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iamomegon · 5 years ago

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Lost Sons

The Drukhari fell from the shadows like wraiths. To the Jhariuk, even he found that impressive. He didn’t speak or alarm his warriors of the coming threat, they were very aware and acted without a word. Bolters lifted. Three of his immediate seven were too slow, their snarls of pain as mono-thin blades cleaved their armored skulls from gorgets or halves. The malevolent xenos moving with unnatural guile as they practically danced for their next kill.

Crested of horns and mantled by tethered blades on their shoulders, the classification was as obvious as their odd double-bladed style - Incubi.

One aimed for him, unaware of his true nature and paid for it with its deviant life. A power gladius appeared in the alien’s path before it even processed that the unassuming legionnaire moved. One ironclad fist catching wrists, the demiklaive carving a groove between gorget and pauldron where the thickly armoured protection halted from full penetration. In the same motion, its own thrown weight and the severity of the Master’ blade plunged under the ribcage for one quick death.

Something the xeno-murderers weren’t worthy of, but sadism had no place in his conduct.

With a twist of his arm, he used the quivering corpse as a shield against another’s blades. Body hewed into three before the two met into a duel. Around them, the Incubi and Alpha Legionnaires had their own battle. The perfect coordination of the XXth as they made a wedged formation to block the aliens from getting to their master while closing openings for the Dark Eldar to use.

Making quick yet simplistic evasive steps compared to the dervish-maddening lunges and chaotic dance of the Incubus, the Harrowmaster allowed the scarring and grazes of his armour - for that is its purpose, beauty is secondhand to functionality - before reacting with singular ferocity. Deflecting one blade while backhanding a coming kick to a snatch of its ankle.

The curse from the xeno was enough to allow something of a smile on his helmed head. Blades meant to cut limbs were caught by the Alpha Legionnaire’s sword and his boot crushed the swordsman’s skull with a loud wet crunch.

Unholstering his plasma pistol, his scolding visor glared into preysight seeing the whole nest of Dark Eldar watching the fire like spectators to a gladiatorial event. Good.

A wordless command by the tic of his inner commands, the Harrowmaster returned his sight on the battlefield with the death of another good warrior only tightened their kill-circle and cohesion became savage in close-quarters. The hoots and jeers of the aliens above provided little distraction, not when one of the desecrated bio-dome’s many windows exploded into a rain of two-metre thick shards with a venom-class transport was falling as a burning wreckage, its occupants falling in blackened husks and gory pieces by the following swoop of a thunderhawk mounted by mag-booted assault marines. Following right behind were a pair of jetbikers already shooting at the ramps of kabalites with trails of heavy bolters.

One biker threw an object down to the Harrowmaster in a bypass, killing a couple incubi. Scourges screamed their baneful hate, torn between taking the air for their own continuing existence and swooping for their own prey with blades and venomous guns. One in particular opened its armored talons, wanting to tear him apart for losing its beat.

Only to find the falling thunder hammer, decored of age-bronzed hydras, was grasped into an open hand before it smashed its whole body into a broken heap by the crackling thum of the head’s destructive blow.

“Harrowmaster.” A voice hissed in his helmet’s ear. A voice he hasn’t heard for a half-century now. The true voice, despite the countless mouth-pieces and pretenders that spoke it, he knew the very subtleties and truths and it made his soul sing.

“My Lord.” He answered back, looking up to see the thunderhawk making an elegant motion with its troop bay opening. There, the crested war-god stood with a thunder-shield over one arm and resting on its crested top was a twin-barreled plasma blaster. With a growling hum, blasts after blasts of ancient plasma arced across the enclosed battlefield. The kabal scattered in the sudden assault, alien warriors destroyed by the hurtling suns of azure heat.

“Kill the Archon,’ The First of the Hydra commanded, “We have work to do.” “Sire.” Armillus Dynat answered with renewed strength.

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angelsbailbondselmonte · 2 years ago

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nightingveilxo · 8 years ago

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Anyone for CLUE and Internet Sensations?

So, which is it? Dr. Watson or Mr. Watson? May 18th or August XXth?

Either way, he’s supposedly marrying Miss ME.

Do not forget me...Do not forget me...The Maid(en) of the Mill

The video that comes after the post, and before the comments, is at the bottom of this meta.

this post is somewhat of a **curates egg as while the prose is better i do not come here to read about weddings theimprobableone 11 August

Looks like it was a brilliant day! Congratulations and sorry again I couldn't make it! Mike Stamford 11 August

sorry john :( Harry Watson 11 August

STOP POSTING ON MY BLOG! AND THERE WON'T BE ANOTHER WEDDING! John Watson 11 August

Does your wife know you're on the Internet when you're supposed to be enjoying your Sex Holiday with her? Sherlock Holmes 11 August (Text me, John. I have news.)

Yes. Yes, she does. Mary Morstan 11 August (Why are you still using your maiden name?)

LOLZZ! Dame Latif 11 August

Awh!! Lovely!! Donna Staveley 11 August

Mary. I've been doing some research and you need to avoid seafood.

Sherlock Holmes 11 August

SHERLOCK! SHUT UP NOW! Mary Morstan 11 August

I've just had a text from John. I'll shut up now. Sherlock Holmes 11 August

Seafood eh!? Jacob Sowersby 11 August

Why do you all comment on this? Some of you don't even know John.

Sherlock Holmes 11 August

We're just happy for him! Jacob Sowersby 11 August

But haven't you got better things to be doing? You're spending all your time on the Internet. Sherlock Holmes 11 August

Is this why most of you are single? Sherlock Holmes 11 August

Sherlock. You're being rude again. John Watson 12 August

John. You are reading your blog again. Mary Morstan 12 August

Sorry:) John Watson 12 August

I just don't understand why you're all here. Go outside and find something to do. Sherlock Holmes 12 August

Pot. Kettle. Black. Mike Stamford 12 August

HAHAHAAHA!!! MIKE WINS THE INTERNET!!! Dame Latif 12 August

I don't understand the reference. Sherlock Holmes 12 August

He's asking why you're here. Bill Murray 12 August

Aren't you an actor? Sherlock Holmes 12 August

Not that Bill Murray. Bill Murray 12 August

DARLING!!!!!!! The photos look amazing and your wife looks amazing!! Big hugs to you both!!! Sorry again we couldn't be there but Ted's leg was doing that thing again and we just couldn't make it and I wish we had because it looks like such a wonderful beautiful heart-breaking celebration of absolute love!! Big hugs to you both!! Big squishy hugs!!!! Xxxxxxxxxxxx

Stella and Ted 12 August

You couldn't make this up. Sherlock Holmes 12 August

Did nobody notice the attempted murder I mentioned? What's wrong with you all? Sherlock Holmes 13 August

Par for the course, mate. Mike Stamford 13 August

You use the word 'mate' a lot, Mike. It's a sign that you're overcompensating for your very middle-aged, middle-class existence. You want the world to see you as young and cool. Sherlock Holmes 13 August

Who else wants to be deconstructed? Sherlock Holmes 13 August

do me theimprobableone 13 August

LOL!! theimprobableone wants Sherlock to do him.

Jacob Sowersby 13 August

You are all utterly ridiculous. And still none of you have asked about the attempted murder. John has catalogued two cases on this blog that we have since discovered tied into what happened today. The Bloody Guardsman featured a brilliant attempted murder. In the case of The Mayfly Man , I deduced the how but not the why. During the wedding I discovered the answer to both. Bainbridge had been stabbed by a tiny blade through his belt. The belt bound the flesh together when it was tied tight but once he removed it he started to die. It was a delayed action stabbing. It transpires that he was merely a test subject for the attempted murder at the wedding. The Mayfly Man was the man who attempted to kill Bainbridge. He was sleeping with women to get close to another potential victim. Through them he discovered that the victim would be at John and Mary's wedding.

Sherlock Holmes 13 August

(Recall how Sherlock says John never mentioned Sholto, but then later Sholto says he and Holmes are much alike. It might not have just been about loving John. They’re both the victim, because Sholto is Sherlock, based on what Sherlock thinks John wants.)

Does anyone want to ask me how I worked it all out? And who the potential victim was? Sherlock Holmes 13 August

Anyone? Sherlock Holmes 13 August

John would ask me if he was here. He always asks me what's going on and how i worked it out. Sherlock Holmes 13 August

Anyone? Sherlock Holmes 13 August

i am interested but I am going out on a date theimprobableone 13 August

ANYONE!? Sherlock Holmes 13 August

Sweetheart, do you want me to come up and play Cluedo wuith you? Mrs Hudson 13 August

If you must. Sherlock Holmes 13 August

Last year, at this same time...(Or it now?) Internet Sensations!!!

Yes, we’re recycling information again. Mrs. Hudson offering to play Cluedo with Sherlock, because they need the hat to be back in the game. It will come up again in S4, because the victim did do it after all. (Original meta linked into the second one deals with The Hat.)

**What’s with the egg?

Well, for one thing, it’s a reference from 1895. In its original context, the term refers to something that is obviously and essentially bad, but is euphemistically described as nonetheless having good features credited with undue redeeming power. Its modern usage varies. Some authorities define it as something that is an indeterminate mix of good and bad and others say it implies a preponderance of bad qualities.

by George du Maurier -- grandfather of Daphne du Maurier, author of My Cousin Rachel, which is important with the idea of twins and entanglement theory... We've already started looping on the blog, in S3.

The second important element about egg, was resolved by @tjlcisthenewsexy and @darlingtonsubstitution I added a portion about “E” being Mary, Molly, and Eurus, because that carries over into TFP. It’s related to John putting up barriers for why he thinks he can’t/or shouldn’t be with Sherlock.

Matters escalated, in TLD. Sherlock’s transport is weeks from not working, so Mrs. Hudson had to intervene, as Anyone that cared about Sherlock and John would. She’s been in the game since the beginning, after all.

For the use of AGRA, and recycled memories, we have this from @shadow3214

@darlingtonsubstitution provided a list of a few meta. This is the original version. I added onto a couple of them, but this link is excellent to see what’s out there, and I’ve gone link happy in this already.

Part of this is why I don’t immediately get on board with the idea of EMP in HLV (though I am not discounting it altogether). It’s just that things were weird before Sherlock was shot. But, if we’re still in S2 TRF, then all this makes a bit more sense. Whether it’s the thirteen scenarios being worked out and/or John needs an alibi for killing Mary or Magnussen (because Mary was never real or already gone). We saw the note about John needing an alibi, so he did something or Sherlock imagines he did.

The TSoT Wedding Video

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Tagging some of the usual suspects, and a couple of new ones. @swimmingfeelsinajohnlockianpool @may-shepard @marathecactupus @sarahthecoat

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zadvabien-blog · 8 years ago

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The construction of the airport in Notre Dame-des-Landes would take place on the memory of a wetland

What is a wetland?

The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines wetlands as “areas where water covers the soil, or is present either at or near the surface of the soil all year or for varying periods of time during the year, including during the growing season. Water saturation (hydrology) largely determines how the soil develops and the types of plant and animal communities living in and on the soil. Wetlands may support both aquatic and terrestrial species. The prolonged presence of water creates conditions that favor the growth of specially adapted plants (hydrophytes) and promote the development of characteristic wetland (hydric) soils.

Wetlands vary widely because of regional and local differences in soils, topography, climate, hydrology, water chemistry, vegetation and other factors, including human disturbance. Indeed, wetlands are found from the tundra to the tropics and on every continent except Antarctica. Two general categories of wetlands are recognized: coastal or tidal wetlands and inland or non-tidal wetlands.”

Hence there can be a wetland without a waterway or water retention. It is a zone of synthesis between water and solid ground (ecotone).

Wetlands around Notre Dame-des-Landes?

To build an airport, the wetlands have to be dried up. They constitute a large part of the site where the airport should be built. It is a natural zone of ecological, faunistic and floristic interest (Zone naturelle d’Intérêt écologique, Faunistique et Floristique (ZNIEFF)) called Woods: heaths and hedges south west of Notre Dame-des-Landes.

Although the zone is identified, it is not legally protected. Indeed, there is an ambiguous behavior concerning wetlands. Their existence and importance is recognized, but in practice they are not properly protected.

The article 2 of the Loi sur l’eau du 3 janvier 1992 (law on water) recognizes the existence of wetlands and defines them as “Lands, exploited or not, usually flooded or filled with fresh, saline or brackish water, permanently or temporarily; Vegetation, where it exists, is dominated by hygrophilic plants for at least part of the year“ (“terrains, exploités ou non, habituellement inondés ou gorgés d'eau douce, salée ou saumâtre de façon permanente ou temporaire; la végétation, quand elle existe, y est dominée par des plantes hygrophiles pendant au moins une partie de l'année;”)

The french state also recognize on the website of the ministry of environment, energy and seas that “since the beginning of the XXth century, we witnessed the disparition of 67% of wetlands (half of which between 1960 and 1990). It is due to three factors: the intensification of agricultural practices, ill-adapted hydraulic programs and the stress caused by urbanization and transport infrastructures.”

In this way, the french states recognizes the existence and the importance of the protection of wetlands, but supports the airport project.

What is the importance of wetlands in the context of global warming?

Global warming has a substantial impact on wetlands and wetlands contribute to the resiliency to climate change and its consequences. Wetlands interact with the climate.

What are the impact of global warming on wetlands?

The report provided by Kevin L. Erwin, an american environmental consulting firm, in 2009, points out the effects of global warming on wetlands. “climate change will have a pronounced effect on wetlands through alterations in hydrological regimes with great global variety.”

There will be pressure on wetlands through changes in hydrology and temperatures as well land-use change (Ferrati et al. 2005). The impact of those changes can be: “change in base flows; altered hydrology; increased heat stress in wildlife; extended range and activity of some pest and disease vectors; increased flooding, landslide, avalanche, and mudslide damage; increased soil erosion; increased flood runoff resulting in recharge of some floodplain aquifers; decreased water resource quantity and quality; increased risk of fires; increased coastal erosion and damage to coastal buildings and infrastructure; increased damage to coastal ecosystems such as coral reefs and mangroves and increased tropical cyclone activity.” We might not want to do anything to increase the chances of experiencing it.

The impacts on wetlands can be explained by their vulnerability to the changes in hydrological regimes, the increasing temperatures and the altered evapotranspiration, all caused by the global warming (IPCC 1998; Burkett and Kusler 2000)

The report also states that “An important management strategy to ensure wetland sustainability is the prevention or reduction of additional stress that can reduce the ability of wetlands to respond to climate change. Maintaining hydrology, reducing pollution, controlling exotic vegetation, and protecting wetland biological diversity and integrity are important activities to maintain and improve the resiliency of wetland ecosystems so that they continue to provide important services under changed climatic conditions (Kusler et al. 1999; Ferrati et al. 2005).”

Indeed, wetlands interact with the climate. They are very vulnerable to changes, but they also play a crucial role in slowing down the global warming and showing resiliency to the already experienced damages.

What services does the wetland provide in the context of global warming

We are trying to slow down and adapt to the global warming, and wetlands are crucial in this undertaking because they provide inestimable ecological services. Wetlands abate the global warming and its effects in three ways.

1) Climate change provokes the rising of the frequency of extreme meteorological events. Mangroves, deltas, marshes and estuaries play diminish the impact of tides and therefore erosion of coasts; wetlands also diminish the impact of flooding.

2) The water is soaked up in the ground into groundwater tables and provides for water during periods of hydric stress.

3) Wetlands are also carbon sinks, which slows down the global warming. The report points out that “Wetlands cover 6% of the world’s land surface and contain about 12% of the global carbon pool”.The carbon gets stuck in the plants through photosynthesis and even more in peatlands. Peatlands constitute 3% of the world’s surface but accumulate twice as much carbon as forests, which represents 30% of the world’s surface.

Destroy wetlands and you will accelerate the global warming while experiencing its consequences even more than we do now.

In the case of the airport Notre Dame-des-Landes, is it reasonable, or even possible to move the wetland elsewhere?

The convention of Ramsar and the national legislation

In 1971, 169 countries, among which the hexagon, agreed to the convention of Ramsar on wetlands. The goal of the conference was to jam the degradation of Wetlands, promoting a sustainable use of these places and recognizing the ecological, economic, cultural, scientific and recreative use of these areas.

The logic of the convention states that wetlands are more use to us intact (ecological benefits) than destroyed (economic perspectives). It is a cost-benefit calculation. It means that the goal is not to protect wetlands as such, but only what benefits us in it. In this way we can understand the logic behind the solution found at this conference: each wetland that will be destroyed has to be replaced somewhere else on a surface twice bigger as the former wetland.

The legislation was transcribed in the french legislation. The disposition 8B-2 du SDAGE du bassin Loire-Bretagne states

8B Recréer des zones humides disparues, restaurer les zones humides dégradées pour contribuer à l’atteinte du bon état des masses d’eau de cours d’eau associées

8B-2 Dès lors que la mise en œuvre d’un projet conduit, sans alternative avérée, à la disparition de zones humides, les mesures compensatoires proposées par le maître d’ouvrage doivent prévoir, dans le même bassin versant, la recréation ou la restauration de zones humides équivalentes sur le plan fonctionnel et de la qualité de la biodiversité. A défaut, la compensation porte sur une surface au moins égale à 200 % de la surface supprimée. La gestion et l’entretien de ces zones humides doivent être garantis à long terme.

What it means for the Airport Notre Dame-des-Landes

As the opposition to the project grows stronger and stronger (hunger strikes human chains, inflow of opponents from all parts of the hexagon), the French state asked three commissions to provide reports on the project. On April 9th, the dialogue commission produced a report, along with two other commissions, the agricultural commission and the environmental commission

The reports are no longer available on the webpage of the ministry of environment, energy and seas. Conducting research on the subject I had base my analyses of the impact on wetlands in relation to climate change on articles that quoted those reports!

The report of the dialogue commission is titled “report of the assembly of scientific experts about the assessment of the compensation method of incidences on the wetlands” (“rapport du collège d’experts scientifiques relatif à l’évaluation de la méthode de compensation des incidences sur les zones humides.)

The following reproaches are made to the company Vinci, in charge of the project.

the company did not respect the directive

the method of compensation was formulated in a way that it was hardly understandable by citizens

It did not take into account the possible failure of the compensation program

neither did they reflect on the time that would be needed to recreate the zone and its effective functions

the choice and the calculus of the coefficients of compensation (a tool to measure how the wetland can be replaced) was not justified enough

uncertainty about the possibility of assessing the result of the compensation afterward.

What seems to be clear in this report is that we don’t know exactly how to recreate a biosphere. Wetlands are spaces where life flourishes in a spectacular way and there is no way of knowing, even if we do the inventory of all living things on the zone, that we would recreate a wetland with the same quality.

In this way, the wetland is an objection that could be overcome in the project of airport Notre Dame-des-Landes. We could compensate the wetland Bois: landes et bocages au Sud-ouest de Notre-Dame-des-Landes with another one, providing the carbon sinks and the ecological services that we need. But we couldn’t do it without a hint of culpability knowing that we may lose the symbiose and the sumptuousness in the variety of the wetland that exists: there is no guarantee that it would work.

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