#Darwin-nandoe

[blijdorperbende]

Kort Nieuws #195

Blijdorp Bouwt (bijna) De Gemeente Rotterdam is gedeeltelijk akkoord met de bouwplannen voor het nieuwe olifantenverblijf in Blijdorp. Als onderdeel van de vergunningaanvraag beginnen nu ook steeds meer ontwerpplannen naar buiten te druppelen, wat betekent dat we alvast een tipje van de sluier kunnen oplichten. Aan de bestaande 3.000 m2 olifantenperk wordt nog eens 4.000 m2 aan buitenperk…

[findingnemosworld]

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Anon and you mentioning Sergio and Fernando as boxers GOD, that pin is how I would picture Fer

listen buff nando as a boxer just makes sense, sure I love his liverpool era (he walked so darwin could run) but post retirement, buff nando being a boxer and even better, falling head over heels for his cute neighbor who's a doctor is the cherry on top ...

like you cannot convince me that him frequenting her clinic, at first acting all closed off isn't solely because he wants an excuse to ogle her like the golden retriever stalker he is ... 😭

sergio on the other hand is a whole ass story, bro is down bad the second he saw her in the crowd, and when he learned she's a doctor, he's like ... oh a broken nose? no problem 😂

[percervall]

If you had to chose just one player, which one would you say the hottest body?

Just one??? Oh, anon, that's mean!

Okay, let me think this through... hottest body...

Right, so if I can only choose one player, I'd have to go with Darwin

broad shoulders? ✅ chiselled abs? ✅ hands that drive me wild? ✅ tattoos? ✅ thigh + tattoo? ✅ long hair? ✅ chaotic energy? ✅ but is actually a cinnamon roll? ✅

it was a close call between him and Nando 2.0 but Nando 2.0 isn't a player anymore 😔

[footballffbarbiex]

Not entirely unsurprising but Liverpool FC - Virgil van Dijk, Joe Gomez, TAA, Hendo, Robbo, Darwin (I will collect them all but these are the ones I actively remember reading from you) I also know that Thiago and Kostas have been requested, so them too

Atletico Madrid - Antione Griezmann, Rodrigo De Paul, Jan Oblak, Marcos Llorente (technically Nando fits in with this category so him too)

Borrusia Dortmund - Mats Hummels (stg I want to both [redacted] and strangle him at the same time), Marco Reus, Julian Brandt, Jude only if it's fluff

can you tell I pick my teams with my heart and not my brain?

EXCELLENT CHOICES THO.

makes sense tho bc sometimes i pick players with my pussy and honestly, it gets me in trouble.

+ what teams do you support vs what players do you read from me? +

[goalhofer]

2020 Olympics New Zealand Roster

Athletics

Sam Tanner (Tauranga)

Connor Bell (Auckland)

Malcolm Hicks (Auckland)

Quentin Rew (Wellington)

Zane Robertson (Hamilton)

Nick Willis (Lower Hutt)

Jack Gill (Belmont)

Hamish Kerr (Auckland)

Tom Walsh (Timaru)

Tori Peeters (Matamata)

Camille Buscomb (Cambridge)

Lauren Bruce (Christchurch)

Julia Ratcliffe (Hamilton)

Madison-Lee Wesche (Auckland)

Valerie Adams (Rotorua)

Boxing

David Nyika (Hamilton)

Canoeing

Callum Gilbert (Okere Falls)

Max Brown (Whanganui)

Kurtis Imrie (Lower Hutt)

Luuka Jones (North Palmerston)

Lisa Carrington (Ōhope)

Caitlin Regal (Takapuna)

Teneale Hatton (Auckland)

Alicia Hoskin (Gisborne)

Cycling

Sam Dakin (Cambridge)

Ethan Mitchell (Auckland)

Sam Webster (Auckland)

Aaron Gate (Auckland)

Regan Gough (Waipukurau)

Jordan Kerby (Brisbane, Australia)

Campbell Stewart (North Palmerston)

Corbin Strong (Invercargill)

George Bennett (Nelson)

Patrick Bevin (Cambridge)

Callum Saunders (Blenheim)

Anton Cooper (Westmorland)

Jessie Hodges (Hamilton)

Ellesse Andrews (Christchurch)

Kirstie Klingenberg (Auckland)

Bryony Botha (Takapuna)

Rushlee Buchanan (Hamilton)

Holly Edmondston (Nelson)

Jaime Nielsen (Hamilton)

Rebecca Petch (Te Awamutu)

Diving

Anton Down-Jenkins (Wellington)

Field Hockey

Steve Edwards (Auckland)

Sean Findlay (Taradale)

Leon Hayward (Darwin, Australia)

Hugo Inglis (Dunedin)

Stephen Jenness (Lower Hutt)

Sam Lane (Temuka)

Dane Lett (Carterton)

Shea McAleese (Canterbury)

Jared Panchia (Auckland)

Nick Ross (Dunedin)

Kane Russell (Dunedin)

Jacob Smith (Wellington)

Blair Tarrant (Timaru)

Dylan Thomas (Hastings)

Nick Wilson (North Palmerston)

Nic Woods (Hamilton)

David Brydon (Auckland)

George Muir (Auckland)

Katie Doar (Auckland)

Tarryn Davey (Morrinsville)

Olivia Shannon (Feilding)

Olivia Merry (Christchurch)

Frances Davies (Tauranga)

Elizabeth Gunson (Whangarei)

Samantha Charlton (Auckland)

Grace O’Hanlon (Auckland)

Elizabeth Thompson (Thames)

Stephanie Dickins (Āpiti)

Megan Hull (Pongaroa)

Elizabeth Keddell (Tauranga)

Kelsey Smith (Nelson)

Stacey Michelsen (Whangarei)

Julia King (Auckland)

Hope Ralph (Taranaki)

Tessa Jopp (Dunedin)

Holly Pearson (Taranaki)

Soccer

George Stanger (Dunblane, U.K.)

Clayton Lewis (Wellington)

Gianni Stensness (Northbridge, Australia)

Michael Woud (Auckland)

Winston Reid (Sønderborg, Denmark)

Liberato Cacace (Wellington)

Nando Pijnaker (Wellington)

Michael Boxall (Auckland)

Elijah Just (Wellington)

Joe Bell (Wellington)

Chris Wood (Hamilton)

Marko Stamenic (Wellington)

Joe Champness (Brisbane, Australia)

Callum McCowatt (Auckland)

Jamie Searle (Cambridge)

Dane Ingham (Lismore, Australia)

Callan Elliot (Nelson)

Ben Waine (Wellington)

Matthew Garbett (Porirua)

Sam Sutton (Wellington)

Ben Old (Wellington)

Alex Paulsen (Lower Hutt)

Marisa Van Der Meer (Christchurch)

Michaela Robertson (Wellington)

Erin Nayler (Takapuna)

Victoria Esson (Burnside)

Anna Leat (Arrowtown)

Catherine Bott (Wellington)

Meikayla Moore (Christchurch)

Ali Riley (Los Angeles, California)

Claudia Bunge (Auckland)

Ria Percival (Brentwood, U.K.)

Annalie Longo (Auckland)

Betsy Hassett (Auckland)

Katie Bowen (Auckland)

Daisy Wilson-Cleverley (Auckland)

Olivia Chance (Tauranga)

Hannah Wilkinson (Whangarei)

Paige Satchell (Rotorua)

Anna Green (Stockport, U.K.)

Abby Erceg (Auckland)

Gabi Rennie (Rangiora)

Emma Rolston (Auckland)

Elizabeth Anton (Auckland)

Gymnastics

Mikhail Koudinov (Auckland)

Dylan Schmidt (Auckland)

Maddie Davidson (Christchurch)

Rowing

Jordan Parry (Tauranga)

Jack Lopas (Christchurch)

Dan Williamson (Auckland)

Tom Mackintosh (Christchurch)

Phillip Wilson (Wellington)

Stephen Jones (Auckland)

Brooks Robertson (Nelson)

Chris Harris (College Estate)

Shaun Kirkham (Hamilton)

Hamish Bond (Dunedin)

Matt Macdonald (Auckland)

Michael Brake (Auckland)

Tom Murray (Blenheim)

Sam Bosworth (Waipara)

Hannah Osborne (Te Awamutu)

Georgia Nugent-O’Leary (Aramoho)

Emma Twigg (Napier)

Kerri Gowler (Raetihi)

Grace Prendergast (Christchurch)

Brooke Donoghue (Te Kauwhata)

Livie Loe (Christchurch)

Eve Macfarlane (Parnassus)

Ruby Tew (Wellington)

Ella Greenslade (Christchurch)

Emma Dyke (Invercargill)

Lucy Spoors (Christchurch)

Kelsey Bevan (Auckland)

Beth Ross (Auckland)

Rugby

Andrew Knewstubb (Wellington)

Ngarohi McGarvey-Black (Auckland)

Tone Ng-Shiu (Auckland)

Amanaki Nicole (Christchurch)

William Warbrick (Auckland)

Scott Curry (Rotorua)

Tim Mikkelson (Matamata)

Kurt Baker (North Palmerston)

Caleb Clarke (Auckland)

Dylan Collier (Auckland)

Sione Molia (Auckland)

Etene Nanai-Seturo (Pakuranga)

Regan Ware (Tokoroa)

Tevarn Webber (Tokoroa)

Dhys Faleafaga (Wellington)

Jazmin Hotham (Auckland)

Shiray Kaka (Auckland)

Mahina Paul (Whakatane)

Alena Saili (Wellington)

Tenika Willison (Hamilton)

Sarah Hirini (Feilding)

Kayla Ahki (Waitara)

Shakira Baker (Masterton)

Michaela Blyde (New Plymouth)

Kelly Brazier (Dunedin)

Gayle Broughton (Taranaki)

Theresa Fitzpatrick (Auckland)

Stacey Fluhler (Whakatāne)

Tyla Nathan-Wong (Auckland)

Risealeaana Pouri-Lane (Motueka)

Terina Te-Tamaki (Hamilton)

Ruby Tui (Wellington)

Portia Woodman (Kawakawa)

Sailing

Micah Wilkinson (Auckland)

Sam Meech (Tauranga)

Paul Snow-Hansen (Takapuna)

Daniel Willcox (Takapuna)

Peter Burling (Tauranga)

Andrew Tuke (Kawakawa)

Josh Junior (Wellington)

Erica Dawson (Auckland)

Alexandra Maloney (Auckland)

Molly Meech (Tauranga)

Shooting

Natalie Rooney (Waimate)

Chloe Tipple (Christchurch)

Surfing

Billy Stairmand (Auckland)

Ella Williams (Whangamata)

Swimming

Lewis Clareburt (Wellington)

Zac Reid (New Plymouth)

Erika Fairweather (Dunedin)

Ali Galyer (Auckland)

Hayley McIntosh (Whangārei)

Eve Thomas (Brisbane, Australia)

Carina Doyle (Auckland)

Taekwondo

Tom Burns (Christchurch)

Weightlifting

Cam McTaggart (Southport)

David Liti (Auckland)

Kanah Andrews-Nahu (Auckland)

Laurel Hubbard (Auckland)

Equestrian

Jesse Campbell (Marlborough, U.K.)

Tim Price (Rangiora)

Bruce Goodin (Huntly)

Tom Tarver-Priebe (Auckland)

Daniel Meech (Steinfeld, Germany)

Bundy Philpott (Cambridge)

Jonelle Price (Rangiora)

Uma O’Neill (Santa Cruz, California)

Golf

Ryan Fox (Auckland)

Bo-Gyung Ko (Orlando, Florida)

Karate

Andrea Anacan (Auckland)

Tennis

Marcus Daniell (New York, New York)

Michael Venus (London, U.K.)

Triathlon

Tayler Reid (Gisborne)

Hayden Wilde (Whakatāne)

Ainsley Thorpe (Auckland)

Nicole Van Der Kaay (Rotorua)

[loupettes]

AAHHHHHH how exciting! I’ve had to reblog this because I can’t leave an ask long enough 😂 

LONDON GUIDE & RECS

VIEWPOINTS

Honestly the best viewpoints in the city are at two opposite points. Primrose Hill has a panoramic view of London from afar, but honestly, Greenwich Park is easier to get to and has a better view of the city. You can get off at Greenwich, and follow the signs for Greenwich Park and just walk aaaaall the way up the hill. 

Bonus for Greenwich Park is the Prime Meridian of the World - Greenwich Mean  Time! There’s a fun line right at the top by the museum where the longitude of the world is exactly 0° and that’s always fun to see in a terribly geeky way 😂

FOOD

London has everything you could possibly want for food — except, and this is what’s ironic, fish and chips. London will try to convince you that it’s the home of fish and chips, but a chippy isn’t a chippy until it’s dirt cheap, greasy as heck, and by the beach (or on the floor at home over a huge spread of newspapers). BUT if you want as good as can be chips, then Poppie’s are a good place to start. But in general, you want the kinds of chippies that look like they’ve been around for a long time, with the outdated signs and smell like a deep fat fryer, because they’re the ones that have stood the test of time! 

For the weirdest and wonderful mashups around the world: Camden. Camden market is great, but I always find the best food is by the water over the Iron Footbridge over Regent’s Canal - just google ‘The Mac Factory’ for the area I’m on about. Fantastic street food to take away with the most incredible choices.

There’s your classic British staple chain restaurants, like Nando’s and Franco Manca, where you can never go wrong! Flat Iron is incredible for steak! Padella is incredible for pasta. There’s Champagne + Fromage for cheese and champagne. The Ivy if you want to pay $$ to feel like you’re on Made In Chelsea, Burger and Beyond/Honest Burger if you’re looking for some great burgers.

Dinner with a view: you might need to prebook these ones, but there are these cute little booths running along the river, like The Glass Rooms and Coppa Club. There’s places like Darwin Brasserie at the top of the Walkie Talkie, and Helix at the top of the Gherkin, or Oblix at the top of the Shard - but expect to pay beaucoup bucks for those ones!

As for bookshops: Daunt Books in Marleybone is a beautiful bookshop, and Hatchards in Piccadilly! 

Cafes: there are literally too many to count so I’ll try and go as central as possible so you’re not traversing London just for a loup recommendation: Feya (Mayfair), EL&N (Mayfair), Aubaine (in Selfridges), Peggy Porschen (Victoria) (Also has nice afternoon tea!), Grind (these are dotted about everywhere), Minnow (Clapham) (Also has nice cocktails!)

For sunsets: good luck, you’ll never see the sun in London 😂 but on the rare occasions she pops out, then Greenwich all the way!

DISTRICTS & NEIGHBOURHOODS

God, hereeeee we go! You ready??

Westminster: I consider this ‘Tourist London’, because it’s all the places you want to go to as a tourist. Hyde Park, Houses of Parliament, London Eye, Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus. Honestly, this is a great starting point for a whistle stop tour of these areas.

Southwark: You’ll find Borough Market here, which is well worth checking out. Food, quaint shops, the lot. Also, Shakespeare’s Globe! It’s also where you’ll find the Shard, and the London Dungeons if you’re feeling spooky! And, of course, Bridget Jones’ flat!

Kensington and Chelsea: the fanciest of the fancy and nobody has a hope in hell of affording those places, but it’s stunning, so if you’re wanting to instagram every other street, this is a good place to start. It’s also home to Notting Hill, so you might spot Hugh Grant’s bookshop 👀

China Town: Found in Piccadilly, follow signs for China Town or the China Town Gate. There’s a China Town everywhere, all over the world, but I still think London’s China Town is the best one - sorry New York!

Soho: so so so many great food places. You’d have to see Liberty, which is just a very fancy department store, but when you see the building, you’ll understand why. And Theatres galore! Speaking of theatres...

The West End: This is... oof. This is my fave part of London. It’s everything from Piccadilly to Oxford Street, Leicester Square, Mayfair, Covent Garden...

Covent Garden: FOOD! Entertainment! SHOPPING. this is it. You’re at Covent Garden over the weekend, so check out the market because there will absolutely be some live performances there for you to watch for free. I mean, tip them because they’re working hard and delivering some festive joy, but it’s always fun to see what’s going on over there!

Shoreditch: Just a sick place, trendy, fun to walk around! You’ll find some great food places here too (are you starting to see a theme with London yet?)

King’s Cross/St Pancras: Not sure which district this falls under (Islington?) but this is the home of Platform 9¾, so, I mean, get on your way to Hogwarts! And if Hogwarts isn’t the place for you, then maybe the Eiffel Tower might tickle your fancy - just 2 hours away by train! There’s also Regent’s Canal, which is a really nice place to chill to be honest.

Marylebone and Paddington: It’s just, again, nice to walk around. Plus you gotta go see Sherlock at 221b Baker Street - it’s a genuine place (well now it’s a museum, but it was!) SPEAKING OF Sherlock, if you’re on the tube and on your way to see him, then get off at Baker Street on the Bakerloo line, because the station itself is really cool.

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London is very much not a city that can be done in... well, your whole life, but that’s as comprehensive and as brief as I can make it! I hope you have the best best time, and, contrary to popular belief, Londoners are very friendly, so if in doubt, ask them! They’ll be more than happy to tell you their favourite places, because everyone’s London is a different London. 

God, I love this city! 

How long do you have in London? Do you have a bucket list??? I’ll have a think!

i’m going just for the weekend — taking the train now and i’ll get there this afternoon! mostly what i want to do is just experience as much culture as i can, so if you have any great rec’s for little hidden coffee shops or or bookshops or cute stores or a great place to watch the sunset, i would love that!! i just want to get the ~london experience~ so whatever you think that is, i’m game

[trastornadosrevista]

Verne: “Un punto límite no necesariamente es una caída”

Verne es un dúo rock & pop compuesto por el vocalista y guitarrista Manuel Caizza (músico que compartió escenario con artistas tan variados como Pedro Aznar, Rosal, Kings of Convenience, Fito Paez, Indios, Alejandro Lerner, Coti Sorokin, Carl Barat de The Libertines entre otros) junto a Tian Firpo, bajista y pintor (tiene cuadros vendidos en París, California y Carolina del Norte). Recientemente, el dueto se encuentra presentando el videoclip “Punto Límite”, primer corte del EP “Velocidad Crucero”.

Trastornados: ¿En qué momento se encuentra Verne? ¿Qué les dejo este año con respecto al crecimiento de la banda?

Manuel Caiza: Actualmente estamos presentando nuestro último videoclip, casi un cortometraje dirigido por Nando Carbonell sobre la canción Punto Límite que es el primer corte de nuestro segundo disco llamado Velocidad Crucero. Hasta ahora 2018 fue un año de pasos firmes: a lo antes mencionado se suma la novedad de incorporarnos a Darwin Records, sello creado por nuestro querido y admirado Coti Sorokin, lo que significa un crecimiento en la estructura de la banda. Además hicimos shows en un montón de lugares fuera de Capital incluyendo festivales como Baradero Rock. Aún no termina el año así que todavía estamos trabajando para seguir concretando objetivos.

TRS: ¿Cómo surgió "Velocidad Crucero"? ¿Qué lo diferencia de su trabajo anterior?

Manuel Caiza: En Velocidad Crucero quisimos expresar la búsqueda de equilibrio en el mar agitado en el que vivimos actualmente, el deseo por encontrar el poder de controlar internamente los efectos de las crisis que nos rodean a diario. Es justamente el concepto opuesto a Caer y Levantar, como se llamaba el primer disco, que en las letras y la producción buscaba reflejar nuestros cambios constantes y el vértigo de la ciclotimia.

TRS: ¿Qué nos pueden contar de la producción audiovisual de "Punto Límite"? ¿Tienen pensado lanzar más videoclips de aquí en adelante?

Manuel Caiza: Actuar se está convirtiendo en una de nuestras actividades favoritas! Cada video que hacemos nos animamos a encarar roles más complejos, en Punto Límite incluso hacemos dos personajes distintos cada uno: linyera y vendedor de panchos (Tian), lobbista y cadete (Manu). Trabajar con Nando hizo las cosas posibles porque entiende muy rápido las ideas propuestas y a todo le encuentra una solución.

Lo visual es para nosotros tan importante como lo musical y por eso siempre estamos pensando en la próxima a producción en ese rubro. De hecho estamos escribiendo el guión para un corto de animación, obviamente en el mundo de la ciencia ficción, y aunque en este momento está recién en fase muy temprana esperamos poder concretarlo el año que viene ¡Obviamente la música va a ser de Verne!

TRS: En “Punto Límite” hacen una reflexión acerca de la inmediatez en la que vivimos ¿Cómo han logrado adaptarse a esta nueva era donde la oferta supera con creces a la demanda? ¿Creen que hay futuro para las bandas emergentes en este contexto?

Manuel Caiza: El día que logremos “adaptarnos” a nuestro presente, si es que eso es posible, dejaremos de escribir canciones…el arte es una manera de lidiar con el sufrimiento, los problemas, las inseguridades, los miedos. Es pura terapia de catarsis y por contar con esa vía de escape nos sentimos afortunados. Lo que suceda después con nuestro trabajo en términos de repercusión y en el contexto de la escena actual ya no depende de nosotros. Bastante bien nos va si haciendo música evitamos perder la razón!

TRS: Si tuviesen que elegir una canción propia que defina la esencia de la banda ¿Cuál sería?  

Manuel Caiza: La Intensidad, del primer disco.

TRS: ¿Cómo planean cerrar este 2018? ¿Se viene una nueva presentación en vivo?

Manuel Caiza: Si, vamos a hacer una presentación en vivo full band, presentando algún tema nuevo bajo el marco de la presentación del sello Darwin Records el próximo 28 de noviembre en Santos 4040.

TRS: Para finalizar ¿Cuál es el punto límite para Verne? ¿Creen que hay que seguir avanzando sin importar cuantas veces te caigas en el camino?

Manuel Caiza: En la canción Aprendiz, del disco nuevo hay una frase que dice “Ya entendí, no hay caso: del callejón hay que volver sobre nuestros pasos”. Un punto límite no necesariamente es una caída, puede ser estancarse en un lugar. En ese caso no se trata de levantarse si no de redireccionar el sentido. Volver atrás no siempre es sinónimo de retroceder, puede ser un movimiento necesario para tomar otra dirección.

Por Antonella Collia

[kevinychen]

London (Wednesday 6/20)

We got up relatively late today (~10:30AM) and our huge English breakfast that we had on Monday (at Joe’s Kitchen) was too big to have again. Fortunately, our AirBnb host was nice and left us some scones as a welcome gift. Becky likes scones with jam very much.

Our plan is to first go to Westminster Abbey, which is right next to the Big Ben tower. Westminster Abbey is famous not only for coronations and weddings through the centuries, but also for the many well-known people buried there.

Unfortunately, pictures were not allowed inside the abbey. However, we saw the graves of Charles Dickens, George Handel, and Charles Darwin, as well as of many members of the royal family, such as Henry III who founded the church.

We were also inside at noon, when one of the abbey clerics called everyone to stand for a brief moment of silence to pray.

Yi-Shiuan, Natalle, Becky, and I wander through the abbey, delighting ourselves with all of the people who are buried here or have plaques placed here to honor them. I’m delighted to see a plaque dedicated to Edmund Halley, an astronomer who discovered the periodic motion of Halley’s comet.

Finally, we exit the abbey. Michael has been waiting outside for over half an hour.

Outside of the abbey is a huge tower (higher than any of the surrounding buildings) under construction. We grimace a bit because of the ugly construction site and how it destroys the beauty of the surrounding architecture.

We walk past to the other side of the tower and look up. A gigantic clock face stares ahead over the Thames. The tower is the Big Ben, under construction.

Oops. Onward we go, on the Westminster Bridge across the Thames River. The Thames, by the way, is just as people say it is - disgustingly brown.

On the other side of the Thames across from the Big Ben, is the London Eye. It’s the most famous landmark in London. But we’re getting hungry, and we’re planning to eat a relatively early dinner today, so we don’t go on a ride - I don’t like Ferris Wheels anyway.

Instead, we try a take 2 on Natalle’s favorite restaurant - Nando’s Chicken.

We got 10 chicken wings with mango sauce, 15 chicken wings with lime&herb sauce, 5 chicken thighs (tiny), chips (which are called fries in the US), corn (for Natalle and Becky), multigrain salad (for Yi-Shiuan), leafy greens, and mashed potatoes. It was so good that no one had time to take a picture.

After lunch, we have a few hours to kill before our dinner reservation at 6PM. The Westminster Abbey crew (everyone except Michael) decide we can visit the British Museum. Michael isn’t too interested, so he gives his drawstring bag to Yi-Shiuan and goes for a run.

The British Museum is a very large museum with exhibits for all the regions of the world, from Europe to Asia to Africa to Australia to the Americas, and because of heavy sponsorship, it is completely free of charge. It is most famous for the Rosetta Stone, a bilingual artifact. That means it contains a translation of the same meaning into two different languages, in this case ancient Greek, which was very well known in the early 1800s, and the Egyptian hieroglyphs, which was not comprehensible at the time at all. Because of this correspondence, the Rosetta Stone proved essential for the decipherment of the hieroglyphs by Champollion.

I proceeded to buy a book from the museum gift shop called Lost Languages by Andrew Robinson. One section describes how the hieroglyphs were undeciphered for centuries, partly because people thought that the symbols were pictograms of the objects that they meant - kind of like Chinese characters. But even Chinese characters are partly phonetic (you can somewhat guess the pronunciation of Chinese characters by the components of a character, if you know the pronunciation of the components). But Champollion realized that the hieroglyphs were actually almost completely phonetic. He saw cartouches in the hieroglyphs, which are sets of hieroglyphs that are surrounded by a circle:

Because of the Rosetta Stone, Champollion had a very good guess what the cartouche meant. In the example above, the pictograms of the cartouche literally spells out the Egyptian king name Ptolemy.

With the guesses for the sounds that the pictograms in the cartouches represent, Champollion was then able to decipher enough of the sounds in the message to realize that the Egyptian language was similar to Coptic, a language he happened to be familiar with. Champollion announced his amazing discovery in 1808.

I also saw an exhibit about timekeeping devices, and learned how a typical mechanical watch worked. There are 5 parts: (1) the energy source, (2) a spring to store the energy, (3) gears to amplify the movement from the spring, (4) an escapement that causes the energy to escape at a consistent rate, preventing it from escaping all at once, and (5) the clock face.

Storing the energy in the spring is pretty straightforward, but I found the escapement mechanism fascinating. The crucial component is a balance wheel, which rotates back and forth because of a torsion spring (so it does not keep spinning clockwise or counterclockwise; it oscillates in a rotating movement).

In the simplest form, the balance wheel is hooked up to two stoppers, with at most one stopper stopping the movement of the gears (connected to the spring) at a time. The stored energy in the spring cannot release when the gear is against a stopper. However, every time the balance wheel oscillates, it switches the two stoppers, and for that brief moment of time until the other stopper hooks in place, the gears can rotate. This means that the second hand moves only once a second. The energy also keeps the balance wheel oscillating at a constant speed.

On the left is the balance wheel, oscillating due to the torsion spring below it. The gear on the right can only move when the handle with the two pink stoppers is switching positions.

We leave the museum on time (we asked everyone to meet at the congregation point next to the cafe at 5:00 sharp, and we were all there!) and take an Uber to Pedley station, the location of our dinner.

Our dinner is not an ordinary dinner; it is a dinner served in immersive theater. Immersive theater is different from a normal theater show, because you actually step into the world, and the actors and actresses talk and interact with you (hence the term immersive). There are many different premises for immersive theater. In our show, called the Murder Express, the five of us walked into what looked like a real train station and were handed tickets. We boarded what seemed like a real train.

We sat down at booth tables inside, and the room started to move and vibrate like a real train, with screens where the windows would be, showing video of passing scenery.

Waiters served appetizers, and the show began! Actors and actresses danced along the aisle, and acted out a mystery! Someone aboard the train has been murdered, and we need to figure out who the murderer is! The characters will sometimes sit at our tables and tell us part of their thoughts and suspicions, while we eat a nice dinner of steak and green beans. Dessert is a cheesecake.

In the evening we arrive home and play Citadels. Tomorrow we’re taking another day trip - to Bath, home of famous writer Jane Austen.

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My new room mate family at Darwin City. . . This should be my first experience live in apartment and sharing room, because i'm always live in private room in Sydney and 'kost-an' Indonesia before. 4 men and 6 women start their lives together under one roof, reminds me of #TerraceHouse Japanese TV Series . . And once again, i've met Japanese friend in Darwin, Kenji-san. In some way, help me to try Japanese culture in home like saying #Itadakimasu when we're starting to eat, #Tadaima when i'm going back to home, #Ittekimasu when i'm going out, or #OtsukareSamaDesu when we're finishing something together. . . Life is beautiful when you're appreciate every single moment, and be grateful always in any condition. #WorkingHoliday #Darwin #NorthernTerritory #Australia #Indonesia #Japan (at Nandos)

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Kort Nieuws #194

Een nieuw hoofdstuk Foto: Johanna Kok (BB-Facebook). Tijger Alia. Lief en leed in de Rotterdamse Tijgerkreek. Op 3 april viel het doek voor Sumatraanse tijgerin Alia op de mooie leeftijd van 19 jaar. Alia, geboren te Wuppertal, was al sinds 2007 te zien in Diergaarde Blijdorp. Daarmee was ze – na het overlijden van gorilla Bokito en olifant Irma en 2023 – in zekere zin de bekendste grijsaard van…

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Kort Nieuws #190

Nieuw van Blijdorper Bende: Kort Nieuws #190 💚 #dieren #dierentuin #blijdorp #rotterdam

Blijdorp Bouwt Foto: @AgainErick (Wikimedia Commons). Archieffoto. De schop gaat weer in de grond in Diergaarde Blijdorp! Momenteel worden voorbereidingen getroffen voor de restauratie van de rendierenstal. Dit monumentale pand uit 1940, dat in de zuidelijke hoek van de dierentuin staat, zal in oude luister hersteld worden. In abonnementhoudersblad ‘De Giraffe’ laat Blijdorp weten dat de klus op…

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Haha I'm intrigued. Who's thighs getting the ladies flustered? My money's on Joey G and big Virg!

ok so we have

FLUFF:

Virg: aftercare

Kostas: friends to lovers

Trent: furniture shopping

Nando: getting teased about getting dropped off by his gf

Robbo: watching him with the kids

Kostas: taking care of his sleepy girlfriend

Nando: leaving a member of staff flustered

Ali: his family dealing with his loss of beard

SMUT:

Hoemez: 2 girls, 2 thighs.

Nando: getting reacquainted with his woman

Thiago: thigh riding fantasy

Hoemez: sexy time after the captaincy.

Nando: getting through to round of 16 (liverpool vs RM) sexy time

Darwin: helping him learn english with a smidge of edging

Thiago: giving oral (f)

Virg: Dom.

Darwin: thigh riding until she's learnt her lesson

Robbo: FWB to bf/gf

Darwin: bondage/jealous Darwin (finished)

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What liverpool players do you have so far?👀

so far we have:

Virgil

Darwin

Robbo

Thiago

Kostas

Trent

Hoemez

Nando

Alisson

we have until i've finished my daughters bedtime routine and then i'm closing them.