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In those days the news spread everywhere: the Americans were liberating Italy with the help of the partisan gangs and the Nazi army was in scattered retreat. But my parents had run away before, and I didn't even know where, exactly. It was not a normal family, mine: my father was Jewish, and this was enough to justify the flight in the previous months. Now, I had no more news of them, and when I got home, I had the gun in my hand and a bad foreboding in my mind ...
that something mean is about to be justified :-)
Robert Brault
HPPS
pansies, brookside gardens. wheaton, maryland
The castle in Krasiczyn was built in Renaissance-Mannerist style in 16th and 17th centuries. The construction of castle was started by Stanisław Krasicki. Characteristic for it are 4 different corner towers: Divine, Papal, Royal and Noble. The castle is surrounded by a park.
At the beginning of World War II, the castle was robbed by Soviet soldiers. In 1940, in the castle, Soviet filmmakers made an anti-Polish film entitled "Wind from the East", justifying the invasion of the USSR together with Germany on Poland in September 1939.
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Zamek w Krasiczynie był wybudowany w stylu renesansowo-manierystycznym w XVI i XVII wieku. Budowę zamku rozpoczął Stanisław Krasicki. Charakterystyczne dla niego są 4 odmienne wieże narożne: Boska, Papieska, Królewska i Szlachecka. Zamek jest otoczony parkiem.
Na początku II wojny światowej zamek został ograbiony przez żołnierzy sowieckich. W 1940 na terenie tego zamku filmowcy radzieccy zrobili antypolski film pt. „Wiatr ze Wschodu”, uzasadniający inwazję ZSRR razem z Niemcami na Polskę we wrześniu 1939.
✈ Flight to Magic & Dream Beach ✈
♪ Yes ~ Don't Kill the Whale ~ Live at Montreux ♪
You're first, I'm last
You're thirst, I'm asked to justify
Killing our last heaven beast
Don't hunt the whale
In beauty vision
Do we offer much
If we reason with destiny, gonna lose our touch
Don't kill the whale
Rejoice they sing
They worship their own space
In a moment of love, they will die for their grace
Don't kill the whale
If time will allow
We will judge all who came
In the wake of our new age to stand for the frail
Don't kill the whale
Cetacei
Amsterdam - Middenweg
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He said that everyone was into rough sex, that something must be wrong with me. He said that as his WIFE I was supposed to meet all his needs. He said that I should have sex with him every day if he wants it. He said that he was sorry that I cried. He said that next time, he would ask me first. He said a lot of things to justify his behavior.
Nothing can justify WIFE RAPE. Nothing.
Marital rape is the term used to describe nonconsensual sexual acts between a woman/man and her husband/wife, ex-husband/wife, or intimate long-term partner.
These sexual acts can include: intercourse, anal or oral sex, forced sexual behavior with other individuals, and other unwanted, painful, and humiliating sexual activities.
It is rape if one partner uses force, threats, or intimidation to get the other to submit to sexual acts.
There are three types of marital rape:
Battering Rape - This involves forced sex combined with battering, motivated primarily by anger toward the victim. The sexual abuse is either part of the entire physical abuse incident or is a result of the husband later asking his wife to prove she forgives him for the beating by having sex with him.
Force-Only Rape - The husband uses only as much force as necessary to coerce his wife into sexual activity. This type of sexual assault is primarily motivated by the need for power over the victim. In his mind, he is merely asserting his right to have sex with "his" wife on demand. This is the most common type of marital rape.
Obsessive Rape - The husband’s sexual interests run toward the strange and perverse, and he is willing (or even has a preference) to use force to carry these activities out. This is the least common, yet arguably the most physically damaging, type of marital rape.
Although battered women are more at risk for marital rape than their non-battered counterparts, some men will rape their wives and never beat them; others will beat them, but not rape them. These issues may be inter-linked or seemingly unrelated.
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This blooming Saraca tree attracts many type of local sunbirds with appearance of this rare Van Hasselt's sunbird. Every part of this tiny skittish bird is filled with patches of striking shimmering colours under the bright sun ..making it a real challenge to get a decent shot to justify its beauty! ..
Thanks for your visit..
Wishing you a safe and beautiful new week...
Tune: How Did You Love
A timely thought in this day of hate and lack of value for human life...
[Oh for muse of truth that we could descend into the darkest hells of our own inventions. A kingdom, a stage, a cage. ~Shakespeare (paraphrased)]
You can have the sound of a thousand voices calling your name
You can have the light of the world blind you, bathe you in grace
But I don't see so easily what you hold in your hands
Cause castles crumble, kingdoms fall and turn into sand
You can be an angel of mercy or give into hate
You can try to buy it just like it every other careless mistake
How do you justify I'm mystified by the ways of your heart
With a million lies the truth will rise to tear you apart
Wooaahh!
No one gets out alive, every day is do or die
The one thing you leave behind
Is how did you love, how did you love?
It's not what you believe; those prayers will make you bleed
But while you're on your knees
How did you love, how did you love, how did you love?
Nothing comes from nothing
Must mean something in the end
Justify the means
I need to break you
Need to hate you
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7ARjAUdG9A (for anyone that can't view it, it is Ten Ton Brick by Hurt)
Temple of the Forty Martyrs of Sevastia, Konakovo. Russia.
Date of foundation of the temple: 2004
The site allocated for the construction of the temple is located in the western part of the city of Konakovo, on the banks of the Volga.
Nowadays, daily services and ceremonies are held in the temporary church.
The priest had to master the profession of a builder in order to justify the hopes of the parishioners.
The projected temple is a two-aisled one, with a basement and choirs, an attached belfry, with a hipped-roof end of the main aisle and a four-pitched roof of the north side-altar. The main side-altar of the temple has a cubic main volume with four pillars carrying a light octagon with a dome.
The construction of the temple continues.
Father Oleg himself obtains and brings material for the future church, he negotiates with contractors, looks for workers. He can often be seen at a construction site. Father Oleg took upon himself a seemingly overwhelming burden - the construction of the first large church in the history of Konakovo. In the city, founded in Soviet times, the church was not foreseen. They built a state district power station, erected houses, laid out parks, but hands reached the temple only 14 years ago - in 2004. So the temple will be truly unique for the city.
I hear a lot of different words every day.
The propaganda of selfish politicians and the games of the international community. Biased news and fake news.
The words of international political scientists, military pundits, economists, historians, and people on social media on the couch with potato chips and beer.
I can't find a single word there that justifies war.
"Hey, why were human so stupid?"
"Baaaaa..."
Just Stop the War.
Ravenport Reclaimed
[You will find this and other images of mine in my new website:
Sintra is a charming village just about 20 kms from Lisbon's center. The village itself is beautiiful and, in the mountain above it, the palace and castle are also jewels that justify a visit.
What isn't so well known is its coastal area, where you can explore beautiful beaches and amazing rock formations, Along the cooast you will find excellent trekking paths to explore the area.
The spot where this shot was taken has a magnificent view that extends as far as Praia da Ursa (you can see one of its iconic seastacks) and to Cabo da Roca with its far distant lighthouse.
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Sintra coast, Portugal
© All rights reserved Rui Baptista. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
Swallow my pride I'm trying
Justifying you're lying
Being used by you, it feels so true
How do we reach this demons
I'm gonna leave us
They don't fucking care for you, like I do
Somehow I get blinded by you
Blind by you, blind by you
Somehow I get blinded by you
Blind by you, blind by you
I can't stop dreaming of, dreaming of
I can't stop dreaming of
Bring me down, bring me down
The Gulf of St. Lawrence and Northumberland Strait part ways at the northeast edge of Prince Edward Island, where a long, rocky reef that is the longest in North America stretches seaward for about 2.4 km (1.5 miles).
Heavy rain and wind were predicted for that night and the entire day after, we RV-camped out there near the cliff for two days - loved the sounds of pelting rain hitting our van and the roaring wind!
The first formal request for a lighthouse to highlight this nautical hazard on the North Cape was probably made in the following report, which was published in 1834.
On the N.W. point of Prince Edward Island, a light would be highly useful to vessels who are crossing the Gulf are forced down in the night by violent N.E. winds. The rapidly increasing trade of Miramichi and the many rising settlements in the Strait of Northumberland, would also well justify the erection of a Lighthouse there.
Hope you like this image, and thank you for your kind visit! 🌺🌹🙏
Scultura
Anno: 300 a.C. - 201 a.C.
It is a theme that had much success in the Roman world, also in literature, for having been taken up by Apuleius in the Metamorphoses: depicting the union between divine and mortal, it was used to justify unions between noble families and plebeian classes but also as a symbol of passage of the soul (Psyche) to a blessed life, beyond the earthly one.
Musei Capitolini
ROMA
Cloud formations over San Francisco.
I've recently been engaged in the process of sorting through my earlier photographs and preparing higher resolution versions of them. While reexaminging the files that made up the original version of this photograph, I discovered that I'd shot an additional section on the left of this panorama that I'd neglected to use in the original upload of this photo. I figured it might be interesting to put a complete version of the picture together as I'd originally shot it.
Usually when I completely recreate a photograph like this, it's because I find something wrong with the version I'd previously edited. That isn't the case here, so I decided to at least approach the remake from a different process. My original version was a panorama made up of two 7-exposure tonemapped HDR files; this time I didn't bother with HDR, opting instead to work with the RAW files natively before merging them into the panorama. The previous version of this photograph had an almost desaturated color profile; this time I wanted the colors of the sky to show through more strongly.
In the end, I like both versions of this picture. They're different - perhaps subtly so, but at least different enough to justify their existence.
This Egret has its eye on something at Abberton reservoir. Bought a very cheap used ( £40) Kenko 1.4 teleconveter, couldn't justify the cost of a Nikon one!
Was pleasantly surprised by the results!
it means the end :-(
Robert Brault
Truth Matters! Justice Matters! Character Matters!
hydrangea, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
Photo taken at Miami Beach, Crime & Sunshine.
How much money justifies a robbery
And how much money justifies a soul
You say I can do better, and yes I do agree
But you’re mistaking me for someone in control
Cause someone should have left me like you did someone, someone else instead
But it had to be you
I'm organising freedom on the table top
The adoration changes into fear
Music Mood
♫ Warhaus | it had to be you ♫
“You are alive, and you don’t need to justify your existence. You can be the biggest mystery in your own story.”
― Miguel Ruiz
Well I sure am the biggest Flickr mystery :-). And I couldn’t even try to explain my existence or non existence, let alone justify it.
🙋♀️ My friends can I ask you to just fave if you like what you see ? My stream is mysteriously (suspiciously) empty.. so on a mission now to provide a show case.
Thank you from my heart to all of you who never forget or desert me, and for your warm welcome back. I hope I can repay your kindness, in whichever way possible. ❤️
🎶. youtu.be/m9f4XtNj1Vg Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift “The Joker and the Crown
Bittern - Botaurus Stellaris
Norfolk
The bittern is a thickset heron with all-over bright, pale, buffy-brown plumage covered with dark streaks and bars. It flies on broad, rounded, bowed wings. A secretive bird, very difficult to see, as it moves silently through reeds at water's edge, looking for fish. The males make a remarkable far-carrying, booming sound in spring. It's very small, reedbed-dependent population make it an Amber List species.
It is also a Schedule 1 species.
Unlike the similar storks, ibises, and spoonbills, herons, egrets, pelicans, and bitterns fly with their necks retracted, not outstretched.
Eurasian bitterns feed on fish, small mammals, amphibians and invertebrates, hunting along the reed margins in shallow water. British records include eels up to 35 cm (14 in) and other fish, mice and voles, small birds and fledglings, frogs, newts, crabs, shrimps, molluscs, spiders and insects. In continental Europe, members of over twenty families of beetle are eaten, as well as dragonflies, bees, grasshoppers and earwigs. Some vegetable matter such as aquatic plants is also consumed.
Males are polygamous, mating with up to five females. The nest is built in the previous year's standing reeds and consists of an untidy platform some 30 cm (12 in) across. It may be on a tussock surrounded by water or on matted roots close to water and is built by the female using bits of reed, sedges and grass stalks, with a lining of finer fragments. Four to six eggs are laid in late March and April and incubated by the female for about twenty-six days. After hatching, the chicks spend about two weeks in the nest before leaving to swim amongst the reeds. The female rears them without help from the male, regurgitating food into the nest from her crop, the young seizing her bill and pulling it down. They become fully fledged at about eight weeks.
The Eurasian bittern has a very wide range and a large total population, estimated to be 110,000 to 340,000 individuals. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its overall conservation status as being of "least concern because although the population trend is downward, the rate of decline is insufficient to justify rating it in a more threatened category. The chief threat the bird faces is destruction of reed beds and drainage and disturbance of its wetland habitats. It is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. The southern race has suffered catastrophic decline during the 20th century due to wetland degradation and, unlike the northern race, is of high conservation concern.
In the United Kingdom, the main areas in which the Eurasian bittern breeds have been Lancashire and East Anglia with an estimated 44 breeding pairs in total in 2007. However, the Lancashire population at Leighton Moss RSPB reserve has declined in recent decades, while bitterns have been attracted to new reed beds in the West Country. In Ireland, it died out as a breeding species in the mid-19th century, but in 2011 a single bird was spotted in County Wexford and there have been a number of subsequent sightings. In the 21st century, bitterns are regular winter visitors to the London Wetland Centre, enabling city dwellers to view these scarce birds.
Population:
UK breeding:
80 males
UK wintering:
600 birds
Europe:
21 - 29,000 pairs
Lush Poses - Everyday is a good day (Couple Bento Pose & Props)
Amanda Marshall
Indian summer, Abeline
You were new in town, I was nineteen
And the sparks flew
They called us crazy behind our backs
Romantic fools, we just let them laugh
Because we knew
It may be a long shot
We may get lonely down the line
Love knows no reason
And I won't let 'em make up my mind
My money's riding on this dark horse, baby
My heart is saying it's the lucky one
And it's true color's gonna shine through someday
If we let this, let this dark horse run
Stars are brighter in a desert sky
No need to wonder or justify
Where this will lead
I wear your locket, our picture's inside
Inscription says "the joy's in the ride"
And I believe
That something so sacred
Is something worth this kind of fight
'Cause love knows no patience, no, no
You can't please everyone all the time
My money's riding on this dark horse, baby
My heart is saying it's the lucky one
And it's true color's gonna shine through someday
If we let this, let this dark horse run
So rare
So sweet
Together baby, I know
We can disappear
Be free
Ooh, my money's riding on this dark horse, baby
My heart is saying it's the lucky one
And it's true color's gonna shine through someday
If we let this, let it run, baby
My money's riding on this dark horse, baby
My heart is saying it's the lucky one
And it's true color's gonna shine through someday
If we let this, let this dark horse run
Indian summer, Abeline
You were new in town, I was nineteen
Yeah, baby
In the summertime
Hey, yeah
Ooh
Shot from the hip while walking, so it's a bit blurry; hope you'll find the composition good enough to justify this to some extent. :-)
There is nothing, nothing, that can justify so much destruction and so much pain...Not war.
No hay nada, nada, que pueda justificar tanta destrucción y tanto dolor .
War! War!
Yes, it happens
Even now!
In this world
Where we call
Ourselves
Refined
Cultured
Educated
And modern
War! War!
If it happens
Even now
And if we
Can justify
Killing humans,
It proves
We are still
Barbarians
by
PREMKUMAR C N
Sunday, February 27, 2022
Welcome to the beautiful city of Uzerche under the sun, pearl of Corrèze - New Aquitaine - France - Europe
Histoire d'Uzerche
Uzerche surnommée La " Perle du Limousin " est implantée sur la crête d'un escarpement rocheux entouré par une courbe serrée de la Vézère.
Les premiers, les Gaulois s'installèrent sur ce piton rocheux.
César, après avoir conquis la Gaule, choisit de laisser quelques garnisons dans la région, avec pour mission, à Uzarcba, de surveiller les passages de la Vézère.
Le site occupait une position stratégique. Il surplombait le col de Sainte-Eulalie où se trouvait un important carrefour routier antique, d'origine préromaine. L'une des routes joignait l'Armorique au Bassin Méditerranéen, une autre permettait de franchir la Vézère à gué.
Très tôt, ce col fut équipé d'un lieu de culte consacré à une martyre espagnole du 3ème siècle, Sainte-Eulalie de Mérida.
En 480, les Wisigoths pillent et détruisent Uzerche.
Pépin le Bref, conscient de l'intérêt du site, fait bâtir une forteresse et une église protégées par une haute muraille flanquée de dix-huit tours.
La ville se dote de portes, dont la Porte Bécharie qui subsiste encore. Trente an après leur défaite à Poitiers (732), les Sarrasins envahissent une seconde fois le Limousin.
Durant sept ans la ville résiste à leurs assauts et se libère du siège par un habile stratagème. Un blason symbolisant (selon la légende) cette victoire est sculptée sur la porte Bécharie.
En 909, les Normands saccagent la cité.
Au 10ème siècle, les Carolingiens décident d'y fonder un monastère sous la conduite de l'abbé Gaubert. Un incendie en 1028 met un terme à la prospérité que connaît la communauté.
Le 12ème siècle est une période faste, les grands de ce monde traversent la cité et s'arrêtent au monastère : Henry II d'Angleterre et Aliénor d'Aquitaine, leur fils, Richard Cœur de Lion.
La ville résiste à plusieurs sièges, dont celui des Anglais, méritant ainsi le surnom d'Uzerche-La-Pucelle, celle qui n'a jamais été prise.
Dès le 14ème siècle, son développement justifie l'adage " Qui a maison à Uzerche a château en Limousin ". La noblesse de robe va construire hôtels et maisons fortes jusqu'au 16ème siècle.
En 1575, le vicomte de Turenne, à la tête des Huguenots, saccage l'abbaye.
La puissance de son abbaye et la création d'une sénéchaussée royale firent d'elle une capitale du Bas-Limousin.
Source la Corrèze.com
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History of Uzerche
Uzerche, nicknamed the "Pearl of Limousin", is located on the crest of a rocky escarpment surrounded by a tight curve of the Vézère.
The first, the Gauls, settled on this rocky peak.
Caesar, after having conquered Gaul, chose to leave some garrisons in the region, with the mission, in Uzarcba, to monitor the passages of the Vézère.
The site occupied a strategic position. It overlooked the Sainte-Eulalie pass where there was an important ancient road junction, of pre-Roman origin. One of the roads joined Armorica to the Mediterranean Basin, another made it possible to ford the Vézère.
Very early on, this pass was equipped with a place of worship dedicated to a 3rd century Spanish martyr, Sainte-Eulalie de Mérida.
In 480, the Visigoths pillaged and destroyed Uzerche.
Pépin le Bref, aware of the interest of the site, had a fortress and a church built, protected by a high wall flanked by eighteen towers.
The city is equipped with gates, including the Porte Bécharie which still remains. Thirty years after their defeat at Poitiers (732), the Saracens invade Limousin a second time.
For seven years the city resisted their assaults and freed itself from the siege by a clever stratagem. A coat of arms symbolizing (according to legend) this victory is carved on the Porte Bécharie.
In 909, the Normans sacked the city.
In the 10th century, the Carolingians decided to found a monastery there under the leadership of Father Gaubert. A fire in 1028 put an end to the prosperity of the community.
The 12th century was a prosperous period, the great of this world crossed the city and stopped at the monastery: Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, their son, Richard the Lionheart.
The city resisted several sieges, including that of the English, thus deserving the nickname of Uzerche-La-Pucelle, the one that was never taken.
From the 14th century, its development justifies the adage "Who has a house in Uzerche has a castle in Limousin". The nobility of the robe built hotels and fortified houses until the 16th century.
In 1575, the Vicomte de Turenne, at the head of the Huguenots, sacked the abbey.
The power of its abbey and the creation of a royal senechaussee made it a capital of Bas-Limousin.
Source la Corrèze.com
The castle in Krasiczyn was built in Renaissance-Mannerist style in 16th and 17th centuries. The construction of castle was started by Stanisław Krasicki. Characteristic for it are 4 different corner towers: Divine, Papal, Royal and Noble. The castle is surrounded by a park.
At the beginning of World War II, the castle was robbed by Soviet soldiers. In 1940, in the castle, Soviet filmmakers made an anti-Polish film entitled "Wind from the East", justifying the invasion of the USSR together with Germany on Poland in September 1939.
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Zamek w Krasiczynie był wybudowany w stylu renesansowo-manierystycznym w XVI i XVII wieku. Budowę zamku rozpoczął Stanisław Krasicki. Charakterystyczne dla niego są 4 odmienne wieże narożne: Boska, Papieska, Królewska i Szlachecka. Zamek jest otoczony parkiem.
Na początku II wojny światowej zamek został ograbiony przez żołnierzy sowieckich. W 1940 na terenie tego zamku filmowcy radzieccy zrobili antypolski film pt. „Wiatr ze Wschodu”, uzasadniający inwazję ZSRR razem z Niemcami na Polskę we wrześniu 1939.
“you can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened… or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move on.”
Tupac Shakur
Faial is located in the central group of the Azores archipelago, and is part of the so-called “triangle islands”, together with São Jorge and the neighboring Pico Island separated by the Canal do Faial, a narrow arm of the sea with about 8 km wide.
The island was discovered in 1427 and colonized in 1432 by many Flanders.No other island can be so proud of the immense massifs of hydrangeas, in different shades of blue, that frame the houses, separate the fields and embroider the roads, justifying the title of Blue Island.
Bittern - Botaurus Stellaris
Norfolk
The bittern is a thickset heron with all-over bright, pale, buffy-brown plumage covered with dark streaks and bars. It flies on broad, rounded, bowed wings. A secretive bird, very difficult to see, as it moves silently through reeds at water's edge, looking for fish. The males make a remarkable far-carrying, booming sound in spring. It's very small, reedbed-dependent population make it an Amber List species.
It is also a Schedule 1 species.
Unlike the similar storks, ibises, and spoonbills, herons, egrets, pelicans, and bitterns fly with their necks retracted, not outstretched.
Eurasian bitterns feed on fish, small mammals, amphibians and invertebrates, hunting along the reed margins in shallow water. British records include eels up to 35 cm (14 in) and other fish, mice and voles, small birds and fledglings, frogs, newts, crabs, shrimps, molluscs, spiders and insects. In continental Europe, members of over twenty families of beetle are eaten, as well as dragonflies, bees, grasshoppers and earwigs. Some vegetable matter such as aquatic plants is also consumed.
Males are polygamous, mating with up to five females. The nest is built in the previous year's standing reeds and consists of an untidy platform some 30 cm (12 in) across. It may be on a tussock surrounded by water or on matted roots close to water and is built by the female using bits of reed, sedges and grass stalks, with a lining of finer fragments. Four to six eggs are laid in late March and April and incubated by the female for about twenty-six days. After hatching, the chicks spend about two weeks in the nest before leaving to swim amongst the reeds. The female rears them without help from the male, regurgitating food into the nest from her crop, the young seizing her bill and pulling it down. They become fully fledged at about eight weeks.
The Eurasian bittern has a very wide range and a large total population, estimated to be 110,000 to 340,000 individuals. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its overall conservation status as being of "least concern because although the population trend is downward, the rate of decline is insufficient to justify rating it in a more threatened category. The chief threat the bird faces is destruction of reed beds and drainage and disturbance of its wetland habitats. It is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. The southern race has suffered catastrophic decline during the 20th century due to wetland degradation and, unlike the northern race, is of high conservation concern.
In the United Kingdom, the main areas in which the Eurasian bittern breeds have been Lancashire and East Anglia with an estimated 44 breeding pairs in total in 2007. However, the Lancashire population at Leighton Moss RSPB reserve has declined in recent decades, while bitterns have been attracted to new reed beds in the West Country. In Ireland, it died out as a breeding species in the mid-19th century, but in 2011 a single bird was spotted in County Wexford and there have been a number of subsequent sightings. In the 21st century, bitterns are regular winter visitors to the London Wetland Centre, enabling city dwellers to view these scarce birds.
Population:
UK breeding:
80 males
UK wintering:
600 birds
Europe:
21 - 29,000 pairs
a thin line between us , though
we can not cross this distance
to justify it's beating
my heart tells there's still chance
- Frosted July -
The evening Shelly turn is getting back to track speed after working a gas transload in South Idaho Falls. In about two miles, air will be set and GPOD will be worked. There, the headend reefers will be stacked full of Idaho Russet Burbanks for distribution to your local grocery store. The rest of the train will be spotted at Anheuser-Busch for loading of processed barley.
The Montana Sub cashes out on Idaho Agriculture. Potatoes, barley, hay, and other grains prop up the local end, whereas bridge traffic to Butte justifies the existence to Uncle Pete. Eventually I could see most of the local customers going to EIRR (watco).. but in the meantime this high seniority UP terminal sees the best of the best- no trip optimizor or notch restrictions getting in the way of GETTING IT DONE!
Hello world
Hope you're listening
Forgive me if I'm young
For speaking out of turn
There's someone I've been missing
I think that they could be
The better half of me
They're in the in the wrong place trying to make it right
But I'm tired of justifying
So I say to you
Come home
Come home
'Cause I've been waiting for you
For so long
For so long
And right now there's a war between the vanities
But all I see is you and me
The fight for you is all I've ever known
So come home
Songwriters: Ryan Tedder
Picture Taken @ Home
De la plage Marquet à l’Est à celle de la Mala à l’Ouest, le sentier littoral de Cap d’Ail relie entre eux la pointe des Douaniers, le cap Rognoso et le cap Mala dans un cadre préservé où essences exotiques, villas de rêve et curiosités historiques ou géologiques justifient un parcours d’interprétation réalisé avec grand soin par la commune.
From the Marquet beach in the East to the Mala beach in the West, the Cap d'Ail coastal path connects the Pointe des Douaniers, Cape Rognoso and Cape Mala in a preserved environment where exotic species, villas dream and historical or geological curiosities justify a course of interpretation made with great care by the town.
Ever changing light!
Mornings like this one justify why I sometimes just setup the tripod and stay rooted to the same spot for sometimes over an hour.
Watching the blue hour tones give way to yellows, oranges and reds until the sun rises and shows the natural greens of the countryside and blue from the clear sky!
The rolling mist just adds some lovely atmosphere and mood to the conditions around!
You can have a sound of the thousand voices calling your name
You can have the light of the world blind you, bath you in grace
But I don't see so easily what you hold in your hands
'Cause castles crumble, kingdoms fall and turn into sand
You can be an angel of mercy or give in to hate
You can try to buy it just like it every other careless mistake
How do you justify I'm mystified by the ways of your heart
With a million lies the truth will rise to tear you apart
Woah
No one gets out alive, every day is do or die
The one thing you leave behind
Is how did you love, how did you love?
It's not what you believe those prayers will make you bleed
But while you're on your knees
How did you love, how did you love, how did you love?
De la plage Marquet à l’Est à celle de la Mala à l’Ouest, le sentier littoral de Cap d’Ail relie entre eux la pointe des Douaniers, le cap Rognoso et le cap Mala dans un cadre préservé où essences exotiques, villas de rêve et curiosités historiques ou géologiques justifient un parcours d’interprétation réalisé avec grand soin par la commune.
From the Marquet beach in the East to the Mala beach in the West, the Cap d'Ail coastal path connects the Pointe des Douaniers, Cape Rognoso and Cape Mala in a preserved environment where exotic species, villas dream and historical or geological curiosities justify a course of interpretation made with great care by the town.
Bittern - Botaurus Stellaris
Norfolk
The bittern is a thickset heron with all-over bright, pale, buffy-brown plumage covered with dark streaks and bars. It flies on broad, rounded, bowed wings. A secretive bird, very difficult to see, as it moves silently through reeds at water's edge, looking for fish. The males make a remarkable far-carrying, booming sound in spring. It's very small, reedbed-dependent population make it an Amber List species.
It is also a Schedule 1 species.
Unlike the similar storks, ibises, and spoonbills, herons, egrets, pelicans, and bitterns fly with their necks retracted, not outstretched.
Eurasian bitterns feed on fish, small mammals, amphibians and invertebrates, hunting along the reed margins in shallow water. British records include eels up to 35 cm (14 in) and other fish, mice and voles, small birds and fledglings, frogs, newts, crabs, shrimps, molluscs, spiders and insects. In continental Europe, members of over twenty families of beetle are eaten, as well as dragonflies, bees, grasshoppers and earwigs. Some vegetable matter such as aquatic plants is also consumed.
Males are polygamous, mating with up to five females. The nest is built in the previous year's standing reeds and consists of an untidy platform some 30 cm (12 in) across. It may be on a tussock surrounded by water or on matted roots close to water and is built by the female using bits of reed, sedges and grass stalks, with a lining of finer fragments. Four to six eggs are laid in late March and April and incubated by the female for about twenty-six days. After hatching, the chicks spend about two weeks in the nest before leaving to swim amongst the reeds. The female rears them without help from the male, regurgitating food into the nest from her crop, the young seizing her bill and pulling it down. They become fully fledged at about eight weeks.
The Eurasian bittern has a very wide range and a large total population, estimated to be 110,000 to 340,000 individuals. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its overall conservation status as being of "least concern because although the population trend is downward, the rate of decline is insufficient to justify rating it in a more threatened category. The chief threat the bird faces is destruction of reed beds and drainage and disturbance of its wetland habitats. It is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. The southern race has suffered catastrophic decline during the 20th century due to wetland degradation and, unlike the northern race, is of high conservation concern.
In the United Kingdom, the main areas in which the Eurasian bittern breeds have been Lancashire and East Anglia with an estimated 44 breeding pairs in total in 2007. However, the Lancashire population at Leighton Moss RSPB reserve has declined in recent decades, while bitterns have been attracted to new reed beds in the West Country. In Ireland, it died out as a breeding species in the mid-19th century, but in 2011 a single bird was spotted in County Wexford and there have been a number of subsequent sightings. In the 21st century, bitterns are regular winter visitors to the London Wetland Centre, enabling city dwellers to view these scarce birds.
Population:
UK breeding:
80 males
UK wintering:
600 birds
Europe:
21 - 29,000 pairs
“Go ahead and hate your neighbor
Go ahead and cheat your friend
Do it in the name of Heaven
You can justify it in the end
There won’t be any TRUMPets blowin’
Come the Judgement Day
On the bloody morning after
One Tin Soldier rides away...”
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~from the song by The Original Caste~
“One Tin Soldier” ~Brian Potter-Dennis Lambert~
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Outfit: Wicca's Originals - Scavenger Coat for Maitreya (Lara, Petite, Flat) & Legacy (Classic, Perky) & Legacy (M) Gianni , Jake.
мy мυѕιc "Rage against the machine - Killing in the name of"
"They use force to make you do what the deciders have decided you must do
Killing in the name of
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Now you do what they told ya
Those who died are justified
For wearing the badge
They're the chosen whites
You justify those that died
By wearing the badge
They're the chosen whites
And now you do what they told ya, now you're under control...
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!
Motherfucker!"
I'm not sure I can justify this title. Perhaps you see something very different here, or nothing at all. My excuse is I've been looking at Business Class flight ticket prices to Auckland and back. There's a certain type of madness. it would be far, far cheaper to pay all the people we want to see to come to the UK and spend a few weeks with us.
The castle built in the style of the Renaissance and Mannerist, in the 16th and 17th centuries. The construction of the castle began Stanislaw Krasicki. Characteristic of it are 4 different corner towers: the Divine, Papal, Royal and Manor House. The castle is surrounded by a park.
At the beginning of the Second World War the castle was looted by Soviet soldiers. In 1940 the castle grounds filmmakers Soviet shook their anti-Polish film "Wind from the East", to justify the Soviet invasion of Poland September 17, 1939.
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Zamek wybudowany w stylu renesansowo-manierystycznym, w XVI i XVII wieku. Budowę zamku rozpoczął Stanisław Krasicki. Charakterystyczne dla niego są 4 odmienne wieże narożne: Boska, Papieska, Królewska i Szlachecka. Zamek jest otoczony parkiem.
Na początku II wojny światowej zamek został ograbiony przez żołnierzy sowieckich. W 1940 na terenie zamku filmowcy radzieccy kręcili antypolski film pt. „Wiatr ze Wschodu”, uzasadniający inwazję ZSRR na Polskę 17 września 1939.
The Permian Basin is a large sedimentary basin in the southwestern part of the United States. The basin contains the Mid-continent oil field province. This sedimentary basin is located in western Texas and southeastern New Mexico. It reaches from just south of Lubbock, past Midland and Odessa, south nearly to the Rio Grande River in southern West Central Texas, and extending westward into the southeastern part of New Mexico. It is so named because it has one of the world's thickest deposits of rocks from the Permian geologic period. The greater Permian Basin comprises several component basins; of these, the Midland Basin is the largest, Delaware Basin is the second largest, and Marfa Basin is the smallest. The Permian Basin covers more than 86,000 square miles (220,000 km2),[1] and extends across an area approximately 250 miles (400 km) wide and 300 miles (480 km) long.[2]
The Permian Basin lends its name to a large oil and natural gas producing area, part of the Mid-Continent Oil Producing Area. Total production for that region up to the beginning of 1993 was over 14.9 billion barrels (2.37×109 m3). The Texas cities of Midland, Odessa and San Angelo serve as the headquarters for oil production activities in the basin.
The Permian Basin is also a major source of potassium salts (potash), which are mined from bedded deposits of sylvite and langbeinite in the Salado Formation of Permian age. Sylvite was discovered in drill cores in 1925, and production began in 1931. The mines are located in Lea and Eddy counties, New Mexico, and are operated by the room and pillar method. Halite (rock salt) is produced as a byproduct of potash mining.[3][4][5][6]
In 1917, J.A. Udden, a University of Texas geology professor, speculated that the Marathon Fold, associated with the Marathon Mountains, may extend northward. This fold theory was further elaborated on in 1918 by geologists R.A. Liddle and J.W. Beede. The potential structure was thought to be a potential trap for oil. Based on this Marathon Fold theory, and known oil seeps, test drilling commenced in the eastern Permian Basin.[35]
Oil reserves in the Permian Basin were first documented by W.H Abrams in Mitchell County, West Texas in 1920. The first commercial well was opened a year later in 1921, in the newly discovered Westbrook Oil Field in Mitchell County, at a depth of 2,498 feet (761 m). Initially, the Permian Basin was thought to have a bowl-like shape, with geological survey crews unable to study the inside of the basin due to a lack of outcrops. The next few years contained discoveries of multiple oil fields, such as the Big Lake oil field (1923), the World oil field (1925), the McCamey oil field (1925), the Hendrick oil field (1926), and the Yates Oil Field (1926). All of these discoveries were made by random drilling or surfacing mapping. Geophysical tests were vital in mapping the region, since tools such as seismographs and magnetometers were used to find anomalies in the area.[36][35]
By 1924, companies establishing regional geological offices in the basin included the California Company (Standard Oil of California), Gulf Oil, Humble (Standard Oil of New Jersey), Roxana (Shell Oil Company), Dixie Oil (Standard Oil of Indiana), Midwest Exploration (Standard Oil of Indiana), and The Texas Company.[35]
Due to distances and lack of pipes in which to move oil, deep drilling tests were few in the 1920s, since the costs were high. As a result, all the oil wells up to 1928 were less than 5,000 feet (1,500 m) or 6,000 feet (1,800 m) deep. However, in 1928, the No. I-B University discovery well found oil at 8,520 feet within the Ordovician formations of Big Lake. Exploration and development increased in the 1930s with the discovery of the Harper oil field (1933), the Goldsmith oil field (1934), the Foster oil field (1935), the Keystone oil field (1935), the Means oil field (1934), the Wasson oil field (1936–1937), and the Slaughter Field (1936). During World War II the need for oil in the US became urgent, justifying the high costs of deep oil drilling. This breakthrough led to major oil reservoirs being found in every geological formation from the Cambrian Period to the Permian Period. Significant discoveries included the Embrar oil field (1942), the TXL oil field (1944), the Dollarhide oil field (1945), and the Block 31 oil field (1945).[36][35]: 200–201, 230–231
In 1966, the production of the Permian Basin measured 600 million barrels of oil, along with 2.3 trillion cubic ft of gas, which totaled $2 billion. The production values steadily increased thanks to the installation of gas pipelines and oil refineries in the area, reaching a total production of over 14.9 billion barrels in 1993.
In addition to oil, one of the main commodities that is mined from the Permian Basin is potash, which was first discovered in the region in the late 1800s by geologist Johan August Udden. Early studies by Udden, and the presence of potash in the Santa Rita well between 1100 and 1700 feet, led to the United States Geological Survey exploring the area in search of potash, which was highly important during World War I as the US could no longer import it from Germany. By the mid 1960s, seven potash mines were operating on the New Mexico side of the Permian Basin.[36][37]
Current production
As of 2018, the Permian Basin has produced more than 33 billion barrels of oil, along with 118 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. This production accounts for 20% of US crude oil production and 7% of US dry natural gas production. While the production was thought to have peaked in the early 1970s, new technologies for oil extraction, such as hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, have increased production dramatically. Estimates from the Energy Information Administration have predicted that proven reserves in the Permian Basin still hold 5 billion barrels of oil and approximately 19 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.[38]
Environmental Concerns
By October 2019, the fossil-fuel executives said that until recently they had been making progress in cutting back on flaring, which is to burn natural gas.[39] Drilling companies focus on drilling and pumping oil, which is highly lucrative but the less-valuable gas which is pumped along with the oil, is considered to be a "byproduct".[39] During the current boom in the Permian oil fields, drilling for oil has "far outpaced pipeline construction" so the use of flaring has increased along with venting "natural gas and other potent greenhouse gases directly into the atmosphere", causing considerably larger greenhouse effect than flaring. Both practices are legal under states' legislation.[39] Most of the methane emitted comes from a small number of sources.[40] Satellite data show that 3.7% of gas produced from the Permian Basin is lost in leaks, equivalent to the consumption of 7 million Texas homes.[41] The price of natural gas was so cheap that smaller companies that have the pipeline capacity are choosing to flare rather than pay pipeline costs.[39]
This is a picture of the countryside I was born and raised in. It is now claimed to be the largest oil deposit in the world. Billions of dollars, thousands of companies, and thousands of jobs have come from here. But is it coming to and end? Only time will tell but it has sure been a part of history and made a significant impact on the world.
Loving County - Charlie Robison
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQdU2uRQZKg
Sunset Blvd, LIve at Billy Bob's Texas - Charlie Robison
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFJ-l6bHTH8
My Hometown - Charlie Robison
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg1pYtoWL6c
Wave on Wave - Pat Green