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Taken at Castlebar Golf Course.
The ground is frozen.
The tree in the middle is dead.
The jet overhead is in all probability heading for the US as we are in the Ireland/US flight path.
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Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
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And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
www.facebook.com/Epic-Poetry-for-Epic-Landscape-Photograp...
Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
www.facebook.com/lightimedimensiontheory/
Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
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Continuing with the story of the Tragedy of Frendraught:
"This mysterious and melancholy event was of course calculated to increase the heats and animosities then prevailing in the north of Scotland, and to occasion doubts and prejudices as to the authors of the conflagration which was considered as a willful and premeditated act, and not the result of accident.
That Frendraught or his family were implicated in this atrocious act, does not appear to be within the reach of probability. The Leslies were with more reason suspected, they and their adherents having not only threatened to burn the House of Frendraught, but had, as was proved before the Lords of Council, entered into negociations (sic) to that effect with the notorious James Grant, the cousin-German of Pitcaple, and whose lawless character induced them to select as a fit instrument on such an occasion. The parties immediately employed in instigating Grant to commit this crime were John Meldrum of Reidhill and Alexander, the brother of Pitcaple.
In consequence of a strong representation made to Council by the Marquis of Huntly, the Bishops of Moray and Aberdeen, Lord Carnegie and others were ordered to investigate into the circumstances that occasioned the fire; and accordingly these personages were met on the 13th April 1631 at Frendraught, by the Lords Gordon, Deskford and Ogilvie, who proceeded to examine the ruined tower and all parts of the building, to ascertain, if possible, the cause of the catastrophe. After diligent search, they arrived at a conclusion that the conflagration could not have resulted from accident, that it was very probable it could have been occasioned by external application and that it must have been raised by some means employed, within the vaults or chambers of the tower; probably the latter, for it is unlikely that a fire lighted in one of the vaults, constructed as they were in those days, could have spread so rapidly over the whole building, as to have rendered escape in many cases impracticable.
Great suspicion attached to John Meldrum, who was apprehended and conveyed to Edinburgh, where he was afterwards tried, condemned and executed. His conviction must have resulted more from the circumstances under which he was placed by his own quarrel with Frendraught, as well as his having warmly taken up that of his brother-in-law James Leslie, than from any proof adduced of his having committed the act. The evidence of two of James Grant's men, who swore to the fact of Meldrum having tampered with that rebel, wishing him to undertake the burning, must also have weighed against him; but great writers on the Criminal Law of Scotland have expressed doubts as the the guilt of Meldrum, or of the sufficiency of proof to have occasioned a verdict positively identifying him with the horrible crime for which he suffered.
A prediction of Meldrum's expressed to Sir George Ogilvie of Banff, on the evening before the fire, was certainly presumptive evidence against him, namely, that "unless a reconciliation was immediately effected between him and the laird, it would never happen, as the house of Frendraught would be burned before morning." When brought out for execution, Meldrum to the last protested his innocence, although he fully admitted the conversation with Sir George Ogilvie.
(James Leslie, shot in the arm by Robert Crichton of Conland and "carried home apparently in a dying state", lived on another 20 years. He came by the property of Aquhorsk, married Margaret, daughter of Sir Patrick Hay of Meigens, and had two sons. He was killed, fighting as a Colonel, at the Battle of Worcester in 1651.)
Despite following the tracks of this big male for some time we never caught sight of him, in all probability he'd just disappeared into some the dense bushes that grow along the Huab River.
Anza Borrego Desert Spring Wildflowers Fine Art Photography 45EPIC Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape and Nature Photography
Greetings mate! I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
www.facebook.com/Epic-Poetry-for-Epic-Landscape-Photograp...
Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
www.facebook.com/lightimedimensiontheory/
Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
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Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
Zion National Park Autumn Colors & Winter Snow Fine Art Photography 45EPIC Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape and Nature Photography
Love shooting with both the sony A7RII and the Nikon D810! :)
45EPIC Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape and Nature Photography
Лада Иксрэй в редком цвете (Марс?) - с большой вероятностью служебная машина АВТОВАЗа
LADA XRAY in rare color (Mars?)- with high probability it's company car of AVTOVAZ
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Los sucesos improbables son, aunque raros, posibles, porque son, también, posibilidades. (Gabriel Gebauer).
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The unlikely events are, although rare, possible, because they are, also, possibilities.
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Part of A work in progress. Building... but building what? series
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Part of Tate Online's exhibition Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today.
This image is a combination of 6 photographs, which is probably the most number of layers I’ve ever used on an image.(not including curves, contrasts etc.) I had two different photographs of clouds I took on the (longest) airplane ride, and two textures of the ocean I took when I was at the beach a couple of weeks ago. The island was from stock.xchange (http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1199813) and the picture of me was taken at my backyard swimming pool. I know this image in all probability does not look all too surreal after knowing all that.
I though it was a little bit ironic that I’m posting this up today because it was only a few days ago that I left Bahrain, which is coincidentally a tiny island, after my short summer vacay!
Hope you guys are having an awesome week!
Now I gotta go unpack some more.
<3
Malibu Fine Art Sea Cave Sunset Seascape! 45Epic Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Landscape and Nature Photography
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Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
Fresh snow! More on my golden ratio musings: facebook.com/goldennumberratio
instagram.com/goldennumberratio
Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
facebook.com/goldennumberratio
And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
www.facebook.com/Epic-Poetry-for-Epic-Landscape-Photograp...
Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
www.facebook.com/lightimedimensiontheory/
Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
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Il Tempio della Concordia, il cui nome deriva da un'iscrizione latina ritrovata nelle vicinanze dello stesso tempio, costruito anch'esso nel V secolo. Attualmente è con ogni probabilità quello meglio conservato. Fu trasformato in tempio sacro nel VI secolo d.C.
The Temple of the Harmony, whose name derives from a Latin registration found again in the proximities of the same temple, built also it in the V century. It is better currently with every probability that preserved. You was turned AD into sacred temple in the You century
The Grand Canyon NP & Grand Escalante Staircase! 45Epic Dr. Elliot McGucken ! Point Imperial! Fine Landscape and Nature Photography. Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
facebook.com/mcgucken
Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
Fresh snow! More on my golden ratio musings: facebook.com/goldennumberratio
instagram.com/goldennumberratio
Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
facebook.com/goldennumberratio
And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
www.facebook.com/Epic-Poetry-for-Epic-Landscape-Photograp...
Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
www.facebook.com/lightimedimensiontheory/
Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
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Lartigue, Levitt, Klein, Bresson, oh goodness about every street photographer I can think of would probably see parts of themselves in this. Lust, desire, attraction, hormones, ah..the narrative. Sometimes the hottest images actually have people with there clothes ON. On the level of the objects and symbols, the hat, the uniform, the big long heavy white bag on his shoulder, the woman in between the fold of the carefully opened car door, her hand on the window frame. This the steamiest street image I've ever made. My people tell me that this is an everyday kind of event, what is it.. occuring every 1.8 seconds, we are thinking about sex.
This was a legitimate candid fluid moment, kind of like a decisive moment except that we are all in flux, and the camera (and photographer) is not in a fixed position not posed. This kind of image is the reason why a photographer might spend a lifetime behind the camera always having it preset manually ready to act. Louis Pasteur's idea about chance favoring the prepared mind, along with a huge dose of probability are humming sweetly.
Manual settings, manual focus, TriX, Nikon F2, probably the F1.4, 35mm prime.
"The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities."
-- Vic Braden
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I think that AI image generation is similar in many ways to photography. The camera itself handles all the fine details, but the photographer is in charge of curating the types of images that will be created.
Ultimately, it is all about maximizing the probability that something good will be created.
This is very similar to AI image generation, in terms of the skills involved and what the human does vs. what the machine does.
You can't compare AI image generation to the process of actually making these images from scratch with 3D software or paint/pencils, where the human controls every detail.
However, I think the process really is very similar to that of photography, as I made the case for above. I think that DALL-E 3 is by far the most powerful AI image generation tool currently available.
- Josh
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In all probability this is a love affair with equal burning passion (from both ends). While to stay away from the Himalayas is an extremely daunting thought, it in turn has never disappointed. The day before, locals said was cloudy and the weather was remarkably bad, arrived around late afternoon and the sky began to open up.
Apart from the landscape, culture, architecture, myths and legends the most incredible thing about the Himalayas is that it does not respond to all, to non believers the meaning of this statement would completely elude but to some it would make perfect sense.
The majestic Annapurna massif kissed by the rich hued light is a spectacular sight, a moment that leaves one feeling almost giddy and ecstatic at the opportunity to witness something as dramatic. The Annapurna Circuit or the Annapurna Himal cuts across Nepal from west to east, being bounded on the west by the river Gandaki and on the eastern end by the Marsyandi. Five important summits rise from its backbone ridge Annapurna South, Annapurna I, Annapurna II, Annapurna III and Annapurna IV.
Incidentally, Annapurna is the Hindu Goddess of food.
Annapurna South also known as Ganesh (named after the elephant headed Hindu deity), or Moditse or Annapurna Dakshin stands at 7, 219 m / 23, 684 ft.
The Kyoto University Alpine Club of Japan had send a six member team with the intent of climbing the summit of this peak in the year 1964. Dr. Haruo Higuchi a professor of the university was the leader, Shoichiro Uyeo a member of the Academic Alpine Club of Kyoto was the deputy leader, while Hiromichi Yoshino, Kiyoo Shimada, Masaaki Kimura and Yutaka Ageta were students.
On the 13th of October Yoshino, Kimura and Ageta with the help of the sherpas around 15:40 hours were the first people ever to reach the top but saw that to the north and south there were slightly higher peaks but there was no time for further assault and they had to descend. Shimada and developed some minor complications and had to stay back in the camp but after a day's interval on 15th of October the remaining members split up in two parties. Higuchi and Karma the Nepalase sirdar (chief of the sherpas) formed a pair, while Uyeo and Mingma the main sherpa formed another. After reaching the main peak which was ascented earlier by the three members of their team, Uyeo climbed the south peak and Higuchi took the north. It turned out that Uyeo and Mingma had sumitted the highest peak after all around 12:30 hours.
The ZERS is a self-propelled, medium-range surface-to-air missile systems developed by the Tongorian Federation, and designed to fight cruise missiles, smart bombs, fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft, and unmanned aerial vehicles.
Developed on the chassis of the Millenia medium tank, the ZERS (ZEnitno-Raketnyye Sistemy or Anti-aircraft missile system) can engage fast movers as far as 44km with a maximum height of 25km.
Target acquisition range
Range: 140 kilometres
Altitude: 60 meters – 25 kilometer
Target engagement zone
Aircraft
Altitude: 15 meters – 25 kilometers
Range: 3–44 kilometres
Kill probability: 90–95% (for 1 missile 9M40)
Price: 20₪
The STAR 466 CIWS missile system is an all-weather low to medium altitude, short-range surface-to-air missile system designed for engaging airplanes, helicopters, cruise missiles,precision guided munitions, unmanned aerial vehicles and short-range ballistic threats. It features a top mounted target acquisition radar, and frontal tracking radar, with 8 ready to fire missiles stored vertically between the two radars. The target acquisition radar is a 3D F band pulse doppler radar, equipped with a truncated parabolic antenna, which provides a maximum detection range of 25 km. The electronic ‘heart’ of the system is a digital fire control system, which allows detection of up to 48 targets and the tracking of ten at any one time, and integrates IFF functionality.
Weighing in at 167 kg, the 9M200 missile is 3 m long, carries a 15 kg warhead and has a peak speed of around Mach 2.8. Utilizing command guidance and radar controlled proximity fuzes, the missiles can maneuver at up to 30Gs and engage targets flying at up to Mach 2. Cold launched, the missiles are propelled out of the vehicle before the solid fuel rocket motor fires and the gas-dynamic maneuvering system turns them toward their target. Missiles can also be fired against surface targets. Each missile is a sealed round, stored in two groups of four. Engagement range is up to 12 km with minimum range varying between 1500–2000 m and an effective altitude of 10–6000 m. The system can be hooked up with the CIWS 30, a radar guided anti-aircraft gun to engage close targets.
Price: 20₪, 0.25₪ for CIWS 30
The STAR 144-30 was designed to engage low-flying targets at a range of 3km as well as armoured vehicles at a range of two kilometres and for direct defense of troops and strategic locations against air assault usually conducted by helicopters and low-flying airplanes. Its lethality and range was further increased with the addition of an upgraded fire control system and two launchers for the "Igla" series missile. With these it can engage aircrafts up to 5.2km away.
Price: 2₪
The Tigr SRAA is simply two Igla launchers on the Tigr chassis.
Price: 1.1₪
Danaus plexippus
Monarch Butterfly --- Monarchfalter --- Mariposa monarca
After a ten-fold drop in the population of the eastern monarch butterfly population in North America over the last decade, a 2016 study predicted an 11%–57% probability that this population will go quasi-extinct over the next 20 years. [Source: Wikipedia]
In an attempt to help the dwindling monarch population, various institutions in Ontario have initiated programmes to promote public awareness, to encourage butterfly-friendly gardening, to breed monarchs in captivity for release at maturity in designated areas. Those breeding programmes have become popular in schools and on the home scene.
Some monarch trivia:
***The monarch's wings flap approximately 300 to 720 times a minute.
***They have a broad spectrum perception of colours and can see even the UV light that humans cannot.
***The Monarch butterfly can cumulatively lay about a maximum of 250 eggs per day at the rate of one egg at a time. The witnessed highest number of eggs laid by a monarch butterfly in captivity is 1179.
***Monarch butterflies store a poison called Cardiac Glycosides that they had ingested by feeding on the leaves of the milkweed foliage in their larva stage. These are sometimes harmful to its vertebrate predators, but ineffective on invertebrate predators. The toxic effect on vertebrates however, depends on the level of intake. These toxins provide these butterflies with a poisonous defense against its predators such as lizards, birds, and frogs.
[Source: www.monarch-butterfly.com]
Simple chaton stylisé et plié à partir d'un rectangle au format d'un billet d'1 dollar.Vous avez 1 chance sur 19 068 840 et une probabilité de 0.000 005 244% de gagner au loto.Jouer ou ne pas jouer tel est la question.
Simple kitten designed and folded from a rectangle (dollar bill size).You have a 1 in 19 068 840 chance and a probability of 0,000 005 244% of winning the lottery.Play or not play,that's the question.
Research indicates that 10% of people are gay. Some studies report somewhat higher or lower percentages. Nevertheless, such statistics, beginning with the Kinsey Reports, made mental health professionals question traditional ideas about homosexuality. Can something so prevalent really be “abnormal?” Several decades ago, homosexuality was removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the official text describing the various types of psychopathology.
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I think that AI image generation is similar in many ways to photography. The camera itself handles all the fine details, but the photographer is in charge of curating the types of images that will be created.
Ultimately, it is all about maximizing the probability that something good will be created.
This is very similar to AI image generation, in terms of the skills involved and what the human does vs. what the machine does.
You can't compare AI image generation to the process of actually making these images from scratch with 3D software or paint/pencils, where the human controls every detail.
However, I think the process really is very similar to that of photography, as I made the case for above. I think that DALL-E 3 is by far the most powerful AI image generation tool currently available.
- Josh
Neorigami and Origami-Shop launched a new - Inter-forum useful model challenge.
i try to make one )) look here - forum.loveorigami.info/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=666&st...
elefantenhaut
60-60cm
probability 45-45 percent
10% - it stoped
There may be other than the standard Yes or No (to be not to be):))
-pictures of girls, one of which you go to a cinema today;
-or the same names, one of which you call your child, etc.
Thanks to organizers!))
58050 "Toton Traction Depot" with a rake of empties, so the probability is this was a working out of High Marnham.
THE CHEETAH
The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is an atypical member of the cat family (Felidae) that is unique in its speed, while lacking climbing abilities. As such, it is placed in its own genus, Acinonyx. The word "cheetah" is derived from the Sanskrit word chitrakāyaḥ, meaning "variegated body", via the Hindi चीता cītā.
The fastest land animal, it can accelerate from 0 to 110 km/h in three seconds and reach speeds up to 120 km/h for short bursts covering distances up to 460 m.
Often mistaken for the leopard, the cheetah does have distinguishing features, such as the long "tear-streak" lines that run from the corners of its eyes to its mouth. The body frame of the cheetah is quite different from the leopard, most notably it is thinner and has a longer tail, and unlike the leopard, its spots are not arranged into rosettes.
DESCRIPTION
The cheetah's chest is deep and its waist is narrow. It's coarse, short fur s tan with round black spots measuring from 2 to 3 cm (0.79 to 1.2 in) across, affording it some camouflage while hunting. There are no spots on its white underside, but the tail has spots, which merge to form four to six dark rings at the end. The tail usually ends in a bushy white tuft. The cheetah has a small head with high-set eyes. Black "tear marks" run from the corner of its eyes down the sides of the nose to its mouth to keep sunlight out of its eyes and to aid in hunting and seeing long distances.
The adult cheetah weighs from 40 to 65 kg (88 to 140 lb). Its total body length is from 115 to 135 cm (45 to 53 in), while the tail can measure up to 84 cm (33 in) in length. Males tend to be slightly larger than females and have slightly bigger heads, but there is not a great variation in cheetah sizes and it is difficult to tell males and females apart by appearance alone. Compared to a similarly-sized leopard, the cheetah is generally shorter-bodied, but is longer tailed and taller (it averages about 90 cm (35 in) tall) and so it appears more streamlined.
Some cheetahs also have a rare fur pattern mutation: cheetahs with larger, blotchy, merged spots are known as 'king cheetahs'. It was once thought to be a separate subspecies, but it is merely a mutation of the African cheetah. The 'king cheetah' has only been seen in the wild a handful of times, but it has been bred in captivity.
The cheetah's paws have semi-retractable claws(known only in three other cat species) offering the cat extra grip in its high-speed pursuits. The ligament structure of the cheetah's claws is the same as those of other cats; it simply lacks the sheath of skin and fur present in other varieties, and therefore the claws are always visible, with the exception of the dewclaw. The dewclaw itself is much shorter and straighter than other cats.
Adaptations that enable the cheetah to run as fast as it does include large nostrils that allow for increased oxygen intake, and an enlarged heart and lungs that work together to circulate oxygen efficiently. During a typical chase its respiratory rate increases from 60 to 150 breaths per minute. While running, in addition to having good traction due to its semi-retractable claws, the cheetah uses its tail as a rudder-like means of steering to allow it to make sharp turns.
Unlike "true" big cats, the cheetah can purr as it inhales, but cannot roar. By contrast, the big cats can roar but cannot purr, except while exhaling.
The cheetah is a vulnerable species. Out of all the big cats, it is the least able to adapt to new environments. It has always proved difficult to breed in captivity, although recently a few zoos have managed to succeed at this. Once widely hunted for its fur, the cheetah now suffers more from the loss of both habitat and prey.
INTER-SPECIFIC PREDATORY RELATIONSHIPS
Cheetahs are outranked by all the other large predators in most of their range. Because they are designed for extreme bursts of short speed at the expense of both power and the ability to climb trees, they cannot defend themselves against most of Africa's other predator species. They avoid fighting typically and will surrender a kill immediately to even a single hyena, rather than risk any injury, as anything that slows them down is essentially life threatening. The cheetah's death rate is very high during the early weeks of its life; up to 90% of cheetah cubs are killed during this time by lions, leopards, hyenas, wild dogs, or even by eagles. Cheetah cubs often hide in thick brush for safety. Mother cheetahs will defend their young and are at times successful in driving predators away from their cubs. Coalitions of male cheetahs can also chase away other predators, depending on the coalition size and the size and number of the predator. Because of its speed, a healthy adult cheetah has no predators.
A cheetah has a 50% chance of losing its kills to other predators. Cheetahs avoid competition by hunting at different times of the day and by eating immediately after the kill.
DIET and HUNTING
The cheetah is a carnivore, eating mostly mammals under 40 kg, including the Thomson's Gazelle, the Grant's gazelle, the springbok and the impala. The young of larger mammals such as wildebeests and zebras are taken at times, and adults too, when the cats hunt in groups. Guineafowl and hares are also prey. While the other big cats mainly hunt by night, the cheetah is a diurnal hunter. It hunts usually either early in the morning or later in the evening when it is not so hot, but there is still enough light.
The cheetah hunts by vision rather than by scent. Prey is stalked to within 10–30 m (33–98 ft), then chased. This is usually over in less than a minute, and if the cheetah fails to make a catch quickly, it will give up. The cheetah has an average hunting success rate of around 50% - half of its chases result in failure.
Running at speeds up to 70 miles puts a great deal of strain on the cheetah's body. When sprinting, the cheetah's body temperature becomes so high that it would be deadly to continue - this is why the cheetah is often seen resting after it has caught its prey. If it is a hard chase, it sometimes needs to rest for half an hour or more. The cheetah kills its prey by tripping it during the chase, then biting it on the underside of the throat to suffocate it, for the cheetah is not strong enough to break the necks of the four-legged prey it mainly hunts. The bite may also puncture a vital artery in the neck. Then the cheetah proceeds to devour its catch as quickly as possible before the kill is taken by stronger predators.
The diet of a cheetah is dependent upon the area in which it lives. For example, on the East African plains, its preferred prey is the Thomson's Gazelle. This small antelope is shorter than the cheetah (about 58–70 cm (23–28 in) tall and 70–107 cm (28–42 in) long), and also cannot run faster than the cheetah (only up to 80 km/h (50 mph)), which combine to make it an appropriate prey. Cheetahs look for individuals which have strayed some distance from their group, and do not necessarily seek out old or weak ones.
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MALA MALA
MalaMala is the oldest and largest private game reserve in South Africa. One of the first areas of private land to switch from hunting to conservation, it is spread over 70 sq miles of the Mpumalanga Lowveld. The property shares a 12 mile unfenced border with Kruger National Park and contains the longest stretch of the Sand River of any of the Sabi Sand resorts. Its varied habitats - riverine forest, acacia bushveld, and savannah - support a broad selection of wildlife, and provide excellent opportunities for spotting the Big 5 (Buffalo, Elephant, Leopard, Lion & Rhinoceros).
Upon checking in, your game ranger will greet you and accompany you throughout your stay. The rangers, selected for their knowledge of African plant, animal, and bird-life, oversee your personal service. They will be your guide for your twice daily, four-hour game drives, sit with you at meals and impart their knowledge of African wildlife with stories about the individual behavior of animals within the MalaMala reserve.
Game drives are conducted in an open safari vehicle, accompanied by a professional Shangaan tracker. Despite the refined attention to detail, you are immediately aware that you are in Africa and that the unexpected may happen. Breakdowns and stuck vehicles are a hazard of driving through donga and bush, but the staff handles this with aplomb. Radio contact, a large reserve, and excellent guides enhance the probability of seeing the big five. The camp also offers guided bush walks.
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I think that AI image generation is similar in many ways to photography. The camera itself handles all the fine details, but the photographer is in charge of curating the types of images that will be created.
Ultimately, it is all about maximizing the probability that something good will be created.
This is very similar to AI image generation, in terms of the skills involved and what the human does vs. what the machine does.
You can't compare AI image generation to the process of actually making these images from scratch with 3D software or paint/pencils, where the human controls every detail.
However, I think the process really is very similar to that of photography, as I made the case for above. I think that DALL-E 3 is by far the most powerful AI image generation tool currently available.
- Josh
At first, the weather forecast for the OFT-2 Starliner launch was at a 40% probability of favorable conditions. Even when it improved to 50%, it still seemed most likely that at the scheduled launch time of 2:53 pm on Friday, storms would be in the area.
What would end up scrubbing the launch was much less predictable than Florida summer weather. As we were waiting at the gate to LC-41, the MLM that had just docked at the International Space Station fired its thrusters. This was entirely unplanned, and the Space Station began to pitch about .5 degrees per second. To counteract the thrust from the MLM, station controllers fired engines on the Service Module and later the Progress spacecraft. Mission Control would describe this as a "tug-of-war" as they attempted to maintain attitude control. Eventually, the MLM ran out of fuel, and the engines shut down, and ultimately, attitude control was restored.
There's lots of good reporting on today's events, so I won't go into greater detail, but I'll say here that the men and women of the ISS program are badasses for how they handled themselves today.
It was odd following along while sitting a few hundred feet from the Starliner, what was supposed to be the next scheduled spacecraft to dock with the Space Station. Ultimately, it was decided not to send another spacecraft to station until the team knows more about what happened today, so tomorrow's launch was scrubbed.
The next option for launch is August 3 at 1:20 pm.
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The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
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I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
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I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
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Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
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The RT-25 Missile Complex was the culmination of a major Carpathian effort to develop a medium and long range missiles system that can be set up anywhere in no time. Being rail-based, it made for a much more survivable SAM system, as the rail-based missiles could move around the rail network and thus be difficult to detect and track.
A typical missile launch train is composed of one M44-class locomotive (a standard diesel electric locomotive of the period), followed by generating power car (not present in the render), a radar and command car, and a variable amount of missile launch vehicles,.Vehicle stopping to missile firing is four minutes
The first wagon (RT-25A) is the P21 Radar Complex. It houses the target-acquisition and fire-contol radar and the command room.
Target acquisition range
Range: 10 m² - 330 km and 3 m² - 240 km
Altitude: 60 meters – 25 kilometer
Price: 100₪ (Mobile Radar Station)
The second wagon (RT-25B) houses four medium range 9M40 missiles.
Target engagement zone
Aircraft
Altitude: 15 meters – 25 kilometers
Range: 3–44 kilometres
Kill probability: 90–95% (for 1 missile 9M40)
Price: 6₪ (TEL)
The third wagon houses (RT-25C) two 9S32 long-range surface-to-air missiles.
Target engagement zone
Aircraft
Altitude: 25 meters – 28 kilometers
Range: 7–90 kilometres
Kill probability: 90–95% (for 1 missile 9S32)
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In August 1943 the US Army started to develop ways to protect the M4 Sherman tanks from shaped charge weapons such as Panzerfausts and Panzerschrecks encountered by US forces in the European theater.
One of the experiments showed that plastic armor was able to achieve the same level of protection as steel but with a much lighter weight.
The armor was further improved through a series of tests and resulted in two variants, the HCR1 and HCR2.
HCR1 was composed of:
50% aluminium fillings
40% asphalt or pitch
10% wood flour
HCR2 was composed of:
80% gravel
5% wood flour
15% asphalt or pitch
HCR2 proved to have the best performance and the original plan for tank protection with plastic armour was to produce HCR2-filled steel panels that could be readily fitted to Allied tanks.
The M4 Sherman needed 11.7 tons of plastic add-on armor while the M26 Pershing only needed 7.1 tons due to its thicker base armor.
However, this project was abandoned since the Army believed there was only a low probability of these shaped charge weapons becoming a serious threat. warspot.net/132-the-tank-s-hidden-foe?fbclid=IwAR2vos-ji3...
My familiar sight when looking in this direction used to include a humongous pine tree about 30 feet beyond the fence until a few weeks ago, but it had gotten so big that it was on the verge of being blown down during our windy seasons and I had no interest in that probability, so unfortunately the tree had to go. I'll miss it. I live in Southern California so I hope this fog clears out before tomorrow's Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl Game.
Happy New Year everybody!
From the blurb on the dustjacket:
“With this new departure – a ‘special’ in ‘The Young Traveller Series’ – we present a book for young people in which space science is taken out of the realms of fiction and fantasy into those of fact and probability.
“. . . It is by the foremost authority on the subject (and lately Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society) . . . Man’s curiosity about worlds beyond his own is unlimited. Arthur Clarke tells us of the history of this curiosity from the visions of de Bergerac in 1656, through the prophesies of Verne and Wells, to recent experiments of sending animals into space by rocket, and man’s deepening knowledge of life on other planets. . .
“There is an account of the solar system; of what life would mean on a space station; of the solutions which must be found before space travel becomes a practical reality; and of the engineering problems connected with rocket construction. Thirty-two plates and six diagrams prepared especially for the book combine to make a volume to be recommended as an authoritative, reliable and exciting account of the problems of man’s greatest adventure, the conquest of space.”
The cause of this MESs is when you loose the trust with the ppl YOU are working with....
Trust is both and emotional and logical act. Emotionally, it is where you expose your vulnerabilities to people, but believing they will not take advantage of your openness. Logically, it is where you have assessed the probabilities of gain and loss, calculating expected utility based on hard performance data, and concluded that the person in question will behave in a predictable manner. In practice, trust is a bit of both. I trust you because I have experienced your trustworthiness and because I have faith in human nature.
The Anomaly is a Risky Proposition
The deep space anomaly presents a formidable challenge and an irresistible allure. A direct trajectory towards its enigmatic core carries a perilous 45% probability of incurring catastrophic structural damage to any vessel. This alarming statistic translates to a high fatality risk for the crew, a grim reality that weighs heavily on the minds of those contemplating such a voyage.
Despite the profound dangers, the anomaly continues to beckon with a "tantalising, almost magical energy and travel solution." Whispers among the scientific community suggest that unlocking its secrets could revolutionise interstellar travel, offering capabilities far beyond current understanding. This potential for groundbreaking advancements, instantaneous jumps across vast cosmic distances or the harnessing of previously unknown forms of energy, fuels the audacious ambition to confront the anomaly head-on. The stakes are immense, promising either unparalleled technological leaps or utter destruction.
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Nikon z6
Sigma 50mm Art lens @ f2.2 /ISO 5000 / 1/200th (with low level fill in flash)
There's another image of Erin that is getting all the views though I suspect those who are deeply interested in the low light abilities of the Nikon z6 might want to take a look at this, as I have never taken anything at this quality in such poor light.
This remarkable image (and I am talking about the technical merit of the camera, although the photo isn't bad either) was shot in the middle of December with one camera mounted strobe which was only giving a small amount of fill (to ensure the light didn't over power the ambient behind Erin) with a fast shutter speed to freeze the movement of the dress. You can't fault the processing of this image even if (in all probability) this is the same sensor used in the Sony A7 III. So, here is a shutter speed of 1/200th and an ISO of 5000. The noise is there, but largely quashed by judicious processing in Lightroom. I should also mention that the lens is the Sigma Art 50mm.
The Statistician’s Dilemma
The statistician attended a birthday party
The princess got a Barbie and a pony
Everybody was supposed to be happy
The parent looked on anxiously
The statistician took a trip overseas
Wandered through streets that tourists miss
Watched children played in the underbelly
Where no one is supposed to be happy
Crunch his figures, do his maths
Calculate probability
Found no correlativity
Happiness is not measured in toys
It may be measured against something called love
But love itself cannot be measured against anything…
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Just one more photo of the Yorkshire Lesser White-fronted Goose, this time with its head up. This is a rare goose in the wild, but it is kept in captivity, so any appearances in Britain are usually tainted with the probability that they are escapees, including this one. Greater White-fronted Goose was given the name Anser albifrons which translates as white-fronted goose. Lesser Whitefront has the name A. erythropus, which means red-footed (orange wasn't a colour back then as it was classed as a shade of red) though its yellow eyering would have been the feature that I would have named it after if it had been me. The scientific names always remind me of an amusing conversation I had with the the late Jeffery Boswell, who was a colleague of mine at RSPB ( www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/aug/27/jeffery-boswall ) You may remember his TV series of Wildlife Safaris to Ethiopia and Argentina in the 1970s. He was a great wit and raconteur and used to invent amusing names for birds. He had me in stitches once when he referred to Y-fronted Geese, then he added the scientific name "Anser cumfifrons". With great comic timing he went on to talk about the Lesser Y-fronted Goose "Anser indecenta".
There's a high probability I will never pilot another plane from Palm Springs, CA to Grand Canyon, AZ again. We were living in a Palm Desert mobilehome park on Hwy-74 at the time and had left our Piper PA28 parked at Victoria Airport (CYYJ)
We decided to rent an airplane and make the 280 mile flight to Grand Canyon Airport and return on a nice, clear day.
Firstly, I had to pay a visit to the Riverside, CA General Aviation Pilot Licensing Officer and obtain a US pilot's license after showing him my Canadian pilot's licence (PPL). No tests were required. 🇺🇸
Then, I had to pay (as in $) a visit to the local, Palm Springs FBO (Fixed Base Operator) to rent an airplane.
To qualify for a rental, I had to take a checkride with a CFI (Chief Flight Instructor) which entailed renting said aircraft and paying an hourly rate for the CFI to ride in the righthand seat. I was checked-out-in-type but took another, duel-ride to become more comfortable flying this upgraded PA28 aircraft.
And you thought all one had to do was walk into an airplane rental office and rent an airplane just like at Avis Car Rental. Not quite.
Now, none-of-the-above is needed. Just fire-up MicroSoft Flight Simulator (MSFS) and go!
Elaiussa Sebaste was an ancient Roman town located 55 km (34 mi) from Mersin in the direction of Silifke in Cilicia on the southern coast of Anatolia (in modern-day Turkey). Elaiussa, meaning olive, was founded in the 2nd century B.C. on a tiny island attached to the mainland by a narrow isthmus in Mediterranean Sea.
Besides the cultivation of olives, the settlement here of the Cappadocian king Archelaus during the reign of the Roman Emperor Augustus played a role in the development of the city. Founding a new city on the isthmus, Archelaus called it Sebaste, which is the Greek equivalent word of the Latin "Augusta". The city entered a golden age when the Roman Emperor Vespasian purged Cilicia of pirates in 74 AD. Towards the end of the 3rd century AD however its importance began to wane, owing in large part to incursions by the Sassanian King Shapur I in 260 and later by the Isaurians. The ancient sources tell the history of city’s existence and how the churches and basilicas survived into the late Roman and early Byzantine periods. When its neighbour Corycus began to flourish in the 6th century AD, Elaiussa Sebaste was slowly obliterated from the stage of history.
The island that was the site of the first settlement here, where excavations have been underway since 1995 headed by Italian archeologist Eugenia Equini Schneider, is almost completely buried under sand. The original settlement, at a location that provided security for the harbors on either side, is a peninsula today. The ruins of a bath, a cistern, a defense wall and a breakwater can be seen on the side overlooking the western bay of the peninsula. But the most important remains unearthed in the city are a bath whose floor is paved with mosaics and a small basilica on a circular base.
A building on the main street of city (east of the theater)
On the opposite side of the highway that divides Elaiussa and Sebaste today stands a theater dating to the 2nd century AD, an extremely small structure with only 23 rows of seats, whose steps and decorations unfortunately succumbed to centuries of plunder. Next to the theater is the agora, built in all great probability during the imperial period. At the entrance of the agora, which is surrounded by a semi-destroyed defense wall once rose two monumental fountains in the shape of lions. Inside the agora stands a large church, its floor is covered by sand to protect the mosaic pavement. Elaiussa’s only temple stands outside the city on a hill overlooking the sea. Only two of the Corinthian columns of this temple, which had 12 on the long and 6 on the short side originally, are standing today. A large bath complex among the lemon groves between the temple and the agora was built by a technique characteristic of the ancient Roman period and little used in Anatolia.
The ruins of Elaiussa Sebaste also harbor the richest and most impressive necropolis among the cities of ancient Cilicia. The "Avenue of Graves", located on a hill to the north of the city, preserves close to a hundred graves of various shapes and sizes scattered among the lemon trees. The aesthetic forms of these monumental graves of Cilicia Tracheia are remarkable.
The ancient aqueducts that carried water to the ruins from the Lamos ("Lemon") river also adorn the city’s two entrances. The aqueduct to the west of the city in particular is in relatively good condition. Centuries ago these aqueduct, as delicate as necklaces, actually formed a canal system that ran all the way to Corycus.
A lidded sarcophagus lies on a small rise exactly opposite the aqueduct. Known as "the Grave of the Princess", this sarcophagus is a prime example of the Anatolian tomb tradition.
Cape Baboon
Bärenpavian
Kruger National Park is one of the largest game reserves in Africa. It covers an area of 19,485 km2 (7,523 sq mi) in the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga in northeastern South Africa, and extends 360 km (220 mi) from north to south and 65 km (40 mi) from east to west. The administrative headquarters are in Skukuza. Areas of the park were first protected by the government of the South African Republic in 1898, and it became South Africa's first national park in 1926.
To the west and south of the Kruger National Park are the two South African provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga. In the north is Zimbabwe, and to the east is Mozambique. It is now part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, a peace park that links Kruger National Park with the Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe, and with the Limpopo National Park in Mozambique.
The park is part of the Kruger to Canyons Biosphere an area designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as an International Man and Biosphere Reserve (the "Biosphere").
The park has nine main gates allowing entrance to the different camps.
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The chacma baboon (Papio ursinus), also known as the Cape baboon, is, like all other baboons, from the Old World monkey family. It is one of the largest of all monkeys. Located primarily in southern Africa, the chacma baboon has a wide variety of social behaviors, including a dominance hierarchy, collective foraging, adoption of young by females, and friendship pairings. These behaviors form parts of a complex evolutionary ecology. In general, the species is not threatened, but human population pressure has increased contact between humans and baboons. Hunting, accidents, and trapping kill or remove many baboons from the wild, thereby reducing baboon numbers and disrupting their social structure.
Due to hybridization between different baboon (Papio) populations across Africa, authors have occasionally grouped the entire radiation as a single species, the hamadryas baboon, Papio hamadryas. Arbitrary boundaries were then used to separate the populations into subspecies. Other authors considered the chacma baboon a subspecies of the yellow baboon, Papio cynocephalus, though it is now recognised as a separate species, Papio ursinus. The chacma baboon has two or three subspecies, depending on which classification is followed. Grubb et al. (2003) listed two subspecies,[4] while Groves (2005) in Mammal Species of the World listed three. This article follows Groves (2005) and describes three distinct subspecies. In the Grubb et al. (2003) paper, P. u. raucana was believed to be synonymous with P. u. ursinus.
Papio ursinus ursinus Kerr, 1792 – Cape chacma (found in southern South Africa)
P. ursinus griseipes Pocock, 1911 – Gray-footed chacma (found in northern South Africa to southern Zambia)
P. ursinus raucana Shortridge, 1942 – Ruacana chacma (found from Namibia to southern Angola, but not accepted by all authorities as distinct.
The chacma baboon is perhaps the longest species of monkey, with a male body length of 50–115 cm (20–45 in) and tail length of 45–84 cm (18–33 in). It also one of the heaviest; the male weighs from 21 to 45 kg (46 to 99 lb) with an average of 31.8 kg (70 lb). Baboons are sexually dimorphic, and females are considerably smaller than males. The female chacma weighs from 12 to 25 kg (26 to 55 lb), with an average of 15.4 kg (34 lb). It is similar in size to the olive baboon, averaging slightly higher in mean body mass, and of similar weight to the more compact mandrill, the males of which weigh on average about 1 kg (2.2 lb) more than a chacma baboon, the females weigh 3 kg (6.6 lb) less than the female chacma. While the mandrill is usually crowned the largest of all modern monkeys, going on total length and average (but not maximum) body weight between the sexes, the chacma baboon appears to be the largest extant monkey. The chacma baboon is generally dark brown to gray in color, with a patch of rough hair on the nape of its neck. Unlike the males of northern baboon species (the Guinea, hamadryas, and olive baboons), chacma males do not have a mane. Perhaps the most distinctive feature of this baboon is its long, downward-sloping face. The canine teeth of male chacma baboons have a mean length of 3.86 ± 0.30 cm (1.52 ± 0.12 in) at the time they emigrate from their natal troop. This is the time of greatest tooth length as the teeth tend to wear or be broken thereafter.
The three subspecies are differentiated by size and color. The Cape chacma is a large, heavy, dark-brown, and has black feet. The gray-footed chacma is slightly smaller than the Cape chacma, lighter in color and build, and has gray feet. The Ruacana chacma generally appears to be a smaller, less darkly colored version of the Cape chacma.
The chacma baboon inhabits a wide array of habitats including woodland, savanna, steppes, and subdesert, from the grassy alpine slopes of the Drakensberg to the Kalahari desert. During the night the chacma baboon needs hills, cliffs, or large trees in which to sleep. During the day water availability may limit its range in arid areas. It is found in southern Africa, ranging from South Africa north to Angola, Zambia, and Mozambique. The subspecies are divided across this range. The Cape chacma is found in southern South Africa; the gray-footed chacma, is present from northern South Africa, through the Okavango Delta in Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique (south of the Zambezi), to southwest Zambia; and the Ruacana chacma is found in northern Namibia and southern Angola.
The chacma baboon is omnivorous with a preference for fruits, while also eating insects, seeds, grass, smaller vertebrate animals, and fungi (the desert truffle Kalaharituber pfeilii); at the Cape of Good Hope in particular, it is also known for taking shellfish and other marine invertebrates. It is generally a scavenger when it comes to game meat, and rarely engages in hunting large animals. One incident of a chacma baboon killing a human infant has been reported, but the event is so rare, the locals believed it was due to witchcraft. Normally, chacma baboons will flee at the approach of humans, though this is changing due to the easy availability of food near human dwellings.
The chacma baboon usually lives in social groups, called troops, which are composed of multiple adult males, adult females, and their offspring. Occasionally, however, very small groups form that consist of only a single adult male and several adult females. Chacma troops are characterized by a dominance hierarchy. Female ranking within the troop is inherited through the mother and remains relatively fixed, while male ranking is often in flux, especially when the dominant male is replaced. Chacmas are unusual among baboons in that neither males nor females form strong relationships with members of the same sex. Instead, the strongest social bonds are often between unrelated adult males and females. Infanticide is also common compared to other baboon species, as newly dominant males will often attempt to kill young baboons sired by the previously dominant male. Baboon troops possess a complex group behavior and communicate by means of body attitudes, facial expressions, vocalizations and touch.
The chacma baboon often sleeps in large groups on cliffs or in trees at night to avoid predators. The morning dispersal from the sleeping site is synchronized, with all members leaving at the same time. In most cases, dispersal is initiated by a single individual, and the other members of the group decide whether or not to follow. At least five followers must be recruited for a successful dispersal initiation, and not all initiation attempts are successful. Surprisingly, the initiator's dominance status shows little correlation with successful initiation of departure; more-dominant individuals are no more likely to lead a successful departure than subordinate individuals. One study has shown that while the success rate of dispersal initiation attempts is relatively constant across all sexes, male are more likely to attempt initiation than females, and lactating females are less likely to attempt initiation than females without dependent offspring. A separate study has achieved slightly different results. While dominance hierarchy does not play a significant role in initiating the morning dispersal, social affiliation does. Chacma baboons that play a more central role in the group (as measured by grooming behavior and time spent with other members) are more likely to be followed during the morning dispersal. This study concluded that group members are more likely to follow the behavior of individuals with which they are closely affiliated.
Dominance does play a role in group foraging decisions. A dominant individual (usually the alpha male) leads the group to easily monopolized resources. The group usually follows, even though many subordinate members cannot gain access to that particular resource. As in morning dispersal, the inclination of group members to follow the leader is positively associated with social interactions with that dominant individual.
Collective foraging behavior, with many individuals taking advantage of the same resource at once, has also been observed. However, this behavior can be chiefly attributed to shared dietary needs rather than social affiliation. Pregnant females, who share similar dietary needs, are more likely to synchronize their behavior than fertile females. Foraging synchronization decreases in areas with lower food density.
Adoption behavior has been observed in chacma baboons. Orphaned baboons whose mothers have disappeared or died are often too small to care for themselves. In one study of nine natural orphans and three introduced orphans, all but one orphan were adopted by another member of the group. The individual that was not adopted was 16 months old, four months older than the next oldest orphan, and was old enough to survive on its own. Adoption behavior includes sleeping close to the orphaned infant, grooming and carrying the orphan, and protecting it from harassment by other members of the troop. Both males and females care for infants, and care does not depend on the infant's sex. Additionally, all caregivers are prereproductive, only four or five years of age. The two major theories explaining this behavior are kin selection, in which caregivers take care of potentially related orphans, and parental practice, in which young caregivers increase their own fitness by using an orphan to practice their own parental skills.
Males and female chacma baboons often form relationships referred to as "friendships". These cooperative relationships generally occur between lactating females and adult males. The females are believed to seek out male friendships to gain protection from infanticide. In many baboon species, immigrant alpha males often practice infanticide upon arrival in a new troop. By killing unrelated infants, the new male shortens the time until he can mate with the females of the troop. A female with dependent offspring generally does not become sexually receptive until she weans her offspring at around 12 months of age. However, a mother usually becomes sexually receptive shortly after the death of her offspring.
This protection hypothesis is supported by studies of stress hormones in female baboons during changes in the male hierarchy. When an immigrant male ascends to the top of the male dominance hierarchy, stress hormones in lactating and pregnant females increases, while stress hormones in females not at risk of infanticide stay the same. Additionally, females in friendships with males exhibit a smaller rise in stress hormones than do females without male friends.
The benefits of friendship to males are less clear. A male is more likely to enter into friendships with females with which he has mated, which indicates males might enter into friendships to protect their own offspring and not just to protect that female's future reproductive success. These friendships may play a role in the mating system of chacma baboons. A female will often mate with several males, which increases the number of potential fathers for her offspring and increases the chances she will be able to find at least one friend to protect her infants.
Female chacma baboons have been observed to compete with each other for male friends. This may be the result of one male having a high probability of paternity with multiple females. These competitions are heavily influenced by the female dominance hierarchy, with dominant females displacing subordinate females in friendships with males. Generally, when a more-dominant female attempts to make friends with an individual which is already the friend of a subordinate female, the subordinate female reduces grooming and spatial proximity to that male, potentially leaving her offspring at higher risk of infanticide.
The chacma baboon is widespread and does not rank among threatened animal species. However, in some confined locations, such as South Africa's Southern Cape Peninsula, local populations are dwindling due to habitat loss and predation from other protected species, such as leopards and lions. Some troops have become a suburban menace, overturning trash cans and entering houses in their search for food. These troops can be aggressive and dangerous, and such negative encounters have resulted in hunting by frustrated local residents. This isolated population is thought to face extinction within 10 years.
The chacma is listed under Appendix II of CITES as it occurs in many protected areas across its range. The only area in South Africa where they are monitored is in the Cape Peninsula, where they are protected.
Observations by those working hands-on in South Africa's rehabilitation centers have found this species is damaged by human intervention; troop structures are influenced, and over the years a significant loss in numbers has occurred. Because they live near human habitats, baboons are shot, poisoned, electrocuted, run over, and captured for the pet industry, research laboratories and muthi (medicine).[32] Despite this, assessors working for the IUCN believe there are no major threats that could result in a range-wide decline of the species.
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Der Kruger-Nationalpark (deutsch häufig falsch Krüger-Nationalpark) ist das größte Wildschutzgebiet Südafrikas. Er liegt im Nordosten des Landes in der Landschaft des Lowveld auf dem Gebiet der Provinz Limpopo sowie des östlichen Abschnitts von Mpumalanga. Seine Fläche erstreckt sich vom Crocodile-River im Süden bis zum Limpopo, dem Grenzfluss zu Simbabwe, im Norden. Die Nord-Süd-Ausdehnung beträgt etwa 350 km, in Ost-West-Richtung ist der Park durchschnittlich 54 km breit und umfasst eine Fläche von rund 20.000 Quadratkilometern. Damit gehört er zu den größten Nationalparks in Afrika.
Das Schutzgebiet wurde am 26. März 1898 unter dem Präsidenten Paul Kruger als Sabie Game Reserve zum Schutz der Wildnis gegründet. 1926 erhielt das Gebiet den Status Nationalpark und wurde in seinen heutigen Namen umbenannt. Im Park leben 147 Säugetierarten inklusive der „Big Five“, außerdem etwa 507 Vogelarten und 114 Reptilienarten, 49 Fischarten und 34 Amphibienarten.
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Der Bärenpavian oder Tschakma (Papio ursinus) ist eine Primatenart aus der Gattung der Paviane innerhalb der Familie der Meerkatzenverwandten (Cercopithecidae). Er lebt im südlichen Afrika.
Mit einer Kopfrumpflänge von bis zu 115 Zentimetern, wozu noch ein bis zu 71 Zentimeter langer Schwanz kommt, und einem Gewicht von 15 bis 31 Kilogramm bilden sie die größte und schwerste Pavianart. Ihr Fell ist an der Oberseite dunkelbraun oder grau gefärbt, die Unterseite ist heller, die Hände und Füße sind meist schwarz. Die langgezogene, unbehaarte Schnauze ist dunkelviolett oder schwarz gefärbt, ebenso die Sitzschwielen. Die Fellfärbung und die Größe sind nach Region variabel, so gibt es eine Population mit grauen Pfoten; besonders kleine Exemplare kommen zum Beispiel in der Kalahari vor.
Die Männchen sind deutlich größer und schwerer als die Weibchen und haben auch längere Eckzähne, im Gegensatz zu den übrigen Pavianarten fehlt ihnen aber die Mähne an den Schultern und am vorderen Rücken.
Bärenpaviane leben im südlichen Afrika, genauer in Angola, Botswana, Mosambik, Namibia, Südafrika und Sambia. Sie bewohnen sowohl Steppen und Savannen als auch offene Waldgebiete, sind jedoch auf das Vorhandensein von Wasser angewiesen.
Wie alle Paviane leben sie in Gruppen, meistens in gemischten Gruppen, in manchen Regionen (zum Beispiel im gebirgigen Südafrika) dominieren jedoch die Einmännchengruppen (siehe Gruppenverhalten der Paviane). Die Bärenpaviane zeigen ein komplexes Gruppenverhalten und kommunizieren mittels Körperhaltungen, Gesichtsausdrücken, Lauten und durch Körperkontakte. Bärenpaviane sind Allesfresser; sie haben eine Vorliebe für Früchte, nehmen jedoch auch Blätter, Insekten, Samen und kleinere Wirbeltiere zu sich.
Die Fortpflanzung kann das ganze Jahr über erfolgen, die Weibchen weisen während der fruchtbaren Phase eine ausgeprägte Regelschwellung auf. Innerhalb der gemischten Gruppen kann sich prinzipiell jedes Männchen mit jedem Weibchen paaren. Das führt zu teilweise erbitterten Auseinandersetzungen unter den Männchen um das Paarungsvorrecht.
Nach einer rund 180-tägigen Tragzeit bringt das Weibchen meist ein einzelnes Jungtier zur Welt, das zunächst schwarz gefärbt ist. Mit rund einem Jahr werden die Jungen entwöhnt, mit drei bis fünf Jahren tritt die Geschlechtsreife ein. Das Höchstalter eines Tieres in menschlicher Obhut betrug 45 Jahre, in freier Wildbahn ist die Lebenserwartung deutlich geringer.
Bärenpaviane sind weit verbreitet und zählen nicht zu den bedrohten Tierarten. Manchmal gelten sie als Plage, da sie Plantagen verwüsten.
In Uitenhage war in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts ein Bärenpavian namens Jack Assistent eines körperbehinderten Streckenwärters.
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September 21, 2012:
This panorama here is a capture of a sub-supercell thunderstorm which was in rural Southern Champaign County near Philo, or about 6-8 miles away from Urbana, Illinois. Definitely one of my wildest days of this said "chase season" in Illinois; this late summer and fall have been the "spring" of our season since we've had such a horrible drought in the area.
12/09/2012 EDIT:
Finally to add some more information on this day, I was feeling really sick and had a pretty bad cold although nothing stopped me this afternoon (09/21/2012) from witnessing some stormin' goodies in rural East Central Illinois. The SPC had a small-scale slightly enhanced risk area prior to a mesoscale discussion issued within the early afternoon hours regarding the probability that severe weather was likely. I happily scooted northbound along Route 130 from Coles County to Champaign County to witness a strengthening outflow dominant sub-supercell thunderstorm just in the outskirts of Urbana, near Philo.
I panorma'd this sucker and since this day I consider it to be one of my best shelf cloud captures yet of 2012.
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I think that AI image generation is similar in many ways to photography. The camera itself handles all the fine details, but the photographer is in charge of curating the types of images that will be created.
Ultimately, it is all about maximizing the probability that something good will be created.
This is very similar to AI image generation, in terms of the skills involved and what the human does vs. what the machine does.
You can't compare AI image generation to the process of actually making these images from scratch with 3D software or paint/pencils, where the human controls every detail.
However, I think the process really is very similar to that of photography, as I made the case for above. I think that DALL-E 3 is by far the most powerful AI image generation tool currently available.
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Greetings mate! I love voyaging forth to Zion National Park to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
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How inspiring the grandeur of Zion is! It reminds us of those entities greater than ourselves, such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Light Time Dimension Theory!
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
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Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
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In my 100 Strangers Project (yes, I'm way past 100 strangers and usually don't post my photos to the group any more) I've always tried to keep a certain balance: I wanted to create a cross section of society - highly subjective, of course, and very much interfered with by other aspects, but a cross section nonetheless.
However, it became quickly clear that elder women are somewhat underrepresented in my Project. (The term „elder women“ is only used as a differentiation from „very young women“ here.)
But why are elder women underrepresented? As I've already said when I explained my „PoD – Probability of Denial“, the main and most obvious reason is that elder women will usually decline participating in my project. And that makes me more reluctant to ask elder women than any other group of strangers. (Btw, my next stranger will demonstrate that this is statistics at best and that there's no way to tell how specific people will react to my approach until I've actually asked them.)
I can think of a few reasons why elder women might be more likely to decline my request, and some of them have to do with society's perceptions, I guess. Eventually, another reason might be that elder women have certain reservations when dealing with men in their late 30s, especially when those men ask for a photo.
Anyway, I've been thinking about all of this once more and I decided to change the ratio a little by focusing on elder women. So, when I found a little time again to go out looking for strangers I did concentrate on elder women – but only to come home with three more rejections.
I didn't let that stop me; just a couple of days later, I set out again for elder women. Well, the photo of Tini clearly demonstrates that I failed again.
What happened? I was roaming the streets of Stuttgart, looking for elder women to photograph, when suddenly Tini passed by. Next thing I know I was following Tini, happily abandoning my initial goal. But before I could catch up with Tini she went inside a shoe store.
This wasn't the first time I waited in front of a store for someone to come out. However, after a few minutes I realized that the combination of „woman“ and „shoes“ might quite easily mean I would have to wait for what might feel like an eternity. Some fellow 100 Strangers photographers came to my mind, especially the ones somewhere in Australia that seem to raid shops in search of strangers on a regular basis – and I decided to break new ground: I went inside, found Tini and approached her right there.
No, was Tini's first answer when I asked her for a photo. I explained what my Project was about. No, she said again, but this time she added: I always look stupid on photos.
I tried swaggering: You haven't seen my photos yet...
What, Tini, asked, here inside the shoe store? - If you're ok with that, I'd like to take you outside, I answered, the light's better there.
Tini agreed. On our way out she threatened me: Don't you dare messing up! I believe she wasn't entirely joking...
So, finally, meet Tini. Tini is an engineer working for a well-known company in Esslingen. When I commented that I supposed she'd stand out among the other engineers, she laughed and said that was only on the appearance and that in fact, she was totally square.
After a short chat I got the feeling that Tini wanted to move on, so I thanked her and let her go back inside the store.
Still curious to learn more about Tini? Then you might wanna visit her (German) blog – she posted there about our encounter, too: See here.
Thank you, Tini!
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You can find my original set of 100 Strangers here.
The ongoing series of 100 Strangers and Beyond can be seen here.
Find out more about the project at the group page 100 Strangers.