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Okay, on New Years Day, 2011, on that bridge, I wasn't contemplating anything more drastic than photographing the bridge and, if possible, its bridge plate.
The plates were long gone, but that wasn't what was troubling me.
The pressing need of a car repair, inconvenient in time and dollars, was on my mind, with some other things that now seem too trivial to note, to remember, for that matter, since memory doesn't serve me as I type this.
The day was beautiful, though, crisp, clear and breezy, and we were starting 2011 exploring, maybe following that up with some Mexican food.
A fellow with a pack had been walking toward the bridge, along the fence line at the edge of the drainage easement. He was dressed warmly, with a stocking cap and worn trousers and very very worn shoes.
As we were returning from a futile quest for the bridge plate on the north end of the bridge and better luck with an angle for a shot, the fellow was standing on the sidewalk on the south end of the bridge.
We stopped to wish him a Happy New Year and to comment on the beauty of the day. His English was less than perfect and my Spanish is (I'm ashamed to say) essentially nonexistent, but he managed to eloquently communicate that it was indeed a good day, when people could meet and greet in such a way and share good will. He communicated how fortunate we three were, with health and friends and love and basic needs met.
Occasionally casting eyes and hands toward the sky, as he spoke, Julio made clear where he felt the source of all this wealth resided.
Handshaking and hugs were certainly appropriate and were shared.
When I asked if I could take a picture of him, he swept the knit cap off his head and struck this pose.
We left feeling that whatever worries we'd brought to the bridge were not really so important after all.
If, as old movies would have us believe, special encounters can happen at this time of year on bridges, and if those encounters might also be experienced by those with too too trivial concerns, then Julio might, someday, look very good with wings.
Meanwhile Scarlett and Duke have crept through the jungle and are closing in on their destination
Duke: We’re close now… That Cobra base must be dug into this hill; the entrance is on the other side.
Scarlett: That means we’re going to have to find a hidden door, tunnel or a ventilation shaft. Might be tricky…
Duke quickly realizes that the back entrance, which appears nonexistent, must be hidden, and if that is the case, they are likely in view of a security camera. He hurries Scarlett into a nearby crevasse on the hillside and the scrunch inside together. Scarlett wonders what they will do next
Duke: We wait until something happens. I’m sorry about the close confines, but we’ve got no other choice.
Scarlett: It’s ok, Duke. It kind of reminds me of old times.
Duke: Uh…
Scarlett: You know, you and me, out on a mission solo together, out in the field… It’s been a while… ever since I was assigned to Squad 1 I think.
Duke: Yeah, you’re probably right about that. Hard to believe so much time has passed.
Scarlett: I know… It is hard to believe, but here we are… you and me…
Duke: Yup…
They wait and the tension continues to grow
My lashes are virtually nonexistent. So, I think being able to adhere false eyelashes should be on my bucket list. I've tried and can't do it. But, I won't give up.
Just a warm up to see if I still got the stuff.
ahem.
Orion is the off-the-record, no limits, last resort option for one of the few governmental offices that I aren't puppet to the major corporations.
While NINE (New InterNational Enforcement) remained free of the corporations, it realized that its power was basically nonexistent due to the rest of the government functions being puppets. It created the Orion project in order to use what power it had to create a secret, brutal, and elite group that could illegally do what NINE was meant to do: protect the peace and rights of the people.
While sometimes employing questionable ethics, Orion is the secret hand that fights both chaotic hackers and corporate mercenaries on behalf of the abused common people that fill the dark residential districts of the city continent.
While imperfect, they are one of the few pure lights in the dark future.
Another cyberpunk gun.
I'll answer a few foreseen questions right now:
1. It is caseless.
2. While the the mag feeds at the very back, that is not where the mag is. As is common in guns of this theme, the mag doesn't feed directly below the bolt/firing mech.
3. This was done to look cool, as all my guns are, and thus there will most likely be many technical issues which I never considered.
Oh, yes, in case you are interested, here is the pastie:
feel free to modify.
comments and feedback are very welcome.
EDIT: no ninjas this time, hurrah!
There are certain things I really don't like about this. It could use some editing, but I do not have it in me. I am so ready for the weekend to be over.
That is not typical. I was going to say normal, but what the hell is that anyway? This photo is not normal, just as I am not normal. And thank God for that.
I have so many words and thoughts and feelings in my soul that I want to put here but feel self-conscious about who reads it. For those of you that continually look at my photos, whether you comment or not. That is who I think about when I write these stupid descriptions that don't mean anything to anyone except me. My sentences feel repetitive and I think about you reading it. And criticizing, which is ridiculous, because none of you have. I suppose I have to remind myself that if you are not interested in my utter sameness, you may simply skip over these monotonous ramblings.
Rarely do I speak like this. My empty utterances include things like y'all and notta gonna and ought not and lame. I am a disappointment. Continually I warn people. You. Them. What's the difference? And continually, there are good, honest, genuine people that see me and think, "She seems nice. I will try and get to know her." I am so thankful for them, truly. I cannot express what it means to me that these righteous people see something in me worth pursuing. Unfortunately, though, whatever they think they see in me is just a spark or in all actuality, nonexistent. Eventually, they come to terms with the fact that I will never be able to live up to their expectations, and I become a disappointment. Sadly though, they do not refer back to the beginning of our relationship, where I attempted to get it through to them that I am not worth pursuing. Instead, they become bored by me. Instead, they try to blame me. Instead, they think I lost whatever it was they saw.
When in reality, it was never there.
A view from the resturant in a town south of Santa Cruz
Here's a quick recap:
I arrived thursday, got to the hotel around 5 or 6. First thing was going down to the beach. I went to the Natural Bridge state beach. The pacific was awesome. Warm and sunny. Drove along the ocean front down to Santa Cruz's board walk and Wharf. Enjoyed the view, walked around and ate dinner. Then passed out in the hotel room.
Friday, Went to UCSC. I went in the morning and it was pretty foggy and cooler. The campus was amazing. Its spread around in a red wood forest. The atmosphere of the place was really relaxed, people were nice, it didnt seem packed full of people or really busy. and its on a hill that overlooks the bay (which is about a mile or 2 away), the view of views. Also, there werent any fat chicks - none at all in the whole area. Thats always a plus.
Went back into town, ate lunch. All the food seems to be locally grown. That whole organic thing, with free range chickens and like. Went in to Monterey. It fogged up again there after the sun came out for a couple hours. got there kinda late, some of the places like the aquarium were already closed. Walked around cannery row , it had some neat shops,and like most places it was along the coast. Drove into carmel for dinner, to eat at some clint eastwood mission place. Very money, but again...the view, the food, it was all delicious.
Saturday. Drove along Highway 1 to San Francisco (it was foggy and raining a little - but the imagery was still beyond anything ive seen). The West coast is SO different then the easy. Its insane. With a mountain on one side, and beaches/ cliffs/ the ocean on the otherside is spectacular. Traffic was nonexistent until close to SF. Then it was DEAD Still. I thought traffic was bad here, but this was insane.
First I went up to Berkeley. The campus is VERY different from UCSC. The buildings are amazing. HUGE, white, pillars, stunning. It was very open, alot of people (33,000 in 179 acres). In the middle of the city. On bothsides was cars, people, alot of shops - but the campus itself looks nothing like that. Contrast to UCSC which is in the woods, 2,000 acres and 13,000 students.
Made it down to SF, saw the park - drove across golden gate, went to the view point. A good look of the whole city. Went into china town, by then it was 8 and getting dark. didnt know where to eat - picked a place that had people in it and was very dissapointed by the food. It was late by then with a long drive in the dark, in the mountains on roads we havent been to.
Had ice cream in santa cruz, slept. Got up at 5am this morning - flew, here.
They Live, We Sleep
Artist Statement
“We are living in an artificially induced state of consciousness that resembles sleep. The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are nonexistent.
They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it.
They have created a repressive society and we are their unwitting accomplices ...their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness.
We have been lulled into a trance.
They have made us indifferent, to ourselves, to others; we are focused only on our own gain. They are safe as long as they are not discovered ...that is their primary method of survival.
Keep us asleep, keep us selfish, keep us sedated...they are dismantling the sleeping middle class.
More and more people are becoming poor. We are their cattle. We are being bred for slavery.”
– They Live
This photographic body of work is inspired by John Carpenter’s 1988 film, “They Live.” The movie was also credited by Shepard Fairey “as a major source of inspiration for his own subversive brand of street art.” They Live was the basis for his use of the word ‘OBEY’ that became his main campaign and a popular clothing brand consequently.
The protagonist of the movie, an unemployed drifter named "Nada," accidentally comes across a box of sunglasses. After putting a pair on, he realizes that they are quite special. He sees the world in black and white and discovers that it's not what it seems. The series of images I have created are like those unique sunglasses that Nada stumbled upon, aim to show the world to the viewer for what it truly is. I hope they will help people to take into consideration what they sacrifice by blindly following self-serving governments and corporations’ agendas.
Through this photographic project my intent is to encourage people to be more aware of the habitual ways of living that we have been thoughtlessly following for most of human history. It seems as though the human race would have learned by now to not put their trust in the hands of the misguiding ruling class. Unfortunately most of the humanity is still in the state of mindless consumerism and simply does not realize that their decisions, their entire lives are being manipulated.
Mart Stout, who worked for 13 years as an intelligence analyst with the State Department and CIA, discusses American intelligence operations during World War I that ranged from aerial photography missions and code-cracking to efforts to secure the homeland against spies and saboteurs. “By looking at that, you can understand a lot about how it’s done today,” Stout told his audience at the Kansas City Public Library. Among other initiatives, he pointed out, the U.S. employed renowned archeologists to search for suspected (and ultimately nonexistent) secret German submarine bases in Mexico and elsewhere in Central America. (Photo by Steve Wieberg, KCPL)
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Iso Isetta Turismo
Iso Isetta Turismo
The Isetta was one of the most successful microcars produced in the post-WWII years—a time when cheap, short-distance transportation was most needed. Although the design originated in Italy, it was built in a number of different countries, including Spain, Belgium, France, Brazil, Germany and Britain. Because of its egg shape and bubble-like windows, it became known as a bubble car—a name later given to other similar vehicles. Other countries had other nicknames: In Germany it was das rollende Ei (the rolling egg) or the Sargwagen (meaning something like "coffin car"; the name apparently came from the small (or rather nonexistent) distance between the passengers and oncoming traffic). In France it was the yogurt pot. In Brazil it was the bola de futebol de fenemê (soccer ball of FNM [a truck]), and in Chile it is still called the "huevito" (little egg).
SOOC
The queen-Pablo Neruda
I have named you queen.
There are taller ones than you, taller.
There are purer ones than you, purer.
There are lovelier than you, lovelier.
But you are the queen.
When you go through the streets
no one recognizes you.
No one sees your crystal crown, no one looks
at the carpet of red gold
that you tread as you pass,
the nonexistent carpet.
And when you appear
all the rivers sound
in my body, bells
shake the sky,
and a hymn fills the world.
Only you and I,
only you and I, my love,
listen to it.
The structure is similar in texture to the United States pavilion from Expo 67 in Montreal, but unlike that structure, Spaceship Earth is a complete sphere, supported on legs.
Geometrically, Spaceship Earth is a derivative of a pentakis dodecahedron, with each of the 60 isosceles triangle faces divided into 16 smaller equilateral triangles (with a bit of fudging to make it rounder). Each of those 960 flat panels is sub-divided into four triangles, each of which is divided into three isosceles triangles to form each point. In theory, there are 11,520 total isosceles triangles forming 3840 points. In reality, some of those triangles are partially or fully nonexistent due to supports and doors; there are actually only 11,324 silvered facets, with 954 partial or full flat triangular panels.
The appearance of being a monolithic sphere is an architectural goal that was achieved through a structural trick. Spaceship Earth's is in fact two structural domes. Six legs are supported on pile groups that are driven up to 160 feet into Central Florida's soft earth. Those legs support a steel box-shaped ring at the sphere's perimeter, at about 30 degrees south latitude in earth-terms.[6] The upper structural dome sits on this ring. A grid of trusses inside the ring supports the two helical structures of the ride and show system. Below the ring, a second dome is hung from the bottom, completing the spherical shape. The ring and trusses form a table-like structure which separates the upper dome from the lower. Supported by and about three feet off of the structural domes is a cladding sphere to which the shiny Alucobond panels and drainage system are mounted.
The cladding was designed so that when it rains, no water pours off the sides onto the ground. (All water is "absorbed" through one inch gaps in the facets and is collected in a gutter system - and finally channeled into the World Showcase Lagoon.)
Spaceship Earth
Future World
Walt Disney World EPCOT Orlando Fl.
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Main Street Helen, GA-2007. Personal collection. Photographer Tiffany Horn.
The above photo is a picture of current day Helen, GA. As shown in one of my previous photos, Helen has gone under a complete makeover in its physical appearance. Helen was close to being nonexistent in the many years following World War II. It was suffering from lack of business and population was decreasing. There was a need for an answer to the solution, and it would soon be given to the town by an artist inspired by time spent in a foreign country.
It was 1967 and Helen was on the verge of being considered a business ghost town. There were only nine concrete buildings standing, and all were empty. No income was being brought to the town. Three local citizens of Helen, Jim Wilkins, Pete Hodkinson, and Bob Fowler, were on a mission to better the town and turn around the economy. They were given help by an artist, who was a frequent visitor to the area and a native of Habersham County, with his European ideas.
John Kollock had spent a year touring in Bavaria while he was active in the U.S. Army. During that year he fell in love over the aesthetics of the Bavarian village. After easy persuasion by the Helen residents, Kollock toured and overviewed the entire town for possible suggestions of changes that could be made. The idea was to accent the beautiful rolling hills and forest surrounding the concrete center of Helen. It was shortly after his observations of the cities abandoned streets nestled in the middle of natural beauty that Kollock began to think of his year in Bavaria. He knew that bringing a Bavarian feel to the town would give a new twist to the area, and bring lots of business opportunities. After consulting with the Helen officials, Kollock began working on sketches of the new look for Helen. He had finished with his perspective drawings on January 3, 1969. Less than two weeks later, on January 13, 1969, the first nail was driven symbolizing the start of great changes to come.
From the late 70s to the late 80s, constant increase in real estate, retail sales, and developing businesses was occurring. The benefits of Kollock’s ideas were showing up through out the town. When asked about his initial idea, Kollock replied, “Helen was a perfect place for this kind of Alpine Architecture.” Now Helen is going strong and striving off of its main industry focus, tourism. It offers many services such as German-based and American restaurants, local bars and pubs, and many shops that encompass Bavarian goods of different sorts. Helen is still, however, to keep that cozy Georgia small town feel with its local country stores and granaries. After a long century of dealing with hardships in its economic stability, Helen has finally found its niche that has brought it great success.
Anglen, Polly H. “Today’s Playground; Tomorrow’s Gatlinburg?” _North Georgia Journal_ (Winter 1989-90): 20-25.
Speath, Susan. “Hoedown, Helen Style.” _The Daily Times_. 29 October 1970. Sec. 6C.
For more information on Bavaria, visit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavaria
US Army, Homestead, Florida.
Here’s another Hummer from the army, this one is a little different from the previous one considering it has 2 (nonexistent) doors and its a pickup truck. This car was seen at the military event that happened on May 20th in Homestead, Florida.
They Live, We Sleep
Artist Statement
“We are living in an artificially induced state of consciousness that resembles sleep. The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are nonexistent.
They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it.
They have created a repressive society and we are their unwitting accomplices ...their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness.
We have been lulled into a trance.
They have made us indifferent, to ourselves, to others; we are focused only on our own gain. They are safe as long as they are not discovered ...that is their primary method of survival.
Keep us asleep, keep us selfish, keep us sedated...they are dismantling the sleeping middle class.
More and more people are becoming poor. We are their cattle. We are being bred for slavery.”
– They Live
This photographic body of work is inspired by John Carpenter’s 1988 film, “They Live.” The movie was also credited by Shepard Fairey “as a major source of inspiration for his own subversive brand of street art.” They Live was the basis for his use of the word ‘OBEY’ that became his main campaign and a popular clothing brand consequently.
The protagonist of the movie, an unemployed drifter named "Nada," accidentally comes across a box of sunglasses. After putting a pair on, he realizes that they are quite special. He sees the world in black and white and discovers that it's not what it seems. The series of images I have created are like those unique sunglasses that Nada stumbled upon, aim to show the world to the viewer for what it truly is. I hope they will help people to take into consideration what they sacrifice by blindly following self-serving governments and corporations’ agendas.
Through this photographic project my intent is to encourage people to be more aware of the habitual ways of living that we have been thoughtlessly following for most of human history. It seems as though the human race would have learned by now to not put their trust in the hands of the misguiding ruling class. Unfortunately most of the humanity is still in the state of mindless consumerism and simply does not realize that their decisions, their entire lives are being manipulated.
Only a few more weeks of immunotherapy, and the allergy will be nonexistent, we hope. Of course, to maintain the tolerance, he will need to drink at least one cup of whole milk per day for the remainder of his life.
Day 110
*Day 109 does not exist
11/11
I got in trouble last night blahblahblah and I had no computer for the night, therefore day 109 is nonexistent.
Hey, don't write yourself off yet. It's only in your head you feel left out or looked down on. Just try your best, try everything you can and don't worry what they tell themselves when you're away. It just takes some time, little girl, you're in the middle of the ride. Everything, everything will be just fine, everything, everything will be alright. Hey, you know they're all the same. You know you're doing better on your own, so don't buy in. Live right now, yeah just be yourself. It doesn't matter if it's good enough for someone else. The Middle-Jimmy Eat World
We had a really interesting discussion today during Current Events about discrimination and everything just because we're from West Orange and that's "the ghetto" and there are black people and gay people here. Honestly, I've learned so much from living here. I've learned to accept someone for who they are, black, white, yellow, or whatever. It doesn't matter, we're all equal.
So I just thought a song about someone feeling left out/looked down on really fit.
Anyway, sup Kell?!
I had a pretty good day, minus the fact that my doggie is in the Animal Hospital :(
Hopefully he'll be okay.
Anyway, this week has been eventful.
Friday- My Arcadia and Socratic show at Caldwell College, if my mom lets me go. I don't see why not.
Saturday- Theodore Grimm, Those Mockingbirds, Tourmaline, and Ultra Violent Lights show at the Meatlocker in Montclair, definitely.
WOOOOOO.
Photo taken with a Leica IIIc, made in the year 1950
Lens: Leitz Elmar 833946 50mm. 3.5
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NY Times, Dec. 4 2011
Colin Huggins was there with his baby grand, the one he wheels into Washington Square Park for his al fresco concerts. So were Tic and Tac, a street-performing duo, who held court in the fountain — dry for the winter. And Joe Mangrum was pouring his elaborate sand paintings on the ground near the Washington Arch.
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Kareem Barnes of Tic and Tac collected donations on Sunday.
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Joe Mangrum showed his sand paintings on Sunday.
In other words, it was a typical Sunday afternoon in the Greenwich Village park, where generations of visitors have mingled with musicians, artists, activists, poets and buskers.
Yet this fall, that urban harmony has grown dissonant as the city’s parks department has slapped summonses on the four men and other performers who put out hats or buckets, for vending in an unauthorized location — specifically, within 50 feet of a monument.
The department’s rule, one of many put in place a year ago, was intended to control commerce in the busiest parks. Under the city’s definition, vending covers not only those peddling photographs and ankle bracelets, but also performers who solicit donations.
The rule attracted little notice at first. But the enforcement in Washington Square Park in the past two months has generated summonses ranging from $250 to $1,000. And it has started a debate about the rights of parkgoers seeking refuge from the bustle of the streets versus those looking for entertainment.
At a news conference in the park on Sunday organized by NYC Park Advocates, the artists waved fistfuls of pink summonses while their advocates, including civil rights lawyers, called on the city to stop what they called harassment of the performers.
“This is a heavy-handed solution to a nonexistent problem,” said Ronald L. Kuby, one of the lawyers.
The rule is especially problematic in Washington Square Park, performers say, because there are few locations across its 10 acres that are beyond 50 feet from a memorial or fountain — whether the bust of Alexander Lyman Holley, who introduced the Bessemer steel process to this country, or the statue of the Italian liberator Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Then there is the park’s international reputation as a gathering place for folk music pioneers and the Beats.
“Washington Square is the live-music park of New York City, and it would be close to impossible for any one of us to follow these regulations,” said Mr. Huggins, who has received nine summonses with fines totaling $2,250.
But Adrian Benepe, the parks commissioner, argues that there is ample room for performers away from the monuments. And, he added, a musician who is not putting out a tin cup is welcome to sit on the edge of the fountain or under a monument.
“It’s the whole issue of the ‘tragedy of the commons,’ ” he said. “If you allow all the performers and all the vendors to do whatever they want to do, pretty soon there’s no park left for people who want to use them for quiet enjoyment. This is a way of having some control and not 18 hours of carnival-like atmosphere.”
Gary Behrens, an amateur photographer visiting from New Jersey, applauded the city’s efforts to rein in the performers. “I’m O.K. with the guitar, but the loud instruments have taken over the park,” he said.
The lawyers and advocates, however, challenged the idea that street performers were selling a product as a vendor does. And threatening a lawsuit, they faulted the city for creating what they called “First Amendment zones” through the rules.
“Is this place zany?” asked Norman Siegel, the former director of the New York Civil Liberties Union. “You bet. Public parks are quintessential public forums. Zaniness is something we should cherish and protect.”
Park visitation has soared along with the rise of tourism in the last 15 years, and with it vendors and artists interested in a lucrative market.
Mr. Benepe insisted that the rules would not scare off future music legends.
“If Bob Dylan wanted to come play there tomorrow, he could,” he said, “although he might have to move away from the fountain.”
Oddly, the dispute coincided with the 50th anniversary of the so-called Folk Riot in Washington Square Park, when the parks commissioner tried to squelch Sunday folk performances. Hundreds of musicians gathered in protest, the police were called in and a melee ensued.
In April, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg wrote a letter commemorating the Folk Riot, saying he applauded “the folk performers who changed music, our city and our world beginning half a century ago.”
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On Jan 29, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Jeffrey Warren
wrote:
iOS screenshot pls!!
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Stewart Long
wrote:
> Very exciting updates. The archive page looks great in iOS. It is
> excellent to see the global map of maps as well!
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Jeffrey Warren > wrote:
>
>> Also, a revision to the archive front page:
>> alpha.publiclaboratory.org/archive
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Jeffrey Warren > jeff@publiclaboratory.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I made the search look through note/wiki body, not just titles, and the
>>> search seems much more robust. I'd start using it instead of the regular
>>> site now!
>>>
>>> Also unlike before if you search for a term, or look for a tag, where
>>> that term or tag does not exist, it now tells you so nicely and suggests
>>> how you should search for it.
>>>
>>> Thirdly, it now prompts you to create a wiki page if you go to a page
>>> which doesn't exist yet. Although of course for now you cannot actually
>>> create one, it's a dummy page.
>>>
>>> I've been working a little on getting the actual login system working so
>>> we could start creating real content on the new site... ! But its going to
>>> be a busy month so it may go slowly. We'd probably start with tagging and
>>> commenting.
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>>
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Went to Target in Newport, New Jersey. It's a rarity (actually nonexistent)in NYC, so you have to go to either Queens or New Jersey.
Living far away has its advantages. It prevents you from a buying overload at Target since it would be heavy to lug back. Still had fun browsing though.
Many of the tropical butterflies have distinctive seasonal forms. This phenomenon is termed seasonal polyphenism and the seasonal forms of the butterflies are called the dry-season and wet-season forms. How the season affects the genetic expression of patterns is still a subject of research. The dry-season forms are usually more cryptic and it has been suggested that the protection offered may be an adaptation. Some also show greater dark colours in the wet-season form which may have thermoregulatory advantages by increasing ability to absorb solar radiation.
The wet-season form has large, very apparent multiple eyespots whereas the dry-season forms have very reduced, oftentimes nonexistent, eyespots. Larvae that develop in hot, wet conditions develop into wet-season adults whereas those growing in the transition from the wet to the dry season, when the temperature is declining, develop into dry-season adults. This polyphenism probably has an adaptive role. In the dry-season it is disadvantageous to have conspicuous eyespots because they blend in with the brown vegetation better without eyespots. By not developing eyespots in the dry-season they can more easily camouflage themselves in the brown brush. This minimizes the risk of visually mediated predation. In the wet-season, these brown butterflies cannot as easily rely on cryptic coloration for protection because the background vegetation is green. Thus, eyespots, which may function to decrease predation, are beneficial for Satyrine butterflies like the Bushbrown to express.
Pu'er, Yunnan, China
see comments for wet season form......
"Teddy and Abebual explained to us that one of the things Ethiopians do to celebrate new years, is to chew khat [chat] leaves. Me being the most clueless of the group, felt a responsibility to ask what the chewing khat leaves involved. As it turns out, chaat is a plant stimulant and people chew it's leaves in several countries around the world in a social tradition that predates coffee drinking. As a result, the trip to Kameese town was solely to pick up a bunch of khat branches and wild grasses (used for coffee ceremonies) for that evening's New Year's celebration.
Teddy and Abebual knew the exact place where they wanted to buy their khat. The van turned down a road that was practically nonexistent what with all the pot-holes and piles of dirt, and the three guys piled out. Yodit and I waited in the car, being gawked at by all the local children.
We were a bit relieved from this mayhem when the guys returned [with what looked like bushels of khat], and we took the van back to Abebual's and Teddy's house."
Read more about this day here.
Kameese, Ethiopia.
Another regular in both winter and summer. Hard to believe that before 1940 were nonexistent in the Eastern states. And that all our house finches are descended from a few pairs of cage birds turned loose in Long Island in 1940. Today they are more common in most places than the native purple finches.
Photo by Oscar Leiva/Silverlight
Comasagua is located in southwestern El Salvador in the Balsamo coastal range between San Salvador and La Libertad departments. The Balsamo Range is a coffee producing area with 3,452 coffee farmers with 33,502 ha of coffee. These coffee-dominated watersheds on the south slopes of the Balsamo mountain range are the water sources and recharge areas for water sources for the towns and villages in the upper watershed plus numerous fast-growing tourist cities and towns in the coastal zone directly south of Comasagua, including the city of La Libertad. The high elevation coffee farms in Comasagua produce high quality coffee. Nevertheless, most farms have yields far below potential and investment continues to be limited. Coffee rust hit many of these farmers severely in 2012.
There has never been a significant water resource management program in this area; the water issues are serious and highly conflictive within these watersheds. Collaboration between municipalities, communities and coffee producers is considered weak to nonexistent.
Credit: Barbara Kinney / Clinton Global Initiative
A Better Future for Girls and Women: Empowering the Next Generation - CGI U 2013
From women’s suffrage movements in the early 20th century to the Arab Spring, countless exceptional women have redefined their role in the world on their own terms. Yet the reality for many girls and women is still stark: over 60 million girls still do not have access to primary education, approximately 10 million women die each year due to nonexistent or low-quality healthcare, and three out of every four war fatalities are women or children. The education and empowerment of girls and women is not only a moral issue—it is also a critical economic issue. Ensuring access to education, financial capital, and political participation for women is among the most impactful strategies for advancing long-term sustainable development. From the creation of all-girls schools to women-run microcredit cooperatives, how can students and universities support the projects that are working to empower girls and women? This panel will bring together practitioners and pioneers who will explore the tangible ways in which young people can continue to build a better future for girls and women around the world.
The abundance and diversity of succulent species in the sagebrush steppe (e.g,. Cactaceae, Crassulaceae, Portulaceae, etc.) is indicative of low levels of disturbance. Sedum lanceolatum is distinguished by its lanceolate leaves with papillose surfaces and a lack of evident venation. Axillary shoots are also nonexistent to poorly developed in this species.
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With the BA.2 subvariant on the rise, what's safe and what's not? A medical expert explains - CNN
How should people weigh which precautions they want to follow? Should indoor mask mandates come back? Are there settings where people should consider masking outdoors? What if you have to go back to the office, and others aren't masking? And should we skip large indoor events again?
To help us with these questions, I spoke with CNN Medical Analyst Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and professor of health policy and management at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. She is also author of "Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health."
The following conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
CNN: Can you give us a quick refresher -- what protective measures are effective against this very contagious BA.2 variant?
Dr. Leana Wen: BA.2 is a subvariant of the Omicron variant. It appears to be even more contagious than Omicron. Like previous variants, it's spread through direct contact and is airborne. Someone coughing and sneezing will exhale droplets that can transmit the virus. The virus can also be carried on microscopic aerosols that are expelled by breathing. In addition, surfaces may play a greater role in Omicron transmission. Someone who coughed onto their hand and then touched a door could seed virus there and transmit it to you if you touch that door and then your nose or mouth.
The protective measures we talked about early in the pandemic still work against Omicron. Masks work very well, though here I would urge that people wear an N95 or equivalent mask, such as a KN95 or KF94. A simple cloth mask is much less effective, especially against a variant as contagious as BA.2.
Ventilation is very important. The risk of outdoor transmission is exponentially lower than indoor transmission, and a well-ventilated, less crowded space also has much lower risk than people packed together in an unventilated space. Surfaces play less of a role than aerosol transmission, but it's still good practice to wash your hands well or to use hand sanitizer if you shake people's hands and touch frequently used surfaces. That will reduce not only this coronavirus transmission but other respiratory and gastrointestinal pathogens, too.
We also have more tools at our disposal than we did in 2020. Namely, we have vaccines and boosters, which protect very well against severe illness and also reduce the risk of Covid-19 infection. Testing prior to getting together with others tells people if they are infectious and need to avoid the gathering. That's another key preventive measure that we now have access to.
CNN: What should people consider when deciding what precautions they want to bring back, like canceling restaurant reservations or masking up indoors?
Wen: I'd consider three things. First, what is the Covid-19 risk in your community? I've talked before about how the new guidelines from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can be used here. If your community is in an orange, or "high risk," area by the CDC's metrics, you should mask indoors. If it's in green or yellow -- or "low" or "medium" risk -- you could choose not to, depending on the other two factors.
The second thing to think about is, what is your medical situation and the circumstances of others in your household? If you are generally healthy and fully vaccinated and boosted, your chance of severe illness from Covid-19 is very low. That's different if you are immunocompromised or live with someone who is elderly with multiple medical conditions. You would want to have a higher threshold for caution depending on your family's medical situation.
Third, how important is it to you to continue to avoid Covid-19? Of course, none of us want to get infected by the coronavirus, and no one should be trying to get it. But there are some people who want to avoid it at all costs and others who accept that if they engage in travel, resume parties, dine in restaurants and engage in other pre-pandemic activities, they will have some level of risk. That's a personal decision that will differ from person to person.
CNN: Does it make sense to mask in some situations but not others?
Wen: Absolutely. Risk is additive. You can bring back some things that are lower risk or higher value but still take some precautions. For example, if you work in an office that has pretty good ventilation and is well-spaced, and requires proof of vaccination, you may consider not masking in that setting. But you might still decide to mask in crowded, indoor places like grocery stores and train stations. Again, I'd urge that if you are wearing a mask, wear an N95 or equivalent mask, because it will be your best chance of protecting against the very contagious BA.2 variant.
CNN: What about outdoors? Is BA.2 so contagious that it could transmit there?
Wen: The risk of outdoor transmission is very low to the point that it's virtually nonexistent. Outdoor social gatherings are very safe, and certainly lower risk than the equivalent setting indoors. I do not think that people need to mask outdoors, but there may be situations where someone is extremely vulnerable -- for example, a cancer patient on chemotherapy -- and wants to be extra careful. In that case, they should definitely feel free to wear a mask when in outdoor and more crowded settings.
CNN: What if you have to go back to the office, and others aren't masking?
Wen: You need to decide what's best for you, with the understanding that one-way masking with an N95 or equivalent works very well -- that is, even if others around you aren't masking, you are still well-protected if you wear a well-fitting, high-quality mask at all times.
It also depends on the specifics of your workplace. Let's say you work in a well-ventilated office, everyone around you is vaccinated, and you are well-distanced from the next person. You could decide to remove your mask when sitting at your desk, but put it on again to go into a crowded elevator or a conference room where you're sitting shoulder-to-shoulder with other people. You could decide to go to an outdoor lunch with your colleagues, but skip the happy hour in a packed bar. These are all reasonable decisions depending on how you think about your own risk.
CNN: Should people avoid indoor gatherings, knowing that outbreaks can happen?
Wen: Not necessarily. It again depends on what's going on in your community, what your medical situation is, and how much you want to keep avoiding Covid-19. For me, my area, in Baltimore City, is in a green or "low-risk" area for Covid-19 transmission, according to the CDC. My husband and I are vaccinated and boosted. We have two little kids who are too young to be vaccinated, but we also recognize that it's going to be very difficult to keep them from getting the coronavirus given how transmissible this new variant is.
As such, I am attending large events, including indoor conferences and meetings. I'd prefer that these events require proof of vaccination and same-day negative test result. If they don't, they are less safe, and I certainly understand if others want to avoid them for the time being—just as I understand if others will want to keep attending them. This, to me, is no different from a decision to go back to the gym, resume travel or dine indoors in restaurants. Some will think those activities are worth the risk. Others will not.
All day it rained every 30 minutes and each time the sun shone brightly in between. This was taken while on my run. The creek was too wide to jump, unlike in summer when it is nonexistent. That shower of rain in the distance beat me home.
Mendon Ponds Park is owned and very poorly maintained by the County of Monroe, NY.
Unfortunately, this extraordinary property is rapidly deteriorating due to an egregious lack of care. Trails are not cleared of debris... signs are useless. Park maintenance is essentially nonexistent. They do have a marketing department. Seriously, the taxpayers are paying the salaries of a county parks marketing department.
Email Mendon Ponds Park complaints to: countyexecutive@monroecounty.gov
This is what is in the box. These are all wetland obligate or facultative wetland plants that are under-represented or nonexistent in North Beach Park.
Credit: Barbara Kinney / Clinton Global Initiative
A Better Future for Girls and Women: Empowering the Next Generation - CGI U 2013
From women’s suffrage movements in the early 20th century to the Arab Spring, countless exceptional women have redefined their role in the world on their own terms. Yet the reality for many girls and women is still stark: over 60 million girls still do not have access to primary education, approximately 10 million women die each year due to nonexistent or low-quality healthcare, and three out of every four war fatalities are women or children. The education and empowerment of girls and women is not only a moral issue—it is also a critical economic issue. Ensuring access to education, financial capital, and political participation for women is among the most impactful strategies for advancing long-term sustainable development. From the creation of all-girls schools to women-run microcredit cooperatives, how can students and universities support the projects that are working to empower girls and women? This panel will bring together practitioners and pioneers who will explore the tangible ways in which young people can continue to build a better future for girls and women around the world.
They Live, We Sleep
Artist Statement
“We are living in an artificially induced state of consciousness that resembles sleep. The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are nonexistent.
They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it.
They have created a repressive society and we are their unwitting accomplices ...their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness.
We have been lulled into a trance.
They have made us indifferent, to ourselves, to others; we are focused only on our own gain. They are safe as long as they are not discovered ...that is their primary method of survival.
Keep us asleep, keep us selfish, keep us sedated...they are dismantling the sleeping middle class.
More and more people are becoming poor. We are their cattle. We are being bred for slavery.”
– They Live
This photographic body of work is inspired by John Carpenter’s 1988 film, “They Live.” The movie was also credited by Shepard Fairey “as a major source of inspiration for his own subversive brand of street art.” They Live was the basis for his use of the word ‘OBEY’ that became his main campaign and a popular clothing brand consequently.
The protagonist of the movie, an unemployed drifter named "Nada," accidentally comes across a box of sunglasses. After putting a pair on, he realizes that they are quite special. He sees the world in black and white and discovers that it's not what it seems. The series of images I have created are like those unique sunglasses that Nada stumbled upon, aim to show the world to the viewer for what it truly is. I hope they will help people to take into consideration what they sacrifice by blindly following self-serving governments and corporations’ agendas.
Through this photographic project my intent is to encourage people to be more aware of the habitual ways of living that we have been thoughtlessly following for most of human history. It seems as though the human race would have learned by now to not put their trust in the hands of the misguiding ruling class. Unfortunately most of the humanity is still in the state of mindless consumerism and simply does not realize that their decisions, their entire lives are being manipulated.