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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.
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/
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Read the whole story at The Gravity We Choose
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
The concept of this picture is based off the books/papers “Queering Anarchism,” “Priests of the Goddess: Gender Transgression in Ancient Religion, History of Religions,” “The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival,” and “Trans-Spirit: Religion, Spirituality and Transhumanism.”
“Till heart’s bewitched, till senses reel: With Satan I have struck my deal.” – Karl Marx
Anarchism is another denomination of the religion of Karl Marx. That is why, when all the denominations of Marx gather together to evangelize in protest, they all put forth the same basic tenets of faith. When they unite as one in the spirit of Marx, they all look the same, they all act the same, and they all sound the same. That is why Anarchism looks at the neo-Marxist doctrine of gender/queer theory through a lens of the oppressed vs the oppressor, intersectionality, and collectivism. Indeed, Marxism is a Machiavellian religion.
Gender theory is a communist manual on how to break down the family and societal norms in order to destroy capitalism and democracy. Marxism is a faith based religion: Jesus shed His blood to bring salvation to humanity, yet in communism the bloodshed of millions brings salvation for humanity. Its salvation is obtained through revolution. The end justifies the means to gain their heaven on earth. Its prophet is Karl Marx. (Like Cain, Marx was bitter and angry). Its apostles are activists. Its disciples must spread their gospel of socialism to the entire world and make disciples from all nations. They cast out the demons of capitalism. They baptize their converts into socialism. These converts were capitalists, but now they are born again (woke) socialists. They have seen the light of socialism! If one backslides from the faith, they will be excommunicated! They have replaced sainthood with victimhood. They have replaced sinners with capitalists. Their trinity is Marx, Mao, and Marcuse. They have the moral conviction that they are right.
Gulags 5:22-23 “But the fruit of Marx is hate, anger, envy, bitterness, selfishness, narcissism, covetousness, violence, murder.”
Indeed, the anarchist religion is the only true religion. Its moral laws are the truth: Thou shalt abolish all hierarchies! Thou shalt abolish capitalism! Thou shalt abolish private property! Thou shalt abolish the state! As you can see, they have their universal battle between good and evil. They are righteous crusaders for their cause. They fight their crusade against “the tyranny of the state, religion, and society.” They “challenge dominant forms of social organization including the state, marriage, capitalism, parenting, love relationships, friendships, and families.” They do all these things in the hope of obtaining their utopian heaven on earth. It is a religion of decadence.
“Anarchism is the only philosophy that brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man’s subordination. Anarchism is therefore the teacher of the unity of life; not merely in nature, but in man.” – Emma Goldman
Now, let’s move on and take a look at the definition of Queer:
“UNLIKE GAY identity, which, though deliberately proclaimed in an act of affirmation, is nonetheless rooted in the positive fact of homosexual object-choice, queer identity need not be grounded in any positive truth or in any stable reality. As the very word implies, “queer” does not name some natural kind or refer to some determinate object; it acquires its meaning from its oppositional relation to the norm. Queer is by definition whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant. There is nothing in particular to which it necessarily refers. It is an identity without an essence. ‘Queer,’ then, demarcates not a positivity but a positionality vis-à-vis the normative—a positionality that is not restricted to lesbians and gay men but is in fact available to anyone who is or who feels marginalized because of his or her sexual practices.” – David Halperin
In the book Queering Anarchism, they also use David Halperin’s definition of queer. They particularly concentrate on “Queer is by definition whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant.” Now, for those who want to learn more about this subject, here are some excerpts from Queering Anarchism:
“Queer liberation is the destruction of straightness.” “The subjective interpretations of sexuality within Queer theory subvert any monolithic traditional notion of sex, sex roles, gender, and even sexual orientation.” “We need to oppose the institution of state-sanctioned marriage because it strengthens the nuclear family as the consumptive and reproductive unit of capitalism.” “The nuclear family, for example, perpetuates capitalism.” “The struggle against sexual and gender oppression is an important component of a larger struggle to transform and establish a new society.” “The destruction of straightness would mean a world in which all of our bodies, all of our desires, all of our genders, all of our consensual sexualities, would be honored and viable.” “All of us have an obligation to unlearn straightness—to unlearn the ways we have been socialized into straightness, much like the ways in which we have been socialized into capitalism.” “The struggle for queer liberation, and the struggle to abolish straightness; these are inseparable from anti-capitalist and anti-statist struggle.” “The entire capitalist patriarchal white supremacy that structures our world unequally, and indeed preys on unequal relations of power, requires heteronormative relationships. Break down those kinds of relationships, and we are also starting to break down patriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalism.”
“Queer theory understands people in relation to the normal and the deviant, creating infinite possibilities for resistance. Queer theory seeks to disrupt the ‘normal.’” “In other words, a queer critique of capitalism based on an analysis of commodity fetishism would do the following: it would have to recognize that the heterosexual matrix based on the gendered division of labor is not so much an extension of patriarchy into capitalism but rather a genuine product of it. Capitalism does not only assign men and women different roles within its realm, it also creates the modern notion of ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine.’” “Queer theory shows that gendered identities as well as sexualities are not fixed and ‘natural’ but rather that they are socially constructed, fluid, and changeable—both socially and with regard to physical bodies. Gender and sexuality, in this view, are not something we are born with but something we do—or ‘perform’—on a daily basis. Queer politics therefore calls for a subversion of fixed identities such as ‘man,’ ‘woman,’ ‘straight,’ ‘homosexual,’ and so on by exploring individual performances that break out of these categories altogether.” “The heteronormative, hierarchical two-gender system in its current form is a result, rather than a predecessor, of modern capitalism.” “Biological and medical discourses about gender and sexuality shift historically.” “The transition to capitalism was indeed a main driving force of the conquest over different forms of gender expression and sexuality, enforcing a strict gender/sex binary.” “Gender is socially and not biologically constructed.” “Instead, gender is a product of social norms, individual behaviors, and institutional power.” “From the very moment of birth, our bodies are fit into a social system in which there are two genders, built upon the myth that the two sexes are ‘natural.’” “We are imprisoned by a gender binary.” “To achieve liberation, we must reject the binary gender system, which divides us into two mutually exclusive categories.” “I argue not that gender transgression or deviance is in itself revolutionary, but that we must transcend or destroy the gender-based power relations, as part of a sort of decolonizing.” “Our liberation from heteropatriarchy is intimately tied to the struggle to dismantle racism, capitalism, and an authoritarian state. In other words, our movements need to understand and confront how systems of oppression—capitalism, heteropatriarchy, and white supremacy—intersect, and reproduce one another.”
“I have often pointed out the importance of considering the essential role played by pleasure in drug use—even in the most chaotic use—and its life-endorsing ‘usefulness,’ as well as the need to draw on the parallels between the gay liberation and the drug users’ rights movements.”
“When it is operating at its best, anarchism is tearing down the borders of nation states, smashing the borders of capitalist control, and transgressing all borders of oppression and authoritarianism. When queer(ness) is operating at its best it is tearing down the borders of gender, smashing the confines of compulsory monogamy, and transgressing the moralism of sex and sexuality. When abolition is at its best it is tearing down the prison walls, smashing the police state, and transgressing the power of punishment while instituting new forms of transformative justice.”
“The trans community defies the ‘accepted’ social constructs of sex and gender, of free market capitalism, and the state with its need for society’s adherence to strict social norms/constructs in order to maintain its operating systems of power, keeping its focus on assimilation within a system that by definition constrains the core concept of trans.” “So a key tenet of trans liberation lies within the liberation of one’s self (and others) from the tyranny of the state, religion, and society; and equally important—from our own self-imposed tyranny.” “It is our promiscuity that will save us.” “Without justice, there can be no pleasure. After all, what we are protecting is a right to social imagination that rejects both paternalism and positivism, while opening spaces for alternative social relations and ways of embracing experience outside the realm of the rational experience.” “To do away with shame and the repression it fuels, pleasure activists push to transform the social order.”
These anarchists seem to confuse hedonism with love. If I were to say that they desire hedonism, they would say that they desire love.
“If they can discredit capitalism, they can consider themselves free to pursue their own impractical vicious morality.” – Ayn Rand
Their goal is to queer society. Queer movements, however, are nothing new. They have been around since ancient times:
The Galli were priests of the gods Cybele and Attis. This cult became popular in Roman. The goddess Cybele was a Hermaphrodite. She had her male parts castrated, turning her into a female. The god Attis castrated himself, thus the Galli also practiced self-castration. The Galli earned money by begging. It appears that they also made money through prostitution.
The Gala were priests of the goddess Inanna/Ishtar in ancient Mesopotamia. There’s a Sumerian saying: “To destroy, to build up, to tear out and to settle are yours, Inanna,” and, “To turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man are yours, Inanna.” Since Ishtar could transcend categories, her followers where emboldened to defy and redefine social boundaries, especially those related to gender. An ancient Sumerian proverb said: “When the Gala wiped off his ass [he said], ‘I must not arouse that which belongs to my mistress (Inanna/Ishtar).’” They spelled the word “Gala” with the cymbals of “penis + anus.” It appears that they also made money through prostitution.
The Hijra of India worship the goddess Bahuchara Mata. Bahuchara Mata cut off her breasts, thus cursing a bandit named Bapiya with impotency. The castration of the Hijra removes both the penis and testicles. While they are being castrated, they chant the name of their goddess. The Hijra earn money by begging and prostitution. They consider themselves to be neither man nor women, though they generally wear women’s clothing in public. There are many striking parallels between the Galli and Hijra.
“The goddesses who stand at the head of these cults—Cybele, Bahuchara Mata, and Inanna/Ishtar—also share important traits. All three are credited with the power to inspire divine madness, which can include the transformation of gender.” These kinds of gender cults also spread beyond India into Southeast Asia, Borneo, and Sulawesi.
In alchemy the Androgyne, or Rebis (“god” self), signifies the union of opposites, such as spirit and matter, soul and body, light and dark, male and female, human and divine. Androgyne is a gender identity on the queer gender spectrum; it is a blending of both genders or somewhere in between. “The Rebis, meaning duality, is the divine fruit that grows from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, however, the Rebis is actually the true and complete form of the divine fruit and largely considered to be the end result between harmony and discord.”
“Adam ate the apple and anti-pleasure religious doctrine took a foundation that we are still grappling with today.” – Queering Anarchism
“Transfeminism builds on the work that came out of the multiracial feminist movement, and in particular, the work of black feminists.” Feminism, which has played a large role in birthing the modern-day transgender movement, has its roots in the occult. A while back, when I was looking into the first wave feminist movement, I found that many of its writers were occultists. You can even do a Google or YouTube search for “feminism and the occult.” It’s easy to find! Guess what group has been deeply ingrained in both the feminist and transgender movements? Marxists, the ones who want to abolish the family.
Sexual immorality is one of many vices that cause an empire to decline. If we examine the fall of empires in history, we can see many parallels with our society today. In the early stages of an empire, according to Sir John Glubb, boys are expected to be tough and manly. They are expected to tell the truth, because lying is cowardly. They must courageously face their fears like men. They must have honor and duty. Decline starts when the people start to seek wealth. The desire for money gradually replaces loyalty and self-sacrifice. People go from service to selfishness. Students no longer go to college for learning and virtue, but they go to obtain degrees that will gain them the highest salaries. Once the nation becomes wealthy, it desires to protect its wealth and luxury. The citizens become cowardly, and they consider the conquest of their forefathers as immoral. Their ancestors were heroes, but they are inferior. So they vilify their empire as evil, which gives them a feeling of moral superiority. Since these people lack physical toughness, they chase after academic honours. Knowledge spreads and intellectualism grows. This leads to lots of discussion and debates. These arguments are not very fruitful, and produce men of little action. Their forefathers were men of action, but they are not. They have become cowardly, lazy and weak. In their intellectual pride, they think that they can solve the world’s problems. Yet they lack selflessness, dedication and service. The people become more and more politically divided. As the nation grows weaker, it becomes less unified.
In the first stages of an empire the people are homogeneous, so they have strong feelings of solidarity. However, as the empire declines, it increasingly brings in foreigners. These immigrants form their own communities, in order to protect their own interests. When the crap hits the fan, they are less likely to sacrifice their lives and prosperity for the empire. They come from different cultures and tend to cause cracks and divisions over time. As the nation further declines, it employs cheap foreign workers to perform menial tasks. The empire becomes sympathetic to other races and generously bestows the rights of citizenship on every race, proclaiming equality for mankind.
The influence of women in public life is often connected with decline. The empire starts to loosen it morals and abandons sexual morality. It becomes indifferent to religion and becomes increasingly materialistic. The politicians become more and more corrupt, enriching themselves. The government spends lavishly on its own benevolence. Music becomes increasingly erotic. Obscene language, which would not have been tolerated in the past, becomes normal. People also spend more time on leisure, amusement, and sports.
“Decadence is a moral and spiritual disease, resulting from too long a period of wealth and power, producing cynicism, decline of religion, pessimism and frivolity. The citizens of such a nation will no longer make an effort to save themselves, because they are not convinced that anything in life is worth saving.” – Sir John Glubb
In a declining empire, as people become more educated, new technologies are discovered. We see the same thing in our decadent society. Artificial intelligence is growing by leaps and bounds. Soon there will be machine learning systems around the world that will be linked to digital biometric IDs, central bank digital currencies, and social credit score systems. The natural world and the digital world are merging ever-increasingly. And the future is heading towards transhumanism.
“Trans-Spirit researchers” want to gain a complete understanding of religious and spiritual phenomena, so that they can manipulate and control them for the supposed good of society. They want to induce spiritual experiences and altered states of consciousness, using all technologies at their disposal. This includes transcranial electro-magnetic stimulation, visual and auditory stimulation, and chemical agents. Once they fully understand the operations of the neurological mechanisms of the brain, then the brain “can be monitored, manipulated and managed benevolently as a living art.” Creepy! Can anyone say: modern day MK-Ultra!?! “Transhumanist spirituality will be possible without mythology or religious belief. It will be highly personalized, and based on spiritual practices that have scientifically verified value. Transhumanist spirituality will be the ultimate fruit of the Trans-Spirit research program.” The author of this transhumanist paper kept using the word “rational” when talking about transhumanism. Why, then, are these rational transhumanists so irrational? They are mad scientists with a god complex! They want to manipulate and control the human brain, specifically in a religious context. As the last sentence of this academic paper states: “Transhumanist spirituality will be the ultimate fruit of the Trans-Spirit research program.”
The Bible warns about the transhumanist spirituality of the Beast. 666: you will be transitioned into a transhuman! The Beast system will include worship of Caesar, thus an idol of the Antichrist will be erected. This Image of the Beast will be given life (artificial intelligence) to speak. This AI Image will be the brains of the Beast surveillance system (the internet of all things). By law, all people must worship the Beast. The Image of the Beast will know who does not worship the Beast. The brains of those who have the Mark will be manipulated, and they will worship the Beast. Through technology, they will have a feel-good spiritual experience. Those without the Mark of the Beast will not worship the Beast. They will not have the Digital Biometric Mark that connects them to the Beast system. Those who refuse to worship the Beast will be arrested and sentenced to death.
Society is being steered towards these things. The LGBTQ movement has the support of governments, multinational corporations, billionaires, and banks. It is no coincidence that sperm counts and testosterone levels have been decreasing in men over the years. Transhumanists talk about producing a genderless transhuman society, where people evolve with future technologies into non-human super beings. The logical conclusion of transhumanism is the end of the human race. Their agenda is anti-human, and they are advocating for the extinction of mankind. They want to play God, just like their father the Devil; for the Devil desires to be God. “And if you eat the apple, you too will be like God.” Humans are indeed rebellious sinners, and sin ends in destruction and death. Yet through Christ Jesus there is salvation!
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.
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.
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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)
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17-03-2020 Cyprus
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Gruiformes
Family:Gruidae
Genus:Grus
Species:G. virgo
Binomial name
Grus virgo
Demoiselle Crane (Grus virgo) is a species of bird in the Gruidae family.
Systematics
Order : Gruiformes
Family : Gruidés
Genus : Grus
Species : virgo
Descriptor Linnaeus, 1758
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
[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
17-03-2020 Cyprus
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Gruiformes
Family:Gruidae
Genus:Grus
Species:G. virgo
Binomial name
Grus virgo
Demoiselle Crane (Grus virgo) is a species of bird in the Gruidae family.
Systematics
Order : Gruiformes
Family : Gruidés
Genus : Grus
Species : virgo
Descriptor Linnaeus, 1758
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
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
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