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Done! Another semi autobiographical sketch, recalling the hours I wandered in the woods and marshes as a boy, learning about nature. There were mallards in the marshes and streams and sometimes I'd flush one unexpectedly; I guess we were both surprised. I hope kids are having similar encounters with wildlife today so they can get to know each other. This is done all with a Sakura micron .05 black pen on Bordon & Riley 90 pound #310 Optimum drawing paper, which has a nice surface with enough tooth to encourage sketching but not so much as to bleed. It's fairly light though so at 18 x 24 inches it's easy to crease or wrinkle it by mistake unless you tape it down to a board :-)
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I believe this is the photographer of the upcoming series of photos. If you recall the Magnus Tool and Dye series, www.flickr.com/photos/131503794@N02/albums/72157658896334728 this batch of negatives came from the same box.
I forgot about this photo until I saw the news last night. The popular flipflop brand has recalled its kids line due to its high lead content. As usual, it was the US who discovered it. Naturally, the right thing to do here in the Philippines was for the voluntary recall by its distributor.
Gia is probably on her 7th pair and Mina has 3 pairs. I myself have several. Not for anything, we simply find it extremely comfy. I'm not quick to panic with such report. Heck, we're probably safer with the Havaianas than the locally made or the china-made slippers proliferating the market. The DTI admitted they haven't done any lead content testing. So I slept with the questions: Do we really have a choice? What is safe? Or rather, what isn't safe? Sssssssigh!
That's Gia doing a "Head, shoulders, knees, and toes..." routine. She used to like having her nails polished until she realized it was making her nails dirty. LOL
Seen in Explore! March 6, 2009
Titulo / Title: Recordando el mundo
Modelo / Model: Monumento 11M / 11M Monument
Locación / Location : Madrid - España
© Copyright photo. Arq.blancoc
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There were sounds in my head
Little voices whispering
That I should go and this should end
Oh and I found myself listening
If I recall my mycology correctly, they should all belong to the same fungus individuum, so technically it's as much a "family" as your hair is a family.
I don't recall what this was all about but this may have been one of the units wrecked just west of Glendive just BEFORE I started dispatching for the BN in 1988. Pictured here headed for the shop at Livingston being pulled by an MRL SD40 just west of Twin Bridges, MT
The defective bears were in the machine for about 6 hours and then replaced with fixed ones. IM Zen Zarco in-world if you have a HUG bear with only 2 animstions inside the contents.
Zion National Park, Utah
I do not know why I failed to upload this photo with the others taken that day. I do not recall where the fall was so I just dropped the map pin in the middle of the park.
first shot with new Zuiko 50-200mm, a hefty weapon, another windfall from the financial storm shaking my savings tree.
Ringneck parakeets eat the apples
A Phase III Amtrak Cabbage Car leads an Afternoon Hiawatha through some recent trackwork at Rondout.
In a cloud of dust, Poof! It was gone...
Always known to have surprises ! I do recall in the Fifties Gasoline cost 19 cent a gallon ! and my home town small only had 3 gas stations so those weren't gas war pricing ! imagine that the tax now day's is over 19 cents a gallon ! our emissions problem today is not the automobile, but the number of drivers, just take a PEEK how many people in vehicles passing You By at the stoplight ! One person on board ! Think about how the comparative comparison One to More than one ! Just another example shoes last longer than a set of new tires !
Thinking about my autumn trip to Bled and wondering if any snow will appear for my winter trip.
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Passing the former station yard at Closeburn on the G&SW, 66789 puts in another appearance on 6S94, the Wembley to Irvine loaded clay tanks.
Closeburn station closed to passengers on 11th September 1961. The goods yard (seen on the right) stayed open until 6th May 1964, when it too closed.
The yard is used today by a pallet manufacturer and "Hamilton and Hall" coal.
There is also an access point for the railway and after a closure of 2 weeks, evidence of sleeper replacement remains.
And a kind wave from the driver as he went past too.
"I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular,
since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle..."
~ Nicolaus Copernicus
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I just recall my memories about this trip, and noticed that I forgot to share these photos.
Way back to 2022, we went to Tagaytay for an one day trip.
The Camera that I was using during that trip (Sony A7C) has already been sold.
This is the biggest silver birch that I can recall ever seeing. A very impressive sight in the forest near the Ailesbury Column.
My interpretation of:
Sarolta Ban, a Hungarian artist, who had worked with a non-professional Finepix S5600 camera and claims to have learned digital processing by herself. Now owns a more professional Nikon D3100 and is planning to publish a photo book of her images.
Links to her work
www.boredpanda.com/surreal-photo-manipulations-sarolta-ba...
and here
All elements in image are from my stock.
Submitted to TMI: your ART and NATURE November Contest entitled "Let It Snow" found here:
www.flickr.com/groups/impressionists/discuss/721576319020...
Submitted to Kreative People November Game entitled "Baby It's Cold Outside" found here:
www.flickr.com/groups/1752359@N21/discuss/72157631898684006/
Just for a chuckle......
The snowy mound is actually a photo of the top of my snow-covered tarp covering my wood pile with the snowy ground in the background.
I don't recall ever getting a night shot of the fountain or the statue at this time of night. The jets were still not on, so I tried to make the area look more interesting as a result.
I think I also manually adjusted the color temperature in my phone, something I couldn't do on my Motorola. By that I mean I could adjust the color temperature by increments, not just switching to someone's idea of daylight or tungsten or florescent lighting.
Tomorrow, at dawn, at the hour when the countryside whitens,
I will set out. You see, I know that you wait for me.
I will go by the forest, I will go by the mountain.
I can no longer remain far from you.
I will walk with my eyes fixed on my thoughts,
Seeing nothing of outdoors, hearing no noise
Alone, unknown, my back curved, my hands crossed,
Sorrowed, and the day for me will be as the night.
I will not look at the gold of evening which falls,
Nor the distant sails going down towards Harfleur,
And when I arrive, I will place on your tomb
A bouquet of green holly and the flowering heather.
Words by Victor Hugo
for Flickriver - Sophie Shapiro
Donald Trump opened a Pandora’s Box when he and the Republican Party politicized the coronavirus. When he called it the “Kung Flu” and the “Wuhan Virus,” racists attacked Asian-Americans. As a new virus, we have no natural immunity. But Trump refused to heed the warnings to social distance and wear masks, playing down the severity of the disease for political gain. Instead, he promoted fake cures and dismissed science experts. His acolytes followed suit. Rather than follow the science, right-wing charlatans continue to tout fake COVID cures. Only recently has Trump promoted vaccines and boosters (in part to separate himself from potential presidential rivals like Ron DeSantis). Other GOP lawmakers have privately protected themselves while publicly refusing to convey the importance of being immunized. And over 800,000 Americans have died.
People reacted with anger and pseudo-science theories when President Biden first appealed to Americans to “get the shot.” Incentives encouraged vaccinations. While these motivated some, it was much less than needed to reach herd immunity. With vaccination rates lagging, President Biden forced the issue with mandates for businesses with over 100 employees. And now conservatives on the Supreme Court have overruled those.
Adam Galinsky, a professor of leadership and ethics at Columbia Business School, recently wrote about the “psychology of regret” and its effect on vaccine hesitancy. “Alongside skepticism of institutions and experts, exposure to misinformation, and other often-cited reasons for resisting vaccines sits a clear emotional explanation: Many people are afraid that they’ll make a bad decision.” Fear can cause people to hesitate, no matter what the incentives might be. It may not seem rational, but many put more weight on the negative ramifications of their decisions than on any potential positive outcomes. They assign their actions greater importance than the consequences of not acting.
Ironically, this sense of regret explains why mandates have been so successful. When Biden first announced these mandates, the largest police union in New York City went to court to block them. They said they would lose thousands of officers who would quit rather than get inoculated. In reality, only three dozen officers ended up refusing. United Airlines instituted its mandate, and 99% of its workforce is vaccinated. This week they reported no deaths due to COVID. Mandates take the decision-making out of the individual’s hands. With the fear of making a wrong decision eliminated, most get vaccinated.
One of the most inane and insensitive protests over these requirements comes from those who show their opposition by wearing yellow Stars of David. Nazis required Jews to wear these stars with the word “Jude” at all times. Today’s protesters liken vaccine mandates to the persecution of Jews during World War II. They equate vaccination requirements with being sent to the gas chamber. At least, they say, it’s a slippery slope. They wear these stars as badges of resistance. However, Nazis forced Jews to wear them as signs of exclusion and disdain, signifying they were less than human. This false equivalent insults all Jews and their families who suffered during the Holocaust.
In June 2021, Jim Walsh, a Republican Washington State Representative, posted a video on Facebook showing him speaking to a group of conservatives while wearing the star. Posting on the social media platform, he said, “It’s an echo from history. In the current context, we’re all Jews.” We’re all Jews? During the Charlottesville protests, neo-Nazi’s chanted, “Jews will not replace us.” Now people are using the symbols of our annihilation to protest vaccine mandates. We’re tired of being used as scapegoats by neo-Nazis and examples of persecution by anti-vaxxers.
On November 14, 2021, anti-mandate protesters displayed the swastika and the yellow star in front of the offices of New York State Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, who is Jewish. Dinowitz has been a vigorous proponent of mandates. The crowd gathered to protest Dinowitz’s bill, requiring all students be immunized against COVID in order to attend school. Republican gubernatorial candidate, Rob Astorino, organized the rally. Assemblyman Dinowitz stated, “People are free to express their opinions on vaccine policy and on any issue, but I draw the line at swastikas. [T]o stand next to swastikas and yellow Stars of David outside of a Jewish legislator’s office shows a lack of integrity at best and an embrace of right-wing extremism at worst.”
In a hearing by the Kansas Special Committee on Government Overreach and the Impact of COVID-19 Mandates, former Kansas City, Kansas mayoral candidate Daran Duffy, explained why he and his family were wearing these stars. “The reason I’m wearing the star is not to be offensive, but it’s to remember, and for everybody else to call to remembrance World War II. The Jewish people were forced to wear a yellow star to identify them as Jews. And they were ushered off to the death camps in accordance with that. There were medical tests; there were experimentations done on human people. And while this hasn’t reached that deprivation, we are definitely moving in that direction.” Despite his sincerity, he is oblivious to the insensitivity of his protest.
And, just this week, Ohio Republican Congressman Warren Davidson likened vaccine mandates to Nazi atrocities by tweeting a photo of a Nazi Gesuntheitspaß (health passport) with the text, “It’s been done before. #DoNotComply” He went on to say, “Let’s recall that the Nazis dehumanized Jewish people before segregating them, segregated them before imprisoning them, imprisoned them before enslaving them, and enslaved them before massacring them.”
People receiving COVID shots are not part of an experiment. The actions of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, who conducted sadistic medical procedures on Auschwitz children, are a far cry from the science behind these vaccines. For over two decades, researchers have been studying mRNA, the foundation of both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Scientists conducted vigorous trials involving thousands of volunteers before their release. No one forced people to enroll in these trials. It was an altruistic choice meant to help others.
Mandates do not force people to get the vaccine. They have a choice. Yes, it’s a serious one. Their lives and their livelihoods may depend on what choice they make. And there are serious consequences for refusal, like losing one’s job. Without the vaccine, they may suffer a horrible death or lifelong after-effects. Even if you survive on a ventilator in the ICU, your life may never be the same. The coronavirus is and will continue to be a public health hazard.
Our personal decisions affect the people around us. Children and the immunocompromised are at risk. Many of these “hesitants” are ardent supporters of “American Exceptionalism,” believing that God has bestowed special blessings on our country and its people. But there is nothing exceptional about this selfishness.
The exploitation of the Star of David is part of the conflict over racial identity politics. Many Whites are afraid of being marginalized. And the GOP creates false wedge issues that stoke this fear as a way of igniting voters’ outrage. They’ve been employing this tactic for decades. So why is everyone outraged? Because the GOP wants us to be outraged. Because their hold on power depends on it.
Since this pandemic began, we have lived in a world without reason. American society has devolved into a culture where many equate vaccine mandates with Nazi atrocities. Critical thinking is often missing. Jewish identity is just one tangent of racial injustice. White racists often invoke Jew’s supposed political and financial power for their hatred. We can often pass for “white-white.” But we’re really “off-white.” When White racial fears abound, Jews are targeted.
Fear of losing control fuels opposition to vaccine mandates. But anti-vaxxers are not innocent victims of a frightening mob with an irrational agenda. COVID is a dire public health issue. And resistance to vaccines, mandates, and fear of make-believe persecution does not make them martyrs.
One may object to mandates, but don’t use symbols of real suffering to do so. Signs of our persecution are not yours to appropriate whenever you see fit. It feigns solidarity with Jews. But, in reality, these protesters are using us. Until you see your family marched off to the death camps, never to see them again, stop using the Star of David to compare your fears and outrage to the extermination of European Jewry. You don’t know what real suffering is. Stop living your lives as if you do.
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The Collected Short Stories of Philip K. Dick / Taschenbuch-Reihe
Philip K. Dick / We Can Remember It For You Wholesale
Millennium (Orion Books Ltd.) / England 2000
Copyright: The Estate of Philip K. Dick / USA 1987
[The story was adapted into the 1990 film "Total Recall" with Arnold Schwarzenegger as the story's protagonist.]
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