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Captured and cropped for Macro Mondays theme of the week = Trash.
This shriveled apple is 2 inches = 5 centimeters in diameter.
Happy Macro Mondays - HMM!
B. de Groot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGyB33kWcU0
Amsterdam - Jean Desmetstraat.
-Dode appel, verzadigde slak en hongerige vlinder. Atlanta (Vanessa-atalanta).
-Dead apple, saturated snail and hungry butterfly. Atalanta (Vanessa-atalanta).
I think this one's for the wasps and flies. But, it's got great textures.
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13th August 2020:
While Graham was out the other day he found some windfalls by an apple tree and brought them home. They almost went off straight away, but I left one to go mouldy so I could get a photo of it.
Came in handy, as although I'm not feeling quite so awful, I still don't feel strong enough to go out for a walk. Plus it's so muggy here I'd probably have melted!
Today is : International Lefthanders Day - nationaldaycalendar.com/international-left-handers-day-au...
Especially for my brother-in-law.
And for the Silly News it's : National Filet Mignon Day - nationaldaycalendar.com/national-filet-mignon-day-august-13/
Nothing silly about that it's delicious - if you can afford it. 😉
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Left in the orchid to go rotten.
Pity I would have had some!
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I Remember Seeing A Car Like This In Ghostbusters When I Was A Kid 1984 -- Seeing It Again On The Streets Of Brooklyn In 2008.. Same Feeling .. Cool
Brooklyn,NYC 2008©
A mouldy apple on a wall. I've taken them before, they're just looking even more past their best now.
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... Apples.
I promise you this is an apple! The windfalls rot in the grass underneath the tree.
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23rd February 207:
Although it actually hasn't rained today there's a freezing cold howling gale blowing and even just taking this outside into the garden for a better photo was unpleasant.
We really must keep an eye on our fruit and not let it go off, this was the second apple I've had to throw out and I hate waste.
At least it gave me my photo for today.
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Whilst wandering around up on The Ridgeway, I found a patch of rotting apples on the ground. These two flies were helping themselves to a free meal. Not a shot I'd ordinarily have taken, but I guess that's why a project like 112 in 2012 is good - it leads you to look for something different.
Whilst not a very lovely image, it does look better on black - click on the image itself, or press 'L' on your keyboard.
My entry for No.109 - Ugly, in 112 in 2012.
8/2/18 Detectives discuss the crime scene where 40-year old off duty Sgt. Ritchard Blake shot 21 yr old Thayvone Santana in the face in front of 650 Livonia Ave. in the East New York section of Brooklyn, New York City. Blake claimed that Santana approached him on his way to work 8/2/18 around 5am and told him "Your going to die tonight", then reached for his waist to grab a gun or knife which caused Blake to fire his service weapon putting a bullet in Santana's mouth. Santana was taken to Brookdale hospital where he has undergone multiple surgeries and is expected to survive, police obtained surveillance footage of the shooting from a daycare at 650 Livonia Ave. which shows a different story. Santana is shown approaching Blake who backs up, pulls out his gun, and shoots Santana in the face. Blake is then shown planting a knife next to a wounded Santana's body before deciding against the plot and picking it back up. The crime scene investigators on scene did not find any weapons on scene which coincides with the surveillance footage. Blake has been put on modified duty pending the outcome of the investigation. Blake was on probation with the NYPD following a domestic violence incident with his girlfriend whom is the alleged reason behind the turmoil between Santana and Blake.
My garden is full of old stuff.
It seemed like a good place to sit in the sweet light today, wish I was 6 again and hurtling down my Grandad's path in one *sigh*
I did get smokey and grubby for my art today....the light shone through the trees onto this scene, but it's right next to a still-smouldering bonfire my folks had when I was at work yesterday.
PART 5. (Yes, you really do need to start at the beginning...)
The final, and most serious issue that has come under scrutiny in the wake of the McDonald shooting, is the so-called Code of Silence among rank and file officers. This is a problem that's not unique to police officers.
If you are a member of any group, you will be inclined to view the actions of any member of that group in a more favorable light than you'd view identical behavior by someone who belongs to a different group. It's human nature.
The lack of cooperation police get from the African American community when investigating gang violence, is a very similar Code of Silence. Violating that particular code by cooperating with a police investigation can indeed have serious repercussions. In fact, it can get you killed.
Of the 468 homicide victims in 2015, eight were justifiable homicides by CPD officers. The other 460 were civilians killed by other civilians, and in most of those homicides, both victim and offender were African American.
The anti-police movement does not want to focus on the 460, they only want to focus on African Americans who were shot and killed by White Police Officers. They also don't want to focus on the Code of Silence within the African American community, allowing the vast majority of those homicides to go unsolved, and allowing those murderers to kill again and again.
The anti-police movement and its partners in the media simply blame police for not solving more homicides, because they "do not have the trust of the community..."
Nevertheless, while recognizing that the Code of Silence is inevitable to some degree, officers of all ranks must be encouraged to do the right thing at all times, and any officers who significantly misrepresented what they had seen during the Laquan McDonald shooting - in order to shield a fellow officer from the full weight of the law - will need to be disciplined. It's too bad, because these are the officers who had done everything right prior to the arrival of Jason Van Dyke, and now they may face serious disciplinary action because their statements don't jive with the video.
In my view, as a former insider who now watches events unfold on television and the internet, the real problem is considerably higher up on the departmental ladder.
Every now and then, the Department throws the book at an officer for some infraction or another, and we get the usual stump-speech about "rotten apples" and the need to save the rest of the barrel.
I'd like to know what happened as the Laquan McDonald video made its way up the chain of command. Our new interim Superintendent has stated publicly that he saw the video within 48 hours of the shooting, in his capacity as head of the Detective division. And what did he do after seeing that video? Apparently nothing of consequence.
You'd think that one of the grown-ups would have rounded up the officers who had given such blatantly contradictory statements about the McDonald shooting, and said "Hey guys, nice try, but this shit ain't gonna fly. Now tell us what really happened." Apparently no one did.
If there is such a thing as a watch-dog within the Department, it is Internal Affairs. It is their job to ferret out those proverbial rotten apples and take appropriate action. Yet, according to the media, the head of Internal Affairs responded to the video by emailing other departments of city government to keep an eye out for any freedom-of-information requests for the Laquan McDonald video, and to let him know right away...
Things like that tell me that the real problem was not the statements of a handful of patrolmen. The problem was that someone high up in city government made the decision that justice should be obstructed, or at least delayed, in order to hold on to their own job and save their own reputation.
If no one ever got their hands on the video, then no harm would have come to any city employees. On the other hand, if the video were to get out and ignite a firestorm, then any patrolmen who might have perjured themselves would make for convenient scapegoats. They could then be disciplined or prosecuted to appease the public and the media.
Whatever will happen to the individuals involved - from Jason Van Dyke up to the Mayor - may take years to play out. I am more concerned about the Department, the law enforcement profession, and the future of Chicago as a world-class city. The demonstrations by the anti-police movement continue - although on a much smaller scale - and the "Only Black Lives Matter" movement continues to spout its nonsense, while violent criminals all over Chicago are emboldened by what they perceive to be a "neutered" Chicago Police Department.
Homicide figures for January of 2016, are nearly double last year's figures, and illegal gun seizures are down because of "reforms" that have been imposed on rank and file officers.
Now the media, which has profited by hyping the "White cops vs. African Americans" storyline, is wagging its collective finger once again, this time accusing police officers of sabotaging the city's revised crime-fighting methodology.
Apparently, no one in the media is aware of the new Investigative Stop Reporting requirements. The new ISR form replaces the Contact Card, which served the same purpose: to document who you stopped and why. That Contact Card had a total of 27 boxes that needed to be filled in. The new ISR form has 95 boxes to be filled in or checked on one side and 47 on the other, plus a half-page narrative section. All that information has to be provided for each person you stop.
If officers stop two cars with four occupants each, or clear two groups of gangbangers from their corner, those officers are done for the day. Assignments these officers are unable to handle because they are tied up filling out ISR forms, will be pushed off on other cars in their sector.
At the same time, citizens who previously would have been allowed to continue on their way after five minutes, must now be detained for the 45 to 60 minutes it may take to fill out a single ISR, all because the ACLU - the self-appointed guardians of liberty - have decided they need all that information on each and everyone of us to make sure that cops are not unlawfully detaining people.
No matter how you slice it, there's only so much officers can do in an 8-hour shift, and, if you triple or quadruple the paperwork requirements for each and every person who is stopped, the net result will be fewer suspicious persons stopped, fewer assignments handled, or both: you do the math.
There's no need to look for sinister plots to sabotage the city's efforts to reduce crime: this is why there were fewer guns recovered, and this is why there were more homicides compared to last year... Fewer guns taken off the street, more homicides, the two go hand in hand.
People who are stopped by police and forced to endure the entire ISR process, are going to be even more poised off with police: they're not going to complain about the ACLU, they're going to bitch about the cops, and the next time an officer motions for them to come over to his squad car, they're going to run like jackrabbits. Then the cops are going to chase them,... and those are precisely the type of situations that can have tragic consequences. Yes, those ISR-forms will be the gifts that keep on giving...
The times, they are definitely a-changing. Police officers are expected to stop the most violent crime wave since the Crack Wars of the early 90's, and now they are told to avoid confrontation, and to retreat when they are challenged. At the same time, civilians with concealed carry permits are ready to step into the breach and take the law into their own hands. What could possibly go wrong, right?
I never did buy into the NRA's interpretation of the Second Amendment, but their vision may yet be realized.
The way I read the Second Amendment, our Founding Fathers intended to give men of property the right to carry a flintlock rifle. There is no mention of a Glock 17 with a 30-round clip. Yet, through a sustained, sophisticated campaign, the NRA has managed to convince the political elite that everyone needs to carry a firearm at all times, because you can not count on the police to come in time to save your ass. Along the way, they have betrayed those same Founding Fathers they love to quote, by driving home the message that you do not need a firearm to help defend your government, but to use that weapon against your own government.
Big city police officers have traditionally opposed concealed carry by civilians, which poses a considerable risk to police officers. Now that Concealed Carry has become the law of the land, and the backlash against law enforcement is in full swing, we are on the verge of creating a society in which the Black Gangster Disciples, the Latin Kings, and thousands of other street gangs across the United States will be the closest thing we have to a 'well-regulated militia."
Right now, Chicago cops have circled the wagons and are trying to do their job as best they can in a decidedly hostile environment. The media, undaunted, continues to run negative stories wherever and whenever they can find them. After a solid two-month barrage of anti-police stories and interviews around the basic premise that Chicago Police Officers are untrustworthy - among other things - they have just conducted a new poll with truly shocking results: they have found that a majority of Chicagoans do not trust the police!
I must say, I am truly shocked. I don't know what we'd do without you guys fighting for truth and justice. Be sure to give yourselves another award...
What's left of this years crop. Not very appetising but the resident blackbird seems to still be enjoying eating them.
for those two or maybe three people who have not heard of the popular young adult book and movie "twilight" here's a photo of the original book cover:
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i let this apple rot on my desk at work for MONTHS. everyone keeps asking when i'm throwing it away and i have to explain i'm saving it for a photo op. iris couldn't stand it anymore and insisted it was time to let go of the apple BUT not before we took this photo.....
and for you teens...this is what happens 45 to 50 years later...old hands and bulging veins not to mention dry skin but that's just the apple.....