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Sky Sharks, Meet Sharknado! Tech Innovation From Nikon! - IMRAN™

This news item caught my attention today. Even though I had not (and would not) see the movies Sky Sharks or Sharknado, the movie references came to mind immediately.

"Nikon unveils sharkskin-inspired riblet technology for aviation and power" ( lnkd.in/ebTXK9qW ). It basically is a biomimetic technology which mimics the amazing surface structure of shark skin. Nikon’s proprietary laser processing creates riblets which are artificial microstructures which resemble the fine scales on a shark’s skin. The materials have many applications from aviation to power generation.

 

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Number 1 from the Biometric Series

Welcome to the coming cyberpunk era, a dystopian future of moral decay. The global surveillance grid will track everything you do via the biometric chip implanted under your skin. If you refuse to be inoculated against the virus of humanity and to merge yourself with AI, you will be an enemy of the new world state. All such criminals must flee their 15-minute smart cities or risk the death penalty. They will hide in the cyberpunk wastelands around the outskirts of the city.

 

These videos are shot outside the city where I live. A wildfire burned this area two years ago. The water in this area is the city reservoir. My city has been called Canada’s first “real world 5G smart city,” which “will serve as a blueprint for the development of made-in-Canada 5G smart city technology.” “The United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC) initiative is a global UN collaboration,” which “serves as an international platform for exchanging knowledge and fostering partnerships to empower cities and communities in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.”

 

The lyrics of these songs are from the Book of Revelation. They will loosely follow the seal, trumpet, and bowl judgments. Each of the three judgments will have a different style of cyberpunk music. I have made about 60 presets with cyberpunk sounds, and I am currently working on more.

 

Lyrics:

 

Hailing fire red as blood

 

The earth aflame, burning bright

 

Third of the trees burned up

 

All the grass burned up

 

Revelation 8:7 “The first angel blew his trumpet, and there was hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was thrown at the earth so that a third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.”

  

Welcome to the coming cyberpunk era, a dystopian future of moral decay. The global surveillance grid will track everything you do via the biometric chip implanted under your skin. If you refuse to be inoculated against the virus of humanity and to merge yourself with AI, you will be an enemy of the new world state. All such criminals must flee their 15-minute smart cities or risk the death penalty. They will hide in the cyberpunk wastelands around the outskirts of the city.

 

These videos are shot outside the city where I live. A wildfire burned this area two years ago. The water in this area is the city reservoir. My city has been called Canada’s first “real world 5G smart city,” which “will serve as a blueprint for the development of made-in-Canada 5G smart city technology.” “The United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC) initiative is a global UN collaboration,” which “serves as an international platform for exchanging knowledge and fostering partnerships to empower cities and communities in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.”

 

The lyrics of these songs are from the Book of Revelation. They will loosely follow the seal, trumpet, and bowl judgments. Each of the three judgments will have a different style of cyberpunk music. I have made about 60 presets with cyberpunk sounds, and I am currently working on more.

 

Lyrics:

 

The sixth seal’s gonna get you

 

Earthquake gonna crack you

 

Sun gonna turn black

 

Moon gonna turn blood

 

Earthquake gonna crack you

 

Sun gonna black you

 

Moon gonna blood you

 

Stars gonna free fall

 

Revelation 6:12-14 “And I watched as the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars of the sky fell to the earth like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind. The sky receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.”

 

A massive earthquake: a physical earthquake; figuratively speaking: a political and moral earthquake—the earth is being agitated; great changes in heaven and on earth.

 

The sun clothed in black: sadness and morning; spiritual darkness.

 

Moon turned blood red: smoke and destruction.

 

Stars (rulers) fell from the sky: a celestial event (meteors and/or asteroids) that cause people to hide underground (Rev. 6:15); rulers in heaven fall, and rulers on earth fall; they are being overthrown. This is also pointing ahead to when Satan and his minions are thrown down to the earth in Revelation 12:9.

 

The sky receded like a scroll: symbolism of the celestial event; great upheaval in heaven.

 

Like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind: referring to the celestial event; symbolic of the battle against the spiritual powers (rulers) of darkness in the heavens. The powers of darkness in heaven are violently shaken. They are losing their war in heaven.

 

Every mountain and island was moved: the land is physically changed from the great earthquake; it is also symbolic of great spiritual, moral, and political upheaval—the whole spiritual, moral, and political landscape on earth is greatly altered (devastated; darkened; unrecognizable). Spiritually speaking, the earth is about to become a very dark place. It will be a dark chapter in history.

  

Le très bel oeil atteint d'hétérochromie de Tatiana.

a spare-time collage. that's what comes off my mind near midnight... ;-)

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My company rewards its employees who take charge of their health by taking healthy measures. I have never taken a biometric test and passed every one of the measures- I always failed my BMI, and have been on the border with my cholesterol, blood pressure, and glucose. This year I really wanted to knock it out of the park.

 

My initial bloodwork showed little to no change, but thankfully my biometric bloodwork showed different results- more of what I expected, and for the first time since 2008 I met every one of my biometrics! I didn’t meet the recommended BMI, but because I showed a 5+ point improvement I passed. And I might actually meet the target for BMI by next year!!

 

What a relief!

 

Theme: Weight For Me

Year Ten Of My 365 Project

 

Soryu: No, more precisely it creates an affinity. So, we call it a lure. Silva has Ash's precise biometrics and so we will use this to track him and, once we've found the strongest point, we activate his own signature on this end and that should get us something.

 

Princess Jun: 'Something?'

 

Soryu: Well, this is running our fishing line along the slipstream and then dipping back in, so it's not going to be exact. What we usually end up with is a time/place where he was recently present and the lure can pull someone out of that time/place that had strong interaction with him. At least, a bio-entity. It may not be helpful, like a dog that bit him, or it may even be dangerous, like a creature he fought. So we should be ready.

 

Princess Jun: Oh...

 

Soryu: Don't worry, the three of us should be able to handle most things that might get pulled through. If not, we're in the Queen's Castle. There are enough Defenders 30 seconds away to put a quick- OH! We've hooked an affinity Silva!

 

Bio Hunter Silver: Confirmed. Progress with pull.

 

Soryu: Reeling it in! Let's see who or what we hooked!

  

[order] Charadriiformes | [family] Recurvirostridae | [latin] Himantopus himantopus | [UK] Pied Stilt | [FR] Echasse blanche | [DE] Stelzenläufer | [ES] Ciguenuela común | [IT] Cavaliere d'Italia | [NL] Steltkluut

 

Measurements

spanwidth min.: 64 cm

spanwidth max.: 70 cm

size min.: 33 cm

size max.: 36 cm

Breeding

incubation min.: 22 days

incubation max.: 25 days

fledging min.: 28 days

fledging max.: 32 days

broods 1

eggs min.: 3

eggs max.: 5

BIOMETRICS:

Length: 35-40 cm

Weight: 165-205 g

 

PHYSICAL DESCRPTION:

Black-winged Stilt (Pied Stilt)

is a black and white shorebird, perched on very long and fine pink legs, giving the bird an elegant gait.

The adult male in breeding plumage has black and white plumage with all-black wings and upper back with greenish iridescence.

Underparts are white, sometimes with pale pinkish wash on the breast.

Head shows white face and forehead, and black top of the crown. Eyes are red. The long, thin bill is black and straight. Very long legs and feet are reddish-pink.

The female in breeding plumage is almost similar but more brownish on the upperparts with sometimes greyish wash on nape and rear neck.

  

In winter plumage, both are similar to the breeding female but duller, with variable grey wash on head and rear neck.

The juvenile is paler than adult, with washed grey-brown crown and rear neck. The brownish upperparts show narrow pale buff fringes, and legs are duller.

  

VOICE:

The Black-winged Stilt’s calls are a sharp “kek” and a barking “ke-yak”. Alarm call is a monotonous, high-pitched “kik-kik-kik-kik-kik-kik”.

They are noisy on their breeding areas.

HABITAT:

The Black-winged Stilt lives mainly in freshwater and saltwater marshes and mudflats, shallow lakes, coastal lagoons, flooded fields and rice fields.

RANGE:

The Black-winged Stilt has wide range. We can find it in Australia, Central and South America, Africa, Asia, parts of North America, Eurasia, Hawaii and Philippines.

BEHAVIOUR:

The Black-winged Stilt feeds in shallow water, wading and catching preys on or near the surface. But sometimes, it plunges the head under the surface to capture some aquatic invertebrate. It picks up its food from sand or water.

Its very long legs allow it to walk in deeper water than other waders. This bird rarely swims for food. The Black-winged Stilt is an active forager, and it can employ several methods to catch prey.

This species is well adapted to nocturnal vision, which allows them to feed on windy, moonless nights. Stilts walk quickly, with long strides, wading into water.

The Black-winged Stilt is a migratory bird, moving to the ocean coasts in winter. European birds winter in sub-Saharan Africa. They are often seen in flocks of 10 to 20 birds, and also in mixed flocks with other species of shorebirds.

The Black-winged Stilt nests in small colonies of 2 to 50 pairs, and mated pairs defend vigorously their nest site and territory. They may nest in mixed groups with avocets.

They are gregarious and may feed in large flocks of several thousands birds. When alarmed, the birds often bob their head.

FLIGHT:

The Black-winged Stilt has rapid direct flight, with steady wing-beats. Legs are projected behind the tail of up to 20 cm, and neck is slightly held.

Small Automatic Pistol

 

Once upon a time, a crazy scientist builded a mysterious machine. The machine has the ability to cross two weapons into one new. He puts a KRISS Super V and a Ingram into the machine.

 

Two days later, the machine creates the M45. The german company Keagan & Beckett bought the rights to the M45, the scientist got 20 Million bucks and was killed later by Kyshira Arms Employes, because he selled the M45 to the wrong company. The mysterious machine founded a company, who was building mp3 Players and expensive Smartphones and get richer than the dead scientist.

Life is a bitch.

 

Fin

Club ARGENT wasn’t technically open at this hour, but that never mattered. The door recognized Tamsin’s biometrics, Marin’s gait signature, and, more importantly, their mutual “Cy is expecting trouble” energy.

The vestibule lights shifted from idle amber to an electric violet swirl.

That was the first warning.

The second was the bass pulse that kicked on from nowhere, like the club itself had leaned over to whisper, “Brace yourselves.”

 

Cydonia Wren descended the main staircase in a slow-motion glide that absolutely defied physics and entirely matched her sense of personal theatre. Her lavender hair fell in perfect, impossible waves; her violet optics adjusted to them with unnerving precision.

 

“You two,” she said, stopping halfway down, hands on hips in a posture that suggested she’d already invented sixteen conclusions. “You’re either here to confess a crime, request a blessing, or ask for money.”

 

Marin swallowed. Tamsin elbowed her. Neither spoke.

 

Cydonia narrowed her eyes, sharp as a blade made of starlight and judgment.

 

“…You’re not pregnant, are you?”

 

“CY!” Tamsin sputtered. “What, no, why would…”

 

“Darling, you have exactly the posture of someone about to tell me something that will either warm my heart or ruin my week. I like to prepare.”

 

Marin stepped forward, steady as ever.

“We’re handfasting,” she said calmly. “At Solstice.”

 

Silence.

 

Then Cydonia’s entire face ignited. Pure joy, pure chaos, pure Cy. She gasped, one hand to her chest, the other flung behind her like she was summoning unseen backup singers.

 

“Oh. Oh my beloved little disasters. You’re binding threads? With each other? Publicly? In front of people we both like and tolerate?”

 

Tamsin muttered, “…yes?”

 

Cydonia hit the bottom step in four impossible strides, seized both of them by the forearms, and vibrated with excitement like a reactor slipping its containment.

 

“You poor, naive creatures. You didn’t come here to announce a life milestone. You came here to deliver unto me…”

 

She practically purred.

“…the opportunity of a lifetime.”

 

Marin blinked. “Cy, we’re just telling…”

 

“No.” Cydonia lifted a finger, silencing the universe itself. “You are getting handfasted at Solstice. Therefore, obviously, the ceremony will be held at ARGENT.”

 

Tamsin made a small strangled sound. “We… never said…”

 

“You didn’t need to,” Cydonia said briskly. “I’m an empathic professional. I can sense a major life event begging for my involvement from six districts away.”

 

“We weren’t…” Marin tried.

 

“It’s adorable you think you have input.”

 

Cydonia clasped their intertwined hands, lifted them overhead like victorious gladiators, and announced to the empty club:

 

“THESE TWO ARE TYING THREADS AND THE SOLSTICE BELONGS TO THEM!”

 

Lights flared overhead. Tamsin was 78% sure ARGENT was sentient.

 

Marin leaned close. “We’re not in control anymore.”

 

Tamsin whispered back. “We never were.”

 

Cydonia was already marching toward the main stage, issuing commands to invisible staff, possibly rewriting the fire codes in real time.

 

“Come along, my beloved chaos sprites! We have one month to build an event that obeys no natural laws and several social ones!”

 

Marin sighed. Tamsin laughed helplessly.

 

And just like that, the Solstice handfasting was no longer an announcement.

It was a takeover.

 

A glitter-drenched, neon-charged, Cydonia Wren production.

 

Photo by Kassi Aeon www.flickr.com/photos/163927619@N03/

 

Visit Club ARGENT in Second Life at maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Kasieopeia/202/47/534

 

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Everyone's having their biometrics stored again

not a fan of Facebook, yet I do have an account there that I check in every 6 months or so…

 

Backstory:

Lawmakers passed the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act in 2008, requiring companies to obtain consent before collecting biometric information. The policy requires companies to specify how the information will be retained, and when it will be destroyed.

 

more:

www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/illinois-facebook-users-you...

Went for my biometric tests and results today. My weight came down, my blood pressure was up up just a little bit (though still in range), and my BMI came down 2 points. I have to wait on glucose and cholesterol results, but fingers crossed for great results!

 

Theme: Weight For Me

Year Eleven Of My 365 Project

“Leave no one behind!” Let’s build a one-world governmental system. Let’s build the Matrix—the Beast System. Everyone will be digitally connected to the spinner’s WEB, can you feel the venom? Everyone will have a digital ID. Everyone will be controlled by a social credit score system. CBDCs: digital currencies, digital thin air. Everyone will receive a free welfare check. Everyone will be a global citizen of the new world order. Hey, we’re already halfway there! All hail the United Nations! All hail Caesar!

 

The Book of Daniel prophesied the rise and fall of previous world empires, and those prophecies came true. They rose, they fell. The Book of Daniel also prophesies about a future empire (Beast). This empire will be ruled by a Beast called the Antichrist (666). Shocker: the kingdom of the Beast will be ruled by a Beast. The Book of Revelation prophesies that no one will be able to buy or sell without the Mark of the Beast. Microchip biometric tattoo anyone!?! Take the Mark, be reborn (recreated) in the Image of the Beast, and become a trans-human (666).

 

While cleaning out my bookmarks, I found a dozen articles from the United Nations. I threw them together, and 98% of what’s written below is quoted verbatim. Sustainable development: building the foundation of the new world order one piece at a time. If you care to take a glimpse, if you dare:

 

By 2030 a new kind of capitalism (stakeholder capitalism/neo-fascism) will take root. A new economy will be established that will address the needs of all stakeholders (banks, corporations, billionaires, and governments). This new breed of new capitalism will be enabled thanks to a new way of assessing the performance of companies based on a valuation of their overall impact (social credit score system). Indeed, this new way of assessing business performance will be based on standardized, comprehensive and simple impact-valuation metrics. These enhance the usual financial statements with other dimensions like society, human rights and the environment, leading to a ‘total impact’ rating that is used by management and investors alike. ‘Total impact’ is a simple way of assessing how much a sector or a business contributes to social coherence, citizens’ wellbeing, environmental protection and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Impact valuation expresses what matters in monetary terms, allowing the full range of stakeholders to agree what ‘good’ looks like—in the economy and in society. Governments, stock markets and businesses will fully embrace the new order that has given rise to a thriving new type of public-private partnership (neo-fascism). We will transition to a more eco-friendly economic system that requires collective action by multiple stakeholders across borders.

 

The new model of circular (dialectic [problem, reaction, solution] uroboros) economy is meant to allow the planet to breathe, while leaving no one behind. A Circular Economy (CE) is an economic model that focuses on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. By decoupling economic growth from resource use, setting global standards in product sustainability, keeping resource use within planetary boundaries and promoting the re-use of materials, a circular economy may be the only sustainable economic model for the future. The global financial sector plays a pivotal role in scaling up finance for pollution-free and circular solutions, by funding innovative businesses that prioritize circular design, resource efficiency and waste reduction. Financial institutions can also leverage their influence to drive policy changes and industry standards that favour circularity. It is evident that ‘business as usual’ will not help us to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Systems-based approaches along with a strong commitment to deep rooted transformations and actions are vital to the reduction of humanity’s footprint in our planet. Our resources are finite and the principles and practices of the circular economy will be catalytic in creating goods, processes and ecosystems that are restorative and regenerative by design. An Inclusive Green Economy (IGE) is a pathway towards achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In its simplest expression, such an economy is low carbon, efficient and clean in production, but also inclusive in consumption and outcomes, based on sharing, circularity, collaboration, solidarity, resilience, opportunity, and interdependence. (A circular [green/sustainable] economy is an economy of degrowth.)

 

With more and more governments exploring the potential of CBDCs, there is a greater need to engage with various aspects of this emerging topic, including design, especially given its potential to foster financial inclusion. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has a long history of promoting technological and digital financial innovations that help advance financial inclusion and the SDGs more broadly. Its teams have worked with various countries on digital finance and infrastructure innovations, enabling underserved business segments, such as MSMEs (micro, small and medium enterprises), to access more sophisticated financial services or on enabling micro-savers to become micro-investors in green infrastructure projects, or on harnessing the developments in Distributed Ledger Technologies to advance innovative financial instruments for private capital mobilization for nature. Given UNDP’s expertise and leadership in this space, UNDP’s involvement in this discussion will help better support member states as they navigate this changing landscape. Partnership (public-private partnership) is at the heart of everything UNDP does. We offer a nearly universal presence across the world. We are determined to mobilize the means to implement the 2030 Agenda through a revitalized Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, with a focus on the poorest and most vulnerable. We support countries and communities as they work to eradicate poverty, implement the Paris Agreement on climate change and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

 

The importance of legal identity is an integral part of Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDG Target 16.9, which aims to ‘provide legal identity for all, including birth registration,’ underscores the widespread significance of civil registration in societies globally. Acknowledging the developing potential and significance of digital legal ID, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has taken the initiative to draft a model governance framework. This blueprint is designed to aid the swift establishment of digital legal ID systems globally. At its core, this framework is intended to outline a normative model of the laws, policies and institutional arrangements that can help ensure the governance of digital legal ID systems is inclusive. It is informed by UNDP’s governance and digital strategies, which emphasize a rights-based and whole-of-society approach. The framework, for instance, recognizes the importance of civil society’s role in accountability, recourse and oversight. It also builds on long-standing experience and lessons from within the UN System on legal identity and the whole legal identity management ecosystem, which is based on civil registration. It is a critical enabler of digital transformation and is helping to accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals. Governments, donors, the private sector and civil society alike have an opportunity to shape it. This campaign is in collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure, Co-Develop, the Digital Public Goods Alliance, and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and is supported by GovStack, the Inter-American Development Bank, and UNICEF. This ambitious campaign heralds a new chapter in the global momentum around digital public infrastructure (DPI)—an underlying network of components such as digital payments, ID, and data exchange systems, which is a critical accelerator of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

 

Following the G20 Leaders Declaration in 2023, Digital Public Infrastructure is a key breakthrough that gives the momentum needed to change course and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, across all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Accelerating progress toward the SDGs requires inclusive digital transformation. Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) can maximize the opportunities for digitalization to support the SDGs and reduce the risks that digital technologies may bring. DPI is safe, accessible, affordable, green, financed, and future ready. In partnership with the UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology and under the leadership of the UN Secretary-General, the Universal Safeguards initiative which also includes the 2030 Safeguards Action Hub will be launched at the 78th UNGA, leading into the Summit of the Future in 2024 and beyond. This campaign seeks to strengthen DPI partnerships (public-private partnerships) with the private sector and community-based organizations across 100 countries to integrate intermediaries into local digital ecosystems and facilitate greater scale services for inclusion, especially for women, as well as strengthen efforts to ensure universal digital connectivity.

 

The digital divide is further exacerbating these challenges—for example, 2.6 billion people, or around one-third of the world’s population, still lack internet access. But this is not just about access. The ‘usage gap’, the population living within the footprint of mobile internet coverage but not using this potentially game-changing connectivity, is now eight times larger than the total number of those without coverage. Limited digital skills, unaffordable data and devices, concerns of safety and security, and a lack of relevant content and services hinder people from participating in our increasingly digital societies and economies.

 

A new social contract needs to emerge that rebalances deep inequalities that are prevalent across societies. We must implement (universal socialism) Universal Basic Income (UBI). The alternative to not having UBI is the rising likelihood of social unrest, conflict, unmanageable mass migration, and the proliferation of extremist groups that capitalize and ferment on social disappointment. It is against this background that we seriously need to consider implementing a well-designed UBI, so shocks may hit, but they won’t destroy. Moving to such a system would need to ensure that the incentives to have a job remain intact. That is relatively simple to do: A UBI should be sufficient, to sustain a person at a modest minimum, leaving sufficient incentives to work, save, and invest. Lest the naysayers think this is a theory from the left, the idea of tax competition has been touched upon, for years on end, by the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development.

 

Today, more people than ever live in a country other than the one in which they were born. For statistical purposes, the United Nations defines an international migrant as any person who has changed his or her country of residence. This includes all migrants, regardless of their legal status, or the nature, or motive of their movement. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes the positive contribution of migrants to inclusive growth and sustainable development. The Agenda’s core principle is to ‘leave no one behind,’ which includes migrants. Many of the Agenda’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) contain targets and indicators which are relevant to migrants or migration. SDG target 10.7 calls on countries to ‘facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies.’ Under the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, refugees and migrants have the same universal human rights and fundamental freedoms. It acknowledges the positive contribution of migrants to sustainable and inclusive development, and commits to protecting the safety, dignity and human rights and fundamental freedoms of all migrants, regardless of their migratory status.

 

Global citizenship is the umbrella term for social, political, environmental, and economic actions of globally minded individuals and communities on a worldwide scale. The term can refer to the belief that individuals are members of multiple, diverse, local and non-local networks rather than single actors affecting isolated societies. Promoting global citizenship in sustainable development will allow individuals to embrace their social(ist) responsibility to act for the benefit of all societies (collectivism), not just their own. The concept of global citizenship is embedded in the Sustainable Development Goals though SDG 4: Insuring Inclusive and Quality Education for All and Promote Life Long Learning, which includes global citizenship as one of its targets. By 2030, the international community has agreed to ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including global citizenship. Universities have a responsibility to promote global citizenship by teaching their students that they are members of a large global community and can use their skills and education to contribute to that community.

 

Job 15:31 “If they are foolish enough to trust in evil, then evil will be their reward.”

 

Proverbs 1:32 “For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.”

 

Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

 

1 John 5:12 “Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.”

 

Now, an advertisement from the United Nations: Disinformation can be dangerous. With the advance of technology, digital media is increasingly being used to spread misinformation. The UN has been monitoring how mis- and disinformation and hate speech can attack health, security, stability as well as progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. (Those who control information, control society. Those who manipulate information, manipulate society. Those who control the narrative, control the masses.)

 

They are slowly implementing the new world order one sustainable development goal at a time.

 

They live among us, and their message is OBEY! SUBMIT! CONFORM! NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT! STAY ASLEEP! COVID was a perfect example of this. A global cabal was working together: the World Health Organization, governments, corporations, billionaires, media, academia, science, medicine, and big pharma. Has anything changed?

 

“To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.” – Brock Chisholm, the first director-general of the World Health Organization

 

“Those who aren’t already on board with diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental, social and governance investing (ESG) are essentially living in the past, and it is likely that they’re feeling the mounting pressure to participate” – Forbes

 

DEI: diversity, equity and inclusion (a Maoist-inspired struggle [brainwashing] session—woke-Marxism).

 

CSR: corporate social(ist) responsibility (sustainability; UNs sustainable development goals).

 

ESG: environmental, social(ist) governance (system).

 

DEI, CSR, and ESG are social credit score systems in the making; they have not been fully developed or implemented.

 

The three largest investment management companies globally are BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard; they are the biggest advocates of DEI, CSR, and ESG scores in the corporate world. “The Big Three manage a combined $22 trillion in assets, with BlackRock managing nearly $10 trillion, Vanguard managing $8 trillion, and State Street having more than $4 trillion. They own a substantial portion of the stocks of many publicly traded companies, including 88% of the S&P 500 companies.”

 

In my last write-up, I told you about a group that wants to bring 100 million immigrants into Canada. The man leading this group was a former manager at BlackRock! Ah, supply and demand (kind of like COVID and big pharma):

 

“BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard, three of the largest investment management companies in the world, have been investing in rental properties through real estate investment trusts (REITs) and other means. This trend has raised concerns among some that these institutions are ‘buying up’ rental properties and potentially controlling the rental market.”

 

We are seeing public-private partnerships (fascism) in action. Public-private partnerships (PPPs) play a crucial role in implementing the United Nations’ sustainable development goals (SDGs). These partnerships bring together governments, corporations, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to achieve the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 goals.

 

“Through the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, world leaders have given humanity a universal plan to transform our world for the better. Our task is to stay true to these agreements and take action on their implementation.” – United Nations

 

“Among the key findings of the SDG Lab were that first, the financing needed to fund the SDGs already exists around the world, but global financial systems need to be aligned to sustainable development, with the right incentives and regulatory frameworks put in place to shift investments towards sectors that advance SDG implementation.” – United Nations

 

These sustainable development goals will eventually be incorporated into a global social credit score system. This social credit score system will align with SDG targets, rewarding organizations and individuals for achieving specific sustainable development goals and targets.

 

The United Nations has been scanning the fingerprints, faces, and irises of refugees. Their data is then stored in a biometric ID card system. Other types of biometrics are being tested on disabled people; such as voice samples and gait recognition to help authenticate mobile money transfers. “Iris scanning has proven especially popular. Such data collected from the almost 40,000 refugees housed at the UNHCR’s camp at Azraq in northern Jordan is used not only to collate the number of individuals at the facility, but also to facilitate cardless payments at ATMs outside the facility using the agency’s EyePay service.” “However, Die Zeit reported in 2017 that the WFP (World Food Program) was analyzing purchase data from EyePay to check if refugees had a balanced diet.” Indeed, they better spend their money on what we deem best!

 

We will soon have a Chinese communist-style social credit score system of biometrics and surveillance, which will track the activities of each person. Social credit score systems are being implemented to control the behaviour of the population. The goal will be to eventually microchip everyone (666).

 

www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/08/microchip-in-your-hand-rfi...

 

Furthermore, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank keep developing countries poor. To satisfy foreign lenders, their austerity programs trample on social safety nets. Therefore, corporations and billionaires rape their land. According to studies, their Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) cause developing countries higher rates of poverty. These measures can include cuts to social programs, public services, and infrastructure development. Health and education spending are usually cut drastically. Public agencies, assets, infrastructure, and land are sold to private investors for pennies on the dollar. “Over half (57 percent) of the world’s poorest countries, home to 2.4 billion people, are having to cut public expenditure by a combined $229 billion over the next five years, a new analysis from Oxfam revealed ahead of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Annual Meetings in Marrakech.”

 

“UN Climate Change News, 18 January 2022 – Addressing world and business leaders at the virtual World Economic Forum (17-21 January), United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has highlighted climate action in developing countries as one of the top three global issues requiring urgent attention, citing the targeted phase out of coal as climate priority number one.”

 

Phasing out coal in developing countries: kiss cheap and reliable energy good-bye! But hey, we’ll help these developing countries: “Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs) are a new plurilateral structure for accelerating the phase-out of fossil fuels.” “JETPs are collaborative efforts between governments, international organizations, and the private sector to support a country’s energy transition.” That’s odd: public-private partnerships implementing the United Nations’ sustainable development goals around the world.

 

“If economic growth continues to be the default goal, it will lead to climate catastrophe, the argument goes, with no hope of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees.” – WEF

 

“The solution is essentially to move away from the assumption that growth is good.” – WEF

 

“Degrowth broadly means shrinking rather than growing economies, so we use less of the world’s energy and resources and put wellbeing ahead of profit.” – WEF

 

Let’s put wellbeing ahead of profit! Let’s degrow our economy by phasing out coal plants. Let’s degrow our economy by phasing out oil and gas. Say no to fossil fuels! Climate-Marxism: let’s lower our carbon footprint. Let’s become equally impoverished: “We’ll own nothing and we’ll be happy.” Green policies are degrowth. Justin Trudeau loves to implement policies that cause degrowth. Green is the new red (communism). How about the Green New Deal in the United States? “It’s a plan to address the climate crisis, economic inequality, and social justice by transitioning the United States to a sustainable, low-carbon economy.” Degrowth anyone? “Degrowth is an idea that critiques the global capitalist system.” Shocker: communists don’t like capitalism!

 

The future: social credit score systems, digital currencies, digital wallets, digital IDs, biometrics, data surveillance, AI, poverty, and authoritarianism. Let’s not forget the experts who are warning us about civil wars, wars, and nuclear wars. What about inflation and the cost of food and housing? What about disease X? What about the climate emergency?

 

Economic woes: “Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you.”

 

Food insecurity: “And I heard a voice from among the four living beings say, “A loaf of wheat bread or three loaves of barley will cost a day’s pay. And don’t waste the olive oil and wine.”

 

Climate emergency: “Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given power to scorch the people with fire.”

 

War, famine, and plague: “And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed him. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth.”

 

Authoritarianism: “And the beast was allowed to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And he was given authority to rule over every tribe and people and language and nation.”

 

Artificial Intelligence: “He deceives those who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast; saying to those who dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who had been wounded by the sword and yet lived. It was given to him to give breath to it, to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast could both speak and cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.”

 

Biometric social credit score system: “He required everyone—small and great, rich and poor, free and slave—to be given a mark on the right hand or on the forehead. And no one could buy or sell anything without that mark, which was either the name of the beast or the number representing his name.”

 

Can you see the commu-facist (anti-christ) system being built? Can you see it, John Carpenter?

 

The alien’s (luciferian’s) live among us, and their message is OBEY! SUBMIT! CONFORM! NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT! STAY ASLEEP!

 

Will you conform to their system?

 

Galatians 5:1 “For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.”

 

032816: Office of Field Operations, San Diego - U.S. Customs and Border Protection launched a biometric border entry and exit control pilot program at Otay Mesa, San Diego in an effort to identify and apprehend foreigners with expired visas who have surpassed their permitted duration.

Photographer: Donna Burton

032816: Office of Field Operations, San Diego - U.S. Customs and Border Protection launched a biometric border entry and exit control pilot program at Otay Mesa, San Diego in an effort to identify and apprehend foreigners with expired visas who have surpassed their permitted duration.

Photographer: Donna Burton

Biometrics comprises methods for uniquely recognizing humans based upon one or more intrinsic physical or behavioral traits. In computer science, in particular, biometrics is used as a form of identity access management and access control. It is also used to identify individuals in groups that are under surveillance.

 

Read more

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometrics

John Wagner, deputy assistant commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Office of Field Operations; testifies on the as yet unimplemented biometric exit tracking system before the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2016. (CBP Photo by Glenn Fawcett)

032816: Office of Field Operations, San Diego - U.S. Customs and Border Protection launched a biometric border entry and exit control pilot program at Otay Mesa, San Diego in an effort to identify and apprehend foreigners with expired visas who have surpassed their permitted duration.

Photographer: Donna Burton

Wokeism: Invasion of the Body Snatchers

 

More and more people are changing; they are being replaced by something alien. On the outside they look the same, yet on the inside they are not. They have been taken over by an alien entity (cult) called wokeism. It’s an ideology that takes over individuals, replacing their original thoughts and values with an alien perspective/dialectic: the oppressed vs the oppressor.

 

These clones adapt to their surroundings by absorbing the memories and experiences of those they replace. These woke look-alikes adapt their dialectic to the society they want to infiltrate. They use their parasitic dialectic to absorb the identity of the culture, replacing its morals and values. The more they multiply, the more they disrupt the social order and challenge the established norms. Their goal is to undermine traditional Western values and attack the traditional family structure, until democracy and capitalism and the family are destroyed forever.

 

These body snatchers destroy the individual, thus destroying their individuality. These useful idiot’s are conformists—collectivists. Wokeism (neo-communism) revolves around a collectivist theology, which suppresses one’s own thoughts and opinions. Wokeism is a culture of groupthink, which is null and void of critical thinking and self-reflection. Wokeism destroys individuality, because collectivism prioritizes the goals of the group over the personal rights and freedoms of the individual. Wokeism creates a culture of fear, where individuals are called racists if they don’t conform to the cult’s dogma. Wokeism focuses on subjective experience, emotional validity, and social justice over objective truth. They like to say that truth is relative, yet they hold their ideology as the absolute truth. DEI: Discrimination, Exclusivity, and Inequality.

 

“They are masters of censoring, blacklisting, scapegoating, deplatforming, ritual humiliation, doxxing, cancel-culture, ostracism, and disbarring.”

 

“Wokeism’s natural logic is to destroy the lives of people of both genders, of all races, and—if need be—of those of every age, all to leverage an otherwise unworkable ideological agenda.”

 

These woke anti-racists hate the white race, because they hate the West. The West is predominantly white and has a democratic and capitalist system. Communists hate democracy and capitalism! Additionally, these anti-patriarchy feminists want a matriarchy. These sexists hate men and call masculinity toxic, because the West will fall easier if its men are weak and limp-wristed. These pro-woman advocates are anti-woman, because they support replacing biological women with pseudo-women—flipping women’s rights upside down: men in women’s sports, change rooms and washrooms. These subversive agents aren’t pro-life or pro-children. Instead, they pervert the minds of children. Children are very impressionable and their minds are easily molded. The brains of young children are not wired properly to process conversations about alterative ADULT sexual lifestyles. Their brains are not developed properly to process ADULT (+18; XXX; porn; adult entertainment) sexual fetishes like drag queens dancing sexually in front of them. These things teach children to think that sexual predatory behaviour is acceptable and normal. And now they give underaged (immature) teens puberty blockers and sex changes. Can anyone say: the mental, physical, and sexual abuse of children! The woke brainwash their young minds, destroying their innocence in order to control them. Indeed, the children are only pawns. If they can control the minds of the children, they can control the future. As their religious doctrine states: the end justifies the means. Moreover, these anti-bullies love to bully those who disagree with them: “A Regina-based LGBT group Queen City Pride has asked a stadium in the city to cancel an Evangelical Christian event called ‘Come Together’ over the organizing group’s promotion of Biblical views on marriage and sexuality.” “The issue is never the issue. The real issue is the (communist) revolution.”

 

These anti-police leftists are pro-criminal, and they want high crime and lawlessness. Then, when chaos breaks out, they can start their commie revolution. These anti-poverty activists loot and burn poor neighbourhoods. These anti-slavery crusaders never advocate against the modern-day slave trade. They only use slavery, which has long been abolished in the United States, as an excuse to bash and demoralize their enemy—America. Why? Because these liars don’t care about slavery, they only care about their reparations (money handouts) and their woke (communist) revolution. These anti-border zealots hate the West, thus the West is being overwhelmed by unsustainable mass migration. Globalism: open borders! We are being flooded with cultures that are incompatible with Western culture, so that our culture will be destroyed. How about all the unvetted criminals and terrorists being allowed to enter the US? How about all the unvetted gang and cartel members pouring over the border? Globalism: global citizens—immigration is a human right! Flood the West with cheap unskilled workers to drive down wages and living standards. Raise taxes and impoverish the native citizens in order to support the never-ending flow of illegal immigrants. Less housing! Less jobs! A strain on every system and on all infrastructures! These communists only care about destroying the West, so that they can have total power. It’s only about power dynamics!

 

Likewise, these climate activists are anti-human, and the Degrowth polices that are being implemented will lead to poverty and depopulation. BTW: these pro-palestinian protests around the West are being organized by communists and islamists. Both of these subversive religions are working together, because they hate the West and Western (Judeo-Christian) values.

 

How about we add another dynamic to the equation? Governments (and government funded schools), corporations, and the United Nations are using DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) Social Credit Scores in order to indoctrinate and control the masses with their woke neo-communism. BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street Bank are pushing ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) Social Credit Scores in order to control corporations with their New World Order agenda—“a new model of governance” (stakeholder capitalism/neo-fascism). Part of the ESG Social Credit Score system is CEI (Corporate Equality Index). CEI is the reason why Dylan Mulvaney and his lifestyle are being pushed on us. “At stake is their Corporate Equality Index—or CEI—score, which is overseen by the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ+ political lobbying group in the world.”

 

A global Social Credit Score System is in the making, and it will control all people and governments, all businesses and corporations. So why is a woke commufascist (Anti-Christ/Beast) Social Credit Score system being built to enslave us? Why are we being prodded towards a system of Central Bank Digital Currencies, Digital IDs, Facial Recognition and Biometrics, Social Credit Score systems, and Fifteen Minute Cities? Furthermore, this will eventually lead to transhumanism—the microchipping of humanity (666). Now, do you think that all these things will lead towards more individualism or towards more collectivism? Without true freedom there is no true individualism. Will you become part of the Hivemind of the Beast—the Beast Matrix? Remember, one day you will not be able to buy or sell without a Digital Mark. I think you know where this is all heading! Will you be one of the last true human beings, or will you become part of the woke transhuman-hybrid (alien) collective? Beware of the body snatchers! They’re coming for you!

 

Revelation 17:13 “With one purpose they will give their power and authority to the Beast.”

 

032816: Office of Field Operations, San Diego - U.S. Customs and Border Protection launched a biometric border entry and exit control pilot program at Otay Mesa, San Diego in an effort to identify and apprehend foreigners with expired visas who have surpassed their permitted duration.

Photographer: Donna Burton

While on death’s door at the hospital, I came home to some great news. One of my goals for this past year was to hit all of my biometric targets except my BMI- I knew I’d never be able to drop THAT much weight in a year. The results came in and I met my goal! It may sound simple, but it was another way to look at getting healthy instead of just focusing on a weight goal number.

 

Sunday was the absolute worst I think I have ever been sick in the last couple decades… literally. I am starting to feel better now that I am on Tamiflu, but this four-week sickness can go straight to hell!

 

Theme: Weight For Me

Year Nine Of My 365 Project

 

032816: Office of Field Operations, San Diego - U.S. Customs and Border Protection launched a biometric border entry and exit control pilot program at Otay Mesa, San Diego in an effort to identify and apprehend foreigners with expired visas who have surpassed their permitted duration.

Photographer: Donna Burton

032816: Office of Field Operations, San Diego - U.S. Customs and Border Protection launched a biometric border entry and exit control pilot program at Otay Mesa, San Diego in an effort to identify and apprehend foreigners with expired visas who have surpassed their permitted duration.

Photographer: Donna Burton

032816: Office of Field Operations, San Diego - U.S. Customs and Border Protection launched a biometric border entry and exit control pilot program at Otay Mesa, San Diego in an effort to identify and apprehend foreigners with expired visas who have surpassed their permitted duration.

Photographer: Donna Burton

John Wagner, deputy assistant commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Office of Field Operations; testifies on the as yet unimplemented biometric exit tracking system before the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2016. (CBP Photo by Glenn Fawcett)

17-03-2020 Cyprus

 

Kingdom:Animalia

Phylum:Chordata

Class:Aves

Order:Gruiformes

Family:Gruidae

Genus:Grus

Species:G. virgo

Binomial name

Grus virgo

 

Biometrics

Size : 90 cm

Wingspan : 165 à 185 cm.

Weight : 1900 à 2800 g

 

The demoiselle crane (Grus virgo) is a species of crane found in central Eurosiberia, ranging from the Black Sea to Mongolia and North Eastern China. There is also a small breeding population in Turkey. These cranes are migratory birds. Birds from western Eurasia will spend the winter in Africa whilst the birds from Asia, Mongolia and China will spend the winter in the Indian subcontinent. The bird is symbolically significant in the Culture of India and Pakistan, where it is known as Koonj

 

The demoiselle is 85–100 cm (33.5–39.5 in) long, 76 cm (30 in) tall and has a 155–180 cm (61–71 in) wingspan. It weighs 2–3 kg (4.4–6.6 lb). It is the smallest species of crane.

The demoiselle crane is slightly smaller than the common crane but has similar plumage. It has a long white neck stripe and the black on the foreneck extends down over the chest in a plume.

 

It has a loud trumpeting call, higher-pitched than the common crane. Like other cranes it has a dancing display, more balletic than the common crane, with less leaping.

 

Demoiselle cranes have to take one of the toughest migrations in the world. In late August through September, they gather in flocks of up to 400 individuals and prepare for their flight to their winter range. During their migratory flight south, demoiselles fly like all cranes, with their head and neck straight forward and their feet and legs straight behind, reaching altitudes of 16,000–26,000 feet (4,900–7,900 metres). Along their arduous journey they have to cross the Himalayan mountains to get to their over-wintering grounds in India. Many die from fatigue, hunger and predation from golden eagles. Simpler, lower routes are possible, such as crossing the range via the Khyber Pass. However, their presently preferred route has been hard-wired by countless cycles of migration. At their wintering grounds, demoiselles have been observed flocking with common cranes, their combined totals reaching up to 20,000 individuals. Demoiselles maintain separate social groups within the larger flock. In March and April, they begin their long spring journey back to their northern nesting grounds.

 

Savanna : Dry ; Shrubland : Temperate ; Grassland : Temperate, Subtropical/Tropical Dry ; Wetlands (inland) : Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls), Seasonal/Intermittent/Irregular Rivers/Streams/Creeks, Bogs, Marshes, Swamps, Fens, Peatlands, Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha), Seasonal/Intermittent Saline, Brackish or Alkaline Lakes and Flats ; Rocky areas (eg.

 

inland cliffs, mountain peaks) : ; Desert : Hot, Temperate ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Arable Land, Pastureland ; Artificial/Aquatic and Marine : Ponds (below 8ha)

 

The demoiselle was so named by Queen Marie Antoinette, for its delicate and maiden-like appearance

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) makes opening remarks to a panel of Department of Homeland Security officials John Wagner, deputy assistant commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Office of Field Operations; Anh Duong, director of Border and Maritime Division of Homeland Security's Advanced Research Projects Agency; Craig Healy, assistant director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's National Security Investigations Division; and Rebecca Gambler,director of Homeland Security and Justice Issues of the U.S. Government Accountability Office, as they testify about the unimplemented biometric exit tracking system before the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2016. (CBP Photo by Glenn Fawcett)

[order] Charadriiformes | [family] Recurvirostridae | [latin] Himantopus himantopus | [UK] Pied Stilt | [FR] Echasse blanche | [DE] Stelzenläufer | [ES] Ciguenuela común | [IT] Cavaliere d'Italia | [NL] Steltkluut

 

Measurements

spanwidth min.: 64 cm

spanwidth max.: 70 cm

size min.: 33 cm

size max.: 36 cm

Breeding

incubation min.: 22 days

incubation max.: 25 days

fledging min.: 28 days

fledging max.: 32 days

broods 1

eggs min.: 3

eggs max.: 5

BIOMETRICS:

Length: 35-40 cm

Weight: 165-205 g

 

PHYSICAL DESCRPTION:

Black-winged Stilt (Pied Stilt)

is a black and white shorebird, perched on very long and fine pink legs, giving the bird an elegant gait.

The adult male in breeding plumage has black and white plumage with all-black wings and upper back with greenish iridescence.

Underparts are white, sometimes with pale pinkish wash on the breast.

Head shows white face and forehead, and black top of the crown. Eyes are red. The long, thin bill is black and straight. Very long legs and feet are reddish-pink.

The female in breeding plumage is almost similar but more brownish on the upperparts with sometimes greyish wash on nape and rear neck.

  

In winter plumage, both are similar to the breeding female but duller, with variable grey wash on head and rear neck.

The juvenile is paler than adult, with washed grey-brown crown and rear neck. The brownish upperparts show narrow pale buff fringes, and legs are duller.

  

VOICE:

The Black-winged Stilt’s calls are a sharp “kek” and a barking “ke-yak”. Alarm call is a monotonous, high-pitched “kik-kik-kik-kik-kik-kik”.

They are noisy on their breeding areas.

 

HABITAT:

The Black-winged Stilt lives mainly in freshwater and saltwater marshes and mudflats, shallow lakes, coastal lagoons, flooded fields and rice fields.

RANGE:

The Black-winged Stilt has wide range. We can find it in Australia, Central and South America, Africa, Asia, parts of North America, Eurasia, Hawaii and Philippines.

 

BEHAVIOUR:

The Black-winged Stilt feeds in shallow water, wading and catching preys on or near the surface. But sometimes, it plunges the head under the surface to capture some aquatic invertebrate. It picks up its food from sand or water.

Its very long legs allow it to walk in deeper water than other waders. This bird rarely swims for food. The Black-winged Stilt is an active forager, and it can employ several methods to catch prey.

This species is well adapted to nocturnal vision, which allows them to feed on windy, moonless nights. Stilts walk quickly, with long strides, wading into water.

The Black-winged Stilt is a migratory bird, moving to the ocean coasts in winter. European birds winter in sub-Saharan Africa. They are often seen in flocks of 10 to 20 birds, and also in mixed flocks with other species of shorebirds.

The Black-winged Stilt nests in small colonies of 2 to 50 pairs, and mated pairs defend vigorously their nest site and territory. They may nest in mixed groups with avocets.

They are gregarious and may feed in large flocks of several thousands birds. When alarmed, the birds often bob their head.

 

FLIGHT:

The Black-winged Stilt has rapid direct flight, with steady wing-beats. Legs are projected behind the tail of up to 20 cm, and neck is slightly held.

A somewhat cheesy illustration that I made for a postgraduate studies webpage ( www.bezpieczenstwobiometria.org.pl/ In polish. You have been warned.).

 

Lit with a single SB-24 camera right, 1/4th power. A white reflector on the left. Heavy postprocessing in Lightroom - other than colorization, mostly local dodge, burn, as well as clarity and sharpness adjustment.

032816: Office of Field Operations, San Diego - U.S. Customs and Border Protection launched a biometric border entry and exit control pilot program at Otay Mesa, San Diego in an effort to identify and apprehend foreigners with expired visas who have surpassed their permitted duration.

Photographer: Donna Burton

032816: Office of Field Operations, San Diego - U.S. Customs and Border Protection launched a biometric border entry and exit control pilot program at Otay Mesa, San Diego in an effort to identify and apprehend foreigners with expired visas who have surpassed their permitted duration.

Photographer: Donna Burton

032816: Office of Field Operations, San Diego - U.S. Customs and Border Protection launched a biometric border entry and exit control pilot program at Otay Mesa, San Diego in an effort to identify and apprehend foreigners with expired visas who have surpassed their permitted duration.

Photographer: Donna Burton

032816: Office of Field Operations, San Diego - U.S. Customs and Border Protection launched a biometric border entry and exit control pilot program at Otay Mesa, San Diego in an effort to identify and apprehend foreigners with expired visas who have surpassed their permitted duration.

Photographer: Donna Burton

My biometric UK passport on a pile of €20 notes.

032816: Office of Field Operations, San Diego - U.S. Customs and Border Protection launched a biometric border entry and exit control pilot program at Otay Mesa, San Diego in an effort to identify and apprehend foreigners with expired visas who have surpassed their permitted duration.

Photographer: Donna Burton

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