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ODC - OUR PARENTS WAR is the topic for Thursday 24th of January 2013 -
The idea here is to photograph something your parent (or parents) fought for.
Both my parents fought for INDIVIDUALISM - Individualism regards every man or woman as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being. Individualism holds that a civilized society, or any form of association, cooperation or peaceful coexistence among men, can be achieved only on the basis of the recognition of individual rights—and that a group, as such, has no rights other than the individual rights of its members.
Just like this Blizzard Lizard or White (Albino) Blue Tongue Lizard (Skink)
Once in a great while, an ALBINO blue tongued skink is born with the litter. It's a rarity, a treat, and a sight to behold. It's really no different than the white tiger, and many other animals. It's just a freak thing that happens once in a while—breed two blue tongues, and once in a blue moon, you may receive the highly coveted snow white albino blue tongued skink. Theoretically, unlike snakes, the breeding of an albino blue tongued skink has never been successfully accomplished. This is mostly in part due to their extreme rareness and unavailability. Their colors can vary from completely white, to faint yellow and orange stripes. The eyes are also cloudy and reddish. Albinos also have PINK tongues.
Blue tongues have somewhat unusual body proportions: a big head and long body with very short legs and small feet. Their evenly tapering tail is fat and shorter than the body.
Male lizards have a proportionally larger head than females, but the females are bigger overall.
The most noticeable feature of these lizards is the blue tongue inside the bright pink mouth.
Like all reptiles they do not produce any body heat. Their body temperature depends on the surrounding temperature and they can be found sun basking in the mornings or during cooler days. On cold days they remain inactive in their shelter. (They need a body temperature of 30 to 35°C to be active.)
Their diet consists of plant matter and small animals. That can be beetles, caterpillars, crickets, snails and even other small lizards. Anything they can get hold of will do. But they are not very fast, so they usually eat slower critters. They are very partial to slugs and snails. Oh, and they steal dog food...
Blue-tongue lizards have strong jaw muscles to crush big beetles and snail shells. They may also bite in defence when they feel threatened.
The blue tongue's main defence strategy is bluff:
It faces the threat and opens its mouth. The blue tongue inside the pink mouth is an unexpected and vivid sight, designed to frighten off the attacker.
The lizard also hisses loudly and flattens its body which makes it look wider and bigger.
If you pick the lizard up now it will bite you. And it will hurt. Blue tongues have a habit of latching onto your finger and not letting go, which leaves you with a nice bruise.
Blue-tongues occur across most of Australia. They like open country with lots of cover like tall grasses, leaf litter, rocks and logs, low shrubs etc. under which they will shelter at night. (They also like burrows).
During the day they sun themselves until they are warm enough, and then they forage for food during the warmer parts of the day.
Blue-tongue lizards live alone for most of the year. It's only during the mating season between September and November that the male will pursue females (and fight other males). Mating is a rough affair and many females carry scars from the male's teeth...
Female blue tongues stay within a defined home base. The males wander over an area the size of about 15 house blocks and have several females. (Does something sound familiar here or what?)
Blue tongues are born alive, about three to five month after mating. The size of the litter varies according to the species, but usually produce around 5-12 babies, the larger the adult the larger the litter size. From the moment they are born they have to look for food themselves (they start by eating the placenta), and they will be off on their own within a few days.
The Common Blue-tongue Lizard has the largest litter (up to 25 young at once) and the smallest young. The baby blue-tongue lizards are 13 to 14 cm long and weigh 10 to 20 g. The Shingleback is at the other end of the scale with only two or three young, about 22 cm in size and weighing 200 g.
The Common Blue-tongued Lizard breeds annually, but other species breed only every second year. How often they breed also depends on the amount of food available.
A lucky blue-tongued lizard can live for many years. Lizards in captivity have lived for as long as 20 years, and some in the wild may live for up to 30 years.
The main predators that may cut a blue-tongued lizard's life short are lawn mowers, cars, and cats and dogs. Cats are the worst. Dogs are often perplexed enough by the blue tongue and the threatening behaviour of the lizard to keep a distance. But cats are ambush predators and the lizard doesn't get a chance to show its scary tongue...
Baby blue tongues may also end up as dinner for currawongs, kookaburras, raptors or snakes.
Blue-tongued lizards can drop their tails if necessary to escape a predator. The stump will heal quickly and a new tail will start to grow. It takes about a year for the new one to fully regenerate. That's if the lizard has a stable food source. All the food and water reserves are stored in the tail. If the tail is lost the skink has nothing to fall back on and needs a steady supply.
Blue-tongue lizards are an asset in the garden as they keep the numbers of snails, caterpillars and other pests down.
It's not hard to make your garden blue-tongue lizard friendly. All they need is plenty of shelter and food. If you have lots of rocks and logs on the ground, piles of leaves, mulch, ground covers and low shrubs, then you are taking care of both requirements, because beetles, spiders, snails and other critters will like the many moist and protected hidey-holes too.
The quickest way to wipe out your blue-tongue lizard population is to use snail pellets. Blue tongues love snails and can't go past them. The lizards eat the poisoned snails and die as well. The snail population will recover, the lizard population won't. (It's a typical scenario that replays over and over again wherever people use chemicals to control pests.) Leave the snail control to the lizards, they will eventually catch up. Don't panic if you see a few snails. You need a few or the blue tongues will go hungry.
The other thing to be careful of is blue tongue lizards hiding in the grass when you are mowing. The noise will not scare them away. Rather they will turn around and threaten the lawn mower with their blue tongue, which in this case is somewhat ineffective.
Keep your cat indoors (which you should anyway), teach your dog to share its food (a good poke in the ribs whenever it looks in a lizard's direction has worked well in this household), and of course, don't run your blue tongue lizard over on your driveway while it tries to get warm enough to move.
Many years ago I used to have Blue Tongue Lizards in my backyard when I lived in western NSW.
Original Caption: Peeling Paint on This Neptune Road House Typifies Neglect of Exterior Home Maintenance by Residents of This Neighborhood Interiors, However Are Well Kept Up. Neptune Road Borders Immediately Upon Logan Airport. Residents Do Not Feel That the Expense of Complete Maintenance is Justified, When They Could Lose Their Homes to MASSPORT (Massachusetts Port Authority) at a Fraction of Their Value, 05/1973
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-6803
Photographer: Manheim, Michael Philip, 1940-
Subjects:
East Boston (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States) neighborhood
Environmental Protection Agency
Project DOCUMERICA
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Leaving Rotherham registry office after getting married, Lauren and Stuart have the traditional confetti shower.
For Project Flickr - October topic - Autumn
A frequent autumn evening scene for us. If the evening is clear we can have some lovely golden sunsets that silhouette the trees, fences, hay-bales and even the evening assembly of crows! This year autumn seems to be passing fast, as the nights are close to freezing. So I thought I'd better catch it while I can! Shot with the Sony RX100
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In this photo there is a pile of scrap aluminum siding with insulation material on the back side, a plastic bag filled with aluminum cans and another one in the leaves, blue rubber gloves, and to the right of the rubber gloves, something white, pink, and blue striped that appears to be fabric, and lastly a purple plastic bit that I can't make out.
Recycled scrap aluminum has value. Recyclers pay by the pound!
In the link below consider reading about: "The Environmental Impact of Aluminum (And Why it’s Still Better Than Plastic)" You can read about the pros and cons of using aluminum, but why it still has a downside for the environment.
www.thesca.org/connect/blog/environmental-impact-aluminum
Learning what materials can be recycled and how to best sort them for that purpose is the first step in helping our environment and reusing what we already available.
"In a study done by social psychologist Shawn Burn, it was found that personal contact with individuals within a neighborhood is the most effective way to increase recycling within a community. In her study, she had 10 block leaders talk to their neighbors and persuade them to recycle. A comparison group was sent fliers promoting recycling. It was found that the neighbors that were personally contacted by their block leaders recycled much more than the group without personal contact. As a result of this study, Shawn Burn believes that personal contact within a small group of people is an important factor in encouraging recycling."
"Another study done by Stuart Oskamp examines the effect of neighbors and friends on recycling. It was found in his studies that people who had friends and neighbors that recycled were much more likely to also recycle than those who didn't have friends and neighbors that recycled."
"Many schools have created recycling awareness clubs in order to give young students an insight on recycling. These schools believe that the clubs actually encourage students to not only recycle at school but at home as well." See the link below for all the basics of recycling!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling
*As much as paid employees do to help cleanup and beautify our communities and parks, we each have a responsibility. It is not anyone's "right" to throw their personal waste on the ground with that attitude that someone else gets paid to do it for them!
India Day 3 - Delhi to Jaipur
In the fields near our lunch stop a mother takes a rest in the fields with her young child.
Title: Aratea
Autor: Arator
Topic: medieval Astronomical &Astrological treatise
Date: ~ 1000 CE
present Location of the manuscript: Boulogne-sur-Mer - BM - ms0188, fol-26r; page-31
Link: bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr/mirador/index.php?manifest=https://bvmm...
Boulogne-sur-Mer - BM - ms0188, page-31 Aquarius 3ds fl
We weren't sure if this was a scarecrow or just something someone had done to amuse themselves, but either way it made us jump every time we came across it!
A final goodbye to the holiday as we see above and below the Mediterranean waters. It's been a blast, so until next time, goodbye folks!
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Since I cannot upload any photos for awhile, I will be making a new video set called “Today’s Topic” where I will go off and rant about whatever for a minute and 30 seconds.
I won’t be able to post one tomorrow because I’ll be out for the entire day but I want to upload one daily until my new laptop comes in.
As far as the computer situation goes, I ordered my laptop today but it said I won’t get it until August 20. I’m hoping it comes a little sooner than that so keep your fingers crossed for me please!
P.S. For anyone who is just looking at my stream or doesn’t know my situation, Gary is the boy I am taking a break from. So hopefully that makes a little more sense as to why the math work is so blehh..aggravating.
I’m going to be needing some topics for these “Today’s Topic” videos so when you comment this please comment with a topic you would like me to rant about! Thank you :D
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Original Caption: These Point Shirley Homes on Wintrop Shore Drive Are in Landing Pattern for Logan Airport's Runway 27 10/1973
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-5982
Photographer: Manheim, Michael Philip, 1940-
Subjects:
East Boston (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States) neighborhood
Environmental Protection Agency
Project DOCUMERICA
Persistent URL: research.archives.gov/description/548469
For more information about DOCUMERICA photographs at the U.S. National Archives, visit:
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Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001.
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A little girl looking over a giant fountain with the kind of curiosity and wonder only a child could have.
These photos were done at the time of emergence, while the butterfly was hanging to dry. No harm was done to the Monarch and it was released once it was strong enough to fly. *Below is a link detailing how "female monarch butterflies are better at flying and more successful at migration than males." The photos in this series are all of Monarch, male #3. *This butterfly only had 4 legs instead of the 6 it should have had. It also took two days before it was strong enough to fly and be released.
phys.org/news/2015-11-wing-female-monarch-butterflies-out...
monarchlab.org/?/biology-and-research/biology-and-natural...
I got an email from the editor of Tucker Topics asking if they could use my photo of this Tucker 48 that I took at a local car show. Since there are not many of these cars around I thought it was pretty cool they asked to use it. I got credit for it and they sent me a couple of the magazines.