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Life is hard for everyone right now, I use to listen to music when thoughts threaten to explode in my head. Dynazty is a band I never get enough of, and Nils Molin is one of Sweden's best singers and songwriters. Listen!
Waterfall
Let the rain come wash away it all
One final overhaul
Until we dream no more
Damn it all
Will not wait here for a miracle
Wash away it all
Rain a waterfall..
DYNAZTY - Waterfall ♪ ♫ ♩ ♬
Monument St, London
Like Scott of the Antarctic, beaten to the South Pole by Roald Amundsen, Dixon of the Monument beat me to this nice abstract reflection in Monument St on our way to the Walkie Talkie.
Normally he does "water rocks and s***" and I do boring, square symmetrical things... life sucks!
This is an old shot I had on private here on flickr. I have been really busy with work and the little time I am at home, I cant Flickr because my laptop is still broken. Went to fix is today but they couldnt so I have to buy new parts for it.
And I still dont have a new cardreader (I work when shops are open) but it gets worse...my memorycard is broken! I get an CF Error when I put it in my camera. So i cant only not upload photos...i cant even take them right now!
apart from all of that im okay though, I just wish I had a little more time for myself. Sorry for not checking up on your streams these days, I will catch up when I get my laptop working again.
I didn't think I could get a bokeh background using a point and shoot but I can, it just takes practise - like anything.
Forgive me if I don't get round to you for the next couple of days, my home life sucks big time at the moment.
EXPLORED #480 SEPTEMBER 18TH
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Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.
"Raymond Holliwell"
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slowly coming OUT !!
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GOLDEN RULES is the Topic for Saturday 14th April 2012
been so busy these 2 weeks, hardly any time to breathe. Am trying to settle in on my life, working non-stop for 2 weeks straight ain't no joke. Finally got to shoot yesterday but the lights were quite bad, ended up editing from my archive. Hope I'll have more time to shoot after clearing this week.
Tá pensando que ser feirante é pra qualquer um? Olha o carinha se fudendo na traseira da Kombi, em cima do motor e sem ventilação nenhuma!!
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Take a look at the dude suffering on the back, over the engine and with no ventilation!
While the white or golden tabby coloration of these animals may be pretty, what the zoos won't tell you is that, in reality, it's a deadly genetic mutation. THEY ARE NOT A SUBSPECIES, and are not albino.
The white gene is a double-recessive one caused mostly by inbreeding (in a natural mating, there is only a one in 10,000 chance that a tiger will be white), which is why they say that it exists 'only in captivity'. Zoos are not willing to wait for this one in 10,000 miracle tiger, and so find that the only other way to produce them is through inbreeding.
Even though it does happen naturally in the wild that tigers can be born white, there are many reports of wild tiger mothers attempting to smother their white cubs to death, because the coloration also makes the tigers more visible to prey. In a natural setting, white tigers and golden tabby tigers would starve to death, or die of other complications. This maternal behavior is noted even today in zoos, and often, white tigers must be taken from their mothers immediately after birth. The Singapore Zoo reported that one of their mother tigers refused to nurse her white cubs, so handlers had to raise the infant tiger themselves.
As further proof, white and golden tigers ARE NOT managed by the Species Survival Plan, under the following reasons:
1) the Indian Zoo Association is responsible for managing the Bengal tiger, along with the European EEP;
2) most white tigers are of unknown lineage;
and
3) because the SSP is based upon maximizing genetic diversity. Selective breeding of an extremely rare allele for white coloration is not appropriate.
According to Dr. Ron Tilson, Conservation Director of the Minnesota Zoo and manager of the world renown Tiger Species Survival Plan, "The white tiger controversy among zoos is a small part ethics and a large part economics. The tiger Species Survival Plan has condemned breeding white tigers because of their mixed ancestry, most have been hybridized with other subspecies and are of unknown lineage, and because they serve no conservation purpose. Owners of white tigers say they are popular exhibit animals and increase zoo attendance and revenues as well. The same rationalization can be applied to the selective propagation of white lions, king cheetahs and other phenotypically aberrant animals."
What Dr. Tilson didn't fully understand was that the inbreeding went even beyond the Bengal tiger bloodline. To make white tigers even more visually-appealing to the public, they were cross-bred with Siberian tigers, which, according to information released by Daniel C. Laughlin, a widely-recognized manager of zoological animals, makes "white tigers in the U.S. crossbred or hybrid animals, part Siberian and part Bengal. So, in conclusion, every white tiger in the U.S. is not only the result of repeated inbreeding of genetically defective animals but, even worse, is a hybrid or crossbred animal. Thus, anyone involved in breeding and/or exhibiting white tigers is doing a great disservice to honest conservation and preservation efforts to save the five remaining and endangered subspecies of tigers barely clinging to survival in their rapidly diminishing natural habitats."
But it gets worse: Laws in the United States actually allow people to own tigers as pets under the condition that they have a permit. Since a white tiger cub can sell for an average of $60,000, people are creating these cats through inbreeding in captivity without any professional background or knowledge. According to some sources, 80 percent of these white cubs die. Surviving cubs often have a range of problems including immune system deficiencies, scoliosis, cleft palates, mental impairments and/or bulging, crossed eyes. (Source: www.itsyourtimes.com/?q=node/2647 )
Also, ALL WHITE TIGER ARE CROSS-EYED, even if it is not readily apparent. This is because the gene which makes them white also messes up the way their eyes are wired to their brains.
Other deformities include serious dental problems and deformed bone structure. Mental issues are probably the most common result (I watched at a roadside zoo here in Oregon as a white tiger licked a concrete wall until its tongue bled). Gnawing on fences or enclosure walls, pacing and constant salivation are other sure signs that the cat you are looking at suffers from the affects of its unfortunate ancestry.
Often, you will see photos of white tigers being fed milk from baby bottles, or sucking on their trainer's fingers during performances. Biologists believe that this a sign of prolonged stress in the animal, and that it has regressed back to acting like a dependent cub. This is not healthy and should NOT be encouraged.
Over all, it's a sad issue which is not being noted by the public enough to end it. Most zoos and safari parks won't even tell you about the inbreeding issue, or will claim that their white tigers were a 'natural' occurrence. But there have been no 'natural' white tiger births since 1951.
What these establishments are doing is wrong and immoral, and lying to the public about their tigers (or at least withholding the information from the public) shows quite obviously that they are not in it for the animals; they are in it for the money. Deliberately breeding an animal in the knowledge that its life will be unnecessarily painful is cruel, and is a practice that should have no place in modern animal care. White and golden tabby tigers are merely a product of the practice of inbreeding, and are not being bred for any sort of conservation program, regardless of what various zoos and other establishments claim. The Endangered Species Act does not classify golden tabby or white tigers as under threat; they are instead classified as a genetic variant. Tinkering with their genes in order to ‘improve’ them is just an act of vanity on the part of humans.
THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO TO HELP: Inquire at your local zoo as to where they got their white tigers, and let them know that you are aware of the issue noted above. Also, avoid roadside zoos which house white tigers, as these establishments are the most at fault for the inbreeding. But above all, education is the best means of helping the unfortunate plight of white tigers. Spreading the word of the inbreeding will make more people aware of the unfortunate plight.
For more information, visit:
1) www.bigcatrescue.org/cats/wild/white_tigers.htm
2) www.animalsvoice.com/edits/editorial/news/invest/siegfrie...
3) www.animalcorner.co.uk/rainforests/bengalwhite.html
4) lists.envirolink.org/pipermail/ar-news/Week-of-Mon-200310...
5) peaceriverrefuge.org/Tiger.html
Sites where this image has been used for education:
1) www.felinest.com/white-tigers-are-not-natural/
Other sites of interest:
1) www.buzzinbizarre.co.uk/behind-the-breeding-of-the-white-...
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL WAS TERRIBLE AND I WANT TO QUIT.
Just kidding. Well, not really, but I'm not quitting (unfortunately).
I drew the sparkly angry cloud a year or two ago and when I saw them today, I felt it summed up my day (and/or the next three years)
The pure insanity that is my life this month (if you can believe it, it just keeps getting worse and worse) prevented me from taking 365 shots for the past two days. Oops. Days 78 and 79, therefore, are missing from my set. Bummer. But it simply couldn't be helped.
Poor Jacob!!
"Life sucks, and then you die.
Yeah, I should be so lucky."
I'm so glad I got the right words in focus! Perfect! :D
My great grandmother used this vac! My grandmother used it! My mother uses it and I use it and all the next generations of Sibirski Punks will use it too!!!!I
Not so long ago we had some rainy home-travelling wheater.
Two young ladies, going home as well - and dressed to the latest fashion- sheltered in the same spot as where i was, so i was able to obeserve them more or less:
They where "very-very-very angry" about the rain and immediatly grabbed for their mobile cellphones and called (home? perhaps to their mothers?) to tell they where fully soaked by this afwull rain ..... and that their lives sucked ...
Despite my wet coat i actually had a good time with this moment.
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These days have been very sad, frustrating,annoying... first, my dad is still unemployed, I'm still unemployed too, schools sucks, I failed an exam after I studied like crazy, my 19th year old sister is 7months pregnant but she's been having lots of problems and it's currently in the hospital, I almost finish this semester but things doesn't seem to get better, today is one of days when you think LIFE SUCKS!
I'll stop collecting stuff for a while, but I'll send some packages this next Monday, thank you very much girls for your patience!
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