Please see “Arise, and Fly Free” page of this blog, and the post “A Tribute to BoBo.” 

Situated in Atlantic Ocean, Gran Canaria is one of those 7 islands that complete Canary Islands. With lively nightlife, beautiful beaches, superb coastline activities and great family attractions to enjoy, Gran Canaria or Gran Canary (as called in English) is a perfect and ideal holiday destination.

With warm and sunny weather all year round, this canary island offers a long list of attractions and things to do or see when holidaying in Gran Canaria.

Sioux City

Situated in the southern Gran Canaria, outside San Agustin, Sioux City a theme park with a touch of old days of ‘Wild West’. This place brings to you cowboy shows, horses, Indian knife throwers, dancers and many other locations like horse ranch, saloons, bank and churches. A holiday in Gran Canaria can be made whole lot of fun with these events or shows, offered by this Indians and cowboy theme based park. Many tourist and visitors often visit this attraction for its major shows like Bank robbery, Duel until death, Indian rain dance and Town square hanging.

Aqualand Aquasur

This canary island attraction is the largest or biggest water park situated near Maspalomas and is spread in a 130,000 squares metres land. Holiday in Gran Canaria with family can turn into great fun with this huge water park, with pools, water rides, Children Park, river rides, restaurants and a golf park.

Holiday World

Holiday world is an amusement-park kind family attraction for tourist and visitors holidaying in Gran Canaria. With amazing rides, rollercoaster, shooting stalls, restaurants, Ferris wheel, cafes and leisure centre to offer, this attraction is a must to visit place for families thinking of a holiday in Gran Canaria.

Cocodrilo Park

Out of the various parks situated at this Canary Island, Parque de los Cocodrilos is a popular park with an astounding and huge collection of crocodiles. Tourists and visitors holidaying in Gran Canaria are often found hanging around in this striking attraction. The park also offers parrot shows, beautiful cactus garden and tropical fish collection.

Las Palmas

Las Palmas is the capital of this beautiful Canary Island and has marvelous collection of beaches and shopping zones, for that fine experience of a holiday in Gran Canaria. The city also has attractions like monuments, museums and churches for attracting visitors and tourists.

Museums

Holiday in Gran Canaria is also a great idea for those who would love to enjoy some history and cultural stories, along with the leisure and fun activities. This Canary Island has a series of marvelous and magnificent museums for that remarkable tour of history. These museums have all that you need to know about the past of this attractive holiday destination. From complete historical details, events and gorgeous artifacts, these attractions are perfect for a spending a good afternoon when not in a mood for all those ware parks, parties and nightlife. Some of the major museums on Gran Canaria Island are Museo Canario, Museo de Historia de Agüimes, Museo Elder de la Ciencia y la Tecnología, Casa Museo Pérez Galdós and Museo Néstor.

Best time to visit or holiday in Gran Canaria

The months of December to February are considered as the best time for choosing Gran Canaria as a holiday destination. While the island is sunny and has a temp of 21 to 29 degree Celsius through out the year, one can always plan a great holiday in Gran Canaria anytime.

What an awesome and orderly God!!  God’s accuracy may be observed in the hatching of eggs.  For example:

• The  eggs of the potato bug hatch in 7 days;
• Those of the canary in 14 days;
• Those of the barnyard hen in 21 days;
• The eggs of ducks and geese hatch in 28 days;
• Those of the mallard in 35 days;
• The eggs of the parrot and the ostrich hatch in 42 days.

Notice, they are all divisible by seven, the number of days in a week!

The lives of each of you may be ordered by the Lord in a beautiful way for His glory, if you will only entrust Him with your life.  Only the One who made the brain and the heart can successfully guide them to a profitable end.

God’s wisdom is seen in the making of an elephant.  The four legs of this great beast all bend forward in the same direction.  No other quadruped is so made.  God planned that this animal would have a huge body, too large to live on two legs.  For this reason He gave it fulcrums so that it can rise from the ground easily. 

The horse rises from the ground on its two front legs first.  A cow rises from the ground with its two hind legs first.  How wise the Lord is in all His works of creation!

God’s wisdom is revealed in His arrangement of sections and segments, as well as in the number of grains. 

• Each watermellon has an even number of strips on it’s rind.
• Each orange has an even number of segments.
• Each ear of corn has an even number of rows.
• Each stalk of wheat has an even number of grains.
• Every bunch of bananas has on its lowest row an even number of bananas, and each row decreases by one, so that one row has an even number and the next row an odd number.
• The waves of the sea roll in on shore twenty-six to the minute in all kinds of weather.
• All grains are found in even numbers on the stalks, and the Lord specified thirty fold, sixty fold, and a hundred fold – all even numbers.

God has caused the flowers to blossom at certain specified times during the day, so that Linnaeus, the great botanist, once said that if he had a conservatory containing the right kind of soil, moisture and temperature, he could tell the time of day or night by the flowers that were open and those that were closed!

Thus the Lord in His wonderful grace can arrange the life that is entrusted to His care in such a way that it will carry out His purposes and plans, and will be fragrant with His presence.  Only the God-planned safe life is successful.  Only the life given over to the care of the Lord is fulfilled.

www.bibledonate.org and www.fivesimplesteps.org

Big Bird appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel Live show in honor of Sesame Street’s 40th anniversary. Following his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel, Big Bird dropped by our studio for an off-the-record interview.

The Unauthrorized Interview

loosefemme: Hullo Mr. Bird, thanks for stopping by. Can I get you a hot toddy with birdseed?

Big Bird: (High, nasal voice) No honey, I gave it up ten years ago. Got with the program, A.A. for B.B.

loosefemme: That is surprising, Mr. Bird, given that you claimed to be six years old on Jimmy Kimmel.

Big Bird: Honey, I’ve been with Sesame Street forty years. And I still look exactly as I did the day we started. I may be 46, but I can still pass for six.

loosefemme: What’s your secret to staying young?

Big Bird: Worms and whatever I find in the trash can next to my nest.

loosefemme: Mr. Bird — er, do I call you ‘Mister’? On Jimmy Kimmel you referred to yourself as a boy. Are you, you know, a poofter.

Big Bird: “Poofter”? I don’t know what you’re talking about. Who do you think is inside this costume — a dame?

loosefemme: A gay man maybe? All’s I’m saying is, straight birds don’t nest, that is a gay thing. Plus you do that thing where you stroke your chest.

Big Bird: Honey I didn’t build my nest, don’t be silly. I custom-ordered it from Harry and David.

loosefemme: Ahem, I wanted to ask about your hands, they have three fingers. Aren’t you supposed to have wings? Your feet are orange foam rubber.

Big Bird: Birds have claws, dummy. Kind of like yourself. Aren’t you supposed to have manners?

loosefemme: Yes, but…. Okay Mr. Bird, last question, is it true that you were busted for drugs a couple of years ago?

Big Bird: (Widens eyes and draws up in chair. Sticks beak in my face. Speaks slowly and loudly as if to a child.) Se-sa-me Street is a child-ren’s show. We don’t con-done drug or al-co-hol use. Just say no! (Sits back in chair, beak curled in dismay).

loosefemme: Okay Mr. Bird, I read somewhere that –

Big Bird: (Shoves beak two inches from my nose). This-line-of-inquiry-will-stop-right-now.

loosefemme: Oh-okay Mr. Bird. One more thing — are you supposed to be a canary?

Big Bird: (Stands up and lopes out, calls over shoulder) I am a rara avis, honey. Buh-bye now! (White puddle glistens on the chair).

Sources

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el9tfwU208I&feature=related

http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Big_Bird

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Discovery Dock East, 1 and 2 Bedroom apartments in Canary Wharf, London

Every apartment in Discovery Dock East has been furnished to be modern and comfortable. Aesthetic features include stripped wood flooring and fully-fitted kitchens with all appliances supplied, the apartments also boast spacious bathrooms.  Guests can also enjoy the benefits of complementary use of the heated swimming pool and on site gymnasium. These properties offer bright and airy atmospheres along with fabulous and enviable views of the river Thames.

Discovery Dock East is situated in one of London’s most prestigious waterside developments. You will have the luxury of being just 5 minutes from Canary Wharf station and only 2 minutes from the Docklands Light Railway.

You will be on the doorstep of the impressive Canary Wharf financial district which in turn is home to many restaurants, bars, shops, cinemas and other facilities.

Discovery Dock East is a prime location catering for both business and pleasure.

http://www.crownlawn.com/United_Kingdom/london_apartments/canary_wharf/discovery_dock_east/discovery_dock.html

http://www.crownlawn.com/

I had these earrings once that I got from the hippie store in the mall (you know, robust patchoulli scent, the caveman cashier looks like be can rip up some bongos, the Bob Marley belt buckles are under a glass case, etc.) but they were carved from wood and one broke. I was eternally sad. Until one day at the craft store I was looking at the huge plethora of Sculpey colors, and thought, “Shit son! I can make those earrings myself!” (I may or may not have said this out loud.) So here is my sad attempt-

I was strangely attracted to this color. it’s called pale pistachio.

(dress- Old Navy $10
bird necklace- Forever 21 $6
geode necklace- antique store $8)

 

fandango – painting, originally uploaded by NikHelbig.

Fandango
Acrylics On Canvas
90 x 120 cm

“We skipped the light fandango
turned cartwheels ‘cross the floor”
…”Whiter Shade Of Pale” Lyrics by Keith Reid

This model looks a little like Angelina Jolie?

Parmi les nombreux clients Twitter, il existe Canary (disponible en Beta), un client gratuit. L’interface est sobre et propose l’utilisation de filtres. Une jauge se remplit au fur et à mesure que vous écrivez. Les noms sont placés dans une barre qui permet de faire apparaître en un clic toutes les options, ce qui est bien pratique. L’application est vraiment très simple à utiliser. À télécharger ici.

Source.

Well, there are two things unusual about this variety of canary.

This particular bird belongs to the red factor canary strain.

Red factor canaries did not appear from a mutation within the canary species. That color does not exist in the normal canary genome.

Instead, this color came about through hybridization with the black-hooded red siskin from South America. The fertility of the canary/black-hooded red siskin hybrids was not very good, but a few were fertile and were bred back into the canaries.

The red coloration that comes from the black-hooded red siskin requires a diet rich in carotenoids. The flamingo requires exactly the same sort of diet to maintain their pink plumage.

At one time, canary association would not allow this color because of the long standing rule that no show canary should be fed an unnatural diet.

But now it is a popular color-bred bird and, for some reason, always available at Petco.

Source.

Well, there are two things unusual about this variety of canary.

This particular bird belongs to the red factor canary strain.

Red factor canaries did not appear from a mutation within the canary species. That color does not exist in the normal canary genome.

Instead, this color came about through hybridization with the black-hooded red siskin from South America. The fertility of the canary/black-hooded red siskin hybrids was not very good, but a few were fertile and were bred back into the canaries.

The red coloration that comes from the black-hooded red siskin requires a diet rich in carotenoids. The flamingo requires exactly the same sort of diet to maintain their pink plumage.

At one time, canary association would not allow this color because of the long standing rule that no show canary should be fed an unnatural diet.

But now it is a popular color-bred bird and, for some reason, always available at Petco.

Boa noite, amigos alfarrábios!

Essa semana o AlfaCast é sobre o livro mais famoso e premiado de Barbara Gowdy: Mister Sandman.

Agradeço a todos que escutaram o episódio da semana passada. Aproveitem esse também, comentem, mandem suas sugestões!

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Roberto Carlos cantando Mister Sandman

Trovinha do João Pestana

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come, originally uploaded by NikHelbig.

“Come to Me”
2009 Nicole Helbig
Acrylics on Canvas
120 x 100 cm
Painting of lady outstretched hand with canary bird .

See my website nikhelbig.com.

i’ll-fly-with-you, originally uploaded by NikHelbig.

"I’ll Fly With You"
2009 Nicole Helbig
Acrylics on Canvas
120 x 100 cm
Painting of lady with canary bird outside a bird cage.

See my website nikhelbig.com.
Buy my giclees from my www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6884085 shop.

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This is a blog.

It is not much, but it is here all the same.

It’s two years since my last trip to London and this time my agenda was to primarily just hang out and meet up with old and new friends. I had timed this trip to coincide with friend Chris (who lives an hour or so away from me in southern California and) who would also be in London for part of her trip in the UK.

Fortunately, just four days after booking my flight I suddenly had a new purpose for my trip…the announcement that my favorite actor John Simm would be on stage in a new play in the West End! That’s great! I was so very fortunate to see him two years before in Elling and after his beautiful performance I vowed never to miss any opportunity to see him on stage…and the next time would also be more than once!

But first, no trip to London is complete without meeting up with Denzylle who I’ve known for about ten years now. On Monday, Denzylle and I had the opportunity to join Chris and her friend Tony for their day planned full of splendid activities, which included:

The Darkest Victorian London Walking Tour and a visit to

The Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret

Spiral stairwell entrance-Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret

Operating Theatre

Scale in the Herb Garret

After a short pub crawl we end up at the The Anchor

Denzylle, Chris, Shelley, Tony at The Anchor Pub

By then it was about time for the four of us to see John Simm in “Speaking in Tongues” at the Duke of York’s Theatre.

John Simm in 'Speaking in Tongues' at The Duke of York's Theatre

I really enjoyed this play during its preview run. The split screen scenes with the synchronized scripts are incredibly interwoven and the timing is unbelievable work. John’s 2nd role is my fav of his two. Story is mainly on relationships, communication and trust, with great suspense scenes, a missing woman and some funny lines to ease things a bit here and there.

After the performance we met John at the stage door exit for a group pic!

Shelley, John Simm, Chris at the Duke of York's Theatre

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One of my passions is that I am a lifelong horse-lover and learned to ride as an adult. In addition to my day job, I spent 10 years of concentrated schooling at a few equestrian centers on hunters-jumpers, attended a handful of clinics given by professionals and inevitably, in order to offset my lesson and clinic expenses, worked part-time for a number of years at my last trainer’s barn. Unfortunately even supplementing my riding lessons wasn’t enough…it’s all very expensive and I had to give up riding for about the last 10 years now.

BUT there’s nothing like a vacation to pull out all the stops and do the things we love to do the most! So, I arranged for a 1-hour private guided hack/lesson at Wimbledon Village Stables. And that’s when I also experienced my first London Tube “Service has been Suspended” announcement while I was at the station ready to leave!!! Arrghhh! Service suspended at Putney Bridge?! Take a bus from there? LOL well by the time I tried to make other arrangements on the fly, I simply took the Tube as far as I could… and it seemed service was resumed because I made it all the way to Wimbledon and had a great ride out in the parklands.

Wimbledon Village Stables

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On previous trips I stayed in hotels in central London, but this time I tried the Docklands area and not only added the DLR (Docklands Light Railway) to my repertoire of London transport options, but also added new areas of sight-seeing which included the following:

Greenwich Park

Greenwich Park

Greenwich Royal Park Rose Garden

Greenwich Park Groundskeeper

The National Maritime Museum & Royal Observatory

National Maritime Museum

Royal Observatory Greenwich

Prime Meridian Of The World - between East & West Hemispheres

Prime Meridian Of The World - Standing in both East & West Hemispheres!

Canary Wharf

1 Canada Square - Canary Wharf

1 Canada Square - Canary Wharf

West India Docks, near Canary Wharf

Museum of London Docklands

Museum of London Docklands, West India Docks

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But hang on!! What’s with all the sight-seeing? I thought I was supposed to be meeting up with Old and New friends!!! I was thrilled to be able to join up again with Chris and Tony to meet briefly with writer, producer and director, Sacha Bennett for a quick coffee. Due to work commitment last Oct 2008, I had missed attending the London premiere of Sacha’s first feature film,  Tu£sday. Now, having seen both gorgeous films (also his award-winning short “Devilwood“), I cannot wait for more of his work! Sacha has a number of potential projects lined up…so hopefully the wait won’t be a long one!

Sacha Bennett, Shelley - The Breakfast Club, London

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Later in the week I also met up again with Denzylle for the popular early evening Jack the Ripper Walking Tour!

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Friday I travelled to Houghton Regis to meet up with friend, David. The last time we met was all of 10 minutes at Piccadilly Circus! I blame the London Tube strike back then for my being late!

Well this time we certainly made a day of it! A Thousand Heartfelt Thanks to David’s lovely wife Kerrie for a perfect start in the morning by letting me ride her beautiful horse, Gemma, for a quick hack in the arena and then out in the surrounding lands.

A morning hack on Gemma (Wildmoor Gemini) - Thanks Kerrie!

Kerrie then let me borrow [or is that good riddance? ] her husband for the rest of the day. David and I took a drive over to Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk for a brewery tour at the Greene King Visitor Centre.

On the way I noticed a bizarre traffic speed control device…which entails installing a physical barrier steadfastly in the one direction lane of traffic, thereby forcing cars to slow down or ultimately stop in order to move out into the opposite lane of oncoming traffic in order to get around the barrier. The hell?!?

"Give Way To Oncoming Vehicles" - Thanks, since there's a sign on a pole blocking my lane!!

Anyway, I digress!! Back to the Brewery Tour!! Here’s a great pic of David (aka R.S. )

David - Greene King Brewery, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Greene King Brewery tour - Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Greene King Brewery tour - Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Greene King Brewery tour - Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Beer Tasting Room, Greene King Brewery tour - Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

David, Shelley - Greene King Brewery

See more Brewery Pics in this album on Facebook

After the tour and beer tasting we were in need of a walk around town…

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

…before getting in the car to head to our final destination, Harlow, Essex and…

THE DOGS at Harlow Stadium!!!

Harlow Stadium - Greyhound Racing

I love going to the racetrack to bet on the ponies but I had never been to a greyhound track!! I was really looking forward to this experience and indeed it was!

Harlow Greyhound Racetrack

My fav bet in horse racing is an “Exacta Box” so I went with the same type of bet, “Reverse Forecast” for the dogs. I only need to pick the two dogs that I think will come in first and second or vice versa. This is actually 2 bets in one so my £1 wager cost £2 per race…steep I know! lol So, I was thrilled when one of my bets paid off!! I can’t remember how much I won exactly…about £15, I think? David won on one of his bets as well.

And They're OFF! Harlow Greyhound Racetrack

It’s still hard to pick winners even with only 6 dogs in every race. Horse racing has at least 2 times the number, you’d think dogs would be easier to get lucky!

Here’s a vid of the start of one of the races (plus the dogs at full speed as they head towards the finish!)

Thanks again to David and Kerrie for such a fantastic day! David, I think next time it’s the Cheese Rolling event for us, then?

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Saturday, and while it may be my last full day in London, it’s certainly not the least of times, to finally meet NEW friends, plus one more chance after to see John Simm on stage!

Roy, Shelley - The Salisbury, London

Tracy, Shelley - The Salisbury, London

Cath, Yvonne, Shelley - Duke of York's, London

I also met new friend Leigh Ann but our pic together (also with Tracy plus another)…while absolutely hysterical…is still under review by the zany police!! LOL

See more Pics from my One Week in London in this photo album on Facebook

It’s hard to leave after such a wonderful week meeting wonderful friends, traveling the Tube, Bus, DLR, National Rail, seeing London again and the beautiful surrounding areas of England. But the only thing that saw me through my sadness in leaving was that my vacation holiday was only half over! Hey! Now that’s not too shabby! Early the next morning I was on my way to Heathrow Airport and Berlin, Germany!!

(See “One Week in Berlin” Blog)

Imagine this: You walk into a pet store, looking for a canary, because, i don’t know, maybe your coal mine is having dirty air issues or something. The salesman, eager to please, walks you over to a cage with a duck sitting in it.

I may be yellow, but I ain't no canary, yo.

He says, “Do I have just the thing for you, check out this canary. He is a new, better breed of canary. He has webbed feet, can swim, quacks rather than sings, he’s bigger. We call this the web-footed hydro ultracanary. You’ll love him.”

So you buy the “canary” and take him into your coal mine, where he quacks incessantly. In fact, he is still waddling around quacking about ten minutes after you and all of the other miners are lying dead from breathing poisonous air.

In this case, the brand promise (a canary) and the brand experience (a duck with strong lungs) did not match. If you had been looking for a duck, this little guy would have probably been perfect. But as a canary… not so much.

One of my favorite brand rules is to call your ducks ducks. What do I mean? Make things simple for your customers. Don’t make them learn your language or analyze your intent in order to understand your message. Be straight with them.

When naming products (a subject that I’ve discussed previously here), you may choose to use simple descriptive names rather than creating a new brand every time you create a product. What is Red Hat Enterprise Linux? It is Linux, designed for enterprise customers, and made by Red Hat. Simple.

New brands create complexity for customers. In some cases creating a new brand may be warranted, for a number of reasons (brand separation, different markets, different audiences, etc.). But each brand you create adds a layer of translation burden for your customers. My view? Only create new brands when there are no other good alternatives.

Here’s an example of how simple descriptive names help: What if Red Hat had named Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat Megawowzit instead. From a customer’s point of view, here’s how the thought process goes:

Oh look, Red Hat has a new product.
It is called Red Hat Megawowzit.
I wonder what it is?
Here we go, Megawowzit is a version of Linux designed for enterprise customers.

When you call a duck a duck, you simplify this process– those last two lines go away.

But naming is just one example of where you should call a duck a duck. Positioning is the place where companies make the most outrageous mistakes. When you are talking about your product (or company) strengths, are you telling the truth? Or are you selling people ducks disguised as canaries?

When working through your positioning exercise, and deciding on your points of difference, be sure they are real and not aspirational (if aspirational, they may actually be points of parity).

Ask yourself, would my current customers agree this a strength of ours? If you are claiming something in your positioning that you can’t actually deliver, you are creating misalignment between your brand promise and your brand experience.

And when brand promise and brand experience are badly misaligned, unhappy customers (and former customers) start multiplying. Not necessarily because your product or company is bad, but because you misrepresented them. There is nothing wrong with a duck… that is, unless you are passing it off as a canary.

In the open source world, we talk a lot about transparency, and calling a duck a duck is really just another way to be more transparent. It makes things easier for your customers, but it also makes you more credible and trustworthy too.

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Canadian financier Paul Reichmann has been forced to sell his remaining stake in London’s Canary Wharf development, British media reported Monday.(Robin Nowacki/Associated Press)

?British media reports say Canadian businessman Paul Reichmann has given up his stake in London’s Canary Wharf development.

Property developer Songbird Estates PLC announced Monday that it has increased its stake in Canary Wharf Group to almost 70 per cent after acquiring a nearly nine per cent holding from German lender Commerzbank AZ, for the equivalent of $177 million.

According to London’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, which cited unnamed sources close to the matter, those shares belonged to Reichmann but had been used as collateral against loans to Dresdner, a Commerzbank subsidiary.

Dresdner was acquired by Commerzbank earlier this year.

Unclear why collateral being called in

It is not clear why the collateral is being called in, but it raises questions about the real estate tycoon’s finances.

Reichmann holds about an eight per cent stake in Songbird, but that equity is likely to be diluted to almost zero after Songbird issues $1 billion in new equity. That’s expected to happen later this week, the Telegraph reported.

Reichmann, 78, was the driving force behind the landmark development, a massive complex that covers more than 38 hectares, after brokering a deal with then-prime minister Margaret Thatcher in 1987. The deal would end a 22-year association with the luxury real estate development.

The massive scale of the development project in London’s eastern docklands led his Toronto company, Olympia & York, then one of the biggest real estate developers in the world, into bankruptcy in 1992. Reichmann fought back, reacquiring Canary Wharf from banks in 1995.

In 2004, he lost control of Canary Wharf for the second time as the Songbird consortium acquired a controlling stake for nearly $3 billion. Reichmann maintained his small stake of 8.45 per cent of the Class B shares.

With files from The Canadian Press

Renters help fill unsold Nashville condosZenn Motor loses $2.6M in Q3

REX VILLEGAS + JOAN CU
June 14, 2009
Metropolitan Cathedral, Naga City

I haven’t uploaded a lot of my latest work (and by latest I mean my last semester of school). I tried to make a series about identity issues. This is my first edition of the series out of (so far) 2 – which is bad, real bad, like I don’t even want to talk about the second one. If you can’t tell, it’s a canary wearing a mask of a woodpecker. It’s an 8 x 8 woodcut with screen printing and some monotype screen printing.

Oh school. How I [somewhat] miss thee.

thanks to my new friend sara for teaching me the ways of polyvore. i lurveee it!  i think polyvore and i will be posting on sundays, now known as fashion smashion sundays.

this week… FASHION SMASHION PRESENTS ‘YELLOW LA’.

‘yellow la’ is my current lust–if i could style myself or my alter ego leighton meester, here’s some of my dreamings that i wish i could own:

1. afford
2. wear since they don’t make high heels like that in kids’ sizes.

affectionately, here is my dreamboard for ‘yellow LA’.  this is my ‘right now’ wish i could be wearing…

(double click on it to see it bigger)

Fizyolojik Yapısı :

Boyu 15 ile 17 santim aralığında, başı mümkünse tepesi düz,gözleri orta irilikte olup parlak ve koyu siyahtır , göğsü hafif kabarık ve çok az dalgalı olup fizik ve duruşu zarif , kanatları yapışık, kuyruk balık kuyruğu gibi çatallı olup sarı ve beyaz renklerde olup bu renklerin arasında küçük siyah lekecikler mevcuttur bu lekelerin çok oluşuna olumlu bakılmaz, farklı bir başka renklerde bulunmazlar Zaten mevcut beyaz renkleri bile çok sonraları aileye zor zahmet dahil edilmişlerdir .

Ülkemizdeki Durumu :

Wasserschlager’lerde Su sesi olmazsa olmaz bir kuraldır yani oluyor ki bir kuşta Su sesi yoksa Wasserchlager olarak anılmıyor Belçika ve diğer ülkelerde bile bu tip kuşlar yarışmalardan diskalifiye ediliyor,oysaki ülkemizde yapılan bazı illerdeki iptidai yarışmalarda su sesi ağırlıklı öten kuşlara makaralı ötüyormuş muamelesi yapılıyor böyle olunca da bu kuşun yurt dışındaki orijinal yarışma şablonunun dışına çıkılmış olup başka bir kulvarda yarışan kuşlar topluluğuna sahip olunuyor.Ülkemizde hatta o illerin adıyla anılan Malinua‘lar ülkemizi Avrupa’ya yaklaştırmak yerine daha çok uzaklaştırmış oluyorlar. Ben derim ki artık Malinua yarışmalarında bülbülcü abilerimiz jüriden artık kalkıp yerlerini ehli olanlara (uluslar arası COM hakemlerine ) bırakınız ki ülke malinuacılığı gelişsin aksi taktirde dışarıya açılamayız , ancak kendi aramızda oyalanır gideriz.

Cinsiyet :

Erkeklerin renkleri dişilere göre daha koyu sarıdır, altlarına üflenerek bakıldığında erkeklerinki ( Fİ ) yapmış şekildedir,Erkekleri öter Dişileri ötmez.Erkekleri daha hareketli ve görkemlidir.

Harz kanaryaları diye anılan ROLLER veya EDELROLLER gayet hususi bir şekilde üretilen ve yetiştirilen bir kanaryadır.Bunlara SAİNT-ANDREASBERG kanaryası veya SAXON denilmekte ise de bu tabirler yanlıştır. Zira saxon denilen kanarya Almanyanın saks eyaletinde yetiştirilen adi bir cinstir. saint -Andreasberg ise artık mevcut olmayan bir cinstir.Roller cinsi, gerek pest ve gerek tiz perdede gayet güzel ötüşlü bir kanaryadır. Gardner, Volkman, Erntges ve bilhassa Trute adında bir maden amelesi en güzel ötüşlü kuşları yetiştirmişlerdir.Hakiki Harz (Cermen) Roller kanaryaları bağırmaz, öter. Adi kanaryalar gibi çap-çap ve tüi-tüilerle etrafı gürültüyle boğmaz.Derin, saf (DEM) çeker. Ötüşü diğer kanaryalarla mukayese edildiğinde, şu benzetişi yapabiliriz : Davul zurna gürültüsüne karşı klâsik bir garp musikisi. Almancada EDEL asil demektir. Roller ise dem çekici demektir. Edelroller ise (asil dem çekici) mânasına gelir.

1890 Yılında,ötücü kuşlar Yorkshire ve Norwich den ayrı bir ırk olarak meydana getirilmiştir. Adını İngiltere ile İskoçya arasındaki sınır bölgesinde yetiştirildiği için İngilizce’ de sınır demek olan Border kelimesinden almaktadır.En önemli özelliği ipek gibi tüyleri ve şık duruşudur.

Bu ırkı değerli kılan özellikler :

1- Kafa ve boğaz (10 Puan) : Kafa gaga kökünden başlamalı,dolgun ve  yanaklara doğru iyice yuvarlak görünmelidir. En önemli özelliği kafa ile vücudu ayıran hayali bölgenin (kolye gibi) gözle görülür şekilde belli olmasıdır. Kafa mümkün olduğunca küçük ve yuvarlak, gözler ise merkezinde olmalıdır.
2- Vücut (15 Puan) : Özellikle göğüs her yönüyle yuvarlak olmalı omuzlar rahatça hissedilebilmeli hafif kambur ve sırt formu yumurta şeklinde olmalıdır.
3- Kanat (10 Puan) : Kanatlar iyice yatık olmalı ve kuyruk köklerini örtmelidir.
4- Ayak ve Bacaklar (5 Puan) : Ayaklar küçük pullarla bezenmiş  ve vücutla uyumlu  olmalıdır.
5- Tüy (10 Puan) : Tüyler ipek gibi yatık ve dümdüz olmalıdır.
6- Kuyruk (5 Puan) : Kısa, dar, ucu hafif çatallı, kuşun kuyruğunun pipo sapı gibi kolayca taşınır görüntüye sahip  ve vücudunun 1/3 ü kadarı olmalıdır.
7- Duruş (15 Puan) : Renk homojen olarak (rengin vücudun her yerine eşit tonda yayılması) canlı, parlak olmalıdır.
8- Boy (5 Puan ): Kuşun boyu 14,5 – 15,5 cm arasında olmalıdır.(Yarışmalarda kullanılan kafeslerdeki 8 tel boşluğuna 2 tünek konarak, boyu elle tutulmadan kuyruğun tüneği geçip geçmemesi dikkate alınarak ölçülür.)
9- Genel İntiba (10 Puan) : Kuşun hareketlerinin zarifliği, kendini sunması. (Yarışmalarda kafesin ve kuşun temizliği de dikkate alınır.)

Ana vatanı İngiltere olan bu kuş ilk1860 yılında geliştirilmiştir. Boy en az 17 santim olmalıdır,duruşu diktir, omuzlar geniş ve yuvarlaktır, kanatlar uçlarda çaprazlaşmaz, vücuda yapışık, kafa geniş ve yuvarlak, ense omuz çizgisi ile aynı izada yani boyun kökünde çukur yoktur, dolgun görünmelidir, gözler merkezi yerleşimlidir. Göğüs dolgun olarak, gaganın dibinden başlar, tüyler kısa, sık ve vücuda düzgün yapışık, kıvrık tüyler ve belirgin kaşlar istenmez, ortalama ömrü 10 yıldır. Renk olarak kendi renginde olabildiği gibi, renk maması verilerek beslenen kuşlarda bulunur.Üretimde fazla yavru alamaya bilirsiniz, yavruların güvenliği için derin folluk kullanmalısınız, üreticiler genelde yorkshire yumurtalarını başka bakıcı anne ve babanın (kırma ırklar) altındaki yumurtalarla değiştirir, bazı yetiştiricilerde annenin yavruları büyütmesi için yalnız bırakırlar, böylece bir erkek kuşu – üç dişi kuşla çiftleştirirler, elde edilen yavrularda yarışmalarda istenilen dik duruşu elde etmek için eğitilmektedir.