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This is the window whose shadow is cast on the wall:
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Taken at the "Museum Insel Hombroich"
I changed from my macro 100mmf/2.8 to a Canon 50mm f/1.4 (which I traded with a friend for a while) - I guess you will start to see in addition to flower- and leaf-macros some different photographs once in a while ;-)
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THE UFO PHENOMENON:
From time to time throughout history there have been reports of strange things seen in the sky. In 1946 a series of sightings occurred in Sweden, and in the summer of 1947 there were thousands of sightings in a six week period, and at least 350 people found themselves first and second-hand witnesses to what may have been an actual crash of a UFO with occupants. Since 1947, reports of UFOs have become increasingly numerous in the U.S. and other parts of the world. These reports continue in much the same form today.
In Science:
There are several basic observational categories into which the unidentifieds may be classified.
While UFO reports differ in many details, there are also a number of similarities recurring in such features as shape, maneuverability, appearance and disappearance, sound and color.
UFO sightings are reported to MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) at Seguin, TX, and CUFOS (J. Allen Center for UFO Studies) in Chicago, IL, by a broad spectrum of the public, particularly through local law enforcement agencies. UFOs themselves are reported by many highly responsible people, e.g. military and civilian pilots, air traffic controllers, scientists, etc.
Two Voyager spacecrafts were launched in 1977 that contain sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, including a map of our star system indicating our location (this may be perceived as an invitation for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form).
The Voyager spacecrafts are traveling a 1.7 light-year distance, and as the probes are extremely small compared to the vastness of interstellar space, it is best seen as a time capsule and a symbolic statement with a serious attempt to communicate with aliens..
like a message in a bottle in the ocean we call Space.
In The Bible:
"Ezekiel saw the wheel within a wheel way up in the middle of the sky"
Of the many fascinating scriptural descriptions of heavenly things, this one of chapters 1 and 10 of Ezekiel is by far the most stunning and complex. The description itself is hard enough for us to understand since there is nothing similar to it in the Bible nor are we told what to compare these descriptions to so that we may understand them. Ezekiel had to describe in the Hebrew language what he saw, which was so incredible and foreign to his experiences as a human; Ezekiel carefully documents seeing a wheel within a wheel spinning and hovering up in the sky. Another reference to an unknown object in the sky was when Jesus was born, the days prior, a hovering light (a new 'star') guided the three wise men to where the Virgin Mary gave birth to the Christ child.
Are we alone?:
Life in the cosmos - youtube science clip
Curious Visitors?
- Click Here - To See Video of Spinning U.F.O. over Paris
Tourists from the future?
U.F.O. crash landing? The Rosewell Incident - Newspaper Headline Story:
- Click Here - To read about RAAF Capture of U.F.O. Saucer
Alien Probes? Best U.F.O. Photographs:
- Click Here - To See Vivid U.F.O. Photographed Evidence
Was Jesus an Alien? U.F.O.'s portrayed in Ancient Religious Paintings:
- Click Here - To View Gallery of Mysterious Ancient U.F.O. Art
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Fun Facts:
There have been millions of U.F.O. sightings through the years and over 106,000 documented U.F.O. reports from over 40 countries.
Over three thousand U.F.O. sightings have been cataloged by Dr. Richard Haines,
(Senior Research Scientist at the NASA-Ames Research Center).
The U.S. Air Force had an official UFO investigation from 1948 to 1969 (Projects Sign, Grudge and Blue Book), and collected more than 12,500 reports.
India reveals their UFO contact
Renown Aeronautics Scientist Nikola Tesla's, has created unmanned electromotive flying machines (ufos?) as spy probes for the U.S. military.
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King Iktur from "The Mad King: The End of The Galactic War," story # 32 of the Starcall Anthology, Vol.3. Read samples or buy at www.amazon.com/author/bobbello and www.bn.com/s/bobbello
A Guardian from "The Grandfather's Paradox," story # 12 of the Starcall Anthology, Vol.1. Read samples or buy at www.amazon.com/author/bobbello and www.bn.com/s/bobbello
The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down. In the depths Alice found the remains of a wonderful meal. Behind it, she thought she saw the sea.
Alice looked in the green hole and froze in terror. "How? What? All my adventures gone? All my friends disapeared? Culled you say? Culled! How dare they hide such a horrible heinous act with such a hypocritical word!"
In Memory of "Shrödinger's Cat"
A fractal distortion of Chic's Flickr photos containing the Quantum Mechanical Physics Phase Space Tag "Miss Schroedinger"
"Please."
This is a tribute to Donna Noble and one of the best and most powerful episodes of Doctor Who - "Turn Left" (season 4 episode 11). In this episode an evil fortune teller places a Time Beetle on Donna's back, forcing her to turn right instead of left on what seemed to be just an ordinary day, but because of this she didn't got the job on which she would met the Doctor, so they never met, and so there was no one to stop the Doctor before it was too late, and so the Doctor died.
SPOILER ALERT!
With his death there was no one to save the universe from various threats, and the stars went out, and the catastrophes happened on Earth, the whole world was basically dying. This is the darkest and saddest episode on the whole series, it is really grim and heartbreaking, with things getting only worse, with familiar characters like the Torchwood team dying off-screen, with the return of the labor camps (yes, those from WWII), etc.
Rose Tyler (who were pulled here from the different universe, because the worlds started to collapse) and UNIT were trying to stop all this, and they figured out that they could reverse the events of the wrong (right turn) timeline, if they send Donna back in time to make her past version turn left. They succeeded, but future Donna landed over a mile away in three minutes before the moment her past version will make a decision about her future, which could save or destroy the universe. Donna run as fast as she can, but in one minute left she realised there is no way she can make it to the crossroad in time, despite already being close. Remembering that Rose said, that if she will come with her to UNIT, she must be sure, because she's gonna die, and remembering the lorry which drove in front of her car when she was waiting at the traffic light before making the decision, Donna stepped towards the lorry, sacrificing herself to start a traffic jam on the right turn, which forced her past version to turn left despite the influence of the Time Beetle, and so the original (left turn) timeline was restored, she got the job at H.C. Clements, she met the Doctor, she saved his life by convincing him to go, and he saved the world a countless times after it.
"I'm not sitting in a traffic jam. I'm going left!"
That's why Donna Noble is so important for the whole universe! But not just because of this - in her next adventures in 4th season finale and special episodes between 13th and 14th seasons she will save the universe again! ;)
"You were so strong! What ARE you? What will you BE? What will you BE?!"
I took this picture last year because I wanted to make a tribute to Donna Noble and honestly this episode is one of my favorites. I thought it's the definitive episode for the whole series, it captures the importance of the Doctor - without him the worlds are dying, and without him there's no hope at all. This is also a brilliant writing and acting, this episode alone deserves an award. So I think it's a great choice for a tribute! :)
But when I took the picture I decided I should wait until the return of Cathrine Tate (Donna Noble) and David Tennant (then Tenth and now Fourteenth Doctor) in the three special episodes dedicated to Doctor Who 60th anniversary, which was on this Thursday. So now it's a great time to post it! Congratulations to all Whovians around the world! :D
You can watch the ending of the episode here, but I would rather recommend you to watch the whole 4th season - it's worth it! This season was the first series of Doctor Who I ever watched, so it's fine to start from here! ;)
Donna's Sacrifice - Turn Left (HD) - Doctor Who
You can also check out this amazing video tribute to Donna Noble, made by probably the best editor in Doctor Who fandom:
Donna Noble - I'M NOTHING SPECIAL. by Margarita Life
This is the core of a new quantum computer attached to Leiden Cryogenics dilution fridge, ready to begin a cool down to 0.005 degrees above absolute zero… about 500x colder than the coldest place in remote outer space..
For those who missed the earlier puzzle, the Canadians at D-Wave Systems plan to unveil it on Feb 13...
This quantum computer employs the resources of 65,536 parallel universes to compute answers in a fundamentally new way.
And this is just the beginning. There appears to be a Moore’s Law-like doubling in the number of solid state entangled qubits over time. It is early still, like when Moore made his first observation in 1965.
I first became interested in quantum computing when I read Oxford Professor David Deutsch’s Fabric of Reality: "quantum computers can efficiently render every physically possible quantum environment, even when vast numbers of universes are interacting. Quantum computers can also efficiently solve certain mathematical problems, such as factorization, which are classically intractable, and can implement types of cryptography which are classically impossible. Quantum computation is a qualitatively new way of harnessing nature." (p.221)
Or from my first blog on the subject: “Quantum computers have the potential to solve problems that would take a classical computer longer than the age of the universe.”
Book cover for "In Search of the Rising Star," published in the STARCALL Anthology, sold at www.amazon.com/author/bobbello and www.bn.com/s/bobbello
Believe it or not, some poor homeless souls are living 'existing ' in this Liverpool city centre alleyway. I kid you not.
Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you a mock up of how Ralph Bennett's Leyland Atlantean 1001 would look in Ray Stenning's Stagecoach livery. Supposing these fine specimens remained in service as long as the AEC R*********r, here's how I would imagine they would have looked if they continued in service till 2005!
This bus is a mock up of the famed 1001 Mancunian, though it has been given Stagecoach's national fleet number of 11001.
I believe in the theory of multiverse~ Just like they are many planets, galaxies etc...there must be many universes too ~ What a world we live in !
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Today's We're Here Challenge: Parallel Universe
I ran errands and did some shopping and watched for parallel things...there are a lot of them in the world. I also took photos.
I couldn't believe my luck with this shot! Barely had I seen the artwork on the wall and scanned around for a likely subject, when I spotted this elegant lady in a long black coat walking down the road towards me texting on her phone. Sadly, by the time she reached the artwork, she had put away her phone. I guess I could be picky and have wanted a brunette as well, but I could have been standing there for weeks and the right subject never show up, so I guess to spot the artwork and have her walk past in the space of 1 minute is amazing enough. Don't you just love street photography when this happens.
After a promise made in a previous comment, I have honoured this by mocking up Manchester Community Transport's Mercedes minibus, seen on Oldham's new 400 route.
This time, I have given it the 1986 GM Buses Express livery and similar indicator equipment to those used on the NCME bodied MCW Metrobuses and Leyland Olympians.
Bored and not much time, so thought I'd post a snap from my Heisenscope tonight, a device that allows small views of the quantum many worlds (or parallel universes). You can never guarantee what you'll see in the 'scope, but more often than not it's quite mundane like it is here!
Submitted for the theme #59 - "Abstract" in the "112 pictures in 2012" group.
IMG_48470, 30%, some stuff
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Muchas veces me he preguntado cómo seré yo en algún otro Universo Paralelo...
Many times I've wondered what I'd be like in some other Parallel Universe...
collage from handcut vintage images.
my 'limbo' series is a story about a difficult journey, in 14 stages. the larger pieces, like this one, mark each stage.
"When you touch me I die, just a little inside
I wonder if this could be love (this could be love)
'Cause you’re out of this world, galaxy, space and time
I wonder if this could be love" - Venus, Lady Gaga
There aren't even words for how much I missed Chelsea: so of course we had to make the reunion epic. And a huge thank you to Austin too, for help in post-production decisions. There's no limit to what you can do in your dining room with a sheet, an electric fan, and one speedlight - except for your imagination.
EDIT: Winner of the Teleidoscope Theme of the Week - "Parallel Universe" - Thanks to everyone that voted for me! I really appreciate it!
Alice wondered what kind of creature lived here that made such a mess of this place and at the same time her attention was drawn by some half-hidden name tags.
I love this city, I love the Chicago Police Department, and I love my chosen profession. It has cost me dearly, but I do not regret my choice to become a Copper.
Police Officers and the law enforcement profession have come under fire, and not just figuratively. It's time to start talking about what needs to be done.
I have been on the sidelines for the past 18 years or so, on permanent disability after a squad car accident that left me paralyzed and legally blind, among other things. So I'm not exactly in the loop, and I get my information where other citizens get theirs: from TV news and the internet, but I do have that special filter of having been on the inside, and I'm not shy about calling bullshit when I see it, near it, or smell it...
The first bullshit is the notion, fairly widespread apparently, that White Cops like nothing better than to shoot and kill young African American men. Yeah, right: we just love risking our job, life in prison, making our families destitute, and going through the remainder of our days with a bull's-eye on our backs. If anyone truly believes this, you can stop reading now: you are beyond help.
The Chicago Police Department, like many large metropolitan police departments, does have a high incidence of police-involved shootings. In almost every case, the officers had to defend themselves against an armed offender who thought he could escape justice by pointing his own weapon at the police. Are all these cases of White Cop vs Black Offender? No, but many are.
So why is this? Well, there are several factors that tend to get mixed up.
First of all, there are not enough qualified African Americans who pass the Chicago Police Exam and subsequent screening procedures. I don't know the demographic breakdown, but I see the evidence when I visit the Chicago Police Training Academy: a disproportionate number of White officers.
I know, some of you are sharpening your pencil, ready to say "See, they rigged the process to keep Blacks out!"
Nice try! No, there are not enough qualified Black applicants because:
1. They Lack the educational requirements.
2. They have a criminal record.
3. They have drugs in their system when they are tested.
4. They don't want to be the Police...
Would having more African American cops result in fewer African American young men getting shot by the Police? I tend to think not, but it certainly would unmask the myth that it's all the fault of those White Cops....
The overwhelming reason - in my humble opinion - that so many young African American males get shot by police, is because these same young African American men are going through life with a pistol in their waistband and have only one solution to every problem that comes along: take out that gun and shoot!
For whatever reasons, and there are lots of contributing factors, these young men have lost hope. They don't see education as their ticket out of the Ghetto, and they really don't know anything about life outside the Ghetto. Many of them live in a parallel universe where gang rules trump all others, and where solutions that seem common sense to us, are alien to them.
The solution, is, of course, better education, and the availability of decent jobs in neighborhoods like Englewood, Grand Crossing, South Shore, East Garfield Park, Lawndale, Roseland, and so many more.
Intervention is long overdue, but it must focus primarily on the very young. By the time they're 10 or 12 years old, it's already too late for way too many of these kids. That doesn't mean we have to abandon them, but we must concentrate on the very young, and accept the fact that this is a long-term commitment. There has been talk of a Marshall Plan to tackle these problems, and I agree.
Secondly, as our Police Superintendents have been saying for years now, we must get the guns off the street. We must stem the tide of illegal guns and ammunition flowing into the hands of seasoned criminals by choking off the supply from Gun Shows and outside gun dealers through so-called straw-purchasers. Background checks should be inescapable, and there should be strict penalties for violating existing gun laws.
Concealed carry is not a solution. In most cases, it just means that there's one more opportunity for criminals to obtain guns. I've seen my share of security guards who had been disarmed and executed with their own weapons, and I know that dozens of Chicago Police Officers have been disarmed and killed with their own guns, some quite recently, like Officer Thor Soderberg. The answer is less guns, not more.
Anthony Ewing, the offender who shot my partner in December of 1990 and tried to do the same to me, had obtained his gun from the corner dope-dealer. He told the guy he wanted to buy some rocks of crack cocaine and when the man pulled out his stash, Anthony grabbed the whole bag. When the dealer then pulled out his pistol, Anthony took that away from him as well. "He was a pussy," was his only comment about that later on.
You think you'll do better, Mr. Suburban office manager or salesman? You really think you can keep the Anthony Eaqings of this world from taking your gun away from you? Remember, you are dealing with a criminal who doesn't have anything to lose, and you are all that stands between him and the firearm he needs to move up the predatory ladder.
Do we have a responsibility to do better as law enforcement officers? Dawn right. We must find new ways to interact with the people we serve. We must find ways to cut through the bullshit and deliver quality services to a highly skeptical population.
We must make it our business to learn everything there is to know about our Beat and all the people who live there - not just the criminals - just like the Coppers who used to walk a Beat a century ago. Detailed knowledge of crime conditions, and face to face contact with the people we serve, is far more powerful than any weapon in our arsenal. We need to be the Smart Police, not just the Kick-Ass Police.
We must also be realistic. Many crime victims are beyond help because of the choices they themselves make. Should you be wandering the streets at 3 am? Is the alley the safest route to get your to your destination? Should you invite a known gang-banger or career criminal into your home, just because right now he's flush with cash and dope? Should we really be sitting in a parked car in Roseland at 2:00 in the morning? These are potentially fatal choices and there's little law enforcement can do to save people who stumble through life from one stupid decision to another.
The community also has to make an effort to cooperate with the police. You cannot spread hatred of police officers and then complain when cops circle the wagons and dig in for a siege. Like it or not, we're in this mess together: we just for 40 hours a week, you 24/7.
When I was working the streets of Chicago, I was aghast to see mothers tell her infant sons, "you see that policeman over there? He's gonna come and get you if you're bad..."
That's where it starts, the distrust, with stupid remarks like that, repeated again and again...
For our part, we have to get our heads out of our ass as well. We also, can not dig in our heels and treat everyone who's not the police as an enemy combatant. We have to remind ourselves - and each other - to see the humanity in those we deal with on a daily basis. We have to be open enough so that the people in the neighborhood can see the humanity in us as well. We can't just be law enforcement robots who have a single solution for every problem: slap on the cuffs and haul 'em off to jail...
Feel free to comment, but, do me a favor: don't just rant, there's been enough of that already.
(Photo by Lisa Thomos.)
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If you are interested in reading my other writings on this subject, go to the Album marked "Chicago Cop." You can also get my book "Chicago Cop: Tales from the Street" in paperback as well as e-book from Amazon.com. If you are an Amazon Prime member, you can read it for FREE.
This image features my reproduction of Dora Maaar (on the left) and Picasso's original painting of Dora Maar (on the right). There are a few small variations between the two.
Picasso became famous for having elevated his vision by attempting to paint his subjects from a 5th dimension perspective whereby one would see things from all angles all at once.
Copyright © 2011 Tomitheos Photography - All Rights Reserved
3D optical illusion effect:
First click on the center to enlarge the frame.
Then look at the two images simultaneously.
Allow your eyes to come together and focus on seeing one combined image at the center.
The combined image should appear in 3D.
Geordie Rose on stage at the Computer History Musem as data streams into the quantum computer…
Geordie showed three demos running on the 16 qubit computer back in Burnaby. The machine is targeted at a broad class of optimization problems and parametric database search.
The Register (U.K.) published the first report from the floor that I could find. TV coverage should air on NBC tonight (Bay Area I presume) at around 6:15pm.
One funny story from the Q&A: A fellow stood up and pointed to me and confessed that he saw the photo I posted on flickr, with the visual comparison to the La Scala opera house in Milan. That was Sunday. So on Monday, he called Lufthansa, and flew out from Milan to make the event Tuesday morning.
Recently I watched a documentary about parallel universes. The theory is, if the universe was formed from a single particle, it is possible that multiple universes exist. One possible type of a parallel universe is one which shares the same time/space fabric but exists in another frequency or something like that.. so we are unable to "see" this unverse.This got me thinking..
I remember reading a "Goosebumps" book as a kid where the evil twin reflection of a boy comes to this world and creates a real mess of things. It got me interested about the reflection world..
What if.. the reflection world is a parallel universe to our own. Let's see what it would be like in that universe. I'm assuming that it is a mirror image of this universe.
-We'd be using the wrong hand to clean our bum
-The form of alphabet would be called "Da Vinci alphabet"
- North and South poles will be reversed
- Jimi Hendrix will be playing a left handed guitar (but will still sound fucking awesome!)
ok.. i give up.. can't think of anythng else.. I'm probably writing nonsense anyway. lol