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people taking pictures of the circus architecture on Al Kasir island during a break of the ReACH technical commitee meeting in Abu Dhabi
Once again, almost double the proceeding magnification and reaching close to the functional limits of the SEM. I did take some images with greater magnification, but artistic quality dropped and, after all, that's what I putting these image up on Flickr for; artistic and general interest.
For my Masters Degree I studied the mycorrhizal associations on American ginseng; various fungi that form symbiotic relationships with all plants except those of the cabbage family. These relationships can easily become pathogenic which lead me into the study of fungal pathogens; mainly of plants, but not always. One fascinating fungal pathogen that infects common house flies (Musca domestica) is Entomopthora muscae. I had long been aware of this pathogenic relationship, and rather late into my Master's program I came upon some flies that were colonized by it (and very dead from it) and decided to, well, play around a bit. One advantage of being in a Masters program in Biology is that you can come up with all sorts of excuses simply to play with a lot of very high-end equipment; in this case a Scanning Electron Microscope.
I collected the flies and first photographed them under a dissecting microscope, then immediately prepared them for the SEM. This was back in the bad old days, long before digital cameras, and I wasn't aware how poorly these images were until they came back from the lab. By then it was far too late to redo the images. My apologizies for the poor images of the whole flies. I was very hesitant to go over to digital, sorry now that I didn't make the move much sooner. Anyhow, I am very pleased with the SEM images and wish to share them here. Remember of course, that these images were taken back in 1994 or 1995 and technology and quality has changed a lot. Still, I'm very pleased with the ones being posted. And yes, just like my images of Hornworms being parasitized by wasps, these images are a tad on the gross side.
So Harry the house fly, being gregarious, sees another fly and lands on your kitchen window pane to join him. Unknown to Harry, his friend is dead and, as he walks towards his buddy he picks up on his feet spores of Entomopthora muscae from the glass. Finding his friend dead he flies away, grooms himself and, while doing so, ingest the spores of the fungi. Soon after the fungi colonizes his body and, rather literally, begins consuming him from the inside out, leaving his brain until the last. When his body is fully packed with fungal material, the fungi goes to his head. Harry, going crazy at this point, finds a high place, usually a branch or a window pane, lands on it, puts his head down, vomits (thus sticking himself there) and dies. Almost immediately after death he breaks open and fungal spores appear from his body. These spores begin shooting off and land on the window pane. In time, these first spores may produce others to form concentric rings on the glass. And flies, being gregarious, see poor Harry down there and come for a visit; and thus the cycle continues.
The parasitized flies are easy to spot. Their heads are down, their bodies showing yellowish white bands somewhat like those of a bee, and a white ring of spores, sometimes several rings, are usually clearly seen around them.
The SEM micrographs show several images, of increasing magnification, of the ruptured flies and the spores coming from them. Some shots taken from the dissecting microscope show the flies as you might see them. I had a lot fun with this. Hope you enjoy it.
The black bar underneath the images give the power used while taking the photo in KV, the magnification and a bar comparing size to an established unit. CBS stands for College of Biological Science.
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Athens is the country's capital and largest city. According to the 2011 census data, Greece's population is slightly less than 11 million.
Greece's name differs in comparison with the names used for the country in other languages and cultures, just like the names of the Greeks. Although the Greeks call the country Hellas or Ellada (Greek: Ελλάς, Ελλάδα) and its official name is Hellenic Republic, in English the country is called Greece, which comes from Latin Graecia as used by the Romans and literally means 'the land of the Greeks', and derives from the Greek name Γραικός; however, the name Hellas is sometimes used in English too.
The earliest evidence of human presence in the Balkans, dated to 270,000 BC, is to be found in the Petralona cave, in the northern Greek province of Macedonia.[23] Neolithic settlements in Greece, dating from the 7th millennium BC,[23] are the oldest in Europe by several centuries, as Greece lies on the route via which farming spread from the Near East to Europe.[24]
Greece is home to the first advanced civilizations in Europe and is considered the birthplace of Western civilization,[25][26][27][28][29] beginning with the Cycladic civilization on the islands of the Aegean Sea at around 3200 BC,[30] the Minoan civilization in Crete (2700–1500 BC),[29][31] and then the Mycenaean civilization on the mainland (1900–1100 BC).[31] These civilizations possessed writing, the Minoans writing in an undeciphered script known as Linear A, and the Myceneans in Linear B, an early form of Greek. The Myceneans gradually absorbed the Minoans, but collapsed violently around 1200 BC, during a time of regional upheaval known as the Bronze Age collapse.[32] This ushered in a period known as the Greek Dark Ages, from which written records are absent.
The Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens is a symbol of classical Greece.
Detail of the Alexander Mosaic, depicting Alexander the Great on his horse Bucephalus.
The end of the Dark Ages is traditionally dated to 776 BC, the year of the first Olympic Games.[33] The Iliad and the Odyssey, the foundational texts of Western literature, are believed to have been composed by Homer in the 8th or 7th centuries BC. With the end of the Dark Ages, there emerged various kingdoms and city-states across the Greek peninsula, which spread to the shores of the Black Sea, South Italy (known in Latin as Magna Graecia, or Greater Greece) and Asia Minor. These states and their colonies reached great levels of prosperity that resulted in an unprecedented cultural boom, that of classical Greece, expressed in architecture, drama, science, mathematics and philosophy. In 508 BC, Cleisthenes instituted the world's first democratic system of government in Athens.[34][35]
By 500 BC, the Persian Empire controlled territories ranging from what is now northern Greece and Turkey all the way to Iran, and posed a threat to the Greek states. Attempts by the Greek city-states of Asia Minor to overthrow Persian rule failed, and Persia invaded the states of mainland Greece in 492 BC, but was forced to withdraw after a defeat at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC. A second invasion followed in 480 BC. Despite a heroic resistance at Thermopylae by Spartans and other Greeks, Persian forces sacked Athens. Following successive Greek victories in 480 and 479 BC at Salamis, Plataea and Mycale, the Persians were forced to withdraw for a second time. The military conflicts, known as the Greco-Persian Wars, were led mostly by Athens and Sparta. However, the fact that Greece was not a unified country meant that conflict between the Greek states was common. The most devastating of intra-Greek wars in classical antiquity was the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), which marked the demise of the Athenian Empire as the leading power in ancient Greece. Both Athens and Sparta were later overshadowed by Thebes and eventually Macedon, with the latter uniting the Greek world in the League of Corinth (also known as the Hellenic League or Greek League) under the guidance of Phillip II, who was elected leader of the first unified Greek state in the history of Greece.
Following the assassination of Phillip II, his son Alexander III ("The Great") assumed the leadership of the League of Corinth and launched an invasion of the Persian Empire with the combined forces of all Greek states in 334 BC. Following Greek victories in the battles of Granicus, Issus and Gaugamela, the Greeks marched on Susa and Persepolis, the ceremonial capital of Persia, in 330 BC. The Empire created by Alexander the Great stretched from Greece in the west and Pakistan in the east, and Egypt in the south. Before his sudden death in 323 BC, Alexander was also planning an invasion of Arabia. His death marked the collapse of the vast empire, which was split into several kingdoms, the most famous of which were the Seleucid Empire and Ptolemaic Egypt. Other states founded by Greeks include the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom and the Greco-Indian Kingdom in India. Although the political unity of Alexander's empire could not be maintained, it brought about the dominance of Hellenistic civilization and the Greek language in the territories conquered by Alexander for at least two centuries, and, in the case of parts the Eastern Mediterranean, considerably longer.
Pasadena, California, 2007
Happy Valentine's Day to all you partnered friends of mine out there.
I've always been single. The more years that pass by, the more I'm fine with it. (I do recall a period in the mid-90's where I felt I "had" to find a partner in life, but then I visited Paris in 1997, fell in love with travel, and sort of kept myself so busy with that, work, and friends that the energy involved with dating somebody and having to adjust to...everything about them...became highly unappealing to me.)
Oddly, I cry at weddings, chick flicks, sad songs, etc. I'm hugely sentimental. So the old heart hasn't completely turned to stone. ;o)
Anyway, this hand belongs to Auguste Rodin's bronze study of Jean de Fiennes for his "Burghers of Calais" sculpture group. The song that comes to mind right now while looking at it is quite sappy, but I always sing aloud and get goosebumps and maybe even a tear in the eye when Elvis croons,
Take my hand, take my whole heart too
For I can't help falling in love with you
For I can't help falling in love with you
I like to hug people and make physical contact -- affection is so necessary, isn't it? No matter our age. And holding hands is one of my favorite intimate ways of expressing love.
Within my reach!
I could have touched!
I might have chanced that way!
Soft sauntered thro' the village --
Sauntered as soft away!
So unsuspected Violets
Within the meadows go --
Too late for striving fingers
That passed, an hour ago!
~ Emily Dickinson
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
~ Benjamin Franklin
www.inspirationalecards.org/poems/reach.shtml
Taken in the Alice Bimel Courtyard of the Cincinnati Art Museum
Sculpture: Star, by Harriet Whitney Frismuth
[order] ACCIPITRIFORMES | [family] Accipitridae | [latin] Milvus milvus | [UK] Red Kite | [FR] Milan royal | [DE] Rotmilan | [ES] Milano real | [NL] Rode Wouw
spanwidth min.: 140 cm
spanwidth max.: 165 cm
size min.: 61 cm
size max.: 72 cm
Breeding
incubation min.: 31 days
incubation max.: 32 days
fledging min.: 48 days
fledging max.: 32 days
broods 1
eggs min.: 2
eggs max.: 3
Physical characteristics
Medium-sized raptor. The red kite is a brownish chestnut color, with a subtle mix of paler orange/buff and darker brown or black streaking. The main wing feathers are dark brown, which contrast with striking white patches under the wings. The pale grey head is streaked with black. The bright yellow legs and feet can often be seen when the bird is in flight. The hooked beak is very sharp and superbly designed for tearing meat. Its distinctive voice - an insistent, high pitched mewing - is not dissimilar to a shepherds whistling and is quite distinctive once recognized.
Habitat
The red kite is a wide-ranging species with a wide habitat tolerance. The only requirement is for a fairly large tree, with open access to it, in which build a nest about 10 - 15 meters above ground. Sometimes, the red kite will take over an old crow or buzzard nest. The red kite is a large bird, but it is not strong or aggressive. It can be very protective of the nest area, but not of the whole breeding territory. Most Welsh kites nest within 20 km of where they were reared.
Other details
This kite is essentially a European species, breeding from the Iberian Peninsula to the South of the Baltic Sea and from Ireland(East) to the Caucasus. It is also known from north-western Africa and the Cape Verde islands. It disappeared recently from the Canary islands. The birds of Ireland and south-western Europe are largely sedentary or make only very small movements in winter. Those of the north-east move to the south-west. The population of the European Union amounts to 21000 breeding pairs for a global population of maximum 32000 pairs. Despite some fluctuations, it seems to be fairly stable
Feeding
The kite family take a wider range of foods than most other families of raptors, and the Red Kite is no exception. Birds, mammals, reptiles, fish, amphibians, invertebrates and carrion are taken in varying proportions, depending on local availability. The British kites rely more on carrion than do their European counterparts, and this makes them vulnerable to poisoned meat (illegally) left out to catch foxes and the like. The average daily food requirement of an adult Red Kite is 130g
Conservation
This species is listed as Near Threatened because it is experiencing a moderately rapid population decline, owing mostly to poisoning from pesticides and persecution, and changes in land-use amongst other threats. Despite the current rapid declines in southern Europe, if population increases in northern range states are sustained the species may qualify for downlisting in the future. [conservation status from birdlife.org]
Breeding
The red kite is a monogamous breeder. In migrant populations the pair bond is probably seasonal, but is renewed every year with the same individuals largely due to individuals attachment to specific home range and eyrie. In resident populations the pair-bond is retained loosely throughout the winter, especially where the breeding home range is still occupied.
Each nesting territory contains 1-5 alternative nest sites. The nest is built by both birds on a main fork high in a tree, 12-20m above ground. It is constructed of dead twigs and lined with grass and other vegetation. A quantity of sheep wool is often added 2-3 days prior to egg laying. New material is added to the nest throughout the breeding season, and a nest that has been in use for a number of seasons grows to a considerable size. If nesting is successful, the same nest is used the following year. At times even old buzzard or raven nests are used.
The clutch of 1-3 (occasionally 4) white eggs with red-brown spots are laid at 3 day intervals in April. The incubation is by the female alone for 31-32 days per egg, i.e. 38 days for a clutch of 3. Incubation starts with the first egg, and as such hatching is spread over several days. The male provides the female food during incubation. She rarely leaves the eggs unattended for more than a few minutes at a time.
The female cares for the young with the male provisioning all food for his mate and young for the first two weeks after hatching. After this the female will share hunting, and the young are able to feed themselves from food placed in the nest. From one week of age aggression between siblings becomes apparent, but this is rarely the direct cause of the death of the younger ones. The fledging period is variable, depending on the size of the brood and food availability. The young may start to clamber about the nest tree by 45 days, but rarely fledge before 48-50 days, sometimes not until 60-70 days. Parents care for them in the vicinity of the nest for a further 15-20 days. The young birds will breed for the first time when they are two years old. Only one brood is raised in a year. The female will re-lay after a loss of eggs, but not after loss of young.
Migration
Mainly migratory in north and central Europe though increasing tendency to overwinter some areas- resident and dispersive further south. Small isolated irish, Scottish and Welsh population largely resident, though some juveniles disperse northwards and eastwards into England in their first autumn, winter there, and return in spring. A few continental birds reach Britain during immaturity. Elsewhere in Europe, migratory populations winter mainly north Mediterranean basin. Long-established pattern of occasional winter records north and central Europe, such instances more frequent since late 1950s, and increasing degree of regular wintering in parts of south Sweden, south Germany, Switzerland, and north-east France. This behavioral change made possible by exploitation of improved food sources, and perhaps milder winters (on average) of recent decades. Movement southward from Europe on small scale, most evident Straits of Gibraltar. Migratory movements begin August- most from central Europe pass through France in September, reaching Iberian winter quarters late September and October. Small onward movement across Straits of Gibraltar mainly October-November. Return movement through Europe begins late February- some reach northernmost breeding grounds late March though passage continues into April.
Filming the Republic Of Conscience /World Sustainability Organization 3 Finger Photo Contest Video
Echos of the Republic Of Conscience
Bertrand Russell，1872.5.18—1970.2.2
3 Passions I Have Lived For:
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness–that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what–at last–I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.
伯特兰·罗素（Bertrand Russell，1872.5.18—1970.2.2）是二十世纪英国哲学家、数学家、逻辑学家、历史学家，无神论或者不可知论者，也是上世纪西方最著名、影响最大的学者和和平主义社会活动家之一，罗素也被认为是与弗雷格、维特根斯坦和怀特海一同创建了分析哲学。他与怀特海合著的《数学原理》对逻辑学、数学、集合论、语言学和分析哲学有着巨大影响。1950年，罗素获得诺贝尔文学奖，以表彰其“多样且重要的作品，持续不断的追求人道主义理想和思想自由”。
我为什么而活着？
三种单纯然而极其强烈的激情支配着我的一生。那就是对于爱情的渴望，对于知识的追求，以及对于人类苦难痛彻肺腑的怜悯。这些激情犹如狂风，把我伸展到绝望边缘的深深的苦海上东抛西掷，使我的生活没有定向。
我追求爱情，首先因为它叫我消魂。爱情使人消魂的魅力使我常常乐意为了几小时这样的快乐而牺牲生活中的其他一切。我追求爱情，又因为它减轻孤独感－－那种一个颤抖的灵魂望着世界边缘之外冰冷而无生命的无底深渊时所感到的可怕的孤独。我追求爱情，还因为爱的结合使我在一种神秘的缩影中提前看到了圣者和诗人曾经想像过的天堂。这就是我所追求的，尽管人的生活似乎还不配享有它，但它毕竟是我终于找到的东西。
我以同样的热情追求知识，我想理解人类的心灵，我想了解星辰为何灿烂，我还试图弄懂毕达哥拉斯学说的力量，是这种力量使我在无常之上高踞主宰地位。我在这方面略有成就，但不多。
爱情和知识只要存在，总是向上导往天堂。但是，怜悯又总是把我带回人间。痛苦的呼喊在我心中反响回荡，孩子们受饥荒煎熬，无辜者被压迫者折磨，孤弱无助的老人在自己的儿子眼中变成可恶的累赘，以及世上触目皆是的孤独、贫困和痈苦－－这些都是对人类应该过的生活的嘲弄。我渴望能减少罪恶，可我做不到，于是我感到痛苦。
这就是我的一生。我觉得这一生是值得活的，如果真有可能再给我一次机会，我将欣然再重活—次。
Echos of the Republic Of Conscience
The crowd in front of the local Gamestop for the midnight launch of HALO: Reach. I'm the guy in the armor towards the left edge of the frame.
Handheld pano in a stand of redwoods near Walnut Creek. I was on a walk with the family and was really digging the light coming down through the trees. It was about 1 or 2 in the afternoon so the light was very strong, but once again I am impressed with the XTrans sensor's and Fuji's magic color algorithms to make great out of camera jpegs. This was me just panning the camera upward in pano mode while it clicked away. No nodal point tripod needed for casual photos!
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The Lincoln Tunnel Challenge 5K is one of the most unique races in the country. This USATF certified 5K (3.1 miles) takes place mostly underwater and spans two states. The toll booths in Weehawken, NJ mark both the start and finish of the race. There is a cone turnaround once participants reach the NYC side of the tunnel. All proceeds benefit Special Olympics New Jersey and the thousands of athletes and Unified Partners.
Photo by Tracey Tift
012/365 2009
A wintry scene from this morning's snowfall taken outside our cafeteria window. I did clean up some distracting snowflakes and such.
out-take, from this.
It rained a lot today, but I don't really mind the rain. d:
Blah, I need to decide on whether or not I want to continue helping with the schools newspaper next year, or start helping with yearbook. I worked this year with the newspaper. Working* It's fun. But, I really want to try something new. It's pretty stupid that we can't take both. I get to take photos for both, that's the fun part. I don't know what to do...deciding is the worst thing ever.
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Oh, so I'm signed up for the SAT's. Damn, I remember thinking in my Freshmen year that I have so much time to prepare the SATs, and now I only have about a month. Time is going by too quick.
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353 Students of DEAF REACH Schools and Training Centers Gifted Solar LED Lights Dec, 2017.
Deaf are not disabled. They are as smart, intelligent and as full of potential as their hearing counterparts. Less than 5% of 1.25 million Deaf children in Pakistan have access to education. They need our special attention motivation and encouragement to be a good citizen.
On 14th December 2017, an event was organized at Deaf Reach School and College, Karachi Campus. Purpose of the event was to provide solar powered lanterns to the students of primary grades as a token for the motivation and encouragement in performing their daily activities.
These Solar Lanterns are manufactured by Shaan Technologies Private Limited Karachi and provided to the students under “Pehli Kiran” (First Ray of Light) Initiative. This initiative was started by Mr. Pervaiz Lodhie President and CEO of LEDtronics Inc. USA and Shaan Technologies Pakistan earlier in 2002.
Mr. Shaukat Ali Suleman (Sitara–e-Imtiaz) Deputy Chief, Citizen Police Liaison Committee was chief guest of the program.
Mr. Francis Doherty, & Ms. Mehrin Abrar from Deaf Reach were host of the program. Mr. Shahid Siddique and Mr. Atif Ali Shah from Shaan Technologies Private Limited were also present. Parents of the pupils also present in the event.
Breakup of Solar Lights provided to the students of various DEAF REACH centers is as follows,
Karachi center: 57 Students LED Solar Lights distributed Dec14, 2017
Hyderabad center: 52 Students LED Solar Lights distributed Dec22, 2017
Rashidabad center: 100 Students LED Solar Lights distributed Dec26, 2017
Sukkur center: 67 Students LED Solar Lights distributed Dec16, 2017
Nawabshah center: 77 Students LED Solar Lights distributed Dec09, 2017
Deaf Reach is a project of Family Educational Services Foundation (FESF) a non-profit educational organization active in Pakistan since 1984.
Deaf Reach Schools and Training Centers are present in major cities of Sindh and Punjab Provinces including, Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukker, Nawabshah, Rashidabad and Lahore. These centers provide formal education, academic literacy and vocational skills training to deaf children and youth in an enabling environment where students can excel. Advanced vocational training courses are available for deaf young adults to equip them with marketable skills and prepare them for gainful employment.
All Deaf Reach campus branches are equipped with vocational training labs offering courses in ICT, cooking and nutrition, arts, handicrafts, weaving, sewing, embroidery, screen printing, and tailoring.
REACH is an NGO based in Hanoï which specializes in providing vocational training, career advice and job placement services for Vietnam’s most disadvantaged youth.
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