3:35 Мудрые наследуют славу, а глупые — бесславие.
Библия, Ветхий Завет, «Книга притчей Соломоновых»
НЕКОТОРЫЕ МОИ СТИХИ = Э Т О = ИСТОРИИ В КАРТИНКАХ ПОНЯТНЫЕ ТОЛЬКО
МОИМ БЛИЗКИМ И ДРУЗЬЯМ -=- ПРОШУ ПРОЩЕНИЯ У СЛУЧАЙНЫХ ЧИТАТЕЛЕЙ " " "
" эта личная архитектурно-автобиографическая страничка никакого отношения к графомании не имеет
" эта личная архитектурно-автобиографическая страничка никакого отношения к графомании не имеет
" эта личная архитектурно-автобиографическая страничка никакого отношения к графомании не имеет
Пока ученик не достигнет уровня знаний учителя, он не знает по-настоящему своего учителя.
Абу Хамид Мухаммад ибн Мухаммад аль-Газали (1058 — 19 декабря 1111)
. . . . . а мои умные китайские часы Huawei GT 3 на старом югославском письменном столе лежат
. . . . . просто каждый день ходим от дома № 15 до дома № 15 через старинную дубовую рощу
— для меня часы - это просто армейская привычка
...что-то голубь у тебя похож на бобра* и на гуся
( разговор-то как раз напротив МИДа происходит )
к/ф "Оптимисты" просто начало пришлось в записи посмотреть
...ну просто Пикассо этого голубя рисовал )))))))
Пикассо приехал в Лондон. На вокзале у него украли часы. Инспектор полиции спросил:
— Вы кого-нибудь подозреваете в краже?
— Да, я помню одного человека, который помогал мне выйти из вагона.
— Вы — художник, нарисуйте его портрет.
И к вечеру по рисунку Пикассо лондонская полиция задержала по подозрению в
краже трёх стариков, двух старух, два троллейбуса и четыре стиральные машины.
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...и что-то вроде эпиграфа // The last beaver on the islands was shot in 1526 in Scotland.
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-37550679
// ну просто надо 26 скальпов как-то отрабатывать )))))))
* =я= ничего не перепутал , дорогая редакция =?!= )))))))
...и что-то вроде бонусного трека //
http://stihi.ru/2015/10/13/2445
http://kommersant.ru/doc/2831326
...и спасибо моим друзьям за своевременные рецензии )))))))
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http://www.stihi.ru/2004/01/09-693 =
=(::Yeeee_eeeeS::)=
=Железный=Веер= 26.01.2004 12:16
...в моей старой машине осталось только 2 (два) посторонних предмета ...замечательный
калифорнийский вышитый шеврон-наклейка с бобром ...подарок моего лучшего друга
...друг любит делать мне подарки со смыслом ...и монтировка которую я просто
забыл забрать ...ну всякое в жизни бывает )))))))
...20:44 ...тогда казалось , что мы будем надёжными поставщиками сырья на Запад
...Право Голоса ...Обвинения Без Доказательств ...ТВЦ ...прямой эфир
...21:44 ...за которые не грех и пострадать ...спасибо, это была программа Право Голоса
...и спасибо моим друзьям за своевременные рецензии )))))))
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http://www.stihi.ru/2004/01/09-693 =
=(::Yeeee_eeeeS::)=
=Железный=Веер= 26.01.2004 12:16
...и что-то вроде шутОчного эпиграфа //
http://www.stihi.ru/2015/03/30/12442
«Если вы хотите иметь то, что никогда не имели —
вам придётся делать то, что вы никогда не делали»
Коко Шанель
...мой любознательный друг Муся давно спрашивает меня где же маленькая жёлтая машинка ...да всё там же где и УАЗ-ик ...на Смоленской площади ...в киоске Союзпечать рядом с метро на стороне бывшего Стокманна где я с друзьями когда-то замечательное пиво Lapin Kulta покупал ...483 рубля журнал с машинкой стоит
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http://www.stihi.ru/2002/05/21-935 =
...просто зачем мне 2 одинаковые машинки )))))))
...только что домой вернулся ...допишу чуть позже )))))))
Beavers are back in the UK and they will reshape the land
It has been 400 years since Britain was home to beavers. Now they have returned, and they are rapidly proving their worth
By Alex Riley 6 October 2016
With only GPS coordinates and my phone as a guide, I arrived at my bucolic destination: an unnamed road in the middle of Devon in southwest England, lined with thick hedges, low-hanging trees and open pastureland for miles around.
On a June morning with a thin cover of cloud above, I was here to meet Richard Brazier, an environmental scientist from University of Exeter, and his post-doctoral colleague Alan Puttock. They are running a one-of-a-kind outdoor experiment.
After a short walk through fields and hopping over rusty gates, we came across the 3-hectare plot of land, contained behind a 12-volt electrified fence.
Five years ago, tall trees such as birch, aspen, and the occasional oak filled this small space, all lining the trickle of a highland stream. The thick canopy cast a shadow on the plants below, sapping the life from their leaves.
The biodiversity is booming
Today, things have changed. The undergrowth is overgrown. Lopsided willow trees dominate, sending hundreds of shoots and stems into the air, each pining for the light above. A thick blanket of green foliage erupts from the peaty soil.
Flora is blossoming, fauna flourishing. With their long cascade of pink bells, foxgloves rise high from the purple moor grass below. Butterflies and bees flutter from flower to flower.
"The biodiversity is booming," Brazier tells me as we approach the wire fence through a field of coarse grass and rushes. "It's alive."
Beavers being released onto the River Otter, Devon (Credit: Nick Upton/naturepl.com)
Behind this fence, every species – plant and animal– depends on the behaviour of just one: the Eurasian beaver. Since their introduction in March 2011, a breeding pair of these large rodents has been as busy as, well, beavers.
To walk through this maze of low-hanging willow is to walk back through time
They have raised a family. They have built a lodge to live in and gouged deep canals through the land for getting out and about. And, of course, they have chopped down trees and built a series of 13 dams from sticks and mud. The woodland stream has been, and is being, transmogrified into wetland.
It is easy to see why beaver are known as "ecosystem engineers". But it is Brazier and Puttock's task to find out what these large rodents are engineering exactly.
Although small in size, this site has huge importance. What the pair concludes from their studies here may help decide the fate of the charismatic beaver across the UK.
To walk through this maze of low-hanging willow is to walk back through time. A few centuries ago, beavers were bountiful across all of Europe and parts of Asia, numbering up to 400 million individuals.
"When this animal existed in the tens of millions in Western Europe and Eurasia, it was a dominant landscape force, in the way that wind and water and fire are," says Derek Gow, a beaver and water vole consultant from Devon.
These beaver populations are still far from wild
Then they were trapped and killed for their luxurious pelts and their castoreum; waterproofing oil they secrete from two sacs near their genitals. Catholics even ate beaver as a replacement for fish on Sundays.
Localised – but extensive – extinction followed. British beavers were the first collective casualty. The last beaver on the islands was shot in 1526 in Scotland.
Centuries passed, the beaver's influence on the land washed away. Then the species that caused their demise decided to aid in their recovery. Starting in 1899, moratoriums were established. Three decades later, individuals from the eight surviving populations – in France, Belarus, Germany, Mongolia, Norway, Russia, and China – were reintroduced into new areas and into beaver-less countries nearby, planting the species in fresh lands like sown seeds.
The remnant population in Norway, for example, grew from a precariously low 100 or so individuals in 1880 to 7,000 by the 1930s; not only providing ample numbers to spread across the country, but also for reintroductions into neighbouring Sweden and nearby Finland.
Across Europe and Asia beaver populations took root and grew, bolstering the species as a whole. And over the last decade – over 400 years after the last of the UK's native beavers vanished – the species was reintroduced into catchment sites in Scotland and in Devon. Both trials are ongoing, and have returned parts of Britain to a state that otherwise exists only in distant memory.
When this animal existed in the tens of millions in Western Europe and Eurasia, it was a dominant landscape force
Although these reintroduction efforts are considered a form of landscape "rewilding", these beaver populations are still far from wild.
Before they could be accepted back into the country, every individual had to be checked for the rare tapeworm Echinococcus. If passed on to a dog, then a human, this intestinal parasite could make someone very ill, or even kill them.
And even though tuberculosis actually afflicts badgers, the beavers were checked for the disease, Brazier tells me. "Beavers. Badgers. In some people's minds it's the same animal or it will represent the same risk to their livestock."
Although a valuable test of public acceptance, these large-scale trials – covering huge swathes of land – are hard to monitor. That is where Brazier's experiment, supported by the Wildlife Trust for England and Wales, comes in. This is no trial, but a carefully controlled experiment. It is both a field site and a test tube.
"Elsewhere around the world, you just haven't had the level of control that we've got here," Brazier tells me. "That's good for the science. It means that the results you come up with are absolutely related to what the beavers have done, and then you can start to extrapolate from that."
These things are so strong that they just become part of the topography
Although they are fenced in, there have been no recorded attempts of a great escape by the resident rodents. "It could be argued that a lot of money was spent on this for no reason," Brazier tells me as he kneels down next to the fence.
The homebody beavers are instead content to gnaw on willow trees from dusk until dawn, within the confines they have been allocated. By coppicing these trees, beavers promote new shoots to form on old trees.
It is an old relationship. Humans have been coppicing willow for 8,000 years in the UK, but beavers have been doing it for around 10 million years.
Not only does the willow get a new lease of life, but beavers benefit too. When placed within their dams, willow shoots continue to grow, creating a natural and self-reinforcing building material.
"These things are so strong that they just become part of the topography," Brazier tells me as we stand on one of the largest dams at the site. "It just becomes part of the landscape."