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The 2012 version of the Veil supernova remnant. Now a total of 5 hours per channel (Ha/OIII) and used PS to create this synth green version which has a deeper blue than the normal cyan(ish) version you seem to get from HOO imaging.
NEQ6, Atik 314L+, ED80 (0.85x), Baader Ha + OIII filters
30x600 Ha
28x600 OIII
Cooling: -10
Flats and Bias applied
Date of capture: 24/07/12
Location: Worcestershire, UK
Thanks for looking :)
Oxygène Propreté
Des hommes et des femmes d'expériences à votre service.
Oxygène Propreté, votre entreprise de nettoyage en Ile-de-France.
Nos agents de nettoyage s’occupent de la propreté de tous vos locaux.
Nettoyage
Entretien d'immeubles - Nettoyage de vitres, tous locaux bureaux Particuliers et professionnels
Entretien et nettoyage régulier de locaux professionnels et entreprises
Nettoyage et entretien général d'immeubles et copropriétés
Nettoyage de vitres
Désinfection de locaux
Nettoyage de fin de chantiers
Nettoyage de bureaux
Vidange des cendriers, accompagnés d'un essuyage humide.
- Vidange des poubelles.
- Collectage des papiers et déchets divers en un lieu désigné.
- Dépoussiérage des écrans informatiques.
- Entretien des bureaux dégagés et objets meublants.
- Dépoussiérage des dessus d'armoires et des meubles hauts.
- Dépoussiérage des plinthes et des rebords.
- Mise en place de petits sacs poubelle dans les corbeilles à papier.
Nettoyage du mobilier,
- Nettoyage des sols,
- Nettoyage sanitaire,
- Lavage des vitres,
- Approvisionnement des fournitures d'hygiène.
Notre motivation : votre satisfaction.
Les semaines sont trop chargées et les week-ends sont trop courts pour perdre votre temps en ménage et en repassage alors que de véritables spécialistes peuvent s’en charger pour vous.
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Un service personnalisé
Que ce soit pour un service régulier ou exceptionnel, Oxygène Propreté propose des prestations de service à domicile adaptées à vos besoins et votre emploi du temps.
Ménage à domicile
Pour faciliter votre quotidien, Oxygéné Propreté vous propose un service de ménage à domicile, adapté à vos besoins et à votre emploi du temps, dispensé par des employé(e)s de maison qualifié(e)s et expérimentées.
Avec Oxygéné Propreté, la corvée des tâches ménagères ne sera plus qu’un mauvais souvenir.
Un service de ménage sur mesure
En confiant le ménage de votre maison ou appartement à Oxygène Propreté, vous bénéficiez d’un service personnalisé dispensé par des experts du nettoyage.
Lors d’un premier entretien avec notre Chargé de Clientèle Oxygène Propreté nous identifions ensemble vos besoins.
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Si nécessaire, notre Chargé de Clientèle Oxygène Propreté se déplace à votre domicile pour réaliser un diagnostic plus approfondi.
Il sélectionne ensuite l’employé(e) de maison le la plus adapté(e) à votre demande.
Vous choisissez les jours et les heures d’interventions de l’employé de ménage.
Pour une plus grande souplesse, vous êtes libre de faire évoluer à tout moment les prestations, leurs fréquences et leurs durées.
Des personnes de ménage qualifiées
Choisir Oxygène Propreté, c’est s’assurer un service de ménage à domicile professionnel, dispensé par des employé(e)s de maison expérimenté(e)s et qualifié(e)s. Chez Oxygène Propreté, chaque personne de ménage est recrutée pour ses compétences et spécialement formée pour répondre à tous vos besoins.
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Tarifs
Coût d'une heure de prestation à partir de 18 € soit 9 € après réduction d'impôt*. Abonnement de 15 € par mois soit 7,5 € après réduction d'impôt*, qui couvre l'ensemble des démarches administratives (fiches de paie, URSSAF, assurance...).
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Un service de repassage personnalisé
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Lors d’un premier entretien avec notre Chargé de Clientèle Oxygène Propreté nous identifions ensemble vos besoins. Il sélectionne ensuite l’employé(e) de maison le plus adapté(e) à votre demande. Vous choisissez les jours et les heures d’intervention de votre employé(e) de maison. Pour une plus grande souplesse, vous êtes libre de faire évoluer à tout moment vos prestations, leurs fréquences et leurs durées.
Des personnes de ménage qualifiées
Laver et repasser correctement son linge demande du temps et de la technique. C’est pourquoi les employé(e)s de maison Oxygéné Propreté bénéficient d’une formation complète pour répondre à vos besoins :
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Tarifs
•Coût d'une heure de prestation à partir de 18 € soit 9 € après réduction d'impôt*.
•Abonnement de 15 € par mois soit 7,5 € après réduction d'impôt*, qui couvre l'ensemble des démarches administratives (fiches de paie, URSSAF, assurance...).
Le service «Grandes Occasions»
Vous recevez des amis chez vous pour fêter un événement.
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Un service complet
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Les employés d’Oxygéné Propreté sont là pour vous aider :
Courses au supermarché, dressage de tables et de buffets, aide à la préparation en cuisine, servir vos hôtes et hôtesses.
Fin de soirée les employés peuvent vous aider à nettoyer, ranger la cuisine et ou faire la vaisselle.
Elles peuvent également intervenir le lendemain pour redonner aux pièces de réception leur propreté initiale.
Avec Oxygéné Propreté, vous pouvez désormais mettre les petits plats dans les grands sans efforts.
Des prestations personnalisées
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3 heures le jour de votre réception et 2 heures le lendemain). Les employé(e)s de maison Propreté s’adaptent à votre demande.
Tarif à partir de 180 € pour 5 heures de prestation sur 1 ou 2 journées consécutives, du lundi ou dimanche de 9h à minuit. Soit 90 € après réduction d’impôts*.
Le service «Grand Nettoyage»
Votre maison ou appartement a besoin d’être nettoyé de fond en comble?
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92 of 119 pictures in 2019 - Something you take for granted
Oxygen - the air we breath although this dial is part of an oxy acetylene torch rig.
OXYGENE PROPRETE
Ensemble, faisons bon ménage !
Le nettoyage d'espaces professionnels
nettoyage bureaux paris
Nous nous chargeons de l'entretien et de la maintenance de tous les types d'espaces professionnels : locaux techniques, bureaux administratifs et collectifs, commerces, grands magasins, écoles, gymnases, salles de sport, vestiaires, cantines et réfectoires, supermarchés, hôpitaux, hôtels, restaurants, laboratoires, cafés, cinémas…
Dans le cadre de notre activité, nous assurons :
* vidage de poubelles, collectage des papiers et déchets en un lieu désigné
* essuyage et désinfection des téléphones
* essuyage des dessus de bureaux dégagés
* essuyage des meubles hauts et bas (armoires, caissons, étagères…)
* balayage humide des sols ne craignant pas l'humidité
* aspiration et nettoyage de la moquette
* astiquage des cuivres et des chromes
* mise en place de sacs poubelles dans les corbeilles à papiers
* enlèvement des traces de doigts sur les portes, les poignées et les interrupteurs
* aspiration des sièges
* dépoussiérage des pieds de tables et de chaises
* dépoussiérage des rebords de fenêtres
* dépoussiérage des extincteurs et des radiateurs
* aération des locaux, fermeture des fenêtres et extinction des lumières
* nettoyage des ascenseurs avec essuyage soigné des parois intérieures de la cabine, du tableau de commande, enlèvement des traces de doigts sur le miroir, lavage du sol
Après une évaluation de vos besoins par notre responsable technique, nous établissons un devis prenant en compte la surface de vos locaux, les tâches à y effectuer ainsi que la fréquence de nos interventions (quotidienne, pluri-quotidienne, hebdomadaire, mensuelle, trimestrielle).
Une fois ce cahier des charges validé par vos soins, nous établissons un planning qui sera scrupuleusement suivi par nos équipes d'entretien.
A noter que ce cahier des charges est non restrictif : il peut être adapté en fonction des locaux à nettoyer (salle de réunion, hall d'accueil, bureau classique, cuisine, sanitaires, vestiaires, salle de spectacle, etc.) et de leurs particularités (rez-de-chaussée, sous-sol, étage, occupés en journée ou en soirée…).
Fiables et autonomes, nos agents de nettoyage travaillent en toute discrétion et s'engagent à respecter vos espaces de travail. Polyvalents, ils reçoivent une formation complète leur permettant de délivrer une prestation adaptée à tous les problèmes d'hygiène.
Nous mettons ainsi tout en œuvre pour que vos employés puissent travailler dans des conditions optimales, dans un environnement propre et sain.
Le nettoyage informatique
Nous effectuons également le nettoyage informatique : dépoussiérage des écrans d'ordinateur, des claviers, des souris, des imprimantes, des scanners, des photocopieurs et autres périphériques assimilés.
Nous nous chargeons également du nettoyage des sols, et plus spécifiquement des carrelages et de la moquette, ainsi que du nettoyage des vitres.
Le nettoyage de sanitaires
Nos services incluent aussi le nettoyage de sanitaires et kitchenette avec :
* détartrage soigné des robinetteries
* désinfection et détartrage des éviers, lavabos, cuvettes et urinoirs
* nettoyage des miroirs
* dépoussiérage des appliques d'éclairage et des grilles d'aération
* balayage et lavage des sols à l'eau additionnée d'un désinfectant
* dépoussiérage des tuyauteries
* essuyage des faïences murales
* mise en place de papier essuie-mains, savon, papier hygiénique fournis par nos soins
* lavage de la petite vaisselle
* désodorisation
* extinction des lumières
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The Mark V Mod 1 diving suit, is typical of diving equipment used by both Navy and civilians for deep sea salvage and submarine rescue operations since its invention in 1838 until the late 1980s. The "Mod 1" refers to the rear of the helmet, which is used to mix helium and oxygen for the diver to breathe. By substituting helium for the nitrogen we usually breathe, the diver can dive deeper, remain clear headed, and return to the surface with less change of having nitrogen bubbles form in his bloodstream, causing the often fatal "bends."
The USS Bowfin Submarine Museum and Park opened in 1981 next to the USS Arizona Memorial Visitor Center in Pearl Harbor. The centerpiece of the museum is the World War II submarine USS Bowfin (SS-287), which is open for public tours. Adjacent to the Bowfin is a 10,000 square foot museum which exhibits an impressive collection of submarine-related artifacts such as submarine weapon systems, photographs, paintings, battleflags, original recruiting posters, and detailed submarine models, all illustrating the history of the U.S. Submarine Service. Numerous submarine-related artifacts litter the grounds around the park, which also features the Waterfront Memorial, a public memorial honoring the 52 American submarines and the more than 3,500 submariners lost during World War II.
This is one side of the Oxygen evaporator and tank for LOX at a hospital.
In August that is quite a bit of ice on the cold feed pipe, but there should be considerable capacity left still.
7DC_0314a-oxygen-2000
Zofia was in hospital. Nothing special just adenoids.
Wall as a source for oxygen is very surrealistic for me.
Rehearsal for Taffety Punk's "Oxygen" by Ivan Vyrypaev. Directed by Lise Bruneau. Esther Williamson as Her. Mark Krawczyk as Him. Dan Crane as the DJ. Photo by lighting designer Brittany Diliberto.
Perth's first "recreational oxygen" bar ... I can't believe we did without one of these for so long in our city.
Rusts never sleeps? Well oxygen ravages, continuously. This "rot iron" fence is proof. Camarillo, CA
I collect....
"Any philatelic material that depicts a motorcycle, or part thereof, or name of manufacturer, where the make of motorcycle is recognizable as being of ITALIAN ORIGIN."
In this topic I collect.... "Stamps, mint and used, blocks, sheets, FDC, postally used covers, maximum cards, miniature-souvenir sheets, booklets, postal
stationery, cancellations, metermarks, proofs, stamp art work, artist signed items, poster stamps, errors, some postcards and other philatelic items"
If you have any items you think I might like please contact me at gavinnz@xtra.co.nz
If you are a motorcycle stamp collector then contact me as I have many items spare.
Gavin
Here are the 69 makes I have postal items for at November 2013....
AERMACCHI AGRATI ALIPRANDI APRILIA AQUILA ASTRA BENELLI BETA BIANCHI BIMOTA CAGIVA CAPRIONI CECCATO CIMATTI CM COMET CONTI DEVIL DONISELLI DUCATI FANTIC FERRARI (SF PROTOTYPE) FREJUS FRERA GALLONI GANNA GARELLI GHEZZI-BRIAN GILERA GLORIA G.R. IDROFLEX ISO ITALJET LAMBORGHINI (PROTOTYPE) LAMBRETTA LAVERDA LEGNANO MAGNI MAINO MALAGUTI MALANCA MAS MASERATI MILLER MINARELLI MI-VAL MONDIAL MORBIDELLI MORINI MOTOBI MOTO GUZZI MOTOM MV AGUSTA NCR OXYGEN PARILLA PIAGGIO PRINETTI & STUCCHI RUMI SERTUM SIMPLEX SWM TESTI TORPADO TURKHEIMER VESPA VILLA WOLSIT
Words to help like minded people find me.....
Motorcycle stamps Motorcycle stamp Motorbike stamp Motor Cycle stamp Vespa Stamp
Moto Francobollo poster stamps Motor bike stamps moto busta
collezionista di francobolli del motociclo
"Qualsiasi materiale filatelico che raffigura un motociclo, o parte di esso, o nome del produttore, dove la marca di moto è riconoscibile come di origine italiana".
In questo argomento raccogliere... "Francobolli, menta e usati, blocchi, lastre, FDC, postally usati coperture, carte massime, miniatura-foglietti, libretti, postale
Cancelleria, cancellazioni, metermarks, prove, opera d'arte di timbro, artista firmato articoli, poster francobolli, errori, alcune cartoline e altri articoli filatelici "
The 4 white strings that are attached to every mask are connected to the O2 cylinder above, gets disconnected when pulled & starts the oxygen flow.
Edited Chandra Space Telescope image of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, with colors representing the various metals (to an astronomer, if it's not hydrogen or helium, it's a metal) in the nebula formed from the explosion. Silicon is red, sulfur is yellow, calcium is green, and iron is purple. (Blue is the blast wave.) Color/processing variant.
Original caption: Where do most of the elements essential for life on Earth come from? The answer: inside the furnaces of stars and the explosions that mark the end of some stars' lives.
Astronomers have long studied exploded stars and their remains — known as "supernova remnants" — to better understand exactly how stars produce and then disseminate many of the elements observed on Earth, and in the cosmos at large.
Due to its unique evolutionary status, Cassiopeia A (Cas A) is one of the most intensely studied of these supernova remnants. A new image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows the location of different elements in the remains of the explosion: silicon (red), sulfur (yellow), calcium (green) and iron (purple). Each of these elements produces X-rays within narrow energy ranges, allowing maps of their location to be created. The blast wave from the explosion is seen as the blue outer ring.
X-ray telescopes such as Chandra are important to study supernova remnants and the elements they produce because these events generate extremely high temperatures — millions of degrees — even thousands of years after the explosion. This means that many supernova remnants, including Cas A, glow most strongly at X-ray wavelengths that are undetectable with other types of telescopes.
Chandra's sharp X-ray vision allows astronomers to gather detailed information about the elements that objects like Cas A produce. For example, they are not only able to identify many of the elements that are present, but how much of each are being expelled into interstellar space.
The Chandra data indicate that the supernova that produced Cas A has churned out prodigious amounts of key cosmic ingredients. Cas A has dispersed about 10,000 Earth masses worth of sulfur alone, and about 20,000 Earth masses of silicon. The iron in Cas A has the mass of about 70,000 times that of the Earth, and astronomers detect a whopping one million Earth masses worth of oxygen being ejected into space from Cas A, equivalent to about three times the mass of the Sun. (Even though oxygen is the most abundant element in Cas A, its X-ray emission is spread across a wide range of energies and cannot be isolated in this image, unlike with the other elements that are shown.)
Astronomers have found other elements in Cas A in addition to the ones shown in this new Chandra image. Carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and hydrogen have also been detected using various telescopes that observe different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. Combined with the detection of oxygen, this means all of the elements needed to make DNA, the molecule that carries genetic information, are found in Cas A.
Oxygen is the most abundant element in the human body (about 65% by mass), calcium helps form and maintain healthy bones and teeth, and iron is a vital part of red blood cells that carry oxygen through the body. All of the oxygen in the Solar System comes from exploding massive stars. About half of the calcium and about 40% of the iron also come from these explosions, with the balance of these elements being supplied by explosions of smaller mass, white dwarf stars.
While the exact date is not confirmed (PDF), many experts think that the stellar explosion that created Cas A occurred around the year 1680 in Earth's timeframe. Astronomers estimate that the doomed star was about five times the mass of the Sun just before it exploded. The star is estimated to have started its life with a mass about 16 times that of the Sun, and lost roughly two-thirds of this mass in a vigorous wind blowing off the star several hundred thousand years before the explosion.
Earlier in its lifetime, the star began fusing hydrogen and helium in its core into heavier elements through the process known as "nucleosynthesis." The energy made by the fusion of heavier and heavier elements balanced the star against the force of gravity. These reactions continued until they formed iron in the core of the star. At this point, further nucleosynthesis would consume rather than produce energy, so gravity then caused the star to implode and form a dense stellar core known as a neutron star.
The exact means by which a massive explosion is produced after the implosion is complicated, and a subject of intense study, but eventually the infalling material outside the neutron star was transformed by further nuclear reactions as it was expelled outward by the supernova explosion.
Chandra has repeatedly observed Cas A since the telescope was launched into space in 1999. The different datasets have revealed new information about the neutron star in Cas A, the details of the explosion, and specifics of how the debris is ejected into space.
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, controls Chandra's science and flight operations.
Having a go at the oxygen bar. My favorite was "Mango Madness". "Invigorating", "Calming" and "Sugar Cookie" were the alternatives
Met up with a few other photography friends this evening for some light painting.
First proper try with one of my new orb tools. Probably my best spin yet, almost round.
Number 77 for 123 Pictures in 2023: Pliable
I am attached to an oxygen concentrator by this hose for a lot of the time. I hope to get a portable concentrator fairly soon.
Rehearsal for Taffety Punk's "Oxygen" by Ivan Vyrypaev. Directed by Lise Bruneau. Esther Williamson as Her. Mark Krawczyk as Him. Dan Crane as the DJ. Photo by lighting designer Brittany Diliberto.
THURSDAY
A short crime drama
⸻
Southbury was quiet. Too quiet.
A light drizzle coated the pavement like sweat.
No alarms. No dogs. Just silence. The kind of silence that tells you no one’s watching — or worse, that they don’t care anymore.
A black Ford Mondeo, scratched and old, sat tucked beneath a broken streetlamp. The engine was off. Nothing moved.
Thomas stepped out first — shoulders hunched, jacket zipped, gloves already on.
Behind him came Shelly.
She didn’t check her surroundings.
She didn’t speak.
She didn’t hesitate.
She simply walked — black bomber jacket tight over her frame, dark jeans, cheap black boots hitting the ground without sound. Nitrile gloves already fitted, stretched like second skin.
She pulled a nude nylon stocking from her jacket and started rolling it over her head.
Thomas did the same.
Their faces blurred into pale, ghostlike masks — warped and anonymous.
They didn’t look at each other.
They didn’t need to.
This wasn’t a job. This was a routine.
They slid through a side gate and into the overgrown garden of Mrs Langford, 82.
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INT. BACK DOOR – NIGHT
Click.
The lock turned smoothly. No resistance.
They entered.
No speaking. No light.
The hallway smelled of wood polish, cheap perfume and old life.
Framed photos of dead husbands and distant grandkids lined the walls.
Thomas drifted left — straight to the living room, already unzipping his bag.
Shelly stood still. Listening.
Upstairs:
A faint whirring of oxygen.
That’s where the body was.
She climbed slowly. Deliberately.
Boots silent on the carpet.
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INT. BEDROOM – NIGHT
No light.
Just a yellowish glow from the hallway spilling in.
Mrs Langford slept in a clean bed, tucked neatly, her jaw loose and mouth open.
Beside her, the oxygen machine whispered like a secret.
Two gold rings on her fingers.
A gold chain and locket on her chest.
Shelly stepped in.
No hesitation.
No sound.
She picked up a spare pillow from the chair.
Walked to the bed.
Paused for exactly one second.
Then leaned down.
SHELLY (flat, almost bored):
“You old bitch.”
She pressed the pillow down hard.
Mrs Langford stirred, wheezed, jerked — but it was soft, weak.
Shelly didn’t blink.
Didn’t move.
She held the pressure steady. Elbows locked.
No noise.
Just the muffled gasps under cotton.
One leg kicked.
One hand twitched.
Then stillness.
Shelly waited.
Ten more seconds.
Then pulled the pillow away.
Eyes open. Mouth slightly crooked.
Dead.
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She went to work.
The first ring slid off.
The second resisted.
She twisted the finger.
A light crack.
The ring came loose.
She reached for the necklace, unclasped it, shoved it into her pocket.
No looking. No reaction. No emotion.
Just silence.
She tucked the blanket back over the body, smooth and neat.
Wiped one corner of the pillow with her jacket sleeve.
SHELLY (quietly, like finishing a checklist):
“Dead’s dead.”
She walked out.
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INT. LIVING ROOM – SAME TIME
Thomas moved with quiet speed.
Drawers opened. Jewellery box. Loose cash.
Watches, rings, coins in plastic sleeves.
Behind a curtain: an old wall safe — already open.
He pulled out:
•Two fat bundles of £50 notes
•A rusty engraved pistol
•Three silver coins
He took everything except the gun. No prints. No noise. Just habit.
Zipped the bag. Waited.
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INT. HALLWAY – NIGHT
Shelly came downstairs.
They didn’t speak.
They just pulled off their stockings in sync — folded, hidden.
SHELLY:
“Clean.”
THOMAS:
“Done.”
Click.
The back door opened.
They left without looking back.
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EXT. STREET – NIGHT
The rain had stopped.
Their footsteps echoed softly against wet concrete.
Shelly lit a cigarette.
Took one long drag. Passed it to Thomas.
SHELLY (casual):
“She pissed herself. Could smell it through the covers. Warm piss and perfume.”
THOMAS (quiet):
“She didn’t feel it. Out before her brain caught on.”
SHELLY:
“She knew. For a second. That’s the moment. That one second where they realise. That’s the real prize.”
Thomas said nothing.
Just walked.
SHELLY:
“I wiped her mouth three days ago. Brushed crumbs off her lap like some carer.
Now I’m wearing her necklace.”
She exhaled. Flicked ash onto the pavement.
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INT. FORD MONDEO – NIGHT
Doors shut.
Engine turned over.
No music. No talking. Just the city breathing in the background.
They drove.
The heater was broken. The silence wasn’t.
THOMAS (after a while):
“You good?”
SHELLY:
“I feel… clean.”
Pause.
THOMAS:
“You scare me sometimes.”
SHELLY (without turning):
“You’d be more scared if I smiled.”
The car rolled down the hill.
Headlights off.
London in the distance. Still sleeping.
Behind them: nothing but quiet death.
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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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(Updated April 7B, 2015)
Precious opal (54.7 carats) from the Tertiary of Ethiopia. (USNM G11591, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA; public domain photo provided by the USNM)
A mineral is a naturally-occurring, solid, inorganic, crystalline substance having a fairly definite chemical composition and having fairly definite physical properties. At its simplest, a mineral is a naturally-occurring solid chemical. Currently, there are over 5400 named and described minerals - about 200 of them are common and about 20 of them are very common. Mineral classification is based on anion chemistry. Major categories of minerals are: elements, sulfides, oxides, halides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, and silicates.
The silicates are the most abundant and chemically complex group of minerals. All silicates have silica as the basis for their chemistry. "Silica" refers to SiO2 chemistry. The fundamental molecular unit of silica is one small silicon atom surrounded by four large oxygen atoms in the shape of a triangular pyramid - this is the silica tetrahedron - SiO4. Each oxygen atom is shared by two silicon atoms, so only half of the four oxygens "belong" to each silicon. The resulting formula for silica is thus SiO2, not SiO4.
Opal is hydrous silica (SiO2·nH2O). Technically, opal is not a mineral because it lacks a crystalline structure. Opal is supposed to be called a mineraloid. Opal is made up of extremely tiny spheres called "colloids" that can be seen with a scanning electron microscope (SEM). (www.geo.arizona.edu/xtal/geos306/opal-spheres.jpg)
Gem-quality opal, or precious opal, has a wonderful rainbow play of colors (opalescence). This play of color is the result of light being diffracted by planes of voids between large areas of regularly packed, same-sized opal colloids. Different opalescent colors are produced by colloids of differing sizes. If individual colloids are larger than 140 x 10-6 mm in size, purple & blue & green colors are produced. Once colloids get as large as about 240 x 10-6 mm, red color is seen (Carr et al., 1979).
Not all opals have the famous play of colors, however. Common opal has a wax-like luster & is often milky whitish with no visible color play at all. Opal is moderately hard (H = 5 to 6), has a white streak, and has conchoidal fracture.
Several groups of organisms make skeletons of opaline silica, for example hexactinellid sponges, diatoms, radiolarians, silicoflagellates, and ebridians. Some organisms incorporate opal into their tissues, for example horsetails/scouring rushes and sawgrass. Sometimes, fossils are preserved in opal or precious opal.
Locality: unrecorded/undisclosed locality in Wollo Province, northern Ethiopia, eastern Africa
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Photo gallery of opal:
www.mindat.org/gallery.php?min=3004
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Reference cited:
Carr et al. (1979) - Andamooka opal fields: the geology of the precious stones field and the results of the subsidised mining program. Geological Survey of South Australia Department of Mines and Energy Report of Investigations 51. 68 pp.
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.
www.takeshiyamada.weebly.com/performances.html
www.takeshiyamada.weebly.com/sea-rabbit-center.html
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For any questions, please email contact Takeshi Yamada, Art & Rogue Taxidermy, Museum of World Wonders, official website. www.takeshiyamada.weebly.com/
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For any questions, please contact Dr. Takeshi Yamada via his official art website.
(Updated May 26, 2015)