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American men: Is your girlfriend, your wife, your daughter less human than you and undeserving of respect? Are they too ignorant to be allowed to make decisions about their own health care? Denying them their ability to think and act in their own best interests is NOT protecting them. It is cultural slavery.
Excerpt from youractionsmatter.ca/one-drop/:
One Drop:
• Coral ecosystems make up less than 1% of the ocean floor yet are home to over 25% of all marine wildlife.
• While you may think of coral as exclusively tropical reefs, more than half of all known coral species are deep and cold-water corals.
• Canada has several cold-water coral habitats, with sites off the coasts of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, and British Columbia.
• Cold-water coral reefs serve as a home for thousands of known sea animals and possibly millions of undiscovered species, making them one of the most biodiverse marine ecosystems.
• Far from sunlight and hundreds to thousands of meters deep in the ocean, these cold-water corals have lifespans that can span centuries.
• Climate change, oil and gas exploration, and overfishing severely threaten Canada’s cold-water corals.
• As humans pump more carbon into the atmosphere, our oceans become more acidic, hampering corals’ ability to grow.
• The effects of oil and gas exploration, from contaminated drill bits to oil leaks, can also significantly contaminate cold-water corals.
• Most disturbingly, unsustainable fishing practices like bottom trawling can decimate coral habitats. When disturbed by bottom trawling, up to 90% of a coral colony perishes.
• Fortunately, cold-water corals have the ability to recover. However due to their slow growth rates, some as little as 3 mm per year, they need decades to start regenerating.
• This is why the establishment of permanent marine protected areas that explicitly prohibit unsustainable fishing practices and oil and gas exploration are so crucial.
Coral reefs are home to a quarter of all marine life and contain millions of undiscovered species. They are biodiversity hotspots, unmatched in species per area. More than just ecological treasures, coral reefs underpin the livelihood of more than 500 million people globally. However, despite their profound importance, 70% of the world’s reefs are currently threatened. The world has already lost half of its coral reefs since 1950, and scientific estimates suggest that we may lose them all by 2050 if urgent action is not taken.
The degradation of reefs doesn’t just mean losing biodiversity; it could directly affect human health. Various drugs are derived from animals and plants found in coral reef ecosystems as possible cures for cancer, arthritis, and other diseases. With the current rate of degradation, such potential discoveries could be lost forever.
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) play an invaluable role in safeguarding the health and longevity of coral ecosystems and habitats. The vibrant, intricate biodiversity found within these areas is highly susceptible to threats such as climate change, overfishing, pollution, and habitat destruction. MPAs effectively mitigate these pressures by regulating human activities in these regions. They serve as sanctuaries where coral ecosystems can regenerate and thrive.
Given the vital role that coral reefs play in our ecosystems, and the urgent threat they face, it is critical to take action to protect them before it's too late. MPAs are integral in safeguarding coral ecosystems and habitats, ensuring their survival for future generations.
Air Europe's Boeing B737-200 G-BMOR taxies out to the 08 hold before departing Gatwick back in April 1981
A decade later the Airline was no more
Scanned Kodak 35mm Transparency
Why do I think that living through WWII was less stressful, at least on the home front, than living through another Trump administration?
It might be an old cliché but that doesn’t make Paris any less beautiful of a city than it is. The streets are littered with buildings such as this one. I found that the buildings housing the artworks, souvenir stores, clothes shops, they were pieces of artworks themselves.
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another digi, I am not able to get the compositions right these days, they seem so timid.
LEE big stopper
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LEE 0.9 Graduated Neutral Density Filter( HARD)
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EF 16-35MMF/2.8L II USM
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Canon 5d mark III
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Sometime beauty is just a step away from you. Even when your naked eye can't see the beauty, a closer look reveals a diamond in the rough. This is a weed flower... as I was taking off weed from my yard and expressing frustration, I saw her and fell in love with her. (only to find out, she has already given her love to another weed ... Time to become the villain .. time to shop for Weed B Gone ... mwaaaa ... ..he he
Norwegen / Nordland / Lofoten / Vestvågøya - Auf dem Weg zurück vom Justadtinden
Vestvågøya (or less-commonly: Vest-Vågøy) is an island in the Lofoten archipelago in Nordland county, Norway. The island is located within Vestvågøy Municipality. The island lies between the islands of Austvågøya and Gimsøya to the northeast and Flakstadøya to the southwest. There are also several small islands and skerries surrounding the island. Vestvågøya makes up over 97% of the municipal area and about 99% of the inhabitants of the municipality live on the island. The European route E10 highway crosses the island connecting to Flakstadøya by the Nappstraum Tunnel and to Gimsøya by the Sundklakkstraumen Bridge.
The middle part of the island is relatively flat and marshy, while the outer parts in the north and south are mountainous. The highest point on the island is the 964-metre (3,163 ft) tall mountain Himmeltindan. The flat parts of the island are largely agricultural land. There is one town on the island (Leknes) and several large villages on the island including Stamsund, Ballstad, and Gravdal.
In Vestvågøya mountains have steep slopes towards the open sea in the northwest and southeast while slopes pointing towards the interior of the island are more gentle. This is the result of erosion acting on a landscape that has been uplifted along southwest-northwest-trending faults in the margins of Lofoten while the interior axis has remained more stable.
(Wikipedia)
Vestvågøya (seltener Vest-Vågøy) ist eine Insel der norwegischen Inselgruppe Lofoten. Die Insel gehört zur Kommune Vestvågøy im Fylke Nordland. Mit einer Fläche von 413,28 km² ist sie die zwölftgrößte Insel des norwegischen Hauptlandes.
Geografie
Die Insel ist Teil der vor der norwegischen Westküste gelegenen Inselgruppe Lofoten und liegt nordöstlich der Insel Flakstadøya und südwestlich der Gimsøya. Von der Flakstadøya ist die Vestvågøya durch die Meerenge Nappstraumen getrennt, von der Gimsøya über den Sundklakkstraumen. Die Vestvågøya liegt vollständig in der Kommune Vestvågøy und macht etwa 97 % des Gemeindeareals aus. Zudem leben über 99 % der insgesamt 11.619 Einwohner (Stand: 1. Januar 2024) der Kommune auf der Insel.
Die Insel ist teils von Mooren bedeckt. Die Küste ist von einer Vielzahl an Fjorden und Buchten geprägt. Auf der Insel befinden sich mehrere Erhebungen mit über 700 moh. Teils ist die Küste steiler abfallend, bei der Stadt Leknes an der Südküste liegt ein breiterer Küstenstreifen vor. Die Erhebung Himmeltindan an der Westküste stellt mit einer Höhe von 962 moh. den höchsten Punkt der Kommune Vestvågøy und damit auch der Insel dar. Die Berge schirmen die Insel teilweise vor Wind und Regenfronten ab. Das Klima entspricht einem maritimen Klima, das zu milden Wintern führt.
Verkehr
Über die Insel führt die Europastraße 10 (E10), die die Anbindung ans Festland herstellt. Im Nordosten führt sie über eine Brücke auf die Gimsøya, im Südwesten durch einen Tunnel auf die Flakstadøya.
(Wikipedia)
MacroMonday, February 8: Vibrant Minimalism
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Noticed this whilst driving past. The image is less than perfect and isn't as sharp as I would have liked as I didn't have time to set up properly or choose the correct camera settings.
Its been quite a while since I've built anything, much less posted a Lego build. Have had lots of stuff going on, mostly bad, some good, but I'm getting through it. Anyway, here's a ratty little 40's style A-V8 hot rod, enjoy!
The return of 0Z66 is seen at Bullgill with 37403 leading 409 as they head back to Kingmoor.
One doesn't like to be a whinger but the sun came out less than a minute after "Isle of Mull" & "Lord Hinton" had passed me.
Sunset Bluffs, Pacific Coast. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Late-autumn sunset light on California coastal bluffs south of San Francisco.
My recollection of this photograph is that I had gone to the coast between San Francisco and Santa Cruz on this late-autumn evening partially because I had heard that people I knew were meeting up there to photograph and get together for dinner at an area restaurant. If I recall correctly, things did not go quite as planned. I think I ended up in the wrong restaurant and didn’t find these folks, and eventually I wandered off to some nearby bluffs by myself — which actually suits me fine when I’m making photographs, too.
It was a late afternoon and evening of interesting conditions, the sort that may produce something very special but which are more likely, perhaps, to be a complete bust. There was overcast and some haze in the air, and the light in afternoon was not really spectacular — it was a bit flat and the overcast made it more dull as sunset approached. However, there was the potential for something interesting. The cloud bank that stretched away from the coast seemed to terminate offshore, and there was a gap between this edge and the horizon. If that remained, I knew that there might be a brief moment of spectacular light coming through this gap just before the sud dropped below the horizon. If the band of light is narrow the colors can be intense in its beam while remaining darker and far less intense elsewhere. As you can see, that is precisely what happened.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
I find landscapes easiest to photograph. They don't run off, fly off, or get tired posing. And they sit perfectly still.
I keep going through phases of what I am after in terms of style... One day I'm into tons of colors and effects, the next I'm into really limited colors with a stripped-down style. At the moment I am in a "less is more" mindset. I always like pieces best when they are sketches before all the glitter, smoke and mirrors. This chrome & black was supposed to be even simpler than it is, and more graphic looking than it ended up. I never intended to use any other colors besides chrome, black, and white, but the green in my bag kept nagging me. Only had a couple hours, so it doesn't have all the effects and tricks a "piece" normally does, but like I said, that's kind of the point.
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Process shots: www.molotow.com/magazine/blog/blog/2011/07/06/geser-burne...