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Oxalis pes-caprae (Bermuda buttercup, African wood-sorrel, Bermuda sorrel, Buttercup oxalis, Cape sorrel, English weed, Goat's-foot, Sourgrass, Soursob and Soursop) is a species of tristylous flowering plant in the wood sorrel family Oxalidaceae. Oxalis cernua is a less common synonym for this species.
Description
The Oxalis pes-caprae flower is actinomorphic, with a calyx composed of five free or slightly fused sepals, a sympetalous corolla composed of five fused petals, an apoandrous androecium composed of ten free stamens in two ranks, and a compound pistil.
[edit] Invasive species
Indigenous to South Africa, Oxalis pes-caprae or the Bermuda buttercup is a however a highly invasive species and noxious weed in many other parts of the world, including the United States (particularly coastal California), Europe, Israel and Australia.[1]
[edit] Control
The plant has a reputation for being very difficult to eliminate once it has spread over an area of land.{[2]} The weed propagates through its underground bulbs and this is the principal reason why it is so difficult to eradicate, as pulling up the stems leaves the bulbs behind. Soil in which the plant has grown is generally filled with small bulbs.[citation needed] Kluge & Claassens (1990) reported a potential biocontrol agent using Klugeana philoxalis, a larval feeder on shoots of O. pes-caprae.[3] O. pes-caprae is also a host to broomrape.[4]
[edit] Uses
Oxalis pes-caprae is often called by the common name sourgrass or soursob due to its pleasant sour flavor. This sourness is caused by oxalic acid, which is toxic in large quantities and may contribute to kidney stones.[citation needed] The plant is palatable and in modest quantities is reasonably harmless to humans and livestock. In South Africa it is a traditional ingredient in dishes such as waterblommetjiebredie (water flower stew).[citation needed] It is not a serious forage concern in South African pastures, unless favoured by overgrazing.
In some countries where the plant is invasive, such as in southern Australia, it grows in enormous quantities of high density in pastures and similar situations.[citation needed] In pastures outside South Africa where it has become dominant it can cause dramatic stock losses where, for example, hungry stock, such as sheep released just after being shorn, are let out to graze and gorge on the plant.[citation needed]
Sekolah Tinggi Perikanan Jl. AUP Pasar Minggu Jakarta Selatan 12520
(dulu DIKLAT AUP)
Pejabat, Tamu dan Undangan dalam acara :
WISUDA ANGKATAN 42 – TAHUN 2010
Pada hari Sabtu, 07 Agustus 2010, Sekolah Tinggi Perikanan melantik 327 wisudawan dari enam program studi, yakni Teknologi Penangkapan Ikan, Permesinan Perikanan, Teknologi Pengolahan Hasil Perikanan, Akuakultur, Teknologi Pengelolaan Sumberdaya Perairan, dan Penyuluhan Perikanan.
Ketua STP, Dr. Aef Permadi, S.Pi, M.Si menyebutkan bahwa hingga sekarang STP telah menghasilkan 7749 lulusan yang bekerja di dalam maupun luar negeri. Di antara Sarjana Sains Terapan Perikanan yang diwisuda rencananya akan direkrut oleh perusahaan-perusahaan perikanan, seperti PT Ocean Mitramas dan PT Marindo. Saat ini STP membuka enam program studi yaitu Teknologi Penangkapan Ikan (TPI), Permesinan Perikanan (MP), Teknologi Pengolahan Hasil Perikanan (TPH), Teknologi Akuakultur (TAK), Teknologi Pengelolaan Sumberdaya Perairan (TPS), dan Penyuluhan Perikanan (PP) bagi para taruna yang berasal dari lulusan Sekolah Lanjutan Tingkat Atas baik umum maupun kejuruan, termasuk yang telah menjadi Pegawai Negeri Sipil. Biaya selama pendidikan, seperti asrama, konsumsi, perkuliahan, dan praktikum, sebagian besar ditanggung oleh Kementerian Kelautan dan Perikanan.
American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)
New Horseshoe Lake
Brazos Bend State Park
Needville, Texas
The exact number of alligators at Brazos Bend SP is unknown, but there are estimated to be 250-350 alligators over 6' long that reside in the 1,000 acres of water in the park. According to the website, there are also some 15-16 footers living here. These appeared to be about 6-8 feet long and I ventured off the path down a pretty steep bank to the edge of the water to get a closer view. Even though there have been no incidents with alligators at the park, I was a little nervous, so I didn't stay down there very long. They were very cool to watch though! ...and this shot is cropped pretty tightly, you really need at least a 300mm to get close enough to them. Please note that my birthday is coming up and I accept B&H gift cards - LOL.
View On White -- So I didn't made it last time hanging around much longer in Flickr. I hope I'll do better now. I kinda miss it but on the other hand I'm glad I have time for other "important" things in life.
South Texas is in a 20 month drought and the few thunderstorms are welcome but simply not enough.
These islands in Lake Travis are a sure sign for this drought. This was taken mid June and when I drove by last week I think it was even worse.
I made a seven bracket shot here with the intention for some HDR image but couldn't get a satisfying result. The different pieces of software were all overwhelmed by the data (especially the gradient around the sun) and manual blending overwhelmed yours truly. So I ended up selecting the most promising image and did some "regular" Photoshop wizardry.
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Charadrius hiaticula
El chorlitejo grande (Charadrius hiaticula) es una especie de ave caradriforme de la familia Charadriidae que habita en Eurasia y norte de África.
Descripción
Presenta longitud máxima de 19 cm, envergadura de 48 a 57 cm, y un peso de entre 55 y 75 g. De aspecto similar al chorlitejo chico, diferenciándose principalmente por el tamaño y por la ausencia de anillo ocular en el chorlitejo grande. De color pardo por el dorso y blanquecino por el vientre. Patas y pico en tono naranja claro, terminando el pico en una puntita de color negro.
Distribución
Se localiza en toda la costa atlántica de Europa y norte de África. Presente también en gran parte de la costa mediterránea.
Cría en Eurasia, Groenlandia, noreste de Canadá, y Atlántico europeo hasta Países Bajos, e islas Británicas.
En España es invernante en casi toda la península, sobre todo en Andalucía y la costa cantábrica. Localizado también en Baleares y Canarias.
Hábitat
Por lo general frecuenta costas marinas, nidificando en playas arenosas así como pedregosas, pero también puede desarrollarse en aguas de interior, como marismas o lagos salados.
Voz
Emite frecuentemente, cuando se levanta y al volar, un trino aflautado que podría traducirse como "to-li" o bien "tuulí", antojándose como una voz suave y melancólica.
Dieta
Ingieren pequeños invertebrados que capturan picoteando la arena, pudiendo remover el fango con las patas para que estos salgan y sean llevados a sus fauces tras interrumpirles la huida.
Huevo
El chorlitejo grande presenta un tamaño medio del huevo de entre 32-39,6 x 22,8-28,5 mm. Huevo pardo claro moteado, con manchas de diferentes tamaños y distintos tonos oscuros y marrones. Realiza una o dos puestas al año, que suelen ser de unos 4 huevos. Son incubados por la hembra y el macho durante un periodo de tiempo que comprende unas 3 o 4 semanas.
Subespecies
Se conocen tres subespecies de chorlitejo grande:1
Charadrius hiaticula hiaticula Linnaeus, 1758
Charadrius hiaticula psammodromus Salomonsen, 1930
Charadrius hiaticula tundrae (Lowe, 1915)
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Por primera vez en este año y medio, Carlos Bianchi
confirmó el equipo de cara a un partido. Será el debut en el
torneo, y el entrenador se mostró entusiasmado de cara al
encuentro del domingo con Newell’s: “Este Boca tendrá
más presencia y manejo de partido“.
Los 11 titulares para el domingo
#Bianchi
El equipo es Orion; Grana, Magallán, Díaz, Zárate; Erbes,
Bravo, Gago, Carrizo; Martínez y Gigliotti.
— Boca Jrs. Oficial (@BocaJrsOficial)
agosto 8, 2014
“Se fueron muchos jugadores, y por consecuencia había
que tratar de reforzarse. A veces tenemos que recurrir
a chicos muy jóvenes y eso es quemar las etapas de formación”,
explicó el Virrey con respecto a las incorporaciones.
“Uno trae jugadores para completar un plantel. Después,
pueden jugar o no”
Bianchi le respondió a Juan Román
Riquelme, que lo
elogió el jueves: “Tengo una gran relación con él. Nos
respetamos mutuamente. Me dará placer verlo jugar en
Argentinos Juniors“.
#Bianchi
No cualquiera puede asumir jugar de 10 y, desde que se fue
Román, tuve que cambiar el sistema.
— Boca Jrs. Oficial (@BocaJrsOficial)
agosto 8, 2014
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deportes
#deportes
Uno de los tantos recuerdos de Méjico
La canción Regina esta inspirada en el libro de Antonio Velazco Piña en el cual ofrece un testimonio de la huella física, mental y espiritual que marcó para Méjico el movimiento estudiantil de 1968, cuyo acontecimiento sigue siendo recordado con especial admiración y profundo respeto
Este disco en su estado original esta hecho en una hoja de oro repujado. En la escena aparecen, una cara con una nariz bulbosa emergiendo del pico de un Aguila la cual mira hacia abajo donde se encuentra su víctima. Esta figura rapaz en conjunto con el monstruo del inframundo. En la parte inferior demuestran similitud con elementos de estructuras posteriores en Chichen Itza como el templo de los Guerreros.
El captivo victimado viste un penacho de plumas y tambien tiene bigote y una nariguera en forma de barra (probablemente de Jade) y en su desformación craneal se nota claramente su identidad Maya.
Este disco conmemora el suceso de la caída de los Mayas ante el pueblo invasor Tolteca, ó guerreros Aguila, quienes despues de varias intervenciones bélicas lograron conquistar a los Mayas unos siglos antes de la llegada Española.
esta es una réplica de este disco, esta tallada a mano sobre piedra caliza de la zona, por el artista Gilberto Silva, una verdadera obra de arte, tambien tengo por este mismo artista la tapa del sarcófago del Templo de las Inscripciones de Palenque Chiapas.
This is a Cast Stone from Gilberto Silva is made of limestone, hand craved, the original is a Gold Disc, is made of a sheet gold that is hammered, and embossed. Here is a warrior with a long bulbous nose emerging from a warrior eagle looks down upon its victim. This raptoral figure and the frontal earth monster below resemble elements on later structure at Chichen-Itza like the temple of the warriors. The victim wears a feathered back dress and even though he has a mustache and a nose bar his reduced forehead and nose structure clearly identify him as Maya. it is significant that the face and eye of the victim were cut through in the destruction of the disc, and the eagle warrior left intact. Perhaps this was used as a charm in a ritual to bring victory to the toltec in their conquest of Chichen-Itza. After being recontructed it was thrown into the sacred well of sacrifice as an offering to the gods to bring victory in the downfall of the maya at Chichen-Itza
The Scene represents the fall of the Maya civilization in the hands of the Toltec culture, originatingat Tula in Central Méjico and coming down through Tabasco. These same people captured the city of Mayapan in Northern Yucatan. They were called Toltec ...meaning "Foreigner"
Ecocentro Danaus (<-- video) is located a couple miles east of La Fortuna Costa Rica. It's a fairly small reserve, 600 meters of walking trails, but boy, do they pack a LOT in such a small area. Danaus was created about 13 years ago when some forward thinking people decided it might be better to grow life than cut it down. Danaus is like a mini oasis since it's completely surrounded by pasture and cattle land. Here's what Ecocentro Danaus says about itself: 'Ecocentro Danaus is an ecological reserve that preserves a natural regenerating secondary forest. Many different biological processes take place here and there is a great biodiversity of flora and fauna in its natural state.'Danaus is worth a look if your in the La Fortuna area and you need something to do for a couple hours.
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We had M 9.0 earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 (Japan time) on March 11th, 2011. The earthquake created huge tsunami waves of up to 20 meters (66 ft), 5 stories building was covered by the water, that struck Japan coast minutes after the earthquake.
We are still having aftershocks. www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/quake_singen_index.html
The death toll will be expected to be 15,000 or more. About 523,288 people become refegees.
Radiation leaks led to a 30 km-radius evacuation around Fukushima I and II nuclear plants. Almost 20,000 people needs to evacuate from the area.
Fukushima I and II Nuclear Power Plants got damaged and four reactors exploaded. The reactor 1 had helium explosion and the outer building got damaged , has possible meltdown and part of the rod is exposed. The reactor 2 had has possible meltdown and all the rod is exposed. The radiation level is so high. (They do not show the number) The reactor 3 had helium explosion and the outer building got damaged, apart of the rod is exposed. The reactor 4 had unknown caused explosion and got two 8 feet diameter holes in the building. The water level of the reactor 5 is significantly decrease. 5 out of 6 reactors of Fukushima I are in great danger. We might get radiation poisoning even we are in Tokyo (About 120 miles from the plants). The level of radiation was 0.809 microsievert per one hour which means 9.1416 microsievert per a day in Tokyo yesterday. They said that it is safe but I beleive that if this situation lasts longer time, it will be very harmful for our health.
The Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said the radiation level reached 400 millisievert per hour next to Unit-3 of Fukushima-I nuclear plant on March 15 and the radiation level reached over 1,000 millisievert per hour near the front gate of Fukushima nuclear plant at around 10:00 am on March 16.
It says that if a person exposed 1,000 millisievert to 2,000 millisievert, 10% risk of death after 30 days.
Two other nuclear plants in Ibaraki and Onagawa are in danger too.
Six nuclear plants got damage and stopped working. So, we have huge power shortage and we will have scheduled black out since March 14th. It depens on the area but usually 2 to 4 hours, we have blackout. Many railways running trains maybe 30 to 70% of normal schedules and also only limited area. Everybody is trying to buy bottled water, rice, bread, noodles, rice cake, milk, batteries, flashlight, and Portable Butane Gas Camp Stove. Some local cities adivice their residents not to go outside, if needs to go outside, needs to wear masks and wear long sleeves cloth to cover the skin, change the clothes when get home and put the clothes in a plastic bag, wash your hands and hair throughly. The city we live do not take any precausious measure, public schools are open and kids are running around in the school ground. I am glad that my daughter does not need to go to the school due to the bullying and school violence.
We had M6 class earthquake again twice last night.
My mother, my daughter and I are safe from the eathquakes at this moment. We shut all the windows tight, close the vent and try to stay home for the safety.
Devastated northeast, already short of water, food, medicine, blanket, diapers, electricity and heat. The evacuees are trying to keep warm in near-freezing temperatures. I saw on TV that it is difficult to get hot water there, so mothers cannot make formula milk for babies. So they give the babies some juice and other soft food instead. I hope there will no futher damages in the devasted areas and could get help from unaffected areas. It's heartbreaking to see the hardership on evacuees.
Thank you for your support, prayers and friendship.
More details: The jungle murmurs
Georgetown after the storm. The sky remains torn and in heretic, but it gives to this photo all its power. The sea is still restless and we can almost smell the rain on the wooden pier of the fishing village of George Town. The crow is leaving from its refuge where it waited the rain to stop...
The fishing village was once a very high place for the trade of different goods between Asia and the Great Britain as Malaysia was its colony. Opium was a common good that was traded there and you can witness many signs of this activity.
Now the fishing village is more a touristic attraction. No international trade is on-going there anymore, since the maid harbor is in Kuala Lumpur and the worldwide famous harbor of Singapore. Now tourist are wandering on the wooden piers, among the houses. Local chinese are still leaving there, houses have no air-cond, all doors are open.
If you go there, try to imagine this place at the time of Francis Light and it may help you to enjoy even more the place.
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19?? Ford model A
Photo from Sweden.
This is a collection of images of Homemade tractors, American Doodlebugs, and Swedeish A- and Epa-traktorer.
Many of the images here I have found all over the internet!
If anyone find their own image here and disapprove of me showing it here, just send me a message and I will remove it/them images!
1. being, 2. my fairy, 3. Maeve, 4. Untitled, 5. Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live (Exodus 22:18), 6. www.flickr.com/photos/frankpetronio/1399759215/, 7. Autumnflowers, 8. Witches Playground, 9. The Dark Lord, 10. concotion, 11. Jerry, Pauline and the Witch, 12. Hemingway, 13. Just too darn creepy, 14. Plumeria, 15. ocean glow, 16. Lets hug ;-), 17. interpretive dance, 18. beach wedding 06, 19. Freshness. Explore #273, 20. lady of shalott, 21. Beach Wedding, 22. lantana, 23. Untitled, 24. Five years old, 25. Autumn Beech
Hi All,
Had the pleasure of going down south on Sunday for the hunt of a nice sunset shot. So many potential spots im looking forward to photographing over the coming weeks/months.
This one is a little different to the usual sunset shot i take, the sun is directly behind me and was set for a few minutes before i fired off this shot.
The horizon didn't look that flash as there were massive clouds far out on the horizon which hindered the spectacular colours we usually get.
This shot was taken down at Yallingup, its quite a walk over slippery rocks to get out to this point, if you're not careful you could easily fall in and be taken out or 'tap' a rock.
Please don't try remind me of the dust spots littered throughout the sky, its making me depressed as it is. I think i spent, collectively, about an hour trying to pick majority of them out and i could easily spend another cleaning more up.
anyways I hope y'all enjoy the shot :)
ISO 50, 0.6', f/18
Canon 5Dmk II
Canon 16-35mm f/2.8L
No Filters - Need to purchase some
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Second Life holiday parties was an incredible mix of trance, dnb, electronica, dark psy, goa, minimal, proggy, acid, experimental, industrial, noize, tribal, jazz, live music, country, blues, reggae, salsa, classical, opera, and Christmas music. I heard it all and then some.
I love music of all kinds. If it's good, it's worth listening to, so don't start with the nose-up-in-the-air over your favorite genre. Believe me... good music will always find an audience. An audience of sophisticated listeners will stop to listen to any good sound... even if it isn't part of your normal repertoire.
What is amazing is that dj's and musicians around the world know this, and they borrow from all genres to create their own personal sounds.
Here in Second Life, we get the results from around the world. World music mixes with the trendy sounds of the day, and we get the sounds that we love so much.
I want to thank all the dj's, musicians, club owners and event makers in SL. You guys made a holiday scene like no other. APPLAUSE & BRAVO ::::
Special thanks to you <3:
... and kisses to ::
Xavier
Aosh
Ronnie
Stig
Mackenzie
Lou
Leo
Professor
Grease
Hallow
Nos
Thomm
Finny
Donna
IPR365
Arora
8Wall
Space
Shad
Healer
Queen
Stefan
Jen
Max
Xavier
Zod
Tina
Melt
WET
Sully
Sylvain
Alb
Web
Without you guys, the party scene would be dull indeed!
<3 <3 <3
2009... here we goooooo!
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My wife needs to be given credit for the great capture of this couple in our back yard near Kiev (Ukraine). The male was feeding the female which is nesting nearby. We had never seen that kind of bird since we arrived in this country a year ago.
Taken with Nikon D300 and Nikkor AF-S 70-300 VR f/4.5-5.6 at 300mm Focal length
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Marilyn Burns falleció ayer martes 5 de agosto a los 65 años de edad. Por el momento, se desconocen los motivos de su muerte, ya que fue encontrada sin vida en su casa de Houston por un miembro de su familia.
Burns debutó en el mundo del cine dando vida a la protagonista femenina de la esencial ‘La matanza de Texas‘ (‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’, Tobe Hooper, 1974), lo cual le permitió alcanzar el estatus de reina del grito. Tras participar en la televisiva ‘Manson: Retrato de un asesino‘ (‘Helter Skelter’, Tom Gries, 1976) volvió a colaborar con Tobe Hooper en ‘Trampa mortal‘ (‘Eaten Alive’, 1977).
En los años 80 únicamente rodó dos largometrajes, la poco conocida ‘Kiss Daddy Goodbye‘ (Patrick Regan, 1981) y ‘Asesinos del futuro‘ (‘Future-Kill’, 1985). Tras esta última se pasó casi dos décadas alejadas del mundo del cine, siendo su cameo en ‘La matanza de Texas: La nueva generación‘ (‘The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre’, Kim Henkel, 1994) la única excepción.
Su carrera se había reactivado durante los últimos años al participar en títulos como ‘Butcher Boys‘ (Duane Graves y Justin Meeks, 2012), ‘La matanza de Texas 3D’ o ‘Sacrament‘ (Shawn Ewert, 2014), habiendo finalizado recientemente el rodaje de ‘In a Madman’s World‘ (Josh Vargas, 2014), la que será finalmente su última película.
Descanse en paz.
Vía | Hollywood Reporter
– La noticia Marilyn Burns ha fallecido fue publicada originalmente en Blogdecine por Mikel Zorrilla.
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espectaculos
#espectaculos
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Listen!
Do you want to know a secret?
Do you promise not to tell? Wo-oh-oh
Closer!
Let me whisper in your ear...
— Do You Want to Know a Secret, by The Beatles
TOP — Hmmm? Should I tell them? I don't know. :/ This could be really embarrassing. ~blush!~
MIDDLE — Ah, what the hell. Shhhh! Listen! Do you want to know a secret? Do you promise not to tell? Closer! Let me whisper in your ear....
BOTTOM — I totally suck at putting on nail polish! (Yes, it's black. Yes, I still have it on. :P And, yes, I put it on ALL of my nails. :P No, I didn't do my toenails. And one or two of my friends are really going to wonder about me now. Whatever.)
(NOTE: I originally wanted to post lyrics and a link to a video of the song "Secret" by The Young Gods, an industrial rock group I like from Geneva, Switzerland, but I'll be damned if I can find either. I found the lyrics in English, but what I want are the lyrics in French, because the song is sung in French.
(Also, I would've uploaded this image last night, except my Internet connection crapped out on me. So, I watched a video on learning new skills in Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop Elements instead. This is a DVD of instructional videos that came with a British magazine, Digital Camera, that I purchased during my last visit to Portugal last March/April. At one point I stopped the video I was watching and stared in complete shock at the monitor and said out loud, "What the hell did he just do?" Because... 1) I learned that Photoshop Elements *does* have a layer mask tool, although you'd be hard pressed to find that in Adobe's manual, and 2) I saw the instructor do something I've been wanting to do for a very long time and he made it look freakin' easy.)
Per-Nils Paivio est un saame chez qui nous avons passé d’agréables moments dans sa ferme du village d’Övre Soppero – une localité située dans la municipalité de Kiruna, comté de Norrbotten, qui comptait 201 habitants en 2010.
Son histoire et ses coordonnées
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Suède
Au pays des Sami, Min Eallin
Laponie, Nord de la Suède, près de Kiruna
par Britt Marie Labba, Niklas Labba - publié le 2007, mis à jour le 1er décembre 2008
Per Nils et Brit Marie Päiviö habitent au nord de la Suède, en Laponie, en territoire Sami. Övre Soppero, leur village, est le seul en Suède où plus de 90 % de la population est tournée vers l’élevage de rennes. Per Nils et Brit Marie vivaient essentiellement de cet élevage. Mais des pluies givrantes en début d’automne emprisonnant les lichens ont décimé les troupeaux durant la dernière décennie. Le couple s’est alors tourné vers l’accueil de visiteurs pour faire découvrir et apprécier leur culture.
La première tentative a consisté à reconstruire une hutte lapone, ou kota, maison ronde en armature de bois de bouleau, recouverte de tourbe ou de mottes d’herbes. Equipée d’un poêle, de lits superposés et d’une table centrale, la hutte peut accueillir une famille de six. Alentour, balades à ski ou à pied sont possibles sur une étendue de plus de 100 kilomètres de forêt, de tourbières et de toundra. Les repas sont à base de produits issus d’élevage : viande de renne séchée, fumée, accompagnée de gelée de baies arctiques et de pain lapon.
Après la kota, Per Nils s’est lancé dans la reconversion d’un ancien corps de ferme en un musée lapon (vêtements, ustensiles, tentes). Il aime parler du métier d’éleveur de rennes ou organiser une expédition en barque à la pêche au saumon. Selon les saisons, il montre comment capturer les rennes au lasso, marquer les jeunes, dépecer la viande, la fumer dans la kota ou la sécher au grenier. Brit Marie enseigne la fabrication du pain lapon ou fait admirer le travail du cuir ou de la corne de rennes que les artisans locaux utilisent pour fabriquer les magnifiques couteaux lapons que l’on accroche à la ceinture. Elle parle également de la vie que sa mère a connue sous la tente, été comme hiver, élevant toute une famille en itinérance totale sur les traces des troupeaux.
Britt Marie et Per Nils ont conçu un trek inédit, sur le chemin de migration des rennes en pays Sami. Le point de départ de cette randonnée se situe au camp d’été de Gaiccacaccá où, chaque année vers la mi-juillet, la communauté Sami procède au marquage des jeunes rennes. Le camp d’hiver de Järamä, à 50 km du village de Övre Soppero, est le terme de la randonnée. Gaiccacaccá est situé à 900 m d’altitude, en bordure du Parc National norvégien de Övre Dividal. Cette randonnée parcourt une des plus vastes régions sans aucune route en Europe sur plus de 100 km depuis la toundra arctique du Finmark norvégien jusqu’aux forêts boréales de bouleaux au cœur de la Laponie suédoise. L’itinéraire de la migration séculaire et traditionnelle des rennes par les Sami de Saarevuopmi est réellement le fil d’Ariane de cette randonnée. La région tout entière est elle-même connue comme étant la zone de migration des rennes autour du pôle en Fennoscandie. Les participants à cette randonnée vont partager l’expérience et la vie quotidienne des familles Sami, au contact des rennes comme elle était pratiquée autrefois tout au long de l’année. La richesse de la biodiversité, liée à l’ouverture des milieux naturels par les rennes, est un des aspects excitants de cette découverte. Les nuits se passent sous les tentes traditionnelles Sami ("lavvu") ou dans les cabanes construites pendant l’hiver. Nos hôtes et guides Sami nous apprendront à lire dans le paysage la signature des anciens camps, nous verrons bien sûr quelques petites bandes de rennes, et avec un peu de chance, leur immense cousin l’élan. Au cœur des territoires des Ours bruns et des Gloutons, farouches et peu faciles à observer directement, nous chercherons la compagnie des oiseaux prestigieux du grand nord comme le Cygne chanteur, le Lagopède et la somptueuse Chouette harfang, ainsi que celles du Pluvier doré, de l’Aigle royal et du Pluvier guignard. En début d’été, de nombreuses fleurs apparaissent alors qu’en fin de saison, on commence à goûter aux airelles et myrtilles. Nous cuirons notre pain sur le feu dans la tradition Sami et mangerons le Char arctique pêché dans les lacs d’altitude norvégiens, la Truite, l’Ombre et même, plus bas, le saumon. Le groupe du début juillet aura peut-être même la chance d’assister au marquage des rennes guidés et rassemblés au coral. Au départ et à l’arrivée de la randonnée, nous serons invités à profiter du confort des torvkåta (huttes lapones traditionnelles) et de la ferme au village d’Övre Söppero, où Britt Marie nous introduira à la culture Sami, nous préparera à la randonnée. Un repas à base de viande de renne suivra une séance de sauna au bord de la rivière Laino.
Localisation
Nord de la Suède, a 140 km à l’est de Kiruna, la capitale de la Laponie suédoise, près de la frontière finlandaise. On y arrive en avion jusqu’à Kiruna ou bien en train de Stockholm après une nuit très agréable en couchette.
Contact
Per Nils Päiviö et Britt Marie Labba
Min Eallin Box 115
S-980 14 Övre Soppero
Tel. : 46 (0) 981-300 58
Mobile : 070-3625566, 070-5977765
E-Mail : info@mineallin.com
Internet : www.mineallin.com/
Pour la réservation des séjours organisés contacter
Saïga en France
4 rue Fleuriau BP 1291 17086 La Rochelle cedex 2 –
Tel. : 33 5 46 41 34 42 Fax : 33 5 46 41 34 92-
E-mail : mainate@saiga-voyage-nature.fr
Website : www.saiga-voyage-nature.fr
PolarQuest en Suède
P.O. Box 180
SE-401 23 Göteborg
Tél. :+46 31 333 17 30, Fax : +46 31 333 17 31
Courriel :info@polar-quest.com
Internet : www.polar-quest.com
Informations culturelles
Britt Marie et Per Nils sont d’abord et avant tout des éleveurs de rennes. Ils continuent à s’occuper de leurs troupeaux et chaque membre de la famille est attributaire d’un certain nombre de têtes. En été, ils se rassemblent tous dans le camp d’été sur les hauts plateaux norvégiens pour marquer les jeunes rennes de l’année. Nous accueillir procède de leur désir de partager leur style de vie et de faire comprendre les difficultés auxquelles ils sont confrontés pour continuer à exercer cette activité. Britt Marie et Per Nils partagent avec nous les activités de l’éleveur de rennes d’hier, au travers notamment de nombreux objets de la vie courante liée à une vie de transhumance, et d’aujourdhui. Ils font office de pionniers et leurs essais de diversification sont observés attentivement par l’ensemble de la communauté. Ils ont pour l’instant fait preuve de beaucoup d’ingéniosité et de prudence. Les programmes qu’ils nous proposent, en exclusivité pour la France, sont certifiés “Tour Quality » : une reconnaissance de leur savoir-faire issu de cette activité d’éleveur qui consiste à migrer avec les rennes en limitant les impacts sur les ressources naturelles et les paysages.
Les langues parlées sont le Sami, le Suédois, le Finnois.
L’avenir des migrations traditionnelles de rennes dépend aujourd’hui de la reconduction du traité entre la Norvège et la Suède, dont l’issue est attendu en 2006. De la révision de cette convention dépend également l’avenir du peuple Sami, dont la culture est liée à l’élevage des rennes et à ces migrations traditionnelles. En vous proposant cette randonnée, Per Nils et Britt Marie espèrent mettre un coup de projecteur sur la légitimité des revendications Sami et attirer ainsi l’attention à un niveau international.
L’activité touristique date des années 1995. Per Nils et Britt Marie sont les seuls au village à fournir des services d’accueil. Des artisans vendent des objets d’art, gobelets en bois de bouleau, couteaux ornés de bois de rennes travaillés. Leurs partenaires commerciaux sont l’Hôtel de glace à Kiruna, et les tour opérateur suédois et français Polarquest et Saïga.
Un séjour recommandé
Titre : Territoires Sami, « Route de migration des rennes et culture Sami"
Consulter la fiche technique : www.saiga-voyage-nature.fr/fichtech.php3?voyage=127
Durée : 12 jours Kiruna / Kiruna
Type d’activités : randonnée à pied avec sac à dos léger portant les effets personnels
Dates de départ ; dimanche 10 juillet au jeudi 21 juillet 2005, dimanche 24 juillet au jeudi 4 août 2005, dimanche 7 août au jeudi 18 août 2005
Saisons : été uniquement
Prix : 2 290 euros par personne sur une base de 8 personnes avec une couronne calculée à 0,11 euro
Inclus dans le prix : La présence d’un guide naturaliste SAÏGA, l’hébergement en pension complète, du déjeuner du jour 1 au petit-déjeuner du jour 12 (cuisine traditionnelle présentée sous forme de repas chauds ou de pique-niques) sous tente traditionnelle Sami ou « cabane » d’hiver des gardes aménagées pour quatre personnes (ou plus selon la répartition du groupe), tous les transferts terrestres en minibus ou en voiture, toutes les activités, visites et entrées mentionnées dans le programme, le “carnet de voyage et d’observation”, toutes les taxes et services, les assurances* assistance - rapatriement - frais médicaux (souscrites pour votre sécurité)
Le prix ne comprend pas : Le voyage depuis votre lieu de résidence jusqu’à Kiruna et retour, les frais de formalités et documents personnels, la mise à disposition du matériel nécessaire pour le couchage (sac de couchage…), les boissons et dépenses personnelles, le supplément « chambre individuelle », les assurances* annulation-bagages et autres.
Hébergement : en lavvu (tente traditionelle laponne), cabines en bois utilisées pour la surveillance hivernale, en Köta (hutte en tourbe et dans une ferme restaurée tout confort)
La réservation ; via Saïga pour la France
L’accès : Aéroport de Kiruna ou de Stockholm suivi d’une nuit en train
La taille des groupes : 12 au maximum
Conditions requises : Tout public et âge, pour le trek bonne expérience de la randonnée.
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El estornino negro (Sturnus unicolor) es un ave paseriforme de la familia de los estorninos, Sturnidae. Está estrechamente relacionado con el estornino pinto, pero tiene una distribución mucho más limitada y no es migratorio. Este estornino es residente de la península ibérica, noroeste de África, Sicilia, Córcega y Cerdeña.
Su color negro y característica silueta con sus cortos cuello y cola hacen su identificación sencilla con la única posibilidad de confusión durante el invierno, cuando los estorninos pintos también están en la misma región. Los estorninos negros en invierno tienen un color negro grisáceo ligeramente moteado aunque no tan abundante y marcado como el pinto. Aunque al llegar la primavera pierden todas las pequeñas motas y adquieren un plumaje más negro y más brillante que el del estornino pinto, en especial los machos. Las patas son rosadas y sus estrechos y puntiagudos picos tienen tonalidad amarilla, más intensa en los machos durante la temporada de cría. Los estorninos negros andan en lugar de brincar y tienen un vuelo fuerte y directo. En vuelo se pueden apreciar sus alas en forma triángular y su cola corta. Sus polluelos son de color marrón apagado y los juveniles son de color gris oscuro motedado muy similares a los del pinto.
El estornino negro se puede encontrar en cualquier lugar abierto, incluso dentro de los núcleos urbanos. Al igual que el estornino pinto esta especie es omnívora y se alimenta de invertebrados, bayas, etc. También es gregaria y forma bandadas grandes durante el invierno, aunque no tan grandes que las del estornino pinto. Es un ave ruidosa y puede imitar sonidos muy bien. Su canto es semejante al del estornino pinto pero es más claro y tiene un tono más alto.
Esta especie suele anidar en cavidades, que pueden ser un hueco en un árbol o agujeros en los edificios. Normalmente ponen cuatro huevos.
Stadium Business Summit 2018 at Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester. Awards evening and winners. Picture by Paul Heyes, Tuesday June 12, 2018.
Matéria da Tvbe Joinville sobre o Museu Casa Fritz Alt e a exposição "Interlúdios Para Piscar De Olhos".
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The Arc de Triomf (English: Triumphal Arch) is an archway structure in Barcelona, Spain. It was built for the 1888 Universal exhibition, as its main access gate by architect Josep Vilaseca i Casanovas.
The arch is built in reddish brickwork in the Moorish Revival style. The front frieze contains the stone sculpture "Barcelona rep les nacions" (Catalan for "Barcelona welcomes the nations") by Josep Reynés. The opposite frieze contains a stone carving named "Recompense", a work from the earliest period of Josep Llimona.
The top of the arch is decorated with the Barcelona coat of arms as well as a representation of all 49 other Spanish provinces, work of Torquat Tassó and Antoni Vilanova.
The arch is located between Passeig de Lluís Companys and Passeig de Sant Joan, at the end of a wide promenade connecting with the Park of the Ciutadella.
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Try this on a black background. It much better on black.
And the mummy bear turned to the daddy bear and said: "Has that bloody Tracey Emin been sleeping in our bed again!"
Some months ago I started taking pictures of the impressions left by people's bodies in sofa's, chairs etc and started calling these sofa dunes.
Not long after I started doing this I started experimenting with other impressions left by people; especially those in beds. I called these bed dunes. Over the last few months I have amassed a small collection - most of which I am not very satisfied with.
For want of a better term I started referring to these collectively as body dunes. I'm sure that someone else is already doing this and producing much much better results - so if there is a generic adopted term for these impressions please let me know. I did search for relevant Flickr groups but didn't find any; but I'm probably searching for the wrong thing; even though I did try quite a few varied searches. Please let me know ... else I'll have to start one.
The image above is the state of the my own bed linen - illuminated by the light from a bedside table. Have to do something while I'm sick :-)
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God sent to us the last king on earth, he is His servant and His khalifa Nasser Mohammad Al-Yemeni, he is God’s mercy for all creatures also he is an enemy of antichrist satan and sign of his Leadership is the authority of knowledge and his explanatory-statement for the grand Quran that been taught to him by the Lord of the worlds to teach the secret of all secrets which is the purpose of creating us.. please read, ponder and circulate far and wide, Please join us to follow the chosen by Allah the Awaited Mahdi Nasser Mohammad Al-Yemeni and visit his website to discover the Truth from Allah the Al-Mighty.. we urge you to read ponder and circulate far and wide :
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Here is the detailed explanatory statement about the secret of hollow earth, the deceptive (antichrist), the masonic, gog and magog, and about the barrier of Dhul Qarnain and its place, also the planet of chastisement and the secret of haroot and maroot also what is called the space creatures (Aliens) and the fact of Al-Dabba with companions of the cave and Al-Raqeem, and the secret of Allah’s name the Greatest, also the alphabetical letters at the beginning of some chapters in addition to many secrets of the holy Quran – a detailed comprehensive explanatory-statements for these grand secrets in the link bellow (We hope to ponder and reflect for the importance and not rush in judgement).
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Secret of Planet x and return of the Messiah
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:الموقع الرسمي للإمام المهدي المنتظر ناصر محمد اليماني
ونرجو ونطلب من كل من يصِلُه هذا الخبر والنبأ العظيم أن لا يتسرع في الحكم قبل التبين والتدبر والقراءة والبحث بعد الإنابة إلى الله وصدق التوكل عليه وإستخارته في هذا الأمر العظيم وإليكم الخبر بشكل مختصر: إخوتي وأحبابي في الله نُبشركم جميعا ببعث المهدي المنتظر الحق الذي بشركم النبي عليه الصلاة والسلام ببعثه في أمة آخر الزمان عندما تمتلئ الأرض ظلما وجورًا.. من الطبيعي أن هذا قد لا تستوعبه عقولكم ولكن بالله عليكم لا تكذبوا ولا تعرضوا عن الأمر قبل التبين والقراءة والتعمق والبحث بهذا الخصوص، فوالله رب العرش العظيم إن هذا خبر يقين ونبأ عظيم، فالمهدي المنتظر الحق الآن بينكم حيّ يرزق يعيش في (اليمن) عاصمة الخلافة الاسلامية العالمية القادمة، وهو الآن في عصر الحوار من قبل الظهور والتمكين، أي أنه يدعو أولا علماء وشيوخ الأمة الإسلامية بكافة طوائفهم وفرقهم وأحزابهم إلى الحوار والاحتكام إلى كتاب الله ليحكم بينهم بحكم الله الحق في كل المسائل وجميع الأمور التي اختلفوا فيها، ليُنفي االإختلاف والتعددية المذهبية والحزبية والطائفية التي أدت إلى تفرق المسلمين إلى أكثر من سبعين طائفة، فالمهدي المنتظر الحق لن يكون من أي هذه الفِرق فيزيد المسلمين فرقة وطائفية وتحزبا وشَتاتا بل سيبعثه الله (حنيفا مسلما) لله رب العالمين على مِلة كافة الأنبياء والمرسلين، فيوحد صفوف الأمة الإسلامية ويُجبر كسرها ويَلُمّ تفرقها ويقيم خلافة إسلامية على منهاج النبوة الأولى، فينصُر الله ويظهر به دينه ويتم نوره ولو كره الكافرون، فيدحض بالبرهان من محكم القرآن كثيرا من الروايات المفتراة على الله ورسوله وصحابته من طرف المنافقين اليهود الذين يبطنون الكفر ويظهرون الإيمان للصّد عن الحق، والمهدي المنتظر الحق ناصر محمد اليماني زاده الله بسطة في العلم على كافة علماء الأمة وأتاه الله علم الكتاب الشامل وعلّمه بيانه الحق وأحاطه الله بكافة أسراره وأيده الله ببرهان الخلافة والإمامة، وقد كشف في كثير من بياناته عن أسرار عظيمة وخطيرة ولأول مرة وبالدلائل والبراهين حصريا من القرآن العظيم: مثل حقيقة وسِرّ إسم الله الأعظم وسرّ الأحرف المقطّعة في أوائل السّور وحقيقة كوكب العذاب من مُحكم الكتاب الطارق النجم الثاقب ذو الذّنب أو ما يسميه الغرب بالكوكب العاشر (نيبيرو nibiru planet x) وفصل عن أصحاب الكهف والرقيم المضاف إليهم الذي يوجد داخل تابوت السكينة فبيّن قصتهم وعددهم وأسمائهم ومكانهم والحكمة من بعثهم في عصر المهدي المنتظر وفصّل أيضا عن أسرار المسيح الدجال ويأجوج وماجوج ومن هُم وأين يوجدون وموعد ومكان خروجهم وكذلك حقيقة جنة بابل بالأرض المجوفة وسِر الأطباق الطائرة وما يسمى بالمخلوقات الفضائية وعلاقتهم بالماسونية والمسيح الدجال.. وكثيرا من أسرار وعلوم القرآن لكن للآسف أعرض كثير من علماء الأمة وخطباء المنابر ومفتي الديار عن الدعوة للاحتكام الى كتاب الله والمناظرة بسلطان وبرهان العلم، وان إستمر الإعراض والتكذيب فإن الله تعالى سيُظهره وينصُره بعذاب وبأس شديد بآية من السماء تظل أعناق المكذبين من هَولها خاضعين لخليفة الله وعبده المهدي المنتظر الحق إنها نار الله الموقدة التي سَيعرضها الله للكافرين عَرضا أحد أشراط الساعة الكبرى النجم ذو الذنب الطارق النجم الثاقب كوكب العذاب سقر اللواحة للبشر والتي ستمُرّ قريبا من أرضكم ويمطر الله بها حجارة من سِجّيل، وتتسبب في طلوع الشمس من مغربها بسبب تأثيرها وجاذبيتها القوية، أما الآن وقبل وصولها فيزداد التناوش مع الأرض وينتج عن ذلك كثيرا من الزلازل والعواصف والبراكين والفيضانات والحرائق والعواصف الشمسية وكثيرا من التقلبات المناخية العظيمة وما يسميه الغرب والملحدين بالكوارث الطبيعية، وما ذلك إلا من العذاب الأدنى دون العذاب الأكبر لعلهم يرجعون ويصدقون بالحق من ربهم … هذه مُجرد خلاصة وموجز قصير و روؤس أقلام لا تغنيكم عن التدبر والبحث أكثر بهذا الخصوص والتعمق في البيانات وما يقوله الإمام ناصر محمد اليماني، فنستحلفكم بالله يا إخوتي الأحبة أن تتدبروا وتتبينوا ولا تتسرعوا في الحكم قبل أن تطلعوا على بياناته وحوراته ومناظراته مع بعض علماء الأمة ممن حاوروه باسماء مستعارة في موقعه وأقام عليهمن الحجة بالحق في مسائل كثيرة مثل (عقيدة عذاب القبر ونعيمه وعقيدة رؤية الله جهرة وحد الرجم للزاني والناسخ والمنسوخ والشفاعة والوسيلة وقتل المرتد واسم الله الأعظم والمسيح الدجال وياجوج وماجوج واصحاب الكهف والرقيم وعودة المسيح عيسى وكثير من المسائل والعقائد الإسلامية..) جعلنا الله وإياكم من عباده أولي الالباب الذين يستمعون القول فيتبعون أحسنه ونسأل الله تعالى أن يهدي كافة عباده أجمعين إلى طريقه المستقيم طريق الحق المبين ويجعلنا أمة واحدة نعبده ولا نشرك به شيأ وإليكم أسفله بعض الروابط الهامة لمزيد من البيانات المختارة وفي أول رابط تجدون الفهرسة الموضوعية للبيانات حسب الأبواب والأقسام لتسهيل البحث عليكم
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البيان المُفصل عن سِرّ إسم الله الأعظم وحقيقة الشفاعة والوسيلة الدرجة العالية الرفيعة
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بيانات هامة عن حقيقة وسرّ الأحرف المقطعة في أوائل سور القرآن الكريم
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البيان المفصل عن إسم المهدي المنتظر الحق الذي بشرنا ببعثه النبي عليه الصلاة والسلام
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سـرُّ الأرض المجوفة والمسيح الدجال وياجوج وماجوج والماسونية وعن من يكون ذي القرنين وما إسمه وقصته المفصلة ومكان تواجد السّد الذي بناه ومن هما هاروت وماروت وكشف ما يسمى بالمخلوقات الفضائية والأطباق الطائرة ومصدرهم وعلاقتهم بالمسيح الدجال
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مدونة للبيانات بخصوص كوكب نيبرو الكوكب العاشر سقر اللواحة للبشر
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البيانات المفصلة عن أصحاب الكهف والرقيم وتابوت السكينة ومكانهم وقِصتهم
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La splendida mostra Splendori dal Medioevo, L’abbazia di San Vincenzo al Volturno al tempo di Carlo Magno, al museo Archeologico di Venafro fino al 2 dicembre 2012.
Ve la consiglio, se passate di lì!
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Well i got to meet Sebastian Boyesen today , how happy am i to inspire such an Artist ~ The book will be published around June 25th before the ceremony at the Sixbells memorial park
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00szzhv/Angel_of_the_Valleys/
While i was at The Miner today was talking to a local who's Husbands father and his brother died in the disaster
Sorry for the poor quality low resolution uploads as you may have gathered this is my first commission for a book on the mining disaster.
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Tragedy at Six Bells
By David John Withers, Brynmawr
My father worked in the colliery all his life and I sort of followed him into the pit. I went to work in Six Bells Colliery at 17 years of age.
When I first went on the 0.18 coal face as a collier's helper I was introduced to my 'batty' Reggie Poe who showed me the tools we were using and two chalk marks 15 yards apart on the coal face. This was our working place, 15 yards long by 4-foot-6 deep by 5 feet high. I thought 'bloody hell' - it seemed a huge amount of coal to shift.
Although the other coal faces in our district were more modern with hydraulic roof supports, we were still using the older friction posts and linked bars. I've still got the scars where one of the bars came down on me!
We had quite a few problems with gas on the 0.18 coal face and the dust was killing. At times the conveyor would start up and you couldn't see each other until the dust settled down.
As boys we often refused to go onto the face because of the amounts of dust there - being youngsters we stuck together even when the officials threatened to send us home. It wasn't much of a threat as I was only earning about £6 odd!
I had been working about two years when the explosion happened. I was working on the 0.18 face at Six Bells on the 'turning shift' and arrived at the colliery on the bus to see the place in turmoil and heard that an explosion had happened. As the explosion had occurred at our place of work, we offered to go down and help as we knew the place, but the Rescue Brigade had it under control and wouldn't let us go down.
It's hard to say my feelings about it all. We knew there was gas there and they said a spark had set it off. I had mostly enjoyed the colliery up to then. I remember four of the men who died - I used to give them snuff with powdered bark mixed in as a joke - there was a good spirit amongst the men at the pit.
Once the explosion had happened it put me off. I finished and I put my notice in soon after. I was too young to lose my life in the colliery. If I had been working the day shift that week it would have been me. The explosion opened my eyes to the dangers and I went into the construction industry instead - I was always good with my hands. The pit made me grow up.
The deaths of 45 men killed 50 years ago in a colliery explosion have been remembered with a service at the site.
A gas explosion ripped through the Six Bells colliery near Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent at 10.45am on 28 June 1960.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, led a service of remembrance at the site.
He also unveiled a memorial to the tragedy, a 20m high sculpture of a miner by Sebastian Boyesen.
Io lo so che non sono solo
anche quando sono solo
io lo so che non sono solo
io lo so che non sono solo
anche quando sono solo
sotto un cielo di stelle e di satelliti
tra i colpevoli le vittime e i superstiti
un cane abbaia alla luna
un uomo guarda la sua mano
sembra quella di suo padre
quando da bambino
lo prendeva come niente e lo sollevava su
era bello il panorama visto dall'alto
si gettava sulle cose prima del pensiero
la sua mano era piccina ma afferrava il mondo intero
ora la città è un film straniero senza sottotitoli
le scale da salire sono scivoli, scivoli, scivoli
il ghiaccio sulle cose
la tele dice che le strade son pericolose
ma l'unico pericolo che sento veramente
è quello di non riuscire più a sentire niente
il profumo dei fiori l'odore della città
il suono dei motorini il sapore della pizza
le lacrime di una mamma le idee di uno studente
gli incroci possibili in una piazza
di stare con le antenne alzate verso il cielo
io lo so che non sono solo
io lo so che non sono solo
anche quando sono solo
io lo so che non sono solo
e rido e piango e mi fondo con il cielo e con il fango
io lo so che non sono solo
anche quando sono solo
io lo so che non sono solo
e rido e piango e mi fondo con il cielo e con il fango
la città un film straniero senza sottotitoli
una pentola che cuoce pezzi di dialoghi
come stai quanto costa che ore sono
che succede che si dice chi ci crede
e allora ci si vede
ci si sente soli dalla parte del bersaglio
e diventi un appestato quando fai uno sbaglio
un cartello di sei metri dice tutto è intorno a te
ma ti guardi intorno e invece non c'è niente
un mondo vecchio che sta insieme solo grazie a quelli che
hanno ancora il coraggio di innamorarsi
e una musica che pompa sangue nelle vene
e che fa venire voglia di svegliarsi e di alzarsi
smettere di lamentarsi
che l'unico pericolo che senti veramente
è quello di non riuscire più a sentire niente
di non riuscire più a sentire niente
il battito di un cuore dentro al petto
la passione che fa crescere un progetto
l'appetito la sete l'evoluzione in atto
l'energia che si scatena in un contatto
io lo so che non sono solo
anche quando sono solo
io lo so che non sono solo
e rido e piango e mi fondo con il cielo e con il fango
io lo so che non sono solo
anche quando sono solo
io lo so che nn sono solo
e rido e piango e mi fondo con il cielo e con il fango
e mi fondo con il cielo e con il fango
e mi fondo con il cielo e con il fango
(Fango - Jovanotti)
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Please forgive me for the following tantrum and indulge me just this once. It's not often I have a rant on flickr.
I get sick and tired of "proper" wildlife photographers having a go at those of us who choose to photograph in a zoo. To suggest that all the animals pose nicely and make photographing them a doddle, with no challenge or skill involved whatsoever, is misleading, ignorant and unfair. There is always skill involved in capturing any animal, whatever its surroundings may be, and other zoo photographers will vouch for the fact that there are certain challenges that a wild environment does not present, such as reflection, glare, and enclosure design.
If a photo is nice, and you get something out of it, does it matter what the story behind it is? Sure, a tale about being charged by a silverback or nearly stampeded to death by a herd of pissed off elephants is maybe a tad more exciting than "I waited for over an hour just to get this shot" (see above) but the bottom line is a good photo is a good photo is a good photo. I suspect that much of the disdain directed at zoo photographers is driven by a disapproval of zoos in general, which has nothing whatsoever to do with photography now does it?
Just for the record, I highly, highly respect those who are lucky enough to photograph animals in their natural envornment. I'm deeply envious of their skill and their opportunity. But why must certain elitists take the pleasure out of this hobby for those of us without the same privilege as them? Please don't tell me that I've got it easy or that there is no skill involved when I'm damn proud of the images I produce and the time and effort I put into them. Your superior and dismissive attitude really is unwelcome and ugly.
History of Llandaff Cathedral - taken from www.llandaffcathedral.org.uk
Llandaff Cathedral stands on one of the oldest Christian sites in Britain. In the sixth century St Dyfrig founded a community close to the ford where the Roman road crossed the river Taff. He was succeeded by St Teilo and then Teilo's nephew, St Euddogwy. These three Celtic Saints remain patron saints of the present Cathedral and are represented by the three mitres in the Cathedral badge. Nothing remains of the original church but a Celtic Cross that stood nearby can still be seen near the door of the Chapter House.
The present cathedral dates from 1107 when Bishop Urban, the first Bishop appointed by the Normans, instigated the building of a much larger church. The arch behind the High Altar was built at that time and the doorway that now leads to the St David (or Welsh Regiment) Chapel may have been the West door of Urban’s church until it was moved to its new site when the Cathedral was extended and widened and a new West front built about 1220. This West front is judged by many to be one of the two or three most notable mediaeval works of art in Wales.
Later in the 13th century the Chapter House was built and also before the century ended the Lady Chapel which has largely escaped the damage and decay that the cathedral sustained over the following 700 years. In the 14th century came the replacement of the Norman windows by new ones in the Decorated style; then, before the end of the 15th Century came the building, by Jasper Tudor, of the North West tower as a new home for the Bells which had previously been housed in a detached Bell Tower, now ruined. This Bell Tower had been built two hundred years earlier at the top of a small hill which in pre-Norman times provided the original church and community that lived around it with security from the unwelcome attention of marauders sailing up the Bristol Channel little more than a mile away.
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I like Yellow Roses the best-I always have but they get a bum rap-everyone says Red roses are for love and respect, etc., etc. Yellow is suppose to be for various things, one of the things it used to represent was jealousy, but now that's changing to Joy and Friendship-allright, that's a much better reputation!
so to you all my Flickr Friends I give this Yellow Rose
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Thaipusam actually celebrates the birthday of the Hindu deity Subramaniam. On this occasion, Hindus show the sincerity of their faith. It is a time for making and fulfilling vows. Devotees pray for divine help and make vows. When their prayers are answered, they fulfil their vows.
To do this, a devotee would pierce his cheeks, tongue, face or other suitable body parts with sharp objects. Next his friends or relatives load a *kavadi on his shoulder. Finally, in a trance-like manner, he goes on a 4km journey of faith.
Others, including young children, might join the procession carrying only milk pots. The Thaipusam Singapore procession starts at the Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple on Serangoon Road and ends at the Sri Thandayuthapani Temple on Tank Road.
At first look, one might think that the festival starts at one temple and ends at another. Not so. Many of the devotees start fasting a month before the Thaipusam Singapore festivities. Others fast a week. Yet others three days.
A Hindu friend said this to me, "If you are going to put a 12-inch skewer through your cheeks and a hundred spikes in your chest, you'd better take your fast seriously!"
* A kavadi is a cage-like structure carried by devotees during the Thaipusam Festival.
It is traditionally decorated with peacock feathers and aluminium plates which show images of Hindu deities. Sharp spikes criss-cross its lower section.
An elaborate kavadi might weigh up to 15kg! It is quite something just to lift it. But these chaps I saw actually walked with them for 4km - kavadis, skewers, hooks, spikes and all!
Some of them even skipped and danced with their kavadis. Either they have great endurance or they have some supernatural help.
The Barnsdale tunnel is a very straight 1226 yards in length, and was opened in the 1880's. The last passengers would have peered out into the dark in 1932, although trains steamed through here until 1959. This is part of the Hull and Barnsley Railway. You may know know this railway from other tunnels, such as Weedley, Sugar Loaf and the big monster Drewton Tunnel, all nearer to Hull. It's a nice one as local residents objected to it being fenced off. There are three capped airshafts in the Barnsdale tunnel. Most of the brickwork in here is in fairly good nick, although in parts bricks have fallen away.