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trying to catch up a bit from this last month which has been, of course, a very particular one. I will not publish many pictures of the result of the disaster, but mainly pictures that talk to me or are related with my work or personnal experience here
Thursday, the 4th of February 2010.
My body hurts.
My head hurts.
My eyes hurt.
Recovering from a disease is difficult here.
No intimacy...
No "I don't go to work today and I snuggle in my bed after a long warm shower"
No place to rest a little... no time to rest a little.
We just can't. And we just can't complain.
We just have no right for this.
Our only right here is to try our best.
Noone can afford anything else.
My body hurts, in this car.
My head hurts, on the way to the building I need to assess.
My eyes hurt - and I scrunch my eyelids, leaning my head on the headrest.
They still burn - and I scrunch my eyelids tighter.
I open my eyes.
A kid is laying on the road side, corpse and bicycle entangled.
I scrunch my eyelids tight.
The motor noise is digging inside my head like a pneumatic driller.
The road is still climbing up.
I open my eyes.
A crowd is gathering around a woman, laying face down on the road.
I scrunch my eyelids tight. And tighter.
Some mornings are harsher than the others.
But noone here can afford anything else than going on.
Trying our best.
I published a book.
Title is 'unforgettable'.
Author name is Mitsushiro Nakagawa.
The book displays photographs and design around my novel.
My book has an ISBN code, and you can buy it at any bookstore nearby. Also it is available at the following site.
My book is synchronized with the web site.
A novel, photographs, an interview can be downloadable in PDF file format.
You can find Password and User ID in the book.
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As for the novel, originally I intended to release as a series in English. But actually the translation would require a quite time, thinking of 456pages in manuscript papers of 400 letters. At present, I must say it might be hard to upload an English version serially considering the translator's circumstances.
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As for photographs, more than 100 photographs that I have taken so far are edited again, and uploaded. These differ from the ones that had been uploaded to Flog, and all are original sizes. Moreover, I used to insert letters on photographs, but I deleted all of them.
Also I will upload three unedited photographs or more which I never up-load usually. These three are original photographs before using Photoshop.
You can personally confirm my editing technique. As for more than 100 photographs, I will pick up the ones which go along with the theme of the book,' unforgettable'.
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The following points were noted in the interview.
Method of photography, editing by Photoshop and exhibition method, etc
.In addition, writing method of novel is mentioned.
Method of photography, editing by Photoshop, how to create works (collage) which I have exhibited so far.
There was a common feature in these three points.
You know Leonardo da Vinci.
He was multi-talented.
I mentioned it because I was able to feel his versatility somehow after the result of all the expressions in various means so far.
Of course, because I am man far from Da Vinci, it might be different from his interpretation.
However, I left a note.
I also expressed my gratitude to people on Flog in the book.
I will stay on Flog forever as I mentioned it in the book.
I was born here, grew up, and was able to come to today. I sincerely appreciate it to many people of Flog all over the world and staffs of Flog.
Thank you so much.
1.1.2008.
Mitsushiro Nakagawa.
All Translated by Yumi ikeda.
Important postscript.
As of November 30, 2014.
The website which is given in the book is not in operation, so the photographs, the novel and the interviews, etc. are on the CDR attached. Please understand that the photographs added will be those taken by the time of your application.
The photographs after your application will not be attached.
Moreover, please understand that their mailing sometimes takes one to two months. We will try to take care of it as soon as possible.
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Title of my book unforgettable'
Author Mitsushiro Nakagawa
Out Now. ISBN978-4-86264-866-2
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Boy Scout Memorial - a striking contrast
Published in BSA’s Religious Establishment at Odds With New Ban Lift
Suspended Animation Classic #554 First published August 8, 1999 (#32) (Dates are approximate)
Comics Legend Jack Davis By Michael Vance
Jack Davis is the most successful and among the most prolific comic book artists in history.
Born in 1926, his art first won recognition from fans and the admiration or two of the most important editors at the now legendary EC Comics in the 1950s. His limber, gawky characters, all exaggerated arms and legs, were equally at home in a American Civil War story or a Gothic nightmare of vampires, werewolves and homicidal maniacs. His ability to accurately caricature anyone added to his popularity. But it was Harvey Kurtzman, editor of EC's war titles and the creator of Mad magazine, who would discover Davis' real forte.
Davis is best known for his extensive work in Mad (EC, 1952- present; Ballantine paperback reprints). The artist's humor work also appeared in Trump (Playboy, 1957), Humbug (Humbug Pub., 1957-'58), Help (Warren, 1961-'62; also two Fawcett paperback collections), and Sick (various publishers, 1960-'80).
Davis's comic book work includes stories in most of the EC comic books of the 1950s: Shock Suspenstories (issues 1-5), Vault of Horror (issues 17-38), Tales from the Crypt (issues 24-46; covers 29-46), Two-Fisted Tales (issues 20-36, 40; covers 29-46), Crime Suspenstories (issues 4, 5, 7, 9-12, 20), Frontline Combat (all), Haunt of Fear (issues 4-26, 28), and Picto-fiction titles (1955). His work also appeared in Rawhide Kid and western and war stories (Marvel, 1960s), Yak Yak (Western, 1962-'63), Creepy, Eerie (Warren, 1964-'65).
Davis also produced movie advertisements and posters, book illustrations, RCA record jackets and magazine cartoons; inks on The Saint comic strip (c 1950s); art on Little Annie Fanny (Playboy, 1965-'66); Beauregard comic strip (early 1960s); Topps gum cards; art for Sesame Street tv show; ads for Life, TV Guide; Superfan for Quarterback and Pro-Quarterback.
Jack Davis is a master cartoonist and illustrator whose art deserves the highest praise.
OMAM (Of Monsters And Men)
Secret Solstice 2016
Reykjavik, Iceland
June, 2016
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Vivian Kubrick, daughter of the iconic filmmaker and director Stanley Kubrick, talks to Alex Jones about the nature of power and the human awakening that is taking place as a vibrant form of resistance against the takeover.
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Dopo i concerti in Nord America, Giappone, Sud America e prima di quelli in Australia, i KISS sbarcheranno anche in Europa. L’11 giugno la leggenda del rock arriverà finalmente all’Arena di Verona per l’unica data italiana del suo “40th Anniversary Tour”, con cui festeggia 40 anni di musica. The Dead Daisies, la band australiana dalle influenze hard-rock anni ’70 – ‘80 formata dal cantautore Jon Stevens e dal chitarrista David Lowy, scalderà il pubblico dello storico anfiteatro veronese dando il via al concerto della più grande rock band del mondo.
Famosi per i loro show spettacolari, i KISS vogliono offrire ai fan un’esperienza unica con giochi di luci e un suono eccezionale, senza dimenticare i fuochi d’artificio che costituiscono il loro marchio di fabbrica.
Con 28 dischi d’oro in USA e 100 milioni di copie vendute, Gene Simmons e Paul Stanley insieme ai compagni Tommy Thayer e Eric Singer continuano a riscuotere successi anno dopo anno. Grazie alla loro incredibile carriera, i KISS ad aprile 2014 hanno ottenuto l’attesa introduzione nella Rock And Roll Hall of Fame e fino allo scorso novembre sono stati impegnati in KISS ROCKS VEGAS, il loro primo resident show presso The Joint all’interno dell’Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, proprio nel cuore di Sin City.
La nuova antologia in due cd dei KISS, “KISS 40”, uscita a maggio 2014, include un brano tratto da ognuno degli album della band, oltre alle tracce estratte dagli album solisti dei membri originali della band usciti nel 1978.
I KISS sono una delle più influenti band nella storia del rock’n’roll, con 44 album all’attivo e più di 100 milioni di dischi venduti in tutto il mondo. Oltre alle decine di tour trionfali, i KISS si sono esibiti ad eventi storici quali il XXXIII° Super Bowl, le Olimpiadi Invernali di Salt Lake City e il concerto Rockin’ The Corps dedicato alle truppe USA in missione in Iraq e Afghanistan; in aggiunta, sono apparsi durante la finale di American Idol 2009 seguita da 30 milioni di spettatori e in uno spot Dr. Pepper a supporto del tour Hottest Show On Earth tramesso durante il Super Bowl 2010. Attualmente i KISS compaiono in importanti campagne pubblicitarie di John Varvatos e Google Play. Lo scorso aprile i KISS hanno inaugurato la prima stagione dell’L.A. KISS Football team per riportare il football agonistico a Los Angeles.
L’eredità dei KISS continua a crescere, generazione dopo generazione. La devozione e la lealtà della KISS Army nei confronti della “Hottest Band in the World” è una testimonianza del legame indissolubile tra la band e i suoi fan. Nel 2014 i KISS festeggiano due passi importanti: il loro quarantesimo compleanno e la introduzione nella Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Paul Stanley – voce, chitarra ritmica
Gene Simmons – voce, basso
Tommy Thayer – chitarra solista, cori
Eric Singer – batteria, cori
[Published by] Schaar & Datha Trier, Succursale Milano [Milan branch] — J. 1529
Franked with Scott catalog number 78, an Italian 5 centesimi stamp; addressed to Mrs. Kingdon Ellis, Poste Restante [general delivery] in Durban, Natal, South Africa.
Published 1964
I'm not sure how many books are in this series, but I have 28 of them. They are chock full of illustrations, but I thought I would just do the covers and color photos (if any) first -- otherwise I'd be scanning for ever and ever!
This photograph was published in an online piece in CATTIME.COM focusing on Chausie mixed cat breed information and characteristics.
Cattime is a property of Evolve Media Holdings, LLC
It was previously published in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on August 5th 2021
CREATIVE RF gty.im/1332253649 MOMENT ROYALTY FREE COLLECTION and became my 5,285th frame to be represented by Getty Images (I now have 7000+).
I would like to say a huge and heartfelt 'THANK YOU' to GETTY IMAGES, and the 47.499+ Million visitors to my FLICKR site.
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Fifty two metres at 18:20pm on an overcast summer evening on Tuesday 3rd August 2021, off Hythe Avenue and Chessington Avenue in Bexleyheath, Kent.
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New to my neighbourhood is this magnificent young Chausie, a hybrid originally bred from the non domestic species Jungle cat (Felis Chaus) and a greater number of domestic cats (Felis Silvestris catus). This one is absolutely gorgeous, incredibly friendly and the single greatest predatory hunter I have ever witnessed in my garden, catching several mice in one sitting with consummate ease.
This is a brown ticked variant of the species that live to around 14 years and are highly intelligent, social and loving. Chausie kittens in the UK fetch between eight hundred and two thousand pounds each.
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Two of my photos got published in the March 2009 edition of 'Science Spin', Ireland's science wildlife and discovery magazine. One of the on the front cover and both in an article about the 2008 IYPE Du Noyer Competition' in which I won the Foreign Category with a shot of the Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentina.
51. Toronto 2o'oct'9o (lecture by Marvin Sackner; filmed by Evangeline Roldan, Peggy Lefler & Nina Teixeira; 1st published november? 199o)
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52. lineage (title lettering; 1st published 23 november 199o)
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53. "ga" (concrete poem; with jwcurry; 1st published 29 december 199o)(see variant above)
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54. "G" (visual poem; 1st publication 4 april 1991)
54a. version 1
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54b. version 2, reduced in b&w in S.M.ALL PRESS FAIR Spring of 95, a photograph by John Barlow (1st published 1 may 1996)
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54c. version 3, cropped & empurpled (1st published 2ooo)
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55. [untitled photograph, doubleselfportrait with Karen Rowley] (1st publication 28 march 1993)
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56. [untitled photograph, doubleselfportrait with Helen Quon] (1st published 28 march 1993)
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57. "eating pepper while you're on roller skates why" (poem; with jwcurry; 1st published 28 march 1993)
57a. version 1, holograph (1st published 28 march 1993)
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57b. version 2, typed (1st published 3o january 1995)
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58. "weighted wait" (poem; 1st published 28 march 1993)
58a. version 1, holograph (1st published 28 march 1993)
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58b. version 2, typed (1st published 3o january 1995)
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59. FOREVER IS MISSING (collage calendar with annotations by jwcurry; 1st published 28 march 1993)
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6o. [unnamed handpuppet] (1st published 28 march 1993)
60a. photographed by Ahmad Shehab
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6ob. photographed by jwcurry (1st published january 2o14)
This photograph was published in an online article in ICI PAR FRANCE BLEU ET FRANCE 3 magazine on 19th December 2024, titled:
'' Activité écologique : fabriquer un abreuvoir pour écureuils avec des objets recyclés '', by Maxence Radovic.
English translation:
'' Eco-friendly activity: make a squirrel waterer with recycled objects '', By Maxence Radovic and Lorraine Nord.
It was also simultaneously published in an online article in RADIO FRANCE magazine on 19th December 2024.
This photograph had previously been selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on July 22nd 2020
CREATIVE RF gty.im/1257007211 MOMENT ROYALTY FREE COLLECTION and became my 5,529th frame for sale in the Getty Images collection (I now have 7,000+ images represented by Getty as my sole worldwide agent).
©All photographs on this site are copyright: DESPITE STRAIGHT LINES (Paul Williams) 2011 – 2020 & GETTY IMAGES ®
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Fifty nine metres at 17:02pm on Sunday 13th July 2020 off Chessington Avenue in Bexleyheath, Kent.
The Grey (or Gray) squirrel, you either love 'em or you hate 'em. Cute and fluffy little funsters or destructive critters who ruin trees, kill bird chicks and trees and damage our homes... oh and it's their fault we lost our native Red squirrels as well!
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I get it and I see both sides of the story of course. For my part, I am a nature, wildlife and landscape photographer who prefers the company of animals and natural beauty to fellow humans who are systematically plundering Mother Earth's resources and killing off her beautiful creatures at an alarming rate! I believe there is a natural order of things, creatures kill other creatures to survive, they adapt to situations and when mankind encroaches on their territory to make a fast buck, those animals sometimes adapt to survive and the order changes.
That is the balance of nature which is ever changing and affected by us..... the dumbest of the great apes.
Some species are driven out by others, some may be destined to become extinct, the fittest will survive, and sometime a species will need intervention and help from mankind in order to survive... usually as a direct consequence of mankind's own actions in destroying the animal kingdom's natural habitat of course.
I adore these little fellas and at almost sixty years old, I never grew up knowing red squirrels at all. I've seen reds in Scotland and black squirrels in Stanley Park on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, but in my beloved home country of England I have always known and loved the cute little Greys. They visit my garden and give me hours, days, weeks of happiness and wonderful photographic opportunities, and I see them in Parks and forests all around me, so it's time to offer up an insight into the Grey squirrel, much loved, much hated... a sort of Marmite rodent if you will.
WHAT EXACTLY IS A SQUIRREL?
The word 'Squirrel', was first recorded in 1327 and hails from the Anglo-Norman word 'Esquirel', from old French 'Escurel', which was a reflex for the Latin word 'Sciurus'.The Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) is also known as the Eastern Grey squirrel or simply grey squirrel depending on the region of the world it is found. It is a tree squirrel, of the squirrel family Sciuridae including over one hundred arboreal species native to all continents of the world other than Antarctica and Oceania. Tree squirrels live mostly in trees, apart from the flying squirrel. The best known genus is Sciurus, containing most of the bushy tailed squirrels which are found in Europe, North America, temperate Asia as well as central and south America.
The scientific classification for the Eastern Grey is:
KINGDOM: ANIMALIA PHYLUM: CHORDATA CLASS: MAMMALIA ORDER: RODENTIA FAMILY: SCIURIDAE GENUS: SCIURUS SUBGENUS: SCIURUS SPECIES: SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS
They were first noted by German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist - Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788.
A mammal and rodent, predominantly herbivorous they are none the less an omnivore with a life span of between two and ten years. They can grow to 70cm in length and weigh up to 8kg. There are more than two hundred and sixty species of worldwide squirrel, the smallest being the African pygmy squirrel at just 10cm in length, whereas the Indian giant squirrel is three feet long! The oldest fossil of a squirrel, Hesperopetes, dates back to the late Eocene epoch period Chadronian period of 40-35 million years ago. The tree squirrels rotate their ankles by 180 degrees, so that the hind paws pointy backwards gripping tree bark which enables them to descend a tree headfirst.
Originally native to Eastern and Midwestern United States of America, they were first introduced into the United Kingdom in 1876 in Henbury Park, Macclesfield in Cheshire when Victorian banker Thomas V. Brocklehurst released a pair of Greys that he brought back from a business trip to America after their attraction as pets had waned. Victorians had a penchant for collecting exotic animals and birds of the world, but trends came and went and subsequently animals were simply discarded into the wilderness. There are early records of greys released near Denbighshire in north Wales from private collections. Later introduced to several regions in the UK, they quickly settled and spread, colonizing an area of three hundred miles in a quarter of a century between Argyll and Stirlingshire in Scotland.
Introductions of the Greys between 1902 and 1929 (the year of the last recorded introduction), included: Regent’s Park in London, Berkshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, Devon, Warwickshire, Nottinghamshire, Suffolk and Hampshire. Grey Squirrels spread into Gloucestershire and eastern Wiltshire with animals coming directly from the United States or from Woburn. One hundred greys were released in Richmond Park in Surrey in 1902, Ninety one into Regent’s Park between 1905 and 1907 and a further ten New Jersey imported greys were introduced into Woburn Park in Bedfordshire.
Predators include hawks, weasels, raccoons, bobcats, foxes, domestic and feral cats, snakes, owls, and dogs, African harrier-hawks in Africa and... oh yes, Mankind pretty much everywhere who despise, mistreat, cull or eat it .
FACTS, MYTHS AND THAT POXY PARAPOX!
The massive decline in native red squirrels blamed upon the spread of the invasive greys has always been perhaps a little harsh as reds were already in a steep decline due to loss of habitat and disease and thus the greys simply took over the areas where the reds were dwindling. It's also a fact that reds were also seen as a plague, branded as pests who killed birds and damaged trees and the culling of reds almost brought them to the brink of extinction. Licenses to kill reds could still be obtained up until the seventies!
Reds suffered at the hands of mankind thanks to a combination of agricultural deforestation also linked with war and fuel needs which caused extinction in Southern Scotland and Ireland by the early eighteenth century, way before greys had been introduced. Harsh winters killed off the less hardy red population in the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Greys are more adept at finding food and adapting to locations and environments, but also carry the squirrel poxvirus (SQPV) which although not particularly harmful to them, is a serious infection for the reds.
Parapox in red squirrels causes swollen lesions around the mouth, eyes, ears and nose also the front paws and sometimes genitals and skin ulcers and kills a red within fifteen days. There is no definitive correlation between the spread of the virus and the spread of the Greys, it actually arrived in several areas before the greys began to colonize there. An epidemic virus was observed in Red squirrels from at least 1900 with isolation attempts failing, and the first case of Parapox in the UK was in 1980 in the county of Norfolk. Greys cannot transmit the virus to reds via saliva or faeces, but reds can between each other from bodily secretions and at animal feeders in gardens. The transmission from greys to reds is though to come from parasites. Eight to ten per cent of reds survive the virus, and there is some evidence that reds are slowly building an evolved resistance.
Greys are seen as pests to forest land, stripping bark from trees during May and June, and are also capable of destroying household bins, water pipes, causing roof damage not to mention taking eggs and killing young chicks of ground nesting and songbird populations. They also take from bird feeders and there is a whole industry for creating squirrel proof feeders these days.
THE CULLING OF GREY SQUIRRELS
Grey squirrels have limited legal protection and can be legally controlled all year round by a variety of methods including shooting and trapping. Methods of trapping and killing include Drey poking and shooting, Tunnel trapping using spring traps set in accordance with BASC’s trapping pest mammals code of practice. They can also be shot using a shotgun or powerful air rifle or up until September 30th 2014 poisoned by Warfarin (Now outlawed).
Whilst professional trapping and extermination is hopefully done as humanely as possible, there have been cases, many of them where cost savings have been gained by battering the squirrels to death! Grey squirrels are trapped in ghastly metal contraptions for hours and hours, wearing themselves out frantically trying to escape by gnawing at the metals bars. They bite the floor and scratch at them with their claws and do not get a moments peace or rest through absolute fear. Once the traps are retrieved, each squirrel, terrified will be thrown into a sack and smacked on the head countless times with a blunt instrument. When a mother is slaughtered, her babies who are totally dependent on her, will die a slow death of thirst and starvation.
There is an argument for the control of Greys on many grounds but also a counter argument that Culling does not work, and has not on countless times where, once a population of greys have been culled, the nearest group will move back in and claim the land. The university of Bristol concluded that there was little evidence that culling greys to save red squirrels was effective, and that perhaps finding a way of boosting red squirrel immunity to the poxvirus or planting areas of yew trees where reds are known to thrive and spending money on research into positive moves might be a better option.
In Ireland, the re-introduction of the Pine marten, a species made extinct originally by the very same land owners who also wish to do the same to the grey squirrel, has seen the rapid demise of the grey and the reintroction of the native reds. Red squirrels are smaller and more nimble than their grey counterparts, and as such can get to the very ends of tree branches where neither the pine martins, nor more importantly the heavier greys can, thus surviving and thriving. As a result in Ireland, the grey squirrel population has crashed in approximately 9,000 km2 of its former range and the reds has become common once more after a thirty year absence... oh and Pine Martens are protected again!
In Scotland, Pine Martens exist in areas where Red squirrels thrive, and greys do not. So perhaps there is a lesson here, as in England where there are no pine martens, the greys are prolific breeders. So there is an argument against the barbarity of shooting and poisoning greys, and if, as so many believe, the greys MUST be controlled, how about a more humane and natural method that nature intended.. with re-introduction of predators. Just a thought!
So a few facts and figures on the greys and to wrap up, from a purely personal perspective I love these little guys, as I do almost every creature in nature other than those eight legged beasties that shall not be named and for which I have a deep and powerful phobia that borders on paranoia!
I could no more harm an animal deliberately than eat a McDonald's McRib (Once saw how they are made and let me just say... eeeuuuuuwwwww!!).
They are small, cute, cuddly, furry, they photograph beautifully, have great personality and make me smile. They trust me enough to take food from my hand in parks, and I can't bare the though of ugly, hairy land owners sticking a shotgun in their face and blowing them away! I appreciate they can be a pest, a problem, a menace, that their PR managers might have a bit of a problem winning you over when they flay small chicks alive on your lawn or decimate the songbird population by stealing their eggs.... and perhaps there is a need to keep the population under control and try and re-establish the red population.....
Yep I get that....
I just hope we can solve the problem more humanely to create a peaceful coexistence of the reds and greys in different areas. A man can dream can't he.
Paul Williams June 18th 2021
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This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 6th October 1916
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
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published March 2009, part of the ongoing worldwide Hello Kitty phenomenon!
[The Hello Kitty Diaries - Day 7 - February 6th, 2010]
[my Hello Kitty Collection item No.17]
This photograph was published in an online article in THE DODO on 17th November 2023, by Stephen Messenger entitled:
'' Woman Is In Disbelief After A Wild Bird Starts Speaking To Her In English - I thought to myself, ‘Am I hearing things? ''
Part of VOXMEDIA and the Vox Media Network, The DODO is based in New York, USA and has a huge worldwide audience with platforms on Facebook, Twitter and all other major platforms.
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Twelve metres at 12:45pm on Wednesday 17th May 2023 off Pacific Rim Highway 4 and Airport Road on the sandy shoreline of the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve at Long Beach in Tofino, British Columbia.
The American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) is a large passerine bird species of the family Corvidae. It is a common bird found throughout much of North America. American crows measure 16-21 inches in length and are the New World counterpart to the carrion crow and the hooded crow of Eurasia
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The Postcard
A Woodbury Series postcard published by Eyre & Spottiswood.
It was posted on Sunday the 5th. January 1913 to:
Mrs. Fortune,
95, Shepherds Bush Road,
West Kensington,
London W.
The message on the back of the card was as follows:
"Thanks for gloves etc. You
are very good.
Enjoy yourself another week -
go on the river and see the
sights.
Writing later. I don't suppose
you will get it before Monday.
Love to all,
Lucie".
John Collier
John Maier Collier (1850-1934) was a leading English artist and author. He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation. He painted a particularly striking image of Darwin.
Both of his marriages were to the daughters of the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley who was president of the Royal Society from 1883 to 1885. He was also "on terms of intimate friendship" with his son, the writer Leonard Huxley.
'Sentence of Death' was given by the artist's widow to Wolverhampton Art Gallery.
Jack Haig (Actor)
So what else happened on the day that Lucie posted the card?
Well, the 5th. January 1913 marked the birth in Streatham, London of Jack Haig.
Jack Haig, who was born John Cecil Coppin, was an English actor who specialised in supporting roles, mainly in television comedy. He was best known for playing Monsieur Roger Leclerc in the British sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!.
Biography of Jack Haig
Haig was the son of music hall actors Bertha Baker and Charles Coppin, whose act went under the name "Haig and Esco".
He was seen in a long list of British TV favourites including: Hugh and I, Are You Being Served?, Terry and June and Dad's Army (although he turned down the role of Corporal Jones which then went to Clive Dunn).
Jack was in the Crossroads soap opera as occasional character Archie Gibbs from 1967 to 1982 and a couple of cinema films. He achieved his greatest success as Monsieur Roger Leclerc in BBC's 'Allo 'Allo!, a role he played until his death.
Jack's last appearance was in the final episode of Series 5, where he impersonated a Spanish guitarist, alongside Kenneth Connor (Monsieur Alfonse), who had an Enigma machine hidden in his accordion. He is remembered for his signature line, "It is I, Leclerc!"
He appeared in pantomime at Wimbledon in Babes in the Wood in 1965, and again in 1967 as the Emperor of China in Aladdin, alongside Bruce Forsyth and Tommy Trinder.
His earlier TV work included a regular spot as a comic on The One O'clock Show and Happy Go Lucky, a children's TV show during the 1960's. The One O'Clock Show was shown every weekday in the Tyne Tees Television area of ITV. He usually appeared in sketches as 'Wacky Jackie', generally playing the fool in a music hall comedy style.
The Personal Life and Death of Jack Haig
In 1989, Haig became too ill to work, and later died in Hampstead, London at the age of 76 of stomach cancer on the 4th. July 1989.
His wife was revue actress Sybil Dunn, who had died the previous year, just two days before their golden wedding anniversary. They had one daughter.
Jamie and I have our first article in the December issue of 48 North - we're so excited! The magazine cover is shown here.
Available at marine minded places in the Pacific Northwest, or by subscription (www.48north.com).
Credit where it's due: cover art shown here is by Betty Vestuto. To see more of her work visit her website at www.chart-art.com
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Il giorno del giudizio è arrivato.
Ilaria, Lorenzo, Madh e Mario saliranno sul gigantesco palco (1.600 metri quadrati!) del Mediolanum Forum di Assago per sfidarsi in tre manche al cardiopalma, circondati da tanti fantastici ospiti. In attesa di goderci la Finale di questa edizione incredibile, ripassiamo i brani scelti dai finalisti per l'ultima manche... e che vinca il migliore!
Una Finale incredibile, con tanti ospiti sensazionali e tre manche al cardiopalma per incoronare la nuova popstar del 2014.
Alessandro Cattelan, Fedez, Mika, Morgan e Victoria vi aspettano giovedì alle 21:10 in diretta dal Mediolanum Forum per l'incredibile Finale di #XF8!
PRIMA MANCHE
Ilaria - Sere nere (con Tiziano Ferro)
Lorenzo - Sei nell'anima (con Gianna Nannini)
Madh - Moon (con Malika Ayane)
Mario - La notte (con Arisa)
SECONDA MANCHE
Ilaria - My Name
Lorenzo - The Reason Why
Madh - Sayonara
Mario - All'orizzonte
TERZA MANCHE
Ilaria - You've Got the Love (dei Florence + The Machine)
Lorenzo - Rewind (di Paolo Nutini)
Madh - Heartbreak (di Nneka)
Mario - Use Somebody (dei Kings of Leon)
Per celebrare l'incoronazione, X Factor ha deciso di invitare tanti ospiti, italiani e internazionali, che divideranno il palco del Mediolanum Forum insieme ai nostri talenti.
#XF8 è iniziato con lui e con lui doveva terminare. Dopo la sensazionale performance del primo Live Show sulle note del suo ultimo singolo, Senza scappare mai più, Tiziano Ferro torna a regalarci grande musica d'autore su un palco ancora più grande: quello di Assago!
Per la prima volta a X Factor diamo il benvenuto a una delle rocker più importanti della musica italiana: Gianna Nannini! Con alla spalle 40 anni di carriera, centinaia di live e un album, Hitalia, appena uscito, Gianna Nannini ha scelto il palco di X Factor per regalarvi la Finale più spettacolare di sempre.
Da giudice ad amica e ora ospite della Finale, anche Arisa delizierà il pubblico della sua presenza. Reduce da un tour (Se vedo te tour) per molte tappe sold out, da un film, Colpi di fulmine e da un romanzo edito Mondadori Tu eri tutto per me, Arisa torna a X Factor per portare la sua musica.
L'ultimo ospite italiano che si esibirà sul palco del Medionalum Forum per la Finale di #XF8 è una cantautrice con all'attivo 3 album, un disco multiplatino, sette dischi di platino e due dischi d'oro. Stiamo parlando di Malika Ayane, la cantautrice classe '84 che dal 2008 fa impazzire il pubblico con brani del calibro di Ricomincio da qui e Come foglie.
Ma non è finita qui, vi avevamo parlato di ospiti stranieri... Il primo che vi sveliamo è un dj e produttore di fama internazionale, con oltre 8 milioni di album venduti in tutto il mondo e vincitore di 2 Grammy Awards: David Guetta! Per la prima volta in Italia con la sua band, eseguirà live durante la Finale il singolo Dangerous, il brano certificato platino e contenuto in Listen, il suo primo album di canzoni che vede la partecipazione di artisti del calibro di Emili Sande a John Legend, SIA, Nicki Minaj, The Script, Magic!, Ryan Tedder di One Republic.
I secondi ospiti internazionali sono la “New band of the day” come li definisce il Guardian: "Ogni loro canzone si annuncia con un fiorire e molto slancio, e c'è una leggera spolverata di ritmi caraibici, sapori tropicali e salotto-jazz." Loro sono i Saint Motel, che dal 2009 a oggi sono riusciti a suonare in tutti gli Stati Uniti aprendo i concerti degli Arctic Monkeys e degli Imagine Dragons. Durante la Finale di #XF8 canteranno il loro singolo My Type, che, dopo avere conquistato l'Inghilterra è ora ai vertici delle classifiche radio e di iTunes anche in Italia.
Il diciannovenne siciliano Lorenzo Fragola batte Madh nella finalissima del talent show in onda su Sky che registra record di ascolti e di interattività.
This photo was chose by Century Link to be published on the front cover of the Olympic Coast 2009/2010 Phonebook/Directory. Photo was taken at Ruby Beach - near Forks, WA.