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Big Questions for Artificial General Intelligence
2. Can abstract knowledge representation serve as an adequate foundation for the adaptive creation of context-specific knowledge representations?
(and if so, what kind?)
From the opening session: Review of AI and AGI Past Present and Future by Ben Goertzel of Novamente at the The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-08) Ben Goertzel was one of the conference organizers and is a driving force in the AGI community.
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) research focuses on the original and ultimate goal of AI -- to create intelligence as a whole, by exploring all available paths, including theoretical and experimental computer science, cognitive science, neuroscience, and innovative interdisciplinary methodologies. AGI is also called Strong AI in the AI community.
Another good reference is Artificial General Intelligence : A Gentle Introduction by Pei Wang
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ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA 2022. ITALIA / USA - Aggiornare: 'Petrolio - Ladri di bellezza 2018/2022'; Gli studiosi italiani: "Musei negli USA - Restituisci quello che hai rubato!"; in: RAI 1 HD / VIDEO (2018) & Senatrice & Archeologa Margherita Corrado / Fb (08/2022) = "Il Getty Museum di Los Angeles restituirà all’Italia un antico gruppo scultoreo"; in: ARTRIBUNE & LOS ANGELES TIMES, USA (11/08/2022) [Italiano & English]. wp.me/pbMWvy-337
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** Nota: tutte le fotografie qui sono dal video – “Petrolio Ladri di bellezza”; in: RAI 1 HD (08/12/2018) / Foto & Video [1:26]; o specificato ed elencato come un’altra fonte citata. **
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1). ITALIA / USA - "Petrolio Ladri di bellezza"; in: RAI 1 HD (08/12/2018) / Foto & Video [1:26].
Foto: “Petrolio Ladri di bellezza”; in: RAI 1 HD (08/12/2018).
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Alla luce degli ultimi risvolti giudiziari e dopo aver acceso i riflettori sulla vicenda dell'Atleta di Fano di Lisippo, la statua in bronzo datata tra il IV e il Il secolo a.C., il capolavoro trafugato nell'Adriatico e venduto illegalmente al Getty Museum quarant'anni fa, "Petrolio - Ladri di bellezza" torna ad occuparsi del traffico di reperti archeologici, ricostruendo la rete capillare di contatti, rapporti, scambi di denaro che ha generato il quarto mercato illecito del mondo.
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Grazie al lavoro di inchiesta durato un anno attraverso fonti esclusive e testimonianze uniche di magistrati, carabinieri, uomini dell'FBI, esperti ed archeologi, "Petrolio", documenta i legami tra organizzazioni malavitose, mondo del collezionismo e i più importanti musei del mondo. Duilio Giammaria va negli Stati Uniti sulle tracce del traffico miliardario di reperti archeologici. In California intervista in esclusiva Timothy Potts, direttore del Getty Museum, in merito alla questione del bronzo di Lisippo. Un viaggio che prosegue a Ginevra, luogo di transito di molti dei reperti trafugati e a Cambridge dove l'archeologo forense Christos Tsirogiannis spiega il ruolo delle case d'asta in questo commercio illecito. Ospiti di Petrolio il critico d'arte Vittorio Sgarbi, lo storico dell'arte Tomaso Montanari e il tenente colonnello Nicola Candido, comandante del reparto operativo dei carabinieri per la Tutela del Patrimonio Culturale.
Fonte / source: Video & foto:
--- RAI 1 HD (08/12/2018) / Foto & Video [1:26].
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2). ITALIA / USA - SE E' VERO, BISOGNA FESTEGGIARE!!!!!! Ricordate l'interrogazione 3-01243 di novembre 2019 dedicata proprio ad Orfeo e le Sirene? Fonte: Senatrice & Archeologa Margherita Corrado / FB (11/08/2022).
Foto: Senatrice & Archeologa Margherita Corrado et al., in: Senato della Repubblica / Legislatura 18 Atto di Sindacato Ispettivo n° 3-01243; Atto n. 3-01243 (in Commissione). Pubblicato il 20 novembre 2019, nella seduta n. 167; Svolto nella seduta n. 181 della 7ª Commissione (05/08/2020).
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Chi volesse rinfrescarsi la memoria, può aprire questo link:
--- Senatrice & Archeologa Margherita Corrado et al., Senato della Repubblica / Legislatura 18 Atto di Sindacato Ispettivo n° 3-01243; Atto n. 3-01243 (in Commissione). Pubblicato il 20 novembre 2019, nella seduta n. 167; Svolto nella seduta n. 181 della 7ª Commissione (05/08/2020).
Fonte / source:
--- Senatrice & Archeologa Margherita Corrado / Fb (11/08/2022);
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100058012031617
--- Anche: Senato della Repubblica / Legislatura 18 Atto di Sindacato Ispettivo n° 3-01243; Atto n. 3-01243 (in Commissione) [11/08/2022].
www.senato.it/japp/bgt/showdoc/18/Sindisp/0/1128243/index...
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2.1). ITALIA / USA - ADELANTE, PEDRO, CUM JUICIO, SI PUEDES...
Eccola qui la prova del delitto (fotogramma tratto dal filmato trasmesso dalla trasmissione "Petrolio") ma il 2 luglio 2020 il (futuro) MinC mi rispondeva come leggete... Fonte: Senatrice & Archeologa Margherita Corrado / FB (11/08/2022).
Fonte / source:
--- Senatrice & Archeologa Margherita Corrado / Fb (11/08/2022);
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100058012031617
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3). ITALIA / USA - Il Getty Museum di Los Angeles restituirà all’Italia un antico gruppo scultoreo. ARTIBUNE (11/08/2022).
COME PREVISTO DALLA POLICY DEL GRANDE MUSEO LOSANGELINO, CHE OBBLIGA AL RIMPATRIO DELLE OPERE SOTTRATTE ILLEGALMENTE, ORFEO E LE SIRENE TORNERANNO A SETTEMBRE 2022 A ROMA, SEGUITI DA ALTRI MANUFATTI IN UN SECONDO MOMENTO.
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Un momento storico per le restituzioni, e per l’Italia. Il J. Paul Getty Museum di Los Angeles ha annunciato oggi che restituirà al Paese il Gruppo scultoreo di un Poeta Seduto e Sirene, un gruppo di figure in terracotta a grandezza naturale della seconda metà del IV secolo a.C. proveniente dalla colonia magnogreca di Taranto, noto anche come Orfeo e le Sirene. Il museo statunitense starebbe inoltre collaborando con il Ministero della Cultura per organizzare la restituzione di altri quattro manufatti, a data da destinarsi. Il gigantesco museo a capo dell’omonimo centro per le arti ha già rimosso i manufatti dal percorso di visita in preparazione per il trasporto a Roma a settembre (peraltro molto difficile, vista la fragilità delle sculture), dove saranno affidati al Ministero della Cultura.
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IL GRUPPO SCULTOREO ORFEO E LE SIRENE
La restituzione non è per l’Italia una vera e propria sorpresa, dato che già all’inizio del 2006 l’opera compariva in un elenco di manufatti di cui si rivendicava il possesso e si chiedeva la restituzione. Stando alla commissione permanente in Senato su Istruzione pubblica, beni culturali, ricerca scientifica, spettacolo e sport riunitasi nell’agosto 2020, “il bene, databile secondo la maggior parte degli studiosi nell’ambito della seconda metà del IV secolo a.C., si compone di tre statue, originariamente policrome: due figure femminili stanti (140 per 55 centimetri circa), riconoscibili come sirene in base alla conformazione ornitomorfa della parte inferiore del corpo, e una figura maschile seduta, vestita del solo mantello, variamente identificata come poeta, come Orfeo o semplicemente come un defunto del quale poteva costituire parte del monumento sepolcrale.
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La figura maschile impugna con la mano destra un oggetto allungato, probabilmente il manico di un plektron, secondo l’interpretazione di Bottini e Guzzo, che ipotizzano nell’altra mano l’originaria presenza di uno strumento a corda. L’opera è riconducibile con certezza al patrimonio culturale italiano e proviene probabilmente dal territorio tarantino”. Lo stesso Getty Trust, si legge ancora nel verbale del Senato, aveva sottoscritto nel 2007 una convenzione con l’allora Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali che aveva permesso il rientro in Italia di molti beni preziosi e che stabiliva l’impegno del Ministero a “interpellare previamente il Getty Trust prima di procedere al recupero di beni archeologici dei quali sia acquisita la prova della provenienza da scavo clandestino e/o oggetto di esportazione illegittima dall’Italia di beni archeologici presenti nelle collezioni del Getty Trust
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“. Sono passati un po’ di anni, certo, ma la collaborazione si può ora dire fruttuosa, nonostante i trascorsi anche burrascosi (vedasi la condanna del tribunale di Pesaro di qualche anno fa).
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LA POLICY DI RESTITUZIONE DEL GETTY MUSEUM DEI MANUFATTI SOTTRATTI ILLECITAMENTE
Il Getty – un’istituzione di livello globale con una enorme collezione che va dalle opere greche alle fotografie del Novecento – ha adempiuto così alla propria policy di restituzione dei manufatti al Paese d’origine, obbligatoria nel caso in cui vi siano informazioni affidabili a indicare che siano stati rubati o scavati illegalmente. “Grazie alle informazioni fornite da Matthew Bogdanos e dall’Unità per il traffico di antichità dell’ufficio del procuratore distrettuale di Manhattan che indicano lo scavo illegale di Orfeo e delle sirene, abbiamo deciso che questi oggetti dovrebbero essere restituiti”, hanno dichiarato i direttori Timothy Potts, Maria Hummer-Tuttle e Robert Tuttle.
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Ma non finisce qui: secondo ricercatori dell’istituzione e studiosi indipendenti, bisognerà restituire anche una colossale testa in marmo di una divinità del II secolo d.C.; uno stampo in pietra del II secolo d.C. per la fusione di pendenti; un dipinto a olio intitolato Oracolo a Delfi (1881) di Camillo Miola; e un thymiaterion in bronzo etrusco del IV secolo a.C. I primi tre di questi oggetti furono acquisiti dal fondatore J. Paul Getty e dal Getty Museum negli anni ’70, il quarto nel 1996, e nessuno di loro è più stato esposto al pubblico negli ultimi anni. “Apprezziamo il nostro forte e fruttuoso rapporto con il Ministero della Cultura italiano e con i nostri numerosi colleghi archeologi, conservatori, curatoriali e altri studiosi in tutta Italia, con i quali condividiamo la missione di promuovere la conservazione del patrimonio culturale antico“, ha affermato il direttore Potts.
Fonte / source, foto:
--- ARTIBUNE (11/08/2022).
www.artribune.com/arti-visive/archeologia-arte-antica/202...
Foto: The Los Angele Times, USA (11 Aug., 2022).
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4). ITALIA / USA - Getty to return illegally excavated Orpheus sculptures, some great antiquities, to Italy. The Los Angele Times, USA (11 Aug., 2022).
The J. Paul Getty Museum is returning its Orpheus group of sculptures — a culturally significant group of nearly life-size terra-cotta figures known as “Orpheus and the Sirens,” some of the museum’s greatest antiquities — to Italy. The objects, which have been determined to have been illegally excavated and exported, will be sent to Rome in September. The institution is coordinating with Italy’s Ministry of Culture to send four other objects back as well at a future date.
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“The Getty is not in a position to comment on information that led to the return of the Orpheus,” spokesperson Julie Jaskol said. “The information was supplied by Matthew Bogdanos of the Antiquities Trafficking Unit of the Manhattan district attorney’s office, who developed the evidence in an investigation unrelated to the Getty. The evidence persuaded us that the statues had been illegally excavated and it was appropriate to return them in accordance with Getty policy.”
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Bogdanos was not able to comment given that the investigation is still in progress, a spokesperson for the Manhattan district attorney’s office said.
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“This piece is being returned pursuant to an ongoing and active criminal investigation,” the spokesperson said in an email, “which uncovered the antiquity was illegally trafficked.”
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“Orpheus and the Sirens” is extremely fragile, and the museum says it is working on “specially tailored equipment and procedures” regarding its transfer.
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J. Paul Getty purchased the Orpheus sculptures in the spring of 1976. It was among his final acquisitions prior to his June 6 death.
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In his diary, which is part of the Getty’s archives, an entry from Saturday, March 6, 1976, notes that he “bought the following objects” including “a group of 3 Greek statues made in Tarentum at the end of the 4th C.B.C.
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They represent a singer Orpheus seated and 2 standing sirens. $550,000 from Bank Leu. All of these naturally were on [Czech American archaeologist Jiří Frel’s] recommendation.” Frel was the Getty’s antiquities curator from 1973 to 1986.
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The $550,000 Getty paid in 1976 is equivalent to around $3 million today, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ CPI Inflation Calculator.
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The Orpheus group of sculptures is an incredibly important work to the Getty. It has been on view, in a ground floor gallery at the Getty Villa, since it was acquired more than four decades ago.
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“It is a very important work. I’d even say one of the most important in the [Getty Museum’s] collection,” Getty Museum director Timothy Potts said in an interview. “So it will be a loss as to what we can represent about the art of the ancient classical world, in this case southern Italy in the late fourth century B.C.”
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Potts said the work is especially unique because of its scale, quality and subject matter — it suggests the mythical story of Jason and the Argonauts, which would make the sculpture’s seated man, who plays a harp-like instrument, Orpheus.
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“It’s just extremely rare and there’s nothing similar in our collection, or closely similar in any collection,” Potts said. “It does leave a hole in our gallery but with this evidence that came forth, there was no question that it needed to be sent back to Italy.”
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“We value our strong and fruitful relationship with the Italian Ministry of Culture and with our many archaeological, conservation, curatorial, and other scholarly colleagues throughout Italy, with whom we share a mission to advance the preservation of ancient cultural heritage,” Potts said in a statement.
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The other pieces being returned to Italy — none of which have been exhibited in recent years — are a colossal marble head of a divinity and a limestone mold for casting pendants, both from the second century A.D., along with a 19th century oil painting by Camillo Miola, “The Oracle,” and an Etruscan bronze thymiaterion, a ceremonial incense burner, from the fourth century B.C. The latter was acquired by the Getty in 1996 while the other three objects were acquired in the 1970s.
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Fonte / source, foto:
--- The Los Angele Times, USA (11 Aug., 2022).
www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-08-11/getty...
To be specific, it's a Windhoff High Output Plant System (GWRM HOPS). It was travelling from Harrow & Wealdstone to Crewe (Gresty Lane) with headcode 6X81.
Jean de Hangest wears rather early all-enclosing plate armour on the limbs of a specific style.
The poleyns and couters are quite large, with always one lame in between the rerebraces, vambraces, cuisses and greaves.
Note the hinges on the outside of the greaves, though the carver didn’t depict straps on the inside.
Some mail can be seen where the greaves and sabatons, consisting of five lames, meet.
A surcoat with a fairly flowing skirt, ending in trefoils on all of its edges, is probably worn over a coat-of-plates.
The surcoat has got a slit on the right side for the dagger, now lost, protruding from under the coat-of-plates.
Also the hilt of the sword is lost.
A mail standard with the usual scalloped edge is worn on the neck. Also note the forked beard and curly hair of the time.
The inscription on the tomb possibly dates from the early 16th century, during the time when the church was rebuilt.
Jean de Hangest died in 1363 in London, as an hostage of King John the Good of France, who was captured by the English at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356.
Codon-pair context is species specific.A) Individual codon-pair context maps built for various genomes followed phylogeny indicating that codon-pair context is species specific. For instance, the human ORFeome map is more similar to that of chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) than to the mouse (Mus musculus) map. B) This result was confirmed using differential display maps (DDM) that subtract two codon-pair context maps. For example, H. sapiens–M. musculus (H.s vs M.m); H. sapiens–P. troglodytes (H.s vs P.t). In these differential display maps major codon-pair context differences (above 15) are shown in light blue and darker maps correspond to species with more similar codon-pair context biases. In the present example, the maps of H.s vs M.m and H.s vs P.t have 6% and 1% of blue cells, respectively. C and D) The same phylogenetical relationship could be detected for bacterial ORFeomes, as exemplified for Escherichia coli, Bacillus cereus and Salmonella typhi. The DDM built with these species have 55% (E.c vs B.c) and 20% (E.c vs S.t) of blue cells. E) Finally, the phylogenetical relationship was maintained when the above species were clustered according to the similarities of the codon-pair context maps. The yeasts Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces pombe were added to include an intermediate group of lower eukaryotes in the tree. Adjusted residuals are colored in the maps according to the color scale shown, so that green cells correspond to preferred and red cells to rejected contexts.
A torte is just a fancy name for a specific kind of cake. It is a rich cake, usually multilayered, that is filled with buttercreams, mousses, jams, or fruits.
Sacher is a specific type of a chocolate cake, invented by Franz Sacher in 1832. He was only 16 years old and in his 2nd year of apprenticeship. His boss took ill and he was ask by the prince of Austria to make a desert for some special guests. The Prince is reported to have declared, "Let there be no shame on me tonight!". Franz put on his big boy pants and pulled a rabbit out of his keaster.
The cake/torte is made like most cakes you make at home, baked in 2 cake pans. But after the cake cools you start slicing it up into very thin layers. I think we got 12 to 15 layers out of the two cakes and that's after you lob off the crown part.
The layering goes sponge, then brush that with Simple Syrup with liquor, then Raspberry jam ( the good stuff), then Chocolate ganache. Then repeat till you reach the top of the cake ring / mold.
This gets put into the fridge till set and then finished with a chocolate glaze. That means pouring BIG ladles of melted chocolate glaze over the cake till you cant see any cake bits.
The Raspberry jam was Marmelade De Framboises and the Glaze was Blonde Glacer. Blonde is what the french call milk chocolate.
Needless to say, you don't eat very big slices of this, its one heck of a rich cake.
A Report to the Michigan Bird Records Committee
1. Species.
Spotted Redshank, Tringa erythropus
2. Number of individuals.
One
3. Date and time of sighting. (Please be sure to indicate how long your observations lasted.)
On 2 November 2018, discovered at 4:20 PM (DST) and last observed at 5:00 PM (DST), within this time span observed and photographed for at least 23 minutes
4. County.
Washtenaw County
5. Exact location. (Please be as specific as possible, including nearest crossroads; include GPS coordinates if known, as well as coordinate system and receiver type.)
Southeast of Scio Church Road and Parker Road intersection in Section 6, Lodi Township and northeast of this intersection in Section 31, Scio Township.
6. Detailed description of appearance. (Please be as specific as you can, and include if possible: size; shape; bill, eye and leg characteristics; color and pattern of plumage; and any other features that you observed. This is the most important part of your submission.)
A dusky, smoky-brown shorebird with long orange-red legs caught Margaret Jewett's eyes. It was on a mud flat in a marshy pond located about 150 feet to the east of Parker Road in Section 6 of Lodi Township. It had a typical Tringa shape and a long, fine straight bill; its size appeared somewhat smaller than that of an accompanying Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca. With effort Margaret called my attention to this bird; at the time I was contemplating taking photos of a Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos. As soon as I had focused my binoculars on Margaret's bird, it took flight, revealing an oval white back patch that clearly contrasted with the dusky mantle, dusky wings and gray tail. These characteristics plus the orange-red tarsi clinched its immediate identification. Nevertheless I found it hard to believe what I had just seen. With binoculars I followed its flight to where it landed beyond a curtain of cattails and brush at the extreme north end of the marsh in Section 31 of Scio Township. Once relocated, I observed and photographed it at distances of 60 to 100 feet as it foraged, preened and dozed.
By direct comparison with eight Greater Yellowlegs, its overall form appeared more delicate and its movements more elegant than that of the yellowlegs. It frequently waded up to its belly, sometimes even swimming for several feet. Ongoing photographs viewed through my camera's LCD and later through Margaret's scope revealed the so-called kink or droop near the tip of the upper mandible. The bill was between 1.25 times to 1.3 times the length of the head in lateral profile. The basal one-third to almost one-half of the lower mandible was orange-red, but the hue was less intense than the orange-red of the tarsi. The rest of the bill was almost black. Also, photos revealed the hind toe and the small web between the outer two toes.
The Spotted Redshank was a hatch-year bird for the most part in first-basic plumage and it was in preformative molt: some of the scapulars of the bird's left and right side, as well as some of the mantle feathers, exhibited the plain-gray feathers of fresh formative plumage.
The white super-loral stripe was a notable facial feature, separating the dark brown lores from the gray-brown forehead. Above the postocular line was a patch of white post-ocular spots. A white upper and lower eye arc framed the dark eye. The ear coverts were marbled light gray.
The cream-white vent, flanks and under tail-coverts were closely barred with gray, whereas the cream-white belly had sparse gray barring. The throat, neck and breast were streaked gray and white. The forehead, crown and nape were gray-brown with delicate white streaks or tiny spots. The mantle was gray-brown with small white spots. The darker margins of the gray-brown scapulars, tertials and greater coverts had white notches. Likewise, the upper wing coverts were gray-brown with white marginal notches or spots.
Three primary tips extended beyond the tertials and fell short of the tail tip. Rectrix one and two (the top of the tail) were gray; their margins had white notches, between which black blobs extended as faded dark-gray bars toward the shaft. The margins of the closed lower rectrices appeared as a pattern of black and white spots.
7. Description of voice.
Sometimes, when taking flight across a stretch of water to rejoin the Greater Yellowlegs, the Spotted Redshank called with a brief series of disyllabic notes of changing tone, the rising inflection of which was utterly different than that of the single monotonic “teu” notes of the yellowlegs.
8. Behaviors observed.
My patience, a necessity for photography, coupled with six-and-a-half decades of bird observation, transformed this encounter into an experience of sheer pleasure, the kind that only an unimaginable surprise gives—almost nothing went unnoticed as a bit of the Palaearctic world unfolded before my eyes. During my slow, extremely cautious approach of stop and go, the Spotted Redshank stood stark still and alert with head held high, giving the occasional characteristic head-nod of the Tringa genus. I stood behind my tripod with mounted camera and lens in order to partially shield from view my upright stance. Except for slight movements of my head and hands for photography, I remained motionless throughout my observation. After accepting my presence, the bird foraged actively where patches of muddy shoreline protruded into open water, often wading up to its belly, even swimming across narrow stretches of deeper water. Foraging was by bill-probing into water or mud. Small prey items, usually pea size or smaller, were extracted with the bill and immediately swallowed. Two prey items were identified, each being a leech Hirudinea, one of which upon being snatched coiled itself around the bird's bill only to be swallowed whole.
Sometimes the Spotted Redshank foraged in loose association with one of eight Greater Yellowlegs. It seemed to have a subordinate position, for its tendency was to give way to the direct advances of any of the Greater Yellowlegs. After actively foraging, the Spotted Redshank became stationary, preening its body plumage, then dozing intermittently with eyes closed and head pulled in. Upon becoming active again, it foraged on a mud flat among the prostrate branches of a long-dead, fallen tree. As a result I could no longer take unobstructed photos nor continuously view it. Therefore I returned to Parker Road and rejoined Margaret Jewett. Together we relocated the bird from Scio Church Road and through her scope watched it forage, rest and preen.
9. Habitat
Habitat is a small wetland surrounded by agrarian fields and partitioned by two paved highways. A portion of the wetland is a pond at very low-water stage having broken stretches of mud flat. The marshy portions have patches of Typha and some shrubbery such as Salix, Cornus and Cephalanthus, as well as collapsed dead trees and standing stubs. A thick growth of Calamagrostis, Phalaris and Bidens partially covers the soggy outer edges of the marsh.
10. Similar Species and how eliminated
The possibility of the observed bird being an aberrant yellowlegs with orange tarsi was ruled out. Yellowlegs lack the following three characteristics which this Spotted Redshank had.
First, the bill structure did not conform to that of a Lesser Yellowlegs, being far too long in comparison to that of the head length. Nor did the bill conform to that of the Greater Yellowlegs, being far too thin and terminating into that peculiar droop which the Spotted Redshank is noted for. Furthermore, the basal portion of the lower mandible was notably orange-red and extended for a little over one-third the bill length, a colorful feature that yellowlegs lack.
Second, the oval white patch reaching up the back as revealed in flight is something that yellowlegs lack.
Third, the vent and belly of yellowlegs lack the gray barring that this juvenile Spotted Redshank had.
Last but not least, the Spotted Redshank lacked the stunning white secondaries of the Common Redshank Tringa totanus.
11. Previous experience with this species and similar species.
I’ve studied Spotted Redshanks as wintering birds in Morocco and as spring arrivals in Finland. I’ve observed Common Redshanks within a span of 27 years in Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Morocco and Japan. My experience with both species of yellowlegs reaches back to 1960 in North America.
12. Distance from bird(s) and how measured or estimated (indicate which).
Observation distances ranged from 60 to 100 feet. A Google Earth map at a 50-foot scale was used to approximate these distances.
13. Optical equipment used.
Swarovski EL 10X42 binoculars; Canon Lens EF 500mm with Extender 1.4x and Canon camera EOS 5D Mark IV; Margaret Jewett’s Leica 10X42 binoculars and her Swarovski 25X-60X 85mm spotting scope.
14. Light (sunny versus cloudy, position of sun in relation to bird[s] and you).
The entire sky was low with clouds.
As I faced the bird, its position in the marsh ranged from due east to north by northeast from me. As Margaret Jewett and I faced the bird, its position from us on Scio Church road was north by northwest. Therefore, the sun’s position would have been on the right side of my back in the marsh and on the left side of our backs while on the road (considering the Sun’s southward position on that date and time).
15. Other observers:
Margaret Jewett.
Subsequently, there were hundreds of other observers from around the country.
16. Did the others agree with your identification? (Please give contact information)
Margaret Jewett agreed with my identification. Her description of field marks as seen through her scope was submitted to eBird and included: Shorebird smaller than greater yellowlegs with striking red legs and lower mandible; long, thin bill with a slight droop at tip of bill(seen in photographs); brownish gray tertials with white margins interrupted by black notches looking like stitching; white fore-supercilium and red lower mandible highlighting pre-ocular black line connecting the eye to the black upper mandible; in combination with the red legs, the diagnostic white elliptical patch on the back observed when preening; first calendar year bird showing several all gray formative feathers on the upper scapulars and juvenile barring along the flanks.
Subsequently, hundreds of other observers from around the country agreed with this identification.
17. When did you first write down notes describing the bird(s) in question? (If you have field notes or notes written within a few days after returning from the field, then please include scans or photocopies of them with your submission.)
I did not take field notes. I have 177 photos ranging from very good to excellent showing all aspects of the bird in detail. Margaret took note of the field characteristics as I outlined them to her in the field. She submitted her description (above) to eBird within 24 hours of the sighting.
18. Books and other references consulted.
I did not need to consult books and references. The primary reference was the photos of the bird. Margaret Jewett referred to her Sibley’s and National Geographic Field Guides as well as Shorebirds: an identification guide by Peter Hayman, John Marchant, and Tony Prater.
19. Were the references consulted before or after you first wrote down a description?
Margaret looked at the field guides in her car for a general description after first spotting the shorebird with the red legs. The guides were not in hand when she viewed the bird and observed its characteristics.
20. How did the references influence the description?
The references did not influence the description. The references, in conjunction with the photographs, corroborated the identification.
21. Were photographs obtained?
One hundred seventy-seven photographs were obtained
22. Your name.
Alan J Ryff
Date you filled out this form.
10 November 2018
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A Report to the Michigan Bird Records Committee
1. Species.
Spotted Redshank, Tringa erythropus
2. Number of individuals.
One
3. Date and time of sighting. (Please be sure to indicate how long your observations lasted.)
On 2 November 2018, discovered at 4:20 PM (DST) and last observed at 5:00 PM (DST), within this time span observed and photographed for at least 23 minutes
4. County.
Washtenaw County
5. Exact location. (Please be as specific as possible, including nearest crossroads; include GPS coordinates if known, as well as coordinate system and receiver type.)
Southeast of Scio Church Road and Parker Road intersection in Section 6, Lodi Township and northeast of this intersection in Section 31, Scio Township.
6. Detailed description of appearance. (Please be as specific as you can, and include if possible: size; shape; bill, eye and leg characteristics; color and pattern of plumage; and any other features that you observed. This is the most important part of your submission.)
A dusky, smoky-brown shorebird with long orange-red legs caught Margaret Jewett's eyes. It was on a mud flat in a marshy pond located about 150 feet to the east of Parker Road in Section 6 of Lodi Township. It had a typical Tringa shape and a long, fine straight bill; its size appeared somewhat smaller than that of an accompanying Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca. With effort Margaret called my attention to this bird; at the time I was contemplating taking photos of a Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos. As soon as I had focused my binoculars on Margaret's bird, it took flight, revealing an oval white back patch that clearly contrasted with the dusky mantle, dusky wings and gray tail. These characteristics plus the orange-red tarsi clinched its immediate identification. Nevertheless I found it hard to believe what I had just seen. With binoculars I followed its flight to where it landed beyond a curtain of cattails and brush at the extreme north end of the marsh in Section 31 of Scio Township. Once relocated, I observed and photographed it at distances of 60 to 100 feet as it foraged, preened and dozed.
By direct comparison with eight Greater Yellowlegs, its overall form appeared more delicate and its movements more elegant than that of the yellowlegs. It frequently waded up to its belly, sometimes even swimming for several feet. Ongoing photographs viewed through my camera's LCD and later through Margaret's scope revealed the so-called kink or droop near the tip of the upper mandible. The bill was between 1.25 times to 1.3 times the length of the head in lateral profile. The basal one-third to almost one-half of the lower mandible was orange-red, but the hue was less intense than the orange-red of the tarsi. The rest of the bill was almost black. Also, photos revealed the hind toe and the small web between the outer two toes.
The Spotted Redshank was a hatch-year bird for the most part in first-basic plumage and it was in preformative molt: some of the scapulars of the bird's left and right side, as well as some of the mantle feathers, exhibited the plain-gray feathers of fresh formative plumage.
The white super-loral stripe was a notable facial feature, separating the dark brown lores from the gray-brown forehead. Above the postocular line was a patch of white post-ocular spots. A white upper and lower eye arc framed the dark eye. The ear coverts were marbled light gray.
The cream-white vent, flanks and under tail-coverts were closely barred with gray, whereas the cream-white belly had sparse gray barring. The throat, neck and breast were streaked gray and white. The forehead, crown and nape were gray-brown with delicate white streaks or tiny spots. The mantle was gray-brown with small white spots. The darker margins of the gray-brown scapulars, tertials and greater coverts had white notches. Likewise, the upper wing coverts were gray-brown with white marginal notches or spots.
Three primary tips extended beyond the tertials and fell short of the tail tip. Rectrix one and two (the top of the tail) were gray; their margins had white notches, between which black blobs extended as faded dark-gray bars toward the shaft. The margins of the closed lower rectrices appeared as a pattern of black and white spots.
7. Description of voice.
Sometimes, when taking flight across a stretch of water to rejoin the Greater Yellowlegs, the Spotted Redshank called with a brief series of disyllabic notes of changing tone, the rising inflection of which was utterly different than that of the single monotonic “teu” notes of the yellowlegs.
8. Behaviors observed.
My patience, a necessity for photography, coupled with six-and-a-half decades of bird observation, transformed this encounter into an experience of sheer pleasure, the kind that only an unimaginable surprise gives—almost nothing went unnoticed as a bit of the Palaearctic world unfolded before my eyes. During my slow, extremely cautious approach of stop and go, the Spotted Redshank stood stark still and alert with head held high, giving the occasional characteristic head-nod of the Tringa genus. I stood behind my tripod with mounted camera and lens in order to partially shield from view my upright stance. Except for slight movements of my head and hands for photography, I remained motionless throughout my observation. After accepting my presence, the bird foraged actively where patches of muddy shoreline protruded into open water, often wading up to its belly, even swimming across narrow stretches of deeper water. Foraging was by bill-probing into water or mud. Small prey items, usually pea size or smaller, were extracted with the bill and immediately swallowed. Two prey items were identified, each being a leech Hirudinea, one of which upon being snatched coiled itself around the bird's bill only to be swallowed whole.
Sometimes the Spotted Redshank foraged in loose association with one of eight Greater Yellowlegs. It seemed to have a subordinate position, for its tendency was to give way to the direct advances of any of the Greater Yellowlegs. After actively foraging, the Spotted Redshank became stationary, preening its body plumage, then dozing intermittently with eyes closed and head pulled in. Upon becoming active again, it foraged on a mud flat among the prostrate branches of a long-dead, fallen tree. As a result I could no longer take unobstructed photos nor continuously view it. Therefore I returned to Parker Road and rejoined Margaret Jewett. Together we relocated the bird from Scio Church Road and through her scope watched it forage, rest and preen.
9. Habitat
Habitat is a small wetland surrounded by agrarian fields and partitioned by two paved highways. A portion of the wetland is a pond at very low-water stage having broken stretches of mud flat. The marshy portions have patches of Typha and some shrubbery such as Salix, Cornus and Cephalanthus, as well as collapsed dead trees and standing stubs. A thick growth of Calamagrostis, Phalaris and Bidens partially covers the soggy outer edges of the marsh.
10. Similar Species and how eliminated
The possibility of the observed bird being an aberrant yellowlegs with orange tarsi was ruled out. Yellowlegs lack the following three characteristics which this Spotted Redshank had.
First, the bill structure did not conform to that of a Lesser Yellowlegs, being far too long in comparison to that of the head length. Nor did the bill conform to that of the Greater Yellowlegs, being far too thin and terminating into that peculiar droop which the Spotted Redshank is noted for. Furthermore, the basal portion of the lower mandible was notably orange-red and extended for a little over one-third the bill length, a colorful feature that yellowlegs lack.
Second, the oval white patch reaching up the back as revealed in flight is something that yellowlegs lack.
Third, the vent and belly of yellowlegs lack the gray barring that this juvenile Spotted Redshank had.
Last but not least, the Spotted Redshank lacked the stunning white secondaries of the Common Redshank Tringa totanus.
11. Previous experience with this species and similar species.
I’ve studied Spotted Redshanks as wintering birds in Morocco and as spring arrivals in Finland. I’ve observed Common Redshanks within a span of 27 years in Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Morocco and Japan. My experience with both species of yellowlegs reaches back to 1960 in North America.
12. Distance from bird(s) and how measured or estimated (indicate which).
Observation distances ranged from 60 to 100 feet. A Google Earth map at a 50-foot scale was used to approximate these distances.
13. Optical equipment used.
Swarovski EL 10X42 binoculars; Canon Lens EF 500mm with Extender 1.4x and Canon camera EOS 5D Mark IV; Margaret Jewett’s Leica 10X42 binoculars and her Swarovski 25X-60X 85mm spotting scope.
14. Light (sunny versus cloudy, position of sun in relation to bird[s] and you).
The entire sky was low with clouds.
As I faced the bird, its position in the marsh ranged from due east to north by northeast from me. As Margaret Jewett and I faced the bird, its position from us on Scio Church road was north by northwest. Therefore, the sun’s position would have been on the right side of my back in the marsh and on the left side of our backs while on the road (considering the Sun’s southward position on that date and time).
15. Other observers:
Margaret Jewett.
Subsequently, there were hundreds of other observers from around the country.
16. Did the others agree with your identification? (Please give contact information)
Margaret Jewett agreed with my identification. Her description of field marks as seen through her scope was submitted to eBird and included: Shorebird smaller than greater yellowlegs with striking red legs and lower mandible; long, thin bill with a slight droop at tip of bill(seen in photographs); brownish gray tertials with white margins interrupted by black notches looking like stitching; white fore-supercilium and red lower mandible highlighting pre-ocular black line connecting the eye to the black upper mandible; in combination with the red legs, the diagnostic white elliptical patch on the back observed when preening; first calendar year bird showing several all gray formative feathers on the upper scapulars and juvenile barring along the flanks.
Subsequently, hundreds of other observers from around the country agreed with this identification.
17. When did you first write down notes describing the bird(s) in question? (If you have field notes or notes written within a few days after returning from the field, then please include scans or photocopies of them with your submission.)
I did not take field notes. I have 177 photos ranging from very good to excellent showing all aspects of the bird in detail. Margaret took note of the field characteristics as I outlined them to her in the field. She submitted her description (above) to eBird within 24 hours of the sighting.
18. Books and other references consulted.
I did not need to consult books and references. The primary reference was the photos of the bird. Margaret Jewett referred to her Sibley’s and National Geographic Field Guides as well as Shorebirds: an identification guide by Peter Hayman, John Marchant, and Tony Prater.
19. Were the references consulted before or after you first wrote down a description?
Margaret looked at the field guides in her car for a general description after first spotting the shorebird with the red legs. The guides were not in hand when she viewed the bird and observed its characteristics.
20. How did the references influence the description?
The references did not influence the description. The references, in conjunction with the photographs, corroborated the identification.
21. Were photographs obtained?
One hundred seventy-seven photographs were obtained
22. Your name.
Alan J Ryff
Date you filled out this form.
10 November 2018
Very interesting large photo of an "Infanterie-Geschütz" with a cart with the cannon and a cart with ammunition and an unidentified wagon (according to the text a wagon specific to the transport of the gun barrel).
Very likely IGB23 (rathen than IGB27) regarding other photos and the number on the side of the cannon (Battr. 2?).
In the background on the right, a piece of the training ground.
Dated 15.II.18 on the back.
Thanks to Hans :
"Vorführung des Rohrkarren. Pionierburo" - "Presentation of the Rohrkarren. Bureau of the pioneers"
Text on another copy :
"Geschütz der I.G.B. 23.
Vorne Rohrwagen mit Gleitschlitten, der dann Benutzt wurde, wenn das Geschütz in nachster Nähe des Grabens gebracht werden sollte.
Pferde wurden in solchen Fällen nicht mehr verwandt, tautlos musste bei stockdunkler Nacht der Transport vor sieh gehen u. ene der Morgen graute war die schwere Arbeit geleistet."
Translation :
"Gun of the I.G.B. 23. - At the front, a gun carriage with a sliding sled, which was used when the gun had to be moved to the immediate vicinity of the trench. Horses were no longer used in such cases; the transport had to proceed by horse in pitch-black darkness, and before dawn the hard work was done."
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Some relevant School news clippings,
Feb 24, 2022 - Wolfville, N.S. Acadia University. The Acadia University Professors strike enters its 4th week ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51901774104
Sept 30th 2022 - A.I. strikes the good ole hockey game ? Acadia Axeman hockey at Andrew H. McCain Arena goes paperless ? The Official paper program is no longer handed out to the paying customer ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52395343477
January 22, 2024 - Canada sets two-year cap on foreign students. The cap will result in a decrease of 35% in approved study permits.
www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68059996
Dec 14,2021 - Don't all of the paid up members matter ? Discrimination is shown against the outside non-school community Acadia Athletics members during Covi. A posted official notice at Acadia reads : "The Acadia Athletics complex will be closed to community drop-ins, community memberships, and external rentals until further notice , However,, Acadia staff, faculty and students, with proof of double vaccination, will continue to access the fitness center, pool and the arena for skating. "
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51748079885
International student fallout hits the bottom line.. Atlantic universities depend on international students for about 30 per cent of their enrollment.
universityaffairs.ca/news/international-student-fallout-h...
May 11th 2023 - A new policy based on race has been announced at Acadia where almost half of seats for a new Course will be set aside and reserved only for members of certain racial or ethnic groups as specified by the University ? The PC Government announced that a new nursing program is to be offered at Acadia University where approximately 50 percent of the seats are to be reserved only for African, Mi'kmaq and Indigenous students. The total number of annual seats set to increase to 63 ? When bearing in mind the current health care worker crisis and urgent need for nursing grads, is it really wise or responsible to install race or ethnic restrictions that could eliminate many of those wanting to apply ? www2.acadiau.ca/about-acadia/newsroom/news-reader-page/ac...
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The Supreme Court says colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration as a specific basis for granting admission,
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R-Studio, a local Halifax gym, executes an exclusive low price membership charge that is determined by what race you are ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsHpxm3yb7c&t=20s
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Canada's Gen Z can't find jobs,, www.cbc.ca/news/business/youth-unemployment-rate-1.7549979
The Koncerned Kentvillian must ask, " why is it every time you gas up at Milne Court Petro-Can, New Minas Ultramar, KVille Ultramar and now the Big Stop, or go to the KFC for chicken, or Mary Browns, or the Burger King, or Subway, or all of the 3 Timmies for coffee, or Walmart, oe Needs, or receive a parcel from amazon, or attend the cash register post to pay a bill at many other stores, it feels like you're suddenly in a foreign country ? " What has happened to all of the friendly happy locals that used to hold these positions and were one of the main reasons that we all frequent these establishments ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54418705157/
Kody Bloise . Liberal Party
Is there an identity crisis looming in Kentville ?
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Canada's post-secondary industry predicts storm ahead, as budget cuts shrink courses, staff,
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July 1, 2021 - the Prime Minister of Canada will not be celebrating Canada Day this year claiming that for some Canada Day isn't a day to celebrate." Wha-a-a-a-t -t-t ??? www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-day-political-reaction-1....
U of T law program Toronto, Jun 27, 2023 - " She Sung it her Way "
Jully Black makes up her own personalized and politicized, 'our home on native land' version of the Canadian National anthem in her performance at Toronto university graduation. Black was asked to perform her way of singing Canada's national anthem to reflect the core values of the U of T law program ? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/jully-black-tmu-law-school...
Dec 16th 2023 - O Canada is sung in Punjabi at the NHL Jets hockey game in Winnipeg Manitoba,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKifMtbbyJg
Apr 15, 2024 - Opioid-related deaths have now doubled in Canada ?
atlantic.ctvnews.ca/video/c2904079-opioid-related-deaths-...
Apr 29 2024 - Liberals legalize hard drugs ? Ottawa has allowed B.C. to decriminalize small amounts of hard drugs like heroin and fentanyl starting in 2023, www.cbc.ca/news/politics/decriminalization-british-columb...
July 7th 2024 - Come from Away ? An epidemic of violent crime homelessness and opioid deaths are now hitting big cities in the down home and laid back Maritimes starting in Moncton and Halifax ?
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wkHCSbSwkw
5th Mar 5th, 2025 - U.S. funding freeze affecting both American and international exchange students and major US scholarship funders
monitor.icef.com/2025/03/us-funding-freeze-affecting-both...
Trump protecting historic statues - enacts 10 years in jail penalty for harming or defacing historical statues,, www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-signs-executive-order-enactin...
February 10, 2025 - Acadia University announces permanent pool closure, discontinues varsity swim team - will close its swimming pool on June 15, 2025,
Students chose Acadia because of the swim team and many parents got calls “from their kids – in tears – devastated.”
Acadia Aquatics,
recreation.acadiau.ca/aquatics.html
How not to park at Hennigers farm Market Greenwich,
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www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/prince-edward-island/article/pei-...
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Town of Wolfville breaking the law, obstructing traffic, while creating a safety hazard ? And making trip to and from hockey games has become a real challenge ?
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Sep 29, 2025 - Wolfville now studying ways to solve their traffic congestion problem along Main Street ?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/wolfville-nova-scotia-...
Gambling in amateur Sport ? CBC has introduced gambling into the Olympic games coverage ? In a groundbreaking move and for the first time ever, CBC will include gambling in its live coverage of the 2024 Olympic games ?
Paris Olympics - It appears that CBC has partnered with one particular online Casino company and BetRivers is running sports betting ads during the televising of Olympic sporting events ? Is the inclusion of a Casino and a Sports betting parlor that runs sports betting during Olympic events appropriate to the principles and high moral standard exemplified by Olympic Games ?
Aug 22 2024, - the Minister of hypocrisy, oops, I mean the Libral Minister of Health Mark Holland and his Government pass legislation that will enable access to massive gambling in Canada ? And now NHL heros past and present like Wayne Gretzky, Austin Matthews and Connor McDavid can be found in TV gambling commercials, online gambling ads, and pasted onto huge billboards that promote sports gambling ? But Holland seems more worried about Zonnic, a smoking cessation product that helps to quit smoking and is sold only to those over 19 and always kept hidden away from view under the counter in stores ? Its a bit rich when Holland attacks and bans the current sale of this quit smoking product Zonnic proclaiming when that, "All the stuff that's clearly designed to target youth — It's over !"
Fans confused ? After NHL Superstar heroes play starring roles in glamorous new bet MGM ads to promote gambling there were numerous complaints filed. And so they eased away from this image of a Sports hero who encourages and participates in gambling although McDavid's image itself was never seperated from the gambling vice or the lucrative gambling industry ? A new corrected version now shows Connor as an ambassador for safe and responsible gambling when you gamble ? But isn't it still gambling ? see news article, "Connor McDavid's latest gambling ad with Bet MGM sparks outrage among his fans,"
www.sportskeeda.com/us/nhl/news-disgusted-started-gamblin...
Betano - A message to the kids from a mentor- "are you a good player, or a great player". Betano gambling ads associate words like 'good and great' with gambling ?
What if they advertise a safe way to smoke cigarettes in order to obtain clients ? Sound ridiculous ? But is this not the same idea as advertising gambling as 'safe' gambling ? Do these safe gambling ads serve to welcome, endorse and normalize gambling which can be a dangerous and life altering highly addictive habit ?
May 25,2022-Big gambling companies run ads emphasizing 'limited play' and 'safe' gambling ? Is this not the same as the alcohol industry running drinking ads that encourage drinking alcohol by telling you how many beers that you can safely drink per day, or, how about the tobacco industry running ads promoting safe smoking thru a suggested amount of safely smoked cigs per day, or the marijuana industry recommending the number of joints to safely get high on each day ? Or, what if they spin : You're 'good' if you drink but You're 'great' if you safe drink, or, you're 'good' if you smoke cigarettes but You're 'great' if you safe smoke only so many cigarettes per day, or , you're 'good' if you smoke pot but you're 'great' if you only smoke this many grams per day ? ref, "All those sports betting ads you're seeing,, It's illegal says the Alberta gaming commission ?" www.cbc.ca/player/play/2302654019728
Student took out a $24K student loan and lost it all to the bookies in 24 hours ? What are the legal implications of spending a student loan on something else besides education such as gambling ? That’s not just free money to spend on whatever you want ? www.reddit.com/r/problemgambling/comments/10h3k46/i_just_...
Jul 22, 2026 - In their ongoing quest for notoriety, the powers-that-be have ordered cigarette packages to be re engineered and re-designed not to make room for the addition of more product but instead to increase the showcase area size of the package cover ? The added space will be needed to accommodate a fresh new series of 13 upgraded ultra sickening pictures and warnings that are to be added to the existing 73 others that are now over-crowding current package covers ? Messages will also be added to the extended upper flap inside cigarette packages says Karine LeBlanc.
Do these people really think that by continually satisfying their own egos and by exercising their own personal vendetta against one of the thousands of possible causes of cancer that they are actually helping find a cure for cancer ?
www.cbc.f ca/news/health/canada-graphic-image-warnings-ciga...
Feb 4th 2025, Bell Let's Talk ? Abandoning 3500 Unionized Maritimes telephone workers, refusing to talk to them and leaving them out on the Street for 5 Months does not contribute to good mental health ? U Ottawa Scotty suggests that the internet, mobile phones and the Social media are taking a heavy toll on the mental health and overall mental well being of today's society ? And so maybe there's some hypocrisy shown by the giant media mogul Bell Canada who might just be the biggest contributor and profit taker from this national crisis ? www.youtube.com/shorts/31f3sZndK6w
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This year Canadian Taxpayers will pay $1.5 billion dollars to subsidize the CBC ?
site-cbc.radio-canada.ca/documents/impact-and-accountabil...
June 28,2021, O Canada at the Stanley Cup Finals ? CBC plays an upsetting and unflattering version of the Canadian National Anthem ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51829474529/in/album-7...
January 11-22, 2023 - CBC doesn't seem eager to push, promote or publicize male gender hockey like the AHL, WHL, ECHL, U Sports University level or Men's Junior hockey ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52640201721/in/datepos...
Halifax, Canada Jan 2023 - This time around the IIHF men's World Juniors hockey tournament will be held in Canada. No games were shown on CBC, and many Canadians were unable to watch Canada's finest male gender Junior hockey players incl Connor Badard play in their home Country and win the Gold for Canada ?
However, although CBC ignored and failed to televise all of the IIHF Men's junior hockey games played on public T.V. they did make sure to televise daily news reports and grant loads of air time on an alleged past scandal that had involved a previous men's IIHF Junior hockey team ? cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/media-centre/official-broadcaster-...
Justin says Goodbye Don't cry for me O my Canada.
Jan 06, 2025 - Trudeau resigns as prime minister, Prorogues Parliament until March 24 2025,
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Caste system Canada ? The NDP caste system Leadership Convention - Is this really 2023 Canada ? It seems that the NDP Party has adopted a caste system ( like the system they use over in India ) ? Delegates here must wear caste identifiable yellow or white tags ? Master, Mistress, person or whatever of Ceremonies instructs those who declare themselves as white and male gender to get to the back of the line ? Other identities, or those with yellow tags can go to the front of the line and speak first ?
The race card ? Apr 3, 2026 - NDP Leadership Convention uses 'racial equity cards' to identify and categorize people by their race and color ? black and red before white after yellow or green etc, etc ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMtHsUTBrt8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDV7ImXwTPI
2026 NDP Leadership Convention - Was Hitler's hairdresser here ? Some pretty weird stuff going on,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqhIBsaHzCg
Lost in Space________Episode # 1_______Death to Deniers !
Danger - Will Robinson, Danger !
These fine ladies want prison sentences handed down to individuals who dare to be themselves and to think differently while calling anyone with a different opinion from theirs to be a denier or hater ?
No one denies the existence of residential schools. And so why are Leah Gazan (NDP), Lindsay Mathyssen (NDP), Nahanni Fontaine (NDP) and Kimberley Murray (Liberal Government investigator) so dissatisfied and why are they trying to force their own radical and ego-driven personal viewpoints based on hearsay and as yet unproven allegations on everyone else ? Why do they want you to think the way they think, believe what they believe, and be forced ( by law ) to accept their unique, extreme left wing, selfish and self-serving narrative, (that they get paid for) as being Gods' truth, and,, if you were to dare resist then you are to be labelled hater or denier and become a criminal that could be sent to jail for up to life in prison under the law enshrined in Bill C-63 or C-9 that they are all pushing for ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZU7NEzs3Gk
Sep 27, 2024 - Leah Gazan wants you to think like her and be like her ?
The NDP narcissistic MP Leah Gazan has introduced her bill in Parliament where she wants to charge those who ‘deny’ her own (as yet unproven) personal narratives of genocide and a discovery of 215 children' bodies found in a well hidden mass grave in Kamloops ? Her Bill C-413 will allow for the serious offence of spreading hate to be charged against anyone who commits the act of what she calls the promotion of hatred against the Indigenous peoples whenever challenging, questioning, denying or downplaying her own personal beliefs on this subject ?
www.lifesitenews.com/news/new-democrat-mp-introduces-bill...
What Is Truth ?
"If you are strictly one-sided with any opinion, you’re incredibly ignorant".
UBC Jan 22, 2026 - An entire generation of students that has grown up while attending the Canadian public school system during the Trudeau Liberal era ( 2015 thru 2025 ) have reached post secondary age and are arriving at University in a heavily indoctrinated state of mind with extremely one-sided only, uni-opinion attitudes expressed in a coercive and even threatening way ? Violent gangs of young masked and gagged orange shirted student protestors, tribalism, mind control, far left radical activism and propaganda posters hanging in an Authoritarian environment where free will, open debate or speaking the truth has become a crime was seen recently at the U of B.C. ? This might sound Orwellian, but actually it's the University of B.C. in Vancouver a Canadian institute of higher learning that gets over a billion dollars per year of public funding ? Frances Widdowson, "Without truth and without freedom, our Universities will die." www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihsLPodE9R0
Ace CBC reporter Jordan Tucker ? In her interview assignment for CBC with Professor Widdowson, Jordan Tucker says that around 6000 child bodies have been found so far at first nation reservation schools, and that to her, the truth is not really a top priority ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ik61NGwXas&t=58s
Residential schools. After three years of searching for bodies and a massive cost to taxpayers of $216.5 million, not a single set of human remains have been found ?
thecatholicherald.com/article/failure-to-find-bodies-ends...
U of Vic claims 215 but Frances and Dallas say Zero ?
What Is Truth ?
Dec 3rd 2025, Frances and Dallas visit the U of Vic in Victoria B.C. and discover a mass indoctrination of impressionable young minds ? Open free thinking and freedom of speech were discouraged here ? Asking questions that ruffle some feathers or challenge the status quo are not wanted on this campus ? Challenging what is taught here can get you abused or even carted off to jail ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=u53G5WBpVmc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSRn8BzpvLc
May 28th, 2026 - If we believe massive untruths that are told then our democracy will collapse,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2pd8-F2p0A&t=17s
Feb 24th, 2026 - Lethbridge, "You're not welcome here !" Welcome to the University of Lethbridge where manners are ignored, physical manhandling is allowed, etiquette is absent, and where students use threats of bodily harm, chant ancient tribal war cries and bang out continuous monotone loud drumming noise to injure ear drums and drown out the opposition during debate ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Moi7VM7xI
Apr 26th, 2026 - A whited sepulchre University set in the windy city of Lethbridge - Following yet another arrest and another trip in the paddy wagon, Frances Widdowson pleads with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to help re-enforce the basic rule of truth that is based on free and independent thinking in our public schools once again ? "Without truth and without freedom, our Universities will die."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfPix14aMIc
UBC Jan 22,2026 - Counter viewpoint reporters attacked and have to run for their lives ?
UBC zombie apocalypse, Jan 22,2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfIpTnyH_Zg
2021, Major Canadian Party leader Jagmeet Singh attacks his own Country referring to it as genocidal ? Jag says that 215 bodies have been found in hidden unmarked mass graves in Kamloops and this clearly shows that Canada is a genocidal nation ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQb3GZx_ZR0
2021 - Dr. Timothy Rahilly, the President of Mt. Royal College in Calgary - When learning of a story that unmarked graves may have been found at a Kamloops B.C. residential school the President has immediately turned on his University PA system to make the official announcment to the entire studeny body that 215 children have just been found buried in a mass unmarked grave at the Kamloops B.C. residential school and that a shaken, shameful and perhaps genicidal nation is in mourning ? One of the senior teachers at his University has asked for evidence to support such a monumental newly discovered allegation and he has fired her ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=esGhB3uNHwA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=esGhB3uNHwA
Mar 23,2026 - Mt. Royal College, " my spider sense is tingling "
Is Mt. Royal College in Calgary making the kids Crazy ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPQNM063-lY
"What are they doing to our kids" ? Many Parents contribute for years into Registered Education Savings Plans that are to be turned over to Universities on behalf of their Children,
www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/education/education-sa...
Apr 29, 2026 - Vancouver School Board to introduce the Orwellian concept of 'unlearning' into their school system ? They are also re-naming schools from their historical English names to instead Indigenous names that cannot be pronounced and use letters not found on a standard keyboard ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrC4GB4wURI
Vancouver March 12, 2026 - Have Liberal backroom land transfer deals with first nations already transpired as the Eby provincial NDP government pretended to look the other way ? The Indians may now own property rights in and around Vancouver ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT2DqPzulos
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/musqueam-rights-r...
March 12, 2026 - treachury or treason ? B.C.'s Eby Government may have been giving Canada away while insulting veterans who fought to secure and retain the Country ? Led by Spencer Herbert it seems the NDP party in B.C. want to give Canada away without first asking Canadians for permission ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVTzJWE86go
first nations NDP supported land grab, www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCXocwlZiQc
March 12, 2026 - What NDP Spencer Herbert is trying to do in B.C. was recently defeated in a fellow Province's Highest Court ? New Brunswick's supreme court ruled that Aboriginal Title Cannot Co-Exist with Fee Simple Title,, www.fasken.com/en/knowledge/2026/01/new-brunswick-court-o...
2025 An Election Overturned - Double crossers deny democracy in Canada ?
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March 09, 2026, Canada’s Bill C-3 "An Act to amend the Citizenship Act" - New Liberal legislation allows Canadian citizenship to be passed down over multiple generations back to as far as caveman days, and this care free attitude means that many millions of unvetted individuals will now be eligible to automatically become Canadian ? www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7120945
March 30, 2026, Millions of Americans now eligible for Canadian citizenship and many are applying ‘just in case’
www.cnn.com/2026/03/30/travel/canadian-citizenship-by-des...
March 14, 2026 - In a completely contrary position to that of Canada, the country of Italy has restricted Italian citizenship for anyone born abroad. Italy has enacted a ruling that tells millions with Italian roots that they have lost the right to their citizenship,
www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/italy-ruling-tells-millions-...
March 12, 2026 - Acadia University reducing staff levels amid ‘financial pressures’? 31 Acadia positions eliminated. University monetary chaos affecting not only the institutions but also the broader economy. Financial difficulties stem from capped international student enrollments, increased costs of high-end employment, and draconian funding cuts by provincial government. These have all led to job cuts, program reductions, and even campus closures. The financial strain on universities is expected to continue, with further announcements of layoffs and program cuts are likely to come soon. www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scotia/article/acadia-univer...
Mar 4th, 2026 - Canada grants $100 million in scholarships for students in India ? This comes on the heels of PM Carney's trip to India.
www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx1VHElLBjsSwpz5-CK3P4SsNdrZmGdelS
feb 25, 2026 - Drastic University cuts implemented in latest Nova Scotia Provincial budget. Tim Houston's PC government is reducing funding for all Universities incl the PhD programs in education at Acadia,
www.halifaxexaminer.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Grant-R...
February 26, 2026 - Vulnerable hard hit starving Nova Scotia university students who struggle daily with the high cost of living in Nova Scotia prepare for a week-long strike to protest the provincial education cut, the cuts to advanced education grants, and they are demanding tuition reductions and divestment from fossil fuel dollars,
globalnews.ca/video/11708934/n-s-university-students-prep...
March 15, 2026 - Dalhousie University students vote to join the Nova Scotia student strike, www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scotia/article/dalhousie-uni...
George Orwell's dark prediction has just come true.
London England, Apr 22,2026 - The British Parliament has just enacted legislation to install a form of Orwellian Totalitarian rule into the current democratic English society that allows for the installment of Government social control in the form of mandatory lifetime probationary orders to be placed on certain selected unwary citizens without asking their permission who will then be state monitored from birth to death to insure compliance is met on the legal lifetime probation order that is attached to them ? Rob Cunningham and his Cancer Society are boldly crusading for residents of his democratic home country of Canada to lose their current freedom and be forced into this same type of Orwellian social control system ? www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/uk-agrees-ban-on-cigarette-s...
Dec 13th, 2025 - this could be a bit rich ? The top doctor for Nova Scotia is advertising smoking for the liquor store ? Dr. Robert Strang Chief Medical Officer of Health now appearing in TV ads that endorse the (safe) smoking of pot while he represents the Provincially owned liquor stores ? It's also a bit rich that Rob Cunningham and his Cancer Society don't appear to have a problem with these smoking ads ?
www.facebook.com/watch/?v=4190201767960744
May 29th, 2026, Kentville Memorial Park, the ABF Friday night concert, ( Can the good ole days of dollar dogs and bargain Big 8 soda pop be over) ? High level tight security protocol established for an evening of food wagons and kids bouncy castles ? ( must have taken up most of their budget at the sacrifice of bringing in some quality outside live entertainment) ? Town calls in outside police to reinforce the local Kentville police, cordons off the entire ground zero event perimeter with road blocks, street barricades and manned guard check posts to enforce maximum level traffic control that unfortunately makes patrons including seniors, the dysabled, toddlers, and Mothers carrying babies have to park and walk a fair distance to get to the park gates ? Also, in the past years the concert organizers have always brought in special outside guest rock bands, and had featured interesting games, demonstrations and displays, and there was a visit from the Queen Annapolisa Royal party following the prestigious coronation ceremony in Wolfville, However, unfortunately, the concert appears now to have deteriorated into some kind of a Children's outdoor romper room type family show featuring food trucks, inflatable air bouncy castles and a local band as the featured guest star main stage performer ? There's not much to do or see for those exceeding the elementary school level other than to maybe purchase some food from a food truck that charges upscale restaurant prices and then dine on a paper plate using plastic utensils while standing in a crowd of unruly kids and being lustfully observed by some nearby hungry saliva drooling pet dogs leashed to owners ? However, thanks to the heightened security and the manned barricade traffic control there was a report of one parking violator being successfully apprehended and a runaway pet was also captured and returned to its owner ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54558198569/in/photost...
A cultural genocide is going on in Kentville ?
Why always Kentville ? Now it's the library ? First came the loss of the Railway and Day-liner service back in 1989, then Kings council expropriated the local Airport and evicted the many other established aviation schools and businesses, they had tried to take Grand street parade away from Kentville in 2017, and then we lost the famous Cornwallis Inn logo and the 88 yrs old statue in Halifax was torn down, they then terminated Apple Blossom Princess Kentville and ended the 87 consecutive years of the Queen Annapolisa pageant. Kentville lost a massive amount of diversity that had always been provided by the multiple villages that participated in the Festival, as well elimination of the Princess teas, the Coronation, and all of the popular mid-week public outdoor entertainment always normally held at Memorial Park during ABF week ? And now they appear to be after the popular long time Kentville Library ?
After the Town has terminated so many popular sources of public enjoyment while never offering any similar replacement, and as Kentville gradually approaches a cultural ghost town status, it is notable that the downtown business core (in which the Mayor has a major private business interest ) has been totally renovated and restored to pristine condition by way of a complete 100 % makeover beautification program complete with new installations of street paving, street paint, new double sidewalks on both sides, new driveway entrances, new curb and gutter both sides, signage and flower pots ? And all surrounding streets making up this downtown business block have also been totally upgraded including Aberdeen Street (twice), Cornwallis Street and Main Street ?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/annapolis-valley-libra...
www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/video/2026/06/02/funding-cuts-lea...
May 09, 2026 A cyberattack has hit universities worldwide, including top Canadian schools. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canvas-cyber-attack-canadian-unive...
CBC News · Posted: May 12, 2026 - the boys are falling behind the girls in school. A new Quebec report says boys are systemically disadvantaged in the school system ? The high school dropout rate for boys is 27.1 per cent, while for girls it's 19.9 per cent.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/boys-falling-behind-in-school-9.71...
An ongoing deterioration of the famous Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival in Kentville ? Bring back Eddies Basement to Memorial Park, and 'honey they shrunk the stage' ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/55295377420/in/photost...
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Some relevant main media news clippings,
PWHL - CBC throws its full support behind the new Pro Women's Hockey League with their full media coverage, support, massive blocs of air time, TV advertising, coast to coast live game broadcasts, player bios and a game each week that are complete with hosting and analysis,, "CBC/Radio-Canada is the official broadcaster of the Professional Women's Hockey League". However, CBC has shown a completely different attitude when it comes to supporting or televising pro sporting events played by male gender athletes such as the Grey Cup, the Calgary Stampede, FIFA, Copa America international men's soccer football and men's IIHF World Juniors, and so many Canadians are unable to watch pro athletes like Acadia Axemen footballer Bailey Feltmate in the Grey Cup, or Nova Scotia's Jacob Shaffelburg in the Copa international Men's soccer tournament or Connor Badard in the IIHF World Men's Juniors hockey tournament ?
cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/media-centre/official-broadcaster-... cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/media-centre/official-broadcaster-...
CBC doesn't seem eager to televise Men's soccer or Men's CFL pro football on T.V. ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52512969092/in/album-7...
Jun 11, 2024 - CBC fully behind the new Women's Pro soccer league Halifax Tides. - providing media support and game coverage for the brand new start-up Women's gender Pro soccer league. CBC will broadcast eight regular-season matches. A "Game of the Week" will co-stream simultaneously on CBC Gem and NSL.ca,
www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/cbc-radio-canada-broadcast-agree...
Thanks to CBC, fans will now be able to follow female Acadia University athletes like Mya Harnish, who has just turned Pro . www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54482565652/in/photost...
This year the Canadian Taxpayer will pay out $1.5 billion dollars to subsidize CBC ?
site-cbc.radio-canada.ca/documents/impact-and-accountabil...
Breathtaking salaries at CBC/Radio-Canada ? CBC President and CEO Catherine Tait had a base salary range of $390,300 to $459,100 in 2019 ? Why should someone who is actually a public servant whose salary is paid by taxpayers make more than the Prime Minister of Canada ? tnc.news/2022/01/26/cbc-salaries-include-125-senior-direc...
Apr 04, 2025 - Mark Carney pledges a $150M boost to the 'underfunded' CBC ? And says a new Liberal government will make CBC funding statutory ? Last year CBC received an all time record 1.4 billion in taxpayer funding and their CEO Catherine Tait, made more than the Prime Minister ?
www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-cbc-funding-1.7501902
February 20th 2023 Jully " I Sung it My Way" Black makes headlines when changing the lyrics and singing her own personal 'our home on native land' politicized version of the Canadian National anthem at the NBA All-Star Game in Salt Lake City, Utah ?
www.iheartradio.ca/news/jully-black-sings-o-canada-with-s...
Calgary Stampede O Canada - the original "in all thy Sons command" National anthem before they changed it sung at the 2023 Calgary Stampede, www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53044391089
July 2023 - Katherine Henderson is appointed to take over and thereby become the first female CEO and President of Hockey Canada ,
www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/katherine-henderson-hockey-canad...
No more hockey fighting : This league now plans to ban them dailyhive.com/vancouver/hockey-fights-ban-qmjhl
Skate Canada Dec 13, 2022 - Canada is to totally revolutionize international Sport ? Canadian trail blazers led by President Karen Butcher push to change historic pairs and Ice dancing rules from the traditional separate male and female gender skater roles ?
theprovince.com/sports/other-sports/skate-canada-redefine...
A Federal audit has found that Hockey Canada did not use public funds for legal settlements.
discoverhumboldIcom/articles/federal-audit-finds-hockey-...
NHL moves away from Pride jerseys - advocates are disappointed, www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nhl-special-jersey-announcement-re...
Nov 20th, Grey Cup 2022 - Many Canadian households unable to watch Toronto Argos win the 2022 Grey Cup game by a score of 24 to 23 because both CBC/Radio-Canada and Bell media owned CTV did not (and never do) schedule or televise this iconic purely Canadian event for national T. V. viewing ? CBC had instead scheduled an unknown variety show being held in another country for its Grey Cup Sunday night time slot ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52512969092/in/photost...
CBC quits Twitter when Twitter calls them, "a government-funded media" ?
www.cbc.ca/news/world/cbc-twitter-government-funded-media...
Apr 27th 2023 , Bill C-11 - A controversial bill to regulate online streaming becomes law. Bill C-11, which will force streaming platforms to contribute to funding Canadian content. Critics say the bill is too ambiguous, with many issues unresolved.
www.cbc.ca/news/politics/c11-online-streaming-1.6824314
Nov 11th, 2023 - The Liberal Government has ordered the Canadian Military not to recite Christian prayers like the Lord's Prayer on this year's Remembrance Day ceremonies ? No such order has been given to other religious denominations ?
www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/gunter-we-will-always-pray-f...
The Grey Cup Nov 19th 2023, Hamilton Canada - Why aren't both of the Canadian major media moguls CTV and CBC broadcasting the 2023 Grey Cup game on T.V. for Canadians to view on Grey Cup Sunday in Canada ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53338415225
Have a very Merry Christmas Canada ? The Canadian Human Rights Commission ( fully funded by the federal Liberal Government) declares that the celebration of Christmas is evidence of Canada’s colonialist religious intolerance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWmuDidYTiY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWmuDidYTiY
Dec 31 2023 - Question to CBC about this year's Canadian New Years Eve celebrations ? Do they now view New Years Eve as a public holiday that has become inappropriate to celebrate in Canada ? For the first time ever in memory, CBC will not broadcast the traditional New Years Eve 2024 Party, the stage show or the countdown ? CBC says they can't afford it ? www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/other/cbc-to-skip-new-yea...
Bell Canada is a proud Canadian media mogul ? It's time for Super Bowl LVIII in the USA and prior to the big game CTV has been flooding North American airways with Superbowl ads promoting full CTV coverage of the upcoming game in Las Vegas Nevada. They will then broadcast 10 straight hours prime time uninterrupted live T.V. coverage of this American event to Canadians from the United States ? However, on the other hand, back home in their home country of Canada, they don't broadcast anything at all, nothing (zero) blanco, zilch, silencio, not even 1 minute of TV coverage of their own 2024 Canadian Grey Cup game for fellow Canadians to enjoy ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53523500175/in/datepos...
Bell media placing the citizens of Atlantic Canada in jeopardy wheb choosing cost cutting over public safety ?
Feb 2024 - Halifax Nova Scotia, Bell media and CTV have eliminated many crucial hours needed to report local and community news to Atlantic Canadians ?
Recent Bell Canada Corporate decisions have left many Maritimers in a weakened and vulnerable position ? The East Coast Provinces of Canada appear to be the target of severe Bell media local prime time news cancellations that will leave many Maritimers without their much anticipated daily Noon hour news updates normally broadcast each and everyday during the week ? ATV viewers are now forced to tune into the other station where CBC tends to mainly run international news and only a small choice in the Provincial news, and also many lengthy live news conferences put on by the PM or other members of the Liberal party ?
Aside from terminating all weekday ATV Noon hour news shows, CTV has also downsized in half the very popular and iconic, 'ATV live at five' 5 P.M. local community news program, (prompting long time popular host Jason Baxter to seek early retirement) ? Adding to the devastating loss, Bell has also terminated all weekend Saturday and Sunday local news reports that currently run on ATV ? The cancellation and elimination of so much of the local news normally broadcast in Atlantic Canada will surely threaten the safety and security especially now that there will be a 24 hour local news blackout for 2 full days each and every weekend and as much as 3 consecutive days every holiday long weekend ? And so it seems that arch rival CBC has taken over the major share of prime time live local news programming in the Maritimes ? Meanwhile, Bell is blaming the Liberal Government's new Bill C-18 for having to slash many prime time hours of local and Provincial news coverage in the Maritimes ?
broadcastdialogue.com/most-noon-local-ctv-newscasts-cance...
Halifax, Feb 1st 2024 - Bell Canada blames Liberal Government Bill C-18 for having to slash many hours of critical local and Provincial news coverage in the Maritime area ?
broadcastdialogue.com/most-noon-local-ctv-newscasts-cance...
the Junos 2024, Halifax, Mar 24th - CBC and the new Heritage Minister seem more interested in politics than music ? itsthe4thquarter.blogspot.com/2024/03/junos-2024-halifax-...
Angry Canadian - Canadian juno awards ? where ?
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Is this a Stanley Cup cruel joke ? Edmonton, June 2nd, 2024 ? Fans upset after CBC broadcasts the first 5 games of the Men's NHL Dallas vs Oilers series, and then, without warning and for no logical reason, CBC blacked out the critical and most important climactic final game that saw Edmonton win and gain entry into the Stanley Cup finals ? It remains unclear why CBC would do this ? Was it arrogance, or was it to be mean spirited, or was it a gender bias issue due to this being Men's pro hockey, or was it maybe a lesson given out to remind Canadians just who is running this Countries main media and who controls the programming ? www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&rct=j&url=...
The Koncerned Kentvillian must ask, "What Country would ever show sad and upsetting images of itself when playing their National Anthem on the World stage in front of an international audience ?" www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/44424045874/
July 5th, 2024 Jacob Shaffelburg (Pt Williams Nova Scotia) Men's soccer - Unfortunately, CBC doesn't seem to broadcast or sponsor men's soccer and will not televise the Men's Copa soccer tournament ? However, you can still enjoy women's gender soccer on CBC as they will be giving support and full television coverage to the Women's National team and the new Women's pro soccer league and soon to the new Women's pro basketball league ? www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/cbc-radio-canada-broadcast-agree... ? -
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June 29th, 2024 - Bailey Feltmate (Acadia U, Wolfville N.S.) - CBC doesn't appear to support men's football anymore, and so most Canadians won't be able to watch graduating male gender university athletes like Bailey perform in the pros ? However, fans will be able to watch the graduating female gender athletes perform as CBC will provide cross Canada media support and live coverage of the new start-up Women's pro soccer league, and the new Women's pro hockey league, and also the upcoming Women's pro basketball league ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53855066488/in/datepos...
Jun 11, 2024 - Mya Harnish (Acadia U, Wolfville N.S.) joins the Halifax Tides. CBC is to provide full media support and full coverage for the brand new start-up Women's Pro soccer league. CBC will broadcast eight regular-season matches. A "Game of the Week" will co-stream simultaneously on CBC Gem and NSL.ca,
www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/cbc-radio-canada-broadcast-agree...
Thanks to CBC, fans will now be able to follow female gender University athletes like Mya Harnish after they turn Pro . www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54482565652/in/photost...
2024 Paris Olympics - CBC's Olympic coverage seems to give favor to the female gender athletes when giving full game coverage to female team events but the male gender athletes receive only limited coverage with short clips from their events ?
www.cbc.ca/mediacentre/program/olympic-games-paris-2024
Jul 25, the 2024 Paris Olympics - CBC airs entire start to finish Women's team soccer games, the Women's beach-ball games, Women's rugby games, Women's basketball games, water polo and more ? Watch CBC live full game coverage of Womems team sports from St-Etienne, France heavy.com/sports/olympics/canada-soccer-bev-priestman-dro...
Grey Cup Nov 17th 2024 - Everyone else is here, but where's CBC ?
Once again this year CBC has distanced itself from a long running popular and nation uniting proud Canadian sports tradition and will not cover or live broadcast the Grey Cup game to Canadians ? However, CBC has instead covered a relatively unknown Women's tennis sports event named after the Battle of Sexes winner and Women in sports advocate Billie Jean King being held overseas ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54147303159/in/album-7...
March 30th Vancouver B.C. - Michael Bublé plugs his own private business products when hosting CBC's 2025 Juno Awards ? Is it appropriate for CBC to allow a salaried MC paid for by the taxpayer to take advantage of the free advertising of his own personal outside businesses ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54607761592/in/album-7...
Is this why Alberta feels left out ? 2025, 26 Calgary Stampede - CBC's refuses to cover the world famous Calgary Stampede ? doesn't T.V. broadcast stampede events including the Parade ? You'll have to subscribe to a specialty channel if you are interested in this famous Canadian standard ? www.tomsguide.com/entertainment/sports/watch-calgary-stam...
July 13th 2025 - Pro Rodeo and chuckwagon fans left out ? CBC Sports programming does not include this years fifty thousand dollar rodeo finals of the world famous Calgary Stampede ?
June 20th, 2026 following the famous firing of Don Cherry a few years back, CBC is now proceeding to cancel the entire NHL Hockey night in Canada show after a 74 year Saturday night run ? Is CBC shifting its focus to women's gender sports ? Does CBC plan to move the current weekly broadcast of Womens's PWHL games on Saturday afternoon to the newly vacated Saturday evening time slot ?
www.msn.com/en-ca/news/insight/cbc-ends-nhl-broadcasts-sh...
May 18th, 2026 - CBC speak with forked tongue ? CBC lures unsuspecting RCMP members into a trap set by First Nations ? Ambushed by the CBC and First Nations, a music video ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvZX06xmslA
2025 Canadian Election - Democracy denied by double crossers ?
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CBC News · Posted: May 12, 2026 - The boys are falling behind the girls in school. New Quebec report says boys are systemically disadvantaged in the school system ? The high school dropout rate for boys is 27.1 per cent while for girls it's 19.9 per cent.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/boys-falling-behind-in-school-9.71...
The Waste Management fleet of trucks each are assigned to pick up specific types of waste: non-recyclable materials, recyclable materials, and green waste. They service 48 states within the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.
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"The company's network includes 346 transfer stations, 293 active landfill disposal sites, 146 recycling plants, 111 beneficial-use landfill gas projects and six independent power production plants. Waste Management offers environmental services to nearly 21 million residential, industrial, municipal and commercial customers in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. With 26,000 collection and transfer vehicles, the company has the largest trucking fleet in the waste industry. Together with its competitor Republic Services, Inc, the two handle more than half of all garbage collection in the United States."
"As of 2017, Waste Management, Inc. employed more than 42,300 people."
"In February 2022, Waste Management announced the company would be rebranding to be referred to simply as WM. This comes with an increased emphasis of WM's strategy to focus on sustainability and environmental services and not just waste collection and disposal." (Wikipedia)
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Situated amidst the calming greenery, a village steeped in ancient animism and rituals, is the home of about 250 artisans carrying forward the tradition of ecstatic wooden mask making for generations. The craft of Gomira dance masks is practiced in a specific area in North Dinajpur district of West Bengal state, India, in and around the village of Mahisbathan (Khunia Danga, Kushmandi Block) located approximately 50km south-east of Raiganj, the district headquarter.
The mask dance (or Mukha Khel) is usually organized in between mid-April to mid-July though there are no fixed dates, but each village in the area organizes at least one Gomira dance during this period according to their convenience, at a central location.
The Gomira dances have distinct forms. The Gomira format is the predominant one, which has characters with strong links to the animist tradition. It is performed to propitiate Gram-Chandi, the female deity, usher in the 'good forces' and drive out the 'evil forces'. Traditionally, the Gomira dance starts with the entry of two characters, Buro-Buri, (old couple). After the initial round of dancing, characters are called on to the arena or stage. They dance to the accompaniment of Dhak (percussion drum ethnic to rural Bengal) and Kansar (bell-metal disk used as cymbal). There are no songs or chants. The dancers choose their own movements, which include rotations and hops.
The craft of Gomira mask-making, in its pristine form, catered to the needs of the dancers (and any villager wishing to give a mask as an offering to the village deity). The masks make part of the costume of the traditional Gomira dance. Themes of the masks are usually spiritual, historic and religious.
Originally, the Gomira masks are crafted from neem wood, as per Hindu mythology. Later locally available cheaper wood such as gamhar, pakur, kadam, mango, and teak came to be used. The village craftsmen are very conscious of the environment and always plant one tree for trees cut down, usually of the same species.
The mask making begins with cutting the log and then immersed in water for seasoning. Once the basic shape has emerged, they use the broad chisel and heaviest hammer to bring out the final shape. The reverse side of the mask is scooped out very carefully. For finer finishing, narrower chisels, sand papers of various grades are being used and a coat or two of varnish, which provides smoothness to the mask and ensures durability. Formerly, the masks were hand-painted with natural dyes. Slowly the use of chemical dyes and even enamel paints have gained acceptance mainly because of ready availability and permanence.
The Gomira craftsmen are from Rajbongshi community and do not belong to any particular caste. The women folk have never been a part of mask-making. For most of the artisans, mask making is a supplementary source of income.
In association with UNESCO, Government of West Bengal's Department of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises & Textiles has developed a Rural Craft Hub at Mahisbathan to resurrect this art form, by giving the craftsmen a place to work. The Mahisbathan Gramin Hasta Shilpa Samabay Samiti Limited (a cooperative of craftsmen and artisans who live in the nearby villages) runs the centre; ensures payments for work done and promotes the sale of masks and other wooden artefacts. The Samiti delivers more than 100 masks per month, where the selling price varies from Rs. 700 (USD $10) to Rs. 3500 (USD $50), depending on the complexity.
The Samity also runs a Folk Art Centre which is also equipped with accommodation facility for guests. One can participate in workshops, learn about the history of the community and craft, nuances of the mask making and the fascinating associated stories.
More, Gomira Dance Mask by Tulip Sinha - The Chitrolekha Journal on Art and Design
Beautiful Bengal, India
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The manufacturing and printing of textiles formed the basis of the industrial revolution in Catalunya. Beyond the actual fabric, it is the machinery of its production and the people who operated it—especially women—that underpins Regina Giménez’s presentation of her graphic works as part of the Compositions programme. Taking place in one of the buildings that comprises Can Trinxet, a former textile factory complex that once employed the largest workforce in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Giménez’s intervention comprises painted compositions that are derived from schematic representations of machines and their components. Her abstractions have been applied on transparent panels that lean against a scarred factory wall, becoming devices that reanimate the marks and memories embedded in the building. An accompanying poster evokes the clamour that once would have filled the workshop in typographic form. Giménez has titled her project “La Constancia” (2016) in tribute to the labor union that called a general strike in 1913 to protest the conditions of the female and child workers who undertook the textile industry’s most monotonous and arduous tasks. – Latitudes
Regina Giménez (Barcelona, 1966) has exhibited individually at: ‘Architecture d’aujourd’hui’, The Green Parrot, Barcelona (2015); ‘Art de foc art de badoc’, Nadala 2015 Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2015); ‘Simbols Convencionals’, Museu d’Art Modern de Tarragona (2012). She has recently participated in the following group shows: Biennal de Valls, Tarragona (2015); ‘Modernitat Amagada’, Casa Capell, Mataró (2013); ‘La casa de la playa’ para ‘Cas de estudi’, Can Felipa, Barcelona (2013).
Giménez is represented by Ana Mas Projects, L’Hospitalet/San Juan (Puerto Rico) and by Galería Miquel Alzueta, Barcelona.
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“La Constancia” (2016) was commissioned for the second edition of the Barcelona Gallery Weekend (29 September–2 October 2016) as part of the “Composiciones” programme.
Curated by Latitudes for the second time (see 2015 edition), the project further explores Barcelona as a rich fabric of the historic and the contemporary, the unfamiliar and the conspicuous. Resisting an overall theme, and instead developing from the artists’ responses to the specificity of each context—people as well as places—the five art projects form a temporary thread that links evocative locations and public space, running parallel to the Weekend’s exhibitions in galleries and museums.
In its second edition, "Composiciones" presents interventions by Lúa Coderch (Club Billar Barcelona); Regina Giménez (Antigua Fábrica de Can Trinxet, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat); Lola Lasurt (Biblioteca Pública Arús); Robert Llimós (connecting all the participating galleries) and Wilfredo Prieto (Unitat Muntada de la Guàrdia Urbana de Barcelona). Their projects offer moments of intermission, intimacy and bewilderment throughout the weekend, highlighting some lesser-known aspects of the city’s cultural heritage and municipal life.
Conceived and curated by Latitudes | www.lttds.org
Photo: Roberto Ruiz / Courtesy: Barcelona Gallery Weekend.
Info: www.lttds.org/projects/composiciones2016/
Social media documentation: storify.com/lttds/composiciones-five-commissions-curated-...
Arcangelo Sassolino, site specific installation
Exhibition view "Francis Bacon and Existential Condition in Contemporary Art", CCC Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
© photo Martino Margheri
The manufacturing and printing of textiles formed the basis of the industrial revolution in Catalunya. Beyond the actual fabric, it is the machinery of its production and the people who operated it—especially women—that underpins Regina Giménez’s presentation of her graphic works as part of the Compositions programme. Taking place in one of the buildings that comprises Can Trinxet, a former textile factory complex that once employed the largest workforce in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Giménez’s intervention comprises painted compositions that are derived from schematic representations of machines and their components. Her abstractions have been applied on transparent panels that lean against a scarred factory wall, becoming devices that reanimate the marks and memories embedded in the building. An accompanying poster evokes the clamour that once would have filled the workshop in typographic form. Giménez has titled her project “La Constancia” (2016) in tribute to the labor union that called a general strike in 1913 to protest the conditions of the female and child workers who undertook the textile industry’s most monotonous and arduous tasks. – Latitudes
Regina Giménez (Barcelona, 1966) has exhibited individually at: ‘Architecture d’aujourd’hui’, The Green Parrot, Barcelona (2015); ‘Art de foc art de badoc’, Nadala 2015 Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2015); ‘Simbols Convencionals’, Museu d’Art Modern de Tarragona (2012). She has recently participated in the following group shows: Biennal de Valls, Tarragona (2015); ‘Modernitat Amagada’, Casa Capell, Mataró (2013); ‘La casa de la playa’ para ‘Cas de estudi’, Can Felipa, Barcelona (2013).
Giménez is represented by Ana Mas Projects, L’Hospitalet/San Juan (Puerto Rico) and by Galería Miquel Alzueta, Barcelona.
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“La Constancia” (2016) was commissioned for the second edition of the Barcelona Gallery Weekend (29 September–2 October 2016) as part of the “Composiciones” programme.
Curated by Latitudes for the second time (see 2015 edition), the project further explores Barcelona as a rich fabric of the historic and the contemporary, the unfamiliar and the conspicuous. Resisting an overall theme, and instead developing from the artists’ responses to the specificity of each context—people as well as places—the five art projects form a temporary thread that links evocative locations and public space, running parallel to the Weekend’s exhibitions in galleries and museums.
In its second edition, "Composiciones" presents interventions by Lúa Coderch (Club Billar Barcelona); Regina Giménez (Antigua Fábrica de Can Trinxet, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat); Lola Lasurt (Biblioteca Pública Arús); Robert Llimós (connecting all the participating galleries) and Wilfredo Prieto (Unitat Muntada de la Guàrdia Urbana de Barcelona). Their projects offer moments of intermission, intimacy and bewilderment throughout the weekend, highlighting some lesser-known aspects of the city’s cultural heritage and municipal life.
Conceived and curated by Latitudes | www.lttds.org
Photo: Roberto Ruiz / Courtesy: Barcelona Gallery Weekend.
Info: www.lttds.org/projects/composiciones2016/
Social media documentation: storify.com/lttds/composiciones-five-commissions-curated-...
The Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost refers both to a car model and to one specific car from that series.
Originally named the "40/50 h.p." the chassis was originally produced at Royce's Manchester works moving to Derby in July 1908 and between 1921 and 1926 at Springfield, Massachusetts factories. Chassis no. 60551, registered AX 201, was the car that was originally given the name "Silver Ghost." Other 40/50 hp cars were also given names but the Silver Ghost title was taken up by the press and soon all 40/50s were called by the name, a fact not officially recognised by Rolls-Royce until 1925 when the Phantom range was launched.
The Silver Ghost was the origin of Rolls-Royce's claim of making the "Best car in the world" – a phrase coined not by themselves, but by the prestigious publication Autocar in 1907.
In 1906, Rolls-Royce produced four chassis to be shown at the Olympia car show, two existing models, a four cylinder 20hp and a six cylinder 30hp, and two examples of a new car designated the 40/50 hp. The 40/50 hp was so new that the show cars were not fully finished and examples were not provided to the press for testing until March 1907.[2]
The car at first had a new side-valve, six-cylinder, 7036 cc engine (7428 cc from 1910) with the cylinders cast in two units of three cylinders each as opposed to the triple two cylinder units on the earlier six. A three speed transmission was fitted at first with four speed units used from 1913. The seven-bearing crankshaft had full pressure lubrication and the centre main bearing was made specially large to remove vibration, essentially splitting the engine into two three cylinder units. Two spark plugs were fitted to each cylinder with, from 1921, a choice of magneto or coil ignition. The earliest cars had used a trembler coil to produce the spark with a magneto as an optional extra which soon became standard - the instruction was to start the engine on the trembler/battery and then switch to magneto. Continuous development allowed power output to be increased from 48 bhp (36 kW) at 1,250 rpm to 80 bhp (60 kW) at 2,250 rpm. Electric lighting became an option in 1914 and was standardised in 1919. Electric starting was fitted from 1919 along with electric lights to replace the older ones that used acetylene or oil.
During World War I development of the Silver Ghost was suspended, but the chassis and engine were supplied for use in a range of Rolls-Royce Armoured Cars.
The substantial chassis had rigid front and rear axles and leaf springs all round. Early cars only had brakes on the rear wheels operated by a hand lever with a pedal operated transmission brake acting on the propeller shaft. The footbrake system moved to drums on the rear axle in 1913, but from 1923, four-wheel, servo-assisted brakes became optional.[3]
Despite these improvements, by the early 1920s the performance of the Silver Ghost's competitors had improved to the extent that its previous superiority had been eroded. Sales declined from 742 in 1913 to 430 in 1922, and the company decided to launch its replacement which was introduced in 1925 as the New Phantom. After this, older 40/50 models were called Silver Ghosts to avoid confusion.
In all, a total of 7874 Silver Ghost cars were produced from 1907 to 1926 including 1701 from the American Springfield factory, many of them still running to this day.
Sunday at the zoo with my buddy Reggie Bishop. We kept loking for the lionesses, and finally around 1:30pm, they brought one of the Siberians in and let the lionesses out.
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Poison Ivy vines did not pick this specific property to thrive and spread but long periods of abandonment encourages these noxious plants to take over areas. Poison Ivy has bright red berries that some bird species can eat. As for humans, care must be taken to avoid skin contact with the leaves as the oily toxin starts to soak into the skin the moment contact is made. Long sleeves, gloves, and eye-wear are recommended if poison ivy removal is undertaken.
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A Report to the Michigan Bird Records Committee
1. Species.
Spotted Redshank, Tringa erythropus
2. Number of individuals.
One
3. Date and time of sighting. (Please be sure to indicate how long your observations lasted.)
On 2 November 2018, discovered at 4:20 PM (DST) and last observed at 5:00 PM (DST), within this time span observed and photographed for at least 23 minutes
4. County.
Washtenaw County
5. Exact location. (Please be as specific as possible, including nearest crossroads; include GPS coordinates if known, as well as coordinate system and receiver type.)
Southeast of Scio Church Road and Parker Road intersection in Section 6, Lodi Township and northeast of this intersection in Section 31, Scio Township.
6. Detailed description of appearance. (Please be as specific as you can, and include if possible: size; shape; bill, eye and leg characteristics; color and pattern of plumage; and any other features that you observed. This is the most important part of your submission.)
A dusky, smoky-brown shorebird with long orange-red legs caught Margaret Jewett's eyes. It was on a mud flat in a marshy pond located about 150 feet to the east of Parker Road in Section 6 of Lodi Township. It had a typical Tringa shape and a long, fine straight bill; its size appeared somewhat smaller than that of an accompanying Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca. With effort Margaret called my attention to this bird; at the time I was contemplating taking photos of a Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos. As soon as I had focused my binoculars on Margaret's bird, it took flight, revealing an oval white back patch that clearly contrasted with the dusky mantle, dusky wings and gray tail. These characteristics plus the orange-red tarsi clinched its immediate identification. Nevertheless I found it hard to believe what I had just seen. With binoculars I followed its flight to where it landed beyond a curtain of cattails and brush at the extreme north end of the marsh in Section 31 of Scio Township. Once relocated, I observed and photographed it at distances of 60 to 100 feet as it foraged, preened and dozed.
By direct comparison with eight Greater Yellowlegs, its overall form appeared more delicate and its movements more elegant than that of the yellowlegs. It frequently waded up to its belly, sometimes even swimming for several feet. Ongoing photographs viewed through my camera's LCD and later through Margaret's scope revealed the so-called kink or droop near the tip of the upper mandible. The bill was between 1.25 times to 1.3 times the length of the head in lateral profile. The basal one-third to almost one-half of the lower mandible was orange-red, but the hue was less intense than the orange-red of the tarsi. The rest of the bill was almost black. Also, photos revealed the hind toe and the small web between the outer two toes.
The Spotted Redshank was a hatch-year bird for the most part in first-basic plumage and it was in preformative molt: some of the scapulars of the bird's left and right side, as well as some of the mantle feathers, exhibited the plain-gray feathers of fresh formative plumage.
The white super-loral stripe was a notable facial feature, separating the dark brown lores from the gray-brown forehead. Above the postocular line was a patch of white post-ocular spots. A white upper and lower eye arc framed the dark eye. The ear coverts were marbled light gray.
The cream-white vent, flanks and under tail-coverts were closely barred with gray, whereas the cream-white belly had sparse gray barring. The throat, neck and breast were streaked gray and white. The forehead, crown and nape were gray-brown with delicate white streaks or tiny spots. The mantle was gray-brown with small white spots. The darker margins of the gray-brown scapulars, tertials and greater coverts had white notches. Likewise, the upper wing coverts were gray-brown with white marginal notches or spots.
Three primary tips extended beyond the tertials and fell short of the tail tip. Rectrix one and two (the top of the tail) were gray; their margins had white notches, between which black blobs extended as faded dark-gray bars toward the shaft. The margins of the closed lower rectrices appeared as a pattern of black and white spots.
7. Description of voice.
Sometimes, when taking flight across a stretch of water to rejoin the Greater Yellowlegs, the Spotted Redshank called with a brief series of disyllabic notes of changing tone, the rising inflection of which was utterly different than that of the single monotonic “teu” notes of the yellowlegs.
8. Behaviors observed.
My patience, a necessity for photography, coupled with six-and-a-half decades of bird observation, transformed this encounter into an experience of sheer pleasure, the kind that only an unimaginable surprise gives—almost nothing went unnoticed as a bit of the Palaearctic world unfolded before my eyes. During my slow, extremely cautious approach of stop and go, the Spotted Redshank stood stark still and alert with head held high, giving the occasional characteristic head-nod of the Tringa genus. I stood behind my tripod with mounted camera and lens in order to partially shield from view my upright stance. Except for slight movements of my head and hands for photography, I remained motionless throughout my observation. After accepting my presence, the bird foraged actively where patches of muddy shoreline protruded into open water, often wading up to its belly, even swimming across narrow stretches of deeper water. Foraging was by bill-probing into water or mud. Small prey items, usually pea size or smaller, were extracted with the bill and immediately swallowed. Two prey items were identified, each being a leech Hirudinea, one of which upon being snatched coiled itself around the bird's bill only to be swallowed whole.
Sometimes the Spotted Redshank foraged in loose association with one of eight Greater Yellowlegs. It seemed to have a subordinate position, for its tendency was to give way to the direct advances of any of the Greater Yellowlegs. After actively foraging, the Spotted Redshank became stationary, preening its body plumage, then dozing intermittently with eyes closed and head pulled in. Upon becoming active again, it foraged on a mud flat among the prostrate branches of a long-dead, fallen tree. As a result I could no longer take unobstructed photos nor continuously view it. Therefore I returned to Parker Road and rejoined Margaret Jewett. Together we relocated the bird from Scio Church Road and through her scope watched it forage, rest and preen.
9. Habitat
Habitat is a small wetland surrounded by agrarian fields and partitioned by two paved highways. A portion of the wetland is a pond at very low-water stage having broken stretches of mud flat. The marshy portions have patches of Typha and some shrubbery such as Salix, Cornus and Cephalanthus, as well as collapsed dead trees and standing stubs. A thick growth of Calamagrostis, Phalaris and Bidens partially covers the soggy outer edges of the marsh.
10. Similar Species and how eliminated
The possibility of the observed bird being an aberrant yellowlegs with orange tarsi was ruled out. Yellowlegs lack the following three characteristics which this Spotted Redshank had.
First, the bill structure did not conform to that of a Lesser Yellowlegs, being far too long in comparison to that of the head length. Nor did the bill conform to that of the Greater Yellowlegs, being far too thin and terminating into that peculiar droop which the Spotted Redshank is noted for. Furthermore, the basal portion of the lower mandible was notably orange-red and extended for a little over one-third the bill length, a colorful feature that yellowlegs lack.
Second, the oval white patch reaching up the back as revealed in flight is something that yellowlegs lack.
Third, the vent and belly of yellowlegs lack the gray barring that this juvenile Spotted Redshank had.
Last but not least, the Spotted Redshank lacked the stunning white secondaries of the Common Redshank Tringa totanus.
11. Previous experience with this species and similar species.
I’ve studied Spotted Redshanks as wintering birds in Morocco and as spring arrivals in Finland. I’ve observed Common Redshanks within a span of 27 years in Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Morocco and Japan. My experience with both species of yellowlegs reaches back to 1960 in North America.
12. Distance from bird(s) and how measured or estimated (indicate which).
Observation distances ranged from 60 to 100 feet. A Google Earth map at a 50-foot scale was used to approximate these distances.
13. Optical equipment used.
Swarovski EL 10X42 binoculars; Canon Lens EF 500mm with Extender 1.4x and Canon camera EOS 5D Mark IV; Margaret Jewett’s Leica 10X42 binoculars and her Swarovski 25X-60X 85mm spotting scope.
14. Light (sunny versus cloudy, position of sun in relation to bird[s] and you).
The entire sky was low with clouds.
As I faced the bird, its position in the marsh ranged from due east to north by northeast from me. As Margaret Jewett and I faced the bird, its position from us on Scio Church road was north by northwest. Therefore, the sun’s position would have been on the right side of my back in the marsh and on the left side of our backs while on the road (considering the Sun’s southward position on that date and time).
15. Other observers:
Margaret Jewett.
Subsequently, there were hundreds of other observers from around the country.
16. Did the others agree with your identification? (Please give contact information)
Margaret Jewett agreed with my identification. Her description of field marks as seen through her scope was submitted to eBird and included: Shorebird smaller than greater yellowlegs with striking red legs and lower mandible; long, thin bill with a slight droop at tip of bill(seen in photographs); brownish gray tertials with white margins interrupted by black notches looking like stitching; white fore-supercilium and red lower mandible highlighting pre-ocular black line connecting the eye to the black upper mandible; in combination with the red legs, the diagnostic white elliptical patch on the back observed when preening; first calendar year bird showing several all gray formative feathers on the upper scapulars and juvenile barring along the flanks.
Subsequently, hundreds of other observers from around the country agreed with this identification.
17. When did you first write down notes describing the bird(s) in question? (If you have field notes or notes written within a few days after returning from the field, then please include scans or photocopies of them with your submission.)
I did not take field notes. I have 177 photos ranging from very good to excellent showing all aspects of the bird in detail. Margaret took note of the field characteristics as I outlined them to her in the field. She submitted her description (above) to eBird within 24 hours of the sighting.
18. Books and other references consulted.
I did not need to consult books and references. The primary reference was the photos of the bird. Margaret Jewett referred to her Sibley’s and National Geographic Field Guides as well as Shorebirds: an identification guide by Peter Hayman, John Marchant, and Tony Prater.
19. Were the references consulted before or after you first wrote down a description?
Margaret looked at the field guides in her car for a general description after first spotting the shorebird with the red legs. The guides were not in hand when she viewed the bird and observed its characteristics.
20. How did the references influence the description?
The references did not influence the description. The references, in conjunction with the photographs, corroborated the identification.
21. Were photographs obtained?
One hundred seventy-seven photographs were obtained
22. Your name.
Alan J Ryff
Date you filled out this form.
10 November 2018
“Associated” is a site specific show in a severely damaged brownstone, currently with a Vacate Order, issued by the DOB. As you may recall, the huge fire on Nov 12th 2010 at the Associated Supermarket on 5th Avenue and 17th Street not only damaged the supermarket building including the Open Source Gallery, but also a brownstone next door. The 3 family house, the Gallery owners’ home, was also rendered uninhabitable by the blaze.
There is no exact date for the show. There will be a 2 week window when the Vacate Order will be dropped and the contractors will start their work. All participating artists are prepared to install their work any day within the next month.
opening up with the
OPEN SOURCE CARNIVAL
The Carnival involves a public celebration combining some elements of circus, performance, public fair and party. We encourage people to dress-up in costumes during the celebration and to bring a little bit of money for the future of OPEN SOURCE.
Participants
Sara Bouchard, Christian Brown, Reamonn Byrne, Wendy Chu, Ethan Crenson, Hubert Dobler, Peter Feigenbaum, Pirmin Hagen, Fumie Ishii, Der Kommissar, Stefanie Koseff, James Leonard, Loadingdock5, Katerina Marcelja, Amanda C. Mathis, Patrick May, Nolan McKew, Annelise E. Ream, Jason Reppert, Raphaela Riepl, Evan Robarts, Frank Scheiderbauer, Allison Read Smith, Miho Suzuki, Kathleen Vance, Letizia Werth, Lily White, Monika Wuhrer
Dempster Highway. The rest of this narrative (below) is about the trip and not specific to this picture.
Dawson City (previous picture in this set) is where one gets on the Dempster Highway. The Dempster Highway is a graded gravel road running north for 736 km (457 miles) across the Arctic Circle to Inuvik, NWT (Northwest Territories). The highway runs through very remote territory and usually has very little traffic. On the days that I drove it, it was typical to see another vehicle about once every 1-2 hours, though there was a 4 hour stretch where I did not see another vehicle. From Dawson City there is no population (no cabins, no ranches, no mines... nobody) for 369 km (230 miles) until Eagle Plains. Eagle Plains is a gas station, restaurant, motel, and campground. After Eagle Plains, there is another stretch of 180 km (112 miles) with zero population, then one begins to encounter small communities and traffic (a vehicle every 30 minutes or so.) It is recommended when traveling the Dempster Highway to carry extra spare tires (the gravel is rough on tires), tape for fixing any broken hoses or wiring, extra gas, and emergency supplies (food, water, blankets) in case your vehicle breaks down and no one comes by for a couple of days.
It is very difficult to describe the experience of driving the highway. After the first hour on the road, one begins to realize how very alone they are. Because the road is gravel, it would be very easy to slide off and go down an embankment, and not be found until months later. But somehow, even though I was driving alone, I found it awe-inspiring instead of frightening. Most of the road runs through mountain valleys and along ridges, with air that is so clean and clear that one can see for what seems like an eternity -- for much of the road, if one were to go due east, one would not encounter human habitation for 1000's of miles. Coming around one curve, I saw a large, gray, wolf crossing the road -- which was somehow quite moving to see. And, because there is no night in June, it was possible to watch owls hunt for food. Though the following pictures in this set have no wildlife, hopefully they capture some of the beauty of the road.
From 1994 San Francisco - Arctic Ocean camping trip. Scan of an older picture. Best viewed as part of the NW Canada set.
Landowner Larry Brown has been working with U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) District Conservationist John Wagoner (cowboy hat) to create a site-specific conservation plan that includes a pollinator habitat enhancement plan to address the improvement, restoration, enhancement, or expansion of flower-rich habitat that supports native and/or managed pollinators with the use of tree/shrub establishment and fence practices at his property just south of Ennis, Montana, on August 29, 2019. Mr. Brown saw a local newspaper announcement that informed him how USDA could help. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
For more information, please see:
Pollinator Habitat Enhancement Plan, Practice Activity Code 146, is a site-specific conservation plan developed for a client that addresses the improvement, restoration, enhancement, or expansion of flower-rich habitat that supports native and/or managed pollinators.
efotg.sc.egov.usda.gov/references/public/CO/COCAP_146_2014-11.pdf
Tree/Shrub Establishment, Practice Activity Code 612, involves planting seedlings or cuttings, seeding, or creating conditions that promote natural regeneration.
nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/soils/health/?cid=nrcs144p2_027187
Fence, Conservation Practice Standard 382, is a constructed barrier to animals or people.
nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb1144464.pdf
Conservation Practices - usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detailfull/national/technical/cp/ncps/?cid=nrcs143_026849
NRCS – NRCS - nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/site/national/home/
FPAC - Farm Production and Conservation - usda.gov/our-agency/about-usda/mission-areas
USDA - USDA.gov
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On May 18, Solange performed "An Ode To," an interdisciplinary performance piece and meditation, that examined themes from "A Seat at the Table." Through movement, installation, and experimentation with reconstructed musical arrangements, Solange transformed the iconic Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda with her mesmerizing site-specific performance and melodic vocals. This performance was part of the Red Bull Music Academy Festival.
Photos: Carys Huws, Stacy Kranitz, and Krisanne Johnson
SeaRhythms Massage, Charlottesville, VA offers this specialty massage that works on principles of acupressure This massage involves manipulation of specific reflex areas in the foot that correspond to other parts of the body. Pressure to these reflex zones stimulates body organs and relieves areas of congestion. Reflexology works with the body's energy flow to stimulate healing and balance in your entire body. No oils are used for most of this therapeutic massage, however to complete and enhance the work, I close the session with a gentle foot and lower leg massage using an essential oil blend matched to your needs. Essential Oils applied to the soles of the feet enter the system quickly to do their work of soothing and promoting healing for the mind and body.
PORTER RANCH - On May 15, 2022, at 3:28 PM, 140 LAFD firefighters responded to a brush fire in the11200 block of Porter Ranch Dr in the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles City. LAFD firefighters held the fire to just 4.09 acres, in an operation that lasted overnight. Hand crews from the Los Angeles County Fire Department and Angeles National Forest assisted with containment, felling of dangerous tree limbs and cold trailing of the fire's perimeter. One civilian pickup truck parked at the Porter Ranch Drive park-and-ride lot adjacent to the 118 Freeway, was destroyed by fire. No injury. No structure damage. No evacuation. LAFD Investigators have yet to formally determine the specific origin and cause of the blaze.
© Photo by Greg Doyle
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Landowner Larry Brown has been working with U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) District Conservationist John Wagoner (cowboy hat) to create a site-specific conservation plan that includes a pollinator habitat enhancement plan to address the improvement, restoration, enhancement, or expansion of flower-rich habitat that supports native and/or managed pollinators with the use of tree/shrub establishment and fence practices at his property just south of Ennis, Montana, on August 29, 2019. Mr. Brown saw a local newspaper announcement that informed him how USDA could help. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
For more information, please see:
Pollinator Habitat Enhancement Plan, Practice Activity Code 146, is a site-specific conservation plan developed for a client that addresses the improvement, restoration, enhancement, or expansion of flower-rich habitat that supports native and/or managed pollinators.
efotg.sc.egov.usda.gov/references/public/CO/COCAP_146_2014-11.pdf
Tree/Shrub Establishment, Practice Activity Code 612, involves planting seedlings or cuttings, seeding, or creating conditions that promote natural regeneration.
nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/soils/health/?cid=nrcs144p2_027187
Fence, Conservation Practice Standard 382, is a constructed barrier to animals or people.
nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb1144464.pdf
Conservation Practices - usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detailfull/national/technical/cp/ncps/?cid=nrcs143_026849
NRCS – NRCS - nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/site/national/home/
FPAC - Farm Production and Conservation - usda.gov/our-agency/about-usda/mission-areas
USDA - USDA.gov
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Exploring and re-activating an abandoned construction site outside Zaployarny, Russia.
Dark Ecology 2015 commission.
azul profundo água
desenho infinitas dimensões
Specific Abertura: 29, terça, 18h Artista: Francisco de Almeida (CE), Naiana Magalhães (CE), Paulo Jorge Gonçalves (RJ) e Tereza de Quinta (CE) Curadoria: Jared Domicio (CE) Visitação: 30 de janeiro a 02 de março de 2013.
Técnica: pintura/bordado/colagem s/ tecido.
Ano: 2013.1
Jean de Hangest wears rather early all-enclosing plate armour on the limbs of a specific style.
The poleyns and couters are quite large, with always one lame in between the rerebraces, vambraces, cuisses and greaves.
Note the hinges on the outside of the greaves, though the carver didn’t depict straps on the inside.
Some mail can be seen where the greaves and sabatons, consisting of five lames, meet.
A surcoat with a fairly flowing skirt, ending in trefoils on all of its edges, is probably worn over a coat-of-plates.
The surcoat has got a slit on the right side for the dagger, now lost, protruding from under the coat-of-plates.
Also the hilt of the sword is lost.
A mail standard with the usual scalloped edge is worn on the neck. Also note the forked beard and curly hair of the time.
The inscription on the tomb possibly dates from the early 16th century, during the time when the church was rebuilt.
Jean de Hangest died in 1363 in London, as an hostage of King John the Good of France, who was captured by the English at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356.
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Specific phone is a US market Samsung Galaxy SII(S2). Tools used: Craftsman mini screwdriver set(000 Philips and 1/8 flat head) + old SIM card to pry the circuitry cover off(didn't have the right pry tool or guitar pick).
Smartphone was not turning on completely. It would start to boot on; the "Samsung" logo would show for a second. Then everything would go blank and the phone would give a vibrate notification. Tried the battery out then in technique. Same thing.
Opened up the phone to see any issue with the power switch; both the outside toggle and actual switch on the board. Both seemed ok. My amateur assessment is that the logic board is damaged.
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WOW quite an amazing place! This specific view is called Phoenix Palace (凤凰宫). You see these kind of places all the time on National Geographic or other nature channels and they all seem so mysterious. I'm surprised they let people in but then again it's China. The gaudy lighting was also slightly off putting but I guess the tourists didn't think so.
I guess I should have included something recognizable to show a sense of scale but there were just too many tourists. Just trust me, it is pretty epic. I'll have some photos later showing th scale of the cavern (there will be people in them).
I was getting funny looks from people when I took these shots. Everyone has their flashes firing off trying to light up a 100 metre high cavern.... I just stood there holding my breath and waiting for the people to stop running into me... I shot this at ISO 1600 with 1/10 shutter speed hand held! In camera SSS saved these shots. I'd like to see you find a stabilized 24-70 zoom on any other camera brand :P
You can look up the detailed info on this place on Wikipedia.
Memory (2008) is a site-specific work that was conceived to engage two different exhibition locations at the Guggenheim museums in Berlin and New York. Utilizing Cor-Ten steel for the first time, the sculpture represents a milestone in Kapoor’s career. Memory's thin steel skin, only eight millimeters thick, suggests a form that is ephemeral and unmonumental. The sculpture appears to defy gravity as it gently glances against the periphery of the gallery walls and ceiling. However, as a 24-ton volume, Memory is also raw, industrial, and foreboding. Positioned tightly within the gallery, Memory is never fully visible; instead the work fractures and divides the gallery into several distinct viewing areas. The division compels visitors to navigate the museum, searching for vantage points that offer only glimpses of the sculpture. This processional method of viewing Memory is an intrinsic aspect of the work. Visitors are asked to contemplate the ensuing fragmentation by attempting to piece together images retained in their minds, exerting effort in the act of seeing—a process Kapoor describes as creating a “mental sculpture.”
Memory’s rusting exterior creates a powdery surface, which relates this commission to Kapoor’s early pigment pieces from the 1980s. Rather than necessitating an additional coat of paint to smooth the interior curvature, the sculpture’s Cor-Ten tiles, perfectly manufactured to prevent light from seeping through, create the necessary conditions for darkness within. The work’s square aperture—wedged precisely into one of the gallery’s walls—allows a view into this boundless interior void. The endless darkness seems to contradict what visitors know about the work’s delimited exterior. This contradiction between the known and the perceived is one of Kapoor’s central interests. The window also defines a two-dimensional plane that can be read as a painting rather than an opening. Kapoor’s interest in this pictorial effect is best reflected in his statement “I am a painter working as a sculptor.
web.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/exhibition_pages/kapoor/in...
The Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost refers both to a car model and to one specific car from that series.
Originally named the "40/50 h.p." the chassis was originally produced at Royce's Manchester works moving to Derby in July 1908 and between 1921 and 1926 at Springfield, Massachusetts factories. Chassis no. 60551, registered AX 201, was the car that was originally given the name "Silver Ghost." Other 40/50 hp cars were also given names but the Silver Ghost title was taken up by the press and soon all 40/50s were called by the name, a fact not officially recognised by Rolls-Royce until 1925 when the Phantom range was launched.
The Silver Ghost was the origin of Rolls-Royce's claim of making the "Best car in the world" – a phrase coined not by themselves, but by the prestigious publication Autocar in 1907.
In 1906, Rolls-Royce produced four chassis to be shown at the Olympia car show, two existing models, a four cylinder 20hp and a six cylinder 30hp, and two examples of a new car designated the 40/50 hp. The 40/50 hp was so new that the show cars were not fully finished and examples were not provided to the press for testing until March 1907.[2]
The car at first had a new side-valve, six-cylinder, 7036 cc engine (7428 cc from 1910) with the cylinders cast in two units of three cylinders each as opposed to the triple two cylinder units on the earlier six. A three speed transmission was fitted at first with four speed units used from 1913. The seven-bearing crankshaft had full pressure lubrication and the centre main bearing was made specially large to remove vibration, essentially splitting the engine into two three cylinder units. Two spark plugs were fitted to each cylinder with, from 1921, a choice of magneto or coil ignition. The earliest cars had used a trembler coil to produce the spark with a magneto as an optional extra which soon became standard - the instruction was to start the engine on the trembler/battery and then switch to magneto. Continuous development allowed power output to be increased from 48 bhp (36 kW) at 1,250 rpm to 80 bhp (60 kW) at 2,250 rpm. Electric lighting became an option in 1914 and was standardised in 1919. Electric starting was fitted from 1919 along with electric lights to replace the older ones that used acetylene or oil.
During World War I development of the Silver Ghost was suspended, but the chassis and engine were supplied for use in a range of Rolls-Royce Armoured Cars.
The substantial chassis had rigid front and rear axles and leaf springs all round. Early cars only had brakes on the rear wheels operated by a hand lever with a pedal operated transmission brake acting on the propeller shaft. The footbrake system moved to drums on the rear axle in 1913, but from 1923, four-wheel, servo-assisted brakes became optional.[3]
Despite these improvements, by the early 1920s the performance of the Silver Ghost's competitors had improved to the extent that its previous superiority had been eroded. Sales declined from 742 in 1913 to 430 in 1922, and the company decided to launch its replacement which was introduced in 1925 as the New Phantom. After this, older 40/50 models were called Silver Ghosts to avoid confusion.
In all, a total of 7874 Silver Ghost cars were produced from 1907 to 1926 including 1701 from the American Springfield factory, many of them still running to this day.
Jean de Hangest wears rather early all-enclosing plate armour on the limbs of a specific style.
The poleyns and couters are quite large, with always one lame in between the rerebraces, vambraces, cuisses and greaves.
Note the hinges on the outside of the greaves, though the carver didn’t depict straps on the inside.
Some mail can be seen where the greaves and sabatons, consisting of five lames, meet.
A surcoat with a fairly flowing skirt, ending in trefoils on all of its edges, is probably worn over a coat-of-plates.
The surcoat has got a slit on the right side for the dagger, now lost, protruding from under the coat-of-plates.
Also the hilt of the sword is lost.
A mail standard with the usual scalloped edge is worn on the neck. Also note the forked beard and curly hair of the time.
The inscription on the tomb possibly dates from the early 16th century, during the time when the church was rebuilt.
Jean de Hangest died in 1363 in London, as an hostage of King John the Good of France, who was captured by the English at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356.
Haleakala Crater hike on Haleakala Crater Hike on 7/9/2019
I caught the first Hawaiian Airlines flight to Maui from Oahu which left at 5:05 am, arrival at 5:44 am.
I took a carry-on duffel bag and a photo backpack ( no checked bags )
Picked up my rental car from Alamo and first stopped at 7-Eleven for water, food and snacks.
Maui Airport has changed. All the car rental companies moved to one central location reachable by tram. Additionally a specific Airport Access road was constructed and in use by this trip.
7:40 am left 7-Eleven for Haleakala.
7:30 am arrived at park entrance. $25 entrance fee by credit card only.
8:00 am arrived at Halemau'u trail head parking lot. Filled my CamelBak bladder with 3L of water, redistributed my equipment and used the bathroom to add a thermal underwear layer for the cold.
8:40 am left the parking lot and went to the Hitchhiking spot to wait for a ride. I was picked up by the 3rd car to come along. A single young male on vacation by himself. As I was grabbing my things to get into his car a mother and young son came up and asked to share the ride. I only waited maybe 5 minutes to catch a ride.
9:00 am arrived at the Summit Visitor Center parking lot. The driver had never been up to Haleakala even after visiting Maui a couple of times before, and he was considering doing a short hike while up there. I would be passed by him and the other hitch hiker about a mile down the trail later.
9:15 am after a short look around at the lookout and tightening up my boot laces, I started on Keonehe'ehe'e ( Sliding Sands Trail )
11:51 am I would get to the bottom of the crater and the trail for Holua cabins or Kapaloa, Paliku cabins. Ate lunch of one Spam musube.
12:06 pm I would start on the trial to Holua Cabin
12:59 pm top of the ascent to "Ka Moa o Pele"
1:24 pm trail juncture on the left of "Halali'i"
2:14 pm Silver Sword loop begin ( did not take the loop )
2:22 pm Silver Sword loop end
3:05 pm Holua Cabin - rested
3:32 pm left Holua Cabin and headed out on Halemau'u trail and the crater rim.
4:13 pm arrived at base of crater rim and the start of the switchbacks up the crater wall. rested and stretched.
4:27 pm started up the crater rim switch backs.
6:56 pm I would reach the flat narrow spot I consider the end of the switchbacks.
7:00 pm the temperature would be 56 degrees and dropping down to 52 degrees ( not including windchill )
7:10 pm Sunset, and I was hiking in dark shadow. Too dark to take meaningful pictures or pics of my watch.
8:00 pm I would reach the Halemau'u parking lot and my car.
8:30 pm I would finish unloading and repacking bags for going to my hotel and possibly doing some astro-photography.
8:45 pm arrive at Kalahaku overlook to check out the possibility of astro-photography. The 50% moon washed out the Milky way too much, stars were visible and I was starting to yawn. So I didn't, and I left at 9:05 pm for Kahului and a shower.
I used up all my water, when I got to my hotel and check, the hydration bladder was flat. Possibly one or two sips left in the tube. This was the 2nd time hiking this trail. Both times I brought a collapsible water bag w/filter to refill water at Holua and did not. If I do this again I really, REALLY need to refill water at Holua cabin.
The weather reports for the previous week were about the possibility of hurricane Barbara hitting the islands the day before my trip. Fortunately Barbara down graded and by the time of my trip and predictions for the summit were somewhat cloudy with occasional showers. While hiking I only encountered a few light drizzle/drops from the clouds that didn't require me to break out any of the rain gear I brought or to stow my cameras from rain.
The weather at the summit was cloudy and approximately 65 degrees with windchill. Along the hike until the ascent up the crater rim at the end, the temperature would not seem as cold as I expected or remember from my previous hike a couple of years ago. Possibly due to my wearing thermal underwear, hiking pants, a medium thick long sleeve athletic shirt beneath a button long sleeve hiking shirt and my broad brimmed hat of course. While moving I felt cool and relatively comfortable temperature wise, while raising a slight glistening sweat. At least it wasn't dripping into my eyes.
Keeping to my expected and normal average hiking pace of around 1 mph or less going down hill and across the flats, I would take pictures about every 1-2 hundred feet of the trail. Boring, but I like to document the trail condition. In addition to any interesting views, scenery or recording the weather.
I kept one of my watches attached to my sleeve so it would not be in skin contact and would mostly dangle in my body shade. This would give me a way of tracking my elevation and mostly the temperature.
There were many more day hikers actually crossing the crater along the same route I was going. Most notable was the mother and son that caught a ride with me. They met up with her husband and other son who caught another ride a bit later.
Probably all the hikers that were crossing the crater caught up to me and passed me, and they all started later than I did. The only people who caught up but didn't pass me were 3 female park rangers on their way to Holua Cabin and pretty much started doing their park ranger stuff in the area where they caught up to me and didn't catch up again.
I was constantly annoyed by the hikers I would see taking short cuts along the trail. I had to remind myself to not get pissy with them. I'm tempted to think the only other hikers on the trail that did not take short cuts were the park rangers I met.
Personally, I started the hike with a kinda sharp lower back pain, which had been ongoing since the previous week. But since this hike was already book and paid for I wasn't going to cancel. All thru the hike my back would be in constant pain and I would continually think I might have to give up hiking if my back doesn't get better. It was most painful going down hill, while the flats and going up weren't as bad.
I was hoping the strain and constant back movement would loosen up my lower back and aleviate my pain. Surprisingly, while getting on my stomach with all my gear still on me, when I got up my lower back was better. The pain would come and go, but could now be aleviated for short periods of time by taking off all my gear and bending over to stretch my back. When I would get home, my lower back pain issues would return to "normal"
Evidently, the dry cold air and constant breeze caused my face and lips to chap, which showed up a day after I got home.
Once again I brought chapstic but didn't use it.
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CamelBak Octane 16X Hydration Pack (3L Hydration bladder)
3 liters of water = 6.6 pounds
1x Nikon D700 w/battery grip - Nikon 28-300mm
1x Nikon D700 w/out grip - Rokinon 12mm f2.8 fisheye
Tokina 16-28mm f2.8
Camera & lens weight = 12 pounds
I brought both cameras to reduce the amount of time spent changing lenses and the possibility of getting grit on the camera sensors. Turns out I never changed to the 16-28 so never removed any lens. Yay, no spots in my pictures, Bo, lugged another heavy lens around for nothing. At least I left the 100mm macro in the car already.
Haleakala Crater hike on Haleakala Crater Hike on 7/9/2019
I caught the first Hawaiian Airlines flight to Maui from Oahu which left at 5:05 am, arrival at 5:44 am.
I took a carry-on duffel bag and a photo backpack ( no checked bags )
Picked up my rental car from Alamo and first stopped at 7-Eleven for water, food and snacks.
Maui Airport has changed. All the car rental companies moved to one central location reachable by tram. Additionally a specific Airport Access road was constructed and in use by this trip.
7:40 am left 7-Eleven for Haleakala.
7:30 am arrived at park entrance. $25 entrance fee by credit card only.
8:00 am arrived at Halemau'u trail head parking lot. Filled my CamelBak bladder with 3L of water, redistributed my equipment and used the bathroom to add a thermal underwear layer for the cold.
8:40 am left the parking lot and went to the Hitchhiking spot to wait for a ride. I was picked up by the 3rd car to come along. A single young male on vacation by himself. As I was grabbing my things to get into his car a mother and young son came up and asked to share the ride. I only waited maybe 5 minutes to catch a ride.
9:00 am arrived at the Summit Visitor Center parking lot. The driver had never been up to Haleakala even after visiting Maui a couple of times before, and he was considering doing a short hike while up there. I would be passed by him and the other hitch hiker about a mile down the trail later.
9:15 am after a short look around at the lookout and tightening up my boot laces, I started on Keonehe'ehe'e ( Sliding Sands Trail )
11:51 am I would get to the bottom of the crater and the trail for Holua cabins or Kapaloa, Paliku cabins. Ate lunch of one Spam musube.
12:06 pm I would start on the trial to Holua Cabin
12:59 pm top of the ascent to "Ka Moa o Pele"
1:24 pm trail juncture on the left of "Halali'i"
2:14 pm Silver Sword loop begin ( did not take the loop )
2:22 pm Silver Sword loop end
3:05 pm Holua Cabin - rested
3:32 pm left Holua Cabin and headed out on Halemau'u trail and the crater rim.
4:13 pm arrived at base of crater rim and the start of the switchbacks up the crater wall. rested and stretched.
4:27 pm started up the crater rim switch backs.
6:56 pm I would reach the flat narrow spot I consider the end of the switchbacks.
7:00 pm the temperature would be 56 degrees and dropping down to 52 degrees ( not including windchill )
7:10 pm Sunset, and I was hiking in dark shadow. Too dark to take meaningful pictures or pics of my watch.
8:00 pm I would reach the Halemau'u parking lot and my car.
8:30 pm I would finish unloading and repacking bags for going to my hotel and possibly doing some astro-photography.
8:45 pm arrive at Kalahaku overlook to check out the possibility of astro-photography. The 50% moon washed out the Milky way too much, stars were visible and I was starting to yawn. So I didn't, and I left at 9:05 pm for Kahului and a shower.
I used up all my water, when I got to my hotel and check, the hydration bladder was flat. Possibly one or two sips left in the tube. This was the 2nd time hiking this trail. Both times I brought a collapsible water bag w/filter to refill water at Holua and did not. If I do this again I really, REALLY need to refill water at Holua cabin.
The weather reports for the previous week were about the possibility of hurricane Barbara hitting the islands the day before my trip. Fortunately Barbara down graded and by the time of my trip and predictions for the summit were somewhat cloudy with occasional showers. While hiking I only encountered a few light drizzle/drops from the clouds that didn't require me to break out any of the rain gear I brought or to stow my cameras from rain.
The weather at the summit was cloudy and approximately 65 degrees with windchill. Along the hike until the ascent up the crater rim at the end, the temperature would not seem as cold as I expected or remember from my previous hike a couple of years ago. Possibly due to my wearing thermal underwear, hiking pants, a medium thick long sleeve athletic shirt beneath a button long sleeve hiking shirt and my broad brimmed hat of course. While moving I felt cool and relatively comfortable temperature wise, while raising a slight glistening sweat. At least it wasn't dripping into my eyes.
Keeping to my expected and normal average hiking pace of around 1 mph or less going down hill and across the flats, I would take pictures about every 1-2 hundred feet of the trail. Boring, but I like to document the trail condition. In addition to any interesting views, scenery or recording the weather.
I kept one of my watches attached to my sleeve so it would not be in skin contact and would mostly dangle in my body shade. This would give me a way of tracking my elevation and mostly the temperature.
There were many more day hikers actually crossing the crater along the same route I was going. Most notable was the mother and son that caught a ride with me. They met up with her husband and other son who caught another ride a bit later.
Probably all the hikers that were crossing the crater caught up to me and passed me, and they all started later than I did. The only people who caught up but didn't pass me were 3 female park rangers on their way to Holua Cabin and pretty much started doing their park ranger stuff in the area where they caught up to me and didn't catch up again.
I was constantly annoyed by the hikers I would see taking short cuts along the trail. I had to remind myself to not get pissy with them. I'm tempted to think the only other hikers on the trail that did not take short cuts were the park rangers I met.
Personally, I started the hike with a kinda sharp lower back pain, which had been ongoing since the previous week. But since this hike was already book and paid for I wasn't going to cancel. All thru the hike my back would be in constant pain and I would continually think I might have to give up hiking if my back doesn't get better. It was most painful going down hill, while the flats and going up weren't as bad.
I was hoping the strain and constant back movement would loosen up my lower back and aleviate my pain. Surprisingly, while getting on my stomach with all my gear still on me, when I got up my lower back was better. The pain would come and go, but could now be aleviated for short periods of time by taking off all my gear and bending over to stretch my back. When I would get home, my lower back pain issues would return to "normal"
Evidently, the dry cold air and constant breeze caused my face and lips to chap, which showed up a day after I got home.
Once again I brought chapstic but didn't use it.
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CamelBak Octane 16X Hydration Pack (3L Hydration bladder)
3 liters of water = 6.6 pounds
1x Nikon D700 w/battery grip - Nikon 28-300mm
1x Nikon D700 w/out grip - Rokinon 12mm f2.8 fisheye
Tokina 16-28mm f2.8
Camera & lens weight = 12 pounds
I brought both cameras to reduce the amount of time spent changing lenses and the possibility of getting grit on the camera sensors. Turns out I never changed to the 16-28 so never removed any lens. Yay, no spots in my pictures, Bo, lugged another heavy lens around for nothing. At least I left the 100mm macro in the car already.