#ganter

[grandboute]

C'est le WE...

#ganter #biere #malt #brasserie #houblon #bier #brasseur #instabeer #beer #jusDeHoublon #brewery #locale #beerstagram #mousse #instamousse #instapero #apero #instapicole #picole #freiburg #freiburgerBier #terrasse

[thepaperboatblog]

Tappa fondamentale del nostro tour di Friburgo è stata la visita al birrificio Ganter

Tra birre a fiumi, assaggi insoliti e il profumo del luppolo, abbiamo scoperto un sacco di cose anche sulla storia della città.

D'altronde da Guntherstube ci avevano dato i compiti per queste vacanze e noi giustamente ci siamo prestati.

[exhibitorsdata123]

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[unclejellyfish]

I've been thinking about the Flight Anthology graphic novels and one particular story has lived in my head rent free for years. It was written and drawn by Amy Kim Kibuishi in Flight Volume 4, in 2007.

On a distant island lives a young fisherwoman named Sandy Balgan, who just wants to share the glory of fish produce with people who rely on the local Clam merchant Gladys Perna.

Sandy's luck takes a turn when she encounters a giant fish. After a fierce fight, the girl harpoons the sea beast and realizes she can be somebody now.

News of the fiery young lady's catch spreads, and the people of the island are eager to try something new after a generation of Perna's clams.

Of course, old Gladys isn't gonna be upstaged by the new generation, so she ups her game, and the competition gets ugly.

And ugly in more ways than one, as the two women become so obsessed with outdoing each other they gradually change, transformed by their own obsession.

Sandy and Gladys become monstrous giant versions of the sea life they used for their livelihood. The village becomes divided into factions of who prefers what to eat. It turns violent quickly.

But shit really goes down when Sandy hits one of Perna's customers, prompting the two mer-monsters into a bloody brawl that takes them into the coastline itself.

Just when it seems Sandy has murdered her rival, Gladys rips back up and the two she beasts bloodily brawl in a fight that seemingly ends in their deaths. They sink to the depths of the sea they relied on all their lives.

And yet this isn't the end. At least not for the island. Just as the islanders despair over both their food supplies gone, one little girl discovers a new form of produce: Sugar cane.

And so the villagers move on, no longer torn between two merchants turned monsters, and sweets and baked goods become their biggest export.

It's kind of odd how dissonant this ending feels. On one hand the villagers have a prosperous and happier future. On the other two woman have been destroyed in a horrifying fashion. Poor Sandy Balgan literally transformed into a monster out of desperation and envy, while Gladys Perna became embroiled in a petty competition with the younger generation and ultimately both of them died pointlessly, their dreams amounting to nothing. It might be an allegory of how capitalism destroys one's mind and body in the pursuit of false dreams, yet it isn't treated as a tragedy.

Either way, it's a creatively morbid fable. Bonus fact, the artist, Amy Kim Kibuishi, actually adapted the Goosebumps book, Deep Trouble into a graphic novel. It's pretty wild how the "horror" series tale is leagues more lighthearted than this one-shot tale. I mean which would you guess is the Goosebumps story: the one where a kind boy befriends a Mermaid and fights to save her from capture, or the one where two fisherwoman go insane from their heated competition, mutate into sea monsters, and kill each other?

Either way, Miss Kibuishi is the perfect artist to represent the whimsy, terror, and wonder of sea adventure stories.

[stuff-diary]

Anyone But You

Movies watched in 2024

Anyone But You (2023, USA)

Director: Will Gluck

Writers: Ilana Wolpert & Will Gluck

Mini-review:

After watching (and loving) Glen Powell on Twisters yesterday, I remembered I hadn't seen this one yet, so here we are. And what struck me the most about it was how genuinely funny it is! I don't know why, but I didn't expect it to make me laugh so much. Guess I'm a sucker for the tropes showcased here, fake-dating and misunderstandings. Tbh, the only thing I had heard about this movie was that Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney's chemistry is off the charts, and it absolutely is. Every single scene they share is so fun and engaging. I'm not saying Anyone But You is a game-changer or anything like that, but it's thoroughly enjoyable in a way that feels pretty refreshing.

[age-ent-of-fangorn]

Dude, GaTa, in Dave.. man... I love his character so much. Not only does his storyline acknowledge mental illness, it also addresses poverty, abandonment, addiction, isolation, working through every day just scraping by to stay alive. And he's such a good actor, idk if it's relatable to the man himself but he does one hell of a fucking job expressing raw emotion. That like-- gut wrenching pain that lives inside your head from trauma. Wanna give that man a hug. Glad to see the representation in such an unfiltered way

[bkenber]

Exclusive Video Interview with 'Sweet Dreams' Stars Bobby Lee and GaTa

“Sweet Dreams” is one of those movies coming out underneath the radar, and it deserves more attention than it is currently getting. Johnny Knoxville stars as Morris, a music video director who, as the movie opens, has hit rock bottom and wakes up in a park almost completely nude and with a bloody face. Next day, he enrolls at Sweet Dreams, a recovery center which cannot be mistaken for Promises…

[gantergg]

Короче, я сменила ник с newpelmeska на ganter с добавкой gg, так как просто без приставки уже занято.

Я хотела изначально поставить свой привычный ник, который использую практически везде, но при создании аккаунта я выбрала полурандомный и забила на него. Но в голове бывают шарики за ролики заходят, и я решила сделать ребрендинг такой своеобразный привычный для меня, но может пока не привычный для людей, которые меня читают.

Менять не буду на пельмешку, мне нравится гантер с 18 лет.

А гантер из-за Adventure time, там были пингвины у снежного короля и у каждого было своё имя: гантер, гюнтер и ещё какие-то имена. Так что в те времена у меня стоял пингвин на аватарке в стимах всяких и прочих местах.

Не теряйте💜

Ваша, теперь, gantergg.

[onejellyfishplease]

one small bad thing happened to me yesterday and it disturbed the vibes so severely that i am still feeling the repercussions now.

They ganter over my phyche like earthquakes summoned by Posidon, causing chaos and destruction to my delicate mentality.

my chakras have been unaligned

[weaverpop]

Have to ask cause I'm curious would you ever do a yandere au?

What tropes would you like, who'd all be yanderes and how delusional would they be ect.

MMMMM. I guess it depends on the ship.

@purble-turble already goes over some great spicynoodles and lotusnoose yandere themes. One thing I would personally hc though for lotusnoodles is the idea that Nezha would be a tad less extreme. He’s had years of experience and discipline in honing his emotions, so I don’t think he’d go full off the rails unless pushed to his absolute limit.

Now Lionsword on the other hand….

I can see them both being yanderes. Azure Lion has been explored by @purble-turble and @quitealotofsodapop both, but that’s mostly with Wukong. With Jing it would be a little diffrent in that he can technically have Jing, but he can’t be public because of the JE.

In courtnabbed au Azure says fuck it and nabs Jing anyway, but I can see it also playing into the yandere “your mine” trope.

The only problem this could run into… is the fact that Jing has MANY other flings. After he and azure officialy together he cut them out, but before then? Oh, it’d drive azure nuts. Seeing this little minx of a general ganter about in secret, hanging off others and watching them put hands over what’s his?

Azure is fuming.

Azure being yandere also makes the breakup more… complicated.

As for Jing? He’s full on“nobody else will have you except me and if I can’t have you nobody can.” Oddly enough, Jing being yandere kinda makes the relationship an open secret after an … incident with a lioness. (Only the JE and Nezha don’t know.) And it doesn’t stop there, Jing uses either the progoda or his swords to… deal with anyone who tries anything.

[menschtiervereint]

In der Weihnachtszeit wird wieder vermehrt Gänseleberpastete FoieGras verkauft. 96% der weltweit verkauften Menge stammt dabei von Enten und 75% kommt aus Frankreich. Wie genau das Leben einer solchen "Stopfgans" ausschaut, haben wir von Gustav erfahren, den wir im Wartebereich des Schlachthofs befragen durften. Aber hört selbst: "Hallo, ich bin Gustav, ein Ganter aus der "Foie Gras"- Industrie und will Euch von meinem Leben erzählen.

Zur Welt kam ich in einer Brutmaschine. Kaum geschlüpft, werde ich von großen Menschenhänden untersucht. Nur wir Ganter bleiben am Leben, denn nur wir eignen uns für die Produktion von Stopfleber. Weibchen werden oft direkt getötet, da ihre Lebern als unbrauchbar gelten.

Meine ersten Lebenswochen verbringe ich in einem überfüllten Stall. Der Boden ist mit Kunststoffgittern ausgelegt, damit Kot hindurchfallen kann, aber das schmerzt meine empfindlichen Füße. Wir sind eng zusammengedrängt, haben kaum Platz und können uns nicht frei bewegen. Es ist laut und stickig, und die Luft riecht nach Ammoniak. In dieser Zeit essen wir normales Futter, um schnell zu wachsen.

In einem Alter von etwa 10 Wochen ändert sich alles. Wir werden in Einzelkäfige gesteckt, die so eng sind, dass ich mich nicht einmal umdrehen oder meine Flügel ausbreiten kann. Jetzt beginnt die 21-tägige intensive Mast: Man stopft mir dreimal täglich ein Metallrohr tief in meinen Hals und pumpt Unmengen an Maisbrei direkt in meinen Magen. Ich kann mich nicht wehren, mein Hals schmerzt bei jeder Fütterung und es bleibt mir kaum Zeit, um zu atmen. 😰

Mein Körper beginnt sich schon nach wenigen Tagen stark zu verändern. Meine Leber wächst rapide, sie wird krankhaft verfettet. Bald wiegt sie bis zu zehnmal mehr als normal. Mein Bauch ist bereits stark aufgebläht, ich fühle mich immer schwerer und kann kaum noch atmen. Mein Hals ist wund, ich habe ständig Schmerzen und meine Leber drückt schmerzhaft auf meine anderen Organe. Einige von uns sterben vor Erschöpfung, an Infektionen oder an den Verletzungen, die durch das Einführen des Rohres entstehen.

Nach nur 13 Wochen endet dann mein kurzes, qualvolles Leben. Ich werde in einen Transporter geladen, der mich zum Schlachthof bringt. Die Fahrt ist laut und beängstigend und viele von uns sind bereits zu schwach, um aufzustehen. Und nun bin ich hier und warte auf mein Ende - und Ihr auf meine Leber... 😰"

Quellen: ➡ LINK 1 ➡ LINK 2 ➡ LINK 3 ➡ LINK 4 ➡ LINK 5

[dukeceitbrainrot]

Okay so this isn't THE Janus in stockings and ganter-belt w. Remus as an erect sex gremlin that I mentioned in this post buuut hey I felt like doodling something dumb af, so enjoy!

[kreacher1x1]

I have no commissions in my inbox and I'm about to be between jobs before I move so, going to need something to occupy myself with.

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

SA, India and Brazil foreign policy experts urge Germany and the West to hear them on Ukraine, China

Germany and the West must “listen beyond their echo chambers” and accept the different views of South Africa, India and Brazil on critical foreign policy questions including China’s role in the world and Russia’s war against Ukraine.

This is one of the main conclusions drawn from a recent survey of the views of 1,000 foreign policy experts – including academics, government officials, diplomats, journalists and business people – in the four “emerging middle powers”: Germany, South Africa, India and Brazil.. 

This was part of the Körber Emerging Middle Powers (KEMP) Initiative which comprises four think tanks: The German foundation Körber-Stiftung, the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), Gateway House India and Brazil’s BRICS Policy Centre. 

In their report – “Listening Beyond the Echo Chamber: Emerging Middle Powers Report 2024 – Julia Ganter of the Körber-Stiftung, Steven Gruzd of SAIIA, Manjeet Kripalani of Gateway House India and Carlos Frederico Coelho and Paulo Esteves of the BRICS Policy Centre said the questionnaire found significant agreements and differences on major issues.

Continue reading.

[cleanwaterchronicles]

Road salt, a stealthy pollutant, is damaging Michigan waters

In a dim hangar outside of Traverse City, towering piles of white crystals cast a glow in the twilight. 

Salts like those stored at the Grand Traverse County Road Commission maintenance facility keep Michigan roads, parking lots, and sidewalks clear of ice in the winter, a prudent safety measure for motorists and pedestrians. The mobility benefits of salt for a car-centric society, though, have an undesirable environmental side effect that has built up over decades of use: extensive damage to ecosystems and infrastructure.

Chloride -- the catch-all term for salts -- does not discriminate. It hurts mayflies and freshwater mussels, taking out species at the base of the freshwater food chain. It acts as a chemical instigator, loosening metals and nutrients that are otherwise bound in sediment and freeing them to flow downstream, thus feeding toxic algae in troubled places like Lake Erie. As with sun on skin, excess salt accelerates infrastructure aging. The metals and concrete in bridges, roads, and cars deteriorate faster when exposed to salts.

The state issued its first water quality standards for chloride in 2019. Not written with infrastructure in mind, the standards are intended to protect fish, insects, and other freshwater species. But the state has not yet translated those standards into a plan for limiting chloride in the eight stream sections that already exceed the limit.

Developing those pollution diets takes years. In the interim, state regulators this year are directly asking municipalities with storm sewer systems to outline steps for controlling salt runoff from roads. Roads, however, are only part of the problem. Salt applied to parking lots and sidewalks also enters streams and groundwater. But regulators say that municipalities do not have the staff or budgets to oversee salt application on private property. In part, this is a consequence of state court rulings that have deterred cities from creating agencies to manage pollutants that are flushed from paved surfaces.

The best way to deal with salt pollution is to bar it entry -- not to allow it in the water in the first place. By and large, that outcome will rely on the widespread and voluntary adoption of salt-reducing practices by road agencies, shopping mall owners, apartment complex managers, and homeowners. Reducing salt use also hinges on societal shifts: public acceptance in urban areas of slower winter driving speeds and less driving in hazardous weather.

“You can think of chloride as a permanent pollutant in the water,” said Christe Alwin of the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy. “Once it’s there, there’s very little opportunity to treat it.”

 

(Photo © J. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue)

Last year marked the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, the landmark federal law that intended to give new life to waterways that were fouled by all manner of chemical and bacterial pollutants. The goal was to make rivers and lakes fishable and swimmable once again. The law, part of a package of national environmental reforms in the early 1970s, was transformative. By mandating pollution controls on wastewater treatment plants and industrial facilities, it marked a new era of environmental stewardship -- an era in which rivers and lakes were viewed not as dumping grounds but as civic assets that fostered recreation, ecological rebirth, and economic development.

Despite undeniable progress, substantial impediments to clean water remain. The law did little to stanch the flow of dispersed pollution that comes from roads, lawns, and farms. More waters today are fishable and swimmable, particularly in major metropolitan regions. But many, especially streams and rivers that drain agricultural regions, still are not. The consequences are measured in toxic algal bloom dead zones, human sickness, and the rising cost of water treatment. 

Urban Areas on a High-Sodium Diet

A little salt can cause a lot of harm. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recommends water quality standards for rivers and lakes to prevent death and damage to fish, mussels, insects, and other aquatic species. For chloride, the EPA determined the threshold at which long-term damage could occur to be 230 milligrams per liter. That equals about one teaspoon of salt in five gallons of water.

Michigan has been slow to react to the salinization of its fresh water. The Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy finalized water quality values for chloride only in 2019, three decades after the federal EPA published guidelines. Based on the numbers, EGLE determined last year that eight stream sections exceed the state threshold for chronic exposure, which is 150 milligrams per liter. 

Those streams -- largely in the urban areas of southeast Michigan -- include the Shiawassee River (Genesee County), Thread Creek (Genesee County), Sashabaw Creek (Oakland County), Bishop Creek and the Upper Rouge River (Rouge River watershed), Belle River (St. Clair County), Rush Creek (Ottawa County), and County Line Drain (Arenac/Iosco County), which also exceeded the sulfate standard.

The next step for those stream sections is a regulatory tool known as a total maximum daily load, or TMDL, which caps pollution discharges. However, there is no timeline yet for developing the pollution diet for those streams, according to Kevin Goodwin, an aquatic biology specialist at EGLE.

It’s no mystery where most of the salts are coming from. Water softeners and fertilizers are sources of chloride, but the major contributor, Goodwin and others said, are the salts spread on roads, parking lots, and sidewalks to keep the pavement free from ice.

Salinization of streams is a problem across the United States, where at least 20 million tons of salt were used in 2021 for highway deicing. The U.S. Geological Survey studied 19 streams in eight states and the District of Columbia, including five Great Lakes states. The researchers found that chloride levels related to road salt increased in 84 percent of sampled streams. Increases were especially notable in urban areas with a large percentage of paved surfaces.

Those findings have been replicated at the state and local level. EGLE found chloride hot spots that align with high concentrations of highways and housing developments. The Huron River, a 900-square-mile watershed in southeast Michigan that flows through Ann Arbor, is one such area. For the last two decades the Huron River Watershed Council has tested streams for pollutants. Volunteers and staff now regularly take water samples from about 40 or 50 sites in the watershed, according to Ric Lawson, a watershed planner. 

“We see that we have much higher [chloride] levels in our urban drainages,” Lawson said. 

Following up on its stream samples, the Huron River Watershed Council did additional investigation at sites with abnormally high chloride levels. Were those salts coming from a particular source? Were there, as Lawson put it, any “smoking guns?”

In short, the council didn’t find any -- no leakage from a salt storage facility, no obvious surface runoff. No smoking guns. “So it does appear it’s been broad-based, long-term application,” Lawson said, referring to the salt source. “And probably, the salts moving through groundwater are how it's getting to the surface waters.”

Broad-based is the classic definition of non-point pollution. It’s the type of threat that the Clean Water Act, which focused on pollution coming from a pipe, is not at all equipped to address. The law exempts most sources of such pollution from regulation and oversight. That’s why non-point pollution is a long-term problem. Curbing it requires, in the case of salt, a voluntary change in practices.

Less Bounce, Less Scatter

Michigan’s ground transportation network is a lattice of roughly 122,000 miles of roads. To maintain these surfaces, the state’s road agencies balance three competing objectives, said Gregg Brunner, director of the Bureau of Field Services for the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT). Mobility, cost, and environmental protection.

Salt -- the sodium chloride form, in fact -- is the cheapest, most effective deicing agent available, Brunner said. On that measure it beats out magnesium chloride and potassium chloride.

A non-chloride option -- calcium magnesium acetate -- is on the market. But it costs about 40 times more than sodium chloride, which is mined locally, from deposits beneath Lake Erie.

The primary objective for MDOT and other road maintenance agencies is to use less of it. In pursuit of that goal, they participated in a work group to help EGLE develop salt management guidelines. Published in 2021, the guidelines are a compilation of voluntary “best management practices” that road agencies should strive to implement. The County Road Association of Michigan, which represents the 83 county road agencies, published a similar guide based on a survey of its members.

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Source: Bridge Michigan