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and the days became shorter,
rising sun peeking over the hill just a bit earlier, and setting just a bit earlier as well.
and as night crept in, a harsh wind would pick up through the leaves and a noticeable chill would run through such veins.
how i miss summer.
someone stopped me on the street today and said "you are gorgeous" and not going to lie? it made my day. i passed it on to a homeless man later today. not sure if he understood, but all the same i sure want to believe he did. could he have passed it on? and that person passed it on? and all the way to you? i can only hope. well, all the same, you are beautiful. don't forget it.
also saw someone i knew today, said a quick hello and said i was excited for the holidays. he stopped for a moment and then shook his head. "there not for a while, no." - "what?" - "living in the moment, good talk." he turned away. i smiled.
model: M
One of the consequences of the late Winter storms a few weeks back is the scouring away of huge amounts of sand from coastal beaches. I visited Ryhope beach earlier this year in February and this area was just one big stretch of sand at low tide. Now, the sand has gone and these slabs of magnesian limestone have been exposed. Have to say, I've never seen these before and I've grown up in Ryhope.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thetford_Forest
History
Thetford Forest was created after the First World War to provide a strategic reserve of timber, since the country had lost so many oaks and other slow-growing trees as a consequence of the war's demands. It is managed by the Forestry Commission. The creation of the forest destroyed much of the typical Breckland environment of gorse and sandy ridges, ending the frequent sand blows (where the wind picked up sand and blew it across the road reducing visibility). However, this environment was itself man-made, since the area had been denuded by flint-mining, the construction of rabbit warrens and other activities. Grimes Graves is located within the forest
Biodiversity
The forest is largely surrounded by farmland, as well as the villages of West Stow, Ingham, Elveden, and the towns of Mundford and Thetford in Norfolk, and Brandon in Suffolk, however it has a high level of biodiversity. It is home to a large population of hares, rabbits and gamebirds. Several species of deer also reside there, Muntjac, Roe Deer and a small population of Red Deer, the last hunted by the Thetford Forest Staghounds before deer hunting was outlawed.
The forest is well known for its scarce breeding birds, such as Woodlark, Nightjar, Goshawk, Crossbill, Siskin as well as an introduced population of Golden Pheasant. All of these can be found at the Mayday[1] recreation site. Stone Curlew breed on the edges of the forest and there is often a wintering Great Grey Shrike.
High Lodge Visitors Centre
Deep in the heart of the forest lies High Lodge Visitors Centre. High Lodge has a 100 seater restaurant, gift shop, cycle hire, adventure play area, walking trails and cycling trails. It is also the home to the Go Ape high wire adventure course.
There is an hourly parking charge from which the money raised is injected back into the forest and is much needed for the survival of such facilities. Year long season tickets are also available .
The centre is open all year round, except Christmas Day.
Mountain biking
The forest is a popular destination for mountain biking, and has several marked trails ranging from those suitable for families, to the Black Trail for experienced riders. The forest also has hundreds of miles of singletrack, several bomb holes and a steeply undulating section called The Beast.
National cross-country cycling races are held in the forest. There is also a recently formed organisation called TIMBER (Thetford Improved Mountain Biking EnviRonment) which aims to work with the Forestry Commission to improve the mountain bike trails in the forest.
Bikes can be hired from the High Lodge Forest Centre and mountain bike instruction is also offered.
Music in the forest
It also hosts annual concerts from such luminaries as Pulp and Jools Holland.
2007 saw The Feeling, Blondie, M People, Travis, James Morrison and Van Morrison take to the stage at High Lodge.
Other activities
The Roman road, known as Peddars Way leads from the north Norfolk coast and reaches its end in Thetford Forest, near Knettishall. Other walking routes in the Forest connect to it.[2] There is also a walk way through the trees called 'Go Ape'. There is a Center Parcs holiday resort at Elveden which also brings many visitors.
A sizeable proportion of Thetford Forest and the surrounding woodlands is reserved for military activities in an area known as Stanford Battle Area. Public access is forbidden; this land is used for farming, so one can often hear small-arms fire from the far side of an idyllic meadow covered in grazing sheep.
Thetford Forest has been mentioned on the Caravan channel as a good place to go with your caravan.
The British Siberian Husky Racing Association holds several husky racing events in the forest each winter.
Paintballing activities also take place on the Thetford Forest site.
www.explorethetford.co.uk/thetfordforest.aspx
If you go down to the woods today you’ll be in for a big surprise … !
Thetford Forest is Britain’s largest lowland pine forest and makes a great day out for all the family. You’ll be amazed at just how much there is to do – or of course you can opt to do nothing and simply enjoy a lazy picnic in one of the most beautiful and tranquil settings in England.
If you want to be active there’s plenty to choose from at High Lodge Forest Centre. You could follow miles of waymarked walking trails through the forest and keep an eye out for the wildlife, hire a bike and do some cycling (including our infamous ‘black route’ for the more experienced), try out the squirrel’s maze (one of the largest in Europe), visit the adventure playground for younger children or if you’re really feeling brave, try your hand on the high ropes course … not for the faint-hearted!
And don’t forget to visit the Giant Play Sculpture trail – aimed at children but great for everyone to see. And there’s always a full programme of events, from guided walks to activity days, arts and crafts, wildlife workshops, themed meals and outdoor concerts with names like Jools Holland, Bryan Ferry and the Sugarbabes!
When you’re feeling tired and hungry, call in at High Lodge Forest Centre for home-made refreshments, a small gift shop and toilets.
For information on bike hire call Bike Art on 01842 810 090.
For information on the high ropes course call Go Ape - 0870 444 5562
For information on High Lodge Forest Centre and events and activities call 01842 810271
Enter the forest drive from the B1107 Thetford to Brandon Road. Travelling towards Brandon, the entrance can be found on the left, approximately ½ mile before Brandon. Follow the forest road for about 1½ miles and you will come across the car parking area. A forest toll applies.
The Forest Drive is open all year, the gates being unlocked for 9am and closing at 4.00pm during autumn/winter and 7.00pm spring/summer. A small toll is levied at the entrance.
Thetford Forest is great for outdoor recreation but it’s also a huge working forest, managed by the Forestry Commission, and an important timber supplier for a wide range of everyday wood products.
The patchwork of pines, heathland and broadleaves also provides a welcome refuge for a rich variety of animal and plant life including red squirrels, deer, pheasants, woodlarks and nightjars. Nature conservation is another important part of the Forestry Commission’s work.
Thanks to their fathers perverse sense of humour one half of the Ferally octuplets were raised to support City, while the other half were sworn to support United. As a consequence, Derby days on the old sofa were always lively.
We're Here caught in the middle of a population explosion.
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Bill Frisell: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
"Nowhere Man"
"In My Life"
"Strawberry Fields Forever"
truth and consequences
The consequences of the latest Etna eruption,the first of 2022, are finally visible in the cloud free view of the whole volcano area as captured by Copernicus Sentinel2 on Feb.18
A weak activity still is ongoing, marked by gas emissions and ash trails on the fresh snow, while the SE crater has changed its structure again. The majestic Bovo Valley stands out on the lower rigth side with its typical colors and shape.
A consequence of the Winwick Junction point problem yesterday was trains were stacked up in section both north and south and eventually things got on the move.
DRS 66428 charges north over the formation @ 15.16, single DRS 66's have become common of late on 4S44.
* heavy wire removed.
Police tape around play areas in a local park. The dolls were left on the picnic table by someone else and not staged for this shot. Maybe a memorial to all of the more than 32,000 COVID-19 victims worldwide. Please do your part to defeat this horrible pandemic: follow CDC guidelines and stay home!
Global Ecology
Nature in a Dome..
Toronto Centre
Global warming is a reality and increasingly its consequences
Global warming we think it does not showing any effect on the earth but we are in a complicated world . Floods, sudden rains, cyclones, droughts, Katrina, receding icebergs, are some of the harmful disaster of global warming. So we should do something to aware the people about how we can promote this keyword: Globalwarming awareness2008.
Many Scientists have researched upon how to lower down Globalwarming . Today they have found many ways to do reduce the rate of Globalwarming. Giving suggestions like launching a constellation of trillions of small free-flying spacecraft a million miles above Earth into an orbit aligned with the sun, called the L-1 orbit
This spacecraft would form a long, cylindrical cloud and would have a diameter about half that of Earth, and about 10 times longer. It is suggested that about 10 % of the sunlight passing through the 60 thousand mile length of the cloud, pointing lengthwise between the Earth and the sun, would be diverted away from our planet. This may result in gradually reduced sunlight by about 2% over the entire planet and would balance the heating of CO2 in the atmosphere of earth
James Early of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory first mooted the use of space shade in 1989.
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This tribe may no longer exist soon as a big dam will be build in Ethiopia on Omo river, and will have huge consequences on their life...
The Karo (or Kara), with a population of about 1000 - 1500 live on the east banks of the Omo River in south Ethiopia.
Their neighbors are the Hamar,Bana,Bashada,the famous Mursi and Nyangatom (on the other side of Omo river, who are their enemies ) . They speak a south Omotic language.
The Karo grow sorghum ,maize and beans .
Karo use to paint body and decorate their face. They use white chalk, charcoal, ochre and red earth.. Karo women scarify their chests to beautify themselves .The scarification of a man's chest shows that he has killed an enemy or a dangerous animal. The scars are done with a knife or razor blade and ash is rubbed into.
The wearing of a grey and ochre clay headdress also indicates the killing of an enemy or a dangerous animal. Hamar do the same.
The women have a very nice hairdress: they put red clay mixed with butter and fat in their hair, so that the hair looks like a bunch of coffee beans. Women still wear leather clothing made from animal skins.
The men all use a wood headrest to protect their hair bun, and they use it too to sit.
They love to rest under the men house, the chifo. At the end of the harvest and at times of initiation and marriage, the Karo come together to enjoy dances with a lot of local beer. These happy times often lead to marriage after the young man has successfully accompling the bull jumping. A Karo man may take as many wives as he can afford, but usually he marries two or three.
Les Karos (ou Karas) sont environs 100-1500 à vivire sur la rive est du fleuve Omo en Ethiopie du Sud. Leurs voisins sont les Hamars, Banas, Bashadas,Mursis, et les Nyangatom qui vivent de l’autre cote du fleuve et qui sont leurs ennemis de longue date. Les Karos cultivent du sorgo, du mais et des haricots.
Les Karos sont fameux pour leurs peintures corporelles et les décorations qu’ils portent. Ils utilisent de la craie, du charbon, et de la terre pour se dessiner des motifs sur le corps. Les hommes et les femmes aiment se scarifier la poitrine. Les femmes pour être plus belle, les hommes pour indiquer qu’ils ont tué un ennemi ou un animal dangereux. Les hommes portent aussi un petit casque en argile sur le sommet du crane et y plantent des plumes d’autruches. Ils ne se separent jamais de leur appui tête qui fait aussi office de petit siege. Les hommes aiment se retrouver sous un abri appelé chifo pour discuter et se reposer.
Les femmes soignent leur coiffure et lorsqu’elles ne rasent pas la tête, portent une coiffure en forme de grains de café. Elles portent toujours des vetements faits à partir de peaux d’animaux.
A la fin des recoltes, ou lors des ceremonies, les Karos aiment danser et boire la biere locale, occasion revee pour former les couples. Les garcons doivent passer l’epreuve du saut des vaches avant de pouvoir pretender à epouser une femme. L’homme Karo peut avoir autant de femmes qu’il souhaite, en general 2 ou 3.
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Central Park sidewalk.
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Central Park, Manhattan, New York, USA. 2017. ... 7 / 9
(Today's photo. It's unpublished.)
Images:
The Beatles … Across The Universe
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My new novel
B♭ (B Flat)
Volume 15 😄
The following is still in its draft stage and will be revised further.
Key parts are not disclosed.
The order of the content shown here is mixed.
(Of course, this is not the final version.)
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My new novel
B♭ (B Flat)
The summer afternoon light in Manhattan flashed off the glass faces of the towers; each time the asphalt’s heat shimmered through an alley, the vast edifice of the FBI’s New York field office seemed to inhale the city’s clamor and, while remaining immovably composed, exuded the taut vigilance and tension within. Behind the heavy iron door set at that corner, the countless gazes of surveillance cameras and the movements of guards intertwined, announcing an order that would not be shaken by the heat waves or the bustle outside.
Special Agent Veronica Reeves—bearing a wealth of experience yet possessed of an uncompromising, honed gaze—sat reading, in quiet concentration, through the sheaf of reports that had been compiled so far, spread across the long table by the window. Whenever the summer breeze outside brushed the glass and rippled the air, her thought answered in kind, narrowing to the tiniest details and sculpting, in three dimensions within her mind, the range and consequences of the incident.
Her hands reconstructed the numbers and map symbols on the pages as if to include the city’s heated pedestrian flows, traffic lines, and the density of clustered buildings; her methodical ordering of the initial response bore a cold, tranquil certainty. The white glare of the overhead fluorescents trembled across the papers; even the shadows that wavered at the edge of her sight seemed to be folded into her analysis as unknown variables. With a fingertip she traced a point on the map, instantaneously combining thoroughfares, crowd densities, and building concentrations, rendering a volumetric sense of the scene inside her head.
The ring of telephones, the faint hiss of radios, and the distant wail of sirens in the streets were not mere noise to her but additional strata of information to be quietly assimilated. Her eyes were the very image of composure; yet the slight twitch in some muscles, the tremor in her fingers, betrayed a crisis-awareness coiled within—she displayed no outward emotion, advancing only with facts and inference.
She gathered the documents, exhaled deeply, and, staring out at the summer light and heat beyond the window, quietly contemplated her next move. Slowly she settled into her chair, arranged the bundle of reports before her, and with the city’s wavering heat at her back began to reconstruct the timeline in her mind. The intersections where red and green signals interlaced, the scent of exhaust hanging at street corners, the walking pace of passersby, the shadows of cars parked along curbs—each of these linked to the figures on the page and the marks on the map to conjure the three-dimensional flow of New York within her thought.
Fragments of reports arriving via radio and phone were drawn into the net of her analysis and placed into time and space. At what moment, and in which place, did the flow of people shift? Who might have entered which building? Combining traffic congestion, crowd movement, and the structure of buildings, she sought to reconstruct the entirety of the scene with minimal margin for error.
Her eyes remained calm, yet the fine tension of her muscles hinted at the vigilance beneath. Tracing a point on the map with a fingertip, she called up memories of past incidents and urban-planning data, calculating risk for each scenario. City layout, crowd density, locations of exits—every element was aligned upon a grid of logic, and all conceivable contingencies were hypothesized.
The outside heat warped the window glass; the city’s murmur and the distant siren did not break her focus but rather deepened the realism of the scenario she ran in her mind. Numbers on the page and the city’s tangible image overlapped within a cold rationality, and she prepared to derive the next action with precision.
Her gaze rested on photographs among the documents; she scrutinized the expressions of the crowd, the placement of security personnel, the positions of obstacles. Her look was merciless and exacting, missing no slight incongruity, refusing to be swayed by the city’s heat, attempting instead to enclose every variable within the net of reason.
In the office, where the cool air from the conditioning braided with summer’s heat, her thinking increased in speed—quietly, inexorably. What might happen next? Which routes were safe and which dangerous? Momentary judgments here could determine the safety of the crowd and the candidate’s life. Logic, steady and unyielding, wound through her hands like the thread that could untangle the city’s complexity.
Before her lay not only papers but computer screens and radio displays—sources of fragmented information that gained meaning only after passing through Veronica’s filter. The work of composing the whole from data and observed reality advanced, cool and silent, amid the city’s warmth.
Each time her fingertip traced the map, Manhattan’s streets materialized three-dimensionally in her mind: building density, pedestrian flows, surveillance-camera arcs, guard positions—linked together by a merciless chain of logic that suggested the next moves. Veronica inhaled and exhaled deeply; in that mute rhythm she connected all variables, fixing her attention on the heart of the matter. The distant sirens, car horns, and the footfalls of people pausing at an intersection became pieces of a puzzle that melted into a stream of reason. The city shimmered under heat; light and shadow fractured and scattered—but Veronica’s mind passed through that heat and outlined the incident in its entirety.
She reached for the office extension, feeling the cool resin of the handset between her fingers, and called Deputy Special Agent Elliot. “Put me through to Jack Vance of the Secret Service,” she said.
“Copy. I’ll contact Jack immediately.”
On the other end, his voice feigned calm while carrying a filament of tension. His eyes were on the streets beyond the window, unconsciously tracking intersections and pedestrian flows, instantly computing each possible outcome. Fingers rested on the keyboard; he checked the radio terminal and looped the next potential events into the net of his thought. Elliot’s “copy” was not a mere acknowledgment but a confirmation of steady judgement in the face of urban turbulence—and a quiet testament to his faith in Veronica.
A black Ford SUV tore through the heat of the streets. Jack gripped the wheel; impatience etched his profile. In the back seat, Anna drew herself close, stretching an arm protectively over the children while still forcing her voice out. “Watch the road, Jack!” The vehicle bucked under its own motion; the children’s voices rose—part cheer, part scream—caught between terror and exhilaration. Beside them, Mika bit her lip and, speechless, stitched her gaze to the window.
Behind, a pursuing car growled; bullets kissed the asphalt and left a metallic tang in the air. Sparks flared against concrete facades; gunfire scraped at the city’s skin. Jack’s Ford ignored lights and crowds alike, mounting the sidewalk as if to fling aside the screams of the throng in its wake.
Soon the massive shadow of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building fell across them. The tower of steel and glass reflected the noonday light with a hard edge, standing high and concentrated like the city’s own tension made architecture. Veronica Reeves stood by the window and followed the car’s black silhouette at her feet. “…No,” she said under her breath. “That Ford tearing along the sidewalk—surely that isn’t you?”
Jack’s voice crackled over the radio, rough and breathless. “We were being chased! We just happened to come here—this isn’t my doing!”
Veronica held her breath and instantly issued orders to Deputy Special Agent Elliot. “Contact the NYPD now. Lock down every street and avenue.”
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My new novel:
B♭ (B-flat)
There’s still more to come. 😃
(This is not the final draft.)
Set in New York City.
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Soundtrack.
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Note: I gave a brief explanation of this novel in the following video:
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iTunes Playlist Link::
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My new novel:
B♭ (B-flat)
Notes
1. "Bombay Blood Type (hh type)"
•Characteristics: A rare blood type that lacks the usual ABO antigens — cannot be classified as A, B, or O.
•Discovery: First identified in 1952 in Mumbai, India (formerly Bombay).
•Prevalence: Roughly 1 in 10,000 people in India; globally, about 1 in 2.5 million.
•Transfusion Compatibility: Only compatible with blood from other Bombay type donors.
2. 2024 Harvard University Valedictorian Speech – The Power of Not Knowing
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3. Shots Fired at Trump Rally
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セントラルパークの側道。
( LUMIX G3 shot )
マンハッタン。ニューヨーク。アメリカ。2017. … 7 / 9
(今日の写真。それは未発表です。）
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The Beatles … Across The Universe 和訳
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僕の新しい小説。
B♭ （ビーフラット）
第15弾。 😄
以下は、まだ初稿の段階です。まだ推敲します。
重要な部分は公開していません。
公開している内容の順番はバラバラです。
(もちろん最終稿ではありません。)
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僕の新しい小説。
B♭ （ビーフラット）
マンハッタンの夏の午後の光が高層ビル群のガラスにぎらつき、アスファルトの熱気が路地を揺らすたびに、FBIニューヨーク支局の巨大な建物は都市の喧騒を吸い込み、どっしりと静けさを保ちながらも、その内部に張り詰めた警戒と緊張をにじませていた。その角に設えられた厚い鉄の扉の向こうでは、監視カメラの無数の視線と警備員の動きが絡み合い、外界の熱波や人々のざわめきにも揺るがぬ秩序を守っていることを告げていた。
ヴェロニカ・リーヴス特別捜査官は、豊富な経験を背負いながらもなお研ぎ澄まされた眼差しで、窓際の長机に広げられた、これまでに起こった報告がまとめられた資料の束を静かに読み解いていた。外の夏風がわずかに窓に当たり、空気を揺らすたび、彼女の思考もそれに呼応するように細部まで集中され、事件の可能性や影響範囲を論理の中に立体的に描き出していった。
書類に記された数字や地図の記号を、熱せられた街の動線や人々の流れ、ビルの密集度までを含めるかのように頭の中で再構築し、事件の初動を論理的に整理していく手つきには、冷たくも静かな確信が宿っていた。
天井の蛍光灯の白い光が、紙面に落ちる影を揺らし、視界の隅で揺れるその影さえも、未知の変数として分析に取り込まれているかのようであった。ヴェロニカは指先で地図上の一点をなぞり、都市の動線、人の密度、建築の密集度を瞬時に組み合わせ、頭の中で現場の立体的な状況を描き出していた。
電話のベルや無線のかすかなノイズ、外の街路で響く遠いサイレンの音も、彼女にとっては雑音ではなく、分析のための情報の層として静かに整理されていった。
瞳は冷静そのもので、しかし微細な筋肉の動きや指の震えは、内側に潜む危機意識を示し、見る者には感情を一切表さず、事実と推論だけを前に進める姿勢が伝わってきた。
ヴェロニカは書類をまとめ、深く息を吐き、窓の向こうに広がる夏の都市の光と熱を見据えながら、静かに次の一手を思案していた。
ヴェロニカはゆっくりと椅子に腰を下ろし、資料の束を前に整えると、窓の外で揺れる熱気を背に、まず事件の時間軸を頭の中で再構築しはじめた。信号の赤や青が交錯する交差点、街角に漂う排気ガスの匂い、通行人の歩行速度、路上に停められた車の影――それらすべてが、紙面の数字や地図上の印と結びつき、ニューヨークという巨大な都市の立体的な動線を彼女の思考に浮かび上がらせた。
無線や電話からの断片的な報告も、彼女の分析の網に吸い込まれ、時間と空間に配置される。どの瞬間に、どの場所で、人々の流れが変化したか。誰がどの建物に潜入した可能性があるか。交通の混雑状況と、観衆の動き、建築物の構造を組み合わせ、最小の推測誤差で現場の全貌を描く。
彼女の瞳は冷静そのもので、しかし微細な筋肉の緊張が、その奥に潜む危機意識を示していた。手元の地図の一点を指でなぞり、過去の事件や都市計画のデータを呼び出しながら、シナリオごとにリスクを計算する。都市の構造、観衆の密度、出口の配置――あらゆる要素を論理のグリッドに沿って並べ、想像されるすべての事態を仮定する。
外の熱気は窓ガラスを揺らし、街のざわめきや遠くで響くサイレンは、彼女の集中をかき乱すどころか、逆に現場の臨場感を補強し、頭の中のシミュレーションに奥行きを与えた。紙面の数字と街の実像が、冷たい理性の中で重なり合い、彼女は次の一手を論理的に導き出す準備を整えていった。
ヴェロニカは資料の中の写真に目を留め、観衆の表情や警備員の配置、障害物の位置を詳細に分析した。その視線は冷徹でありながらも、微細な違和感や不自然さを見逃さず、都市の熱気に流されることなく、論理の網の中に全ての変数を捕らえようとしていた。
冷房の空気と夏の熱気が交錯するオフィス内で、彼女の思考は静かに、しかし確実に速度を上げていく。次に何が起こりうるか、どのルートが安全で、どのルートが危険か。瞬間ごとの判断が、観衆の安全と候補者の命を左右する。論理は揺るぎなく、都市の複雑さを紐解く糸のように彼女の手の中で絡まり合った。
彼女の前には資料だけでなく、コンピュータの画面や無線のディスプレイも並ぶ。それらは断片的な情報の源にすぎず、ヴェロニカの思考というフィルターを通すことで初めて意味を持つ。データと現実の光景を繋ぎ、事件の全体像を構築する作業は、夏の街の熱気の中でも冷たく静かに進行した。
彼女の指先が地図をなぞるたび、都市の街路が脳内で立体的に浮かび上がり、建物の密度、通行人の流れ、監視カメラの視野、警備員の位置が、冷徹な論理の中で連鎖し、次の行動を示唆する。ヴェロニカは深く息を吸い、吐き出すと同時に、無言のうちに全ての変数を繋ぎ合わせ、事件の核心へと視線を固定した。その瞬間、遠くの街路から聞こえるサイレンの音や車のクラクション、交差点で立ち止まる人々の足音が、彼女の頭の中ではパズルのピースとなり、論理的な流れの中に溶け込んでいった。都市は暑さに揺れ、光と影が乱反射するが、ヴェロニカの思考は静かに、その熱気を透過して事件の全体像を描き出していった。
ヴェロニカは、静かに内線電話の受話器を手に取り、その冷たい樹脂の感触を指先で確かめながら、エリオット副特別捜査官を呼び出し、いった。
「シークレットサービスのジャックバンスにつないで」
「了解。ジャックに直ちに連絡する。」
受話器の向こうで、彼の声は冷静を装いながらも、微細な緊張を含んでいた。目は窓の外に向けられ、街路の交差点や通行人の流れを無意識に追い、あらゆる可能性を瞬時に計算する。手元のキーボードに指を触れ、無線端末を確認しながら、次に何が起こるかを思考の網にかける。
エリオットの「了解」は、単なる返事ではなく、都市の混沌を前にした冷静な判断の証であり、ヴェロニカへの信頼を静かに裏付けていた。
黒のSUVフォードは、夏の熱気を押し裂くように街路を駆け抜けていた。ハンドルを握るジャックの横顔には焦燥が張りつき、後部座席に身を寄せたアナは、子供たちを庇うように腕を伸ばしながら、それでも必死に声を張り上げた。
「前を見て、ジャック！」
車体の振動に身を揺らしながら、子供たちは歓声とも悲鳴ともつかぬ声をあげ、恐怖と興奮の境を知らぬままに笑った。その隣でミカは唇を噛み、言葉を失ったまま窓の外に視線を縫いつけられていた。
背後では追撃の車が唸りを上げ、硝煙の匂いを残して弾丸がアスファルトを跳ねた。コンクリートの壁面に火花が散り、都市の皮膚を削るようにして銃声が響く。ジャックのフォードは信号も人波も無視し、歩道へと飛び込み、群衆の悲鳴を振り払うように疾走した。
やがて、ジェイコブ・K・ジャヴィッツ連邦ビルがその巨大な影を落とした。
鉄とガラスの塔は真昼の光を硬質に反射し、都市の緊張を凝縮させてそびえ立っていた。ヴェロニカ・リーヴス特別捜査官は窓辺に立ち、視線を落とした足元に黒い車体の影を認めた。
「……まさか。歩道を突っ走っているあのフォード、あなたたちじゃないでしょうね？」
無線に混じってジャックの声が荒々しく返る。
「追われてたんだ！ たまたまここに来ただけだ、俺のせいじゃない！」
ヴェロニカは息を詰め、即座にエリオット副特別捜査官へと指示を放った。
「すぐにNYPDへ。すべてのストリートとアヴェニューを封鎖して。」
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僕の新しい小説。
B♭ （ビーフラット）
舞台はニューヨークです。
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追記 この小説を多少説明しました。
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「Bombay型（ボンベイ型、hh型）」
•特徴：通常のABO血液型を持たない（A、B、Oに分類されない）特殊な型。
•発見地：1952年、インド・ムンバイ（旧ボンベイ）で初めて確認。
•発生頻度：インドでは1万人に1人程度だが、世界的には約250万人に1人とも。
•輸血制限：同じBombay型しか輸血できない。
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2024年ハーバード大学首席の卒業式スピーチ『知らないことの力』
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It was perfect.
That was the mistake.
Ruckus touched it.
Didn’t think. Didn’t need to.
The line broke.
Hope felt it —
not fear, just wrong.
No time to fix it.
No time to move.
The hit landed clean.
Tommy lunged.
Ruckus knew.
Too late.
Because control doesn’t fail.
It keeps score.
Twice, now, my family has made the drive from Richmond, VA, to Wauwatosa, WI. On the way up we drive through a massive wind farm in Jasper County, IN. My jaw drops and I squeal like a little kid with wonder at these behemoths. So this summer I finally stopped on the way back and took some photos.
LMAO I took this and all I could this was;
"This is what happens when you fuck weird cyberpunk boys and don't use protection."
I made this spectacular and unexpected creation from scratch using a recipe I found on the Manischewitz website. However I substituted Matzah Flour for the Matzah Meal listed in the recipe. This had unexpected consequences. Instead of a sponge cake it was magically transformed.
I prepared the ingredients as specified in the recipe for matzah meal. When thoroughly mixed the ingredients, I poured the batter into a steel baking pan into which I had first poured about an eighth to a quarter of an inch of olive oil..
Before placing in the oven, I added a couple of tablespoons of sugar sprinkled on top of the batter. This was important to the way it turned out.
At this point, serendipity took over. I left it in the oven longer than the 20 minutes I had set on the time. Closer to an hour. When I checked it it had turned into a spectacular risen cake with a flakey crust over large air space within. It tasted just like egg kichel we eat through the year, and I love egg kichel.
See the following for more details of the difference between math meal and the matzah cake flour that I actually used.: www.thespruce.com/matzo-cake-meal-2122179
Passover, or Pesach, is an important Jewish holiday celebrated on the 15th day of Nisan. Working with kosher-for-Pesach ingredients can be a challenge for even seasoned cooks who grew up observing the holiday. For example, matzo meal is a major component of many Passover recipes, but it behaves quite differently in recipes than the flour it's typically meant to replace.
Passover ingredients are often expensive and tend to come in smaller containers than their year-round counterparts.
They often sell out during the holiday as well. Additionally, time is at a premium given all of the from-scratch cooking Passover requires. During the year, a failed recipe experiment may not be a big deal, but during Pesach, it can feel like a catastrophe. Fortunately, the more you know about the holiday ingredients, the more confidently you can play around with them—even if you run out of essentials like matzo meal.
Substituting Passover Cake Meal for Matzo Meal
Given that matzo meal and matzo cake meal are similar products, people often wonder if they need to buy both. Depending on what you're making, it can work. However, do not double the cake meal due to the volume and weight when baking. Cake meal is a finer and powder-like consistency that takes up less space in a measuring cup than matzo meal, so substituting 1:1 can throw off the recipe.
To make your own cake meal at home, simply grind matzoh meal in a blender or food processor.
Use about 1 cup and 2 tablespoons of matzoh meal to yield 1 cup of cake meal. For example, if your recipe calls for 3/4 cup of matzo meal, try using 3/4 cup plus 4.5 teaspoons of cake meal.
While matzo cake meal generally works well in cake and cookie recipes, it can turn out denser or clumpier if you substitute cake meal for matzoh meal.
So when you're making something like matzo balls, kugel, or Pesach rolls, it's a good idea to stick to the original recipe.
The Difference Between Matzo and Cake Meal
Matzo meal is simply ground matzo. It is used as a substitute for flour or breadcrumbs during Passover, but it has a coarser texture, in part of it being made from a product that has already been baked. Matzo meal works well as a breading or binder, and its texture is perfectly suited for making matzo balls rather than cakes and cookies.
Matzo cake meal is ground matzo, but the texture is much finer and akin more to flour than breadcrumbs. However, it does not behave like an all-purpose flour. Since cake meal is also made from already-baked matzo, it doesn't absorb liquid or develop structure in the same way flour does. However, its fine texture works better for recipes, and especially desserts, that are meant to have a more delicate crumb.
Whether you need to replace graham cracker crumbs, matzo farfel, or corn syrup, there's plenty of Passover cooking substitutions you can use for swapping out ingredients in your favorite recipes.
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This one is inspired by Gregory Crewdson and his use of light, and the way he sets up cinematic scenes. I did a recent inspiration bit with him on my site.
It was about 10pm at night when I did this. The setup is the westcott apollo softbox outside the shutters set to about 3/4 power on the canon 430exii, Lumiquest LTP softbox camera right and about 6 foot high on my tripod set to about 1/2 power on the canon 430exii. Settings are f/8, 1/125 (to block out any ambient light), ISO 1600 (so I could use f/8). There's also a reflector behind me to bounce some more light on me. The drink is actually water with a splash of coffee for color. This is a composite shot, one of me sitting, then another of me laying on the ground.
I hope to play with more lighting setups like this because they tie in my love for movies :D
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Berlin boasts two zoological gardens, a consequence of decades of political and administrative division of the city. The older one, called Zoo Berlin, founded in 1844, is situated in what is now called the "City West". It is the most species-rich zoo worldwide. The other one, called Tierpark Berlin ("Animal Park"), was established on the long abandoned premises of Friedrichsfelde Manor Park in the eastern borough of Lichtenberg, in 1954. Covering 160 ha, it is the largest landcape zoo in Europe.
Rund 15 Prozent der Erdoberfläche werden von Savannen bedeckt. Damit gehören sie zu den größten und wichtigsten Lebensräumen des Planeten. Seit dem 26. Mai 2023 wird Besucher*innen im Tierpark Berlin ein Einblick in diese faszinierende Landschaft gewährt und sie können mehr über die unterschiedlichen Bewohner der ostafrikanischen Savanne und ihren natürlichen Lebensraum erfahren.
Ein wahrer Höhepunkt der neuen Tierpark-Savanne ist der 120 Meter lange Giraffenpfad: Hier werden die Gäste den bis zu fünf Meter hohen Grazien der Savanne zukünftig auf Augenhöhe begegnen können – wer sich traut, bahnt sich den Weg durch den Wald bis zu den Aussichtsplattformen über eine abenteuerliche Hängebrücke. Der Tierpark Berlin erreicht mit der Eröffnung der Afrikanischen Savannenlandschaft ein neues Etappenziel auf seinem Weg zu einem Zoo der Zukunft. Seit knapp neun Jahren wird der 1955 gegründete und 160 Hektar große Tierpark Berlin zu einem naturnahen Geozoo umgebaut. Um einen Einblick in den Lebensraum der einzelnen Tierarten und deren Interaktionen, Besonderheiten und Problematiken zu ermöglichen, werden die Tiere im Tierpark größtenteils nach geografischen Gesichtspunkten zu sehen sein.
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Around 15 per cent of the earth's surface is covered by savannahs. This makes them one of the largest and most important habitats on the planet. Since 26 May 2023, visitors to Tierpark Berlin have been given an insight into this fascinating landscape and can learn more about the different inhabitants of the East African savannah and their natural habitat.
A true highlight of the new zoo savannah is the 120-metre-long giraffe trail: here, guests will be able to meet the up to five-metre-high graces of the savannah at eye level in future - those who dare will make their way through the forest to the viewing platforms via an adventurous suspension bridge. With the opening of the African Savannah Landscape, Tierpark Berlin has reached a new milestone on its way to becoming a zoo of the future. For almost nine years, the 160-hectare Tierpark Berlin, which was founded in 1955, has been transformed into a near-natural geozoo. In order to provide an insight into the habitat of the individual animal species and their interactions, peculiarities and problems, the animals in the zoo will largely be seen according to geographical aspects.
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This photo was taken by a Kowa/SIX medium format film camera and KOWA 1:3.5/55mm lens with a Zenza Bronica 67mm SY44•2C(Y1) filter using Fuji Neopan Acros 100 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitalized by Photoshop.
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The law doesn't mess around when it comes to protecting agricultural crops.
I really like the vintage look of this film and it turned out to be a pleasing choice for old Florida subjects. I say "choice", but it wasn't a conscious decision as I was shooting a borrowed camera loaded with donated film. There has to be some payback for giving up a whole shelf of freezer space to a film stash, right?
Bit of a happy mistake after lighting myself up (bottom right) as I walked back to the camera.
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Keeping everyone home to fight the spread of COVID19 has an unintended consequence. Fires have increased during the lockdown. Its an alarming trend, almost double the rate of last year. The leading cause of residential fires is unattended cooking and more people at home means more cooking. It also means more people smoking at home, another leading causes of home fires mostly caused by smokers flicking lit cigarette buts off a balcony.
Autumn doesn't officially start until 1 September, but, as of 12 August. several younger trees in Greenwich Park - a short distance by bus from where I live - had lost virtually all their leaves. London and much of Europe have seen many weeks of extreme heat and drought.
The mainstream media reprimands individuals for wasting water, justifiably exhorting us to limit our showers, but all the while ignoring the highly profitable water companies which fail to invest in infrastructure, reservoirs or leakage prevention. The media also overlooks the devastating impact of large scale agribusiness, particularly livestock farming, which places an increasingly unsustainable demand on the planet's scarce water resources, as well as further inflating emissions and driving deforestation.
Meanwhile, corporate greed is accelerating the consumption of fossil fuels and water and turbocharging climate change. We need rain. We need more regulation. More action. We need to get to net zero asap and water management should not be in private hands. Water companies are siphoning off enormous profits from a vital public utility and failing to invest anything like what is needed.
The head of Thames Water (the same company which dumped raw sewage into rivers over 5000 times in 2021) is set to pocket £3 million as a 'golden hello' for signing on as CEO ,while in total the UK's water companies have handed an average of around £2 billion every year to their shareholders in dividends since they were privatised. If they were nationalised, those profits could instead have been invested to upgrade the infrastructure and mitigate the impact of climate change and have even provided extra funds to promote sustainable alternative energy sources.
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As Caroline Lucas writes in the Guardian (12.08.22) - ' (Drought) is a consequence of years of inaction on the climate emergency. This is producing a perfect storm of energy insecurity, food supply chaos and extreme weather that is wreaking havoc on society.'
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