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Jedi Master/ General Akon Atol was assigned with a deployment of the 501st on the Venerator Excelsior he was on a routine patrol with some troopers when Order 66 was executed. He was able to take down some troopers before he was shot down.
Ring-billed Gull
Larus delawarensis Order CHARADRIIFORMES - Family LARIDAE - Subfamily Larinae
A familiar parking lot gull, the Ring-billed Gull breeds primarily inland in North America. It can be found along the coasts, but many of these "seagulls" never see anything except fresh water all their lives.
Cool Facts
Young Ring-billed Gulls tested at only two days of age showed a preference for magnetic bearings that would take them in the appropriate direction for their fall migration.
Many, if not most, Ring-billed Gulls return to breed at the colony where they hatched. Once they have bred, they are likely to return to the same breeding spot each year, often nesting within a few meters of the last year's nest site. Many individuals return to the same wintering sites each winter too.
Although it is considered a typical large white-headed gull, the Ring-billed Gull has been known to hybridize only with smaller, black-headed species, such as Franklin's, Black-headed, and Laughing gulls.
Description
topSize: 43-54 cm (17-21 in)
Wingspan: 105-117 cm (41-46 in)
Weight: 300-700 g (10.59-24.71 ounces)
Medium-sized gull.
Yellow bill with black ring near the tip.
Head and underparts white.
Back light gray.
Wingtips black with white spots.
Legs yellow.
Eyes yellow.
Red ring of skin around eyes.
Gape red.
Breeding (Alternate) Plumage: Head and nape white. Tail completely white. Wings light gray with black tips and white spots on very tips of feathers. White spots near tips of outer two or three feathers.
Nonbreeding (Basic) Plumage: Like breeding, but with light gray mottling on the white head and nape.
Sex Differences
Sexes alike in plumage, male slightly larger than female.
Immature
Juvenal plumage: Dirty, grayish brown head, back, and chest. Back feathers with light tips, giving a scaly appearance. Underparts streaked or barred, especially on the flanks. Tail gray with black band near tip. Wingtips black. Bill black with lighter base. Eyes dark. Legs pinkish.
First Winter (Basic I): Head and nape white with gray mottling. Pale gray feathers on back, some with dark tips. Mottled brown feathers on wings. Underparts white with some gray markings or barring. Wingtips black. Bill pinkish with outer third black, and very tip pink. Tail whitish with black band near tip. Eyes dark brown. Legs pinkish.
First Summer (Alternate I): Head and nape white with sparse light mottling. Back light gray. Wings with worn brown feathers and blackish wingtips. Bill pinkish with outer third black, and very tip pink. Legs pinkish. Eyes dark.
Second Winter (Basic II): Head and nape white with gray mottling. Back and wings light gray. Breast, sides, and flanks white. Tail white with broken dark band near tip. Wingtip feathers dark brown to black with only small white tips, if any. Bill yellowish with large black band near tip. Legs yellowish.
Similar Species
Herring Gull larger, with pinkish legs in adult, no black ring around bill, and red spot on lower mandible. Immature Herring Gull with broader black band on tail, may have broad dark ring around bill.
California Gull has red spot on lower mandible along with its broken black ring, a slightly longer bill, greenish legs, and a slightly darker mantle. Young California Gulls have a broad dark tail band.
Mew Gull is smaller and daintier and has a smaller bill. Its bill is pure yellow or with a faint ring in the adult but has a black ring in second winter. The white spots on the outer wingtips are larger in Mew Gull than in Ring-billed Gull.
Sound
Call a shrill "oooww." Also series of short "a-a-a-a-a-a"s.
Range
Breeds from eastern British Columbia and northern California eastward to Newfoundland and New Brunswick, through the northern Great Plains and around the Great Lakes.
Winter Range
Winters on coasts from British Columbia and Maine to Mexico, around the Great Lakes, and inland across the southern United States where open water and food are available.
Habitat
Nests on islands. Found around fresh water, landfills, golf courses, farm fields, shopping areas, and coastal beaches.
Food
Fish, insects, earthworms, rodents, grain, garbage.
Behavior
Foraging
Forages while walking on land, dips for food on surface of water, skims shallow water for small fish, hawks for flying insects.
Reproduction
Nest Type
Nest a scrape in ground or vegetation, filled with twigs, sticks, grasses, leaves, lichens, and mosses. Nests in colonies.
Egg Description
Light olive with dark brown speckles.
Clutch Size
Usually 3 eggs. Range: 1-4.
Condition at Hatching
Chicks semiprecocial at hatching; may leave nest cup at one day old. Covered in cryptically colored down.
Conservation Status
Hunting for the millinery trade nearly extirpated it from parts of range in 1800s. Now common and widespread, and is expanding its breeding range.
Other Names
Goéland à bec cerclé (French)
Apipizca pinta (Spanish)
Sources used to construct this page:
topRyder, J. P. 1992. Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis). In The Birds of North America, No. 33 (A. Poole, P. Stettenheim, and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, and The American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C.
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FAMILY:Rhipiceridae ORDER: Coleoptera
Creyk Park , Western Australia.
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This is indeed a rare bird and alas does not belong to me, a good dealer friend of mine allowed me to photograph it before it was sent to a collector in the United States. The Blood Order is one of the holy grails of TR collecting.
It just seemed like everywhere I went on this day all I saw was EfW trains.
66142 - Wakefield Kirkgate - Knowsley to Wilton EFW in the late afternoon low sun
A day out with a South Pennine Ranger ticket on 17 Oct 2017
Awkward bright sun at times
I was looking for a place to park in the large parking area of a strip mall when I noticed a man exiting his vehicle with a large bag of bird seed surrounded by eager pigeons. He proceeded to dump a pile of it in a corner of the lot and left shortly thereafter. The birds ate much of it heartily for a few minutes before flying away, perhaps not wishing to stay longer than necessary in the presence of humans who might not be as amiable as their benefactor.
Westchester, Illinois, USA
Title: Order of Seizure from the Case File of U.S. v. Negro Slave Ben, 07/05/1816
From: Record Group/Collection: 21
Record Hierarchy Level: Item
Reference Unit: National Archives at Atlanta
Persistent URL: catalog.archives.gov/id/2641470
Repository Contact Information: NARA’s Southeast Region (Atlanta) (NRCA), 5780 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA, 30260
Reproductions may be ordered via an independent vendor. NARA maintains a list of vendors at www.archives.gov/research/order/vendors-photos-maps-dc.html
Access Restrictions: Unrestricted
Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
Built in the 13th Century, Order Castle was never defeated in battle… but the government has changed hands a few times. The New Order houses the Estonian Parliament.
This is indeed a rare bird and alas does not belong to me, a good dealer friend of mine allowed me to photograph it before it was sent to a collector in the United States. The Blood Order is one of the holy grails of TR collecting.
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Three excellent presentations today:
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Samantha Kelly is the Owner of Tweetinggoddess. Mother of two, A Dragons Den participant, creator of #irishbizparty on twitter, twitter for business trainer, star of the recent RTE show She's the Business and former owner of Funky Goddess Samantha has a great story to tell.
Chloe Thomas is an Online Marketer and the Author of E-Commerce Masterplan. The book has been described by Elite Business Magazine as "worth its weight in internet gold" Chloe has worked with "over 50 eCommerce businesses, improving their online marketing, saving them money and time in the process. She helps businesses reach success faster, and stop wasting money and time on the wrong marketing".
The Order of Victory was the highest military decoration awarded for WWII services in the Soviet Union and one of the rarest orders in the world. It was only awarded 20 times, to 12 Soviet leaders/generals and five foreigners. Georgy Zhukov (see his equestrian statue earlier in this set) and Joseph Stalin were the first recipients along with Aleksandr Vasilevsky on April 10, 1944. Stalin and Zhukov each received the Order twice (2nd time both in 1945). Amongst the foreigners to receive the honour were Bernard Montgomery (UK); Dwight D. Eisenhower (US); and Josip Broz Tito (1st President of Yugoslavia). Leonid Brezhnev was awarded the Order in 1978, but it was revoked in 1989, after his death, for not meeting the requirements – to be legit, it had to be awarded during WWII.
By the way, in case you don't know, the acronym "CCCP" stands for: Союз Советских Социалистических Республик, which transliterates to Soiuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, which in English means Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or USSR.
The community board meeting took place in order to discuss the proposed mosque to be built next to ground zero. While the project is usually referred to as the “mosque at ground zero”, the project’s official name is the Cordoba Initiative. The Imam and the developers were in attendance to present the project, and many politicians (or rather their representatives) were on hand, along with many of those in favor or opposed.
First spoke the elected officials, who—in the typical New York political elitist fashion— slandered and insulted their opposition. Councilwoman Margaret Chin spoke before a single opponent of the mosque ever came up to the microphone to state their position, but that didn’t stop her from accusing those against it of “bigotry”.
And while Margaret Chin chose to offend the opposition to the mosque (most of whom present were families of 9-11 victims and first responders) in person, other local figures sent their cronies. A representative of Scott Stringer, President of the Borough of Manhattan, handed out a letter to everyone prior to the meeting in which he refers to the mosque as a “multi-faith community and cultural center” and claims that this “center has been the subject of bigoted attacks that contain a strain of religious and racial hatred more extreme than anything we have seen in NYC for some time.” I guess an attempt to kill hundreds of New Yorkers and tourists at Times Square by an Islamist Faisal Shahzad less than a month prior was not extreme enough for Stringer and, instead of jihadism, Stringer seems to have identified the enemy as a TEA Party leader whom he rips apart throughout this unsolicited letter. While the TEA Party’s opposition is referred to as a “bigoted agenda”, the mosque itself is referred to as a “vibrant and world-class facility in NYC which will promote tolerance and pluralism”. Of course he fails to provide any example of mosques in NYC or in the world that have EVER promoted tolerance or pluralism, but perhaps he didn’t think that any attendee would dare question his superior judgment in the matter. Please be sure to read his disgusting letter
After the political cronies spoke, Feisal Abdul Rauf', the Imam in charge of this “community center” was given time to present his proposal. He started his speech with “for many years I’ve had a dream…” (I wonder what Dr. King would have thought of a ‘grand wizard’ proposing to build a “community center” at the site of the bombed 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama). The Imam also claimed that this “community center” would promote multi-culturalism; he was so sure of it that his speech was sprinkled throughout with that deceiving phrase. But his presentation brought with it an unexpected turning point. Not because of anything he planned to share with us in his carefully prepared PC jargoned speech, but because of a question by one of the board members who wanted to know if the proposed “community center” would hold prayer. The Imam said “yes”, to which the board member replied, “then it is a house of worship, not a community center”.
Without any objection to that by the Imam or speakers that followed, the term “community center” began to very gradually disappear. But don’t think that anyone’s opinion actually changed as a result. The supporters of the project “formerly” known as a “community center” still believed that it was somehow related to diversity and that it would in no way be an insult to those who died due to Islamist ideology, nor would it serve as a monument of jihadist victory.
But neither the councilwoman nor the Imam were the most offensive or distasteful of the proponents of the mosque. Daisy Khan of the American Society for Muslim Advancement, who also happens to be Imam’s wife, blew their insults and lies out of the water. (I don’t recall her being introduced as Rauf’s wife at the meeting, but I can’t be sure.) She lectured and she yelled – yes, yelled – at the families of victims, the first responders, and her fellow New Yorkers. She yelled that she is “tired of bearing the cross [and will do so] no longer” because apparently she and the Muslim community were the real victims of the 9-11 attacks—not the families who lost their loved ones, not the cities that lost their monuments, and not the country that lost its feeling of security.
Without a single mosque destroyed and with very few anti-Muslim incidents, hearing from this woman about her supposed victimization in that auditorium was absolutely sickening. It didn’t help when for weeks after (and prior) she dominated the time on television appearing calm and together and claiming among other nonsense – I kid you not – that the reason they chose the ground zero site to build a mosque is to provide a “blow to the extremists”. I’m sure radical Muslims would just hate it if New York built a mosque on the ground where American buildings were destroyed and thousands of Americans were murdered by jihadists … right? READ HER RIDICULOUS QUOTE AGAIN. Now listen to it for yourself from the horse’s mouth because I wouldn’t have believed it either. (starts at 1:10) www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7WbTv_gsx4&playnext_from=TL&...
Other supporters of the mosque included two priests and a rabbi (no, it isn’t a start to a joke – although I wish it was) of the leftist “co-exist” variety all of whom supported the mosque. And while there were some clergy present that (judging by applause and reactions) opposed the mosque, they did not come up to the microphone. The supporting clergy seemed to have gone to the same rhetoric school as the Imam, using terms like “multi-culturalism”, “tolerance”, “community relations and understanding”, and other jargon that had no actual relevance to the topic.
There was also a Caucasian woman with a baby who introduced herself as someone who had converted to Islam … in 2006, if I’m not mistaken. She lied about how difficult it is to find information and resources on Islam in NY. I say she lied not only because there are hundreds of mosques in the 5 boroughs, but also because as a recent convert she is a prime example of someone who was able to find and act on this information. Of course, she didn’t specify why ground zero is a better location than any other for this apparently “valuable to the city” information about the religion all 911 hijackers belonged to.
Now that I have gone on and on about the supporters of the mosque (aka “community center”) and the temple’s money changers, let me talk about the opponents of a mosque being build at ground zero ... Not a single one of them opposed a mosque being built; the prevailing request was simply “build it somewhere else”.
First opponent to speak was the celebrated publisher, editor, and columnist Pamela Geller. She was the one to point out what Cordoba means to the Muslim world. Cordoba is a city in Spain that was the first major city to fall to Muslim conquerors and become an Islamic caliphate and a symbol of Islamic conquest of the West. She also called the mosque “a shrine to the very ideology that inspired 9-11”. Sure seems a lot more plausible than Daisy’s explanation for why the mosque has to overlook ground zero.
A gentleman who lost his brother in WTC and represents the largest ‘families of victims of 9-11’ groups introduced some of those present who lost loved ones at ground zero. He protested the lectures and the labels that were bestowed on these families for their “legitimate, legal opposition to this Muslim ‘multi-cultural center’”. He pointed out that while there is proposed building of this mosque at ground zero, the committees have refused to allow monuments to the tragedy of 9-11, including the WTC sphere which was heavily damaged during the terrorist attack and has become an iconic symbol of the tragedy. At this time the sphere is temporarily housed at Battery Park. “If we should honor multi-culturalism and diversity at ground zero, we should honor and remember victims of 9-11,” he concluded.
Tim Brown, a former NYC firefighter who lost dozens of his friends and colleagues, fellow first responders, to the jihadist terrorist attack, has been a tireless voice for memories of victims and their loved ones. He questioned where the money for the mosque was coming from. He had received “5 different answers on 5 different occasions from them”, which included my favorite “we don’t have to tell you, talk to our lawyers”, as well as “three different organizations, but [the Imam] refused to name them” and “from American taxpayers”. Mr. Brown also pointed out that Cordoba Initiative has been very deceiving in other ways, such as removing the word “mosque” from their web site despite the fact that they explicitly wrote initially that there will be a mosque at the top of the building (overlooking ground zero).
Questions were also raised about the Imam Rauf, his public statements, and his pro-Sharia stance as described in his publications and interviews. His travels to countries that openly support terrorism and forced Islamization of the West were also questioned and may indicate where funding from the mosque could be coming from.
Follow up note: Listening to the Imam Rauf speak to various news organizations in the days following the meeting, he offered even more non-specific answers to where the money comes from, such as it comes from people who “want to see peace between Muslims and non-Muslims”. Again, nice politically savvy keywords… but no actual answer to a rather direct question he obviously knows the answer to. Trying to hide something, Faisal Abdul?
One of the many victim’s families present was a woman with a photo of her son who was murdered by the Islamic terrorists. She didn’t yell like Daisy, the Imam’s wife, and she did not dish out insults like Congresswoman Chin. Her voice trembled as she mentioned her son’s name and held his photo towards the committee, “this is my son”, she said, “this is firefighter George Kane.” She held back tears as she spoke. She said that “the location [of the mosque] is insensitive to families. It is also insensitive to the voiceless victims the possibility that anyone who supports Islamic extremism could walk on graves of the victims … [it is] an outrage.”
Another woman spoke with a similar shaking voice about her 23-year-old son who “was murdered on September 11th”. She also wasn’t a bigot, but wanted to know “why are you suggesting that it be two blocks from ground zero?”
Mrs. Kane and the others who spoke through tears and with photos of their murdered children in their trembling hands, made me think of what they were being asked to do. Nine years later, they were being asked to “move on” or “heal”, as mosque supporters were suggesting. I can’t even begin to imagine what that ignorant request could do to an eternally grieving mother.
A sweet elderly couple’s last conversation with their son was via cell phone while he was on a hijacked plane… just before he was murdered. They mentioned that there were 20 mosques that located around the area where they lived, and that they would be ok with another one being built close to them, but they also asked for “understanding and sensitivity” when it comes to building one near ground zero.
Yet from the comments of NYC politicians and supporters of the mosque, we know that understanding and sensitivity will not be shown to the victims’ families nor reflect the wishes of voting New Yorkers. They will instead be shown to others who are apparently deemed more – not even equally but more – crucial to the future of NYC and the memories of those who perished in the terrorist attacks.
Here are a few youtube links on regarding this meeting:
Pamela Geller's full 2 minute speech from the meeting
a firefighter and first responder Tim Brown speaks A MUST SEE