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Kruispoort, Brugge
Kruispoort or "Cross Gate" is the best preserved among Brugge's medieval gates. It was erected around 1297 when a second city wall was built around the city. At first, there were eight gates that served as entrances to the city of which only four survive today. The present Kruispoort is not the original one but a structure constructed in 1402. In the 1780s, the city walls were demolished as Brugge started expanding. Four of the gates were left intact to give visitors an idea of how heavily fortified Brugge was in the middle ages.
Kruispoort consists of two tall towers connected by an overhead passage. The passage and the towers have windows through which bullets were fired at the enemy. Initially, there were two bridges and a front gate that have disappeared over time. A drawbridge and two large doors were quickly closed as soon as guards could see the enemy approaching. The interior is preserved in its original condition and visitors can see the seats of the guards on each floor. Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Napoleon, and the German army all entered Brugge through Kruispoort. The gate looks magnificent at night when it is illuminated.
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Here is Warner Bros. official Letters from Iwo Jima site:
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... one of the great historical movies of our time. Yesterday I watched this movie with Scotty, a friend of mine from Austin. Scotty was a marine on Peliliu in November 1944 when that island was taken from the Japanese by U.S. Marines. Scotty has one of the medals, seen worn by General Kuribayashi, The Order of the Rising Sun. Scotty told me the intriguing story of how he came to be in possession of the medal, but I don't have his permission to retell it here. The medal is the one General Kuribayashi is wearing around his neck in the illustration here. Scotty promised to bring the medal next time he comes and I'll scan it and make him a color print of this image, so he can have it framed with a picture of it being worn. Scotty's job with the Marines on Peliliu was to repair telephone lines. In 1944 radios were powred through tubes which had very delicate filaments and were often out of order. Communications therefore fell back on field telephones which transmitted over wires. As the wires were discovered and cut by the enemy, Scotty would be sent out to repair them. At first his commanding officer sent two guards to go with him, but after a few trips, Scotty asked permission to go alone, because three marines made too much noise and increased the danger of the assignment.
And so, two old men sat and watched a movie and gained a better understanding of those people we hated so intensely, so many years ago. Even, had they been victorious, the Japanese soldier suffered more than the American soldier, simply because of cultural differences. The movie reveals this abundantly..
Wikipedia's Plot Summary:
The film is based on the non-fiction books "Gyokusai sōshikikan" no etegami ("Picture letters from the Commander in Chief" by General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (portrayed on screen by Ken Watanabe) and So Sad To Fall In Battle: An Account of War[4] by Kumiko Kakehashi about the Battle of Iwo Jima. While some characters such as Saigo are fictional, the overall battle as well as several of the commanders are based upon actual people and events.
In 2005, Japanese archaeologists explore tunnels on Iwo Jima. They find something in the dirt, and the scene changes to Iwo Jima in 1944. Private First Class Saigo, a baker conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army, and his platoon are grudgingly digging beach trenches on the island. Meanwhile, Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi arrives to take command of the garrison and immediately begins an inspection of the island defenses. He saves Saigo and his friend Kashiwara from a beating by Captain Tanida for having uttered 'unpatriotic speeches', and orders the men to stop digging trenches on the beach and begin tunnelling defenses into Mount Suribachi.
Later, Lieutenant Colonel Baron Takeichi Nishi, a famous Olympic gold medalist show jumper, joins Kuribayashi for dinner. They discuss the grim prospect of no naval or air support and the fanaticism their fellow officers would show. Kuribayashi evacuates the civilian population of Iwo Jima to mainland Japan. He clashes with some of his senior officers, who do not agree with his strategy of defending inland instead of the beaches; Kuribayashi believes the Americans will take the beaches quickly, and only the mountain defenses will have a better chance for holding out against the enemy.
Poor nutrition and unsanitary conditions take their toll on the garrison; many die of dysentery, including Kashiwara. The Japanese troops begin using the caves as barracks. Kashiwara's replacement, a young soldier named Superior Private Shimizu, arrives for duty on the island. Saigo and his friends suspect that Shimizu is a spy sent from Kempeitai to report on disloyal soldiers since he was trained at a Kempeitai institute. The first American aerial bombings occur shortly after, causing significant casualties. After the raid, Saigo is sickened when he sees the corpse of a friend, still sitting upright. Another casualty was Jupiter, Baron Nishi's horse, which was also killed by a bomb. The raid forces the Japanese to dig deeper into the volcanic island. A few days later, U.S. Marines land on Iwo Jima and the Japanese open fire. The battle for Iwo Jima begins.
As the landings occur, the American troops suffer heavy casualties, but the Japanese beach defenses are quickly overcome, and the attack turns to the defensive positions on Mount Suribachi. Saigo assists the defense by carrying ammunition to machine gunners. When a Japanese machine gunner is killed by a shell from an American ship, Saigo is ordered by the company commander to use his rifle, since the machine gun is damaged. He handles it so clumsily that he is sent to retrieve some machine guns instead. While delivering the request from his company commander to the commander of the Suribachi garrison, Saigo overhears General Kuribayashi radioing orders to retreat northward. The Suribachi commander, however, ignores the order from the general and instead orders Saigo to deliver a message ordering the men of his company to commit suicide. The Japanese soldiers of Saigo's unit commit suicide with grenades, including Saigo's friend Nozaki, and Captain Tanida shoots himself in the head with his Type 14 8 mm Nambu Pistol, but Saigo runs away and leaves the cave with Shimizu, convincing him that it is more productive to continue the fight rather than die. They come across two other Japanese soldiers, but one gets incinerated by an American flamethrower through a hole in the tunnel, causing the three remaining soldiers to flee. They then come across Japanese soldiers beating and tourturing a captured Marine (There are beliefs the captured Marine was Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski). The Marine pleads to the Japanese to have mercy on him, although his plea falls on deaf ears as the Japanese soldiers stab him to death with bayonets, much to Saigo's disgust.
Saigo and the remaining Japanese soldiers in Mount Suribachi attempt to flee under the orders of Lieutenant Oiso and flee the tunnels at night. However, they run into U.S. Marines, who wipe out all the Japanese troops except for Saigo and Shimizu. The two men flee to friendly lines, but they are accused by Lieutenant Ito of deserting Suribachi. Ito raises his katana to execute Saigo and Shimizu for cowardice when General Kuribayashi appears to stop the punishment, confirming that he had indeed ordered the retreat and thus saving Saigo for the second time.
The soldiers from the caves attempt a futile attack against American positions, with the Japanese taking heavy losses. Saigo and the surviving soldiers are told to regroup with Colonel Nishi. Ito then heads towards the American lines with three land mines, intending to throw himself under an American tank. The next morning, heavy fighting takes place. The Japanese take casualties, but manage to kill several U.S. Marines and destroy a tank. Lieutenant Okubo, Nishi's executive officer shoots a U.S. Marine, who is subsequently captured by Nishi's men. He reveals his name to be Sam, and Nishi orders his medic to give him aid despite the Japanese's dwindling medical supplies. Despite their efforts, the Marine dies of his wounds. Nishi reads a letter the American received from his mother.
As a bomb hits Nishi's cave, Nishi is badly wounded and blinded. His men bind his wounds, and Nishi orders them to another position on the island. As a last favor, he asks Lieutenant Okubo to leave him a rifle. After leaving that position, the soldiers hear a distant gunshot from Nishi's cave.
Being fed up with the battle, Saigo says to Shimizu that he will surrender to the Americans and does not care if Shimizu reports this to the Kempeitai. Shimizu divulges to Saigo that he had been dishonorably discharged from the Kempeitai. In a flashback, it is revealed that he was discharged because he refused to obey a superior's order to kill a barking dog. He was then reassigned to Iwo Jima. This causes Saigo's attitude towards Shimizu to soften considerably. Shimizu breaks down and fearfully asks Saigo to surrender with him. Shimizu and another soldier attempt to flee the cave where they are stationed. Okubo orders them to halt; when they fail to stop, he shoots the other soldier while Shimizu escapes.
Shimizu surrenders to a U.S. Marine patrol and finds himself in the company of another Japanese soldier who had surrendered. The patrol moves on, leaving Shimizu and the other Japanese soldier and two Marines. One of the American guards, who does not want to be burdened with POWs, later shoots them, much to the other Marine's surprise and the two catch up to their patrol. The dead soldiers are discovered by the Japanese and Lieutenant Okubo points it out as a lesson for anyone else who wishes to surrender. Saigo, deeply saddened by his death, puts Shimizu's senninbari on his dead body.
Meanwhile, Ito has not come across any American forces to attack. Desperate, exhausted, and malnourished, his fanatical will breaks and when American Marines find him, he surrenders.
Saigo and the remaining survivors find that Kuribayashi's cave is under attack, and a fierce battle rages. They charge through the crossfire, and lose several men, including Lieutenant Okubo who successfully neutralizes an American Browning M1919 machine gun and its crew. They enter the cave under a storm of American bullets, meeting up with Kuribayashi, who recognizes Saigo. One last attack with all the remaining men is planned. Kuribayashi orders Saigo to stay behind and destroy all the documents, including his own letters to his family. By this, Kuribayashi saves Saigo's life a third time. Kuribayashi and his remaining troops launch their final attack. Most of Kuribayashi's men are killed, and Kuribayashi is critically wounded.
Kuribayashi's loyal aide Fujita drags him away from the battle. The next morning, Kuribayashi orders his aide to behead him; however, the aide is shot dead by an American sniper as he raises his sword. Saigo appears at this moment, having buried some of the documents in the cave instead of burning them all. Summoning his last reserves of strength, the very weak Kuribayashi asks Saigo to bury him so that nobody will find him. Kuribayashi then draws his pistol, an American M1911 — revealed in two previous flashbacks to be a gift Kuribayashi was given in the United States before the war, at a party in which he was the guest of honor — and shoots himself in the chest. Saigo carries away the dead general (unknowingly leaving the pistol behind near Fujita) and buries his body at another location.
Later in the day, a patrol of American Marines come across Fujita's body. One Marine claims Kuribayashi's pistol and another claims Fujita's sword as war trophies. They then search the area and find an exhausted Saigo with a shovel in his hand. Upon seeing the pistol tucked into a Marine's belt, Saigo swings angrily and wildly at the Americans with his shovel. Too weak to fight properly, Saigo is knocked unconscious with a rifle butt and is taken on to a U.S. aid station on the beach. Awakening a while later, he glimpses the setting sun, with ships in the distance, as well as a U.S. truck, and smiles grimly.
The scene shifts back to the Japanese archaeologists who uncover the bag of letters written by Japanese soldiers on the island, never sent, that Saigo buried in 1945. As the letters fall from the bag, the voices of the fallen Japanese soldiers are heard reading from them.
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Milano si ferma per Abdul. La famiglia: non dimenticatelo
Dai Bastioni di Porta Venezia fino a piazza Duomo, con una sosta al muretto dove Abba e i suoi amici si incontravano ogni giorno. Milano ricorda Abdul, il diciannovenne originario del Burkina Faso ucciso una settimana fa dalle sprangate dei gestori di un locale. Ad aprire il corteo, uno striscione che recita «Abba Vive, Razzismo Stop», realizzato dai ragazzi del Comitato per non dimenticare Abba, per fermare il razzismo nato a Cernusco, il paese dove Abdul viveva, sull’onda dell’indignazione per questo omicidio su cui deve rimanere alta l’attenzione.
In testa alla manifestazione ci sono i genitori e la sorella di Abdul che venerdì in una lettera hanno rivolto un appello a partecipare al corteo: «In questi giorni per noi molto difficili – scrivono – stiamo ricevendo la solidarietà e l’affetto di tante persone e per noi questa vicinanza è molto importante perché ci aiuta a superare il dolore per un fatto inspiegabile, ci dà coraggio e non ci fa sentire soli: per questo ringraziamo tutti». Sabato bisogna esserci, dicono, «per dire che quello che è successo non deve più accadere, per dire no al razzismo, per non dimenticare».
Già, perché il rischio è che si archivi l’omicidio di Abdul come uno dei tanti, e magari si diffonda l’idea che forse un po’ Abba e i suoi amici se la sono andata a cercare. Ma l’autopsia sul corpo di Abdul ha riscontrato segni di accanimento che non hanno giustificazioni, ferite plurime inferte dall’odio verso chi è diverso. Quello che gli amici di Abdul che quella sera erano con lui raccontano da giorni. E che Fausto e Daniele Cristofoli, i due aggressori, non sono riusciti a spiegare.
La polizia ha calcolato che sono almeno settemila i partecipanti alla manifestazione. Durante il percorso, ci sono state diverse soste in cui i manifestanti si sono seduti per terra gridando «Vergogna» e chiedendo «Giustizia». Alcuni momenti di tensione si sono registrati al termine del corteo, quando alcune decine di giovani hanno iniziato a correre da piazza Duomo verso via Mengoni, per raggiungere il luogo dell'aggressione, mentre la polizia in tenuta antisommossa tentava di fermarli.
Roma, gli italo-africani in libreria: «Attenti alla nostra rabbia»
Luciana Cimino e Cesare Buquicchio
«Purtroppo l’Italia è il mio paese...». Jessica si blocca subito e si corregge. «No. Perché ho detto purtroppo? Non è vero, io adoro l’Italia. Io sono italiana. Ma non è giusto…». Jessica ha 21 anni e studia giurisprudenza. A ricordarle Capo Verde, il paese d’origine di sua madre, c’è solo il colore della pelle. Lo stesso che ha segnato il tragico destino di Abdul Guibre, il 19enne ucciso a sprangate domenica notte a Milano per il solo sospetto d’aver rubato un pacco di biscotti. Jessica ha scelto la piccola libreria Griot a Trastevere, affollata per la maratona di letture organizzata giovedì sera per ricordare "Abba", per lanciare il suo allarme. «State attenti. Attenti alla nostra rabbia - dice prendendo il microfono -. Continuano a cadere gocce che prima o poi faranno traboccare il vaso. Non tutti vogliono sempre stare zitti. Continuare ad avere pazienza, come mi diceva mia madre quando tornavo da scuola in lacrime dopo l’ennesimo insulto razzista, non basta più».
La minuscola libreria sembra una piazza. Stipate nella stanza, sedute per terra, aggrappate alle porte, centinaia di persone hanno portato il loro contributo alla serata intitolata "Nessuna aggravante!". Non soltanto una manifestazione in memoria del ragazzo sullo stile delle veglie funebri africane, ma, soprattutto, una testimonianza di sdegno per la «ricostruzione discutibile fatta dagli inquirenti che escludono la motivazione razziale dall’aggressione ad Abdul e che preoccupa tutti coloro che osservano con sgomento il crescente clima d’intolleranza in Italia». «Avevamo pensato a un sit-in - dice al pubblico Igiaba Scego, scrittrice italiana di origine somala - ma a Roma di questi tempi è difficile ottenere i permessi». Già, «di questi tempi». «C’è un clima da "Mississipi Burning" che fa tremare i polsi».
Tornano gli incubi per gli stranieri che vivono in Italia, lo ammette Jean Leonard Touadi, nato in Congo, deputato del Pd ed ex assessore alla sicurezza al Campidoglio, che dopo le letture e i canti prende la parola per introdurre il dibattito. «Ma siamo qui stasera - dice rispondendo a Jessica - proprio per evitare che quella rabbia esploda. Per evitare che un giorno uno di voi metta una bomba nella metropolitana come è successo a Londra».
«L’idea di un bianco che nella notte insegue un nero è un’angoscia che sta nella nostra memoria collettiva, è successo sempre e succede ora anche contro donne e gay». Ali Baba Faye, sociologo con un lungo passato di militanza politica, racconta di quando, qualche sera fa, passeggiando nel popoloso quartiere di Garbatella, ha visto due bianchi che lo guardavano e, per la prima volta dopo anni, ha avuto paura. «Il linguaggio è la prima forma di violenza, dovrebbero ricordarlo i media italiani, soprattutto quei grandi quotidiani che danno spazio agli sfoghi dei cittadini che hanno paura e che confessano che stanno diventando razzisti».
Qualcosa forse si è rotto nei meccanismi, mai stati semplici, di convivenza di questo paese. «Quello di Abdul non è un caso isolato - aggiunge Lakhous Amara, autore del libro "Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore a piazza Vittorio", che si definisce "italo-algerino" - ma è frutto della costruzione sistematica del nemico, che sia musulmano o nero o gay». «La novità di oggi - spiega Anna Maria Rivera, antropologa - è che è avvenuta una saldatura tra razzismo istituzionale e razzismo popolare, ma la cosa che fa più paura è che a sinistra non sembra esserci abbastanza consapevolezza della deriva in cui è precipitata la società italiana».
Accoglie la critica Marcella Lucidi, ex sottosegretario all’interno con delega all’immigrazione del governo Prodi, in piedi tra il pubblico con Laura Boldrini, dell’Alto Commissariato delle Nazioni Unite per i rifugiati: «Dobbiamo capire cosa significhi essere cittadini in una società in cui le questioni sociali diventano penali». E Touadi si domanda «dove eravamo quando il Mediterraneo si è trasformato da luogo del dialogo in cimitero per "candidati" all’immigrazione?». «Quando sono arrivato io - continua Touadi - gli italiani dicevano "dateci tempo, l’immigrazione per noi è un fatto nuovo". Il tempo è scaduto, le seconde generazioni pretendono percorsi diversi, rischiamo l’implosione sociale». La serata in onore di Abdul non basta, ci vogliono altri momenti di riflessione, lo dice il pubblico della piccola libreria trasteverina specializzata in testi africani. Incontrarsi e parlare non basta ad Alphousseyni. Lui sta partendo per Milano per la manifestazione che ci sabato oggi alle 14.30. Ma è anche uno dei membri più attivi dell’associazione G2 che riunisce i ragazzi della "seconda generazione".
Per Giusy, «qui ci siamo ritrovati, ora c’è bisogno di una reazione». Intanto ci saranno una serie di incontri (forse a cadenza settimanale) per rinvigorire l’appannato movimento antirazzista romano e poi una grande manifestazione nazionale il 4 ottobre, che si concluderà con un concerto a piazza Venezia. A Milano sabato si andrà in piazza e a Bologna e in altre città si stanno moltiplicando le iniziative simili a quella organizzata da Griot per Abdul, un ragazzo italiano.
My write up on photographing the new Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas here
On the weekend of November 20-21, 2010, I was invited to photograph the new Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas prior to their opening December 15, 2010 in Las Vegas NV.
This set of images represents my efforts that weekend to showcase this newest resort property opening up on the Las Vegas Strip. Thanks to David Scherer from The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas for showing me around, to Miiko Mentz at Katalyst Films for helping to arrange the shoot, and to my wife for modeling for me.
To learn more about The Cosmpolitan of Las Vegas, check out their website here or their Facebook page here.
THE SIXTH EXTINCTION
Exerpts by Niles Eldredge
There is little doubt left in the minds of professional biologists that Earth is currently faced with a mounting loss of species that threatens to rival the five great mass extinctions of the geological past. As long ago as 1993, Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson estimated that Earth is currently losing something on the order of 30,000 species per year — which breaks down to the even more daunting statistic of some three species per hour. Some biologists have begun to feel that this biodiversity crisis — this “Sixth Extinction” — is even more severe, and more imminent, than Wilson had supposed.
Extinction in the past
The major global biotic turnovers were all caused by physical events that lay outside the normal climatic and other physical disturbances which species, and entire ecosystems, experience and survive. What caused them?
The previous mass extinctions were due to natural causes.
First major extinction (c. 440 mya): Climate change (relatively severe and sudden global cooling) seems to have been at work at the first of these-the end-Ordovician mass extinction that caused such pronounced change in marine life (little or no life existed on land at that time). 25% of families lost (a family may consist of a few to thousands of species).
Second major extinction (c. 370 mya): The next such event, near the end of the Devonian Period, may or may not have been the result of global climate change. 19% of families lost.
Third major Extinction (c. 245 mya): Scenarios explaining what happened at the greatest mass extinction event of them all (so far, at least!) at the end of the Permian Period have been complex amalgams of climate change perhaps rooted in plate tectonics movements. Very recently, however, evidence suggests that a bolide impact similar to the end-Cretaceous event may have been the cause. 54% of families lost.
Fourth major extinction (c. 210 mya): The event at the end of the Triassic Period, shortly after dinosaurs and mammals had first evolved, also remains difficult to pin down in terms of precise causes. 23% of families lost.
Fifth major extinction (c. 65 mya): Most famous, perhaps, was the most recent of these events at the end-Cretaceous. It wiped out the remaining terrestrial dinosaurs and marine ammonites, as well as many other species across the phylogenetic spectrum, in all habitats sampled from the fossil record. Consensus has emerged in the past decade that this event was caused by one (possibly multiple) collisions between Earth and an extraterrestrial bolide (probably cometary). Some geologists, however, point to the great volcanic event that produced the Deccan traps of India as part of the chain of physical events that disrupted ecosystems so severely that many species on land and sea rapidly succumbed to extinction. 17% of families lost.
How is The Sixth Extinction different from previous events?
The current mass extinction is caused by humans.
At first glance, the physically caused extinction events of the past might seem to have little or nothing to tell us about the current Sixth Extinction, which is a patently human-caused event. For there is little doubt that humans are the direct cause of ecosystem stress and species destruction in the modern world through such activities as:
-transformation of the landscape
-overexploitation of species
-pollution
-the introduction of alien species
And, because Homo sapiens is clearly a species of animal (however behaviorally and ecologically peculiar an animal), the Sixth Extinction would seem to be the first recorded global extinction event that has a biotic, rather than a physical, cause.
We are bringing about massive changes in the environment.
Yet, upon further reflection, human impact on the planet is a direct analogue of the Cretaceous cometary collision. Sixty-five million years ago that extraterrestrial impact — through its sheer explosive power, followed immediately by its injections of so much debris into the upper reaches of the atmosphere that global temperatures plummeted and, most critically, photosynthesis was severely inhibited — wreaked havoc on the living systems of Earth. That is precisely what human beings are doing to the planet right now: humans are causing vast physical changes on the planet.
What is the Sixth Extinction?
We can divide the Sixth Extinction into two discrete phases:
-Phase One began when the first modern humans began to disperse to different parts of the world about 100,000 years ago.
-Phase Two began about 10,000 years ago when humans turned to agriculture.
Humans began disrupting the environment as soon as they appeared on Earth.
The first phase began shortly after Homo sapiens evolved in Africa and the anatomically modern humans began migrating out of Africa and spreading throughout the world. Humans reached the middle east 90,000 years ago. They were in Europe starting around 40,000 years ago. Neanderthals, who had long lived in Europe, survived our arrival for less than 10,000 years, but then abruptly disappeared — victims, according to many paleoanthropologists, of our arrival through outright warfare or the more subtle, though potentially no less devastating effects, of being on the losing side of ecological competition.
Everywhere, shortly after modern humans arrived, many (especially, though by no means exclusively, the larger) native species typically became extinct. Humans were like bulls in a China shop:
-They disrupted ecosystems by overhunting game species, which never experienced contact with humans before.
-And perhaps they spread microbial disease-causing organisms as well.
The fossil record attests to human destruction of ecosystems:
-Wherever early humans migrated, other species became extinct.
-Humans arrived in large numbers in North America roughly 12,500 years ago-and sites revealing the butchering of mammoths, mastodons and extinct buffalo are well documented throughout the continent. The demise of the bulk of the La Brea tar pit Pleistocene fauna coincided with our arrival.
-The Caribbean lost several of its larger species when humans arrived some 8000 years ago.
-Extinction struck elements of the Australian megafauna much earlier-when humans arrived some 40,000 years ago. Madagascar-something of an anomaly, as humans only arrived there two thousand years ago-also fits the pattern well: the larger species (elephant birds, a species of hippo, plus larger lemurs) rapidly disappeared soon after humans arrived.
Indeed, only in places where earlier hominid species had lived (Africa, of course, but also most of Europe and Asia) did the fauna, already adapted to hominid presence, survive the first wave of the Sixth Extinction pretty much intact. The rest of the world’s species, which had never before encountered hominids in their local ecosystems, were as naively unwary as all but the most recently arrived species (such as Vermilion Flycatchers) of the Galapagos Islands remain to this day.
Why does the Sixth Extinction continue?
The invention of agriculture accelerated the pace of the Sixth Extinction.
Phase two of the Sixth Extinction began around 10,000 years ago with the invention of agriculture-perhaps first in the Natufian culture of the Middle East. Agriculture appears to have been invented several different times in various different places, and has, in the intervening years, spread around the entire globe.
Agriculture represents the single most profound ecological change in the entire 3.5 billion-year history of life. With its invention:
-Humans did not have to interact with other species for survival, and so could manipulate other species for their own use
-Humans did not have to adhere to the ecosystem’s carrying capacity, and so could overpopulate
-Humans do not live with nature but outside it.
Homo sapiens became the first species to stop living inside local ecosystems. All other species, including our ancestral hominid ancestors, all pre-agricultural humans, and remnant hunter-gatherer societies still extant exist as semi-isolated populations playing specific roles (i.e., have “niches”) in local ecosystems. This is not so with post-agricultural revolution humans, who in effect have stepped outside local ecosystems. Indeed, to develop agriculture is essentially to declare war on ecosystems - converting land to produce one or two food crops, with all other native plant species all now classified as unwanted “weeds” — and all but a few domesticated species of animals now considered as pests.
The total number of organisms within a species is limited by many factors-most crucial of which is the “carrying capacity” of the local ecosystem: given the energetic needs and energy-procuring adaptations of a given species, there are only so many squirrels, oak trees and hawks that can inhabit a given stretch of habitat. Agriculture had the effect of removing the natural local-ecosystem upper limit of the size of human populations. Though crops still fail regularly, and famine and disease still stalk the land, there is no doubt that agriculture in the main has had an enormous impact on human population size:
-Earth can’t sustain the trend in human population growth. It is reaching its limit in carrying capacity.
-Estimates vary, but range between 1 and 10 million people on earth 10,000 years ago.
-There are now over 6 billion people.
-The numbers continue to increase logarithmically — so that there will be 8 billion by 2020.
-There is presumably an upper limit to the carrying capacity of humans on earth — of the numbers that agriculture can support — and that number is usually estimated at between 13-15 billion, though some people think the ultimate numbers might be much higher.
This explosion of human population, especially in the post-Industrial Revolution years of the past two centuries, coupled with the unequal distribution and consumption of wealth on the planet, is the underlying cause of the Sixth Extinction. There is a vicious cycle:
-Overpopulation, invasive species, and overexploitation are fueling the extinction.
-More lands are cleared and more efficient production techniques (most recently engendered largely through genetic engineering) to feed the growing number of humans — and in response, the human population continues to expand.
-Higher fossil energy use is helping agriculture spread, further modifying the environment.
-Humans continue to fish (12 of the 13 major fisheries on the planet are now considered severely depleted) and harvest timber for building materials and just plain fuel, pollution, and soil erosion from agriculture creates dead zones in fisheries (as in the Gulf of Mexico)
-While the human Diaspora has meant the spread, as well, of alien species that more often than not thrive at the detriment of native species. For example, invasive species have contributed to 42% of all threatened and endangered species in the U.S.
Can conservation measures stop the Sixth Extinction?
Only 10% of the world’s species survived the third mass extinction. Will any survive this one?
The world’s ecosystems have been plunged into chaos, with some conservation biologists thinking that no system, not even the vast oceans, remains untouched by human presence. Conservation measures, sustainable development, and, ultimately, stabilization of human population numbers and consumption patterns seem to offer some hope that the Sixth Extinction will not develop to the extent of the third global extinction, some 245 mya, when 90% of the world’s species were lost.
Though it is true that life, so incredibly resilient, has always recovered (though after long lags) after major extinction spasms, it is only after whatever has caused the extinction event has dissipated. That cause, in the case of the Sixth Extinction, is ourselves — Homo sapiens. This means we can continue on the path to our own extinction, or, preferably, we modify our behavior toward the global ecosystem of which we are still very much a part. The latter must happen before the Sixth Extinction can be declared over, and life can once again rebound.
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Paleontologist Dr. Niles Eldredge is the Curator-in-Chief of the permanent exhibition “Hall of Biodiversity” at the American Museum of Natural History and adjunct professor at the City University of New York. He has devoted his career to examining evolutionary theory through the fossil record, publishing his views in more than 160 scientific articles, reviews, and books. Life in the Balance: Humanity and the Biodiversity Crisisis his most recent book.
www.gc.cuny.edu/directories/faculty/E.htm
Articles and Resources on The Sixth Extinction
Consequences of the Sixth Extinction
The article “How Will Sixth Extinction Affect Evolution of Species?,” on our site, describes how the current loss of biodiversity will affect evolution in the long run.
www.actionbioscience.org/newfrontiers/myers_knoll.html
BioScience Article
“Global Conservation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.”
Habitat destruction has driven much of the current biodiversity extinction crisis, and it compromises the essential benefits, or ecosystem services that humans derive from functioning ecosystems. Securing both species and ecosystem services might be accomplished with common solutions. Yet it is unknown whether these two major conservation objectives coincide broadly enough worldwide to enable global strategies for both goals to gain synergy. In this November 2007, BioScience article, Will Turner and his colleagues assess the concordance between these two objectives, explore how the concordance varies across different regions, and examine the global potential for safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystem services simultaneously. Read the abstract, or log in to purchase the full article.
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Biodiversity in the next millennium
American Museum of Natural History’s nationwide survey (undated) “reveals biodiversity crisis — the fastest mass extinction in Earth’s history.”
cbc.amnh.org/crisis/mncntnt.html
National Geographic
A 2/99 article about the Sixth Extinction, with views from several leading scientists.
www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/9902/fngm/index.html
Extinction through time
Find out about cycles of life and death and extinction patterns through time.
www.carleton.ca/Museum/extinction/tablecont.html
Is Humanity Suicidal?
Edward O. Wilson asks us why we stay on the course to our own self-destruction.
www.well.com/user/davidu/suicidal.html
A Field Guide to the Sixth Extinction
Niles Eldredge writes in 1999 about a few of the millions of plants and animals that won’t make it to the next millennium. The second link takes you to the site’s main page, entitled “Mass Extinction Underway — The World Wide Web’s most comprehensive source of information on the current mass extinction,” which provides links to numerous other resources.
www.well.com/user/davidu/fieldguide.html
www.well.com/user/davidu/extinction.html
Global Environment Outlook 3
The United Nations Environment Programme released this major report in May 2002. The report collated the thoughts of more than 1,000 contributors to assess the environmental impact of the last 30 years and outline policy ideas for the next three decades. It concluded that without action, the world may experience severe environmental problems within 30 years. The entire report can be read online or purchased online.
www.unep.org/geo/geo3/index.htm
Test your environmental knowledge
A 1999 survey showed that only one in three adult Americans had a passing understanding of the most pressing environmental issues. How do you measure up? Explanatory answers provided.
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World Atlas of Biodiversity — interactive map
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released the firstWorld Atlas of Biodiversityin August 2002. This link takes you to their online interactive map that helps you search for data about species/land/water loss, extinction over time, and human global development. Click on the “?” for a help page that explains how to interact with this map.
stort.unep-wcmc.org/imaps/gb2002/book/viewer.htm
The Sixth Great Extinction: A Status Report
Earth Policy Institute’s 2004 update on the status of loss of biodiversity.
www.earth-policy.org/Updates/Update35.htm
Books
» The Biodiversity Crisis: Losing What Countsby The American Museum of Natural History (New Press, 2001).
» The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of of Life and the Future of Humankindby Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin (Doubleday and Company, 1996).
Get Involved
The Biodiversity Project
You can choose a way to get involved in protecting biodiversity — from educational resources to community outreach.
www.biodiversityproject.org/html/resources/introduction.htm
The Nature Conservancy
Select a state from the menu and find out how you can become an environmental volunteer in that state.
Information for Action
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Harmony
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CIF CENTRAL SECTION CHAMPIONSHIP
Liberty High School - Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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Central Section Grand Masters
At Liberty
Team standings--unavailable.
400 relay--1. Bakersfield (Hunt, Turner, Johnson, Norwood), 42.28; 2. Clovis East (Bourbon, Scott, Smith, Woods), 42.58; 3. Redwood (Stewart, Ray, Root, Coles), 43.07; 4. Central (Newsome, Bigelow, Hammack, Phillips), 43.15. 1,600--1. Chris Schwartz, Foot, 4:15.80; 2. Jonathan Sanchez, Buch, 4:17.48; 3. Eric Battles, CW, 4:20.34; 4. Jesse Arellano, Mad, 4:21.56. 110H--1. Ethan DeJongh, MtW, 14.49; 2. Sean Johnson, Buch, 14.66; 3. Jon Funch, CW, 14.81; 4. Isiah Crunk, Wash, 15.17. 400--1. Maurice Lewis, Ed, 49.08; 2. Isiah Purvis, Lib, 49.13; 3. Daniel Lozano, Stock, 49.35; 4. Jelani Hendrix, Ed, 49.62. 100--1. Brendon Bigelow, Central, 10.62; 2. Emmanuel Turner, Bak, 10.81; 3. Matt Sumlin, Gar, 10.91; 4. Chris Lopez, GW, 10.98. 800--1. Anthony Mitchell, North, 1:54.19; 2. Aric Champagne, MtW, 1:54.97; 3. Andrew Campbell, CW, 1:55.69; 4. Arturo Ramirez, Centennial, 1:55.83. 300H--1. DeJongh, MtW, 37.93; 2. Cody Alves, Sel, 37.94; 3. James Smith, CE, 39.03; 4. Sean Johnson, Buch, 39.28. 200--1. Brendon Bigelow, Central, 21.29; 2. Isiah Purvis, Lib, 21.96; 3. Mario Navarette, Sanger, 22.04; 4. Chris Lopez, GW, 22.29. 3,200--1. Chris Schwartz, Foot, 9:24.19; 2. Jonathan Sanchez, Buch, 9:24.99; 3. Jon Ross, CE, 9:26.42; 4. Danny Vartanien, Buch, 9:26.42. 1,600 relay--1. Edison (Hendrix, Carter, Boughton, Lewis), 3:17.86; 2. Liberty (Hill, Garside, Affentranger, Purvis), 3:18.95; 3. Bakersfield (Miller, Turner, Johnson, Gooden), 3:20.06; 4. Clovis East (Ellis, Defonska, Woods, Smith), 3:22.40. PV--1. Andrew Lohse, Mad, 15-0; 2. Michael Peterson, CE, 15-0J; 3. Jeff Brenner, Cl, 14-6; 4. Frankie Puente, Sel, 14-0. SP--1. Dayshan Ragans, Foot, 60-7; 2. Matt Darr, Fron, 52-8.75; 3. Troy Rush, CW, 52-8.5; 4. Christian Millard, CE, 51-10.5. TJ--1. Johnny Carter, Ridge, 48-3; 2. Tyler Thompson, Shaf, 47-3; 3. Chris Kelly, Ridge, 46-11.5; 4. Jordan Smith, Central, 46-10.5. D--1. Dayshan Ragans, Foot, 199-2; 2. Jacob Budwig, Fowl, 168-8; 3. Niko Gomes, Cl, 164-10; 4. Matt Darr, Fron, 157-7. LJ--1. Kenny Phillips, Central, 23-4; 2. Tyler Thompson, Shaf, 21-11.5; 3. Dillon Root, Red, 21-11; 4. Kevin Norwood, GV, 21-8.75. HJ--1. Kenny Phillips, Central, 6-8; 2. Isiah Griggs, Bak, 6-6; 3. George Robbins, West, 6-4; 4. Jeff Brenner, Cl, 6-4J.
Notes: Top three in each event advance to state meet, May 30-31 in Norwalk. The two wild cards with the best times/marks from all sections also advance.
Girls track
Central Section Grand Masters
At Liberty
Team standings--unavailable.
400 relay--1. Edison (Eng, Scott, Thompson, Sears), 47.16; 2. Bullard (J. Williams, Riddlesprigger, Baisch, L. Williams), 48.17; 3. Tulare Western, 48.73; 4. Bakersfield (Torres, Belt, Brown, Wandick), 48.80. 1,600--1. Saleh Barsarian, Cl, 5:02.98; 2. Meghan Marvin, Cl, 5:03.02; 3. Chloe Allen, CW, 5:04.62; 4. Allison Gonzales, Ex, 5:11.52; 100H--1. Alyssa Monteverde, CW, 14.59; 2. Brianny Williams, Ed, 14.60; 3. Taylor Jackson, Fr, 15.04; 4. Jen Melton, CW, 15.37. 400--1. Breanna Thompson, Ed, 56.64; 2. Dedrea Wyrik, Sun, 57.49; 3. Lasasha Aldredge, Central, 58.12; 4. Taylor Donaldson, Reed, 58.13. 100--1. Megan Del Pino, CW, 11.66; 2. Jenna Prandini, Cl, 11.74; 3. Lynn Williams, Bul, 12.00; 4. Brushay Wandick, Bak, 12.01. 800--1. Allysa Mejia, Reed, 2:17.47; 2. Molly Pahkamaa, ElD, 2:17.73; 3. Katie Fry, Ex, 2:18.74; 4. Ashlee Thomas, Centennial, 2:19.77. 300H--1. Alyssa Monteverde, CW, 43.92; 2. Taylor Jackson, Fron, 44.86; 3. Brianny Williams, Ed, 45.69; 4. Alana Alexander, Centennial, 46.12. 200--1. Megan Del Pino, CW, 23.94; 2. Dominique Whittington, Lem, 24.65; 3. Brushay Wandick, Bak, 24.69; 4. Breanna Thompson, Ed, 24.90. 3,200--1. Jordan Hasay, MP, 10:24.78; 2. Meghan Marvin, Cl, 10:59.96; 3. Chloe Allen, CW, 11:06.19; 4. Corina Mendoza, Mad, 11:32.06. 1,600 relay--1. Edison (Burk, Thompson, Scott, Smith), 3:54.89; 2. Stockdale (Cady, Anderson, Mello, S. Anderson), 3:58.26; 3. Clovis West (Laidley, Capriotti, Del Pino, Monteverde), 3:59.02; 4. Reedley, 3:59.07. D--1. Anna Jelmini, Shaf, 162-5; 2. Alex Collatz, Stock, 148-6; 3. Carey Tuuamalemalo, Taft, 130-9; 4. Janae Coffee, CW, 121-6. LJ--1. Jenna Prandini, Cl, 18-7.25; 2. Lynn Williams, Bul, 18-0.75; 3. Alana Alexander, Centennial, 17-6.75; 4. Ja'Nia Sears, Ed, 17-6.5. HJ--1. Alyssa Monteverde, CW, 5-4; 2. Cristina Muro, GW, 5-2; 3. Katherine Mahr, Buch, 5-2; 4. Marish Riddlesprigger, Bul, 5-2J. SP--1. Anna Jelmini, Shaf, 44-0.75; 2. Destanie Yarbrough, CE, 37-10; 3. Heather Vermillion, Red, 37-9; 4. Tasha Firstone, CW, 36-6.5. TJ--1. Alana Alexander, Centennial, 38-3.75; 2. Jenna Prandini, Cl, 38-3; 3. Goziam Okolie, 36-10.5; 4. Alex Collatz, Stock, 36-2. PV--1. Allison Berryhill, CW, 11-6; 2. Amanda Klinchuch, Lib, 11-6J; 3. Cheree Jones, King, 10-6; 4. Emily Falkenstein, Buch, 10-6J.
Notes: Top three in each event advance to state meet, May 30-31 in Norwalk. The two wild cards with the best times/marks from all sections also advance.
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TITLE: The war of wealth
CALL NUMBER: POS - TH - 1895 .W37, no. 1 (C size) [P&P]
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Caption: The run on the bank : a crisis in the affairs of the great financial institution. The most animated and realistic scene ever shown on the stage.
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Como crees en Dios, debes entregar tu corazón delante de Dios.
Si ofreces y pones tu corazón delante de Dios,
entonces durante el refinamiento va a ser imposible
que niegues a Dios o que dejes a Dios.
De esta manera tu relación con Dios
se hará todavía más cercana y más normal
y tu comunión con Dios se hará aún más frecuente.
Si siempre practicas de esta manera,
entonces vas a pasar más tiempo a la luz de Dios
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también habrá más y más cambios en tu carácter
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Cuando el día venga y las pruebas de Dios de repente caigan sobre ti,
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sino que también podrás dar testimonio de Dios.
En ese momento vas a ser como Job y Pedro.
En ese momento vas a ser como Job y Pedro.
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y alguien a quien Dios ama.
El amor que ha experimentado el refinamiento es fuerte y no débil.
Independientemente de cuándo o cómo Dios te someta a Sus pruebas,
no te preocupa si vives o mueres,
no te preocupa si vives o mueres,
con gusto desechas todo por Dios
y todo lo aguantas contento por Dios,
y de esta manera tu amor será puro y tu fe real.
Solo entonces serás alguien a quien Dios verdaderamente ama
y a quien Dios verdaderamente ha perfeccionado.
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Today I visited Strokestown House, Co. Roscommon.
I had planned an exterior shoot of the Strokestown area for a particular project and left blue sky in Boyle. However, half way to Strokestown, the cloud decended and bleached my beautiful sky! My proposed shots needed a rich blue sky - not gonna happen today. Rather than be content with a wasted journey, I thought on my feet and put some energy into an interior project instead, this turned out to be Strokestown House.
If you have not yet visited this place - you should. I found the staff extremely helpful and accommodating. I am grateful to Catherine, John and Ronan for their help. I was allowed to photograph as much as I pleased in all public-access areas. I didn't go mad though, I focused on 'light illuminating the interior'. It took me almost two hours to take eight shots.
Interiors can be difficult to shoot if you wish to convey the natural beauty of window light. Straight off - it is next to impossible to achieve without multiple exposures.
I usually spend a bit of time looking first, camera hand held - standing, eye-level, squat, even sometimes lie on the floor. What lens to use. Get it right in the frame, verticals/horizontals - are they parallel to the edges of the frame, what is the subject here ... details.
Once I've found my spot, I get the tripod and compose the shot, I have no problem (where possible) moving objects to different positions within the frame to get what I want. Then its camera settings. I always shoot in RAW.
For this shot; ISO 100. White Balance Cloudy (there was zero colour adjustment made to this image during processing). Aperture set to f/16 for sharpness all the way through. For the lens I was using (Nikkor 17-55mm 2.8G) I find best performance at f/16 or 18 aperture not at f/22 as you might expect. I used a cable release and set the camera 'mirror-lock to 'up' position to avoid camera shake. Finally, I experiment with shutter speed settings to determine the exposure for Highlights (so as to retain detail in the bright window) - 0.6seconds. I subsequently took three more exposures to cover mid-tones and shadows - 1.6, 3.0 and 5.0 seconds. Bang, bang, bang. Ya, ya, I know, sounds painful but believe me, if you want to learn about your camera you need to experiment. If you don't want to spend ages fixing mistakes in Photoshop, try getting in right in the camera as much as possible.
In CS2, the RAW files were processed for tone and contrast only. Layers were blended and the image finished with a mild touch of sharpening using a high-pass filter.
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On all our tours I encourage our guests to also shoot verticals, not only horizontals. Magazines for instance, are all based on verticals, so if you ever want your picture to grace the cover or to be published on a full page, you'll need to shoot verticals as well.
A little while back I got an email from British Airways, asking whether I had a vertical version of my famous picture The Edge, of an elephant at Victoria Falls. And as a matter of fact I did, I just never processed it. When I started processing the image, I wondered why I hadn't done it earlier - the vertical version seems to make more sense because you can actually see the height of the falls and you can see all the water falling down.
Anyway, British Airways published the shot and I was happy they had given me a good reason to dive into my image library again.
Here's the background story that I wrote for the horizontal version:
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It's hard enough to make original pictures, but with some subjects it simply borders the impossible.
When I was at Victoria Falls last year, I thought about the billions of photographs that must have been taken there, and I almost decided to just visit the place without my camera. That was until I spoke with some of the local people, who told me that they had seen a bull elephant crossing the Zambezi river the day before. During my research I had not seen any images of the falls with an elephant in it, so I decided to stay a few extra days and try my luck.
The course of the Zambezi is dotted with numerous tree-covered islands, which increase in number as the river approaches the falls. As the dry season takes effect, the islets on the crest become wider and more numerous, and with the water level of the Zambezi dropping, once submerged walkways and fresh foraging possibilities present themselves. This elephant was apparently aware of this.
On the third day I left very early with a small boat to reach my location. On my way to the edge I suddenly saw the lone bull wading through shallow parts of the river, but it was far away and light levels were low, so I decided to continue to the falls. I took some sunrise shots and half an hour later I saw the elephant approaching the falls. I quickly collected my gear and moved carefully towards the edge where the water plummeted into a 360ft chasm - not particularly nice when you're afraid of heights... I set everything up in order to include as much as possible of the falls and made a composition. Luckily the elephant was aware of my preference to shoot into the light, so his position couldn't be better.
After I took the shots, I knew I had just witnessed and captured something very special. Later that day local people confirmed this by telling me that they had never seen an elephant so close to the edge of the falls before - exactly what I wanted to hear!
This image was featured as a double page spread in National Geographic, and won First Prize in the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards.
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This tutorial is done in Photoshop CS3, and you need some basic knowlegde to follow it. The numbers are the exact ones I used.
Step by step snapshots at www.soffia.net/tutorial.html
1. I duplicade the layer twise, on one layer I erase out carefully the mountain with soft eraser, opacity 100 flow around 60. (you can also use masks) One layer is just to have the photo as it is.
2. Name the layers ( image01) mountains, clouds and just_in_case_layer.
3. Go to creatae new fill or adjustment layer and choose Levels. (Image 02) I tweeked the 3 arrows untill I got 8 ~ 0,73 ~ 200
4. Go to creatae new fill or adjustment layer again but this time choose Brightness/Contrast. and put in -12 for brightness and contr. -28 (Image03)
5. Go to creatae new fill or adjustment layer again and choose Hue/Saturation. (Image 04)
take up saturation to 22
6. For now, I´m fairly happy with the mountains, so now I drag the Clouds layer on top of all the layers. (Image 05)
7. Then I merge the mountains with all the adjustment layers by selecting all the layers, and choose merge layers (Image 06)Name the Layer mountains again if it´s called hue/saturation.
8. Now we can work on the clouds, you can turn off the mountains layer by clicking on the eye on the left. Go to creatae new fill or adjustment layer and choose Levels. (Image 02) I tweeked the 3 arrows untill I got 18 ~ 0,84 ~ 215
9. I want a little more contrast in the big cloud so duplicade the clouds layer, name it cloud-contrast go to Image - Adjustment - Levels. Use 59~ 0,64~ 195. The reason why I choose levels from there is cause I only want it to affect the new cloud layer(Image 07)
10. with the cloud-contrast layer picked, go to Image - Adjustment - Brightness/Contrast and put brightness to +36 and contrast +17
11. I find the cloud too red, so go to Image - Adjustment - hue/saturation, in Edit: choose
Reds and take the saturation down to -42. After that I rease around it so the layer would look like this (Image 08)
12. Let´s go to the Clouds layer again, Go to creatae new fill or adjustment layer and choose Brightness/Contrast. put in +45 for brightness (Image03)
13. Go to create new fill or adjustment layer (Image 04) and choose Hue/Saturation. In Edit:
Blues hue: -13 sat: -67
Cyans hue: -10 sat: -57 (or tweek the numbers untill you´re happy with the colors......)
15. Merge the layers by selecting Cloud-contrast,clouds and the all the adjustment layers(image 06) (you can also select the layers and hit Ctrl + E )
16. Turn on the Mountains Layer. Flatten image. Then I did some more adjucstment with hue/sat, cyan -9 and -39 then blues -4 and -22 and Yelloes -35. And then I went to levels and did 8 ~ 1,16 ~ 255.
17. Then I put the lomo gradient fill with 40 % opacity on that layer
I did use the clone stamp to erase out a part of the sky, the dark bottom part... :P
And finally I ran it through Neat Image, a software I bought the other day. neatimage.com/
I could probably spend another hour tweeking and tuning. But let´s say this done for now.
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Τα λόγια του Θεού σε αυτό το βίντεο είναι από το βιβλίο «Ο Λόγος Ενσαρκώνεται». Το περιεχόμενο αυτού του βίντεο:
Την Τέταρτη Ημέρα, αρχίζουν να υπάρχουν οι εποχές,οι ημέρες και τα χρόνια του ανθρώπινου είδους καθώς ο Θεός ασκεί την εξουσία Του για μια ακόμη φορά
Την Πέμπτη Ημέρα,η ζωή διαφόρων και ποικίλων μορφών
επιδεικνύει την εξουσία του Δημιουργού με διάφορους τρόπους
Την Έκτη Ημέρα, ο Δημιουργός μιλάει και κάθε είδος ζώντος οργανισμού που έχει στο μυαλό Του κάνει την εμφάνισή του, το ένα μετά το άλλο
Υπό την εξουσία του Δημιουργού, όλα τα πράγματα είναι τέλεια
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Devocional diario | Todas las cosas están en las manos de Dios
Dios dice: “Yo he pronunciado estas palabras: Yo significo lo que digo, y lo que significo se logrará, y nadie puede cambiar esto; es algo absoluto. Sea lo que he expresado en el pasado o lo que diga en el futuro, todo se realizará, y toda la humanidad lo verá. Este es el principio subyacente a la obra de Mis palabras. [...] De todo lo que acontece en el universo, no hay nada en lo que Yo no tenga la última palabra. ¿Qué existe que no esté en Mis manos? Todo lo que Yo digo es ley, y entre los hombres, ¿quién hay que pueda cambiar Mi mente? ¿Podría ser el pacto que Yo hice en la tierra? Nada puede obstaculizar Mi plan; Yo estoy siempre presente en Mi obra, así como en el plan de Mi gestión. ¿En qué puede interferir el hombre? ¿No soy Yo quien ha hecho personalmente estas disposiciones? Al entrar en esta situación hoy, todo sigue sin desviarse de Mi plan o de lo que predije; Yo lo determiné todo hace mucho. ¿Quién de entre vosotros puede comprender Mi plan para este paso? Mi pueblo escuchará Mi voz, y todos y cada uno de los que me aman realmente regresarán ante Mi trono”.
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vita activa
Viajamos a través de Europa 8000 Km. Con un carro tirado por dos caballos, desde el Lago de Constanza a través de Francia y a lo largo de la costa mediterránea española hasta la punta sur de Europa. Sigue la vuelta por Portugal, España, Francia, Bélgica, Holanda, pasando por Berlín de nuevo hacía el Lago de Constanza donde termina nuestra ruta.
Un largo viaje, no sólo para nosotros si no también para nuestros dos caballos “Irish cob”.
Sin embargo, no es un viaje de placer, tampoco un viaje de aventura vacacional a través del soleado sur. A lo largo de nuestra ruta visitamos a agricultores y pasamos la noche en nuestro carro en las granjas. En colaboración con renombradas Organizaciones para el Medioambiente e internacionalmente reconocidos Investigadores queremos enterarnos mejor de la situación actual de la Agricultura en Europa. En lo referente al cultivo industrial, a la producción biológica, a la UE y la política agraria.
Especialmente lo referente a la Técnica Genética.
Los alimentos es fundamento de nuestra vida. No por casualidad se dice “se es lo que se come”. ¿No vivimos hoy y aquí tiempos prodigiosos? Todo el año podemos comprar tomates frescos y crujientes pimientos en el supermercado.
Las estanterías están siempre llenas, para comer hay más que suficiente. Realmente vivimos en tiempos prodigiosos.
Sin embargo, el precio que pagamos por ello es muy alto. Para poder ofrecer una gran gama de verduras y frutas por un módico precio todo el año los agricultores tienen que utilizar métodos de producción cada vez más refinados. La producción de alimentos se ha convertido en una técnica refinada de producción industrial, que abarca todos los campos de la cosecha, pasando por la lucha contra las plagas hasta la de cada una de las semillas.
Y sin esa Industria sería inimaginable una forma tan intensa de agricultura. Para acelerar lo más rápida y económicamente posible la producción, son utilizados una gran cantidad de pesticidas y abonos artificiales. A costa de la calidad del agua y de nuestra salud.
Y un próximo paso será la transformación de la naturaleza.
Para ahorrar los costes de pesticida, las primeras generaciones de plantas transformadas genéticamente recibieron su propia licencia para la producción de veneno: un bacilo genético que se incorpora al genoma del maíz. Ciertamente el veneno producido por el así llamado Maíz-BT mataba también a las mariposas, pero debía ser absolutamente inofensivo para las personas.
Los nuevos productos que salen de los laboratorios de investigación van más allá. Genes de Pez en fresas, genoma humano combinado con DNS de Cerdo. La fantasía puede trabajar sin límites.
Lamentablemente también la práctica puede ser ilimitada. Pues, lo que aquí suena como ciencia ficción hace tiempo que es realidad. Muchos de estos productos alimentarios llegan hoy, sin etiqueta de calificación, a nuestros platos: A un filete no se le ve si fue alimentado con maíz genéticamente transformado.
Y si esto sigue así como en los últimos años, entonces no será necesario requerir la etiqueta en los productos genéticamente transformados: las plantas artificiales de los laboratorios químicos se habrán mezclado de tal forma con nuestras plantas naturales, entre otras vías a través de la polinización, que en el futuro nadie podrá decir con certeza si el desayuno viene o no del laboratorio.
Y así queda patentado. Las substancias en nuestras cocinas son un experimento de las grandes empresas químicas. „Se es lo que se come“. ¿Queremos ser así?
Cada paso que damos en dirección de alimentos diseñados por la técnica genética, no tiene vuelta posible. Una vez que a la naturaleza se le ha dado estas semillas se quedan en ella para siempre y siguen creciendo y multiplicándose.
Si queremos hacer algo en contra, entonces hoy, aquí y ahora.
En nuestro viaje a través de Europa vamos a documentar la situación actual de la expansión de las plantas transformadas por técnica genética. Tomarenos pruebas de los suelos y se las daremos a institutos cientificos para su análisis. Así se costituirá un mapa de la tècnica genética en Europa.
En muchas estaciones de nuestro recorrido contamos nuestras experiencias e intercambiamos información a cerca de la situación actual de la tecnología genética con escolares, estudiantes, políticos, consumidores y agricultores.
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The Bofors 40 mm gun, is an anti-aircraft cannon designed in the 1930s by the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors. It was one of the most popular medium-weight anti-aircraft systems during World War II and used by most of the western Allies as well as some captured systems being used by the Axis powers. A small number of these weapons saw action as late as the Persian Gulf War.
These 40 mm, Bofors anti-aircraft guns were installed between 1946 and 1947, on top of the original twin 20 mm OERLIKON power mountings. This was an RCN innovation. The mounting operated hydraulically, with the fluid being supplied by the pumps forward of the after funnel on the Bofor deck, and aft of the helm at the Emergency Steering position. The mounting moved in response to the movement of the fire control "joystick". These guns used to have a Mark II Gun sight, but they are missing.
The design of the gun is such that it had a very high rate of fire due to the fact that the vertical block in the breech, opened upon recoil of the gun, so that the casing was ejected almost immediately after firing. This resulted in a rate of fire of 120 rounds per minute. The rounds were loaded into the breech in "clips" of four and by a crew of four. They were: Trainer/Aimer, Breechworker, Layer, and Loader. The ammunition used was high explosive, and was not fused. The gun could elevate to 70 degrees, and could depress to 0 degrees which allowed it to be used against close in surface contacts which were below the arc of fire of the twin 4 inch guns. The Boffins was very useful in Korea for blowing up floating mines.
HAIDA was fitted with the Mk VII Bofors. In Wikipedia, Mk VII is defined as "a single barreled, hydraulically powered mounting that superseded the Mark III and entered service in 1945.
Quelle:
René Descartes am 12. Februar 2011
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"René Descartes [ʀəˈne deˈkaʀt] (latinisiert Renatus Cartesius; * 31. März 1596 in La Haye en Touraine; † 11. Februar 1650 in Stockholm) war ein französischer Philosoph, Mathematiker und Naturwissenschaftler.
Descartes gilt als der Begründer des modernen frühneuzeitlichen Rationalismus, den Spinoza, Malebranche und Leibniz kritisch-konstruktiv weitergeführt haben. Sein rationalistisches Denken wird auch Cartesianismus genannt. Von ihm stammt das berühmte Dictum „cogito ergo sum“ („ich denke, also bin ich“), welches die Grundlage seiner Metaphysik bildet, aber auch das Selbstbewusstsein als genuin philosophisches Thema eingeführt hat. Seine Auffassung bezüglich der Existenz zweier miteinander wechselwirkender, voneinander verschiedener „Substanzen“ – Geist und Materie – ist heute als Cartesianischer Dualismus bekannt und steht im Gegensatz zu den verschiedenen Varianten des Monismus sowie zur dualistischen Naturphilosophie Isaac Newtons, der die Wechselwirkung aktiver immaterieller „Kräfte der Natur“ mit der absolut passiven Materie lehrt (siehe dazu newtonsche Gesetze, Erstes Gesetz der Bewegung).
Descartes ist der Erfinder der sogenannten analytischen Geometrie, welche Algebra und Geometrie verbindet.
Seine naturwissenschaftlichen Arbeiten sind zwar früh durch die newtonsche Physik widerlegt worden – sei es seine Ablehnung des Gravitationsprinzips oder seine Wirbel-Theorie –, Descartes’ Leistungen im naturwissenschaftlichen Bereich dürfen aber nicht unterschätzt werden, da er einer der wichtigsten und strengsten Vertreter des Mechanizismus ist, der die ältere aristotelische Physik überwunden hat.
Sein Ethos der Pflicht und der Selbstüberwindung hat die Literatur der französischen Klassik des 17. Jahrhunderts, insbesondere Pierre Corneille, Nicolas Boileau, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet und Jean de la Bruyère, beeinflusst." Quelle und weitere Informationen: Wikipedia: René Descartes
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Guardate al Regno di Dio, dove Egli è sovrano assoluto. Dall'inizio della creazione fino ad oggi, Dio ha guidato i Suoi figli attraverso le difficoltà . Hanno attraversato alti e bassi, ma adesso dimorano nella Sua luce. Chi non piange per le ingiustizie del passato? Chi non versa lacrime per la vita duramente conquistata oggi? Chi non coglie questa occasione per dedicare il suo cuore a Dio? Chi non vuole dar voce alla propria passione ed esperienza? Chi non piange per le ingiustizie del passato? Chi non versa lacrime per la vita duramente conquistata oggi? Chi non coglie questa occasione per dedicare il suo cuore a Dio? Chi non vuole dar voce alla propria passione ed esperienza? Dio ora dimora nel loro cuore,perché la Sua opera si è compiuta. Chi non piange per le ingiustizie del passato? Chi non versa lacrime per la vita duramente conquistata oggi? Chi non coglie questa occasione per dedicare il suo cuore a Dio? Chi non vuole dar voce alla propria passione ed esperienza? Chi non piange per le ingiustizie del passato? Chi non versa lacrime per la vita duramente conquistata oggi? Chi non coglie questa occasione per dedicare il suo cuore a Dio? Chi non vuole dar voce alla propria passione ed esperienza?
da "Seguire l 'Agnello e cantare dei canti nuovi"
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A female Rose-ringed Parakeet aka Ring-necked Parakeet looking for a nest in Bidadari.
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La venida de Cristo | Dios llega calladamente entre nosotros
Dios Todopoderoso dice: “Dios guarda silencio y nunca se nos ha aparecido, sin embargo, Su obra nunca se ha detenido. Ve todas las tierras y manda a todas las cosas y contempla todas las palabras y obras del hombre. Su gestión es conducida por pasos, y de acuerdo a Su plan. Este avanza en silencio, sin un efecto dramático, pero Sus pisadas avanzan cada vez más cerca de la humanidad, y Su tribunal se despliega en el universo a la velocidad de la luz, inmediatamente seguido por el descenso de Su trono entre nosotros. ¡Qué escena tan majestuosa es esta; qué cuadro tan imponente y solemne! Como una paloma, como un león rugiente, el Espíritu llega entre todos nosotros. Es sabio, es justo y majestuoso; Él llega entre nosotros en silencio, dueño de la autoridad y lleno de amor y compasión” (“Contemplando la aparición de Dios en Su juicio y Su castigo”).
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I was seriously late the game on this storm. But I was never out of the game. I had missed a few of the other tornados that afternoon in Northern Yuma County. Coming from south to north I had to position myself correctly. Chaser Convergence was also in full swing so there were not may open areas to choose from.
For best pics of a Tornado and to be safe about it a storm such as this was moving North by Northeast... strategically, you want to be to the south east, southwest for the best light... Behind the RFD (Rear Flank Downdraft) It's all about timing, and I honestly didn't think it would produce a tornado til it was well west of my location. That was going to be the wrong guess... Though when I went due north of Wray I had a good viewing point but not in the safest location as you see.
I got lucky this day as...In my opinion, I found a perfect view, looking due south southeast. I ended up on the northwest side of the rotation. Dangerous yes...but this will eventually give me one excellent view of this tornado and all her glory.
Staying as safe as I could I wouldn't bail till it was about a mile away then I would head north again to a safer / better viewing position.
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Palabras de Dios | Escapa de la influencia de las tinieblas y Dios te ganará
"¿Cuál es la influencia de las tinieblas? Aquello a lo que se llama influencia de las tinieblas es la esclavitud de Satanás, la influencia de Satanás; es una influencia que tiene un aura de muerte.
…… Si los hombres son incapaces de practicar las palabras de Dios, siempre lo engañan actuando de una forma superficial con Él y sin creer en Su existencia, tales personas están viviendo bajo la influencia de las tinieblas. Todos los hombres que no han recibido la salvación de Dios están viviendo bajo el campo de acción de Satanás, es decir, viven todos bajo la influencia de las tinieblas. Quienes no creen en Dios viven bajo el campo de acción de Satanás. Incluso aquellos que creen en la existencia de Dios pueden no estar necesariamente viviendo en la luz de Dios, porque los que creen en Él, no necesariamente pueden estar viviendo dentro de las palabras de Dios ni ser hombres que necesariamente sean capaces de obedecer a Dios. El hombre sólo cree en Dios y debido a su fracaso en conocer a Dios, él sigue viviendo dentro de las viejas normas, viviendo dentro de palabras muertas, viviendo en una vida que es oscura e incierta, no estando purificado del todo por Dios ni ganado por completo por Dios. Por tanto, aunque no hace falta decir que quienes no creen en Dios están viviendo bajo la influencia de las tinieblas; incluso quienes sí creen en Dios, aun así pueden estar viviendo bajo la influencia de las tinieblas, porque el Espíritu Santo no ha llevado a cabo obra alguna en ellos. Los que no han recibido la gracia de Dios ni Su misericordia, así como los que no pueden ver la obra del Espíritu Santo, viven todos bajo la influencia de las tinieblas; quienes sólo disfrutan de la gracia de Dios, pero no lo conocen, también viven la mayor parte del tiempo bajo la influencia de las tinieblas. Si un hombre cree en Dios, pero gasta la mayor parte de su vida bajo la influencia de las tinieblas, entonces la existencia de ese hombre ha perdido su significado, por no mencionar a quienes no creen en la existencia de Dios."
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Life in Mei Foo-Now and Then by Ng Yuen Wa
The sixteen panels will be divided into two main parts according to their themes, one part is about the past of Mei Foo and the other illustrates the life of the Mei Foo residents at the present moment. These two main parts can be subdivided into four groups, each group consisting of four panels:
The first group, On the Night of the Mid-Autumn Festival , depicts how the Mei Foo residents used to share their love and joy at the podium under the full moon at the Mid-Autumn Festival.;
The second group, centred on the theme of Memory of the Seashore, brings the viewers back to a time when there was a wonderful seashore at the Mei Foo Sun Chuen. With a touch of nostalgia, this group of works highlights the sublime seascape and the serene atmosphere of the Mei Foo Sun Chuen.
The Mei Foo residents depicted in the third group, Apartment in the Starry Metropolitan, enjoy the glittering night scene of this prosperous metropolitan – Hong Kong – through gazing out of their apartment windows, while they are resting in their apartments after a day of work.
In Mei Foo, a piece of land has been reclaimed from the sea and a park with different kinds of recreational facilities is built on the reclamation area. The fourth group of work, entitled A Delightful Weekend, focuses on the recreational activities of the Mei Foo residents taking place in the park.