The rip in the Speed-Force grew larger until Barry could just make out the imagery of himself from years before, then next to him, he saw a younger Eobard in distance! It was the moment before they had gotten their speed! But before he could speak, he saw Zoom's kinetic lightning chase down his speed-trail, spark, and pierced the window of Barry's old lab!

 

Simultaneously The Flash's own lighting shattered through the speed force and struck the computer consuls of Eobard's 25th century lab!

 

Then almost like being electrocuted, Barry's connection to the Speed-Force surged back into his body!

 

As the rift closed behind the two speedsters, Zoom began to slow. The scales were balanced. This fight was over!

  

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Alright now this has got to be my favorite of the series! It's been a good long while now since I last posted a Barry Allen fig, so I gave him a bit of an update. Plus, I've been wanting to show off my Eobard Thawne Figure for a long time now, and I'd be lying if I said that this figure wasn't the reason behind creating this story arc :P

 

On a side note I know the figs don't quite match up with the story but I wanted to encompass as much of each character as I could... Like adding their Flash Rings for example :P

film, sooc.

Brighton, England.

 

I could get lost in this; lost in us. I could focus on the sound of you breathing and forget my name. I could hold your hand and feel the sparks as they slowly electrocute me. I could give up everything just to hear you say you love me. I would have been a fool for your love, I can see that now. I would have given you far too much power and pushed myself and my dreams to the background. I would have lost myself for a glimpse of the sky in the pavement, now I'm not that foolish.

At the end of a long day of feeding and searching for food, vultures begin to move back to their roosting sites. Both species form large communal roosts, with some containing over a thousand birds. Vultures will usually return to the same roost each night and generally roost on the same branch as previous nights. These roosts may or may not be made up of family members. Observations of vulture roosts showed both species will occupy the same roosts and use them year after year. Some of these roosts are believed to be over 100 years old and are shared by parents and grandparents.

 

Common roosting sites preferred by vultures are power lines, radio towers, tall trees, or old buildings. These roosts create a foul smell and may seem unsanitary to the human eye, but due to the unique digestive system of vultures any bacteria or disease they may ingest is killed. Their droppings and pellets (undigested bones and fur) are considered disease free.

 

During the early morning, vultures can be observed at their roosting site with their wings stretched outward. This wing stretch allows the birds to use the sun and early morning warmth to repair damaged feathers, raise body temperature and dry flight feathers after wet weather.

 

Once the morning temperature warms up and thermals begin to form, vultures begin to leave their roost individually. Most bla​ck vultures wait about an hour longer than the turkey vulture before leaving their roost. The late departure of black vultures is due to having a heavier wing load and waiting for stronger thermals to stay aloft. When the thermals are right, black vultures begin to leave their roost in groups.

 

Vultures may seem unattractive or disgusting, but they play an important role in the animal world. Nature uses these birds to help clean up the environment of decaying animals. This clean-up crew provides a service that could prevent the spread of certain diseases.

 

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The white-backed vulture (Gyps bengalensis) As it is rarer than previously believed, its conservation status was reassessed from Least Concern to Near Threatened in the 2007 IUCN Red List. In 2012 it was further uplisted to Endangered. In October 2015, its status was changed to Critically Endangered because the ongoing decline is more severe than previously thought.

   

The population size of the white-backed vulture has been decreasing significantly within the past few decades. In 1922, the population was estimated at 270,000. Over the past two decades, its population has noticeably decreased. While not much is known about the current population, a recent study found that white-backed vultures have a high survival rate. Individual adults have the highest survival rate, while 2 year old birds have the lowest survival rate. Across all ages, the survival rate is estimated to be 90.7%. This means that the deaths of adult vultures will lead to rapid population declines. The loss of adults will cause less reproduction and with younger birds less likely to survive, the population will drop drastically. A major cause of population decrease is the loss of habitat. Elephants have been endangering the vultures, since they destroy the trees the vultures live and nest in. Vultures tend not to nest in areas with high elephant populations.Fires have also caused the destruction of trees. Humans also have a large impact. Our power lines have caused many vultures to be electrocuted. In Kenya especially, humans are using a very toxic pesticide called Furadan, which has led to many vulture deaths. Vultures are also being poisoned by humans, although not intentionally. In order to kill hyenas, lions, and other predators, herders add poisons into their livestock. Vultures ingest the poison upon eating a deceased animal's carcass. This poisoning generally occurs outside of protected areas, but is a leading factor in the population’s decline. Habitats are being also disturbed by human land management and direct nesting persecution patterns.

   

More recent studies have indicated a new plausible factor in the current declination of the vultures. Researches have seen that there has been a rise in toxicity in the liver, kidneys, pectoral region, and internal organs. This toxicity is caused by higher levels of lead, cadmium, zinc, and copper. Although most of these metals level out as either non harmful or normal levels, the lead concentrate in the liver of the vultures (8.56 µg/g wet weight) and in the kidneys (9.31 µg/g wet weight) is higher than the average levels.

   

Studies have also been performed on the white-backed vulture and some species of Asian vultures within the Gyps clade to see the effect of veterinary diclofenac. Regardless of whether the vultures were given an oral or intravenous dose of the substance, the effects was nearly identical and the diclofenac eventually poisoned the subjects. This chemical is one of the greatest contaminants for the general vulture population because of its presence in livestock: easy food for the vultures.

   

Another study shows that there are heightened levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, HPA’s, which isn’t as likely a product in the endangerment resultant, but still concerning. HPA’s, also known as polyaromatic hydrocarbons, are formations of hydrogen atoms surrounding rings of carbon. As common as these compounds are found in foods, engines/incinerators, fires, combustion there are many forms, and some carcinogenic. Although there is no direct correlation of the high levels of HPA’s in the vultures, there is still a plausibility that it can result in a negative outcome for the species.

   

White-backed vultures are an endangered species, and they need all their resources in order to survive. One trait that the vultures have is their vocalization when it comes to eating. White-backed vultures give out a yell when they are locked onto a target or even when they are eating. These creatures are in great danger though, as they have been slowly disappearing. It does not help their survival rate with a diminishing environment, causing a decrease in the amount of food available, and then the competition for food. The competition affects the vultures in a variety of different ways. First, the white-backed vulture is not a species that shares food with others of its own species. Second, there is the competition that the white-backs face with other animals in their habitat. It is just not what the vultures eat that is a huge part to their diets.

   

The main food source of the creature is eating the remains of the dead bodies around its habitat or home. The creature lives in Africa, in the Savannah, so it will either soar around in the sky or from some trees in this grassland area, or even wooded areas. The vulture will also follow the water streams during the wet season in the Savannah, this is an ideal place to find food, as other animals are gathered to get water. Some examples of what a white-backed vulture would actually eat are warthogs, zebras, gazelles, or ostriches, but it will basically feast on any animal.

 

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#AbFav_The_COLOUR_BROWN_

 

PURE JOY...

IGOR THE WORLD CHAMPION.

 

Once a horse won that title... it becomes invaluable and is used as a stud.

 

Igor had just sired a few mares and was feeeeeeeeeling GOOD...

(to sire is to inseminate.)

The Belgian horse, Belgian Heavy Horse, Flemish or Brabant is a horse breed that comes from the West-Brabantian region of Belgium.

They are one of the strongest of the heavy breeds.

The world's Largest Horse was a Belgian named Brooklyn Supreme, who weighed 3,200 pounds, and stood at 19.2 hands.

On average the Brabant will grow to be slightly over 1 ton or 2,000 pounds.

Colours normally are a blond with a brighter mane, or a sorrel/ chestnut colouring.

 

In history their main use was to work farms.

They are able to pull tremendous amounts of weight-up to over 4,500 pounds for a pair.

 

They also played an important role in the first World War, where quite a few perished.

 

I walked around and started to photograph, I discovered another blond stallion in an adjacent field and in order to get his whole head, with the velvet nose and pricked up ears all in, I had pushed through the fences and the top (danger!!!) ribbon... well I got the shot, but what a SHOCKING experience!

 

I straightened too soon and was electrocuted, in the neck, I called Paul, yelling: IS THE CAMERA GOING TO BE ALL RIGHT???

 

The horse got as much of a fright as I did, bolted and ran off.

Farmers are the same all over the world, they are only allowed a low voltage BUT... this was 240, my heart felt like I was 25 again. Bouboum.

 

I turned around into the 'safer' stables, obviously the nursery, since there were about 6 stables all with foals, that's where I captured those two lovelies.

The adventures of a photographer he, tee hee.

 

The Belgian horse is a much-loved gentle giant.

This large heavily muscled horse most likely descended from the heavy prehistoric horses and was indispensable as a workhorse in the Middle Ages when this horse was known as the Flanders (Flemish) Horse, now it is known as the Brabant.

  

Thank you and have a super day, M, (*_*)

   

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Do not mess with Paul Kersey.

 

Death Wish II (1982)

Kersey apparently did not relapse into hunting muggers in Chicago, but encountered a previous friend who ran a radio station in Los Angeles. Paul Kersey and his daughter Carol, who is still catatonic, now live in Los Angeles because Paul accepted a deal from the NYPD to leave town so they wouldn't tell anyone that he was the vigilante. Paul now has a new woman in his life, KABC news reporter Geri Nichols. One day while he's out with Carol and Geri, he is mugged by a gang of five punks. Paul fights back, but they get away. The muggers go to his house, gag, rape, and murder Kersey's housekeeper, and kidnap and rape Carol, who tries to run away, jumps through the second story window, and dies when she's impaled on an iron fence stake. When he learns of his daughter's death, Paul is beside himself with grief and rage, rents a ratty hotel room, disguises himself, and sets out to find the five punks/rapists who killed Carol in order to kill them with his new .380 Beretta Model 85 pistol. When the LAPD deduces that they have a vigilante on their hands, they decide to consult with the NYPD, who fear that Kersey is killing criminals again. Fearing that Kersey, when caught, will reveal that they let him go instead of prosecuting him, the NYPD sends Ochoa to make sure that doesn't happen. Kersey began using the alias "Kimble" during this period as dictated by the situation. The events mentioned above involving his daughter's death took place in 1981 (as stated by Officer Reiner in Death Wish 4, Kersey's daughter died in 1981).

 

Death Wish 3 (1985)

As seen at the end of Death Wish II (in which three shots are heard over the end of the closing credits), Kersey resumed his mugger slayings even after slaying the final member of the gang that kidnapped and murdered his daughter. Richard Shriker of the NYPD kept tabs on Kersey's activities or at least activities he suspected Kersey had a hand in. Namely, Shriker recalled reading of six mugger slayings in thirty-six hours in L.A., four gang members slain in Kansas City (Shriker does not specify whether this was in Missouri or Kansas), and two mugger-rapists in Chicago. Shriker and Kersey's paths intersect again, as Shriker puts it "ten years" after Shriker's found out Kersey was the New York vigilante (therefore present day). Paul Kersey returns to New York to visit his friend Charley, who lives in one of the worst parts of New York City. But when Paul arrives at Charley's apartment, he finds Charley dying after a vicious beating by a gang led by Manny Fraker, and the police enter the apartment and find Paul standing over Charley's body. Paul is arrested for the murder, but police chief Richard S. Shriker offers a deal: Paul can kill all the criminals he wants if he keeps the cops informed about the death count. Though Kersey says that he stopped his mugger slayings, Shriker releases Paul to go after Fraker. Paul moves into Charley's apartment in a decaying building in the middle of a bombed out gang war zone. The building is populated by a group of elderly tenants who are absolutely terrified of Fraker and his gang, who control the neighborhood. Among the tenants are Charley's friend Bennett, an old watch repairman who keeps a couple of machine guns in his closet. There is also an elderly Jewish couple who live on the first floor. Paul buys a .475 Wildey Magnum pistol with big-game cartridges, spends an afternoon hand loading the bullets, and loads up for war against Fraker.

 

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)

Evidently, Kersey had largely retired from slaying muggers shortly after Death Wish III, since in Death Wish 4, Phil Nozaki mentions a mugger shot downtown two years previous to the events of Death Wish 4, to which Officer Reiner responds by saying that "the vigilante retired years ago". In any event, Kersey kept regular residence in L.A., regardless of his breaking off his mugger slayings. Paul Kersey is back in Los Angeles, and is dating reporter Karen Sheldon, who has a teenage daughter named Erica. While Erica is at an arcade with her boyfriend Randy Viscovich, Erica dies of a crack cocaine overdose. Later, Randy goes back to the arcade, with Kersey following him. Randy confronts JoJo, the dealer that Erica got the crack from. Randy tells JoJo that he's going to the police, but Jojo kills him to keep him quiet. Kersey shows up and shoots JoJo with a .380 Walther PPK pistol, and watches him land on the electrical roof of the bumper-car ride, where he is electrocuted. Next, Paul gets a note and a phone call from publisher Nathan White, who tells him that he knows about the death of JoJo. Nathan explains to Kersey that his daughter had died of an overdose, so he wants to hire Kersey to wipe out the drug trade in L.A. -- and in particular to target Ed Zacharias and Jack Romero, rival drug kingpins who are the city's two main drug suppliers. Kersey asks for a few days to think about it, and accepts Nathan's offer. Nathan supplies Kersey with weapons and information so he can go after Zacharias and Romero. Kersey is able to orchestrate an inter-gang war between the Zacharias and Romero crime organizations. After most of the two warring factions are killed, Kersey meets again with Nathan White, but is almost killed. After escaping, Kersey realizes that White is not who he claims to be, and is actually a drug kingpin himself, who has tricked Kersey into removing his competition. Kersey's girlfriend (Karen) is subsequently taken captive and ultimately murdered. Immediately after Karen is murdered, Kersey is able to kill the last remaining drug kingpin. A LAPD detective is able to approach Kersey after his last killing. With his gun drawn and his sights on Kersey, the detective demands that Kersey surrender. Kersey walks off, stating "Do what you have to."

Trespass and be damned !.

 

Danger of being fried down on the industrial estate.

 

LR3183

Padangbai - Bali, Indonesia

is not to be used lightly.

Come on in, the water's fine.

Posted for HFF - :)) Some say these prevent anglers getting electrocuted - but have also heard that the electric cables are in the Swans flight path and to prevent them flying into them!!

1. Im a pretty smart cookie. IQ is 132

 

2. I have weighed 125lbs since i was 12.. im now 26

 

3. I have a super desire for fame and fortune. I went to modeling school when I was 13 and have been an extra in many movies, the biz has a tight grasp on my heart.

 

4. I was selected as a semifinalist for Maxim magazines Hometown Hotties Competion www.maxim.com/hotties/profile.aspx?id=2745&gIndex=55&...

 

5. My Father and brother are both amputees. My father was electrocuted 37 years ago and lost both his arms. My brother lost his leg @ 18 on valentines day to cancer. they are pillars of stregnth in my life, and i admire thier spunk :P

 

6. my brother is quite possibly the funniest person i have ever met in my life. He is an amazing story teller.

 

7. I hated school in every sense of the word.

 

8. i can sing mostly well, did chorus and musical theater in school, even got a few solos

 

9. i did a play my sophomore year if highschool.. it was called "come blow your horn" Strange, i know... It was a strange play. i was the sassy sexy bimbo with no memory who put the moves on a movie producer to get a part.. I had to kiss a super geeky guy who then fell in love with me, stalker style. it was less than enjoyable.

 

10. I am a relaity tv junkie. the crazier the people behave... the more I seem to enjoy it. Rock of love hits the spot good :) But new show.. Rock of love bus, might take the cake after what went on in the first episode...

 

11. I have for years contemplated a career as a PI. i love to know other peoples secrets. id love to bust those cheating spouses for a living.. haha

 

12. i have had the same 2 best friends my whole life.

 

13.I got drunk for the first time when i was 16. it was at a company party in NY. all the tables had a bottle of champigne(sp??) on them and one of the people at my table told me I couldnt keep up with him in a chug contest. I hd never had any alcoholbefore. I drank 3/4 the bottle while he only drank 1/2. I then proceded to dance suggestively with the owners of the company ( 3 guys) there were several pictures taken... but none of them came out when developed..../me wipes brow... and no.. i didnt even get sick

 

14. i spent my summers lakeside for 11 years at the Birches Campground. Me and the fam. would close up our house from memorial day to laborday and live in our camper at the campground.. it was the best summers of my life. i met so many people and made so many friends and had so many experiances. i hope to provide a simmilar opportunity to my children someday

 

15. i had one serious relationship prior to meeting my husband.

 

16. i have a serious addiction to redbull. The tangy sweet flavor tickles my fancy like nothing else. /me cries a little cause i cant drink it anymore.. :)

 

and thats it i suppose... and that was hard as hell.. Thanks for tagging me Azu :)

 

i tag stephy and vaness :P love u girls :)

electric door from an sbc truck that i found laying in the street.

 

fusion project 2005;

 

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Taken with a ringflash Canon

Camera:Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III

Exposure:0.005 sec (1/200)

Aperture:f/7.1

Focal Length:25 mm

Exposure:+0.12

ISO Speed:100

Exposure Bias:-2/3 EV

Flash:On, Fired

 

As Angola didn' t want to deliver me a visa, i've been in Kenya. Well , it's a good suprise to be honest! I've done the most touristic places with lots of lions, elephants etc.. and the most remoted areas in the north where you can meet some really nice tribes, not only Masais!!

On this first post, the Turkana girls playing with my wideangle and my ring flash! The place where they live is really remoted, not touristic at all (in the "best" hotel of the area, i was electrocuted.!), and looks like the moon , or Goubet in Djibouti, as i imagine more people have been in Djibouti!

The "road" to meet them is a shame, compared to the south Kenya with is really well developed. The road consists in rocks, dust, sand...a real hell on earth!

Peter Beard made a lot of pictures in this area.

 

The Turkana inhabit the arid territories of northern Kenya, on the boundary with Sudan.

Nilotic-speaking people, they have for a long time stayed outside of the influence of the main foreign trends. Nomad shepherds adapted to a almost totally desert area, some also fish in the Turkana lake. They are divided in 28 clans. Each one of them is associated with a particular brand for its livestock, so that any Turkana can identify a relative in this way.

The majority of the Turkana still follow their traditional religion: they believe in a God called Kuj or Akuj, associated with the sky and creator of all things. He is thought to be omnipotent but rarely intervenes in the lives of people. Contact between God and the people is made though a diviner (emeron). Diviners have the power to interpret dreams, foresee the future, heal, and make rain. However, the Turkana doubt about those who say they have powers, but fail to prove it in the everyday life. Estimates are that about 15% of the Turkana are Christian. Evangelism has started among the Turkana since the 1970s. Various churches have had work for some decades and church buildings have been built. The most astonishing element one can notice in the villages, is that the only permanent structures are churches, with huts all around. Infact, in the late 1970s, feeding projects as well as literacy courses and other services have been provided by Baptist workers. This easily explains the importance acquired by the Church.

They don't have any physical initiations. They have only the asapan ceremony, transition from youth to adulthood, that all men must perform before marriage.Turkana marriage is polygynous. Homestead consists of a man, his wives and children, and often his mother and other dependent women. Each wife and her children build a sitting hut for daytime and, in the rainy season, a sleeping hut for nighttime. When a new wife comes, she stays at the hut of the mother or first wife until she has her first child. The high bride-wealth payment (30 to 50 cattle, 30 to 50 camels and 100 to 200 small stock) often means that a man cannot marry until he has inherited livestock from his dead father. It also implies that he collect livestock from relatives and friends, which strengthens social ties through the transfer of livestock. Resolution is found to conflicts through discussions between the men living in proximity to one another. Men of influence are particularly listened, and decisions are enforced by the younger men of the area. Each man belongs to alternating generation sets. If a man is a Leopard, his son will be a Stone, so that there are approximately equal numbers of each category. These groups are formed when there is a need to make large groups rapidly. The Turkana make finely crafted carved wooden implements used in daily life. During the rainy season, moonlight nights' songs have a particular place in the Turkana's life. They often refer to their cattle or land, but they are sometimes improvised and related to immediate events. The Turkana have a deep knowledge of plants and products they use as medicine. That is why the fat-tailed sheep is often called "the hospital for the Turkana".

  

Les Turkanas habitent les territoires arides du nord du Kenya, à la frontière avec le Soudan.Peuple de langue nilotique, ils sont pendant longtemps restés hors de l’influence des principaux courants étrangers. Pasteurs nomades adaptés à une zone presque totalement déserte, certains pêchent également dans le lac Turkana. Ils sont divisés en 28 clans. Chacun d’entre eux est associé à une marque particulière donné à son bétail, de telle façon que tout Turkana peut identifier un parent de cette manière.La majorité des Turkana suit encore leur religion traditionnelle : ils croient en un Dieu appelé Kuj ou Akuj, associé au ciel et créateur de toute chose. Les Turkana le voient comme omnipotent mais intervenant rarement dans la vie des gens. Le contact entre Dieu et les hommes se fait par l’intermédiaire d’un divin (emeron). Les devins ont le pouvoir d’interpréter les rêves, prédire l’avenir, soigner et faire pleuvoir. Toutefois, les Turkana doutent de ceux qui disent qu’ils ont des pouvoirs, mais échouent à le prouver dans la vie de tous les jours. Selon des estimations, environ 15% des Turkana sont chrétiens. L’évangélisme a commencé chez les Turkana depuis les années 1970. Diverses églises ont depuis été construites. L’élément le plus étonnbant que l’on peut noter dans les villages est que les seules structures en dur sont les églises, avec des huttes tout autour. En fait, à la fin des années 1970, des projets alimentaires ainsi que des cours d’alphabétisation et d’autres services ont été menés par des travailleurs baptistes. Cela explique facilement l’importance acquise par l’Eglise.Les Turkana n’ont aucune initiation physique. Ils ont seulement la cérémonie asapan, transition de la jeunesse à l’âge adulte, que chaque homme doit suivre avant le mariage. Les Turkana sont polygames. La propriété familiale est composée d’un homme, ses femmes et enfants, et souvent sa mère. Quand une nouvelle femme arrive, elle loge dans la hutte de la mère ou de la première femme jusqu’à ce qu’elle ait son premier enfant. Le paiement élevé pour la mariée (30 à 50 têtes de gros bétail, 30 à 50 dromadaires, et 100 à 200 têtes de petit bétail) signifie souvent qu’un homme ne peut se permettre de se marier jusqu’à ce qu’il ait hérité le bétail de son père décédé. Cela implique également qu’il collecte le bétail requis de parents et amis, ce qui renforce les liens sociaux entre eux. La résolution des conflits se fait par la discussion entre les hommes vivant à proximité.Les hommes d’influence sont particulièrement écoutés, et les décisions sont mises en application par les hommes plus jeunes de la zone. Chaque homme appartient à une classe d’âge spécifique. Si un homme est un Léopard, son fils deviendra une Pierre, de telle façon qu’il y a approximativement un même nombre de chaque catégorie. Les Turkana font des outils en bois finement taillés, utilisés dans la vie de tous les jours. Durant la saison des pluies, les chansons des nuits de pleine lune ont une place particulière dans la vie des Turkana. Elles font souvent référence à leur bétail et terres, mais sont parfois improvisées ou liées à des événements immédiats. Les Turkana ont une connaissance intime des plantes et des produits qu’ils utilisent comme médicaments. La queue grasse des moutons est souvent appelée « l’hôpital pour les Turkana ».

 

© Eric Lafforgue

www.ericlafforgue.com

    

Last night at the Barefoot BBQ, everyone stopped eating for 3 minutes (the only time we've stopped eating, sadly), to watch this guy who rocked up on the beach. It was really amazing... never seen anything like this at night. He did flips and, well, everything was basically a real crowd pleaser. I was worried if he fell in the water he'd be electrocuted.

 

I shot this with the 50mm F/0.95 lens. I was lucky to have it on because it was really dark out there. That strange lens flare you see seems to be a "thing" with this particular lens, but I think it looks cool!

 

#caymancookout #rcmemories #caymanislands #grandcayman #grandcaymanisland

Robe OOAK handmade de la nouvelle collection pour pullip de ma marque Electrocute. Le set comprend une robe et un bloomer assorti.

SOLD OUT

 

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Merci ^^

The Eurasian Eagle Owl or sometimes European Eagle Owl (Bubo bubo) is one of the largest owls in the world. This species has an extremely large range, one of the largest ranges of any eagle-owl, being found across much of Europe, through the Middle East, India, Russia and Asia, and as far east as China, Korea and Japan, as well as on the north of the African continent.

Eagle Owls occupy a variety of habitats, from coniferous forests to warm deserts. Rocky landscapes are often favoured.

The Eurasian eagle-owl is an impressive and majestic bird, with distinctive prominent ear-tufts, a barrel-shaped body, and vivid orange eyes. The plumage is brown-black , paler on the underparts, and heavily mottled and streaked with black. The bird has a wingspan of up to 138-200 cm and measures 58-75 cm long. Females weigh 1.75-4.2 kg and males weigh 1.5-3.2 kg.

The call of the Eagle Owl is a deep monotonous "oohu-oohu-oohu". The female's call is slightly higher than the male's. In Germany, the name of this bird is "Uhu", in the Netherlands “Oehoe”.

Eagle Owls have various hunting techniques, and will take prey on the ground or in full flight. Usually most active at dawn and dusk. They may hunt in forests, but prefer open spaces.

The eagle owl mainly feeds on small mammals in the 0.2-2.5 kg weight range, such as voles, rats, mice, rabbits, hares and fish, but birds of all kinds are also taken.

Eurasian Eagle Owls may live more than 60 years in captivity. In the wild, about 20 years may be the maximum. The leading causes of death for this species are man-made: electrocution, traffic accidents and shooting sometimes claim the eagle owl.

This picture of Svenja, the euarasian eagle owl, was taken during a raptor show in the butterfly house "Vlindervallei", part of the Orchideeënhoeve (Orchid Farm) in Luttelgeest, Netherlands.

 

De oehoe (Bubo bubo) is een van de grootste uilensoorten ter wereld. De naam van de vogel heeft deze te danken aan zijn roepgeluid. De roep van de Oehoe is een diepe monotone "oohu-oohu-oohu". Vooral in de late winter laat het mannetje zijn imposante "Oehoe"-roep horen.

De oehoe heeft een enorm groot verspreidingsgebied en wordt aangetroffen in grote del van Europa, bijna geheel Azië, en verder in het uiterste noorden van het Afrikaanse continent, waar de oehoe overgaat in Afrikaanse soorten.

In Nederland broeden oehoes in het wild in Limburg en de Achterhoek; in België in de Ardennen.

De oehoe is door zijn grootte, zijn massieve lichaam en dikke kop met geen andere uilensoort in Europa te verwarren.

Kenmerkend aan het gezicht van de oehoe zijn de grote ogen en de vaak lange oorpluimen. De oorpluimen zijn overwegend zwart van kleur en worden gevormd door een groepje veren die door een aparte spier op het hoofd worden bewogen. De ogen zijn fel oranje. De snavel is zwart en ligt verzonken in een keelplooi.

Het verenkleed is overwegend geel-bruin van kleur met zwarte accenten. De zwarte accenten treden op de rug en de bovenzijde van de vleugels het meest naar voren. Op de borst is het verenkleed kenmerkend okergeel gekleurd.

De vogel heeft een vleugelspanwijdte van maximaal 138 tot 200 cm en is 60 à 70 cm hoog. Vrouwtjes wegen 1,75 à 4,2 kg en mannetjes wegen 1,5 à 3,2 kg.

Oehoes hebben verschillende jachttechnieken, en zal jagen vanaf gedekte uitkijkplaatsen, op de grond of in volle vlucht. Meestal is de vogel actief bij zonsopgang en zonsondergang. Oehoes voeden zich met kleine zoogdieren van 0,2 à 2,5 kg, zoals veldmuizen, ratten, muizen, konijnen en hazen maar ook vissen en vogels die ze in volle vlucht of op hun slaapplaatsen overvallen.

Oehoes kunnen in gevangenschap meer dan 60 jaar leven. In het wild is circa 20 jaar het maximum.

Deze opname van oehoe Svenja is gemaakt tijdens een roofvogelshow in de overdekte vlindertuin, de 'Vlindervallei', deel van de Orchideeenhoeve in Luttelgeest (Flevoland).

De roofvogelshow werd verzorgd door valkerij de Valkenhof uit Aalten (Gld).

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Astro-landscape image of the Lagoon and Trifid Nebula over Steens Mountain in SE Oregon. It was meant to be a Deepscape, but life happens..

 

I didn't think this image was going to come together. The clouds were supposed to dissipate by 8:30pm and then clear skies for the rest of the night so I could collect lots of data on the nebula to make them really stand out. That is NOT what happened.

 

Not only did the clouds not clear at 8:30pm, but a thunderstorm rolled through to the west. My lightening app showed lightning and rain heading my way, so I covered up my tracker and camera and ducked into the car. Put "Ridin the Storm Out" on the radio and cranked it up. As it turned out, the storm skirted past me to the west and I neither got wet nor electrocuted. The clouds never fully dissipated, but I got enough images of Lagoon and Trifid peaking through to make an image.

 

Sony A7IV, Sony 70-200mm f/2.8 at 200mm. ZWO AM3 Tracker. Bortle 1 skies

Alter Ego: Mrs. Sting

Name: Jolie Francis

Allegiance: Villain

Powers:

* Can generate electricity and fire it from her fingertips, when she is also struck she passes on an electrical current which means if you punch her you get electrocuted.

* Can morph two large tentacles from her shoulders and use them to blast high volts of electricity

* Advanced regeneration of limbs

Weapons:

* Two of her large tentacles which can incapacitate the strongest of foes.

Key Weakness: She is not bullet proof, her limbs can only regenerate not her organs. This is why she wears a bullet proof glass helmet to stop headshots.

 

Origin:

Jolie is a unique Metahuman with rare abilities, she is a huge environmentalists that goes to extreme measures to protect wildlife. Jolie once used her abilities to destroy one of T.O.X.I.N's facilities (the first ever time it's happened!) when she stumbled onto their location and discovered their water pollution of waste. This of course made her widely hated by the villain community and loved amongst the hero one, but because she is such a threat that seems to be an extreme environmental terrorist they attempted to apprehend her only for the heroes to be swiftly put down. Jolie now works alongside some C-Lister villains in a small team that works for various employers for money, as long as it's healthy for the environment. For some reason she is branded a C-Lister even though she's extremely powerful and could take down then strongest of heroes with one zap of her tentacle, maybe it's the skin tight orange body suit?

The Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus) is the largest member of the pelican family, and perhaps the world's largest freshwater bird, although rivaled in weight and length by the largest swans. They are elegant soaring birds, with wingspans that rival that of the great albatrosses, and their flocks fly in graceful synchrony. With a range spanning across much of Central Eurasia, from the Mediterranean in the West to the Taiwan Strait in the East, and from the Persian Gulf in the South to Siberia in the North, it is a short-to-medium-distance migrant between breeding and overwintering areas. No subspecies are known to exist over its wide range, but based on size differences, a Pleistocene paleosubspecies, P. c. palaeocrispus, has been described from fossils recovered at Binagady, Azerbaijan.

 

As with other pelicans, the males are larger than the females, and likewise their diet is mainly fish. Their curly nape feathers, grey legs and silvery-white plumage are distinguishing features, and the wings appear solid grey in flight. The adults acquire a drabber plumage in winter, however, when they may be mistaken for great white pelicans. Their harsh vocalizations become more pronounced during the mating season. They breed across the Palearctic from southeastern Europe to Russia, India and China in swamps and shallow lakes. They usually return to traditional breeding sites, where they are less social than other pelican species. Their nests are crude heaps of vegetation, which are placed on islands or on dense mats of vegetation.

 

The species' numbers underwent a dramatic decline during the 20th century, partly due to land use, disturbance and poaching activities. The core population survives in Russia, but in its Mongolian range it is critically endangered. Removal of power lines to prevent collisions or electrocution, and the construction of nesting platforms or rafts have reversed declines locally.

 

This huge bird is by a slight margin the largest of the pelican species and one of the largest living flying bird species. It measures 160 to 183 cm (5 ft 3 in to 6 ft 0 in) in length, 7.25–15 kg (16.0–33.1 lb) in weight and 245 to 351 cm (8 ft 0 in to 11 ft 6 in) in wingspan. Its median weight is around 11.5 kg (25 lb), which makes it perhaps the world's heaviest flying bird species, although the largest individuals among male bustards and swans may be heavier than the largest individual Dalmatian pelican. More recently, six male Dalmatians were found to average 10.4 kg (23 lb) and four females 8.7 kg (19 lb), around the same average weight as the great white pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus) and slightly lighter than mean body masses from other huge birds such as the trumpeter swan (Cygnus buccinator) or Andean condor (Vultur gryphus). A mean estimated body mass for the Dalmatian pelican of 10.9 kg (24 lb) was also published, around the same mass as the aforementioned largest swan and condor. It is either the heaviest or one of the heaviest birds native to Europe, its closest rival in mass being mute swans (Cygnus olor), which weighs on average around 10.1 kg (22 lb), followed closely by the cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus) (whose average weight is not known) and the whooper swans (Cygnus cygnus), averaging at just shy of 9.5 kg (21 lb), and the great white pelican. These same five species are probably rank as the largest flying birds in Asia as well, alongside the Himalayan vulture (Gyps himalayensis). It also appears to have one of the largest wingspans of any living bird, rivaling those of the great albatrosses (Diomedea ssp., in particular the two largest species, the wandering albatross and southern royal albatross) and the great white pelican. These four species are the only modern birds with verified wingspans that range over 350 cm (11 ft 6 in).

 

This pelican usually migrates short distances with varying migration patterns during the year. It is dispersive in Europe, based on feeding opportunities, with most western birds staying through the winter in the Mediterranean region.

 

For more information, please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalmatian_pelican

 

Still unearthing interesting shots from my May trip to southern Texas. I photographed this Harris's Hawk at Santa Clara Ranch near Mission Texas.

 

An interesting fact about this species is that they will sometimes help each other. According to the Cornell Lab, electrocution from unshielded power poles is a danger to Harris’s Hawks—they can be killed or lose limbs—but other members of the group sometimes come to the aid of injured individuals, providing them with food.

The lesson of this shot is patience and to never underestimate the kindness of a stranger. I decided to go up to Mt. Rainier on saturday as the forecast was calling for evening thunderstorms which in this case was going to make for the most epic shot ever or get me electrocuted... a coin toss really. I headed up early to check on the wild flowers which are actually pretty decent but the clouds were in and the light was dead flat, not the greatest conditions really, but I figured it would burn off. After hiking around in the early afternoon, the upper half of the mountain became socked in with clouds.. not good I thought, so I drove up to Tipsoo lake and scouted it out, which didn't take long because it is TINY. So now I have a decision to make, it is a quarter of five and the sun doesn't set untill just after eight so I got 3 1/2 hrs to wait and the conditions are getting worse, no dramatic thunderheads, just flat gray. I am sitting in the truck arguing in my mind back in forth... go home, no just stick it out... so I continued to wait. After about 2hrs I give up, and I take all my hiking stuff off and put on my flipflops, put the key in the ignition when I notice a little bit of light leaking through the clouds and I could just make out the silhouette of Rainier's summit Hmmmm. The clouds were starting to break up so I start gathering up my stuff and running back to the lake to get what may be the only decent light of the day. The sky was opening and not 20 min later a fellow photographer Alan Howe and his wife showed up and the light just got better and better. The mosquitos were terrible... Alan had some bug dope with him, saved my ass. The sun broke out for this shot, and my wide angle lenses suffer from horrible flare, Alan says hey no problem he had a 2 stop Singh-Ray grad that eliminates lens flare... what? Thanks to Alan, a super landscape photographer in Oregon and a little patience when the odds seemed horrible I was able to make this shot. Thanks again Alan it was nice to share the evening with you and your wife and please check out his work he does some phenomenal landscapes here :

 

www.flickr.com/photos/57963504@N07/

 

Sorry for the long story... and BTW there was a pretty good sunset on this evening as well stay tuned. As always I appreciate you taking the time to stop by and visit my work it is much appreciated and have a great week ahead.

 

Jennifer Walters is a lawyer who, after an injury, received an emergency blood transfusion from her cousin, Bruce Banner, and acquired a milder version of his Hulk condition. As such, Walters becomes a large, powerful, green-hued version of herself. Unlike Banner she largely retains her personality, in particular the majority of her intelligence and emotional control. Like Hulk, she is still susceptible to outbursts of anger and becomes much stronger when enraged.

 

She-Hulk has been a member of the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, Heroes for Hire, the Defenders, Fantastic Force and S.H.I.E.L.D. As a highly skilled lawyer who became a superhero by accident, she frequently leverages her legal and personal experience to serve as legal counsel to various superheroes and other metahumans. She-Hulk has been described as one of Marvel's most notable and powerful female heroes.

 

Jennifer Walters, the cousin of Bruce Banner (Hulk), is the small and somewhat shy daughter of Los Angeles County Sheriff William Morris Walters and Elaine (née Banner) Walters (who died in a car crash when Jennifer was 17).

 

Operatives of Nicholas Trask, a crime boss who had crossed paths with her father, shot and seriously wounded her on the day that Banner visited her to tell her about his transformation into the Hulk.

 

Since no other donors with her blood type were available, Banner provided his blood for a transfusion; as they already shared the same blood type and DNA, his gamma-irradiated blood, combined with her anger, transformed Jennifer into the green-skinned She-Hulk when the mobsters tried to finish her off at the hospital.

 

She then used her new powers to take down Trask, who was killed when the earth-boring device he rode malfunctioned, taking him to the center of the Earth.

 

As She-Hulk, Jennifer possessed powers similar to those of her cousin, though at a reduced level. She also possessed a less monstrous, more Amazonian appearance. Initially, anger triggered the transformation to her She-Hulk form (as with Bruce Banner's).

 

Like her cousin Bruce, his counterpart, the Leader, Doc Samson and most other persons mutated by exposure to gamma radiation over the years, her mutated form was originally explained as being molded by her subconscious desire to look like the ideal woman.

 

She eventually gains control of her transformations when Michael Morbius cures her of a lethal blood disease. As a criminal defense lawyer, she defended Morbius in his trial for his vampiric killings and managed to reduce the conviction to involuntary manslaughter, considering his medical condition.

 

Eventually, Jennifer decides that she will retain her She-Hulk form permanently—preferring the freedom, confidence, and assertiveness it gave her compared to her more timorous and fragile "normal" form. After her brief solo career, she joined the Avengers.

 

This led to her being transported to Battleworld by the Beyonder and her participation in the Secret Wars is most notable for sparking her long-standing rivalry with the newly empowered Titania.

 

After the heroes returned to Earth, she temporarily replaced the Thing (who, having been repeatedly de-powered during the event, opted to stay in Battleworld for some time as a form of soul-searching) as a member of the Fantastic Four.

 

During her tenure with the Fantastic Four, She-Hulk met and started a romance with Wyatt Wingfoot. One day, she had to prevent a radiation leak in a downed S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier. This radiation exposure drastically affected Jennifer: she could no longer transform back into her original human form. However, this was an agreeable turn of events for her, since she preferred being She-Hulk, and it was revealed much later by Leonard Samson and Reed Richards that the block was purely psychological.

 

Shortly after that, she appeared before the Supreme Court, where she battled Titania again.

 

After her Fantastic Four years, She-Hulk rejoined the Avengers for a while. She became hypnotized by the Ringmaster into becoming a performer in the Circus of Crime, and battled the Headmen.

 

With Spider-Man, she defeated the Headmen and became an assistant District Attorney and began working for New York City district attorney Blake Tower. Here she met Louise "Weezie" Grant Mason, formerly the Golden Age superheroine the Blonde Phantom. She had a long series of unusual encounters, including when she battled Doctor Bong, first contended against Xemnu the Living Titan, encountered "Nick St. Christopher", and encountered "Spragg the Living Hill/Comet".

 

Jennifer underwent another change, transforming into a grey version of She-Hulk that appeared at night only and shared a lot in common with the Hulk, such as having a childlike mind, speaking in the third person and divorcing from her Jennifer Walters identity, referring to Jennifer as "puny Jennifer", She-Hulk quickly returned to "normal", with her green coloration returning.

 

She-Hulk later discovered that Louise Mason had manipulated Tower into hiring her, so that Mason might again perform as a super-heroine (and thus avoid dying of old age). Later, while doing legal work for Heroes for Hire, She-Hulk spent some time dating Luke Cage.

 

After a time, She-Hulk returns to the Avengers. Repeated exposure to the presence of her teammate Jack of Hearts, who has the innate ability to absorb radiation that is around him, leads to She-Hulk being unable to control her changes, which resulted in her tearing the Vision in half.

 

It is then revealed that all of the events were caused by the Scarlet Witch. Now, when she is afraid, she not only turns into She-Hulk but her mind becomes maddened by paranoia and rage. Jennifer flees, fearing that she will endanger her friends and others, leading to the "Search for She-Hulk".

 

The other Avengers track her to the town of Bone, Idaho, where Jennifer is lying low but the anxiety of being found prompts her to change, causing her to damage much of the town. Her cousin shows up but fails to reason with her; he "Hulks out" and the two fight—the devastation to the town subsequently being blamed on the Hulk.

 

Psychological limitations inhibit her transformation between her two forms. For a time, Jennifer works as a relief volunteer helping to repair Bone. She gains confidence after solving a murder mystery, reveals her green alter-ego to the entire town, and then uses her strength to make many more repairs. This, combined with Leonard Samson's new 'gamma-charger', gives her full control over her transformations for, as she said, 'the time being'.

 

She-Hulk registered under the Superhuman Registration Act, and is a supporter of Tony Stark (Iron Man). However, as an attorney, she advised individuals on both sides of the Civil War.

 

She agreed to file suit against Peter Parker for fraud on behalf of her father-in-law, Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson. Her intention is to keep the suit tied up in the courts indefinitely. She is also the lawyer for Speedball.

 

Then Clay Quartermain of S.H.I.E.L.D. informs Jennifer that she has been drafted into the organization as a result of her registration. Her mission is to fight various foes of the Hulk while training heroes under the Initiative. She serves with the Hulkbusters: Clay Quartermain, Agent Crimson, Agent Cheesecake and Agent Beefcake.

 

Due to her involvement in S.H.I.E.L.D., She-Hulk derives a bit of information suggesting that the organization knows of her cousin's whereabouts. Anticipating a problem, Tony Stark has She-Hulk secretly injected with S.P.I.N. Tech that transforms her to human form. Enraged, she tells Stark that, although he may have taken She-Hulk out of the equation, he still has to face Jennifer Walters, one of the best lawyers in the country. Jennifer informs Stark that he's miscalculated: She-Hulk would have just pummeled him, but Jennifer Walters has the ability to destroy him.

 

On her way home, Jennifer runs into Amadeus Cho, a young genius out looking for friends of the Hulk. Cho, whom the Hulk once saved, discovered what the Illuminati had done to the Hulk, and he wants help in finding him. Cho temporarily restores Jennifer's powers so that she can take out Doc Samson, who came to apprehend Cho for Reed Richards and Tony Stark. Cho says he can permanently restore Jennifer's powers if she will join him, but she politely refuses, instead directing him to Hercules and Angel.

 

During the "World War Hulk" event, a re-powered She-Hulk assists in the evacuation of Manhattan. She tries to reason with her cousin, who has just destroyed Stark Tower during his battle with Iron Man. The Hulk warns her to leave, but she stands her ground. After she lands a punch squarely to his face, the Hulk smashes her into the ground, creating a crater around her body. As he moves on to his next confrontation, all Jennifer can say is: "God help us all."

 

Jennifer is held captive with the other defeated heroes at Madison Square Garden, which the Hulk has converted into a gladiatorial arena. The heroes have been implanted with the same obedience discs that compelled the Hulk and his allies to fight one another during their time on the planet Sakaar.

 

Jennifer returns to the law firm to work on suing Tony Stark for stealing her powers. She is subpoenaed to give a testimony in a case in which Mallory Book is trying to prove that the Leader's criminal acts are the result of a shift of personality induced by his mutation, and an addiction to his gamma irradiated powers, and that he thus cannot be held accountable for his actions.

 

During her testimony, Jennifer realizes that she herself is "addicted" to being She-Hulk. After the testimony, Pug appears and the two spend an evening together as friends, which cheers her up. She confronts Mallory the next day and tells her that she will put a stop to her Leader case. However, it is revealed that the Leader has been acquitted of his crimes.

 

At some point after World War Hulk, Jennifer was brought before the Living Tribunal, and asked to weigh her universe against a newer, better "cosmic trophy wife" version, described by Walters as "an ultimate universe." Her universe wins, and she resigns from the Magistrati.

 

After the Leader's trial, Artie Zix reveals himself as RT-Z9 and holds the main staff of GLK&H hostage while asking them questions at the behest of a group of aliens from a corner of the galaxy recently discovered by the Watcher Qyre. The aliens, called the Recluses, wish to keep their existence a secret.

 

She-Hulk earlier decreed that Qyre not reveal knowledge of the Recluses' existence at the meetings of the Watchers.

 

This had serious repercussions: it is revealed that an evil being has conquered that portion of the galaxy, and is preparing an assault on all of creation. Qyre, who holds knowledge of the plan, is unable to speak of it to anyone else. At She-Hulk's time trial, it was revealed that her actions made a destructive event called the Reckoning War possible. However, comments made by the future Southpaw, divulge that the war, though a terrible and dark time, will be favorably resolved.

 

A permanently de-powered Jennifer Walters finds that tourists from an alternate universe – designated the Alpha universe – are crossing into her universe – which they call Beta – to gain access to superpowers and comes face to face with her own powered-up doppelganger.

 

Her anger quickly turns to sorrow as she realizes that without her abilities, the Alpha Jennifer Walters – while unfamiliar with superhuman law – is far better suited to life in the Beta universe. Realizing this, she decides that she will go to the Alpha universe and let the other Jennifer Walters take over for her.

 

As she steps through the portal, Reed Richards realizes he can use the previously stored configuration of the Alpha She-Hulk to restore Jennifer's powers by purging the nanites from her body and setting the teleporter to loop her back to this reality.

 

Having regained her abilities, Jennifer remains in her home reality, while the Alpha Jen Walters returns to her own universe and reconciles with her boyfriend, the Alpha Augustus "Pug" Pugliese.

 

At an unspecified time after World War Hulk, She-Hulk assists Tony Stark with Emil Blonsky's murder investigation.

 

While in Stark's Helicarrier, she is attacked and beaten by the Red Hulk who states to her that he's not Bruce. She-Hulk vows to get even for the deliberate humiliation.

 

She later helps to prevent casualties in San Francisco after the Red Hulk caused an earthquake in the area, and assembles Thundra and the Valkyrie together to capture him.

 

Some months after regaining her abilities, Jennifer was tasked to defend an accused killer named Arthur Moore. While she was successful in defending him, immediately after his freedom was secured he claimed to be guilty and showed her images of the crimes he had been accused of.

 

Jennifer's horror at what she was being shown, combined with Moore's gloating, was enough to push her rage so far that she became the savage She-Hulk once again. She attacked him and threatened to kill him if he was not given the death penalty. She also told everybody within earshot that he was guilty and backed up her accusation by revealing privileged information.

 

This resulted in her being disbarred. Jennifer later found out that Moore really was innocent; the images he had shown her had been false. It was also revealed, albeit not to Jennifer, that Moore had hoped to get her to react exactly the way she did since his employers wanted She-Hulk disbarred for purposes as yet unknown.

 

Unable to practice law any more, Jennifer began working for Freeman Bonds Inc. – a subsidiary of GLK&B – as a bounty hunter with her Skrull partner Jazinda.

 

She was later recruited by Stark as a member of an Initiative-sponsored incarnation of the Defenders for a short while until Tony Stark disbanded the team.

Afterwards, she continued to aid team leader Nighthawk for a brief time until she was fully able to join the team on Nighthawk's request and that it would be away from the Initiative.

 

Together they have several adventures, even encountering Hercules, but they soon ended up involved in the midst of the Secret Invasion.

 

During the Skrull takeover of Earth during Secret Invasion, She-Hulk and Jazinda hunt down a member of the Skrulls who functions as their religious leader.

 

X-Factor initially impedes her progress, but they part ways on uncertain terms. She-Hulk and Jazinda capture the Skrull and the two heroines take the Skrull to New York, where they encounter the Super-Skrull, Kl'rt.

 

Kl'rt came to kill his daughter, Jazinda, going so far as to shoot her in the head. Due to her regenerative properties, Jazinda was still not fully dead. The Skrull religious leader wants to completely remove her regenerative ability, but Kl'rt stops him after She-Hulk pleads to his fatherly nature, tapping into his guilt for not being able to save his son who had died in a previous war.

 

Some time after the Skrull invasion is defeated, the country of Marinmer suffers a devastating earthquake.

 

Because the victims of the earthquake are members of a minority religious group, the Marinmer government has confiscated all humanitarian aid packages, and because of Marinmer's strong ties to powerful countries such as Russia and China, other nations refuse to intervene for fear of sparking a war.

 

She-Hulk and several members of the Lady Liberators secretly enter Marinmer, intending to steal the confiscated aid packages and distribute them to the earthquake victims.

 

The Winter Guard attempts to stop them, but gives up after seeing the plight of the earthquake victims.

 

Afterwards, the US government attempts to arrest She-Hulk for her actions in Marinmer, but drops the charges to avoid political embarrassment. With public opinion overwhelmingly in her favor, She-Hulk seems poised to get her legal license back when Jazinda is captured by the Behemoth after he mistakenly attacks her, thinking she is the real She-Hulk.

 

Jazinda is then taken to a government lab and brutally experimented on when her ability to resurrect herself from the dead is discovered. Jazinda contacts She-Hulk telepathically through a secretly implanted mind reading device and warns her that the government will be coming to question her about their relationship.

 

Jazinda tells She-Hulk to say she did not know Jazinda was a Skrull. When she sees Jazinda about to be vivisected, she loses control and breaks Jazinda out.

 

The Behemoth tries to stop her, but She-Hulk defeats him with the help of the Lady Liberators. Later it is revealed that Mallory Book, her former boss, was behind all the bad things happening to She-Hulk along with a group called the "Fourth Wall". Yet when she saw She-Hulk risk herself to save her Skrull friend, Book "cancelled" the plan.

 

Later, Jennifer tasks Ben Urich to discover the identity of Red Hulk. She informs him that she is unable to as she has asked too many questions to the wrong people. She has Urich bring a photographer (Peter Parker), and meets him along with her insider, Doc Samson, and they venture into a S.H.I.E.L.D. base that is actually a front for A.I.M. and General Ross's Gamma Power Super Soldier Program.

 

Leonard Samson then appears to have a breakdown, but in reality he is changing into Samson. Samson claims to be stronger and faster (and is larger in size, has longer hair and a lightning bolt scar) than Jennifer.

 

The clashing duo are subdued by MODOK and the facility explodes in the aftermath of a fight between Red Hulk and Hulk; Jennifer, Samson (who has reverted to Leonard) and Red Hulk are caught in the explosion. Jennifer's status is unknown and Red Hulk does not reveal anything to Urich when the two meet a second time.

 

While She-Hulk is M.I.A., the Red She-Hulk makes her first appearance where she claims Jennifer Walters to be dead.

 

It was later shown in a flashback that Red She-Hulk prevented Jennifer Walters from escaping from A.I.M. custody. During this battle, Red She-Hulk brutally beat Jennifer and snapped her neck with a cable. In the last panel, Jennifer Walters appeared to be dead with the Red She-Hulk standing over her body, though the Red She-Hulk claims she did not know her own strength.

 

She then questions Doc Samson whether it was the real She-Hulk or a Life-Model Decoy, to which Samson answers "You're here to follow orders, not to ask questions". Lyra later infiltrates the Intelligencia, where she finds Jennifer in stasis. Following a brief fight with the Red She-Hulk, the three decide to team up to take down Intelligencia's forces.

 

Following the defeat of the Intelligencia, Jennifer begins traveling with her cousin Bruce, Skaar, Korg, Rick Jones and Betty Ross.

 

Shortly after the events of World War Hulks, Skaar becomes aware that his brother Hiro-Kala is approaching and that he intends to crash the planet K'ai into the Earth. She-Hulk is on the team as they manage to successfully avert disaster. Upon returning to Earth, they find the world in flames as it is in the grasp of the Chaos War. They journey to Hell, where they fight and defeat the Chaos King. Returning to a restored Earth, they are greeted as monsters.

 

At some point before or after these events, Jennifer and Lyra end up in New York, where Lyra begins to attend high school in an attempt to gain an understanding of humanity as it occurs in this timeline. As well as helping to integrate Lyra into society, they are also involved in trying to round up the remaining members of the Intelligencia.

 

They manage to round up the Intelligencia, but the Wizard is able to escape imprisonment and goes after Lyra at her high school prom, almost killing her before She-Hulk intervenes, knocking out Wizard but not before Lyra's secret identity has been compromised.

 

The rest of the pupils turn on Lyra as a result of her prom date being injured and the endangerment of everyone at the dance. She-Hulk explains to her afterwards that they have to leave and that despite being heroes, the life of a Hulk is often lonely.

 

During the Fear Itself evemt, She-Hulk joins with Howard the Duck, Nighthawk and the Frankenstein Monster to form a four-person team called the Fearsome Four to stop the Man-Thing from its destructive path. They later discover a plot by Psycho-Man to use the Man-Thing's volatile empathy to create a weapon.

 

Prior to a time- and multiverse-spanning trip by the Fantastic Four and family, the Thing asks She-Hulk to be a member of the Future Foundation.

 

When the Hulk is elevated into "Doc Green" – a version of the Hulk possessing Bruce Banner's intellect – after he is treated for a shot to the head as Bruce Banner by use of the Extremis virus, he sets out to attack and cure other gamma-based mutations.

 

Steve Rogers attempts to order the Hulk to stop before he goes after She-Hulk, but when Doc Green finally confronts her, he instead admits that he has come to recognize that he is coming dangerously close to the Maestro, as part of him enjoyed eliminating his 'rivals', having decided instead to accept the eventual loss of his intellect as Extremis wore off rather than risk that persona emerging.

 

Informing She-Hulk that she is the only gamma mutation whose life he felt had been legitimately enhanced by her condition, Doc Green provides her with the last injection of his cure, asking her to use it on him if he goes too far in his efforts to stop an A.I. version of himself that he created and unleashed.

 

In Gwenpool's first Christmas event, Howard the Duck invited her to She-Hulk's Christmas party on the provision that she has not killed any good guys recently. She shows up and karaokes with Ms. Marvel.

 

There were dozens of superhumans in attendance, proving that whether she is acting as a hero or not, She-Hulk keeps strong ties to the super-community.

 

During the 2016 Civil War II event, after the Inhuman Ulysses predicts Thanos' arrival on Earth, She-Hulk was mortally wounded by a direct attack from the villain in question.

 

When Iron Man learns that they used Ulysses' precognitive power to ambush Thanos, he vows to make sure that no one uses it again. Before She-Hulk goes into cardiac arrest, she tells Captain Marvel to fight for the future.

 

After Hawkeye was acquitted for shooting Bruce Banner, Captain Marvel visited She-Hulk, who came out of her coma. When She-Hulk angrily demanded to know the verdict of Hawkeye's trial, Captain Marvel remained silent.

 

Following Bruce Banner's funeral, Jennifer Walters left the superhero business and continued to work as a lawyer, where she gained her first client: Maise Brewn, who was an Inhuman descendant.

 

Due to the stress following the fight with Thanos, Jennifer started turning uncontrollably into her version of the Grey Hulk at different intervals. Jennifer helped Maise when she was recovering from the trauma and being evicted by her landlord Mr. Tick.

 

When Maise got impatient with Jennifer and summoned a Fear Golem that killed Mr. Tick and some police officers, Jennifer is nearly killed by it and transforms into the Hulk. She defeated the Fear Golem and prevented Maise from committing suicide when Maise was arrested for reckless endangerment afterwards.

 

Afterwards, Jennifer transformed into the Hulk and met the Hellcat. After changing back, Jennifer told the Hellcat that she was worried over the fact that her grey color could mean that she is like Bruce (since Bruce also had a grey incarnation).

 

Later, Jennifer was watching a live video on the internet when a baker named Oliver turned into a Hulk-like creature on-camera. Jennifer spent several days trying to track him down, eventually confronting him as the Hulk at the Brooklyn Bridge. During the following battle, she lost control of her Hulk persona, almost killing him, though the Hellcat managed to calm her down. However, the incident left Jennifer worried about losing control again.

 

Some time later, the Leader kidnapped Jennifer and forced her to transform into the Hulk in order to force her to kill his new assistant, Robyn, who willingly went through a blood transfusion in order to become a Hulk-like monster herself. The Hulk nearly killed Robyn, but Jennifer managed to regain control, before defeating the Leader by electrocuting him.

 

Jen then went with self-help writer Florida Mayer, who used a special pill to transport Jennifer to her subconscious, leading her to confront her Hulk persona and illusions of Thanos and Banner, finally overcoming her trauma in the process. Upon waking, Jennifer reverted to her standard green She-Hulk persona.

 

During the war against the Cotati, She-Hulk is revealed to have been killed and replaced by a Cotati, attacking the Avengers when they tried to negotiate a truce with their new enemy, the heroes only surviving the attack thanks to the Invisible Woman's forcefield, although the Cotati/She-Hulk then beats down the Thing and retreats.

 

Invisible Woman, Mantis, and Thing are locked in combat with the Cotati-possessed She-Hulk. Back in New York, Jo-Venn and N'kalla release their positive memories which revives She-Hulk enough to break the Cotati off of her and to stop the fighting between the Kree and the Skrull. When the Cotati are defeated, She-Hulk and Thor take Sequoia away.

 

It turns out that She-Hulk was able to return to life thanks to Leader who has mastered the way to control the Green Door.

 

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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.

 

Secret Identity: Jennifer Walters

 

Publisher: Marvel

 

First appearance: The Savage She-Hulk #1 (February 1980)

 

Created by: Stan Lee (Writer)

John Buscema (Artist)

 

See Shulkie in action in Paprihaven! Standing up to fake goddesses:

www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/45639543754/

Getting slung around by giants:

www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/46780598762/

Driving her She-Hulk mobile:

www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/44546396654/

And hanging out A LOT with Ben Grimm:

www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/29031998558/

yay! It took us two months but yesterday we finally finished repairing, plastering, painting, flooring, electrocuting, decorating and what not.. and moved to our new workspace! Hurray!

 

... Christmas eve is already far but i had the idea to realize this scenery with my own original Wall-E...

I rebuilt here one of the most poetic and sweet moment of the movie.....

but.....

 

WHERE ARE WE GOING?

WHERE OUR PLANET IS GOING?

WHAT OUR FUTURE WILL BE?

WHAT OUR PLANET WILL BE?

PLEASE, MY FRIENDS, WATCH AT THIS POETIC AND CUTE MOVIE AND THINK...

 

WALL-E (stylized with an interpunct as WALL·E)

is a 2008 American computer-animated science-fiction romance film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It was directed and co-written by Andrew Stanton, produced by Jim Morris, and co-written by Jim Reardon. It stars the voices of Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy and Sigourney Weaver, with Fred Willard in the film's (and Pixar's) only prominent live-action role. The overall ninth feature film produced by the company, WALL-E follows a solitary robot on a future, uninhabitable, deserted Earth, left to clean up garbage. However, he is visited by a probe sent by the starship Axiom, a robot called EVE, with whom he falls in love and pursues across the galaxy.

 

In the 29th century, rampant consumerism and environmental neglect have turned Earth into a garbage-strewn wasteland; humanity is nowhere to be found and has been evacuated by the megacorporation Buy-n-Large (BnL) on giant starliners seven centuries earlier. Of all the Waste Allocation Load-Lifter: Earth-class (WALL-E) robots left by BnL to clean up, only one remains operational. One day, WALL-E's routine of compressing trash and collecting interesting objects is broken by the arrival of an unmanned probe carrying an Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator (EVE) robot, sent to scan the planet for human-sustainable life. WALL-E is smitten by the sleek, otherworldly robot, and the two begin to connect until EVE goes into standby when WALL-E shows her his most recent find: a living seedling. The probe then collects EVE and the plant, and—with WALL-E clinging on—returns to its mothership, the starliner Axiom.

 

In the centuries since the Axiom left Earth, its passengers have degenerated into helpless corpulence due to laziness and microgravity, their every whim catered to by machinery; even the captain, B. McCrea, is used to sitting back while his robotic steering wheel AUTO flies the ship. McCrea is unprepared to receive the positive probe response, but discovers that placing the plant in the ship's Holo-Detector will trigger a hyperjump back to Earth so humanity can begin recolonization. Upon inspecting EVE's storage compartment, however, the plant is missing, and EVE blames WALL-E for its disappearance.

 

EVE is deemed faulty and taken to Diagnostics. Mistaking the process for torture, WALL-E intervenes, causing him and EVE to be designated as rogues. Frustrated, EVE tries to send WALL-E home in an escape pod, but they witness AUTO's gopherbot GO-4 stowing the stolen plant in a pod set to self-destruct. WALL-E saves the plant, and he and EVE reconcile and celebrate with a dance in space around the Axiom.

 

EVE brings the plant back to McCrea, who watches EVE's recordings of Earth and concludes that they have to go back. However, AUTO is revealed to be loyal only to his own secret no-return directive A113—issued after BnL incorrectly concluded centuries ago that the planet could not be saved—even when McCrea countermands it; AUTO mutinies with GO-4 as a result, electrocuting and frying WALL-E's circuit board, putting EVE into standby, throwing them both down the garbage chute, and locking McCrea in his quarters. EVE and WALL-E are nearly ejected into space along with the ship's trash but are saved by a Microbe Obliterator robot named M-O, who has been following WALL-E's dirt trail across the ship. As humans and robots help in securing the plant, McCrea and AUTO fight for control, resulting in WALL-E being crushed in the Holo-Detector when he tries to keep it open; McCrea eventually overpowers and deactivates AUTO, and the plant is inserted into the Holo-Detector, initiating the hyperjump.

 

Arriving back on Earth, EVE repairs WALL-E but finds that his memory has been reset and his personality is gone. Heartbroken, EVE gives WALL-E a farewell kiss, which sparks his memory and restores his original personality. WALL-E and EVE reunite as the inhabitants of the Axiom take their first steps on Earth. During the credits, humans and robots turn the ravaged planet into a paradise, and the plant is shown to have grown into a mighty tree.

 

FOR MORE INFORMATIONS

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WALL-E

 

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=alIq_wG9FNk

 

AND MORE:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW1Y4HDBLB4

 

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Volta was rescued after flying into a power line in Sitka, Alaska. He suffered from a concussion, electrocution, and various bone fracture injuries. All his injuries healed but the one bone fracture in his coracoid (Left shoulder bone) leaving him unable to gain lift and fly, he is non-releasable.

Back in the day I used to spend a lot of my time in the back of the radio. I didn't know what I was doing and I'm lucky I didn't get electrocuted. Those were my "radio days". (1960's)

 

 

Espèce protégée à Munster.

 

La cigogne blanche est un oiseau sacré, porte bonheur et symbole de l’Alsace. C’est un grand échassier à la démarche calme, au vol lent et souvent planant. Sa longueur est d’un mètre pour une envergure de deux mètres et un poids de trois kilos.

Entre 1960 et 1974, la population alsacienne de cigognes est passée de 148 à 9 couples. De nombreuses cigognes ne revenaient plus de leur quartier d’hiver : victimes de la sécheresse et de la disparition des prairies, du drainage des zones humides dans notre région et surtout à cause de l’électrocution sur les lignes électriques.

Pour pallier cette baisse d’effectifs, des expériences de sédentarisations ont été tentées avec succès. Après trois ans de captivité, les cigognes ne migrent plus à la condition de trouver une nourriture suffisante sur place.

En 1984, la Ville de Munster, Grego (association des artisans et commerçants de la vallée de Munster) et l’Aprécial (Association pour la Protection et la Réintroduction des Cigognes en Alsace Lorraine) avaient installé un centre de réintroduction des cigognes, chemin du Dubach à Munster.

 

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Protected species in Munster.

 

The white stork is a sacred bird, good luck and symbol of Alsace. It is a great wader with a calm pace, slow flight and often hovering. Its length is one meter for a wingspan of two meters and a weight of three kilos.

Between 1960 and 1974, the Alsatian population of storks increased from 148 to 9 pairs. Many storks were no longer returning from their winter quarters: victims of drought and the disappearance of meadows, drainage of wetlands in our region and especially because of electrocution on power lines.

To mitigate this decline in numbers, sedentary experiences have been successfully attempted. After three years of captivity, the storks no longer migrate provided that sufficient food is available on site.

In 1984, the City of Munster, Grego (association of artisans and traders in the valley of Munster) and the Aprecial (Association for the Protection and Reintroduction of storks in Alsace Lorraine) had set up a center for the reintroduction of storks, path of Dubach in Munster.

I escaped prison and went out for a coffee. It felt good to be among the living. Selfie accomplished by placing the camera on some sort of electrical box. Surprisingly, no one was electrocuted. Nice mask.

My twin kittens, Ragnar and Freja are 10 months old now, and showing little sign of slowing down! They are impossible brats, but knowing they will grow out of it eventually, and be sweet natured cats is getting me through the somewhat adolescent phase!

 

Ragnar is on the left. He has a normal tail, and Freja is a manx. She has always been a little smaller and more dainty, while he's all Tom cat! Siblings to the core, they roughhouse and scrap, but mostly they work like a tag team.

 

The other night, I was waiting to let them out of the bedroom- something that can't happen unless no one is coming or going, or they'd be out the door and run over by a car! They are fast as lightning. My nephew was supposed to be coming over, but called at 11 PM to say he was too tired, and by then it was so late, they never came out to run around. Big mistake!

 

Here's how my night went. First, they were climbing on everything they weren't supposed to climb on. Then Freja started playing with the wires behind my bed! Of course, I'm trying to sleep through their antics, but that wasn't happening! The lights went on, and the bed was jerked away from the wall to scare her away from getting electrocuted. Off went the lights. Two minutes later, the curtain rod came crashing down on their "perch", and onto Freja! On went the lights, up went the curtain rod, and major screaming and threatening ensued. Okay, off went the lights. Then it was Ragnar's turn. He got in his litter box and played, "let's dump ALLLL this litter onto Mom's bedroom floor! ALLLL of it!" On went the lights, the litter was swept up, and more threatening and yelling occurred Then it was Freja's turn! More sweeping, more threatening with bodily harm implied, and out went the lights.

 

Freja has a thing she likes to do that makes no sense to me, but she takes paper, or her catnip mice, and dunks it in their waterbowl! (One morning, a wet tissue greeted my foot as I slid into my flip flops. Eeeew. then I figured out it was some kind of gift. Yuk. Well, shoving things across the floor and rustling paper I had no idea where she got proceeded. Finally, I think I fell asleep from exhaustion.

 

About an hour before my alarm went off, I was rudely awakened by one of them attacking my big toe, probably because I irresistibly moved it under the covers. Claws went through my blanket and sheet and pierced my toe, and I began bleeding. Into the bathroom to clean and bandage my wound. More yelling- mostly from pain- and threatening proceeded. By the time I got back to sleep, my alarm went off.

 

Last night, they came out. They were more raucous than usual, and began shuffling something across the floor. I'm thinking it's another piece of paper Freja found someplace, when I got up to put a mug in the sink. They were playing with a Palmetto Bug. Now, anyone who has lived in or visited Florida knows, these outdoor insects are nothing but a giant, flying ROACH! When I saw it was very muich alive, I screeched, "Get away from that!", to which Freja grabbed it in her MOUTH and ran with it, with Rags hot on her heels! Into MY BEDROOM they went, and under MY BED, with a big, fat, 2 inch long cockroach!!!

 

Okay, my brother was in his room listening to what was going on, and asked what it was. When I told him, he started laughing with a deep, belly laugh. I growled at him that if he didn't stop, I was going to open his door and let them bring it in there! A second later, the (now lifeless looking) Palmetto Bug slid across the floor under my nightstand, so I squooshed it and flushed it, and Cloroxed my floor. I praised Freja for her hunting prowess, grateful that she didn't EAT it. (I had a little kitten once that did!)

 

In case you think Freja is the worst of the two, think again. Rags defies everything fearlessly, and gets into twice the trouble she does, and I think he was the one who ripped my toe open! If I live through kittenhood, I will be happy.

 

Pray for me.....

Reports of the death of the Trinity-Bellwoods white squirrel were greatly exaggerated. Last month, a photo of the famous critter, electrocuted and hanging limp from a power line, circulated on social media, leading some to suggest the rodent who inspired the name of a cafe and a city laneway was no more. Luckily, there's more than one white squirrel in Toronto.

 

Jess Hogge works at Wildhagen Hats at Queen and Portland. She says a white squirrel has been visiting the store's rooftop for months.

 

"We had a black squirrel that would come on the roof," she says. "And then all of a sudden I saw a long white thing. I thought it was a ferret at first, so I called my boss over and opened the door and it was a white squirrel.

 

"We figured out it was a girl because it showed up looking quite large in the spring, and then quite thin the next time it came," she says. "This is the weird thing: I know there's not that many in the city, but we've been considering there is two visiting. One will come right to your hand and is very bold - it's actually come in the shop before. One is a bit more standoffish.

 

"There might two, there might be even more, or it might just be one that's just really moody."

www.blogto.com/sports_play/2014/09/all_you_need_to_know_a...

The Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus) is the largest member of the pelican family, and perhaps the world's largest freshwater bird, although rivaled in weight and length by the largest swans. They are elegant soaring birds, with wingspans that rival that of the great albatrosses, and their flocks fly in graceful synchrony. With a range spanning across much of Central Eurasia, from the Mediterranean in the West to the Taiwan Strait in the East, and from the Persian Gulf in the South to Siberia in the North, it is a short-to-medium-distance migrant between breeding and overwintering areas. No subspecies are known to exist over its wide range, but based on size differences, a Pleistocene paleosubspecies, P. c. palaeocrispus, has been described from fossils recovered at Binagady, Azerbaijan.

 

As with other pelicans, the males are larger than the females, and likewise their diet is mainly fish. Their curly nape feathers, grey legs and silvery-white plumage are distinguishing features, and the wings appear solid grey in flight. The adults acquire a drabber plumage in winter, however, when they may be mistaken for great white pelicans. Their harsh vocalizations become more pronounced during the mating season. They breed across the Palearctic from southeastern Europe to Russia, India and China in swamps and shallow lakes. They usually return to traditional breeding sites, where they are less social than other pelican species. Their nests are crude heaps of vegetation, which are placed on islands or on dense mats of vegetation.

 

The species' numbers underwent a dramatic decline during the 20th century, partly due to land use, disturbance and poaching activities. The core population survives in Russia, but in its Mongolian range it is critically endangered. Removal of power lines to prevent collisions or electrocution, and the construction of nesting platforms or rafts have reversed declines locally.

 

This huge bird is by a slight margin the largest of the pelican species and one of the largest living flying bird species. It measures 160 to 183 cm (5 ft 3 in to 6 ft 0 in) in length, 7.25–15 kg (16.0–33.1 lb) in weight and 245 to 351 cm (8 ft 0 in to 11 ft 6 in) in wingspan. Its median weight is around 11.5 kg (25 lb), which makes it perhaps the world's heaviest flying bird species, although the largest individuals among male bustards and swans may be heavier than the largest individual Dalmatian pelican. More recently, six male Dalmatians were found to average 10.4 kg (23 lb) and four females 8.7 kg (19 lb), around the same average weight as the great white pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus) and slightly lighter than mean body masses from other huge birds such as the trumpeter swan (Cygnus buccinator) or Andean condor (Vultur gryphus).[11] A mean estimated body mass for the Dalmatian pelican of 10.9 kg (24 lb) was also published, around the same mass as the aforementioned largest swan and condor. It is either the heaviest or one of the heaviest birds native to Europe, its closest rival in mass being mute swans (Cygnus olor), which weighs on average around 10.1 kg (22 lb), followed closely by the cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus) (whose average weight is not known) and the whooper swans (Cygnus cygnus), averaging at just shy of 9.5 kg (21 lb), and the great white pelican. These same five species are probably rank as the largest flying birds in Asia as well, alongside the Himalayan vulture (Gyps himalayensis). It also appears to have one of the largest wingspans of any living bird, rivaling those of the great albatrosses (Diomedea ssp., in particular the two largest species, the wandering albatross and southern royal albatross) and the great white pelican. These four species are the only modern birds with verified wingspans that range over 350 cm (11 ft 6 in).

 

The somewhat similar-looking great white pelican broadly overlaps in size but has greater size sexual dimorphism: female great whites can be noticeably smaller than female Dalmatians but male individuals of the two species are essentially the same size and weight. However, the Dalmatian differs from this other very large species in that it has curly nape feathers, grey legs and silvery-white (rather than pure white) plumage. In winter, adult Dalmatian pelicans go from silvery-grey to a dingier brownish-grey cream color. Immature birds are grey and lack the pink facial patch of immature white pelicans. The loose feathers around the forehead of the Dalmatian pelican can form a W-like-shape on the face right above the bill. In the breeding season it has an orange-red lower mandible and pouch against a yellow upper mandible. In winter, the whole bill is a somewhat dull yellow. The bill, at 36 to 45 cm (14 to 18 in) long, is the second largest of any bird, after the Australian pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus). The bare skin around the eye can vary from yellow to purplish in color. Among standard measurements, compared to the great white pelican, the Dalmatian's tarsus is slightly shorter, at 11.6 to 12.2 cm (4.6 to 4.8 in), but its tail and wing chord length are notably larger, at 22 to 24 cm (8.7 to 9.4 in) long and 68 to 80 cm (27 to 31 in), respectively. When the Dalmatian pelican is in flight, unlike other pelicans, its wings are solid grayish-white with black tips. It is an elegant soaring bird. When a whole flock of Dalmatian pelicans is in flight, all its members move in graceful synchrony, their necks held back like a heron's.

 

The Dalmatian pelican is often silent, as most pelicans tend to be, although it can be fairly vocal during the mating season, when it may engage in a wide range of guttural, deep vocalizations, including barks, hisses and grunts.

 

This pelican usually migrates short distances with varying migration patterns during the year. It is dispersive in Europe, based on feeding opportunities, with most western birds staying through the winter in the Mediterranean region. In the Danube Delta, Dalmatian pelicans arrive in March and leave by the end of August. It is more actively migratory in Asia, where most of the birds that breed in Russia fly down for the winter to the central Middle East, largely around Iran through to the Indian Subcontinent, from Sri Lanka, Nepal to central India. The pelicans that breed in Mongolia winter along the east coast of China, including the Hong Kong area.

 

In general, the species prefers relatively warm temperatures. During periods where the climate was warmer, the Dalmatian pelican was far more widespread in Europe (today its European range is restricted to the southeastern part of the continent). Notably, a large number of subfossil bones dating from 7400–5000 Before Present (BP), coinciding with the Holocene climatic optimum, have been found in Denmark, and bones dating from 1900–600 BP have been found in central Europe, Netherlands and Britain. This preference for warmer temperatures is also supported by movements recorded in recent history, as there are indications of a slow range expansion in response to modern climate changes.

 

For more information, please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalmatian_pelican

 

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So I've never been one to have things 'come' to them, like I hardly ever experience that feeling of spontaneously knowing exactly what to take a photo of next; which can be a drag I guess, always trying to make somethings out of nothings. I mean it's also nice because even when I get into a rut it's not the end of the world. But. Anyways. Basically this was one of those 'it caaame to me' type deals where I actually sat up in my bed Monday night and it was nice end of accidentally drawn-out story, promise. Not that this hasn't been done before probably I'm sure, it's just. You know. Like. Whatever, I'm done I'm sorry.

 

But it's also weird because I've started helping out with this local group called Science Scouts, which was started by this awesome couple and parents can bring their kids to the meetings to do scientific experiments and quick little mind-teasers and whatnot, and last night's experiment was all about electricity and conduction, and how the addition of lead to a circuit slows down the electrical current. Basically these kindergartners are going to be smarter than me by like next year. But anyways we helped them connect these tiny light bulbs and batteries and pencils and it was adorable and they were so excited to learn which was a little weird for me to see because normally I don't work with kids that have the privilege of having school as a first priority, you feel.

 

But I felt like such a badass when I actually knew the answer to the one true/false question, that the human brain has enough electrical activity going on to light a lightbulb, which isn't that super dope? I always think it's funny that we're made of water and our brains run on electricity and whatnot, and I mean obvi we don't electrocute ourselves because pure water doesn't conduct electricity and whatever but still, it's sort of funny. *Nerrrrrd alerrrt, serrry**

I mean people are kind of funny in general so it makes sense.

Kids are hilarious.

 

Happy Wednesday, lovelies <3

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I’m glad you folks are setting down, because this is going tp be a long one. Apparently many here in Yosemite don’t know there’s a pandemic going or what is meant by social distancing. But, you see, they didn’t acknowledge the Norovirus outbreak over the Christmas/New Year, this pass season. Or, the Hantavirus outbreak in 2017. Or, the extreme overcrowding on the buses last year; guest were making human chains to stop them.

Yosemite National Park didn’t actually close until 3;00 pm, March 12, 2020, for the Pandemic. Until then, we had guest visiting from all over the world and many from Asia. I’ve been here a little over 11 years and interact with guest daily, as do many that I work with. I often ask guest where there are from. During the winter months we get a lot of guest from Asian countries.

During the Hantavirus outbreak; people died because of poor sanitation. Those in charge at the time; continued to rent out the infected tent/cabins. They knew they had a Hantavirus problem, but continued to rent out the cabins without informing the guest, of possible contamination (all for profits). Even when guest repeatedly complained of mice and feces. People died and no one was held accountable. There are links throughout my photostream and it’s easily researched. Just a minute; I’ve got to close my window. Those involved in Yosemite’s Mobbing Community are smoking outside, upwind of it again. This is what they do during a respiratory pandemic and mandatory social distancing, among many other appalling acts.

The Shuttle mess was caused from the lack of maintenance. The shuttle drivers were so fed up, they stormed to the Superintendent's office and demanded they be repaired. Many quit, one a retired Law Enforcement Officer. . I spent a day off, back then, on the shuttles to see how bad it really was. To start; I had to wait for a second bus, because the first one was too full. On the second bus, I was able to squeeze to the back. At the next stop; there was a big line of people waiting to get on an already full shuttle. As a few people were trying to get off the back; a group stormed them trying to get in; causing a woman stepping off the bus to trip in the curb, smash her face on the concrete at full force. It looks like she broke a couple teeth, her nose and lip. She sat up, while blood gushing from her face. People quickly helped her until paramedics arrived. I was so packed in the back of the bus, I couldn’t get off.

The Norovirus outbreak, was over this last Christmas and New Year holidays. Norovirus is spread through contaminated feces (poop). There were a couple confirmed cases and up to 200 unconfirmed. During this outbreak; we had a women’s bathroom that didn’t have working faucets at the sinks. When I went into work on 12-26-19, there was a sign on the mirror; saying out of order. This indoor public bathroom facilitated two dinning facilities. The sinks were not repaired until 1-5-20. Women eating at these facilities were washing their hands at the water filling stations. This was in our dinning facilities; women changing babies, using the bathroom and unable to wash with soap and water. Apparently we didn’t have the parts. Rather than make a 2 hour drive to Merced or 2 hr 20 to Fresno, someone decided to order the faucets. The sinks were not repaired until 1-5-20. I was off on the 24th and 25th of December. They were out for 12-13 days, during holiday weekends and a Norovirus outbreak. No one here will admit it, no one is held accountable, Department of Health covered it up.

It’s kind of like the water station; that could have electrocuted guest and children, all summer long. I addressed it repeatedly, unplugged it daily, to have it plugged back in. I even witnessed a young boy using his finger to trigger sensor, for the water flow. While his little sister stood there holding his arm with one hand and a pinched, out of code electrical cord, with the other. It’s wasn’t repaired, until I sent picture after picture to the NPS Regional Office. The retaliation I received over that was epic.

Now here we are during a respiratory Pandemic and I have coworkers, managers right in my face. I’m talking a foot or two. This is done, along with coughing, fake coughing and all kinds of skits pertaining to Covid19 symptoms; performed by managers and associates. These skits are just triggers, trying to get me to quit or act out. On 3-22-20, I was leaving work. I left from the back of our building and walked to and across the front of the building. As I came around the corner; an NPS Law Enforcement Officer walk out the front door; being held open for him by a supervisor. I was walking clear to the right, to keep my distance. This officer stepped out of the building, started walking towards me, he pretended to look at something in the palm of his hand. He kept walking further to his left, to a point, I was almost walking into a row of outside tables, to avoid him. That wasn’t enough, I had to almost stop, as he brushed pass me. Again, this was just an act (trigger), to get me to act out, or instill fear.

In my department; I have the most seniority. I was cut back to 16 hours a week. Employees that were hired within a year, were given way more hours than me. When I questioned it; I was sharply told “You’re lucky to even have a job” I stood my ground and was then told “I’ll just take hours from someone else”, trying use guilt. I took this job here as a janitor, because I wanted something with minimal stress. I raised my daughter as a single parent, served almost 10 years in the Army, sold a successful business I owned and became a District Manager for a company, before this. I love the outdoors and nature, but here I am; in the most stressful job I’ve ever had. That's even before the Pandemic.

There are many here in Yosemite that are a credit to this great park, but they are stifled by the incompetence, waste, fraud and cover-up that truly goes on here. Let anyone expose the truth and they will be mobbed, harassed, bullied and retaliated against, beyond belief. Truly, very few believe what’s going on here. Even when you have the evidence to prove it. I’ve given it to; two Superintends, an acting Super, now we have another acting Superintend. I’ve driven to San Franasicso, NPS Regional Office, presented evidence to two Special Investigators (what a waste), I’ve sent pictures, evidence, letters, complaints to two NPS Regional Directors and two acting Directors, drove five hours each way to Congressman McClintock’s office (another waste). After driving to McClintock’s office; the clerk almost wouldn’t let me in. I told him I drove five hours; he let me in after a practicality begged. I explained I what was going on in Yosemite, he said there was no one ther for me to talk with. He said I would have to call to make an appointment and tried to make me feel privileged for even being let through the front door (they keep it locked). After several calls, I spoke with his assistant; she too, tried to make me feel I should have felt privileged for being let in the door, after driving five hours. I didn’t get an appointment, or a returned phone call. I’ve sent certified, return receipt letters to Pelosi, Feinstein, Secretary of the Interior and our Over-site Committee. Not one resounded. And, look what they are doing now; selling off their stock and commodities, playing the blame game.

If I go public with the detailed evidence I have, I lose my job, my union pension and I’m 7 months from retirement, at 62. Even with the hate, harassment and retaliation; I put pride in my work, my appearance, the facility I clean and this wonderful park.

I stepped out for some exercise and pictures today. I was stalked and mobbed by housing staff, the woman across the hall in room 3, room 7, room 9. I came across 7 people in isolated, closed areas; stalking me. A couple exposing me to second hand smoke on the back trail to Mirror Lake and the halfwits waiting for me when I got home. Again, there are great people here and many in LAW Enforcement that are professional and dedicated, but they are overshadowed, by the human trash that actually runs the park. Things here in Yosemite don’t change, unless someone forces a change by exposure. It’s one of the Good-ol-Boy Parks. This is where the incompetent, unethical and amoral, hire and promote like minded individuals. This isn’t about me; it’s about you knowing the truth. Even when the park does open; I’m telling you, there are very few that truly care about your safety. They do want your money.

 

As I think about the brave men and women in the medical field, tears swell in my eyes; knowing they will someday be forgotten, just like our veterans. Please, please don’t let this happen. Please stay in, wear a mask, keep you distance if you do go out and wash, wash , wash. On that note: if you are in need of gloves for medical use; Sysco has plenty and our shelves are fully stocked. Why hasn't Sysco and the company I work for stepped up. My company is to busy sending out PR about how they are improving customer and employee relations, while bragging about how they can weather events like this because they don't have to pay their employees, when they're not working.

 

Thank you for visiting my phototream and not the park. My name is Rick Pineiro, if you want the truth about Yosemite, or our government; just ask me.

   

The West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville, was first opened in 1876, but closed in 1995. It's seen riots, fires and the execution of nearly 100 prisoners through either hanging or electrocution.

Here are 30 illustrations from the book Elektroschutz in 132 Bildern. These diagrams outline causes of electrical accidents

 

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For me, it's spelled Beethoven. I had an e-mail on the 5th of January from the head of the local raptor rehab, telling me an eagle had been electrocuted in the power lines about 200 yards from this pole in one of the storms. When the weather calmed the next day, I was down there a number of times, but no sign of my buddy. On the 7th, there, big as life, was an eagle on Beethoven's pole. I was hoping it was the same one. As soon as I got stopped it seemed, he began his calisthenics, ending with his patented scratch move. He's fine, thankfully. It's a pity about the other eagle, but I'm thrilled it wasn't mine. On the heels of that, I'll be getting a bit more involved. I'll be helping the Wildlife Tree Service this year to monitor eagle's nests, among them the nest of Beethoven and his mate. Should be a grand summer, with hopefully some great photo ops. Have a fine weekend, everybody.

 

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The Eurasian Eagle Owl or sometimes European Eagle Owl (Bubo bubo) is one of the largest owls in the world. This species has an extremely large range, one of the largest ranges of any eagle-owl, being found across much of Europe, through the Middle East, India, Russia and Asia, and as far east as China, Korea and Japan, as well as on the north of the African continent.

Eagle Owls occupy a variety of habitats, from coniferous forests to warm deserts. Rocky landscapes are often favoured.

The Eurasian eagle-owl is an impressive and majestic bird, with distinctive prominent ear-tufts, a barrel-shaped body, and vivid orange eyes. The plumage is brown-black , paler on the underparts, and heavily mottled and streaked with black. The bird has a wingspan of up to 138-200 cm and measures 58-75 cm long. Females weigh 1.75-4.2 kg and males weigh 1.5-3.2 kg.

The call of the Eagle Owl is a deep monotonous "oohu-oohu-oohu". The female's call is slightly higher than the male's. In Germany, the name of this bird is "Uhu", in the Netherlands “Oehoe”.

Eagle Owls have various hunting techniques, and will take prey on the ground or in full flight. Usually most active at dawn and dusk. They may hunt in forests, but prefer open spaces.

The eagle owl mainly feeds on small mammals in the 0.2-2.5 kg weight range, such as voles, rats, mice, rabbits, hares and fish, but birds of all kinds are also taken.

Eurasian Eagle Owls may live more than 60 years in captivity. In the wild, about 20 years may be the maximum. The leading causes of death for this species are man-made: electrocution, traffic accidents and shooting sometimes claim the eagle owl.

 

De oehoe (Bubo bubo) is een van de grootste uilensoorten ter wereld. De naam van de vogel heeft deze te danken aan zijn roepgeluid. De roep van de Oehoe is een diepe monotone "oohu-oohu-oohu". Vooral in de late winter laat het mannetje zijn imposante "Oehoe"-roep horen.

De oehoe heeft een enorm groot verspreidingsgebied en wordt aangetroffen in grote del van Europa, bijna geheel Azië, en verder in het uiterste noorden van het Afrikaanse continent, waar de oehoe overgaat in Afrikaanse soorten.

In Nederland broeden oehoes in het wild in Limburg en de Achterhoek; in België in de Ardennen.

De oehoe is door zijn grootte, zijn massieve lichaam en dikke kop met geen andere uilensoort in Europa te verwarren.

Kenmerkend aan het gezicht van de oehoe zijn de grote ogen en de vaak lange oorpluimen. De oorpluimen zijn overwegend zwart van kleur en worden gevormd door een groepje veren die door een aparte spier op het hoofd worden bewogen. De ogen zijn fel oranje. De snavel is zwart en ligt verzonken in een keelplooi.

Het verenkleed is overwegend geel-bruin van kleur met zwarte accenten. De zwarte accenten treden op de rug en de bovenzijde van de vleugels het meest naar voren. Op de borst is het verenkleed kenmerkend okergeel gekleurd.

De vogel heeft een vleugelspanwijdte van maximaal 138 tot 200 cm en is 60 à 70 cm hoog. Vrouwtjes wegen 1,75 à 4,2 kg en mannetjes wegen 1,5 à 3,2 kg.

Oehoes hebben verschillende jachttechnieken, en zal jagen vanaf gedekte uitkijkplaatsen, op de grond of in volle vlucht. Meestal is de vogel actief bij zonsopgang en zonsondergang. Oehoes voeden zich met kleine zoogdieren van 0,2 à 2,5 kg, zoals veldmuizen, ratten, muizen, konijnen en hazen maar ook vissen en vogels die ze in volle vlucht of op hun slaapplaatsen overvallen.

Oehoes kunnen in gevangenschap meer dan 60 jaar leven. In het wild is circa 20 jaar het maximum.

Deze opname is gemaakt tijdens een roofvogelshow in de overdekte vlindertuin, de 'Vlindervallei', deel van de Orchideeenhoeve in Luttelgeest (Flevoland). .

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Taken for group 'Macro Monday' theme 'Safety' December 17th 2018.

 

This is a UK 1 amp plug that's used to plug a shaver or tooth brush into a 13 amp socket.

 

The live (+ve) and neutral (-ve) pins have plastic on them near the top. This is to save stupid people who hold the plug wrapping their fingers around the pins from being electrocuted. I remember doing that as a youngster, plugging in the Christmas tree lights. There was no plastic on the pins those days. I got quite a shock and learnt a lesson.

 

Got to number 14 in Explore Monday December 17 2018

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The Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus) is the largest member of the pelican family, and perhaps the world's largest freshwater bird, although rivaled in weight and length by the largest swans. They are elegant soaring birds, with wingspans that rival that of the great albatrosses, and their flocks fly in graceful synchrony. With a range spanning across much of Central Eurasia, from the Mediterranean in the West to the Taiwan Strait in the East, and from the Persian Gulf in the South to Siberia in the North, it is a short-to-medium-distance migrant between breeding and overwintering areas. No subspecies are known to exist over its wide range, but based on size differences, a Pleistocene paleosubspecies, P. c. palaeocrispus, has been described from fossils recovered at Binagady, Azerbaijan.

 

As with other pelicans, the males are larger than the females, and likewise their diet is mainly fish. Their curly nape feathers, grey legs and silvery-white plumage are distinguishing features, and the wings appear solid grey in flight. The adults acquire a drabber plumage in winter, however, when they may be mistaken for great white pelicans. Their harsh vocalizations become more pronounced during the mating season. They breed across the Palearctic from southeastern Europe to Russia, India and China in swamps and shallow lakes. They usually return to traditional breeding sites, where they are less social than other pelican species. Their nests are crude heaps of vegetation, which are placed on islands or on dense mats of vegetation.

 

The species' numbers underwent a dramatic decline during the 20th century, partly due to land use, disturbance and poaching activities. The core population survives in Russia, but in its Mongolian range it is critically endangered. Removal of power lines to prevent collisions or electrocution, and the construction of nesting platforms or rafts have reversed declines locally.

 

This huge bird is by a slight margin the largest of the pelican species and one of the largest living flying bird species. It measures 160 to 183 cm (5 ft 3 in to 6 ft 0 in) in length, 7.25–15 kg (16.0–33.1 lb) in weight and 245 to 351 cm (8 ft 0 in to 11 ft 6 in) in wingspan. Its median weight is around 11.5 kg (25 lb), which makes it perhaps the world's heaviest flying bird species, although the largest individuals among male bustards and swans may be heavier than the largest individual Dalmatian pelican. More recently, six male Dalmatians were found to average 10.4 kg (23 lb) and four females 8.7 kg (19 lb), around the same average weight as the great white pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus) and slightly lighter than mean body masses from other huge birds such as the trumpeter swan (Cygnus buccinator) or Andean condor (Vultur gryphus).[11] A mean estimated body mass for the Dalmatian pelican of 10.9 kg (24 lb) was also published, around the same mass as the aforementioned largest swan and condor. It is either the heaviest or one of the heaviest birds native to Europe, its closest rival in mass being mute swans (Cygnus olor), which weighs on average around 10.1 kg (22 lb), followed closely by the cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus) (whose average weight is not known) and the whooper swans (Cygnus cygnus), averaging at just shy of 9.5 kg (21 lb), and the great white pelican. These same five species are probably rank as the largest flying birds in Asia as well, alongside the Himalayan vulture (Gyps himalayensis). It also appears to have one of the largest wingspans of any living bird, rivaling those of the great albatrosses (Diomedea ssp., in particular the two largest species, the wandering albatross and southern royal albatross) and the great white pelican. These four species are the only modern birds with verified wingspans that range over 350 cm (11 ft 6 in).

 

The somewhat similar-looking great white pelican broadly overlaps in size but has greater size sexual dimorphism: female great whites can be noticeably smaller than female Dalmatians but male individuals of the two species are essentially the same size and weight. However, the Dalmatian differs from this other very large species in that it has curly nape feathers, grey legs and silvery-white (rather than pure white) plumage. In winter, adult Dalmatian pelicans go from silvery-grey to a dingier brownish-grey cream color. Immature birds are grey and lack the pink facial patch of immature white pelicans. The loose feathers around the forehead of the Dalmatian pelican can form a W-like-shape on the face right above the bill. In the breeding season it has an orange-red lower mandible and pouch against a yellow upper mandible. In winter, the whole bill is a somewhat dull yellow. The bill, at 36 to 45 cm (14 to 18 in) long, is the second largest of any bird, after the Australian pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus). The bare skin around the eye can vary from yellow to purplish in color. Among standard measurements, compared to the great white pelican, the Dalmatian's tarsus is slightly shorter, at 11.6 to 12.2 cm (4.6 to 4.8 in), but its tail and wing chord length are notably larger, at 22 to 24 cm (8.7 to 9.4 in) long and 68 to 80 cm (27 to 31 in), respectively. When the Dalmatian pelican is in flight, unlike other pelicans, its wings are solid grayish-white with black tips. It is an elegant soaring bird. When a whole flock of Dalmatian pelicans is in flight, all its members move in graceful synchrony, their necks held back like a heron's.

 

The Dalmatian pelican is often silent, as most pelicans tend to be, although it can be fairly vocal during the mating season, when it may engage in a wide range of guttural, deep vocalizations, including barks, hisses and grunts.

 

This pelican usually migrates short distances with varying migration patterns during the year. It is dispersive in Europe, based on feeding opportunities, with most western birds staying through the winter in the Mediterranean region. In the Danube Delta, Dalmatian pelicans arrive in March and leave by the end of August. It is more actively migratory in Asia, where most of the birds that breed in Russia fly down for the winter to the central Middle East, largely around Iran through to the Indian Subcontinent, from Sri Lanka, Nepal to central India. The pelicans that breed in Mongolia winter along the east coast of China, including the Hong Kong area.

 

In general, the species prefers relatively warm temperatures. During periods where the climate was warmer, the Dalmatian pelican was far more widespread in Europe (today its European range is restricted to the southeastern part of the continent). Notably, a large number of subfossil bones dating from 7400–5000 Before Present (BP), coinciding with the Holocene climatic optimum, have been found in Denmark, and bones dating from 1900–600 BP have been found in central Europe, Netherlands and Britain. This preference for warmer temperatures is also supported by movements recorded in recent history, as there are indications of a slow range expansion in response to modern climate changes.

 

For more information, please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalmatian_pelican

 

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