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Previously: Chapter XX - Don't tell me the odds
German below ⬇️
English:
The community has chosen A.
The three going to the bidding counter:
💬 Finn: "We are looking for some special freight, and we have heard this is the right place to ask.“
💬 Bookmaker: “What makes you think of that? We're a betting shop here, not an information counter. Do you want to bid on the fight or not?”
💬 Rees: “Sorry, we were just asking a normal question.”
💬 Bookmaker: “Lady, I'm just managing the money for the fight here, I'm not the storyteller.”
A loud announcement interrupted the conversation: "Ladies and gentlemen, honored creatures from the neighboring universe and everyone in between, the battle will begin in a few seconds. Please place your bids and take your seats!
💬 Finn: “Listen, we don't want to hear any stories either, we've just heard that this arena here can help us because we have a special mission to find this cargo.”
A loud bell rings.
💬 The Bookmaker groans: “Such questions bring bad luck here, weren't you told that?”
💬 Finn: “We've already heard that there's…”
Alix interrupts Finn: "I don't think we're getting anywhere here. Just tell us where we can find a free terminal here, then we'll just search the system for the cargo."
💬 The bookmaker laughs: “Well, good luck with that. Before you even find such information in the system, the security will catch you in a blink of an eye.”
💬 Alix: “I'm familiar with security systems, don't worry.”
💬 Bookmaker: “Boy, do you see the droids and cybernetic freaks around here? Even they have trouble getting information like yours.”
💬 Alix: “Excuse me?”
💬 Bookmaker: “Like I said, I'm just managing the money. I already talk too much. Try your luck with these green heads here after the fight. But be warned, they might not understand you guys. And now leave me alone, the battle begins.”
💬 Rees: “They seem to be under a lot of pressure here.”
💬 Alix: “ I'm start to wonder why it's so hard to get such trivial information.”
💬 Finn: “I agree with you both. But let's see how long the fight lasts first. And hopefully we'll get somewhere with these "green heads".”
To be continued…
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Deutsch:
Die Community hat sich für A entschieden
Finn, Rees und Alix gehen zum Wettschalter und fragen den Buchmacher.
💬 Finn: "Wir sind auf der Suche nach einer besonderen Fracht, und wir haben gehört, dass dies der richtige Ort ist, um danach zu fragen."
💬 Buchmacher: "Wie kommt ihr denn darauf? Wir sind hier ein Wettbüro, kein Auskunft. Wollt Ihr auf den Kampf bieten oder nicht?"
💬 Rees: "Sehr freundlich, aber wir haben nur eine normale Frage gestellt."
💬 Buchmacherin: "Lady, ich verwalte hier nur die Gelder für den Kampf, ich bin nicht derjenige, der Ihnen Geschichten erzählt."
Die Unterhaltung wird von einer lauten Ankündigung unterbrochen: “Ladies & Gentlemen, verehrte Kreaturen aus dem benachbarten Universum und alle dazwischen, der Kampf beginnt in wenigen Sekunden. Wir bitten Sie nun, Ihre Gebote noch schnell zu platzieren und Ihre Sitze einzunehmen!”
💬 Finn: “Hören Sie, wir wollen auch keine Geschichten hören, wir haben nur erfahren das diese Arena hier uns weiterhelfen kann da wir einen besonderen Auftrag haben diese Fracht zu finden.”
Ein lautes Glockengeräusch ertönt.
💬 Der Buchmacher stöhnt: “Solche Fragen bringen hier Unglück, wurde Euch das nicht gesagt?”
💬 Finn: “Wir haben schon mitbekommen das es hier…”
Finn wird von Alix unterbrochen: “Ich glaube, wir kommen so hier nicht weiter. Kannst du uns nicht sagen, wo wir hier ein freies Terminal finden, dann suchen wir die Fracht einfach im System.”
💬 Der Buchmacher lacht: “Na, da wünsche ich euch viel Glück. Bevor ihr überhaupt solche Informationen im System findet, haben die Sicherheitsleute euch hier umzingelt.”
💬 Alix: “Ich bin mit Sicherheitssystemen vertraut, keine Sorge.”
💬 Page: “Junge, siehst du die Droiden und die Cybernetic Freaks hier? Selbst die haben hier Probleme, um an Informationen wie eure zu kommen.”
💬 Alix: “Wie bitte?”
💬 Page: “Wie gesagt, ich verwalte hier nur das Geld. Ich rede schon zu viel. Versucht euer Glück nach dem Kampf bei den Grünköpfen hier. Aber seid gewarnt, vielleicht verstehen Sie Euch nicht. Und jetzt lasst mich in Ruhe, der Kampf beginnt.”
💬 Rees: “Die scheinen hier aber sehr unter Druck zu stehen.”
💬 Alix: “Ich frage mich langsam warum es so schwer ist an so einer trivialen Information zu kommen.”
💬 Finn: “Da schließe ich mich euch an, der Ton klingt mir auch nicht als sei das normal. Lasst uns erstmal schauen, wie lange der Kampf dauert. Und hoffentlich kommen wir bei diesen “Grünköpfen” weiter.”
Fortsetzung folgt…
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Bit of a rushed shot of 7802, Bradley Manor, passing a favourite spot of mine along the Severn Valley Railway. The all covering "lawn" of Mare's Tail is becoming a regular feature of Summer along The Severn Valley Railway.
Beachy Bits for Sunny Fun No. 7848 (1974-75)
It's so nice when you can get it like this for way cheaper than normal. All because the card was cut off. =)
A bit of pond life today, as one went in search of dragonflies after work.
And joy of joys - patience was rewarded with not only a number of static shots, but also a couple of flying shots of a four-spotted chaser in flight! Don't ask if it is male or female - I ain't got a clue!
(Please Note: This image not to be used on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © Paul J Fram - All rights reserved.)
# 142 / 365 . . . Something I found a bit unusual in the Kirkbride Building was that some of the patient's rooms were fortunate enough to have a small sink to wash up, a mirror, a small soap dispenser and a paper towel dispensary. I don't know how certain patients were chosen and have no idea how they decided who gets the sink privilege. Not every room looked like this in the Kirkbride. Not everyone got their own sink. Or mirror. Perhaps this set-up was for a patient on his or her best behavior. Perhaps those who don't act out and take their medication like good men and women got to get a room with a sink all to themselves. At its peak capacity, there were over 2,400+ patients in the Kirkbride Building that was meant to house just 250. At almost ten times the standard capacity, I'm willing to bet well more than just one patient was housed per room.
I'm currently reading "The Haunted History of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum" by Sherri Brake. It's a very in-depth comprehensive look at the asylum and especially the historical data that has been handed down through the years. Unfortunately, I've not found any information on how the coin toss is won for the personal sink.
The dirt, dust, mold, paint peeling, ceiling flaking and debris and garbage strewn made this very real for me. In comparison to some of the rooms in other buildings, this was actually quite clean.
bit of a / incredibly corny title here but it kind of fitted with Ruud's play on the night. he just kind of wondered around upfront, and often off-side, on his own. he did, however, score a cracking header, so we'll let him off. note johann cruyff sat (almost) directly opposite me.
i recently had the fortune to attend the Holland (Netherlands) v Russia game in EURO 2008 in Basle and what fun it was! despite secretly wanting the Oranje to win, Russia were bloody awesome and deserved it. don't know why van Basten insisted on playing van Persie on the right, but who am i to complain about a man that scores goals like this – uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fEqDd_nXnK8
DSLRs weren't allowed in casually so took this on an IXUS 90IS
I’ve been wanting to take a city break in summer, rather than in the cold months for a while, so rather than heading for the Lake District for a week of toil on the fells when Jayne could get a week off, we took off from Liverpool for Paris. Flight times were nice and sociable but it meant we were on the M62 car park at a busy time in both directions – it’s a shambles! I’ve stopped over in Paris a dozen times – on my way to cycling in the Etape du Tour in the Alps or Pyrenees – and had a few nights out there. Come to think about it and we’ve spent the day on the Champs Elysees watching the final day of the Tour de France with Mark Cavendish winning. We hadn’t been for a holiday there though and it was a bit of a spur of the moment decision. Six nights gave us five and a half days to explore Paris on foot. I had a good selection of (heavy) kit with me, not wanting to make the usual mistake of leaving something behind and regretting it. In the end I carried the kit in my backpack – an ordinary rucksack – to keep the weight down, for 103 miles, all recorded on the cycling Garmin – and took 3500 photos. The little Garmin is light and will do about 15 hours, it expired towards the end of a couple of 16 hour days but I had the info I wanted by then. This also keeps the phone battery free for research and route finding – I managed to flatten that once though.
What can I say – Paris was fantastic! The weather varied from OK to fantastic, windy for a few days, the dreaded grey white dullness for a while but I couldn’t complain really. We were out around 8.30 in shorts and tee shirt, which I would swap for a vest when it warmed up, hitting 30 degrees at times, we stayed out until around midnight most nights. It was a pretty full on trip. The security at some destinations could have been a problem as there is a bag size limit to save room in the lifts etc. I found the French to be very pragmatic about it, a bag search was a cursory glance, accepting that I was lugging camera gear, not bombs around, and they weren’t going to stop a paying customer from passing because his bag was a bit over size.
We didn’t have a plan, as usual we made it up as we went along, a loose itinerary for the day would always end up changing owing to discoveries along the way. Many times we would visit something a few times, weighing the crowds and light etc. up and deciding to come back later. I waited patiently to go up the Eiffel Tower, we arrived on Tuesday and finally went up on Friday evening. It was a late decision but the weather was good, the light was good and importantly I reckoned that we would get a sunset. Previous evenings the sun had just slid behind distant westerly clouds without any golden glory. It was a good choice. We went up the steps at 7.30 pm, short queue and cheaper – and just to say that we had. The steps are at an easy angle and were nowhere near as bad as expected, even with the heavy pack. We stayed up there, on a mad and busy Friday night, until 11.30, the light changed a lot and once we had stayed a couple of hours we decided to wait for the lights to come on. This was a downside to travelling at this time of year, to do any night photography we had to stay out late as it was light until 10.30. The Eiffel Tower is incredible and very well run, they are quite efficient at moving people around it from level to level. It was still buzzing at midnight with thousands of people around. The sunset on Saturday was probably better but we spent the evening around the base of the Tower, watching the light change, people watching and soaking the party atmosphere up.
Some days our first destination was five miles away, this is a lot of road junctions in a city, the roads in Paris are wide so you generally have to wait for the green man to cross. This made progress steady but when you are on holiday it doesn’t matter too much. Needless to say we walked through some dodgy places, with graffiti on anything that stays still long enough. We were ultra-cautious with our belongings having heard the pickpocket horror stories. At every Café/bar stop the bags were clipped to the table leg out of sight and never left alone. I carried the camera in my hand all day and everywhere I went, I only popped it in my bag to eat. I would guess that there were easier people to rob than us, some people were openly careless with phones and wallets.
We didn’t enter the big attractions, it was too nice to be in a museum or church and quite a few have a photography ban. These bans make me laugh, they are totally ignored by many ( Japanese particularly) people. Having travelled around the world to see something, no one is going to stop them getting their selfies. Selfies? Everywhere people pointed their cameras at their own face, walking around videoing – their self! I do like to have a few photos of us for posterity but these people are self-obsessed.
Paris has obviously got a problem with homeless (mostly) migrants. Walk a distance along the River Seine and you will find tented villages, there is a powerful smell of urine in every corner, with the no alcohol restrictions ignored, empty cans and bottles stacked around the bins as evidence. There are families, woman living on mattresses with as many as four small children, on the main boulevards. They beg by day and at midnight they are all huddled asleep on the pavement. The men in the tents seem to be selling plastic Eiffel Tower models to the tourists or bottled water – even bottles of wine. Love locks and selfy sticks were also top sellers. There must be millions of locks fastened to railings around the city, mostly brass, so removing them will be self-funding as brass is £2.20 a kilo.
As for the sights we saw, well if it was on the map we tried to walk to it. We crossed the Periphique ring road to get to the outer reaches of Paris. La Defense – the financial area with dozens of modern office blocks – was impressive, and still expanding. The Bois de Boulogne park, with the horse racing track and the Louis Vuitton Centre was part of a 20 mile loop that day. Another day saw us in the north east. We had the dome of the Sacre Couer to ourselves, with thousands of tourists wandering below us oblivious of the entrance and ticket office under the church. Again the light was fantastic for us. We read that Pere Lachaise Cemetery or Cimitiere du Pere Lachaise was one of the most visited destinations, a five mile walk but we went. It is massive, you need a map, but for me one massive tomb is much the same as another, it does have highlights but we didn’t stay long. Fortunately we were now closer to the Canal St Martin which would lead us to Parc de la Villette. This was a Sunday and everywhere was both buzzing and chilled at the same time. Where ever we went people were sat watching the world go by, socializing and picnicking, soaking the sun up. As ever I wanted to go up on the roof of anything I could as I love taking cityscapes. Most of these were expensive compared with many places we’ve been to before but up we went. The Tour Montparnasse, a single tower block with 59 floors, 690 foot high and extremely fast lifts has incredible views although it was a touch hazy on our ascent. The Arc de Triomphe was just up the road from our hotel, we went up it within hours of arriving, well worth the visit.
At the time of writing I have no idea how many images will make the cut but it will be a lot. If I have ten subtly different shots of something, I find it hard to consign nine to the dark depths of my hard drive never to be seen again – and I’m not very good at ruthless selection – so if the photo is OK it will get uploaded. My view is that it’s my photostream, I like to be able to browse my own work at my leisure at a later date, it’s more or less free and stats tell me these images will get looked at. I’m not aiming for single stunning shots, more of a comprehensive overview of an interesting place, presented to the best of my current capabilities. I am my own biggest critic, another reason for looking at my older stuff is to critique it and look to improve on previous mistakes. I do get regular requests from both individuals and organisations to use images and I’m obliging unless someone is taking the piss. I’m not bothered about work being published (with my permission) but it is reassuringly nice to be asked. The manipulation of Flickr favourites and views through adding thousands of contacts doesn’t interest me and I do sometimes question the whole point of the Flickr exercise. I do like having access to my own back catalogue though and it gives family and friends the chance to read about the trip and view the photos at their leisure so for the time being I’m sticking with it. I do have over 15 million views at the moment which is a far cry from showing a few people an album, let’s face it, there’s an oversupply of images, many of them superb but all being devalued by the sheer quantity available.
Don’t think that it was all walking and photography, we had a great break and spent plenty of time in pavement bistros having a glass of wine and people watching. I can certainly understand why Paris is top of the travellers list of destinations
8 Bit Balloons on the Fourth Plinth (One and Other) performance art in Trafalgar Square, London.
8 Bit Balloons is a construction of balloons organised into binary numbers. The letters of a message have been converted from their computer ASCII codes into binary numbers. Each group of 8 balloons in the binary code for a letter.
The balloons also have while LEDs inside them which can be seen in the closer shots.
Boiled a bit of Strawberry Jello powder in water for 10+ minutes. Trying to reduce the foam from the last Jello experiment. The boiling worked, but I think I need bigger drops and less Jello powder. There was hardly any splash at all.
Dungeness is a headland on the coast of Kent, England, formed largely of a shingle beach in the form of a cuspate foreland. It shelters a large area of low-lying land, Romney Marsh. Dungeness spans Dungeness Nuclear Power Station, the hamlet of Dungeness, and an ecological site at the same location. Dungeness is one of the largest expanses of shingle in Europe. It is of international conservation importance for its geomorphology, plant and invertebrate communities and birdlife.
One of the most remarkable features of the site is an area known as "the patch" or, by anglers, as "the boil". The waste hot water from the Dungeness nuclear power stations is pumped into the sea through two outfall pipes, potentially enriching the biological productivity of the sea bed and attracting seabirds from miles around.
The world famous Eight Bit doing a fine job at the Difusor meeting in Barcelona, Spain.
To see more on Difusor, check this set.
Bit of a double. First time I have seen 1100 class on the south and also first time I have seen the CQZYs in service.
"Child Verses" by Eugene Field. Illustrated by Helene Nyce. Copyright 1927 by the Saalfield Publishing Company.
Bit of a claim to fame Alex Winehouse (Amys bro) and girlfriend pose with my painting at Ribblefort Gallery =))
looks quite a bit like a footprint...which reminds me of a lake in sikkim, the khechopalri lake, which is supposed to be in the shape of the footprint of the goddess tara.
Anyways, this is a different place and story. This lake is called simkota/simkotra tsho...it's one of the many glacial lakes you encounter on the trek between thimpu and paro - the druk path trek. This one is the biggest and also houses a sizeable population of brown trout, which trekkers sometimes fish out for culinary purposes of the night :)
jumolhari is quietly visible in the background, this is at about 4100 m (4092m to be exact)
Made for the Monthly-themed ATC Group swap. Sep theme: A little bit of Paris. Swapped to Clarian's Hawk.
Materials: Background (tissue); sticker; image from the Internet; glitter pen.
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