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Tundra community, Camp Ridge, Kantishna Hills, Denali National Park, Alaska
lichenportal.org/portal/taxa/index.php?taxauthid=1&ta...
One of the wanderflechten, or vagrant lichens, which curls when dry and may blow around like tumbleweed. Moisture causes it to uncurl to facilitate photosynthesis . The upper surface of the branches is dark, while the lower surface features "whitish pruinose patches without a cortex, and functionally equivalent to pseudochyphellae" as described by Brodo.
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www.cpbr.gov.au/lichen/ecology-vagrants.html - "The great majority of lichens grow attached to substrates of some sort but many are able to continue growing if they become unattached. There is also a small number of species which never grow attached to any substrate. These are often referred to as vagrant lichens and I will use the word in that sense on this website. Species that normally grow attached but that are able to survive unattached are often referred to as erratic lichens, but be aware that some authors use the word erratic to include the vagrant species as well and then describe those species as obligatorily erratic. English words such as vagrant and vague are derived from Latin words built on the root VAG, conveying the sense of 'wandering'. In several other languages these lichens are known by names that are easy for an English speaker to understand. Thus they may be lichens vagabondes (French), licheni vaganti (Italian), líquenes migratorios, líquenes vagantes (both Spanish) or Wanderflechten (German). The last is easy to comprehend once you know that Flechten is the German word for lichens."
ready to roll - www.flickr.com/photos/tabtannery/14960118516/
rarely fertile - www.flickr.com/photos/jordan_in_alaska/3578746229/
neat vagrant in Australia - www.flickr.com/photos/83327151@N08/29498214986/
replaced with improved version 11/2025
my lichen photos by genus - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections/7215762439...
my photos arranged by subject, e.g. mountains - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections
Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: DATING AT CINEMA (1 of 5): Minao Theatre /
CITA EN EL CINE (1 de 5): Cines Minao
(Read in this order) PAG: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286.
FOTOSTORY: In English / En Español
Emily: Your music is a grand motivation to me, I don't have words to express how much I like it...
Akari: Here's your camera... ^_^u
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Emily: Vuestra música es una gran motivación para mi, no tengo palabras para expresar lo mucho que me gusta...
Akari: Toma, aquí tienes tu cámara... ^_^u
COLLABORATION:
- Dom y Akari en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es
- Cinema's diorama by Minao. Sweets shop's diorama by Sheryl and Minao Collaboration.
- Little interpretation of Mad_Pullip's Emily as a MUSE fan.
SHERYL LINKS:
- Pullip .es: Las Fotohistorias de Sheryl
- Sheryl's Flickr: Photostories 2011 - Sketches 2011 / Photostories 2012 - Sketches 2012
Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: DATING AT CINEMA (1 of 5): Minao Theatre /
CITA EN EL CINE (1 de 5): Cines Minao
(Read in this order) PAG: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286.
FOTOSTORY: In English / En Español
Dom: I'm sorry Akari
Akari: Don't... why do you apologize?
Dom: Because of the guys, we should have given them the slip while Matt was busy signing autographs
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Dom: Perdona Akari.
Akari: Nooo... por que te disculpas?
Dom: Por estos dos, teníamos que haberles dado esquinazo mientras Matt estaba entretenido firmando autógrafos.
COLLABORATION:
- Dom y Akari en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es
- Cinema's diorama by Minao. Sweets shop's diorama by Sheryl and Minao Collaboration.
- Little interpretation of Mad_Pullip's Emily as a MUSE fan.
SHERYL LINKS:
- Pullip .es: Las Fotohistorias de Sheryl
- Sheryl's Flickr: Photostories 2011 - Sketches 2011 / Photostories 2012 - Sketches 2012
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Son casi infinitamente los seres más abundantes que viven sobre nuestro Planeta y su acción silenciosa transforma el mundo implacablemente sin que apenas nos demos cuenta. Su origen se confunde con el de los océanos de la Tierra, en la que habitan desde hace más de tres mil millones de años, cuando la soledad en los planetas lo inundaba todo. Son las más veteranas pobladoras, las formas de vida más simple y también las que más rápidamente evolucionan. Son las insignificantes y extraordinarias bacterias.
Todas las bacterias necesitan el agua como medio para vivir, incluso, las que habitan en el suelo bucean en la fina película de agua que cubre a las partículas de mineral o a los restos de materia orgánica, allí se alimentan, se mueven y se multiplican cerrando el ciclo de la vida y devolviendo a la tierra los elementos minerales que partieron un día de ella y formaron parte de las entrañas los seres vivos.
La mayor parte de las bacterias se alimentan de materia orgánica, provocan su descomposición y permiten que los elementos químicos se reciclen y se incorporen de nuevo a la cadena de la vida a través del suelo, del aire y del agua. Sus innumerables especies y formas no se pueden diferenciar a la luz del microscopio pues su aspecto es muy parecido, cocos, bacilos, espirilos, vibriones, son las formas más comunes con las que suelen aparecer.
En la imagen de hoy los bacilos se agitan, se mueven en el agua ▷, representando sin duda una de las danzas más ancestrales de cualquier ser vivo. Se ayudan para ello de flagelos invisibles situados en el extremo de sus largos cuerpos de bastón.
Las bacterias no sólo descomponen la materia orgánica, también son las praderas que sirven de alimento a los numerosos organismos microscópicos que dan vida al agua y con ella a todo nuestro Planeta.
La fotografía procede de unas muestras recolectadas en el río Tirón por Marcos Ochoa en las inmediaciones de Tirgo (La Rioja). La fotografía se ha tomado con 400 aumentos empleando la técnica de contraste interferencia.
Con nuestra gratitud para Pilar Gil por la publicación en Qúo, a Antonio Martínez Ron ...y también Paul/
Puedes tener otra infomación en la exposición LA VIDA OCULTA DEL AGUA
Y en este catálogo
También en la galería de Fotolog
Y nuestro granito de arena por la Paz
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Ahora en Biodiversidad virtual
Extaordinariamenete pequeña y activa, Spirulina subsalsa no parece un organismo microscópico si no fuera por su tamaño, el caso es que serpentea en el agua como si fuese una culebrilla. Gira sobre sí misma mientras su cuerpo ondula y se estira levemente, atornillando ágilmente el agua con su cuerpo de muelle. Spirulina subsala es una cianobacteria, ser minúsculo, tan pequeño como primitivo, medio alga, medio bacteria y desde luego, por sus movimientos, medio culebra ▷.
Muchas de las especies de este género de cianobacterias viven en aguas salobres y Spirulina subsalsa parece que puede hacerlo también en aguas dulces, se trata de una de las de más pequeño tamaño del grupo, pero es algo mayor que Spirulina subtilissima, con la que podría confundirse. Su espiral, de poco más de tres milésimas de milímeto de anchura, es una espiral flexible y animada por la vida ▷, allá en los fondos acuáticos donde la luz no llega y donde encuentrta los nutrientes necesarios para poder desarrollarse. Vive entre las ruinas de naufragio de millones y millones de seres, cascarones de diatomeas, fragmentos de alga, restos de la arquitectura prodigiosa de pequeños invertebrados, los que conforman el paisaje fantástico entre el que Spirulina vive y renueva la vida en el Lago en el que habita, Lago de Sanabria.
El género Spirulina está constituido por un pequeño número de especies que ronda las cincuenta. Casi todas ellas suelen vivir en zonas de aguas casi estancadas y ricas en materia orgánica. La de hoy, probablemente Spirulina subsalsa, no es muy común, aunque existen de ella algunas citas en la Península procedentes de aguas saladas o salobres.
Actualmente algunas especies de Spirulina se consumen como suplemento dietético por su alto contenido en vitamina B12 y proteínas, aunque se conoce que fueron ya empleadas hace siglos.
Los antiguos pobladores de México cultivaban algunas especies de este género principalmente en el lago de Texcoco - ya desparecido- para obtener un suplemento alimentario. En el libro de La Conquista de México de Francisco López de Gómara , se señala "Pocas cosas vivas dejan de comer. Culebras sin cola ni cabeza, perrillos que no gañen, castrados y cebados; topos, lirones, ratones, lombrices, piojos y hasta tierra, porque con unas redes de malla muy menuda barren, en cierto tiempo del año, una cosa molida que se cría sobre el agua de las lagunas de México, y se cuaja, que ni es hierba, ni tierra, sino una especie de cieno. Hay mucho de ello y cogen mucho y en eras, como quien hace sal, los vacían, y allí se cuaja y seca. Lo hacen tortas como ladrillos, y no sólo las venden en el mercado, sino que las llevan también a otros fuera de la ciudad y lejos. Comen esto como nosotros el queso, y así tiene un saborcillo de sal, que con chilmolli es sabroso. Y dicen que a este cebo vienen tantas aves a la laguna, que muchas veces en el invierno la cubren por algunos sitios." .
A veces, si las condiciones son favorables, muchas especies de Spirulina se puede desarrollar de forma masiva.
Spirulina subsalsa , se ha fotografiado a 400 aumentos con la técncia de contraste de interferencia y se ha encontrado en una muestra recogida sobre sedimentos a 20 metros de profundidad en el Lago de Sanabria (Zamora), desde el catamarán Helios Sanabria el primer catamarán construido en el Planeta propulsado por energía eólica y solar.
INFORMATION ON BASIL:
Basil (Ocimum basilicum), of the Family Lamiaceae. Basil is a tender low-growing herb that is grown as a perennial in warm, tropical climates. Basil is originally native to Iran, India and other tropical regions of Asia, having been cultivated there for more than 5,000 years. There are many varieties of basil, that which is used in Italian food is typically called sweet basil, as opposed to Thai basil or holy basil, which are used in Asia. It is prominently featured in Italian cuisine, and also plays a major role in the Southeast Asian cuisines of Thai, Vietnamese and Laotian. It grows to between 30–130 cm tall, with opposite, light green, silky leaves 3–11 cm long and 1–6 cm broad. The flowers are quite big, white in color and arranged in a terminal spike. Unusual among Lamiaceae, the four stamens and the pistil are not pushed under the upper lip of the corolla, but lay over the inferior. After entomophilous pollination, the corolla falls off and four round achenes develop inside the bilabiate calyx. The plant tastes somewhat like anise, with a strong, pungent, sweet smell. Basil is very sensitive to cold, with best growth in hot, dry conditions. While most common varieties are treated as annuals, some are perennial, including African Blue and Holy Thai basil.
The word basil comes from the Greek βασιλεύς (basileus), meaning "king", as it is believed to have grown above the spot where St. Constantine and Helen discovered the Holy Cross. The Oxford English Dictionary quotes speculations that basil may have been used in "some royal unguent, bath, or medicine". Basil is still considered the "king of herbs" by many cookery authors. An alternative etymology has "basil" coming from the Latin word basilicus, meaning dragon and being the root for basilisk, but this likely was a linguistic reworking of the word as brought from Greece.
INFORMATION ON THE CUCUMBER:
The cucumber (Cucumis sativus)is a widely cultivated plant in the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, which includes squash, and in the same genus as the muskmelon. The cucumber is a creeping vine that roots in the ground and grows up trellises or other supporting frames, wrapping around ribbing with thin, spiraling tendrils. The plant has large leaves that form a canopy over the fruit.
The fruit is roughly cylindrical, elongated, with tapered ends, and may be as large as 60 cm long and 10 cm in diameter. Cucumbers grown to be eaten fresh (called slicers) and those intended for pickling (called picklers) are similar. Cucumbers are mainly eaten in the unripe green form. The ripe yellow form normally becomes too bitter and sour.
Having an enclosed seed and developing from a flower, cucumbers are scientifically classified as fruits. Much like tomatoes and squash, however, their sour-bitter flavor contributes to cucumbers being perceived, prepared and eaten as vegetables. Still, "vegetable" is a purely culinary term, and there is no conflict in classifying cucumber as both a fruit and a vegetable.
INFORMATION ON THE GREEN BEAN:
Green beans (American English), French beans or runner beans (British English), also called squeaky beans, are the unripe fruit of any kind of bean, including the yardlong bean, the hyacinth bean, the winged bean, and especially the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), whose pods are also usually called string beans in the northeastern United States, but can also go by snap beans. Varieties have been bred especially for the fleshiness, flavor, or sweetness of their pods. Smaller bean pods are often referred to by the French name haricots verts. The first "stringless" bean was bred in 1894 by Calvin Keeney, called the "father of the stringless bean." Keeney worked in Le Roy, New York.
Green beans are of nearly universal distribution. They are marketed canned, frozen and fresh. A dish with green beans popular in the southern United States, particularly at Thanksgiving, is green bean casserole. Some restaurants in the USA serve green beans that are battered and fried. Green beans are also sold dried and fried with vegetables like carrots, corn, and radishes. They are also rich in vitamin C.
Haricots verts, French for "green beans," may refer to a longer, thinner type of green beans than the typical, American green beans.
Source: Wikipedia
www.familistere.com/site/index.php
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familistère_de_Guise
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familistère_(Guise)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_André_Godin
« Ne pouvant faire un palais de la chaumière ou du galetas de chaque famille ouvrière, nous avons voulu mettre la demeure de l’ouvrier dans un palais ; le Familistère, en effet, n’est pas autre chose, c’est le palais du travail, c’est le PALAIS SOCIAL de l’avenir.
Ce qu’il n’est pas possible de faire au profit de familles éparpillées et sans lien, les améliorations qu’on ne peut introduire dans le tohu-bohu des habitations ouvrières, ni à la ville, ni à la campagne, ni dans les caves, ni dans les mansardes habitées ; ce que ne permettent pas même les habitations ouvrières isolées les mieux construites, quel qu’en soit le système : le Familistère le permet, le palais social le rend possible, bien plus, il le rend nécessaire. »
Jean-Baptiste-André Godin La Richesse au service du peuple, le Familistère de Guise. 1875.
Les chiffres du Familistère : ( source Wikipédia )
10 millions de briques sont nécessaires à la construction des trois pavillons du Palais Social.
30 000 m² de surfaces sont offerts par l’ensemble des trois pavillons.
1 kilomètre de coursives parcourt les trois pavillons du Palais.
500 fenêtres percent les façades des trois unités d’habitation.
495 appartements sont aménagés dans l’ensemble des cinq pavillons du Familistère avant 1918.
1 748 personnes habitent au Familistère en 1889.
50 berceaux peuvent être installés dans la nourricerie du Familistère.
796 invités participent au banquet de la cinquième fête du Travail dans la cour du pavillon central en 1872.
1 000 spectateurs prennent place au théâtre en 1914.
1 526 employés travaillent dans les usines de la Société du Familistère en 1887.
2 500 est le nombre de record d’employés de l’Association du Familistère de Guise et à Bruxelles en 1930.
4 000 modèles d’appareils et d’accessoires sont fabriqués par la Société du Familistère en 1914.
210 000 appareils sont expédiés par les usines de Guise et Bruxelles en 1913-1914.
664, c’est le nombre de pages qui composent le livre Solutions Sociales publié par Godin en 1871.
JEAN-BAPTISTE GODIN ( ENGLISH )
Jean-Baptiste André Godin (26 January 1817 -29 January 1888) was a French industrialist and social experimentor born on the 26th of January 1817 at Esquéhéries (Aisne).
The son of an artisan, he entered an iron-works at an early age, and at seventeen made a tour of France as journeyman. Returning to Esquéhéries in 1837, he started a small factory for the manufacture of castings for heating-stoves. The business increased rapidly, and for the purpose of railway facilities was transferred to Guise in 1846. At the time of Godin's death in 1888 the annual output was over four millions of francs (4,160,000), and in 1908 the employees numbered over 2000 and the output was over 280,000.
An ardent disciple of Charles Fourier, he advanced a considerable sum of money towards the disastrous Fourierist experiment of V. P. Considerant (q.v.) in Texas (known as La Reunion. He profited, however, by its failure, and in 1859 started the Familistère, or community settlement, of Guise on more carefully laid plans.
The Familistère forms a town within the town of Guise. It comprises, in addition to a large factory, three large buildings, each four stories high, capable of housing all the work-people, each family having two or three rooms. The main building consists of three rectangular blocks joined at the corners. Each of these blocks has a central court covered with a glass roof under which children can play in all weather. There is no church of any sort. (There are, of course, churches within the rest of Guise). At the back of the main block there was a nursery. There is a separate block, known as the "economat", containing various shops, refreshment rooms and recreation rooms of various kinds(?), stores for the purchase of groceries, drapery and every necessity. This has recently (2008) been restored and is now a cafe, a shop selling books, postcards etc and an exhibition area. There were also allotments for the workers.
Opposite the main block there was a building containing a theater for concerts and dramatic entertainments and a primary school. There was also a communal laundry and swimming pool. This was a few years ago derelict but has now been restored. The swimming pool is still a swimming poll but the laundry is a meeting room and the drying room is now (2008) an exhibition room. In 1880 the whole was turned into a co-operative society, with provision by which it eventually became the property of the workers.
Godin manufactured cookers and heating stoves of many kinds mainly made from cast iron castings. Sometimes these were enameled. These are still to be found in use all over France. They can be found for sale on eBay.
This business was still owned by the workers in the 1950s but soon after was taken over by Le Creuset. It is not obvious that the factory is still functioning. It is seems the domestic building were privatised. The state of the domestic buildings was deteriorating but has recently been awarded EU money for it to be restored.
In 1871 Godin was elected deputy for Aisne, but retired in 1876 to devote himself to the management of the Familistère. In 1882 he was created a Knight of the Legion of Honor.
Godin was the author of Solutions sociales (1871); Les Socialistes et les Droits du travail (1874); Mutualité sociale et association du capital et du travail (1880); La Republique du travail et la reforme parlementaire (1889). See Bernardot, Le Familistère de Guise et son fondateur (Paris, 1887); Fischer, Die Familistère Godins (Berlin, 1890); Lestelle, Etude sur le Familistère de Guise (Paris, 1904); D. F. P., Le Familistère illustr, résultals de vingt ans d'association, 1880-1900 (Eng. trans., Twenty-eight years of co-partnership at Guise, by A. Williams, 1908).
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La garza real europea (Ardea cinerea) es una especie de ave pelecaniforme de la familia Ardeidae1 2 nativa de Europa y de Asia templada, incluso partes de África.3 Es residente en zonas templadas pero muchas migran en verano a zonas más frías y en invierno a zonas más cálidas
Características
Es un ave grande, parada mide 90 a 100 cm de altura, con una envergadura de alas de 1,70 a 2 m y un peso de 1 a 2 kg. Su plumaje es mayormente gris arriba, y algo blanco debajo. Los adultos tienen la cabeza blanca con un copete negro superciliar y una cresta delgada, en los juveniles toda la cabeza es gris. Tiene un pico fuerte rosa-amarillento, brillante cuando adultos. Tiene un vuelo lento, con su largo cuello retraído (forma de S). Cuando extiende su cuello, el pico semeja una cuchara. Esto es característico de las garzas y garcetas, y los distingue de las cigüeñas.
Está muy relacionada y es similar a la garza real americana Ardea herodias, que difiere en ser algo más grande, y pardos sus flancos y finales de ala. La garza de cara blanca australiana Ardea novaehollandiae es a veces incorrectamente llamada "garza real
Comportamiento
La sp. crece en colonias, en árboles cerca de espejos de agua, o áreas inundables, y aún es capaz de anidar en juncales. Hace un nido compacto de ramitas.
Caza y come en aguas bajas, peces, ranas con su largo y afilado pico. Las garzas son capaces de coger pequeños mamíferos y pájaros. Su dieta también incluye invertebrados acuáticos. Frecuentemente espera que la presa se aquiete para atraparla, o puede lentamente cazar al acecho.
Su llamada es un fuerte graznido "fraaank"
Subespecies
Se conocen cuatro subespecies de Ardea cinerea:1
Ardea cinerea cinerea Linnaeus, 1758 - Europa, África, oeste de Asia.
Ardea cinerea jouyi Clark, 1907 - Este de Asia.
Ardea cinerea firasa Hartert, 1917 - Madagascar.
Ardea cinerea monicae Jouanin & Roux, 1963 - Islas Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania
One of my favorite picture of the ones I took in 2009. Here I want to share it with you.
Hope you´ll like it.
PENTAX K110D
18.04.2009 19:39
ISO 200
PENTAX 50-200 4.5-5.6
138 mm
1/20s f/4,5
Stativ
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Same set-up as the initial test to compare the camera body Nikon D7000 vs the Sony NEX5-N:
www.flickr.com/photos/episa/6191987109/in/photostream
The findings at the focal length of 35mm are similar to the findings on the 24mm test:
- the resolution of the Sony body is at least just as good as the Nikon body.
- the high end Leica M lenses when mounted on the Sony body with a special adapter do not significantly outperform in resolution the entry level Sony zoom: the advantages of the Leica M design known for giving 3D like rendering on the Leica M9 do not seem to make an impact on the E mount design; at the same time the Sony lens seems to receive some in camera processing that improves its resolution/sharpening appearance in the final JPEG file.
- the color rendering of the Sony NEX5-N is whiter (less warm) than the Nikon. The last picture with the Sony lens 18-55mm was taken while a cloud obstructed some of the direct yellow sunlight and exagerates the cool rendering.
Hanji paper is made from the Mulberry tree. While not unique to Korea, it is very much a part of their culture and used to produce beautiful arts and crafts.
Equilibrium, the Human Mashup. The show's goal was to ask "How can art and technology and the synergy of the two address humanity's next evolutionary step?". Being a staunch singularitarian this was right up, or is it down, my proverbial alley. I built an application that allows a user to take a self portrait photograph and then draw themselves on a wall simply by using and moving their hand. The premise was to use the human as the sole interface to draw themselves, exploring the convergence of man and technology. A one day only installation, I didn't have to high of hopes for it's exposure. On the flip side, this being my first showing ever I was like a greedy 8 year old on Christmas morning, and extremely anxious to see how people would interact and respond to the installation. The methodology of controlling an interface without the normal peripherals such as a mouse, keyboard, touch screen, kiosk, or otherwise was foreign to all that attended. What transpired blew me away. The attendance, response and exposure far exceeded my hopes. I barely had to explain at all to users how to run the application. People just stepped right up to the installation and began to interact with it. They were actually learning on their own while performing the drawing. People were actually converging with the technology. Furthermore, those that were done performing their drawing became evangelists, telling those who followed them their idea of how best to use the application. At that moment it became cemented in my mind that I had succeeded in my experiment. People had invested themselves in the piece to the point of bringing out their own inner artist. Several times I stepped in to 'coach' people on how to get the most out of the motion detection while drawing their portrait. The response I got was unexpected. People took personal offense that I was pushing my artistic ideas on their own drawing. Again, success. I was also sent to the floor several times by attendees who said they had come to the event specifically to see my work which they had been following online. There were even several people who mentioned that they had hooked my work up to projectors at parties they were holding. Wha?! Seriously, amazed.
I'd like to thank several people for the night. Steve Benoit for all his help with testing the application, videography and film editing of the event. The result is the shweet movie posted above. Rachel Kjack and Adrienne Fritze from SAO and Working Artists Online respectively for their organization and inviting me to submit my work. All that attended, I met some inspirational folk. And finally, my wife Lisa for her unending support and diggin' me even when I have late night dreaded 'code eyes'.
Looking forward to the next event.
Related:
the online version of the installation
植物科目系列:菊科－欣欣向荣向日葵 手工牛皮笔记本
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名 字
学名/拉丁名字：Helianthus annuus
英语名字： sunflower
别名： 葵花。太阳花，朝阳花，转日莲
科属分类
界： 植物界 Plantae
门： 被子植物门 Magnoliophyta
纲： 双子叶植物纲 Magnoliopsida
目： 菊目 Asterales
科： 菊科 Asteraceae
属： 向日葵属 Helianthus
种： 向日葵种 H. annuus
简述：
1年生草本，高1～3米。茎直立，粗壮，圆形多棱角，被白色粗硬毛。叶通常互生，心状卵形或卵圆形，先端锐突或渐尖，有基出3脉，边缘具粗锯齿，两面粗糙，被毛，有长柄。头状花序，极大，直径10～30厘米，单生于茎顶或枝端，常下倾。总苞片多层，叶质，覆瓦状排列，被长硬毛，夏季开花，花序边缘生黄色的舌状花，不结实。花序中部为两性的管状花，棕色或紫色，结实。瘦果，倒卵形或卵状长圆形，稍扁压，果皮木质化，灰色或黑色，俗称葵花子。性喜温暖，耐旱。原产北美洲，世界各地均有栽培。
向日葵花语的含义
“更无柳絮因风起，惟有葵花向日倾”的向日葵是俄罗斯的国花。这向往光明之花，给人带来美好的希望。传说古代有一位农夫女儿名叫明姑，被后娘百般凌辱虐待。一次惹怒了后娘，夜里熟睡之际被后娘挖掉了眼睛。明姑破门出逃，不久死去，死后坟上开着一盘鲜丽的黄花，终日面向阳光，它就是向日葵。向日葵表示明姑向往光明，厌恶黑暗之意，这传说激励人们痛恨暴力、黑暗，追求光明。
sunflower 向日葵，朝阳花
向日葵又叫朝阳花，因其花常朝着太阳而得名。英语称之为sunflower却不是因为它的这一特性，而是因为它的黄花开似太阳的缘故，虽然sunflower也多少带着“向日”的含义。sunflower一词是16世纪到17世纪从拉丁语flos solis借译过来的。向日葵的法语和意大利语名称tournesol,girasol同汉语名称一样，也是基于“向日”这一特性来命名的。美国堪萨斯州因盛产向日葵有Sunflower State的别称。
向日葵的花语有很多种
（1） 生日花：向日葵（Sunflower）花 语：太阳（The Sun）向日葵具有向光性，人们称它为「太阳花」，随太阳回绕的花。在古代的印加帝国，它是太阳神的象徵。因此向日葵的花语就是－太阳。受到这种花祝福而诞生的人，具有一颗如太阳般明朗、快乐的心。他是许多人倾慕、仰赖的对象，也因此他始终无法安定下来，并认真的接受一份感情，具有晚婚的倾向。
（2） 生日花：野生向日葵（Perennial Sunflower）花 语：投缘（Affinity）野生向日葵的用途很广：种子可以做成点心、还可以提炼食用油、叶片是家畜喜爱的饲料、花可以做成染料等。它和我们的日常生活可是息息相关的，是一种和人类相当投缘的植物。因此，它的花语是－投缘。受到这种花祝福而生的人是理想的情人，更是最佳的终生伴侣。为了让你的他（她）早日出
（3）光辉、高傲、忠诚、爱慕
（4） 向日葵的花语是勇敢的去追求自己想要的幸福
（5） 向日葵花语：爱慕、光辉、忠诚
(6） 向日葵的花语是——沉默的爱.向日葵又叫望日莲一个很美的名字当文森特把自己身体的那一小小部分送给他所爱是人时那不只是沉默的爱
【形态特征】
向日葵四季皆可，主要以夏、冬两季为主。花期可达两周以上。向日葵除了外型酷似太阳以外，她的花朵明亮大方，适合观赏摆饰，她的种子更具经济价值，不但可作成受人喜爱的葵瓜子，更可榨出低胆固醇的高级食用葵花油。向日葵的品种可分为〃一般观赏用〃品种或〃食用〃品种，一般观赏用品种特征为植株较矮小，通常不超过半公尺，因此适合栽种于盆栽中；食用品种则植株较为高大，种于一般露天苗圃土壤中，可长至2公尺以上。向日葵生长相当迅速，通常种植约两个月即可开花，其花型有单瓣、重瓣或单花、多花之分，花期相当长久可达两周以上。
【从生物科学上分析向日葵向日原因】
那么向日葵究竟向不向日？答案是：要看处于什么生长阶段。像工具书那样笼统地说向日葵“常朝着太阳”，是不准确的。
向日葵从发芽到花盘盛开之前这一段时间，的确是向日的，其叶子和花盘在白天追随太阳从东转向西，不过并非即时的跟随，植物学家测量过，其花盘的指向落后太阳大约12度，即48分钟。太阳下山后，向日葵的花盘又慢慢往回摆，在大约凌晨3点时，又朝向东方等待太阳升起。
在阳光的照射下，生长素在向日葵背光一面含量升高，刺激背光面细胞拉长，从而慢慢地向太阳转动。在太阳落山后，生长素重新分布，又使向日葵慢慢地转回起始位置，也就是东方。
但是，花盘一旦盛开后，就不再向日转动，而是固定朝向东方了。为什么最后要面向东方而不是其他方向或朝上呢？这可能是自然选择的结果，对向日葵的繁衍有益处。向日葵的花粉怕高温，如果温度高于30摄氏度，就会被灼伤，因此固定朝向东方，可以避免正午阳光的直射，减少辐射量。但是，花盘一大早就受阳光照射，却有助于烘干在夜晚时凝聚的露水，减少受霉菌侵袭的可能性，而且在寒冷的早晨，在阳光的照射下使向日葵的花盘成了温暖的小窝，能吸引昆虫在那里停留帮助传粉。
向日葵的花托部生长素背光分布，所以背光侧的茎生长较快，茎就会向光源处弯曲向日葵，由于其生长前期的幼株顶端及中期的幼嫩花盘会跟着太阳转动得非常明显而得名。人们都认为向日葵朝阳仅与光能照射有关，其实与重力作用也有着密切关系。
植物体内会产生一种奇妙的生长素，大多集中在生长旺盛的部位，趋向衰老的组织和器官中则含量较少。这种植物生长素有三个特点：第一，能够促进（抑制）细胞的生长，加速（减慢）细胞的分裂繁殖；第二，背光，遇到光能照射，就跑到背光的一面去；第三，向地，在重力作用下，从植物的上端向下端运输，从背地一侧往向地一侧运输，而不能倒转过来运输。
旭日东升，翠绿欲滴的向日葵东侧由于受到阳光照射，致使生长旺盛的顶端幼茎在其背光的西侧生长素分布较多。这侧的细胞纵向伸长生长得快，结果使得幼茎朝向生长慢的东侧弯曲，即向日葵顶端（花盘）早晨向东弯曲。随着太阳在空中的移动，改变光照方向，向日葵顶端（花盘）也不断改变方向，中午直立，下午向西弯曲，这些都表现为茎顶弯曲的向光性。
太阳落山后，大地一片漆黑，由光能照射引起植物体内生长素分布不均的现象消失。但由重力作用而引起植物体内生长素分布不均，则从次要地位上升为主导地位。在向西弯曲的向日葵幼茎下侧（向地侧）分布较多的生长素，致使该侧细胞分裂增多、伸长，向地这侧生长得快，使得茎朝向生长慢的背地的上侧弯曲，结果使昼间弯曲的植株挺直。夜间向日葵植株的挺直，是向日葵与其它植物一样对重力的自然反应——茎背地生长而处于直立状态。
随着向日葵花盘的增大，向日葵早晨向东弯曲、中午直立、下午向西弯曲、夜间直立的周而复始的转向逐渐停止，花盘除表现为越来越明显的垂头外，朝向不再改变。抑制转向的因素，一是不断增大的花盘重力；二是成熟期临近，分生区和伸长区的生长过程已基本结束。而已不再是幼嫩茎的组织趋向衰老，生长素含量较少，且木栓层形成。在转向受抑制之初，当夜间茎顶直立后，最先接受早晨来自东方阳光的照射，为此，绝大部分花盘朝向东，又由于受抑制也有一个过程，是缓慢进行的，所以还能够向南偏转一个约30-40度的角度，久之便以花盘朝东南方向固定下来。
【花卉品种】
向日葵有着独特的美国风情，正是这样。野生的向日葵可能来自于大草原地区而它的形象和美国的早期历史互相交织在一起。美洲印第安人把向日葵磨成面粉作为一种食物来源。现在有一系列新的无花粉品种，这样消除了花粉脱落的问题。在加利福尼亚，最广泛种植的品种是“阳光明亮”，它有着金黄色的花朵，褐黄色的芯和硬实的杆。其它无花粉品种包括：
“月光明亮”柠檬黄的花瓣和黑褐色的芯；
“阳光光束”金黄色的花，绿色的芯；
“充满阳光的柠檬”亮黄色的花，黑色的芯；
“充满阳光的橙子”金黄色的花，黑色的芯。
我们都认识的向日葵有一个敞开的花面，其直径平均有5至6英寸，而芯就占去了整个花的60%。现在有几种新的品种背离了这个标准。“Sonja”有着中等大小，4英寸的金橙色花，带着黑色的芯。它适合在小一点的花束中作为向日葵的点缀。
“玩具熊”是另一种新奇的品种。它是一种矮小的品种，有着丰富的橙色花瓣，使得它有一种有些模糊的外表。
黄色是向日葵的主导色，但新的一些品种增添了浓红色和褐黄色。
“Floristan”是一种双色的品种，有着青铜色和红色的花朵，黄色的花尖和黑色的芯。“Prado Red”有着黑色的芯，周围包围着的是略带红的褐黄色花朵，直径约4英寸。其它带有这种丰富的、秋季的颜色有“秋季美”和“落日的余辉”。
【传说故事】
传说一
关于向日葵，曾有一个凄美的希腊神话传说。克吕提厄（Clytie）是一位海洋女神。她曾是太阳神赫利俄斯（Helius）的情人，但后来赫利俄斯又爱上波斯（Persia）公主琉科托厄（Leucothoe）。妒火中烧的克吕提厄向波斯王俄耳卡摩斯（Orchamus）告发了琉科托厄与赫利俄斯的关系。俄耳卡摩斯下令将不贞的女儿活埋。赫利俄斯得知此事后，彻底断绝了与克吕提厄的来往。痴情的克吕提厄一连数天不吃不喝，凝望着赫利俄斯驾驶太阳车东升西落，日渐憔悴，最终化为一株向阳花（向日葵）。
传说二
向日葵--俄罗斯国花。前苏联人民热爱向日葵，并将它定为国花。现在俄罗斯把国花仍定为向日葵“更无柳絮因风起，惟有葵花向日倾”。向日葵，向往光明之花，合人带来美好希望之花，它全身是宝，把自己无私地奉献给人类。关于向日葵，历史上有一美妙传说。古代有一位农夫女儿名叫明姑，她憨厚老实，长得俊俏，却被后娘“女霸王”视为眼中钉，受到百般凌辱虐待。一次，因一件小事，顶撞了后娘一句，惹怒了后娘，使用皮鞭抽打她，可一下失手打到了前来劝解的亲生女儿身上，这时后娘又气又恨，夜里趁明姑熟睡之际挖掉了她的眼睛。明姑疼痛难忍，破门出逃，不久死去，死后在她坟上开着一盘鲜丽的黄花，终日面向阳光，它就是向日葵。表示明姑向往光明，厌恶黑暗之意，这传说激励人们痛恨暴、黑暗，追求光明。这向日葵便繁衍至今。
传说三
关于向日葵，曾有一个凄美的传说。 克丽泰是一位水泽仙女。一天，她在树林里遇见了正在狩猎的太阳神阿波罗，她深深为这位俊美的神所着迷，疯狂地爱上了他。可是，阿波罗连正眼也不瞧她一下就走了。克丽泰热切地盼望有一天阿波罗能对她说说话，但她却再也没有遇见过他。于是她只能每天注视着天空，看着阿波罗驾着金碧辉煌的日车划过天空。她目不转睛地注视着阿波罗的行程，直到他下山。每天每天，她就这样呆坐着，头发散乱，面容憔悴。一到日出，她便望向太阳。后来，众神怜悯她，把她变成一大朵金黄色的向日葵。她的脸儿变成了花盘，永远向着太阳，每日追随他，向他诉说她永远不变的恋情。
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工艺、原料说明：一层牛皮雕刻染色，全手工制作。内芯为原色可撕可更换的原始质感的牛皮纸芯。
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Description
Name
Systematic name/Latin name: Helianthus annuus
English name: sunflower
Alias: Sunflower. Sun plant, sunflower, sunflower
The branch is the classification: Vegetable kingdom Plantae
Gate: Angiosperm gate Magnoliophyta
Outline: Double seed leaf plant outline Magnoliopsida
Item: Chrysanthemum item of Asterales
Branch: Compositae Asteraceae
Being: The sunflower is Helianthus
Planting: The sunflower plants H. annuus
Summary:
1 year lives the herb, the height 1~3 meters. Stem erectness, sturdy, circular multi-edges and corners, by white thick bristle.Leaf usual alternate growth, heart shape oval either egg circular, tip sharp suddenly or gradually point, has the base to leave 3 arteries, the edge has the thick denticle, both sides is rough, by the wool, is had the length handle. Capitulum, enormous, the diameter 10~30 centimeters...Summer blossoms, the inflorescence edge lives the yellow the ligulate flower, is not solid. Middle the inflorescence is both sexes tubular flowers, the brown or the purple, solid. The achene, pours the oval or the egg shape oval, the slightly flat pressure, the peel lignification, the gray or the black, are named the sunflower seed. Nature happy warm, drought resistance. Produces North America originally, the world has the cultivation.
Sunflower flower language meaning
The sunflower is Russia's national flower. This yearned for that flower of the light, brings the happy hope to the human. The fable ancient times had a farmer daughter named minggu,is humiliated the maltreatment by the stepmother.One time has provoked the stepmother,night sleeps time has been dug the eye by the stepmother. minggu runs away, soon died, after dying, in the grave is blooming a beautifully vivid Chrysanthemum, faced the sunlight all day long, it was the sunflower. The sunflower explained that minggu yearns for the light, meaning of the loathing darkness, this fable drove that the people hate the violence, darkness, the pursue light.
The sunflower is called the sun flower, often acquires fame because of its flower toward the sun. English called that it sunflower is actually not because of its this characteristic, but because its Chrysanthemum opens resembles sun's reason, although sunflower also how many belts “to sun” meaning. a sunflower word was taking advantage of translates the 16th century to the 17th century from Latin flos solis. Sunflower's French and Italian name tournesol, girasol same Chinese name is the same, is also based on this characteristic names “to the sun”. Because the American State Of Kansas is rich in the sunflower to have the Sunflower State alternate name.
Sunflower's colored language has many kinds
(1) the birthday is colored: the sun
Sunflower colored language: the sunflower has phototropism, the people said that it is “the sun plant”, winds around the flower along with the sun. Added the empire in ancient times's Inca Empire,It is the sun god symbol. Therefore sunflower's colored language is - the sun. Receives this to plant flowers the human who the blessing is born, has a like sun bright, the joyful heart. He is the object which many people adore, admire, also he is always therefore unable to stabilize, and earnest accepts a sentiment, has the late marriage tendency.
(2) the birthday is colored: Wild sunflower (Perennial Sunflower)
colored language: Hits it off well with one another (Affinity)
the wild sunflower's use to be very broad: The seed may make the dessert, also to be possible to refine the cooking oil, the leaf blade is the domestic animal affection feed, the flower may make the dye and so on. It and our daily life, but is closely linked, is one kind the plant which quite hits it off well with one another with the humanity. Therefore, its colored language is - hits it off well with one another. Receives this to plant flowers the blessing fresh person is the ideal sweetheart, is the best life-long wife. In order to let you he (she) soon get married.
(3) glory, arrogant, loyal, admire
(4) sunflower's colored language is happiness which brave pursues itself to want
(5) sunflower colored language: Admire, glory, loyal
(6) sunflower's colored language is - - the silence love. The sunflower calls looking sun lotus. A very beautiful name. When Vincent gives his body's that small part he loves is the human, not only that silences love.
[flowers and plants variety]
The sunflower has the unique American character and style, is precisely this. The wild sunflower possibly comes from the prairie area, but its image and US's early history interweaves mutually in the same place. The Americas Indians grind to the sunflower the bread flour to take one kind of food origin. Now has a series of new non-pollen variety, like this eliminated the question which the pollen falls off. In California, the most widespread planter's variety is “the sunlight is bright”, it has the golden yellow flowers, the brown-yellow core and the sturdy and healthy pole. Other non-pollen variety includes:
“the moonlight is bright” the lemon yellow flower petal and the vandyck brown core;
“sunlight light beam” golden yellow flower, green core;
“is full of the sunlight the lemon” the light yellow flower, the black core;
“is full of the sunlight the orange” the golden yellow flower, the black core.
We knew the sunflower has the woman with a made-up face who opens wide, its diameter has equally 5 to 6 inches, but the core occupied the entire flower 60%. Now had several kind of new varieties to depart from this standard. “Sonja” has the median size, 4 inch golden orange are colored, are bringing the black core. It suits in the small spot bouquet of flowers takes the sunflower the embellishment.
“the toy bear” is another kind of novel variety. It is one kind of diminutive variety, has the rich orange flower petal, enables it to have one kind of somewhat fuzzy semblances.
The yellow is sunflower's leading color, but the new some varieties have increased thick red and the brown-yellow.
“Floristan” is one kind of bi-color variety, has the bronzing and the red flowers, decadent colored sharp and black core. “Prado Red” has the black core, what the surroundings are surrounding is slightly brings the red brown-yellow flowers, the diameter the approximately 4 inches. Other have this kind rich, the autumn color to have “autumn beauty” and “the setting sun afterglow”.
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por-tew-LAK-uh -- carries milk ... Dave's Botanary
awl-lur-RAY-see-uh -- edible vegetable ... Dave's Botanary
commonly known as: common purslane • Adi: dongal oying, gubor oying • Apatani: lai hamang, pathavi • Assamese: মালভোগ খুতুৰা শাক malbhog khutur shaak • Bengali: বড় লনিয়া bara laniya, সি কলস ghee kalam, নুনিয়া nunia • Bhojpuri: नोनीया साग noneeya saag • Bodo: hangsogarmai • Dogri: कुल्फा kulfa, लूनक loonak • Garo: gagakjapha • Gujarati: મોટી લુણી moti luni • Hindi: घोल ghol, कांडली kandli, लोणा lona, लोनिया loniya, नूनिया nuniya • Kachchhi: કુનબો kunbo, લાખા લુણી lakha luni, વડી લુણી vadi luni • Kannada: ದೊಡ್ಡ ಗೋಣಿ ಸೊಪ್ಪು dodda goni soppu, ಕಿರುಗೋಣಿ kirugoni • Kashmiri: नुनर् nunar • Konkani: गोळ gol • Malayalam: കൊഴുപ്പ kozhuppa, മണൽചീര manalcheera, ഉപ്പുചീര uppucheera • Manipuri: ꯂꯩꯕꯥꯛ ꯀꯨꯟꯗꯣ leibak kundo • Marathi: घोळ ghol • Mizo: an-thau, hlo-thau • Nepali: गड्यॉउला झार gadyaulaa jhaar, कुल्फा साग kulfaa saag, नोना nonaa, नून ढिकी noon dhikee, पाइते झार paaite jhaar • Nyishi: osit oyik, pali echi, tadar-oo • Odia: ଲୋଣୀ loni • Persian: خرفه khurfa • Punjabi: ਧਮਣੀ dhamni, ਕੁਲਫਾ kulfa, ਲੂਨਕ lunak • Rajasthani: लूणखा lunkha, लूंणक्यो lunkio • Sanskrit: घोटिका ghotica, लोणिका lonika • Santali: ᱢᱚᱴᱟ ᱩᱨᱤᱪ ᱟᱞᱟᱝ mota uric alan • Tagin: tadar-oo • Tamil: கோழிக்கீரை koli-k-kirai, பருப்புக்கீரை paruppu-k-kirai • Telugu: బొడ్డు పావిలికూర boddu pavilikura, గంగాబాయిలికూర gangabaili kura, పప్పుకూర pappukura, పెద్ద పావిలికూర pedda pavilikura • Tulu: ಗೋಳಿಪದ್ಪೆ golipadpe • Urdu: گهول ghol, کانڐلي kandli, لونا lona, لونيا loniya, نونيا nuniya
botanical names: Portulaca oleracea L. ... synonyms: listed at POWO, retrieved 29 April 2024
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.El tarro blanco (Tadorna tadorna) es una especie de ave anseriforme de la familia Anatidae. Es un pato común y ampliamente extendido en Eurasia.
Descripción
El tarro blanco es una ave llamativa con aspecto intermedio entre pato y ganso. Tiene el pico rojo, la cabeza y la parte superior del cuello verde oscuro, y el resto del cuerpo blanco, con una franja pectoral de color castaño y plumaje negro en escapulares, rémiges, punta de la cola y línea del vientre.
Los dos sexos son similares, pero la hembra tiene tonos más apagados. El macho presenta una protuberancia en la base del pico en la época reproductora.
Distribución
El tarro blanco cría en la zona templada de Eurasia. La mayoría de las poblaciones emigran a zonas subtropicales en invierno, pero reside permanentemente en amplias zonas costeras del oeste de Europa, aparte de movimientos hacia zonas más seguras en la época de muda, como el mar de Frisia en la costa del norte de Alemania y los Países Bajos.
En la Península Ibérica, el tarro blanco es invernante, pero anida esporádicamente en algunas zonas. Ocupa zonas costeras y también lagunas y embalses del interior.
Comportamiento y hábitat
La mayoría de las parejas abandonan a sus crías antes de que alcancen su completo desarrollo y se marchan a lugares seguros y tranquilos junto al mar en la época de muda. En dicha época, los tarros (al igual que otros patos) pierden sus plumas rémiges, lo que los hace muy vulnerables a sus depredadores, pues les impide volar hasta que les salen las nuevas. Los pollos quedan agrupados en "guarderías", al cuidado de unas pocas hembras.
El tarro blanco habita estuarios, costas someras y orillas de lagos interiores salinos en terrenos abiertos. Se alimenta de moluscos, pequeños crustáceos, insectos y pequeñas cantidades de materia vegetal.
Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: DATING AT CINEMA (3 of 5): The movie: Interlude /
CITA EN EL CINE (3 de 5): La Peli: Intermedio
(Read in this order) PAG: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286.
PHOTOSTORY: In English / En Español
Dom: Come with me! :D
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Dom: Ven! :D
COLLABORATION:
- Dom y Akari en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es
- Cinema's diorama by Minao. Sweets shop's diorama by Sheryl and Minao Collaboration.
- Little interpretation of Mad_Pullip's Emily as a MUSE fan.
SHERYL LINKS:
- Pullip .es: Las Fotohistorias de Sheryl
- Sheryl's Flickr: Photostories 2011 - Sketches 2011 / Photostories 2012 - Sketches 2012
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I spent 3 hours at the Missouri Botanical Garden this morning. . . and, as is typical, came home with 250 shots.
That means a lot of work and time going through them, deleting them down to about the 50 best, and then processing them. I just got started when I got this result, (partially a happy accident) and I thought it was an exciting image, so I wanted to share it with my friends here on flickr.
It is a slightly missaligned 3-shot High Dynamic Range (hdr) image of a waterlily and its reflection. The water was somewhat dirty, but I liked the resulting texture. I turned it sideways, and that hopefully adds to the interest, because it then isn't automatically seen as a waterlily and it's reflection.
An interesting article on photography and copyrights:
www.flickr.com/groups/professionalphotography/discuss/721...
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Aínsa, Huesca (Spain).
ENGLISH
The church of Santa María de Aínsa, is a good example of the Medieval architecture of the Sobrarbe area, although throughout its history it has undergone many modifications of the several rooms the temple is made up of: church, subterranean crypt, cloister and belfry tower.
The origins of the temple go back to the XIth century, being an irregularly proportioned construction of rough ashlar.
The church is accessed by way of an open door with a semicircular arc and archivolts, upheld by columns with carved capitals, and on the higher part of the entrance the usual Romanesque chrysmon may be seen.
However, the church has another entrance at the back, which acts as a junction between the temple proper, the tower and the irregular pentagon-shaped medieval cloister.
From the church, entering from the first stretch of the nave, one reaches the basement, a crypt opened beneath the front part of the temple.
On the other hand, to visit the tower and enjoy a beautiful view of the Aínsa’s historical urban area and its surroundings, one must enter from the exterior, through an elevated door. When one reaches the belfry’s openings, it is easy to understand why this tower had religious uses, but above all military ones , as it is an excellent observation tower for the Cinca river.
Source: www.caiaragon.com/en/actividades/index.asp?idAct=87&i...
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CASTELLANO
La Iglesia parroquial de Santa María de Ainsa (Provincia de Huesca, España) es un templo de estilo románico iniciado en el siglo XI y finalizado en el siglo XII. Se consagró en 1181.
De sencilla portada de cuatro arquivoltas apoyadas en otros tantos pares de columnas de capiteles labrados. Desde el interior del templo de única nave con bóveda de medio cañón apuntado se accede a la cripta y el claustro, ambos de gran interés.
La Cripta cuenta con 18 columnas y capiteles. Su torre, de dimensiones únicas en el románico aragonés, hace imprescindible su visita, con saeteras para la defensa, se alza entre las casas del pueblo y domina el entorno. Consta de cuatro pisos diferenciados, uno de ellos, el tercero, destinado a campanario.
El claustro, totalmente irregular, es un ejemplo de adaptación al medio. En el interior se puede admirar la obra del ábside realizada en piedra blanda de color rojo. La bóveda es de horno y tiene el eje ligeramente desviado del de la nave.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_de_Santa_Mar%c3%ada_(Ainsa)
Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: DATING AT CINEMA (3 of 5): The movie: Interlude /
CITA EN EL CINE (3 de 5): La Peli: Intermedio
(Read in this order) PAG: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286.
PHOTOSTORY:
Take: …
COLLABORATION:
- Dom y Akari en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es
- Cinema's diorama by Minao. Sweets shop's diorama by Sheryl and Minao Collaboration.
- Little interpretation of Mad_Pullip's Emily as a MUSE fan.
SHERYL LINKS:
- Pullip .es: Las Fotohistorias de Sheryl
- Sheryl's Flickr: Photostories 2011 - Sketches 2011 / Photostories 2012 - Sketches 2012
No voy al mar en este ancho verano
cubierto de calor, no voy más lejos
de los muros, las puertas y las grietas
que circundan las vidas y mi vida.
En qué distancia, frente a cuál ventana,
en qué estación de trenes
dejé olvidado el mar y allí quedamos,
yo dando las espaldas a lo que amo
mientras allá seguía la batalla
de blanco y verde y piedra y centelleo.
Así fue, así parece que así fue:
cambian las vidas, y el que va muriendo
no sabe que esa parte de la vida,
esa nota mayor, esa abundancia
de cólera y fulgor quedaron lejos,
te fueron ciegamente cercenadas.
No, yo me niego al mar desconocido,
muerto, rodeado de ciudades tristes,
mar cuyas olas no saben matar,
ni cargarse de sal y de sonido:
Yo quiero el mío mar, la artillería
del océano golpeando las orillas,
aquel derrumbe insigne de turquesas,
la espuma donde muere el poderío.
No salgo al mar este verano: estoy
encerrado, enterrado, y a lo largo
del túnel que me lleva prisionero
oigo remotamente un trueno verde,
un cataclismo de botellas rotas,
un susurro de sal y de agonía.
Es el libertador. Es el océano,
lejos, allá, en mi patria, que me espera.
Neruda
Added to EXPLORE for April 2nd 2009. Highest position: #276
This unusual and vacant home is here in University Place, not too far from Day Island. The people who used to live there certainly had an affinity for "gingerbread" trim and "Little Dutch Boy/Girl" cutout designs. I don't think I have ever seen anything quite like it. They even had a matching structure that to me looks like a playhouse in the yard. It looks like a cinderblock home and from what my mother said was seen more in the 40's around here than the 50's. Regardless, I found this home totally fascinating from a photographic point of view. I chose to shoot this as an HDR using 3 different exposures. After tonemapping I worked with it further in Photoshop Elements 3, adding an Orton technique for more "kitschiness". The wet, rainy and windy weather added to the depressed mood I got from this abandoned home.
This is a hand-held, 3 exposure, (-2ev, 0ev, +2ev) HDR, processed and tonemapped with Photomatix and further processed with PhotoShop Elements 3 and Microsoft's Picture It! Premium 10.
Searles Boatyard, Jenkins Street, Port Adelaide.
Searles boatyard, slipway and walkway at Port Adelaide. Morning sun reflecting off the Naval Cadet Yard on the left; Adelaide Brighton Cement can be seen in the background on the right. 170 years of shipwright history will be bulldozed to make way for the most innovative harbour front development in Australia.
The National Trust, however, thinks the boatyards should be preserved: From the earliest settlement of South Australia, Port Adelaide was crucially important not only as a place for the import and export of cargo and the transit of people, but also for the construction and servicing of boats and ships. Maintaining marine vessels was vital in order to sustain trade and communication with the other Australian colonies, Britain (the transplanting society) and the world at large. Without marine industries South Australia would not have survived.
It is a practical necessity for boat yards to be located on the shore of the waters they serve. The most suitable area in Port Adelaide for operating boat yards was the muddy, gently sloping mangrove swamp on the northern side of Gawler Reach, where the topography and orientation favoured the building, slipping and repair of boats without interrupting the other activities of the working port.
In 1876 the Adelaide Observer noted that “the whole of the side of the river down to McAllen’s yards [east of the present Birkenhead Bridge at Cruickshank’s Corner] is tenanted by ship artisans”.
Searles Boatyard, A McFarlane and Sons and the Central Slipping Company [[were]] rare survivals of the continuous maritime activity in Jenkins Street, Birkenhead, while the Sailing Club buildings [[were]] a physical reminder of the pleasurable side of boating.
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Head Above Water (Life Preserver — Click to Break Glass)
— Head Above Water, by Hall & Oates
THE QUIZ — Who built the first camera that was small and portable enough to be practical for photography? When was it built? And what was the builder's nationality? (I promise you, the answer will knock your tripod out from underneath you. :P)
The rules remain the same. No cheating! No Googling for the answer. If you choose to answer the question, leave the answer that first comes to your mind in a comment. I'll post the answer along with my next upload.
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THE PHOTO — This photo was taken on the same day as Puppy Dawg. (NOTE: Puppy Dawg is currently at 362 views! Thank you everyone!) It was actually taken before I spotted Puppy Dawg, and this scene is located further upriver from the Atlantic Ocean, behind some breakers, which is why the water here looks so calm. Puppy Dawg's fur was all blown about because of the wind coming off the Atlantic Ocean. Nonetheless, it was no less windy at the location of this particular photo.
What I love about this photo is its perspective. It looks like I was down among the rocks, but I was not. I was actually standing on a walkway a couple feet above them. The illusion is created by the wide-angle lens I was using and the in-camera "cropping" done to make sure that the walkway didn't appear in the photo.
Be sure to click on that life preserver link, too. This photo is best appreciated when wearing one.
Exposure: Aperture Priority | 1/40 sec | f/22 | ISO 100 | 16mm.
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PREVIOUS QUIZ QUESTION — Who invented the first electric car and when? And what was their nationality?
ANSWER — Believe it or not, "small electric vehicles predate the Otto cycle upon which Diesel (diesel engine) and Benz (gasoline engine) based the automobile." (emphasis added)¹ Knowing that, you have to wonder why electric vehicles never really came to fruition sooner. The standard arguments generally revolve around efficiency, but I think that's complete bullshit, to be honest. It's no small secret that business's primary concern is profit, even to the point of ignoring efficiency (except, of course, when seeking more efficient ways of increasing profits). I think the subtext I've inserted into this paragraph is clear.
Moving on, Robert Anderson, a Scottish businessman, was the inventor of the "first crude electric carriage." He invented this carriage sometime between 1832 and 1839. In contrast to my previous quiz regarding the invention of television, I find it interesting that although the exact date of Anderson's invention is unknown, there is apparently no doubt as to whom credit is to be given for this invention.
¹ from the Wikipedia article "Electric Car — 1830s - 1900s: Early History."
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NOTE — Sorry that I've not posted anything new lately. I've been away for the past few days (except to get online for a few minutes to comment on a few photos posted by my contacts each day). I'm still busy working on my office project. I'd mentioned before that I've been working on finishing a project to redecorate my office. Well, in all honesty, all the redecoration has been done for a while now: the walls and trim were painted (although the two walls I didn't paint could stand to be REpainted), and the new furniture was bought months ago. What's been crying out to be done, however, was the reorganisation of my books, my CDs, my DVDs, a thorough overhaul of my files and filing system, and a general cleaning up of the disarray that my home office has been in for months now.
My goal after getting laid off has been to go full bore after a career change, and it requires that I get this project done if I'm to hope for any semblance of success in my endeavor. Generally speaking, when I'm at work, I do my damnedest to keep my workspace clean and orderly. When I get home, however, I don't give a fuck. What I have in mind to do—freelance writing, both fiction and non-fiction—means working at home, and since I much prefer a clean and orderly work space, you should now understand the need and urgency for my getting this done. I've been home from Portugal now for two-and-a-half weeks, and I've allowed myself too much leeway in being lazy about this.
The "thorough overhaul of my files and filing system" was the most massive task of all. I quite literally had to go through five years' worth of files: credit card receipts/statements, bank statements, stock account statements (although those are only a couple years old), health benefits shit (one folder was easily 5 or 6 inches thick with stuff; that's 12,7 - 15,25 cm for my metric contacts), divorce papers (went through that back in 2003-2004), income tax files, and on and on and on.
I'm nearly done now, but there is still work to do. The books are done, the CDs are done, the DVDs are done, and the files are done!!! Got the last bits of that done Friday morning. This morning, I started on the closet. I've got office supplies and a wire shelf full of stuff in the closet. The top shelf in the closet has been rearranged and I actually managed to gain not only more than a foot of extra space, but also a much more pleasing arrangement of things, too. I now need to work on the wire shelf, and a couple of other things, and then the closet will be done.
There are still more things to do, however. The biggest issue right now is wiring concerns: I'm wanting to overhaul how I've done the wiring arrangement I created to connect my laptop to my external monitor, my external hard drives, my router (wish it was wireless), and my cable modem. Until now, it's been a complete pain-in-the-ever-lovin'-arse whenever I've wanted to disconnect the laptop from these things, especially the removal/reinstallation of the laptop's power cord, so that I could take it with me on vacation. I happened upon an idea just the other day that I think will do just the trick! :D (Another part of this wiring rearrangement will involve yet another trip to IKEA, where I will buy another insert (w/ door) for my bookcase (and then will FORCIBLY modify that insert as I did to the previous one I purchased), as well as another basket for the storage of photography related items. I'm also waiting for the Container Store to finish sending me some items I'd ordered to get my main desk drawer organised.)
Lately, despite the incredible progress I've made, this has been feeling like "the never-ending project." :P
I promise to post photos of the finished project, but I really won't have much in the way of "before and after" photos, as I didn't take any "before" photos until after I'd started working on this seemingly Herculean task, so you get what you get and you'll have to live with it. :P
See the article at www.eriegaynews.com/news/article.php?recordid=201110pride...
Erie Pride Parade & Rally a Great Time!
by Michael Mahler
On Saturday, August 27, about 230 people participated in the Erie Pride Parade & Rally. This year’s Pride events were organized by the Pride Planning committee, which is an informal coalition of groups and individuals.
Parade
About 100 people marched in the parade from the Zone Dance Club to Perry Square. John Daly King was the Grand Marshal for the parade, in a convertible driven by Caitlyn. Also in the parade were beloved local gay icons Jesse and Ricardo, who rode their tandem bike.
Parade units included
Lake Erie Belly Dance
Doctor Who contingent
PFLAG Erie/Crawford County
Erie Gay News
Lake Erie Derby Dames
LBT Women
Latonia Theatre
PFLAG Butler
Erie Sisters
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Erie
Community United Church
OUT (Pittsburgh newspaper)
There were also many people marching as individuals, as well as a float carrying current and former Miss Eries.
Rally
The rally in Perry Square begins at 2 PM and will include speakers and performers. Please check in at the registration table when you arrive in Perry Square. The rally will include a variety of vendors and information booths.
Speakers and performers included:
Greg Rabb, Openly gay Jamestown City Council President and Councilman at Large
Misty Kall, Miss Erie 2011
Rich McCarty of Equality PA, Greater Erie Alliance for Equality and Community United Church
Chris Wolfe, Erie Idol finalist 2011
Tammie Johnson, 2 term President of ACLU-NWPA
Brian T, singer, also with Pittsburgh Out TV
Jason Landau Goodman, founding Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Student Equality Coalition. The first and only youth-led statewide LGBTQ organization in the nation
Michelle Michaels, Former Miss Erie and Coordinator for FACE Show at Zone
Fiona Hensley, Chair of the Student Network Across Pennsylvania, SNAP, Regional Chair of the Erie-West region for SNAP and President of Queers and Allies at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA.
Diva D’Vyne
Games
The Dunk a Drag Queen game was very popular! We look forward to making this an annual tradition
Donors
Many businesses and organizations gave generously to help support Pride this year. These included
AdultMart
Allegheny College Bookstore
BeautiControl
Blue Heron Inn
Body Language
Chicory Hill Herbs
Coca-Cola/Erie
Country Fair
Craze Night Club
Crime Victim Center of Erie County
Douglas Kolcun
Drenched Fur
Earthshine Company
Eerie Horror Film Festival
emma's revolution
Erie Book Store
Erie County Democratic Party
Erie County Department of Health
Erie Playhouse
Erie Seawolves
Erie Sisters
Erie Spine and Wellness
Family United Counseling
Gaudenzia / SHOUT Outreach
Giant Eagle - Buffalo Road
Glass Growers
Good Health Rejuvenation
Greater Erie Alliance for Equality, Inc.
Hal Leonard Performing Arts Publishing Group
Hollywood Stories
Horomanski's DJ'ing Services
JR's Last Laugh
Kensington Books
La bella
Larese Floral Design
LBT Women
Lion's Den Adult Super Store
MLR Books
Pennsylvania Coaltion to End Homelessness
Pie in the Sky Cafe
Presque Isle Gallery Coffeehouse
Sam's Club
Shakira Nakelle's Mementos, Gifts & More
Silk Screen Unlimited
Smith's Hot Dogs
State Farm Insurance Agent Natalie Braddock
Tanglez Hair and Nail Studio
The Ringbearer
Tops Friendly Markets - W 38th St
Wegman's- Peach St
Wendy's of Erie
Zone Dance Club
Committee Members & Volunteers
Many people from the committee worked hard to make the day enjoyable for everyone! Committee members included
Season
Chris
Preston
Mark H
Erin Moll
Amy
Sue McCabe
Alex
Jeff H
John Daly King
Kerry
In addition to the committee members, volunteers included:
Kevin Schultz
Dok
Johauna
Wanda
Bob H
Eric Rogers
Maria S.
Deb Spilko
Brian
Info Tables & Vendors
Info tables included:
Adagio Health
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), NWPA Chapter
Community United Church
Crime Victim Center of Erie County
Equality Pennsylvania
Erie County Democratic Party
Erie County Human Relations Commission
Erie Gay News
Erie Sisters
Lake Erie Derby Dames
LBT Women
Pennsylvania Student Equality Coalition
PFLAG Erie/Crawford County
SafeNet Center
United Way of Erie County
Voices for Independence
Vendors included
BeautiControl
Book Merchant
Christopher's Novelty Gifts
Shakira Nakelle's Mementos, Gifts & More
Collecting Food
We collected 23 pounds of food for the Second Harvest Food Bank of NW PA.
Studio pics from readers of MATRIXSYNTH via the MATRIXSYNTH Lounge.
Facebook gallery where you can find follow-up comments for each here. Also keep an eye out for new studio pics there.
Featured in order:
1 & 2. Erwan Coïc
This is my studio !
3. Lorenzo D Metallan
This is my setup for a live recording few weeks ago
4. Stu Smith
Seeing as we're doing studio selfies here's my little corner of the world.
5. Phil Croker
And here's my little setup at Pooh Corner (so named 'cos of the wallpaper..) Please be kind, I know it's nowhere near as good as some of your rigs
6. Francesco Synth Meeting Mulassano
Homework!
7. Jason Duerr
Location: Chicago
Results: belmontandclark.bandcamp.com/
8. Nick Morey
Most of my collection Betamaxx
9 & 10. Erik Chalmers
my place
11. Eric Vetterick
blurry ipad shot of my crap...
12. Steve Drakeem
13. Adam Gahan
Okay so i may as well join in. I don't have a huge setup but i try and make the most of what I've got. After all I'm only 19, I will most definitely acquire more gear as time progresses.
14. Gabriel Morley
15. Charles Mickaelstein
Same thing as Adam Gahan, I don't have a huge analog setup but I'm glad to have what I have
(plus some small synths, like monotrons, Casio VL-Tone, etc).
I do that kind of things with those :
soundcloud.com/warngmusic/extreme-transudation
16. Marco Vedder
My setup — at Club Tabu.
17. Marco Vedder
My setup
night lights
18 & 19. Jeremy Olson
20. Hani Debbache
21. Mark Milanovich
Jumping on the bandwagon. Couldn't fit all this in one shot.
It's a hell of a mess right now. More pics as I organize it more.
22. Matthew Willox
I'm a complete minimalist.
23. Ricardo Schnidrig
Acid House from Argentina !
24. Brandon McWhorter
Sure, why not? Here's 1/2 of my "mess" — with Roland TB-303 with Kenton CV Mod, Kawai R-100, Tom Oberheim SEM Pro, Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer, Roland RS-505, Roland SBX-10, Roland TR-808 with Kenton MIDI, Roland Jupiter 6 with Europa, Genoqs Octopus, Roland JP-8 Jupiter 8, John Bowen Solaris, Oberheim M-12 Matrix 12, Garfield Electronics MiniDoc, Oberheim OB-X 8 Voice, Oberheim OB-Xa 8 Voice, Roland JP-4 Jupiter 4, Roland PG-800, Oberheim OB-8 with MIDI, Roland Juno 106 with Kiwi106 and Roland SH-101 (Red).
25. Martin Ley
There you go ‘Synth sluts’ Me at the controls back in 1985
26. Huskypop Huskypopo
27. Michal Patulski
Wow, some of your collections are sick! This is my current setup and nothing is there in comparison ha ha.
28 & 29. Hideously Disfigured Hipsters
30. Thomas Götze
Wanna play a game?
31. Dmitri Sfc
32. Shawn Shirey
This is ground control to Major Tom...
33. Nicolas Guichard
How to choose?
34. Colin Johnson
Since everyone's doing one of these right now.. here my spot. just moved in last month.. so you'll have to tolerate the mess and.. also one picture came off instagram. oh well.
35. Fede Manfredi
This is my little studio, at last, in order!
36. Michael Dennis Raleigh
I guess if everyone's putting up their studios... Here's me and mine
37. Bjørn Viggo Andersen
And here is ours
38. Nicky Bendix
My little workspace - thank you for all your inspiring photos!
39. Gavin McCloy
My modest setup
40. Mike Bradberry
Joining the bandwagon.
41. David J Warman
42 & 43. Trevor Gavilan
44. Joshua Andrew Coburn
45. Max Sokoleski
My tiny dungeon studio
46 & 47. TB Aothree
48. Walter Coter
Many Thanks for all members
49. Mark Ireland
My minimal (but very usable) studio setup.
50. Walter Coter
51. Adrian Earnshaw
As everyone is sharing pictures of their studios, here's my humble setup.
52. Discretman Jeff
Ok, this is my my gaming room !
53. David J Warman
54. Yuuki Koide
my studio
55. Olivier Lebra
my "living studio"
56 & 57. Matthew Thomas 1:48pm Mar 23
When in Rome. Geoscience Studio, kind of set up in an awkwardly shaped room, hence two pictures.
58. Jon Adams
This is my studio while I'm confined to bed - missing my hardware - microbrutes +modular the most
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An impressive show of beautiful cars and models
I was really surprised with the extremely friendly behavior of the models I photographed. Despite the huge crowd of a Saturday afternoon I managed to collect some thrilling smiles and poses.
This show was a great opportunity to do a kind of picture I really like: Model Photography.
For all the shots I used my D300 together with my fantastic and sharp Nikon 50mm f/1.4D plus a SB-800 with diffuser mounted on the camera in iTTL mode. It really worked like a charm.
Listen Sin miedo a nada Alex Ubago
Me muero por suplicarte que no te vayas, mi vida,
me muero por escucharte decir las cosas que nunca digas,
más me callo y te marchas,
mantengo la esperanza
de ser capaz algún día
de no esconder las heridas
que me duelen al pensar que te voy queriendo cada día un poco más
¿Cuanto tiempo vamos a esperar?
Me muero por abrazarte y que me abraces tan fuerte,
me muero por divertirte y que me beses cuando despierte
acomodado en tu pecho, hasta que el sol aparezca.
Me voy perdiendo en tu aroma,
me voy perdiendo en tus labios que se acercan
susurrando palabras que llegan a este pobre corazón,
voy sintiendo el fuego en mi interior.
Me muero por conocerte, saber qué es lo que piensas,
abrir todas tus puertas
y vencer esas tormentas que nos quieran abatir,
centrar en tus ojos mi mirada,
cantar contigo al alba
besarnos hasta desgastarnos nuestros labios
y ver en tu rostro cada día
crecer esa semilla
crear, soñar, dejar todo surgir,
aparcando el miedo a sufrir.
Me muero por explicarte lo que pasa por mi mente,
me muero por intrigarte y seguir siendo capaz de sorprenderte,
sentir cada día ese flechazo al verte,
¿Qué más dará lo que digan?¿Qué más dará lo que piensen?
Si estoy loco es cosa mía
y ahora vuelvo a mirar el mundo a mi favor,
vuelvo a ver brillar la luz del sol.
Me muero por conocerte, saber qué es lo que piensas,
abrir todas tus puertas
vencer esas tormentas que nos quieran abatir,
centrar en tus ojos mi mirada,
cantar contigo al alba
besarnos hasta desgastarnos nuestros labios
y ver en tu rostro cada día
crecer esa semilla
crear, soñar, dejar todo surgir,
aparcando el miedo a sufrir.
Santa Pau es un municipio catalán, (España), en la provincia de Gerona, ubicado en la comarca de La Garrotxa.
Está situado en el centro mismo del Parque Natural de la Zona Volcánica de la Garrotxa, entre los municipios de Olot y Mieres, de relieve accidentado por los conos volcánicos del Croscat, Roca Negra y Santa Margarita y por las sierras de Finestres, el Corb y Sant Juliá del Mont.
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La consagració de Santa Maria de Lluçà, fou duta a terme pel bisbe de Vic, Idelguer, el 22 de maig de l’any 905. Aquesta església es trobava ad radices castri de Luzano, al peu del castell de Lluçà- és a dir, al lloc actual-. Fou erigida pel prevere Vininza i dotada pels parroquians. Estava formada per una nau amb un petit creuer, en el qual hi havia un absis central i una absidiola a cada extrem. Diu l’acta de consagració que el bisbe va subjectar a aquesta església els vilars o centres d’explotació rural que es repartiren el terme del castell de Lluçà, i moltes esglesioles que ja funcionaven. Santa Maria va ser la cap de les esglésies sufragànies de Sant Pere de Torroella o del Grau, de Santa Eulàlia de Puig-oriol, Sant Agustí de Lluçanès, Sant Climent de la Riba i de Sant Cristòfol de Borrassers. Així doncs, al segle X, ens trobem que les terres lluçaneses estaven organitzades, i el centre era Santa Maria de Lluçà. Cap al 1170 i 1190 ja es va fer una reedificació. La nova església es va construïr sota un mòdul romànic. Hi havia tres altars de l’absis principal, i dues absidioles laterals dedicades a Santa Maria a Sant Joan i Sant Miquel. Els de Santa Maria Magdalena i Sant Agustí serien més tardans, encara que anteriors a 1270. A l’altar e Santa Magdalena, se li va afegir l’advocació de Sant Vicenç, en abandonar-se la capella del Castell. Es va convertir en un temple més gran que, amb moltes modificacions, és el que ens ha arribat als nostres dies.
Es pot assegurar que que abans del 1150 a Lluçà no hi havia cap comunitat, i que la seva església estava regida per un o més sacerdots. Es veu sobretot a través dels testaments dels senyors de Lluçà, que consideren Lluçà com una parròquia més, i per tant les seves preferències són pel monestir de Ripoll. A partir de 1154, ja es fan enterrar a Lluçà. Això ho coneixem gràcies al testament de Bernat Guillem de Lluçà. És a partir de 1168 que trobem la primera comunitat de canonges, amb el primer prior, Pere de Sagàs. És llavors quan s’assegura la subsitència de la comunitat gràcies a donacions. Per suposat, les més importants eren les dels senyors de Lluçà. El segle XIII, va ser el moment de major esplendor de la canònica ja que va rebre importants donacions dels propietaris de la zona. Ens fem una idea de la importància de la influència religiosa de Santa Maria en l’època quan veiem que la majoria de canonges que van excercir de canonges eren fills dels masos veïns. La canònica agustiniana estava sota la protecció de la de l’Estany i es beneficiava dels seus béns i càrrecs, que s’intercanviaven. Deuria ser en aquest s. XIII, tan pròsper, quan es va pintar el revestiment d’altar pintat sobre fusta, avui conservat al Museu Episcopal de Vic, i obra de l’anomenat Mestre de Lluçà. És una obra d’un viu cromatisme i una de les pintures més belles del romànic català. Cap a l’any 1330 comença la decadència espiritual i econòmica, fins a tal punt que al 1357, al monestir, hi havia només el prior, tres canonges i un deodonat.D’altra banda, els terratrèmols que van assolar Catalunya entre 1428 i 1448, van castigar Lluçà que va veure com s’esfondrava la nau de l’església, el campanar i algunes dependències monàstiques. L’any 1592, el papa sumprimeix les canòniques agustinianes a Catalunya, i la de Lluçà s’uneix a la Casa de Caritat de Barcelona que es queda amb tots els seus béns. Al segle XVII es converteix en santuari marià i es porten a terme transformacions a l’església, com l’aixacament del campanar, remodelamanet de la façana, una nova sagristia, un portal pel campanar.... Més tard, al segle XVIII es decora l’església seguint l’estil barroc i s’afegeix un pis amb porxades amb claustre. Ens trobem que de la primera església, no en queda res, excepte unes tombes antropomorfes que hi podrien correspondre. En unes reformes que hi feu la Diputació de Barcelona l’any 1967 es retorna a l’església la seva fesomia original del segle XII. Avui en dia conserva la majoria de frescos i pintures, així com alguna escultura de gran valor. Les seves obres formen un conjunt importantíssim del Romànic Català.
La consagración de Santa Maria de Lluçà, fue llevada a cabo por el obispo de Vic, Idelguer, el 22 de mayo del año 905. Esta iglesia se encontraba ad radices castro de Luzán, al pie del castillo de Lluçà-es decir, en el lugar actual-. Fue erigida por el presbítero Vininza y dotada por los parroquianos. Estaba formada por una nave con un pequeño crucero, en el que había un ábside central y una absidiola en cada extremo. Dice el acta de consagración que el obispo sujetó a esta iglesia los Vilars o centros de explotación rural que se repartieron el término del castillo de Lluçà, y muchas iglesias que ya funcionaban. Santa Maria fue la jefa de las iglesias sufragáneas de Sant Pere de Torroella o del Grau, de Santa Eulàlia de Puig-oriol, Sant Agustí de Lluçanès, Sant Climent de la Riba y de Sant Cristòfol de Borrassers. Así pues, el siglo X, nos encontramos que las tierras Lluçanesa estaban organizadas, y el centro era Santa Maria de Lluçà. Hacia el 1170 y 1190 ya se hizo una reedificación. La nueva iglesia se construyó bajo un módulo románico. Había tres altares del ábside principal, y dos absidiolos laterales dedicadas a Santa Maria en Sant Joan y Sant Miquel. Los de Santa Maria Magdalena y Sant Agustí serían más tardíos, aunque anteriores a 1270. En el altar y Santa Magdalena, se le añadió la advocación de Sant Vicenç, en abandonarse la capilla del Castillo. Se convirtió en un templo más grande que, con muchas modificaciones, es lo que nos ha llegado a nuestros días.
Se puede asegurar que que antes del 1150 en Lluçà no había ninguna comunidad, y que su iglesia estaba regida por uno o más sacerdotes. Se ve sobre todo a través de los testamentos de los señores de Lluçà, que consideran Lluçà como una parroquia más, y por tanto sus preferencias son por el monasterio de Ripoll. A partir de 1154, ya se hacen enterrar en Lluçà. Esto lo conocemos gracias al testamento de Bernat Guillem de Lluçà. Es a partir de 1168 que encontramos la primera comunidad de canónigos, con el primer prior, Pedro de Sagàs. Es entonces cuando se asegura la subsistencia de la comunidad gracias a donaciones. Por supuesto, las más importantes eran las de los señores de Lluçà. El siglo XIII, fue el momento de mayor esplendor de la canónica ya que recibió importantes donaciones de los propietarios de la zona. Nos hacemos una idea de la importancia de la influencia religiosa de Santa Maria en la época cuando vemos que la mayoría de canónigos que ejercer de canónigos eran hijos de los caseríos vecinos. La canónica agustiniana estaba bajo la protección de la de l'Estany y se beneficiaba de sus bienes y cargos, que se intercambiaban. Debería ser en este siglo XIII, tan próspero, cuando se pintó el revestimiento de altar pintado sobre madera, hoy conservado en el Museo Episcopal de Vic, y obra del llamado Maestro de Lluçà. Es una obra de un vivo cromatismo y una de las pinturas más bellas del románico catalán. Hacia el año 1330 comienza la decadencia espiritual y económica, hasta tal punto que en 1357, el monasterio, había sólo el prior, tres canónigos y un deodonat.D Por otra parte, los terremotos que asolaron Cataluña entre 1428 y 1448 , castigaron Lluçà que vio como se derrumba la nave de la iglesia, el campanario y algunas dependencias monásticas. En 1592, el papa sumprimeix las canónicas agustinianas en Cataluña, y la de Lluçà se une a la Casa de Caritat de Barcelona que se queda con todos sus bienes. En el siglo XVII se convierte en santuario mariano y se llevan a cabo transformaciones iglesia, como el aixacament del campanario, remodelamanet de la fachada, una nueva sacristía, un portal por el campanario .... Más tarde, en el siglo XVIII se decora la iglesia siguiendo el estilo barroco y se añade un piso con soportales con claustro. Nos encontramos que de la primera iglesia, no queda nada, salvo unas tumbas antropomorfas que podrían corresponder. En unas reformas que haga la Diputación de Barcelona en el año 1967 se devuelve la iglesia su fisonomía original del siglo XII. Hoy en día conserva la mayoría de frescos y pinturas, así como alguna escultura de gran valor. Sus obras forman un conjunto importantísimo del Románico Catalán.
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Starring Ray “Crash” Corrigan, Lee Van Atta, C. Montague Shaw, Monte Blue, Lois Wilde, John Merton, William Farnum.
Undersea Kingdom begins with a protracted introduction to our hero, US Navy lieutenant “Crash” Corrigan (Ray Corrigan), in a series of sequences that establish his athletic prowess. After Crash has excelled at football, wrestling, and other strenuous sports, the main plot gets underway when Corrigan is assigned to accompany scientist Professor Norton (C. Montague Shaw) on a submarine expedition to the bottom of the ocean. Norton is convinced that a recent series of earthquakes are emanating from the lost land of Atlantis–which, according to his theory, was not destroyed when it sank to the ocean floor but instead preserved by a protective dome. Norton, Corrigan, newspaper reporter Diana Compton (Lois Wilde), and Norton’s young son Billy (Lee Van Atta) discover the truth of Norton’s theory when their undersea journey brings them to Atlantis–a country that culturally and sartorially resembles Ancient Greece, but possesses technology never seen in the ancient or modern world. There, they find that the Atlantean tyrant Unga Khan (Monte Blue) has been causing the earthquakes, which are mere test runs for his planned conquest of the “surface world” with his arsenal of destructive weapons. Norton is taken prisoner by Khan, who makes the professor his scientific lackey after after technologically brainwashing him, while Crash is captured by Sharad (William Farnum), the high priest of Poseidon and the leader of an Atlantean faction that opposes Unga Khan. Eventually, Crash convinces Sharad that they share a common enemy, and is given command of the high priest’s “White Robe” army. He takes command of Sharad’s campaign against Unga Khan’s “Black Robes,” while Khan assiduously prepares for an invasion of the unsuspecting surface world.
Undersea Kingdom is invariably compared to Universal’s Flash Gordon, which was released two months earlier in 1936; in fact, it’s often cited as a direct imitation of the Universal chapterplay. Given the closeness of the two serials’ release dates, this is unlikely–although Republic did begin producing Kingdom when Universal announced Gordon, no doubt hoping to steal a little of Gordon’s thunder with a sci-fi adventure of their own. Thematically, however, Undersea Kingdom owes more to Phantom Empire, released two years earlier by Republic’s predecessor Mascot, than it does to Flash Gordon. Among the two serials’ points in common are an alien kingdom that is still part of the good old Earth, a child co-hero, and a villainous robot corps. Also like Empire, Kingdom lacks any of the otherworldly atmosphere of Flash Gordon; Atlantis’ locales and inhabitants never come alive the way Mongo’s do. The troubles of Atlantis never becomes involving in their own right; the struggle between Unga Khan and Sharad is a mere backdrop to Khan’s plan to conquer the surface world; (in fact, the final destruction of Sharad’s city is only a side effect of Khan’s attempt to recapture Professor Norton).
However, while Undersea Kingdom is no Flash Gordon, it has much to recommend it. As already mentioned, the writers (John Rathmell, Oliver Drake, Maurice Geraghty, and Tracy Knight) don’t succeed in making Atlantis seem very colorful (although they give the supposedly Greek Atlanteans a wild potpourri of names that hail from Mongolia, ancient Persia, Phoenicia, and many other places), but they keep their plot moving swiftly. The final chapter is unusually exciting, with Unga Khan confidently preparing to blast opposing Navy ships from the ocean as Crash and Norton work frantically to cripple his defenses from within his impregnable tower.
While the serial’s principal outdoor location (Iverson’s Movie Ranch) doesn’t look very otherworldly, both Sharad’s Sacred City (a disguised version of Republic’s Spanish fort, enlarged by some excellent matte work) and Unga Khan’s laboratory are decorated in properly peculiar style, while the serial’s various miniatures (the Atlantean “Volplane,” Norton’s submarine, Khan’s rocket-powered tower) are very well-designed by Howard and Theodore Lydecker. The Juggernaut, a tank-like vehicle that anticipates the Jungle Cruiser in Tim Tyler’s Luck, is similarly impressive, while a squad of robots (called “Volkites” here) will only impress those (like myself) who don’t object to the water- heater-like appearance of the robot in the later Mysterious Doctor Satan; the Volkites are near-duplicates of that automaton.
The serial features few of the fistfights common to Republic’s later serials, but compensates by including some truly unique action sequences, chief among them the large-scale attacks on Sharad’s Sacred City by the Black Robes; these battle scenes are beautifully staged by directors Joseph Kane and B. Reeves Eason (Eason directed many similar sequences in silent and sound “spectacles” like 1925’s Ben-Hur and 1936’s Charge of the Light Brigade). The serial’s smaller-scaled swordfights are also well-handled, as are several chariot chases, Crash’s tightrope-walking escape from Khan’s tower, and the wrestling matches between Crash and various opponents (although his repeated success in overpowering two villains at once somewhat stretches credibility). The serial’s chapter endings are interesting (particularly the ones involving Crash’s fall down an elevator shaft, his apparent crushing by the Juggernaut, and the good guys’ failed escape in the Volplane that ends in their being shot down), but too many of them–including the famed Juggernaut cliffhanger–are resolved by blatant “cheats” in the following chapter.
The serial’s cast is uneven in terms of acting. Ray Corrigan, excellent as a laid-back but determined cowboy hero in Republic’s Three Mesquiteers films, seems slightly uncomfortable as a swashbuckling near-superhero (with a rather embarrassing outfit); he delivers most of his lines hurriedly in rather stone-faced fashion and lacks the dash that helped Buster Crabbe put across the similarly difficult role of Flash Gordon. Monte Blue is also a bit miscast as the warlord Unga Khan. While Blue was good as more prosaic villains like the evil Yellow Weasel in Hawk of the Wilderness, his appearance and voice aren’t “bravura” enough for such a larger-than-life part. He voices Khan’s megalomaniacal ravings in a harsh monotone, with none of the measured staginess someone like Charles Middleton or Bela Lugosi would have given them.
The lovely Lois Wilde has very little to do as the leading lady, but delivers her lines with a breathless enthusiasm almost unparalleled among serial actresses. Lee Van Atta is good as the capable, if somewhat cocky, Billy Norton, in effect the serial’s co-hero. John Merton features prominently as a tough Black Robe soldier named Moloch who switches over to the good guys’ side and provides Crash with loyal support; Merton handles this change-of-pace part with plenty of vigor and conviction. Lon Chaney Jr. is properly snarling and aggressive as Captain Hakur, the leader of Unga Khan’s Black Robe army, while Raymond Hatton–surprisingly cast as a villain–is his second-in-command. Boothe Howard makes a slick aide-de-camp for Monte Blue, and Lane Chandler is William Farnum’s stalwart lieutenant. Farnum himself handles the role of Sharad with his customary dignity and theatricality, glowering angrily over Unga Khan’s aggression and ringingly declaring his faith in Poseidon. The most refined and assured performance in the serial, however, comes from C. Montague Shaw as Professor Norton. Shaw is calm, dignified, and authoritative as the pre-transformation Norton and whining, crafty, and obsequious as the transformed Professor. His evil chuckling when he’s decoyed Crash into a trap is memorable, and his simple but startling transition back to his previous manner when his mind is restored is excellent.
Smiley Burnette and Frankie Marvin, accompanied by a parrot named Sinbad, are the serial’s designated comic relief, but aren’t given anything amusing in the way of material. Fortunately, they make only a few token appearances throughout the serial. A scrutiny of their scenes shows that their characters were inserted in post-production, apparently to pad out a few chapters’ running time; they never interact with any of the other principals and are never referred to by them (except in one obviously-looped scene). Jack Mulhall and Lloyd Whitlock play naval officers in the first and final chapters, and John Bradford overacts wildly as Joe, Norton’s hysterical assistant who goes berserk at the prospect of descending to the ocean depths. George DeNormand doubles for Ray Corrigan in the action scenes and plays various Atlantean guards, along with fellow stuntmen Eddie Parker, Tom Steele, and Bill Yrigoyen.
Undersea Kingdom, while not as slick as later Republics or as colorful as its contemporary Flash Gordon, is a definite step up from Mascot predecessors like Phantom Empire when it comes to production values and smoothness of plotting. The serial belongs to a developmental stage in Republic Pictures’ history, but is no less appealing because of that; while few fans or critics (this author among them) would rate it as one of Republic’s best serials, it usually holds a warm spot in their esteem.
Above: Crash, Billy, and Norton make an escape in the Volplane.
A pilgrimage certificate, approx two feet long, resting in a display case in a poorly lit hall at the Sacred exhibition at the British Library in London.
The writing along the top reads 'In the name of God the Most Gracious the Most Merciful'.
The scroll states that Maymunah, daughter of Muhammad ibn Abdullah al-Zarli went on pilgrimage in the year 1432-3, where she visted both Mecca and Medina. The certificate shows the sanctuary of the Kabah (house of God in Mecca), the hill of Marwah (concentric circles, this is next to the Kabah), the tomb of Prophet Muhammad in Medina and the sole of the Prophet Muhammad's sandal on which is written one of his sayings.
In Islam, pilgrimage to the Kabah is one of the five pillars of faith but only obligatory on those who can afford to attend. Muslims believe the Kabah was originally built by Prophet Abraham as a sanctuary to worship God Almighty alone, instead of the idols which people such as Abraham's father used to make.
Generally we do not have such certificates in Islam but today you will notice a trend, especially in Malaysia/ Indonesia that peoples names will be prefixed with the word Haji, meaning, someone who has been on pilgrimage (hajj).
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Today, I had the chance to spend an hour interviewing ex Prime Minister and leader of the Pakistani Muslim League (PML-N), Nawaz Sharif, in his home in Raiwind, in the outskirts of Lahore. M. Sharif was ousted by current president Musharaf in a coup in 1999, and lived in exile in Saudi Arabia until Nov. 2007, when he returned to his stronghold of Punjab. After the assassination of PPP leader Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif stands out as the main opposition leader for the upcoming elections. As we were returning to Lahore, we learnt a suicide attack near the High Court had killed 23 people :-(
Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set
Part of Pakistani Elections (Recommended as a slideshow)
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Probably what I like best about Oasis and particularly Noel's compositions is the fact that evethough they do have some kind of sad songs, most of their music talk about happy stuff, reasons to be happy or random (happy) things haha.
There's a quote of Noel's that made me realise this a few years ago :
"I think when people listen to our music, we tell them how good their lives could be" -Noel Gallagher-
Here, an example of what I'm saying... It's Getting Better (Man!!) is a brilliant (truly underestimated) song... Taken from the album "Be Here Now". Released in 1997.
That's a castle on my hand by the way... Had to add the sign coz it looks like... Well whatever except for a castle LOL
It's Getting Better (Man!!)
Say Something shout it from the roof tops off your head
Make it sort of mean something make me understand or I`ll forget
The people here on life`s beaches they wish upon the waves that hide the sand
Let them know that life teaches you to build a castle in the hand
Maybe the songs that we sing are wrong
Maybe the dreams that we dream are gone
So bring it on home and it wont be long
It`s getting better man!
Hey! What was that you said to me?
Just say the word and I`d be free?
And where the stars are shining bright
It`s getting better man!
And crashing in upon a wave
It`s calling out beyond the grave
And We`re the fire in the sky
We`re getting better man!
Build something build a better place and call it home
Even if it means nothing you`ll never-ever feel that you`re alone
El monumento al rey Alfonso XII es un conjunto escultórico situado casi en el centro del parque del Retiro.
En 1902 se convocó un concurso nacional para construir un monumento al rey Alfonso XII, a iniciativa de la reina madre María Cristina. El ganador fue el arquitecto José Grases Riera con un grandioso proyecto en uno de los lados mayores del Estanque del Retiro, compuesto por una gran columnata con gran número de esculturas que rodearía a la estatua ecuestre del rey, inmediata al estanque, todo ello en bronce y mármol. Al fallecer, fue sustituido en la dirección por Teodoro Anasagasti, que no introdujo modificaciones. El monumento, financiado por suscripción popular, fue inaugurado el 6 de junio de 1922.
Todo el conjunto mide 30 metros de alto, 86 metros de largo y 58 metros de ancho, y participaron en su elaboración más de veinte escultores. Fue la primera estatua conmemorativa de las que durante el pasado siglo fueron poblando los jardines: obras como las de Benlliure, Clará y Mateo Inurria entre otros.
En primer término aparece la estatua ecuestre del rey, fundida en bronce, realizada por Mariano Benlliure en 1904. En el basamento central, «La Paz» de Miquel Blay, «La Libertad» de Aniceto Marinas y «El Progreso» de Miguel Ángel Trilles. En el zócalo, tres relieves de bronce. Del monumento central avanzan unas escalinatas hacia el estanque, con cuatro leones de piedra que labraron Vallmitjana y Estany. Debajo de sus pedestales, en bronce, cuatro sirenas, obra de Parera, Atche, Coll y Alsina. También hay dos leones con amorcillos en cada uno de los accesos laterales al hemiciclo, obras de Francisco Javier Escudero Lozano, Bofill, Arnau y Campmany. A ambos lados del acceso central en la columnata, «El Ejército» de Montserrat y «La Marina» de Mateo Inurrria. En la cara interna, frente al estanque aparecen representadas, en bronce, «Las Ciencias» de Fuxá, «La Agricultura» de Alcoverro, «Las Artes» de Bilbao y «La Industria» de Clará. La ornamentación de frisos y basamento central fue realizada por Estany
Another from my series whilst holidaying on the Tasman Peninsula, this one shows the Tessellated Pavement just above the usual high tide mark, where the bus have begun to be covered by lichens (the orange) and the cracks have begun to be invaded by plant life, such as grasses.
This looks across to Fossil Island and the headland where the Tasman Arch and the Blowhole are situated.
A tessellated pavement is a rare erosional feature formed in flat-lying sedimentary rock formations that occurs on some ocean shores. It is so named because the rock has fractured into regular rectangular blocks that appear like tiles, or tessellations. The cracks (or joints) were formed when the rock fractured through the action of stress on the Earth's crust and were subsequently modified by sand and wave action.
The Tessellated Pavement at Eaglehawk Neck on the Tasman Peninsula consists of two types of formations, a pan formation, and a loaf formation.
The pan formation is a series of concave depressions in the rock, and typically forms further away from the seashore. As a result, this part of the pavement dries out more at low tide, and allows salt crystals to develop further, resulting in salt forming on the surface, and eroding the surface more quickly than at the joints. As a result, the surface of the "pans" erodes more quickly, while the joints erode more slowly, resulting in the concave pan.
The loaf formations occur on the parts of the pavement closer to the seashore, and as a result, are immersed in water for longer. These parts of the pavement do not dry out as much, reducing the level of salt crystallisation. Water carries abrasive sand, and the water is typically channelled through the joints, resulting in the joints eroding faster than the rest of the pavement, resulting in loaf-like structures protruding.
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www.familistere.com/site/index.php
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familistère_de_Guise
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_André_Godin
« Ne pouvant faire un palais de la chaumière ou du galetas de chaque famille ouvrière, nous avons voulu mettre la demeure de l’ouvrier dans un palais ; le Familistère, en effet, n’est pas autre chose, c’est le palais du travail, c’est le PALAIS SOCIAL de l’avenir.
Ce qu’il n’est pas possible de faire au profit de familles éparpillées et sans lien, les améliorations qu’on ne peut introduire dans le tohu-bohu des habitations ouvrières, ni à la ville, ni à la campagne, ni dans les caves, ni dans les mansardes habitées ; ce que ne permettent pas même les habitations ouvrières isolées les mieux construites, quel qu’en soit le système : le Familistère le permet, le palais social le rend possible, bien plus, il le rend nécessaire. »
Jean-Baptiste-André Godin La Richesse au service du peuple, le Familistère de Guise. 1875.
Les chiffres du Familistère : ( source Wikipédia )
10 millions de briques sont nécessaires à la construction des trois pavillons du Palais Social.
30 000 m² de surfaces sont offerts par l’ensemble des trois pavillons.
1 kilomètre de coursives parcourt les trois pavillons du Palais.
500 fenêtres percent les façades des trois unités d’habitation.
495 appartements sont aménagés dans l’ensemble des cinq pavillons du Familistère avant 1918.
1 748 personnes habitent au Familistère en 1889.
50 berceaux peuvent être installés dans la nourricerie du Familistère.
796 invités participent au banquet de la cinquième fête du Travail dans la cour du pavillon central en 1872.
1 000 spectateurs prennent place au théâtre en 1914.
1 526 employés travaillent dans les usines de la Société du Familistère en 1887.
2 500 est le nombre de record d’employés de l’Association du Familistère de Guise et à Bruxelles en 1930.
4 000 modèles d’appareils et d’accessoires sont fabriqués par la Société du Familistère en 1914.
210 000 appareils sont expédiés par les usines de Guise et Bruxelles en 1913-1914.
664, c’est le nombre de pages qui composent le livre Solutions Sociales publié par Godin en 1871.
JEAN-BAPTISTE GODIN ( ENGLISH )
Jean-Baptiste André Godin (26 January 1817 -29 January 1888) was a French industrialist and social experimentor born on the 26th of January 1817 at Esquéhéries (Aisne).
The son of an artisan, he entered an iron-works at an early age, and at seventeen made a tour of France as journeyman. Returning to Esquéhéries in 1837, he started a small factory for the manufacture of castings for heating-stoves. The business increased rapidly, and for the purpose of railway facilities was transferred to Guise in 1846. At the time of Godin's death in 1888 the annual output was over four millions of francs (4,160,000), and in 1908 the employees numbered over 2000 and the output was over 280,000.
An ardent disciple of Charles Fourier, he advanced a considerable sum of money towards the disastrous Fourierist experiment of V. P. Considerant (q.v.) in Texas (known as La Reunion. He profited, however, by its failure, and in 1859 started the Familistère, or community settlement, of Guise on more carefully laid plans.
The Familistère forms a town within the town of Guise. It comprises, in addition to a large factory, three large buildings, each four stories high, capable of housing all the work-people, each family having two or three rooms. The main building consists of three rectangular blocks joined at the corners. Each of these blocks has a central court covered with a glass roof under which children can play in all weather. There is no church of any sort. (There are, of course, churches within the rest of Guise). At the back of the main block there was a nursery. There is a separate block, known as the "economat", containing various shops, refreshment rooms and recreation rooms of various kinds(?), stores for the purchase of groceries, drapery and every necessity. This has recently (2008) been restored and is now a cafe, a shop selling books, postcards etc and an exhibition area. There were also allotments for the workers.
Opposite the main block there was a building containing a theater for concerts and dramatic entertainments and a primary school. There was also a communal laundry and swimming pool. This was a few years ago derelict but has now been restored. The swimming pool is still a swimming poll but the laundry is a meeting room and the drying room is now (2008) an exhibition room. In 1880 the whole was turned into a co-operative society, with provision by which it eventually became the property of the workers.
Godin manufactured cookers and heating stoves of many kinds mainly made from cast iron castings. Sometimes these were enameled. These are still to be found in use all over France. They can be found for sale on eBay.
This business was still owned by the workers in the 1950s but soon after was taken over by Le Creuset. It is not obvious that the factory is still functioning. It is seems the domestic building were privatised. The state of the domestic buildings was deteriorating but has recently been awarded EU money for it to be restored.
In 1871 Godin was elected deputy for Aisne, but retired in 1876 to devote himself to the management of the Familistère. In 1882 he was created a Knight of the Legion of Honor.
Godin was the author of Solutions sociales (1871); Les Socialistes et les Droits du travail (1874); Mutualité sociale et association du capital et du travail (1880); La Republique du travail et la reforme parlementaire (1889). See Bernardot, Le Familistère de Guise et son fondateur (Paris, 1887); Fischer, Die Familistère Godins (Berlin, 1890); Lestelle, Etude sur le Familistère de Guise (Paris, 1904); D. F. P., Le Familistère illustr, résultals de vingt ans d'association, 1880-1900 (Eng. trans., Twenty-eight years of co-partnership at Guise, by A. Williams, 1908).
A common sight in the ancient streets of Zadar, Croatia.
Zadar is a Croatian city located between Rijeka and Split, not far away from Sibenik. It is a few thousand years old [and]was the capital of Dalmatia for many centuries. The Zadar peninsula still preserves very old network of narrow and charming city streets, as well as a Roman forum dating back to the first century AD. The pre-Romanesque Church of St. Donat dates back to the ninth century, and it is certainly Zadar's most famous spot.
Zadar is also well known for having the attractive Romanesque churches: Cathedral of St. Anastasia from 13th century and Church of St. Chrysogonus from 12th century as well as the church tower of St. Mary dating back from 12th century too. The town is fortified with medieval walls, distinguished for their pretty and impressive ports – entries in the city all dating back to the sixteenth century.
Enjoy your weekend and thanks for stopping by.
Village Mindima - Chimbu tribe - skeleton bodypainting.
Western Highlands is a province of Papua New Guinea. The provincial capital is Mount Hagen. The province covers an area of 8,500 km², and there are 440,025 inhabitants (2000 census), making the Western Highlands one of the most densely populated provinces. Tea and coffee are grown in the Western Highlands. Mount Wilhelm, the tallest mountain in Papua New Guinea, is on the border of the Western Highlands.
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Simbu, also known as (and officially named) Chimbu, is a Highlands Region province in Papua New Guinea.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Papua_New_Guinea
We ontmoeten de mensen van de Chimbu-stam. Ze organiseren een dans. We kunnen de voorbereidingen en de body painting meebeleven. Ze gebruiken alleen zwarte en witte verf. Op de lichamen van de dansers worden geraamten getekend. Heel luguber. We zien dan ook de skelettendans en het gevecht tegen de kwade geesten.
This Red Maple was planted in our backyard approximately 30 years ago and has survived Juan a hurricane that hit Halifax on Sept 29th, 2003. It has grown to almost 30 feet tall and is beautiful when the early morning sun hits it. This beautiful Maple can be seen when sitting at out dining room table and is fantastic in the early morning light. HBW everyone !
There are only two options regarding commitment;
you're either in or you're out.
There's no such thing as life in-between.
Pat Riley
Ecco un piccolo scatto del nostro pupetto ESAURITO! :D Grazie mille Ele per i consigli :) e ha ragione lei... che stia cominciando a capire che deve mettersi in posa?? :D
Nikon D90 / 50mm f1.8
Vi chiedo cortesemente di non postare immagini di qualcunque tipo. Saranno rimosse.
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Todos los rotíferos filtran el agua y la hacen girar en remolinos con las aspas de su corona, que son cilios ▷. Con frecuencia esa corona es doble y se sitúa como en Philodina, formando dos rodetes a ambos lados de la cabeza. A veces esa corona crece y se deshilacha en tentáculos que terminan convirtiéndose en finísimas antenas como ocurre en Collotheca.
En ocasiones, cuando crece de manera uniforme forma un gran disco y ésta es una de las principales características de la familia de los Floscularidos. Esa corona, extendida como un plato es casi circular en Ptygura, algo lobulada la presenta Limnias, pero también ligeramente acorazonada y suavemente angulosa la exhibe el rotífero de hoy, que, de perfil, más que una corona recuerda a un sombrero de mariachi. La mayor parte de los rasgos anatómicos del protagonista de hoy nos llevan a pensar en Sinantherina , pero aunque son la mayoría no lo son todos.
El rotífero que nos acompaña se muestra solitario y apenas se sujeta con el extremo de su pie a unas briznas de materia orgánica que ha encontrado en el fondo. Se protege a sí mismo escondiéndose dentro de su cuerpo, como hacen todos los rotíferos, pero no ha construido una casa para refugiarse como la que fabrican sus parientes más próximos, Limnias o Ptygura .
Sinantherina vive a cuerpo descubierto y sólo protege el extremo de su pie, que calza dentro de un diminuto zapato gelatinoso. La defensa de Sinantherina no la encuentra en su coraza inexistente sino en el resto de sus compañeros con los que se suele asociar…son tan originales que no se unen por la mano, lo hacen por el pie y forman así pequeñas rosetas que siempre filtran el agua. Sin embargo, el de hoy, parece haber optado por la soledad
Sinantherina es un rotífero que vive en aguas estancadas y que con frecuencia se asocia para vivir formando colonias de vida fija o libres y viajeras. La solitaria de hoy procede de unas muestras recogidas en unas praderas encharcadas junto a la población zamorana de Mahíde y ha sido fotografiada a 200 aumentos utilizando la técnica de contraste de interferencia.
Gracias a Santiago Ortiz por incorporar nuestro proyecto a su magnífico Bestiario.
Con nuestra gratitud también para Pilar Gil por la publicación en Qúo, a Antonio Martínez Ron ...y también Paul/
Puedes tener otra infomación en la exposición LA VIDA OCULTA DEL AGUA
Y en este catálogo
También en la galería de Fotolog
Y nuestro granito de arena por la Paz
Madrid (Spain).
ENGLISH
The Jardines del Buen Retiro or Parque del Buen Retiro (literally "Gardens" or "Park of the Pleasant Retreat"), or simply El Retiro, the "Lungs of Madrid", is the main park of the city of Madrid, capital of Spain.
The Parque del Buen Retiro is a large and popular 1.4 km² (350-acre) park at the edge of the city center, very close to the Puerta de Alcalá and not far from the Museo del Prado. A magnificent park, filled with beautiful sculpture and monuments, galleries, a peaceful lake and host to a variety of events, it is one of Madrid's premier attractions. The park is entirely surrounded by the present-day city.
In 1505, at the time of Isabella I (r. 1474–1504) the Monasterio de Jerónimos was moved from an unsuitable location elsewhere to the present site of Iglesia de San Jerónimo el Real, and a new monastery built in Isabelline Gothic style. The royal family had a retreat built as part of the church.
King Philip II (r. 1556–1598) moved the Spanish court to Madrid in 1561. Philip had the Retiro enlarged by his architect Juan Bautista de Toledo, and formal avenues of trees were laid out. Here, at the Palacio del Buen Retiro, the king could withdraw during Lent, bringing the court with him.
The "Jardines del Buen Retiro" were extended in the 1620s, when Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, Philip IV's powerful favourite, gave the king several tracts of land in the vicinity for the Court's recreational use. Olivares determined to build, in a place that the king liked, a royal house which should be superior to those villas that Roman nobles had lately been setting up in the hillyt outskirts of Rome. Although this second royal residence was to be built in what were then outlying areas of Madrid, it was actually not far from the existing Alcázar or fortress residence, and the location in a cool, wooded area proved to be ideal.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_del_Buen_Retiro
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Los Jardines del Buen Retiro, popularmente conocidos como El Retiro, son un parque de 118 hectáreas situado en Madrid. Es uno de los lugares más significativos de la capital española.
Los Jardines tienen su origen entre los años 1630 y 1640, cuando el Conde-Duque de Olivares (Don Gaspar de Guzmán y Pimentel), valido de Felipe IV (1621–1665), le regaló al rey unos terrenos que le habían sido cedidos por el Duque de Fernán Núñez para el recreo de la Corte en torno al Monasterio de los Jerónimos de Madrid. Así, con la reforma del Cuarto Real que había junto al Monasterio, se inició la construcción del Palacio del Buen Retiro. Contaba entonces con unas 145 hectáreas. Aunque esta segunda residencia real iba a estar en lo que en aquellos tiempos eran las afueras de la villa de Madrid, no estaba excesivamente lejos del alcázar y resultó ser un lugar muy agradable por estar en una zona muy boscosa y fresca.
Bajo la dirección de los arquitectos Giovanni Battista Crescenzi y Alonso Carbonell se construyeron diversos edificios, entre ellos el teatro del Buen Retiro que acogió representaciones teatrales de los grandes del Siglo de Oro, Calderón de la Barca y Lope de Vega. Perduran aún el Casón del Buen Retiro, antiguo Salón de Baile, el Museo del Ejército, antaño Salón de Reinos con sus paredes decoradas con pinturas de Velázquez, Zurbarán y frescos de Lucas Jordán y los jardines.
Éstos se levantaron al mismo tiempo que el palacio, trabajando en ellos, entre otros, Cosme Lotti, escenógrafo del Gran Duque de Toscana, y edificándose una leonera para la exhibición de animales salvajes y una pajarera para aves exóticas. El estanque grande, escenario de naumaquias y espectáculos acuáticos, el estanque ochavado o de las campanillas y la ría chica pertenecen a este período inicial.
A lo largo de la historia, en este conjunto se han ido efectuando modificaciones, no siempre planificadas, que cambiaron la fisonomía del jardín, como el Parterre diseñado durante el reinado de Felipe V (1700–1746), la Real Fábrica de Porcelana del Buen Retiro en tiempos de Carlos III (1759–1788) o el Observatorio Astronómico, obra de Juan de Villanueva, reinando Carlos IV (1788–1808). El rey Carlos III fue el primero en permitir el acceso de los ciudadanos al recinto, siempre que cumpliesen con la condición de ir bien aseados y vestidos.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buen_Retiro
Thanks to Thomas (Mio Cade) for this Bali Trip. Saw this girl and noticed that her thoughts seem to be elsewhere.
The biggest Hindu's festival called Galungan and Kuningan, both falling every six months or twice a year in Balinese calendar or every 210 days because in Balinese calendar are consist of 35 days in each month. Both celebrations are for celebrating the winning of good (Dharma) over the bad (Adharma). Usually, people will go for their hometown to celebrate these days together with family. They will pray to Ancestors at the family's Temple and some Temples in the village which are related to their family root.
The last day of those three is the Post Galungan Day which is Manis Kuningan. This is the time for visiting friends, relatives who live in other area of their living or hometown. The people who are visited welcome the visitors warmly and serves with tape (fermented sticky rice) and jaja uli (rice cake). The togetherness and warmth can be maintained from time to time.