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Spoonbill between Greylag Geese and Canadian Geese in the nature reserve Geltinger Birk, Baltic Sea
Löffler zwischen Graugänsen und Kanadagänsen im Naturschutzgebiet Geltinger Birk, Ostsee
"Did his response change at the end?"
"A little, not much. But there was something."
"I see. Abraham, let's shift gears for a bit. You're talking a lot about your family members, but not yourself. I want to focus on you, solve your issues. A helpful tool for recovering from traumatic experiences is to recount them, talk about them, embrace them. Take it step by step, how did the assignment start?"
"Al-alright. I think I can do that. Basically, it started as just gathering info. We were there every night. Listened in on info. We knew we couldn't risk wires, so we relayed information after we left. We just blended in. Two more miserable fucks looking to spend their money on booze and girls they can't have. The crowd was pretty diverse, so we didn't get a second look from anybody. You had your bikers; your gang members; mobsters; business men; and the man of the hour, the Clown Prince of Crime himself, the Joker. His presence... so powerful and scary... He could explode any fucking moment, and you didn't know when. And the laugh... I can here it in the back of my head. That is one thing that will never leave me. It's like nothing you've ever heard before."
"I can only imagine. How did you integrate yourselves into his gang?"
"After hanging out there for a while, we finally got in with the right people, who knew other people, who finally got us in with Croc."
"Croc?"
"Killer Croc, Waylon Jones. He was Joker's number one. Joker accepted him when most people shun him for his condition. Croc felt safe. Croc was terrifying. We had individual interviews with him. Let me tell you how that went..."
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Euromaidan (Yevromaidan, literally "Eurosquare") is a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on the night of 21 November 2013 with public protests demanding closer European integration and culminated in a coup d'etat of the reigning Ukrainian government. The scope of the protests expanded, with many calls for the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych and his government. Many protesters joined because of the violent dispersal of protesters on 30 November and "a will to change life in Ukraine". By 25 January 2014, the protests had been fueled by the perception of "widespread government corruption", "abuse of power", and "violation of human rights in Ukraine".
The demonstrations began on the night of 21 November 2013, when protests erupted in the capital, Kiev, after the Ukrainian government suspended preparations for signing an Association Agreement and a Free Trade Agreement with the European Union, in order to seek closer economic relations with Russia. Prime Minister Mykola Azarov had asked for 20 Billion Euros (US$27) billion in loans and aid. The EU and Russia both offered Ukraine the possibility of substantial loans. Russia also offered Ukraine cheaper gas prices. On 24 November 2013, first clashes between protesters and police began. Protesters strived to break cordon. Police used tear gas and batons, protesters also used tear gas and some fire crackers (according to the police, protesters were the first to use them). After a few days of demonstrations an increasing number of university students joined the protests. The Euromaidan has been repeatedly characterised as an event of major political symbolism for the European Union itself, particularly as
"the largest ever pro-European rally in history".
The protests are ongoing despite heavy police presence, regularly sub-freezing temperatures, and snow. Escalating violence from government forces in the early morning of 30 November caused the level of protests to rise, with 400,000–800,000 protesters demonstrating in Kiev on the weekends of 1 December and 8 December. In the weeks since, protest attendance has fluctuated from 50,000 to 200,000 during organised rallies. Violent riots took place 1 December and 19 January through 25 in response to police brutality and government repression. Since 23 January several Western Ukrainian Oblast (province) Governor buildings and regional councils have been occupied in a revolt by Euromaidan activists. In the Russophone cities of Zaporizhzhya, Sumy, and Dnipropetrovsk, protesters also tried to take over their local government building, and have been met with considerable force from both police and government supporters.
According to journalist Lecia Bushak writing in the 18 February 2014 issue of Newsweek magazine, EuroMaidan has grown into something far bigger than just an angry response to the fallen-through EU deal. It's now about ousting Yanukovych and his corrupt government; guiding Ukraine away from its 200-year-long, deeply intertwined and painful relationship with Russia; and standing up for basic human rights to protest, speak and think freely and to act peacefully without the threat of punishment.
A turning point came in late-February, when enough members of the president's party fled or defected to lose their majority in the parliament leaving the opposition large enough to form the necessary quorum. This allowed parliament to pass a series of laws that removed police from Kiev, canceled anti-protest operations, restored the 2004 constitution, freed political detainees, and allegedly impeached the president. Yanukovych then fled to Ukraine's second largest city of Kharkiv, refusing to recognise the parliament's decisions. The parliament has assigned early elections for May 2014.
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I mentioned in my photograph titled "Integration - 1" that the Fabian Way Park & Ride service in Swansea, operated by First Cymru under contract to the City & County of Swansea, was amalgamated into First Cymru's Service 8 (Bay Campus-City Centre-Singleton Campus & Hospital-Sketty Park-Hendrefoilan Student Village) from 17th June.
Wright Eclipse Gemini-bodied Volvo B7TL 37170, is therefore seen leaving the Fabian Way site when heading for the Bay Campus during the first week of the new arrangements.
Greater Manchester Passenger Transport was given statutory authority to coordinate, support and integrate bus and rail operations in its area - a duty that carried over to its successor TfGM. In the 1970s one of the more visible signs of this was the Saver Seven - a combined bus/rail season ticket that was in some ways an ancestor of the more famous London 'Oyster' scheme.
Saver Seven (with its cousins Saver Monthly and Saver Annual) was extremely popular and was a household name in Greater Manchester. The PTE promoted the concept extensively and we see one example here - brand new bus number 8072, in an overall paint scheme that pushes the rail part of the ticket.
You could get various levels of Saver Seven. All levels included travel on all buses in Greater Manchester, no matter who operated them; but the levels gave access to more an more rail services to and from stations depending on how close they were to Manchester. A zone one, for example, went only as far as Whitefield but a zone five ticket included every station in the county right out to far-flung Bryn.
Saver Seven didn't outlast the abolition of Greater Manchester County and the deregulation of bus services in 1986, but there are today integrated ticketing options offered by TfGM and contactless payment makes it mainly unnecessary to carry a season ticket with photo ID. But there are plenty of Sever Seven tickets and publicity posters in our collection to remind our visitors of this popular phenomenon.
If you'd like to know more about the Museum of Transport Greater Manchester and its collection of vintage buses, go to www.motgm.uk.
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ESA’s upcoming JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft arrives at the satellite integration centre of the project’s prime contractor Airbus in Friedrichshafen, Germany, in April 2020, to undergo final integration.
The 5.2-tonne spacecraft will be fitted with remaining components such as power electronics, an on-board computer, communication systems and navigation sensors, before continuing its journey to ESA’s Space Technology and Research Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands for testing.
Expected to set out for its seven-year cruise to Jupiter in 2022, JUICE will carry 10 scientific instruments for detailed inspection of the largest planet of the Solar System and its moons, including Ganymede, Europa and Callisto, which are believed to host oceans of water. During its planned three-year mission, the spacecraft is expected to answer the question whether the oceans of the icy moons host any forms of life.
A result of cooperation of more than 80 companies from all over Europe, JUICE was built and assembled in Airbus’ facilities in Madrid. The spacecraft was then fitted with a propulsion system at ArianeGroup’s site in Lampoldshausen, Germany, to form the spacecraft body, and transported to Friedrichshafen inside a special secured container on board of an oversized transporter.
Credits: Airbus
More than 250 friends and supporters joined EHMC Foundation for “Be Integrative,” a spectacular evening reception to benefit The Center for Integrative Medicine at EHMC.
On the eastern side of the park's Middle Falls and facing southwestward.
This shot, like the previous one in this album, was taken at a time of high flow rate. Nevertheless, a lot of evidence of columnar jointing is still discernible on the upper surface of the North Shore Volcanic Group basalt.
Of course, the columns farther back from the current spill face of the waterfall are still fully embedded in the bedrock, but you can spot their polygonal tops. Together they present quite a sculptural effect.
For more on how columnar joints form, see this post from another album. And for a review of the significance of the park's basalt in the context of the Midcontinent Rift, take a look at the description of this set's Part 18.
Finally, for an explanation of why this and other North Woods waterfalls have water that is tinted yellowish brown, take a quick trip across the Wisconsin border, to this post.
To see the other photos and descriptions of this series, visit
my Integrative Natural History of Minnesota's North Shore album.
Pretzel, our youngest resident cat, instantly got on with the kittens. In fact, he couldn't wait to start interacting with them and tried to break into the room where they were held in 'quarantine' after we initially took them in.
More on trapping and integrating the feral brothers is available here: makedoandmendnovice.blogspot.com/2023/02/a-sudden-influx-...
Due to funding constraints, the City & County of Swansea has had to look at a different model for providing its two remaining Park & Ride services. Therefore, from 17th June, the two bespoke services operated by First Cymru under contract have been amalgamated into the company's parallel commercial services.. Thus the former 501 covering Landore is now merged into Service 34 (Neath-Skewen-Llansamlet-Enterprise Park-Swansea City Centre) and the former 502 serving Fabian Way is now covered by Service 8 (Bay Campus-City Centre-Singleton Campus & Hospital-Sketty Park-Hendrefoilan Student Village).
Alexander Dennis E30D 67433 is one a pair that have covered the Landore service for the last five and a half years, and carry a two-tone green contract livery. These have been de-branded and re-allocated from Swansea Ravenhill depot to Port Talbot to temporarily cover Service 34 alongside the two-tone blue pair from the Fabian Way service.
My mid June 2019 shot of her in her new role was taken on Phoenix Way in Swansea Enterprise Park.
A small zone in Wan Chai with (presumably) perfect Feng Shui.
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It's finally done! This is my longest integration project yet and I wanted to make sure that I processed it very carefully. My goal when I first set out to capture M101 this year was to reveal the faint spiral arms visible in the bottom of this image... and I think I succeeded in that goal! As usual, I had some difficulties processing this image (this time, overexposed flats messed up the colors of the image), but despite that, I'm pleased with the signal that I was able to record with a stock DSLR. I'm certainly looking forward to imaging this galaxy again with a cooled mono camera in the future. This galaxy is about 23 million light years away in the constellation of Ursa Major (the Big Dipper). I hope y'all enjoy :)
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Orion 8" Astrograph
iOptron CEM70
Skywatcher Quattro Coma Corrector
Stock Nikon D5500
ZWO ASI 120MM mini Guide Camera
ASIAIR Pro for acquisition
Processing in Pixinsight & Photoshop
Subs from 4/2,4,5/2021
130 x 300s lights @ ISO 200
No Darks
60 Flats
100 Bias
Total Integration Time: 10.83 hrs
Due to funding constraints, the City & County of Swansea has had to look at a different model for providing its two remaining Park & Ride services. Therefore, from 17th June, the two bespoke services operated by First Cymru under contract have been amalgamated into the company's parallel commercial services.. Thus the former 501 covering Landore is now merged into Service 34 (Neath-Skewen-Llansamlet-Enterprise Park-Swansea City Centre) and the former 502 serving Fabian Way is now covered by Service 8 (Bay Campus-City Centre-Singleton Campus & Hospital-Sketty Park-Hendrefoilan Student Village).
Alexander Dennis E30D 67435 is one a pair that has covered the Fabian Way service for the last five and a half years, and carries a two-tone blue contract livery. These have been de-branded and re-allocated from Swansea Ravenhill depot to Port Talbot to temporarily cover Service 34 alongside the two-tone green pair from the Landore service. She is captured on Fendrod Way, Llansamlet in her new role in mid June 2019.
jsc2016e109768 (Sept. 9, 2016) -- At the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 49 crewmember Shane Kimbrough of NASA conducts procedures inside the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft Sept. 9 during a pre-launch training fit check. Kimbrough and Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos will launch Sept. 24, Kazakh time on the Soyuz MS-02 vehicle for a five-month mission on the International Space Station...NASA/Victor Zelentsov
Managed to develop a fully functional midsection that bends and flexes. It uses two "linear actuator" like designs that are enslaved to a differential which can either lift and lower the upper chassis when locked or bend it side to side when free. Best part is, it will lift and lower the upper section *around* the cockpit housing, which will be mounted to the lower abdomen rather than the upper chest, much like how the original technical developer envisioned it. Or so it would appear to me. The plating around the abdomen is attached to a "spine" on the lower section, which should conform with the movement of the upper chest. It still needs some reworking since that frame is from yesterday and not fitted to the new structure. It seems to bear weight well, fingers cross that it works.
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Leica Summilux 35mm f/1.4 II
Fomapan 100
Ars Imago FD 1+39
6 min 30 sec 20°C
Scan from negative film
SET 4 – West Point Wal-Mart
Spinning around for a second, this view looks at the intersection of the left-side actionway with the rear actionway. Not only is the Sporting Goods department sign (somewhat) visible hanging along the wall in the background, we also get a really good look at one of the Pre-Impact décor’s directional wayfinder signs there near the top center of the image.
There are several interesting things to point out with that sign, such as how its placards are skinny in design (to match the skinny hanging pendants of the décor package), and how it’s a fully three-dimensional cube (Project Impact’s earliest iterations switched over to a hollow cube, while its later versions as well as its successors ultimately just wound up going with a new, flat, two-sided design). What I find most interesting to point out, however, is that “Pickup in front of store” placard.
Recall my theory from a few photos back (see here) that Pickup was originally in the back of this store, before later being moved to the front. That would mean this placard – and all of those like it, throughout the salesfloor – was custom-made to fit these outdated directories, given that this décor was long out of production! I have to wonder if this was maybe the sole and singular store to get such a treatment, in fact. (Even if my theory is false, in either scenario Pickup was still only introduced years after this décor package debuted, so these placards would still have to have been custom-made, most likely. You know me: I love attention to detail like that.)
(c) 2022 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
Nature and humans seek to occupy the same space!
A Victorian box-shaped wrought iron gate-post and a tree compete for territory on Pittville Lawn in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Sadly both lost the battle!
© 2008 Steve Kelley
Have a crooked Friday! :) Shot from Jersey City, NJ.
9exp using Photomatix 3.1
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It is possible to notice the contemporary presence of three religions: Catholic, Coptic and Muslim. Example of tolerance and integration among religions.
Lübbenau, St. Nicholas' Church: Epitaph for Moritz Carl Count of Lynar 1702-1768), who commissioned and financed the construction of the church
An der Stelle der Nikolaikirche befand sich bereits eine frühere Kirche, deren Bauzeit nicht überliefert ist. Im Jahr 1736 wurde das Kirchengebäude wegen Baufälligkeit gesperrt und später abgerissen. Ursache der Baufälligkeit dürfte der sumpfige Untergrund gewesen sein, der auch der neuen Kirche Probleme bereitet. Die Wohngebiete um das Kirchengebäude waren noch bis in das 19. Jahrhundert von zum Teil schiffbaren Fließen und Gräben durchzogen. Die Kirchgänger kamen aus den umliegenden Orten mit Kähnen zur Kirche. Von 1738 bis 1741 entstand auf den Fundamenten des Vorgängerbaus ein neues Kirchengebäude im Barockstil unter Einbeziehung des.alten Kirchturms. Das Fundament des gesamten Gebäudes ruht auf Erlenstämmen. Bereits in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren, besonders stark jedoch seit 1996 traten verstärkt Risse im Mauerwerk auf. Am stärksten betroffen waren die Nordseite und der Turm. Die nach mehreren hundert Jahren nun außerhalb des Grundwasser gelegenen, als Fundament dienenden Erlenpfähle begannen zu faulen, so dass sich das Bauwerk absenkte. Das Kirchengebäude erhielt, um ein weiteres Absinken zu verhindern, im Jahr 2000 ein Betonfundament. Entstandene Risse wurden verpresst. Bis zum Jahr 2007 wurden auch die Außenfassade, der Kirchturm, der Dachstuhl und die Bleiglasfenster des Altars saniert. Der Kirchturm ist jedoch noch 14 cm aus dem Lot und in Richtung Rathaus geneigt.
(Wikipedia.de, gekürzt)
On the site of St. Nicholas' Church there was already a former church, the construction period of which has not been handed down. In 1736 the church building was closed due to dilapidation and later demolished. The reason for the dilapidation was probably the swampy ground, which also caused problems for the new church. The residential areas around the church building were still traversed by partly navigable canals and ditches until the 19th century. Churchgoers came to the church by boat from the surrounding villages.From 1738 to 1741 a new church building in the Baroque style was constructed on the foundations of the previous building, From 1738 to 1741 a new church building in the baroque style was constructed on the foundations of the previous building, integrating the old church tower. The foundation of the entire building rests on alder pillars. Already in the 1970s and 1980s, but especially since 1996, cracks in the masonry became more frequent. The north side and the tower were most affected. After several hundred years, the alder pillars, which had served as foundations and were now outside the groundwater, began to rot, causing the building to sink. In order to prevent further sagging, the church building was given a concrete foundation in 2000. Any cracks that developed were grouted.By 2007, the exterior façade, the steeple, the roof truss and the lead glass windows of the chancel were also renovated. However, the church tower is still 14 cm off the plumb line and inclined towards the town hall.
(Wikipedia.de, abbreviated)