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A short while after taking this photo I witnessed something I had never seen before and hope never to witness again. There were 2 male Redstarts trying to claim this territory. There was a lot of chasing going on and all of a sudden one flew into the glass of the hide 2 of us were sitting in. The chaser just missed the glass. The one that hit the glass went to ground a little stunned and the chaser jumped straight on him and started trying to finish him by pecking violently at him. It was incredibly vicious pecking of the head and back and went on for some time. Slowly the victum stopped moving and the perpetrator flew off. The 2 of us watching from the hide were powerless to do anything becasue we couldn't reach the victim. There was no movement for several minutes although we could tell it was breathing. To our amazement it then tried to get to its feet but couldn't but it was moving its head to look around. After about a half hour it did manage to get to its feet and to our amazement eventually flew away. I really hope it survived its ordeal.
The 12 and 13-year-old perpetrators killed them in cold blood!, You are now in the care of the Youth Welfare Office! There is no comparable case and everyone is at a loss! A nightmare!
A visit to the old town of Eppingen is worth the detour. The city did not suffer too much from the bombardments of the 2nd World War, and its medieval setting is very well preserved. In particular, there are many half-timbered houses from the 15th and 16th century.
The history of the city is very old. It is already mentioned as early as 985. It was part of the electorate of the Palatinate. It was a very wealthy city. It suffered a lot in the 17th century during the Thirty Years War, and during the war of succession of the Palatinate.
It had been home to a large Jewish community since the Middle Ages. We can see some traces of it today. Unfortunately, this community did not survive the deportations and the monstrous extermination perpetrated by the Nazis.
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Dans la vieille ville d'Eppingen
La visite de la veille ville d'Eppingen vaut le détour. La ville n'a miraculeusement pas trop souffert des bombardements de la 2ème guerre mondiale, et son cadre médiéval est très bien conservé. On y voit notamment de nombreuses maisons à colombage du 15ème et 16ème siècle.
L'histoire de la ville est très ancienne. On la cite déjà dès 985. Elle a fait partie de l'electorat du Palatinat. C'était une cité très riche. Elle a beaucoup souffert au 17ème siècle pendant la guerre de trente ans, et pendant la guerre de succession du Palatinat.
Elle abritait depuis le Moyen âge une importante communauté juive. On peut en voir de nos jours quelques traces. Cette communauté n'a malheureusement pas survécu aux déportations et à la monstrueuse extermination perpétrée par les nazis.
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Eppingen - Bade-Wurtemberg - Allemagne / Eppingen - Baden-Württemberg - Germany
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**I didn't title this picture hoping to grab onto what's happening right now.
I don't know what made me chose these particular words the evening before the world woke up to the hideous assault being perpetrated on the Ukraine.
But words can be potent - guns and missiles only bring blood and death - words are what we, who don't bear arms, have as our weapons.
Words of unity, of love, of support. Words matter.
I hope, with all my heart - that the people of Ukraine will triumph in their fight. My tears are theirs.
Had this unknown little visitor arrive and check out the food on the ground. So, the question arises as to who are you. I feel like I am in the middle of a CSI investigation where they try to identify the perpetrator. Luckily, this little guy was kind enough to do a sitting for an ID photo (where else does that happen?). Prior to Don's solution below, my guess was a Lincoln’s sparrow, something that I am completely unfamiliar with. Thanks to all of you who participated in the survey.
Mystery Solved
Don Delaney has come up with the solution and identifies it as a juvenile chipping sparrow. Thank you Don for being the ultimate Bird CI.
Further description:
no yellow markings other than the gape and tip of lower mandrible
no dark spot on the chest
no grey on the bird just different shades of tan
Like so many millions of people around the world, I am completely shaken by the war in Ukraine.
This is my SL depiction based on a RL image I saw online of a decimated cemetery in Ukraine several days ago. The heart stopping image haunted me...and I was profoundly moved.
What is happening in Ukraine is simply horrendous. I am appalled that we are 22 years into this NEW CENTURY, NEW MILLENIUM and horrific and vile war crimes such as those committed during WWII are actually occurring! It seems history only repeats itself.
PLEASE, AS A GLOBAL COMMUNITY, LET US PRAY FOR PEACE FOR UKRAINE!!! AND PRAY THAT THE TERRIBLE PERPETRATOR (S) ARE CAUGHT, HELD RESPONSIBLE, TRIED AND PUNISHED FOR THEIR CRIMES IN THE SOVEREIGN NATION OF UKRAINE!!! LET JUSTICE PREVAIL!!!!
The link below is for a song by Clan of Xymox's. It was written for this war in Ukraine and the video is amazing and heart wrenching.
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Yesterday, my friend Val and I visited Coughton Court, near Alcester, Warwickshire. We didn't have enough time to visit all of it, as it's vast ! Guy Fawkes and his fellow Roman Catholic Royalists rode here for safety, after being discovered as the perpetrators of the failed attempt to blow up Parliament and assassinate King James 1 in 1605. Eventually caught, their fate was horrible. Won't go into details... too distressing.
The Coughton estate was owned by the Throckmorton family since 1409. It's now owned by the National Trust. It's the only Roman Catholic Stately home in England. What a history this place has - far too much to take in in one afternoon .. must make a return visit ! As you can imagine, I took many photographs here. Sadly, never got to visit the extensive gardens. Next time, eh? The geotag doesn't seem to be working at present on Flickr, sorry. Postcode B49 5JA if you fancy a visit.
Hope you like this one - more to come when I can !
~ Edited slightly in Topaz Studio with a gorgeous texture by Kerstin Frank for the sky. Thank you so much Kerstin ! ~
And thanks to you too my Flickr friends for your views and comments. Each one is truly appreciated.
Hexagonal in shape, Gibraltar Point Lighthouse was built of limestone from the Queenston Quarry near Niagara River and originally stood sixteen metres (fifty-two feet) tall, until it was raised nine metres (thirty-feet) in 1832 to a total height of twenty-five metres (eight-two feet). No light was shown from the lighthouse from May 30 until nearly the end of June in 1932 while the lighthouse was being modified.
John P. Rademuller was hired as the first keeper of the lighthouse, and he served until he met a tragic end, as reported in the January 14, 1815 edition of theYork Gazette:
Died on the evening of the 2nd of January, J.P. Rademuller, keeper of the lighthouse on Gibraltar Point. From circumstances, there is moral proof of his having been murdered. If the horrid crime admits of aggravation when the inoffensive and benevolent character of the unfortunate sufferer are considered, his murder will be pronounced most barbarous and inhuman. The parties lost with him are the proposed perpetrators and are in prison.
Three months later, the Gazette reported, “No conviction of the supposed murderers of the late J.P. Rademuller.” Though the details of what happened that night in January 1815 have been lost, legend has it that soldiers from the York garrison visited Gibraltar Point that night to obtain beer from Keeper Rademuller. Some accounts say the keeper refused to sell to the soldiers, and others claim he overcharged them, but all agree that the soldiers became enraged, killed the keeper, and disposed of his body.
Today this decimated village has been degraded !!!!! What a shame !
Tribute to Oradour Sur Glane (39-45) and all the victims of this Martyr village !! French
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Le 10 juin 1944, une division SS a incendié le village et massacré tous ses habitants. Les nazis ont tué 642 personnes dont plus de 450 femmes et enfants et ont incendié le village... Ce village est un lieu de mémoire symbole de la barbarie nazie. Marcel Darthout, aujourd'hui décédé, était l'un des derniers rescapés du massacre d'Oradour-Sur-Glane perpétré par la Panzer-Division SS "Das Reich". Il avait 20 ans à l'époque, mais en 2013, au micro de Stéphane Robert, il s'en souvenait comme si c'était hier. Cela s'est passé le 10 juin 1944 en début d'après-midi.
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On June 10, 1944, an SS division burned down the village and massacred all its inhabitants. The Nazis killed 642 people, including more than 450 women and children, and set the village on fire ... This village is a place of memory, a symbol of Nazi barbarism. Marcel Darthout, now deceased, was one of the last survivors of the Oradour-Sur-Glane massacre perpetrated by the SS Panzer-Division "Das Reich". He was 20 at the time, but in 2013, at Stéphane Robert's microphone, he remembered it as if it were yesterday. This happened on June 10, 1944 in the early afternoon.
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Cette sculpture rend hommage aux 86 victimes de l’attentat perpétré le 14 juillet 2016 à Nice ainsi qu’à toutes les personnes touchées physiquement ou psychologiquement par cette tragédie.
Cette œuvre a été sélectionnée par les associations de victimes parmi 15 projets.
Conformément à leurs souhaits, cette œuvre donne une impression de mouvement, exprime la mémoire, la résilience, la solidarité, la force, l’union, l’espérance, un hymne à la vie.
Elle porte le cœur avec le nom des 86 victimes.
Sculpteur: Jean-Marie Fondacaro.
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This sculpture pays tribute to the 86 victims of the attack perpetrated on July 14, 2016, as well as to all the people affected physically or psychologically by this tragedy.
This work was selected by the victims' associations among 15 projects.
In accordance with their wishes, this slender work, give an impression of movement, expresses memory, resilience, solidarity, strength, union, a hymn to life.
It bears the heart with the names of the 86 victims.
Piazza Dante (also known as Piazza delle Catene, lit. 'Chains' Square') is the main public square in Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy.
The piazza is located in the city's historic centre, included within the perimeter of the 16th-century city walls. It is home to the city's main representative buildings, including the St. Lawrence Cathedral, the Palazzo Comunale (City Hall) and the Palazzo Aldobrandeschi, seat of the Province of Grosseto. The northern section of the square is called Piazza Duomo, since it is overlooked by the cathedral's façade.
The statue of Leopold II of Tuscany (Italian: monumento a Leopoldo II di Lorena), better known as Canapone, is a white marble monument located at the centre of the square. It was sculpted by artist Luigi Magi [it], and positioned in 1846. It represents Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany dressed as an ancient Roman, in the act of holding up with his left hand a woman, who bears a dead child, and with his right arm a smiling boy; the grand duke's right foot crushes the head of a snake, which is also devoured by a griffin. The allegorical sculpture was meant to celebrate the land reforms and reclamations perpetrated by the grand duke, who is depicted here as a Roman sage and saviour who comes to succour the Maremma (the woman) who has suffered for generations (the dead child); the next generation (the smiling boy) will be grateful to the grand duke who defeated the malaria (the snake), also thanks to the strength and sacrifice of the people of Grosseto (the griffin)
This is the last picture I shot while living in Berlin, from the place where last night a line person perpetrated an act of terror against Berliners and visitors alike. I hope we can all remember this city as the lively and welcoming place it had become during the last decades and I hope that fear and hate will not change the way Berliners live and feel. My thoughts are with the families of victims and those who recuperate in hospitals and my hope is with reason to prevail and politics to stop stirring up shit and polarising people and peoples.
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There are no magic answers, no miraculous methods to overcome the problems we face, just the familiar ones: honest search for understanding, education, organization, action that raises the cost of state violence for its perpetrators or that lays the basis for institutional change -- and the kind of commitment that will persist despite the temptations of disillusionment, despite many failures and only limited successes, inspired by the hope of a brighter future."
-- Noam Chomsky
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On July 11-12 1943, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) began a coordinated action to exterminate Polish civilians in the Volhynia, a region which was part of Poland until 1939.
In 1943-1945, around 100,000 Polish people were murdered in what is now Western Ukraine. The anti-Polish actions reached their climax on July 11, 1943, when Ukrainian nationalists attacked Polish citizens living in around 150 towns and villages. People present at houses of worship at that time were killed and around 50 Catholic churches were burnt to the ground.
According to historians, around 200,000 Polish nationals were killed in the massacre, including 40,000-60,000 in Volhynia and 20,000-40,000 in Eastern Galicia, and at least 4,000 on the territory of today's Poland.
The genocide conducted on Poles is remembered also because of severe brutality of the perpetrators. Victims were often tortured, mutilated and maimed by Ukrainians. There are reports of people being cut alive with saws, scythes, murdered with pitchforks and other tools, as well as cases of impalements.
The term “Volhynia massacre” not only concerns mass murders in Volhynia but also in the then Polish provinces of Lwów, Tarnopolskie, Stanisławowskie, Lubelskie and Poleskie. Even though the Volhynia massacre was an act of “ethnic cleansing,” it meets the definition of genocide, because its purpose was to completely eradicate the Polish ethnic group in Volhynia.
The National Day of Remembrance of Victims of Genocide perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists on citizens of the Second Republic of Poland was established by the Polish parliament in July 2016.
The work of Martin Luther King Jr. and many many other dear souls and activists will never be fully realized until all humans are truly treated equal and have politicians who truly represent them. In his day, Martin Luther King Jr. was considered a radical but I will remind everyone until my dying breath that it should never be considered radical to fight for human rights.
It SHOULD be considered radical to believe in conspiracy theories, attempt hostage and assassination of voting representatives, plot to disrupt voting and inauguration, defend the murder of unarmed humans because they have a flimsy badge and/or perpetrate this murder, and participate in acts of macro and microaggressions every day that harm others.
Our fight for equality continues. It certainly won't be accomplished under Biden no matter how we push for it. That doesn't mean we can't continue to make a difference and leave this world a kinder place than how we entered it.
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A 4 shot panorama of Cloncaird Castle.
Stopped on the way to Straiton at the side of the road, I had been looking to get a photo of it for a while now as we pass it going to Glentrool....
Cloncaird Castle is located near the small village of Kirkmichael, around 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) east of Maybole in South Ayrshire, Scotland. The castle lies beside the Kelsie Burn, at the centre of a 140 acres (57 ha) estate. Originally a 16th-century castle, it was extended and rebuilt as a country house in the early 19th century. After a time as a convalescent home, it is now a private residence once more.
The castle was originally built during the 16th century, and is described as having been in the style of feudal mansions of that period, with a large square tower, narrow spiral staircase, and other indications of the time to which it belonged. An armorial panel dated 1585 is still in place on the castle wall. Towards the close of the 16th century it was in the possession of Walter Mure, a scion of the Auchendrane family, and cousin of the Laird of Auchendrane who devised the murder of Sir Thomas Kennedy of Culzean. This Walter Mure of Cloncaird was the perpetrator of the murder, and was assisted in the execution of his crime by his boon companion, Kennedy of Drumurchy
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The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide[7] (Bosnian: Masakr u Srebrenici; Genocid u Srebrenici), was the July 1995 massacre[8] of more than 8,000[1][9] Bosniaks, mainly men and boys, in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War.
The killings were perpetrated by units of the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) under the command of Ratko Mladić. The Scorpions, a paramilitary unit from Serbia, who had been part of the Serbian Interior Ministry until 1991, also participated in the massacre.[6][10] In April 1993 the United Nations (UN) had declared the besieged enclave of Srebrenica—in the Drina Valley of northeastern Bosnia—a "safe area" under UN protection. However, the UN failed to both demilitarise the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) within Srebrenica and force the withdrawal of the VRS surrounding Srebrenica.[11] UNPROFOR's 370[12] Dutchbat soldiers in Srebrenica did not prevent the town's capture by the VRS—nor the subsequent massacre.
Some hours ago a series of terrorist attacks occurred in the heart of downtown Vienna not far from where I took this picture last February. There are 15 injured people and two dead passers-by, as it seems. The police shot one perpetrator, who was heavily armed and wearing an explosive belt, but are still searching the other perpetrator or perpetrators. As long as they haven't eliminated them, the population of Vienna must stay at home for security reasons. We still don't know about tomorrow. The Chancellor told us to watch the latest news in the morning, the Interior Minister said school children needn't go to school tomorrow.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/nov/03/vienna-austria...
The inscription on the monument "If I will forget Them, You, God in heaven, forget about me."- Adam Bernard Mickiewicz ( 24 December 1798 – 26 November 1855) Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator, professor of Slavic literature, and political activist.
The Volhynian, massacres, were anti-Polish genocidal ethnic cleansings conducted by Ukrainian nationalists.
The massacres took place within Poland’s borders as of the outbreak of WWII, and not only in Volhynia, but also in other areas with a mixed Polish-Ukrainian population, especially the Lvov, Tarnopol, and Stanisławów voivodeships (that is, in Eastern Galicia), as well as in some voivodeships bordering on Volhynia (the western part of the Lublin Voivodeship and the northern part of the Polesie Voivodeship. The time frame of these massacres was 1943-1945. The perpetrators were the Organization
of Ukrainian Nationalists-Bandera faction (OUN-B) and its military wing,
called the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).
Their documents show that the planned extermination of the Polish population was called an “anti-Polish operation.”
Criminal Investigations
Genocide is a legal category. The Volhynian massacres have all the traits of genocide listed in the 1948
UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which defines genocide
as an act “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group,
as such.” In Polish academia the Volhynian massacres are referred to as genocidal ethnic cleansings,
the Volhynian (or Volhynian-Galician) slaughter, or, in legal terminology, the crime of genocide.
Polish historians are emphasizing that the Volhynian bloodbath is the uncleared crime of genocide still, and praise of Stepan Bandera and members murderous party of OUN-UPA by the current Ukrainian authorities.
Staircase in the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism.
Shot with the Sony Alpha 7 Mark 2 and the FE 16-35mm F4 ZA OSS at F=4.
On 1 May 2015, the new Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism opened as a place of education and remembrance documenting and addressing the crimes of the Nazi dictatorship and their origins, manifestations and consequences right up to the present day.
As the place where the NSDAP was founded, Munich is associated more than any other German city with the rise of National Socialism. The former ‚Capital of the Movement’ played a pioneering role in the establishment of the Nazi regime of terror and was home to the Nazi party apparatus.
The Documentation Centre has been built on the site of the former ‚Brown House’, once the headquarters of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP). The new construction is designed to be an open and lively forum of information and discussion.
The permanent exhibition documents the history of National Socialism in Munich, the city’s special role in the Nazi system of terror and Munich’s difficulties in confronting its past after 1945. As well as the permanent exhibition, there are also a series of special exhibitions, a learning centre, a varied programme of events and various educational resources.
The central principle underlying the exhibition and the Documentation Centre’s educational concept being to acknowledge, learn about and understand the history of this location. The key questions that the Documentation Centre poses to visitors are: “What does this have to do with me?” and “Why should this still concern me today?”
The initiative to build a Munich Documentation Centre came from committed citizens of Munich. The construction costs, amounting to 28.2 million euros, were shared equally by the City of Munich, the State of Bavaria and the German Federal Government. The State of Bavaria has made the site available, and the City of Munich will bear the operating costs.
Counterpoint at the historical site
In April 2008 the Munich City Council commissioned the department of urban development to advertise a competition for the realisation of a Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism. A specification of the competition was to submit an architectural concept which concerned itself with the special historic significance of the site. The building's architecture and the design of the outdoor area were to mark the fundamental break with the site's history and to the former Nazi buildings in the neighbourhood (today's school of music and theatre, for instance).
Visual connection with surrounding topography
The design by Georg Scheel Wetzel Architekten won the competition. The jury justified its selection of the concept of the Berlin architects from an urban development and design viewpoint as an 'excellent response to the task set with its own unmistakeable identity'. The cube marks the perpetrator site without a reference to the 'Brown House'. The louvered windows enable varied visual connections with the building relics of the Nazi era, so the authentic sites become part of the documentation.
The highest quality of exposed white concrete
In addition to its cubic, compact form the architecture of the new building is strongly determined by the material: the fine, exposed white concrete characterises both the exterior and the interior. The building is in stark contrast with its environment. The facades consist of light, closed surfaces and dark, partly cross-storey window areas.
EXPLORE #443 March 23 2010.
Beautiful horse spotted in a field near to the RSPB bird reserve entrance in Sandwell Valley. I loved the blonde mane
Up to date note, 27 March 2010: In the early hours of this morning, the excellent RSPB Visitors Centre in Sandwell Valley was mostly burnt down. The causes are still being investigated...... but they have had to take many protective measures from cruel (to the birds) vandals in the past. A terrible thing to happen - if it was deliberate, well - why are the perpetrators so filled with hate?
The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide[7] (Bosnian: Masakr u Srebrenici; Genocid u Srebrenici), was the July 1995 massacre[8] of more than 8,000[1][9] Bosniaks, mainly men and boys, in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War.
The killings were perpetrated by units of the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) under the command of Ratko Mladić. The Scorpions, a paramilitary unit from Serbia, who had been part of the Serbian Interior Ministry until 1991, also participated in the massacre.[6][10] In April 1993 the United Nations (UN) had declared the besieged enclave of Srebrenica—in the Drina Valley of northeastern Bosnia—a "safe area" under UN protection. However, the UN demilitarised the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) within Srebrenica and after that did not force the withdrawal of the VRS surrounding Srebrenica.[11] UNPROFOR's 370[12] Dutchbat soldiers in Srebrenica did not prevent the town's capture by the VRS—nor the subsequent massacre.
The bridge was built from 1751 to 1793. The architect was Jose Martin de Aldehuela.
The bridge is 98 metres high. It does not go all the way down, but stands above the gorge’s floor. The gorge is 120 metres under you, when you stand on the bridge. The many pillars of stone are needed to support the bridge, at such a height. During the Spanish Civil War, Ronda like most of inland Andalucia sat firmly in the republican zone against the fascist rising. In the early days of the war in 1936 chaos was widespread, and in Ronda as in many Andalucian towns and villages executions were widespread. Fascists from Ronda were clubbed and hurled to their deaths from the Puente Nuevo into the gorge, however the perpetrators were from Malaga, not from Ronda. In Ronda, as was the case in many towns and villages, executions were carried out by others from outside.
The Puente Nuevo is where the wind has many times blown people off it, including the architect.
“...and she's thinking of rage, like an ember or a burning acid swallowing up her knotted viscera. Blindness like the kind that leads men to perpetrate horrors, animal drunkenness, the jungles of the mind.”
-Alden Bell-
Picture, if you will, a quaint scene from Mother Nature’s grand design. On the surface, it’s the simple, heartwarming image of a song sparrow mother dutifully tending to her youngster. But look closer and you'll find that not all is as it seems.
This unassuming fledgling is not her offspring--but an imposter. He hails not from the sparrow lineage, but rather, is the young scion of a brown-headed cowbird clan. He is a creature born not from the bonds of familial love, but from a dark grift hatched in the sinister alleyways of the animal kingdom.
Deftly perpetrating his ruse, this fledgling cowbird has hoodwinked his foster mother into a misplaced display of parental care. His call is not a melody of innocent hunger, but a siren tweet--drawing the hapless sparrow into an intricate dance of survival and deceit.
Such is life upon this sylvan stage, where the line between victim and perpetrator blurs, where innocence is lost amidst the rustle of feathers, and where the laws of nature unfold not in black and white, but in the unforgiving grays of ... the Flylight Zone.
Union Pacific 4014 and 844 chuff speedily through rural Peterson, Utah on May 12, 2019. Things worked out quite well for this photo with regard to the amount of smoke and the way it curled back above the train without obscuring the mountain. As a side note, an incredibly rude photographer ran down the embankment at the last second into everyone's photograph. The perpetrator has been magically removed from the image (thanks to Adobe software), as were a few code wires.
Shame on this criminal state!
"The Russian Embassy in Vienna has been pelted with red paint - the embassy itself announced this on its Twitter account on Sunday. The diplomats now want to lodge a protest with the Foreign Ministry.
According to the Russian Embassy, the alleged perpetrator was a man on a motorcycle who escaped after throwing paint. Police are now searching for the man. [...] In the tweet, the embassy called the act "barbaric"...." wien.orf.at/stories/3146212/
I photographed the result of this barbaric act this afternoon, while the police were still busy securing evidence. At the time when the quoted article appeared on the Internet, the cleaning work was already underway.
There seems to be no doubt that the Russian diplomats in question are criminally insane.
...is a free, safe, and peaceful place that free traveling “information traders”
(who are paid not with money but with ideas,storys, dreams, and visions) enjoy visiting.
Here, two traders are discussing the high risk of a new major war—after fuckin' wannabe-Emperor-Dictator Putin sent drones into Polish and NATO airspace and Netanyahu, who has escalated from victim to perpetrator, had diplomats murdered in Qatar.
made with stable diffusion,topaz and photoshop.
There was enough time to travel to Carr Mill for a second shot, DC Railfreight 56091 is captured crossing the viaduct overlooking the Dam.
* Graffiti has been removed from the lower parts of the piers.
I could go on a rant here as I detest this kind of behaviour, what they actually get out of it is beyond me. If the perpetrator's like to paint then far better to commit to paper or canvas and let it be judged in that way not on publicly owned structures.
is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”
~Martin Luther King, Jr
I was walking in a local cemetery a few days ago, ostensibly looking for birds. When I saw this statue, it caught my attention.
With the madness being perpetrated in the world these days, a simple, lovely icon seemed so out of place in context with so much world unrest.......................
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Il y a quelques jours, je me promenais dans un cimetière local, à la recherche apparente d'oiseaux. Quand j'ai vu cette statue, elle a attiré mon attention.
Avec la folie perpétrée dans le monde ces jours-ci, une icône simple et charmante semblait si hors de propos dans le contexte avec tant d'agitation mondiale ...................... .
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Estaba caminando en un cementerio local hace unos días, aparentemente buscando pájaros. Cuando vi esta estatua, me llamó la atención.
Con la locura perpetrada en el mundo en estos días, un icono simple y encantador parecía tan fuera de lugar en contexto con tanta inquietud mundial ...................... .
In the night of 31 May to 1 June 2017, an arson attack was committed on the water pavilion. Unknown perpetrators set fire to the water pavilion using an accelerant. At 3.40am, an emergency call was received by the police, who alerted the fire brigade. The pavilion was destroyed.
Here you see the new pavilion.
In July 1941, over 40 people – Lviv professors with their families, guests and household members - were shot on the Wuleckie Hills. The perpetrators were Germans, who arrested the academics according to lists that had been prepared earlier. Who made those lists? There is some evidence that points to the Ukrainian nationalist circles of Lviv.
Lists was prepared in Lviv on the eve of the arrests. It was supposedly made by students who sympathised with OUN on Mykola Lebed’s order. Arrests started soon after it had been prepared.
According to an eyewitness the executions were made by an Einsatzgruppen unit (Einsatzkommando zur besonderen Verwendung) under the command of SS-Brigadeführer Karl Eberhard Schöngarth with the participation of Ukrainian translators, who were dressed in German uniforms.
Today, accurate identification of the victims is impossible, because on the night of 7 to 8 October 1943 Sonderkommando folded from Jews on the orders of the Germans
he unearthed the grave on the Wuleckie Hills, the corpse was stacked and set on fire,
and sieved ash was scattered on the following days after local
fields.
July 4 marks the 77th anniversary of the murder of professors of Lviv.
The thing about bicycles in the 518 area is that they end up in some strange places. I once remember reading about a bicycle hauled up to the near top of a high-tension tower and strapped to a cross member, as an act of a daring deed. The perpetrators stopped short of the distance that it takes to kill you near the high-tension electrical wires, 5-6 feet I'm told.
Here this bicycle wheel was a simple toss from a roadway bridge some time ago. Incrusted in ice from a leak in this nine foot in diameter, one hundred-year-old wooden pipeline, does nothing but create art.
This old, and odd pipeline is totally functional as it carries water from Fish Creek to the small Schuylerville Hydroelectric Facility at a rate of 440 cubic feet per second. 518. Pentax.
The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide[7] (Bosnian: Masakr u Srebrenici; Genocid u Srebrenici), was the July 1995 massacre[8] of more than 8,000[1][9] Bosniaks, mainly men and boys, in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War.
The killings were perpetrated by units of the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) under the command of Ratko Mladić. The Scorpions, a paramilitary unit from Serbia, who had been part of the Serbian Interior Ministry until 1991, also participated in the massacre.[6][10] In April 1993 the United Nations (UN) had declared the besieged enclave of Srebrenica—in the Drina Valley of northeastern Bosnia—a "safe area" under UN protection. However, the UN failed to both demilitarise the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) within Srebrenica and force the withdrawal of the VRS surrounding Srebrenica.[11] UNPROFOR's 370[12] Dutchbat soldiers in Srebrenica did not prevent the town's capture by the VRS—nor the subsequent massacre.
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In the foreground the Jakobsberg, in the back the Kaiser Wilhelm Monument Porta Westfalica
The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide[7] (Bosnian: Masakr u Srebrenici; Genocid u Srebrenici), was the July 1995 massacre[8] of more than 8,000[1][9] Bosniaks, mainly men and boys, in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War.
The killings were perpetrated by units of the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) under the command of Ratko Mladić. The Scorpions, a paramilitary unit from Serbia, who had been part of the Serbian Interior Ministry until 1991, also participated in the massacre.[6][10] In April 1993 the United Nations (UN) had declared the besieged enclave of Srebrenica—in the Drina Valley of northeastern Bosnia—a "safe area" under UN protection. However, the UN failed to both demilitarise the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) within Srebrenica and force the withdrawal of the VRS surrounding Srebrenica.[11] UNPROFOR's 370[12] Dutchbat soldiers in Srebrenica did not prevent the town's capture by the VRS—nor the subsequent massacre.
An anomaly among the other revenants, Oasis was not sent back to avenge himself. The perpetrator of a family murder-suicide, Oasis was sent back to redeem his failure, punishment for taking the easy way out of his mistakes. The consciousness of his murdered family haunt him, bound to him by the armor he cannot remove.
Oh boy. This fellow. Worked on him for far longer than I had intended but I'd say it was worth it. Inspired by Anubis from Egyptian mythology, he's been quite fun to design. His colors are a fun test of my ability to work *not* in black (I swear it DOES happen), and his inspiration has its own requirements.
Still, it's been a while of working on him, so I'm glad to have him done. Fortunately my next MOC is almost done already, all I need is a custom head and one more old silver Lewa Nuva katana. One of these is clearly going to be far more difficult than the other, but believe me both will happen.
Hope you enjoyed. See you later.
-Partisans are to be ruthlessly eliminated in battle or during attempts to escape. Attacks by the civilian population are to be suppressed by the Army on the spot by using extreme measures.
-Every officer in German occupation in the 'East of the future' will be entitled to perform executions without trial on any person suspected of having hostile attitude towards the Germans.
-If you have not managed to identify and punish the perpetrators of Anti-German acts, You are allowed to apply the principle of collective measures against residents of the area where the attack occurred.
-German soldiers who commit crimes against humanity , The USSR , and Prisoners of War are to be exempted from criminal responsibility.... Even if they commit acts punishable according to German law.
-Babarossa Decree, Laid out by Hitler March 30 1941.
“It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? Deep and hard questions, little 6655321.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
I tried to watch the movie first. I could not do it. Yet, I was told many times over just how much this movie was a masterpiece (even though, most people would argue that all of Kubrick's films are masterpieces...). Within the first 15 minutes of the movie, I stopped watching. I could not bear the violence purposely being perpetrated.
So recently, I bought the book and read it. I get it now.
Full of dichotomies.
Full of questions.
Is there a possibility that I will ever finish watching the movie?
Perhaps.
Have an amazing rest of the week, everyone!
"For all the violence perpetrated on her,
for all the humiliation you have suffered,
for her body you have exploited,
for her intelligence you have trampled,
for the ignorance in which you left her,
for the freedom you denied her,
for the mouth you have plugged up,
for her wings you have clipped,
for all that:
stand up, gentlemen, before a Woman!"
William Shakespeare
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A reverie to say the least,
a darkness perpetrated by beliefs.
I envision the entrance, a cold whistle screams adventure.
Entering the mouth of the beast, my calloused hands, my fragile tips,
brushing against the ceiling, caressing and corrupting the structure,
disappearing deeper from destruction.
This grimace upon the face, this terror protruding within the gut,
an agony to be replaced,
once escaped, courage will flourish.
Expanding the vessel,
vomiting to emptiness, given room to proceed,
phosphorescent hues exploding through my dreams.
Reaching the cusp, I gather my strength,
placed upon my scalp, a diadem to show defeat,
unworthy, fruitless scavengers, left to retreat.
Broken, a shattered age, misguided and abused, nothing to lose.
Words ring true, guidance for those envious of power,
wake from endless lies,
enter into an abyss, never to return,
abandoned dark tunnel.
#MacroMondays
#Paper
A rare "close-up" photograph of one of the many solar flares on Papyrus, the sun of the Charta-spissa solar system. "Close-up" in this planetary context means that it was taken at a distance of 2:1 million kilometers from Papyrus. The photographic material was commissioned by me and provided by Roby, intergalactic traveller, cake lover, and UFO sightings creator, or should I say perpetrator (whenever she is visiting our solar system she simply can't resist causing some UFO sightings for the records). Some of you might remember Roby, and for more info on her, please see the first comment.
Solar flares on a star like Papyrus might sound like a contradiction – given the material this star and all the planets of Charta-spissa consist of – but, in reality, are not. Due to Papyrus' specific surface properties, its flares are extremely long-lasting, slow, and cold. To the untrained eye, they might even appear permanent. So Roby had all the time in the world to choose the prettiest of the many Papyrus flares and properly set my (I lent it to her) camera and extreme zoom lens ("Why can't I shoot in "P" mode, Silke?" "Because "P" mode is boring, Roby." "But your camera is sooo complicated!" "When you come back, you get an extra Pastel de Nata with lots of Dulce de Leche on top for your efforts, Roby, I promise.").
As for Papyrus' surface properties: This is one of the cardboard "reflectors" I use to help illuminate my macro photos. This one is small and round, and it was part of a small chocolate cardboard box I once got as a present. The, rather thin (1 mm / 0,039 inches), cardboard is laminated on both sides (gold and silver, I believe it's thin foil that is used for lamination), just like cake (or fish packaging) board. I used the gold-coated side which I "coloured" red with the help of the translucent red plastic chocolate box lid and an LED lamp. I also used my small LED Lenser flashlight (set on spotlight), handheld from the right, which created/brought out the web-like golden pattern.
Now I was a little unsure if it still counts as "Paper" if it's laminated (although technically, it still is because it's the main material), but the part in focus, the "flares", are pure paper: two small frays on the cardboard's edge that slightly protrude from it. So I think (hope) my photo is within the theme's requirements. The bigger of the two "flares" is 2 mm / 0,078 inches long. It's a single shot taken with the Laowa Ultra Macro lens at a little less than 2:1 magnification.
I'll catch up with you later.
HMM, Everyone!
Missbrauch - Kritik in Kunst am Kölner Dom Mit seiner neuen Installation von 333 Kinderfiguren vor dem Kölner Dom macht der Künstler Dennis Josef Meseg auf die Missbrauchsopfer der katholischen Kirche aufmerksam.
Aufgestellt hat sie der Künstler Dennis Josef Meseg. Mit der Installation "Shattered Souls… in a Sea of Silence" möchte er auf die zahlreichen Missbrauchsvorwürfe gegen die katholische Kirche hinweisen.
Die Figuren symbolisieren den stillen Ruf missbrauchter Kinder nach Gerechtigkeit: "Durch meine Installation sollen sich sowohl die Missbrauchsopfer, als auch die Täter gesehen fühlen", sagt Künstler Meseg dem WDR.
Jede einzelne Schaufensterpuppe ist mit farbigem Flatterband umwickelt. Die Farbe Weiß soll für die Unschuld der Kinder stehen. Purpur ist in der Katholischen Kirche die Farbe für Buße und ReueAbuse - Criticism in Art at the Cologne Cathedral With his new installation of 333 children figures in front of the Cologne Cathedral, the artist Dennis Josef Meseg draws attention to the abuse victims of the Catholic Church.
The artist Dennis Josef Meseg set them up. With the installation "Shattered Souls... in a Sea of Silence" he wants to draw attention to the numerous allegations of abuse against the Catholic Church.
The figures symbolize abused children's silent call for justice: "My installation should make both the victims of abuse and the perpetrators feel seen," artist Meseg tells WDR.
Each individual mannequin is wrapped in colored ribbon. The color white is said to represent the innocence of children. Purple is the color of repentance and contrition in the Catholic Church.