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2020 was an unusual year as we all know. It was a very busy year for me working on a 3D Animated Motion Capture Series and Music Video from home, and as a result I didn't manage to image much.
About the Nebula:
The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust with-in the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 (located in the constellation Cepheus), about 2,400 light-years away from Earth.
Reprocessing old data:
I don't often do this, but decided to reprocess old data from 2017 in the SHO Palette (SII, Hα & OIII). IC 1396 was imaged on my first "budget friendly" Telescope (a 6" GSO Newtonian Astrograph). This was one of my first attempts at Narrowband Astrophotography, and the data that I captured back then was less than ideal, but a nice challenge to process. It is all part of the never ending lifelong learning experience.
I would like to revisit the IC 1396 region again, and image the very interesting surrounding structure with my wide-field APO Refractor Telescope. It is interesting to look back and see what you've learnt (which is why I've always kept my old learning images as a record).
Wavelengths of the Electromagnetic Spectrum of Light:
Hydrogen-Alpha (656.3nm)
Oxygen-III (500.7nm)
Sulfur-II (672.4nm)
Astrometry Info:
Center RA, Dec: 323.737, 57.633
Center RA, hms: 21h 34m 56.951s
Center Dec, dms: +57° 37' 59.617"
Size: 46.8 x 60.6 arcmin
Radius: 0.638 deg
Pixel scale: 2.02 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: Up is 269 degrees E of N
View an Annotated Sky Chart of this image.
View this image in the WorldWideTelescope.
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Processing:
Pre-Processing and Linear workflow in PixInsight, and finished in Photoshop (Starnet++ was also handy).
Gear and Tech Card:
See original 2017 image for more detail.
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A macro photo of a Brown Zircon Crystal from Madagascar.
Zircon Crystals and the age of Earth:
Zircon Crystals in a Nutshell - the simplified story of Zircon Crystals.
How tiny Zircon Crystals - Zirconium silicate (ZrSiO4) helped determine the age of Earth (at approximately 4.5 Billion years since the crust cooled) with Radiometric U-Pb (Uranium-Lead) dating.
Zircon Crystals trap Uranium Atoms in its crystal structure and naturally repels Lead. Once the crystal structure is formed, nothing is able to get out. Over time the isotopes of Uranium starts to transmutate into other elements in what is referred to as a decay chain. An Uranium Atom first transmutates to a Thorium Atom (which takes a few billion years). Thorium is far more unstable, and in less than a month it turns into Protactinium. Within a minute Protactinium atoms transmute again, and so on. At the end of the chain, the Uranium atoms finally decay into the stable element Lead (Pb), and will then remain Lead forever. As the decay rate and times of the transmutation are constant in the Universe, it is possible to calculate the age of the crystal with Radiometric dating. As Zircon Crystals are tough, it is the oldest geological time-capsules that survived in Earth's dynamic crust since it cooled. As nothing can get in or out of the Zircon Crystal structure, it is the most accurate way of geological dating. By comparing the dating of Zircon silicate crystals on Earth, from Moon samples and visiting Meteorites, Scientists have been able to calculate that Earth is 4.54 billion years old. The error margin is 50 million years, which is small considering the time-scale.
The spin-off from trying to date the Earth, was that the Scientist Clair Patterson discovered the high amount of toxic Lead in the environment, due to the use of Lead-based fuel, paint, etc. The body needs metals like Iron in the blood to transfer Oxygen through the body. The body assumes that Lead is a good metal, but Lead not only destroys cells, but blocks the signals of Neuroreceptors in the Brain (leading to madness). After a lifetime of persistence, Clair Patterson eventually won the case and the widespread use of Lead in everyday products were banned (which is why we now use unleaded fuel).
More interesting reading:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_lead_dating
earthsky.org/earth/this-zircon-crystal-is-the-oldest-piec...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_transmutation
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decay_chain
Thank you to my best friend Sumarie for giving me this time-capsule of Earth and our Solar System's geological history. It is a gift of significance from someone special, that knows what I value.
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
The light captured in this image, was emitted around the time that the Dinosaurs became extinct on Earth.
A wide-field mosaic of a section of Markarian's Chain, a chain of Galaxies that forms part of the Virgo Supercluster (a cluster of a several thousand Galaxies, 60 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Virgo). When viewed from Earth, the Galaxies lie along a curved line.
The Virgo Supercluster (Virgo SC) or the Local Supercluster (LSC or LS) is a mass concentration of Galaxies containing the Virgo Cluster and Local Group, which in turn contains the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies. At least 100 Galaxy groups and clusters are located within its diameter of 33 megaparsecs (110 million light-years). The Virgo SC is one of about 10 million superclusters in the Observable Universe and is in the Pisces–Cetus Supercluster Complex, a Galaxy Filament.
A few quotes:
"There is an odd mannequin shape that is presented by the distribution of galaxies. This work has been done mainly by Margaret Geller with her collaborator John Huchra at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Institution. It's a little like soap bubbles in a bathtub or dishwashing detergent. The galaxies are on the surfaces of the bubbles. The insides of the bubbles seem to have no galaxies in them at all." - Carl Sagan - Cosmos - The Edge of Forever (S01E10).
The size and age of the cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home, the Earth." - Carl Sagan - Cosmos - The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean (S01E01).
About this image:
Imaged in LRGB over several sessions in July 2019 from the Southern Hemisphere.
Image Acquisition & Plate Solving:
SGP Mosaic and Framing Wizard.
PlaneWave PlateSolve 2 via SGP.
Integration time:
18 hours.
Processing:
Pre-Processing and Linear workflow in PixInsight,
and finished in Photoshop.
Astrometry Info:
Center RA, Dec: 187.055, 12.888
Center RA, hms: 12h 28m 13.184s
Center Dec, dms: +12° 53' 17.123"
Size: 3.26 x 2.5 deg
Radius: 2.054 deg
Pixel scale: 7.33 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: Up is 88.3 degrees E of N
View an Annotated Sky Chart of this image.
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Marian F. "Cindy" Pritzker
"Education is of utmost importance. Here at the Chicago Public Library, our mission is to afford all residents of the city of Chicago, young and old, access to books and information resources as tools and inspiration for their future and lifelong learning."
Thanks to her leadership and tireless advocacy, countless generations of Chicagoans are guaranteed the freedom to read, learn and discover.
October 1, 1998.
Chicago Public Library a Chicago (Illinois, EUA)
... taking part in the process of "wine making"
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The story of Zircon Crystals and Earth's age in a Nutshell.
How tiny Zircon Crystals - Zirconium silicate (ZrSiO4) helped determine the age of the Earth (at approximately 4.5 Billion years old since the crust cooled), with Radiometric U-Pb (Uranium-Lead) dating.
Zircon Crystals trap Uranium Atoms in its crystal structure and naturally repel Lead Atoms when the crystal forms. Once the crystal structure is formed, nothing is able to escape. Over time the isotopes of Uranium start to transmutate into other elements in a process that is referred to as a decay chain.
An Uranium Atom first transmutates into a Thorium Atom (which takes a few billion years). Thorium is far more unstable, and in less than a month it turns into Protactinium. Within a minute Protactinium Atoms transmute again, and so the transmutation continues down the decay chain. At the end of the radioactive decay chain, the initial trapped Uranium Atoms finally decays into stable Lead (Pb) Atoms, which will remain Lead forever. The decay rate and time associated with each transmutation is constant in the Universe, which makes it possible to calculate the age of the crystal with Radiometric dating.
As Zircon Crystals are tough, it is the oldest geological time-capsules that survived in Earth's dynamic and ever-changing crust since it cooled. As nothing can get in or out of the Zircon Crystal structure, it is the most accurate way of geological dating.
By comparing the Uranium to Lead ratio in Zirconium silicate crystals on Earth, from Moon samples and from visiting Meteorites, Scientists were able to calculate that the Earth is 4.54 billion years old. The error margin is 50 million years, which is small considering the time-scale.
The background history of Radiometric dating:
In 1896 Henri Becquerel and Marie Curie discovered that certain isotopes undergo spontaneous radioactive decay, transforming into new isotopes. Atoms of a parent radioactive isotope randomly decay into a daughter isotope. Marie Curie won a Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry for her work.
About Lead:
The spin-off from trying to date the Earth by finding the Uranium to Lead ratio in Zircon crystals, was that the Scientist Clair Patterson discovered the unusually high amount of toxic Lead in the environment when he tried to analyse the Zircon in a Mass Spectrometer. This was due to the widespread use of Lead-based fuel, Lead-based paint, etc.
Our bodies require metals like Iron in the blood to transfer Oxygen through the body. The body is fooled and assumes that Lead is a good metal, but Lead not only destroys cells, but also blocks the signals of Neuroreceptors in the Brain.
After a lifetime of persistence and mounting evidence, Clair Patterson eventually won the case against the large Oil Companies that tried to discredit his findings. Since then the widespread use of Lead in everyday products were banned (which is why we now use unleaded fuel to power our vehicles).
Interesting reading:
More about isotopes and the Radiometric dating process.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_lead_dating
earthsky.org/earth/this-zircon-crystal-is-the-oldest-piec...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_transmutation
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decay_chain
Thank you to Sumarie for letting photograph her beautiful Zircon Crystal specimen.
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A "tongue in cheek" close-up Photomicrography view of a marble, where I illustrate that when you look at a spherical object close enough, it seems to be flat. If one subscribes to "Flat Earth Theory", it would mean that this photo proves that the Marble is flat!
How Eratosthenes calculated that the Earth was round in the 3rd Century BC already. Clip from Cosmos - Carl Sagan.
A lifetime of careful observation of the known Universe, and the basic laws of Physics disproves all claims that the Earth is flat. This simple experiment is aimed at getting people to think for themselves and draw their own conclusions, by observing the world around them.
View my Astrophotography Gallery, with some of my Astronomical observations on my journey of self-study and Lifelong learning.
Why is the marble on a turtle's back?
A short excerpt from: "A Brief History of Time" - “A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: “What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.” The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, “What is the tortoise standing on?” “You’re very clever, young man, very clever,” said the old lady. “But it’s turtles all the way down!” ― Stephen Hawking.
Earth's Line of Sight Curvature Calculations:
The Earth has a radius of approximately 3965 miles. Using the Pythagorean theorem, that calculates to an average curvature of 7.98 inches per mile or approximately 8 inches per mile (squared).
www.davidsenesac.com/Information/line_of_sight.html
About this image:
The image consists of 24 x Focus Stacked photos, as the Depth of Field is very shallow when one photographs through a Microscope Objective Lens.
HD Live-Feed of Earth from the ISS:
Conclusion:
Richard Feynman's famous conclusion to his report on the shuttle Challenger accident sums it up. "Reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard P. Feynman.
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IC 2118 (also known as Witch Head Nebula), is an extremely faint reflection nebula believed to be an ancient supernova remnant or gas cloud illuminated by nearby supergiant star Rigel in Orion. IC 2118 lies in the Eridanus constellation, about 900 light-years from Earth.
Note: Galaxy (NGC 1752) - tagged in the mid-top region.
About the image:
This is one of the "1st Light" Deep Sky Objects imaged with my William Optics Star 71mm f/4.9 Imaging APO Refractor. It was photographed on a very warm Summer's evening, which always makes the signal-to-noise ratio an interesting challenge during processing.
Location:
The rural dark skies of the African Bushveld in the Waterberg, Limpopo Province, South Africa.
Gear:
William Optics Star 71mm f/4.9 Imaging APO Refractor.
Celestron SkySync GPS Accessory.
Orion Mini 50mm Guide Scope.
Orion StarShoot Autoguider.
Celestron AVX Mount.
QHYCCD PoleMaster.
Celestron StarSense.
Canon 60Da DSLR.
Astronomik CLS Light Pollution Filter.
Tech:
Guiding in Open PHD 2.6.2.
Image acquisition in Sequence Generator Pro.
Lights/Subs:
18 x 300 sec. ISO 3200 CLS FIT Files.
Combined with data from my f/4 Imaging Newtonian.
Calibration Frames:
40 x Bias
20 x Darks
Pre-Processing and Linear workflow in PixInsight,
and finished in Photoshop.
Astrometry Info:
nova.astrometry.net/user_images/1351038#annotated
RA, Dec center: 76.4456784137, -7.41626476055 degrees
Orientation: 1.75401730086 deg E of N
Pixel scale: 9.99135973574 arcsec/pixel
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Conference delegate winding down after a long day.
I wonder what she's thinking? ...and is the wine helping?
The 26m Radio Telescope Dish at Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO), South Africa.
Why do we use Radio Telescopes for Astronomy?
The human eye can only see about one ten trillionth of the Electromagnetic Magnetic Spectrum of light (between 400-700nm, with diminished sensitivity at both ends). Radio Telescopes can detect a much wider range of Electromagnetic Radiation including Radio waves, Microwaves, Terahertz waves, Infrared, Visible light, Ultraviolet, X-rays, and Gamma rays).
A big thank you to Heystek Grobler from HartRAO for showing me around.
When ever I see a Radio Telescope, I can't help but think of Carl Sagan's ''Contact'' and Pink Floyd's ''Is there anybody out there?''
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The 26m dish at Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory.
When I took this photograph, the Radio Telescope was observing a MASER (an acronym for: Microwave Amplification by Stimulation Emission of Radiation).
Why do we use Radio Telescopes?
The human eye can only see about one ten trillionth of the Electromagnetic Magnetic Spectrum of light (between 400-700nm, with diminished sensitivity at both ends). Radio Telescopes can detect a much wider range of Electromagnetic Radiation including Radio waves, Microwaves, Terahertz waves, Infrared, Visible light, Ultraviolet, X-rays, and Gamma rays).
A big thank you to Heystek Grobler from HartRAO for showing me around.
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It's almost time for the Caldecott Medal for Best Illustrated Picture Book of the year to be announced by the American Library Association. Many librarians, retired librarians and teachers, schools and students across the country hop on board to predict the winner! That's called Mock Caldecott (MoCal)! Here are a few of the MOST OUTSTNADING books written in 2017. My list of potential winners... www.goodreads.com/list/user_vote/5887155
Collaboration...maybe to be more accurate needs a few people disagreeing. I originally drew this because I'm trying to get involved in the Wikipedia Educator Project, which has many blog posts worth of challenges. I've removed the nc so that it may be used in Wikipedia itself.
This photo is really just meant to be informative and educational for those that are curious about the Universe, and want to know how things work. As photographers we capture Photons after all, so here is a bit of the Physics behind the light that we love to capture.
This image shows the Electromagnetic Spectrum of light from the Sun, after traveling through Earth's blue Nitrogen rich skies (photographed through a Quantitative Spectroscope).
The nanometer scale in the Spectroscope shows the wavelengths of visible light, that range from 400 nm - 700 nm. Invisible light at shorter wavelengths (beyond violet) include Ultraviolet (UV), X-Ray and Gamma Ray. Longer wavelengths of light (beneath red) include Infrared, Microwave and Radio Waves.
About the Sun:
The Sun is a G-type Main-Sequence Yellow Dwarf (G2V) Star. Through the process of fusion, the Sun burns approximately 600 million tonnes (metric tons) of Hydrogen each second, turning it into 596 million tonnes of Helium. As the Hydrogen nuclei fuse, Photons are emitted, which in short is why the Sun shines (and all the other stars). The Hydrogen Atom is the simplest and most abundant element in the Universe (with only 1 Proton and 1 Electron).
Through the process of fusion, more complex elements are made at different stages of a star's life and death cycle. This is what Carl Sagan meant with one of his well known quotes from Cosmos, “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
The Sun is roughly 150,000,000 km from Earth. The speed of light is 300,000 km/sec (186,000 miles/sec), which means that the light took just over 8 light-minutes (8 minutes and 26 seconds) to reach the Spectroscope in front of my camera lens.
Here is a very simplistic explanation of Spectroscopy, and how the Electromagnetic Light Spectrum is used in Astrophysics:
This image was photographed through a basic "High School Science Classroom" Quantitative Spectrometer (100 line resolution). With higher resolution Spectrometers on Telescopes, Astronomers can determine what chemical elements Stars and Planets are made of, as each chemical element has a unique light absorption fingerprint, that shows up as dark lines in the spectrum.
The amount that the absorption lines are shifted to red or blue (redshift and blueshift), is due to the Doppler effect and gives an indication if the celestial object is moving towards or away from us, and at what speed. This is how Scientists and Physicists know what the observable Universe is made of, and that the Universe is expanding.
More Info:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_line
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunhofer_lines
www.space.com/25732-redshift-blueshift.html
science-edu.larc.nasa.gov/EDDOCS/Wavelengths_for_Colors.html
Interested in Science, Physics & Astronomy?
Visit my Flipboard with lots of interesting articles:
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My wish: constant learning in the sense of cognitive but also emotional knowledge and experience
A Tower for the Ages
GPS: 29°38'57"N, 82°20'35"W (29.6491, -82.343)
Lifelong learning
©Donna S. McCraw.
This is the Century Tower and University Auditorium, on the campus of the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. This photo was taken thru a glass window from the top floor of the Marston Science Library.
Century Tower was built in 1953 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the university and was dedicated to UF students killed in World Wars I and II. The tower contains a cast-bells carillon. This auditorium was used in a scene for the movie Parenthood, and guess what? I was an extra in the movie!
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©2007 Donna S. McCraw. All rights reserved. This photo may not be used without my permission.
Century Tower
GPS: 29°38'57"N, 82°20'35"W (29.6491, -82.343)
Lifelong learning
©Donna S. McCraw
A campus icon - this is the historic Century Tower, on the campus of the University of Florida, in Gainesville, FL, as viewed from the entrance to the CISE building. Century Tower is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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I was going to depict my PLE as arrows going in and out but changed my mind - my PLE is all inclusive
The 15m dish at Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory, built as the initial eXperimental Development Model (XDM) for KAT (Karoo Array Telescope), the first phase of MeerKAT and the SKA SA – Square Kilometre Array - South Africa.
Why do we use Radio Telescopes?
The human eye can only see about one ten trillionth of the Electromagnetic Magnetic Spectrum of light (between 400-700nm, with diminished sensitivity at both ends). Radio Telescopes can detect a much wider range of electromagnetic radiation including Radio waves, Microwaves, Terahertz waves, Infrared, Visible light, Ultraviolet, X-rays, and Gamma rays).
A big thank you to Heystek Grobler from HartRAO for showing me around.
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Registration Day at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, aka OLLI, Asheville, NC. UNCA campus; Reuter Center.
Classes start in mid September and run through early November.
This is the very end of the line, which included over 700 people; folks arrived as early as 5:30, I heard!
It is first-come, first served; other methods of registration are easier, but less certain.
PS: 962 students registered for the Fall 2012 quarter!
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Re-published by invitation at Carolina Public Press, a great nonprofit news source for the Carolinas! Thanks, Angie!
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Great Idea: Playing Golf on this board while standing and leading balls with the hands / via the two threads into the holes. Created by Werkstar (organisation with workplaces for people with different disabilities)
I've harped on this book in previous photos. Up until a month ago, I didn't even know what to call it...Wikipedia for the save once again. It's pleasant to know that I'm not freaking crazy and other people have done this, too.
Well, Volume 1 is finally finished. It's riddled with typos, bad typography, and the like, but at a whopping 234 pages, I can live with slowly correcting and printing a second copy.
For me, the important thing is that I have a large collection of material off my hard drive and back on my shelf, with my other notebooks, ephemera, and bits of paper. The whole purpose of books like this is to have a living piece of knowledge, experience, and history to consult as needed, whenever you need to, quickly. Computers still can't get that quite right. They're loud, take forever to boot, and unless you can jam it into a Kindle, the screen just isn't meant for comfortable reading. On second thought, I'd hate to read a Commonplace on a Kindle...they're meant for random access.
And the fun of random access! Probably the only book in the world where Harvey Pekar rubs shoulders with Albert Einstein (p55); Colin Meloy, Alanis Morissette, John Cage, and Frank Sinatra share the spotlight (p117); Hildegard von Bingen and Noam Chomsky have breakfast (p177); Pierre Trudeau and Michael Ondaatje discuss politics (p59); and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles hang out with Ken Kesey (p223).
This books spans the last 25 years of my life, collecting things that have interested me. Some things no longer interest me as much as they once did, and things that were of only passing interest then are highly treasured now.
Here's the breakdown of what went into this book:
Excerpts from plays/screenplays: 1
Complete essays: 10
Essay fragments: 3
Complete lyrics: 24
Lyric fragments: 13
Complete poems: 138
Poem fragments: 13
Quotations: 431
Complete stories: 68
Sets of aphorisms: 4
The numbers are slightly misleading...many of the stories are less than a paragraph and many of the quotations are multiple paragraphs.
The wins
* A lot of material went into this book. If I can win this big with volume 2, I can get practically everything that was scattered across multiple text files and almost 5 paper notebooks into 2, maybe 3 volumes.
* It's physical again. That means a lot to me.
The losses
* Kinko's service has slid so far downhill I may never get to produce a second volume. I wasn't happy about producing a coil-bound book, but at least it's in the real world again. I need to do some research into print-on-demand services...I don't want to offer this for sale (due to copyright reasons), but I'd like to find a service that does private projects.
* Lots of typos. Lots. I'll be spending a lot of time going through this to root out the bad in the coming months.
* I'm not a designer, so there is no grid. This was intentional, but some of the pages are really bad. I will have to be much better than this the next time around. Text was set in Dante and headers in Vera Sans.
* The loss of continuity was very jarring. I mixed up the order the material was in in the original notebook, and that is a serious loss. It's information that can only recorded through order, and I should have respected my original decisions. I've been a bit more careful with this in later notebooks, and plan to keep the order of original transcription in mind when a volume 2 finally appears.
More work
I don't know how to begin indexing this, and I need to. The Chicago Manual of Style's section on indexing is 80 pages long...good grief.
I don't expect to start work on a second volume for years to come, although I'm not sure...my notebooks tend to fill up fast with quotes and such. I have several complete essays that run dozens of pages...I suspect that they will be scanned into the computer as jpeg's and placed into the next book that way. I just don't have the time to type that much copy into a book again.
If you are interested in obtaining a copy, copyright is a tricky business. I can't really release the book online without getting my butt sued sideways. If I know you, send an email. I have plain-text and pdf.
My first post SH 56, a Bookshelf. I joined this group to break out taking the same old pictures. It's great to have a challenge. Hopefully this isn't too loose an interpretation. The shelves were full =)
In looking over the list of items I was very excited to see a bookshelf listed. Books are a huge part of my life. My love affair with books started when I been volunteering at our local library at the young age of 12. I later became a librarian. Now I'm a mom that enjoys taking her children weekly to foster a love of books in them.
Looking for a book to catch a child’s wonder? Read A Passion for Elephants, written by Toni Buzzeo and illustrated by Holly Berry! This is a child’s early biography with a lyrical flavor and lifelike illustrations. Enjoy the true story of Cynthia Moss, field scientist and animal-rights activist in a beautiful picture biography. Readers will think on a large scale and dream of big success, both in the life of Cynthia Moss and in their own!
Cynthia Moss explored her world as a “horse-loving little girl." As she grew older, one adventure after another came knocking at her door, and she always answered. After college, a spectacular adventure would soon happen, leading her to the savannahs of East Africa. She fell in love with the area and right away felt at home. Her world of awe and wonder landed her a job as a photographer, reporting to a scientist who was studying elephants. She learned and wanted to know so much more. This was four decades ago, and today she is still passionately learning about elephants as a field scientist and animal-rights activist.
Cynthia Moss bonded with the elephants on the Savannah and they trusted her. She saw family behavior amongst these animals that humans could learn from. See if you can spot these behaviors throughout the book!
As the story unfolds, readers will learn about elephant poaching and see what Cynthia Moss has been doing to end it. Learn about her ongoing efforts to educate others about elephants and save them from extinction.
A Passion for Elephants is a delightful, explorative read. This book will spark an interest in elephants and world conservation. The author includes supplemental information on Cynthia Moss in the back of the book and sources for a world of continued learning! Watch for the book -- September 29, 2015.
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Always be a student; learning, growing, and reaching beyond your comfort zone - @PaulaAbdul #WEDay #lifelonglearning #FCLedu (via Twitter twitter.com/FCLEdu/status/788773276407386112)
It's taking 8 - 10 hours of time out of my week to be in this Intro to drawing course at KCC, (including commute time and homework), but I'm glad to be developing a new skill and growing new neurons. Mine is the upper-right. It needs work. Probably 2-3 hours more. Taking this Community College course is a lot of hard work (and fun) on top of my 3 LIS courses at UH, and my student job. It's getting kind of hectic, but ... No Regrets!!