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Halo: Combat Evolved has always been one of my favorite games. I’ve always loved how unique the Covenant vehicle designs are, and the fact that they’re mostly purple - my favorite color - only makes it better.
To take a small break from my usual builds, I decided to give a try at making the Covenant Type-32 Ghost. Unfortunately, I don’t have enough purple pieces, so I decided to make it in dark blue. Even then, I had to work with limited number of pieces - turns out I need more dark blue. Hopefully, one day I’ll collect enough to make it more game-accurate.
Photo captured via Minolta Maxxum AF 50mm F/1.7 Lens. Spokane Indian Reservation. Selkirk Mountains Range. Okanogan-Colville Xeric Valleys and Foothills section within the Northern Rockies Region. Inland Northwest. Stevens County, Washington. Early October 2021.
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The Menindee Lakes is a natural series of lakes that fill with water when the Darling-Baaka River floods. In the 1960s, a series of engineering projects augmented the Menindee Lakes, allowing water to be directed into the lakes and held back or released. This ensured a reliable water supply for the city of Broken Hill, the township of Menindee and secure supply of water for the Lower Darling River and supply to South Australia.
The Menindee Lakes system provides important habitat, nursery and recruitment for native fish, such as the Murray Cod and Golden Perch. It is important habitat for a huge variety of native and migratory bird species. The Menindee Lakes system is vital to the communities of the Far West, providing recreation and amenity, as well as attracting tourism, recreational fishing, horticulture and viticulture.
The Darling-Baaka River is central to the cultural, spiritual and economic lives of the Barkindji people.
The health of the Menindee Lakes and the Darling-Baaka River are intimately linked. The lakes fill from the Darling-Baaka River and water stored in the Menindee Lakes keeps the Lower Darling flowing during dry times. The Great Darling Anabranch is a series of ephemeral creeks, billabongs and lakes that wind their way to the Murray River to the west of the main Darling-Baaka River Channel.
Irrigation expands:
There has been a rapid expansion of irrigation along the rivers in the Northern Basin of the Murray Darling Basin, particularly cotton. Irrigation of cotton has expanded by 4,000% since the 1970s. In 1971 Australia grew 81,000 bales of cotton. By 2012 Australia grew 5.3 million bales. Irrigation dams - Wee Waa
Much of the cotton is grown along the rivers of the Murray Darling in very large irrigation enterprises, with most of the cotton grown on tributaries of the Darling-Baaka River.
Large private storages were built to hold water and other structures were built to capture flood waters. Water licences and water sharing plans allow irrigators to suck huge quantities from the tributaries of the Darling-Baaka even when flows are modest.
The result has been that low and medium flows have virtually stopped flowing down the Darling-Baaka River. Only the largest floods that cannot be captured upstream, or specially protected environmental flows, now make it down to the Menindee Lakes and Lower Darling-Baaka River.
An easy target?
After the Millennium Drought exposed just how over-allocated the river systems of the Murray-Darling Basin were, the Murray-Darling Basin Plan was agreed between the Commonwealth and the states. The Plan aimed to make the Murray-Darling Basin system more sustainable by returning more water to the rivers through buying back water licences and other measures to recover water for the environment.
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The irrigation industry views the water flowing into the Menindee Lakes as wasteful and unproductive (not growing crops). They would prefer water to be taken from the Menindee Lakes to meet the targets under the Basin Plan rather than for the irrigation industry to be compelled to use less water. The industry points to the volume of water that evaporates from the Menindee Lakes each year as a key reason to reduce the amount of water flowing into and being stored in the lakes. The amount of water that evaporates from shallow private storages in equally hot and dry climates is rarely mentioned.
Scientists and environmentalists view the water that flows down our rivers, fills wetland and billabongs, and spills over floodplains as highly productive for nature and vital for sustaining complex ecosystems that have evolved over eons. These flows are also vital for replenishing underground aquifers and for sustaining downstream communities and Indigenous cultures.
Some politicians view the Menindee Lakes as an easy target. The population around Menindee is sparse, without much economic or political clout. The birds, fish and wildlife can not vote, lobby or protest. Taking water from the Menindee Lakes system is seen as politically easier than seeking to recover water from loud, well-connected and politically savvy irrigators. The location of the Menindee Lakes in a remote part of NSW that is out of sight and out of mind for many citizens located on the eastern seaboard also makes it hard for the issue to gain political traction.
A plan to decommission the Menindee Lakes:
After the Menindee Lakes filled from a major flood event in Queensland and NSW 2012, they were rapidly emptied by the Murray Darling Basin Authority and the NSW Government. Usually the lakes would hold water for many years after they filled, but by 2014 they were emptied. As a consequence, Broken Hill was in danger of running out of water and the government announced a plan to drill bores to supply the city with low-quality bore water. Locals were outraged at this plan and were concerned that the Menindee Lakes had been deliberately drained so quickly as part of a plan to justify the decommissioning of the lakes.RIP Menindee Lakes
Another flood filled the Menindee Lakes in late 2016, but again they were rapidly drained, almost inexplicably into a flooding river. By then end of 2017 they were again dry just as drought started to bite and Broken Hill was facing another artificial water shortage.
Flush with cash from privatising the electricity networks, the NSW Government spent $500 million building a 270 kilometres water pipeline from the Murray River at Wentworth to Broken Hill. This ended the city’s reliance on the Darling-Baaka River and Menindee Lakes for water supply. Cotton Australia applauded the construction of the pipeline saying in their Annual Report, "The pipeline is a win for the community, the environment and irrigating farmers, and a solution Cotton Australia and its allies have long lobbied for." Meanwhile the local community was concerned that the pipeline would allow the NSW Government to decommission the Menindee Lakes without worrying about Broken Hill's water supply.
Sure enough, plans to reconfigure the Menindee Lakes are back on the table as a project to 'recover water from the environment' under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan's Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment Mechanism. The NSW Government wants to save up to 100 gigalitres of water each year by reducing the volume water stored in Menindee Lakes by up to 80%. A range of proposals have been put forward for consultation.
The Darling River Action Group has labelled the plans as 'ecological genocide.' They strongly oppose the huge reduction in habitat that will occur if reconfiguration plans go ahead. They worry that changing the times between and length of inundation in the lakes will have a major impact on fish breeding and birdlife. The Barkindji native title holders are also strongly opposed to the plans, with significant concerns about the impact on their culture, community, environment and sacred sites.
Fish kills and dry rivers and lakes:
Fish Kill Menindee In the teeth severe drought, predictions of environmental catastrophe on the Darling River came true as millions of fish floated dead on the surface. Hot weather and a lack of flows led to a blue-green algae bloom that stripped the water of oxygen when it died, suffocating many millions of fish along a length of the Darling-Baaka River. Images of giant Murray Cod many decades old floating on the surface of a stagnant, bright green river shocked Australians. If water had been stored in the Menindee Lakes, a flow of water in the Darling-Baaka River could have been maintained and millions of fish and other creatures would have survived. It was noted that the very large mature Murray Cod that had died would have survived numerous previous droughts, so what had changed?
A report by the Australian Academy of Science concluded:
The conditions leading to this event are an interaction between a severe (but not unprecedented) drought and, more significantly, excess upstream diversion of water for irrigation. Prior releases of water from Menindee Lakes contributed to lack of local reserves.
A small flow in mid-2019 led to a partial revival of the Darling-Baaka River and water in the upper lakes of the Menindee Lakes system. However, the Menindee Lakes and Darling-Baaka River face three major threats:
1) The proposed re-configuration of the Menindee Lakes system;
2) The continuing overallocation of water extraction licences in the Northern Basin of the Murray-Darling system;
3) The extent and proposed licencing of floodplain harvesting, which is capturing huge quantities of water before it can even reach the waterways of the Darling-Baaka River.
Source: Save Menindee Lakes (www.savemenindeelakes.org.au/the_history)
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The dunnock, a quiet and plain sparrow sized bird measures 13–15 cm in length. It’s also known as the hedge sparrow but it’s not actually a member of the sparrow family , but is instead a member of the family of birds called accentors. It possesses a streaked back, resembling a small house sparrow with a distinctive pattern around the eye. The dunnock has a drab appearance which may have evolved to avoid predation. It is brownish underneath, and has a fine pointed bill. Adults have a grey head, and both sexes are similarly coloured. The dunnock is described by its name which derives from the Old English word for ‘little brown’.
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Reminiscent of New York's Highline, but better because it's been left to evolve back to its natural state. A great example of nature eventually taking back any space which people have given up on.
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The Parish of St. John the Evangelist was formed in 1830. The present church was opened in 1875. Besides being a place of worship for over 125 years, St. John’s has evolved into a community centre, and has been an incubator for many organizations. It has been a community meeting place for such diverse groups as the Girl Guides, Canada World Youth, the Elora-Salem Horticultural Society and Alcoholics Anonymous. St. John’s-Kilmarnock School, the amalgamation of St. John’s College and St. Margaret’s Schools, which were founded in Elora, still have close ties with the church. Well known for its music, St. John’s was the birthplace of the Elora Festival in 1979. The Festival and its Singers hold concerts in the church throughout the year. In recent years a strong bond has developed with Portage, an organization offering a drug free therapeutic rehabilitation program for juveniles. Students at Portage serve at church services and a number of members of the parish do volunteer work at Portage. St. John’s is the home of the famous communion set reportedly donated by Florence Nightingale to her cousin and reputed lover, John Smithurst, Rector of the church from 1852-1857. The building is an excellent example of Victorian Gothic Revival architecture. Hallmarks of the Gothic Revival style in St. John’s include buttresses, vaulted arches, steeply pitched gable roofs, elaborate cast iron ornaments such as rooftop cresting and pointed arch windows. The polychrome colour scheme of red and yellow brick buttresses and external woodwork are all features of Gothic Revival architecture. The church was designed by Henry Langley (1836-1907) an architect with extensive experience in church design. Langley was responsible for the design of the Metropolitan Methodist, Jarvis Street Baptist, and St. Andrew’s Presbyterian (now United) churches in Toronto. Year Built: 1875
I love evolving the look of my avi, i have been making my own shapes since 2009 it’s like pokemahns evolution keep evovling my pokemahn avi 😝
By this point I have been myself for getting for a month with the odd day as him just for work or family dues, By this point I have to say I have just about had enough of having to make a big effort every day hence why I look more like him, The makeup is minimal and the hair due to the weather has just been left at is it.
I can totally understand why women don't make as much effort as we do its such hard work every day.
While in town today i walked by a couple ,the wife pushing the pram and the guy looking gormless. he then spots me and I know I v'e been read as i had a few times that day. In all honesty i felt like a guy so that probably came across more that way,
He starts to say to his partner rather frantically " THATS A GUY THATS A MAN" I was of course looking back at him by this point watching his partner looking around aimlessly. he continues "Over there its a man dressed as a woman" By this stage i just couldn't hold back any longer the fits of giggles from me evolved into the loudest laugh you have ever heard.
The Guy looked and realised he had been clocked his partner now discovered me and realised her partner had made a spectacle of them both and gave him the death stare. I walked of laughing.
I knew i didn't look convincing and that confirmed what i was feeling but after that i had a spring in my step as i was proud to be able to be me however i looked and only one man made any comment. Not bad for the good old UK,
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Rose leaves during spring growth
Shooting with 3 extension tubes and a 50mm prime, the compressed perspective and optical jumble of leaves created at a wide aperture made for some very curious results -viewed small I can't help thinking of teeth:-)
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Sometimes the beauty of nature really leaves me spellbind. How on earth did the crane evolve to be so dramatic? How did any of the other animals? Everything living thing originated from a single celled organism, and now the beauty and variety of all living things is nothing but mind bending.
Sorry for talking about a slightly tangential issue here, I sat this morning reading some articles about World Wildlife Day (which was last week) and how some of our most iconic species are in mortal peril, and how us humans have put them there. And that got me to think about Nature itself. The great mother, the great balancer, the creator and preserver. Surely, you would expect nature to bounce back from the lashing we have given her in the recent decades? But how much can she take before we push her to the point of no return? Is that time upon us already? The conservationists certainly think so. The time to act is now. Time to protect our vulnerable species, time to get serious about wildlife crime, time to say no to poaching. How will we emerge from such a wildlife crisis is a completely different issue all together. Maybe some of our most beloved species will be lost forever, only to be looked at in trinkets, zoos and museum displays. Maybe they won’t. Maybe we will rally to their cause, just so that our future generations will be gape and wonder at their beauty just like I am doing today.
Sorry I deleted the black and white version of this photo last week as I felt it looked a little dull. I am uploading the colour version instead.
I read an article in the Saturday Telegraph that stated that around 4% of cow elephants are born tuskless. In areas where poaching is a problem this percentage rises as the tuskless elephants are ignored by poachers allowing their genes to dominate.
Some have used this to verify Darwin's theory of evolution but I think that this is more likely an event driven by the intervention of man.
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Ok I said I was done posting before my vacation but I found these Peonies out front and the Flickr junky in me took over. I'm leaving for Florida on Sunday . We are planning a trip to see the Egrets and the Wood storks nest in St. Augustine. I'm hopeful it will be a fantastic Op...Thank you so much and I will try to answer everyone before I go ( and try to make this my last post... )
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