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The fire continued into Saturday (today). I looked west and got this photo. I can expect to wake up tomorrow morning with yet another layer of soot on my car.
Hunger strike protest for amending the referendum law continued at the Legislative Yuan on Sunday. The scene will be somewhat different tomorrow as protesters converge on the area to protest against the arrival of ARATS Chair Chen Yunlin.
Taken this morning - the first couple flowers started to open yesterday. It was at this stage two years ago on April 2.
I've been tracking this tree since 2008. It seems to trend generally later and later; in those earlier years, it reached its peak bloom just at the end of March.
Saucer Magnolia, Magnolia x soulangeana
Alexandria, VA
6 April 2015
Staff members of Continuing Education at Penn State at the Fall 2012 Penn State World Campus and Continuing Education Graduation Celebration held on December 21, 2012. (Photo by Bill Wallace)
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When the Corningware bowl cracked, its corn chowder contents spilled onto the stove. This picture shows the stove after I had placed the broken bowl in the sink, wiped the top of the stove, and removed two heating elements. Corn chowder is visible in the left front drip pan. That's where I was heating up the chowder. The real work was about to begin.
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101025-N-4153W-002, SKELDON, Guyana (Oct. 25 2010) NGO's leave the multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) in Skeldon, Guyana, October 25, 2010. Iwo Jima is currently anchored off the shore of Guyana in support of Continuing Promise 2010 humanitarian civic assistance (HCA) mission. The assigned medical and engineering staff embarked onboard Iwo Jima will work with partner nation's teams to provide medical, dental, veterinary and engineering assistance to eight different nations to improve mutual understanding of current medical issues. (US Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Bryan Weyers/Released)
As we continued our ascent, additional mountain lakes came into view. One or more of these lakes is presumably the source of the creek feeding the Trail Camp Pond.
After arising at 4:00 am, we embarked at 5:00 am on our final summit push. After about 25 minutes of hiking, dawn greeted us with spectacular colors. The hike from Trail Camp immediately begins "99 Switchbacks" section of the trail, a 2.2 mile stretch that rises 1,738 feet to Trail Crest. By our count, there are far more than 99 Switchbacks (maybe I am counting wrong). We did a sample during the last 1/5 of the trail and counted close to 35 on that stretch alone, and there were a lot more during the other 4/5. It is tedious and straight up, but the trail is very gradual and very easy on the legs. And the views are unsurpassed.
The tour continues.
Each day now has the same structure: Get up at about seven, breakfast at half eight, meet at the vans at half nine for the drive to the first site, stay there two hours, drive to next site, have lunch before another two hours searching, and on the drive back to the hotel, one last stop of an hour or so, go to the square for a beer, debrief at seven fifteen before going for dinner at eight.
Rinse and repeat.
Monday was the same as above. Each day the sites and butterflies are different, of course, and we never know if we will see what we hope to see at each site.
Breakfast is simple: a roll or two, yogurt, coffee, then back to the room to prepare to leave.
Unlike the previous tour, we try to rotate which bus we sit in each day, so not to create cliques, I sit in Dave's bus, though Gillian in the front seat talks all say, all day about nothing really, just to fill the silence, and is certain she is right about everything.
Again through the mountains, poor villages, and bright green lush fields before we turn down a track through a forest to come to a wide grass area, which had a small bog at the bottom, too muddy for much exploring, and anyway these early season butterflies don't frequent the bog. Our target was the Spring Ringlet.
We wander off, and despite it being warmer than the day previous, butterflies were slow to wake up, so it was an hour really before we saw any. Two tattered Iberian Scare Swallowtails delighted us all, as they fed on fresh Blackthorn blossom, and the usual suspects of Orange Tips, Provence Orange Tips, Queen of Spains all flew through.
Up on the wooded slope, news came that the Ringlets had been found, so we go off to explore, with only a couple of folks getting shots. We did find the first orchid of the trip, a tiny Early Purple growing in the shelter of a hollow.
Back down to the vans for a short drive to the lunch site, near a waterfall.
It was already very warm, so I sat on the tailgate while the others went off, however I would be rewarded with fine views of a newly emerged European Swallowtail, an Iberian Sooty Copper and a Green Underside Blue.
Which was all nice.
On the road again to the final site, a narrow country lane leading to a ravine, where in an abandoned field, we had hoped to see the rarest of the lot, a Sooty Orange Tip.
In fact the site was rich in butterflies, with many Blues, and the other Two Orange Tips, a Provencal Fritillary.
A shout went out, and news that a Sooty Orange Tip had been seen, and indeed it had. The flighty butterfly was speeding round the field with half the group in pursuit, it likes only Hoary Mustard to feed on, and it did pause twice, but I wasn't fast enough to get shots. It flew off and was last seen disappearing into the afternoon haze.
We wrote our own stories in the stars.
We found solace in each other's arms.
We penned our own ending, and we wrote our happily ever after.
(Calliope Kharg & Cyrus Felwood's Story).
The Mississippi State University Libraries Emerging Technology Summit continues the work of the MS Library 2.0 Summit, started in 2007 here at Mississippi State University, by focusing on the effects of emerging technologies in a post-2.0 world. Now that academic libraries have adopted social networking, mobile technologies, and social research tools, where do we go from here? What sort of assessment of these programs is available or appropriate? How have these emerging technologies been incorporated into academia, and what are the ramifications of their adoption?
This conference explored these issues with nationally-known emerging technologies expert Jason Griffey as our guide in the keynote session, followed by breakout Steal-this-Idea sessions led by regional experts who spoke to this post-implementation environment.
Here, Sonnet Ireland and Faith Simmons lead their session during the Summit.
For more information on the Summit and on MSU Libraries, please visit blogs.library.msstate.edu/emergingtech/.
101019-N-1531D-026 - OREALLA, Guyana - (Oct. 19, 2010) Army Spc. James Wood, of 352nd Combat Support Hospital, from Mountain View, Calif., embarked aboard the multi-purpose amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7), educates locals about hygiene during a Continuing Promise 2010 medical civic event in Orealla, Guyana. Iwo Jima is currently anchored off the coast of Guyana to conduct a Continuing Promise 2010 humanitarian civic assistance (HCA) mission. The assigned medical and engineering staff embarked aboard Iwo Jima will work with partner nation teams to provide medical, dental, veterinary and engineering assistance to eight different nations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jonathen E. Davis)
The number of distilleries in the UK has surged as craft gin continues to grow in popularity
Distilleries jumped 20 per cent to 246 over the last year, up from 205 the previous year, as the UK gin industry toasted a nine per cent increase in export sales to £672m in 2019
Consumers are willing to pay premium prices for craft gin, and the number of new entrants to the market has jumped in recent years.
Some entrepreneurs have been attracted to the spirits sector as they have recognised that big drinks firms are eying smaller “authentic brands”.
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I'm still paring through the parts of my unsorted purchases, divvying up the parts into groups (minifig, two-by bricks/tiles, one-by bricks/tiles, SNOT bricks, etc.). Of course, groups like Technic have sub-groups upon sub-groups that will be a living nightmare to sort.
After all the purchases are sorted, they will be separated further by piece type, and then separated further by color.
I just took some Advil, so I'm good to go.
Continuing the theme of difficult lighting conditions, here are a few photos taken at night by torch (flashlight). Taken this past weekend at Kruger National Park. Spotted eagle-owl, pearl-spotted owlet, and firey-necked nightjar. High ISO, low shutter speed, hand-held, wide open f2.8 aperture.
Confrontations with the police continued in Tahrir Square on Monday. Mass protests and marches are planned across the country today, Tuesday.
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Six members of U.S. Citizens for Peace & Justice – Rome, and two Italians who found out about the event through the Bradley Manning Support Network site, stood at a corner directly across from the U.S. Embassy on Via Veneto with our banner and signs and U.S. Peace Flag between 5 and 7 pm on June 1st.
We drew the attention of drivers going past as well as passersby, explaining why we were protesting that day and about Bradley Manning, what he is being put through and how his leaks, exposing the realities of war and what truly lies behind U.S. foreign policy, were not crimes at all but a true service to us all!
And we handed out flyers that gave basic facts in English and Italian.
We will continue to distribute our flyers throughout this international week of solidarity (June 1-8, 2013).
U.S. Citizens for Peace & Justice – Rome
info@peaceandjustice.it
Continuing the Heritage Day of Service Event (CTH) is a University-wide service project that takes place at the beginning of each semester. The event is sponsored and organized by the Civic Engagement and Career Development Center and the Marianist Leadership Program.
101019-N-1531D-073 - OREALLA, Guyana - (Oct. 19, 2010) The multi-purpose amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) is currently anchored off the coast of Guyana to conduct a Continuing Promise 2010 humanitarian civic assistance (HCA) mission. The assigned medical and engineering staff embarked aboard Iwo Jima will work with partner nation teams to provide medical, dental, veterinary and engineering assistance to eight different nations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jonathen E. Davis)
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UFV Continuing Education hosted an Open House and info sessions to provide prospective students with nformation about career programs in health, law, business, management, trades, and more on Thu, May 23, 2019 at Clearbrook Centre.
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Monument classified as World Heritage by UNESCO
Built in the XIV/XV century to commemorate the victory of the 6.000 men of the Portuguese army, against the 32.000 Spanish soldiers in one of their many invasion attempts, the Monastery of Batalha is the most glorious example of the Gothic architecture in Portugal.
The story tells that in the 1383-1385 crisis, when the Spanish army with their king was marching to Lisbon to claim the throne they encountered a small Portuguese army. Laughing of such small force they've decided to pass around because they didn't want to be delayed in their conquest. The Portuguese seeing that the only chance to keep the independence was to fight and win, started to insult the Spanish calling them cowards. It had its result as the Spanish decided to turn back to teach the Portuguese a lesson...
Right from the start the battle was a catastrophe to the Spanish. When their cavalry charged, the knights started to fall into the many traps built in the battle camp. Those who escaped reached the Portuguese army in a disordered formation and tried to pull back. But while some were trying to get back, large numbers of Spanish knights not understanding what was happening continued to charge and push all in their front against the Portuguese spears! More, the Portuguese army chose a very narrow space to fight and the long spears of the Spanish knights were not maneuverable, so they started to break them in half to make them shorter. The problem was that when the broken piece was thrown to the ground the horses tripped in them and fell...
Soon it became a catastrophe to the Spanish and their king was forced run to Spain barely escaping the Portuguese persecuting force. This victory kept Portugal safe for the next 200 years...