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These hornbills are endemic species in the Malabar region - a large mega biodiversity hotspot hosting an amazing diversity of wildlife in the South Western part of India. These are the most common hornbills in the region and are well known for their cacophonic cackling and laughing calls which are quite loud and sound totally crazy. I think they are also the smallest of the 5 species of Hornbills found there.
We sighted a fruiting fig tree in a timber depot. It was a very large tree spanning a wide area and the tree was full of figs. And enjoying those fruits were a good variety of birds - Malabar Hornbills, Malabar Pied Hornbills, Coppersmith Barbets, Asian Fairy Bluebird, Malabar Barbet, White-eyes and few other species. The tree is ripe at the right season for these birds which are or had just started nesting. So the tree is easy food for many of them.
Thank you so much in advance for your views, faves, feedback and for reading the long writeup!
a brief writeup on this lens mod:
aarondesigns.org/reversed-element-helios44/
shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a helios 44m-4 with a reversed rear element, mounted on a 0.71x focal reducer
Could be awhile, folks. Sheep have right of way. Even today!
Somewhere on the old Rio Grande Southern narrow-gauge system. According to the old photo caption, this was Railcar #1. I'm dubious; see the nice WIki writeup that follows. My guess this is one of the later Pierce-Arrow derivations. There were a total of 7 of these, built in the railroad's Ridgway shops to hold onto the vital Post Office contract to serve the Colo. mountain towns. They did their job admirably. Remarkably, all 7 survive, in one form or another. All still run! Must be a trick, finding parts for a 1930s Pierce-Arrow . . .
[Answered my own question by reading the Wiki article more closely. By the time the Geese were retired or turned to part-time tourist duty, there was very little left of the 1930s-era originals. Some very ingenious practical engineers there in the old RGS Ridgway shops!]
Original photo: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_ride_on_the_Galloping_G... My cleanup, crop & restoration. PD per wiki.
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galloping_Goose_(railcar) for the story, which is cool.
a brief writeup on this lens mod:
aarondesigns.org/reversed-element-helios44/
shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a helios 44m-4 with a reversed rear element, mounted on a 0.71x focal reducer
a brief writeup on this lens mod:
aarondesigns.org/reversed-element-helios44/
shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a helios 44m-4 with a reversed rear element, mounted on a 0.71x focal reducer
a brief writeup on this lens mod:
aarondesigns.org/reversed-element-helios44/
shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a helios 44m-4 with a reversed rear element, mounted on a 0.71x focal reducer
a brief writeup on this lens mod:
aarondesigns.org/reversed-element-helios44/
shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a helios 44m-4 with a reversed rear element, mounted on a 0.71x focal reducer
In the hornbill species - about 9 of them in India in total - the male courts the female by offering her berries and figs. The female accepts it - sometimes from more than one - before she finally chooses a partner. And then the birds would find a tree hollow to set up their nest. This poor Malabar Grey Hornbill couldn't find a partner nearby, and he waited more than 30 mins with the fig in his mouth. We grabbed all the shots we wanted, but the poor chap didn't move.
These are endemic species in the Malabar region - a large forest hosting an amazing diversity of wildlife in the South Western part of India. These are the most common hornbills in the region and are well known for their cacophonic cackling and laughing calls which are quite loud and sound totally crazy.
Just like other hornbills, the female gets into a tree hollow and the male seals the entrance with mud or cement like material from her droppings. Only a small aperture big enough for the beak is left open. The male delivers food to the chicks and female for 90 days and drops it through the small hole. When the male comes with the food, he taps the tree to signal the female that he has arrived. If anything happens to the male, either the female breaks the seal or as few naturalists pointed out, she and the chicks sometimes die of starvation inside the hollow. We briefly observed that nest sealing behaviour in action and it was amazing.
Thank you so much in advance for your views, faves, feedback and for reading the long writeup!
In the hornbill species - about 9 of them in India in total - the male courts the female by offering her berries and figs. The female accepts it - sometimes from more than one - before she finally chooses a partner. And then the birds would find a tree hollow to set up their nest. This poor Malabar Grey Hornbill couldn't find a partner nearby, and he waited more than 30 mins with the fig in his mouth. We grabbed all the shots we wanted, but the poor chap didn't move.
These are endemic species in the Malabar region - a large forest hosting an amazing diversity of wildlife in the South Western part of India. These are the most common hornbills in the region and are well known for their cacophonic cackling and laughing calls which are quite loud and sound totally crazy.
Just like other hornbills, the female gets into a tree hollow and the male seals the entrance with mud or cement like material from her droppings. Only a small aperture big enough for the beak is left open. The male delivers food to the chicks and female for 90 days and drops it through the small hole. When the male comes with the food, he taps the tree to signal the female that he has arrived. If anything happens to the male, either the female breaks the seal or as few naturalists pointed out, she and the chicks sometimes die of starvation inside the hollow. We briefly observed that nest sealing behaviour in action and it was amazing.
Thank you so much in advance for your views, faves, feedback and for reading the long writeup!
a brief writeup on this lens mod:
aarondesigns.org/reversed-element-helios44/
shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a helios 44m-4 with a reversed rear element, mounted on a 0.71x focal reducer
a brief writeup on this lens mod:
aarondesigns.org/reversed-element-helios44/
shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a helios 44m-4 with a reversed rear element, mounted on a 0.71x focal reducer
Still in Oregon, I found this hoverfly on what looks like the Jacob's Ladder from two days ago, but is actually an either-inch flower, the Veronica persicar. The flower is also known as birdeye speedwell,common field-speedwell, Persian speedwell, large field speedwell, bird's-eye, or winter speedwell is a flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae. It's a native to England, but not this one that was found near Klamath Falls. How it got there is just a guess.
The Hoverfly, one very similar to the "Marmalade hoverfly" of England, actually a Eupeodes americanus which is discussed about as much as the flower. There are over 6000 (!) species of hoverflies, and this is as close as I and a friend could get. Truth be told, half of you don't care, and the other 75% could care less.
Insects such as aphids are considered a crop pest, and therefore the aphid-eating larvae of some hover flies serve as an economically (as well as ecologically) important predator and even potential agents for use in biological control, while the adults may be pollinators.
There is a lengthy and very interesting writeup about hoverflies (also hover flies) in Wikipedia.
a brief writeup on this lens mod:
aarondesigns.org/reversed-element-helios44/
shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a helios 44m-4 with a reversed rear element, mounted on a 0.71x focal reducer
a brief writeup on this lens mod:
aarondesigns.org/reversed-element-helios44/
shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a helios 44m-4 with a reversed rear element, mounted on a 0.71x focal reducer
a brief writeup on this lens mod:
aarondesigns.org/reversed-element-helios44/
shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a helios 44m-4 with a reversed rear element, mounted on a 0.71x focal reducer
Featuring:
Lemon Trees: The Art Between Seasons
Frogmore 4.0
Ocho Tango
Angel's Palms
Read the full writeup Here
slowing down photo processing technique: www.box.net/shared/4z0jmqeg4c
when i get a chance i'll do a writeup on a more involved processing technique using picasa. take care all
a brief writeup on this lens mod:
aarondesigns.org/reversed-element-helios44/
shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a helios 44m-4 with a reversed rear element, mounted on a 0.71x focal reducer
So I don't remember how or why I found out about this but it's a thing, and boy is it great.
Pretty much back in the silver age, Moth was like an anti Batman and had his own Batcave called the Moth Cave. It is legit a cave with a wall and two tables; www.writeups.org/wp-content/uploads/Killer-Moth-Batman-DC...
Also, Duncan Young made a pretty sweet one on his stream today so go check that out. www.flickr.com/photos/144751365@N08/29695094823
a brief writeup on this lens mod:
aarondesigns.org/reversed-element-helios44/
shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a helios 44m-4 with a reversed rear element, mounted on a 0.71x focal reducer
a brief writeup on this lens mod:
aarondesigns.org/reversed-element-helios44/
shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a helios 44m-4 with a reversed rear element, mounted on a 0.71x focal reducer
30,000 square feet, 250 years old, and left decaying and unoccupied for the last 40-plus years. Multiple owners have tried to resurrect this estate, the last giving up and putting it on the market along with 115 acres just last year for about one million Euro. A bargain, if you've got 20, 30, 40 million or more to fix it up. Here's a good writeup on the estate's history: connachttribune.ie/capturing-the-faded-glory-of-woodlawn-...
The pair of FP9A diesel locomotives pushing Ontario Southland's century-old wedge snowplow no. 401005 disappear in a cloud of snow as they push it south towards Tillsonburg. Here it approaches the small hamlet of Ostrander just before blasting the gaggle of foamers on either side of the crossing. Someday I'll do a proper writeup on this chase but for now the whole experience lives rent free in my head.
a brief writeup on this lens mod:
aarondesigns.org/reversed-element-helios44/
shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a helios 44m-4 with a reversed rear element, mounted on a 0.71x focal reducer
Five potent EMD locomotives, assigned as mid-train helpers on a combined D&RGW 735 and 785 coal train, roll westward up Price Canyon at the Nolan Tunnels on June 20, 1975.
The 735 and 785 were operated for U.S. Steel's Geneva Steel Mill six miles railroad-west of Provo, Utah. The 735 originated at the Carbon County Railway interchange at Columbia Jct., Utah, its cars loaded at the Geneva Mine six miles south, on the face of the Book Cliffs. The 785 originated at the Somerset Mine on Rio Grande's North Fork Branch 75 miles southeast of Grand Junction, Colorado. Both mines were U.S. Steel operations, captive to the steel mill. Coal from both trains emptied at U.S. Steel's wash plant at Wash, Utah, east of Price, then after washing, reloaded into any empty cars available and continued to the Geneva Mill. The symbols carried through even though the trains did not.
Typically, the two trains did not combine into one from Wash to Geneva, 100 miles. Each train was normally 40 cars nominal, plus or minus 7 cars.
Caption writeup by Mark Hemphill.
Doug Harrop Photography • June 20, 1975
Ten EMD locomotives powered a combined D&RGW 735 and 785 coal empty up Price Canyon west of Lynn, Utah, on the afternoon of June 20, 1975.
The 735 and 785 were operated for U.S. Steel's Geneva Steel Mill six miles railroad-west of Provo, Utah. The 735 originated at the Carbon County Railway interchange at Columbia Jct., Utah, its cars loaded at the Geneva Mine six miles south, on the face of the Book Cliffs. The 785 originated at the Somerset Mine on Rio Grande's North Fork Branch 75 miles southeast of Grand Junction, Colorado. Both mines were U.S. Steel operations, captive to the steel mill. Coal from both trains emptied at U.S. Steel's wash plant at Wash, Utah, east of Price, then after washing, reloaded into any empty cars available and continued to the Geneva Mill. The symbols carried through even though the trains did not.
Typically, the two trains did not combine into one from Wash to Geneva, 100 miles. Each train was normally 40 cars nominal, plus or minus 7 cars.
Caption writeup by Mark Hemphill.
a brief writeup on this lens mod:
aarondesigns.org/reversed-element-helios44/
shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a helios 44m-4 with a reversed rear element, mounted on a 0.71x focal reducer
UPDATE: Mystery solved after all those years, indirectly through the wonderful Jaap Best collection at Teylers Museum, Haarlem the Netherlands, also see: www.circusmuseum.nl
See posters and CDV:
www.flickr.com/photos/sanspareille/5549992916/
www.flickr.com/photos/sanspareille/5549992910/in/photostr...
www.flickr.com/photos/sanspareille/5549992908/
That the tiger's name was Emir comes from the writeup on a documentary on Legendary Women at Circus Krone from the Bayerische Feuilleton on Bayern 2, where she and the tiger's name are just mentioned in passing but nothing else.
www.br-online.de/bayern2/bayerisches-feuilleton/zirkus-he...
BUT then
Finally the answer, through the Friedlander poster number, was found in: Gobbers , Emil
Artisten - Zirkus und Varietè in alter und neuer Zeit 1.-5. Tausend
Düsseldorf - Droste Verlag 1949 which mentions Cilly in the discription of the poster:
"Cilly Hetterich aus Dinslaken bewarb sich beim Circus Krone für den Job
als Tigerbraut. Ihre ganze Erfahrung bis dahin - der Umgang mit Hühner und Katzen" translated:
"Miss Hetterich from Dinslaken applied herself at Krone for the job of 'the Tigerbride' . Her whole animal experience untill then limited itself to farmyard chickens and cats"
Looking in the 1915 German Lutheran registries in Dinslaken, a village just north of Duisburg I have found an entry for Friedrich Hetterich, born 1882, with a 'kleintierhaltung' a smallholding, a daughter Christa born 1909. If Miss Cilly is indeed Christa Hetterich, she would have been approx 25 when this picture was taken. The 1939 Berlin phone directory gives a Christa Hetterich, with the occupation 'woolshop'. It seems a bit hard to take in that someone would start a knitting shop after having carried a tiger about for seven years, but maybe she wanted some peace and quiet?
Miss Cilly was billed from 1931 to 1938 as 'Cilly, die Tigerbraut, the Sensation Die Sensation von Berlin' (Cilly, the Tiger Bride, Sensation of Berlin) at circus Krone, so she performed this trick for at least 7 years.
She is, despite an almost uncanny and possibly not altogether coincidental likeness, NOT to be confused with equestrian circus star, singing ringmistress and film actress Cilly Feindt from rival circus Busch.
It remains to be found who the actual animal trainer of 'Miss Cilly's' tigers was, as this was obviously a reprise (see probable explanation of the number in comments below).
River Nidd, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire
I was going to do a nice writeup about the history of this pub but thought sod it, why should I… it was shut when we visited!
Built by Plymouth Locomotive Works in December of 1942, weighing in at 18 tons with a 6 cylinder Buda gas engine and 4 speed transmission. Based on the writeup in the museum, it was quite noisy and lived up to it's name. First locomotive to operate on the Walkersville Southern.
OK, a non-silhouette one below too. But this one's prettier.
Check out all of my Species a Day writeups here.
Sofia was pure amazing energy...if you are wondering if it is worth it to see her live, it definitely is! Have a listen here:
More photos and a writeup of Day Three at Pitchfork Music Festival here:
bigtakeover.com/concerts/PitchforkMusicFestivalHighlights...
**All photos are copyrighted**
a brief writeup on this lens mod:
aarondesigns.org/reversed-element-helios44/
shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a helios 44m-4 with a reversed rear element, mounted on a 0.71x focal reducer
I"ve been tagged by flickrfanmk2007
1 - I love flowers.
2 - As soon as I start speaking you know I'm a New Yorker, Brooklyn born.
3 - Dead things fascinate me. I've always wanted to watch an autopsy.
4 - I don't mind making a fool of myself.
5 - On a scale from 1 to 10 my tomato sauce is off the charts!
6 - Besides Flickr, www.icanhascheezburger.com is my favorite website.
7 - I've always wanted to cross the Brooks Range in Alaska. Someday....
8 - Mongolia here I come! Someday......
9 - I tell a good story.
10 - Does anyone know when Peanut was born? I'm having a senior moment.
btw, I'm having difficulty with my laptop, the mouse thingie bar has gone crazy and jumps all over the screen taking me to places I've never been before. It took me over 90 minutes to upload this photo and do the writeup. Will purchase a regular mouse tomorrow and use it until I can get the laptop to the repair shop. See you all soon......
On the left is Tom Fitzgerald.. on the right Mitch Garman. Both original RSW men from '68. Toms dad Patty Fitz was an RSW condr also. These two guys worked together on and off their entire career in Beloit, Rockford, Ladd, Savanna, Milw both east and west, Amtrak and Metra. Even booming on the D&I. True hard core working milw men. They could switch cars, run thru freight, locals, sprint trains, passenger and jump in any card game to win the pot. Fitz was always in charge, Mitch followed. Perfect team. I was fortunate enough to work together with them exclusive their last 12yrs. There was nothing we couldn't do man. you know the days.. just like WC.. it was OUR railroad.
Writeup by
Adam Farence (center). Thank you for your information on this fine crew, Adam.
IC&E 4205,4208
Davis Junction, IL
April 15, 2008
A Danial Longley Photograph
Missouri Pacific train DFZ (Dupo-Ft. Worth) for a while carried the Tennessee Eastman tanks between North Little Rock and Longview as , I'm guessing, the MF (Memphis - FTWR) train wasn't processed thru NLRK in a timely manner. The MF was the Southern Railway run thru that carried the Eastman tanks that originated in Kingsport, TN destined the Texas Eastman plant at Longview, TX.
In this post merger view is UP 5, one of 20 SD45's pulled from storage at Yermo in early 1984 and assigned to the MP, but reliability issues sidelined some of them by the end of 1984 for good. 10 were reassigned as pairs in hump service at NLRK, KCMO, and FTWR but that ended in 1986. For an excellent writeup of UP SD45's go here: utahrails.net/articles/up-sd45s.php
9-17-1984
I like the shape of that shadow, which was entirely due to the sun's angle. I spotted this pretty little jumper making its way around the top of one of those little solar stake lights in my dad's yard.
Instead of doing my own writeup this time, I will refer those of you interested to learn why they are called "dimorphic" to this great blog entry by Bug Eric Eaton.
29 Arachtober 2021
Dimorphic Jumper, Maevia inclemens
Hixson, TN • 24 July 2021
Summer sunset at Castle Hill Lighthouse. Got lucky to catch some receding wave action by getting low on the rocks on this side of the light.
I did a writeup on photographing from this Lighthouse in Rhode Island for the Photographers Trail Notes website. See link below:
Explore: 12.14.2008 #123
A group of photography enthusiasts, the Flickristasindios, will have its first photo exhibit entitled "The Indios Experience", on December 15 to 19, 2008 in TriNoMa, Quezon City.
The Indios is an assembly of Filipino Flickr members bonded by their love for life through photowalks and charity works, weekly get-togethers, and most of all, by their serious passion for photographic art. The exhibit will showcase the works of these men and women ranging from the mundane to the surreal, from snapshots of daily life to the unexplored and magical worlds, and everything else in between.
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Starring as Babs Johnson, the fashionable, gun totiing, filthiest person alive, in John Water's film "Pink Flamingos."
Now, don't go running out to your local Blockbuster video store to get the film, it's not for everyone. Read the Wikipedia writeup here:Pink Flamingos
To my contacts based in the capital, this is probably a strange choice of upload. However, this is the only G-Wiz I've ever seen here in the north east and I must admit it's a strange choice of runabout as there's not much charging infrastructure and the roads aren't that busy to warrant such a small vehicle.
However, it is at least quirky despite the damning writeups - it's not something I'd choose myself but kudos to the owner for driving something like this.
(Rana [Lithobates] clamitans)
I first thought this was a not-so-green bullfrog, but the writeup at srelherp.uga.edu/anurans/rancla.htm describes the Green / Bronze Frog as having "dorso-lateral ridges that are well-defined, extending from the back of each eye down the back." The tympanum of females are about the same size as the eye.
11 Apr 2021, Timmerman Trail, Cayce, SC, USA.
Although the Industrial Revolution increased life expectancy, it also produced many negative consequences. As a result, we live in a society that has lost much of its roots and moral grounding. Therefore, we live unfulfilling lives. As technology continues to advance, we will witness more social disruption. We now live in an industrial-technological system, which we will not be able to turn back. As this system marches forward, we will lose our dignity and freedom—even our humanity.
We have become a society of leisure; we have become decadent. As a result, we have become bored, hedonistic, and demoralized. An individual must have meaningful goals in life, which they can ‘autonomously’ work toward—goals with real adversity and reward. In accomplishing such goals, a person finds fulfillment. In our modern society, we have lost much of our autonomy. We have been trained to be obedient to the system. We must follow ever-increasing bureaucratic rules and regulations. Nowadays, experts tell us what to do and how to think. We are cogs of the machine—we are under the direction and control of the system. Yet this is not healthy for human beings. We must have our own independence, so that we can build our lives by our own initiative. If there is little room for a person to exercise autonomy, they will feel insignificant. If they have the autonomy to attain meaningful goals, they will gain self-confidence. A society that cannot make/create/set or fulfill meaningful goals will become demoralized; they will suffer from low self-esteem and feelings of inferiority; they will suffer from depression, anxiety, and guilt; they will become frustrated, hostile, and unfriendly; they will become bored and pursue hedonistic pleasures in order to cope.
Many young people today lack goals. They cannot see themselves attaining enough financial stability to marry a spouse or raise a family. They cannot see themselves owning a house or having a future to look forward to. This results in demoralization and defeatism.
In the past, people had to truly survive. This took serious effort. They had to make tools and weapons. They had to hunt down an animal, kill it, butcher it, get it home, cook it, and eat it. How manly and satisfying! A man would find fulfillment in a lifetime of roaming and exploring the land, hunting wild game for his family. He would have many adventures. Yet in our modern society, it takes minimal effort to attain one’s basic needs. Today, we work dead-end jobs that are unsatisfying. They provide us with a paycheck, but they don’t provide us with real fulfillment. We then try to find fulfillment in hobbies and other leisure activities, which will not bring us real fulfillment. What is worse, we spend our spare time sitting around staring at screens. The human body is not built to live a sedentary life. The human brain is not built to doomscroll. Living sedentary lives and doomscrolling obviously leads to unhappiness. Such activities are less satisfying than accomplishing meaningful goals such as buying land, clearing the land of trees by hand, using the trees to build a house by hand, carrying ones wife over the threshold, raising a family, working the land and raising livestock, thus conquering the land and continuing ones posterity. This in itself is Biblical. Why do you think, when Christ returns, He will divide up the land among the people (as it was done in the Old Testament)? It is so that man will work his ‘own’ land. Then man will work in nature, where he will be happiest. God made nature for man, not man for nature. The goal of the globalist agenda is to further divide man from nature; it is an antichrist agenda. Their goal is transhumanism, which will dehumanize mankind and further divide him from nature. Moreover, transhumanism will divide man from God.
A pre-industrial society is predominantly rural. With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, the population of cities vastly increased. A technological society changes rapidly, thus there is less stability. These changes affect all aspects of society and cause the breakdown of traditional values. Breaking down traditional values causes the breakdown of societal bonds. An individual’s loyalty changes: it must not be first to their family or community, but first and foremost to the system. Indeed, individuals must be tools of the system. This makes us less independent and autonomous, because we become reliant on the system. The system is constantly changing, and we are taught to obey its changing rules and regulations. Yet these regulations are laid down by others. We have little to no input in the making of these rules. They are made by corrupt politicians and bureaucrats, corporations and organizations. This makes us feel powerless, which gives us a sense of hopelessness. Can you see why society has become so frustrated, insecure, humiliated, and angry? The more unfulfilled a society becomes, the more restless it becomes. Restlessness causes friction, and friction causes factions. Thus, a society breaks into factions. A society of impoverished relationships makes for a toxic society. Science will give us the tools to alter the material world, but our relationships with one another and with nature will be destroyed.
As society advances technologically, we lose more freedoms. People can’t even put down their phones, let alone toss them away to fight the system. People don’t want to sacrifice what they have become addicted to and dependent on. Yet they will replace their current technology with something more advanced. They will go from cell phones to wearable technology to microchips. With the promise of eliminating diseases and gaining super intelligence, much of society will give up freedom to be genetically engineered and microchipped. Even though, such a step will never be reversed. Humans will be modified to suit the needs of the system. They will become one with robotic technology.
Many people are not concerned about these dystopian scenarios. Yet technologies such as robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology pose a great threat to humanity. These technologies will be used as tools to redesign the world. Self-replicating technologies will cause great damage to the biosphere. In the end, self-replicating technology will be impossible to control.
Artificial Intelligence will replace human creativity. In the future, the internet will be accessed only by your personal AI assistant. You will ask your AI assistant questions, and it will surf the internet for you. You will not go on Youtube to watch videos. You will ask AI to make the kind of videos you desire to watch. There will be no human content creators. Get used to AI art, AI videos, AI music, AI articles, AI slop! That is what you will be fed. Many who want to fight the system will eventually become passive, and they will no longer resist. They will be sucked into the system and become zombified. They will become docile slaves of the system. It desires complete control over everything on earth, both man and nature. Humanity will then be reduced to the status of domestic animals. Of course, this will be for the good of the planet!
If university students are using AI to write papers, AI will replace them in their future jobs. If teachers and professors are using AI to write curriculum and mark papers, AI will replace them. If the younger generation has no work ethic, they will be replaced by subsidized foreign workers, then both will be replaced by AI. If generation Alpha can’t read, then AI will replace them. The (dangerous) foreign semi-truck drivers on our roads will be replaced by AI self-driving trucks. AI in the schools, AI in the hospitals, replace, replace, replace. The politicians make many terrible decisions, thus they will be replaced by AI.
Moving on! The more society moves away from the traditions of marriage and family, the more unfulfilled and unhappy society will become. Radical leftists feel the least fulfillment, because they long to destroy society and its traditions. How happy can one be if they want to destroy their roots? They are constantly deconstructing themselves, it’s the Maoist way—how else can you brainwash yourself? Therefore, they feel guilt and self-hatred. They gain an inferiority complex. They have a love-hate relationship with themselves. On one hand they loathe themselves, but on the other hand they selfishly desire power. For this reason, they are self-loathing narcissists. They feel unfulfilled and powerless. Therefore, they seek power to bring about fulfillment. They feel weak and helpless, so they desire to feel strong and competent. It’s a coping mechanism. They also hate anything that appears strong, moral, and successful. They hate America, Western civilization, capitalism, the family, patriarchy, whites, males, heterosexuals, the rich, the middleclass, and even rationality. They despise all who are more beautiful, talented, intelligent, or successful than them. Envy does not equate to fulfillment or happiness. Side note: social media causes much envy and unhappiness.
The far left wants society to take care of them, because they are lazy and lack confidence. They feel strong only as a member of a large group or movement. They like to be abusive to those who disagree with them, because they have masochistic tendencies. The Marxist ideology is an authoritarian ideology, which is masochistic in nature, because it revolves around revolution. The far left may act empathetic, but they are apathetic. Indeed, a study on this topic found that radical leftists were apathetic and narcissistic. Their goals revolve around revolution and power. Their insecurity causes them to feel hostile, and their revolution helps them to vent their hostility. They don’t care about diplomacy, so they act hostile. With them, it is all or nothing: they want revolution, they want power. How can you have a rational conversation with individuals who don’t want dialogue? They use minorities as an excuse for revolution. They hide behind minorities, using them to shield their intentions of revolution. They go into poor black communities to fight for poor black people, yet they burn down black businesses and ruin their local economy. The communist must fight for the revolution, for everything opposed to the revolution is a sin. The communist tries to find fulfillment in the act of rebellion; he tries to find fulfillment in the act of revolution. He, however, is never satisfied. Thus, the revolution moves onward.
For the radical, activism is a vent for their pent-up emotions. Activism produces unity among the young militants, creating a bond between like-minded people. Losers can feel accepted, like they belong. Many of these communist agitators are from middle and upper middleclass homes. They have had an easy but unfulfilling life. They are the most radicalized, because they feel the most unfulfilled. They have become so demoralized that they have become nihilistic. Their life seems to have no meaning. They have lost their moral compass. They rely on emotions rather than on reason. They rely on feelings rather than on facts. “Their political activism is thus only a reaction to the more basic fear that the times are against them, that a new world is emerging without either their assistance or their leadership.” These activists will gradually accept more deviant subcultures as they further divorce themselves from reality. “The supreme irony of that loose and volatile sociopolitical phenomenon of contemporary middleclass America named the New Left is that it is itself the creation of the technetronic revolution as well as a reaction against it.” “The New Left was able to draw on the deep-rooted traditions of American populism, Quaker pacifism, and the pre-World War II largely immigrant-imported socialism and communism.” (The ‘New Left’ refers to the leftist movement of the 60s).
Paying for your child’s first car, college tuition, wedding, or house down payment will give them little sense of accomplishment. Giving children everything not only spoils them but also makes life boring. There must be ups and downs for life to be interesting. Bad times can produce growth and maturity, that is, if a person desires to learn from life. Especially if they want to build a strong moral character. The rewards of being cogs in the system produce great boredom. These middleclass kids have a self-indulgent lifestyle that contradicts their professed anti-materialism. Their material existence tends to depend on their parents. Their ideological infantilism stems from obsolete nineteenth-century criticisms of capitalism. They are spoiled kids who are rebelling against middleclass society. These activists offer no real response to the dilemmas of our age. Their revolutionary movement is really an escapist movement. It is a way of coping with their unfulfilled lives. They supposedly desire to change society, but they really want to create a refuge (safe space) from society. Their activism is a psychological safety valve, in which they can blow off steam. They escape their boring lives through activism, so they can feel a sense of freedom and self-gratification. They pat each other on the back, because they are supposedly fighting against their capitalist enemy. However, this is really a form of group therapy.
The woke activists on the ground are the canaries in the coal mine. They are indicators of the problems of our society as a whole. Through them, we have the best lens on society’s anxiety, uncertainty, vulnerability, and dissatisfaction. Side note: we can see the incoming collectivist system through the lens of the United Nations. They want to eradicate poverty. Yet they hide behind poverty, using it to shield their intentions of ruling the world. With communism, it’s all about gaining power. Communism is meant to go worldwide. Collectivism seeks to bind together the entire world (both man and nature) into a unified whole.
Neo-Marxism went through the dialectic with postmodernism and produced wokeism. Some think that post-postmodernism will have a more spiritual element to it. I think that wokeism will go through the dialectic with some sort of religious spiritualism, which will produce antichristism. Wokeism is authoritarian in nature, yet it has a quasi-religious character. Post-postmodernism will lead to an authoritarian system with a spiritual flavour. Man must be grounded to a one-world religion to be grounded to a one-world government. Woke socialism must have a spiritual awakening, so to speak. Wokeism must awaken further in its social enlightenment in order to transcend to the next level of social consciousness. This dialectic enlightenment will mix socialism with a spiritual experience. It will lead to transhumanism. The coming socialist leader—the antichrist—will combine socialism, religion, and transhumanism. Modernity, with its globalization, technology, and social(ist) change, has produced a society that lacks fulfillment. Although technology will bring less fulfillment to humanity, the technological system will lead it forward on a leash. I can see one of the marketing strategies for the Mark of the Beast: we live in stressful times, take the microchip and become numb to the stresses of reality. The soma of the Brave New World Order will give you fulfillment. You will be modified to suit the needs of the system. Warning: do not follow the world system!
Revelation 18:4 “Then I heard another voice from heaven say: ‘Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues.’”
1 John 4:4 “Little children (believers, dear ones), you are of God and you belong to Him and have [already] overcome them [the agents of the antichrist]; because He who is in you is greater than he (Satan) who is in the world [of sinful mankind].”
1 John 2:15-17 “Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world. The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.”
Proverbs 3:5-6 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight.”
Romans 8:7 “For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.”
Galatians 5:25 “Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.”
Matthew 5:6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.”
In a sinful world, no individual can experience perfect fulfillment. When I’m in eternity with the Lord, I’ll know perfect fulfillment!
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To celebrate my 18th birthday, I decided to process one of my favorite Hubble images! This was taken back in 2009 to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy by WFPC2. Given that it was taken by such a low-sensitivity sensor, this image actually had a whole lot of noise to deal with. I spent a while carefully removing hot pixels and cosmic rays to make the image look better. In case you’re wondering what exactly you’re looking at, here’s a little explanation about the galaxies:
Arp 274 is a system of three galaxies that appear to be partially overlapping in the image, although they may be at somewhat different distances. The spiral shapes of two of these galaxies appear mostly intact. The third galaxy at far left is more compact, but shows evidence of star formation. Two of the three galaxies are forming new stars at a high rate. This is evident in the bright blue knots of star formation that are strung along the arms of the galaxy on the right and along the small galaxy on the left. The largest component is located in the middle of the three. It appears as a spiral galaxy, which may be barred. The entire system resides at about 400 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Virgo. The colours in this image reflect the intrinsic colour of the different stellar populations that make up the galaxies. Yellowish older stars can be seen in the central bulge of each galaxy. A bright central cluster of stars pinpoint each nucleus. Younger blue stars trace the spiral arms, along with pinkish nebulae that are illuminated by new star formation. Interstellar dust is silhouetted against the starry population. The pair of foreground stars on the right are inside our own Milky Way.
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I have never been ambitious enough to do a lot of night photography. These two images were grabbed while killing time waiting for a late UP3985 to show up in KC's Neff Yard where I would pick up a friend and chase the tea kettle east on former MP rails the following day. There is a good writeup on CW's post of this demonstrator here: flic.kr/p/2n9oe4g . I don't believe it ever worked anywhere except on UP but I could be wrong. I guess this qualifies for a Switcher Sunday Submission...
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Comet C/2020 M3 Atlas in emerald green color passes by the main colorful nebula of the Constellation Auriga in this image captured and processed from Grand Mesa Observatory on 12/8/2020 by Terry Hancock and Tom Masterson. This image was captured using QHYCCD’s latest offering the QHY410C Back Illuminated Full Frame one shot color CMOS camera that we have the honor of testing.
The main nebulae in this image are the Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405) the comma shaped red and white/purple nebula to the top and right along with the Tadpole Nebula (NGC 1893) located to the center left. Comet C/2020 M3 Atlas is seen almost ‘touching’ the Tadpole Nebula in this image. Distance-wise Comet C/2020 M3 Atlas was a mere 3.74 light-minutes from Earth when this image was captured while the Flaming Star Nebula is about 1,400 light-years distant and further still is the Tadpole Nebula which is roughly 12,400 light-years away.
Writeup on Comet C/2020 M3 Atlas: astronomynow.com/2020/11/18/see-comet-atlas-in-the-evenin...
Flaming Star Nebula Wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_405
Tadpole Nebula Wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_1893
Technical Info:
Total Integration time 3.3 hours
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Date of capture: December 9th, 2020
Color RGGB 200 min, 100 x 120 sec
Camera: QHY410C Back Illuminated Full Frame Color CMOS
Gain 0, Offset 76
Read Mode: High Gain Mode
Calibrated with Dark, Bias and Flat Frames
Optics: Takahashi E-180 Astrograph
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6
Pre-Processed in Pixinsight, Deep Sky Stacker
Post Processed in Photoshop
Went on a hike to see this beautiful waterfall. Elk River Falls is considered a beautiful falls and the highest in Western, NC. It is billed as a .3 mile hike through beautiful mountain scenery. the writeup suggested 'some' rocks and roots could be encountered. My view of the trail and theirs did not agree. Would love to go back with the mountain laurel in bloom. See the next sign...
The Kennet & Avon Canal at Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire.
Due to the nature of my work, I have to travel all over the UK and stay away from home most weeks in places both nice and not-so-nice. I am fortunate in my current job to stay alternate weeks in Bradford-on-Avon, one of the most tranquil and picturesque places that I have ever stayed. Well worth a visit if you ever get the chance.
The Kennet and Avon Canal is a waterway in southern England with an overall length of 87 miles (140 km), made up of two lengths of navigable river linked by a canal. The name is commonly used to refer to the entire length of the navigation rather than solely to the central canal section. From Bristol to Bath the waterway follows the natural course of the River Avon before the canal links it to the River Kennet at Newbury, and from there to Reading on the River Thames. In all, the waterway incorporates 105 locks.
The two river stretches were made navigable in the early 18th century, and the 57-mile (92 km) canal section was constructed between 1794 and 1810. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the canal gradually fell into disuse after the opening of the Great Western Railway. In the latter half of the 20th century the canal was restored in stages, largely by volunteers. After decades of dereliction and much restoration work, it was fully reopened in 1990. The Kennet and Avon Canal has been developed as a popular heritage tourism destination for boating, canoeing, fishing, walking and cycling, and is also important for wildlife conservation.
The Telegraph also has an interesting writeup on Bradford-on-Avon.