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I CASE'd a card I received from my friend Suna. I copied her idea and design using the washi tape. Use a little Peony Scroll from Altenew for my flower and added a couple of dark purple leaves.
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The Sea Rabbit (Monafluffchus americanus) of Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York – This unique sea-dwelling rabbit, which is actually a close relative of the sea lion, was officially discovered and investigated by Henry Hudson when he first visited this land to colonize the area by order of the Dutch government. It was named New Amsterdam -- today’s New York City. This island was named after he saw the beach covered with strange swimming wild rabbits. The word “Coney Island” means “wild rabbit island” in Dutch (originally Conyne Eylandt, or Konijneneiland in modern Dutch spelling). Sea rabbits were also referred mermaid rabbit, merrabbit, rabbit fish or seal rabbit in the natural history documents in the 17th century. The current conservation status, or risk of extinction, of the sea rabbit is Extinct in the Wild.
This website features two species of sea rabbits, which have been taken care of by Dr. Takeshi Yamada (山田武司) at the Coney Island Sea Rabbit Repopulation Center, which is a part of the Marine biology department of the Coney Island University in Brooklyn, New York. They are – Coney Island Sea Rabbit (Monafluffchus americanus) called “Seara” and Coney Island Tiger-striped Sea Rabbit (Monafluffchus konjinicus) called “Stripes”.
The photographs and videos featured in this website chronicle adventures of the Coney Island sea rabbits and the world as seen by them. This article also documented efforts of Dr. Takeshi Yamada for bringing back the nearly extinct sea rabbits to Coney Island in the City of New York and beyond. Dr. Yamada produced a series of public lectures, workshops, original public live interactive fine art performances and fine art exhibitions about sea rabbits at a variety of occasions and institutions in the City of New York and beyond. Dr. Yamada is an internationally active educator, book author, wildlife conservationist and high profile artist, who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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Sea Rabbit
Other Common Names: Coney Island Sea Rabbit, Beach Rabbit, Seal Rabbit, mer-rabbit, merrabbit, Atlantic Sea Rabbit.
Latin Name: Monafluffchus americanus
Origin: Atlantic coast of the United States
Description of the specimen: In the early 17th century’s European fur craze drove the fleet of Dutch ships to the eastern costal area of America. Then Holland was the center of the world just like the Italy was in the previous century. New York City was once called New Amsterdam when Dutch merchants landed and established colonies. Among them, Henry Hudson is probably the most recognized individual in the history of New York City today. “This small island is inhabited by two major creatures which we do not have in our homeland. The one creature is a large arthropod made of three body segments: the frontal segment resembles a horseshoe, the middle segment resembles a spiny crab and its tail resembles a sharp sword. Although they gather beaches here in great numbers, they are not edible due to their extremely offensive odor. Another creature which is abundant here, has the head of wild rabbit. This animal of great swimming ability has frontal legs resemble the webbed feet of a duck. The bottom half of the body resembles that of a seal. This docile rabbit of the sea is easy to catch as it does not fear people. The larger male sea rabbits control harems of 20 to 25 females. The meat of the sea rabbit is very tender and tasty.” This is what Hadson wrote in his personal journal in 1609 about the horseshoe crab and the sea rabbit in today’s Coney Island area of Brooklyn, New York. Sadly, just like the Dodo bird and the Thylacine, the sea rabbit was driven to extinction by the European settlers’ greed. When Dutch merchants and traders arrived here, sea rabbits were one of the first animals they hunted down to bring their furs to homeland to satisfy the fur craze of the time. To increase the shipment volume of furs of sea rabbit and beavers from New Amsterdam, Dutch merchants also started using wampum (beads made of special clam shells) as the first official currency of this country.
At the North Eastern shores of the United States, two species of sea rabbits were commonly found. They are Coney Island Sea Rabbit (Monafluffchus americanus) and Coney Island Tiger-striped Sea Rabbit (Monafluffchus konjinicus). Sadly, due to their over harvesting in the previous centuries, their conservation status became “Extinct in the Wild” (ET) in the Red List Endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Currently, these sea rabbits are only found at breeding centers at selected zoos and universities such as Coney Island Aquarium and Coney Island University in Brooklyn, New York. The one shown in this photograph was named "Seara" and has been cared by Dr. Takeshi Yamada at Coney Island University.
The sea rabbit is one of the families of the Pinniped order. Pinnipeds (from Latin penna = flat and pes/pedis = foot) are sea-mammals: they are homeothermic (i.e having high and regulated inner temperature), lung-breathing (i.e dependant on atmospheric oxygen) animals having come back to semi aquatic life. As soon as they arrive ashore, females are caught by the nearest adult male. Males can maintain harems of about 20 females on average. Several hours to several days after arriving ashore, pregnant females give birth to eight to ten pups with a dark brown fur. As soon as birth occurs, the mother’s special smell and calls help her pups bond specifically to her. The mother stays ashore with her pup for about one week during which the pup gains weight. During the first week spent with her newborn, the mother becomes receptive. She will be impregnated by the bull, which control the harem. Implantation of the embryo will occur 3 months later, in March-April. During the reproductive period, the best males copulate with several tens females. To do so, males have to stay ashore without feeding in order to keep their territory and their harem. In mid-January, when the last females have been fecundated, males leave at sea to feed. Some of them will come back later in March-April for the moult. The other ones will stay at sea and will come back on Coney Island only in next November. After fecundation, the mother goes at sea for her first meal. At sea, mothers feed on clams, crabs, shrimps, fish (herring, anchovy, Pollock, capelin etc.) and squids. When she is back, the mother recovers her pups at the beach she left them. Suckling occurs after auditive and olfactory recognition had occured. In March-April, the dark brown fur is totally replaced by an adult-like light brownish grey fur during the moult that lasts 1-2 months. This new fur is composed by 2 layers. Externally, the guard fur is composed by flat hairs that recover themselves when wet. By doing so, they make a water-proof barrier for the under fur. The underfur retains air when the seal is dry. Because of isolating properties of the air, the underfur is the insulating system of the fur. In March-April, the fur of adults is partially replaced. First reproduction occurs at 1-yr old in females. Males are physiologically matures at 1 year old but socially matures at +2 years old.
NOTE: The name of Coney Island is commonly thought to be derived from the Dutch Konijn Eylandt or Rabbit Island as apparently the 17th century European settlers noted many rabbits running amuck on the island.
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For any questions, please contact Dr. Takeshi Yamada. His email address is posted in the chapter page (the last page or the first page).
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New Mexico Museum of Space History
This scene from the highly popular 1995 film, Apollo 13, takes place moments after an oxygen tank exploded in the Service Module. The Guidance, Navigation, and Control ("GNC") Flight Controller warns Flight Director Gene Kranz (played by Ed Harris) that the spacecraft may rotate into “gimbal lock.”
"Gimbal lock" would align two or more gyroscope gimbals and then flip them out of position. The crew would then have to perform the difficult task of realigning the gyro platform using the space sextant, telescope, and computer keyboard you see in this display case. Of note, portions of this unit actually flew on the dramatic Apollo 13 mission in 1970.
Portions of this Primary Guidance, Navigation, and Control System (PGNCS) (pronounced "pings") unit also flew on Apollo 14, 15, 16, as well the three manned Skylab space station missions. The telescope and sextant you can actually look through were used by the astronauts traveling to the Moon on Apollo 14 and 16.
Because of a recall of beryllium metals throughout the government in the 1970s and 1980s for critical defense needs, the existence of a complete Apollo PGNCS, like this, is rare. This is one of only two complete units known to exist. The other is at the Draper Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
hahaha a post it for the pinap group,
for a huge post it collage to be sold for charity!! wooop!!!
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JODIE FOSTER!
(Picture of Jodie Foster is from Movie
THE BRAVE ONE. Reallly similar to the storyline of Deathnote. watch it!)
Then & now? Note the GMC Yukon in the background. Today families have the choice of Four Wheel Drive in their wagons.
It was my first time doing a photography related presentation. A little nervous but made it though alive...
Alpine wildflowers are among nature's greatest anomalies. They grow in some of the planet's harshest environments, though they appear as fragile as rice paper and are extremely vulnerable to hikers' boots. These plants survive in the harsh alpine climate through adaptations like diminutive size, which keeps the plants' buds and stems below the worst weather and reduces their food needs. Some grow no more than an inch tall. Those that grow in dense cushions suffer less abuse from the wind. The dark leaves of plants like diapensia absorb heat from the sun efficiently. Many sedges and grasses are pliable enough to bend under strong winds, and produce their buds underground or near the ground. Some have adapted to photosynthesizing at colder temperatures. Most are perennial — they live more than one season. The alpine growing season is too short for most annuals, which finish their life cycle in one season.
I fiori alpini crescono in alcuni degli ambienti più duri del nostro pianeta.La natura li ha adattati a vivere in ambienti così ostili per la vita.Solo chi ama percorrere i sentieri di montagna nelle varie stagioni e specialmente in estate può conoscere l'intima gioia che l'improvvisa vista di un fiore tra le radure erbose o in mezzo alle rocce desta negli animi degli escursionisti. Non che questi fiori alpini, quasi tutti minuscoli, siano più belli o appariscenti di quelli dei giardini, tutt'altro, ma la loro presenza sovente in terreni e climi assai aspri, rappresenta sempre una gradita sorpresa o una rassicurante conferma: la natura, malgrado tutto, continua ad esprimere il meglio di se.
Made from lined & plain office paper, as well graph paper. Double sided decorative scrapbook paper from MME. File folders altered as well as pink paper bags fill this album which include many additional journaling cards. Binding is hand sewn pages. Fabric binding on outside. Covers are recycled cardboard. Handmade flowers, paper doilies & stickers adorn front & back. Silver beads hand from 2 bookmarks & from outside binding.
Note: Pics taken on 20.6.14 at around noon.
Upto 45% extra source of brightness added to all pic using computer techniques
Short video clip
Quote from Times of India Goa dtd 18.6.14
Miramar's 'Unity Statue' to regain lost glory
PANAJI: For decades now, the 'Unity Statue', which forms the centre of Miramar Circle, has stood in anonymity, covered under layers of clumsily painted blobs of black oil paint. As part of desperately-needed restoration measures, when a sculptor, employed by the Corporation for the City of Panaji (CCP), finally began to scrape off the paint last month, the bronze that the statue is made of has finally begun to shine through.
And Goans, particularly Panjimites, are finally set to discover the long forgotten fact of the material the statue is made of.
"Most of our statues erected in public places are made of bronze. This bronze of the statues needs to be oxidized to protect it over time. But authorities usually resort to a shortcut of applying black oil paint as this process takes a shorter time then oxidizing the statues and is inexpensive," said Sachin Madega, a Mapusa-based sculptor, who is carrying out the restoration at Miramar.
Madega discovered that several coats of black oil paint had led the statue to lose its well-defined structure. The sculptor began 15 days ago by using welding equipment to heat the paint to make it easier to scrape it off.
"There were at least six layers of paint and we had to then use paint remover and nitric acid to wipe off the paint further. During the next few days, we will do the oxidizing. A bronze brown paint has to be polished into the statue using a brush to finish off the restoration," Madega said.
The restoration involves close to 10 hours of work over a period of one month.
The statue, which has faced much neglect over the years, signifies Goa's liberation in 1961 from close to four centuries of Portuguese rule. The 'Unity Statue' replaced a statue of Alphonso de Albuquerque which was torn down by freedom fighters during the state's liberation movement.
The two muscular men of the statue, who seemed to reach out to the sky with nothing in their clenched fists for years now, will also have a torch like the one they originally held, when the restoration work is completed this month.
The torch designed by Madega has already been fitted onto the statue.
It is, in fact, this torch which led the CCP to order the restoration, after Panaji-based historian Sanjeev Sardessai pressurized the state authorities to give meaning again to the statue by placing the missing object in the statues' hands.
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Unity Statues Bronze Miramar Circle torch bearers
Sculptor: V M Cuncoliencar, Goa
Replaced the Statue of Afonso de Albuquerque in 1972
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The House of Mirth: Friday!
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I didn't take any before pictures, because they were just a pair of men's business trousers, and we all know what they look like! This is what I did:
1) Cut off the legs
2) Cut the scallop at the front
3) Made bias binding out of the fabric from legs
4) Sewed bias binding to the hem and blind hemmed it
5) Hand sewed white lace trim (what I had left over from my chemise top) onto the pockets and the scallop
6) Replaced generic plastic buttons with vintage glass buttons (also left over from chemise top)
MC 1110
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Note: Missing front route name "greenwave"
Operator: Reading Buses
Make/Model: Scania K270UB/Alexander Dennis Enviro 300-SG (B42F)
Registration Number: YR13 PNE
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Songs and Calls
Its distinctive call note is a sharp, penetrating, metallic eek-eek. Song is like that of an American Robin, but softer and more melodious.
FamilyCardinals, Grosbeaks and Buntings
HabitatDeciduous woods, orchards, groves. Breeds mostly in open deciduous woods, sometimes in mixed woods, favoring edges or openings with combination of shrubs and tall trees rather than unbroken forest. In migration, may occur in any wooded or semi-open area. Winters in the tropics, mostly at forest edge or in second-growth woods in lowlands and foothills.
In leafy woodlands of the East, the Rose-breasted Grosbeak often stays out of sight among the treetops. However, its song -- rich whistled phrases, like an improved version of the American Robin's voice -- is heard frequently in spring and summer. Where the range of this species overlaps with that of the Black-headed Grosbeak on the Great Plains, the two sometimes interbreed.
Feeding Behavior
Forages mostly in shrubs and trees, searching for food among foliage. Sometimes hovers to take insects from foliage or bark, or flies out to catch insects in mid-air.
Eggs
3-5, typically 4. Pale greenish blue, spotted with reddish brown. Incubation is by both parents, 13-14 days. Young: Both parents feed the nestlings. Young leave nest about 9-12 days after hatching. Male may care for fledglings while female begins a new nest. 1-2 broods per year.
Young
Both parents feed the nestlings. Young leave nest about 9-12 days after hatching. Male may care for fledglings while female begins a new nest. 1-2 broods per year.
Diet
Mostly insects, seeds, and berries. About half of annual diet may be insects, including beetles, caterpillars, grasshoppers, true bugs, and others, also spiders and snails. Eats many seeds, including those of trees such as elms, and sometimes eats buds and flowers. May feed heavily on berries and small fruits in late summer and fall. Young are fed mostly insects.
Nesting
Male sings to defend nesting territory, and may fight actively with intruding males. In courtship, male may partly spread wings and tail, draw head back, and approach female while singing. Nest: Placed in deciduous tree or large shrub (occasionally in conifer), usually 5-20' above ground, sometimes much higher. Nest (built mostly by female) is an open cup, rather loosely made of twigs, weeds, leaves, lined with finer twigs, rootlets, and sometimes animal hair. May be so flimsy that eggs are visible through the nest from below.