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As we approached one of the Lake Louisa islands, the wind and waves picked up and rain started falling about half way during our 4 Km paddle. Placing the paddle on the water In a slow reverse paddle angle keeps the bow from tipping opposite the wind blowing lateral to the side of the canoe. After this photograph, I put the camera away and we pulled to the lee of the island in front of us to wait out the heavy rain that began to fall. Some subsequent images below...
This is a test of the image stabilization of the new Olympus E-M5 MK II. This was shot at 1/13 of a second hand held (ISO 1600).
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Members of the Chilean and Brazilian contingents of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) conduct rehabilitation works and CIMIC (Civil-Military Cooperation) activities in Haiti.
Many corners of Port-au-Prince are covered with mountains of garbage. Children carry plastics and metals for recycling scrounged from the smoldering garbage dump of Port-au-Prince through this road that is muddy and dusty. The construction of the new road is one of the CIMIC projects.
Photo ID 407767. 08/09/2009. Port-au-Prince, Haiti. UN Photo/Logan Abassi. unmultimedia.org/photo/
This photo shows a TLSO spinal brace. The TLSO brace is used for unstable fractures of the spine and is especially useful for fractures at T7 and lower in the spine. Also referred to as a "body jack" this particular device helps to controls motion and movement, eliminating additional stress on the spine and helps to stabilize the back.
Dr. Donald Corenman, Vail, CO Orthopedic Spine Surgeon, has written countless articles and documents on spine and back pain. He is also the author of books relating to the spine and back.
This is the second installment in my H&K MP5 series. For this build I present the SP89.
The SP89 was a semi-auto only version of the MP5k designed for the civilian market. While not 100% accurate, I opted to give this build a detailed SEF lower receiver, rather than the factory semi-auto trigger group. This particular model has clearly received some aftermarket modifications, including being adapted to fire on full-auto through the addition of the SEF trigger group. I have also given her a SIG SB15 stabilizing brace which is strapped over the forearm to help stay on target during burst fire.
As with previous build, all components have been upgraded and detailed (with the exception of the barrel, which you can't see anyway).
New parts Include:
- Detailed MP5 'SEF' trigger group
- Detailed SP89 handguard
- Detailed MP5 15-round magazine
- Walther G3 red dot sight
- SIG SB15 stabilizing brace, with side-folding buffer tube
Credits to:
- Shockwave: Text (shaded), Walther logo, and Trigger
- Davidman92: Text (plain)
Nimbus-5 stabilization control prototype subsystem being delicately balanced during development tests of NASA's meteorological satellite. The tests were conducted at the General Electric Valley Forge, Pennsylvania plant. Nimbus was a NASA program to develop observation systems for atmospheric and Earth science satellites. Nimbus-5 was launched on December 11, 1972, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, and was operational until March 29, 1983. The Horizon scanning equipment in the spacecraft locates the Earth's horizon, as simulated by the forward edge of the circular chamber, to keep it in proper position (pointed at the Earth at all times) as it makes its flight around the Earth. The first Nimbus was launched on August 28, 1964.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 62-Nimbus-5
Date: December 10, 1972
These days we use a method called meshing and bolting to stabilize and support the ground, this helps to hold the rock in place and stop it from relaxing (falling). In a nutshell meshing and bolting involves strategically drilling holes into areas that require ground support using a rock drill/airleg to insert the appropriate bolt. In essence this ‘staples’ the rock all together. The mesh is installed in areas where there is any chance a small piece of scat (rock) might fall from the backs (roof) of a drive or crosscut and it is held in place using the same rock bolts.
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Plain clothes cops do their best to restrain a man whose pregnant wife was struck by an SUV while crossing the street near Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx. She was being stabilized and treated by EMT's (left) but his mind was elsewhere. In a place like NYC where everyone minds their business onlookers compassionate stares were many perhaps the sigh of brief mortality
"Your abominations are but a faint startle from your indifference! At least take advantage of this hornet body to discharge your debt, if it is some consistency in you own doctrine.Thus he will expiate this absurd moment out of love for Justice, so long as it belongs to his power to determine and imagine what notion of justice he could still possess.Already his breath passed through the narrow corset of the insect, he felt so at ease again that he stood on his feet, and, spreading his wings from the top of the scale plate, straight away he flew towards the rosatres nipples of the immense nudity: he barely touched it when a spark blew out: the pine wing set him on fire.The fire grew stronger, it was struggling and the fire redoubled in intensity, the more it moved, the bigger it grew and the more the flame crackled; then discerning through the smoke the radiance of its sublime slopes and the vast arc of the smile of its sweet lips, it still managed to hum."
Baphomet by Pierre kKossowsky
." Whithout a form that is stabilized but able to evolve until iy fixes itself in all the possible forms of existence" Eisenstein's definition of a protoplasm. Evoking a primitif form this piece materlializes the idea of plasmaticity brought uo by the Russian himmaker and present in other terms, in Klossowski's work. in equelibrium and weightlessness, hung like a trophy in the center of the room, this creature freezes the s^pectacle of a possible unterruped latent metamorphosis. " I am not a creator who subjugates what he creates to a single me and this me to a single body" the Baphomet proclaims in the eponymous novel by Pierre Klossowski.
Bertrand Lamarche does not consider himself a creator: he does not create archetypes, forms from nothing. he works from precedents, reacts to already existing subjects and figures. the Baphomet is inserted in this genealogy. a pagan idol, the sovereign of alchemists, the Baphomet would seem to be the symbol of instability and metamoorphosis. responding to the theater of La Maréchalrie, Bertrand Lamarche presents new works that are animated in the etymological meaning of the world (from the Latin animare, to give life) compared with earlier works. through the manifestation of primitive forms, these works summon up a bestiary that can echo mythology, the fantasy genre and science-fiction novejs; from the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea to Walt Disney's anthropomorphic charayers, frankenstein's creature and the works of Poe, lovecraft or Orwell.
The systems create images of the successive states of the process of the living as so many moments seized of formal, corporeal and identity mutations, taking place before us. asserting that " nothing ever remains equal to itself but that every constantly changes" Pierre Klossowsky's Baphomet opens to multtiplicity and unlocks identities. Echoing the author's reflection, Bertrand Lamarche turns elasticity of matter, the rejection of fixity, the freedom of becoming into concrete form.
To understand the association of this goat-headed devil figure with Alchemy s, one must follow a long and tortured path which begins in the 12th Century. In the year 1119, a small military band in Jerusalem formed a medieval religious and military order to protect pilgrims visiting Palestine after the First Crusade. They were known as the Knights Templar. Headed by a grand master, they lived austere lives patterned on the Cistercian monks and fought bravely to defend the Church. As the several Crusades progressed, however, they began to amass both wealth and stature. Levi's Baphomet - Note signature at bottom!Because the Knights Templars regularly transmitted money and supplies from Europe to Palestine, they gradually developed an efficient banking system unlike any the world had seen before. Their military might and financial acumen caused them to become both trusted and feared. Their defense of the Holy Lands and their monastic vows gave them a presumed respectability and those who wished to remain in Europe were happy to support their endeavors. The Knights amassed great wealth through gifts from their grateful benefactors. By the late 1200s however, the Knights Templars had suffered several military defeats which left them in a vulnerable position while their wealth became the object of jealousy for many including the Papacy. World events were also taking place which caused this situation to become more complicated. The French King, Philip IV, was engaged in a tumultuous struggle with Pope Boniface VIII which grew out of the King's attempt to levy taxes against the clergy. Boniface forbade the clergy to pay taxes to a secular power and in 1302 issued the bull Unam Sanctam, a declaration of papal supremacy. Philip's partisans imprisoned Boniface who later escaped but died soon afterwards. In 1305, Philip obtained the election of one of his own adherents as pope, Clement V and compelled him to reside in France where he would be in control of his every move. (This was the beginning of the so-called 'Babylonian Captivity of the papacy - 1309-1377 - during which the popes lived at Avignon and were subjected to French rule.)
With the papacy now firmly in his control, Philip turned his sight to the somewhat discredited (due to their military losses) Knights Templars and their treasure. In 1307, Philip ordered a sweeping raid during which all known Knights were rounded up and thrown into dungeons, including their Grand Master Jacques de Molay, charging them with sacrilege and Satanism. In 1312, the Pope, now a puppet of the King, issued the order suppressing the military and religious order and their wealth was confiscated by Philip. (The English assets of the Templars was similarly confiscated by King Edward II of England.).
Baphomet - Tarot Card: The Templars ceased to exist from that time forward. Many of their members, including Jacques de Molay, were tortured mercilessly during their internment and caused to 'confess' to a myriad of crimes, including a list of some 127 charges in nine sub categories. These included such things as the holding their meetings in secret and at night. "The Alchemist must steal the Devil's fire. When we work with the Arcanum A. Z. F., we steal fire from the Devil and thus convert ourselves into Gods. On the forehead of the goat of Mendès shines the esoteric Pentagram. The Caduceus of Mercury replaces the sexual organs. In short, we can say that this Caduceus of Mercury represents the sexual organs. Every alchemist must work with Transmutation; when we steal his fire from the Devil, the five-pointed Star shines.. We must develop the Kundalini and dissolve the "I", it is only in this way that we will obtain Liberation.The Initiates of the fourth way (the Wise Way of Man) call "working with the Devil" the process of dissolving the Self. The tenebrous ones usually attack us with violence. Anyone who works in the dissolution of the self, while not being a demon, is usually, nevertheless, surrounded by demons. When uninitiated clairvoyants see a man in this way, they misjudge him, slander him and call him a demon. The Initiates of the Cunning Way of Man reveal themselves to be enigmatic. The disciples of the path are confused when they notice black candles on the altars of these Initiates, and then, naturally, they judge them wrongly.The ego exercises control over the five lower centres of the human machine; that is, over the centres of Thought, Feeling, Movement, Instinct and Sex. The two higher centres of the human being, the Higher Mind and the Higher Emotional Centre, cannot be controlled by the Self. If we want to dissolve the ego, we must study it in the five lower centres; we need understanding. It is essential to understand the actions and reactions of each of the five lower centres of the human machine. The ego works with the five lower centers, and by fully understanding the activity of each of these lower centers we are on the way to dissolve the ego. In front of the same theatrical performance, two people react in a different way. What is pleasing to one person can be unpleasant for the other. The difference is very often that one person can judge and see with the mind while the other person can be touched in his feelings.We must learn to differentiate between the Mind and the Sentiment. The mind is one thing, and the feeling is another. In the mind there is a whole set of actions and reactions that must be carefully understood. In the feeling are affects that must be crucified, emotions that must be studied and, in general, a whole mechanism of actions and reactions that are easily confused with the activities of the Mind.In every human being there are instinctive subhuman forces that paralyze the true spirit of love and charity. These demonic forces must first be understood, then subdued and eliminated. They are animal forces, criminal instinctive forces: lust, cowardice, fear, etc. We need to understand and subdue these bestial forces before we can dissolve them.Sex is the fourth power of the human being. Sex can liberate or enslave man. No one can be complete, no one can be fully realized without sexual strength. Sex is the power of the Soul. The complete human being can only be achieved with the absolute fusion of the male and female poles of the soul. Sexual strength develops, evolves and progresses according to seven levels (the seven levels of the Soul). In this physical world, sex is a blind force of mutual attraction; in the Astral, sexual attraction is based on the affinity of types according to their polarity and Essence; in the Mind, sexual attraction is carried out according to the laws of polarity and mental affinity. In the Causal, sexual attraction is based on conscious will; it is in the world of natural causes that the perfect unification of the soul is consciously realized. No one can actually attain the glorious fullness of marital status if he has not reached the fourth degree of human integration.At the supreme moment of conception, the human Essences are totally open to all kinds of influences. The purity of the parents and the strength of will not to overthrow the Cup of Hermes are the only things that can protect us against the terrible danger that the sperm and the egg of the subhuman substances of animal souls that would like to reincarnate themselves are infiltrated into the sperm and the egg.Sexuality is the door to Eden. The keeper in front of the door is the Assyrian Sphinx, the Egyptian Sphinx, the Taurus of Moses holding the Sword between his paws. It is the psychological ego, the Baphomet who, with the help of his sword, pushes away from the threshold all those who are not ready. The enemy is inside us. We have to work with the demon to dissolve it. We have to steal the devil's fire.Author Stephen Dafoe in his excellent and detailed work on this subject titled "Unholy Worship" says, "Regardless of its lack of historical appearances, so central to the Templar legend has the Baphomet become, it has grown a Mythos of its own. The Baphomet has been utilized on everything from Tarot cards to video games. It has been accepted as synonymous with the Devil and has become, as we will see in a later chapter, the key iconography of Satanism.
Over 500 years later, Alphonse Louis Constant was studying to be a Roman Catholic Priest. He decided, however, to give up Catholicism and become an occultist and adopted the Jewish pseudonym of Eliphas L�vi. His life work involved writing huge volumes about Magick including extensive commentaries on the alleged deity of the Knights Templar, the Baphomet. Of all his works, the best known is his illustration which appears at the top of this page and was used as a frontispiece to "The Doctrine of High Magic" published in 1855. Levi also believed that if one rearranged the letters in Baphomet by reversing them, one would get an abbreviated Latin phrase "Tem Oph Ab" which he thought to be some type of reference to King Solomon's Temple. You can also see, parenthetically, that the "pentagram" is NOT the symbol L�vi used in his drawing shown above on the left: rather, it is a quite common star!
At the time, it was a crime punishable by death to recant a 'confession' - even if such 'confession' was extracted through heinous torture. Consider what you'd admit to if someone was pulling out your toenails with pliers or dropping hot coals on your body while chuckling.... Those who've experienced severe pain can barely appreciate the conditions under which the Templars met their fate.
Among the charges against the Templars were that they worshiped some sort of 'bearded head'. What was it? There are various theories including the religious relic head of John the Baptist, the Shroud of Turin, an image of Mohammed (the father of the Islamic religion) and other even more bizarre things. But how would such a respected religious order come to worship a head idol or engage in such evil? Likely, they didn't! King Philip lusted after the Templar wealth and could only take it from them if they were judged heretics. The charges against the Templars were nothing new. In fact, such charges were common when 'proving' heresy. Similar charges continued even through the 1600s and were seen even in the United States during the Salem Witchcraft Trials.
Jack Chick "The Curse of The Baphomet" (From an anti-Masonic publication titled "Curse of The Baphomet" � Jack Chick publications whose little comic books rail against Freemasonry, Catholicism, and all sorts of other "evils". )
So how did this supposed idol of the ancient Templars become associated with Freemasonry? Through a hoax perpetrated by Leo Taxil on Albert Pike in the late 1800's. Taxil's hoax (which we describe in detail here on our site) was to reveal a highly secret Masonic order called the Palladium (which existed only in Taxil's highly fertile imagination). The cover of Taxil's book depicts a group of Masons dancing around the demonic Baphomet as drawn by none other than the ex-priest, Eliphas L�vi.
And from there, the rest is history. The hoax, despite the recanting by its creator, continues and is accepted as 'gospel' by new generations of religious intolerants. Freemasonry is defamed by a ludicrous charge and those thinking they're religious and right, perpetuate a lie. And the drawing of a goat's head now grotesquely changed becomes the rallying point of those who, in ignorance and/or hatred, defame Alchemy.It is really true, certain and very true that the mystery of Baphomet is sexual alchemy. From a rigorous understanding and sexual transmutation, we transform the lead of personality into the Gold of the Spirit. The "I" is then annihilated. The rose develops its fragrance with the mud of the earth. The scent of the rose is transmuted mud.
1.3 seconds, f 7.1, ISO 400, 12mm
testing the M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-100mm F4.0 IS PRO lens on the om-d e-m1 mk II body - can you really get 6 full stops of stabilization and forget about your tripod?
Canon 5D Photos of Pretty Blonde Model in a Sea Cave!
I was shooting video at the same time as stills with the 9shooter/45surfer bracket which attaches a Canon HFS200 camcorder to my Canon 5D DSLR:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_s94cRkJiA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuW_0K3f6U
Be sure to watch the simultaneous stabilized video in full 1080p HD!
Video is fun & it rocks to capture the goddess's beauty and poetry in motion!
Shooting simultaneous stills & video rocks! I do it on every shoot now, while also mounting several stationary DSLRs/camcorders for video in addition to the Panasonic or Sony Camcoder bracketed to my Canon 5D or Nikon D800E.
The sea goddess was tall, thin, fit, with gorgerous blonde hair and pretty blue eyes!
She had a cute, southern touch of hippie / granola!
And may the blonde sea goddess inspire you along a photographic/artistic journey of your own making!
The Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM Lens is an amazing lens for practically every situation!
Long, pretty legs!
This is the first of a series I am working on of people walking in NY.
These photos are taken with a Canon Image Stabilized zoom at exposures of 1/2 to 1 second. The background is blurred as I am panning the camera.
The super snow moon also rises... I just snapped this moonrise over Oakland through the marine layer with a Sony RX100 pocket camera shooting telephoto through one eye hole of the Canon 15x50 image-stabilizing binoculars...both handheld.
Several stabilization technologies exist: chemical transformation into a more stable, less mobile chemical compound; micro-encapsulation, the embedding of particles in an impermeable matrix such as cement; and macro-encapsulation, the covering of waste material with an impermeable material, for example polyethylene. The fact that stabilized mercury is non-toxic significantly helps the search for suitable storage sites. Unlike liquid mercury, the stabilized form is suitable for storage in landfills and underground. Mercury storage and disposal is a growing problem. The global trend towards phasing out products which contain mercury and processes which use it will soon generate an excess of mercury if supplies remain at their current level. Environmentally sound management of mercury waste will be a critical issue for most countries. There are some good examples. But in the Latin American and Caribbean region, mercury supply may exceed demand by 2013. In 2012, UNEP helped Argentina and Uruguay to find environmentally sound solutions for the storage and disposal of excess mercury, including identifying existing hazardous waste facilities that could serve as temporary storage and identifying relevant regulatory frameworks. Both countries developed National Action Plans for the environmentally sound management of mercury and mercury wastes.
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Guadalupe Ruin, the easternmost Chacoan Outlier, is a single-story masonry pueblo situated on an isolated sandstone mesa rising nearly 200 feet above the valley floor. The top of the mesa is isolated by sheer walls on all sides, with access to the top restricted to a narrow trail. This mesatop location provides an impressive view of dissected canyons, rugged mesas, and volcanic necks along the Rio Puerco Valley. The ruin consists of at least 39 rectangular rooms and 7 semi-subterranean kivas, two of which are stabilized and roofed for public access. Archeological investigations conducted in the 1970s suggest that the site was originally built as a Chacoan Outlier, but was reoccupied in the late 13th century by immigrants from the Mesa Verde area, who remodeled many of the rooms and built a new kiva in their own architectural style.
Cabezon Peak (seen in the distance) is a large volcanic plug that is a prominent feature in northwestern New Mexico. It rises to 7,785 feet in elevation
Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Exposure 30
Aperture f/2.8
Focal Length 14 mm
ISO Speed 500
A 1-minute video clip of a juvenile Red-breasted Merganser in Fleming Island, Florida. This bird is an uncommon sighting in Clay County and is flagged by eBird.com as rare for this date and location.
This video was shot at 60 frames per second and then edited to half-speed playback (30-seconds real-time video).
Filmed with a Canon 7D Mark II DSLR camera (1.6x crop factor) with a Canon 600mm image stabilized lens (IS II) with a 1.4x teleconverter.
The total magnification is a 35mm equivalent of 1,344mm.
Stabilized wall and window of the 19th century Masonic Lodge in Port Royal, Virginia. Port Royal is an 18th century settlement on the south shore of the Rappahannock River in Caroline County. Wen this photo was taken in 2009 the Masonic lodge was in very poor shape and was shored up with external braces.
The photos on the right with electronic shutter,
the photos on the left with mechanical shutter.
JPGs out of the camera, crop at 100%
Olympus E-M10MarkIV
Lumix Vario 35-100 at 100mm f/2.8 1/25sec ISO1600
Handheld with image stabilization.
Crews in Medina work to stabilize the joint between the B-C-D pontoon raft and pontoon E.
Crews have successfully moved the final three longitudinal pontoons for the new SR 520 floating bridge. These previously joined pontoons are now in their permanent alignment on the west end. Within a few weeks, crews will move Pontoon A to its final location and connect it to Pontoon B at the west end of the new floating bridge. Once Pontoon A is in place, all 77 pontoons for the new bridge will be in their final locations. Visit the SR 520 pontoon tracking and bridge assembly page for the latest updates on bridge construction progress.