The first picture was identified as a sharp-shinned hawk by iNaturalist. It was about the size of a kestrel and I didn't think hawks came that small! Also here's a pair of red-tailed hawks, an American kestrel, and a greater yellowlegs (per Merlin listening to it).
Tiger mosquitos arrived by boat, and then travelled by car.
In #Italy, it was first observed in 1990, in the port of #Genoa. Most likely, it arrived in a shipment of used tyres: water accumulated inside the tyres is irresistible for female mosquitos to lay eggs.
Once ashore, they get into your car and travel on it. This diagram from Le Monde shows how their expansion follows the road network.
I played this one 7 years ago and it went over like a lead balloon. I was disappointed because it held a reputation as contender for best negotiation boardgame at the time, and I've got a soft spot for negotiation games.
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Fast forward to tonight and the five of us playing, within the first couple rounds just about everyone is saying how much they like the game, and that persisted even after we finished. One friend even pined for a reprint.
Although wasn't in the running to win, show or place, I think I won anyway to have everyone enjoy my game while completely redeeming the awful first play.
Those July days still linger in the wind EN/IT
"Many of us did not experience that July 2001 firsthand, others did, and those of us who were there do not forget the beatings, the charges and the murder of Carlo, but today as at the time neither do we wonder,
Similarly, even those who did not live through those years grew up with contempt for both the police and the foam-clad rabble in the middle of July who mimicked police riot gear and, with ridiculous “declarations of war” to the powerful, led an entire generation astray.
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Let us not forget those who enriched themselves between Europarliamentary seats and institutional positions.
Let us not forget those who first used, then divided and exploited, and finally sold out the 2001 #Genoa revolt.
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Carlo lives in the struggles of those who, like us, daily put up battles that have anti-capitalism as a fundamental point without expiring in the search for the phantom “new possible worlds” nor in the annual ritual commemorations: each of us must give something, so that some of us do not have to give everything.
HONOR TO CARLO GIULIANI!
HONOR TO ALL FALLEN COMRADES FIGHTING AGAINST THE STATE AND CAPITAL!"