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Seventy elephants are killed every day for the tusks. Every week 20 rhinos disappear. Poaching not 'truce and international commitments do not seem to bring the desired results. The pace of killings is likely to climb every prediction about the possible extinction of these wonderful creatures. Fangs, horns and skins feeding a lap of illicit business estimated at over 23 billion dollars a year. But you can not surrender to this devastating scenario, because it is understood, in these years, that there are appropriate measures to stop poaching, which has now become a major activity of international criminal groups, such as drug trafficking and trafficking human.
But corruption among police, poachers and "anti-poaching" is stronger than laws.
It 's amazing that even today, in 2016, in a world that is moving increasingly towards vegan, respect for animals, all this happens as in past centuries.
World should take action, not enough rules of the African countries....
in order to lighten the news...
overlapping of my landscapes, elephants thanks to Pixabay
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"World Hippo Day on February 15 celebrates the extraordinary hippopotamus and encourages people to take action to prevent its extinction. Did you know that before 1909, scientists placed hippos in the same group as pigs?
Despite their outward similarities with pigs or wild boars, hippopotamuses are closely related to whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Hippos are semiaquatic mammals that are native to sub-Saharan Africa. They are herbivores and can weigh up to 2,000kg, making them the third-largest land mammal after elephants and rhinos. Hippos are primarily found in rivers, lakes, and mangrove swamps.
These days there are only two types, say reports stating them to be - the bog-standard hippopotamus and the smaller pygmy hippopotamus, but a few other now extinct species could be found across Europe and in Madagascar as little as 1,000 years ago. Hippos are now most common in countries such as Zambia and Tanzania."
Let go of situations beyond your control, take action toward things within your control and to posses the wisdom to know the difference between the two.
Paraphrased from The Serenity Prayer
“Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.” ― Steve Maraboli
Long long ago, in a simpler time, it was possible to stand at the end of the sea wall where I live, and take photos of people in the surf. Now the nanny state has decreed that the wall shall obstruct the view and none shall have a clear view of the break. Long long ago when I got my first zoom lens I would hang out on the sea wall and take action shots of people in the surf. The shots in this set were taken in 2006 and have languished too long in my archive. I hope you enjoy them.
....on the road as a ghost hunter!
BRUNO: "Beste vriend Peter, bereikt mijn licht jou?"
[Dear friend Peter, does my light reach you?]
*Working Towards a Better World
Never give up. Have hope. Expect only the best from life and take action to get it. -
Catherine Pulsifer
Do not forget to hope and happy be. - John McLeod
No matter the number of times you fail you must be determined to succeed. You must not lose hope. Don't stop in your storm. Don't give up so easily. -
Tony Narams, Top Secret: You Can Fly Like An Eagle
Hope is grief's best music. -Author Unknown
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Celebrating the Hippopotamus.- the planet's 3rd largest African land mammal, next to elephants and rhinos. World Hippo Day on February 15 celebrates the extraordinary hippopotamus and encourages people to take action to prevent its extinction
Quatrième photo d'une série de quatre sur les changements climatiques.
La conférence sur les changements climatiques de Paris est en cours, c'est le temps de réfléchir et de savoir ce que nous allons faire avec ce que l'on sait.
Fourth photo of a series of four on climate change.
The climate change conference in Paris is happening now, it is time to reflect and take action. What will we do with what we know?
I needed to hear this message and thought others might benefit from it too today. The news and events of the last week have really gotten me a bit crazed. Don't give up the fight! Though hope is never lost, we cannot sit around hoping and praying that things will change, change takes action!
Ein Federkleid, welches an Land, im Wasser und in der Luft funktioniert, verlangt viel Aufwand. Dementsprechend oft sieht man Wasservögel bei der Gefiederpflege und kann (sollte!) diese Gelegenheiten auch für Fotos nutzen. Hier sehen wir die Gans beim letzten Schritt der Reinigung, sie schüttelt verbliebenes Wasser aus den Federn.
A plumage that works on land, in water and in the air takes a lot of effort. Accordingly, you often see water birds preening their feathers and can (should!) use these opportunities to take action photos. Here we see the goose running through last step of the cleaning process, shaking off any remaining water drops.
HANDS OFF 2025: Saturday, April 5
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“This is the moment where we say NO. No more looting, no more stealing, no more billionaires raiding our government while working people struggle to survive.
“On April 5th, we take action. Across the country, thousands of people will march, rally, disrupt, and demand an end to this billionaire power grab. We’ll show up at state capitals, federal buildings, congressional offices, and city centers—anywhere we can make sure they hear us.
“A core principle behind Hands Off! is a commitment to NON-violent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values.”
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"Around forty million people are living with HIV throughout the world - and that number increases in every region every day. In the UK alone, more than 60,000 people are living with HIV and more than 7,000 more are diagnosed every year. Ignorance and prejudice are fuelling the spread of a preventable disease.
World AIDS Day, 1 December is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV and AIDS. This year, it's up to you, me and us to stop the spread of HIV and end prejudice. "
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Oh the rage! The agony! I developed a sneaky-cheaty-grabby, mashy-with-my-paws, seeing-with-my-fingers kind of a system on how to get the collectible minifigs I want. But even a genus makes a mistake.. Alas! The other day I had a baggie with the Indian in my one hand and some other baggie with whatever fig in my other. Of course I dumped the Indian I wanted back to the box and bought.. the disgusting, crappy, useless loser Scuba Diver! Imagine my disappointment and cursing back home! Verdammtes noch mal! Donnerwetter! Scheisse!
So I had to let my Girls take care of this diver jerk. What a waste of perfectly good plastic he is!
I am not prepared to bury my head in the sand and pretend that everything is alright when it is in fact the opposite.
I am not prepared to turn and walk away when I know that I should stand and face it all.
I am not prepared to close my eyes to unpleasant things and to stand by without taking action when needed to save a life.
Neither should you
Charietto the Headhunter was a German mercenary who served the Romans in the late 4th century. Not much is known about him, but what is known is he lived around the border between the Roman Empire and Germania on the Rhine River near Treverorum. Charietto wasn't happy about the constant raids done by other German barbarians, so he decided to take action. At night he would go to the barbarian camp and kill them. After this he would bring back their heads to town in the morning. He would soon be joined by other frustrated citizens, who like him, decided to take matters into their own hands.
Eventually, his actions would gain the attention of Julian, who was the commander in the region waging a campaign against the same Germans. He would encourage Charietto and his men to continue attacking the raiders until they surrendered. After the war was over, Charietto disappeared from history into parts unknown. Julian on the other hand would later become Romes last pagan emperor and would earn the name Julian "the Apostate".
I've been outside since 8.30 this morning, the weather is so lovely (in the shade). I just came here to upload this one and to wish you all a happy bokeh wednesday... but now I'm going back outside to enjoy my morning.
Daily selfie will be uploaded later, though maybe tomorrow.
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Al concorso internazionale di design GOOD50X70 sono stati premiati i nostri allievi!
At GOOD50x70 international design competition have been today awarded our students!
See the competition
Vedi il concorso
Vedi i lavori di
See the works of
Sara PELLERINO
good50x70.org/2010/gallery/freedom-to-travel/
Gabriele FALLETTO - Antonello CEDDIA - Andrea PALERMO
good50x70.org/2010/gallery/take-action-against-mafias/
Caterina DE AMBROGIO - Elisabetta POZZO
good50x70.org/2010/gallery/whale-shortage/
Claudio CHIANGONE - Barbara MENIETTI
good50x70.org/2010/gallery/the-uncertainty-of-the-cure/
Un grandissimo ringraziamento agli allievi: siete stati grandissimi!!!
Many many thanks to the students: great job!!!
Il risultato di oggi da un senso all'insegnamento!
Today’s goal gives meaning to teaching!
This is the day!!! ♥ March 9, 2020
What it is? #colortheworldorangesl
Join Color The World Orange (CTWO) in this year's International Women's Day (IWD) 2022 as we: celebrate the achievements of such amazing, talented, women n SL, raise awareness against bias; and take action for equality.
Imagine a gender equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes and discrimination. A world that's diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated. Together we can forge women's equality. Collectively we can all #BreakTheBias.
12 hours Post- International Women's Day "WE ARE STRONG" MUSIC MARATHON with live music artists and DJs in different venues.
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Barcaldine, in Central West Queensland, is 520km west of Rockhampton, at the intersection of the Capricorn and Landsborough Highways. It is best known as the 'birthplace' of the Australian labour movement.
The Barcaldine area was crossed by Sir Thomas Mitchell's and Augustus Gregory's expeditions (1846 & 1858). In 1863, Donald Cameron took up a pastoral run on the Alice River which he named Barcaldine Downs, after Cameron's family property in Ayrshire, Scotland. The run was partly resumed for closer-settlement holdings in the 1880s.
Barcaldine town lots were sold in 1885 and within a year several buildings were under construction. By the end of 1886 the town had been surveyed and the railway line had reached there from Jericho and Rockhampton. This was a promising beginning for the town. Numerous buildings were transferred from Jericho (bank, Masonic hall, and the Methodist and Catholic churches) and from Pine Hill (railways buildings and a court house). In 1887 a progress association was formed, a government school was opened and, most importantly, a free-flowing source of clear bore water was found.
Barcaldine started off with a rush of success, although the pace of growth overlooked hygiene precautions and there were chronic health problems and few safeguards against the supply of opium to Aboriginals.
In the late 1880s, Barcaldine became a centre of activity in western Queensland for the organisation of shearers and rural labourers. Pastoralists, concerned about this growing assertiveness, formed the Pastoral Employers' Association in Barcaldine in 1889, and reduced rates of pay for shearers. The response was a firming of union membership, and by early 1891 hundreds of shearers and rural workers were camped around Barcaldine waiting for work and threatening to take action if non-union workers were brought in. Mass meetings were held under a ghost gum, Eucalyptus papuana, the Tree of Knowledge, now commemorated as the birthplace of organised labour, trades union, and the Australian Labor Party. Clashes between police and strikers in March 1891 led to 13 leaders being gaoled on Saint Helena Island in Moreton Bay. (Nearly 30 years later one was elected shire chair.) The shearers' strike camp site and the Tree of Knowledge outside the railway station are listed on the Queensland Heritage Register.
After a settlement of kinds was reached between pastoralists and unions, Barcaldine resumed rural and related activities. An industrial sector at one end of the town had a meat processing factory, a wool scouring works, and a piggery, all generating industrial effluent. During the remainder of the 1890s a school of arts, a convent, and a hall for the divisional board were opened. There was then a slump during a three-year drought (1899 - 1902), although the Masons constructed a handsome two storey tin and timber hall (1901). The hall is heritage-listed, along with the Church of England and the war memorial clock.
Bore water kept the town going through the drought, and the return to normal seasons assisted the growth of shade trees. By the mid-1900s it was considered that, by western Queensland standards, Barcaldine was a garden city. A swimming pool opened in 1907.
Barcaldine drew freight from the south around Blackall, but that stopped when a railway branch line from Blackall to Jericho opened in 1908. Five years later there was compensation in part when a privately funded tramway between Barcaldine and Aramac, 6 km to the north, opened. In 1914 Barcaldine held its first agricultural show.
The Barcaldine Grammar (later, Saint Peter's Anglican) school began in 1915, continuing until the Depression forced its closure in 1932. Barcaldine's zenith probably occurred in 1925, both in population and prosperity, before a long term drought crippled wool production. Prices fell in 1928 and conditions deteriorated. The 1930s were a period of slow progress and low morale, with amenities in poor shape to accommodate a population influx during World War II of evacuees from seaboard towns. Postwar reconstruction began with a remodelling of the convent. The 1950s saw further recovery, with construction of a new hospital (1953), a secondary department added to the State school, a sewerage scheme, and a general upgrading of buildings and public infrastructure. Wool production was boosted by good seasons and high prices.
Barcaldine's history is littered with the charred ruins of frequent fires. As late as the 1950s there were losses, including the Western Light Soap Works. Fire-proof materials went into new buildings. A hotel was lost in 1962, but six remain until this day. One facility that never burnt down was the pool; after 73 years it was replaced by a modern facility in 1980. The bore water was good for washing, and in winter taps ran all night for a warm bath in the morning. The absence of metering encouraged profligacy. Water restrictions were imposed by the shire in 2005.
Barcaldine local government division was proclaimed in 1892 by severance from the Kargoolnah (Blackall) division. The total area of the new division was 8430 sq km and Barcaldine township held 75 - 85% of the shire's population.
The shire's main industry was sheep grazing and wool production, although beef cattle grazing grew during the 1970s to 40 000 head, and numbered nearly 65 000 in the 1990s (by comparison, there were over 610 000 sheep and lambs in 1993). Tourism became important, with six hotels and five motels in the town, although accommodation and hospitality had only 6% of the shire's employment in 2001. The leading employment sectors were agriculture (18%), construction (13.7%), wholesale and retail (14%), health and community services (9.3%) and education (8.2%). The shire's median weekly individual income was $377, less than the region's median of $407 but higher than the Queensland median ($359).
In 2008 Barcaldine Shire (8443 sq km) was amalgamated with Aramac and Jericho Shires to form Barcaldine Regional Council (53,677 sq km). The new local government area is described in a separate entry.
The town has maintained a steady population since the 1970s, down from the 1950s. It has bowls and tennis clubs, a combined racecourse and showground next door to the golf course, State and Catholic schools, a historical museum, and four churches. There is also an Australian Workers Heritage Centre (1991), a folk museum, and the 1891 shearers' camp, all places of special note. The Comet Lodge of Freemasons masonic temple (1901) is an elaborate two-storey building.
Barcaldine – and the labour movement – suffered a symbolic blow in October 2006, with the poisoning death of the heritage-listed Tree of Knowledge. However, a spectacular architect-designed new Tree of Knowledge memorial using the site and the trunk of the original tree was opened in May 2009 by Premier Anna Bligh. It features an 18 metre high cube in which 4000 suspended timbers of varying length form the tree canopy. Each May, Barcaldine celebrates the Tree of Knowledge Festival, once only a mayday parade but now including food expos and goat racing.
The area's strong labour history was also celebrated with an upgrade of the Australian Workers Union hall in 2013.
One of the town's notable hotels, the Globe (1910) was sold to the Barcaldine Regional Council in 2011 with plans to turn it into a new visitor information centre incorporating an art gallery, library, and cultural centre. The hotel had been run for almost 50 years by ALP’s Pat Ogden. Exempt from heritage listing as lacking 'genuine' State significance, work began in September 2014 on the new development.
A proposal in 2015 for an 80 000 panel solar farm on 35 hectares on the eastern outskirts of Barcaldine aimed to take advantage of the intensity of solar radiation in the area, and would make it the State's largest solar farm.
Source: Queensland Places (www.queenslandplaces.com.au/barcaldine-and-barcaldine-shire).
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Seriously. I can not take action shots. I've been making a special effort to take them for months now and can't seem to get the knack of it. I took so many action shots yesterday and this is my best. It's OK but not that crystal clear, stop action photo I like. It was sunny and bright so I set my camera to TV and set the shutter speed to 1/2000. I was using a prime lens which I probably shouldn't have used but it is my best lens. I used AI Servo focusing and high speed continuous shooting. Most days I practice by taking pictures of Jimmy or Mack walking slowly towards me and they don't even come out focused.
Can someone help me?
Explored June 10, 2013
According to other (admittedly old now) articles from the Grauniad (links below), the situation of absentee owners exists in the Bezier Building located on London's Silicon Roundabout.
In early 2014, only one third of apartments in the Bezier Building had anyone registered to vote. Again, this could be a sign of a lack of interest/faith in democracy or a sign that vast wealth is the best way to get what you want in the UK.
Of course, when in opposition, Labour chose to virtue signal it was unhappy with the situation, while not being compelled to take action. Essentially, it suggested, "local homes for local people".
We are now at a crossroads in the UK where we need to decide, do we want unfettered capitalism where we respect all international laws and permit the free flow of people, capital, etc? Or do we want the UK to be for the benefit of UK citizens?
If we want the first option, we need to accept the UK is highly desirable, and that as a consequence, the proportion of home owner/occupiers in the UK will continually decline.
www.theguardian.com/money/2014/feb/07/local-buyers-first-...
www.theguardian.com/business/2014/dec/04/property-investo...
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My friend and I visited the #aletschglacier in #switzerland , I had the opportunity to visit it the previous year, I am not sure if I was more impressed or it just slowly disappears but I remember my more majestic. It doesn’t help that the summer has been hotter on average that previous year. So, contemplating this giant, I cannot stop wondering. Would we manage climate change before these ancient beast completely go extinct? #climate_change #Travel #Nature #TranquilScene #Plant #MountainRange #Plateau #Cloud #Landscape #ScenicsNature #aletscharena #aletschgletscher #glacier #landsacape_photography #environmental_portrait #sony1635gm #raw_season #raw_mountains #take_action
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Desire is a sense of longing or hoping for a person, object, or outcome. The same sense is expressed by emotions such as "craving." When a person desires something or someone, their sense of longing is excited by the enjoyment or the thought of the item or person, and they want to take actions to obtain their goal.
A wonderful bodyscape shot, showing the sexier side of a woman. Many thanks to my wonderful model Sara!
Make positive change, join in local school meetings open to the public, get involved with local government, vote...vote again.
I have seen the documentary film 'An Inconvenient Truth' today. That makes you think differently about our planet and the way we are treating it. Go and see that film! And take action. Visit www.climatecrisis.net/
Climate Change at Roosthole where we see long summers without rainfall = dried up watercourses. Sheepwash Gill was dried months ago now, the fear being that the periods of flow just become less and less...
We all have to take action on the climate.
Ayuda a protejerlos / Please, helps protect them:
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gracias / thanks
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Earth Hour 2009 aims to reach more than one billion people in 1000 cities around the world, inviting communities, business and governments to switch off lights for one hour at 8:30pm on Saturday March 28 and sending a powerful global message that we care enough about climate change to take action.
More photos: reallynattu.com/blog/millions-participated-in-earth-hour-...
We were a part of it. Were you?
More.. www.earthhour.org
Location: Bandos / Maldives
Whilst the rest of the country basked in glorious sunshine parts of the Yorkshire coast was under a sea fog or locally known as sea fret. Sadly, it did not lift. It was a bit disappointing as it was my first visit here in 5 years!!!
www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/b/bemptoncliffs/index.aspx
Top things to do in Summer
1.Experience the sights, sounds and smells of the miraculous seabird spectacle at the peak of the breeding season
2.The surrounding fields are bejewelled by glorious red campion flowers
3.Enjoy a bite to eat in the family-friendly picnic area
www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/b/bemptoncliffs/about.aspx
A family favourite, and easily the best place in England to see, hear and smell seabirds! More than 200,000 birds (from April to August) make the cliffs seem alive – with adults bringing food to their nests, or young chicks making their first faltering flights.
With huge numbers to watch, beginners can easily learn the difference between gannets, guillemots, razorbills, kittiwakes and fulmars. The easily recognisable puffins (here between April and July) are always a delight. Specially-created cliff top viewpoints are wheelchair accessible with care.
You can watch our 200,000 seabirds LIVE on CCTV through the breeding season from March to October. Meet our information assistants and hear about the live action, watch it for yourself on our two TV screens and enjoy the close-up images of our nesting gannets.
Opening times
The reserve is open at all times. From March to October, the visitor centre is open daily from 9.30 am to 5 pm, and from November to February, 9.30 am to 4 pm.
Entrance charges
Entry is free of charge to members all year. There's a charge for non-members of £5 per car, minibus £8 and coach £10.
If you are new to birdwatching...
The birds are easy to see during breeding season - creating a fantastic seascape and bird spectacle. Only eight target seabird species breed here, so learning to identify birds is simple. In winter, common passerines (buntings, sparrows and finches) and short-eared owls (vary in numbers from one year to next) can be seen and identified.
Information for families
Reserve already popular with families. Various family events included in our programme throughout the year. Backpack Activity days very popular.
Information for dog owners
Dogs are welcome on the reserve, however they must be kept on leads at all times. This is to ensure that ground nesting birds are not disturbed, and also to ensure the safety of dogs on the cliff top.
www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/b/bemptoncliffs/star_speci...
Star species
Our star species are some of the most interesting birds you may see on your visit to the reserve.
Gannet
Look for stunning gannets cruising around at the base of the cliffs and fishing out to sea by rising up into the air before plunging in headfirst with their wings close.
Kittiwake
Visit Bempton in spring and early summer and your ears will be filled with the unmistakable 'kitti-wake' calls of this dainty gull. Look along the cliffs to see them packed onto their tiny nesting ledges.
Puffin
Enjoy the comical antics of puffins in spring and early summer from the viewing points on the cliffs. Watch the adults returning from fishing forays at sea with sandeels hanging from their colourful beaks.
Short-eared owl
Short-eared owls can be seen hunting over the clifftop grassland here in winter. The afternoons are a good time to spot them banking and gliding just above the ground; their piercing yellow eyes scanning for voles moving in the grass below.
Tree sparrow
Flocks of tree sparrows can be seen in the cliff top fields and are regular visitors to the feeding stations. Listen out for their conversational calls - a hard and piercing 'tek'.
www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/b/bemptoncliffs/seasonal_h...
Seasonal highlights
Each season brings a different experience at our nature reserves. In spring, the air is filled with birdsong as they compete to establish territories and attract a mate. In summer, look out for young birds making their first venture into the outside world. Autumn brings large movements of migrating birds - some heading south to a warmer climate, others seeking refuge in the UK from the cold Arctic winter. In winter, look out for large flocks of birds gathering to feed, or flying at dusk to form large roosts to keep warm.
Spring
Breeding seabirds start to return, including gannets, puffins, guillemots, razorbills, fulmars, kittiwakes, herring gulls and shags. Farmland birds such as skylarks, tree sparrows, linnets, meadow pipits, reed and corn buntings can be seen. There are normally short-eared owls and peregrines to be seen too. Migratory birds include arriving wheatears and various warblers, while over-wintering thrushes can be seen on the reserve before moving back into mainland Europe. Porpoises can often be seen on calm days while early morning visits may provide sightings of roe deer.
Summer
Breeding season is in full swing with all 200,000 seabirds with eggs or chicks. Breeding tree sparrows, whitethroats, grasshopper warblers, sedge warblers, skylarks, linnets, reed buntings, rock and meadow pipits can be seen within 200 m of the visitor centre and car park. A moderate range of the commoner butterflies may be seen on sunny days, along with day-flying moths such as cinnabars, burnet moths and occasionally hummingbird hawk-moths. Trailside flora is dominated by red campion, black knapweed, various thistles and orchids including common spotted, northern marsh and pyramidal.
Autumn
All seabirds departed and breeding finished except for gannets. The autumnal migration can be exciting at Bempton owing to its coastal location and being on a headland. Short-eared owls begin to arrive to stay for the winter (depending on food availability) but the main interest is in the arrival of migrants such as willow warblers, chiffchaffs, whitethroats, lesser whitethroats, reed warblers, sedge warblers, goldcrests, stonechats, whinchats, wheatears and redstarts. Scarce species occur annually such as red-backed shrikes, and barred and icterine warblers. October is peak time to witness the winter thrush arrival, often hundreds of redwings, blackbirds, song thrushes and fieldfares occur along with occasional ring ouzels. Offshore, movements of seabirds may be seen in ideal weather conditions (strong NW winds). These include Manx and sooty shearwaters, Arctic and great skuas. Around the car park area migrant hawker and common darter dragonflies can be seen. There is little botanical interest at this time of year.
Winter
This is normally a quiet time of year. Bracing clifftop walks and fantastic seascapes are probably the best in Yorkshire. Up to 12 short-eared owls winter here, though in poor 'vole' years there may only be a few. The bird feeding station offers food and shelter to a range of commoner species such as tree sparrows (110 have been counted), greenfinch (60), and smaller numbers of blackbirds, robins, dunnocks, wrens, chaffinches, bramblings and various tit species. The cliff face attracts very few birds except for occasional herring gulls and fulmars, but by January gannets will return in good numbers with occasional days of guillemots in good numbers too.
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Facilities
Facilities
•Visitor centre
•Information centre
•Car park : Car park has no height restrictions. Cycle rack available close to visitor centre.
•Toilets
•Disabled toilets
•Picnic area
•Binocular hire
•Live camera
•Group bookings accepted
•Guided walks available
•Remote location
•Good for walking
•Pushchair friendly
Viewing points
Five cliff-top viewpoints and a bird feeding station. The five viewpoints are:
Grandstand: 200 m from visitor centre/car park, accessible by wheelchairs/pushchairs with care
Bartlett Nab: 400 m from visitor centre/car park and not easily accessible by wheelchairs/pushchairs
Jubilee Corner: 900 m from visitor centre/car park, not easily accessible by wheelchairs/pushchairs
New Roll-up: 500 m from visitor centre/car park, not easily accessible by wheelchairs/pushchairs
Staple Newk: 900m from visitor centre/car park, not easily accessible by wheelchairs/pushchairs.
The bird feeding station is easily accessed, 50 m from visitor centre/car park.
Nature trails
There are two nature trails. The first nature trail leading to five cliff-top viewpoints. The most distant viewpoints are 900 m from the visitor centre. Part of the trail is crushed chalk, with the remainder over worn grass. There is easy wheelchair and pushchair access to one viewpoint only. Paths can be wet and slippery following wet weather conditions, therefore care should be taken. The discovery trail is a shorter farmland walk.
Refreshments available
•Hot drinks
•Cold drinks
•Snacks
•Confectionery
Shop
The shop stocks:
•Binoculars and telescopes
•Books
•Bird food
•Gifts
Educational facilities
The Bempton Field Teaching Scheme operates throughout the year and offers exciting educational opportunities linked with the National Curriculum. The busiest time is from May to July, when breeding seabirds are at their peak. The scheme provides a unique opportunity to discover breeding seabirds, such as gannets and puffins, as well as investigating the challenging habitats in this fantastic coastal location. A truly memorable experience!
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Accessibility
26 October 2012
This is a Summary Access Statement. A full access statement is available to download from this page
Before you visit
•Clear print leaflet available on request
•Free parking for members. Parking charge for non members. Free parking for carer or essential companion
•Registered Assistance Dogs welcome
•Check accessibility for events and activities
•Wheelchair free of charge to hire. Pre-booking advised
•Live footage on TV in Visitor Centre
How to get here
•Bempton railway station is 1.25 miles away
•The nearest bus stops are on the main B1229 through the village, around 1 mile from the reserve
•No pavement on road to reserve
Car parking
•Four blue badge parking spaces 10 m (13 yards) from the visitor centre on bound gravel and paved path
•60 spaces in main car park, is a short walk to the main entrance of the visitor centre
•Overflow with 60 spaces on grass
•The path surface from the overflow car park is crushed limestone on exiting the field and after 20 m (26 yards) joins the path from the coach drop-off point (see below)
•Drop-off point 50 m (60 yards) from the visitor centre with a crushed limestone surface with a 1:10 sloped descent
•No lighting or height restrictions.
Visitor centre
Situated on ground floor level with step free access. Live footage on TV from the colony. Four circular tables with seating. Outside when weather is fine. Tiled floor surface. Artificial and natural lighting. Access ramp leads to reserve.
Nature trails
The reserve offers visitors a mixture of trails. A mix of bonded tar-spray chip, crushed limestone or mown grass. Most trails are a minimum of 1200mm/47ins wide and the majority lead to the cliff top viewing points (see Viewing Facilities below).
Viewing facilities
Five built viewpoints along the cliff top path, most have seats. In the Visitor Centre there is live footage on TV of the colony. From car park to exit is The Dell - good for small migrant birds - with a narrow grass path with inclines to and from two seats. A bird feeding station is off the path between the coach park and visitor centre.
Toilets
There are toilets and an accessible toilets outside the visitor centre, with level access to all. Note there are no toilet facilities beyond the visitor centre.
Catering
A servery with a hatch facing outside the visitor centre offering hot and cold beverages, snacks and ice creams. Hatch is 900 mm (36 inches) from the ground.
Shop
The shop is within the visitor centre. Staff and volunteers can assist. There is level entry and no doors to enter apart from those at the main entrance. The shop is lit with spot lamps.
Education area
There is currently a short mown grass square to the rear of the visitor centre which serves as an outdoor classroom reached via the access ramp.
Picnic area
Seven picnic tables - four on grass and three with spaces for wheelchairs on crushed limestone surface - situated 25 m/30 yards from the visitor centre.
For more information
Bempton Cliffs
E-mail: bempton.cliffs@rspb.org.uk
Telephone:01262 851179
YO15 1JF
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How to get here
By train
Nearest railway station 200 m south of Bempton village. Exit station and turn left, follow road down to church, walk up lane adjacent to church to staggered cross-road junction. Walk across road and take the road adjacent to the White Horse public house, northwards to the reserve. Total walking distance 1.5 miles (2.4 km). Walking time 40 minutes.
By bus
Nearest bus stop in Bempton village, 1 mile (1.5 km) from the reserve. Buses will drop off at any point on request. Disembark at White Horse public house and follow road northwards up the lane to the reserve. Walking time 30 minutes.
By road
The reserve is on the cliff road from the village of Bempton, which is on the B1229 road from Flamborough to Filey. In Bempton village, turn northwards at the White Horse public house and the reserve is at the end of the road after 1 mile (follow the brown tourist signs).
Other ways to get to the reserve
Trains and buses stop at Bempton, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the reserve. The timetables are seasonal so we advise you call the Visitor Centre for further details. Nearest ferry port in Hull and Humberside Airport in north Lincolnshire.
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Management
Our Bempton Cliffs reserve, on the Yorkshire coast, protects over five kilometres of sea cliffs. From April to mid-August, these support England's largest population of seabirds. Grassland and scrub along the cliff tops are also home to breeding and wintering farmland birds.
The RSPB is managing the reserve for the benefit of its wildlife, which also includes seals and porpoises, and with a long-term view to upgrading its protection status.
Cliff-face communities
Bempton's breeding seabirds are internationally important, making the cliffs both a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Special Protection Area.
Species include kittiwakes, gannets, guillemot, razorbills and puffins. We have specific targets for every one: for instance, we would like to maintain a yearly kittiwake population of 43,000 nesting pairs, producing at least one young each.
During the breeding season, our cliff-top patrols help prevent disturbance by visitors and fishermen.
Leading by example
Unfortunately seabird colonies are vulnerable to environmental threats that lie beyond our control. These include climate change and industrial fishing, which affect the birds' food supplies. We aim to use Bempton to highlight these issues, so that key decision makers will take action to safeguard the long-term future of seabirds. We hope this will lead to Bempton being designated a marine Special Conservation Area.
Room at the top
The grassland and scrub at the top of the cliffs are home to farmland birds such as tree sparrows, skylarks and linnets. Short-eared owls also spend winter here.
We are cutting back scrub and harrowing grassland in order to increase the population of insects and small mammals on which all these birds feed. We also put out extra food when necessary.
Vision for visitors
The seabird spectacle at Bempton makes the reserve very popular during summer, while the farmland birds help generate interest all-year-round. We aim to continue attracting and educating people, and inspiring them to support the marine environment.
Our facilities currently include a shop, picnic area and cliff top walks. We aim to develop these, with a view to increasing numbers to 60,000 visitors per annum over the next five years.
Tracking gannets
For the first time, we're finding out where Bempton's gannets go when they're away from the colony.
RSPB scientists have fitted satellite tags to a number of adult gannets so that we can monitor where they go to catch fish. The tags are designed so that they don't hurt or hinder the birds, and they will eventually fall off when the gannets grow new tail feathers, if not sooner.
We need to find out whether the birds are using areas which the government has earmarked as potential wind farms, and how that might affect them. This information will be used to help plan where to put wind turbines at sea.
What we're doing
•Fourteen adult gannets were fitted with satellite tags in July 2010 (and another 13 in July 2011)
•In 2010 we got data from all 14 tags during the time when the gannets were rearing their chicks, and several kept transmitting data late into the breeding season
•The highest density of recorded locations at sea was within 31-62 miles (50-100 km) of Bempton Cliffs
•The greatest overlap with any of the proposed wind farm areas was with the Hornsea zone, which is nearest to Bempton
•These results are from just one breeding season, so it's unclear just how representative they are of what Bempton's gannets do. We'll monitor them again in future breeding seasons to learn more.
You can find out more about this work on the gannet tracking project page.
Gorgeous, no? Most all farms have water requirements. Thus farmers must take actions to match available water to those requirements Either adjustment to pH, softening, carbonate removal, etc. Specifically for Schwarzwald, a reduction modification in pH and thus carbonate removal is desired, Both continuously and batch applications are desired. Continuously to make the minor pH adjustments for keeping carbonates in solution and batch adjustments for low rain year supplemental irrigation. This standard, and consequently predictable, non_OMRI practice calls for the direct injection of Sulfuric Acid. The process isn't the problem, it is the acid. Derived from petroleum source, it also has the hitch hikers come along with it. Thus Schwarzwald Almonds will be installing the ability to inject a slightly different form of the acid but from an OMRI approved source, an installed sulfur burner will provide the continual adjustment to pH. Studies with sulfur burners show a 12 to 20% increase in production compared to Sulfuric Acid. I think it is the lack of the hitch hikers from the Sulfuric Acid source. Because the sulfur burner still make Sulfuric Acid and diluted with water makes a sulfurous acid. Same same.
What is the pond for you ask. End of production year, I'll fill the pond to safe a level, adjusted for anticipated rain. I'll then start recirculating the pond water with the sulfur burner to lower the pH of the storage water, via solar panels because we are off grid, to that of rain, well in that direction. This will be used to supplement the historical annual winter rains, 12" at minimum, for salt flushing. I can't wait to hear the hollows of my neighbors that I'm irrigating during a rain event?
Coby playing fetch at the beach.
A great place to take action photos, the sand gives some great shots, and the dogs love it ;) Especially Coby since he can often take a little detour to dip his feets or the ball in the water ;)
It’s the 23rd century, it’s the year 2267, and the stardate is 1312.7, the USS Colosus is orbiting the planet Wofrone.
“Captain, we’re getting some sort of reading from the planet, it’s from a rather deserted area.”
“Alright Lieutenant Grazer, keep monitoring it.”
“Alright Captain Kent” the crew of the ship get back to their basic duties, several minutes go by, and a beeping sound keeps getting louder, until the first officer walks over to it.
“Lieutenant, is this thing, getting closer to us each time it beeps” he looks rather scared, as his head goes from the screen to the Commander.
“Uh…yeah I think that’s what it is” the Commander looks confused for a moment, then decides to take action, acting swiftly he orders his men.
“Alright someone scan that thing, and fast, and you, Greg try and make communications with em.”
“Right away sir” the communications officer yells, he attempts to contact the ship but there’s no reply, in this time the scanning of the ship is completed.
“Sir, a scan of the ship reveals that it’s rather small, it has several life forms aboard, and…wait a second” the Captain rushes over, as he becomes worried, he peers over his shoulder and looks at the screen.
“My god, what’s sticking out of the ship?”
“It looks like, well it looks like a claw now, it’s changed in seconds, do you think it’s?”
“Oh god no” the Captain says, he begins looking around franticly, and then shouts.
“Someone raise the shields!” he yells, suddenly the ship is shaken, once everyone recovers, they realize what has happened.
“They took out our shields, other than that there isn’t any damage” one officer says, the captain turns around, looking rather confused by what has happened.
“Send a security team down there immediately, I need a search of the zone, and someone get the camera footage up now!” he yells out, he’s an experienced captain, and should be able to deal with this, though every time he has, he’s always felt the looming presence of death, and who knows, maybe this time it will be his last. Within no time the security team is by the ship, and the whole bridge is watching quietly, waiting for any sudden movements. Suddenly steam bursts from a hatch on the ship, and the hatch then pops off, several figures leap out of the smoke, and the security team falls back around the corridor, watching quietly. The intruders look around when suddenly the security team jumps out and begins firing at them, in no time they’re all stunned, that’s when suddenly the scanner goes crazy, out of nowhere several ships appear, and that’s when Captain Kent begins to realize what’s going on.
“My god…WE’RE BEING BORDED!” he shouts out, with the shields down, the ships fly right onto the ship. It shakes, and the lights go out for a moment, once power is back on the Captain broadcasts a message to the crew.
“Attention all crewmembers, as of now we are being boarded by an unknown enemy, for your safety, and the safety of the crew, set your phasers to kill, I repeat, set your phasers to kill” he cuts off the transmission and grabs a phaser.
“Sir one of the ships, it landed near us.”
“How long till it gets here?” the Captain asks, ready to figure out a plan.
“North of five minutes.”
“Damn, that’s barley enough time to think of anything.”
“Don’t worry Captain, I’m sure we can fight back” the Commander says.
“I guess you’re right Smith” he doesn’t look as frightened, seemingly soothed by what the first officer has to say.
“Alright, everyone get ready, a battle is imminent. They wait a moment, getting reports of deaths all over the ship, in some places they’ve managed to defeat boarding parties, but in others they’ve been overrun, and now they’re closer to the bridge than ever.
“GET READY!” First Officer Smith yells out, the door is busted open, the crew look over and see two men board. They’re dressed in attire you would normally wear in a desert, holding weapons that aren’t the normal kind.
“Who the hell are you and why are you on my ship?” the Captain yells, seemingly very triumphant, and proud of its honor, not wanting it to be tainted by these unwanted visitors.
“We, are the harbingers of revolution, we are the heralds of change, we are Recensere!” a man yells from the hall, he emerges from the darkness, an angry face, one of resent and pure concentrated rage, his clothes damaged from sand, with some sand still left on him. The Captain walks over to him, he’s about to reason with him, try and change what’s going on, but he doesn’t realize how badly this will end.
“You realize this is an act of war against the federation, and you will be dealt with in full force” he stands his ground, and doesn’t show any sign of fear, like a good captain.
“George, George Kent, I know what your ship, and the Federation means to you, but I think our ideals might clash if we negotiate normally, so I prefer a different kind of negotiation” he smirks, and suddenly all of a sudden, a bright green light appears.
“Aggressive negotiations!” the Captain winces in pain, and the man takes a second shot, coming from the lower half of the gun. The Captain falls to the floor, as these three men look over him, in less than half a second lasers fly across the room. The crew holds their ground for as long as possible, and the commander gets to the Captain’s chair, and makes an announcement across the ship.
“ATTENTION ALL CREW, I, BENJAMIN SMITH, AM NOW CAPTAIN OF THIS VESSEL, AND I URGE ALL OF YOU, TO ESCAPE, THESE MEN ARE DANGEROUS AND SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN LIGHTLY, SO RUN WHILE YOU CAN!” he’s cut off when someone shoots at him, and he scrambles, firing back at him with a phaser, soon enough more intruders rush into the room, firing green bolts of energy at the Colossus’s crew.
The communications officer, Greg, and the Lieutenant, Grazer fall back, to the edge of the bridge, as the few other remaining officers fire at the invaders, but are slowly taken out one by one.
“I’m moving in a bit to get a better shot!” Grazer yells, as he moves towards one of the railings, he’s able to shoot two intruders, before being shot in the left side of his chest, he slumps over the railing, dead.
“Sir, there isn’t much time, how the hell are we gonna fight back!”
“I don’t know, but we just have to try” the new Captain says, trying to give his communications officer a little bit of hope.
“If we can just figure out something” he says to Smith, before two green bolts hit him, he falls down, in pain. Suddenly another bolt hits the ground near smith, and he gets knocked to the floor.
“Captain…you were an above and beyond crewmember, for an Aussie” the two laugh, he had a habit of pointing that out, and now this would be the last time.
“Honestly…I’m glad I was on the same ship as you…” the Captain closes his eyes, as shots nearly miss him, suddenly his phaser gets knocked out of his hand, by another bolt that hit the nearby wall, creating a shockwave. Realizing that he was trapped, he had to think of a way to get out of this, and so he did.
“Detain this man!” the leader of the boarding party yells, and four troops walk over to him, Smith grabs a phaser, and turns his back for a moment, grabbing something else from his side, he then points the phaser at the window, but keep the other object concealed.
“You shoot me, I shoot the window, and you all go flying!” he yells, the men look worried, but the leader of them doesn’t.
“Yeah, yeah, I’m sure you would, after all, you don’t got the guts to.”
“Try me” he has a smirk on his face, a tired smirk, worn out from seeing all of his friends die, it fades, and he shoots, and a crack appears on the window, he drops the other object and runs, the people in there panic for a moment, worried that they’ll be sucked into space, he sprints, rushing to the escape pods. What the intruders don’t realize is that the other object was a projector, and the phaser was set to stun, creating a shock on the glass, he then projected a cracking effect, leaving them to believe it was cracking. He rushes to the pods, finding as many crew members as possible, killing several intruders among this journey. His last stop was the sickbay, where a whole team of intruders were watching the sick and wounded.
“Your times up!” he yelled as he shot all of them, leaving no invader alive, he lead this large amount of people out of there, and into the pods, two people for each one.
“I’m setting the landing zone for the nearest moon, see you all soon” he tried to emulate the former Captian, tried to show strength among terror, and it worked, he felt that he inspired, but deep down, he felt like a failure, he felt embarrassed that he could save his crewmembers, but most of all, he felt guilty, guilty that he survived and not the others. As the pods were launched, he reminisced about what just happened, but he knew, at least some of the crew was safe. From the window he could see the Colossus, is began to slowly drift downwards, pulled into gravity, as the invaders ships left, heading straight for their planet, of Wofrone. As Smith looks out from his window, he knows it’s over, but at the same time, he can tell this is the beginning, the beginning of a war between these people who called themselves Recensere, and as much as he wanted to fight back, he also didn’t want anything to do with it, and there he was flying down to a planet as the might Colossus fell from the sky, and he was alone, lost in the vastness of space.
The pinecone, like the pineal gland, is extremely affected by Light, and takes action according to what it senses. Cones will open themselves up to the sun’s rays, and close up during cloudy or stormy days. It has to do with continuation of the seed-line. Sunny days offer more arid conditions and the tiny seedlings nestled in the scales of the pinecone can become airborne more easily. Damp or rainy days are crumby conditions for seed spreading, so the pinecone just closes up shop during these weather conditions.That action is symbolic in itself (like: Opening up spiritual awareness in order to sow seeds of limitless potential and continuation of Soul Growth) …. but to keep with our comparison, we can now draw corollaries between pineal gland and pinecone in terms of gauging Light, seeking Light, and becoming activated in the Light.We could say, pinecones are the external reflection of the “mystic seed” (the pineal gland). From this perspective, all these pinecones we see this time of year bring on a whole new meaning.
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The pine cone symbolism is not lost on ancient cultures; in India, Hindu tradition teaches followers to awaken the Third Eye by activating their "seven chakras".It is an ancient exercise, still practiced today, called Kundalini Yoga; it is claimed to directly affect human consciousness, develop intuition, increase self-knowledge, and unleash one's creative potential.Interestingly, the esoteric symbol of kundalini yoga is the caduceus- a symbol that features two antithetical serpents.What is the symbolic meaning of these pine cones, and how do the antithetical animals factor into their overall meaning?What is the deeper secret these apparently inscrutable images hide?The answer to this is that pine cones, throughout history, have symbolized the "pineal gland", or "Third Eye", and by association the esoteric act of awakening it.This gland is said to lie at the geometric center of the brain, and considered by some as the biological Third Eye; the French philosopher Descartes famously referred to the pineal gland as the Seat of the Soul.The pineal gland is given the following definition in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary:"A small usu. conical appendage of the brain of all craniate vertebrates that in a few reptiles has the essential structure of an eye, that functions in some birds as part of a time-measuring system, and that is variously postulated to be a vestigial third eye, an endocrine organ, or the seat of the soul…"Common pine cone is also associated with eye symbolism. Kundalini is the spiritual energy or life force present in every human being, located at the base of the spine.To awaken the Third Eye, the kundalini energy must be summoned to the forehead, where it expands and thus awakens the Third Eye. The energy is said to travel along the ida (left) and pingala (right), up the central pole or sushumna.
This is the process esoterically depicted by the caduceus symbol of two antithetical snakes spiraling up a central staff.
"…the caduceus, the rod of power…In India it is a stick of bamboo with seven knots… which represents the spinal column with its seven centers or chakras…It also indicated the spinal cord…while the serpents were symbolical of the two channels called in Eastern terminology Ida and Pinagala; and the fire enclosed within it was the serpent-fire which in Sanskrit is called kundalini."C.W. Leadbeater, Freemasonry and its Ancient Mystic RitesThus, antithetical animal art associated with the pine cone,twin elephants in Indonesia, twin peacocks in Rome, twin serpents in Egypt...is really an allusion to the ida and pingala channels (the antithetical twin serpents on the caduceus).The central sushumna is, in turn, symbolized by the third, centered drawing (often a pine cone) which on the caduceus is the main rod running north south. Many ancient cultures incorporated images of the pine cone into their spiritual art and architecture, and they all also created antithetical animal art.Pagan gods of Babylon, Egypt, Mexico and Greece were associated with the pine cone, and the staffs of these gods were often adorned with the pine cone.The human pineal gland is shaped like and named after a pine cone, and it is an essential component in how we perceive light.Many believe this gland is the body’s Third Eye, responsible for spiritual enlightenment and sometimes referred to as the “seat of the soul.”The pine cone symbol, then, alludes to the Third Eye: it abounds in ancient art and architecture, a symbolic representation of our now-dormant window to the world.The Third Eye was commonly described by ancient mystics who experienced the divine light.".. in every man there is an Eye of the soul which… is far more precious than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen… The Eye of the soul… is alone naturally adapted to be resuscitated and excited by the mathematical disciplines."Plato, RepublicA superficial "tapping" of the Third Eye is not difficult. Close your eyes and, without moving them, "look" at an object you know is close to you. You are seeing with your Third Eye. To elevate spirituality and awaken dormant powers, the Eye must be turned inward.Western occult tradition agrees with ancient Eastern texts affirming that turning the Eye inward endows us with:higher consciousness;a deeper understanding of life and death ,a newfound ability to control the future, a sense of peacefulness and bliss extrasensory, clairvoyant, intuitive and psychic abilities expanded perception, enhanced capacity for self-healingstress reduction, calmness and clarity; newfound sensitivity. Mystery writer Stephen King's 'The Shining' touched on this concept.In King's novel, "shining" meant tapping one's higher psychic powers. Unfortunately, today ideas like the Third Eye and related mystical and/or esoteric concepts are frowned upon, pejoratively labeled "the occult."The question, however, is why the West has been so ill-informed of this Third Eye and its unlocking even as the Eastern traditions have incorporated them into their practices. The answer to that is the rise of Christianity in the west; the practice and idea of an "inner god" or "Third Eye" to awaken runs afoul of traditional Christian teachings.These wisdoms, forced underground, became the origins for secret societies that passed on these esoteric wisdomIn her fascinating 1924 book, Mystic Americanism, the obscure American author Grace Morey explained:"The All-Seeing Eye… also emblematic of the pineal gland or third eye of the human being… has been found amid the ruins of every civilization upon the globe, thereby attesting the fact of a universal religion over all the earth at some remote period.The term "all-seeing eye" in and of itself is indeed correct; but it's not the all-seeing-eye of the Hebrew 'God'; it is the all-seeing eye of you, the pineal gland that we all have.Many highly trained and educated Masons who lived during the 20th century, including several noted authors and scholars, were convinced that the all-seeing Eye was not the Eye of the Bible's God, and that the modern system of Freemasonry we've inherited, based on the Hebrew Bible, is in fact corrupted.It is interesting to note that the famous American Author Mark Twain, writing in 1899, referred to the All Seeing Eye not as the Eye of some distant heavenly deity or "old man upstairs," but as a tangible gift that any person can use:"The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the 'all seeing eye' pierces through, and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind couldn't detect."Interestingly, there is evidence that Hitler was aware of and understood pine cone symbolism.One of the front panels on his desk displays clear pine cone symbolism:Adolf Hitler believed in the Third Eye. This fact is affirmed by Hermann Rauschning, the former National Socialist Senate President of Danzig.In Hitler Speaks (London, 1939), Rauschning wrote:"To have 'magic insight' was apparently Hitler's idea of the goal of human progress… There was the eye of the Cyclops, or median eye, the organ of magic perception of the Infinite, now reduced to a rudimentary pineal gland.Speculations of this sort fascinated Hitler, and he would sometimes be entirely wrapped up in them."Hermann RauschningIt seems that, almost 100 years ago, Hitler knew things about the Third Eye that most Americans are only now starting to rediscover.The Third Eye can be seen above the French Declaration of Human Rights in a 1789 painting, and is on the back of the one dollar bill; it floats above an Egyptian pyramid. While knowledge of the Third Eye and the practice of awakening the Third Eye continued strong in the East, it began to die in the West at the start of Christianity.Consequently, Secret Societies like the Alchemists were established to protect Third Eye knowledge, initiate new members into its wisdom, and keep the practice alive. This explains why the image of a single Eye is common to Western Secret Societies, whose constituents possessed exceptionally philosophical, active, creative, and spiritual minds.A single Eye is one of the supreme and sacred emblems in Alchemy..The Third Eye seems strange, even downright alien to us in the West, even today, despite our living in the "information age" of globalization. The fact that the Third Eye is so unknown, so strange and so alien to our way of thinking is something of an enigma..The reason is because there seems to have always been, and there continues to be, a conscious effort to conceal it by a powerful elite who don't want the masses to discover its secrets.
www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_brain65.htm
While it doens’t look like an “eye” in the traditional sense, the common pine cone is also associated with eye symbolism. The human pineal gland is shaped like and named after a pine cone, and it is an essential component in how we perceive light. Many believe this gland is the body’s Third Eye, responsible for spiritual enlightenment and sometimes referred to as the “seat of the soul.” Many religious and cultural artifacts depict heroes holding staves topped by pine cones or wearing crowns made to resemble pine cones.
Why this fascination with eyes throughout history? Connection. Eyes are critical in the connections between human beings and for many of religious faith, with gods or goddesses. This is why historical eye depictions almost always show eyes uncovered, unencumbered by lenses or other accessories. It’s also part of the reason many people seek out eye correction alternatives such as laser vision correction. It’s now possible to break the dependence on glasses or contacts; cutting-edge excimer lasers and procedures such as Custom Wavefront Lasik can correct a host of visual issues and let you see the world an entirely new way, with no pain and a minimal amount of recovery.The symbolism of eyes tells the tale: As a species, we’re fascinated by these tiny windows to the soul. Expert laser correction can help give the best view possible, inside and out.
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On OCTOBER 17-19, 2008 Stand Up & Take Action
Against Poverty and for the Millennium Development Goals
"At a time when $700 billion can be found overnight to bail out the richest bankers in the world and $1000 billion can be spent on one single "war", when sovereign wealth funds in a few rich countries alone are at $2500 billion and growing, it stretches credulity when we are told that the world can't find an extra $18 billion a year to save the lives of millions of children and women and meet the basic needs of the majority of the world's population."
(Director, U.N.Millennium Campaign Salil Shetty, October 8, 2008,The Hindu, New Delhi)
Eight years ago,in 2000, leaders of 189 countries signed the Millennium Declaration agreeing to do everything in their power to end poverty. They pledged to do this by achieving the Millennium Development Goals, a roadmap to end extreme poverty by 2015.
Still, every day, 50,000 people die as a result of extreme poverty and the gap between rich and poor people is increasing. Nearly half the world’s population live in poverty, 70% are women. We have the power to change this.
Campaigners worldwide will STAND UP and TAKE ACTION to push their governments for more and better aid, debt cancellation, education for all boys and girls, healthcare, trade justice, gender equality and public accountability.
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Mount Ararat (see section Names for other names) is the tallest peak in Turkey. This snow-capped, dormant volcanic cone is located in the Iğdır Province, near the northeast corner of Turkey, 16 km (10 miles) west of the Iranian and 32 km (20 miles) south of the Armenian border.
Ararat is a stratovolcano, formed of lava flows and pyroclastic ejecta, with no volcanic crater. Above the height of 4,200 m (13,780 ft), the mountain mostly consists of igneous rocks covered by an ice sheet.
A smaller 3,896 m (12,782 ft) cone, Little Ararat, rises from the same base, southeast of the main peak. The lava plateau stretches out between the two pinnacles. The bases of these two mountains is approximately 1,000 km² (386 sq mi) wide.
The formation of Ararat is hard to retrieve geologically, but the type of vulcanism and the position of the vulcano raise the idea that subduction relation vulcanism occurred when the Tethys Ocean closed during the Neogene, as recently occurred along the borders of the Eurasian, African and Arabian plates from Cabo de Gata to the Caucasus.
Elevation
An elevation of 5,165 m (16,946 ft) for Mount Ararat is given by some authorities, but others, including Encyclopedia Britannica give 5,137 m (16,854 ft). Public domain and verifiable SRTM data and a 2007 GPS measurement show that 5,137 m is more accurate, and that the true elevation may be lower. 5,137 m is also supported by detailed topographic mapping (see summit map).
Activity
It is not known when the last eruption of Ararat occurred, there are no historic or recent observations of large-scale activity recorded. The last eruption will have occurred somewhere in the last 10000 years. It seems that Ararat was active in the 3rd millenium BC; under the pyroclastic flows, artifacts from the early Bronze Age and remains of human bodies have been found.[citation needed]
However, it is known that Ararat was shaken by a large earthquake in July 1840, the effects of which were largest in the neighbourhood of the Ahora Gorge (a northeast trending chasm that drops 1,825 metres (5,988 ft) from the top of the mountain). An unstable part of the northern slope collapsed and a chapel, a monastery and a village were covered by rubble. According to some sources, Ararat erupted then as well, albeit under the ground water level.
Over the centuries, the area has been contested territory between several states. The first unified state to rule the region surrounding the mountain was ancient Urartu. After the decline of Urartu following invasions by Scythians and the Medes in 585 BC, a semi-independent Armenian state emerged under the rule of the Orontid Dynasty, the members of which frequently intermarried with their overlords, the Achaemenid Persians. After the defeat of the Achaemenids by Alexander the Great in 330 BC, the Orontids gained autonomy, albeit under Macedonian influence.
According to a legend, a Roman emperor ordered a number of Roman soldiers who converted to Christianity (now called ten thousand martyrs of Mount Ararat) to be crucified on Mount Ararat.
Antiochus the Great briefly subjugated Armenia in 201 BC, ending Orontid rule in the region. After the defeat of Antiochus in the Battle of Magnesia, a new independent Armenian Kingdom emerged in 198 BC that lasted for over six centuries, until 428, when it was briefly being annexed to the Roman Empire by Trajan from 114 to 118. Following the partition of Armenia between the Roman Empire and Sassanid Persia in 428, the region was a constant battleground between the two, and afterwards between the Arab Caliphate and the Byzantine Empire.
Ararat became part of the territory of the Armenian Kingdom of Ani under the Bagratuni Dynasty early in the ninth century A.D., which was then annexed by Byzantium in 1045. It then lost the territory to the Seljuk Turks following the Battle of Manzikert in 1071. The Georgian Kingdom took the region from the Seljuks from the late 12th century to the early 13th century, until various Mongol rulers of the Ilkhanate, including Tamerlane, took control of the area in the 13th and 14th centuries. The region was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1517 and often fought over and taken by the Safavids. In 1855 the northern side of the mountain became part of the Russian Empire, the southern side remained within the Ottoman Empire.
Ararat from Doğubeyazıt by Christian KoehnDr. Friedrich Parrot, with the help of Khachatur Abovian, was the first explorer in modern times to reach the summit of Mount Ararat, subsequent to the onset of Russian rule in 1829. He was followed in 1856 by a group of five explorers led by Major Robert Stuart.
In 1918, in the aftermath of World War I, the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the October Revolution, the area became part of the Democratic Republic of Armenia, but the republic was short-lived. With the invasion of the Red Army, the area became part of the Soviet Union. Following the Treaty of Kars in 1923, the area was divided up between Turkey and the USSR, and the new border, which became internationally recognised, placed Ararat on the Turkish side of the border. At that time, Armenia was joined together with Georgia and Azerbaijan as part of the Transcaucasian SFSR. When the TSFSR was dissolved in 1936 and each of the three countries became separate Soviet Republics (Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, and Georgian SSR), Armenia depicted Ararat on its coat of arms. Turkey protested against this symbolic gesture on the grounds that Ararat was part of its territory, but the Kremlin refused to take action.
Ararat rises from a flat plain and dominates the skyline of Armenia's capital, Yerevan. Since ancient times, Ararat has been revered by the Armenians as their spiritual home and as the home of the gods of the Armenian pantheon. Today, it is the national symbol of Armenia. Mount Ararat is featured in the center of the Coat of Arms of Armenia. The mountain is often depicted by Armenian artists on paintings, obsidian engravings, backgammon boards and other artifacts. From Yerevan, Artashat (Artaxarta), Masis and Armavir, and throughout much of the country, citizens and tourists get a clear glimpse of both peaks, Mount Ararat and Little Ararat (Sis). Khor Virap, a monastery located just across the border from Turkey, is particularly popular with tourists for its view of the mountain. Ararat (film) is a 2002 film by Atom Egoyan (about the Armenian Genocide) that displays this symbolism.
The climb is long, but there is a fairly easy route from the south in late summer for climbers who are familiar with the use of axe and crampons. Snow covers the last 400 m (¼ mile) year-round. There are two possible campsites on the mountain, and the glacier begins around 4,800 m (15,750 ft). The Turkish government requires a climbing permit and use of a certified Turkish guide. Arrangements can take two months to complete.
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You can seek advice from others, surround yourself with trusted advisors. But ultimately, the decision is always yours and yours alone. And when it's time to take action you're all alone with your back against the wall. And the only voice that matters is the one in your mind. The one that probably tells you what you already knew. The one that almost always right.
This is the first time i tell this out of my mind, i think it's because i want to overcome it.
I'm trying to fade away all the bad thoughts about myself, about my capabilities I have low self-esteem and trying to trust myself. But sometimes I fall apart and I cannot see beyond. It's difficult to smile. But I won't give up.
"You're beginning to live, you cannot bring you down now. You're a treasure and you have to believe it. Think about if i brought down, i'd never be here saying you this. Every morning when you wake up, you have to say yourself 'you're worth, you're a treasure'." My language teacher said to me because he don't want see my sadness.
If he trusts me, i think it's time to trust myself.
On OCTOBER 17-19, 2008 Stand Up & Take Action
Against Poverty and for the Millennium Development Goals
Take Action Against War and Hunger! Together, we can Make War & Hunger History!!
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Nearly one billion people go hungry each day, 65 percent of them in just seven countries: India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Ethiopia and Congo, reported the UN food agency ( www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/8836/ ). “For millions of people in developing countries, eating the minimum amount of food every day to live an active and healthy life is a distant dream”, said FAO’ Assistant Director-General Hafez Ghanem.
Another 40 million people have been pushed into hunger in 2008 primarily due to higher food prices, according to preliminary estimates published by FAO. This brings the overall number of undernourished people in the world to 963 million, compared to 923 million in 2007 and the ongoing financial and economic crisis could tip even more people into hunger and poverty, FAO warned.
"At a time when $700 billion can be found overnight to bail out the richest bankers in the world and $1000 billion can be spent on one single “war,” when sovereign wealth funds in a few rich countries alone are at $2500 billion and growing, it stretches credulity when we are told that the world can’t find an extra $18 billion a year to save the lives of millions of children and women and meet the basic needs of the majority of the world’s population."
---- Global Director, U.N. Millennium Campaign, Salil Shetty www.hindu.com/2008/10/08/stories/2008100855121100.htm
Several Heads of States, Ministers, politicians, high-ranking government bureaucrats, unscrupulous businesses, criminals, drug traffickers, smugglers and other unscrupulous people are depositing large sums of illegal money in not just the Swiss banks, there are around 70 tax havens worldwide which are used to stash slush monies. A 2008 report by the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) lists Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Panama, Singapore and others as states where it deems bank secrecy rules undesirable. Estimates suggest more than $11 trillion black money may be stored in tax havens.(www.oecd.org/dataoecd/39/19/40556222.pdf )
If the governments are serious about stopping black money and raising resources to meet the growing economic crisis, they must take steps to bring back the unaccounted or, ill-gotten wealth. Most adversely affected are the developing nations including those from Africa and Asia, where disappearance of large amounts of money badly needed for development.
Two-thirds of the world’s populations don’t have access to the financial system. Poor are not considered credit worthy. The idea of the business is only maximisation of profit. That is too narrow an interpretation of a human being. The current financial meltdown is destroying jobs, lives and livelihoods, while wreaking havoc on currencies and stock markets around the world. It has taken resources from the many, while concentrating wealth in the hands of the few. To date, governments have largely responded by spending more than one trillion dollars bailing out private financial institutions and corporations. Meanwhile, the crushing needs of communities, ordinary citizens and fragile ecosystems have been largely ignored. There should also be social business in the society.
The globalisation had to ensure the maximum good for the maximum numbers around the world and not just the privileged few who got richer under the corrupt political regime. It is true that every successful economy is a market economy, the problem lay in the way it evolved in the corrupt regime which privatised profits and socialised losses. That is not capitalism. The current crisis showed that system was inadequate to cope with the changing situation. The societies needed to practise social responsibility throughout their business, ensuring that they did not make profits by harming lives, livelihoods and the environment. Every human being should have the “right to credit” because if people have money, they can change their lives.
Eight years ago, in 2000, leaders of 189 countries signed the Millennium Declaration agreeing to do everything in their power to end poverty. They pledged to do this by achieving the Millennium Development Goals, a roadmap to end extreme poverty by 2015. Are we even half way to meeting the eight Millennium Development Goals?
Still, every day, 50,000 people die as a result of extreme poverty and the gap between rich and poor people is increasing. Nearly half the world’s population live in poverty, 70% are women.
In war and conflicts, every year thousands of people killed, wounded or displaced includes infants, toddlers, boys, girls, house wives, grandmothers, mothers, fathers, grandfathers, sisters, schoolteachers, factory workers, healthcare workers, agriculture workers, sales girls, graphic designers, software writers, call centre employees, dancers, day care providers, construction workers, babysitters, musicians, singers, bakers, restaurant workers, cab drivers, maidservants and many more. Thousands of soldiers have been killed and hundreds of thousands more have suffered severe physical and psychological wounds.
We have the power to change this. Push your governments for peace, more and better aid, debt cancellation, education for all boys and girls, healthcare, trade justice, gender equality, right to credit and public accountability.
Let us tell the political gamblers
that we hate their ways of war and destruction!
Arise and tell the war mongers
what we need are tools to work and freedom from hunger!!
Say No To Unfair Social System!
Say No To Corrupt Political Regime!!
Say No To Unfair World Order!!!
Say No To Unfair Trade!!!!
Fight for peace!
Fight against hunger!!
We can make 'War, Terrorism and Hunger History' in our lifetime!!!
www.flickr.com/people/standagainstpoverty/
foto: firoz ahmad firoz
Take Action Against War and Hunger! Together, we can Make War & Hunger History!!
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"At a time when $700 billion can be found overnight to bail out the richest bankers in the world and $1000 billion can be spent on one single “war,” when sovereign wealth funds in a few rich countries alone are at $2500 billion and growing, it stretches credulity when we are told that the world can’t find an extra $18 billion a year to save the lives of millions of children and women and meet the basic needs of the majority of the world’s population."
---- Global Director, U.N. Millennium Campaign, Salil Shetty www.hindu.com/2008/10/08/stories/2008100855121100.htm
Another 40 million people have been pushed into hunger in 2008 primarily due to higher food prices, according to preliminary estimates published by FAO. This brings the overall number of undernourished people in the world to 963 million, compared to 923 million in 2007 and the ongoing financial and economic crisis could tip even more people into hunger and poverty, FAO warned.
Nearly one billion people go hungry each day, 65 percent of them in just seven countries: India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Ethiopia and Congo, reported the UN food agency ( www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/8836/ ). “For millions of people in developing countries, eating the minimum amount of food every day to live an active and healthy life is a distant dream”, said FAO’ Assistant Director-General Hafez Ghanem.
The globalisation had to ensure the maximum good for the maximum numbers around the world and not just the privileged few who got richer under the corrupt political regime. It is true that every successful economy is a market economy, the problem lay in the way it evolved in the corrupt regime which privatised profits and socialised losses. That is not capitalism. The current crisis showed that system was inadequate to cope with the changing situation. The societies needed to practise social responsibility throughout their business, ensuring that they did not make profits by harming lives, livelihoods and the environment.
Eight years ago, in 2000, leaders of 189 countries signed the Millennium Declaration agreeing to do everything in their power to end poverty. They pledged to do this by achieving the Millennium Development Goals, a roadmap to end extreme poverty by 2015. Are we even half way to meeting the eight Millennium Development Goals?
Still, every day, 50,000 people die as a result of extreme poverty and the gap between rich and poor people is increasing. Nearly half the world’s population live in poverty, 70% are women.
In war and conflicts, every year thousands of people killed, wounded or displaced includes infants, toddlers, boys, girls, house wives, grandmothers, mothers, fathers, grandfathers, sisters, schoolteachers, factory workers, healthcare workers, agriculture workers, sales girls, graphic designers, software writers, call centre employees, dancers, day care providers, construction workers, babysitters, musicians, singers, bakers, restaurant workers, cab drivers, maidservants and many more. Thousands of soldiers have been killed and hundreds of thousands more have suffered severe physical and psychological wounds. And God Left Third World A Long Time Ago.
We have the power to change this. Push your governments for peace, more and better aid, debt cancellation, education for all boys and girls, healthcare, trade justice, gender equality and public accountability.
Let us tell the political gamblers
that we hate their ways of war and destruction!
Arise and tell the war mongers
what we need are tools to work and freedom from hunger!!
Say No To Unfair Social System!
Say No To Corrupt Political Regime!!
Say No To Unfair World Order!!!
Say No To Unfair Trade!!!!
Fight for peace!
Fight against hunger!!
We can make 'War, Terrorism and Hunger History' in our lifetime!!!
www.flickr.com/people/standagainstpoverty/
foto: firoz ahmad firoz
foto: firoz ahmad firoz
Take Action against War and Hunger!
"At a time when $700 billion can be found overnight to bail out the richest bankers in the world and $1000 billion can be spent on one single "war", when sovereign wealth funds in a few rich countries alone are at $2500 billion and growing, it stretches credulity when we are told that the world can't find an extra $18 billion a year to save the lives of millions of children and women and meet the basic needs of the majority of the world's population." (Director, U.N.Millennium Campaign, Salil Shetty, October 8, 2008,The Hindu, New Delhi).
Eight years ago, in 2000, leaders of 189 countries signed the Millennium Declaration agreeing to do everything in their power to end poverty. They pledged to do this by achieving the Millennium Development Goals, a roadmap to end extreme poverty by 2015. Eight years ago, in 2000, leaders of 189 countries signed the Millennium Declaration agreeing to do everything in their power to end poverty. They pledged to do this by achieving the Millennium Development Goals, a roadmap to end extreme poverty by 2015.
Still, every day, 50,000 people die as a result of extreme poverty and the gap between rich and poor people is increasing. Nearly half the world’s population live in poverty, 70% are women. We have the power to change this. Push your governments for peace, more and better aid, debt cancellation, education for all boys and girls, healthcare, trade justice, gender equality and public accountability.
Fight for peace!
Fight against hunger!!
We can make 'war and hunger history' in our lifetime!!!
www.flickr.com/people/standagainstpoverty/