And a decision beyond any other.
Something that hasn't happened since our Forefathers had the balls to do it.
Yet others wish to do nothing.
I can't say that I would argue with any, for on any point it would be a lost cause. Each has it's own positive and negative sides. Hell, I say protest, harass, strike, anything that can be done by a peaceful nature!
We all know what must be done, but we argue on how to do it.
We can only unite when we realize that the reason we hate each other is because of those in power have made us do so with greed, false truths, flat out lies, and webs of deceit.
We will only see the freedom our Forefathers had when we rise up and take back what was deceivingly taken from us.
We are being used as slaves and all of our Country's fortune is being funnelled across the seas while we fall into debt and poverty.
If the people don't want to help themselves then there is nothing that can be done.
We will fall without a Majority and a Declaration!
Those in power have made sure that the only way to end them is through a Majority. Cause enough dissension and chaos in a Country that rules by majority by which that majority can't be reached and therefore the underlying principals diminish to such a point that they can no longer be achieved or restored.
Every time you go to a corporate owned store and buy something instead of going to a Mom and Pop store, you give them more power to control and enslave you. They use your own desires to mislead, lure and trap you. Take all corporations and follow them to the people that own them. They ALL belong to the 13 richest families, the controllers of the world. These are the people that are controlling our government (and a majority of the worlds governments), forcing decisions and controlling votes using the money WE gave them.
A completely peaceful solution is out of the question. I believe it can be achieved peacefully but it will take threats and to show that we will back our threats. With a Majority and a Declaration we will conquer and destroy an enemy who can not be harmed by normal means. By simply demanding impeachment without demanding who is to replace him will only lead to another puppet being put in place to deceive us once again as they have done so for decades. We have to cut all the strings to the puppet before we can expect to accomplish anything. I believe the Declaration does this.
There is literally enough money to ensure EVERY single human being a luxurious and wonderful life, but greed, deceit, lies and hate prevent us from seeing the way and path we were meant to follow.
The first key is a majority, nothing else matters until that is reached!
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Sea & Sky
The missing Manx - revisited!
Manx Shearwater - spring to autumn visitor off Devon, but just possible to see in winter if you're lucky!
When you attempt all-year Devon seawatching, like I try to (mostly on your own in winter!), it becomes a challenge to see a particular species in as many months of the year as possible (yet as I'm getting older its not so easy to do long stints without getting cold!). For our summer visitors this becomes extremely hard, verging on impossible for some. Never the less, an out of season sighting I class as a rarity. On 18/01/19 at Berry Head to my surprise a Manx Shearwater sailed past. I've seen them in Cornwall in January, but to get one for Devon was pretty special. That missing month was at last filled and the year full-set completed. Manx is not easy to see off Devon December–February.
This prompted me to pump out some data and see which months I'm missing for other tubenoses and skuas.
Not surprising Fulmar can be seen in every month, the hardest month can be October, when sightings become scarce due to birds going out to sea to moult.
Of the two large shearwaters, perhaps its a surprise I've seen Cory's in three more months than Great (June, October & November), given generally we get more Greats in Devon than Cory's. In 2018 I missed an October Great at Berry Head by five minutes, dam, it was like missing a major rarity!! I have seen October Greats in Cornwall though, so I'm sure it will happen in Devon for me. 2020 I finally saw a June Cory's just (on the 30th). But I've never seen April–May birds (often claimed in Devon in the past) and don't expect to either. [Hopefully I'll be made to eat my words!]
There is just one month missing for Sooty Shearwater for me and that's March, I think it will happen with the right weather system - just keep trying!
Balearic Shearwater is possible to see year-round; during December–April they can be pretty scarce, especially April. In 2008 I managed a Balearic in every month from Berry Head, but I doubt that will ever happen again. In recent winters there seem less sightings off Devon than a few years ago.
European Storm-petrel, is a classic British summer breeder, so I'm missing February–March and December. The January records were surprising (see here on the background of this unusual event), but filling those other missing months is a tall order. While Leach's Storm-petrel typically is late autumn-winter bird for us; as I see very few off Devon, filling the missing months January–August is highly unlikely.
On to the skuas. I've seen both Great and Pomarine Skua every month of the year off Devon. Arctic Skua I'm just missing a February bird. Possible, but looking less likely these days, given the downturn in numbers. Arctic is extremely rare in the winter and the January bird(s), occurred in the same event as the European SPs above. While Long-tailed Skua is generally an autumn bird for us. In theory of the months I'm missing, May–June at least are possible, but it's not happened for me yet. Mid-May of course being when the peak passage of breeding adults is heading north far out to sea to our west. I've been lucky to witness this off North Uist a few times, but just one in Devon in May would be nice! The April record was a bizarre one - the well-watched winter plumaged adult that took up residence in a ploughed field at Wembury.
So to sum up, realistically I might fill the calendar for Sooty Shearwater and Acrtic Skua, if I'm lucky - shame its not the same month to concentrate on.
Knee tremblers part 2 - the lunchbox that got away!
Back in 2016 this neglected blog featured a piece on "knee tremblers", those special seabirds that leave you trembling when they appear on a seawatch - see the original post here. For these are the Pterodromas, to me the ultimate seabird - mystical beasts that appear sweeping through and (usually) are gone all too quickly. My lack of seeing one for a while resulted in another trip to Madeira in 2018, where some great encounters were had (see photos of their two species below), in at times, very rough seas, see the write-up here. The same year I even saw another Fea's type Petrel at Pendeen, found by Steve Votier, apparently the site's first accepted one - which I find very strange given its position and history of amazing seabirds! So up to 2020 I've seen eight in UK and Ireland of which I found three, co-found two and latched onto three others found by others (including one found by my dear other half and seawatching companion Del); they included accepted firsts for Devon, UK and County Mayo, Ireland. Since 2015, in Devon there have been another two Fea's/Desertas I missed, both at Berry Head and both times I've been down-stream at Start Point when the phone call has come through "heading your way and you'll definitely get this". Yes, and both times I didn't!!
I still tuned into the great vibe coming from Berry Head of their last one (25/08/20) as the assembled group enthused on their bird, with seawatching mate Dave Dawe deservedly welcomed to the 'I've found a knee trembler" club and the sheer elation of those assembled seeing it; including a delighted Mark Bailey who just got on it before it sailed off around the corner. Not surprisingly Perry Saunders and myself at Start were rather deflated, despite clocking 11 Great Shearwaters, way exceeding Berry Head's total!
Above the larger more robust Desertas Petrel on the left, the more delicate (Manx-sized) Zino's Petrel on the right - Madeira 2018. When compared, this Zino's has more white in the underwing coverts (more pro-feature for Zino's); also its more compact and shorter-necked, and has a slimmer bill (a similar bird should be a future addition to the UK list as a great candidate was seen on a Scilly pelagic in 2020!). Desertas and Fea's are inseparable in the field, but as the above 'Desertas' photo was taken off the Desertas Islands, Madeira, its a pretty solid bet it was one.
But was 2020 over for strange seabirds? No what a year! So to recap there's been a White-chinned Petrel in Orkney, Short-tailed Shearwaters Ireland and France, Flesh-footed Shearwater Azores, Zino's Petrel Isles off the Scillies, a handful of Fea's/Desertas Ireland/UK/Spain, yet another 'Band-rumped' Petrel Cornwall etc. Then take a deep breath, recently at the famous Estaca de Bares a Great-winged Petrel!!! With supporting cast of two South Polar Skuas, two Fea's type etc etc, in a watch that must go down as one of the best ever!
Anyway, I again had the "knee trembler" moment in more ways than one! On 27/08/20 a rather uninspiring forecast had me arrive at Berry Head for a seawatch at 12:00, winds had been due south all morning and forecast to strengthen and go more south-easterly with some rain. OK for some skuas, may be I thought? On arriving at the watch point, there was already a good passage of Manx taking place and a close Sooty in with them, then a European Storm-petrel. Dam I thought to myself, should have come down here earlier this is quite good! Manx passage increased another Sooty sailed past and a few more stormies, the wind was getting up and starting to rain. I moved a few metres to the south of the watch point for more protection as the wind was now approaching gale south-easterly and the sea very rough. Manx were pouring through sheering up and as I scanned with binoculars, sheltering under my well-seasoned brolly, what was that?!! I picked up something very different rise up amongst the Manxies. I started to shake as it was clearly something very good and not seen by me before. Wings were a bit more bow shaped, with a striking black & white underwing pattern not matching Manx, more thicker dark to towards the leading edge, was that a black ulnar wing bar?! I then convinced myself I'd got a Black-capped Petrel and rather stupidly started looking for features of Black-capped, by now just managing to get it in the scope as it was heading away from me - I was really shaking by now. But no, no big white rump, no isolated black cap and this bird was barely bigger than a Manx - too small. Although dark above, I got the impression of the white on the face and up to the forehead giving it a white highlight on the front end, and Manx like saddle-bags that joined, both very unlike Manx! The bird had gone and I'd eliminated my first thought of Black-capped Petrel. Must have been a weird Manx I told myself, but I was not happy with that scenario, I've seen 100000's of Manx and never anything like that before. I rang Mike Langman who was thinking of coming down to say seawatching was good and I'd had a weird 'Manx' I'd tried to turn into something else.
Anyway before I could give it much more thought and had written the briefest notes, the second knee trembler moment happened. The wind just suddenly shifted through 180 degrees to north-northwest, at that moment my brolly blew inside out and four+ (carbon fibre) stays snapped and I was blown off my low three-legged seat. The wind strength was nothing like I'd experienced before, this was dangerous and I feared going over the edge. A north-westertly hits our normally protected quarry/cliff from the wrong direction and amplifies it. I was laid on the ground grabbing what I could, scope and tripod chucked on the ground and held on to my rucksack. Sandwich box and box containing items for making tea or coffee (essential long-haul seawatch gear) were both blown out to sea before I could grab them. Steel flask also blown out of sight towards the edge and disappeared. I then proceeded to crawl dragging my rucksack and crouched in the corner, while being hit by a deluge of water. This was not pleasant! All thoughts of 'the bird' had gone, I just wanted to salvage what I could and survive! I sat it out for around 30 minutes and the wind started to drop. Wow I was lucky (I recovered my flask at least that had wedged under a rock, just stopping it going over)! Had this been a Berry Head full-house with folk sat on big chairs, much of it would have gone out over, hopefully with occupants baling out first.
When I got home I looked at the data from the weather station on top of the headland, which showed a dramatic change in wind direction, southeast 40mph suddenly around 70mph north, as it went around in-front of torrential rain wind speed felt even higher! Data in knots (x1.15 for mph). Yes, 70mph is violent storm, felt like a tornado, with no protection in that direction at Berry Head! Later on in the evening after the storm, ML walking on top of the headland said, most of the cafe's tables and chairs had been blown all over the place.
Wrecked 'state of the art', indestructible brolly!
Well, I finally got around to looking at my numerous seabird books and you know what? Why didn't I think of Bermuda Petrel. It would explain the underwing pattern I saw and why I was thinking of Black-capped, BP can show a thin white rump (aka joining saddlebags) and the forehead and face gives it a white front to head look. Also Manx sized, if not a touch larger. Now on one pelagic off Madeira I remember a Zino's turning up and then a Manx and some participants thinking two Zino's as both shot around together and they were close-ish. Given the conditions at Berry Head that day, picking out features and different jizz was not easy, it was certainly very different to a Manx, yet I've not enough on it to submit; and from experience very rare seabirds need very good notes and photos to get accepted - now if only ML had been there to help! Of course for me its another one assigned to the should have done better bin, like the brolly - no I rebuilt that with spares from another wreck, so it can fight another storm and so can I!
The 1998 Devon Bird Report - now 20 years old!
How time flies, here we are in 2020, at the time of writing I await the Devon Bird Report 2018 to arrive hopefully in the next month or so. For a few reasons recently I was prompted to pull out the 1998 Devon Bird Report to look something up (more below) and its very interesting looking back!
Like DBR 2018, 20 years ago the cycle of the Devon Bird Report (DBR) had drifted, so DBR 1998 actually came out in 2000 - realistically a year behind. For many that have never been involved in these reports, they may not realise the amount of shear graft that goes in, from the writing team, particularly the editors.
DBR1998 is much smaller than the present reports which up-sized physically in 2007, personally I prefer this smaller size, it fits my bookcase more easily. The then editors were a Dave Glaves (DJG) and Mark Darlaston! (MD), who at the time both worked full-time as scientists for the Farming and Rural Conservation Agency - so this was all done in their spare time, evenings and weekends! DBR 1998 was the last of their trilogy having taken over as editors for the 1996 report, effectively picking up the pieces of a crisis; when the DBR 1996 was literally pulled from the jaws of the printers as it was not up to standard. A bad time for DBR, as when the 1996 proof from the printers was seen by the section writers, it was considered not fit for publication or going out to the membership, so needed a re-edit / rewrite and DJG and MD drew the short straw and sorted it.
Opening the front cover of DBR1998 we see some familiar names, the recorder was Mike Langman and many of the records committee and section writers are still about today. Sections appear more succinct and consistent in style between writers than in recent DBRs, down to a combination of factors. Despite being small in size the report has a gazetteer, edited to match the site names contained within the sections, very useful. Recent DBRs are 50+ pages bigger and lack a gazetteer!
One thing that is very apparent is the quality of photographs - as pre-digital, photos submitted were on slides or scanned from prints and this shows! Certainly one aspect that has changed dramatically with recent DBRs for the better, however, there was far more artwork in the older report that nicely supported the text than recent times.
Notable birds, the 1997 Semipalmated Plover reappeared at Dawlish Warren, there was a a drake Bufflehead at Roadford and a white morph Gyr Falcon at Wembury. The latter site also hosted a remarkable record of a Long-tailed Skua 4–10 April, described as a moulting sub-adult, however, looking at the photo now is it not a moulting winter adult?!
For a seawatcher 1998 appeared a fantastic year. In September there were a whooping 1771 sightings of Arctic Skuas, including a day record count of c600 on 06/09/98 at Berry Head - surely never to be exceeded. Also due to deep low pressure systems extending way down to the south in early 1998, we saw a genuine January Arctic Skua and European Storm-petrels. Tor Bay also hosted impressive assortments of wintering ducks, divers and grebes; seemingly more diverse than in recent times.
What about Balearic Shearwaters? At the time called 'Mediterranean' Shearwater and DBR1998 states the county record falling with 78 passing Berry Head on 07/09/98, in 2018 Start Point broke the record with 610 on 18/09/18 (8x the number!). Balearic numbers have changed dramatically off Devon!
1998 was a notable seawatching year and for me for many other reasons, how time flies!
Record Devon seabird passage counts I've witnessed!
As an interesting exercise I had a look at the highest passage counts I've witnessed for a number of seabird species off Devon. Some are perhaps unlikely to be exceeded, either due to changes in the particular species' fortunes or access to certain watch points, although two records, Balearic Sheawater and Puffin were broken in 2018. Not included are species such as Gannet, Kittiwakes and commoner auks, as on very good seawatches the counting these are often dropped in favour of recording tubenoses, skuas and less common seabirds.
Species Highest Date Site 2nd Date Site 3rd Date Site
European Storm-petrel c1000 22/05/06 BHd c500 12/07/98 PPt 450 09/10/97 BHd
Leach's Storm-petrel 155 08/12/06 HPt - - - - - -
Cory's Shearwater 301 08/09/95 HPt 181 21/07/17 BHd 102 30/07/08 BHd
Great Shearwater 320 23/09/99 BHd 140 08/09/95 BHd 82 21/07/17 BHd
Sooty Shearwater 582 02/09/09 BHd 326 02/10/12 SPt 89 07/09/02 HPt
Manx Shearwater c25000 13/08/05 HPt c15000 19/07/05 HPt c15000 19/08/15 HPt
Balearic Shearwater 1068 04/07/20 SPt 610 18/09/18 SPt 528 26/08/15 SPt
Little Gull 153 11/11/13 BHd 57 27/10/04 HN 21 20/11/12 BHd
Mediterranean Gull 66 27/07/18 SPt 60 29/07/18 SPt 50 28/07/18 SPt
Common Tern 1018 05/08/08 BHd c600 19/08/16 BHd - - -
Black Tern 80 24/08/99 HN 24 25/08/15 BHd - - -
Great Skua 91 06/09/98 BHd 86 06/10/09 BHd - - -
Pomarine Skua 79 23/10/11 BHd 64 24/10/11 BHd 63 08/11/14 BHd
Arctic Skua c600 06/09/98 BHd 389 07/09/98 BHd 167 10/09/04 BHd
Long-tailed Skua 10 27/08/12 BHd 7 28/09/91 HN 5 07/09/98 BHd
Puffin 98 11/05/18 BHd 66 09/04/09 BHd 62 19/05/09 BHd
Little Auk 16 02/11/03 BHd 4 29/12/06 BHd - - -
Codes for sites: BHd = Berry Head, HPt = Hartland Point, HN = Hope's Nose, PPt = Prawle Point, SPt = Start Point.
So what's in the table above? Those highlighted in bold blue represent Devon record counts I've seen; followed by my 2nd and 3rd highest counts, which for many species also represent the counties' 2nd and 3rd highest. Over the years I've put in considerable time seawatching at all the above sites, but in more recent times just concentrate on Berry Head and Start Point. The former site is where more Devon record passage counts have taken place than anywhere else. In this blog piece I go through the species and sites and pass comment on whether I think the county record is likely to be raised in the future.
The highest European Storm-petrel count was not witnessed by me and occurred after the famous 1987 storm when c5000 were seen off Hope's Nose on 18/10/87. My highest count in the table is probably Devon's 2nd highest, and unusually took place in May after a storm when an estimated 1000 were lingering and passing Berry Head on 22/05/06.
I feel the highest count for Leach's Storm-petrel is unlikely to be exceeded in a long while. For one, there is no longer access to Hartland Point, once owned by Trinity House it has been sold to a private owner - where before access was possible its now a definite no no. The circumstances that led to the Leach's record, were days of persistent west to south-westerly gales, driving many birds up into the Bristol Channel. On 08/12/06 I saw the wind was predicted to ease and go north-westerly, Hartland seemed the perfect place if birds were going to move south-west out of the Bristol Channel and it certainly was, witnessing one of best winter seawatches of all time (more on this watch here). Could these numbers occur on the South Devon coast, perhaps? But unlikely! There would need to be a lot of birds driven into the south-western approaches; there would need to be a concentrating effect of prolonged south-westerlies pushing them up into Lyme Bay, with the winds ideally switching southeast, then may be Dawish Warren or Hope's Nose (if anyone is watching there!) would come up trumps. But with the loss of Hartland Point access, its going to be difficult to repeat on the North Devon Coast - may be Morte Point if the same circumstances as 2006 ever occur again?
Cory's Shearwater, another record achieved at Hartland Point, when 301 passed on 08/09/95, however, I feel this one will go sooner or later on the South Coast. In fact I thought it was going to go on 21/07/17 at Berry Head. Of course potentially the highest count was on 20/07/05 at Prawle Point when 280 moved west, however, there was incomplete coverage of day - almost certainly in excess of 300 would have been counted if someone had been stationed at Prawle or Start all day, but they weren't. Interestingly that day I'd wrongly opted to go to Hartland Point as the wind was west-northwest (more a wind for the North Devon coast), we only saw 28 there and 71 the previous day. But for now Hartland hangs onto the record!
Great Shearwater, for now the honors go to Berry Head with 320 on 23/09/99. Like Cory's I'm sure this record will go sooner or later from a south coast watch-point: Berry Head, Start or Prawle. Unlikely to be the north Devon coast with Hartland out of the equation, but that site still retains Devon's 2nd highest count for now of 140 (also the only other three figure count), which also occurred on the record Cory's day - as a whole will that day ever be bettered?
Sooty Shearwater, the 582 birds we saw at Berry Head on 02/09/09 is a phenomenal record. I remember pushing the old record to a mere 89 at Hartland Point on the 07/09/02 and thought that was good at the time. The 2009 record took this to a whole new level, which was exceptional so far up the English Channel and really will take some beating - as more akin to a good count we'd witness off west Ireland! The 02/10/12 Start Point record of 328 was pretty good though and it could happen again?
Manx Shearwater, back to good old Hartland Point. In 2005 there were exceptional numbers off there no doubt from the Welsh breeding colonies, peaking with a passage count of c25,000 on 13/08/05. Not surprisingly similarly big numbers are also being seen off Lundy now folk are looking harder at the sea there.
Balearic Shearwater, this species has become of particular interest to me. Though in recent times the species is meant to be declining the passage record gets pushed higher and higher. Start Point has a lot to answer for this, and I've found its the best site, on the right winds, if, big numbers are on the French side of the English Channel. Start has pushed the record through the 400s and then 500s in 2015 with 406 and 528 respectively, and then in 2018 pushed up again to 610 on 19/09/18. Is that as high as its going to get, perhaps? Well no, unprecedented 1068 past on 04/07/20, think this a new national record too!
Little Gull, always hard to predict. We saw a record 153 go past Berry Head on 11/11/13, this would have been far higher had we not diverted to see a Dusky Warbler on top of the headland, so only started seawatching at 11:30. Around 1,000 had gone past Portland that day, so what would the total have been at Berry Head with all day coverage? Certainly a record that must go if the right circumstances come together again.
Mediterranean Gull, without doubt the record passage counts of this year will continue to increase along with this species. While we saw movements of around 60 off Start Point in July on Slapton Sands there were far more (three figure counts) resting.
Common Tern, there have been far higher counts at Dawlish Warren, but away from there Berry Head is good for passage when the conditions are right, so I'm sure the count of 1018 on 05/08/08 will be bettered sooner or later. I've not included Arctic Tern as though we have passage counts this species is far rarer on the South Coast and difficult to separate at range making assessment of what's a true passage record difficult.
Black Tern, a record count still residing with Hope's Nose, once the favored South Devon seawatch venue. On 24/08/99 we saw 80 fly past. Hope's Nose probably is still the prime spot for terns and skuas in a south-easterly, this record might last a while though!
Great Skua, unless I'm missing something it appears the 91 we saw off Berry Head on 06/09/98 is a county record. I have to say I'm surprised 100 hasn't been passed in a day, I've certainly seen in excess of 100 a few times in N Cornwall. Perhaps with Great Skua there is a chance the record will be broken in suitable conditions - as a whole the species is adapting to changes in food supply so breeding populations aren't as affected as Arctic Skua (see below).
Pomarine Skua, the highest counts from Berry Head are relativity recent. We do best in late autumn after a good breeding year when juveniles pass back down the English Channel, as happened 23-24/10/11. If its a good Lemming year and the birds breed well, and favorable weather systems occur during mid-late October there is no reason why this record shouldn't be exceeded at Berry Head or Hope's Nose.
Arctic Skua, sadly I can never see the record counts from 1998 ever being broken. This species has undergone huge declines in its British range related to food shortages affecting breeding success. A day count of over 100 is unlikely these days, so the heady heights of c600 on 06/09/98 is unlikely to happen again.
Long-tailed Skua, the rarest of our four skuas, with one record count just getting into double figures on 27/08/12. Like Pomarine a good breeding season is needed, though passage is earlier. If everything comes together, breeding season and weather, a good tally of juveniles is possible and the record could go, again Berry Head or Hope's Nose the most likely sites.
Puffin, away from Lundy where breeding, Berry Head appears to be the best site for spring passage April–June. On 11/05/18 we nearly broke into three figures, being just shy at 98. Again a long watch in the right conditions and this record could go, but its taken me along time to get close to the ton!
Little Auk, not Berry Head again! Yes, as long as there's a good movement of birds down the North Sea in October–November and we then get some southwesterly winds, Little Auk is on the cards. This was the scenario on 02/11/03 when we saw 16 pass, not huge by North Sea standards, but still Devon's record passage to date. Will it get broken, why not, given the right conditions and you like a cooler long seawatch!
Pterodroma fix and tubenose quest - Madeira and SW England 2018
After a rather good run of seeing feae type Pterodromas in Devon (and Ireland) my recent form was poor, missing the last two Devon records, despite being in situ on headlands downstream of their respective flight paths. There was only one answer to rectify my need for a Pterodroma fix, another trip to Madeira. But while I was about it, why not see how many tubenoses it was possible to see in the north-east Atlantic, from the three WindBirds pelagic trips and my usual local seawatching in Devon (with the odd trip to Cornwall thrown in), in a year. In 2015 the same quest produced 14 species with one notable omission, would 2018 be better?
So 2018 started and the tubenose quest began - seawatching off Berry Head produced Fulmars from 02/01/2018, my first two Manx Shearwaters of the year on 16/03/2018 (Start Point) and early Balearic Shearwaters on 15/04/2018 and 11/05/2018 (Berry Head). So three tubenoses off Devon up to April wasn't bad, not great. Some years I've seen a European Storm-petrel or a Sooty Shearwater by then, but surely they will follow!
May arrived and we headed for Madeira for three WindBirds run pelagic trips in their tubenose-rich seas. Our 1st pelagic was booked for 23/05/2018, but beforehand seawatching from a headland near Machico on 22/05/2018 produced a fair few Cory's Shearwaters and two Bulwer's Petrels. It was quite windy (great for land-based seawatching), but in the back of my mind I was really hoping it would die down just a bit, as Del might find the next days' pelagic hard as she's not the greatest sailor! She hadn't done the 2015 pelagics with me for this reason, but after I'd completed those I thought she would have been fine - but conditions vary so much year to year.
The afternoon of the 23/05/2018 arrived and we were greeted by Catarina and Hugo (who run WindBirds) at Machico harbour. The boat which is a large rib (see picture lower down) looked new compared to my last trips in 2015, but it wasn't, just a new tube (the rubber bit) and some brand new and very expensive shock-absorbing seats imported from New Zealand. We boarded and headed to sea with a mix of nationalities aboard. Now before you embark on these pelagics you are forewarned, it might be rough and wind is good for tubenoses - I don't think some of the participants had read the pre-flight information!! Looking above sheltered Machico the clouds were rushing over at rather a fast rate!!
As we headed east I could see through the gap off the end of Madeira and the small adjoining island, our first indication of what the sea was looking like, answer big! A 2.5m+ swell and a 20+ knot north-westerly to be precise - this was going to be interesting! After passing though the gap out into the main Atlantic, the boat, Oceandroma, started to cut her way through towering waves and there was a lot of hard slamming off the tops; thank god for those new seats! We were very quickly wet, very wet, as every now and again a wave would break over us. Luckily my camera gear was all in a dry bag, but was still bouncing around in the bottom of the boat. While an action camera was tucked in my pocket, which filled with seawater and had to be emptied periodically after each drenching - luckily the action cam is waterproof! I managed a few quick shots with the action cam to capture the atmosphere, but holding on and using it at the same time was difficult. Both Del's and my thinusulate beanie-hats were so soggy, they kept drooping over our eyes and had to be regularly wrung out so we could see! This was far, far rougher than my previous trips and quick look back down the boat revealed some of the participants weren't coping well - told by the grey faces and clenched knuckles hanging on for grim death. For Del this was a baptism of fire and not an easy starter! Were we really paying good money for this, we must be mad!
We take yet another wave right over us, fine if you like saltwater!
We stopped for a respite from slamming down over waves to look at some foraging Cory's Shearwaters. Nice to get some shots of them feeding in a bit of wind.
Cory's feeding in a big sea - nice!
Catching fish just below the surface.
The conditions still weren't improving and three participants in particular weren't coping well, however, spirits were briefly lifted by a quick flyby 'Fino's' Petrel hurtling through on the wind. 'Fino's' is the term we use for the birds that can't be assigned to Fea's or Zino's - of course this has become more complicated since Fea's was split into two species: Desertas and Fea's Petrel. As Desertas and Zino's Petrels are the most likely in the area, given they are breeding on nearby Bugio (Desertas Islands) and Pico do Arieiro (Madeira), perhaps these non-assigned Pterodromas would be better called 'Dino's'?
A 'Dino's' Petrel hurtles by on the wind.
We plodded on out to a 'chumming' position, known to be good for Zino's Petrels and where we'd been lucky in 2015. A chum block went in, but conditions were very difficult. Then just to add insult to injury it also started to pour with rain. This was the final straw for some participants, who now just wanted to go home! Catarina and Hugo decided to abandon the trip and we headed back to port, surfing down the huge swell with the wind on our backs - very exiting. As compensation we were promised longer at sea and extra chum blocks for the remaining two pelagics! One good thing though, Del coped admirably - far better than some of the others, three of which were so put off they didn't turn up for the next two pelagics they had paid for, a great shame as conditions proved far more bearable for the remaining two trips and I'm sure they'd have been OK. With WindBirds you pay for all three trips to give the best chance of catching up with as many tubesnoses as possible. So after day one my year tubenose total was still stuck on five - 'Dino's' Petrel not included of course!
Oceanodroma with Machico, Madeira in the background - sheltered from dominant north biased winds - Del and me upfront. New rubber tube and seats compared to my 2015 trip. Pelagic 2 sees a few empty seats as some participants are put off by pelagic 1, what's left are the 'seabirders'. Surely this one will be better!
For pelagic 2 (24/05/18) Catarina and Hugo decided that the wind was still too strong in the north so we'd head south and try for Desertas Petrel etc, hence gaining a bit of shelter from Madeira as we headed out. While heading down towards the Desertas we had nice close passes by two brutish Pterodromas. We slowed to fire off some shots. Heavy-billed, robust birds ticking all the boxes for Desertas, so more than happy they were.
About as good a Desertas Petrel as you can get, especially when you're a few miles off their breeding island Bugio. Look at the bill on that and the overall build.
When we arrived at our chumming position west of Bugio, we used three chum blocks one after another for the afternoon/evening session, really getting our money's worth, as we came home in the dark, so used every minute of daylight at sea. The resulting chum built up to 30+ 'Band-rumped' Petrels feeding on the slick. Given no wing moult, they appeared to be mostly the 'hot' season breeders, (likely to be using the Desertas Islands etc) and almost certainly most were Madeiran Storm-petrels. I'd seen a few before on my 2015 trips, but to see so many was fantastic. We also added two more species of Storm-petrel with European and a very brief Wilson's seen.
'Band-rumped' Storm-petrels almost certainly Madeiran.
Now it was interesting that two Leach's Petrels were also claimed. I have to say I saw nothing to suggest Leach's, one of the birds in question was photographed by another birder. I asked to be sent the pictures when I got home, which to me showed a 'Band-rumped' Petrel with some moult in the white of the rump. So though Leach's appeared on the day's tally for others it didn't for us!
Cory's Shearwaters and Bulwer's Petrels are almost taken for granted, but the latter are amazing birds to watch in flight especially as our chances of seeing one back home are incredibly slim.
Bulwer's Petrel, what a distinctive flight and shape - one day Start Point (dream on)!
A Bulwer's Petrel dwarfs a Madeiran Storm-petrel which aren't small compared to our European [British] Storm-petrels.
Another Shearwater you don't necessarily associate with Madeira are Manx. Yet a small population breeds in the interior mountains. They regularly come to chum on WindBirds pelagics, something I didn't find when I used to work on a fishing boat off South Devon and regularly chummed for seabirds. I can only ponder, either Catarina and Hugo have some 'secret' ingredient or our British Manx are more fussy?
Manx Shearwater - regular on pelagics off Madeira, often coming in on chum - something I didn't find back at home when I used to do a lot of 'chumming' off South Devon
Now one bird you hope to see off Madeira is Barolo Shearwater (they breed on nearby islands), but they are not easy, due to being relatively rare with a declining population and don't come to chum (boat shy). In 2015 I had a fleeting glimpse of one at dusk when heading back in after one pelagic. This time we were lucky again, Del and I spotted two birds initially coming head on, in 'characteristic' fast beating flight, I quickly took a camera shot. They quickly crossed the chum slick and whizzed off into the distance. Sadly none of the other seabirders got on them a part from C&H, the quick shot I took remarkably was in-focus (see below).
Barolo Shearwater coming head on - white-face and isolated eye (not always a feature), but seen nicely on this bird. Note sea is still roughish for pelagic 2 but far better than 1.
So we ended pelagic two with a very nice selection of eight tubenoses and my years' tally hit double figures - a nice round 10.
Roseate Tern - quite a bit of red on the base of the bill on his bird as some do.
Its not all tubenoses of course and it was nice to see Common and Roseate Terns and a Bonxie, the only gulls we saw were Yellow-legged ('Azorean') and Black-headed (at Machico); as a group we definitely get a better selection back home - so don't come to Madeira if you're a larophile.
Yellow-legged Gull - often the first species to arrive when the chum goes in.
Cory's Shearwater - one of the most numerous tubenoses seen off Madeira, but a fantastic bird and very nice when we occasionally see them off Devon (would it happen in 2018?).
Our final pelagic was on 25/05/18. Again we would head north hoping for Zino's Petrel, one of the worlds rarest tubenoses. I also hoped we would see White-faced Storm-petrel on one the trips, particularly for Del, as they are charismatic almost comical birds to watch when feeding, but felt from previous trips we had probably blown our chances on that one as I'd only seen them on pelagics south of Madeira before - but never say never.
The final pelagic was slow, despite again having three chum blocks to play with and a nice bit of wind to carry the scent, but tubenoses seemed reluctant to respond. Of course Cory's Shearwaters and Bulwer's Petrels were ever present, but where were those special birds? Several Loggerhead Turtles were seen and quite amusing as they nibbled away at the chum block, something I didn't see in 2015.
Loggerhead Turtles like a good chew on the chum block.
Birds continued to be slow, but nice views of Common Tern, Manx Shearwaters and a Bonxie.
Common Tern
The day moved on quickly with the light starting to fade. I could tell Catarina and Hugo were looking anxious, where were the star birds? We all continued to scan the chum slick, when at 20:50 British birder Dave W, said to me "Mark what's this way down the slick?" A small Pterodroma was working its way up the long chum slick and I shouted out "Zino's". Everyone was soon on the bird as it made a series of flypasts. It was so light-weight and compact compared to the Desertas of the previous day, showing a good amount of white in the underwing coverts and slimmer bill. This one ticked all the Zino's boxes and gave amazing views in the failing light as it made several swift passes.
Lots of white in the underwing coverts on this Zino's, giving it a score firmly in the Zino's camp!
Also this Zino's Petrel is a dainty Pterodroma.
Slim bill, almost no neck, very compact body.
The Zino's behaved like a little rocket zooming around in the wind, to me they appear far more energetic than Desertas/Fea's in a strong wind. At one point a Manx joined it, causing someone to shout two Zino's, but this was really just down to the similar wingspan. I'd seen Zino's before in 2015 but could never tire of seeing such a magic bird - if you're only going to get one it might as well be a good-un - this was probably better and more entertaining than those we'd seen in 2015. Catarina and Hugo looked relieved, the seabirders were elated - oh how a day can change so quickly!
Zino's - a small compact Pterodroma
One of the best seabirds I'll ever see. Fading light ISO2000!
But it didn't stop there. Del then casually scanned the slick at 21:00 and said "What's that petrel?". Hugo was straight on it, a White-faced Storm-petrel was heading up the slick at speed (they fly quite quickly in traveling flight), then started to 'pogo' feed its way along the slick. Soon to be joined by a Madeiran Storm-petrel.
Icing on the cake a White-faced Storm-petrel arrives, 'pogoing' its way along the slick. Fading light ISO2500 for the camera buffs!
Madeiran Storm-petrel and White-faced Storm-petrel.
It was then time to head back. As we slowly moved down checking the chum slick Hugo picked up a Wilson's Storm-petrel - what a fantastic last hour. Time to head into Machico for a drink!
I've always wondered if a really good Zino's Petrel like the one we saw came past one of our south-west headlands, would we be able to tell it from a Desertas/Fea's Petrel? Some say not, but I reckon so! But a photo would definitely be needed to convince any records committee.
Desertas Petrel vs Zino's Petrel
So Madeira had delivered 10 species of tubenose (same as my 2015 visit). Only possible with the help of Catarina and Hugo of Madeira WindBirds - I can't recommend them enough, they'll sort your accommodation and any other birding all at a very reasonable price.
So my tubenose tally was now up to 12 - would I be able to increase this back home seawatching? 2018 proved to be a very hot summer, generally dominated by high pressure with little wind. Though seawatching is usually better in Cornwall, I doggedly stuck to my favoured Devon sites of Start Point and Berry Head. Both needing winds with a southerly bias. A small blow on 14/06/2018 produced my first two Devon European Storm-petrels of the year off Start Point, while a further four seawatches in June and early July predictably failed to add any new tubenoses.
Then the end of July arrived and the dominant high-pressure started to breakdown with some Atlantic fronts arriving. On the 27/07/2018 an afternoon seawatch at Start Point to coincide with an approaching front got the ball rolling, with two Great Shearwaters and 28 Balearic Shearwaters. The former adding another tubenose and the latter, the first pick up of this declining species (though not as a visitor! - but that's another blog post to come). The next day was even better with 10 Great Shearwaters and 19 Cory's Shearwaters in the afternoon. The 29/07/2018 saw the arrival of a better system, the resulting tubenoses were impressive (for Devon at least): 14 Cory's, 12 Great, 4 large shear sp., 14 Sooty, 60 Balearic and c1100 Manx Shearwaters. Throw in a European Storm-petrel and some Fulmars making a very nice tubenose tally of seven. This just emphasises how much better the summer/autumn months are for us, but seven in July is pretty handy and I'd seen everything I'd already seen in Devon since the beginning of the year in just one day! One thing that also struck me, it seems gone are the days' when I see a Cory's Shearwater before Great in Devon, are Greats getting earlier?
So by the end of July my overall tubenose tally had reached 14, Sooty being the last addition - and 14 was exactly where it had remained in 2015. I wasn't really expecting to add anything new in Devon unless I got lucky with a Leach's further into the autumn, so I'd be keeping an eye on the forecast and hopefully visit one of my favourite seawatching venues, Pendeen, should the opportunity arise.
But before we leave July I must mention one notable non-tubenose sighting off Berry Head. On the 30th a c2m Leatherback Turtle surfaced about 100m off the headland, I'd only seen dead ones in the UK and small ones off Madeira before, so quite and event. Possibly the first record for Berry Head?
I only managed five seawatches in August when suitable conditions arrived, again the weather was mostly dominated by high pressure. But Balearic Shearwaters seemed to be around in good numbers, as soon as we got the right winds for birds to cross the channel from the French side. Notable counts off Start were 191 on 10th, 214 on 11th and 306 on the 12th all moving southwest. I didn't see my next influx until September, where numbers were mediocre early in the month (often the peak), but had picked up by 17th with 207. Then on the 18th I witnessed my best Balearic passage to date, when 610 came through in a 9.5hour seawatch (many in flocks up to 80), mostly in the afternoon - the Devon record had gone again!
On 20/09/2018 a big Atlantic depression arrived, storm 'Bronagh' - a watch at Berry Head delivered 122 Balearic Shearwaters supported by three Great and a Sooty Shearwater. Yet 'Bronagh' was classic fast moving Atlantic depression, so with winds forecast to switch north-west overnight, my first trip of the year to Pendeen was on the cards. Once upon a time I would have been loyal to Devon and Hartland Point on a north-westerly, but I've had to give this up as no access anymore. So I got up early on the 21st and was seawatching down the bottom of the slope at Pendeen by 06:55. Lots of seabirds were moving and relatively quickly I picked up a Leach's Storm-petrel over the 1st rock, ending the day seeing seven. The day proved to be a great seawatch with eight tubenoses identified to species: 7 Leach's & 4 European Storm-petrels; 1000's Manx, Cory's, 42 Great, 35 Sooty, c120 Balearic Shearwaters and Fulmars. And a another tubenose to group - a distant feae type picked out by Steve Votier who managed to get me onto the bird. My first for Cornwall! But then that's not surprising I don't watch the famous 'Fea's' magnet, Porthgwarra as I stick to Devon in southerly based winds.
So my 2018 tubenose tally had got to 15, I doubt I'll ever see more in a year in the north-east Atlantic!
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Woodcock, Crossbills
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The Lone Kayaker
Dancing Stoat
Joe Pender Wildlife Photography
A selection of photos from my time in Antarctic 2019 working for One Ocean
The Two Bird Theory
Newlyn White-wingers
Charleton Birding
Scarce Herons


Among several enhancements announced by the Common Application for 2017-18, one that seems to respond directly to the need for reduced paperwork and reliance on extraneous document transmission systems is the new Courses & Grades feature. While still a pilot program with participation limited to 12* institutions, the new section follows an industry trend, adopted last year by the Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success, toward greater use of self-reported transcript information and has the potential for eliminating dependence on third parties to send such documents either electronically or via the U.S. Postal Service.
For now or at least for purposes of the pilot, the Common App is still requiring that students arrange to have official transcripts sent in addition to completing the Courses & Grades section. Presumably, this is to allow for research on student accuracy, as this is an experiment for the Common App. But it's not really that new to admissions. A number of institutions, including those in the University of California and Rutgers University systems as well as the University of Washington and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have been using the "honor system" with great success for years.
And the data provided by students is usually very accurate. In the case of applicant information, a college can always require that an official transcript be submitted for verification once a student commits to attending. In fact, UIUC reports that only four students had their admission offers rescinded for transcript problems out of almost 7,600 freshmen who enrolled for fall 2015. Other schools requiring self-reported transcripts report similar results.
The Common App's new Courses & Grades section will be found under the Common App tab of the application, along with Profile, Family, Education, Testing, Activities and Writing. A few qualifying questions will be asked and the student will be provided with an instructional "wizard" designed to walk them through how the section, which is formatted as a grid, should be completed.
In order for a student to use Courses & Grades, s/he must have access to their high school transcript. The transcript must use grades, and the high school must use semesters, trimesters, quarters or block scheduling. Students who fall outside these parameter—those students whose high schools use narratives instead of grades or those with transcripts in a foreign language for example—will not be required to complete Courses & Grades.
Again, according to Common App instructions, "Counselors who have a student using Courses & Grades must still send an official transcript for that student (part of the School Report)." Questions about this requirement should be directed to the Applicant Solutions Center.
*7/31/2017: Since this article was originally published, five colleges have dropped out of the program. For 2017-18, only seven colleges will be participating in the new Courses & Grades component of the Common Application.
Boilermakers have a lot of love for their school, and after visiting West Lafayette, Indiana, we can see why. It's consistently ranked as one of America's best research universities and the campus is great too. Purdue may not be as popular with "opinion elites" on the East and West coasts as its cousin two hours to the south (IU Bloomington), but after this visit we can't explain why.


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Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.
Development of a live action Wonder Woman film began in 1996, with Ivan Reitman slated to produce and possibly direct. The project floundered in development hell for many years; Jon Cohen, Todd Alcott, and Joss Whedon, among others, were also attached to the project at various points. Warner Bros. announced the film in 2010 and Jenkins signed on to direct in 2015. Inspiration for Wonder Woman was drawn from Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston's 1940s stories and George Pérez's 1980s stories about Wonder Woman, as well as the New 52 incarnation of the character. Principal photography began on November 21, 2015, with filming taking place in the United Kingdom, France, and Italy before finishing on May 6, 2016, the 123rd anniversary of Marston's birth. Additional filming took place in November 2016.
Voiced by Susan Eisenberg. Justice League Doomed is a animated movie based on the story ''Tower of Bable''. Mirror Master hacks into the computers of the Batcave by the order of Vandal Savage. Vandal Savage calls in one enemy of each of the JLA'ers, and he calls in Cheetah for Wonder Woman. Cheetah fights against Wonder Woman and injects her with a toxin which makes her see that everyone is Cheetah. It was later revealed that this toxin was a contingency for Wonder Woman made by Batman in case she goes rogue, as he did for the rest of the Justice League with different plans for each.
Feld also introduced multiple new variants on Wonder Woman's uniform beginning in season two. She still wore the red-white-and-blue cape for special events or appearances from the first season, but without the skirt. (This variant could be described as Wonder Woman's "full-dress uniform.") A diving uniform was introduced—this consisted of a navy-blue lycra body suit with matching gloves, gold bracelets, flat boots, and a flexible tiara; this was featured whenever aquatic activity was required. The same uniform, with low-heeled boots and a gold helmet, was used to ride motorcycles. At first, Wonder Woman would switch to these newer uniforms by performing an extended spin in which she first changed from her Diana Prince clothes to Wonder Woman's standard uniform, then continued to spin until a second light explosion occurred and she would appear in one of the newer variants. However, this extended spin device was dropped for expediency and Diana was then able to change into any of Wonder Woman's uniforms in a single change.
In an October 25, 1940, interview with the Family Circle magazine, William Moulton Marston discussed the unfulfilled potential of the comic book medium.[18] This article caught the attention of comics publisher Max Gaines, who hired Marston as an educational consultant for National Periodicals and All-American Publications, two of the companies that would merge to form DC Comics.[19] At that time, Marston wanted to create his own new superhero; Marston's wife and fellow psychologist Elizabeth suggested to him that it should be a woman:[20]
In the New 52, the night when she turned 8, Ares appeared before Diana and offered to train her above and beyond the abilities of the Amazons, having seen her potential to eventually become his replacement as the God of War. Though the training was one for one night each month, the year was noticed with Diana improving tremendously compared to the other Amazons.
The New 52 version of Earth 2 was introduced in Earth 2 #1 (2012). In that issue, the Earth 2 Wonder Woman is introduced via flashback. She, along with Superman and Batman, are depicted dying in battle with forces from Apokolips five years in the past.[158] This Wonder Woman worshiped the deities of Roman mythology as opposed to the Greek; the Roman gods perish as a result of the conflict. An earlier version of the Earth-2 Wonder Woman, prior to the Apokoliptian invasion, is seen in the comic book Batman/Superman, where she is seen riding a pegasus.
Storylines	The 18th Letter • A League of One • A Piece of You • Amazons Attack! • Beauty and the Beasts • Birds of Paradise • Bitter Rivals • Blood • Bones • The Bronze Doors • The Challenge of Artemis • Challenge of the Gods • Champion • The Circle • The Contest • Counting Coup • Depths • Destiny Calling • Devastation • Devastation Returns • Down to Earth • Ends of the Earth • Expatriate • Flesh • The Game of the Gods • God Complex • Gods and Mortals • Gods of Gotham • Godwar • Guts • Iron • Judgment in Infinity • Land of the Lost • Levels • Love and Murder • Lifelines • Marathon • The Men Who Moved the Earth • A Murder of Crows • Odyssey • The Pandora Virus • Paradise Island Lost • Revenge of the Cheetah • Rise of the Olympian • Sacrifice • Second Genesis • Stoned • Three Hearts • Trinity 98 • The Twelve Labors • War • Warkiller • War-Torn • Who is Donna Troy? • Who is Troia? • Who Is Wonder Woman? • The Witch and the Warrior • Wrath of the Silver Serpent
It's too bad that "Wonder Woman" strayed from its origins after it moved from ABC to CBS. The original ABC episodes were probably some of the best efforts at bringing comic book fun to life. Once the series was moved from its WWII setting to the present, the only thing that improved was Lynda Carter's costume. "Wonder Woman" became too much of a routine type of adventure show and lost its sense of good-natured fun and camp that the WWII episodes served up (and poor Lyle Waggoner became practically non-existent as "Steve Trevor, Jr.")
Pre-production officially began by early December 2017 in the United Kingdom.[27] That same month, director Patty Jenkins stated that the film would be another great love story with a new love interest being introduced.[28] In April 2018, the film was confirmed to be set in the 1980s.[29] The next month, production designer Aline Bonetto (Amélie, Wonder Woman) was announced to be returning for the sequel, as well as Academy Award winner Lindy Hemming, also returning as costume designer.[30]
Wonder Woman (vol. 1) #105 revealed that Diana was formed from clay by the Queen of the Amazons, given life and power by four of the Greek and Roman gods (otherwise known as the Olympian deities) as gifts, corresponding to her renowned epithet: "Beautiful as Aphrodite, wise as Athena, swifter than Hermes, and stronger than Hercules", making her the strongest of the Amazons.[34] Wonder Woman's Amazon training gave her limited telepathy, profound scientific knowledge,[34] and the ability to speak every language – even caveman[34] and Martian languages.[175]
Following the events of the Darkseid War, Wonder Woman is told by the dying Myrina Black that on the night of Diana's birth, Hippolyta gave birth to a twin child. This child was revealed to be male, known as Jason, and is said to be incredibly powerful. Wonder Woman makes it her mission to find him.[160] At the same time, she finds the truth behind her origin and history is now cluttered, as she remembers two versions: the pre-Flashpoint one, and the New 52 rendition. She cannot locate Themiscyra or her fellow Amazons and the Lasso of Truth does not work for her anymore.
Marston's sexual fantasies, or an outlet for readers of the comics, who were teenagers developing their sexuality. Marston had worked as a prison psychologist and bondage and submission were two themes of his comics and they were intertwined with theories of the rehabilitation of criminals. Wonder Woman of course, being a superhero wanted to change the ways of the criminals. Even a rehabilitation center was built on a small island near concept of Marston was the "loving submission" where kindness would allow people to surrender. Parodies have been written with this concept, as male criminals may give up only to spend time with her.
To find the perfect location to shoot the Amazon island of Themyscira, the birthplace of Wonder Woman herself, the film's producers searched all over the world, finally settling on the Cilentan Coast: a stretch of coastline on the Tyrrhenian Sea, located in the Province of Salerno in Southern Italy.[134] It was chosen because most beaches in the world that sit below big cliffs disappear beneath the tide for part of every day. Production designer Aline Bonetto and her location manager Charles Somers considered 47 countries and visited several of them before they found what they were looking for. Bonetto explained that, "Italy had beautiful weather, a beautiful blue-green sea, not too much tide, not too much wave. Our effects team added some cliffs in post-production, and it was the perfect way to go".[135] The estuary at Lower Halstow in Kent is featured in the scene in which Diana arrives at a Belgian creek to make her way to the warfront.[136] Bill Westenhofer served as the visual effects supervisor for the film[137] and Martin Walsh served as editor.[127]
In her debut in All Star Comics #8, Diana was a member of a tribe of women called the Amazons, native to Paradise Island – a secluded island set in the middle of a vast ocean. Captain Steve Trevor's plane crashes on the island and he is found alive but unconscious by Diana and fellow Amazon, and friend, Mala. Diana has him nursed back to health and falls in love with him. A competition is held amongst all the Amazons by Diana's mother, the Queen of the Amazons Hippolyta, in order to determine who is the most worthy of all the women; Hippolyta charges the winner with the responsibility of delivering Captain Steve Trevor back to Man's World and to fight for justice. Hippolyta forbids Diana from entering the competition, but she takes part nonetheless, wearing a mask to conceal her identity. She wins the competition and reveals herself, surprising Hippolyta, who ultimately accepts, and must give in to, Diana's wish to go to Man's World. She then is awarded a special uniform made by her mother for her new role as Wonder Woman and safely returns Steve Trevor to his home country.[86][87]
An iron-fisted general of the German Army during World War I.[29] Huston described Ludendorff as a "pragmatist, realist, patriotic, fighting for his country", further explaining, "he lost his son on the German front lines and was just quite tortured, diabolical, stubborn and believes that what he's doing is for the betterment of mankind."[30] On his character, Huston said, "Ludendorff is a believer that war is a natural habitat for humans." Huston stated the film as an anti-war film and "somebody like Ludendorff would probably think that the idea that love conquers all is quite a naive concept. But finally it's true and sometimes the best way to examine mankind is from another perspective." On the genre of the film, Huston said, "It's Greek mythology. It's the origin of story and sometimes we need demigods to look at us to understand what our weaknesses are. It serves the mythological world."[31]
Hermes, the messenger god of speed, granted Diana superhuman speed and the ability to fly.[183] She is capable of flying at speeds approaching half the speed of light.[181] She can react quickly enough to deflect bullets, lasers, and other projectiles with her virtually impenetrable bracelets. After the 2011 relaunch of the character, Wonder Woman does not naturally possess the power of flight. She gains it once she is hit by a feather thrown by Hermes.[184][185][better source needed]
Elena Anaya, who played the supervillain Dr. Poison, is contracted for multiple movies, so we may see her return. Jenkins didn't completely rule out a comeback for Chris Pine's character Steve Trevor, but that seems unlikely because Trevor is dead. And not the Winter Soldier kind of dead. Connie Nielsen and Robin Wright will reprise their roles as Queen Hippolyta and General Antiope in Justice League, but they haven't been confirmed for Wonder Woman 2 yet. Oh, and Jenkins wants to recruit 1970s Wonder Woman star Lynda Carter for a cameo role! Here's hoping.


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Q: Do I 'Want' or 'Need' a New Camera?
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I'm sorry, but I'm not sure how someone doesn't get excited about the possibilities when seeing designer tools (or resources, creations, etc.) such as this! Now, if they only came with a little escape to the wood cabin they belong to so I could get in some much needed "creative/me" time, I'd be ALL set!
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Staring Into the Sun: Science Journalism, Objectivity and the African Poaching Crisis
Covering issues related to poaching, wildlife trafficking and extinction requires an unflinching look at what we're losing and why.
June 11, 2018 - by William H. Funk
Paul and Cathy Becker (CC BY 2.0)
As recorders of our time, journalists must always be scrupulously accurate in our reporting, in confirming our sources and data, and in delivering our understanding of the world in as compellingly truthful a means as possible.
Science and environmental journalists have accepted the burden of telling the story of our fading natural world as a necessary duty to both our profession and our planet. With regard to the African poaching crisis, which is an existential war in every sense, the time to hesitate, as Jim Morrison wrote, is through. Those who love these splendid beings — lions and rhinos, giraffes and cheetahs — must seize this last tremulous chance to act, to speak the truth in the face of extinction itself, and to do all we can, while we can, to prevent the dawning of an emptied world.
In my own writing about the African poaching crisis for a range of publications including Vice, Mongabay, Aeon and Ensia, I have been scrupulous in my reporting of the actual facts, as they're currently understood. There's no need to embellish the awful truth to advocate for someone to do something: It is painfully plain for all to see, and to act upon.
As professional reporters of fact, it is necessary for us to cover the blatant supremacy of Homo sapiens not as a fable of unwinding horror, though to many of us it may often seem so, but as a carefully presented, meticulously researched narrative that allows our readers to determine for themselves whether this is, ultimately and forever, the path we've chosen to take.
Like with other forms of nonfiction, such as documentary filmmaking, where the director makes a deliberate choice as to where and at whom to aim her camera, a journalist covering wildlife poaching and trafficking issues must make a conscious decision about what will be examined and why. Should poachers, many of whom are poor people ensnared by the promise of relative riches for a dangerous act, be given equal say? Should the market forces behind the demand for ivory, rhino horn and pangolin scales be allowed a forum for justification, an evenhanded review of the value of these trafficked products for use in traditional medicine?
Perhaps they should, I would say, but only to point out the socioeconomic necessity of making wildlife valuable to local communities, or to prove the scientific vacuity of fake medicinal properties. In my opinion this is all the objectivity that is owed as we relate the end times for these last fading remnants of the Pleistocene. As we've seen the in U.S. recently, the dutiful delivery of an "equal say" to all parties in a conflict, even where one side has all the available evidence behind it, can be deliberately manipulated to create a false dichotomy of equal worth to valueless claims. Does bringing a snowball onto the Senate floor prove the falsity of climate science? Does reinstating the importation of elephant parts to the U.S. help somehow to conserve elephants in Africa?
As storytellers with access to the most impeccable data available, science journalists are enormously privileged to be in a position of great public trust and responsibility. We must never distort facts or, worse yet, make assumptions that fit our preconceived notions of what a story should say. Journalism is a sacred trust, an honorable bond with the public that demands the highest moral standards. And most of us, I believe, are doing what we do out of a love for the art and craft of writing, out of a sense of urgency to relate matters of immeasurable importance and out of an inborn duty to prevent injustice and untruths from driving the human narrative.
Related to that inborn sense of urgency, several newish scientific terms and theories have gained mainstream acceptance in recent years. The first is the Anthropocene — an era of overwhelming human impact on, not only other life forms, but the fundamental fabric of the earth itself. Geologists have largely come to an agreement that the lasting effects of humanity will constitute a distinct stratigraphical layer of the planet's surface. Scientists differ as to the so-called "golden spike" that officially launched the Anthropocene epoch. But whether it began with the Columbian Exchange — the enduring interaction of animals, plants and microorganisms back and forth across the Atlantic that began in 1492 — or with the nuclear age; or with the onset of climate change, the permanent alteration of the world by humans is largely a foregone conclusion.
The second theory, now an indisputable fact, is the Sixth Extinction — the accelerating annihilation of other forms of life through direct take, habitat loss or climate change. Not since the close of the Cretaceous and the end of the dinosaurs has the world suffered such a sweeping loss of unique life forms. And this time it's not a comet out of the blue, but the actions of a single species that are squarely to blame.
In a July 2017 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ecologists found that nearly one-third of the 27,600 terrestrial mammal, bird, amphibian and reptile species considered are dwindling in terms of their numbers and territorial range, what the researchers called an "extremely high degree of population decay." Further, they found that a major planetary extinction event is currently "ongoing." It's now believed that three quarters of Earth's species could vanish forever in the coming centuries — a mere blink of the eye in geologic time.
The most painfully illustrative manifestation of these new theories of extinction is direct take — the deliberate killing of rare and declining animals. From the atlas bear — a native of northern Africa last seen in Roman arenas — to the quagga — a subspecies of plains zebra last seen in1883 at the Amsterdam Zoo — the purposeful slaughter of endangered wildlife, out of conflict for resources, for bushmeat or for illicit profit, constitutes the most preventable pathway to extinction.
Objective coverage of this issue — an unflinching, staring-at-the-sun accountability of what we're losing and why — can be taken as a kind of empirical advocacy, a fact-checked narrative description of the last days of Earth's most majestic and irreplaceable wildlife. What the reader chooses to do with the information we provide is generally beyond our ability to assess, much less direct. An environmental journalist's job, as I see it, is simply to ring the alarm so that others might directly advocate for change while there is time to avoid catastrophe.
Photo: Sudan in 2015, by Make in Kenya/Stuart Price
Recently another scientific term has been coined, the very invention of which speaks to the nihilistic nature of our time. An "endling" is the last member of a particular species whose numbers have dwindled past the point of recovery. March 19 saw the death of the last male northern white rhino at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. Named Sudan, the 45-year-old giant had spent his remaining days being constantly guarded by armed rangers, shuffling about a grassy enclosure without the searing foresight to understand that he is the last of his kind. Sudan is survived by a daughter and a granddaughter. And that's it. The story of his species is over.
As well-meaning and impressive as was Sudan's protected status, it was plainly too little, too late. Unless urgent, decisive and meaningful action is taken, the rest of Africa's remaining megafauna will join Sudan in a premature, undeserved and wholly needless extinction.
Sudan's death is obviously a tragic story, and that can make stories like it a tough sell. Editors often cast about for uplifting stories of hope to punch through the numbness that comes from the constant deluge of terrible images and statistics arising from the African poaching crisis. They're right to do so, but that hardly means that we should in any way hide or sugarcoat the brutal facts.
For most species, we still have time. This cannot be stressed enough. The window of opportunity is small and rapidly shrinking, but furnished with the facts, and driven by an unflinching refusal to turn away and succumb to despair, science journalists can — and must — make the critical contributions necessary to achieve lasting change before, as with the northern white rhino, it is irrevocably too late.
This essay was delivered in a slightly different form at the 2017 World Conference of Science Journalists in San Francisco.
© 2018 William H. Funk. All rights reserved.
The opinions expressed above are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of The Revelator, the Center for Biological Diversity or their employees.
Tags: Africa | Biodiversity | Climate Change | Conservation | Endangered Species | Poaching | Wildlife Trafficking
William H. Funk
is an award-winning freelance journalist focusing on endangered species, habitat preservation, wilderness issues, environmental law and wildlife crime. His work has appeared in Ensia, Vice, Yale Environment360, Aeon, Sierra, Mongabay, Discover, Humanities and Earth Island Journal, among other outlets. Bill is based in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.
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The steel building can be described as a building where most of the building's structural components are made of steel. The basic steel building would have main support columns, rafters, girts, purlins and even roof & siding made of steel.
Steel buildings gained popularity after World War II when steel became more available. These days, steel buildings are widely accepted due to their cost efficiency and the ability to construct wide clear span buildings.
In our opinion, the steel building is a better choice and is more affordable when it comes to larger buildings such as indoor riding arenas and other tall and large buildings that require wider clear spans without the use of any center supporting posts. On the other hand, a pole barn is a good choice to consider and is more affordable when putting up a smaller building.
When deciding on type of building to use (steel building or pole barn) you need to compare the price and take into consideration the intended use of the building and perhaps even the area that you live in. For example, if you have problems with termite infestation in your area, a steel building might be a better choice. If clear span is required on a wide building, the steel building would be the best choice.


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HomeShopComicsComic StripsStar Hawks Vol. 3: 1979-1981
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Star Hawks Vol. 3: 1979-1981
by Archie Goodwin
art: Gil Kane
This third volume concludes the series, collecting more than 500 strips drawn by Gil Kane, written by Archie Goodwin, and set in the "Barnum System" that series creator Ron Goulart also used in several of his novels.
SKU: 9781684052790 Categories: Comic Strips, Gil Kane Product ID: 41875
The classic 1970s science-fiction newspaper strip predates Star Wars—and nearly 40 years after its debut, Star Hawks remains fresh and exciting for new generations of sci-fi and fantasy fans. This third volume concludes the series, collecting more than 500 strips drawn by Gil Kane, written by Archie Goodwin, and set in the "Barnum System" that series creator Ron Goulart also used in several of his novels. The Library of American Comics edition reproduces the daily strips two per page and each Sunday strip on its own page so readers can relish Gil Kane's incredible achievement. Included are all strips from June 11, 1979 to May 2, 1981.
360 page black and white hardcover
IDW, 2018
9.75 × 7 × 1.2 in
Anything Goes #1
Eat, Drink and Be Hairy!
Everything Comics From 1979-1981
True Stories #3


A city hotel of Ehime blessed with a warm climate.
The RIHGA Royal Hotel Niihama, is the only city hotel in Niihama in Ehime Prefecture which is blessed with warm climate and natural beauty of Seto Inland Sea.
Spend a leisurely time at our rooms to relax from the fatigues of travel.


Unlike the ERS AMI-SAR that operates a passive phased-array antenna, the ENVISAT-1 ASAR encompasses an active one that consists of 320 subarrays each one connected to a transmit/receive module (TRM). The antenna layout is of 32 rows of 10 subarrays. The subarrays are grouped in 2 x 10 tiles of 16 subarrays each (see figure 1). Each TRM has two transmit chains, one for horizontal and one for vertical polarisation, and one receive chain for both. The three chains are independently programmable in amplitude and phase to provide the required elevation beam patterns. The eight swaths required by the ASAR operation modes are dealt with by the antenna by means of the definition of eight sets of beam coefficients. The beam coefficient set consists of 32 transmit and 32 receive complex coefficients for each polarisation, corresponding to the 32 antenna rows in the across-track or elevation direction.
Any drift in the gain and phase characteristics of the TRMs can distort the antenna beams. Deviations in antenna pattern and antenna gain will potentially contribute to radiometric errors in the SAR image. The ASAR calibration scheme is, therefore, different to that used for ERS.
In-orbit beam calibration of an active phased-array antenna is a major task and it will include measurements in special modes, like module stepping and external characterisation, as well as acquisitions over rain forest. A sophisticated antenna model will combine the various data together with the pre-flight characterisation and provide the elevation and azimuth patterns for the ground processor.
Monitoring any instrument gain drifts requires a separate calibration network, to couple out part of the transmit signal or to inject chirp signals into the receiver chain. This data will be included into the high-rate data stream and will be analysed by the ground processor in order to estimate the necessary gain drift corrections.
The absolute overall system gain can be most accurately determined from the image response of point targets with high and well-known Radar Cross Sections (RCS). ( for the derivation of backscattering coefficients and RCSs in ASAR products see below 2.11.5. ) ASAR high precision transponders will be deployed in the Netherlands and will serve as the main external calibration targets. A special transponder operation mode and well-characterised distributed targets will be used for the low-resolution Global Monitoring mode.


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British Masters: Brave MacIntyre shares second as Kinhult wins
Oban's Robert MacIntyre produces grandstand finish to share second at British Masters
By Nick Rodger
SOUTHPORT, ENGLAND - MAY 12: Robert Macintyre of Scotland acknowledges the crowd on the 18th green during day four of the Betfred British Masters at Hillside Golf Club on May 12, 2019 in Southport, United Kingdom. (Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images)
This was the kind of finish that grandstands were invented for. With a daring, defiant late thrust, Robert MacIntyre conjured a valiant charge which could've have been accompanied with a fixed bayonet as he claimed a share of second place in the Betfred British Masters here at Hillside.
Playing alongside local hero Tommy Fleetwood in the penultimate group, and with a vast gallery looking on, the Oban left-hander stayed as sturdy as the granite of McCaig's Tower and recovered from a double-bogey on the second with a rousing eagle, birdie finish in a spirited four-under 68.
When he knocked in his birdie putt of five feet on the final green, MacIntyre's 15-under tally had him in a share of the lead and looking at a possible play-off for his first European Tour title in just his 14th start of an increasingly impressive rookie campaign.
He was denied, however, by Marcus Kinhult as the young Swede, playing in the last match, birdied his closing two holes to win his maiden tour crown by a single shot.
It had been a terrific effort from MacIntyre, though, and one which earned him a whopping cheque for £224,000 as he propelled himself up into 36th place on the Race to Dubai.
There was another tasty spin-off in the shape of a necklace worth £20,000 for the most birdies made by a player during the tournament. In total, MacIntyre blasted 24.
In the final analysis, he may have been left mulling over that seven earlier in his round but the 22-year-old Scot was in philosophical mood. In fact, he used that potentially demoralising dunt to his advantage and mounted a thrilling salvage operation.
"The double bogey at the second actually helped me in a way as it settled me down," admitted MacIntyre, who was joined in the top-five by Richie Ramsay on another profitable week for the Scots on the European Tour.
"It made me think, 'you are almost out of it here so just go on and play your own golf'. My caddie said to me as we were walking off the green that there were loads of birdies out there. To finish that way was fantastic. It was all or nothing and I had to go for it in the end."
He certainly did. With the kind of bold, gung-ho adventure that Evel Knievel used to adopt when confronted by a row of London buses, MacIntyre's eagle on the 17th was wonderfully audacious and it launched him right back into the mix.
From just over 231 yards, the former Scottish Amateur champion clattered a 5-wood to within three feet of the flag. "That's the best shot I've hit in a long time," he said with a beaming grin.
Knowing he had to stay on the offensive down the last, MacIntyre produced a super approach from around 200 yards. "He caught the life out of his 6-iron," said his caddie Greg Milne of a shot that rolled up to five-feet.
Kinhult may have scuppered MacIntyre's hopes of a sudden-death shoot-out for the top prize but, after a couple of 15th place finishes during a solid start to life on the tour, the former Walker Cup player has finally got the big finish he was looking for. "I had been there or thereabouts but never managed to get in the thick of it and I was disappointed about that," he said. "Today couldn't have been a better day to change that, playing with Tommy and in front of those big crowds. It was brilliant."
Supported by his family, and his two lively foster brothers, MacIntyre may just be tempted to take them out on tour all the time. "My young brothers, Tom and Dan, have kept me on my toes," he said.
"Last night I wasn't even thinking about winning a golf tournament. Before they go to bed, you are having a game of 'knock knock'. Standing over the eagle putt on 17, I was closing my eyes and thinking 'knock knock'. It helps with everything."
There will be mind gurus and sports psychologists now racing to extol the virtues of 'who's there?' joviality.
As for Kinhult? Well, he came knock-knocking late on just when it looked like the door of title-winning opportunity had been slammed shut.
The 22-year-old, who won the Lytham Trophy just up the coast during a fine amateur career, staggered to bogeys at 15 and 16 to slither off the top but he rallied admirably and after getting a shot back on 17, he held his nerve on the last with a birdie putt of 12-feet to win.
"The knees were shaking, the hands were shaking, everything was shaking," he said of that last putt. I've been dreaming about winning for such a long time and to actually do it now is amazing."
Matt Wallace and defending champion Eddie Pepperell finished alongside MacIntyre with tournament host Fleetwood back in eighth.
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Portrush bares its teeth as Open test looms . . .
MacIntyre keeps it low key in bid to make big noise at final major
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I was causally inspecting the building when a group of three kids – maybe 14 years old or so, appeared from nowhere and asked if I wanted to go inside. I told them I like to flick abandoned buildings and graffiti. They showed me the way in. I didn't expect to find a legit spot, but it looked cool and now I had someone offering to show me the ropes. I guess it's adventure time now!
After slinking through a few fences, I was in. The first floor was entirely dark and I didn't take any pictures, but after climbing an extremely sketch staircase things started to lighten up. It was soon apparent that we had company. I offered to introduce myself, but by the time I got to the main floor they had disappeared. Shrugging it off, I started flicking, and split up from my helpful guides.
After thoroughly examining the first floor, I decided to head upwards. When I made my way towards the stairs I finally met up with the other voices we heard earlier. Turns out, they knew my escorts. After a friendly chat, I got started on the stairs. Oh, and they were the most sketch stairs I've ever encountered. Each step was a metal grate that was welded to some beams. But the rust was real, and many of the stairs had fallen apart or collapsed. Several of the corner landings were missing, and several of the steps were gone.
Often panels were missing, and the panels that were present creaked underfoot. I meticulously planned every foot placement to make sure I was always standing on a joist. The trippiest part was the fact that all 6 floors were made of this metal grating. You could see the first floor, just by looking down. Every step was vertigo inducing. After exploring the majority of the industrial maze, I made my way to the roof.
On the other half of the roof, I found this giant board covered circle. I soon realized that this must be another smoke stack that collapsed and has since been boarded up. Creepy.
After enjoying my time on the roof, I started back downwards. On the way, I grabbed this sweet pic of Manhattan from inside.
I found a creepy "Toilet Graveyard" I had missed earlier. This room had a cage full of porcelain toilets and sinks that had been tossed inside. I wonder why they removed all the fixtures – only to throw them in this cage. Weird.
On my way out I stopped to peak in a side room when I saw some bright colors. It had some decent graffiti and also a few cars. I suppose someone was using this for their illegal chop-shop at some point in time.
Enjoy the full photo set!