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A Local Perspective on Life in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

Eating UGUISU MOCHI In Anticipation of Japan’s Most Famous Sound of Spring 18 February, 2009
While the plum blossoms have burst open providing us with the encouraging SIGHTS and SMELLS of early spring, we have yet to hear the CALL, which in Japan has traditionally signalled the fact that spring has arrived in earnest — the cry of the male UGUISU (鶯), or bush warbler. The Japanese have long heard this distinctive chirp, which is actually a mating call, as HO-HOKEKYO (法　法華経), which also happens to be the name of one of Japanese Buddhism’s most famous sutras, The Lotus Sutra. Hear the actual sound here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_ ... bler#Songs
Read More : http://blog.alientimes.org/2009/02/eati ... of-spring/

The sudden appearance of this melodic expression of avian yearning has been an inspiration for some of Japan’s greatest spring poems, though the bird itself is quite plain, with dull brown to Yellow feathers some with spotted hoods, and in fact a little difficult to spot.

~ Japan's spring songster ~

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[Rick Masters]

"With this rare photograph, smuggled out of North Korea by a starving peasant, we are presented with further evidence of the dessication of Ozone Warblers in the country," says a professor from the university. "This creature appears incredibly frail and near collapse."
Unfortunately no egg was found.

[Rick Masters]

April 30, 2017

A novice taxidermist climbs higher in the tree to escape the angry Ozone Warbler as it clacks and snaps.
"I don't think it likes me," he shouts down to the Master taxidermist.
"Grab it by its ankle," instructs the Master taxidermist. "That'll calm it down."
"Well... Okay...," says the novice taxidermist trepidatiously.
Unfortunately, no egg was found.

[Rick Masters]

NEWS FLASH    NEWS FLASH
LANDMARK RULING IN GERMANY'S SUPREME COURT GOES AGAINST OZONE WARBLERS

HUNDREDS OF GERMAN PARAGLIDER PILOTS ARE ABOUT TO RECEIVE RETROACTIVE BILLING FOR RESCUE EXPENSES, INSURANCE PAYOUT CANCELLATIONS AND DEMANDS FOR RETURN OF INSURANCE PAYOUTS

Kein Versicherungs­schutz für Notlandung auf Baumwipfel
Ricardo Peyerl Ricardo Peyerl 10.04.2017, 06:00
https://kurier.at/chronik/oesterreich/kein-versicherungsschutz-fuer-notlandung-auf-baumwipfel/257.312.781
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"This legal ruling threatens the future of Ozone Warblers in Germany," says a professor from the university.    
"It could spell the end of socialized paragliding in Europe," said a taxidermist.
"I give you fifty dollar!" said a cook in black pajamas, suspiciously.
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No accident insurance for emergency landing on treetops    
A paraglider pilot landed in a fir tree. But according to the Supreme Court of Germany, the flight was not yet over.

Among lawyers it is a good idea to argue what the typical dangers of aviation are and when they end. With a landing on solid ground? And how is [one to regard] an emergency landing on a treetop? The question is relevant to the extent that it is a matter of whether or not there is accident insurance.

There is now a fundamental ruling of the Supreme Court.

A man from Vorarlberg started a paragliding flight, which caused him to lose altitude due to turbulence, so he decided to make an emergency landing. In the absence of other alternatives such as a free field, he made a controlled impact on a fir about 40 m high. He did not miss the top and landed on it. Still, the hobby sportsman did well in the circumstances. He called his wife by cell phone and also informed the rescue service and told them that he was uninjured and would shortly would climb down the tree.

Because the man was afraid that the rescue service would arrive by helicopter and disturb the canopy, he packed the paraglider in its backpack, then began the descent.

He lost his grip and fell the last five or six meters. On hitting the ground, the man was seriously injured. Since then, he has become a invalid with 24% of his body permanently disabled because of fractures of the right leg, heel bone and two lumbar vertebrae. But fortunately the sportsman had accident insurance with coverage for 25,000 euros.

However, the insurance company did not feel responsible: By the terms of the policy, the liability for accidents of the insured when flying for sport is excluded.

The soaring parachutist replied that he was no longer a "pilot" at the time of the accident. His flying, he claimed, had ended with the non-injury landing on the tree top. After that, he had been a tree climber and was therefore insured.

The Supreme Court (OGH) first held that the hobbyist would not have reached the top of the tree without the flight-induced emergency landing, nor would he have experienced the five-meter-long fall when he slipped. The flight can only be regarded as terminated when the aircraft has been abandoned in such a way that the associated risks are banished, ruled the court, by "attaining firm ground" under the feet.

Thomas Aigner of the Institute for Multimedial Legal Studies at the University of Linz considers the judgment correct: in principle, the insurance provider should not bear more risk than would exist if the act of flying had not been attempted at all.

Unfortunately, no egg was found.

[Rick Masters]

May 10, 2017

High in its arboreal nest, an Ozone Warbler chirps contentedly, confident that its colorful nest will attract a mate.
Yes, soon a female will come, it thought, dreamily.
And then, perhaps, an egg!
But only a taxidermist came...
Unfortunately, no egg was found.

[Rick Masters]

May 10, 2017
Effects of German Supreme Court ruling against Ozone Warblers ripple across Germany
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/world/europe/north-korea-germany-berlin-hostel-sanctions.html?_r=0

[Rick Masters]

May 21, 2017

A novice taxidermist prepares to capture an Ozone Warbler but the angry creature, snapping and clacking, keeps him at a distance.
"I don't think it likes me," he nervously calls down to the master taxidermist.
"Don't look it in the eye. Turn around!" the master taxidermist shouts up from below. "Yeah. It likes that."
The creature gradually settles down.
"Now wadda I do?" asks the novice.

[Rick Masters]

"In this rare footage from tiny video cameras attached to the heads of Ozone Warblers released into the wild, we can study the strange nesting behavior of the creatures," says a professor from the university. "We believe that, if there weren't so many of them, they would surely go extinct."
    Unfortunately, no eggs were found.

[Rick Masters]

November 15, 2016

In the center of this rare photograph, an Ozone Warbler can be seen nesting on the side of a rocky cliff.
"We thought somebody had dumped some garbage off the top," said a hiker. "But then we realized it was one of them Ozone Warberlerer thingies!"
    "By the time we arrived, the taxidermists and the creature were gone," said a professor from the university, disappointedly.
    Unfortunately no egg was found.

[Rick Masters]

May 18, 2017

Taxidermists arriveto find the Ozone Warbler is gone. Only the empty nest remains.
"So that's what those cooks from a nearby North Korean restaurant had in that bag," said a taxidermist dejectedly.
"I wish they'd nest in trees like other birds," said a utility worker tiredly.
Unfortunately, no egg was found.