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Along Clark Air Base on our way to our Christmas family lunch in Mabalacat, Pampanga, we just had to stop to take this photo of Mt. Arayat.
After paddling for a few days in the arid eastern Oregon climate seeing Mt. Hood and the evergreen trees on the hillsides was a welcome sight.
Mt. Shasta was incredible as I passed by on Feb. 1. I grabbed dozens of photos. This is a very quick and dirty processing job.
The leading cause of death in the United States in the first decade of this 21st century is Heart Disease, followed by various forms of Cancer. Your humble narrator has some small experience with the first and has resigned himself to the inevitability of the second, as he lives on a continent where Nuclear Testing was conducted.
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If all the Atomic tests are considered together when calculating radiation exposure to the civilian population of North America, a full scale nuclear war might as well have been fought here, and the bell curve of nuclear testing lays neatly into the rates of cancer experienced 25-30 years later. Tourist groups may visit the Frenchman Flats testing site- a “national sacrifice zone” for excursions amongst the cratered sites of Atomic detonations, I’d rather drink a glass of that queerly coloured effluviam which flows lugubriously through a crucible of dictatorial capitalism called the Newtown Creek.
Congenital illness, which medicine hasn’t figured out how to deal with -yet- notwithstanding, that which kills you these days is not an infected mosquito bite- or any of the leading causes of death in the 19th century- Pneumonia, Tuberculosis, and Diarrhea – instead its eating too much of the wrong food… which is plentiful.
Back in 1900, life expectancy was 49. Heart Disease was almost the number 4 killer, and strokes were number 5.
Number 5 is “accidents”, today. Life expectancy is almost 80.
from wikipedia
When the last of the soft-tissue has been removed from the body, the final stage of decomposition, skeletonization, occurs. This stage encompasses the deterioration of skeletal remains, and is the longest of the decomposition processes. Skeletonization differs markedly from the previous stages, not only in length, but in the deterioration process itself.
The strength and durability of bone stems from the unique protein-mineral bond present in skeletal formation. Consequently, changes to skeletal remains, known as bone diagenesis, occur at a substantially slower rate than stages of soft-tissue breakdown. As the protein-mineral bond weakens after death, however, the organic protein begins to leach away, leaving behind only the mineral composition. Unlike soft-tissue decomposition, which is influenced mainly by temperature and oxygen levels, the process of bone breakdown is more highly dependent on soil type and pH, along with presence of groundwater. However, temperature can be a contributing factor, as higher temperature leads the protein in bones to break down more rapidly. If buried, remains decay faster in acidic-based soils rather than alkaline. Bones left in areas of high moisture content also decay at a faster rate. The water leaches out skeletal minerals, which corrodes the bone, and leads to bone disintegration.
At the dry decay stage commonly found insects include Sphaeroceridae, Acarina, Nitidulidae, Cleridae, Dermestes caninus, Trogidae, Tyroglyphid mites, and the Tineid larvae. The soil-inhabiting arthropods are Collembola, Dermaptera, Heteroptera, Coleoptera and their larvae, parasitic Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Diptera larvae, Pseudoscorpiones, Aranae, Plectochetos, Acari, Pauropoda, Symphyla, Geophilidae, Protura, and Aphididae.
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The radar tower on Mount Umunhum is an important artifact of Cold War history, as well as a familiar landmark on the skyline of the southern San Francisco Bay Area.
These photos are from a tour of the mountain top that I took with my friend Ken, who has since retired from a career as a Ranger with the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District (MROSD).
This strip of concrete and tile is all that remains of the Almaden Air Force Station swimming pool. To see what the pool looked like in 2002, see:
The tower is the largest structure built for the former Almaden Air Force Station (AFS) on Mount Umunhum, south of San Jose, California. Built from reinforced concrete, the tower is 84.5 foot (25.8 m) tall. Almaden AFS was operated by the 682nd Radar Squadron, United States Air Force, from 1958 to 1980.
MROSD opened the summit to the public in 2017. The tower is sealed, and its interior is not accessible to visitors. For more information about the summit, see:
www.openspace.org/what-we-do/projects/mount-umunhum-summit
The tower was built to support a very large AN/FPS-24 search radar. This site was one of 12 similar installations built to detect potentially hostile aircraft approaching the United States during the Cold War. These radar sites were integrated into the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense system.
For a view of what this tower looked like when it was operational, see: flic.kr/p/ddnuKL
The tower is an important historic artifact. It serves as a monument to the Air Force personnel who served with vigilance at this site and others, and to all US military personnel who served and sacrificed throughout the Cold War.
Additional information about Mount Umunhum and the Almaden Air Force Station is available on Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Umunhum
AN/FPS-24 Radar (Wikipedia):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/FPS-24_radar
SAGE Air Defense System (MIT Lincoln Laboratory):
when i push the heads right in ie 3:1 - 5:1 life size it only has a clearance of a few mm..but thats fine..In the pic is how i use them alot of the time..both heads pushed together at the top of the flash.T
First storm lof the season, Autumn 2010, this canyon divides Mt.Kidd into its north and south summits ..
looking south towards the ritter range and ansel adams wilderness from the summit of yosemite's mt. lyell (13,120') rodgers peak is on the far left and the headwaters of the lyell fork of the merced river are visible in the valley below.
©2010 Andrew Kee
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Mt. Chephern is a prominent mountain near the highway in Banff Park, Alberta. A favorite photo opportunity and scenic view from many who pass by. Photo taken on 10 June 2011.
Cannon 30D, EF-S 10-22 mm @ 12 mm &F/11, polarizing screen. HDR Image (EV = 0, -2, -4) assembled in Photomatix and adjusted with Picture Window.
Mt. Ritter is 13,140'
This picture was taken from Base Camp (at Ice Berg Lake) with a good zoom.
Look for the three climbers!
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I finally had time today to take AND edit photos! And I actually like them for the first time in years!
Ironic timing, but this is likely my last batch of photos before I downgrade to non-pro flickr status.... I'm just not on here much anymore except to show photos to out-of-state relatives.
Anybody know of a way to download all your own flickr photos in one shot?