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A solitary bee found clinging to a leaf with its mandibles on a cold morning.
It was raining the night before and it was still to cold for the solitary bee to fly away so it was still biting on to the leaf where it spent the night.
Species belongs to the Anthophoridae family
Hurled out of a passing chariot by wicked dogs, damn their eyes!!! We disposed of it in a nearby rubbish bin. In some countries they could be [if they were caught] heavily fined and had their miserable gurt great fat chariot summarily crushed.
An African Fish Eagle dwarfs a White-billed Buffalo-Weaver.
It's not what it looks as the two birds are neighbours; the corner of the eagle's nest is visible in this image whilst extending from the undersurface of that nest is a conglomerate of Buffalo-Weaver nests. Small birds often breed close to large raptors as the latter rarely exhibit hunting behaviour near the nest whilst the presence of a large raptor so close to the weaver colony discourages other smaller predators.
Image taken in the grounds of Lake Baringo Country Club, Baringo, Kenya.
Framed by a friend.
Astronauts from five space agencies around the world take part in ESA’s CAVES training course– Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and performance Skills.
The six cavenauts of this edition of CAVES are ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, NASA astronauts Joe Acaba and Jeanette Epps, Roscosmos’ cosmonaut Nikolai Chub, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Josh Kutryk and Japan’s space agency Takuya Onishi.
The three-week course prepares astronauts to work safely and effectively in multicultural teams in an environment where safety is critical.
As they explore caves they encounter caverns, underground lakes and strange microscopic life. They test new technology and conduct science – just as if they were living on the International Space Station.
The six astronauts have to rely on their own skills, teamwork and ground control to achieve their mission goals – the course is designed to foster effective communication, decision-making, problem-solving, leadership and team dynamics.
Credits: ESA –E.Procopio
started this wall today back in the shire!
Its on a youth center wall and paid for by devon youth services to raise awereness.
I am very happy with it so far but might change the letters if it doesnt rain again tomorrow.
EXPLORE FEB 2 2009
Human vision is untrustworthy, subjective and selective. Camera vision is total and non – objective. - Andreas Feininger,
*Official Statement: We would like to make clear that Mrs PB was not responsible for, and is no way connected to, the Icelandic ash fiasco!*
Gesture, attitude, behaviour : a workshop with dancers Mauro Paccagnella and Alessandro Bernardeschi on march 6, 2007 at Erg (Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels) for bachelor 1 students. Professors : Sabine Voglaire and Marc Wathieu. Pictures by Yves André.
Officers of Greater Manchester Police Rochdale Division are joined by colleagues from the Specialist Operations Branch for the Force’s latest Supervortex operation.
Supervortex sees officers out in force in a specific area to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour. The latest operation, conducted on Thursday 25th of March 2010, was centred around the Langley area of Middleton.
The Specialist Operations Branch provided support with officers from the Tactical Aid Unit, Road Policing Unit, Tactical Mounted Branch and Air Support Unit assisting members of the Middleton Neighbourhood Policing Team.
To find out more about Policing in Greater Manchester please visit our website.
Foreign policy of a country is not a static scenario. It varies from leader to leader and political changes of a Nation in the world family. It decides and directs the economy, development and all aspects of the citizen as the behaviour of the state is interconnected to the government machinery. It is the study of foreign affairs and global issues within the international system including the role of states, NGOs, INGOs and multinational corporations. It is a set of goals outlining how the country will interact with other countries and international institutions and bodies. In the United States it comes under the president which he has delegated to the foreign secretary.
Today foreign policy is playing a major role in Sri Lankan polity due to the scrutiny of the international brotherhood on Sri Lankan affairs before and after the defeat of terrorism, which has engulfed Sri Lanka, the SAARC region and the world community over 30 years which Rajapaksa government was able to eradicate to the relief of the giant neighbour and the world community.
In the world family the portfolio of the Foreign Minister in state is generally in the hands of the Executive leader of the country or the Prime Minister except on exceptional circumstances. President Rajapaksa has entrusted this responsibility to the Able Foreign Minister whose task is to implement the vision and directions in the maze of pitfalls and in the midst fields of bombs of distrust laid underground world over remotely controlled.
We had to go through the dreadful war and destruction of thousands of lives and lost three decades of life of the Nation and citizens due to the mismanagement of foreign policy during the cold war, by antagonizing our loved giant neighbour with whom President Rajapaksa has now developed excellent and warm relations. LTTE went through training and planning to be the most ruthless terrorist outfit using the Indian soil when India and USSR as a regional and a world poser had entered into a treaty against the common enemy then.
This is the biggest mistake we made resulting which period we lived in the loss of lives and 30 years was robbed from us during which period we lived in hell with smell of blood, death and destruction. We believe nothing is permanent and what is permanent is sheer impermanence. USA is now wounded, isolated and seeks friendship with India against Chins both emerging economic and world powers!
President cautious
President Rajapaksa has been extremely cautious and diplomatic in dealing with the power blocks interested primarily in their interest especially in the volatile and uncertain world politics and economy which crumbled with no notice facing them with the most disastrous recession ever. South Asia and Sri Lanka were less affected due to their simplicity and management of their own affairs based on Home Grown solutions. The response from the USA Senate is wonderful- that they cannot afford to lose Sri Lanka - and it is time they realise we should not be drifted toward a political block out of sheer necessity.
It is time the diplomatic community of the West and USA in Sri Lanka should play a safe game to maintain and enhance good relations with Sri Lanka without being interested in local politics however interesting it is.
Award of Honorius Causa Doctorate from the People’s Friendship University of Russia on President Rajapaksa is the zenith of his achievement for the conduct of international affairs from the assumption of the office as the President of Sri Lanka four years ago. It is to his credit and respect to the nation that the sixth and the most rare honour of awarding the prestigious academic excellence on peace was awarded for the services rendered to mankind by eliminating the terror outfit to the disbelief and surprise of the Global Community. Wall Street Journal of USA reported in the speech of the President “I know as well as anyone that our future success relies on lasting peace.
The revival of terrorism was an important milestone in that process, but the nation needs to be bound by a common purpose. My new government will address the genuine grievances of all communities and foster the enforcement of equal rights for all.” It was during the last few days of the end of the terror regime that maximum pressure was exerted to President Rajapaksa by the Western leaders, EU, USA, UN, and a number of powerful NGOs wanted to stop the war on terror and enter into the same old peace process that failed and “Hell” in Sri Lanka at the cost of hundreds of thousands of human lives and destruction of trillions of rupees of national wealth. India, China, USSR, Middle East, Africa and the Sri Lanka expatriate community stood firmly with President Rajapaksa and Sri Lanka isolating USA, UK and EU with NGOs and Inter Governmental organisations depending on public and UN funds, which is proof of the successful conduct of international affairs based on ‘Mahinda Chintana’ and his own style on the process of dealing with the international community, which is reiterated in ‘Mahinda Chintana’.
Two as “I will continue Sri Lanka’s non-aligned foreign policy. During the last four years we witnessed the benefit of maintaining friendly relations with India, Japan China, Pakistan, and other Asian countries. I am committed to continue these friendly relations in the political, economics, defence trade and cultural arena. I will ensure that Sri Lanka abides by the global treaties and agreements on environmental and climatic changes and will strengthen Sri Lanka’s ties with UN agencies. I will maintain the dignity of my country in foreign relations and will initiate a new programme to forge relations with countries”.
Achievements
President’s conduct as a leader of a country with an unstable and volatile political and war situation during the war on terror has been exemplary cautious, well planned and well thought of. It is difficult to satisfy the political agenda of the complicated world political groupings, UN and Non-governmental organisations and the Sri Lankan polity while maintaining the vision, identity and the interest of the Nation with a minority government representing different political and ethnic groups with difficult different and unattainable demands.
Every mission to meet world leaders was with a purpose and vision. Leading a trade mission to China the leading political and economic power in the near future, meeting the President of Iran when we had fuel shortages, meeting President Gadaffi when he was about to be appointed to Chair the Human Rights Committee when UN and INGOs were trailing us to deal internationally, hosting of SAARC which has enhanced and strengthened close ties with India and the SAARC countries just before the last lap of the end of terror where we were blessed with the group of SAARC and other regional organisations attended the summit as observers, Address the UN and taking part in international forums such as the address to the Oxford students union in the United Kingdom strengthened presidents international stature as an emerging world leader leading a fair cross section of the human community in the globe.
International relations of a Nation depend on the vision, conduct, personality and the conduct of diplomacy of the Chief Executive in the world family representing the Nation region and the world in international forums and dealing with world leaders and international organisations. Successful world leaders had their own style of conducting International Affairs in the international arena. Nehru, Chou En Lai, Indira, Gandhi, Tony Blair, Putin, Bush, Obama and other leading and charismatic world leaders on assuming power changed the foreign policy of the country according to the current needs of the day.
In India the foreign policy is streamlined as it is very slowly and rarely the policy deviates from the mainstream due to their discipline and rigidity in foreign affairs administration and governance. In Sri Lanka foreign policy deviations are marked and effective.
S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike brought about a complete change in foreign policy after Sir John Kotalawela’s policy which was modified to non-alignment by Madam Sirimavo Bandaranaike until J.R. Jayewardene again changed the policy to a mixture of pro West and non-alignment. Rajapaksa government is emerging victorious with a unique foreign policy unique to Mahinda Rajapaksa’s “International Personality” which is basically non-alignment with modifications based on the realities on international economic and world order in the fast changing new world of Information Technology which has changed our globe to a borderless modern and wonderful world.
Uniqueness of President Rajapaksa is the non-negotiability in main issues such as unitary nature of the State, sovereignty equality among Nations, sovereignty of the Nation and the people, love and respect to Motherland, equality and impartiality towards all the citizens sans differences, and service to the brethren based on equality and with respect to all modes and norms of individual and collective Human Rights.
Excellent
Despite the excellent relations with the world family the worrying factor is the misunderstanding of some western countries and INGOs due to vigorous campaign by powerful pro LTTE elements which are fast disintegrating. President Rajapaksa has friendship of the intention of mending fences with the West with his charm and diplomatic which has been proved successful.
He has secured the trendskill or the Eastern block including the Central Asia, Middle East with Iran and other Oil rich, Africa, small orbital nations around USA, and of course the two emerging world powers China and USSR which were instrumental in bailing us out when we were in danger of being interrogated by the UN on false and malicious LTTE related propaganda. Nation is confident and prays his next mission towards the West will be another success story as has been proved before.
President Rajapaksa’s initiation to ensure to abide by global treaties and agreements on climate change is encouraging when the world is facing grave danger of slow destruction of the planet due to unplanned industrialization and developments.
It is also time for us to review the position with the Charter of the United Nations established in place of the League of Nations anticipating a more effective world organisation. It is time for us to be active as Asians promoting the emerging power India as a member of the Security Council. Sri Lanka - India relations run back to thousands of years.
King Asoka sent his most precious son Mahinda and daughter Sanghamitta as Emissaries to propagate Buddhism to King Devanampiyatissa though they have not met which been close friends.
Diplomacy and diplomatic relations is not something alien to us and we have been maintaining relationships with the rest of the world from time immemorial. Arab merchants came to “Serandib” as traders and ancient Kings gave them freedom to engage in business, observe religion and settle down which indicates how magnanimous our previous rulers were.
It is now time to regain the same close relationships we have been maintaining previously especially in the 1970s. President Rajapaksa’s next task and mission would be to restore and re demarcate and re define his unique foreign policy based on Mahinda Chintana and his International Personality in order to raise our Nation on the top of the International Arena.
Sunday Observer 21/02/2010
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Gesture, attitude, behaviour : a workshop with dancers Mauro Paccagnella and Alessandro Bernardeschi on march 6, 2007 at Erg (Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels) for bachelor 1 students. Professors : Sabine Voglaire and Marc Wathieu. Pictures by Yves André.
This baby seal (Phoca vitulina) rubbed itself vigorously in kelp.
Dieser Baby-Seehund (Phoca vitulina) rieb sich lange in Tang.
Haven't these mousers got work to do?
In truth, Macey (left) might be described as a vegetarian hunter. She captures leaves and presents them to us. Jasper would be more proficient were it not for the lack of a fourth leg.
Today the Hereios of the We're Here! group are investigating the Seven Deadly Sins (notwithstanding that they tend not to be deadly, a bit like our cats).
Now, which is more strange? Is it the good folk of Blaenau Ffestiniog, who have developed the weird custom of chucking lumps of slate on every hill that they can find surrounding the town? Or is it the fact that 30 miles up the A470 in Llandudno, B+Q are doing a roaring trade, selling the stuff at 10 quid a bag? Either way, it all seems a bit mad to me...
On the last yards of it's journey south, the Premier set passes through the platform of the closed Blaenau Ffestiniog North station, with a typical Blaenau backdrop.
North station closed in 1982 when the current joint Network Rail/Ffestiniog Railway station came into use, the 1950's station building slipped into dereliction yet survived as long as 2012, and the platform lighting is still in place!
28 September 2013
Some Japanese service behaviours that foreigners may or may not appreciate. Of then they will but some, especially caucasian foreigners may be irritated by some Japanese attempts at service in ways that the foreigner does not expect. I have put an X against those services that I think are best avoided, and a triangle next to those that may, occasionally, result in a negative reation.
To be used with the guessing game in the next image.
Why might Westerners not be happy with some of these instances of Japanese service? Explaining the ones against which I have put a triangle or X....
Spoke in a high pitched voice. It is common for female, and even male (e.g television shopping announcers), Japanese sales staff to speak in a falsetto voice an octave higher than they would normally. This is I think to to be more humble and less threatening (like a child or small person) and also perhaps to depersonalise the interaction so that the customer does not feel oblidged to reciprocate service received, as would be the case in normal Japanese interpersonal interaction, since the false voice connotes that the service staff is a role rather than a person.
This may be felt to be less than ideal to some Westerners since on the one hand they would not want the service staff to demean themselves to that extent, and on the other they would like to be served by a person (and demean that person!) rather than a role.
The falsity of the voice may be felt more acutely by Westerners since I believe Westerners identify more strongly with voices. To a Westerner putting on a false voice is to affect a greater trait rather than state change on the part of the sevice staff. To a Westerner, if a service staff member affects a smile then all they are doing is pretending to be pleased to see you, but if they change their voice then they are pretending to be a different person.
Research shows that Japanese are more sensitive to the information content of tone of voice (Ishii and Kitayama) presumably because Japanese express their state, their emotion, their desire, through the tone of their voice whereas Westerners feel that a vocal tone is something that is situationally unchanging, depending upon personality.
(I really don't know why however, in stage plays featuring famous television and cartoon characters, it seems essential that these characters speak in the same voice as that used on screen, so stage players in Japan mime to a recording of the voice of the voice actor, or more likely actress, that dubbs the character, suggesting a greater degree of voice-identification.
Conversely again, I am troubled by the fact that a great many preadolescent male characters, such as Crayon Shin Chan or even I think Satoshi in Pokemon, are voiced by women. I don't think I noticed that the voices are female, but once I am told, I find it troubling that for instance, Satoshi's voice is that of a woman. It makes me wonder "Who is Satoshi?" or think that "Satoshi is unreal, polysexual, a fake!")
A short-tailed, plump bird with a low, whirring flight. When perched on a rock it habitually bobs up and down and frequently cocks its tail. Its white throat and breast contrasts with its dark body plumage. It is remarkable in its method of walking into and under water in search of food.
Hedgehog behaviour: Drinking water. Notice that most of my photos and videos are licenced under Creative Commons Attribution. This means that you can freely use and edit my material for commercial and non-commercial projects. If you do so please mention my name and provide link to my Flickr photostream or talaakso YouTube channel (which also contains most of my videos). Hyvinkää, Finland.
Shot with Browning Recon Force trail-cam © Craig Lindsay 2020. All rights reserved.
I wouldn't normally bother posting pigeons, but with this bit behaviour I thought it was worth an upload.
Got a week off work coming up so hope to get out with the main camera at least a little bit.
If you ever get close to a human
And human behaviour
Be ready be ready to get confused
There's definitely definitely definitely no logic
To human behaviour
But yet so yet so irresistible
And there's no map to human behaviour
They're terribly terribly terribly terribly moody
Then all of a sudden turn happy
But, oh, to get involved in the exchange
Of human emotions
Is ever so ever so satisfying
And there's no map
And a compass wouldn't help at all
A tree that looks to be dying in the field where the singer Rihanna was asked by the owner to leave because of inappropriate behaviour.
The article below is found in the Telegraph newspaper September 2011.
Rihanna: get off my land and find God, farmer tells singer
As a singer who is never knowingly overdressed, Rihanna has no shortage of male fans.
But when she chose to shoot her latest video on a farm in Northern Ireland, she found one man immune to her charms.
Farmer Alan Graham, 61, was so shocked to see the singer in his barley field wearing a red bikini that he pulled up his tractor, objected to her “inappropriate state of undress” and called a swift halt to proceedings.
While a meeting with Rihanna would be the stuff of dreams for most red-blooded males, Mr Graham instructed her to brush up on her Bible reading before sending her on her way.
“If someone wants to borrow my field and things become inappropriate, then I say, ‘Enough is enough’,” he explained yesterday.
“I wish no ill will against Rihanna and her friends. Perhaps they could acquaint themselves with a greater God.
The father-of-four and Democratic Unionist Party alderman for North Down Borough Council had given permission for the filming on his 60 acres of land in Clandeboye, outside Bangor. The Barbadian singer was shooting a video for her new single, We Found Love.
“I never heard of Rihanna until someone called me requesting the use of my land. Someone explained she was as big as it gets as far as pop stars were concerned, but I’m a bit illiterate about those issues. I’m a bit long in the tooth for all that,” said Mr Graham.
Traffic ground to a halt on the nearby A2 as proceedings got under way, with Rihanna, 23, wearing a demure checked dress.
However, when Mr Graham drove past later in the shoot he was horrified to find that the singer had disrobed.
“Most of the video took place in a field adjacent to a main road, which was a public place. It was when the film crew went to a further away field that I felt things were becoming inappropriate and I asked for the filming to stop,” he said.
If the singer was wearing swimwear, it was unlike any that Mr Graham had encountered before. “I felt Rihanna was in more of a state of undress than a bikini top,” he said. One photograph of the shoot appeared to show her topless.
Mr Graham, a devout Christian, thought it time to impart some advice.
“I had a conversation with Rihanna and I hope she understands where I’m coming from. Everybody needs to be acquainted with God and to consider his son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and his death and Resurrection.
“I hope she understands where I’m coming from. We shook hands and parted on good terms.”
Rihanna, who has made a name for herself with provocative dance routines, is playing three sell-out shows at Belfast’s Odyssey Arena this weekend but Mr Graham has no plans to attend. He has not been paid for the curtailed shoot.
“There was no firm arrangement. I have not received any payment and I don’t know if I will,” he said.
This bin doesn't just advertise and allow for recycling; it is recycling!
Chapultepec Park, Mexico City.
Album Title: Exotic Behaviour
Model: 虹羚
Photographer: Edwin Setiawan
Place: 士林官邸
Date: 2009/07/12
Just about Photography: edwinsetiawan.wordpress.com
Edwin Setiawan Photography: www.edwinsetiawan.com
Following on from a spring clean-up of offenders in March, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) is running another seasonal campaign to keep the heat on criminals this summer.
Recent national statistics show that crime is continuing to fall, and GMP is determined to maintain this trend over the holiday period.
Operation Resolute will see warrants being executed at the homes of priority offenders, and mobile ad-vans used across the region to name and shame criminals who are still wanted.
In addition, frequent visits will be made to probationers’ homes to see if they are complying with licence conditions, and checks will be run at scrap dealers’ premises to ensure that stolen metal is not being bought or sold.
The operation will also see neighbourhood policing teams reminding residents not to tempt burglars by leaving doors and windows open for long periods in the hot weather, and advising on ways to keep sheds and garages secure too.
Chief Superintendent John O’Hare of GMP’s Specialist Operations Branch said: “This operation is about maintaining the heat we put on criminals, so if you think you are wanted by police then expect a forceful ‘knock’ on your door.
“Officers from all divisions will be targeting offenders who cause the most pain to communities, and our tactical aid, traffic and mounted units will be out supporting local officers during the week of action. This work will be complemented by regular high-visibility patrols to provide community reassurance.
“With the longer days and warmer weather at this time of year we generally see an upturn in antisocial behaviour and acquisitive crime such as burglary – particularly through people leaving windows and doors open or sheds and garages unlocked after spending time outside. We are therefore asking people to look out for each other and take some simple crime prevention measures to safeguard their belongings. Finally, I would urge people to report antisocial behaviour to their local neighbourhood teams, whose numbers are listed on our website, so we can deal with it at the earliest opportunity.”
Some of the activity being carried out under Operation Resolute involves police working closely with councils, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service and other agencies as part of the Safe4Summer campaign.
This aims to address the expected rise in antisocial behaviour over the school holidays and keep young people safe by getting them involved in fun and exciting activities where they live.
Pupils across Greater Manchester have been made aware of the consequences of antisocial behaviour, and told about the website www.safe4summer.com which gives information on a host of fun activities happening in their area over the holidays.
Police and partners are directing young people towards the activities listed on the site, as well as maintaining a strong presence in antisocial behaviour hotspots and closely monitoring those with a history of causing disruption. Details of young people causing trouble will be passed on to the councils’ neighbourhood teams, so that youth workers can intervene if necessary.
Underage drinking is one of the main factors causing antisocial behaviour, and so officers will seize illegally purchased alcohol, work with Trading Standards to target premises who sell to under 18s, and take firm action against adults who buy drink for young people.
Police will also crack down on the illegal use of off-road motorbikes, which tends to be more of a problem over summer, and offenders risk having bikes seized or even crushed.
For more information about Policing in Greater Manchester please visit our website.
You should call 101, the new national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.