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Understanding the misunderstood SD Quattro.
This is what my full size files look like before I size them for printing and web display. Before I knock them out of focus, add grain and sharpen them. I left this one clean so that all the imaging power of the SD Quattro + 35/1.4 could be illustrated in the rendering of all those droplets.
Lacul Morii-Bucharest city-Vivitar 24mm F2,8
*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)
* I have seen a large part of the most popular or devoted photographers' photographs over time and of course I can say that most of them have speculated on different situations, angles of photography, shadows, different brightness, feelings, human tragedies, all kinds of paradoxical situations that of course make them noticed. I do not want to bring any name into question for the simple reason that each photographic artist has a unique value. However, I regard the photographic art as a simple spectator that is difficult to be convince most of the times. I contemplate the creation of God and every time I photograph I do not forget how grateful we should be for all the beauty that our Creator gave it to us! People who forget this do nothing but hate themselves and the world they live in and photography is nothing but a mirror of this beautiful or crooked world.(Horia Stanicel)
*Nu aparatul foto sau tehnica este importantă în arta fotografică, ci înțelegerea lucrurilor care stau în spatele subiectelor fotografiate,emoția, compoziția, bucuria sau tristețea, viața însăși care vine tainic irepetabil ca un dar.
(Horia Stanicel)
*Am văzut o mare parte a fotografiilor celor mai populari sau consacrați artiști fotografi de-a lungul timpului și desigur pot spune că majoritatea dintre ei au speculat diversele situații,unghiuri de fotografiere, umbre, luminozitati diferite,sentimente,tragedii umane chiar,tot felul de situații paradoxale care desigur să-i facă remarcați.Nu vreau să aduc vreun nume în discuție pentru simplul motiv că fiecare artist fotograf are o valoare unică. Totuși eu privesc arta fotografică ca un simplu spectator greu de convins de cele mai multe ori.Eu contemplu creația lui Dumnezeu și de fiecare dată când fotografiez nu uit cât de recunoscători ar trebui să fim pentru toată frumusețea pe care Creatorul nostru ne-a daruit-o! Oamenii care uită aceasta nu fac decât să se urâțească pe ei înșiși dar și lumea în care trăiesc iar fotografia nu este decât o oglindă a acestei lumi frumoase sau urâțite.
(Horia Stanicel)
Some woods inspire understanding as to why early paths and roads followed animal trails. Trailblazing in thick, wet woods like these would be a chore.
the most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history...
This used to be a shop, but is now a beauty parlor.
The co-operative movement started in Rochdale, and you can read more about it here:
www.uk.coop/understanding-co-ops/how-co-ops-began#:~:text....
It's an interesting and important story that is still relevant.
I won't try to pull the wool over your eyes by claiming to have read Plato, but I was reading in one of the late John Michell's articles, collected as Confessions of a Radical Traditionalist (Vermont, Dominion, 2005) that, at the end of The Republic, the soul of Ulysses is one of a number gathered together to choose their future lives. After all the lives of wealth and luxury have been taken, Ulysses finds, discarded in a corner, the life of a quiet, retiring country gentleman, which is exactly what he'd have chosen if he'd been given the pick of the bunch. Ulysses and I are of one mind on this matter, although my modest circumstances permit me to reproduce the situation of a "country gentleman" only, as it were, in microcosm. My mind's natural mode of functioning is to observe, contemplate and understand. It is possible, of course, that when I say this I am merely making excuses for my habitual sloth and procrastination. Naturally I regard my own understanding as correct, but another chap, approaching Life from a different point-of-view, might arrive at a different, erroneous, understanding. I've never had an ounce of ambition and I've never been able to understand why anyone would wish for a "career". Just having a job is bad enough. So here I am, enjoying a ruminative plug of Old Setright Waybill Ready-Rubbed, in surroundings conducive to the thinking of great thoughts.
Excerpt from the Information Board:
Made between 1998 and 2005, the Prototype series earned Jungen international recognition and acclaim for his ability to reimagine everyday goods. To make each of these works, the artist dismantled several pairs of Nike Air Jordans - highly coveted sneakers since their introduction in 1984 - paying careful attention to their design and colour scheme. He then imaginatively sewed the pieces together to create sculptures that reference Northwest Coast masks - a wry response to the way Indigenous motifs have been commercialized through civic designs in Vancouver. In total, this series has twenty-three sculptures, a nod to the shoe's namesake, basketball great Michael Jordan, whose jersey number was "23" for most of his career.
Copyright Susan Ogden
Mind blowing poverty...level upon level of poverty...dirt poor poverty to upscale poverty in Kibera. There is no way to really adequately describe the various levels of poverty in this place. Photographs help, but do not quite make understanding it really sink in without walking the streets and razor thin alley ways between the tin shack homes and “business” ventures along the streets. The filth....human excrement in the troughs, filthy water running through it to the stream below the slums....children barefoot and playing in the stream...food for sale, laying open on market stalls, curious looks of the inhabitants as we documented the plight and blight of this very much alive and thriving, albeit, at a cost to health and well being, place.
For the most part they were radiating joy at simply being alive...their eyes filled with hope and smiles filled with happiness for what little they have. What they have is their families and few...a very scant few, worldly possessions. Some mesmerized by our camera equipment...our pale skin and fair hair. They delighted in having their photo taken and then seeing their own faces for the first time!! They would get the BIGGEST smile ....a whole face smile and then laugh and become overcome with shyness when seeing their likeness on the back of the camera. Some asked to be photographed and others were too shy and politely declined...even tho they were curious and anxious to see the photos that their braver friends stepped forward for!
i will be working hard on my edits as soon as i have recovered from the jet lag...it was an exhausting trip of 12 hour days of shooting and collapsing into my mosquito netted bed in my little cottage in Kipkaren, high in the mountains of Kenya. Sometimes too tired to even eat....other times not eating because the menu simply did not agree with what my stomach thought of as a meal!
No...i do not eat lamb......or goat....and Ugali was not my cup of tea either, unless maybe with sugar and hot milk, as a sort of cereal....but that probably would have freaked them out since they eat it with stew that is more like a broth with tomatoes and beef and carrots and onion....so, PB&J was always a welcome meal!!
I am home in Hags Head...in my bed without the mosquito net which i affectionately termed my Princess Canopy! i was growing kind of fond of that, actually!! One mosquito bite in 2 weeks is pretty good...which reminds me....time for my malaria medication to finish off the prescription! Better safe than sorry as they say!
Have a beautiful Sunday....and rejoice in what you have!
Note: for a better understanding of Damian Wayne in the DCSG I suggest you go read Supremedalekdunn’s Batman: Knight of Gotham #48-59 (this issue will be a synthesized version of KoG #59 from Robin’s perspective). Or if you just want to read something amazing, because that entire volume is really something special.
Tim noticed that the Batcave felt colder than usual. Perhaps it was the fact that Bruce Wayne’s child, whom he did not know he had, was occupying the containment cell. Or perhaps, it was the way Bruce said,
“Ra’s will come for the boy.” Alfred had placed Damian Wayne’s Crimson Knight suit inside of a display case, which he, Tim, and Bruce now stared at.
“We can beat him Bruce. We might be outnumbered. We might even be outgunned. But when has that ever stopped us?” Tim was reaching. In truth, the League of Assassins had always terrified him. Sparring with Bruce was a challenge enough, but to fight dozens of his former peers always sounded like a challenge too great for himself. Not to mention fighting the Demon’s Head himself, Ra’s al Ghul.
“It hasn’t.” Alfred replied on Bruce’s behalf, as the latter stared deeply into the eyes of the Crimson Knight suit.
“We’ll do it how we always do Bruce. Together.” Tim’s words seemed to snap Bruce out of his trance, as the Batman replied,
“Together.”
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Bruce left the cave in the resulting minutes, leaving his cowl on a vacant terminal. Tim approached the terminal and slumped against it, sliding to the ground where he sat looking around the enormous cave surrounding him. He looked around the cave he had called home for the past several years before he heard a voice in his ear,
“Tim?” Panicking, Tim realized that he had left his earpiece in.
“Hey Steph.” He responded.
“What’s going on?” Thinking of which way to best sum up the story of Damian, Tim sarcastically answered,
“An insane, drugged-up version of Batman attacked our city and now an ancient order of ninjas are coming to destroy everything.”
“The League of Assassins?” Stephanie asked on the other line.
“How’d you know-?”
“Love conspiracies. Everyone’s got a hobby, right? I mean, I’ve got this new one now, and you’ve had yours for a while…” Stephanie went silent, then asked, “So how bad is it? I mean, there’ve only been rumors…”
“Think one hundred Batmans killing people and burning down buildings.”
“So, not that bad.” Stephanie’s sarcasm prompted a laugh from Tim who said,
“I’m glad you’re back Steph.” While Stephanie simply replied,
“Glad to be back.”
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End of Volume 2
Understanding that all of this is impermanent increases your spiritual potential. You can act with greater energy, enthusiasm, and strength. We think that by acknowledging everything as impermanent, we will diminish our enthusiasm and enter a state of apathy. This is not true. A proper understanding of impermanence ignites the spirit. When the spirit is ignited, you feel uplifted. You have enthusiasm and activity.
This was taken out by my pond. I don't know why I took so long to post it. I guess I was waiting to get a better shot. It's incredibly hard to get these things to stay still for more than 2 seconds. Thanks everyone for enjoying my photos and for still understanding me being busy.
And be sure to check by my other acount: www.flickr.com/photos_user.gne?path=&nsid=77145939%40..., to see what else I saw the week before last!
Yes I'm back again.
However due to my main computer on which I edit my work being struck down with a big bad virus, this picture and all the others I am uploading, were Unedited but have now been replaced with Edited versions. So enjoy and Thanks for your patience and understanding.
I do still hate everything about this shit that is new Flickr and always will, but an inability to find another outlet for my work that is as easy for me to use as the Old BETTER Flickr was, has forced me back to Flickr, even though it goes against everything I believe in.
I don't generally have an opinion on my own work, I prefer to leave that to other people and so based on the positive responses to my work from the various friends I had made on Flickr prior to the changes I have decided to upload some more of my work as an experiment and to see what happens.
So make the most of me before they delete my acount: www.flickr.com/photos/69558134@N05/?details=1, to stop me complaining!!
And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
[Romans 13:11-12 NIV]
5 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW:
1. Like it or not, we are ALL sinners: As the Scriptures say, “No one is righteous—not even one. No one is truly wise; no one is seeking God. All have turned away; all have become useless. No one does good, not a single one.” (Romans 3:10-12 NLT)
2. The punishment for sin is death: When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned. (Romans 5:12 NLT)
3. Jesus is our only hope: But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. (Romans 5:8 NLT) For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23 NLT)
4. SALVATION is by GRACE through FAITH in JESUS: God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. (Ephesians 2:8-10 NLT)
5. Accept Jesus and receive eternal life: If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. (Romans 10:9 NLT) But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. (John 1:12 NLT) And this is what God has testified: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God’s Son does not have life. (1 John 5:11-12 NLT)
Read the Bible for yourself. Allow the Lord to speak to you through his Word. YOUR ETERNITY IS AT STAKE!
THIS IS NOT MINE My friend is creating OCs and would like suggestions for their names. So on the left is a girl who has spring powers (like the season) she is loving, kind, a little naive and playful. And the one on the right has winter powers she is elegant, mature, very wise and has a hard time understanding others feelings. Please suggest names!
Thrills and scares are always soothing to appreciating life just a bit more. Conquering your fears in life is the best way to find out what life is truly about. I think its great to live on the edge every now and then to get out of the old routine that we put on ourselves. Those thrills bring a new form to our lives and it helps us grow in many ways.
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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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My understanding is that this building houses a historic collection of transportation vehicles which were at various times managed by the former Yellowstone Park Transportation Company and its subsequent iterations.
As the building is not considered suitable for public visitation access to the collection is currently closed until such time as a purpose built facility to house the collection can be built.
This historic building was built here in Gardiner in 1925 but YPT began very early in the park's life and from what I can find out may have wound up operation in 1979?
I've been unable to find out much about either the building or the YPT so any information is welcomed.
Interestingly when I look on Flickr's map I can't locate this building, at least, I can't locate a building with a chimney stack and can't see it on Google Maps either. I've added it to the Flickr map though but only in the rough vicinity of where I photographed it.
www.nps.gov/yell/learn/historyculture/historicvehicle.htm
www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.mt0321.photos/?sp=1
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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.
"Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise .
Proverbs 6:6
"How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?"
Proverbs 6:9
"The sluggard craves and gets nothing, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied."
Proverbs 13:4
Note: I'm not mocking this guy I found sleeping under the tree near church premises. I don't know what he does for a living. I just saw it as a great photo opportunity. This post isn't personally denegrating this fellow, but only as an example in general.
The Bible doesn't condone lazybones ( I'm not talking about this guy, but to many across the board as there are people who are lazy, although they can work ,they like the easy way by being dependent on others.We all have to work with all honesty at heart. Paul the apostle work at the same time during his ministry of the gospel of Christ and wasn't dependent of what other people can give to him or from the church people for his food.
" For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat." 2 Thessalonian 3:10
I do noticed some Christians do make their own ministries online particular in YouTube and asking for donations . I am not saying about the Christian researchers as they invested time to bring about facts, they are NOT what I am talking about.
There's one I've come across who made a particular video , declaring her plea for more donations since her ministry has saved souls and blessed people. What ? This person is a stay at home mom. You can claim you saved people . In the first place it's the Holy Spirit that convicts people's hearts, not a ministry or taking back God's glory to ones own. A ministry to save souls is only a tool spreading the word.
This persona has already had 45 people making donations worldwide and she's encouraging many to donate out thousand plus subscribers.
Personally, I can't see the reason to donate .God help me if I am wrong. Thisis my take: If she didn't evangelize outside, or have hired workers for Jesus to spread the gospel or rent a building, miscellaneous expenses to cover external work etc. example as in a registered church ,then why does she ask for donations .Why should she ask money from people if everything was done at leisure of her home ... all I could see was she just reads news headlines associated to end times prophecies ? God supplies our needs but we are not expected to just sit around and wait for manna falling from heaven or beg people. In my understanding, it's like saying :
" I just feel so lazy to go out find a job, I just like doing Jesus' end time videos, it's God's work , please give me your money who are blessed and saved from my videos."
I do feel that's wrong , especially declaring it clearly, it feels like begging food in the name of Jesus. Can't Jesus supply this particular Christian's needs? It's making money out of the name of Jesus, which to me is not right. My spirit grieves with people calling themselves Christians making money out of God's name. You think that's credible service to God ?
I am not making judgements but discernments. Since I am not a member of any church, neither I do attend church service every Sunday, I fall into no church membership. I am not promoting my status, a church ( not a building but fellowship of Christians helped us grow spiritually), I just didn't find a suitable church for me. But being a christian, I give money offering to God through other means, directly to the poor or helping the vulnerable group of people. I don't give to registered charities, as I knew big slice of those donations will go to administration services down the line and I do believe only smaller fraction reaches directly to those people in need . I am not convicted to donate through them. I am not saying either it's wrong to donate on registered Charities. Personally, I follow my heart's convictions. I have seen many destitute citizens back in my own village / town, that's where my heart goes.
Services given to the Lord should be free ( not through making Jesus videos in YouTube channels and asking for donations). God will reward services given to Him whole heartedly. No one should make business and profit using the name of God !
I pray these type of Christians would realize and be convicted to the truth of what they doing through the power of the name of Jesus !
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Interesing YT vids I came across weeks ago :
*Chrislam One World Religion Emerging
*Paranormal Police Encounters ~ This has brillant testimonies.To the unbelieving, there must be God !
* Vampires and Werewolves Real or Fake - The Prophecy Club
* Steve Quayle "Zombies, Demons and Fallen Angels" 1 of 3
Bryan Melvin died and went to hell, and have seen lost human spirits in hell stored in cubes and tortured.
Nowadays, there are many testimonies coming out from people confessing their strange experiences of NDE's /OBE's telling about the afterlife.
Here's what the Bible says :
"And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions"
Joel 2: 28
"In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on everyone. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams."
Acts 2:17
"... and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. "
Revelation 20:10
*Bryan Melvin: To Hell and Back Pt. 1 of 3
* Bryan Melvin: To Hell and Back Part 2 of 3
* Bryan Melvin: To Hell and Back Pt. 3 of 3
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Thank you for your last views and comments my friends .
Hope you all have a nice day :)
Sorry, this is post and run, a bit busy today. But I'll be back for my flickr time seeing your photos tomorrow Friday :)
God bless you all in Christ and you take care.
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 :).
~ Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach (Album)
Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park
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September 16th/2012
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Their homelands called them to war, they fought bravely, and many did not return. We salute them and pay tribute to their valour. Visiting Sydney, Nova Scotia, at the memorial to the merchant marine, we were reminded that many others perished who were not on the front line. They died in the line of duty, working to keep the soldiers, sailors and airmen supplied. We salute them and pay tribute to their valour. And where armies met, innocent civilians also succumbed to the destruction of war. We salute them, and pay tribute to their valour. At the end of the First World War, there was a deep understanding of the madness and futility of war, and a hope that such horror should never recur. Sadly, world leaders have failed their people so many times since, and war has never really gone away....
*Working Towards a Better World
My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory. -
Chief Seattle, The Chief Seattle's Speech
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!"
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer. - Bertolt Brecht, Selected Poems
I once spoke to someone who had survived the genocide in Rwanda, and she said to me that there was now nobody left on the face of the earth, either friend or relative, who knew who she was. No one who remembered her girlhood and her early mischief and family lore; no sibling or boon companion who could tease her about that first romance; no lover or pal with whom to reminisce. All her birthdays, exam results, illnesses, friendships, kinships—gone. She went on living, but with a tabula rasa as her diary and calendar and notebook. I think of this every time I hear of the callow ambition to 'make a new start' or to be 'born again': Do those who talk this way truly wish for the slate to be wiped? Genocide means not just mass killing, to the level of extermination, but mass obliteration to the verge of extinction. You wish to have one more reflection on what it is to have been made the object of a 'clean' sweep? Try Vladimir Nabokov's microcosmic miniature story 'Signs and Symbols,' which is about angst and misery in general but also succeeds in placing it in what might be termed a starkly individual perspective. The album of the distraught family contains a faded study of Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous growths—until the Germans put her to death, together with all the people she had worried about. -
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind. - Mike Norton
Anarchists did not try to carry out genocide against the Armenians in Turkey; they did not deliberately starve millions of Ukrainians; they did not create a system of death camps to kill Jews, gypsies, and Slavs in Europe; they did not fire-bomb scores of large German and Japanese cities and drop nuclear bombs on two of them; they did not carry out a ‘Great Leap Forward’ that killed scores of millions of Chinese; they did not attempt to kill everybody with any appreciable education in Cambodia; they did not launch one aggressive war after another; they did not implement trade sanctions that killed perhaps 500,000 Iraqi children.
In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy’s mayhem is wholly conjectural; the state’s mayhem is undeniably, factually horrendous. - Robert Higgs
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Syracuse Crunch Gabriel Fortier (9) battles for the puck with Rochester Americans Riley Sheahan (15) in American Hockey League (AHL) action at the Upstate Medical University Arena in Syracuse, New York on Wednesday, November 9, 2022.
Football last weekend, American Hockey League game last night. The Nikon Z9 did good but I had trouble keeping the Histogram to the right and tended to underexpose a bit for most of the shots. The AF did okay as I think I was not understanding the setting I initially tried. So far, I have only found one other photographer shooting hockey with the Z9 unless you do or know someone who does. Would really like to talk with others.
Last night, the 23 of September 2024, she wrote to me again, a WhatsApp message, but our messages sometimes take on the form of short essays. No, essays is the wrong word, personal missives, perhaps exchanges about our mutual failings as friends, or records of successes, even.
They are 36 years of evidence of that symbiotic support and understanding, which runs to an ever-expanding million and a half words.
This isn’t us, it does look very like us however, most definitely in the case of Rack. I couldn’t have achieved this before, prior to the advent of A.I. I am at an age now where I don’t have the energy to make pieces this large anymore, and I now share last centuries plague with Rack, which saps energy and ages one beyond one’s years.
I have no complaints.
I call her Rack, this of course is not her name, like mine is not Ruin. But both names suit the us that isn’t us.
Anyway, Rack inspired a body of work, which is partially hung in
the ‘Irish Museum of Modern Art’, the permanent collection. I would like to get what remains of that series into the same institution before I die, or after even. I am not in a hurry. She is hung there with me already. I would just like for them all to be safe. They were made as a series, and were never intended to be seen separately.
I also want to weave the story of ‘Rack and Ruin’ into a type of
‘picture book’ here.
I do need to enter 'Infrathin' to do this, so the other characters will all be there, Rrose, Dolly (the first cloned sheep), Falstaff (the giant silverfish), James and Marcel and the rest of the motley crew. They have all being showing me the way, and I hope this continues for a while longer.
My head was always too big for my body, and my neck too thick for my milk-bottle shoulders. A.I. appears to have got that partially right.
Rack thanks me for giving her a neck. I can't help it, I am a Duchampian mannerist.
Clever, frightening, A.I. I both love it and hate it, which is exactly as it should be, perhaps.
Tucson, Arizona Seen From The Catalina Foothills
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Geology of the Tucson Mountains
General Setting of the Tucson Mountains
The Tucson Mountains are one of many relatively small ranges that dot the southwestern United States belonging to the Basin and Range Province. These ranges are the result of block faulting, which occurred about 10-15 million years ago (MYA), and today are separated by basins filled with thousands of feet of alluvial sediment derived from the erosion of these mountains. The Tucson Mountain block is about 20 miles long and up to 7 miles wide at present, although valley fill covers much of the lower slopes of the mountain block. The highest peak in the Tucson Mountains is Wasson Peak at 4,687 feet, the terminus of many popular hiking trails in the park.
Geologic History
Before we begin to look at the origin of the Tucson Mountains, it is important to look briefly at the rocks which make kup the mountains and the theory of plate tectonics, which hold the key to understanding the origin of the rocks and structures which make up the Earth's crust
The Building Blocks
Rocks of the three major classes - igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic - are found in the park. The igneous rocks include coarse-grained, intrusive rocks such as granite, which cooled deeply within the Earth, and fine-grained rocks including extrusive lava flows and intrusive basalt dikes, which cooled much more rapidly. Sedimentary rocks are formed from the consolidation of sediment derived from weathering and erosion of preexisting rocks and deposited in layers by streams, wind or in the shallow waters of the ocean. The most common of these rocks include sandstone, shale and limestone. Metamorphic rocks form deep within the Earth when heat, pressure and chemical fluids alter preexisting rocks. These include slate, marble, gneiss and schist. Specific examples of these major rock types will be discussed in the following sections as they help to explain the geologic history of the Tucson Mountain District.
The theory of plate tectonics states that the crust is made up of many plates, some of which are thousands of miles in diameter and up to sixty miles thick. These plates are in constant motion, breaking apart along the mid-ocean ridges as molten material (magma) wells up beneath them and coming together along the margins of certain continents. Where these plates meet, one of three things may happen. If one plate - usually the oceanic plate - is denser than the other, it will descend (subduct) under the other plate and a trench will form at that point. As the oceanic plate continues to descend deeper, the rocks become plastic then molten, leading to the formation of a chain of volcanoes as the less dense magma rises to the surface. Such is the case today as the Pacific Plate subducts under teh North American Plate or Asian Plate. On the other hand, if the two colliding plates are of similar densitites, neither can descend very far beneath the other. Thus, the plates will rise (obduct) high above the surface. Such is the case with the Himilaya Mountains in Asia. Finally, if the two plates are moving in the same general direction but at different rates, the plates will separate along a horizontal or stike-slip fault. Such is the case today with the San Andreas Fault along the Pacific coast of North America. This very brief description of the theory of plate tectonics will hopefully suffice in our discussion of the origin of the Tucson Mountains.
How it Came to Be
The oldest rocks found in the area, although not directly in the park, are granites and metamorphic rocks that represent the original crust of Southern Arizona. These rocks are approximately 1.7 billion years old and belong to an era of geologic times known as Precambrian. The metamorphic rocks are mostly schist resulting from a plate collision at that time, altering preexisting sediments and volcanic rocks.
There is little evidence of what happened over the next billion plus years, as the region was subjected to extensive erosion. Approximately 600 million years ago (MYA), at the beginnning of the Paleozoic Era, gentle rise and fall of the crust, as the Pacific Plate approached the North American Plate, led to deposition of sedimentary rocks: mostly limestones, sandstones and shales separated by extensive periods of erosion. A few scattered outcrops of these rocks can still be seen in the park including around the Sus Picnic Area.
During the early part of the Mesozoic Era, approximately 150 MYA, continued uplift of the region led to erosion of the exposed rocks by streams. The sediments were deposited as floodplains in the shallow water of an inland sea. Today, these sediments make up the Red Hills to the south of the visitor center. The red color is from the iron oxide, hematite, which formed in the oxygen-rich shallow seas of this area. Further evidence of the shallow nature of these waters can be seen in the fossils of petrified wood, clams and even dinosaur leg bones found in the area.
As the Red Beds were being formed, the ancient Pacific Plate continued to descend under the North American Plate, leading to much volcanic activity and mountain building in the west. This event is known as the Laramide Orogeny, which occurred over a 30 million year interval during the latter part of the Mesozoic Era and beginning of the Cenozoic Era. At this time, the Tucson area was subject to extensive volcanic activity, resulting in extensive emission of rhyolite (a light tan fine grained rock) lavas and fiery ash-steam clouds, or nuee ardentes, which were so dense they rolled down the sides of the volcanoes consuming everything in their path. So much material was pumped out from below the surface that eventually the area collapsed, producing a huge depression or caldera at least fifteen miles in diameter! Over time, this caldera was filled with rhyolite, ash deposits (tuff) and brechia, a rock formed from the consolidation of blocks broken from the collapse of the sides of volcanoes. This complex mass of rocks collectively is known as the Tucson Mountain Chaos, and forms the bulk of the rocks which make up the present Tucson Mountains. All can be seen in the proximity of the scenic overlook at Gates Pass. At the same time, nearby areas were intruded by masses of pink granite and quartz veins which bear many of the minerals, mostly copper, silver an gold, which led to the rapid development of southern Arizona during the late 1800’s. One of these intrusions is exposed today at Amole Peak located northeast of the visitor center. No major ore deposits were found in the Tucson Mountains, but the area is dotted with prospector pits and abandoned mines.
After another long period of erosion, renewed activity began with the intrusion of the Wilderness Granite as well as renewed volcanic activity in parts of southeastern Arizona.
What follows is the most commonly accepted theory, but it is still controversial:
The Wilderness Granite was emplaced about six to eight miles below the surface approximately fifteen to twenty miles east of Tucson. This intrusion bowed up this region and at the same time altered the surrounding rocks to a highly mobile state. As arching continued, a huge slab of rocks broke loose and slid west and to its present position along a special type of fault known as a detachment fault. This movement took place slowly over thousands of years. Eventually, the rocks upon which the upper plate rocks slid, solidified and today comprise the Catalina Gneiss which can be seen as strikingly banded rocks along the Catalina Highway. The actual detachment fault and the lower plate rocks can be seen along the loop road at the Rincon Mountain District of Saguaro National Park.
This detachment of the upper plate rocks brought the rocks of the Tucson Mountains to their present site, but this is not the end of our story. This event, however, did end the compressional stage of the Laramide Orogeny. As these stresses relaxed, the entire southwestern portion of the United States became stretched as the Pacific Plate began to pull away from the North American Plate, beginning approximately 20 MYA. The extension of this area produced block faulting, where many blocks separated from other blocks along steep normal faults producing the basins which today surround the Tucson Mountains and other similar mountain ranges in the southwest. At one time, valley floors may have been as much as eight to ten thousand feet below the mountain crests, but today, relief is much reduced as alluvial (stream) deposits of gravel, sand and mud have filled the basins to their present levels.
What does the future hold for the region? Erosion will continue to reduce the relief of the mountains, which may lead to renewed uplift of the mountain fault block and potential future earthquakes. A major earthquake has not occurred in the Tucson region since the 1880’s, but it could happen at any time. However, such events will most likely be few and far between over the next few thousand years!
Last updated: January 19, 2024