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This species is not a 'given' out here on the Island, but seemingly is occurring more frequently in recent years.
Our regular 'peeps' are Western & Least Sandpipers - with these guys at times sprinkled into the flocks...
Record :: Study Shots
Semipalmated Sandpiper SESA (Calidris pusilla)
Lagoon Mouth
Saanichton Spit
aka
TI̸X̱EN 'the Spit" ( Tsawout First Nation )
Central Saanich BC
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DSCN4228 SESA
Individual 2
It has been remarkable lately at SS for SESA
Geoffrey N reported 8 one day out there
Nel museo di Kragujevac il soffitto è basso, opprimente, l'illuminazione è scarsa, l'atmosfera non e' cupa ma solenne.
Da altoparlanti invisibili una voce virile, gelida e impersonale pronuncia, in ordine alfabetico, i nomi dei 7000 morti del rastrellamento nazista nelle campagne della città seguito ad una azione partigiana di guerriglia nella quale morirono soltanto una decina di militari nazisti. Una rappresaglia immensa, disumana, colpi' la popolazione contadina della regione. La scolaresca di una intera scuola, un ginnasio, venne trucidata.
Il Parco commemorativo (Spomen Park) è luogo nel quale gli abitanti locali, giovani, vecchi e famiglie, trascorrono il tempo libero sostando nei prati, leggendo libri, pranzando in modo spartano. Innumerevoli scolaresche da tutta la Serbja ed escursionisti organizzati percorrono i bei vialetti circondati da boschi di latifoglie, magari evitando .. la visita al museo (!)
Spesso, in Occidente, dimentichiamo che il maggior tributo di sangue nella guerra di liberazione dal nazi-fascismo fu versato dai militari e dai civili di Russia e Jugoslavja. La sola Russia perse decine di milioni di morti, come ben ricordato dal regista serbo Kusturica nella sua biografia tradotta per l'editore Feltrinelli anche in Italia. Una lettura sana e interessante che consiglio a chiunque.
Ancora oggi, purtroppo, su certi media occidentali, anche progressisti, tirano venti da "guerra fredda" che soffiano sul fuoco facilmente attizzabile dell'anti slavismo. Come succede quando i crimini di guerra nella ex Jugosalavija vengono addebitati allo Stato serbo in esclusiva.
Sappiamo invece che la disintegrazione della ex Jugoslavija è stata voluta e pilotata da alcune Potenze Occidentali per motivi geo-strategici di conveniennza economico-politica, sfruttando abilmente la vittoria elettorale dei partiti di Destra nazional-facista in Slovenja e Croazia alla viglia delle guerre balcaniche.
Che succederebbe in un Paese che mi viene in mente a caso se una ipotetica e ridicola antistorica Padania venisse riconosciuta immediatamente senza fiatare , come Stato indipendente, da alcune grandi potenze occidentali ben armate e affamate di investimenti e di petrolio?
I maliziosi rideranno divertiti ma l'ipotesi non è peregrina..! Che potrebbe fare un Presidente della Repubblica attonito contro le diplomazie di cotanta forza?
E che succederebbe nella Spagna dei Baschi se lo stesso giochino venisse attuato? Basterebbe la Guardia Civil e qualche vigile urbano a risolvere la situazione?
Ve lo dico io quel che succederebbe.. succederebbe una "guerra civile", che di civile ha ben poco, ben poco..
L'asse Belgrado-Mosca poteva essere ed è tuttora un ostacolo all'infiltrazione delle multinazionali occidentali in Oriente europeo. Quelle stesse multinazionali che oggi riempiono (con profitti che fuggono all'estero) gli scaffali dei lussuosi supermarket semi vuoti dei Paesi baltici in disfatta economica, come anche della stessa Serbja liberista uscita dalla brillante "epoca Tadic".
Per questo sono convinto che il nuovo presidente serbo T. Nikolic dovra' essere e sara' nazionalista nel senso migliore del termine.
Ovvero fara' gli interessi prioritari del proprio Paese, non quelli delle multinazionali che affamano il popolo regalando poche briciole in forma di bassi salari.
Non risulta che costui sia contrario al progetto di adesione serba all'Unione Europea, pur a fronte di opposizione da parte di molta gente sfiduciata da una Europa comunitaria litigiosa, disunita, affarista e sciovinista ma priva di idee e ideali, nella quale si agitano fanstasmi di secessionismo, voglie di estremismo (Le Pen etc. etc.). Paesi che oscillano fra politiche liberiste fallimentari e protezionismo individualista.
Non risulta neppure che a Belgrado siano allo studio nuove guerre. Lo scippo del Kosovo impegna a fondo le energie del Paese gia' economicamente impoverito dalla cattiva gestione di Milosevic e dalla guerra d'aggressione del 1999
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(A Pristina, oggi, si abbattono le case degli abitanti di etnia serba per impedir loro di rientrarvi in futuro)
"Già nella esposizione di Radmila Vulicevic (presidentessa dell’Associazione di donne vedove e profughe di guerra “Srecna Porodica”), si può avere un’idea della realtà in cui vive il popolo serbo kosovaro. Sono passati quasi 13 anni da quando la “scure umanitaria” della NATO si è abbattuta sulla Serbia e sul Kosovo Metohija, per portare la “democrazia”; dopo 78 giorni di bombardamenti, a cui è seguita l’occupazione militare e la consegna della provincia ai loro fiduciari secessionisti e criminali dell’UCK (...)"
(...) Continuano ad esistere le “enclavi”, aree protette dalle forze militari internazionali, dove la gente ( serbi e rom soprattutto) vive in uno stato di apartheid, isolata ed intimorita.
Non esiste il diritto alla sanità, se non, per casi gravi presso l’ospedale di Mitrovica nord ( Kosovo settentrionale abitato dalla comunità serba), dove i serbi vanno …quando possono, sotto scorta, a farsi curare. (...)
Non esiste il diritto all’istruzione, i bambini serbi studiano nelle enclavi in stanze adattate a classi, spesso senza riscaldamento; i giovani vanno ogni due, tre mesi…quando possono, sotto scorta, a dare gli esami all’università distaccata di Mitrovica nord.
(...) Non esiste il diritto al lavoro, tranne la coltivazione di orti all’interno delle enclavi, non vi è nessuna possibilità di lavorare per ogni serbo del Kosovo; tranne piccole attività marginali (...)
Non esiste il diritto al libero movimento e spostamento, pena il rischio di essere attaccati o peggio assassinati, come successo in questi anni. (...)
FONTE: www.sosyugoslaviakosovo.com
Some of you may have noticed that, unfortunately, owing to the fact that a certain person who sells truck photos on eBay commercially has been lifting my images from this album and selling them I have had to remove 2300 photos that didn't have a watermark. I have now run around 1700 through Lightroom and added a watermark with the intention of bulk uploading them again. Rather than watermark the existing (hidden) files in Flickr one at a time it will be easier to do it this way. I definitely won’t be adding individual tags with the make and model of each vehicle I will just add generic transport tags. Each photo is named after the vehicle and reg in any case. For anyone new to these images there is a chapter and verse explanation below. It is staggering how many times I get asked questions that a quick scan would answer or just as likely I can’t possibly answer – I didn’t take them, but, just to clarify-I do own the copyright- and I do pursue copyright theft.
This is a collection of scanned prints from a collection of photographs taken by the late Jim Taylor A number of years ago I was offered a large number of photographs taken by Jim Taylor, a transport photographer based in Huddersfield. The collection, 30,000 prints, 20,000 negatives – and copyright! – had been offered to me and one of the national transport magazines previously by a friend of Jim's, on behalf of Jim's wife. I initially turned them down, already having over 30,000 of my own prints filed away and taking space up. Several months later the prints were still for sale – at what was, apparently, the going rate. It was a lot of money and I deliberated for quite a while before deciding to buy them. I did however buy them directly from Jim’s wife and she delivered them personally – just to quash the occasional rumour from people who can’t mind their own business. Although some prints were sold elsewhere, particularly the popular big fleet stuff, I should have the negatives, unfortunately they came to me in a random mix, 1200 to a box, without any sort of indexing and as such it would be impossible to match negatives to prints, or, to even find a print of any particular vehicle. I have only ever looked at a handful myself unless I am scanning them. The prints are generally in excellent condition and I initially stored them in a bedroom without ever looking at any of them. In 2006 I built an extension and they had to be well protected from dust and moved a few times. Ultimately my former 6x7 box room office has become their (and my own work’s) permanent home.
I hope to avoid posting images that Jim had not taken his self, however should I inadvertently infringe another photographers copyright, please inform me by email and I will resolve the issue immediately. There are copyright issues with some of the photographs that were sold to me. A Flickr member from Scotland drew my attention to some of his own work amongst the first uploads of Jim’s work. I had a quick look through some of the 30 boxes of prints and decided that for the time being the safest thing for me to do was withdraw the majority of the earlier uploaded scans and deal with the problem – which I did. whilst the vast majority of the prints are Jims, there is a problem defining copyright of some of them, this is something that the seller did not make clear at the time. I am reasonably confident that I have since been successful in identifying Jims own work. His early work consists of many thousands of lustre 6x4 prints which are difficult to scan well, later work is almost entirely 7x5 glossy, much easier to scan. Not all of the prints are pin sharp but I can generally print successfully to A4 from a scan.
You may notice photographs being duplicated in this Album, unfortunately there are multiple copies of many prints (for swapping) and as I have to have a system of archiving and backing up I can only guess - using memory - if I have scanned a print before. The bigger fleets have so many similar vehicles and registration numbers that it is impossible to get it right all of the time. It is easier to scan and process a print than check my files - on three different PC’s - for duplicates. There has not been, nor will there ever be, any intention to knowingly breach anyone else's copyright. I have presented the Jim Taylor collection as exactly that-The Jim Taylor Collection- his work not mine, my own work is quite obviously mine.
Unfortunately, many truck spotters have swapped and traded their work without copyright marking it as theirs. These people never anticipated the ease with which images would be shared online in the future. I would guess that having swapped and traded photos for many years that it is almost impossible to control their future use. Anyone wanting to control the future use of their work would have been well advised to copyright mark their work (as many did) and would be well advised not to post them on photo sharing sites without a watermark as the whole point of these sites is to share the image, it is very easy for those that wish, to lift any image, despite security settings, indeed, Flickr itself, warns you that this is the case. It was this abuse and theft of my material that led me to watermark all of my later uploads. I may yet withdraw non-watermarked photos, I haven’t decided yet. (I did in the end)
To anyone reading the above it will be quite obvious that I can’t provide information regarding specific photos or potential future uploads – I didn’t take them! There are many vehicles that were well known to me as Jim only lived down the road from me (although I didn’t know him), however scanning, titling, tagging and uploading is laborious and time consuming enough, I do however provide a fair amount of information with my own transport (and other) photos. I am aware that there are requests from other Flickr users that are unanswered, I stumble across them months or years after they were posted, this isn’t deliberate. Some weekends one or two “enthusiasts” can add many hundreds of photos as favourites, this pushes requests that are in the comments section ten or twenty pages out of sight and I miss them. I also have notifications switched off, I receive around 50 emails a day through work and I don’t want even more from Flickr. Other requests, like many other things, I just plain forget – no excuses! Uploads of Jim’s photos will be infrequent as it is a boring pastime and I would much rather work on my own output.
Shots from the 2015 SMASH! event at Rosehill Gardens, photographed by Ji Jun Xiong.
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The largest voter turnout since 1960 and the biggest win for a democratic candidate in recent history results in the largest file I've ever uploaded to Flickr :-) Thank you my friends for speaking up and being heard.
Individual photos from Barack Obama's photostream here on Flickr.
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This is the final packaging of my Bake Sale For A2A cookies. Cookies are sealed in individual polypropylene bags and packed inside lined resealable kraft paper bag. Each package contains 16 pieces of cookies including:
- Peanut Butter Cookie with Milk Chocolate Chunks
The label is one of my more brilliant ideas. I got the paper bags and polypropylene bags by the case to individually package the cookies ensuring freshness. And then I did a double take and realized hey they look like emergency rations. So I bounced the idea to little brother who graciously designed and printed these labels to complete the look.
Yes, there is such a thing as Cookie Emergency. Read more at Dessert By Candy.