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Slow progress, but nevertheless progress. Thing will get better as the garage warms up. Next stage is a set of wheels so I can move it out of the garage and do some work on the engine.
Tanya's parent, giving her away to Ike. We tried very hard not to cry. Yep, Mom is also wearing flip-flops. Hey, it was about 49 stairs down to the Wedding site. The bride and Groom, and their parents. best Man, Flower Girls, and Wedding Officant.
Notice the speakers; they were brought in so the guests could hear the Ceremony over the roar of the Water Falls,
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Marcelo D2, Arlindo Cruz e Mart'nália, com participação especial de Dona Ivone Lara, agitam a Lapa carioca no show de lançamento da BOA do Samba.
Foto por: Mauricio Santana (Grudaemmim)
Still only about 1/2 way there - and a lot of clean-up to do now - but overall I'm rather pleased with the progress.
What is it in a developer that makes him (or her) look at a natural, wooded lot and think, "You know what would be really awesome? It would be really awesome if we cut this all down and installed some wooden boxes on concrete blocks here. Then we'll give the streets wonderful, natural names like Oak Lane, Maple Drive, Squirrel Run in honor of all of things that used to live here, but weren't as awesome as asphalt and roofing shingles. And this one will succeed, unlike the dozen or more empty sites that those other developers tried to make work in this area."
Such is this place, just a little west of Kalamazoo. Some day people like one of Kim's friends will live here and complain about having toads and raccoons in her back yard.
Michela Ciappini from Portugal stands high upon her layered and compressed sand forms. (Karen Given/Only A Game)
The Canadian Progress stops at Murphy Oil in Duluth to fuel before going to Midwest Energy to load with Powder River coal. date was July 5, 2001.
ice crystals growing in a freezer.
Every additional micrometre brings this crystal closer to falling a few feet to its doom.
The remains of the former Kilkenny Inn on the corner of King and Lonsdale Streets in the Melbourne CBD.
Measurements
spanwidth min.: 230 cm
spanwidth max.: 265 cm
size min.: 95 cm
size max.: 110 cm
Breeding
incubation min.: 48 days
incubation max.: 54 days
fledging min.: 110 days
fledging max.: 115 days
broods 1
eggs min.: 1
eggs max.: 1
Physical characteristics
The Griffon Vulture immediately betrays itself by its size (L 100 cm) and characteristic pale colours, contrasting with dark colours of wings and tail. The species normally breeds colonially on cliffs (rarely in trees) mainly in mountainous regions. They inhabit a wide variety of open areas with few or no trees, where they feeds mainly in carrion. Resident.
Habitat
The largest numbers of Eurasian Griffon Vultures are found in Spain, but there are significant populations in Turkey, Gibraltar, and Bosphorus. They favor the more southern parts of their range, and can tolerate inclement weather such as rain, mist, and snow fairly well. Though they avoid wetlands and marine areas, they are very fond of fresh and running water, for bathing and drinking.
Other details
Gyps fulvus is a widespread but patchily distributed resident in southern Europe, which accounts for less than half of its global range. Its European breeding population is relatively small (<21,000 pairs), but increased substantially between 1970-1990. Although the species continued to decline in Turkey and the Caucasus during 1990- 2000, most other populations-including the Spanish stronghold-increased or were stable, and the species underwent a large increase overall.
This vulture inhabits southern Europe, North Africa and from south-western Asia to southern China. Most European birds are sedentary. The population of the European Union amounts to 8800-9000 breeding pairs. Because of heavy persecution and poisoning it has strongly declined since the middle of last century. More recently changes in the methods of raising domestic livestock have reduced the availability of the Griffon Vulture's food. Since 1970 however Spanish and French populations have increased, mainly thanks to effective protection measures and withdrawal of long-lasting pesticides. In France its breeding distribution has even been extended through a reintroduction programme. In Italy, Portugal and Greece the decline is still in progress
Feeding
One of the Old World vultures, Griffons cannot smell. They find food by soaring high, scanning the land for signs of a kill, or for stationary bodies. Often, the vultures will wait on the outskirts of a feeding frenzy, closing in once the mammalian scavengers have gone. Their weak beaks are not designed for ripping open fresh hides. They depend on predators or larger vultures to begin the work for them. Once they can access a carcass, the vultures will gorge themselves. Their crop can hold up to 13 pounds of meat
Breeding
Griffons pair for life. They build nests of grass and twigs on cliff ledges. Mating takes place on the same steep cliff faces where the birds construct their nests, and the female lays one or two eggs 2 months after mating. Both parents tend the egg. Model parents, the griffons incubate their eggs by night, and shade them by day, as the temperature rises. Incubation lasts from 48 to 52 days. The young remain in the nest for 4 to 6 months. They can live upto 40 years. The griffon vulture is not teritorial and nests of several pairs can usually be found on nesting grounds.
Migration
This Vulture is resident and partially migratory, the latter probably mainly immatures. The biggest European population is found in Spain, mostly resident. The juveniles can wander southward in autumn, recoveries within Spain up to 600 km south of natal colony and exceptionally in Morocco. A Small-scale passage across Straits of Gibraltar has been observed spring and autumn. Limited southward passage occurs around east Mediterranean in September-October. Birds cross Bosporus each autumn; numbers augmented by some local birds during passage across Turkey, where mainly summer visitor to most regions though probably largely resident in south and south-west. Narrow-front passage over north Gulf of Suez (water crossing of 12-13 km), heading south-west in October, north-east in February-March. Winter range apparently north-east Africa but little known due to low numbers involved.
Letter to President-Elect Obama
www.swopusa.org/SW_NationalMarch08/endorse.html#Letter
Melissa reads it about 5 minutes into this video
Video of Sadie Lune & Kirk Read
Another version of the piece which was performed at SFMOMA