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“Bhagavad-Gita is the most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue” – so opined William von Humboldt, who wrote seven-hundred verses in its praise.
In this modern rendition, the beauty of the Sanskrit slokas is reflected in the rhythmic flow of the English verse of poetic proportions even as the attendant philosophy of the song that is Bhagvad-Gita is captured in contemporary idiom for easy comprehension.
It is a matter of consensus that Bhagvad-Gita in the present length of seven hundred slokas has many an interpolation to it, but no meaningful attempt has ever been made to delve into the nature and extent, not to speak of the effect of these on the Hindu society at large. The methodical codification of interpolations carried out here, for the first time ever, puts the true character of Gita in proper perspective. Identified here are hundred and ten slokas of deviant nature and or of partisan character, the source of so much misunderstanding about Bhagvad-Gita, the book extraordinary, in certain sections of the Hindu fold. In the long run, exposing and expunging these mischievous insertions is bound to bring in new readers from these quarters to this over two millennia old classic besides altering the misconceptions of the existing adherents.
Link to the free ebook at Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing Press www.gutenberg.us/eBooks/WPLBN0002097652-Bhagvad-Gita-Trea...
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Perhaps not old enough to be on her own, yet hoping for other opportunities, this teenage resident dreams of opportunities that seem far from her grasp at this time. Tonle Sap Lake, Siem Reap, Cambodia, SE Asia
Many women have nose piercings and so here is a tiny jewellery store in the narrow by-lanes of Amritsar which specializes in nose piercings. It also lists various styles of piercings available,none of which I am actually familiar with. Now where did our innocence go! We are so much bombarded with videos and news about gays, hippies and other freaks who pierce their noses and stuff that that is the first thing that crosses your mind when you see a sign like this. Freaks here, in a holy city? Well, it happened to me at least. It's then that you realize that there is also the normal world which exists, a simply mom and pop store which provides simple services like this to Indian ladies, nose piercings for many of whom is simply the local culture and tradition! (Amritsar, Punjab, northern India, Nov. 2017)
Unlike any western city, Shanghai apparently does not require restaurants to have sanitation facilities. This is one of perhaps 100,000 noodle houses without plumbing, sinks, drains, or toilets. Dishes and everything else is washed in buckets on the sidewalks, and the waste water is simply dumped onto the sidewalk at the same spot. After short time, much dirt, odour, disease.
Perhaps the Halloween launch date was responsible for the mechanical goblins that bedeviled FLANDRE's upcoming maiden voyage...
Tonnage: 20,469 GRT
Length: 599.7 ft (182.8 m)
Beam: 80.3 ft (24.5 m)
Steam turbines: (1951–1975)
Diesel: (1975–1994)
Propulsion: Two propellers
Speed: 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph)
We unknowingly arrived just in time for the September 11, 2012 Catalan Independence Demonstration in Barcelona. With 2 million participants marching through the streets with chants, signs and flags (and all of the businesses and streets closed) it was perhaps the worst day to be a tourist in Barcelona.
A lovely quote from Robertson Davies. I always think of Smokey as my little tiger, so it seemed appropriate (even if he doesn't really like being "fondled").
Jan. 5, 2019
Fujifilm X-E2
XF 35mm F1.4R
Film Simulation: PROVIA
A round travel via Hiraizumi and Yamadera
平泉・山寺経由東北一周旅
A comment on the other in this series suggested a tighter crop might work well, so this is the result - I have cropped in tight on this one to highlight the colorful sails more - I like the effect myself, and I love the fact this was shot handheld with a 300mm lens - not the easiest beast to steady.
I like these images with their colors and contrasts between the man made and the natural.
Cleveland Point
Brisbane, QLD Australia
PC4160
Perhaps a bit of both... I got a number of these, without the sea oats, but they bored me. I kind of like the peek a boo sea oat in there. I really loved the colorful umbrella and that they were all set up down there! LOL! Thanks for viewing! =o)
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We enjoyed a happy hour together with a group of cool people in the Belknap park area of Grand Rapids today. Also checked out a house for sale. Hmmm.
Edited NASA image of colorful gas over Virginia (perhaps from Congress). Color/processing variant.
Image source: visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=90497
Original caption: After several launch attempts since May that were often scrubbed because of weather, the skies were finally clear enough for a NASA Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket to blast off at 4:25 a.m. Eastern Time on June 29, 2017.
Soon after the launch from Wallops Flight Facility (Virginia), puffs of color emerged high in the night sky over the Mid-Atlantic coast. These artificial clouds glowed momentarily red-green and then faded into blue and violet as they drifted in the ionosphere. This upper layer of Earth’s atmosphere extends from 80 to 600 kilometers (50 to 360 miles) above the surface, and it is full of charged particles that get bombarded by solar and cosmic radiation.
In the course of the eight-minute flight, the sounding rocket ejected ten canisters about the size of a soft drink can as part of a test of a new multi-canister ejection system. Once separated from the sounding rocket by several miles, the canisters released blue-green and red vapor that formed the aurora-like clouds seen in the photograph above. Interactions between barium, strontium, and cupric-oxide gave the clouds their color.
The second image is a time-lapse photograph that shows the fire trail from the rocket pushing upward into the night sky. The smaller streak of light is the second stage of the rocket falling back toward the ocean.
Sounding rockets have been used since the 1950s to study the upper atmosphere and ionosphere and to aid in understanding the Earth’s near-space environment. The rockets follow parabolic or “U-shaped” trajectories. In this case, the sounding rocket flew to an altitude of about 118 miles (190 kilometers).
NASA Wallops received nearly 2,000 reports and photos of cloud sightings from areas as far as New York and North Carolina, and inland across Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Photos submitted by the public can be viewed on the Wallops facebook page.
References
NASA About Vapor Trails. Accessed June 29, 2017.
NASA Wallops Flight Facility NASA Wallops Rocket Launch Lights up the Mid-Atlantic Coast. Accessed June 29, 2017.
NASA Wallops Flight Facility (Facebook) Submitted Photos. Accessed June 29, 2017.
Perhaps my favorite place in Europe, Scotland continues to draw me back time and time again.
These photos were taken on a Canon T3i during a 6 day road trip through the Scottish highlands.
You can learn more about the locations covered and the route I took on virtualwayfarer.com.
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Epiclopis gayi - a cleptoparasitic bee (a.k.a nest parasite or cuckoo bee) of almost certainly Centris bees. Perhaps even of the Centris bee that was posted just prior to this as this bee was also collected in southern Chile on the expedition with Laurence Packer. Photos by Kelly Graniger and Anders Croft.
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Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
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or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
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An open day at the Longmoor Military Railway, Saturday 28th September 1968. I'd come down from Bristol, changing at Portsmouth. I enjoyed the unfamiliar Southern Region third-rail ambience and the strange, gorse and bracken-smothered country that I had not visited before ...unless you count a boyhood day-trip by coach (Wessex, I think) to Southsea and the New Forest. One detail I recall of the short final leg from Portsmouth to Liss (were the carriages still painted green?) were the letters S. R. fired into the inside of the train's lavatory bowls.
BR steam had only finished a month before, and a large crowd of the steam-deprived alighted from the train at Liss. We needed a fix. I seem to remember that you could walk directly from Liss Station onto the platform of the Military Railway, which had a junction with the main line here. The first train that came in was hauled by some kind of diesel locomotive. The diehards among us let it go. Soon after another train appeared, hauled by a steam locomotive running tender first. We piled into the compartments, which were full-width, with no corridor. I counted 17 people in mine.
The locomotive had been the WD "Austerity" 2-10-0 no. 600 GORDON. I got out at Longmoor and mooched around the displays of "preserved" locomotives ...not much to my taste... and the sales stands. You could buy tinned steam locomotive smoke, I remember. You were recommended to open the tin and warm it over a low flame. My kind or room fragrance. I decided to return to Liss by walking back along the line. Plenty of other people were wandering over the tracks and nobody seemed to mind. I would take photos of passing trains along the way. A squaddie had handed me a free timetable pamphlet, so I knew when to expect the trains and could get into position in advance. Considering that I benefited from such an advantage, this seems a singularly ill-chosen vantage-point. The photo shows 600 GORDON hauling the 1418 departure from Liss. My camera shot 828 film, which was the same size as 35mm, but without sprocket holes. There was no lever-wind and you had to advance on the roll-film principle, by turning a knurled knob and watching, through a little oval of red glass, for the numbers printed on the film's backing paper. This probably explains the early exposure; I wanted to give myself enough time to wind on and get another shot when the train was closer. In fact I let the train get too close on the second shot, which was spoiled by motion blur. I think this works better anyway.