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In front of friends, family and a room full of distinguished guests, 16 exceptional civic leaders were recognized today at Government House with the Province’s highest honour, the Order of British Columbia. Dr. Robert Robinson, OBC.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2016IGR0023-001355
Day 262 [9-18-2016]
Finally out! Paul and Jake visited me today. We sat around watching funny videos and had a good time. George stopped by at the end of the day and to finish the afternoon off he kindly took me out of my house. Wow I forgot how much I missed the world. I didn't take many photos mainly because I was in the moment and having fun. Hopefully soon I can go out in the day to take more photos.
I can't wait to see what the next day brings!
Game: Wolfenstein: The New Order
Resolution: 1920x1080
Tools used: Various config tweaks and commands found on DeadEndThrills
Order : Lepidoptera
Superfamily : Pyraloidea
Family : Crambidae
Sub-Family : Spilomelinae
Genus : Cydalima
Species : Cydalima perspectalis
found last Saturday in Freiburg and just loved it :-D
camera: blackbird, fly
film: polaroid iso400 expired 2007
Not for trade or sale.
Two modern combat packs, one more cobalt pack, a boom box, and a bunch of miscellaneous weapons.
Most of these pictures are for the review I posted on the BA forums.
[order] ANSERIFORMES | [family] Anatidae | [latin] Anas clypeata | [UK] Northern Shoveler | [FR] Canard souchet | [DE] Loffelente | [ES] Pato Cuchara | [NL] Slobeend
Measurements
spanwidth min.: 73 cm
spanwidth max.: 82 cm
size min.: 44 cm
size max.: 52 cm
Breeding
incubation min.: 22 days
incubation max.: 23 days
fledging min.: 40 days
fledging max.: 23 days
broods 1
eggs min.: 7
eggs max.: 12
Physical characteristics
The very large, spatulate bill is the most distinguishing feature of the aptly named Northern Shoveler. The male in breeding plumage has bright wings, a bright iridescent-green head with a yellow eye, bold white breast, and chestnut sides. Females, juveniles, and males in eclipse plumage (from May through August) are mottled brown with orange legs and a green-black iridescent speculum with a blue patch on the forewing.
Northern Shovelers rarely tip up, but filter mud through their bills, swimming with their heads outstretched, bills skimming the waters surface, sifting out food. In flight they stay in tight bunches, weaving to and fro like shorebirds. Shovelers are very territorial, and pair bonds remain intact through incubation, unlike most other species of ducks.
Habitat
Northern Shovelers inhabit shallow, marshy ponds and wetlands at low elevations. Breeding habitat is in open country (prairie or tundra), or lowland woodlands and clearings, always near shallow water. During winter and migration they will use virtually any wetland as long as it has muddy edges. Shovelers will forage in sewage ponds and stagnant or polluted waters avoided by other species of ducks.
Other details
Anas clypeata is widespread breeder across much of Europe, which accounts for less than a quarter of its global breeding range. Its European breeding population is large (>170,000 pairs), and was stable between 1970-1990. Although no trend data were available for the stronghold in Russia during 1990-2000, several countries- notably the Netherlands-suffered marked declines, and the species probably underwent a moderate decline (>10%) overall.
This duck inhabits North America and northern Eurasia. For practical reasons its populations of the European Union can be subdivided in two distinct sub-populations, separated by their wintering quarters. The first, totalling about 40000 individuals and apparently stable, is wintering in the Atlantic regions from Denmark to the British Isles and Aquitaine. The second population is estimated at 450000 individuals, but its current trends are unknown. It winters in the Black Sea region, the Mediterranean and West Africa.
Feeding
The bill of the Shoveler is ideally suited for straining small swimming invertebrates from the water and mud. Seeds and aquatic plants are also important food items, especially during winter
Conservation
This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence 30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size is extremely large, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern. [conservation status from birdlife.org]
Breeding
Pair formation begins in the winter and continues during spring migration. Males remain with the females through the incubation period. The female chooses the site (generally in short grass). She builds the nest, a shallow depression made of grass and weeds, lined with down, and incubates the 9 to 12 eggs for 23 to 28 days by herself. A few hours after they hatch, the female leads the young to the water where they can swim and forage immediately. The young typically stay close to the cover of emergent vegetation, and the female tends them until they fledge at 52 to 66 days of age.
Migration
Mostly migratory, breeders of Iceland all migrate, probably to Ireland or Britain. Most British breeders move southwards to south France, south Spain, north and central Italy, a few to North Africa. Bulk have left Britain by end October, before main arrivals of Continental birds. Breeders from south Fenno-Scandia and Russia east to and south migrate west and south-west to western seaboard, chiefly Netherlands, Britain, and Ireland, some going further to west and south France and north Spain. Populations of east Russia, Trans-Urals, and west Siberia migrate south through Volga region, then to south Caspian, Azov and Black Seas, and to Mediterranean, particularly Turkey, Greece, Italy, and North Africa, where overlap with north European breeders. Those wintering from Egypt south to East Africa presumably also from Russia. Main autumn migration rather earlier than other Palearctic ducks, except Garganey. Principal passage across Europe in September-October, with major passage through Britain in November. Departs tropical Africa in February, peak movement through Europe mid-March to mid-April, and virtually all breeders returned by early May.
Cigar order with a few things that are hard to get in my area.
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This pic is a close up of a paper quilling order that I completed Oct 12,2008.A friend ordered this for her 2 month old niece for Christmas. See my photostream to view this completed order which took me aprox 20 hours to finish.
Germans going to the front.
A US paratrooper in the 101st airborne division takes cover behind a fence, out of site of some passing German troops.
I made this little build with the bricklink order that came today.
Yeah I got all this for $1.28. Plus shipping it was $4.02 still pretty crazy. Most of this stuff was $0.05, including the Kakama. You can't even buy those in the US usually. The chrome hau was $0.15. Yeah. YEAH.
Dude clearly didn't know what any of this was worth.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Charadriiformes
Family:Laridae
Genus:Sternula
Species:S. albifrons
Binomial name
Sternula albifrons
[order] Charadriiformes | [family] Sternidae | [latin] Sterna albifrons | [UK] Little Tern | [FR] Sterne naine | [DE] Zwergseeschwalbe | [ES] Gaviotín Chico | [IT] Fraticello | [NL] Dwergstern
Status: Rare summer visitor from April to late August to shingle or sandy beaches, mainly on the east and west coasts.
Conservation Concern: Amber-listed due to a decline in the localised breeding population. The European population has been evaluated as Declining, due to a moderate continuing decline.
Identification: The smallest of the terns breeding in Ireland. Small slender seabird with narrow, pointed wings, long forked tail and long, pointed bill. Grey above and white below, dark cap to head, white forehead in all plumages. Flight is light and buoyant, hovers rapidly while foraging over the sea before repeatedly diving in. Has a dark leading edge to the primaries of its long narrow wings. Adult summer bird has long yellow bill with black tip. In winter plumage the white of the forehead extends up over the fore crown, the legs darken and the bill is all black. Juvenile plumage is distinct from the adult with dark bill, barred mantle and dark upper forewing.
Similar Species: Common Tern.
Call: Sharp, rasping and repeated.
Diet: Chiefly marine fish.
Breeding: Nest colonially on the ground on shingle beaches, making them very vulnerable to poor weather and ground predators. Only a few colonies are found in Ireland, with the majority breeding in Counties Louth, Wicklow and Wexford.
Wintering: Winters in coastal areas in western Africa.
Where to See: Kilcoole in County Wicklow, just south of Greystones with about 50 to 60 pairs breeding along the beach..
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Gestalt is: "a system whose parts are dynamically connected in such a way that a change of one part results in a change of all other parts."
and structural order."
– Kurt Lewin (1936) "Principles of Topological Psychology".
"Chaos provides order. Chaotic agitation and motion are needed to create overall, repetitive order. This ‘order through fluctuations’ keeps dynamic markets stable and evolutionary processes robust. In essence, chaos is a phase transition that gives spontaneous energy the means to achieve repetitive and structural order."
– L.K. Samuels, "In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action" (2013).
Huachinango (Red Snapper) the catch-of-the-day! - beach front Sunday dining at one of the Palapa eateries in Boca de Tomates!
Order the catch-of-the-day Red Snapper, choose the size you like and have it fried while you look out on the ocean, enjoying the breeze...... starting on your bucket of cold beer on ice.......
Bahia de Banderas - Puerto Vallarta - Mexico
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It is the tallest, and it gets the most light, catching the last rays at sunset. Its friends are getting a gradually decreasing amount of light, and are progressively shorter. And so it will be, until the top one is picked for its beauty and is replaced by number two.
Jalmenus evagoras
Family Lycaenidae
Order: Lepidoptera
This butterfly lives along the south eastern coast of Australia. However its population is found sporadically within that range due to its dependence on attendant ants of a particular species within the genus Iridomyrmex. It is also dependent on a nitrogen rich host plant in the genus Acacia.
The larvae have special exocrine glands which secrete food for attendant ants. In return, the ants provide protection from predators and parasitoids. The food secretions comprise carbohydrates and amino acids. In order to be able to secrete the amino acids required for the mutualism with ants, a nitrogen-rich host plant is needed. It seems the female butterflies are able to sense the level of nitrogen available in potential host plants. the mechanism for detecting higher nitrogen, may be the colour of the leaves (darker indicating more nitrogen) and possibly taste once she has landed on the prospective host plant.
On emerging, the larvae prefer terminal foliage on the host plant. the species exhibits aggregation behaviour and eggs, larvae and pupae tend to be clustered together, especially if there is a good density of attendant ants.
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20205+20189 pass 60079 at Peak Forest with 6Z20 09.45 Chaddesden Sidings to Peak Forest conveying a rake of PNA 4-wheeled wagons on Saturday 7th February 2015.
This was 20205's loaded mainline test run after rebuilding from a almost derelict wreck after being withdrawn by British Rail in the summer of 1989. 26 years later all is fine with 20205!
A very welcome back after over a quarter of a century off the mainline!
Origami Star Wars - available soon - hachetteheroes.com/origami-star-wars-9782012638587
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The Great Patriotic War (Russian: Вели́кая Оте́чественная война́, romanized: Velikaja Otečestvennaja vojna) is a term used in Russia and some other former republics of the Soviet Union to describe the conflict fought during the period from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945 along the many fronts of the Eastern Front of World War II, primarily between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. For some legal purposes, this period may be extended to 11 May 1945 to include the end of the Prague offensive.
History
The term Patriotic War refers to the Russian resistance to the French invasion of Russia under Napoleon I, which became known as the Patriotic War of 1812. In Russian, the term отечественная война originally referred to a war on one's own territory (otechestvo means "the fatherland"), as opposed to a campaign abroad (заграничная война), and later was reinterpreted as a war for the fatherland, i.e. a defensive war for one's homeland. Sometimes the Patriotic War of 1812 was also referred to as the Great Patriotic War (Великая отечественная война); the phrase first appeared in 1844 and became popular on the eve of the centenary of the Patriotic War of 1812.
After 1914, the phrase was applied to World War I. It was the name of a special war-time appendix to the magazine Theater and Life (Театр и жизнь) in Saint Petersburg, and referred to the Eastern Front of World War I, where Russia fought against the German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The phrases Second Patriotic War (Вторая отечественная война) and Great World Patriotic War (Великая всемирная отечественная война) were also used during World War I in Russia.
The term Great Patriotic War re-appeared in the official newspaper of the CPSU, Pravda, on 23 June 1941, just a day after Germany invaded the Soviet Union. It was found in the title of "The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet People" (Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voyna Sovetskogo Naroda), a long article by Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, a member of Pravda editors' collegium. The phrase was intended to motivate the population to defend the Soviet fatherland and to expel the invader, and a reference to the Patriotic War of 1812 was seen as a great morale booster. During the Soviet period, historians engaged in huge distortions to make history fit with Communist ideology, with Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov and Prince Pyotr Bagration transformed into peasant generals, Alexander I alternatively ignored or vilified, and the war becoming a massive "People's War" fought by the ordinary people of Russia with almost no involvement on the part of the government. The invasion by Germany was called the Great Patriotic War by the Soviet government to evoke comparisons with the victory by Tsar Alexander I over Napoleon's invading army.
The term Отечественная война (Patriotic War or Fatherland War) was officially recognized by establishment of the Order of the Patriotic War on 20 May 1942, awarded for heroic deeds.
The term is not generally used outside the former Soviet Union, and the closest term is the Eastern Front of World War II (1941–1945). Neither term covers the initial phase of World War II in Eastern Europe, during which the USSR, then still in a non-aggression pact with Germany, invaded eastern Poland (1939), the Baltic states (1940), Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (1940) and Finland (1939–1940). The term also does not cover the Soviet–Japanese War (1945) nor the Battles of Khalkhin Gol (1939).
In Russia and some other post-Soviet countries, the term is given great significance; it is accepted as a representation of the most important part of World War II. Until 2014, Uzbekistan was the only nation in the Commonwealth of Independent States that had not recognized the term, referring to it as World War II on the state holiday - the Day of Remembrance and Honour.
My first Bricklink order! Got this from Scooter's Bricks
Originally for another upcoming Victorian house build, but it just turned out to be random.
Should be working on some building, but instead I've just been admiring this....