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started this wall today back in the shire!
Its on a youth center wall and paid for by devon youth services to raise awereness.
I am very happy with it so far but might change the letters if it doesnt rain again tomorrow.
A short-tailed, plump bird with a low, whirring flight. When perched on a rock it habitually bobs up and down and frequently cocks its tail. Its white throat and breast contrasts with its dark body plumage. It is remarkable in its method of walking into and under water in search of food.
The Priory of St. Mary the Virgin and St. Martin of the New Work, or Newark, commonly called Dover Priory, was a priory at Dover in southeast England. It was variously independent in rule, then occupied by canons regular of the Augustinian rule, then finally monks of the Benedictine rule as a cell of Christchurch Monastery, Canterbury.
The priory was located just east of what is now Dover Priory railway station, in fact the railway was built on the western part of the site. Housing has been built on the eastern part of the site where the church once stood, between Priory Road and the later Effingham Street in the area of Norman Street and Saxon Street. Dover College, a private boarding school, occupies the land between the station and Effingham Street and has rescued some of the medieval buildings for use by its pupils. The 12th century Strangers' Refectory on Effingham Street retains its function and is also used for concerts; the gateway to the priory is now a music school and the priory guesthouse has been consecrated as the school chapel.
In the early seventh century a community of 22 secular canons was instituted in the Saxon burgh at Dover Castle by King Eadbald of Kent (616-640), possibly related to the Saxon church of St Mary de Castro there. Taking their existing rights and privileges with them, these canons were transferred to a new small church dedicated to St Martin in the land now occupied by Market Square towards the end of the seventh century, by King Wihtred in fulfilment of a vow to that saint. Their living was dependent on land and tithe grants, and the grant of half of some of the dues levied at the port, held in common.
The original small church at Market Square was granted to Odo, Bishop of Bayeux upon the Norman Conquest. He rebuilt it on a grander scale, probably on or near the same site, and so was henceforth known as St. Martin's Le Grand (the Great). It was built above the much earlier foundations of Roman baths, with its churchyard covering most of the present Market Square.
Since the Castle church, which had been their original Saxon home, was in some sense a Royal Chapel, the canons had always been a Royal peculiar, outside any episcopal control and only recognising the authority of the King, and later the Pope. The then Archbishop of Canterbury, William de Corbeil, wanted to bring an end to this and extend his influence to Dover. Therefore, in 1130, using the canons' behaviour as a pretext, he persuaded Henry I to give him a charter allowing him to transfer their assets to a new Priory of St Martin in Dover, whilst leaving their Market Square church to be used as the principal parish church of the town for the use of the townsfolk. The parish church remained dedicated to St Martin - the new priory was called "St. Martin's of the New Work", or "Newark", to distinguish it from the parish church - and under the new Priory's control (its few remains can now be seen on the western side of Market Square, near Dover Museum.)
A site having been secured (probably from land that belonged to the former canons of St. Martin's le Grand), building began there in 1131, and within five years it was partially occupied by 12 canons regular as a Priory dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Martin. Archbishop Theobald completed the buildings in about 1140 and in 1143 confirmed the transfer of the assets of St Martin le Grand and established that thereafter the new priory would follow the Benedictine Rule and remain in possession of the Cathedral church at Canterbury as a mere "cell", at the disposition of the Archbishop. Much controversy thus ensued over the following 2 centuries between the monks of the cathedral and the canons of Dover Priory.
King Stephen was said to have died on a journey whilst staying at the Priory in 1154. Repaired and extended in 1231 after much damage in a fire of 1201, it was pillaged by the French in a raid in August 1295, during which a monk called Thomas de la Hale was murdered. Extensive repairs were made in the 1480s.
The abbey's church seems to have been a very large one - the King's Commissioner sent to assess it by Thomas Cromwell (just prior to its dissolution) described it to him in a letter as "the fairest church in all that quarter of Kent." It was probably three times as long as St. Mary's Church in Dover, with a general plan perhaps comparable to Repton Priory, or to the Cistercian Stanley Abbey[1] in Wiltshire. Its tower would have stood almost at the present junction of Effingham and Saxon Streets. Of its estimated area of about 25,000 square feet (2,300 m2), about 110 feet (34 m) square of this were its cloisters, with a chapter house joined to the church's transept's north wall, and about an eighth was a refectory.
It had an impressive scriptorium and library which vanished from the records at the Dissolution - parts of it re-appeared on the open market later and are now in colleges of the University of Cambridge, including the Dover Bible (one of only six surviving giant Romanesque Bibles) in the Parker Library of Corpus Christi.
In 1538 it was suppressed in the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The inventory made of the Priory's goods just beforehand suggest that the monks were living in straitened circumstances by that time (although that may be a fictional pretext for dissolution), but that some provision was still made for the entertainment of visitors to the town.
After its suppression, leading townsmen plundered the buildings for stone, lead and other building materials, leaving just two barns, the gate-house, the refectory and a large hall still standing. Fishermen speaking in court in 1565, said that they had in the past taken their tithes of fish to the Priory "whiles it stood".[4] These buildings were adapted to agricultural use (apart from the 'large hall', which might have been used to house guests). The town records (the new poor law demanded that vagrants be rounded up periodically by the mayor and his officers for questioning and then usually ejected from of the town) show that one of these buildings, known as the "Priory Barn", was frequently used as a refuge for vagrants, particularly at times of poor harvests, plague and low employment such as the 1590s and 1620s. This may have been because of a folk memory of a time when the Priory, like other religious houses, was a place of refuge and hospitality for the poor.
Its lands were granted first to a cleric called Richard Thornden or Thornton, but passed on shortly afterwards to Archbishop Thomas Cranmer when Thornton received an important benefice. In December 1538, Cranmer leased them out to Henry Bingham of Wingham, gentleman, on a 999 year lease, who then (as the Archbishop had always done when the monastery was still active) in turn leased them out to others. Probably some active, entrepreneurial men who were later to become very influential in the life of the town first came to Dover with the express purpose of exploiting the lands and tithes of this and other suppressed religious houses of the area.
Eighteenth and early nineteenth century illustrations of the Priory Farm show its decaying Norman buildings and its two ponds as a picturesque ruin and a pleasant spot on the edge of the town. Upon the Duke of Wellington's installation as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in August 1839, a grand fete was held in the Priory meadow.
Much of the buildings was demolished during the first half of the nineteenth century, including the two barns, one in the north-west corner of the grounds some time after 1850, and one in the south-west corner in 1868.
In 1840 the Priory site's owner (a farmer called John Coleman) let the south-eastern parts of the enclosed site was let on a building lease to Parker Ayres. This damaged the remaining buildings but fortunately, between 1845 and 1847, the local cleric Dr. F.C.Plumptre had already noted everything he possibly could about the foundations of the original buildings. His reconstruction suggests that the builders probably created Effingham Street along the site of the dormitory, chapter house and transepts, Effingham Crescent along what might have been the reredorter, and Saxon Street and the houses and gardens of the north side of St. Martin's Hill along what was once the nave of the church.
From c.1840 to 1868, the local timber merchant Steriker Finnis leased or owned the western portion of the site. In 1868 the ponds were drained and this portion of the grounds became Priory Gate Road and part of the yard of Dover Priory railway station.
In 1869 Robert Chignell, who had a private school at Westmount, in Folkestone Road, leased part of the Priory buildings for a private school. He passed on his interest, however, to a group of leading citizens in Dover who had formed the Dover College Company to promote the foundation of a public school on what remained of the Priory site with the dual intention of providing a public school education for local boys and of using and thus preserving the Priory's remaining ancient buildings.
Dover College opened modestly in 1871. It acquired the large hall, or guest-house, in 1879 and converted it into a chapel for the school by enlarging the east end into an apse. In time, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners made over the whole property to the College Trustees. The Strangers' Refectory was restored and an important but damaged fresco was found there. The gatehouse was restored in 1881, to mark a charitable act by Sir Richard Dickenson the then mayor of Dover. Famous alumni of Dover College include Simon Cowell.
Gesture, attitude, behaviour : a workshop with dancers Mauro Paccagnella and Alessandro Bernardeschi on march 6, 2007 at Erg (Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels) for bachelor 1 students. Professors : Sabine Voglaire and Marc Wathieu. Pictures by Yves André.
This praying mantis is walking along a plant stem (with some encouragement from our lab technician Chris!). Observe how it uses its legs, and how it naturally holds its forelimbs when not moving.
Video by Chris Boccia
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Gesture, attitude, behaviour : a workshop with dancers Mauro Paccagnella and Alessandro Bernardeschi on march 6, 2007 at Erg (Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels) for bachelor 1 students. Professors : Sabine Voglaire and Marc Wathieu. Pictures by Yves André.
If you ever get close to a human
And human behaviour
Be ready be ready to get confused
There's definitely definitely definitely no logic
To human behaviour
But yet so yet so irresistible
And there's no map to human behaviour
They're terribly terribly terribly terribly moody
Then all of a sudden turn happy
But, oh, to get involved in the exchange
Of human emotions
Is ever so ever so satisfying
And there's no map
And a compass wouldn't help at all
This bin doesn't just advertise and allow for recycling; it is recycling!
Chapultepec Park, Mexico City.
My Mental Notes card deck finally arrived — a 52 cards with insights into human behaviour, to bring a little psychology into webdesign.
Governments around the world are drawing on behavioural insights to improve public policy outcomes: from automatic enrolment for pensions, to better tax compliance, to increasing the supply of organ donation.
But those very same policy makers are also subject to biases that can distort decision making. The Behavioural Insights Team has been studying those biases and what can be done to counter them, in collaboration with Jill Rutter and Julian McCrae of the Institute for Government.
The report was launched with remarks from Alex Chisholm, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy.
Dr Michael Hallsworth, Director of the Behavioural Insights Team in North America presented the key findings.
The findings, their relevance to policy making today, and what they mean for the way governments make decisions were discussed by:
Polly Mackenzie, Director of Policy for the Deputy Prime Minister, 2010–15 and now Director of Demos
Dr Tony Curzon Price, Economic Advisor to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
The event was chaired by Jill Rutter, Programme Director at the Institute for Government.
#IfGBIT
Photos by Candice McKenzie
The spectra of three diamonds
Although diamond has the simplest possible chemical formula, it can exhibit large variety of luminescence behaviours. I took three of the small diamonds from my collection and looked at their visible absorption and luminescence spectra.
The diamonds are labelled:
xtal: An octahedral crystal ~2mm on a side with small black (graphite?) inclusions
b: one of a set of small (1-2mm) diamonds given to me by Gérard Barmarin
green: A cut (0.12ct) diamond that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor and appears a pale apple-green colour
The luminescence spectra of the three diamonds were obtained with excitation by a 50mW 406.9nm violet laser and a 300mW 532.2nm green laser. For the green laser measurement a BG38 filter was used between the laser and the sample to remove the ~800nm pumping signal and an OG570 filter used between the sample and the spectrometer input collimator to block the elastically scattered laser light but to include Raman lines beyond a shift of about 800cm-1.
The luminescent colours of the diamonds excited with a 384nm LED are shown in the image at the top right of two of the plots.
Most of the luminescence centres in diamond are related to nitrogen atoms since these have an atomic radius very close to that of carbon. The centres generallly consist of vacancies in the carbon lattice but can include other impurity atoms such as boron and nickel.
The spectral plot has been divided into overlapping blue and red sections that show the response of the three diamonds to 407 and 532 nm laser excitation. There is also an absorption spectrum of the green diamond which, in addition to the very broad absorption band centred at around 620nm and responsible for the green colour, shows two distinct but weak narrow absorption lines at 416 and 503nm arising from the self absorption in the zero-phonon lines of the N3 and H3 centre fluorescence respectively.
List of spectral features and their likely identification.
Centre----------------Wavelength (nm)
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N3 ZPL-------------------------415.8
N3 abs-------------------------415.8
N3-------------------------------429
Raman I ex 406.9nm-----430.2 (1332 cm-1)
N3-------------------------------439
N3-------------------------------452
N3-------------------------------465
S2-------------------------------489.9
S3-------------------------------496.7
H3-------------------------------503.2
H4-------------------------------505
H4-------------------------------513
H3+H4+S2 + abs ~523
H4-------------------------------529
S3-------------------------------537
Raman I ex 532.2nm-----572.8 (1332 cm-1)
N-V^0 ZPL--------------------576
Graphite xtal?---------------578.3 (1500 cm-1)
Raman II ex 532.2nm-----613 (2467 cm-1)
N-V^- ZPL---------------------639
N-V^- 1 phonon-------------660
?---------------------------------742
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Many of the diamond defects are associated with nitrogen atoms and vacancies in the carbon lattice and there is an extensive literature on the subject and much interest from solid state physicists and engineers. In particular the negatively charged nitrogen vacancy centre known as N-V^- has properties that are of great importance in the development of quantum computing since individual ionic vacancies can be addressed with lasers. The plots show the narrow zero-phonon lines (ZPL) from both the neutral defect, N-V^0 at 576nm and the negative defect, N-V^- at 639nm. These narrow lines (which are much stronger at low temperatures rather than the room temperature (293K) used here) are accompanied by a set of broader phonon sidebands that extend to longer wavelengths. The ZPL represents the electronic transition between the lowest vibrational levels of two electronic states. The phonon sidebands appear at shorter wavelengths in absorption and at longer wavelengths in emission in a manner determined by the Franck-Condon principles.
Other common defects are N3, consisting of three substitutional nitrogen atoms bound to a single vacancy or carbon atom: H3 and H4 that are connected with a pair of nitrogen atoms and a single vacancy in slightly different configurations; and S2 and S3, the first due to a single nitrogen atom associated with two vacancies and the second to a combination of several nitrogen atoms and a single vacancy. As far as I am aware, not all of the luminescence centres in diamond have yet been fully identified and understood.
In addition to the fluorescent emission lines in the spectra that appear at a fixed energy/wavelength, diamonds exhibit a set of characteristic inelastically scattered (Raman) lines that appear at a fixed energy difference from that of the exciting (monochromatic) light source. The most famous of these is the strong, well-known line with a Raman shift of 1332cm-1 that arises from the fundamental vibrational mode of the carbon lattice. It is possible to see overtones of this line although these are faint and have a complex structure (see the lovely 1946 paper by Krishnan, one or Raman's colleagues: repository.ias.ac.in/30540/ ). All three of the spectra here show both the first order at 572.8nm and the second order Raman line at 613nm (2467cm-1) excited by the 532.2nm laser. In the blue, I see only the first order Raman line excited by the 406.9nm laser at 430.2nm and this is blended with the first phonon sideband of the N3 defect luminescence.
In one of my 532nm laser excited spectra of the diamond xtal, I see a narrow line at 578.3nm that does not show up in all spectra. This diamond contains a few small black inclusions which are most probably graphite. I tentatively identify this line with the raman line from graphite which can range from Raman shifts of 1335cm-1 for amorphous material to 1575cm-1 for crystalline graphite. The Raman shift I measure is 1500cm-1. However, I am not at all sure of this ID.
I hope this experiment will help orient people who are interested in diamond spectra to get started with this somewhat bewildering topic. I was certainly bewildered when I started! I can't present myself as an expert in this field and there may well be some mistakes and misunderstandings in this description but, if there are, I will correct them as I learn more. I made use of the books by Gaft et al. (2005, "Luminescence Spectroscopy of Minerals and Materials", Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, p100 and p187) and by Gorobets & Rogojine (“Luminescent Spectra of Minerals” Moscow, 2002) as well as some of the extensive journal literature.
Note: These measurement of the luminescence spectra were reduced with a new (Cal #9) radiative flux calibration based on the Solar (outside the atmosphere) flux from the Hubble Space Telescope Calibration Database and a transmission model of the Earth's atmosphere at the appropriate zenith distance. The actual calibration curve used for the measurements is from an observation of a halogen filament lamp which has been adjusted to fit the solar flux data. The result is a relative flux scale in energy units per nm which removes the fine pixel-to-pixel sensitivity variations from the spectrometer detector. The result is smooth flux spectra with photon (poisson) fluctuations being the dominant noise source.
Bronica S2A - Ilford Delta 3200
Rodinal - 16-22C for 13 mins.
Human life before the conecept of posing is understood, hooray!
At RobotVille, a temporary exhibition of the Science Museum in London, UK, end of 2011. These small robots are able to mimic the collective behaviour of insects like bees, ants, etc. Here they could work together to search for virtual food. These were made at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (their project page has more details about them).
Hand-painted earthenware plate designed for the tile manufacturer Fabrica Sant'Anna, Lisbon. Signed Mário da Graça, 2015.
It's large-sized. You can serve your enemy's head on it.
"To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being.
You have to care about people who have no power."
( Jane Fonda - American actress and political activist, b. in 1937)
Those kids stay at Guria in Varanasi (Benaras) where they are trying to have a normal childhood like any other child in the world.
Guria is a Human Rights organisation fighting against the sexual exploitation of women and children, particularly those forced into prostitution and trafficking.
Manju and her husband Ajeet Singh are running this non-profit organisation at great personal risk, providing shelter and hope to many children and facing many difficulties from all those who would like to use those children as a second generation prostitution.
There are many ways to help and give a kind of support to Guria, this is its website, www.guriaindia.org and you may contact Manju and Ajeet at guriaajeet@rediffmail.com
A special dedication to my friend Charles Trabuchet, a French young man who came to India in order to give some time to Guria and to help those children during several months.
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Words cannot express to these people that have hacked in here to read things that are none of there business, but for some un-beknown reason they seem to want to make other people's lives apart of there daily intake of well i can include that part of her life into my life, them the perpetrator getting their utmost statisfaction out of this.
Stalking under any sense of the LAW is a federal offence both in real lofe and over the internet, and how many of you that are reading this now have said well it's not me only to have Internet Law specialists proving that it was you all the long.
How many have logged into here and used info for you own gain, it was a set up it was all a lie. How many took it upon yourself to put on EBAY items for SALE THAT WERE NOT YOUR'S IN THE FIRST PLACE TO BE SOLD, quiet few from what we have gathered, and so what we have seen and located, i believe it's called IN POSSESSION OF STOLEN PROPERTY, SELLING STOLEN PROPERTY, THEFT, OBTAINING GOODS BY MISCONSEPTION. OBTAINING GOODS NY FALSE INFORMATION i bet there are heaps that went down and did just that, DIDN'T YOU REYNA, LOGAN, RYAN. LINDA, PAUL, ROBERT, PETER, DARREN, JAMES, AMANDA.
How you all believed in her and drove all the way back with stolen items in your possession or items that were obtained by misconseption
Then what did you do with it all SELL IT, KEEP IT FOR YOURSELF, GAVE IT AWAY, THREW IT OUT, do tell the net would like to know. How you REYNA blamed others for your slutty behaviour, how you used couldn't help but pout the blame on the real one not realising that your plan was slowly back firing, how YOU also was being set up just to see how much of a slut you were, how you would blantly hit on men in front of there partners not giving a toss for the feelings of those that you were hurting.
What we all would like to know , YOU CLAIM TO HAVE BEEN WITH NIKKI SIXX AND THE REAL ONE AT THAT, TELL US ALL WHERE DID YOU TWO FIRST MEET, AND HOW OLD WHERE YOU, AND WHAT PACT DID YOU TWO MAKE TO ONE ANOTHER.
WHAT DOES THE TATTOO'S 1958 AND THE STARS MEAN, AND SOME OTHER TATTOOS THAT ARE ON HIM.
WHAOSE DOING TO TELL HIM THE TRUTH THE ONE THAT HE MET WHEN HE WAS A KID OR THE FAKE THAT HAS TOTALLY BEEN A BITCH TO GET WHAT SHE WANTED.
YEAH YOU DID SAY REYNA YOU ONLY WANTED MEN FOR THEIR MONEY, AND THEN AFTER 13 MONTHS YOU WERE INTITLED TO HALF OF EVERYTHING.
YES MONEY IS YOUR FORTE, however the one is not that way inclinde we guess it's because no amount of money on this planet can buy her love and her heart she will give it to you un-conditionally, for that man to treasure til his dying days, how ironic is that and the real one is going does that make your going to also.
I really hope your reading this cause the real 6 is an AMERICAN not a POMMIE, AND HE'S ITALIAN ALSO, we will ask him if you know LEMMY FROM MOTORHEAD seeing you have claimed to know all these people, and what's AFRICA LIKE BEEN THERE LATELY, SEEING YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN THERE BEFORE.
My family have have enough of your lying cheating ways, and all the other shit that you seem to have created, PEOPLE INCLUDING MYSELF HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU, AND YOUR I AM BETTER THAN YOU OUTLOOK ON PEOPLE, IT HAS SADDEN US ALL THAT YOU WILL DELIBERATLEY SABOTAGE SOMETHING THAT YOUR SO JEALOUS OF A LOVE SO STRONG BY THE REAL SIXX AND TAYLOR THAT NO BOUNDAREIS WOULD STOP IT.
ALL THE ENDLESS WIGS THAT YOU HIDE UNDER THE STALKING OF ENDLESS MEN BUT NO IT'S NOT YOU IT'S SOMEONE ELSE.
Don't say you haven't we have caught you, many times.
Yes she is dying and NOT ONE PERSON CHOSE TO HELP HER NOT EVEN YOU, YOU WERE TO BUSY TRYING TO GET YOU ASS FUCKED, IT'S WEIRD SEEING YOU ON THE NET MARRIED TO ROBERT WITH ANOTHER MANS DICK IN YOUR HAND, OR BEING FUCKED BY ANOTHER MAN AND IT ISN'T ROBBIE.
LIKE THE SAYING GOES WHAT GOES ROUND COMES ROUND, AND PLEASE DON'T SAY IT WAS TAYLOR AS SHE HASN'T EVEN BEEN CLOSE TO A MALE IN 4YRS., SO DON'T GO BLAMING HER FOR ALL THE MEN THAT YOU HAVE FUCKED USED HER NAME TO GET AWAY WITH IT ANYMORE CAUSE IT WASN'T HER, SHE ISN'T LIKE THAT, YEAH SURE SHE WILL PAY A GUY A COMPLIMENT BUT THAT'S HER LIMIT YOU FUCK EM AND USE ANOTHER WOMENS NAME SO YOU DON'T GET CAUGHT, TAMMY IN ON IT ALSO. WE BELEIVE SO.
THERE IS NOTHING LOWER THAN SHARK SHIT AND YOU AND YOUR WELL WE DON'T KNOW ARE LOWER THAN THAT, SO THAT'S PRETTY DAMN LOW.
TAYLOR IS HOLDING HER OWN LUCKY TO SEE 52 AT THIS RATE YEAH A LITTLE OVER 1 YR LEFT, THANKS ALOT WHO NEEDS FRIENDS WHEN THEY HAVE ENEMIES LIKE YOU.
SORRY SIXX FOR THIS BUT THERE IS A TIME WE NEED TO FIGHT BACK, NOW WHEN ARE YOU COMING FOR TAYLOR, PLEASE LET HER KNOW.
OH bugger it here an AUSTRALIAN HUG AND KISS TO YOU AND THE BAND.
XOXOXOXOX
At Whyalla, i witnessed an amazing behaviour by some juvenile cuttlefish. A group of about five cuttlefish were playing keepings off with a cuttlefish bone. One cuttlefish would grab the bone, and the others would be in hot pursuit trying to get it. If the cuttlefish let it go, the natural bouyancy of the cuttlefish bone would force the bone to the surface, and all the cuttles would chase it to the surface. The winning cuttle would grab it in its tencticles/arms and bring in back down into about 2-3 m of water, where it would release it and the cycle would begin again. It reminded me of watching a squid taking the bait off a fisherman i saw only days earlier, and i believe this play was a lesson to teach young cuttles how to capture prey and feed. The fact that the learning tool is potentially the bone of its predecessors (possibly even its parents) that come here to give birth to them and then die, i find truly amazing.
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4 immature
Snow Goose SNGO (Chen caerulescens)
off of
Sidney Waterfront
Sidney, British Columbia
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These geese were feeding in flotsam of a tideline way out there --- as we sometimes see Black Brant doing
This is my first time seeing SNGO doing this...
It was a bit of a surprise in the Scope
:)
I did a look in my best/most trusted references and could NOT see ANY references to SNGO feeding out in a marine environment over a couple of miles from shore
looked to be about 1/2 way or more ...the distance from Sidney to Sidney Spit...
but was N of the Spit from my view point
Sidney Spit is
9.7 km
6 miles
from
Sidney
Killdeer KILL (Charadrius vociferus)
'agitating" at the waters edge to forage (on worm grub type?)
Sluggett Reservoir
Maber West
Central Saanich BC
(Private Access)
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I don't ever recall seeing a "one legged style" of ground agitation while foraging, such as this Killdeer is doing.
I have seen gulls, especially Mew Gulls tread-two - legged agitiaion style to stir things up in sand covered by water.
And up on the West Coast near Ucluelet -Tofino i have seen various shorebirds do 2 legged style agitation in the wet sand.
I was up at one of our local churchyards for my walk this morning when I noticed this female Mallard.
She was quacking away and then flew up into a hole in a tree, if she's nesting there I worry about the babies when they hatch.
The pond is just across a fairly busy road if they try to get there.
A new pilot scheme, launched this week, will significantly boost the ability to tackle and prevent crime and antisocial behaviour on Greater Manchester’s bus and tram network.
Under the Travelsafe Partnership, a dedicated team of 16 police constables, police community support officers, special constables and security personnel will provide regular patrols on the region’s networks for the next three years.
Led by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and Greater Manchester Police (GMP), the scheme will use crime and antisocial behaviour data from contributing operators – Metrolink, First Bus and Stagecoach – to target patrols in hotspot areas at key times and support front line staff.
The establishment of a dedicated team will provide expertise and knowledge that will also assist in the identification of repeat offenders, while the provision of body-worn cameras in conjunction with existing public transport CCTV will help gather evidence for prosecutions.
Where appropriate, the partnership will seek to use legal powers to ban offenders from public transport and deliver restorative justice schemes following prosecution.
The pilot will also focus on preventative measures and youth education, with uniformed officers visiting schools to educate youngsters on the dangers, impacts and consequences of crime, antisocial behaviour and fare evasion on public transport.
The pilot will initially run for three years but will be subject to formal annual reviews and regular scrutiny by a strategy group made up of members from organisations involved.
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website.
You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
Y no hay mapa para el comportamiento humano, son terriblemente caprichosos; luego, de repente se transforma en felicidad; pero, oh, nos vemos envueltos en el intercambio de las emociones humanas; cada vez de manera satisfactoria. Y no hay mapa, y una brújula no ayudaría en absoluto...
Members of the Sale Neighbourhood Policing Team of Greater Manchester Police’s Trafford Division pose for an image to publicise an operation targeting anti social behaviour in Sale town centre.
Tackling anti social behaviour is one of the Force’s priorities and at the centre of much Neighbourhood Policing activity.
For more information about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website.
The boat gently leans into a turn, rather like a motor cycle - except in this case it is automatic. The mechanism is not widely agreed, but I strongly believe that when the boat turns at speed, the side of the boat on the inner side of the turn is subject to low pressure underwater. This gently pulls the boat downwards on that side, causing it to lean into the turn. The behaviour is beneficial, because it helps to prevent people being thrown overboard on sharp turns. Incidentally, as predicted, the boat still leans into the turn with the mast up, overcoming the centrifugal force from the mast.
These schoolgirls were straight out to Shibuya to hang out after school (?) in the early afternoon...
This was a weekday, but I am told that often school-age kids will hang around in their uniforms on weekends, sometimes because they have a sports match or other school activity on that day, but also (and this certainly converse to behaviour in Europe) because, with a few adjustments (adding the long white "Fame"-style dance leg warmer socks, rolling up their skirts at the waist - standard issue is at least knee length - and styling their hair) they can look cool, fresh and young, playfully advertising their age and style to other eligible schoolkids... Namely the boys in their traditional uniforms with punky hair and the shirts hanging out, though they do attract a little too much attention from (respectable?) 'salarymen' in suits. Then again, they are hard to miss in a sea of suits.
There are other, somewhat fruitier forms of fashion known as 'Ganguro' and 'Garu' which I will try to explain to you later.