this mosque is said to have been built at the hands of men (of the family Senussi) who Accept from the West, past and stayed here for several years and received a very generous and familiarity of the people of the oases and the intensity of their love
The people of the oases if one of them had a child called Senosy note that the oasis is famous generosity to all entrants, such as Mackerm by Sheikh and Sheikh Albuwayty obstacle
Many of the generosity of those who want oases best enjoyed where it is wanted by the evil out of them and so far there in the fields of the pulpit to the Eid prayer, as to condemn the people of Bahariya Oasis religion Islamic Blsttina and there is no other religions except arrivals from other countries There is no difference between Muslim and Christian and deals Oasis people with love and tolerance ...
Features singled out by God oases
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There are oases of marine black desert which is about rock formations and mountainous highlands, a black
Consists of the age of volcanoes. It is natural beauty you see white sand in the embrace of the black mountains. Highlands and ranges between 150 meters to 366 meters. There is a mountain rose mountain poses the problem of small pieces
And as if a rose and take her visitors already from the people of the oasis and different races. The generosity of the mountain and put a lot a lot every year.
There is also a mountain and the mystery of physical Rabbani, this mountain has a small door, if entered women who do not give birth took place about seven times the wrap sections give birth to the orders of God. If the newcomer wished him from the people of the oasis and anything outside of it and took some stones and Kara receive what he wants them on the orders of God and has many secrets and this is true from the mouths of veterans. There are white desert oasis, a beautiful landscape, a mountainous, white limestone composed by the nature of the problem Kalnkhalp, sentences, and the tent. Sahara and the white eye are green and the secret of long Idem. And there is a mountain crystal, mushrooms and whole landscapes. And there are oases Mnottaghat and tourist hotels Mjhzp fit for all arrivals from tourists and succession. Note that the oases and put on the tourist map by the competent authorities. And held for visitors from different races all necessary means of entertainment and comfort in order to be in safety and security, thanks so dear to our beloved Egypt.
Welcome to the oasis of my dreams ..............
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The mission of Brookhaven's Advanced Materials Group is to conduct research on materials in extreme environments for advanced energy systems. As part of that mission, the group utilizes synchrotron characterization techniques such as diffraction, spectroscopy, and imaging and is developing sample chambers for the in situ study of materials at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS). Group members Avishai Ofan and Simerjeet Gill are shown at beamline X14A at the NSLS.
Shelly Materials SD18M, a plant switcher for a stone company rest on what used to be the Erie Main in Middlebury, OH.
Uranium ( /jʊˈreɪniəm/ yew-ray-nee-əm) is a silvery-white metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table, with atomic number 92. It is assigned the chemical symbol U. A uranium atom has 92 protons and 92 electrons, of which 6 are valence electrons. The uranium nucleus binds between 141 and 146 neutrons, establishing six isotopes (U-233 through U-238), the most common of which are uranium-238 (146 neutrons) and uranium-235 (143 neutrons). All isotopes are unstable and uranium is weakly radioactive. Uranium has the second highest atomic weight of the naturally occurring elements, lighter only than plutonium-244. Its density is about 70% higher than that of lead, but not as dense as gold or tungsten. It occurs naturally in low concentrations of a few parts per million in soil, rock and water, and is commercially extracted from uranium-bearing minerals such as uraninite.
In nature, uranium is found as uranium-238 (99.2742%), uranium-235 (0.7204%), and a very small amount of uranium-234 (0.0054%). Uranium decays slowly by emitting an alpha particle. The half-life of uranium-238 is about 4.47 billion years and that of uranium-235 is 704 million years, making them useful in dating the age of the Earth.
Many contemporary uses of uranium exploit its unique nuclear properties. Uranium-235 has the distinction of being the only naturally occurring fissile isotope. Uranium-238 is fissionable by fast neutrons, and is fertile, meaning it can be transmuted to fissile plutonium-239 in a nuclear reactor. Another fissile isotope, uranium-233, can be produced from natural thorium and is also important in nuclear technology. While uranium-238 has a small probability for spontaneous fission or even induced fission with fast neutrons, uranium-235 and to a lesser degree uranium-233 have a much higher fission cross-section for slow neutrons. In sufficient concentration, these isotopes maintain a sustained nuclear chain reaction. This generates the heat in nuclear power reactors, and produces the fissile material for nuclear weapons. Depleted uranium (238U) is used in kinetic energy penetrators and armor plating.
Uranium is used as a colorant in uranium glass, producing orange-red to lemon yellow hues. It was also used for tinting and shading in early photography. The 1789 discovery of uranium in the mineral pitchblende is credited to Martin Heinrich Klaproth, who named the new element after the planet Uranus. Eugène-Melchior Péligot was the first person to isolate the metal and its radioactive properties were discovered in 1896 by Antoine Becquerel. Research by Enrico Fermi and others starting in 1934 led to its use as a fuel in the nuclear power industry and in Little Boy, the first nuclear weapon used in war. An ensuing arms race during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union produced tens of thousands of nuclear weapons that used uranium metal and uranium-derived plutonium-239. The security of those weapons and their fissile material following the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 is an ongoing concern for public health and safety. See Nuclear proliferation.
I went up Yew Tree Road and got some new shots of Highbury Hall.
It is now Highbury Conferences & Banqueting.
At 2 Yew Tree Road.
A Grade II* Listed Building
Listing Text
SF 08 SE 12/75
Moseley B13, YEW TREE ROAD, Highbury Hall
(formerly listed as Highbury Moor Green)
21.01.70
II
Dated 1879 by J H Chamberlain for the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain MP whose
house it was from 1880 to 1914. Extensive modern additions have been made
since the house became in 1915 a hospital and later an old peoples' home.
Red brick with stone dressings and some applied timberwork in the gables;
tiled roof with richly carved brick eaves cornice. Mostly of two storeys plus
attic, but partly of three storeys. Asymmetrical composition essentially
L-shaped in plan. Original panelled double doors with stained glass tympanum
within a richly moulded stone arch on two orders of pink marble shafts with
gable above. Left and right gabled pilasters. Above, a 2-light window
with richly carved tympanum and gable. The windows pointed and mostly
of plate tracery type. Much use everywhere of decorative materials and
carved, especially cut brick, decoration. The right hand return is the
garden facade, again asymmetrical but essentially a long 2-storeyed wing
with two 2-storeyed bay windows and a 3-storeyed wing with a 3-storeyed
stone canted bay window in it.
INTERIOR of great richness. The Great
Hall, with floor of variegated woods, rises through two storeys to a timber
and glazed roof. At one end of the room, the staircase rises behind the
first floor balcony to appear through an arcade of five arches with pink marble
shafts set in a tile diapered wall at the other end, a richly marbled
fireplace with carved panels and tiles and a reredos like mirror with crocketted
gables. Walls with pink marble pilasters, panelled dado, tiles and carved
foliage panels. Gilt gesso to the underside of the balcony, which has
geometrical railings. Huge central brass gasolier. Off this hall, the
principal rooms all with Gothic panelled doors with good brass furniture,
elaborate fireplaces with coloured marbles, carved foliage panels, tiles
and rich ceiling cornices. The former Billiard Room is L-shaped with an
arcade of three bays with marble piers and 2-centred arches. Panelled dado;
richly coffered wooden ceiling with painted foliage, inlay work and geometrical
panelling; fireplace with brass surround, pink and white marbles and foilage
carving.
Listing NGR: SP0682082690
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
13 Oct 2022 . Secretaría de Cultura . Conservatorio ”Análisis sobre la materialidad en la obra de José Clemente Orozco" en Museo Cabañas.
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Hello Welcome to the land of magic and fantasy.
The land of the cradle of religions and the first civilizations.
The land of Egypt
Today you go to a spot of Bhalla diligent in seeking described by you and by the private Mattmiz from other spots.
It is a land of green in the inner Western Desert of Egypt it
. Bahariya Oasis.
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Dear reader
I know you myself .......
Name / Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed Abbas
Area of work / artist automorphic revelation of the nature
Place of Birth / Albawity Bahariya Oasis Giza, Egypt
Artist automorphic inspiring talent drew inspiration from nature. God has blessed me with great artistic talent from an early age and that helped me that I was born in the Oasis and I lived and grew up under the skies and on the soil and between the folds of mountains and sand Abott and drank water from groundwater wells may like it so loving. And I hope the remains Sewa and Volkolorha People by nature and by the habits and traditions carries with it the fragrance of small oases of history and a solid go along with urbanization and civil rights. As for my paintings art, I cut many of the valleys and paths until you get the natural raw materials as well as gum trees, as well as stones from the slopes of the mountains in order to Ichkeul my paintings by the technical nature of all raw materials so that they are expressing a model of the oasis and its people and their customs and traditions. God has helped me in that he created many works even earn any great admiration of the Egyptians and foreigners from all over the world. It is also vBExperience I Ichkeul sculpture on the stone figures of important people and oases to be expressed in the model house Ziafti realize my dream and now that I have obtained a great admiration for all lovers of nature.
This little to acknowledge it and impart a quick look, which collected the proceeds from scientific about this spot (Bahariya Oasis) while working and going to the valleys and roads and mountains on foot on foot for the acquisition of natural raw materials such as sand, full colors and stones from the mountains and the gum trees to the drawing boards to the oasis, the old to remain a memory in the history of Egypt .........
Welcome to the oasis of art and dreams ...............( Bahariya Oasis Committee of God in the home)
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(II) - geographic location
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Bahariya Oasis is located in Western Sahara, Arab Republic of Egypt
And away from Cairo, 360 km south west of the Nile Valley and about 220 km away with the alignment of the country west of the Nile Valley, such as Matay and Samalut at a latitude 0''21''28%''0''28 longitude & North Tropic of Cancer.
It is the third time of configurations as described geological maps.
(III) - Description of natural
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This oasis is a low rectangle extending from the northeast to the southwest and the length along the low-about 130 km 'and a maximum width of the north side of this low about 45 km' and expand in the northeast it has significantly expanded and gradually narrows towards the southwest until it is finished south of the space, which is Part of the Oasis 'The area around the low (4000 km) four thousand square kilometers and in expanding the region is populated metropolitan' and this low four entrances and exits of vehicles are: -
(1) - from the north east the main road leading to Cairo, about 360 km.
(2) - Nabq coracoid and this way Mudug Sandstone was formerly the main entrance to the oasis before the paved road which passes next to the chirp coracoid from the north south of the Qattara Depression and ends on the outskirts of low oases, as well as Mount coracoid and then passes the road next to the tomb of Sidi | Muhammad Gaddafi, and people were Oasis formerly make this the tomb of Sheikh comfort station at the coming and going to and from Cairo, where the travel takes more than a week of heavy transport vehicles on this road.
(3) - Nabq Siwa in the north west and this meant to the oasis of Siwa, about 420 km and this goes towards the western direction informed Gharwd jacket and an oasis of Siwa and the lame even
Oasis Jacket (located low and Oasis jacket on the progress of 225 k m from the Bahariya Oasis, 162 KM east of the Oasis of Siwa and 55 KM to the east of the Oasis of the lame, one of the surrounded break important caravan, which is located on the road to Siwa _ Bahariya Oasis, as cut off convoys the distance between them and the Bahariya Oasis in 4 days and between the jacket and the lame in the leap from the stability of the sun Mushargaha to the west and the oasis is low on the body and led a long rosette Lake area of 12 km, the depth of this lake is not more than 14:00 either eye jacket rises the water level on the level of surface lake, a little oasis plantations neglected palm poor resorted to the Bedouin in the case of lack of food during a crossing of the oasis and the area of grassland, but no one inhabited only by going through convoys to rest first, and provide water II in the case of having, as the water-metal situation makes it unfit for drinking ...
(4) - peace in the south west and this meant the way to Farafra Oasis, about 200 km and this passes on the continent of Sheikh Abdullah and then mount the crystal and then the White Desert ......
For this low-eleven trail and a corridor to the beauty of the past and they
(1) - from the south east
* Path Manfalouty
* Path Aldchloty
* Path Roby
* Darb El Bahnasawy
They are paths leading to the Nile Valley and pass on Ahtaya acacia and chirp Eboumhariq routes and Rayyan north valley, watermelon stone and the cave south note that routes the four mentioned above be on the path to one while crossing Pegrd Eboumhariq, which has a length of about 375 km in the maximum display a 3 km, which starts from the eye sea sand as far north end on the outskirts of the Valley to the south and Eboumhariq Kharga oasis away from the Navy about 60 kilometers to the east is the tallest grade sand in the desert of Egypt in general note that Grude Western Sahara start from the northwest and ends in the south east.
(2) - and to the north
* Path cupola and ladle
* Path Seiwy
* Rummage thirteen
They Mwdien to El Alamein, Matrouh and Siwa and pass the valley of Abu Abosnan Algradik Qattara Depression, which lies about 320 km from Bahariya Oasis and gave a description of this area, not to my arrival there.
(3) - from the west
* Path Aletbinip
* Path of the continent of Gallstone
They Mwdien to Siwa Oasis and the jacket and eye function and Farafra.
Eye function) known to the Bedouin into misguided as guided her convoy was misguided in the desert and away its location from the Farafra Oasis 72 km M and Oasis Bahrain 173 km m which is strange really as it explodes in the top of a hill of sand is composed of 3 degrees with a rise in the first one meter on the surface of easily located in the north either second-class-oriented production by 3 m above the first layer and the third rise 5:00 p.m. on the second and stem the eye in a low place about two meters on the top of the hill, which is almost repression around him prevented him from tear and water, this eye is the finest water the desert and no eye on the bushes of palms and tamarind and jungle station, excellent for convoys traveling between the oasis of Farafra and Siwa through the paths of jacket _ lame they are of the wonders of the desert they really the headquarters for the convenience of convoys and tourism and to provide some water them if necessary, but no one reward them.
(4) - from the south west
* Trail corridor continent Sheikh Abdullah Mohammed
* White cave trail
They are doing to the mountain crystal cave and Beer White as the cave and Beer White is located in the northwest of the desert white and along the plateau Rev. Abu Saeed Al-Western set in the middle through the eye of stray and this is the second cave and white desert and the oasis of Farafra, where the mountain crystal away from the lower Bahariya Oasis 30 km, a the pearl of the desert where it emits light after the impact of sunlight at noon and in the moon nights, especially in winter, when the moon is vertically resurrected light on the crystal reflects the light of the north and south and the White Desert 60 km ......
Albawity .. ..
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City Center is the Bahariya Oasis was named Albawity proportion to the name of the Sheikh of the righteous to accept the oases of the ancient lands of the East and he stayed. He has suffered a lot until he reached the oasis and had the generosity and love of the people of the oases and settled and his name (Sidi Hassan Abu Ya'qub Yusuf ibn Yahya Albuwayty), one of the disciples of Imam Shafie his doctrine may God bless him 'and when he passed away of Imam Shafie year 819 AH blessings Sidi Albuwayty people Amama He was among the worshipers of the homes Ms. Karima (Nafisa may Allah be pleased with her). The stability of the land of Oasis request of her family buried them when dies did not fail the people of the oasis on the implementation of his will and has already set up a shrine to him was buried at the time of his death there Balbauwayty and close to the three eyes of their secrets Pmaihm they are a cure for every disease and belongs also their names to him what he was doing where they are : -
Water and wells and springs
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Eye Prayer
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Dubbed this name because he was wudoo including Sheikh Albawity and prayed beside her, because it close to him.
Appointed companion
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And named after Sheikh Albuwayty because he was sitting is the people of the oasis after receiving prayer tool for science and religion to the day you see people sitting Oasis after the Asr prayer in this place.
Appointed bucket eye and spears
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Already are medicine and healing every disease, even if neglected them, but remaining so far as to walk one night and by the way stray finds lantern lights the way for him and guide him even up to safety and their many blessings and secrets ........ Aynak Iain bucket and spears ........
Appointed Alepeshmo
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Roman is a term attributed to Sheikh Albuwayty means (00000000)
It is ironic that this hot Mjerian her eye on the boiling hot and cold stems from the earth from the same place and cold in its course, came from the south until it meets the hot and cold water in the course of one
That place is already Albawity oasis for hundreds of years old does not change Volklorh, customs and traditions, yet the old buildings where there are rocky hills, which was a natural oasis people exploit natural basis for their homes and taken them to the walls of the stones also.
There is this place the tomb of Shaykh (Ahmad Bin Ali) from the north.
It is the south west there is an area called the Western Wall, where the small hill called the continent blacksmiths because they are set up by some of the Accept from the west to Libya an ancient Vantsb name of that place to the title of this family blacksmiths, one of the oldest and largest families, the oasis and the area Albawity Indeed, so far, is the largest residence mismatch Sheikh (Sidi Mohammed Abbas) is a very Li Mohammed Abdullah. There is that area recently from the northern side resorts overlooking the orchards and palm trees directly from the old Oasis Hotel, which was established a few years this area has not changed from the folklore of this beautiful thing is our motto. There is also the oasis water springs from the eyes of groundwater and springs such as the ancient Roman male and listed their names
* Appointed Alepeshmo
* Appointed or snake
* Appointed Muftlp
Many of eyes Romanian old and modern groundwater wells of hot and cold.
After the study discovered that high ground water, sulfurous water treatment of some diseases.
There Trough Oasis sand dunes called chirp. Of which included his name, such as
* Grade debt
* Chirp horse
* Chirp or tippet
As well as the oasis there is a chain of mountains, and every mountain has a name, for example: -
Mount Hofuf
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This mountain is the tallest mountain oases Trough 12 kilometers long, and if you look a closer look you see snaking. It is apparent that the events with me his old Pharaohs. There are on this mountain paths of two-way and corridors, including the apparent meaning of them work there and there at the top of this mountain
Some of the stones heavy sand diabetes Iskhaddmunha apparent that the pharaohs in the making of their parentage .....
And you see there on the top of the mountain roads are paved from the top to the bottom of the visible than that of the easy workflow Abgal to flatten the stones mentioned earlier even Liato them to the place of their own making and see the many things that go on to explain the absence of the mind and pulls her thought and imagination and finally really a certificate of the Pharaohs and the ancient Egyptian.
oasesMount Pyramid
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And his name folks at Oasis cupola and ladle because they resemble cooking pots, three parts of this mountain fleece the first cupola and the eastern and western East scoop by scoop, and this configuration from God and not by humans.
Mount coracoid
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, Named so because it takes the form of a bird the crow, and this mountain is considered the main gate to the entrance of the oases of date by the way is paved as Zchrisabaka.
And the headquarters of this mountain in the northeast and on the outskirts of the entrance of low oases.
Mount Hammad
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Originally named Mount of Praise because convoys to express if they arrived to this area will praise the name of Allaah (God)
Maanoh because of the hardship in their travels.
Mount equitable
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And named this mountain of that name because it is located in the middle of the road between Albawity and space, therefore, called Mouncef.
Mount Giadp
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He called this name because it is different from the mountain, despite being the color black in the desert.
Mount Mtila Radwan
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This mountain, named so because the trail corridor as mentioned conducive to Grude jacket and Siwa. White and well appointed function and in the name of the original eye stray south of Farafra. Mark and has no known only to those knowledgeable ....
Mountain English
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It is situated Balbauwayty and called by that name, because this mountain, saw a lot of the suffering of the English up and down in the Second World War where she was their stay on this mountain black color steadfast and so far the remains of their buildings, it was called that name because he is a black box, which saw the course of things years of war and still tells us over the years about the events, which is formed by the configurations of factors, however, natural or man.
Effects.
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There are many of the Bahariya Oasis, the pharaonic, Coptic, and Romanian. Pharaonic it .......
Caves carved in the mountains, the bodies of the dead mummified in the coffins of pottery and stone valley, mummies, gold and Maqil of archaeologists that the oasis was inhabited (33) Thirty-three families in the era of the Pharaohs, Romans and were used as warehouses for grains, including wheat, had come to her arrivals request it. So far, and discovered by the Antiquities Authority, no more than (10%) ten percent and the rest in the ground and we conservers of him because he first civilizations of the world at large.
Heritage
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There are Roman ruins of buildings visible from and Coptic churches, it was a mud-brick and are found in the area of space and Mendicp. There are also oases ruins of buildings for the people of the old Oasis and that does not change the folklore arts of sculpture, drawing, art and customs and traditions. You see the buildings of each family and the shrine of sheikh mediates their buildings and see the ruins of buildings by Sqhob influenced by the gunshot wounds and of the ancients knew that it addressed the effects of the people of the oasis of Raiders of the target. There are also after the gates at the entrances to some of the areas and streets on the outside, which indicate that these places and streets were closed for fear of the invaders and intruders and bandits coming from the tracks and the mountains at night. There are also oases ancient mosques hundreds of years such as the Mosque Albawity and inclusive country and a mosque likeness and Elsafaip and inclusive angle Elsnose It was the first mosque raises his minaret of brick and this mosque is said to have been built at the hands of men (of the family Senussi) who Accept from the West, past and stayed here for several years and received a very generous and familiarity of the people of the oases and the intensity of their love
The people of the oases if one of them had a child called Senosy note that the oasis is famous generosity to all entrants, such as Mackerm by Sheikh and Sheikh Albuwayty obstacle
Many of the generosity of those who want oases best enjoyed where it is wanted by the evil out of them and so far there in the fields of the pulpit to the Eid prayer, as to condemn the people of Bahariya Oasis religion Islamic Blsttina and there is no other religions except arrivals from other countries There is no difference between Muslim and Christian and deals Oasis people with love and tolerance ...
Features singled out by God oases
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There are oases of marine black desert which is about rock formations and mountainous highlands, a black
Consists of the age of volcanoes. It is natural beauty you see white sand in the embrace of the black mountains. Highlands and ranges between 150 meters to 366 meters. There is a mountain rose mountain poses the problem of small pieces
And as if a rose and take her visitors already from the people of the oasis and different races. The generosity of the mountain and put a lot a lot every year.
There is also a mountain and the mystery of physical Rabbani, this mountain has a small door, if entered women who do not give birth took place about seven times the wrap sections give birth to the orders of God. If the newcomer wished him from the people of the oasis and anything outside of it and took some stones and Kara receive what he wants them on the orders of God and has many secrets and this is true from the mouths of veterans. There are white desert oasis, a beautiful landscape, a mountainous, white limestone composed by the nature of the problem Kalnkhalp, sentences, and the tent. Sahara and the white eye are green and the secret of long Idem. And there is a mountain crystal, mushrooms and whole landscapes. And there are oases Mnottaghat and tourist hotels Mjhzp fit for all arrivals from tourists and succession. Note that the oases and put on the tourist map by the competent authorities. And held for visitors from different races all necessary means of entertainment and comfort in order to be in safety and security, thanks so dear to our beloved Egypt.
Welcome to the oasis of my dreams ..............
Over the last week, a vacant block at the end of the street where I work has sprouted some wonderful old vehicles - after manfully resisting the urge for a few days, I succumbed this afternoon, and headed forth, camera in hand...
First up - a trio of early Holdens - two FX's, and an FJ.
Ace Material Placing Telebelt TB 130 Concrete conveyor truck at Putzmeister in Sturtevant, Wisconsin.
Peter Blau works with instruments to determine tribological properties of battery components at the High Temperature Materials Laboratory
No matter what your budget is, Georgia Portable Buildings is the right choice to make when you are looking for the best guard house material to construct your own modular guard house as our products are made using premium quality to fit your budget.
A photo project I have been working on. I was always interested in what recyclable materials people dumped into the environment. While most materials are plastics, metals and glass are also common.
A text In English:
The Swallow-tailed Hummingbird, so called from its forked tail, is one of the largest hummingbirds in cities and gardens, but it also occurs in gallery forests, bushy pastures and edges of woods or coppices. It is green, except for the blue head and upper breast, turning to iridescent purple according to the direction of light; it has dark wings and a heavy black bill. The tail is dark blue with the external feathers longer than central ones. It is very aggressive and attacks other hummingbirds that dare to visit flowers in certain trees. Where the flowers are available for many months, the individual is fiercely territorial, but generally needs to search soon for other flowering plants. It flies to catch small insets on or under leaves in the gallery forests or woodlands. The female builds a small cup-shaped nest saddled on a branch, not far from the main trunk in the shade of leaves. Perched on favorite branches, the male can utter long but low chirps. Once in a while, it interrupts these singing sessions to feed, and flies back for more song or to clean the plumage. They occur from the Guianas and Amazon River to Paraguay and southeastern Peru. They can get along with partially deforested zones, but may disappear with intensive agriculture and with the development of treeless cities.
Um texto em Português:
Beija-flor Tesoura (Eupetomena macroura), fotografado em Brasília-DF, Brasil.
Eupetomena macroura (Gmelin, 1788): tesoura; swallow-tailed hummingbird c.
Destaca-se das espécies estudadas pelo maior porte e pela cauda comprida e bifurcada, o que lhe valeu o nome popular. Como é comum entre os beija-flores, é uma espécie agressiva que disputa com outras o seu território e fontes de alimento.
Nidificação: o ninho, em forma de tigela, é assentado numa forquilha de arbusto ou árvores, a cerca de 2 a 3 m do solo. O material utilizado na construção é composto por fibras vegetais incluindo painas, musgos e liquens, aderidos externamente com teias de aranhas.
Hábitat: capoeiras, cerrados, borda de matas e jardins.
Tamanho: 17,0 cm
A SEGUIR UM TEXTO ENCONTRADO E REPRODUZIDO DO ENDEREÇO nationalgeographic.abril.uol.com.br/ng/edicoes/83/reporta... DA NATIONAL GEOGRAFIC:
Prodígios da micro-engenharia, os beija-flores são os campeões dos pesos-leves entre as aves
Uma faísca safira, um frêmito de asas, e o minúsculo pássaro - ou seria um inseto? - some como miragem fugaz. Reaparece instantes depois, agora num ângulo melhor. É pássaro mesmo, um dervixe do tamanho do meu polegar com asas que batem 80 vertiginosas vezes por segundo, produzindo um zumbido quase inaudível. As penas da cauda, à guisa de leme, delicadamente direcionam o vôo em três direções. Ele fita a trombeta de uma vistosa flor alaranjada e do bico fino como agulha projeta uma língua delgada feito linha. Um raio de Sol ricocheteia de suas penas iridescentes. A cor refletida deslumbra como uma pedra preciosa contra uma janela ensolarada. Não admira que os beija-flores sejam tão queridos e que tanta gente já tenha tropeçado ao tentar descrevê-los. Nem mesmo circunspectos cientistas resistem a termos como "belo", "magnífico", "exótico".
Surpresa maior é o fato de o aparentemente frágil beija-flor ser uma das mais resistentes criaturas do reino animal. Cerca de 330 espécies prosperam em ambientes diversos, muitos deles brutais: do Alasca à Argentina, do deserto do Arizona à costa de Nova Scotia, da Amazônia à linha nevada acima dos 4,5 mil metros nos Andes (misteriosamente, essas aves só são encontradas no Novo Mundo).
"Eles vivem no limite do que é possível aos vertebrados, e com maestria", diz Karl Schuchmann, ornitólogo do Instituto Zoológico Alexander Koenig e do Fundo Brehm, na Alemanha. Schuchmann ouviu falar de um beija-flor que viveu 17 anos em cativeiro. "Imagine a resistência de um organismo de 5 ou 6 gramas para viver tanto tempo!", diz ele espantado. Em média, o minúsculo coração de um beija-flor bate cerca de 500 vezes por minuto (em repouso!). Assim, o desse pequeno cativo teria batido meio bilhão de vezes, quase o dobro do total de uma pessoa de 70 anos.
Mas esses passarinhos são duráveis apenas em vida. Quando morrem, seus ossos delicados e ocos quase nunca se fossilizam. Daí o assombro causado pela recente descoberta de um amontoado de fósseis de aves que talvez inclua um beija-flor ancestral de 30 milhões de anos. Como os beija-flores modernos, os espécimes fósseis tinham o bico longo e fino e os ossos superiores das asas mais curtos, terminando em uma saliência arredondada que talvez lhes permitisse fazer a rotação na articulação do ombro e parar no ar.
A outra surpresa foi o local do achado: no sul da Alemanha, longe do território dos beija-flores atuais. Para alguns cientistas, essa descoberta mostra que já existiram beija-flores fora das Américas, mas se extinguiram. Ou quem sabe os fósseis não fossem de beija-flor. Os céticos, entre eles Schuchmann, afirmam que muitas vezes, ao longo da evolução, outros grupos de aves adquiriram características semelhantes às do beija-flor. Os verdadeiros beija-flores, diz Schuchmann, evoluíram nas florestas do leste do Brasil, onde competiam com insetos pelo néctar das flores.
"O Brasil foi o laboratório do protótipo", diz o ornitólogo. "E o modelo funcionou." O beija-flor tornou-se a obra-prima da microengenharia da natureza. Aperfeiçoou sua habilidade de parar no ar há dezenas de milhões de anos para competir por parte das flores do Novo Mundo.
"Eles são uma ponte entre o mundo das aves e o dos insetos", diz Doug Altshuler, da Universidade da Califórnia em Riverside. Altshuler, que estuda o vôo dos beija-flores, examinou os movimentos das asas do pássaro. Observou que, nele, os impulsos elétricos propulsores dos músculos das asas lembram mais os dos insetos que os das aves. Talvez por isso o beija-flor produza tanta energia por batida de asas: mais, por unidade de massa, que qualquer outro vertebrado. Altshuler também analisou os trajetos neurais do beija-flor, que funcionam com a mesma vertiginosa velocidade encontrada nas aves mais ágeis, como seu primo mais próximo, o andorinhão. "São incríveis; uns pequenos Frankesteins", compara.
Certamente eles sabem intimidar: grama por grama, talvez sejam os maiores confrontadores da natureza. "O vocabulário do beija-flor deve ser 100% composto de palavrões", graceja Sheri Williamson, naturalista do Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory. A agressão do beija-flor nasce de ferozes instintos territoriais moldados à necessidade de sugar néctar a cada poucos minutos. Os beija-flores competem desafiando e ameaçando uns aos outros. Postam-se face a face no ar, rodopiam, mergulham na direção da grama e voam de ré, em danças de dominância que terminam tão subitamente quanto começam.
O melhor lugar para vermos tais batalhas é nas montanhas, especialmente no Equador, em que ricos ecossistemas se apresentam em suas várias altitudes. Sheri supõe que o sentido norte-sul das cordilheiras americanas também crie rotas favoráveis à migração para onde haja constante suprimento de flores. O que contrasta, diz ela, com as barreiras naturais que se estendem de leste a oeste na África, como o Saara e o Mediterrâneo.
Algumas espécies de beija-flor, porém, adaptaram-se a atravessar vastidões planas, onde o alimento é escasso. Antes de sua intrépida migração da primavera para os Estados Unidos e o Canadá, os beija-flores-de-garganta-vermelha reúnem-se no México e empanturram-se de insetos e néctar. Armazenam gordura e duplicam de peso em uma semana. Em seguida, atravessam o golfo do México, voando 800 quilômetros sem escalas por 20 horas, até a costa distante.
A região próxima à linha do equador é um reino de beija-flores. Quem sai do aeroporto de Quito, no Equador, pode ser logo saudado por um cintilante beija-flor-violeta, com pintura de guerra de manchas púrpura iridescentes nos lados da face. A leste da cidade, nas cabeceiras da bacia Amazônica, o beija-flor-bico-de-espada esvoaça na mata portando o bico mais longo de todas as aves em proporção a seu tamanho: mais de metade do comprimento total do animal. Nas encostas do Cotopaxi, um vulcão ao sul de Quito, o beija-flor-do-chimborazo foi avistado acima dos 4,5 mil metros. Ali ele passa a noite entorpecido em cavernas, pois desacelera seu ritmo metabólico o suficiente para não morrer de fome antes de amanhecer. Mais tarde, aquecido pelo Sol, ele recomeça a se alimentar.
"Quem estuda beija-flores fica irremediavelmente enfeitiçado", diz Sheri Williamson. "São criaturinhas sedutoras. Tentei resistir, mas agora tenho sangue de beija-flor correndo nas veias."
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