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Experimenting with artistic blurring. I like the vulnerability and child-like quality of this pose.
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Cuatro artistas: Cristina Almodóvar, Lucie Geffré, Paula Anta y Rafael Díaz, exponen sus creaciones en O_LUMEN, una iglesia transformada en espacio para el diálogo con el arte contemporáneo. Presentan instalaciones, escultura, pintura y fotografía junto a textos poéticos en diferentes formatos, para transmitir optimismo y esperanza. Fascinados por la belleza de la vida, artistas y comisarios dejan entrever que en la fragilidad también reside la fortaleza.
Meterlinda Delgado cooks Great Plates Delivered meals at Marbled LA, a participating food service business, who is providing meals for seniors in the northern section of Los Angeles County, June 30, 2020.
Through Great Plates Delivered, LA County is providing three (3) home-delivered meals a day to qualifying older adults & adults over 60 who are at high-risk for COVID-19. This effort aims to assist County residents in need of home delivered meals, as well as help get our local restaurant, hospitality and transportation community back to work. ( Mayra Vasquez / Los Angeles County )
October 9, 2105 - LIMA, Peru. World Bank / IMF Annual Meetings. Finance Ministers of the ‘Vulnerable Twenty’ (V20) have their inaugural meeting. Photo: Dakota Fine / World Bank
Binturongs are long-bodied and have short legs with a short muzzle which is pointed; they also have very thick black fur. Their eyes are very round and black and they have a very bushy tail, and females are generally 20% bigger than males.
The binturongs are also known as bearcats. They move around very slowly, and whenever I see them at Longleat they are laying around on branches looking very relaxed and content. These animals are normally very shy, however they can be aggressive if harassed and then they may bare their teeth. The diet of a binturong is mainly figs and fruits.
Information Sourced from Longleat.
October 9, 2105 - LIMA, Peru. World Bank / IMF Annual Meetings. Finance Ministers of the ‘Vulnerable Twenty’ (V20) have their inaugural meeting. Photo: Dakota Fine / World Bank
October 9, 2105 - LIMA, Peru. World Bank / IMF Annual Meetings. Finance Ministers of the ‘Vulnerable Twenty’ (V20) have their inaugural meeting. Photo: Dakota Fine / World Bank
"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully around with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable." -CS Lewis
October 9, 2105 - LIMA, Peru. World Bank / IMF Annual Meetings. Finance Ministers of the ‘Vulnerable Twenty’ (V20) have their inaugural meeting. Photo: Dakota Fine / World Bank
Varanus salvator, commonly known as the water monitor, is a large lizard native to South and Southeast Asia. Water monitors are one of the most common monitor lizards found throughout Asia. They range from Sri Lanka and coastal northeast India to Indochina, the Malay Peninsula, and various islands of Indonesia, living in areas close to water.
The species is known as Malayan water monitor, Asian water monitor, common water monitor, two-banded monitor, and as rice lizard, ring lizard, plain lizard and no-mark lizard, as well as simply "water monitor".
The water monitor is a large species of monitor lizard. Breeding maturity is attained for males when they are a relatively modest 40 cm (16 in) long and weigh 1 kg (2.2 lb), and for females at 50 cm (20 in). However, they grow much larger throughout life, with males being larger than females. Adults rarely exceed 1.5–2 m (4.9–6.6 ft) in length, but the largest specimen on record, from Sri Lanka, measured 3.21 m (10.5 ft). A common mature weight of V. salvator can be 19.5 kg (43 lb). However, 80 males killed for the leather trade in Sumatra averaged only 3.42 kg (7.5 lb) and 56.6 cm (22.3 in) snout-to-vent and 142 cm (56 in) in total length; 42 females averaged only 3.52 kg (7.8 lb) and 59 cm (23 in) snout-to-vent and 149.6 cm (58.9 in) in total length, although unskinned outsized specimens weighed 16 to 20 kg (35 to 44 lb). Another study from the same area by the same authors similarly estimated mean body mass for mature specimens at 20 kg (44 lb) while yet another study found a series of adults to weigh 7.6 kg (17 lb). The maximum weight of the species is over 50 kg (110 lb). In exceptional cases, the species has been reported to attain 75 to 90 kg (165 to 198 lb), though most such reports are unverified and may be unreliable. They are the world's second-heaviest lizard, after the Komodo dragon. Their bodies are muscular, with long, powerful, laterally compressed tails.
The generic name Varanus is derived from the Arabic waral (ورل), which translates as "monitor". The specific name is the Latin word for "saviour", denoting a possible religious connotation. The water monitor is occasionally confused with the crocodile monitor (V. salvadorii) because of their similar scientific names.
In Thailand, the local word for a water monitor, hia (เหี้ย), is used as an insulting word for bad and evil things, including bad persons. The word is also thought to bring bad luck, so some people prefer to call the animals 'silver-and-gold' (ตัวเงินตัวทอง) to avoid the jinx.
The origin of this offensive meaning can be traced back to a time when more people lived in rural areas in close proximity to monitor lizards. Traditionally, Thai villagers lived in two-story houses; the top floor was for living, while the ground floor was designed to be a space for domestic animals such as pigs, chickens, and dogs. Water monitors would enter the ground floor and eat or maim the domestic animals, also hence the other name dtua gin gai (ตัวกินไก่ ‘chicken eater’).
In Indonesian and Malay, the water monitor is called biawak air, to differentiate it from the biawak pasir ("sand lizard"), Leiolepis belliana.
Water monitors defend themselves using their tails, claws, and jaws. They are excellent swimmers, using the raised fin on their tails to steer through water. They are carnivores, and consume a wide range of prey. They are known to eat fish, frogs, rodents, birds, crabs, and snakes. They have also been known to eat turtles, as well as young crocodiles and crocodile eggs. Water monitors have been observed eating catfish in a fashion similar to a mammalian carnivore, tearing off chunks of meat with their sharp teeth while holding it with their front legs and then separating different parts of the fish for sequential consumption.
Like the Komodo dragon, the water monitor will often eat carrion. They have a keen sense of smell and can smell a carcass from far away. They are known to feed on dead human bodies. While on the one hand their presence can be helpful in locating a missing person in forensic investigations, on the other hand they can inflict further injuries to the corpse, complicating ascertainment of the cause of death.
The first description of the water monitor and its behavior in English literature was made in 1681 by Robert Knox, who had had carefully observed the lizard during his long confinement in the Kingdom of Kandy: “There is a Creature here called Kobberaguion, resembling an Alligator. The biggest may be five or six feet long, speckled black and white. He lives most upon the Land, but will take the water and dive under it: hath a long blue forked tongue like a sting, which he puts forth and hisseth and gapeth, but doth not bite nor sting, tho the appearance of him would scare those that knew not what he was. He is not afraid of people, but will lie gaping and hissing at them in the way, and will scarce stir out of it. He will come and eat Carrion with the Dogs and Jackals, and will not be scared away by them, but if they come near to bark or snap at him, with his tail, which is long like a whip, he will so slash them, that they will run away and howl.”
Water monitors should be handled with care since they have many sharp teeth and can give gashing bites that can sever tendons and veins, causing extensive bleeding. The bite of a large pet water monitor was described by its American owner as being worse than that of a rattlesnake.
The possibility of venom in the genus Varanus is widely debated. Previously, venom was thought to be unique to Serpentes (snakes) and Heloderma (venomous lizards). The aftereffects of a Varanus bite were thought to be due to oral bacteria alone, but recent studies have shown venom glands are likely to be present in the mouths of several, if not all, of the species. The venom may be used as a defensive mechanism to fend off predators, to help digest food, to sustain oral hygiene, and possibly to help in capturing and killing prey. Varanus salvator has not yet been specifically tested, but its bites are likely to be consistent with the venomous bites from other varanid lizards.
Monitor lizards are traded globally and are the most common type of lizard to be exported from Southeast Asia, with 8.1 million exported between 1998 and 2007. Water monitors are used by humans for a variety of purposes and are one of the most exploited varanids. They are hunted predominantly for their skins for use in fashion accessories such as shoes, belts and handbags which are shipped globally, with as many as 1.5 million skins traded annually. Other uses include as a perceived remedy for common skin ailments and eczema, a perceived aphrodisiaca, novelty food in Indonesia and as pets.
In Nepal's Chitwan National Park it is a protected species under the Wild Animals Protection Act of 2002. In Hong Kong, it is a protected species under Wild Animals Protection Ordinance Cap 170. In Malaysia, this species is one of the most common wild animals, with numbers comparable to the population of macaques there. Although many fall victim to humans via roadkill and animal cruelty, they still thrive in most states of Malaysia, especially in the shrubs of the east coast states such as Pahang and Terengganu. In Thailand, all monitor lizards are protected species. They are still very common in large urban areas in Thailand and are frequently seen in Bangkok canals and parks.
Loss of habitat and hunting has exterminated water monitors from most of mainland India. In other areas they survive despite being hunted, due in part to the fact that larger ones, including large females that breed large numbers of eggs, have tough skins that are not desirable.
In Sri Lanka, they are protected by locals who value their predation of "crabs that would otherwise undermine the banks of rice fields". They are also protected due to eating venomous snakes.
October 9, 2105 - LIMA, Peru. World Bank / IMF Annual Meetings. Finance Ministers of the ‘Vulnerable Twenty’ (V20) have their inaugural meeting. Photo: Dakota Fine / World Bank
Dover Castle reveals another striking difference in tower design – geometry. Originally, castle towers were predominately square. Unfortunately, this configuration leaves the castle vulnerable to areas that archers can’t cover. In the 12th century, medieval engineers begin to design circular and semicircular towers to solve this problem. Because it was built over several decades, Dover boasts square and circular towers – the former being attributed to construction under Henry II, the latter to work that’s believed to have been carried out several years later under his son John. Additionally, the castle has several polygonal towers, including the Avranches Tower, which was specifically designed to maximize the garrison’s firepower.
Battle Castle is an action documentary series starring Dan Snow that is now airing on History Television and is scheduled to premiere on Discovery Knowledge in the UK in Spring 2012 and on various BBC-affiliated channels in the near future.
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Castles conjure thoughts of romantic tales, but make no mistake, they are built for war.
Dover: Prince Louis' key to England. Malaga: the Granadans final stronghold. And Crac des Chevaliers: Crown Jewel of Crusader castles. Through dynamic location footage and immersive visual effects, Battle Castle reveals a bloody history of this epic medieval arms race.
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October 9, 2105 - LIMA, Peru. World Bank / IMF Annual Meetings. Finance Ministers of the ‘Vulnerable Twenty’ (V20) have their inaugural meeting. Photo: Dakota Fine / World Bank
I added this eggshell to the feeling but will remove it before firing 'cause it will just fire away. When it's fired I will glue eggshells onto the feeling again.
I did this just to show you how it will look. I actually cheated because I only did one side! :)
Ah this picture so contrasts mine from yesterday.
But honestly, for once in my life I want to come first, and not be the leftovers in peoples lives. I want to be the first person they think about. I want them to want to be with me. But it seems like it will never happen. Whoever it is, is going to have to work really hard to break down the walls I have built up. Whenever it gets even a bit close to coming down, something happens, and I build it back up even stronger. I've always been that person that is in peoples lives, but is somewhere down the list. Never first. Not even best friends. I'm tired. I'm tired of it. It makes me sad. And I just want someone to come fix me.
For FGR:My favorite body part.
My favorite body part is a back. They are graceful, elegant, and vulnerable.
October 9, 2105 - LIMA, Peru. World Bank / IMF Annual Meetings. Finance Ministers of the ‘Vulnerable Twenty’ (V20) have their inaugural meeting. Photo: Dakota Fine / World Bank
October 9, 2105 - LIMA, Peru. World Bank / IMF Annual Meetings. Finance Ministers of the ‘Vulnerable Twenty’ (V20) have their inaugural meeting. Photo: Dakota Fine / World Bank
October 9, 2105 - LIMA, Peru. World Bank / IMF Annual Meetings. Finance Ministers of the ‘Vulnerable Twenty’ (V20) have their inaugural meeting. Photo: Dakota Fine / World Bank
October 9, 2105 - LIMA, Peru. World Bank / IMF Annual Meetings. Finance Ministers of the ‘Vulnerable Twenty’ (V20) have their inaugural meeting. Photo: Dakota Fine / World Bank
I have them, too.
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Police have launched a two-day operation to protect the most vulnerable members of the community.
The initiative codenamed Operation Longford will see officers from across the Force and specialist units including traffic, tactical aid and the ANPR intercept teams take to the streets in a bid to target vulnerability in the community.
Some of the work as part of the days of action (Friday 29 to Saturday 30 May) will include visits to licensed premises, policing open spaces that attract youths and alcohol, takeaway enforcement, visit to shisha bars in addition to Metrolink and Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) patrols.
Superintendent Craig Thompson operational lead said: “Safeguarding vulnerable people is an on-going priority for the Force which makes days of action like this so important. By having mechanisms in place and working alongside our partners we can ensure those at greater risk in our community are protected before the actions such as exploitation and abuse begin.
“As with our day to day policing we will also carry out enforcement work and will target offenders for a range of offences including, human trafficking, Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE*), antisocial behaviour and general criminality.”
As part of the operation officers from the City Centre Neighbourhood Policing Team and partners such as Manchester City Council, Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner will launch the partnership Safe Haven scheme. It is a place of safety for anyone who is out and about in the city centre on a Friday or Saturday night and in need of help, support, a place of safety or a designated meeting point for when you lose your friends.
Superintendent Thompson added: “We want Operation Longford to show our community that their safety comes first and will always be our priority. We will make use of all of our disruption tactics to put a stop to criminals.”
For live updates from the operation follow #OpLongford from the GMP twitter accounts. You can find your local Twitter account by visiting: www.gmp.police.uk/socialmedia.