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Identification: Though a distinctive wader, with a large body, smallish head, long neck and pointed, slightly decurved bill, individual Ruffs vary enormously in size and colour. Firstly males are approximately one third bigger than females (which are known as Reeves) - males being slightly larger than Redshank, while females are close to Dunlin-sized. Leg colour can be yellow, dull greenish yellow, orange or red. Bill can be all dark or show varying amounts of red or orange - often there is a white area of feathering around the base of the bill. Though males in full summer plumage are rarely seen in Ireland, this too is highly variable - the flamboyant ruff collar of chestnut red or black or even white is purely for display at the breeding ground. Occasionally, spring birds on passage may show a hint of these exotic colours, but the most usual plumage of birds seen here is of darkish brown wing and back feathers, each finely edged pale buff, creating a scaly effect, while the underparts are rather plain whitish, with a warm buff or creamy wash. In flight, a slow, almost floppy wingbeat is characteristic and the dark-centred rump with white ovals either side is a helpful identification feature. Not common, but can occur in small flocks in marshes, fields and mudflats - mainly spring and autumn.

Call: Almost silent.

Diet: Feeds on Invertebrates found in mudflats.

Breeding: Does not breed in Ireland. Passage birds seen in Ireland breed in meadows and bogs in Scandinavia and Russia.

Wintering: Small numbers winter on estuaries along the southern coast of Ireland. The majority of the European population winters around the Mediterranean and western Africa.

Where to see: Tacumshin & Lady's Island Lake (County Wexford), Malahide Estuary (County Dublin), Dundalk Docks (County Louth). Other sites for small numbers include Ballycotton (County Cork) and Kilcoole (County Wicklow) are the most regular sites.

Physical characteristics

Male Ruffs are highly distinctive in breeding plumage, although that is not generally the plumage that we see when this Eurasian shorebird visits Washington. The adult male varies in color from dark rufous to light brown with considerable white. It has a thick mane of long feathers around its neck and thick head-feathers that can be puffed out. The female, called a Reeve, is mottled brown-and-buff with orange legs (sometimes olive or green). Females and males in non-breeding plumage appear similar, and both have orange bills with white feathers at the bases. The female is about the size of a dowitcher, and the male is similar in size to a Greater Yellowlegs. The juvenile, the form most likely to be seen in Washington, has lighter, more yellow legs than adults. Its breast is clear buff, and its belly grades from buff to white. The head is buff and mostly unstreaked, and the back is black edged with buff. In flight, the Ruff shows a white 'U' on its tail, separating a dark rump and dark tail-tip.

In fresh water, Ruffs are often seen wading up to their bellies, but in salt water they usually stay above the shoreline, in habitat similar to that used by Pectoral Sandpipers. They walk or run at a steady pace, with their heads up, picking food from the substrate. They also sometimes probe in the mud and walk slowly through vegetation with their heads down.

Habitat

Ruffs breed in sub-Arctic and Arctic tundra meadows in northern Europe and Siberia. They winter primarily in similar open, wetland habitats in southern Europe and Africa, and to a lesser degree in southern Asia and Australia. During migration, they can be found in these habitats as well as coastal ponds, lagoons, estuaries, and mudflats. These coastal wetlands are the Washington habitats where Ruffs are most likely to be spotted.

Other details

This wader is breeding nearly throughout Eurasia, from the British Isles to Kamchatka, reaching 60°N. Northern birds inhabit tundra and swampy clearings of forested regions. Birds of the south-west, e.g. the Netherlands, inhabit wet grasslands. Most of the populations winter in sub-Saharan Africa. This species doesn't live in pairs, and during the breeding period the males gather in arenas. A census of these males doesn't necessarily indicate the number of breeding females. Males and females also migrate separately, at different times and following different routes as well. Populations of this species are consequently difficult to estimate. The term "breeding pairs" is used only for convenience and uniformity. The population of the European Union (12 Member States) is estimated at 2000-3000 pairs, which represents only a very small fraction of the global European population estimated at 3.28 millions of pairs. However large, this population is declining following wetland reclamation and intensification of agriculture

Feeding

Ruffs eat a typical shorebird diet of insects and other invertebrates. During migration and winter, they may also eat seeds.

Conservation

This species has a large range, with an estimated global Extent of Occurrence of 1,000,000-10,000,000 km2. It has a large global population estimated to be 2,000,000 individuals1. There is evidence to suggest that the European population (200,000-510,000 pairs, occupying 50-74% of the global breeding range) has declined by up to 30% over ten years (three generations)2, but this may reflect shifts in breeding populations3, populations in Asia are not thought to be declining4,5 and wintering populations in Africa appear to be increasing6. The species is therefore not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e. declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern. [conservation status from birdlife.org]

Breeding

Male Ruffs gather into groups in concentrated areas called leks, to display and attract females. The female comes to a lek and chooses a male. The female mates with a male and then leaves the lek. As is typical in this type of mating, the male provides no parental care. The female builds her nest on the ground, hidden in grass or marsh vegetation. The nest is a shallow depression lined with grass. She lays four eggs and incubates them for 20 to 23 days. The female feeds the newly hatched young, which is unusual for this group. The young first begin to fly at 25 to 28 days.

Migration

Migratory. Though total winter range extends from western Europe and West Africa eastwards to India (and rarely further east), by far the largest numbers winter in Africa and these include even birds from north-east Siberia (those reaching South Africa having travelled 15 000 km). Having no share in nest or chick care, males disperse late June to early July; females and juveniles begin migrating in July. Main movements across temperate Europe from end July to mid-September, though exodus on reduced scale continues to mid-November. First males reach Sénégal mid-July; trans-Saharan passage noted central Chad from 20 August, with peak in 2nd week September. In Africa and southern Europe, return movement begins mid-February, with main exodus March and first half April; obscured, however, by large numbers of non-breeders which summer in winter quarters (even south of Equator). Breeding areas reoccupied from mid-April around North Sea, but progressively later to north and east-mid-June (even later in cold springs) in Siberia.

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TheGirlWithTheTupperwareTits. by Nina Isabella Dass

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I used to get a lot of e-mails from the Transgendered crowd. A lot of these mainly consists of invites to events, parties, clubs and the like. There are those who would wish to get to know me with a view to striking up a friendship of sorts. Only a small fraction of them tended to be pervy or a little suggestive in the physical department.

Looking back, I can pin-point the exact moment when I got involved with the scene. I had mistakenly believed that I was part of it.

Truth be told, my battles with intersexuality and trying to fit in started from an earlier age. I had a childhood unlike any other and had crossed the gender divide more than one occasion, constantly trying to feel my way through life and where I fit in.

I had simply assumed that I was unique. Well, unique in the sense that I wasn't like my brother, who had his own gender defects, and whose own abnormalities where sorted out much, much earlier on as it was more dangerous for him as a child. I simply carried on through childhood discovering its joys and pains, its promises and hopes.

I would like to think that had a happy childhood. Though reality was much worse, I still managed to form an impenetrable wall of fantasy in which I thrived. I became my own company, relying solely on my own ingenuity to endure all hardships that came upon me.

There was of course, the expectation to excel, the hopes that I would be an example to my siblings and perhaps be the person my parents could not be. It was a hard task. My dad was a prodigy of sorts in the medical field and my mom was the one blessed with classical beauty as well as intelligence and had come from a long line of Indian aristocrats.

But by being constantly ill, I always fell short of their expectations.

The final straw came when just over a decade ago, a violent argument led me to pack my bags and come to England. I had gone tired of trying to match unreachable expectations and when I got here, the years of battling breathing problems, cancer scares, hormonal intervention, steroids and the sheer exhaustion of trying to compete, left me a weak and rather unappealing person.

Testosterone infusions to develop my failed masulinity gave me the edge in the legal field but left me severely overweight, unhealthy, bald and very, very aggressive.

Truth be told, I was aggressive towards women. I felt insanely jealous that my childhood as a girl did not develop me into these beautiful creatures who really dominated half the planet.

The hormones suppressed all the inborn feminine feelings I had inside. I suppressed my caring side, my desire to kiss boys, to love and to marry. I felt robbed. I felt that everything I did had to be measured. felt that the only way I could prove myself was to activate that abberated Y-Chromosone as all my XXs had deserted me. I had decided to forget about my life in the convent, the constant gender switching at home and my social life and the unreasonable fear that my two halves collided with each other everytime I had to attend a social gathering there the parties knew me as a girl or a boy.

I wanted to fix my position. Having unable to live as a girl because of my physical limitations and in a culture where child-bearing and marrying the right connection is important, I became a guy.

Actually, I became a lot worse. I became a lawyer.

And a darn good one at that. I graduated very young and became a lecturer in Criminal Law and Jurisprudential theory before I even had my first beer. A strong career in a powerful family-run firm beckoned. But that fateful argument with my family changed all that.

I gave everything up. I ran away. 11050kms to be exact.

Those early days when I was in London were hard. I was studying for the English Bar with my 'inheritance' share and had no money for anything else. Including medical treatment. There were even times when I resorted to stealing food to keep me from passing out.

I also noted that people had more or less forgotten me when I left home. I had truly burnt the proverbial bridge.

Then I met my Ex.

It was at a dinner at Lincoln's Inn in London. She and I just connected. She knew what I was but accepted me nonetheless. She was separated, bringing up five kids and reading Law. A truly formidable woman. I was so touched that she took the time to care for me. Her kids were simply marvelous and treated me as if I were part of the family. Through them, I experienced the joys of bringing up children. I experienced the hurt when they yelled at me, their nervousness when I was called to PTA meetings and their joy when they did well in their exams. I bandaged their wounds, fixed their bicycles and built them a pool. I tried to be their dad in a way. Or a different sort of 'mom'.

Still doing odd retail jobs, money was still very tight for me. But I still managed. I still could not afford treatment and whatever I had left at the end of the day were spent on family necessities. I still got sick. I still felt the pangs of pain. I walked with a walking stick and danced in my chair.

The something happened. My body changed again. I was brought face on with my intersexuality again. The woman in my screamed out, enraged by years of hormonal abuse. Of testosterone infusion. Of masulinity. On the grand scheme of things, I had only been a guy for a little over a decade going from a slim Indian girl with delicate features who played the piano and danced the Bharatanatyam to a fat, bald, unshaven disgruntled lawyer.

I looked into the mirror that day and saw the young girl in the 14 stone frame.

I decided to do something about it.

I started seeing doctors again. Lots of doctors. Doctors with funny expertises like endocrinology and gynacology. Our kids had grown up and we had some money to get my physicality sorted.

It was the general medical consensus that I should have never changed to a boy. I still had a vaginal canal inside me, although such things like ovaries either atrophied or became unusable.

I stopped the testosterone. That was the first step. I was given gradual doses of estrogen. The change was dramatic. It was as if, in the space of a year, another person was emerging outwards from my body.

That brought upon its own set of problems. As I was changing again, I was also living in a state of limbo. Sitting on the gender fence so to speak. I was going through the exact opposite to what I went through almost a decade ago. I was changing back into a girl.

I couldn't afford the surgical intervention then. Truth be told I didn't really need it. But I wanted a functional vagina and as the cost were astronomical then, I had saved up to seek help abroad.

And as you know, fate had one last card to play. You all know how Nefertiti turned out. It was the most painful experience I have had to endure.

And to cut a long story short, a month after surgery, I decided to seek others like me. And the closest people that I knew were the Transgendered folk. I had mistakenly 'joined' them in the hope of finding intersexed folk. There were organisations however for intersex people, but I wanted to meet people I can see and talk to and not merely be a name in some research journal or worse, a statistic.

It was Halloween 2005 when I met TheTrannys. They were such good friends. I had to keep my past from them however as I felt that it would be something they could not relate to.

And by association, I was regarded as a Tranny too. Something, to this day, I am trying to shake off to no success. I am not even a transexual really as it presupposes that I was a fixed gender from birth.

But I had made my bed and laid on it.

And thats why I feel indifferent towards them. I know from personal experience the effects of testosterone on the body and why if you have it in manly proportions, you cannot be a 'woman' let alone be called 'she'. Merely by putting on a dress, one cannot automatically call themselves Jane or Stephanie or DeeVine Leggs. The transformation has to be physical. You have to live and feel as a woman. Not go back to your suit on tie first thing Monday morning.

Which brings me back to the e-mails I was talking about. I have been corresponding with a guy who wishes to become a girl. A run-of-the-mill transexual. He is actually looking to me for advice and is reluctant to seek it elsewhere as he feels that I have a lot to offer in terms of achieving his ambition. He is married, with kids and they don't know.

I don't know what to tell him. I would like to tell him not to do it as he will lose everything as I did and at the end of the day, his family is far more important than anything else he can think of. Including his life. He has a wife who has given her life to him and kids who depend on him. He chose to be a man. He got married and had a family.

But the kindred spirit in me longs to tell him the joy of being a woman. I certainly hope that I make a good one albeit the inability to have children and the constant gouchiness that emanates from my pores.

But I can't tell him that.

I am meeting him on Tuesday at the local cafe. I hope I feel better afterwards.

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Wagga Wagga. At the RAAF BAse Museum is this replica of the Coomalie Creek RAAF Chapel built near Darwin in 1943 during World War Two.. by denisbin

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Wagga Wagga. Population 57,000. Catholic Cathedral city.

Captain Charles Sturt came down the Murrumbidgee River at the site of Wagga in 1829 and the first pastoral property was established here in 1832 by Robert Best who called his property Wagga Wagga after the local Aboriginal word for crows. The Aboriginal inhabitants of this area called the river Murrumbidgee meaning “big water”. In 1847 a police station and small court was established at this river crossing at Wagga on the road from Yass to Port Phillip. This was to offer protection and a police presence for travellers, local pastoralists and the overland mails. The town was formally gazetted in November 1849. But it grew slowly with the first store not opening until 1851. By 1858 river boats had reached Wagga Wagga up the Murrumbidgee River from the river ports of South Australia and a local company was formed, with approval of the NSW government, to construct a toll bridge across the Murrumbidgee which was completed 1862. The town expanded slowly in the 1860s and 1870s and this was a period when bushrangers operated in the Riverina causing mayhem and anxiety. The town was proclaimed a municipality in 1870 when the first Mayor took office. The two most famous bushrangers around Wagga in its early years were Mad Dog Morgan (in the 1860s) and Captain Moonlight (in the 1870s). Eventually the railway reached Wagga North in 1878. It took over a year to extend it into Wagga as this required a 2,500 metre wooden rail bridge across the Murrumbidgee River. The Wagga Wagga railway station was built and opened in 1881 thus opening up this area of the Riverina to more wheat farming. Although selectors could opt to select farming acreage in areas around Wagga Wagga from the early 1860s they were reluctant to do so until the railway reached the town. Up to 1881 when the railway from Sydney reached Wagga about 5,000 acres of wheat was grown. By 1891 that figure had increased to 60,000 acres under wheat. Access to the Sydney markets was vital to agricultural expansion in the Riverina and agricultural expansion let to urban development of Wagga. Wagga’s population jumped from 4,000 people in 1881 to 5,100 in 1891 which was a 27% increase and it became the “capital” of the Riverina region. In the second half of the 19th century some of Wagga’s grand buildings were erected including a new Anglican Church, Catholic Cathedral, a Wesleyan Methodist church etc. At this stage major buildings were in Fitzmaurice and Tarcutta Streets. Nearby were many grand residences. The classical style original Council Chambers were built in 1881. They are now the Museum of the Riverina.

Today Wagga Wagga is the largest inland city in New South Wales with 57,000 inhabitants. It growth was propelled by World War Two when a RAAF base was established in 1940 followed by an Army base in 1942. The RAAF base still exists today and the Army base is an army training center. The NSW government established a teachers’ college in Wagga in 1947 and an agricultural college in 1949. These institutions eventually grew into Charles Sturt University which specialises in education, business, arts science, agriculture, veterinary science, nursing, radiography etc. The government also made Wagga Base hospital the major hospital for southern NSW and a new seven storey hospital was erected in 1963. This was replaced in 2015 with a new 460 bed hospital, almost as big as the new RAH in Adelaide, but at a fraction of the cost at $600 million.

Wagga Wagga Characters.

Sir Roger Tichborne Claimant. Sir Roger Tichborne disappeared at sea in 1854. His mother believing her son might still be alive placed advertisements in Australian newspaper. In late 1865 Wagga butcher Tom Castro approached a Wagga lawyer claiming the baronetcy and its fortune. The lawyer wrote to lady Tichborne in England who was anxious to find her lost son and paid for Castro to visit her in England in 1866. Despite being shorter and not able to speak French lady Tichborne welcomed him as her lost son. When she died in 1868 other family members declared Castro was an imposter. The first civil court trial lasted from May 1871 to March 1872. “Tichborne” and the lawyers and judges involved became international celebrities. A six month perjury trial began in 1873. Castro (originally Orton of London) was found guilty of perjury and sentenced to 14 years in goal. For three years the press had been full of this story with its 36,000 cross examination questions. Ceramic and plaster casts of the figures involved were produced in France and in England. Wagga Wagga Museum of the Riverina at the Botanic Gardens has some examples in their collection and more details of this saga. Other examples are at Oxford University and the Brighton City Museum in England.

Sister Mary Ligouri. Nun on the Run. This amazing story of the times occurred in 1920 when 30 year old Irish Sister Mary Ligouri in the Wagga Catholic Convent was demoted from her teaching roles to cleaning. In anger and frustration she fled the convent and sheltered with neighbours but freely returned to the convent later that day. A doctor was called and he tried to sedate her but she feared she was being poisoned. She fled the nunnery in her night gown to some supportive Protestant neighbours. They refused to reveal her whereabouts to Catholic authorities. The Sister wrote to the Bishop of Wagga asking to leave the order but that was refused. She was taken to Sydney to live with a Congregational minister and his wife. The newspapers had a field day and referred to her as the escaped nun. Police issued a warrant for her arrest and Catholic authorities were searching for her. The Bishop of Sydney wanted her arrested as she was insane. 14 months after her escape she was tried in the NSW Lunacy Court. She was declared sane and released. She sued the Archbishop Mannix of Sydney for £5,000 false arrest ad trauma but the jury of men ruled in favour of the Archbishop. A few months later a party of 20 men kidnapped and her took to a police headquarters in Sydney. The former sister renounced her religion and refused to be put under the guardianship of her catholic brother. She was released and lived the rest of life with the Congregational couple. She died in 1966. Wagga Art Gallery had an exhibition of her life in 2021. Visit the Art Gallery in the Civic Centre.

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CS-PHM Embraer EMB-505 Phenom 300, NetJets Europe, Bristol Airport, Lulsgate Bottom, Somerset by Kev Slade

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Departing to Paris le Bourget as Fraction 8LD.

Trichocentrum splendidum by hachadourian

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A fraction of the nearly 5 foot tall inflorescence on the plant this year. One of my favorite species in or out of bloom with large dagger like foliage on a xeric plant.

HPLC fractions by proteinbiochemist

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Second fraction. by Andrés de Francisco

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Manual focus and shoot with flash, to capture this scene that hard fractions of a second, when the swallow feeds its chicks.

365:137 Boats and more boats by Caryne McKeand

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So this is just a tiny fraction of the millions and zillions of boats in and around Auckland. I wish they had their sails up...otherwise its a city of masts? Mheh!

So its getting late.... we're planning on going to be early then getting up in the middle of the night to watch the Wimbledon Final as Andy Murray is playing Federer so we cannae miss it.

We started the day at 6.30am (on a Sunday!!!).... took two hours to get ready but finally headed out to the market which was lovely and quiet! Then back for a nice blether with the lovely in-laws! We had a good chat about their visit next year and I'm really getting excited about everyone coming over, there's so much we want folk to experience here so everyone can see why we love this place so much!!

I got good use of my lovely food processor after, cooked up a couple of lovely soups - Carrot and Coriander and Tomato Pappa - so that's lunch for the week sorted!!! We then headed out for a nice walk down to the harbour. I wanted to get a few photographs of the boats with the Sky Tower in the background.... but I think this one with the bridge in view is nicer!!

Then we got a wee call from the Boys inviting us for a cheeky little drink..... so we met them for a quick one, which turned into three...and fish & chips!! Lovely little treat!! I have to say that sitting outside in the winter sun is so strange... I think I might have even caught a little sun today!!!

Oh...... before I forget - quick moan! Kiwi cyclists...... please remember that you are road users.... not pavement users.... especially those in full cycling gear, you should know better. And furthermore, when the lights are red.... it applies to you too..... AND cycling across a crossing is not allowed! Get the frick off and walk your bike over the road!!! Sooooooo annoys me! Rant over!

Bolingbroke Castle, Lincolnshire by Whipper_snapper

Bolingbroke Castle is now a fraction of its former glory but - in its day - it was a handsome and important building. As the birthplace of Henry of Bolingbroke, later King Henry IV, it could be argued that Bolingbroke was the cradle of the so-called 'Wars of the Roses' as it was Henry who overthrew the unpopular Richard II - but his act of rebellion also established a precedent. Two generations later the House of York overthrew his equally unpopular grandson, Henry VI.

www.flickr.com/photos/barryslemmings/albums/7215768230649... to see the full set.

The area had been fortified by the Saxons in the 6th or 7th century AD but in the 12th century the Normans built a motte and bailey castle on a nearby hill. The present castle was founded by Ranulf, Earl of Chester in 1220 shortly after he returned from the Fifth Crusade. Its imposing round towers were fashionable and he may have been inspired by castles he saw on his travels. He also chose to build without a keep although the huge gatehouse may have served a double function of both keep and gate.

The site is an irregular hexagon with round towers at the salient points and a handsome twin-towered gateway facing the present village. The moat to the main site was 90-100 feet wide with the water lapping at the base of the walls when built. Today, so much material has fallen into the moat that there is now a wide berm around the base of the exterior wall where visitors can walk. When built it was lime-washed in white and traces of this remain on some of the walls today.

Ranulf had died in 1232 without a male heir, and his titles, lands and castles passed to his sisters. Following the death of the first Duke of Lancaster in 1361 Bolingbroke passed through marriage into the ownership of John of Gaunt. His wife Blanche, daughter of Henry of Grosmont, was born at the Castle in 1345. John and Blanche's son, Henry was also born at Bolingbroke Castle in 1367 and became known as "Henry of Bolingbroke" before he took the throne in 1399.

In addition to this main castle there is a ditched outer enclosure (see aerial photo) which may have served an agricultural purpose. Within this there is a mysterious earthwork of roughly 'playing card' shape with its long side facing towards the castle. This earthwork has not been positively identified but the ditch is still deep enough to be flooded today and was clearly defensive. It is probably a siege earthwork from 1643 (its in the right position and at the right range for muskets and cannon) but the enclosure also strongly resembles the king's 'pleasaunce' which Henry IV's son, Henry V, constructed at Kenilworth Castle during his reign. At Kenilworth this functioned as a secure pleasure palace to entertain friends, and the ladies, at the far end of the huge lake and moat. Bolingbroke's may have been an earlier essay in the craft given that Henry of Bolingbroke was under constant threat when he got into dispute with Richard II. Henry snr may have needed somewhere outside the smells and claustrophobia of the castle's main walls where he could kick back and enjoy himself in relative security. The outer ditched area around would then lend itself to riding and hawking. Think of it as a 'man cave' in the garden perhaps? Of is it just a Parliamentarian siege work?

The local building material was poor in quality and by the 16th century, the castle had fallen into disrepair. Some work was carried out during the Tudors. In 1636 a survey found that all of the towers were - effectively - beyond repair.

A bad castle is better than no castle, so at the start of the English Civil War Bolingbroke was garrisoned by the Royalists. In 1643 it was damaged in a siege and the nearby Battle of Winceby. The following year, the castle was recaptured from Parliament but was lost again later. In 1652 the castle was 'slighted' (deliberately damaged) to prevent any further use. The towers and walls were torn down and dumped into the moat. The last major tower fragment collapsed in 1815.

Of course none of this collapse would have been helped by locals robbing the stone for their own buildings. Large parts of the castle are probably in the village and in surrounding farms and villages!

The site is free to visit, supported by a local friends group.It is in the care of English Heritage via a Lincolnshire heritage group.

peloton fraction by Sjar Adona

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Waalse pijl 2012.

Flèche Wallonne 2012.

Strud / Gesves.

Fraction Download available by CHSH-Teach

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Fractions... by Eugene Dimarsky

Usage 6: clockwise to stop & read out by Windell Oskay

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Learn how to make your own working replica of the 1952 Fraction Of An Inch Adding Machine right here.

math notebooking equivalent fractions by Jimmie Quick

La Fraction by unlogical feeling

La fraction @ la cave a rock, toulouse, Octobre 2018

Maths Word Walls - Decimal (Year 6) by Jinky Dabon

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A classroom is a learning place and a word wall is a learning tool designed to support and develop pupil’s vocabulary. Here's a set of maths word wall displaying related terms for decimals and fractions. You can download for FREE at:

www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Maths-Word-Walls-Decimals...

FRACTIONS by diane horvath

Cinque Terre - Corniglia 9 by Bumbus

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Corniglia is a frazione ("fraction") of the commune of Vernazza in the province of La Spezia, Liguria, northern Italy. Unlike the other localities of the Cinque Terre, Corniglia is not directly adjacent to the sea. Instead, it is on the top of a promontory about 100 metres high, surrounded on three sides by vineyards and terraces and the fourth side descends steeply to the sea. To reach Corniglia, it is necessary to climb the Lardarina, a long brick flight of steps composed of 33 flights with 382 steps or, otherwise follow a vehicular road that, from the station, leads to the village. Sometimes a small bus runs up and down here.

The village stretches along the main road, Fieschi Road, and the houses have one side facing this road and the other facing the sea. Corniglia is characterised by narrow roads and a terrace obtained in the rock from which all other four Cinque Terre's villages, two on one side and two on the other, can be seen. The town planning structure presents also original characteristics compared to those of the other villages: the houses are lower set, and only more recently higher, similar to those of the villages of the hinterland.

Corniglia is mentioned in a famous novella of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron and in the novel The Invisible Circus by Jennifer Egan.

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Chain-drive by Adam Floyd

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Alongside the Scaledown Scammell came this older chain-drive version, but its origin is less clear and there is no name on the base. The cab is generally similar (but not identical) to that of the old Varney kit and the body is plastic so almost certainly not original; I suspect it may be a Fraction Models kit but can anyone confirm?

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image by Chris Lloyd

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"100 x: The 2014 Edition","100x:2014","Image 6/100" Fractions

math notebooking by Jimmie Quick

Everybody Go Home .... by Qi Bo (Ezio Famà)

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---- The feast in honor of Saint Sebastian is about to begin in the Melia fraction --------

---- la festa in onore di San Sebastiano sta per incominciare nella frazione di Melia ----

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June 10, 1940, from the balcony of Palazzo Venezia in Rome, seat of the Grand Council of Fascism, the Duce Benito Mussolini announces the Italian entry into the war on the side of Nazi Germany; Mussolini already now stands as a military goal to have an enemy to be defeated in order to start the so-called "parallel war" on Germany (Italy would fight so with the German allies, but pursuing autonomous and independent objectives); In fact, the Duce, he wanted to prove to Hitler (who took the decisions on the course of the war without first consult Him) that Italy had to be considered military, political and economic of equal importance to the German one, so in order to achieve that, he need an opponent militarily within his reach, this opponent seemed to be Greece as it was geographically close, seemed to have weak military, a political class unwilling to fight, but the reckless attack proved be a serious military mistake with heavy consequences. This is the scenary as a backdrop to a group of military Sicilians catapulted on the Greek front, young soldiers who immediately realize of the prevailing military disorganization, their life appears hanging by a thread ... but there is a Saint who can help them... they finance the construction of the float of St. Sebastian, patron saint of the town of Melia in the municipality of Mongiuffi Melia (Messina), maybe (the figure is not certain) the idea of the float is from corporal Cingari of Melia, so asking S.Sebastian for help and protection (S.Sebastian is the principal patron saint invoked against the plague .... . isn't the War a plague...?!); participants enter their names in a silver casket bearing cantilevered effigy of the Royal Army, if they will die will remain at least a trace of their earthly life. This particular float has the Saint Sebastian who seems to have the military salute, on the basis of float is written: "The Infantries of the first company and officials of the 3rd Regiment.Infantry. Piedmont Fighters in the year 1940 during the battle of Greek devotees offered" .

This is a short and long reports on the traditional festival that the village of Melia (Mongiuffi Melia - Messina) celebrates in honor of its Patron Saint San Sebastian, with thet float that was so ardently desired by those Sicilians soldiers in those bleak darkest hours in our history.

A curiosity, every year on the occasion of the procession are distributed to the population of the loaves in the shape of arrows (they remember the 1st martyrdom) , this year the priest Father Di Bella has expressed the wish about the bread don't have the form with the shape of arrows because this form carriers in itself a sign of violence, this year the loaves had the shape of a "cuddura" (donut-shaped), as is the case for the San Leonardo holiday, celebrated in the other fraction of Mongiuffi, opposite of Melia.

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il 10 giugno 1940, dal balcone di Palazzo Venezia in Roma, sede del Gran Consiglio del fascismo, il Duce Benito Mussolini annuncia agli Italiani l'ingresso in guerra dell'Italia a fianco della Germania nazista; già da subito Mussolini si pone come obiettivo militare quello di avere un nemico da sconfiggere per poter avviare la cosiddetta "guerra parallela" alla Germania (l'Italia avrebbe combattuto sì con gli alleati tedeschi, ma perseguendo obiettivi autonomi ed indipendenti); il Duce infatti, voleva dimostrare a Hitler (che prendeva le decisioni sull’andamento della guerra senza preventivamente consultarlo) che l'Italia doveva essere considerata potenza militare, politica ed economica di uguale importanza a quella tedesca, quindi per poter raggiungere tale scopo, aveva bisogno di un avversario militarmente alla sua portata, questo avversario sembrava essere la Grecia in quanto era geograficamente vicina, sembrava avere forze armate deboli, una classe politica poco disposta a battersi ed una popolazione poco interessata agli eventi nazionali, ma l'avventato attacco si rivelò essere un grave errore militare con pesanti conseguenze. Questo lo scenario che fa da sfondo ad un gruppo di militari Siciliani catapultati sul fronte Greco, giovani soldati i quali subito si rendono conto dell'imperante disorganizzazione militare, la loro vita appare appesa ad un filo...un Santo a cui votarsi forse c'è...si autotassano per finanziare la costruzione della vara di San Sebastiano, Santo Protettore della frazione di Melia del comune di Mongiuffi Melia (Messina), forse (il dato non è certo) l'idea della vara è del caporale Cingari originario di Melia, chiedendo così protezione ed aiuto a S.Sebastiano, Santo Protettore invocato contro la peste (esiste una peste meno grave della Guerra ?!); i partecipanti alla colletta inseriscono i loro nomi all'interno di una teca in argento recante a sbalzo l'effigie del Regio Esercito, se moriranno resterà almeno una traccia della loro vita terrena, in più collegata al Santo. Viene realizzata questa particolare vara col Santo che sembra eseguire il saluto militare, sulla base della vara è scritto " I FANTI DELLA 1a COMP. E UFFICIALI DEL 3° REGG.FANT. "PIEMONTE" COMBATTENTI NELL'ANNO 1940 AL FRONTE GRECO DEVOTI OFFRIRONO".

Questo è un breve e lungo report sulla festa tradizionale che il borgo di Melia compie in onore del suo Santo Patrono San Sebastiano, portando in processione quella vara che fu così ardentemente voluta da quei militari Siciliani in quelle ore tetre e buie della nostra recente storia.

Una curiosità, ogni anno in occasione della processione vengono distribuite alla popolazione delle pagnotte a forma di frecce (a ricordare il 1° martirio del Santo Bimartire), quest'anno il sacerdote Padre Di Bella ha espresso il desiderio di non dare quelle fattezze al pane poichè portatrici in sè di un segno di violenza, quindi i pani hanno avuto la forma a "cuddura" (a ciambella), analogamente a quanto avviene per la festa di San Leonardo, festeggiato nell'altra frazione di Mongiuffi, dirimpettaia di Melia (entrambi i borghi formano il comune siculo di Mongiuffi Melia).

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BAS RELIEF is a type of sculpture that has less depth to the faces and figures than they actually have, when measured proportionately (to scale). This technique retains the natural contours of the figures, and allows the work to be viewed from many angles without distortion of the figures themselves.

There is a continuum of the bas-relief technique into the next category, alto-relievo, or high relief. That technique combines the rounded figures with significantly deeper backgrounds. Instead of backgrounds being between a fraction of an inch to few inches deep as they are in bas-relief, they may be a foot to several feet deep in alto-relievo.

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The Bayon (Khmer: ប្រាសាទបាយ័ន, Prasat Bayon) is a well-known and richly decorated Khmer temple at Angkor in Cambodia. Built in the late 12th or early 13th century as the official state temple of the Mahayana Buddhist King Jayavarman VII, the Bayon stands at the centre of Jayavarman's capital, Angkor Thom. Following Jayavarman's death, it was modified and augmented by later Hindu and Theravada Buddhist kings in accordance with their own religious preferences.

The Bayon's most distinctive feature is the multitude of serene and massive stone faces on the many towers which jut out from the upper terrace and cluster around its central peak. The temple is known also for two impressive sets of bas-reliefs, which present an unusual combination of mythological, historical, and mundane scenes. The current main conservatory body, the Japanese Government Team for the Safeguarding of Angkor (the JSA) has described the temple as "the most striking expression of the baroque style" of Khmer architecture, as contrasted with the classical style of Angkor Wat.

BUDDHIST SYMBOLISM

The Bayon was the last state temple to be built at Angkor, and the only Angkorian state temple to be built primarily as a Mahayana Buddhist shrine dedicated to the Buddha, though a great number of minor and local deities were also encompassed as representatives of the various districts and cities of the realm. It was the centrepiece of Jayavarman VII's massive program of monumental construction and public works, which was also responsible for the walls and nāga-bridges of Angkor Thom and the temples of Preah Khan, Ta Prohm and Banteay Kdei.

The similarity of the 216 gigantic faces on the temple's towers to other statues of the king has led many scholars to the conclusion that the faces are representations of Jayavarman VII himself. Others have said that the faces belong to the bodhisattva of compassion called Avalokitesvara or Lokesvara. The two hypotheses need not be regarded as mutually exclusive. Angkor scholar George Coedès has theorized that Jayavarman stood squarely in the tradition of the Khmer monarchs in thinking of himself as a "devaraja" (god-king), the salient difference being that while his predecessors were Hindus and regarded themselves as consubstantial with Shiva and his symbol the lingam, Jayavarman as a Buddhist identified himself with the Buddha and the bodhisattva.

ALTERATIONS FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF JAYAVARMAN VII

Since the time of Jayavarman VII, the Bayon has suffered numerous additions and alterations at the hands of subsequent monarchs. During the reign of Jayavarman VIII in the mid-13th century, the Khmer empire reverted to Hinduism and its state temple was altered accordingly. In later centuries, Theravada Buddhism became the dominant religion, leading to still further changes, before the temple was eventually abandoned to the jungle. Current features which were not part of the original plan include the terrace to the east of the temple, the libraries, the square corners of the inner gallery, and parts of the upper terrace.

MODERN RESTAURATION

In the first part of the 20th century, the École Française d'Extrême Orient took the lead in the conservation of the temple, restoring it in accordance with the technique of anastylosis. Since 1995 the Japanese Government team for the Safeguarding of Angkor (the JSA) has been the main conservatory body, and has held annual symposia.

THE SITE

The temple is oriented towards the east, and so its buildings are set back to the west inside enclosures elongated along the east-west axis. Because the temple sits at the exact centre of Angkor Thom, roads lead to it directly from the gates at each of the city's cardinal points. The temple itself has no wall or moats, these being replaced by those of the city itself: the city-temple arrangement, with an area of 9 square kilometres, is much larger than that of Angkor Wat to the south (2 km²). Within the temple itself, there are two galleried enclosures (the third and second enclosures) and an upper terrace (the first enclosure). All of these elements are crowded against each other with little space between. Unlike Angkor Wat, which impresses with the grand scale of its architecture and open spaces, the Bayon gives the impression of being compressed within a frame which is too tight for it.

THE OUTER GALLERY, HISTORICAL EVENTS & EVERYDAY LIFE

The outer wall of the outer gallery features a series of bas-reliefs depicting historical events and scenes from the everyday life of the Angkorian Khmer. Though highly detailed and informative in themselves, the bas-reliefs are not accompanied by any sort of epigraphic text, and for that reason considerable uncertainty remains as to which historical events are portrayed and how, if at all, the different reliefs are related. From the east gopura clockwise, the subjects are:

- in the southern part of the eastern gallery a marching Khmer army (including some Chinese soldiers), with musicians, horsemen, and officers mounted on elephants, followed by wagons of provisions;

- still in the eastern gallery, on the other side of the doorway leading into the courtyard, another procession followed by domestic scenes depicting Angkorian houses, some of the occupants of which appear to be Chinese merchants;

- in the southeast corner pavilion, an unfinished temple scene with towers, apsaras, and a lingam;

- in the eastern part of the southern gallery, a naval battle on the Tonle Sap between Khmer and Cham forces, underneath which are more scenes from civilian life depicting a market, open-air cooking, hunters, and women tending to children and an invalid;

- still in the southern gallery, past the doorway leading to the courtyard, a scene with boats and fisherman, including a Chinese junk, below which is a depiction of a cockfight; then some palace scenes with princesses, servants, people engaged in conversations and games, wrestlers, and a wild boar fight; then a battle scene with Cham warriors disembarking from boats and engaging Khmer warriors whose bodies are protected by coiled ropes, followed by a scene in which the Khmer dominate the combat, followed by a scene in which the Khmer king celebrates a victory feast with his subjects;

- in the western part of the southern gallery, a military procession including both Khmers and Chams, elephants, war machines such as a large crossbow and a catapult;

- in the southern part of the western gallery, unfinished reliefs show an army marching through the forest, then arguments and fighting between groups of Khmers;

- in the western gallery, past the doorway to the courtyard, a scene depicting a melee between Khmer warriors, then a scene in which warriors pursue others past a pool in which an enormous fish swallows a small deer; then a royal procession, with the king standing on an elephant, preceded by the ark of the sacred flame;

- in the western part of the northern gallery, again unfinished, a scene of royal entertainment including athletes, jugglers and acrobats, a procession of animals, ascetics sitting in a forest, and more battles between Khmer and Cham forces;

- in the northern gallery, past the doorway to the courtyard, a scene in which the Khmer flee from Cham soldiers advancing in tight ranks;

- in the northeast corner pavilion, another marching Khmer army;

- in the eastern gallery, a land battle between Khmer and Cham forces, both of which are supported by elephants: the Khmer appear to be winning.

The outer gallery encloses a courtyard in which there are two libraries (one on either side of the east entrance). Originally the courtyard contained 16 chapels, but these were subsequently demolished by the Hindu restorationist Jayavarman VIII.

THE INNER GALLERY

The inner gallery is raised above ground level and has doubled corners, with the original redented cross-shape later filled out to a square. Its bas-reliefs, later additions of Jayavarman VIII, are in stark contrast to those of the outer: rather than set-piece battles and processions, the smaller canvases offered by the inner gallery are decorated for the most part with scenes from Hindu mythology. Some of the figures depicted are Siva, Vishnu, and Brahma, the members of the trimurti or threefold godhead of Hinduism, Apsaras or celestial dancers, Ravana and Garuda. There is however no certainty as to what some of the panels depict, or as to their relationship with one another. One gallery just north of the eastern gopura, for example, shows two linked scenes which have been explained as the freeing of a goddess from inside a mountain, or as an act of iconoclasm by Cham invaders. Another series of panels shows a king fighting a gigantic serpent with his bare hands, then having his hands examined by women, and finally lying ill in bed; these images have been connected with the legend of the Leper King, who contracted leprosy from the venom of a serpent with whom he had done battle. Less obscure are depictions of the construction of a Vishnuite temple (south of the western gopura) and the Churning of the Sea of Milk (north of the western gopura).

THE UPPER TERRACE: & THE 200 FACES OF LOKESVARA

The inner gallery is nearly filled by the upper terrace, raised one level higher again. The lack of space between the inner gallery and the upper terrace has led scholars to conclude that the upper terrace did not figure in the original plan for the temple, but that it was added shortly thereafter following a change in design. Originally, it is believed, the Bayon had been designed as a single-level structure, similar in that respect to the roughly contemporaneous foundations at Ta Prohm and Banteay Kdei.

The upper terrace is home to the famous "face towers" of the Bayon, each of which supports two, three or (most commonly) four gigantic smiling faces. In addition to the mass of the central tower, smaller towers are located along the inner gallery (at the corners and entrances), and on chapels on the upper terrace. "Wherever one wanders," writes Maurice Glaize, the faces of Lokesvara follow and dominate with their multiple presence."

Efforts to read some significance into the numbers of towers and faces have run up against the circumstance that these numbers have not remained constant over time, as towers have been added through construction and lost to attrition. At one point, the temple was host to 49 such towers; now only 37 remain. The number of faces is approximately 200, but since some are only partially preserved there can be no definitive count.

THE CENTRAL TOWER & SANCTUARY

Like the inner gallery, the central tower was originally cruciform but was later filled out and made circular. It rises 43 metres above the ground. At the time of the temple's foundation, the principal religious image was a statue of the Buddha, 3.6 m tall, located in the sanctuary at the heart of the central tower. The statue depicted the Buddha seated in meditation, shielded from the elements by the flared hood of the serpent king Mucalinda. During the reign of Hindu restorationist monarch Jayavarman VIII, the figure was removed from the sanctuary and smashed to pieces. After being recovered in 1933 from the bottom of a well, it was pieced back together, and is now on display in a small pavilion at Angkor.

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