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2013-07-26 Medusa's BAL DU MASQUE – IMAGINARIUM
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A landscape photo shows a building destroyed by Cyclone Gati in Hafun, Somalia on 20 February 2021. FAO in Somalia continues its anti-piracy initiatives to provide alternatives for youth living in the coastal communities of Puntland, Galmudug and Mogadishu.
Photo credits must be given to: ©FAO/Arete/Isak Amin
Mitch Hagney
Distributed Urban Agriculture
While the majority of the population now lives in urban areas, the vast majority of our food still comes from far distant rural farms using increasingly destructive strategies to maximize their yield. All of a sudden, however, technology and the market are giving producers the opportunity to scale urban agriculture up to help make cities sustainable. Innovations in remote sensing, data conglomeration, irrigation design, and lighting are enabling farmers to grow healthy produce on a tiny footprint with fewer dangerous chemicals. In the process, urban farmers can reuse waste as construction material and fertilizer, while operating farms distributed throughout cities in derelict and underutilized spaces.
A key componant of a high yoga tantra Tibetan Buddhist initiation is the drinking of the blessed nectar or dutsi, here held by a monk as he distributes it among the monks at Tharlam Monastery, Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal
Black-headed Cuckooshrike
The black-headed cuckooshrike (Lalage melanoptera) belongs to the family of cuckooshrikes, the Campephagidae.
The species is distributed in India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan. These cuckooshrike species are partially migratory birds. These cuckooshrikes are polytypic species.
This is a medium-sized cuckooshrike, measuring 18 to 20 cm in length and weighing 25 to 35 grams. These species have sexually dimorphic plumage.
The adult male black-headed cuckooshrike has a dark slaty-gray head. The neck, throat and the upper chest are slaty gray. The rest of the upperparts and underparts are pale gray. The plumage is whitish towards the tail.
The female black-headed cuckooshrike has pale gray upper parts and whitish underparts. There is dark gray streaking on breast and underparts giving a scaly appearance.
The bill is dark gray. The irises are dark brown. The feet are pale gray. The cuckooshrike call is a repeated "twet..twet" or "wee..wee" sound.
The black-headed cuckooshrike species are distributed in India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan. The nominate subspecies L. m. melanoptera is distributed in northwest India (Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand).
The black-headed cuckooshrike subspecies L. m. sykesi is distributed in south Nepal, India (Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra), and Sri Lanka. Non-breeding populations are found in south Bangladesh and west and northwest Myanmar.
The Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBA) of the black-headed cuckooshrike species in Nepal are Bardia National Park, Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Koshi Barrage, Barandabhar forests and wetlands, Dang Deukhuri foothill forests and west Rapti wetlands.
These black-headed cuckooshrike species have moderate forest dependence. They normally occur in altitudes from 0 to 2000 meters. The artificial ecosystems and habitats of these cuckooshrike species include rural gardens, plantations, orchards and urban parks.
The natural ecosystems and habitats of these black-headed cuckooshrike species include, tropical and subtropical moist lowland forests, bamboo forests, tropical and subtropical moist montane forests, scrub jungles, moist shrublands and open forests.
The diet of these black-headed cuckooshrikes consists mainly of insects. Caterpillars, insects, beetles, grasshoppers, cicadas, moths, butterflies and crickets are their primary food. They occasionally feed on fruits, berries and figs.
These black-headed cuckooshrike species hunt insect prey in the forests. They may form feeding flocks with other small birds. The cuckooshrikes hawk airborne insects and also glean their prey from the foliage and branches of trees.
The breeding season of the black-headed cuckooshrike species is from June to September in Nepal and north India. In central India the breeding season is from June to August. The laying season is during April-May in south India and from March and May in Sri Lanka.
The nest of the the black-headed cuckooshrike is a small cup-like structure, made of twigs, rootlets and plant fibers, and bound by cobwebs. The nest is constructed 3-8 meters above the ground. Both parents take part in building the nest on tree branches.
The clutch contains two or three eggs. The breeding pair take turns to incubate the eggs. The parents brood the chicks and keep feeding them till they fledge.
These black-headed cuckooshrike species are partially migratory birds. Breeding migratory populations are found in central India, north India, Nepal, northeast India and adjoining Myanmar. They migrate to coastal Bangladesh and north coastal Myanmar for wintering.
Resident non-migratory populations of black-headed cuckooshrike are distributed in Sri Lanka and the south Indian states of Telangana, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Post breeding, the juvenile cuckooshrikes may disperse and establish in new locations within the range. They may make local movements for feeding and breeding within their range.
The global population size of the black-headed cuckooshrike (Lalage melanoptera) has not been quantified. The overall population trend of the species is considered to be stable.
Throughout its range, this species is reported to be scarce to locally common. The generation length is 4.6 years. Its distribution size is about 4,230,000 sq.km.
Habitat alteration and destruction, excessive use of pesticides and decrease in insect populations are the main threats that are endangering the survival of this cuckooshrike species.
The black-headed cuckooshrike (Lalage melanoptera) does not approach the thresholds for being Vulnerable either under the range size criterion, or under the population trend criterion or under the population size criterion.
The IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) has categorized and evaluated the species and has listed it as of "Least Concern".
The CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) status is ‘Not Evaluated’ for black-headed cuckooshrike (Lalage melanoptera).
The black-headed cuckooshrike (Lalage melanoptera) is closely related to black-winged cuckooshrike (Lalage melaschistos) and lesser cuckooshrike (Lalage fimbriata).
The two recognized subspecies of Lalage melanoptera are: Lalage melanoptera melanoptera (Rüppell, 1839) and Lalage melanoptera sykesi Strickland, 1844.
Starting on January 2, 2021, York Region Public Health began distributing the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to long-term care homes in York Region. York Region has been working closely with health system partners on the rollout and administration of the COVID-19 vaccine. This includes working with the Province of Ontario, the Ministry of Health, Ontario Health, local hospitals, local long-term care and retirement homes and other groups in key areas related to vaccine administration, transportation, training and storage. In York Region, the Moderna vaccine was the first to be available to residents of long-term care homes and high-risk retirement homes. Staff at the homes administered the vaccine on-site to residents. The vaccine will help to protect approximately 3,700 York Region long-term care residents in 28 homes.
Southlake Regional Health Centre and Mackenzie Health were among 19 Ontario hospitals to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to administer to staff and essential caregivers at long-term care homes, high-risk retirement homes and hospital workers based on the Ontario Government's Ethical Framework for COVID-19 vaccine administration.
As more vaccines became widely available, York Region Public Health was proud to administer both the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to residents through York Region-run vaccination clinics.
Mitch Hagney
Distributed Urban Agriculture
While the majority of the population now lives in urban areas, the vast majority of our food still comes from far distant rural farms using increasingly destructive strategies to maximize their yield. All of a sudden, however, technology and the market are giving producers the opportunity to scale urban agriculture up to help make cities sustainable. Innovations in remote sensing, data conglomeration, irrigation design, and lighting are enabling farmers to grow healthy produce on a tiny footprint with fewer dangerous chemicals. In the process, urban farmers can reuse waste as construction material and fertilizer, while operating farms distributed throughout cities in derelict and underutilized spaces.
Mitch Hagney
Distributed Urban Agriculture
While the majority of the population now lives in urban areas, the vast majority of our food still comes from far distant rural farms using increasingly destructive strategies to maximize their yield. All of a sudden, however, technology and the market are giving producers the opportunity to scale urban agriculture up to help make cities sustainable. Innovations in remote sensing, data conglomeration, irrigation design, and lighting are enabling farmers to grow healthy produce on a tiny footprint with fewer dangerous chemicals. In the process, urban farmers can reuse waste as construction material and fertilizer, while operating farms distributed throughout cities in derelict and underutilized spaces.
MTA Chairman and CEO Patrick J. Foye joins the Mask Force to distribute free masks to customers on Mon., September 14, 2020.
Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit
The NEES Equipment Site at the University of Nevada, Reno is a multiple-shake-table facility (with three identical biaxial and one six degree-of-freedom shake-tables) that is suitable for conducting research on long, spatially distributed, structural and geotechnical systems. The facility is operational and managed as a national shared-use NEES equipment site, with teleparticipation capabilities, to provide new earthquake engineering research testing capabilities for large structural systems through 2014.
Mitch Hagney
Distributed Urban Agriculture
While the majority of the population now lives in urban areas, the vast majority of our food still comes from far distant rural farms using increasingly destructive strategies to maximize their yield. All of a sudden, however, technology and the market are giving producers the opportunity to scale urban agriculture up to help make cities sustainable. Innovations in remote sensing, data conglomeration, irrigation design, and lighting are enabling farmers to grow healthy produce on a tiny footprint with fewer dangerous chemicals. In the process, urban farmers can reuse waste as construction material and fertilizer, while operating farms distributed throughout cities in derelict and underutilized spaces.
a film "written, produced, directed and music composed by Frank Zappa".
2nd edition of the 1988 Honker Home Video production distributed by Video For Nations, 1993, as VFN 11.
cover graphics by Cal Schenkel.
cinematography by Haskell Wexler with addition camerawork by Ray Favata, Hermann Jauk, Tom Mangrevede, Thomas Nordegg (video), Schenkel, Ed Seeman, Motorhead Sherwood, Zappa.
editors: Raymond Bush, Maria DiGiovanni, Booey Kober.
primary cast:
Phyllis Altenhaus, Dick Barber, Massimo Bassoli, Rodney Bingenheimer, Jimmy Carl Black, Ray Collins, Aynsley Dunbar, Roy Estrada, Francisca Fischer, Bunk Gardner, Buzz Gardner, Lowell George, Dick Kunc, Manfred Lerch, C.Mercedes Lewis, Sal Lombardo, Meredith Monk, Billy Mundi, Bill "Stumuk" Nugent, Lucy Offerall, Don Preston, Fritz Rau, Cal Schenkel, Motorhead Sherwood, Arthur Dyer Tripp, Ian Underwood, Haskell Wexler, Tom Wilson, Artie Zannas, Carl Zappa, Frank Zappa.
the most difficult of Zappa's films to find in any form. his rear cover copy is here worth noting:
"Work began on "Uncle Meat" in New York City during the summer of 1967. The early footage of the Mothers of Invention was shot during that period, in and around the Garrick Theatre (on Bleeker Street in the West Village) by Ed Seeman, Ray Favata and Tom Mangrevede.
The original plot, as described in the "Uncle Meat" album booklet was never shot, and relates to this film only as a subtext.
Over the last 20 years, whenever there was enough money to allow for it, sections of 'story continuity' were added (1968, 1970 and 1982), until the whole blob of raw footage was transferred to video tape, and the film in its final form was realized in the spring of 1987 at Pacific Video in Los Angeles.
Admittedly, this is sort of a weird movie, and, for some viewers, helpful hints on how to watch it might be in order. As with many of my other projects, "Uncle Meat" and its themes derive from 'folk-lore'. Part of the problem of this technique lies in the fact that the 'folks' involved are 'non-standard behavioural types' and their 'lore' tends to be somewhat arcane. In spite of this, just as folk songs and legends record people and events deemed 'unworthy' of consideration by Serious Historians, this film, and other Honker releases provide a record for future generations that during this part of the 20th Century there actually were people who did not think or act like the plasticized caricatures that will survive to represent us in TV re-runs or "Real World' history books."
(he's using the chicken to mearsure it with)
MTA Chairman and CEO Patrick J. Foye joins the Mask Force to distribute free masks to customers on Mon., September 14, 2020.
Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit
MTA Chairman and CEO Patrick J. Foye and LIRR President Phil Eng join the Mask Force to distribute free masks to customers at LIRR Jamaica station Mon., September 14, 2020.
Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit
Mitch Hagney
Distributed Urban Agriculture
While the majority of the population now lives in urban areas, the vast majority of our food still comes from far distant rural farms using increasingly destructive strategies to maximize their yield. All of a sudden, however, technology and the market are giving producers the opportunity to scale urban agriculture up to help make cities sustainable. Innovations in remote sensing, data conglomeration, irrigation design, and lighting are enabling farmers to grow healthy produce on a tiny footprint with fewer dangerous chemicals. In the process, urban farmers can reuse waste as construction material and fertilizer, while operating farms distributed throughout cities in derelict and underutilized spaces.
Hungarian Red Cross volunteers distribute hot drinks, blankets and waterproof clothes/covers to the migrants sheltered at the Keleti underpass in Budapest, on Saturday morning. The Red Cross has mobilized volunteers from other locations such as Röszke in order to adapt its response, ans is also working 24/7 at the camps in Debrecen and Vámosszabad, distributing relief items and providing psychosocial support.
(Photos: Hungarian Red Cross)
Mayor Eric Adams distributes food to New Yorkers in need with PCNY and the Ellen Maguire Foundation in Midtown, Manhattan. Wednesday, February 8, 2023. Credit: Caroline Willis / Mayoral Photo Office
The icy grasp weakens...
Please do not copy, add, or download this image to any other group, website or blog without my express written permission. All rights reserved. Rob Walton Photography 2014.
IOM distributes 1200 hygiene and dignity kits to typhoon Haiyan victims across seven barangays including three island barangays in Tacloban, Leyte last 30 Jan. © IOM 2014
Mitch Hagney
Distributed Urban Agriculture
While the majority of the population now lives in urban areas, the vast majority of our food still comes from far distant rural farms using increasingly destructive strategies to maximize their yield. All of a sudden, however, technology and the market are giving producers the opportunity to scale urban agriculture up to help make cities sustainable. Innovations in remote sensing, data conglomeration, irrigation design, and lighting are enabling farmers to grow healthy produce on a tiny footprint with fewer dangerous chemicals. In the process, urban farmers can reuse waste as construction material and fertilizer, while operating farms distributed throughout cities in derelict and underutilized spaces.
Quilts donated for victims of Gatlinburg TN fires in 2016. Photographed and quilts distributed by Mission of Love. www.missionoflove.org
SAIPAN, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (Oct. 28, 2018) - Guam-based U.S. Army reservists from Echo Company 100th Battalion, 442nd Infantry Division, volunteer to distribute relief supplies to island residents affected by Super Typhoon Yutu in Saipan. Service members from Joint Region Marianas and Indo-Pacific Command are providing Department of Defense support to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands’ civil and local officials as part of the FEMA-supported Super Typhoon Yutu recovery effort. (Courtesy photo) 181028-M-TR604-0012
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Ruihan Xu, an undergraduate student in computer science, helps out in the lab of Peter Gaskell on day three of the Distributed Teaching Collaborative Summer Sessio in the Ford Motor Company Robotics Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Wednesday, June 28, 2023.
Participants from Berea College, Howard University, Kennesaw State University, and Morehouse College spent the final week of June at the University of Michigan College of Engineering Robotics Department participating in the Distributed Teaching Collaborative Summer Session in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The program, which began with the new Robotics 101 course in Fall 2020 being remotely taught to Morehouse and Spelman College students, enables instructors from different institutions, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), to benefit from open-source resources available for new course development at R1 institutions. This collaboration provides students from HBCUs and MSIs with access to cutting-edge robotics education and helps promote equity in STEM fields.
In March of this year Robotics PhD student Jana Pavlasek and Professor Chad Jenkins were awarded the Claudia Joan Alexander Trailblazer Award for their work developing the new course for undergraduate students, Rob 102: Introduction to AI and Programming. Their commitment to creating opportunity in AI and Robotics continues to extend beyond the University of Michigan. In Fall 2023, Robotics 102 will be offered in this collaborative distributed format to the partner schools. This initiative will help to provide equitable opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds to learn and grow in the field of robotics.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
During the COVID-19 lockdown, JRS Croatia staff members distribute food and other essential goods to vulnerable families.
The plastic sheeting was distributed to families whose homes were damaged by rockets which hit residential areas of Mariupol on 24 January 2015, killing some 30 civilians and injuring 90.
Photo Credit: UNHCR, Mariupol, Ukraine, January 2015
Mitch Hagney
Distributed Urban Agriculture
While the majority of the population now lives in urban areas, the vast majority of our food still comes from far distant rural farms using increasingly destructive strategies to maximize their yield. All of a sudden, however, technology and the market are giving producers the opportunity to scale urban agriculture up to help make cities sustainable. Innovations in remote sensing, data conglomeration, irrigation design, and lighting are enabling farmers to grow healthy produce on a tiny footprint with fewer dangerous chemicals. In the process, urban farmers can reuse waste as construction material and fertilizer, while operating farms distributed throughout cities in derelict and underutilized spaces.
From left, are Western Distributing’s Marty Rau, general manager of the company’s refrigerated division, longtime driver Tom Bogle; and vice president Marty Garcia.
Mitchell Allen, from Morehouse College in Atlanta, listens as Peter Gaskell gives instructions on programing the Mbot, a three-wheeled Robot used at the University of Michigan to teach AI and programing, in his lab in the Ford Motor Company Robotics Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Wednesday, June 28, 2023. Allen is one of the participants in the Distributed Teaching Collaborative Summer Session.
Participants from Berea College, Howard University, Kennesaw State University, and Morehouse College spent the final week of June at the University of Michigan College of Engineering Robotics Department participating in the Distributed Teaching Collaborative Summer Session in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The program, which began with the new Robotics 101 course in Fall 2020 being remotely taught to Morehouse and Spelman College students, enables instructors from different institutions, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), to benefit from open-source resources available for new course development at R1 institutions. This collaboration provides students from HBCUs and MSIs with access to cutting-edge robotics education and helps promote equity in STEM fields.
In March of this year Robotics PhD student Jana Pavlasek and Professor Chad Jenkins were awarded the Claudia Joan Alexander Trailblazer Award for their work developing the new course for undergraduate students, Rob 102: Introduction to AI and Programming. Their commitment to creating opportunity in AI and Robotics continues to extend beyond the University of Michigan. In Fall 2023, Robotics 102 will be offered in this collaborative distributed format to the partner schools. This initiative will help to provide equitable opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds to learn and grow in the field of robotics.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Great Egret
The Great Egret (Ardea Alba), also known as the Common Egret, Large Egret or (in the Old World) Great White Heron, is a large, widely distributed Egret. Distributed across most of the tropical and warmer temperate regions of the world, in southern Europe it is rather localized. In North America it is more widely distributed, and it is ubiquitous across the Sun Belt of the United States and in the Neotropics. The Old World population is often referred to as the Great White Egret. This species is sometimes confused with the Great White Heron of the Caribbean, which is a white morph of the closely related Great Blue Heron (A. herodias).
It is only slightly smaller than the Great Blue or Grey Herons. It has all white plumage. Apart from size, it can be distinguished from other white egrets by its yellow bill and black legs and feet. It also has a slow flight, with its neck retracted. This is characteristic of herons and bitterns, and distinguishes them from storks, cranes and spoonbills, which extend their necks.
Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge
The Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge is a United States National Wildlife Refuge located in southern New Jersey along the Atlantic coast north of Atlantic City, in Atlantic and Ocean counties. The refuge was created in 1984 out of two existing refuge parcels created to protect tidal wetland and shallow bay habitat for migratory water birds. The Barnegat Division (established in 1967) is located in Ocean County on the inland side of Barnegat Bay. The Brigantine Division (established in 1939) is located approximately 10 miles (16 km) north of Atlantic City along the south bank of the mouth of the Mullica River. The two divisions are separated by approximately 20 miles (32 km). The refuge is located along most active flight paths of the Atlantic Flyway, making it an important link in the network of national wildlife refuges administered nationwide by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Forsythe Refuge is a part of the Hudson River/New York Bight Ecosystem and The New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail Route. The refuge is named for Edwin B. Forsythe, conservationist Congressman from New Jersey.
Mitch Hagney
Distributed Urban Agriculture
While the majority of the population now lives in urban areas, the vast majority of our food still comes from far distant rural farms using increasingly destructive strategies to maximize their yield. All of a sudden, however, technology and the market are giving producers the opportunity to scale urban agriculture up to help make cities sustainable. Innovations in remote sensing, data conglomeration, irrigation design, and lighting are enabling farmers to grow healthy produce on a tiny footprint with fewer dangerous chemicals. In the process, urban farmers can reuse waste as construction material and fertilizer, while operating farms distributed throughout cities in derelict and underutilized spaces.
Mitch Hagney
Distributed Urban Agriculture
While the majority of the population now lives in urban areas, the vast majority of our food still comes from far distant rural farms using increasingly destructive strategies to maximize their yield. All of a sudden, however, technology and the market are giving producers the opportunity to scale urban agriculture up to help make cities sustainable. Innovations in remote sensing, data conglomeration, irrigation design, and lighting are enabling farmers to grow healthy produce on a tiny footprint with fewer dangerous chemicals. In the process, urban farmers can reuse waste as construction material and fertilizer, while operating farms distributed throughout cities in derelict and underutilized spaces.
Mitch Hagney
Distributed Urban Agriculture
While the majority of the population now lives in urban areas, the vast majority of our food still comes from far distant rural farms using increasingly destructive strategies to maximize their yield. All of a sudden, however, technology and the market are giving producers the opportunity to scale urban agriculture up to help make cities sustainable. Innovations in remote sensing, data conglomeration, irrigation design, and lighting are enabling farmers to grow healthy produce on a tiny footprint with fewer dangerous chemicals. In the process, urban farmers can reuse waste as construction material and fertilizer, while operating farms distributed throughout cities in derelict and underutilized spaces.
Mitch Hagney
Distributed Urban Agriculture
While the majority of the population now lives in urban areas, the vast majority of our food still comes from far distant rural farms using increasingly destructive strategies to maximize their yield. All of a sudden, however, technology and the market are giving producers the opportunity to scale urban agriculture up to help make cities sustainable. Innovations in remote sensing, data conglomeration, irrigation design, and lighting are enabling farmers to grow healthy produce on a tiny footprint with fewer dangerous chemicals. In the process, urban farmers can reuse waste as construction material and fertilizer, while operating farms distributed throughout cities in derelict and underutilized spaces.