Most of the results of my search say it’s a mother and father bird, catching a baby who fell from the nest.
People are oohing and aahing over the heartwarming rescue, and the miracle of the photographer being there at that instant.
Problems: 1).The birds are labeled various different species, as though nobody knows.
2).I’ve never heard of a bird catching its baby, though that doesn’t really mean anything, since there are so many things I’ve never heard of.
3) The baby, though, is as big as the mother. I don’t believe a bird that big, and already fledged, would still be in the nest, much less plummet if it “fell”.
So… Some commenters were saying it was AI.
But then, on one Facebook page, a woman said the photo was stolen from Imagur… she provided a link to the page of the Indian photographer who allegedly took the photo. It’s not in English.
But a commenter said, in English, that it was two weaverbirds fighting over a mate and a nest, which is unusual for them, but it does happen.
There were other results from her link, other pages saying it was weaverbirds. That’s definitely a weaver nest.
The male… the yellow one… builds the nest. The females come around and choose a mate. These two females are vying for that yellow male, trying to stop each other from entering the nest.
Yeah, but this appears to be a Baya Weaver…
It takes them almost 3 weeks to build a nest.
The girls are very picky… they’re fighting for the best nest, not the best guy.
If nobody picks his, the boy tears it apart and starts over. He has no choice in what female ends up in the one that’s finally chosen.
Come to think of it, it’s like you putting an ad in the paper, when you bought your house, saying you needed a female to move in. If she’s young enough to make babies you have to mate with her and raise her kids.
One big difference, though, is that birds require one season till the nestlings are grown and the female leaves.
Not so easy or fast, to get rid of a human family.
They were everywhere, for another 40 or 50 years after this picture… except for places that had a Kress store, a competing chain.
But eventually, Kress stores all closed, and Kresge turned into KMart.
The comments on this picture said this location later became a KMart.
We had two Kress stores here… One had a great lunch counter. Not gourmet, by any means, but the food was cheap and fresh. They walled it off into a separate little Kress restaurant.
But they closed, and we got a big KMart… which burned down in 2017.
1. Big fuss over nothing
2. Growing old
3. 2 peas in a pod (though I would have done it more like
“A P(pp)od”
4. Joined at the hip?
5. ?
6. Apple of my eye
7. Cherry on the cake
8. Broken leg
9. Chips.off the old block (it could also be “cut a rug” but that’s so old I don’t know whether anybody remembers it.)
10. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree
11. Cut the cheese
12. Under the weather
13. ??
14. Get in shape
15 ??
16. Long story short
More akin to a complicated way to count on your fingers than to learning concepts.
Yeah, it’s a nice trick…
But what if you’re at the store… Or you’re getting on a bus with 4 kids… It’s better to get a good grasp of numbers and operations, so you can do it in your head.
Not much worse than standing in line behind someone doing trick math. Or trying to find a pen to write a check.
I was at a store the other day with Mom – long, hot day, wanted to get home. The family ahead of us cashed a payroll check to make their purchase. We watched in horror as the cashier counted, recounted, put away some, pulled out more, counted again, on and on for over five minutes trying to figure out how to make change. I paid in exact cash – no way was I gonna trust her to break a twenty.
I’ve never seen it before, but it seems to be just a pictorial way of showing the digits. Where they intersect makes a grid so you can count the interstices.
21 Is 2 lines and 1 line, crossing the 2 lines and 3 lines from 23. Easier to show you than explain…
But… the two first double lines crossing makes 4 intersrices… The two crosses the 3 and the 1, making 6 in one spot and 2 in another, or 8. The final 1 and 3 make 3 where they cross. 483
Note that they used very low digits… If the grid were for 786 x 4795, counting would be a nightmare.
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Not that I could easily do that last one in my head… But at least I’d have an idea of 800 x 5000, which is you don’t see right away as 4,000,000 (40 with 5 more zeros) you can get to with (1000 x 5000) – (200 x 5000) = 5,000,000 – 1,000,000. It looks hard but when you.learn to think about it, it becomes easy
I could figure out the rest, but not fast enough for the checkout line, and these days, I might need to write something down.
That’s the kind of understanding and number relationships I used to like to tutor, not tricks like casting out 9s, or turning over one fraction…. Or this Japanese trick.
No, I got that, on how it worked, I saw what they did and I could follow it through to the end. And that it made for the correct answer.
I tried 24X23 and was able to figure out how it would come to the correct number (552), had to carry the “overages” but it did work…
What I would like to know is WHY it works the way it does.
And what if you use a number more than 100…
It’s beyond my capabilities on figuring it out…
The Turquoise Cotinga, or Ridgway’s Cotinga (Cotinga ridgwayi), is a species of bird in the family Cotingidae, It is found in Costa Rica and western Panama.
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What’s this? The Montana Lady Special?
who nose?
The Shadow nose…
Last night he got up on the couch next to me and gave me the look. Bedtime is snack time.
Maggie (ATB):
BOOP!
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Tracking down the truth about this is not easy….
Most of the results of my search say it’s a mother and father bird, catching a baby who fell from the nest.
People are oohing and aahing over the heartwarming rescue, and the miracle of the photographer being there at that instant.
Problems: 1).The birds are labeled various different species, as though nobody knows.
2).I’ve never heard of a bird catching its baby, though that doesn’t really mean anything, since there are so many things I’ve never heard of.
3) The baby, though, is as big as the mother. I don’t believe a bird that big, and already fledged, would still be in the nest, much less plummet if it “fell”.
So… Some commenters were saying it was AI.
But then, on one Facebook page, a woman said the photo was stolen from Imagur… she provided a link to the page of the Indian photographer who allegedly took the photo. It’s not in English.
But a commenter said, in English, that it was two weaverbirds fighting over a mate and a nest, which is unusual for them, but it does happen.
There were other results from her link, other pages saying it was weaverbirds. That’s definitely a weaver nest.
The male… the yellow one… builds the nest. The females come around and choose a mate. These two females are vying for that yellow male, trying to stop each other from entering the nest.
That’s the explanation that makes sense to me.
If he’s got two girls fighting over him, I wannabe a weaverbird
Yeah, but this appears to be a Baya Weaver…
It takes them almost 3 weeks to build a nest.
The girls are very picky… they’re fighting for the best nest, not the best guy.
If nobody picks his, the boy tears it apart and starts over. He has no choice in what female ends up in the one that’s finally chosen.
Come to think of it, it’s like you putting an ad in the paper, when you bought your house, saying you needed a female to move in. If she’s young enough to make babies you have to mate with her and raise her kids.
One big difference, though, is that birds require one season till the nestlings are grown and the female leaves.
Not so easy or fast, to get rid of a human family.
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with a heavy dose of Film Noir…
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“And what did we see?…We saw the sea!”
We saw the Atlantic, it was gigantic.
We saw the Pacific, it was terrific.
My Dad loved that song.
He’d
tryto sing it, but singing doesn’t run in my family..In fact, our singing kinda makes people run from my family.
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Main Street, looking east, Amsterdam, New York. October 1941. John Collier, for the Resettlement Administration.
And Kresge’s 5 and dime department store!
They were everywhere, for another 40 or 50 years after this picture… except for places that had a Kress store, a competing chain.
But eventually, Kress stores all closed, and Kresge turned into KMart.
The comments on this picture said this location later became a KMart.
We had two Kress stores here… One had a great lunch counter. Not gourmet, by any means, but the food was cheap and fresh. They walled it off into a separate little Kress restaurant.
But they closed, and we got a big KMart… which burned down in 2017.
Our K-Mart turned into a big medical office. Must be more profit in that. No blue light specials, though….
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You could get more passengers inside if you made the hood shorter!
But these were powered by a straight-eight with 84 horsepower! Hot ziggety!
http://earlytimeschapter.org/1934.html
Hmmm….
If just the hood were shorter, there’d be an uncovered space up front where the rain would fall, probably on the radiator, maybe the battery.
Or if the whole engine compartment were shorter, the engine would stick out through the grille.
Just drive it into a brick wall — problem solved!
But how does that make more passengers fit in?
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Soon to be made into a wonderful movie, with a plot so convoluted I’ve never completely followed it, but who cares.
Bogie and Bacall… He plays Philip Marlow. Gangsters, murders, cops, all the noir stuff. What more do you need?
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So is she always pointing at people?
Cos this isn’t the same scene.
same game.
she later said this was the stupidest thing she’s ever done
I get a kick out of how short the referee is – being on the less than average side of things, I’ve also always looked up to the women around me.
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My list…
2. Growing old
3. 2 peas in a pod (though I would have done it more like
“A P(pp)od”
4. Joined at the hip?
5. ?
6. Apple of my eye
7. Cherry on the cake
8. Broken leg
9. Chips.off the old block (it could also be “cut a rug” but that’s so old I don’t know whether anybody remembers it.)
10. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree
11. Cut the cheese
12. Under the weather
13. ??
14. Get in shape
15 ??
16. Long story short
You got a couple more than me
For #15, I got – A big heart
#5 – maybe “Down to earth”
#13 – (I have no idea…).
Maybe.
I had considered your #5, but it didn’t seem right.
Who knows. I’m gonna try googling the “official”b solution.
Yeah, I think so
#16
long tall story.
I’ve never heard that as a phrase.
One or the other, but they mean different things.
If it’s what I said, they didn’t illustrate it very well, did they? But I do think that’s it.
I forgot to Google it…. Still plan to
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More akin to a complicated way to count on your fingers than to learning concepts.
Yeah, it’s a nice trick…
But what if you’re at the store… Or you’re getting on a bus with 4 kids… It’s better to get a good grasp of numbers and operations, so you can do it in your head.
Faster, too.
Not much worse than standing in line behind someone doing trick math. Or trying to find a pen to write a check.
I was at a store the other day with Mom – long, hot day, wanted to get home. The family ahead of us cashed a payroll check to make their purchase. We watched in horror as the cashier counted, recounted, put away some, pulled out more, counted again, on and on for over five minutes trying to figure out how to make change. I paid in exact cash – no way was I gonna trust her to break a twenty.
Now, if someone can explain WHY this works…
I’ve never seen it before, but it seems to be just a pictorial way of showing the digits. Where they intersect makes a grid so you can count the interstices.
21 Is 2 lines and 1 line, crossing the 2 lines and 3 lines from 23. Easier to show you than explain…
But… the two first double lines crossing makes 4 intersrices… The two crosses the 3 and the 1, making 6 in one spot and 2 in another, or 8. The final 1 and 3 make 3 where they cross. 483
Note that they used very low digits… If the grid were for 786 x 4795, counting would be a nightmare.
….
Not that I could easily do that last one in my head… But at least I’d have an idea of 800 x 5000, which is you don’t see right away as 4,000,000 (40 with 5 more zeros) you can get to with (1000 x 5000) – (200 x 5000) = 5,000,000 – 1,000,000. It looks hard but when you.learn to think about it, it becomes easy
I could figure out the rest, but not fast enough for the checkout line, and these days, I might need to write something down.
That’s the kind of understanding and number relationships I used to like to tutor, not tricks like casting out 9s, or turning over one fraction…. Or this Japanese trick.
No, I got that, on how it worked, I saw what they did and I could follow it through to the end. And that it made for the correct answer.
I tried 24X23 and was able to figure out how it would come to the correct number (552), had to carry the “overages” but it did work…
What I would like to know is WHY it works the way it does.
And what if you use a number more than 100…
It’s beyond my capabilities on figuring it out…
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A chameleon fairy!
For fans of the Jason Bourne movies .. the theme song performed by the author.
You should get this one.
Photo Peter Vandermark.
Products that prey on shark wimps
Sure, he trained it. It’s not gonna eat HIM.
The Turquoise Cotinga, or Ridgway’s Cotinga (Cotinga ridgwayi), is a species of bird in the family Cotingidae, It is found in Costa Rica and western Panama.
Oooh!
Oof. That pun is gonna leave a stain.