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Lipton Tea Bag

nobody@flickr.com (carlos.guerrera) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:20:55 -0700

Lipton is one of the world's best-known and best-selling brands of both hot leaf and ready-to-drink tea. It is currently owned by Unilever.

Lipton was created at the end of the 19th century by Sir Thomas Lipton in Glasgow, Scotland. His enterprise soon flourished and he established a chain of grocers, first across Glasgow, the rest of Scotland, until finally he had stores throughout Britain.

Under the slogan “direct from the tea gardens to the tea pot”, this entrepreneurial businessman wanted to make tea a popular and approachable drink for everyone – with a high quality but reasonably priced product.

In 1929, the Lipton grocery retail business merged with the Home and Colonial chain, as well as Maypole Dairies among others, to form Allied Suppliers. Lipton's became a supermarket chain focused on small towns, before Allied's 1982 acquisition by Argyll Group: the supermarket business was rebranded as Presto during the 1980s.

Meanwhile, the Lipton tea business was acquired by consumer goods company Unilever in a number of separate transactions, starting with the purchase of the US and Canadian Lipton business in 1938 and completed in 1972 when Unilever bought the remainder of the global Lipton business.

In 1991, Unilever created a first joint venture with PepsiCo, the Pepsi Lipton Partnership, for the marketing of ready to drink (bottled and canned) teas in North America. this was followed by a second joint venture, Pepsi-Lipton International (PLI) in 2003, covering many non-US markets. PLI was expanded in September 2007 to include a number of large European markets. Both PepsiCo and Unilever control 50% of the shares of these joint ventures.

Due to the 2008 Chinese milk scandal crisis, food giant Unilever started recalling its Lipton milk tea powder in both Hong Kong and Macau on 30 September 2008. The tea powder which used Chinese milk powder as its raw ingredient was recalled after the company's internal checks found traces of melamine in the powder.

source: wikipedia

Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi
EF100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
100 mm, ISO 200, 1/25 sec at f/2.8

Puzzle Mat

nobody@flickr.com (carlos.guerrera) — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:31:41 -0700

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A jigsaw puzzle is a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of numerous small, often oddly shaped, interlocking and tessellating pieces. Each piece usually has a small part of a picture on it; when complete, a jigsaw puzzle produces a complete picture. In some cases more advanced types have appeared on the market, such as spherical jigsaws and puzzles showing Optical Illusions.

Jigsaw puzzles were originally created by painting a picture on a flat, rectangular piece of wood, and then cutting that picture into small pieces with a jigsaw, hence the name. John Spilsbury, a London mapmaker and engraver, is credited with commercialising jigsaw puzzles around 1760. Jigsaw puzzles have since come to be made primarily on cardboard.

Typical images found on jigsaw puzzles include scenes from nature, buildings, and repetitive designs. Castles and mountains are two traditional subjects. However, any kind of picture can be used to make a jigsaw puzzle; some companies offer to turn personal photographs into puzzles. Completed puzzles can also be attached to a backing with adhesive to be used as artwork.

During recent years a range of jigsaw puzzle accessories including boards, cases, frames and roll-up mats has become available that are designed to assist jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts.

source: wikipedia

Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi
EF100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
100 mm, ISO 200, 1.0 sec at f/13

A Yellow Flower

nobody@flickr.com (carlos.guerrera) — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:06:36 -0800

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Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi
EF100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
100 mm, ISO 200, 1/50 sec at f/5.6

Mobile Toy

nobody@flickr.com (carlos.guerrera) — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:43:24 -0800

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Post-It - revisited

nobody@flickr.com (carlos.guerrera) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:44:24 -0800

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#63 in Explore on 11-07-2008
another shot of a Post-It.

KTLA #2

nobody@flickr.com (carlos.guerrera) — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:57:16 -0700

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I drive by this tower everyday on my way to work. I don't know why but I love looking at it. I don't even watch KTLA...

This shot was taking from my car while waiting for the traffic light to change.

KTLA, channel 5, is a television station in Los Angeles, California. Owned by the Tribune Company, KTLA is an affiliate of the CW Television Network. KTLA's studios are on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson. The station's signal covers the Southern California region, and KTLA is also available as a regional superstation via cable and satellite in the United States and Canada.

KTLA was the first commercially licensed television station in the western United States, having begun operations in 1947.

Originally owned by Paramount Pictures subsidiary Television Productions, Inc., and located on the Paramount studio lot, the station was licensed by the Federal Communications Commission in 1939 as experimental station W6XYZ, on channel 4, but did not go on the air until September 1942. Klaus Landsberg, already an accomplished television pioneer at the age of 26, was the original station manager and engineer. On January 22, 1947, it was licensed for commercial broadcast as KTLA on channel 5, becoming the first commercial television station to broadcast west of the Mississippi River. Estimates of television sets in the Los Angeles area at the time ranged from 350 to 600.
source: wikipedia.

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM
f/3.5, 0.001 sec (1/1250), ISO 200, 100 mm

Grandad Chevy

nobody@flickr.com (carlos.guerrera) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:53:31 -0700

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f/9, 0.005 sec (1/200), ISO 100, 135 mm

γραφειν

nobody@flickr.com (carlos.guerrera) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:06:59 -0700

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The mineral graphite, as with diamond and fullerene, is one of the allotropes of carbon. It was named by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1789 from the Greek γραφειν (graphein): "to draw/write", for its use in pencils, where it is commonly called lead, as distinguished from the actual metallic element lead. Unlike diamond, graphite is an electrical conductor, and can be used, for instance, in the electrodes of an arc lamp. Graphite holds the distinction of being the most stable form of carbon under standard conditions. Therefore, it is used in thermochemistry as the standard state for defining the heat of formation of carbon compounds. Graphite may be considered the highest grade of coal, just above anthracite and alternatively called meta-anthracite, although it is not normally used as fuel because it is hard to ignite.

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM
f/10, 3.2 sec (16/5), ISO 100, 100 mm

Flower 002

nobody@flickr.com (carlos.guerrera) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:56:03 -0700

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A rose is a perennial flowering shrub or vine of the genus Rosa, within the family rosaceae, that contains over 100 species. The species form a group of erect shrubs, and climbing or trailing plants, with stems that are often armed with sharp thorns. Most are native to Asia, with smaller numbers of species native to Europe, North America, and northwest Africa. Natives, cultivars and hybrids are all widely grown for their beauty and fragrance. [1]

The leaves are alternate and pinnately compound, with sharply toothed oval shaped leaflets. The plants fleshy edible fruit is called a rose hip. Plants range in size from tiny miniature roses to climbers that can reach 20 metres. Species from different parts of the world easily hybridize, giving rise to the many types of garden roses.

The name originates from Latin rosa, borrowed through Oscan from colonial Greek in southern Italy: rhodon (Aeolic form: wrodon), from Aramaic wurrdā, from Assyrian wurtinnu, from Old Iranian *warda (cf. Armenian vard, Avestan warda, Sogdian ward, Parthian wâr).[2][3]

Attar of rose is the steam-extracted essential oil from rose flowers that has been used in perfumes for centuries. Rose water, made from the rose oil, is widely used in Asian and Middle Eastern cuisine. Rose hips are sometimes made into jam, jelly and marmalade or brewed for tea, mainly for their vitamin C content. They are also pressed and filtered to make rose hip syrup. Rose hips are also used to produce an oil used in skin products.

f/1.8, 0.001 sec (1/1600), ISO 100

Deuce

nobody@flickr.com (carlos.guerrera) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:02:18 -0700

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Tennis Court - 02

map & push pins

nobody@flickr.com (carlos.guerrera) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:35:47 -0700

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#449 on Explore on 08-20-2008

Map pins, or push pins, are also a type of thumbtack. Map pins have a handle-like cover of plastic, which brings the pin out of the wall, allowing quick and easy removal from surfaces. Some other map pins have a round 1mm head to allow for easy removal. Both types come in a variety of colors. Map pins are safer than flat-headed thumbtacks when dropped on the ground or discarded on a surface, since they will not normally rest with the point upward.

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM
f/2.8, 0.005 sec (1/200), ISO 100, 100 mm

1 3/16 inches

nobody@flickr.com (carlos.guerrera) — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:04:24 -0700

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A tape measure or measuring tape is a flexible form of ruler. It consists of a ribbon of cloth, plastic,fiber glass, or metal with linear-measure markings, often in both imperial and metric units. Surveyors use tape measures in lengths on the order of hectometres. It is a common measuring tool. Its flexibility allows for a measure of great length to be easily carried in pocket or toolkit and permits one to measure around curves or corners.

Tape measures intended for use in tailoring or dressmaking were historically made from a flexible cloth or plastic. Today, measuring tapes made for sewing are made of fiberglass, which will not tear or stretch.(Readers Digest 10) Measuring tapes designed for carpentry or construction often use a stiff, curved metallic ribbon that can remain stiff and straight when extended, but retracts into a coil for convenient storage. This type of tape measure will have a floating tang on the end to aid measuring. The tang will float a distance equal to its thickness, to provide both inside and outside measurements that are accurate. A tape measure of 25 or even 1000 feet can wind into a relatively small container.

One little-known feature on most tape measures is a small black diamond that appears every 19.2 inches, known as the 'black truss' markings. This is used to mark out an equal five trusses per standard eight-foot sheet of building material. (8 feet, or 96 inches, divided by 5 is 19.2 inches.)

The design on which most modern spring tape measures are built was patented by New Haven, Connecticut resident Alvin J. Fellows on 14 July 1868. According to the text of his patent, Fellows' tape measure was only an improvement on other versions previously designed.

The spring tape measure has been extant since Fellows' patent, but did not come into wide usage until the early 1940s, when it slowly began to supplant the folding wood carpenter's ruler. Today it is ubiquitous, even appearing in miniature form as a keychain fob, or novelty item.

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM
f/2.8, 0.008 sec (1/125), ISO 400, 100 mm

Dog Poop Bags

nobody@flickr.com (carlos.guerrera) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:34:32 -0700

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Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM
f/2.8, 0.067 sec (1/15), ISO 200, 100 mm

Girassol #2

nobody@flickr.com (carlos.guerrera) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:16:16 -0700

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The sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is an annual plant native to the Americas in the family Asteraceae, with a large flowering head (inflorescence). The stem of the flower can grow as high as 3 metres tall, with the flower head reaching up to 30 cm in diameter with the "large" seeds. The term "sunflower" is also used to refer to all plants of the genus Helianthus, many of which are perennial plants.

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM
f/3.5, 0.003 sec (1/320), ISO 200, 100 mm

Girassol

nobody@flickr.com (carlos.guerrera) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:13:20 -0700

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Taken at the corner of Adams St. and Wilson in Glendale Ca

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM
f/3.5, 0.003 sec (1/400), ISO 200, 100 mm

Early Morning

nobody@flickr.com (carlos.guerrera) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:08:17 -0700

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Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM
f/3.5, 0.003 sec (1/400), ISO 200, 100 mm

Serve

nobody@flickr.com (carlos.guerrera) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:54:58 -0700

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Shhhhh!

Reds, Yellows & Oranges

nobody@flickr.com (carlos.guerrera) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:16:46 -0700

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It's practice time

Flower 001

nobody@flickr.com (carlos.guerrera) — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:45:59 -0700

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