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There was still a family party of six Willow Tits at my local reservoir yesterday and I still don't know whether it comprised 4 youngsters and 2 adults, or five young and one parent. I know this picture is horribly cluttered but I thought it was worth recording how the parents fed them in this instance. The young were constantly begging for food by giving special calls and shivering their wings with their beaks open. As the party moved through the undergrowth, the parent(s) would find insects, usually caterpillars, and feed one of the youngsters. How they ensured each one got its share I do not know as it seemed rather chaotic. Here the parent bird swung trapeze-like on the bramble branch below its chick so was hanging upside-down while it fed its upright fledgling. This was a split second after feeding when the adult bird turned its head for the camera. Incidentally, the word fledging is a verb that describes the time that young birds leave the nest. But add an l and you get a noun fledgling that describes a young bird that has recently fledged.
Across most of their Eurasian ranges the Marsh Tit and Willow Tit are easy to separate as Willow Tit is a cold, frosty grey, whereas Marsh Tit is a warmer buff colour. But in Britain the kleinschmidti race of Willow Tit is warmer with buffy flanks, just like Marsh Tit. Marsh Tit usually has a pale spot at the base of its dark bill and Willow Tit usually has a pale wing panel, though my understanding is that no single feature is 100% reliable for separating them apart from call. Though the adult Willow Tit here has an astonishingly bright wing panel, but confusingly has a tiny pale spot on its bill like Marsh Tit. Marsh Tit was described new to science in 1758, but it was 69 years later before Willow Tit was described in 1827. But it was an incredible 70 years later (1897) before people realised Willow Tits occurred in Britain. Willow Tits have declined massively in Britain but still occur in West and South Yorkshire where Marsh Tits usually do not occur. Willow Tits are the most rapidly declining resident bird in the UK. The British population fell by 91% between 1967 and 2010. Research on reasons for the decline is ongoing, but we know they prefer scrub to woodland, and also need standing dead wood as they excavate their own nest holes. The endemic British race kleinschmidti is the smallest and darkest of numerous races. The latest population estimate of the British kleinschmidti is 3400 pairs, but it continues to decline.
Realms Beyond Understanding
I am drifting into the realms beyond my understanding.
Beyond the shadows of my former self.
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We have a serious global water shortage we should all know a little bit more about the statistics here are some helpful links:
Global Water Statistics - charitywater.org
www.charitywater.org/whywater/?utm_medium=ppc&utm_sou...
Action Against Hunger
www.actionagainsthunger.org/world-water-day-2014?gclid=CK...
UN Water
"Ms. Understood"
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seek first to understand, then to be understood...
Stephen Covey
i've found myself contemplating the many aspects and problems of communication lately, both verbal and written. Communication is the main artery in which to connect with another human being, which is in itself, innate...and what we desire and fear the most.
To speak and be spoken to...to hear and be heard. The latter is so much harder to do...
An earlier shot of the Ice spike. Part 1.
9 inches long and thin as a pencil, 1 inch wide at base.
I'm wondering if there was a spider web coming from one of the leaves and the ice formed along it??
Can anyone help on understanding how this defies gravity ??
Wind measurements are crucial for understanding and forecasting tropical storms since they are closely tied to the overall dynamics of the storm. The dual-wavelength (Ku and Ka band) High-Altitude Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler (HIWRAP) flew for the first time on the Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) during the 2010 Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP).
The HIWRAP is able to measure line-of-sight and ocean surface winds at higher spatial and temporal resolution than obtained by current satellites and lower-altitude instrumented aircraft. HIWRAP is conical scanning, and winds and reflectivity can be mapped within the swath below the Global Hawk. HIWRAP utilizes solid state transmitters along with a novel pulse compression scheme. This results in a system that is considerably more compact in size, requires less power, and ultimately costs significantly less than typical radars currently in use for clouds and precipitation observation.
HIWRAP is able to image the winds through volume backscattering from clouds and precipitation, enabling it to measure the tropospheric winds above heavy rain at high levels. The first interesting case from the HIWRAP flights were the rapid intensification of Hurricane Karl on September 16 and 17, 2010. This visual will highlight the precipitation structure of this storms during their intensification as derived from the HIWRAP KU observations.
Please note, the dimensions of the Global Hawk were exaggerated by a factor of 10 so the viewer could see the UAV. The Global Hawk actual dimensions are 44.4 ft (13.5 m) length by 116.2 ft. (35.4 m) wingspan by 15.2 ft (4.6 m) height. The movie starts as the Global Hawk flies over Hurricane Karl to reveal a Hot Tower. Hot towers are important to understanding hurricane intensification because they can carry hot moist air through the high layer of cirrus clouds above a hurricane. Hot towers are hard to study because they go so high and they do not last very long. In this movie, several of the paths have been placed in storm-centered coordinates and laid together to reveal the storm's hot towers and eyewall development. The structure of this storm is seen through reflectivity data where dbz is between 25 and 40.The HIWRAP data is colored based on the height. Red is 12 km, orange is 10 km, yellow is 7.5 km, green is 6 km, and blue is under 6 km.
More information on GRIP and other elements of NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel project visit www.nasa.gov/HS3.
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Against an inky black backdrop, the blue swirls of spiral galaxy NGC 6956 stand out radiantly. NGC 6956 is a barred spiral galaxy, a common type of spiral galaxy with a bar-shaped structure of stars in its center. This galaxy exists 214 million light-years away in the constellation Delphinus.
Scientists used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to image NGC 6956 to study its Cepheid variable stars, which are stars that brighten and dim at regular periods. Since the period of Cepheid variable stars is a function of their brightness, scientists can measure how bright these stars appear from Earth and compare it to their actual brightness to calculate their distance. As a result, these stars are extremely useful in determining the distance of cosmic objects, which is one of the hardest pieces of information to measure for extragalactic objects.
This galaxy also contains a Type Ia supernova, which is the explosion of a white dwarf star that was gradually accreting matter from a companion star. Like Cepheid variable stars, the brightness of these types of supernovae and how fast they dim over time enables scientists to calculate their distance. Scientists can use the measurements gleaned from Cepheid variable stars and Type Ia supernovae to refine our understanding of the rate of expansion of the universe, also known as the Hubble Constant.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Jones (University of California – Santa Cruz); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
For more information: www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/hubble-captures-m...
ok.. ok ok ok.. by dropping the light intensity down to zero, with the new light colours installed, it looks like this. which i think is waaaay better.. I love it when your own project wrinkles your own brain.
This is a new night shot of my Palm Hill Skate Park at night, with updated lighting effects, thanks to the incredible assistance of wrtyler on Flickr. This dude has been paramount in my new understandings of altering Stud.io's new lighting features to make everything better.. what a star!!
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Biggest human mistake : Listen half , understanding quarter , telling double
Few months to go ~
160910..
My train ride to Oxford, where I would be teaching on the Understanding Historic Buildings course for Historic, was going well until we got to Warwick. Here we were held at a red light, the train half in and half out of the station. We were told this was due to a defective track. I sketched the view from the train, not knowing at the outset that we would be stuck for 68 minutes. Once we got moving again I saw that this is only a small part of an immense factory. Baxi manufacture domestic heating boilers. The delay means I will be able to claim compensation for the late arrival in Oxford, though I was still able to join the course in time for a cup of tea and piece of cake.
D200 (40122) Clapham Jnc 31/08/1988
D200 had just come off the train at Kensigton Olympia (having worked down from Preston) whilst working Traintours Limited "The Desert Songster".
73117 & 73119 worked the train to Waterloo via Hounslow before the 40 worked back to Preston via Exeter!
Full details can be found at "Six Bells Jnc"
www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/870831tt.htm
Scan from an Original 35mm Negative and colour corrected in Photoshop.
Original Photographer Dave Rutter (with rights of use kindly granted to me).
I have started to collect a number of original slides (with copyright) 'most' of which probably haven’t been seen before. Some come with image information and some don't. Please feel free to leave a comment if you know locations, dates, numbers etc, it would be much appreciated. I have uploaded these at a low resolution, please don't copy / download without my prior permission.
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Vivid Sydney Sets the City A-Glow
World’s largest festival of light, music and ideas
source/credit: Destination NSW
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Nikon D300 with Tokina 12-24mm/f4: 12mm - ISO200 - 1/160 - f5.6
The genesis of modern understanding of Greek mythology is regarded by some scholars as a double reaction at the end of the 18th century against "the traditional attitude of Christian animosity mixed with disdain, which had prevailed for centuries", in which the Christian reinterpretation of myth as a "lie" or fable had been retained.[1] In Germany, by about 1795, there was a growing interest in Homer and Greek mythology. In Göttingen Johann Matthias Gesner began to revive Greek studies and a new humanistic spirit. His successor, Christian Gottlob Heyne, worked with Johann Joachim Winckelmann, and laid the foundations for mythological research both in Germany and elsewhere. Heyne approached the myth as a philologist and shaped the educated Germans' conception of antiquity for nearly half a century, during which ancient Greece exerted an intense influence on intellectual life in Germany.The development of comparative philology in the 19th century, together with ethnological discoveries in the 20th century, established the science of myth. Since the Romantics, all study of myth has been comparative. Wilhelm Mannhardt, Sir James Frazer, and Stith Thompson employed the comparative approach to collect and classify the themes of folklore and mythology.In 1871 Edward Burnett Tylor published his Primitive Culture, in which he applied the comparative method and tried to explain the origin and evolution of religion.] Tylor's procedure of drawing together material culture, ritual and myth of widely separated cultures influenced both Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell. According to Robert Segal, however, Campbell’s "romantic view of myth is the opposite of a rationalist view, one epitomized by the Victorian anthropologists Edward Tylor and James Frazer".J.F. del Giorgio has added a new turn to the comparative approach, insisting in The Oldest Europeans about present Greek myths being generated by the clash between a Paleolithic European population and the incoming Indo-European tribes.Max Müller applied the new science of comparative mythology to the study of myth, in which he detected the distorted remains of Aryan nature worship. Bronisław Malinowski emphasized the ways myth fulfills common social functions. Claude Lévi-Strauss and other structuralists have compared the formal relations and patterns in myths throughout the world.Evans himself, while studying the Minoan world, drew regularly on Egyptian and Near Eastern evidence for comparison, and the discovery of the Hittite and Ugaritic civilizations has uncovered texts as well as monuments which offer comparative material for ritual and mythology.Sigmund Freud put forward the idea that symbolic communication does not depend on cultural history alone but also on the workings of the psyche. Thus Freud introduced a transhistorical and biological conception of man and a view of myth as an expression of repressed ideas. Dream interpretation is the basis of Freudian myth interpretation and Freud's concept of dreamwork recognizes the importance of contextual relationships for the interpretation of any individual element in a dream. This suggestion would find an important point of rapprochment between the structuralist and psychoanalytic approaches to myth in Freud's thought.Carl Jung extended the transhistorical, psychological approach with his theory of the "collective unconscious" and the archetypes (inherited "archaic" patterns), often encoded in myth, that arise out of it.According to Jung, "myth-forming structural elements must be present in the unconscious psyche".[10] Comparing Jung's methodology with Campbell's theory, Segal concludes that "to interpret a myth Campbell simply identifies the archetypes in it. An interpretation of the Odyssey, for example, would show how Odysseus’s life conforms to a heroic pattern. Jung, by contrast, considers the identification of archetypes merely the first step in the interpretation of a myth".[5] For Jung, myth is no more about gods than about the physical world; it is about the human mind and must be read symbolically. Karl Kerenyi, one of the founders of modern studies in Greek mythology, gave up his early views of myth, in order to apply Jung's theories of archetypes to Greek myth.The origins of Greek mythology are an open question. In antiquity, historians such as Herodotus theorized that the Greek gods had been stolen directly from the Egyptians. Later on, Christian writers tried to explain Hellenic paganism through degeneration of Biblical religion. According to the Scriptural theory, all mythological legends (including Greek mythology) are derived from the narratives of the Scriptures, though the real facts have been disguised and altered. Thus Deucalion is another name for Noah, Hercules for Samson, Arion for Jonah etc.] According to the Historical Theory all the persons mentioned in mythology were once real human beings, and the legends relating to them are merely the additions of later times. Thus the story of Aeolus is supposed to have risen from the fact that Aeolus was the ruler of some islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea.The Allegorical theory supposes that all the ancient myths were allegorical and symbolical. According to the Physical theory the elements of air, fire, and water were originally the objects of religious adoration, and the principal deities were personifications of the powers of nature.The sciences of archaeology and linguistics have been applied to the origins of Greek mythology with some interesting results. Historical linguistics indicates that particular aspects of the Greek pantheon were inherited from Indo-European society (or perhaps both cultures borrowed from another earlier source), as were the roots of the Greek language. Prominent Sanskritist Max Müller attempted to understand an Indo-European religious form by tracing it back to its Aryan, Vedic, "original" manifestation. In 1891, he claimed that "the most important discovery which has been made during the nineteenth century with respect to the ancient history of mankind [...] was this sample equation: Sanskrit Dyaus-pitar = Greek Zeus = Latin Jupiter = Old Norse Tyr".[16] Philologist Georges Dumezil draws a comparison between the Greek Uranus and the Sanskrit Varuna, although there is no hint that he believes them to be originally connected.In other cases, close parallels in character and function suggest a common heritage, yet lack of linguistic evidence makes it difficult to prove, as in the case of the Greek Moirai and the Norns of Norse mythology.Archaeology and mythography, on the other hand, has revealed that the Greeks were inspired by some of the civilizations of Asia Minor and the Near East. Adonis seems to be the Greek counterpart — more clearly in cult than in myth — of a Near Eastern dying god. His name is related to the Semitic invocation "adon" (Lord) and appears in other cultures as Dumuzi, Tammuz or Attis. Cybele is rooted in Anatolian culture, and much of Aphrodite's iconography springs from the Semitic goddesses Inanna, Ishtar and Astarte. The theogonic myths current in the Near East in the second millennium BC, such as the myth of Anu, Kumarbi, and Teshub, contain significant stories of generational conflict. Meyer Reinhold argues that "such Near Eastern theogonic concepts, involving divine succession through violence and generational conflicts for power, found their way — the route is not certain — into Greek mythology. Our prime source is the great theogonic poem of Hesiod".Parallels between the earliest divine generations (Chaos and its children) and Tiamat in the Enuma Elish are also possible.In addition to Indo-European and Near Eastern origins, some scholars have speculated on the debts of Greek mythology to the still poorly understood pre-Hellenic societies of Greece, such as the Minoans and so-called Pelasgians. This is especially true in the case of chthonic deities and mother goddesses. Historians of religion were fascinated by a number of apparently ancient configurations of myth connencted with Crete: the god as bull — Zeus and Europa; Pasiphaë who yields to the bull and gives birth to the Minotaur; agrarian mysteries with a sacred marriage (Demeter's union with Iasion) etc. Crete, Mycenae, Pylos, Thebes and Orchomenus figure so large in later Greek mythology.For some, the three main generations of gods in Hesiod's Theogony (Uranus, Gaia, etc.; the Titans and then the Olympians) suggest a distant echo of a struggle between social groups, mirroring the three major high cultures of Greek civilization: Minoan, Mycenaean and Hellenic. Martin P. Nilsson, Professor of Classical Archaeology, worked on the structure, origins and relationships of the Indo-European languages, and concluded that all great classical Greek myths were tied to Mycenaen centres and were anchored in prehistoric times.Nevertheless, according to Walter Burkert, the iconography of the Cretan Palace Period has provided almost no confirmation of all these theories; nothing points to a bull, sexual symbols are absent and a single seal impression from Knossos showing a boy beneath a sheep is regarded as a scant evidence for the myth of Zeus' childhood.
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The results of the tower of Babel don't exist between children and animals. They perfectly understand each other :).
Het resultaat van de toren van Babel bestaat niet tussen kinderen en dieren. Ze begrijpen elkaar perfect :).
I'm travelling and will soon start to comment your photos. Thank you very much for your understanding .
Comments are always welcome and favs most appreciated.
Comentarios y favs son siempre bienvenidos
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Instead, planning ahead let Friendship Fred
know where you stand in your business wonderland
Find associates of all kinds
Understanding Ulysses’ are nice
Caring Carl's never take it too far
Kevin Kindness melts cold ice fast.
But, I may think twice if I put Friendship and the front of the line
In the end, you will not look like an ass.
inspiration goes to: Saturaday Night Live skit and Master Pshopper Jon-e's Wiggles
Today the Hereios of the We’re Here! Group are visiting Car Parks. Car parks can be a bit dull, and this was a quiet day at our local country store, so I used PS Elements to add interest.
I'm working on two novels that take place in the nineteenth century. Horses figure prominently in both the world of 19th century Manhattan and New York State, and in Oklahoma in the 1880's and 90's. I will appreciate any help you can give me to increase my understanding about how horses fucntion in this world.
Bucharest city-Tokina 28-85mm F4
Not the brand or technique is important in photographic art, but the understanding of the things behind the photographed subjects, the emotion, the composition, the joy or the sadness, the life itself that is mysteriously coming unrepeatable as a gift.
(Horia Stanicel)
A comfortable study bedroom in the Ruth Deech building, in a modern block at St Anne's College, completed in 2005, while I am teaching on the Understanding Historic Buildings course organised by Historic England. Lit by by a very narrow window on the left, now equipped with a roller blind which prevents it being opened , and a door onto a balcony barely large enough to stand on.
The Orlando Science Center (OSC) is a private science museum located in Orlando, Florida. Its purposes are to provide experience-based opportunities for learning about science and technology and to promote public understanding of science.
The Orlando Science Center is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) and is a member of the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC). The Orlando Science Center is member supported and sponsored in part by United Arts of Central Florida, Inc., the State of Florida, the Department of State, the Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Arts Council.
Incorporated in 1955, the Central Florida Museum (CFM) opened in Orlando Loch Haven Park in 1960. For its first decade, it was an anthropology museum with collections of artifacts relating to Florida and the Caribbean Basin.
In the early 1970s, the CFM's board of directors voted to change directions and to become a "hands-on" science and technology center. In 1973 the institution was renamed to honor a famous native son and astronaut, John Young.
In 1984, as part of an expansion and change of philosophy, the institution's name was changed to Orlando Science Center. In 1985 another major expansion created a permanent physical sciences hall, a traveling exhibit hall, and Curiosity Corner, a hands-on exhibit area dedicated to pre-school and early primary age children. Its new facility was the setting for the Orlando Children's Museum scenes in Ernest Saves Christmas. During the final expansion to the original facility in 1990, NatureWorks, a prototype for OSC's centerpiece natural science exhibit was created.
In May 1992, the Board and staff developed a comprehensive master plan for the Orlando Science Center, including a blueprint for the construction of an entirely new science center. Construction of the new science center began in early 1995.
The new 207,000 sq ft (19,200 m2). The Orlando Science Center celebrated its grand opening on February 1, 1997. It is six times larger than the original facility, which closed on December 31, 1996. The current president and CEO of the science center is JoAnn Newman.
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