The Little Cygnet...
Swans are graceful birds but can also be very aggressive when nesting and protecting their young cygnets. This pair only had one cygnet at Maple glen gardens.
With its elegant long neck, the black swan (Cygnus atratus) is New Zealand's largest wetland bird. Round 100 black swans were brought to the South Island from Australia in the 1860s, and the species has traditionally been regarded as introduced. However, numbers have increased faster than expected, suggesting more birds arrived independently -- in which case it should be considered a self-introduced native.
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WWII Stirling Island 1943--Looking for Australian/New Zealand Soldier
Joe Aboussleman, USN Ret., is looking for the Australian (or New Zealand) soldier who helped him offload 50 gallon drums of fuel in 1943. Joe was with USN CASU 8 on Stirling Island, one of the Treasury Islands in the Solomon Island chain. This was during Operation Goodtimes in WWII. Leave a message and we'll relay it to him.
New Zealand's South Island: A Road Trip
Recorded January 17-18, 2007.
The South Island is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand, the other being the more populous North Island. The South Island is a somewhat larger landmass than the North Island, only about a quarter of New Zealand's four million inhabitants live in the South Island. However, in the early stages of European settlement of the country, the South Island was pre-eminent, with the majority of the European population and wealth focussed there due to gold rushes. It was not until the early 20th century that the North Island population overtook the South.
My road trip begins as I leave Fox Glacier and begin a two-day trek to Queenstown stopping at several scenic spots along way. The first three stops were along the Tasman Sea as I made my way to Haast. They were Bruce Bay, Knight's Point Lookout and Ship Creek. My last stop on day one was the very remote Jackson Bay. After spending the night in Haast I continued my journey the next morning and began traveling through the Mount Aspring National Park. There were three scenic stops there, Thunder Falls, the Gates of Haast and Fantail Falls. Mid way through the days travels I drove around beautiful Lake Wanaka and I stopped at Boundary Creek to take in the view. The last stops were just north of Queenstown at the Kawarau Gorge and the Roaring Meg Lookout.
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Привет, Пермь! Botanical gardens, город Крайстчерч
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Крайстчерч (Christchurch) - город на Южном острове Новой Зеландии, центр региона Кентербери (Canterbury). Название переводится с английского как «Церковь Христа».
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When to Catch Queen Ants: Nuptial Flight Schedules | AntsCanada Tutorial #36
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Palm Tree Transplanting
There are 50 mature palm trees from Glen Huntly to McKinnon stations that need to be removed for level crossing works. Watch this video to see them being removed and carefully transplanted to their temporary home, where they will stay at a nursery for 15 months. They will be replanted in late 2016 when works are complete.
Shipping container family home: building blocks in Redwoods
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Kam Kasravi and Connie Dewitt wanted a modern cabin that wouldn't disrupt the Redwoods on their property. First they considered prefabs, but quickly realized they wouldn't fit up the narrow road to their land in the Santa Cruz mountains. So they convinced their friend, architect David Fenster, to design them a home made from shipping containers.
Built from recycled cargo containers hand-picked from the Port of Oakland, Six Oaks was built around the footprint of the land. The containers were building blocks that were cut and stacked to fit between Redwoods along a steep grade.
While the home was assembled in 6 hours, it took nearly a year to finish the interior since so much of it was custom. The unique materials meant some unique requirements: instead of carpenters, they used welders; a commercial roofer had to be hired, etc.
Acoording to Connie, it wasn't the cheapest way to build, but It cost about $50 per square foot less than a more conventional custom home.
They didn't aim to build an extreme home, but the couple feel confident their home will hold up well under extreme conditions- i.e. falling trees, forest fires. Connie jokes that if a tree does fall on the home, it will get a little dent and we'll call the auto body shop to fix the house.
David Fenster, MODULUS architects
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2012 Dodge Lecture - Winona LaDuke - Food Sovereignty, Biopiracy, and the Future
The title of Ms. LaDuke's talk is Food Sovereignty, Biopiracy, and the Future. As part of her visit, she met with Center for a Livable Future staff, as well with members of the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health. Information about her work on food sovereignty with the White Earth Land Recovery Project may be found on Native Harvest website.
Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)