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My road trip was alrite. My sister got sick so she vomitted on the three hour drive, really uncool. I'm ranting on my blog about it. hm as promised i have tag some people aye. if you wanna do it then JUST DO IT ! YAYA seriously . you can blame me for making you do it but just do it. i shall have a good time reading it and knowing you all. But i tag more then 10 coz i'm allowed to ! :P
How to play:
Tell your readers 10 things about you that they may or may not know, but are true. Tag ten people and be sure to let them know they’ve been tagged (a quick message will do). Don’t forget to link back to the person who tagged you
If someone i tagged is not going to do this, well then i'm stalking you !! SERIOUS! NO JOKE !
A rare church vestry cabinet
Estimate: PHP 220,000 - 240,000
19th century
Bohol
Molave wood
172 x 150 x 48 cm (68 x 59 x 19 in)
Provenance:
Formerly from the collection of furniture maker and decorative wood artist, Osmundo Esguerra
Found in the vestry room of a church, vestments and other paraphernalia used by the clergy are safely and neatly stored in cabinets like this. Assembled using hidden mortise and tenon joints, and reinforced with bronze nails with square hammered plateau head to keep the joints and moldings strong and tight. This church piece – the likes of which rarely comes out of its original intended location – features a scalloped crown, sitting above a façade of long cabinet door on either side of a fixed center. Each panel is accentuated by heavily channeled moldings, and all but two panels have pinwheel (full, half, and quarter), leaf, and addorsed tie carved with such bucolic naivety and charm characteristic of Bohol furniture. With square faceted door pulls, original keyhole on one door, and inside are three shelves for ample storage. It has perfect proportions and lovely, yellowish aged patina.
Lot 124 of the Salcedo Auctions auction on September 17, 2022. Please see salcedoauctions.com for more information.
View On Black - Sobre fondo negro
Mucho mejor, much better.. pulsando L, pressing L
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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)
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The Ticketing Business Forum annual conference at Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester. Picture by Paul Heyes, Thursday July 07, 2022.
Diocese of Manchester annual awards ceremony at Bishops Court, Manchester. Picture by Paul Heyes, Monday October 15, 2018.
One of the towers on the surrounding walls of Sri Keshgarh Sahib.
(Anyone know the name of these in Punjabi as I'm afraid I don't know?)
In 1699, in Anandpur Sahib, on what is now the site of Takht Sri Keshgarh Sahib, the 10th Sikh Guru, Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji, performed the first Amrit Sanchar (Initiation Ceremony) to form the Khalsa.
Learn more about Sri Keshgarh Sahib here and follow the links to find out more this momentous occasion.
The Stadium Business Design Summit at Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester. Picture by Paul Heyes, Tuesday November 30, 2021.
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L’action syndicale de plus en plus unitaire en France, depuis le 1er mai 2009, est plus marquée au niveau du personnel de l’enseignement. L’école française de tous les cycles et niveaux est menacée de privatisation, de même que la remise en cause de la laïcité. La suppression de 16000 postes de travail pour la rentrée 2010, ainsi que le réforme en général où le lycée est visé d’un chamboulement, mobilisent les travailleurs. Le climat dans les établissements est aussi peu stable.
Choral Evensong on the occasion of welcoming the Rt Revd Dr Matthew Porter as Bishop of Bolton at Manchester Cathedral. Picture by Paul Heyes, Sunday June 23, 2023.
บรรยากาศการสัมมนา และ workshop หัวข้อ "สัมมนา การตลาดออนไลน์เพื่อการส่งออก Online Marketing for Export Business" โดย บริษัท ไอวิสดอม คอร์ปอเรชั่น จำกัด บรรยายโดย อ. คณวัฒน์ ธีรนิธิวัฒน์ (iWisdom Founder & Business Consultant)
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Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: THAT'S HOW I MET HIM (1 of 2) /
ASÍ LO CONOCÍ (1 de 2)
(Read in this order) PAG: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33.
PHOTOSTORY: In English / En Español
Pepa: Morganaaaa! Are you there? ^^
Morgana: … O_O! (Shit!)
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Pepa: Morganaaaa! Estás ahí? ^^
Morgana: … O_O! (Ostia!)
COLLABORATION:
- Miercole's Morgana Collaboration
- Morgana y Valo en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es
SHERYL LINKS:
- Pullip .es: Las Fotohistorias de Sheryl
- Sheryl's Flickr: Photostories 2011 - Sketches 2011 / Photostories 2012 - Sketches 2012
Catchlight in eye, View On Black
This is a state Bird of Andhra.Commonly found across India along roadsides. Looks much more B'ful and colorful blue when in Flight.
Rantings: This is clicked at a place named Paroti (which was not even having road, until my last visit). this village (and several more) lies the painganga national park which is high density teakwood forest. No school, no bus, no basic amenities, but this is MY place. We have a farm there and I make it a point to visit there twice a year.
This looks soft as sigma does not perform well from 200-300 range...
Location : Paroti(Painganga National Park), Umarkhed, Nanded, Mahrashtra, India
EXIF:
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1000)
Aperture: f/7.1
Focal Length: 263 mm
ISO Speed: 200
HandHeld.
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No hemos acabado con este extraño 2014 y ya tenemos a varios de los grandes preparando su alineación de cara a la próxima temporada. A Radiohead, probablemente Metallica y quién sabe si Tool va a sumarse don Steven Wilson, la figura más impactante en el mundo del Rock Progresivo, figura que no solo se alimenta por su labor estrictamente como músico sino que se engrandece por su empeño en volver a poner en vigencia a muchos de los clásicos que el prog nos regaló en los setenta.
Y claro, una vez nos ha metido en el zurrón a un clásico como The Power and the Glory de los infravalorados Gentle Giant y ha mezclado discos como Pale Communion o Distant Satellites de Anathema, Steven Wilson nos pide que hagamos sitio a su cuarto disco en solitario, disco que anuncia para inicios de 2015 y al cual, por supuesto, estaremos muy atentos en esta casa.
Recording of the follow up album to 'The Raven that Refused To Sing' starts this month (with the same band line-up).
— Steven Wilson (@StevenWilsonHQ) agosto 2, 2014
El prolífico músico londinense ya había anunciado en mayo de este año que estaba trabajando en su nuevo disco, pero fue ayer, a través de las Redes Sociales que confirmaba la entrada al estudio de grabación este mismo mes de agosto, confirmando el mismo line up que ya le ayudó con el impresionante The Raven That Refused to Sing, anuncios publicados quizás por la alegría de leer que su última obra era considerada la novena mejor en la historia del Rock Progresivo por parte de la famosa publicación Prog Rock Mag.
En su último mensaje en twitter Steven Wilson nos invitaba a permanecer atentos pues en breve nos daría más detalles al respecto de, desde ya, uno de los discos más esperados de cara al año que viene. Y lo estaremos, y os informaremos convenientemente.
Vía | Twitter Oficial de Steven Wilson
Más de Steven Wilson en Hipersónica Steven Wilson – Insurgentes Steven Wilson – Grace For Drowning: rock progresivo sin prisas Steven Wilson – The Raven that Refused to Sing (…and other Stories): si lo llaman el gurú del prog es por algo Cinco obras imprescindibles de Steven Wilson
– La noticia Estrenaremos 2015 como estrenamos 2013, con nuevo disco de Steven Wilson fue publicada originalmente en Hipersónica por Cronopio.
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espectaculos
#espectaculos
Favorite Finder allows you to display your favorite photographs by Flickr username.
Once I started, it was hard to stop !
Note: I currently have 6,600 favorites. Still hoping Flickr will see the light and build a complete set of browsing and search tools that would allow me to see what I've been doing here :-) John's tools are a great start.
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An ivory head of Santo Domingo de Guzman
ESTIMATE: PHP 550,000 - 600,000
18th century
Manila
Ivory, wood, glass eyes, polychrome
18 x 11 x 13 cm (7 x 4 1/4 x 5 in)
Provenance:
From the heirs of Dr. José P. Bantug
Separately carved ivory heads were intended to be attached to a sculpted saint’s body, which could take several forms: de tallado, a fully carved and finely detailed wooden body painted in organic polychrome to create a complete sculpture; de gozne or mannequin-type wooden body with articulated limbs; or a bastidor-type structure consisting of a half-length carved wooden torso with a wooden slat framework below, functioning like a petticoat and also fitted with articulated limbs. The latter two forms were designed for de vestir sculptures, meant to be dressed in real, often elaborately embroidered garments. Once completed, these santo images were installed in church altar niches or used as processional figures. Affluent families likewise commissioned santo images for private devotion within their homes.
This ivory head represents Santo Domingo de Guzmán. It features an elongated, narrow face with softly rounded yet prominent cheeks and a refined jawline. The almond-shaped eyes are slightly wide and contemplative, retaining their original, well-integrated glass elements. Heavy lids rest beneath high-arched eyebrows, enhancing the introspective expression. The nose is slender and elongated, characteristic of Baroque devotional sculpture. The beard is deeply undercut and stylized in controlled, layered curls, while the small mouth with gently fleshy lips conveys a calm, inward-looking demeanor. The overall aesthetic is light and refined. A circular cavity beneath the head confirms that it was designed to be mounted onto a wooden body. Both its construction and stylistic characteristics point to early 18th-century (1700–1740) production in Manila workshops, where highly skilled Chinese artisans (Sangleys) collaborated with indigenous Filipino carvers. During the early to mid-1700s, sculptors increasingly emphasized subtle naturalism, evident here in the slightly parted lips – revealing carved teeth when viewed at an angle – and in the delicately indicated Adam’s apple (laryngeal prominence). This ivory head represents a superb example of Manila workshops at their technical peak, during a period when the colonial settlement was recognized as a global center of religious art.
Possibly due to pecuniary considerations or the unavailability of ivory of sufficient size, the uppermost portion of the head, including the finely carved tonsure, was fashioned separately from wood and surmounted onto the ivory. Based on strict classical proportions, the head would have originally belonged to a sculpture measuring approximately 36 to 42 inches in height.
Santo Domingo de Guzman or Saint Dominic (1170-1221) was a Castilian Catholic priest and founder of the Dominican Order. He and his order are traditionally credited with spreading and popularizing the rosary. The mark on the ivory forehead indicates the former presence of a star appliqué, one of the saint’s principal attributes, symbolizing the light of holiness and divine wisdom.
This ivory head has remained in the possession of the Bantug family, passed down through successive generations from their distinguished collection, beginning with the patriarch Dr. José P. Bantug (1884–1964), physician, public health educator, and author.
Lot 212 of the Salcedo Auctions auction on March 14 and 15, 2026. Please see salcedoauctions.com for more information and to place an online bid.
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『玩美是人生追求完美境界的過程，完美是生活過程中的成果，攝影人在乎過程中的進行。因此，玩美幾乎是攝影人所追求的程序，意即尚在進行中，永無止息，故取名之。』
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Las dos principales consolas de la actual generación, Xbox One y PlayStation 4, se presentaron inicialmente durante 2013 con el negro como color principal. Algunos detalles también estuvieron disponibles desde el primer momento con otras tonalidades, pero el cuerpo principal de ambos cacharros se ha mantenido siempre igual. Hasta ahora.
Tanto PS4 como Xbox One tendrán sus ediciones blancas durante este año. La de Sony lo hará bajo una edición especial junto con Destiny y su blanco glaciar; por su parte, la de Microsoft en blanco aún no es oficial, aunque ya ha aparecido en algunas tiendas online: sí, Xbox One terminará llegando en blanco, y casi coincidiendo en tiempo con su compañera y contrincante de batallas.
En el caso de la Xbox One blanca os sonará porque surgió como una edición especial para empleados de Microsoft. Ahora se abriría al público y, como la PS4, también con una edición especial junto con Sunset Overdrive, una exclusividad para las de Microsoft que se especula con que vaya a lanzarse al mercado a finales de octubre. Lo lógico es que el bundle de la Xbox One blanca y Sunset Overdrive también empiece a venderse en esas fechas, claro.
Jugando al ajedrez: negras o blancas, tú elijes
Suele ser muy habitual que las consolas de escritorio se presenten primero en color negro con las salvedades de Nintendo, cuya Wii empezó vendiéndose sólo en blanco, y la Wii U en ambos colores. Tanto Microsoft como Sony han tenido affaires tanto con negro como con blanco, dependiendo del modelo con mayor o menor importancia de uno u otro.
Evidentemente el color de una videoconsola no afecta en absoluto a su rendimiento, pero también es cierto que el blanco suele ser un color muy requerido por los usuarios de tecnología, generalmente por una mera cuestión estética. En el pasado también hemos visto, incluso, ediciones especiales mucho más llamativas que los planos negro o blanco, y seguramente éstas también terminen llegando al mercado tarde o temprano.
Vía | TechRadar, GameStop
– La noticia A las videoconsolas también les gusta el color blanco fue publicada originalmente en Xataka por Pablo Espeso.
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tecnologia
#tecnologia
A just for fun session but the post-processing wasn't fun anymore. On the left side was a picture on the wall, on the right was a window. First, I replaced both by gradient filled polygons. Although the edited part was matching the original colours, I decided to replace the whole background. The original tone was a chocolate brown colour but for the conversion, a not so dark tone might have been better, I think. The b&w conversion was made with the channel mixer (60% red, 25% blue, 15% green) in Photoshop.
Unfortunately I just had a single Speedlite 550 EX, so it was pretty tricky to get the highlights in her eyes and a natural looking light from above. I held the camera in portrait orientation, the flash with a bouncer was turned on approx. 60° towards the celing, so some light went still straight on her eyes and created the highlights while most of the light came as an indirect lighting from the celing. Sometimes the basics in physics and maths can be quite helpful :-)
Eine nur-so-zum-Spaß-Aufnahme, aber die Nachbearbeitiung war dann alles andere als lustig. Auf der linken Seite hing ein Foto an der Wand, rechts war ein Fenster. Zuerst habe ich beide durch Vielecke ersetzt, die mit einem Farbverlauf gefüllt wurden. Obwohl ich die Farben in den eingefügten Flachen so hinbekommen hatte wie im Rest der Aufnahme, entschied ich mich dann trotzdem den ganzen Hintergrund zu ersetzen. Im Originalbild ist die Farbe der Wand ein Schokoladenbraun, aber ich denke für die s/w-Umwandlung wäre ein hellerer Ton besser gewesen. Die s/w-Umwandlung erfolgte in Photoshop über den Kanalmixer ( (60% rot, 25% blau, 15% grün)
Leider hatte ich nur einen Speedlite 550 EX, so war es ziemlich schwierig Highlights in die Augen zu setzen und noch ein natürlich wirkendes Lich von oben zu bekommen. So hielt ich die Kamera hochkant und drehte den Blitz mit einem Diffusor etwa 60° auf die Decke, so ging immer noch etwas Licht auf ihre Augen und sorgte für den Glanz während das meiste Licht als indirektes Licht von der Decke reflektiert wurde. Manchmal sind die Grundlagen der Physik und Mathematik eben doch ganz hilfreich.
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Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
~ from Mary Oliver's "Sometimes" - found in "Red Bird".
40+ years ago I lost touch with my Best Friend in the entire world. Both being military wives we'd made numerous moves across country - both of our fathers had passed away and our mothers each had new married names ... so conventional searching methods were fruitless. About a month ago I was thrilled to finally find my friend - and especially so to find that she was less than two hours away from where I live!
After several weeks of daily writing/chats we finally met again last weekend - and it was if not a single day had passed between us. :-) We've written an article together about our experience and whether or not we have success in publication ... it was fun and rewarding to collaborate with my friend. Rest assured - we will NEVER lose touch again! :-)
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El pardillo común (Carduelis cannabina) es una pequeña especie de ave paseriforme de la familia de los fringílidos (Fringillidae).
El ave procrea en Europa, oeste de Asia, norte de África. Es parcialmente residente, pero muchos pájaros del este y del norte migran más al sur o se mudan a las costas.
Tierras abiertas con densos matorrales favorecen la cría. Construye sus nidos en una mata, poniendo 4 a 7 huevos.
Puede volar en grandes bandadas fuera de la estación de procreación, a veces mezclada con otros fringílidos, tales como el pardillo piquigualdo (Carduelis flavirostris), en costas y ciénagas salinas. Se alimenta de semillas.
Es un pájaro delgado con una cola larga. Las partes externas son pardas, el cogote es algo blancuzco y el pico es gris. El macho en verano tiene la nuca gris, parches rojos en cabeza y pecho rojo.
Las hembras y los jóvenes no tienen el rojo y debajo tienen blanco, con el pecho muy lustroso. El canto tiene trinos rápidos y píos.
A veces suele encontrárselos centenares de millas dentro del mar.
Su nombre científico hace referencia su afición a las semillas de cáñamo.
Conservación
El pardillo común está en la Lista roja IUCN Redlisted en riesgo, en listada en el Reino Unido Biodiversity Action Plan como de prioridad. Las poblaciones británicas declinan, atribuido al incremento del uso de herbicidas, para abatir matorrales agresivos.
An ivory head of Santo Domingo de Guzman
ESTIMATE: PHP 550,000 - 600,000
18th century
Manila
Ivory, wood, glass eyes, polychrome
18 x 11 x 13 cm (7 x 4 1/4 x 5 in)
Provenance:
From the heirs of Dr. José P. Bantug
Separately carved ivory heads were intended to be attached to a sculpted saint’s body, which could take several forms: de tallado, a fully carved and finely detailed wooden body painted in organic polychrome to create a complete sculpture; de gozne or mannequin-type wooden body with articulated limbs; or a bastidor-type structure consisting of a half-length carved wooden torso with a wooden slat framework below, functioning like a petticoat and also fitted with articulated limbs. The latter two forms were designed for de vestir sculptures, meant to be dressed in real, often elaborately embroidered garments. Once completed, these santo images were installed in church altar niches or used as processional figures. Affluent families likewise commissioned santo images for private devotion within their homes.
This ivory head represents Santo Domingo de Guzmán. It features an elongated, narrow face with softly rounded yet prominent cheeks and a refined jawline. The almond-shaped eyes are slightly wide and contemplative, retaining their original, well-integrated glass elements. Heavy lids rest beneath high-arched eyebrows, enhancing the introspective expression. The nose is slender and elongated, characteristic of Baroque devotional sculpture. The beard is deeply undercut and stylized in controlled, layered curls, while the small mouth with gently fleshy lips conveys a calm, inward-looking demeanor. The overall aesthetic is light and refined. A circular cavity beneath the head confirms that it was designed to be mounted onto a wooden body. Both its construction and stylistic characteristics point to early 18th-century (1700–1740) production in Manila workshops, where highly skilled Chinese artisans (Sangleys) collaborated with indigenous Filipino carvers. During the early to mid-1700s, sculptors increasingly emphasized subtle naturalism, evident here in the slightly parted lips – revealing carved teeth when viewed at an angle – and in the delicately indicated Adam’s apple (laryngeal prominence). This ivory head represents a superb example of Manila workshops at their technical peak, during a period when the colonial settlement was recognized as a global center of religious art.
Possibly due to pecuniary considerations or the unavailability of ivory of sufficient size, the uppermost portion of the head, including the finely carved tonsure, was fashioned separately from wood and surmounted onto the ivory. Based on strict classical proportions, the head would have originally belonged to a sculpture measuring approximately 36 to 42 inches in height.
Santo Domingo de Guzman or Saint Dominic (1170-1221) was a Castilian Catholic priest and founder of the Dominican Order. He and his order are traditionally credited with spreading and popularizing the rosary. The mark on the ivory forehead indicates the former presence of a star appliqué, one of the saint’s principal attributes, symbolizing the light of holiness and divine wisdom.
This ivory head has remained in the possession of the Bantug family, passed down through successive generations from their distinguished collection, beginning with the patriarch Dr. José P. Bantug (1884–1964), physician, public health educator, and author.
Lot 212 of the Salcedo Auctions auction on March 14 and 15, 2026. Please see salcedoauctions.com for more information and to place an online bid.
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A pelican busy prunning himself/herself on a cliff at La Jolla Shores in Southern California.
INFORMATION ON THE PELICAN:
A pelican is any of several very large water birds with a distinctive pouch under the beak belonging to the bird family Pelecanidae.
Along with the darters, cormorants, gannets, boobies, frigatebirds, and tropicbirds, pelicans make up the order Pelecaniformes. Modern pelicans are found on all continents except Antarctica. They occur mostly in warm regions, though breeding ranges reach 45° south (Australian Pelican, P. conspicillatus) and 60° North (American White Pelicans, P. erythrorhynchos, in western Canada). Birds of inland and coastal waters, they are absent from polar regions, the deep ocean, oceanic islands, and inland South America.
Pelicans are large birds with enormous, pouched bills. The smallest is the Brown Pelican (P. occidentalis), small individuals of which can be as little as 2.75 kg (6 lb), 106 cm (42 in) long and can have a wingspan of as little as 1.83 m (6 ft). The largest is believed to be the Dalmatian Pelican (P. crispus), at up to 15 kg (33 lb), 183 cm (72 in) long, with a maximum wingspan of nearly 3.5 m (11.5 ft). The Australian Pelican has the longest bill of any bird.
Pelicans swim well with their short, strong legs and their feet with all four toes webbed (as in all birds placed in the order Pelecaniformes). The tail is short and square, with 20 to 24 feathers. The wings are long and have the unusually large number of 30 to 35 secondary flight feathers. A layer of special fibers deep in the breast muscles can hold the wings rigidly horizontal for gliding and soaring. Thus they can exploit thermals to commute over 150 km (100 miles) to feeding areas.
Pelicans rub the backs of their heads on their preen glands to pick up its oily secretion, which they transfer to their plumage to waterproof it.
Source: Wikipedia
Snow falls on a desolated part of El Alto.
El Alto is the sister city of La Paz, right next to it but above, in the altiplano. While La Paz expands downwards along the valley, with the richest population leaving in the lowest parts, El Alto is growing further from it, peopled by poor immigrants from the highlands.
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