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Fokus auf Mainz!
Was Mainz anbelangt, schauen die Kasteler wohl nun endgültig in die Röhre! :-)
Rheinufer bei Mainz-Kastel in Hessen, mit dem neu installierten und Ende Mai der Öffentlichkeit vorgestellten Kunstwerk. Einer begehbaren vollverspiegelten facettenreichen Röhre aus Edelstahl, geschaffen vom Künstlerteam Wolfgang Winter/ Berthold Hörbelt. Titel der Skulptur: „Dem Wasser gewidmet“.
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Focus on the city of Mainz!
The banks of the river Rhine near Mainz-Kastel in Hesse, Germany, with the newly installed work of art presented to the public at the end of May, a walk-in, fully mirrored, multi-faceted tube made of stainless steel, created by the artist team Wolfgang Winter/ Berthold Hoerbelt. Title of the sculpture: "Dedicated to the water".
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Mise à jour vendredi 29 septembre :
Aujourd'hui, les nouvelles ne sont pas vraiment bonnes ... Le test des anti corps sanguins pour la PIF indique que les valeurs sont hautes mais ne peuvent pas affirmer à 100 % qu'elle est atteinte de la PIF donc elle va redemander une nouvelle analyse et les résultats de seront livrés que dans le milieu de la semaine prochaine.
La cortisone ne semble pas réduire l'inflammation de son oeil gauche, elle peut augmenter un peu la dose mais il y a un risque que cela aggrave son rhume ....
L'endoscopie sur son nez faite aujourd'hui a montré des parois bien enflammées, normal elle est enrhumée ! Le rinçage du nez a été fait aussi.
J'ai demandé si elle souffre ? La vétérinaire me dit qu'elle ne semble pas avoir des douleurs mais qu'elle est très gênée par son rhume.
Je n'aurai pas d'appel ce week-end et donc il faut attendre lundi pour savoir si le nouvel antibiotique qu'elle reçoit depuis hier fait effet pour stopper ce rhume.
J'ai dit que chaque jour les nouvelles m'attristent et que bientôt elle m'annoncera peut-être que Jade a un cancer .....
Alors je prendrai une décision en début de semaine à savoir la maintenir en vie avec un si gros rhume et un oeil pareillement enflammé et ne plus pouvoir manger par elle-même sans cette sonde dans l'oesophage.
Merci pour tous vos messages tout au long de ces jours.
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Mise à jour jeudi 28 septembre 2017 :
L'hôpital m'a appelée à 19 h pour me dire que le nez de Jade coule encore beaucoup malgré l'antibiotique depuis une semaine, alors demain la vétérinaire va changer l'antibiotique (je me suis dit que c'était peut-être le moment !)
Demain ils vont l'anesthésier pour lui faire un rinçage du nez et une endoscopie pour aller voir plus haut ses muqueuses.
Ses intestins ont enfin fonctionné, quelle chance !
Le résultat de la prise des sang et des anti corps pour savoir si elle a la PIF ou non n'est pas arrivé !! Depuis 3 jours que j'attends cette réponse ! Elle va appeler le laboratoire demain et faire revoir Jade par l'ophtalmologue.
J'espère que ce rinçage du nez et des nouveaux antibiotiques font faire cesser ce rhume et qu'ils pourront lui retirer la sonde pour manger.
Croisons les doigts pour que demain je ne reçoive pas des mauvaises nouvelles, j'ai eu mal à la tête aujourd'hui avec notre conversation d'hier.
Merci à tous pour votre soutien, je le dirai à Jade combien on l'aime ici.
Bisous à tous.
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Mise à jour mercredi 27 septembre :
Les résultats des tests sanguins pour savoir si elle a la PIF ou non ne sont pas encore arrivés.
Je rappelle que ce test des anti corps a été faits car l'inflammation de son oeil pourrait être un symptôme de la PIF.
Donc si elle n'a pas la PIF (ce que j'espère) de quoi vient ce décollement de rétine de son oeil ???
Jade reprend de la vigueur, mais elle est toujours très enrhumée ce qui veut dire qu'actuellement les antibiotiques n'agissent pas et nul ne sait quand ils feront de l'effet.
La vétérinaire me dit que je pourrais aller la chercher demain, mais comme elle a encore une sonde dans l'estomac depuis son oesophage pour la nourrir et qu'il faut lui donner des antibiotiques et de la cortisone par voie orale et des gouttes de cortisone dans les yeux, comment arriverai-je à lui administrer tout cela ? Cela va être trop difficile pour moi car Jade n'est pas facile à soigner. Alors j'ai demandé s'ils ne pouvaient pas la garder encore quelques jours car si son rhume guérit, elle pourrait peut-être à nouveau manger d'elle-même et ainsi la sonde serait retirée.
Vous savez que je suis impatiente de la récupérer mais pas dans ces conditions, chez moi ce serait l'hôpital !
Donc on rediscutera demain avec cette vétérinaire.
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Mise à jour mardi 26 septembre :
Jade avait de la fièvre hier aujourd'hui elle n'en a pas eue et elle est plus vive qu'hier.
Ils lui mettent des gouttes de cortisone dans les yeux et vont aussi lui en donner par voie orale.
J'ai demandé si je pouvais aller la voir mais ils me le déconseillent car c'est compliqué puisqu'elle est à l'isolement et ensuite Jade va croire que je viens la chercher et elle sera triste après que je ne l'emmène pas avec moi.
Malgré les antibiotiques elle est toujours enrhumée, ils disent que parfois cela peut agir au bout d'une semaine (on y arrive bientôt) cela dépend des chats.
Les résultats du test des anti corps dans le sang pour la PIF ne sont pas encore connus.
Voilà les nouvelles du jour. Qu'elle soit plus vive est un bon signe alors ce soir je reprends un peu espoir.
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Mise à jour lundi 25 septembre :
L'hôpital m'a appelée ce soir, Jade semble un peu plus éveillée, mais le rhume est toujours là et l'état de son oeil semble s'aggraver avec une inflammation de l'iris et un décollement de la rétine. J'imagine quelle perd la vue. ...
La vétérinaire pense que l'état de son oeil pourrait venir de la PIF (maladie mortelle pour le chat) , elle va reprendre du sang pour des nouvelles analyses et voir les anti corps. Il se peut qu'elle ait une infection bactérienne.
Le test du calici virus est négatif, mais il y a plusieurs familles de coryza.
Elle ne mange toujours pas d'elle-même, bien sûr elle a une sonde de l'oesophage à l'estomac et n'a probablement pas de sensation de faim, mais il est risqué de retirer la sonde si finalement elle ne mange pas puisque son nez est toujours bouché par le rhume.
La vétérinaire me rappellera demain soir pour donner des nouvelles.
Cela devient difficile de penser positif avec tout ce que cette vétérinaire m'a dit aujourd'hui.
Bien sûr un chat peut vivre avec le coryza mais au moindre stress il peut se re-déclarer, et si elle a une PIF (Péritonite infectieuse féline) je ne ferai pas d'acharnement ......
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Aujourd'hui 22 septembre, l'hôpital m'a appelée pour me dire que l'anesthésie s'est bien passée et que le scanner ne révèle pas d'abcès, ni de tumeur, ce qui est une bonne nouvelle au moins pour une tumeur, ils pensent qu'elle a une sévère rhinite un calicivirus de la famille du coryza ou de l’herpès. Je n’ai pas tout compris, cette dresse ne parle pas bien français. (Berne est en Suisse allemande).
Ils n'ont pas encore le résultat des analyses.
Hier ils excluaient le coryza et aujourd'hui ils en reparlent ou du moins de ce virus de la famille du coryza.
Elle ne mange toujours pas, ils ont posé une sonde depuis l'oesophage pour la nourrir. Ils continuent la perfusion et les antibiotiques.
Un ophtalmologue doit revenir examiner ses yeux puisque l'un des deux est devenu vert et enflé.
Elle va rester au Tierspital à Berne encore ce week-end et j'aurai des nouvelles informations lundi.
Je ne suis pas encore rassurée hélas .....
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Ma Jade est très malade depuis le 10 septembre, elle est enrhumée et donc sans odorat un chat ne mange plus. Mercredi dernier elle ne pesait plus que 2 kg aujourd'hui elle doit encore avoir perdu du poids car elle ne veut pas manger.
J'ai consulté 3 fois son vétérinaire le 12, le 15 et le 19 septembre, il lui a donné des antibiotiques qui n'ont fait aucun effet, et je suis passée par divers diagnostics différents : d'une rhinite à un corps étranger coincé dans son nez qui serait la cause de ses éternuements, puis au coryza et hier à peut-être un abcès..... Le coryza ayant été éliminé de la cause de sa maladie hier soir, parce qu'un oeil qui enfle ainsi ne figure pas dans les symptômes du coryza.
Elle est au Tierspital à Berne depuis mercredi et ce matin elle passera un scanner car hier un oeil est devenu vert et il enfle de plus en plus et il lui fait mal. Ils vont lui poser une sonde pour la nourrir. Elle est perfusée depuis mardi matin.
Berne est à 100 km de chez moi donc je ne l'ai pas revue depuis mercredi quand j'ai effectué son transfert là-bas.
L'hôpital m'appellera dans l'après-midi pour me donner le résultat du scanner.
Je suis bien triste et angoissée et elle me manque beaucoup ma choupette.
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Last Updated Friday 29 September:
Today the news is not really good ... The anti blood test for PIF indicates that the values are high but can not say 100% that she is infected with BIP so she will ask for a new analysis and results will be delivered only in the middle of next week.
Cortisone does not seem to reduce the inflammation of its left eye, it can increase a little the dose but there is a risk that it aggravates its cold ....
The endoscopy on her nose made today showed the walls well inflamed, normal she is a cold! The rinsing of the nose was also done.
I asked if she is suffering? The veterinarian tells me that she does not seem to have pain but that she is very embarrassed by her cold.
I will not have a call this weekend and so we must wait until Monday to know if the new antibiotic she receives since yesterday has effect to stop this cold.
I said that every day the news makes me sad and that soon she will announce to me that Jade has a cancer .....
So I will make a decision at the beginning of the week to keep it alive with such a big cold and a similarly inflamed eye and not be able to eat by itself without this probe in the esophagus.
Thanks for all your messages throughout these days.
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Updated Thursday, September 28, 2017:
The hospital called me at 7 pm to tell me that the nose of Jade still flows a lot despite the antibiotic for a week, so tomorrow the veterinarian will change the antibiotic (I thought maybe it was the moment !)
Tomorrow they go to anesthetize it to make a rinsing of the nose and an endoscopy to go to see higher its mucous membranes.
His intestines finally worked, what a chance!
The result of taking blood and anti bodies to know if she has the PIF or not has not arrived !! For 3 days I have been waiting for this answer! She's going to call the lab tomorrow and see Jade again by the ophthalmologist.
I hope that this rinsing of the nose and the new antibiotics cause to stop this cold and that they will be able to withdraw the probe to him to eat.
Let's cross our fingers so that tomorrow I do not get bad news, I had a headache today with our conversation yesterday.
Thank you all for your support, I will tell Jade how much we love him here.
Kisses to all.
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Last Updated Wednesday 27 September:
The results of the blood tests to know whether she has the PIF or not have not yet arrived.
I recall that this antibody test was done because the inflammation of his eye could be a symptom of PIF.
So if it does not have the PIF (which I hope) what does this retina detachment from its eye ???
Jade regains strength, but it is still very cold, which means that antibiotics do not currently act and no one knows when they will make the effect.
The veterinarian told me that I could go and get her tomorrow but as she still has a probe in her stomach from her esophagus to feed her and that she must be given antibiotics and oral cortisone and drops of cortisone in the eyes, how shall I manage to administer all this? This is going to be too difficult for me as Jade is not easy to care for. So I asked if they could not keep it for a few more days because if her cold heals, she might perhaps eat again on her own and so the probe would be removed.
You know I can not wait to get it back, but not in these conditions, at home it would be the hospital!
So we will discuss this tomorrow with this veterinarian.
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Last Updated Tuesday 26 September:
Jade had a fever yesterday today she did not have and it is more lively than yesterday.
They put cortisone drops in his eyes and will also give it orally.
I asked if I could go see her but they advise against it because it is complicated since she is in isolation and then Jade will believe that I come to look for her and she will be sad after I do not take her with me.
In spite of the antibiotics she is always cold, they say that sometimes it can act after a week (it arrives soon) it depends on the cats.
The results of the antibody test in blood for FIP are not yet known.
That is the news of the day. That it is more lively is a good sign so tonight I take a little hope.
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Last Updated Monday 25 September:
The hospital called me tonight, Jade seems a little more awake, but the cold is still there and the condition of his eye seems to get worse with inflammation of the iris and detachment of the retina. I imagine what loses sight. ...
The veterinarian thinks that the state of her eye could come from the PIF (deadly disease for the cat), she will take blood for new analyzes and see the anti-bodies. She may have a bacterial infection.
The calici virus test is negative, but there are several families of coryza.
She still does not eat of herself, of course she has an esophagus probe in the stomach and probably does not feel hungry, but it is risky to remove the probe if she finally does not eat since his nose is always blocked by the cold.
The veterinarian will call me tomorrow evening to give some news.
It becomes difficult to think positively with everything this veterinarian told me today.
Of course a cat can live with coryza but at the least stress it can re-declare, and if she has a PIF (infectious feline peritonitis) I will not be fierce ......
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Update :
Today, September 22, the hospital called me to tell me that the anesthesia went well and that the scanner does not reveal any abscess or tumor, which is good news at least for one tumor, they think she has a severe rhinitis a calicivirus from the family of coryza or herpes. I did not understand everything, this set does not speak French well. (Berne is in German-speaking Switzerland).
They do not yet have the results of the analyzes.
Yesterday they excluded the coryza and today they talk about it or at least of this virus of the coryza family.
She still does not eat, they put a probe from the esophagus to feed her. They continue the infusion and antibiotics.
An ophthalmologist must come back to examine his eyes since one of the two became green and swollen.
She will stay at the Tierspital in Bern again this weekend and I will have news on Monday.
I am not yet reassured alas .....
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My Jade is very sick since September 10, she is a cold and so without smell a cat does not eat any more. Last Wednesday she weighed only 2 kg today she must still have lost weight because she does not want to eat.
I consulted his veterinarian three times on the 12th, 15th and 19th September, he gave him antibiotics that had no effect, and I went through various diagnoses: from a rhinitis to a foreign body stuck in his nose that would be the cause of his sneezing, then to the coryza and yesterday to perhaps an abscess ..... The coryza having been eliminated from the cause of his illness last night, because an eye that swells thus does not does not appear in the symptoms of coryza.
She is at the Tierspital in Bern since Wednesday and this morning she will pass a scan because yesterday an eye has become green and it swells more and more and it hurts. They will put a probe to feed her. She is infused since Tuesday morning.
Bern is 100 km from my home so I have not seen it since Wednesday when I made his transfer there.
The hospital will call me in the afternoon to give me the result of the scan.
I am very sad and anguished and I miss my little heart.
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I suspect that what I most like about this already submitted image will be missed in a thumbnail. Hence the liberty of turning a view from a standard lens into something like that of a portrait lens. (In fact, the more it is enlarged the better it looks to me.)
Both eyes of the sitter, having the same hazel and green mixture, would normally share the same monochrome tones, but in the strongly directional natural window light (possibly augmented by a relatively weak overhead electric light), one eye was half in the shadow of its own lashes.
Maybe too a subtle difference of expression left to right, à la 'Mona Lisa'...
I also like that the depth of field of the beautiful Petri FT EE, F1.8 55mm lens was so narrow that the earrings began to retreat into bokeh.
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Yellow Bitten (Ixobrychus sinensis) is a resident of Sri Lanka augmented by winter visitors. Belongs to Ardeidae family. Captured at Debarawewa, Sri Lanka
March has brought more wonder and gorgeousness at the various events. Today’s photoshoot highlights a wonderful hairstyle from *booN that is currently available from the Salon 52 event. In addition We ❤ RP event was where I got my hot little hands on these fabulous cyborg legs from PBW and chainmail body suit from The Muses.
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Julia Longwing Butterfly
Family Heliconiidae / Subfamily Heliconiinae (Longwings & Fritillaries)
The longwing butterflies have unusually long lifespans and high fecundity rates, which largely result from their augmented diet. Instead of surviving on food stores from the larval stage or solely sipping flower nectar, adult longwing butterflies are avid pollen eaters. This trait makes them eminently suitable for butterfly farming and butterfly gardening. Also, adult longwings may live for several months, much longer than most butterflies.
21st Augmented Man
As you stand in front of the portrait of the augmented man, carefully crafted to challenge assumptions and provoke discussion about art's place in social media, you may find yourself caught amid an ever-evolving cultural debate. The prevalence of algorithmic influence and mass opinion can sway our political beliefs and shape the narratives we accept, leading us to question the patterns we see before us. Depending on your biases and assumptions, the portrait may represent either a symbol of empowerment or containment. It is intended to be twofold. This raises an important question: when does an image cease to exist as a simple work of art and become a calculated weapon designed to sway public opinion and manipulate your emotions? The augmented man portrait is a poignant statement on the power of art as a political tool. This discussion remains relevant even in the age of social media and the traditions of our ongoing culture wars.
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A photowalker in the night, discovering an urban environment.
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The Menindee Lakes is a natural series of lakes that fill with water when the Darling-Baaka River floods. In the 1960s, a series of engineering projects augmented the Menindee Lakes, allowing water to be directed into the lakes and held back or released. This ensured a reliable water supply for the city of Broken Hill, the township of Menindee and secure supply of water for the Lower Darling River and supply to South Australia.
The Menindee Lakes system provides important habitat, nursery and recruitment for native fish, such as the Murray Cod and Golden Perch. It is important habitat for a huge variety of native and migratory bird species. The Menindee Lakes system is vital to the communities of the Far West, providing recreation and amenity, as well as attracting tourism, recreational fishing, horticulture and viticulture.
The Darling-Baaka River is central to the cultural, spiritual and economic lives of the Barkindji people.
The health of the Menindee Lakes and the Darling-Baaka River are intimately linked. The lakes fill from the Darling-Baaka River and water stored in the Menindee Lakes keeps the Lower Darling flowing during dry times. The Great Darling Anabranch is a series of ephemeral creeks, billabongs and lakes that wind their way to the Murray River to the west of the main Darling-Baaka River Channel.
Irrigation expands:
There has been a rapid expansion of irrigation along the rivers in the Northern Basin of the Murray Darling Basin, particularly cotton. Irrigation of cotton has expanded by 4,000% since the 1970s. In 1971 Australia grew 81,000 bales of cotton. By 2012 Australia grew 5.3 million bales. Irrigation dams - Wee Waa
Much of the cotton is grown along the rivers of the Murray Darling in very large irrigation enterprises, with most of the cotton grown on tributaries of the Darling-Baaka River.
Large private storages were built to hold water and other structures were built to capture flood waters. Water licences and water sharing plans allow irrigators to suck huge quantities from the tributaries of the Darling-Baaka even when flows are modest.
The result has been that low and medium flows have virtually stopped flowing down the Darling-Baaka River. Only the largest floods that cannot be captured upstream, or specially protected environmental flows, now make it down to the Menindee Lakes and Lower Darling-Baaka River.
An easy target?
After the Millennium Drought exposed just how over-allocated the river systems of the Murray-Darling Basin were, the Murray-Darling Basin Plan was agreed between the Commonwealth and the states. The Plan aimed to make the Murray-Darling Basin system more sustainable by returning more water to the rivers through buying back water licences and other measures to recover water for the environment.
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The irrigation industry views the water flowing into the Menindee Lakes as wasteful and unproductive (not growing crops). They would prefer water to be taken from the Menindee Lakes to meet the targets under the Basin Plan rather than for the irrigation industry to be compelled to use less water. The industry points to the volume of water that evaporates from the Menindee Lakes each year as a key reason to reduce the amount of water flowing into and being stored in the lakes. The amount of water that evaporates from shallow private storages in equally hot and dry climates is rarely mentioned.
Scientists and environmentalists view the water that flows down our rivers, fills wetland and billabongs, and spills over floodplains as highly productive for nature and vital for sustaining complex ecosystems that have evolved over eons. These flows are also vital for replenishing underground aquifers and for sustaining downstream communities and Indigenous cultures.
Some politicians view the Menindee Lakes as an easy target. The population around Menindee is sparse, without much economic or political clout. The birds, fish and wildlife can not vote, lobby or protest. Taking water from the Menindee Lakes system is seen as politically easier than seeking to recover water from loud, well-connected and politically savvy irrigators. The location of the Menindee Lakes in a remote part of NSW that is out of sight and out of mind for many citizens located on the eastern seaboard also makes it hard for the issue to gain political traction.
A plan to decommission the Menindee Lakes:
After the Menindee Lakes filled from a major flood event in Queensland and NSW 2012, they were rapidly emptied by the Murray Darling Basin Authority and the NSW Government. Usually the lakes would hold water for many years after they filled, but by 2014 they were emptied. As a consequence, Broken Hill was in danger of running out of water and the government announced a plan to drill bores to supply the city with low-quality bore water. Locals were outraged at this plan and were concerned that the Menindee Lakes had been deliberately drained so quickly as part of a plan to justify the decommissioning of the lakes.RIP Menindee Lakes
Another flood filled the Menindee Lakes in late 2016, but again they were rapidly drained, almost inexplicably into a flooding river. By then end of 2017 they were again dry just as drought started to bite and Broken Hill was facing another artificial water shortage.
Flush with cash from privatising the electricity networks, the NSW Government spent $500 million building a 270 kilometres water pipeline from the Murray River at Wentworth to Broken Hill. This ended the city’s reliance on the Darling-Baaka River and Menindee Lakes for water supply. Cotton Australia applauded the construction of the pipeline saying in their Annual Report, "The pipeline is a win for the community, the environment and irrigating farmers, and a solution Cotton Australia and its allies have long lobbied for." Meanwhile the local community was concerned that the pipeline would allow the NSW Government to decommission the Menindee Lakes without worrying about Broken Hill's water supply.
Sure enough, plans to reconfigure the Menindee Lakes are back on the table as a project to 'recover water from the environment' under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan's Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment Mechanism. The NSW Government wants to save up to 100 gigalitres of water each year by reducing the volume water stored in Menindee Lakes by up to 80%. A range of proposals have been put forward for consultation.
The Darling River Action Group has labelled the plans as 'ecological genocide.' They strongly oppose the huge reduction in habitat that will occur if reconfiguration plans go ahead. They worry that changing the times between and length of inundation in the lakes will have a major impact on fish breeding and birdlife. The Barkindji native title holders are also strongly opposed to the plans, with significant concerns about the impact on their culture, community, environment and sacred sites.
Fish kills and dry rivers and lakes:
Fish Kill Menindee In the teeth severe drought, predictions of environmental catastrophe on the Darling River came true as millions of fish floated dead on the surface. Hot weather and a lack of flows led to a blue-green algae bloom that stripped the water of oxygen when it died, suffocating many millions of fish along a length of the Darling-Baaka River. Images of giant Murray Cod many decades old floating on the surface of a stagnant, bright green river shocked Australians. If water had been stored in the Menindee Lakes, a flow of water in the Darling-Baaka River could have been maintained and millions of fish and other creatures would have survived. It was noted that the very large mature Murray Cod that had died would have survived numerous previous droughts, so what had changed?
A report by the Australian Academy of Science concluded:
The conditions leading to this event are an interaction between a severe (but not unprecedented) drought and, more significantly, excess upstream diversion of water for irrigation. Prior releases of water from Menindee Lakes contributed to lack of local reserves.
A small flow in mid-2019 led to a partial revival of the Darling-Baaka River and water in the upper lakes of the Menindee Lakes system. However, the Menindee Lakes and Darling-Baaka River face three major threats:
1) The proposed re-configuration of the Menindee Lakes system;
2) The continuing overallocation of water extraction licences in the Northern Basin of the Murray-Darling system;
3) The extent and proposed licencing of floodplain harvesting, which is capturing huge quantities of water before it can even reach the waterways of the Darling-Baaka River.
Source: Save Menindee Lakes (www.savemenindeelakes.org.au/the_history)
Ferocious war-beasts deployed by the League of Six Kingdoms, optimized for battle with upgrades and General Kalmah's iconic cruelty and starvation.
Singlemindedly savage on the battlefield, yet easy to feed and train; their howls and whimpers alike were a constant reminder of why Kalmah deserved to be feared.
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A Combiner model using parts from Kalmah, Pridak, Toa Mahri Jaller and Toa Mahri Matoro.
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Toutes mes excuses à mes amis Flickr, avec le suivi de cette couvée, le boulot et la famille, je n'ai plus guère de temps, sauf en de rares occasions, pour commenter vos images que je prends tout de même le temps d'admirer quotidiennement...
Grand merci à Nomand Coutu qui m'a avisé du positionnement de la petite famille et m'y a guidé!
Jour 5 de la sortie du nid, le 10 mai 2018
Belle surprise ce matin-là, nous avons retrouvé la famille complète dans un même arbre situé dans le secteur de la fin de la cavale de la couvée 2016. Mieux encore, ils étaient exactement dans l'arbre où j'avais capté Amandine et ses trois petits (voir cette image) sur une même branche pendant que Victor somnolait sur une branche située tout juste au dessus. Vraiment particulier. Amandine connait bien son territoire... Les petits sont déjà en mesure de se déplacer avec aisance puisque nous les retrouvons toujours juchés bien haut et cela à des distances assez importantes de l'arbre de la veille soit plus d'une centaine de pieds (30 mètres). La prise de photo s'est avérée difficile, quoique possible. Ces difficultés vont aller en augmentant. La journée de mardi aura été la plus fabuleuse de cette cavale 2018 pour l'observation. Dire qu'Albertine en est seulement à sa deuxième journée hors du nid... Fascinant tout ça.
Une aventure complètement différente de celle de 2016. C'est donc Shannon qui était tout près des petits pendant qu'Amandine était positionnée pour intervenir rapidement vers un intrus indésirable... Les rôles ont donc été inversés en ce 5e jour où Bobby a quitté le nid familial...
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Should I really be contemplating a day trip to Norfolk just 24 hours after being laid so low?
I felt I recovered well on Friday, though not hungry still. After getting up and having a coffee, all was set.
I had to catch the ten to six train out of Dover, as I had a cheap ticket. I was going to have something from the buffet, or Pumpkin as its now called.
But was closed.
So, I sat on the station waiting for the train to pull in.
I got on and sat on my favourite side, the carriage was quiet, which suits me. Sadly, at Folkestone West, ten ladies got on and sat in the seats in front clearly on a weekend taking in the bright lights of London. They spent all the journey to Stafford talking about foundation cream and this season's colours.
But who am I to judge?
At Stratford I went up to the concourse then along to the DLY, hopping on a train that was about to depart for the stop to Stratford (Regional).
Where I found I had a fifty (50) minute wait, so went to the Middle Eastern kiosk on the underpass for lamb samosas and a coke.
The overnight rain had cleared, so I took my breakfast to the platform and found a dry seat under the footbridge and spent a fine half hour people and train watching.
As you do.
The train arrived at 08:37, it was three quarters full, but still plenty of seats.
So I took a seat on the right hand so I could watch the suburban stations flash by and then out into the Essex badlands.
No stopping at Chelmsford, onwards to the delights of Colchester and into Suffolk.
Train toilets can now be flushed in stations, so that joy is taken away. Not that I would have, anyway.
Unusually, both Ipswich and Norwich were playing at home on the same day at the same time, as were Colchester. Loads of fans got off at Ipswich, so the quarter full train continued to Stowmarket and Diss.
Then to Norwich.
Norwich is my old stamping ground, a city I know so well, apart from the usual suspects hard to enter churches, there wasn't a lot I could think off to fill in the two hours before opening time.
I looked at Simon's album of roof bosses from the Cathedral cloister, and decided I would photograph those. I didn't have a long enough lens, but what the hell.
Into Norfolk just before arriving in Diss, then through the rolling countryside peppered with sentinel-like church towers. Some close, some distant.
And then we were on the edge of the city, round to the single track bridge and into Thorpe Station, as was.
Back home.
If anywhere feels like home now.
I walked up the once vibrant Prince of Wales road, still with nightclubs and lap dancing bars, but most looking down at heel. The lights and paint not so bright, and the pub after which the road is named, is no more and is a gaming hub. Closed.
Through the Erpingham Gate into the precinct and to the modern entrance. I paid a tenner, and went straight to the cloisters, having declined a map.
I spent nearly an hour photographing and then talking to an American gentleman before a figure came to my shoulder.
It my my friend, Cam, and I was here to meet him and others for beers, chats and laughs.
We shook hands and chatted. I took a few more shots before we went back into the Nave and did one grand loop of the Sanctuary before leaving and getting his cycle.
A five minute walk down Wensum Street, over the bridge and onto Magdalen Street to the Kings Head, five past opening time.
I had a fine cherry-chocolate porter to start, and we met John and Stephen in the rear bar.
Hands shook, update on Simon's journey, and we got down to chit chat.
The pub was lively, with lots of scarf bedecked fans coming in for a pint or two before heading off to the home of football.
At some point, Simon arrived having had to get a rail replacement bus from Diss to Norwich, he was soon catching up.
We left for the Ribs at three, our number already down to the hardcore three, and Cameron left at four to meet with his family.
We took our beers to the decking just over the river surface, and leisured in the warm later afternoon breeze and low sun, it was warm.
Nearly.
I ended up having an argument with the two racist Brexit supports beside me, thankfully they left, leaving Simon and myself to empty our glasses and at five, walk down towards the station.
Norwich had won 4-2 against Stoke, while Ipswich lost 4-1 to local rivals Spurs.
At the Compleat Angler, it was full with happy fans. Simon got a round in, and I sat outside, though with dusk falling it was no longer warm.
We walk across the rad to the station, climbed on board the train waiting, quite full. But we found seats round a table, so spread out and chatted some more.
The train moved out, and into the blackness of the moonless night, illuminated only by the villages and stations on the line.
Simon got out at Norwich, the train continued south. I got a sandwich from the refreshment trolley.
The train entered Essex, speeding towards the capitol.
At Stratford, back on the DLR to the International station where I had a twenty minute wait for my train, which when it arrived was busy, but with seats free.
So, just an hour down to Dover, where Jools was waiting for me to take me home for one last brew before going to bed.
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Norwich has everything. Thus, the normally dry and undemonstrative Nikolaus Pevsner began his survey of the capital of Norfolk in his 1962 volume Buildings of England: Norwich and north-east Norfolk. And there is no doubt that this is one of the best cities of its size in northern Europe. Living in Ipswich as I do, I hear plenty of grumbles about Norwich; but really, although the two places have roughly the same population, Ipswich cannot even begin to compare with regard to its townscape. The only features which the capital of Suffolk can claim to hold above its beautiful northern neighbour are a large central park (Norwich's Chapelfield gardens is not a patch on Ipswich's Christchurch Park) and a large body of water in the heart of the town, perhaps Ipswich's most endearing feature and greatest saving grace.
But Norwich has everything else - to continue Pevsner's eulogy, a cathedral, a castle on a mound right in the middle, walls and towers, a medieval centre with winding streets and alleys, thirty-five medieval parish churches and a river with steamships. It even has hills...
I think it would be possible to visit Norwich and not even know this cathedral was there. The centre of the city is dominated by the castle, and the most familiar feature to visitors is the great market square widened by the clearances of the 1930s, and the fine City Hall built at that time which towers above it. In comparison, Norwich Cathedral sits down in a dip beside the river, walled in by its close, and is visible best from outside the city walls, especially from the east on the riverside, and to the north from Mousehold Heath. If you arrive by road from the south or west, you may not even catch a glimpse of it. The great spire is hidden by those winding streets and alleys, and many of the city's churches are more visible, especially St Giles, St Peter Mancroft in the Market Place, and the vast Catholic Cathedral of St John the Baptist, on Grapes Hill. It is said that the nave floor of St John the Baptist is at the same height above sea level as the top of the crossing of the Anglican cathedral.
With the possible exception of Lincoln Cathedral, I think that Norwich Cathedral is my favourite cathedral in all England. Call this East of England chauvinism if you like, But Norwich Cathedral has everything you could possible want from a great medieval building. But there is more to it than that. It is also one of the most welcoming cathedrals in England. There is no charge for admission, and they positively encourage you to wander around through the daily business of the cathedral, in the continental manner. No boards saying Silence Please - Service in Progress here. Because of this, the Cathedral becomes an act of witness in itself, and you step into what feels like it probably really is the house of God on Earth. They even used to say the Lord's Prayer over the PA system once an hour, and invite you to stop and join in - I wish they'd go back to doing that. The three pounds you pay for a photography permit must be one of the bargains of the century so far.
Norwich Cathedral is unusual, in that this is the original building. It has been augmented over the centuries of course, but this is still essentially the very first cathedral on this site. This is because the see was only moved to Norwich after the Norman invasion. The Normans saw the wisdom of drawing together ecclesiastical and civil power, and one way in which this might be achieved was by siting the cathedrals in the hearts of important towns. At the time of the conquest, Bishop Herfast had his seat at Thetford, and it was decided to move the see to Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. It had moved several times during the previous four centuries, from Walton in Suffolk to North Elmham in Norfolk before Thetford, where the first proper but simple stone building had been raised. But as well as an eye for efficient administration, the Normans brought the idea that Cathedrals should be glorified; already, vast edifices were being raised in Durham, London and Ely. and Bury St Edmunds, with its famous Abbey, was the obvious place for the Diocese of East Anglia to sit.
However, such a move would have removed the Abbey's independent direct line with Rome, and placed it under the jurisdiction of the Province of Canterbury. The Abbey community was determined that this would not happen, and Abbot Baldwin sent representations to the Pope that ensured the survival of St Edmundsbury Abbey's independence. Bishop Herfast would not be allowed to glorify his position in East Anglia in the way his colleagues were doing elsewhere. But his successor, Herbert de Losinga, was more determined - and, perhaps, steeled by his conscience. A Norman, he had bought the Bishopric from the King in 1091, an act of simony that required penance. Building a great cathedral could be seen as that act of penance. But where? Bury was a lost cause; instead, he chose to move the see to a thriving market town in the north-east of his Diocese; a smaller, more remote place than Bury, to be sure, but proximity to the Abbey of St Edmund was perhaps not such a good thing anyway. It tended to cast a rather heavy shadow. And so it was that the great medieval cathedral of the East Anglian bishops came to be built, instead, at Norwich.
Work began in 1094, and seems to have been complete by 1145. It is one of the great Romanesque buildings of northern Europe, its special character a result of responses to fires and collapses over the course of the next few centuries. At the Reformation in the sixteenth century, it became a protestant cathedral of the new Church of England, losing its role as a setting for ancient sacraments and devotions, but being maintained as the administrative seat of a Diocese which covered all of Norfolk and Suffolk, and the ceremonial church of its great city. In the 19th Century, the western part of the Norwich Diocese was transferred into that of Ely, and at the start of the 20th Century the southern parishes became part of the new Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. Today, the Diocese of Norwich consists of north, south and east Norfolk, and the north-eastern tip of Suffolk.
The absence of this great church from the Norfolk Churches site has long been the elephant in the room, so to speak. And having it here at last is, I feel, a mark of how things have changed. When I first started the Norfolk and Suffolk sites back in 1999, I did not have a decent camera, and the earliest entries did not have any photographs at all. How the wheel has turned. Now, the photographs have become the sites, and with no apologies I don't intend to make this a wordy entry.
The perfection of Norwich is of distant views, the cloisters, and the interior. The exterior is hemmed in, and the most familiar part of the building, the west front, is a poor thing, the victim of barbarous restorations in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is almost a surprise to step through its mundanity into the soaring glory of the nave. Above, the famous vaulting is home to one of the largest collections of medieval bosses in the world. There are more in the beautiful cloisters.
The view to the east is of the great organ, looking very 17th Century but actually the work of Stephen Dykes Bower in the 1950s. Beyond is the intimacy of the quire and ambulatory with its radial chapels, the best of which is St Luke's chapel, containing the Despenser retable. Bishop Despenser is one of history's villains, putting down the Peasants Revolt in East Anglia with some enthusiasm. It is likely that this retable was made for the cathedral's high altar, possibly even to give thanks for the end of the Revolt. It was discovered upside down in use as a table in the 1840s. This chapel is, unusually, also a parish church; the parish of St Mary in the Marsh, the church of which was demolished at the Reformation, moved into the cathedral. They brought their seven sacrament font with them, and here it remains.
In the ambulatory there are many traces of medieval paint, almost certainly from the original building of the Cathedral. Two curiosities: at the back of the apse is the original Bishop's chair, and rising across the north side of the ambulatory like a bridge is a relic screen.
There is a good range of glass dating from the 14th to the 21st centuries. Highlights include the medieval panels in the north side of the ambulatory, Edward Burne-Jones's bold figures in the north transept, Moira Forsyth's spectacular Benedictine window of 1964 in a south chapel, and the millennium glass high in the north transept, which I think will in time become one of the defining features of the Cathedral. The figure of the Blessed Virgin with the Christ Child seated on her lap is the work of Norfolk-based artist John Hayward, who died recently, but the glass above is Hayward's reworking of Keith New's 1960s glass for St Stephen Walbrook in London, removed from there in the 1980s, and now reset here. Towards the west end of the nave are two sets of Stuart royal arms in glass, a rare survival.
I grew up in a city some sixty miles away from Norwich, but I didn't come here until I was in my mid-teens. I remember wandering around this building and being blown away by it, and I still get that feeling today. There is always something new to find here. My favourite time here is first thing in the morning on a winter Saturday. Often, I can be the only visitor, which only increases the awe. Another time I like to be here in winter is on a Saturday afternoon for choral evensong. Perhaps best of all, though, is to wander and wonder in the cloisters on a bright sunny day, gazing at fabulous bosses almost within arm's reach.
Several English cathedrals have good closes, but Norwich's is the only one in a major city, I think. It creates the sense of an ecclesiastical village at the heart of the city; and then, beyond, the lanes and alleys spread out, still hanging on despite German bombing and asinine redevelopment. And now I think perhaps it is part of the beauty of this building that it is tucked away by the river, a place to seek out and explore. Norwich has everything, says Pevsner. But really, I think this is the very best thing of all.
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First time using augmented reality - it's a strange experience as your phone sees things that aren't really there. In this case celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the installation of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "The Gates" in Central Park. The AR only works when you're in a certain location, the app alerts you when you're at the right place, then you need to scan a QR code and finally you can see the gates. You can't zoom in or out and composing an image is very limited.
You're experiencing things through the screen of your phone while everyone else is walking by having no idea what you're seeing.
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Avant l'entrée en vigueur de l'horaire 2025 et la suppression des relations directes entre Genève Aéroport et le Pied du Jura.
Avant les augmentations du temps de parcours pour de nombreuses années sur les lignes Lausanne - Genève, Lausanne - Biel/Bienne, Lausanne - Bern et Lausanne Brig la desserte CFF en Suisse romande souffre de prestations indignes.
Après la nomination d'un Directeur romand en remplacement de l'arrogant Andreas Meyer on était en droit de s'attendre à une amélioration du service mais force est de constater qu'avec Vincent Ducrot la situation ne fait qu'empirer.
La plaisanterie a suffisamment duré et il est temps que le Conseil d'Administration réagisse.
Exemple non exhaustif précis: jeudi 13 juin 2024 l'IR15 2509 a terminé sa course à Romont au lieu de Luzern via Bern. L'IC1 709 a destination de St. Gallen a circulé au ralenti de Chénens à Fribourg.
Après avoir pu circuler à vitesse normale jusqu'à Düdingen la présence d'un S1 BLS devant lui a porté le retard à 18 minutes à l'arrivée à Bern et la suppression pure et simple de la suite du parcours.
Si l'annulation de course est avantageuse pour la gestion du trafic elle est en revanche inacceptable pour les voyageurs.
L'IC8 809 parti de Bern à 08:02 s'est retrouvé en surcharge avec de nombreux voyageurs debout de Bern à Zürich dans les couloirs, les escaliers et même l'intercirculation entre les voitures, ceci même en première classe!
Les voyageurs à destination de Chur n'en avaient pas encore fini avec les perturbations...
Le même soir l'IC1 728 a terminé sa course à Genève Cornavin au lieu de Genève Aéroport.
Outre les annonces en panne de cerveau dans un train arrivant aux '18 pour un RE33 aux '42 alors qu'il existe un RER aux '32 pour la même destination Annemasse, les voyageurs pour l'aéroport ont été invités à utiliser les lignes TPG 5 et 10 depuis la "place de la Gare" qui n'existe pas à Genève.
La ligne 5 part de la place Montbrillant de l'autre côté (!) et la ligne 10 effectue son départ sous le passage de la Servette.
Les touristes avec leurs bagages sont ainsi invités à rater leur avion.
Il est temps que ces âneries cessent!
La Re 460 082 arrive sous la marquise de la gare de Zürich HB avec un train de service vide.
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