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So, as alluded to in the last post, I’m one of a decreasingly shrinking (i.e. it’s getting bigger) group of photographers who has never done film before. Ever. Shot it, developed it, paid for it, et cetera. That is, until a couple weeks ago when I bought my Holga 120N. And I’ve got to admit, I thoroughly enjoy it.
Since I am not Thomas Hawk and have no desire to publish a million photographs before I leave this world, going back in time to the [somewhat] long-gone days of film isn’t much of a hindrance on some larger task. Having gotten used to digital where I can take a shot, see if it’s exposed properly, and shoot it again, using film was- let’s face it- absolutely bizarre. What do you mean I have to wait to see what I just shot?! I want to see it now!
What’s more, it’s a Holga! I have no earthly idea how the final photograph’s going to look, focus is dependent on one person, three people, a group of people, or a MOUNTAIN. Aperture is a lie and there is only one shutter speed. The viewfinder doesn’t even frame the shot! The only thing I really control is the film (in this case, Ilford Delta 400).
But regardless, I have to admit- it’s a helluva experience.
I actually developed two rolls of film the other day when I developed this roll. The first, as mentioned, was a roll of Ilford FP4+ 125. And I absolutely botched it. I couldn’t get the damned thing onto the steel reel, and with the exception of half of one shot, nothing came out as more than a milky white blob. Not a big deal as it was the first roll I ran through the Holga and didn’t really have anything spectacular on it anyways.
Anyways, as for the actual developing, I was hoping that the darkroom on campus would have Rodinal (I heard it was forgiving) or Diafine (I like the contrast I’ve seen in shots using Delta 400 and Diafine), and took some numbers with me for both of those, but alas, they only had D-76. Again, no worries- I don’t really have preferences yet. This particular reel was soaked for 10.5 minutes, with 60 seconds of continuous agitation and an additional 3 inversions every 30 seconds. I used water as a stop bath (30s continuous agitation), and some unknown fixer for 6 minutes (same agitation as developer) followed by 8 minutes of washing. I actually skipped the Photoflo altogether, but that was due more to forgetfullness than intent, but there it is.
Now, the local photo store didn’t have any archival sheets for 120, so for the time being, I scanned in the shots and rerolled the film back in between the paper that 120 comes backed with and put that into the box. So much for preservation. It shall continue to live digitally at the least. (*knock on wood*) What can I say? I live in the digital age, and even when doing something analog like film, it’ll end up in the realm of the digital anyways.
So what are my thoughts? I think I love it. Or at least, I could, and will, given that the reeling process gets easier. You can’t see it in these scans, but even this second roll was imperfectly reeled. And I totally manhandled the film in the process. The whole process after reeling is quite enjoyable; I get to talk to other people in the darkroom with me all while shaking a metal can and eyeing a clock- we must seem ridiculous to a casual observer. Also, it’s probably the only bit of chemistry I’ll ever actually enjoy, so there’s that.
Holga 120N
Ilford Delta 400 Pro, D-76 (stock), 10.5min
Epson 4490
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It all started with a pyromaniac magician, he was trying to use his black magic with three finger vulcan grip to start a fire, but all he was getting was smoke.
Eventually this unimpressed monk who harbored great disdain for vulcans bust out his giant match he had painstakingly crafted by hand over the last century. He lit it and…
You should ask my wife if it is a good idea to go to a bonfire the size of a house while wearing a puffy down jacket.. Only a few holes burned into it before we backed away.
We arrived on time for the beginning of the event, but that was an hour or two too late for a front row spot, which would have been perfect for taking pictures without heads, arms, cameras, little Japanese guys standing on step ladders, and 8 foot tall tripods in the way. My height advantage in Japan proved useless and I ended up with barely in clean shots without any of the aforementioned items in my pictures. We will definitely make sure this does not happen next year! I highly recommend anyone in Tokyo checking this out due to the amazing photographic potential you could have if you claimed a spot in front of the crowds.
Als Gast in der Glashütte Eisch arbeitete Mare Saare im Rahmen des „Artist in Residence“-Programms vier Wochen in Frauenau. Während dieser Zeit konnte sie alle Möglichkeiten der Hütte für die Herstellung ihrer Kunstwerke nutzen. Hier entstanden Objekte, die, neben aktuellen Werken aus Ihrem Atelier in Tallinn, vom 19. August bis 7. November 2009 in der Galerie am Museum in Frauenau gezeigt werden.
Als „Tor zwischen Ost und West“ wurde die Estin Mare Saare von ihrer belgischen Kollegin Sandra De Clerck auf der Vernissage zur aktuellen Frauenauer Ausstellung vorgestellt; und tatsächlich ist der Name der vielgereisten und vielseitigen Glasprofessorin von der Kunstakademie in Tallinn fest verknüpft mit dem Ankommen der facettenreichen estländischen und baltischen Glaskunst in der Internationalen Studiobewegung.
Mare Saares Arbeiten öffnen dabei nicht nur den Blick auf eine fern gerückte Glas- und Kunstszene, sondern vor allem auf den flüchtigen Zauber der Ostseelandschaft, und auf eine Persönlichkeit, in der Vitalität und Verwundbarkeit zusammen wirken.
Das Glas, seine Fragilität und seine Herkunft aus körnigem, leicht verwehtem Sand benutzt sie mit genialer Virtuosität: Ein vielfarbiger, schwingender Kelch entspringt einem noch zerbrechlicher wirkenden Grund aus körnig verschmolzenem Glas, er nährt sich von ihm, bis dieser gleichsam bröckelt und schließlich inexistent, zu Sand wird.
Die in Frauenau ausgestellten, blumenartigen Objekte der Serie „Fragile Circuit“, gearbeitet in pâte de verre-Technik, stehen für einen zerbrechlichen Kreislauf, der gleichwohl ewig ist wie Ebbe und Flut. Sand ist bei Mare Saare nicht nur ein künstlerisches Bild für Erneuerung und Wiederkehr, sondern dient – neben gemahlenem und gekröseltem Glas – tatsächlich auch als technisches Ausgangsmaterial und als immer wieder verwendbare Auflage im Formprozess der zarten Objekte.
Ihr individuelles Herstellungsverfahren für diese Objekte verwendet Sand als technische Hilfe, als Form und Auflage im Schmelzprozess. Sand ist unendlich wiederverwendbar und steht auch dadurch für die Idee der Erneuerung und Ewigkeit. Der Boden der Arbeiten wird in Glas gegossen, der Blütenkelch ist aus verschmolzenen Glaskröseln in pâte de verre-Technik hergestellt.
Die Künstlerin selbst beschreibt Ihre Werke so:
„Meine Arbeiten sind oft extrem zerbrechliche, offene Tellerformen. Ich arbeite gerne mit Farben, selten aber mit völliger Transparenz. Ich versuche das Zerbrechliche, Zarte, das Verletzliche und das Flüchtige im Glas zu vereinigen, indem ich farbige Glaspulver in Formen aus Sand fuse.“
Diocese of Manchester Ordination of Deacons service at Manchester Cathedral. Picture by Paul Heyes, Sunday July 02, 2017.
Walking through a dream
I see you
My light in darkness breathing hope of new life
Now I live through you and you through me
Enchanted
I pray in my heart that this dream never ends
I see me through your eyes
Living through life flying high
Your life shines the way into paradise
So I offer my life as a sacrifice
I live through your love
You teach me how to see
All that’s beautiful
My senses touch your world I never pictured
Now I give my hope to you
I surrender
I pray in my heart that this world never ends
I see me through your eyes
Living through life flying high
Your love shines the way into paradise
So I offer my life
I offer my love, for you
When my heart was never open
(and my spirit never free)
To the world that you have shown me
But my eyes could not division
All the colors of love and of life ever more
Evermore
(I see me through your eyes)
I see me through your eyes
(Living through life flying high)
Flying high
Your love shines the way into paradise
So I offer my life as a sacrifice
And live through your love
And live through your life
I see you
------------------I see youby Leona Lewis from the movie Avatar
Taken during BP photowalk at Aminbazar,Dhaka.Bangladesh
I have to thank Rony Syful for lending me his 18-200mm
Copyright: adnan.arsalan@gmail.com
From Wikipedia:
20 (twenty) is the natural number following 19 and preceding 21. A group of twenty units is often referred to as a score.
Twenty is a composite number, its proper divisors being 1, 2, 4, 5 and 10. Skipping 2 and adding the other divisors gives 20, hence 20 is a semiperfect number, and since it is not divisible by any of the smaller semiperfect numbers, it is a primitive semiperfect number. 20 is the smallest abundant number that is not a multiple of 3.
It is also the sum of the first four triangular numbers, making it a tetrahedral number.
20 is the atomic number of calcium.
20 is the total number of digits on the human body, which makes it a convenient number system radix; such number systems are called vigesimal. In the former British currency system, there were twenty shillings in a pound.
A polyhedron with twenty faces is an icosahedron.
20 is the number of proteinogenic amino acids that are encoded by the standard genetic code.
Twenty is a village in Lincolnshire.
20 is the code for international direct dial phone calls to Egypt.
Oh, and 20 is the number of my "Explorized" photos: thanks to all visitors!
Da Wikipedia:
Venti è il numero naturale dopo il 19 e prima del 21.
20 è il numero atomico del calcio (Ca).
20 è il numero di amminoacidi, denominato proteinogenici, che sono messi dal codice genetico normale.
Nella Smorfia il numero 20 è la festa.
Oh, e 20 è il numero delle mie foto "esplorizzate": grazie a tutti i visitatori!
Top row:
4. Turin Roofs - I tetti di Torino
5. Welding mask glass used as ND filter - vetro per maschera da saldatura usato come filtro ND
6. Mediterranean details - Via Zara
8. Love of Summer, Summer of Love
Center row:
9. Imperia Oneglia - vegetables at the Wednesday market
10. Birra Menabrea 150° Anniversario
11. Grey Heron - Airone Cenerino
12. Ghostly effect
13. Ternary trenette
14. Cervo (Imperia)
16. Fusilli “waves and particles”
Bottom row:
17. Boom!
18. Colors of Liguria - terrace of Pirates
19. Dandelion
Mother and baby ...
In de bergen bezoeken we mensen van de Lavin Agta stam.
De Dupaningan Agta bevolking. De stamleden leven vooral van visvangst en producten die het oerwoud oplevert, zoals kokos en honing. De Agta zijn de oorspronkelijke bewoners van de Filippijnen. Ze worden ook 'de Negrita's' genoemd en ze hebben soms sterk gekruld haar, een verwantschap aan de aboriginals uit Australië.
Dupaningan Agta is an Austronesian language of the Philippine subgroup which is
spoken in northeastern Luzon, Philippines by approximately 1,400 semi-nomadic hunter gatherers belonging to the Negrito ethnic minority.
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The Agta are one of many so called "negrito" groups that inhabit the Philippine islands. Specifically the Agta inhabit only the eastern portion of Luzon
Santa Ana - Palain - Luzon - North Philippines
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J'aurais plutôt dû faire référence au tableau: l'Horrible Chat des neiges" de Dumouchel. www.artimagepublications.com/store/index.php/l-horrible-c...
During the month of March, I didn't pick up my camera save for on one occasion.
I used the time instead to go through my library and evaluate how far I've come in the nearly two years that I've been actively trying to improve myself as a photographer. I scoured Flickr for photographs I liked and rather than just faving them and leaving it at that, I looked at the photograph and asked myself why I liked it. I'd look to see what I would've done differently and what I would have been exposing for. I took mental notes on composition, lighting, and many, many other things. I added over 1000 photographs as favorites and viewed thousands more. (Some flickr users got more than 10 or 20 saves from me- One person in particular had almost her entire photostream faved by me.)
But most importantly, during my time off from actively shooting, I tried to figure out what exactly I like to shoot. Those of you who have seen my photostream know that I shoot pretty much everything- from landscapes to portraits, flowers and skies, paintings to musical performances. And I'm okay with that- I enjoy shooting everything and I will continue to do so, but I discovered that above everything else, I enjoy photographing people. I love capturing split-second interactions between people on camera. The photograph above is an example of a moment like that. I have no idea who either of those people are- presumably, they're second-semester freshmen at Boston University currently, but I can't confirm that. I cannot tell you what preceded this 0.00625 seconds of time or if anything happened after, but during this 0.00625 seconds, there was an interaction between these two people, be they friends or strangers.
So I'm back. And I've added a Holga and a Vistaquest to my photographic arsenal.
Also, I realize many of the last few shots have been in B+W, and I can't explain that. Maybe it's just the mindset I've gotten into since planning on shooting B+W film, maybe my subconscious found something hyperappealing in B+W during my month off. I'll try to bring some color in soon, but my reserve bin is almost entirely B+W right now anyways.
April: you are on notice.
Nikon D40
18mm, f/6.3, 1/160 sec, ISO200
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World War I, a.k.a. First World War -
The Great War
"The War to End All Wars"
It was a total war which left millions dead and helped to shape the modern world.
At 11:00am on November 11, 1918 —
eleventh hour
eleventh day
eleventh month —
A ceasefire came into effect and the opposing armies on the Western Front began to withdraw from their positions.
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
— Lt.-Col. John McCrae
The poem "In Flanders Fields" by the Canadian army physician John McCrae remains to this day one of the most memorable war poems ever written. It is a lasting legacy of the terrible battle in the Ypres salient in the spring of 1915.
"This poem was literally born of fire and blood during the hottest phase of the second battle of Ypres. My headquarters were in a trench on the top of the bank of the Ypres Canal, and John had his dressing station in a hole dug in the foot of the bank. During periods in the battle men who were shot actually rolled down the bank into his dressing station.
Along from us a few hundred yards was the headquarters of a regiment, and many times during the sixteen days of battle, he and I watched them burying their dead whenever there was a lull. Thus the crosses, row on row, grew into a good-sized cemetery.
Just as he describes, we often heard in the mornings the larks singing high in the air, between the crash of the shell and the reports of the guns in the battery just beside us.
I have a letter from him in which he mentions having written the poem to pass away the time between the arrival of batches of wounded, and partly as an experiment with several varieties of poetic metre." Lieutenant Colonel Edward Morrison
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Provided by another: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtXO5QDXUbU
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Today, My Mothers Boyfriend, my mom, my brother, and I went to the greek festival. I had a freaking horrible time.
My moms boyfriend basically didn't wana do anything and made us have a shit ass time.
Hopefully tomorrow when We go again we'll have a better time without him
I didn't get to even take pictures on the ferris weel because he took my camera the entire time and was taking pictures of stupid random shit and people.
And they all sucked!
And my mom won me this really cute banana with a face and her boyfriend burned a hole in it with his ciggarette and ripped a hole in it and all the sstuffing fell out.
Today sucked ass.
This replica of Detroit's Edison Illuminating Company Station A is one of the many structures that make up Greenfield Village. While many buildings are original structures brought in from other locations, this is a one-quarter size replica of the original. (I assume this means the footprint was one-quarter size, but the height was full-size, but I don't know.) Station A burned coal on the first floor to provide steam power to dynamos on the second floor to produce electricity; it operated between 1886 and 1900. Henry Ford began his career as a steam engineer at Edison's Station A, became chief engineer in 1893, and was working here when he built his first car, the 1896 Quadricycle. He left to make cars in 1899, a venture that finally succeeded in 1903. The car at the left was part of the Greenfield Village Old Car Festival, which Ruth Ann and I attended September 11 with Flickr friend Steve Brown (sjb4photos). In 1969, Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum (now jointly called The Henry Ford) were added to the National Register of Historic Places (#69000071); the historic district includes 97 buildings.
"Get up on your hands and knees
Underneath the poplar trees
Digging through the sticks and stones
Looking for store bought bones
Waiting on the rising sun
Clutching at your holstered gun
Praying on a shooting star
That I can be wherever you are
Looking through a telescope
Maybe there's a sign of hope
Leaving everything behind
Stirring a store bought mind
Sitting at the edge of the seat
Wishing you were here by me
Sifting through the mud and the bricks
Looking for a store bought fix
You can't buy what you can't find."
--"Store Bought Bones" by The Raconteurs
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This is Russell Sweet. Some of you have seen him before in my photos. He's such a good model. I have so many pictures from today. I can't wait to share them.
This is part of a series. = ) Read the description on the set page.
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Ingénieur Système chez OmniTI, Inc., Leader de l'extension PDO.
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Dans l'univers du PHP, Wez est un "core developer" : il est appelé le "roi de PECL" (PECL étant la librairie des extensions ou "PHP Extension Community Library"). Il aide à la maintenance de l'infrastructure serveur de php.net. Wez a écrit et maintient un certain nombre d'extensions PHP, il a aussi conçu et mis en place la couche des flux ("streams" en anglais) de PHP.
The strange sutra chanting and other peculiarities of esoteric rituals during New Year's Eve ceremony at the impressive Manpukuji, headquarters of the Obaku school of zen buddhism in Uji, south of Kyoto, can be explained at the light of this temple's Chinese origins. This short (but growing) set of photos will give you a slight idea. As usual, try first the slideshow.
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FICHA TÉCNICA Orden: Rodentia. Familia: Múridos. Subfamilia: Murinos. Género: Rattus
Especie: Rattus rattus (Linnaeus, 1752). Subespecies presentes: Una única especie en la península ibérica e islas, aún cuando presenta razas o formas geográficas. Longitud de la cabeza y cuerpo, sin incluir la cola: entre 7 y 11 cms. Longitud de la cola: de 9 a 24 cms. Peso: De 125 a 250 gramos. Status de la especie: No amenazada.
Roedor de mediano tamaño, que no suele sobrepasar los 250 gramos de peso y que ocupa medios más rurales y menos humanizados que su congénere la rata de alcantarilla o común, también llamada rata parda (Rattus norvegicus), de la que se diferencia por su menor tamaño y mayores orejas. Otro detalle para diferenciarla es su larga cola, formada por característicos anillos escamosos, de forma redondeada y una longitud que supera notoriamente la de la cabeza más el cuerpo.
La rata campestre es originaria del sureste asiático, habiendo ocupado Europa en tiempos históricos probablemente siguiendo al hombre en sus primeras rutas comerciales, aun cuando se estima que ya pudo venir en períodos posteriores a las últimas glaciaciones. Desde Europa y tras el descubrimiento de América se extendió por resto del mundo sirviéndose de los barcos, donde viajaba como indeseado polizón, pasando a ocupar en tierra –fundamentalmente- las zonas portuarias.
En España la rata de campo ocupa todo el territorio nacional, incluidas las Baleares y Canarias.
De hábitos esencialmente nocturnos, aun cuando no es difícil verla durante el día trepando por árboles o refugiándose entre la maleza. La rata campestre no suele excavar madrigueras subterráneas, sino que suele instalar sus habitáculos en los huecos de los edificios y en las falsas de los tejados, aun cuando también ocupa con sus madrigueras los huecos de las raíces de los grandes árboles y en los lugares húmedos y encharcados para aislarse del suelo y proteger así a su descendencia acondiciona una especie de nidos, parecidos a los de las aves, de forma casi circular y con una abertura lateral, de 30 cms. de diámetro, que suele construir entre la vegetación densa como zarzales, hiedras o cañaverales, aunque también puede construirlos en árboles que cuenten con hojas permanentes y abundantes follaje que los camufle.
La rata de campo es una especie omnívora, que consume cuanto encuentra a su paso, aunque en el campo consume fundamentalmente frutos y granos.
Es un animal sociable, que vive en grupos que suelen estar dominados por un macho, aunque la jerarquía social no está muy marcada. Es frecuente el canibalismo dentro de la especie. Observación de ratas de campo silvestres llevadas a un laboratorio, para el estudio del comportamiento durante la preñez y lactancia, constató que la agresividad de la madre aumentó conforme iba acercándose el parto, el cual se produjo al décimo séptimo día de gestación. Desde que las crías nacieron, la madre se mostró muy celosa y protectora; y nunca rechazó a sus crías a pesar de que estas eran manipuladas diariamente, para evaluar su peso y sus medidas de longitud cabeza-cuerpo. Este mismo estudio destaca que no se presentó canibalismo de las madres a las crías (M. Williams de Castro, A. Castillo y C. Rosas, 2002), por lo que puede estimarse que el canibalismo que se produce en la especie es de otros individuos ajenos a la madre, la que desarrolla la conducta agresiva descrita conforme va aumentando la preñez ante la conciencia del peligro que acecha a su descendencia.
Muy curioso es el fenómeno conocido como rey de las ratas, por el que pueden acabar entrelazándose por la cola varios individuos, normalmente de 3 a 12, aun cuando se ha citado un caso de 32 ejemplares entrelazados (J. Reichholf, 1995), que quedan tan fuertemente entrelazados por alguna desconocida causa que luego no pueden separarse voluntariamente, terminando por morir de hambre y por las heridas que recíprocamente se causan. El origen de este fenómeno, admitido en la literatura científica y constatado incluso en ejemplares cautivos de laboratorio, no es conocido y se ha denominado con el nombre de rey de las ratas por considerarse en la tradición popular que era el rey de las ratas el que las amarraba y colocaba en esta situación como castigo, para controlar la superpoblación de ratas cuando escaseaba el alimento.
Pero si la rata campestre ocupa un lugar en la historia humana, es por estimarse responsable de la llamada peste bubónica o negra, de donde toma su nombre de rata negra, que fue la responsable de la muerte de millones de personas en Europa a mediados del S. XIV. Se calcula entre veinte y veinticinco millones los muertos por esta epidemia, solo en Europa. Se cuenta que uno de los primeros lugares en que se detectó la epidemia fue Sicilia, en el otoño de 1347, donde unos marineros genoveses al regresar de Caffa (Crimea) con pieles de marmota, trajeron la enfermedad que posteriormente fueron extendiendo por los diferentes puertos en que atracaban. Tan solo medio año después, en la primavera de 1348, afectó a las Baleares y poco después a la Península Ibérica y en 1349 afectaba ya a los países del norte de Europa, ocasionando grandes mortandades.
La enfermedad se transmitía a través de las ratas, cuyo agente ere un bacilo originariamente denominado Pasteurella pestis y ahora conocido como Yersinia pestis (aislado en 1894 en Hong-Kong durante una epidemia por el microbiólogo suizo Alejandro Yersin, del que tomó su nombre). El bacilo pasaba al hombre a través de las pulgas que vivían con las ratas y también transportaban la bacteria. Por lo que en realidad se trata de una epizootia de las ratas que se propaga al ser humano por intermedio de los ectoparásitos de estos animales (la pulga de las ratas llamada Xenopsylla cheopis).
Las variedades de ratas afectadas son tanto la rata campestre o negra (Rattus rattus) como la rata parda o de alcantarilla (Rattus norvegicus), aunque fue la primera (la rata campestre) la causante de la epidemia en Europa al no estar en aquélla época (S. XIV) extendida aún por el continente Europa la rata de alcantarilla. En el ser humano, los parásitos propios del hombre como la pulga (Pulex irritans) o el piojo (Pediculus capitis, P. vestimenti) también contribuían a la transmisión y expansión de la enfermedad.
La enfermedad no presentaba una única forma y podía presentarse como una afección pulmonar, que causaba graves insuficiencias respiratorias; como una septicémica (infección generalizada) con hemorragias cutáneas, con placas de color negro azulado, de ahí que se le conozca como peste negra; y, por último había una forma que se conocía como peste bubónica, que era la más frecuente, la que se caracterizaba por la aparición en el cuerpo humano de unos bubones (ganglios linfáticos) en el cuello y la ingle.
El Doctor José Manuel Reverte Coma, de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, resume ilustrativamente este dañino mal indicando como “no ha habido epidemia más terrible en el mundo como la MUERTE NEGRA por la elevada mortalidad que produjo y las consecuencias de todo tipo que trajo consigo en aquel infausto s. XIV, en el que a la peste se unieron el hambre y las guerras”.
El retroceso de la peste bubónica o negra, parece deberse a un cambio de la forma del bacilo Yersinia pestis a otra menos virulenta Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, que actuarían como vacuna, dando un alto grado de inmunidad a la peste (Castells y Mayo, 1993)
Aun cuando se ha constatado en los tiempos actuales una regresión de la población de ratas de campo, sigue siendo abundante. No obstante se considera que las ratas desempeñan un significativo papel en el ecosistema, fundamentalmente al servir de alimento a muchos carnívoros y rapaces, particularmente ahora que por la enfermedad del conejo ha disminuido preocupante la población de este lagomorfo, por lo que su papel en la cadena alimenticia ha sido reemplazado en cierto aspecto por la rata
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Longevidad: Su vida media está en torno a los dieciocho meses, en libertad, mientras que en cautividad puede alcanzar varios años de vida.
Celo: La rata de campo está activa todo el año. Suele tener de tres a cinco camadas por año.
Gestación. La gestación dura de 17 a 21 días.
Época de parto: Esta sexualmente activo a lo largo de todo el año.
Parto: La hembra puede parir de 5 a 16 ejemplares, aunque lo normal son 7 u 8, los que deposita la hembra en el interior de la madriguera o nido, donde acondiciona un lecho con restos de materia vegetal y pelo, naciendo desnudos, con los ojos cerrados, sin pelo y sin capacidad auditiva y pesando tan solo 5 ó 6 gramos.
Duración de la lactancia: Entre 15 y 17 días.
Madurez sexual. Son precoces muy pronto: la hembra es activa sexualmente a las cinco o seis semanas. Los machos precisan unos días más para alcanzar la madurez sexual.
Alimentación. Condicionada a las disponibilidades alimenticias que encuentra, aunque siente predilección por los cereales y semillas, aunque no rechaza insectos, caracoles y restos de materia vegetal. También puede predar sobre nidos de huevos.
Hábitats. La rata de campo, hasta hace unos siglos, dominaban las ciudades, pero al llegar las ratas de alcantarilla (Rattus norvegicus), de mayor tamaño, entablaron una lucha a muerte, expulsándola de las aglomeraciones urbanas y obligándola a adquirir costumbres campestres.
Huellas. Por su poco peso no suele quedar marcadas, ni siquiera en los medios óptimos. Cuando lo hace es de forma difusa, enmarañada y poco clara. La huella del pie posterior, es mayor que la del anterior, teniendo la huella del pie posterior una longitud de 1,5 cms. De largo por 0,5 cms. de ancha. Es también muy característico de la especie los rastros aceitosos, producidos por su piel grasienta, que deja marcados sobre el suelo y lugares por los que pasa habitualmente en sus correrías. Aunque estos rastros de grasa también los deja la rata común o de alcantarilla, sabremos que corresponden a una rata campestre si el rastro de grasa se encuentra en vertical o en un lugar elevado, ya que la rata común es mala treparadora. Uno de estos rastros de rata campestre lo vemos con detalle en una de las imágenes laterales que ilustran esta ficha.
Excrementos: Su forma es alargada siendo ligeramente más gruesos por el centro y la punta redondeada de 9-10 mm. de longitud y 2-3 mm. de diámetro en el centro.
Otros rastros. Los daños apreciados en resto de comida es su mejor rastro. Cuando come cereales, su alimento favorito, no come por completo los granos, sino que ataca a las semillas por un extremo, sujetándolas con las manos y si tiene más no termina de consumir la semilla encontrada, sino que pasa a otra para efectuar similar proceso. En las almendras roe la cáscara de forma difusa e irregular, aunque fundamentalmente por una punta. El cadáver de la rata de campo o su presencia en egagrópilas de aves son otros buenos rastros para asegurar su presencia en un territorio concreto.
Dimorfismo sexual: No aparente, si bien el macho es ligeramente mayor que la hembra. La hembra presenta además cinco pares de mamas, ligeramente apreciables en la lactancia.
Enemigos naturales. El turón, gineta y gato montés son sus principales enemigos. El gato doméstico (Felis catus) también se atreve con ellas, particularmente los ejemplares felinos de mayor tamaño. El hombre también las combate con raticidas.
Curiosidades ecológicas. Se cuenta que fueron las ratas y no los hombres, los que expulsaron a los soldados de Napoleón de Egipto. Kemmerich en su obra Cultura Curiosa (1944) cuenta que por las noches las ratas roían los arreos de cuero de los soldados franceses, de tal modo que los jinetes tenían que ir a pie porque las sillas no se sostenían sobre los caballos. Así mismo devoraban las correas de los fusiles, las cartucheras, las botas y todo lo que tenía cuero, cuando los soldados
dormían. Cuando los soldados comían su rancho, las ratas salían de todas partes y se lanzaban hambrientas sobre los platos de los soldados, y aunque mataban a muchas de ellas, las otras seguían comiendo con total descaro, sin inmutarse, lo que quitaba el apetito a los soldados que se negaban a continuar en estos lugares acosados por tan indeseables roedores.
Principales problemáticas. Los daños en alimentos -humanos y de animales de corral- y en los campos de cultivos son las principales problemáticas que se achacan a la rata. La posibilidad de transmitir enfermedades hace también necesario su control.
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You are here at the top of the Centro Ecologico Sian Ka'an (CESiaK), located on the Caribbean Coast of Mexico, near the Mayan Ruins of Tulum, south of Cancun. A small ecotourism and education center, it serves as a model for sustainable development in sensitive tropical ecosystems. The revenue generated through tours, fishing, beautiful accommodations, and various on-site activities is used to fund conservation and education programs within the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve...
[See www.cesiak.org/ for further details!]
The Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve has been a Mexican national park since 1986 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987.
Part of the reserve is on land and part is in the Caribbean Sea, including a section of coral reef. The reserve has an area of 5,280 km².
The reserve also includes some 23 known archaeological sites of the Maya civilization.
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About the Shot
Usually when I visit the zoo, the baboons are frolicking up the back of their sizeable enclosure, too far away for my 200mm to reach. This time, I arrived at the viewing window to find a huge crowd of people gathered. I waited patiently for a couple of minutes then pushed to the front to be greeted with this lovely sight. Two of the zoo's newest babies right down the front. I'm going to guess that the wee one with the grass in his mouth is Chandu. He was more confident than the other one. Within minutes the youngsters were scooped up and carried away so I got there just at the right time.
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About the Baboon Babies
Edinburgh Zoo has welcomed the first of its spring arrivals in the form of three baby gelada baboons. The new additions, which are the first gelada babies to be born at the Zoo, have been named Chandu, Chibale and Chiku. Chandu, who was the first to arrive on 10 February, is the only one to be sexed so far and is a boy. Chibale, whose name means kinship, followed on 6 March and Chiku, whose name means chatter, finally arrived on 10 March. The names for the three baboons have been chosen by their keepers to reflect the Ethiopian origin of this species.
Gelada baboons have only been part of the animal collection since 2007 when a group of seven arrived from Rheine Zoo in Germany. In 2008 the Zoo received a male called Malachi from Colchester Zoo who is father to all three babies.
Gelada baboons live in the Ethiopian Highlands. They live in large troops, led by one dominant male, with younger males, females and infants of all ages making up the rest of the group. They are currently in danger of extinction due to the expansion of the local human population. Not only do they have to compete for land but they are also targeted by farmers who suspect them of crop-raiding.
Georgina Cook, one of the Primate Keepers at Edinburgh Zoo, said:
“We’re really happy that our gelada group have bred successfully as it means that they have settled in really well. The youngsters have already started exploring the enclosure on their own and we’re sure they will prove to be very popular with visitors.”
Also of interest: Primates | Edinburgh Zoo | Animal Babies
Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es:
THE PARK(3 of 3): Akari's suitors /
EL PARQUE (3 de 3): Los pretendientes de Akari
(Read in order, this is: SHOT/FOTO 84 of 95) 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.
FOTOSTORY: In English / En Español
Akari: Y-yes... Who are you? do I know you?
Take: (She didn't evenrealize I live in the same house... T_T)
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Akari: S-si... y tu quien eres? Te conozco?
Take: (Ni se ha fijado que vivo en la misma casa... T_T)
LINKS:
- Las FOTOHISTORIAS de Sheryl en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es
Photograph by Christopher C. Grinter, 2014
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In case you can't read the text on the picture (which you probably can't...)
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The Shack was an interesting place. Poe had not been the first one to dream of it, nor would she be the last. As she gazed out the windows, she saw people of all shapes and sizes and races passing by now and again and she seemed to know that these were not people like her, these people were different, passing through. The Quiet and the Shack had changed slightly from what she could remember, but she supposed that was the way of these things. As those people came and went,
they took some things with them and left other things behind.
The Shack also seemed to have its own sort of energy; its own life almost. Just as it had blocked Laz out of Poe's mind the night before,it also blocked Poe from feeling any tingle of Serafina's arrival. Whoever had first dreamed up the Shack had built it for seclusion and reflection, and thusly, it kept things that would interfere with that... out, until such time as the occupant or the Shack itself decided that they needed to move on. After all, introspection was a good thing from time to time, but it wouldn't do to just retreat into oneself reclusively. That was-not- the Shack's purpose. It was not a hiding place.Poe had thought about using it for just that, and the Shack simply wasn't going to allow it.
An imposing twelve-sided table
Estimate: PHP 1,200,000 - 1,400,000
First quarter, 20th century
Laguna
Narra and kamagong, kamagong inlays
83 x 224 x 224 cm (32 1/2 x 88 x 88 in)
Provenance:
Formerly from the family of Candelaria Moldes Santos, wife of Col. Leopoldo Santos, Philippine army and guerilla fighter during the Japanese occupation
Made in the Bilibid Prison which, from the early American colonial period until the end of the first half of the 20th century, manufactured high quality household and office furniture as part of its program to rehabilitate prisoners in preparation for their reintegration into mainstream society. Their outputs were arguably unrivaled in terms of craftsmanship, design and prolificity.
A rare 12-sided top, made of solid one-piece narra wood, framed by precious kamagong wood carved around the edges with acanthus gadrooning. To harvest wood with a girth this size - over 7 feet across when finished - the felled giant tree must be well over a hundred years old. Each conforming side of the frieze is carved with foliated scrolls centering an anthemion flower inscribed with C-volute. The heavy base is made of two crossed curule seat-shaped legs carved with foliated scrolls bordered by broad kamagong inlays, and undulate with winged rosettes, connected to a huge, turned central cylinder with flutings surmounted by scrolled arches and a finial. The lion’s paws with winged extensions embody immense strength and power.
Overall, the workmanship is quite remarkable, displaying great detailed carvings and decorations alluding to the Italian Neoclassical style that was popular in the early 19th century. A classic, timeless statement piece that will surely draw exclamations of surprise and admiration. Found in Santa Rosa, Laguna.
Lot 189 of the Salcedo Auctions auction on 18 March 2023. Please see www.salcedoauctions.com for more information.
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BESAME MUCHO www.youtube.com/user/RANiEL1963#p/search/0/Ikz2bVuTBr4
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ji..ba..ro n. A Puerto Rican native peasant worker whose blood has derived from the colonial Spanish, local Indigenous, and African slave.
cos..mic adj. Infinitely or inconceivably extended; vast.
Cosmic Jibaros have redefined the Latin rock band, building from Latin and Caribbean rhythms, adding funked up guitars and accordion flourishes to achieve a sound both cross-cultural and highly danceable.
The emphasis is on structured songs that build to pulsing, sweaty heights, performed by skilled musicians drawing on backgrounds as diverse as: gospel (drummer Christopher Stanley); latin pop and jazz (timbale/percussionist Tony Cintron); rock (bassist Juan Carlos Vega); funk (conga player Johnny Durkin); pop-rock (keyboard player/accordionist Tony Senes); and afro-beat, soul and jazz (guitarist Darian Cunning).
Laced with social and political overtones, the songs are primarily in Spanish. As lead singer, charismatic front man Ricardo Reyes performs with sincerity and tremendous stage presence, pouring his emotions into the songs to make the heart beat faster.
The irresistible pull of traditional bomba beats, inter-played between the congas and timbales, are mixed with modern deep drum and bass and effects-laden guitar. Accented by passionate vocals, stirring lyrics and floor-shaking percussion, the beats and grooves draw audiences forward to move their hips, whatever their age or ethnicity. The seven-piece group is equally at home performing in a rock venue, a festival stage or an intimate club in Spanish Harlem club.
..Still grounded in rock, but with a hypnotic rhythm, partially sung in English and part in Spanish, The Cosmic Jibaros appeal to a wide audience who wants to feel, and not just hear, their music...
- Brita Brundage, Fairfield County Weekly
I went sightseeing to the Farallon Islands last weekend before the storm. It was my first time out there and the highlight was probably seeing 20 to 30 humpback whales surface feeding over Fanny Shoals.
The Farallon Islands have a long history of bird egg harvesting, fur seal harvesting, whaling, and fishing. It was also the site of nuclear waste disposal during the first 30 years of the cold war. The aircraft carrier Independence, a target ship for two atmospheric nuclear tests, was purposefully scuttled to the west of the Islands.
We caught rockfish, lingcod, and sanddabs. It wasn't a great fishing day, but as the others sent me home with some of their catch I probably won't be buying fish for a month or so.
Sebastes species are slow growing territorial predators with venomous spines in their dorsal and anal fins. Several species are known to live 100 to 200 years. The group is commonly sold as "red snapper" in fish markets. There are about 130 species in the genus and many species have multiple color morphs -- making field identification difficult for sport and commercial fishermen. Several (if not all) Sebastes species are endangered by overfishing. Catch and release of non-target species is complicated by the expansion of air in the internal organs of Sebastes during retrieval. While they appear paralyzed or dead at the surface, Sebastes caught in less than 200 feet water can be returned to successfully to depth using special techniques involving weights and reverse barbless hooks or open bottom containers. Marine sanctuaries off the California coast will soon protect limited geographical sites from all fishing.
Next time I want to send a camera down there.
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Taken at the semi abandoned Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Center at Diamond Head.
This is the same "thing" as seen in my Bunker Hilltop Sunset Photo, just seen from a different angle. I'm still not sure what this is. I think it's a siren or some kind of alarm.
I know the whole name thing is a bit overdone but I'm just trying some new things. Oh and this is a 3 exp hdr in photomatix. Then in photoshop I used a bit of digital blending on the sky to get rid of some 'Halo'ing around the siren and clouds.
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Vipp is celebrating its 70th anniversary by hosting a charity auction in New York City in collaboration with design retailer Design Within Reach (DWR). The auction will benefit DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS. The auction will feature Vipp pedal bins re-imagined by 35 leading creative personalities.
Public viewing and bidding from October 15 - 28 at DWR: Tools for Living located at 142 Wooster Street, New York City, during regular store hours (11am-7pm). Gala auction to be held October 28.
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VIPP 70TH ANNIVERSARY AUCTION
Vipp is celebrating its 70th anniversary by hosting a charity auction in New York City in collaboration with design retailer Design Within Reach (DWR).
The auction will benefit DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS. Thirty-five leading figures in the worlds of architecture, art, design, fashion and entertainment have put their signature touch on the iconic Vipp bin for the occasion, including Yoko Ono, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren & David Stark.
From October 15 – 28, the 35 customized Vipp bins will be on display for public viewing and bidding at DWR: Tools for Living located at 142 Wooster Street, New York City, during regular store hours (11am–7pm). Those who place bids on one or more of the customized Vipp bins, will be invited to a special gala auction on Wednesday, October 28, hosted by Veronica Webb, Vipp, DWR and DIFFA.
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Ami James, Avi Adler, Calvin Klein, Camilla StÊrk, Cole and Garrett, David Rockwell, David Stark, Evette Rios, Helena Christensen, Izhar Patkin, James Charles, Jes Gordon, John Baldessari, Jonas Hecksher/E-types, Lady Bunny, Lady Pink, Magnus Berger, Michael Aram, Mike Perry, Nigel Barker, Olaf Breuning, Oscar de la Renta, Ralph Lauren, Kiril Kirov/Razortooth, Richard Colman, Rikke Korff/The Furies, Robert Geller, Robert Verdi, Shelly Sabel, Sune Rose Wagner/The Raveonettes, Swathi Ghanta/Kidrobot, The Selby, Veronica Webb, Yoko Ono, Yves BÈhar/Fuseproject.
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A Mais Bela Flor
O local estava deserto quando sentei-me para ler embaixo dos longos ramos de um velho carvalho. Desiludido da vida, com boas razões para chorar, pois tinha a impressão que o mundo estava tentando me afundar. E se não fosse razão suficiente para arruinar o dia, um garoto ofegante chegou perto de mim, cansado de brincar. Ele parou na minha frente, cabeça pendente, e disse cheio de alegria:
- Veja o que encontrei!
Na sua mão uma flor. E que visão lamentável! Estava murcha com muitas pétalas caídas...
Querendo ver-me livre do garoto com sua flor, fingi pálido sorriso e me virei.
Mas ao invés de recuar, ele sentou-se ao meu lado, levou a flor ao nariz e declarou com estranha surpresa:
- O cheiro é ótimo, e é bonita também... Por isso a peguei. Pegue-a, é sua!
A flor à minha frente estava morta ou morrendo. Nada de cores vibrantes como laranja, amarelo ou vermelho, mas eu sabia que tinha que pegá-la, ou ele jamais sairia de lá. Então estendi-me para pegá-la e respondi:
- Era o que eu precisava...
Mas, ao invés de colocá-la na minha mão, ele a segurou no ar sem qualquer razão.
Nessa hora notei, pela primeira vez, que o garoto era cego, e que não podia ver o que tinha nas mãos. Senti minha voz sumir. Lágrimas despontaram ao sol, enquanto lhe agradecia por escolher a melhor flor daquele jardim.
- De nada... - respondeu sorrindo.
E então voltou a brincar sem perceber o impacto que teve em meu dia.
Sentei-me e comecei a pensar como ele conseguiu enxergar um homem auto-piedoso sob um velho carvalho. Como ele sabia do meu sofrimento auto-indulgente? Talvez no seu coração ele tenha sido abençoado com a verdadeira visão.
Através dos olhos de uma criança cega, finalmente entendi que o problema não era o mundo, e sim EU! E por todos os momentos em que eu mesmo fui cego, agradeci por ver a beleza da vida e apreciar cada segundo que é só meu. Então levei aquela feia flor ao meu nariz e senti a fragrância de uma bela flor, e sorri enquanto via aquele garoto com outra flor em suas mãos prestes a mudar a vida de um insuspeito senhor de idade...
As melhores coisas da vida são vistas com o coração!
On 3rd June 2011, the Korean Cultural Centre UK in association with the K-Pop Team and YG Entertainment held the second K-Pop Night at our Centre.
The evening featured a jam-packed night of events and the latests tunes as well as a singing contest. Applicants uploaded videos to our facebook page and five finalists were chosen to take part. From the five finalists a winner was selected by the audience with first prize being a return flight to Korea and a tour of YG Entertainment.
The flights were kindly donated by Asiana Airlines and YG's Big Bang also recorded a short video video for their fans in the UK. Big Bang's Video can be seen here:
This small event proved yet again to be incredibly popular and party-goers queued around the block to join the fun. The event was covered by Korea's 3 main news networks: KBS, MBC and YTN.
A video of the event here
For more details on the KPOP Team please visit www.kpopteam.com
Thousands demonstrated on Friday in Tahrir Square, demanding public trial of Mubarak, his interior ministry Habib el-Adly, and other regime figures.
The square and the surrounding streets since early morning have been emptied from all police and military presence. Most of the established political forces, most notably the Muslim Brothers, did not take part in the demonstrations.
The families of the martyrs were present, and demanded speedy trials of the police murderers, as it's becoming clear day by day that they will get away with what they did. More shockingly, most police officers who are currently undergoing trial still hold their positions (or have been promoted)! Demonstrators also denounced the brutal police crackdown on the protests in the square on Tuesday night and Wednesday.
Protesters marched, in solidarity with the detainees, by 4pm on the ministerial cabinet headquarters and the interior ministry. Policemen from inside the interior ministry's compound threw rocks and were making provocative gestures with their hands. Protesters responded by rocks and a shower of insults and chants against both the military and the police.
I've heard very strong chants, demanding the execution of Mubarak, Adly and Field Marshal Tantawi. While some are staging a sit in at the moment, others will resume protesting on Saturday, in the run up to the mass protests planned next Friday 8 July.
Diocese of Manchester Ordination of Deacons service at Manchester Cathedral. Picture by Paul Heyes, Sunday July 02, 2017.
More Beauty or More Danger :-)) ?
This shot was taken at the same photo-trip than my last post - on a warm and sunny early morning in South India, near Chennai.
And my friends told me, that this flower, which looks so beautiful and smells gorgeous, produces nontheless poisonous fruits and seeds, which would kill a man (and a woman as well, i guess :-)) ) in minutes (or was it even seconds?).
But here i just want to share this wonderful flower - to connect more with its current beauty than to connect to its danger-to-be.
Whoever knows the name of this flower.... i would be glad to add it here!
Facebook Event: Pizza Tour NYC
Event Info
Name:Pizza Tour NYC
Tagline: for friends and family
Host:Vladimir Cole (Facebook / LinkedIn / Twitter)
Type:Other - Carnival
Time and Place
Date: Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Time: 10:00am - 10:00pm
Location: NYC
City/Town: New York, NY
Description
Purpose: Tour some of the best Pizza in NYC. Now that I’m on the West Coast, this is a very important “keeping it real” event for me. I mustn’t forget what real pizza tastes like. Seattle’s pie sucks, for the most part.
Timing: Start at 10am and end at 10pm. Feel free to join in at any point by calling me (212.281.1090) for current location and next stop. Also, you can follow along via Twitter (twitter.com/vladcole).
Itinerary (in rough order):
DONE .... Rose & Joe's Bakery (31st St near Ditmars Blvd, Astoria)
DONE .... Rosario's (31st St near Ditmars Blvd, Astoria)
DONE .... Joe’s (7 Carmine Street, West Village) … walk to:
DONE .... Grandaisy Bakery (73 Sullivan St., SoHo) … walk to:
DONE .... Lombardi’s (32 Spring St., SoHo) … walk to:
DONE .... Luzzo's (1st Ave. & 12th St.) …
DONE .... Fornino (187 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn)
DONE .... Franny’s (295 Flatbush Ave., Prospect Heights, Brooklyn)
Google Maps: Brooklyn Section: Pizza Crawl by Brian Carp (Facebook)
Franny's Guests
+ Dr Sam
+ Jane Doe
© 2007 See-ming Lee (Blog / Facebook / Flickr / LinkedIn / Network / Orkut / Twitter / Wiki)
Diocese of Manchester Ordination of Deacons service at Manchester Cathedral. Picture by Paul Heyes, Sunday July 02, 2017.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
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After 18 deaths in the Norwegian mountains in 1967, Norwegian Red Cross and the Norwegian Tourist Association, created "Fjellvettreglene", the Norwegian Mountain Code.
They read:
1. Be prepared
2. Leave word of your route
3. Be weatherwise
4. Be equipped for bad weather and frost
5. Learn from the locals
6. Use map and a compass
7. Don't go solo
8. Turn back in time; Sensible retreat is no disgrace
9. Conserve energy and build a snow shelter if necessary
With this nifty sweaterjacket from Moods of Norway you will never forget these life saving rules, at least if you know how to read Norwegian!
Manifestation à Paris le 29 Novembre 2007 contre la réforme de la carte judiciaire par Rachida Dati. L'accès à la Place Vendôme (où se trouve le Ministère de la Justice) étant complètement verrouillé, les manifestants se réunissent rue de la Paix dans une ambiance animée. Devant les camions munis de grilles anti-émeute, des barrières ont été disposées que quelques-uns franchiront, mais sans heurt particulier avec les forces de l'ordre.
Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set
Part of Non à la carte judiciaire ! (Recommended as a slideshow)
donna lee / charlie parker i miles davis i Julio Cortazar¡
La foto salió movida
Un cronopio va a abrir la puerta de calle, y al meter la mano en el bolsillo para sacar la llave lo que saca es una caja de fósforos, entonces este cronopio se aflige mucho y empieza a pensar que si en vez de la llave encuentra los fósforos, sería horrible que el mundo se hubiera desplazado de golpe, y a lo mejor si los fósforos estan donde la llave, puede suceder que encuentre la biiletera llena de fósforos, y la azucarera llena de dinero, y el piano lleno de azúcar, y la guía del télefono llena de música, y el ropero lleno de abonados, y la cama llena de trajes, y los floreros llenos de sábanas, y los tranvías llenos de rosas, y los campos llenos de tranvías. Así es que este cronopio se aflige horriblenrente y corre a mirarse al espejo, pero como el espejo esta algo ladeado lo que ve es el paraguero del zaguán, y sus presunciones se confirman y estalla en sollozos, cae de rodillas y junta sus manecitas no sabe para que. Los famas vecinos acuden a consolarlo, y tambien las esperanzas, pero pasan horas antes de que el cronopio salga de su desesperación y acepte una taza de té, que mira y examina mucho antes de beber, no vaya a pasar que en vez de una taza de té sea un hormiguero o un libro de Samuel Smiles.
Julio Cortazar
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Falco vespertinus
El cernícalo patirrojo o cernícalo de patas rojas (Falco vespertinus) es una especie de ave falconiforme de la familia Falconidae propia de Europa oriental, Asia y África. No se conocen subespecies.1
Características
Es una especie de tamaño medio a pequeño, de largas alas. Los machos adultos son gris-azulados, excepto en la parte inferior de la cola y las patas, que son rojas. Las hembras tienen la espalda y las alas de color gris, mientras que la cabeza y la parte ventral son anaranjadas y la cara blanca con bigotes y rayas en los ojos de color negro.
Los jóvenes son pardos salpicados de manchas negras, siendo la coloración de la cara similar a la de las hembras adultas. Los halcones de patas rojas alcanzan una longitud de 28 a 30 cm y una envergadura de 65 a 70 cm.
Historia natural
El halcón de patas rojas es un ave que anida en colonias, pero no construye nidos, sino que prefiere utilizar los que han sido abandonados por otras aves, generalmente cuervos. En su interior ponen entre 2 y 4 huevos.
Es un ave diurna que habita en campo abierto, con pocos árboles y a menudo cerca del agua. Patrullan los cielos regularmente, lanzándose a gran velocidad sobre cualquier presa que localicen. Comen grandes insectos y en menor medida pequeños mamíferos y pájaros.
Distribución
Se distribuye por Europa oriental y Asia, emigrando en otoño para pasar el invierno en África. También puede verse de paso en Europa occidental mientras emigra, y se conoce el caso de al menos un halcón de patas rojas que, confundido durante el viaje, arribó por error a Norteamérica en 2004.[cita requerida]