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Duke of Buckingham

12-06-11, 06:10 PM

I will post in here, I hope this can make you feel something about this year that is about to pass ...

The Power of Images

How much images are in our hearts and memories and for each a thousand words and an hundred thoughts.

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A girl in isolation for radiation screening looks at her dog through a window in Nihonmatsu, Japan on March 14.

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A mother comforts her son in Concord, Alabama, near his house which was completely destroyed by a tornado in April.

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Slain Navy SEAL Jon Tumilson's dog "Hawkeye" lies next to his casket during funeral services in Rockford, Iowa. Tumilson was one of 30 American soldiers killed in Afghanistan on August 6 when their helicopter was shot down during a mission to help fellow troops who had come under fire.

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84-year-old Dorli Rainey was pepper sprayed during a peaceful march in Seattle, Washington. She would have been thrown to the ground and trampled, but luckily a fellow protester and Iraq vet was there to save her. (Joshua Trujillo / seattlepi.com)

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Mihag Gedi Farah, a seven-month-old child, is held by his mother in a field hospital of the International Rescue Committee in the town of Dadaab, Kenya. The baby has since made a full recovery.

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A woman cries while sitting on a road amid the destroyed city of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan after the massive earthquake and tsunami.

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Members of the national security team receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House on May 1.

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A whirpool forms off the Japanese coast after the tsunami on March 11.

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Friends and loved ones gather at the Oslo cathedral to mourn 93 victims killed in twin terror attacks from a bombing in downtown Oslo and a mass shooting on Utoya island on July 22.

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Robert Peraza, who lost his son Robert David Peraza in 9/11, pauses at his son’s name at the North Pool of the 9/11 Memorial.

DrPop

12-06-11, 06:20 PM

Some very moving images of 2011, Duke. Thank you.

Mike029

12-06-11, 06:31 PM

Yeah, What a year it's been.

Duke of Buckingham

12-06-11, 06:44 PM

Emotions of crying or of laughing makes me more human. It was a good year to learn to be more human for those that can still cry and laugh.

Duke

Philadelphia

12-06-11, 09:14 PM

Those tragic pictures causes one to reflect on the unfortunate circumstances of others, it would be nice to see where others were on the other end of the spectrum.

Duke of Buckingham

12-12-11, 08:04 PM

Merry Christmas and

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A Happy New Year

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Duke of Buckingham

12-17-11, 06:07 PM

Better post in here.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

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Duke

Slicker

12-18-11, 12:51 AM

Better post in here.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Duke

Thanks. So many have lost sight of what it really is all about.

Cruncher Pete

12-18-11, 06:00 AM

Thank you Duke for reminding all that it is not just about Father Christmas, there is a more fundamental moral reason for the day. Have a happy Christmas Duke.

Duke of Buckingham

12-25-11, 08:43 AM

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:x :o :p :rolleyes: :cool:

Duke

Duke of Buckingham

12-27-11, 11:06 AM

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I am ready

Duke 656

Duke of Buckingham

01-06-12, 06:35 PM

Be there if you can.

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Duke

GalaxyIce

02-12-12, 07:57 AM

Duke of the Menace http://www.brilliantsite.com/smile/eyebrow.gif, did you ever meet the Duke of York?

He's is here somewhere...
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On St. Crispin’s Day, October 25, 1415, a small, exhausted English army under the command of King Henry V and his brothers, the Duke of York and the Duke of Clarence, faced a much larger and more powerful French force at the village of Agincourt in northern France. The battle that ensued pitted 5,000 English and Welsh archers and 900 knights and men-at-arms under the banner that bore the cross of St. George, against nearly 30,000 French knights, men-at-arms, and crossbowmen. It ended in victory for the English. Agincourt is one of the epic battles of history, celebrated in England long before Shakespeare immortalized it in his play Henry V.

Duke of Buckingham

02-12-12, 12:21 PM

The first Creation for the Duke of Buckingham was in 1444, 28 years and 11 months after that battle.

On 14 September 1444, Humphrey Stafford, 6th Earl of Stafford, was created Duke of Buckingham. He was the son of Anne of Gloucester, "Countess of Buckingham", daughter of Thomas of Woodstock, Earl of Buckingham (later Duke of Gloucester), youngest son of King Edward III of England. Stafford was an important supporter of the House of Lancaster in the Wars of the Roses, and was killed at the Battle of Northampton in July 1460.

He was succeeded by his grandson, Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, who aided Richard III in his claiming the throne in 1483 (Edward IV of England's marriage to Elizabeth Woodville having been declared null and void and Edward's sons illegitimate by Act of Parliament Titulus Regius), but who then led a revolt against Richard and was executed later that same year.

His son, Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, was restored to the title upon Henry VII's accession to the throne in 1485, but he was ultimately executed for treason in 1521 due to his opposition to Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Henry VIII's chief advisor. At this time the title became extinct.

The Stafford family descended from Edmond de Stafford, who was summoned to Parliament as Lord Stafford in 1299. The second Baron was created Earl of Stafford in 1351. These titles were forfeited along with the dukedom.

The Title have been recreated later on 1623.

The Dukedom was created anew for James I's favourite, George Villiers. He was made Baron Whaddon, of Whaddon in the County of Buckingham, and Viscount Villiers in 1616, Earl of Buckingham in 1617, Marquess of Buckingham in 1618 and Earl of Coventry and Duke of Buckingham in 1623. Buckingham, who continued in office as chief minister into the reign of James's son, Charles I, was responsible for a policy of war against Spain and France, and was assassinated by a Puritan fanatic, John Felton, in 1628 as he prepared an expedition to relieve the Huguenots of La Rochelle.

His son, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, was a notable advisor in the reign of Charles II, and, along with Lord Ashley made up the Protestant axis of the famous Cabal Ministry. He started the first foxhunt in England, The Bilsdale Hunt in 1668 and later started the Sinnington Hunt in 1680. He died from a chill after digging for a fox above Kirkbymoorside in the house of a tenant as he was too far from his home in Helmsley, North Yorkshire. At his death in 1687, the title again became extinct.

A fictionalised Buckingham is one of the characters in Alexandre Dumas, père's The Three Musketeers, which paints him as a lover of Anne of Austria and deals with his assassination by Felton. In Arturo Pérez-Reverte's novel, El capitán Alatriste, Buckingham appears briefly while on his expedition to Spain in 1623 with Charles I. He is also a central character in novels by Philippa Gregory, Earthly Joys, and Evelyn Anthony, Charles, The King. He also appears, played by Marcus Hutton, in the Doctor Who audio drama The Church and the Crown, in which he leads an aborted English invasion of France in 1626. He is a key character in the Bertrice Small novel Darling Jasmine. He also plays a part in the novel, The Arm and the Darkness by Taylor Caldwell, as the English ally sought by the Huguenots to help defend their refuge city, La Rochelle, against the siege ordered and led by Cardinal Richelieu, the minister of Louis XIII, King of France. As George Villiers, Buckingham appears as a major character in Howard Brenton's 2010 play Anne Boleyn as King James I's mate in sexual horseplay.

The Duke of Buckingham was a very controversial historical figure. Though Alexandre Dumas writes in paradoxically positive terms about him in The Three Musketeers, on the other hand, the English novelist and historian Charles Dickens makes no effort to hide his total rejection of the Duke in his book A Child’s History of England. He claims that, as King Charles the First commissioned the Duke of Buckingham (“that insolent upstart”) to bring the royal fiancée, Princess Henrietta Maria, from Paris to England, Buckingham — “with his usual audacity” — made love to the Queen of France, the Spanish Anne of Austria, thus creating an extremely serious diplomatic conflict to the advantage of Cardinal Richelieu. Later, “that pestilent Buckingham, to gratify his own wounded vanity”, engaged England in war with France, as well as with Spain.

And Dickens comments: “For such miserable causes and such miserable creatures are wars sometimes made.” Far from regretting Buckingham’s assassination, Dickens concluded that “he was destined to do little more mischief in this world”.

Duke a very big Menace766
"The Enigma of the World". Was the latin inscription of his tomb.

But besides I am somehow phisically seemed with him. I am very different in all other thinghs. That I can assure you.

GalaxyIce

02-12-12, 01:19 PM

En garde touche!

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Duke of Buckingham

02-21-12, 07:34 AM

Most of the nomad tribes are not very well seen at the eyes of sedentary societies, most for the small knoledge of each other. Western society as considered sedentarizacion as a sign of progress, in spite the greatest Empire ever was from a nomad tribe. The Mongols.

Mongol Empire

The Mongol Empire (Mongolian:About this sound listen Mongol-yn Ezent Güren; Cyrillic: Монголын эзэнт гүрэн) was a large empire that existed during the 13th and 14th centuries. Beginning in the Central Asian steppes, it eventually stretched from Eastern Europe to the Sea of Japan, covering large parts of Siberia in the north and extending southward into Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and the Middle East. It is commonly referred to as the largest contiguous empire in the history of the world. At its greatest extent it spanned 9,700 km (6,000 mi), covered an area of 24,000,000 km2 (9,300,000 sq mi), 16% of the Earth's total land area, and held sway over a population of 100 million.

The Mongol Empire emerged from the unification of Mongol and Turkic tribes in the region of modern-day Mongolia under the leadership of Genghis Khan, who was proclaimed ruler of all Mongols in 1206. Initially named the Great Mongol State (Mongolian: Ikh Mongol Uls), the empire grew rapidly under his leadership and then that of his descendants, who sent invasions in every direction. The vast transcontinental empire which connected the east with the west would eventually function as a cultural "clearing house" for the Old World. Under the Mongols, new technologies, various commodities and ideologies were disseminated and exchanged across Eurasia; the exchanges ranged from cartography to printing, from agriculture to astronomy.

The empire began to split as a result of wars over succession, as the grandchildren of Genghis Khan disputed whether the royal line should follow from Genghis's son and initial heir Ögedei, or one of his other sons such as Tolui, Chagatai, or Jochi. The Toluids prevailed after a bloody purge of Ogedeid and Chagataid factions, but disputes continued even among the descendants of Tolui. Rival councils would simultaneously elect different Great Khans, such as when brothers Ariq Böke and Kublai were both elected and then not only had to defy each other, but also deal with challenges from descendants of other of Genghis's sons. Genghis's descendants would either challenge the decision of Great Khan, or assert independence in their own section of the empire.

Kublai successfully took power, but civil war ensued, as Kublai sought, unsuccessfully, to regain control of the Chagatayid and Ogedeid families. By the time of Kublai's death, the Mongol Empire had fractured into four separate khanates or empires, each pursuing its own separate interests and objectives: the Golden Horde khanate in the northwest, the Chagatai Khanate in the west, the Ilkhanate in the southwest, and the Yuan Dynasty based in modern-day Beijing.

It was not until the early 14th century, when the three western khanates accepted the nominal suzerainty of the Yuan Dynasty, that the Mongol world again acknowledged a single paramount suzerain for the first time since 1259 - even though the supremacy of the Yuan emperors over the western khanates was by and large symbolic. When the Yuan Dynasty was overthrown by the Han Chinese Ming Dynasty under the Hongwu Emperor in 1368, the Mongol Empire finally dissolved.

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What is referred to in English as the Mongol Empire is described in the modern Mongolian language as "Mongolyn Ezent Guren" (Монголын эзэнт гүрэн, lit. Mongols' Imperial Power) and as "Ikh Mongol Uls", meaning "Great Mongol State". Genghis Khan used the latter when he was proclaimed Emperor. In the 1240s, Genghis's descendant Güyük Khan wrote a letter to Pope Innocent IV which used the preamble, "Dalai Khagan of the great Mongol state (ulus)".

After the succession war between Kublai Khan and his brother Ariq Böke which limited his real power to the east, Kublai Khan officially issued an imperial edict on December 18, 1271 to name the country "Great Yuan" (Dai Yuan, or Dai On Ulus) to establish the Yuan Dynasty, though some sources state that the full Mongolian name was "Dai Ön Yehe Monggul Ulus".

Genghis Khan innovated many ways of organizing his army, dividing it into decimal subsections of arbans (10 people), zuuns (100), myangans (1000) and tumens (10,000). The Kheshig or the Imperial Guard was founded and divided into day (khorchin, torghuds) and night guards (khevtuul). He rewarded those who had been loyal to him and placed them in high positions, placing them as heads of army units and households, even though many of his allies had been from very low-rank clans. Compared to the units he gave to his loyal companions, those assigned to his own family members were quite few. He proclaimed a new law of the empire, Ikh Zasag or Yassa, and codified everything related to the everyday life and political affairs of the nomads at the time. He forbade the selling of women, theft of other's properties, fighting between the Mongols, and the hunting of animals during the breeding season.

He appointed his adopted brother Shigi-Khuthugh supreme judge (jarughachi), ordering him to keep records of the empire. In addition to laws regarding family, food and army, Genghis also decreed religious freedom and supported domestic and international trade. He exempted the poor and the clergy from taxation. Thus, Muslims, Buddhists and Christians from Manchuria, North China, India and Persia joined Genghis Khan long before his foreign conquests. The Khan also encouraged literacy, adopting the Uyghur script which would form the Uyghur-Mongolian script of the empire, and he ordered the Uyghur Tatatunga, who had previously served the khan of Naimans, to instruct his sons.

Genghis quickly came into conflict with the Jin Dynasty of the Jurchens and the Western Xia of the Tanguts in northern China. Towards the West, under the provocation of the Muslim Khwarezmid Empire, he moved into Central Asia as well, devastating Transoxiana and the eastern Persia, then raiding into Kievan Rus' (a predecessor state of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine) and the Caucasus.

Before his death, Genghis Khan divided his empire among his sons and immediate family. But as custom made clear, the Mongol Empire remained the joint property of the entire imperial family who, along with the Mongol aristocracy, constituted the ruling class.

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Genghis Khan

Duke of Buckingham

02-23-12, 01:41 AM

I have urgent things to do and will be out for a week.

Duke

Maxwell

02-23-12, 03:25 AM

I have urgent things to do and will be out for a week.

Duke
Good luck and I hope everything goes well! And may your dishwasher be hot, clean, and prompt... :cool:

Duke of Buckingham

02-23-12, 09:03 AM

No problems only work. Thanks Maxwell.

Duke

Mike029

02-23-12, 10:37 AM

I have urgent things to do and will be out for a week.

Duke

Hope all is well. We'll be here when you get back. ;)

Fire$torm

02-23-12, 05:30 PM

Hope all is well. We'll be here when you get back. ;)

+1 And we'll keep the light on for you.

Duke of Buckingham

03-03-12, 12:49 AM

Duke the menace is a milionaire. 1000 posts. I am happy.

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Maxwell

03-03-12, 02:15 AM

Haha! Congrats on #1000! That's awfully gabby of you... :cool::D

Fogle

03-03-12, 08:59 AM

Whoa that's terriffic! Congrats !!! :cool: <:-P\:D/

Mike029

03-03-12, 10:33 AM

Congrats to going Golden.

No longer Duke the Menace. Your now Duke the Golden. ;)

Duke of Buckingham

03-03-12, 11:17 AM

Can I enter the club now?
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Duke the golden crazy :)
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Duke of Buckingham

03-03-12, 06:01 PM

Photo of the Day: Best of December 2011

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Octopus, Italy

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Cocooned Trees, Pakistan

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Geisha, Kyoto

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Zebra and Cloud, South Africa

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Great White Shark and Divers

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Eagle Owl

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Ocean Air Bubble

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Dragonfly, Indonesia

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Hiker, Scottish Highlands

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Verreaux's Sifaka, Madagascar

Fire$torm

03-05-12, 12:06 AM

Oooops... I'm late. :o

Congrats Duke on 1000 posts! =D>

Duke of Buckingham

03-08-12, 11:33 AM

Thanks F$.

Pictures We Love: Best of January 2012

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Suspiciously Quiet

Photograph by Dean Lewins, European Pressphoto Agency

A plush penguin toy gets a genuine penguin grooming in Antarctica on January 13—just one of the National Geographic Digital Media photo editors' favorite pictures from January.

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Rings of Fire

Photograph by Gemunu Amarasinghe, AP

A fire dancer performs in an annual Buddhist procession in Kelaniya-near Colombo, Sri Lanka-on January 8. Hundreds of traditional dancers, drummers, and monks take part in the Duruthu Perahera, or Kelani Procession, one of the country's biggest festivals. Commemorating a visit by the Buddha to Kelaniya Temple, the event takes place before the full moon each January. (See more Sri Lanka pictures.)

Buddhism is the dominant religion in Sri Lanka. The tropical island, formerly known as Ceylon, lies close to the southern tip of India.

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Capsized Concordia

Photograph by Gregorio Borgia, AP

Italian navy divers approach the cruise ship Costa Concordia on January 17—four days after the luxury liner ran aground near the Italian island of Giglio. Capt. Francesco Schettino is accused of causing the wreck after navigating the ship dangerously close to the island, where contact with the reef tore its hull.

Seventeen people are confirmed dead, according to the Associated Press, which reported that Italian officials have now called off the search in the submerged part of the ship for 16 people who remain missing, citing safety concerns.

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Wish U Were Here

Photograph by Brandon Smith, Your Shot

New Year's revelers welcome 2012 with kisses—and mobile devices—in a picture taken in Los Angeles.

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The Red and the Black

Photograph by Ben Bronselaer, Your Shot

A southern ground hornbill glowers from this picture submitted to National Geographic's Your Shot in January. Native to sub-Saharan Africa, the species can climb trees in pursuit of prey. In flight, it can reach up to 18 miles (29 kilometers) an hour.

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Watertight

Photograph by Robin Utrecht, European Pressphoto Agency

A man keeps an eye on rising water from inside his home in Dordrecht in the Netherlands on January 5, 2012.

Heavy rains in early January threatened dikes and forced the evacuation of hundreds, according to Reuters. More than 1,491 miles (2,400 kilometers) of dikes shield the low, flat land of the country—almost half of which lies below sea level.

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Through the Fire

Photograph by Daniel Ochoa de Olza, AP

A man rides a horse through a bonfire in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain, on January 16, 2012. On the eve of each St. Anthony's Day, hundreds in the small village ride horses through the streets in honor of the patron saint of domestic animals.

Called the Luminarias, the tradition dates back 500 years. Riding a horse through a bonfire is believed to purify the animal and protect it in the year to come.

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In Stitches

Photograph by Kevin Frayer, AP

The services of a streetside tailor prove useful to a man with damaged pants in New Delhi, India, on January 19, 2012.

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Cry of Protest

Photograph by Sarah Rice, Getty Images

Black material stretched over their faces, a group of performers makes its way among the Occupy Wall Street West protests in San Francisco's financial district on January 20, 2012. Protesters were rallying at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, where they delivered a proposed 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would outlaw "corporate personhood."

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Train of Thought

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Train passengers in Beijing wait to return home for the Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, on January 8. Train service is provided to migrant workers by the local government.

The world's largest annual migration of people takes place in China each January, when more than 200 million people travel home for New Year's celebrations.

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Photograph by Rahul Talukder, My Shot

Published February 1, 2012

Duke of Buckingham

03-09-12, 11:43 AM

I was raised in country with no freedoom. Portugal till 1974 was under a dictactorship and freedoom is very important to me.

Life without freedoom is nothing. The one who is ready to abdicate for a small part of his freedoom sooner or later would be a slave.

Duke of Buckingham

03-10-12, 09:56 PM

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Duke of Buckingham

03-11-12, 04:48 AM

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Fire$torm

03-12-12, 01:07 PM

That last set of pics are Awesome! :-bd

Duke of Buckingham

03-13-12, 10:15 PM

Thanks F$ nice words are always good to listen. And now for those who think you are too small to help...

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They say that because they had never been with Duke the menace for one hour.

Duke of Buckingham

03-25-12, 03:36 AM

2010 Pictures

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Earthquake in Haiti
Photograph by Shaul Schwarz / Reportage / Getty Images for TIME
The devastating January 12 quake registered 7.0 on the Richter scale.

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Mourning
Photograph by Mark Wilson / Getty Images
On April 5, a gas explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal West Virginia claimed the lives of 29 men. Miner Terry Cooper and his family, above, mourn their deaths.

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Fire in the Sky
Photograph by Reuters
Firefighters approach an oil pipeline blast site in Dalian, China, July 17.

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Volcanic Eruption in Iceland
Photograph by Whitehotpix / Zumapress.com
The ash spewed by the volcano on Eyjafjallajö kull glacier clouded the skies over the U.K. and western Europe, shutting down air travel for six days in April. This photograph, made by an amateur photographer, captures the scene over the glacier in the first few hours of the volcano's increased activity.

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The Chilean Miners are Discovered
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Florencio Avalos, one of 33 miners trapped in a copper and gold mine in Copiapó, Chile, peers into the video camera that had been lowered through a shaft drilled into the chamber where the men had sought safety after a cave-in. Rescuers succeeded in finding the men 17 days after the section of the mine they were working in collapsed on August 5.

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Nameless Victim
Photograph by Charlie Riedel / AP
A laughing gull mired in oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill struggles against the tide on East Grand Terre Island, LA, six weeks after the rig collapsed in April.

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Oily Mess
Photograph by Benjamin Lowy / Reportage/ Getty Images
Crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill floats on the surface of the water in the Gulf of Mexico in June.

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Blast Walls
Photograph by Peter van Agtmael / Magnum for TIME
Cement barriers line a street at Camp Liberty, in Baghdad, Iraq.

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Displaced
Photograph by Daniel Berehulak / Getty Images
A man and boy flee before advancing floodwaters in Punjab, Pakistan, August 22. Flooding that began in Pakistan in July spread south through August, washing out millions of acres of farmland.

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Important Delivery
Photograph by Ahmad Masood / Reuters
A donkey transports ballot boxes to villages unreachable by car in Panjshir province, Afghanistan, on September 17, one day prior to an election for the Afghan parliament.

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Southern Sudan
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A young Dinka boy stands in a camp in Southern Sudan. The region will vote in early 2011 in a referendum that is almost certain to give it independence.

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Not So Little Green Men (and Women)
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Dancers perform during the opening ceremony of the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, in November.

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Uprising in Kyrgyzstan
Photograph by Vladimir Pirogov / Reuters
Protesters tackle a riot policeman and attempt to take the rocket-propelled grenade strapped to his back. In several days of rioting, protesters demonstrated against the policies of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who ultimately fled the capital.

Duke of Buckingham

03-29-12, 10:11 PM

The Child Song

When a woman of a certain African tribe knows she is pregnant, goes to the jungle with other women, and together they pray and meditate until they get to "The song of the child."

When the child is born, the community gets together and they sing their song. Thus, when the child begins his education, people get together and he sings his song.
When you become an adult, they get together again and sing.
When it comes to the wedding, the person hears his song.

Finally, when your soul is to go from this world, family and friends are approaching and, like his birth, sing their song to accompany it in the "journey".

In this African tribe, is another occasion when the men sing the song.
If at some point the person commits a crime or aberrant social act, take you to the center of town and the people of the community form a circle around her.
Then they sing "your song."

The tribe recognizes that the correction for antisocial behavior is not punishment, is the love and memory of his true identity. When we recognize our own song, since we have no desire or need to hurt anyone.

Your friends know "your song". And sing when you forget it. Those who love you can not be fooled by mistakes you have committed, or dark images you show to others. They remember your beauty as you feel ugly, your total when you're broke, your innocence when you feel guilty and your purpose when you're confused.

Tolba Phanem
African poet

Duke of Buckingham

04-15-12, 09:01 AM

Photo of the Day: Best of March 2011

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Kung Fu Master, China

Photograph by Fritz Hoffmann, National Geographic

Buddhist monk and kung fu master Shi Dejian (above) and his disciples hauled bags of cement and roof tiles up steep mountain paths to build an isolated retreat (in background) away from the tourist crowds at the Shaolin Temple.

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Hang En Cave, Vietnam

Photograph by Carsten Peter, National Geographic

Going underground, expedition members enter Hang En, a cave tunneled out by the Rao Thuong River. Dwindling to a series of ponds during the dry months, the river can rise almost 300 feet (91 meters) during the flood season, covering the rocks where cavers stand.

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Catacombs, Paris

Photograph by Stephen Alvarez, National Geographic

In a sandy chamber known as the "beach," a wave rolls across a wall painted (and repainted) by cataphiles in the style of Japanese printmaker Hokusai. Such works can take hundreds of hours—the painting but also the carrying in of supplies.

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Sunken Ship, Key Largo

Photograph by David Doubilet, National Geographic

Upholstered with luminous sponges and corals, the bridge of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Duane attracts schools of smallmouth grunts—and divers. The ship was intentionally sunk in 1987 off Key Largo to create an artificial reef 120 feet (36 meters) deep.

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Kogershin Village, Kazakhstan

Photograph by Vincent J. Musi, National Geographic

A woman milks a mare in the village of Kogershin in southern Kazakhstan. Recent archaeological studies have shown that the Botai people of the Eurasian steppes were the first to actively domesticate horses, 5,500 years ago.

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Machu Picchu

Photograph by Robert Clark, National Geographic

Perched high in the Peruvian Andes, the royal retreat of Machu Picchu testifies to the Inca's masterful building skills with its precision-cut stones and perfectly placed cascades of terraces.

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Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska

Photograph by Michael Melford, National Geographic

In the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes a stream carves a canyon through rock formed during the 1912 eruption of nearby Novarupta Volcano. The snowcapped peaks are Mount Griggs and Mount Katmai (far right), part of an active system of ten volcanoes surrounding the valley, a hundred miles south of the proposed Pebble mine.

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Diprotodon Tracks, Australia

Photograph by Amy Toensing, National Geographic

On a drying lake bed in Victoria, a farmer in 2007 alerted scientists to a major find: well-preserved tracks of a Diprotodon. The slow-moving behemoth had been crossing a volcanic plain 100,000 years ago, when megafauna still walked tall.

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Pagoda Forest, China

Photograph by Fritz Hoffmann, National Geographic

"Gained merit in battle" reads the epitaph of two of the 231 eminent Shaolin monks honored with shrines in the Pagoda Forest. The number of layers in a shrine reflects a monk's virtue; his bones, and often those of disciples, are buried below.

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Bristol Bay, Alaska

Photograph by Michael Melford, National Geographic

"We love our fish!" says Ina Bouker, a Yupik native and teacher from Dillingham who opposes the mine. "The salmon always run. But if their habitat is destroyed, they will not come back."

c303a

04-15-12, 09:35 AM

A great way to remind us of beautiful things outside of our own small area. Thanks Duke.

Mike029

04-15-12, 10:40 AM

Yes, wonderful photos.

Duke of Buckingham

04-15-12, 06:25 PM

After a bad personal moment. I am slowly returning to activity. It is good to know we can share beauty with our friends. Thanks c303a and Mike029.

Duke

Duke of Buckingham

04-23-12, 07:17 PM

I would like to invite all friends to make a small stomp for some days at rosetta. The Team Musketeers will be stomping for this week but you can crunch in your own team, if you want.

The important is to crunch rosetta. I would appreciate vey much your help on the fight of some human diseases. Thanks in advance for your help.

your friend
Duke of Buckingham

Rosetta@home needs your help to determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By running the Rosetta program on your computer while you don't need it you will help us speed up and extend our research in ways we couldn't possibly attempt without your help. You will also be helping our efforts at designing new proteins to fight diseases such as HIV, Malaria, Cancer, and Alzheimer's (See our Disease Related Research for more information). Please join us in our efforts! Rosetta@home is not for profit.

Duke of Buckingham

04-25-12, 09:48 PM

Thank you very much for your help and crunching on this important project. You are the best friends one can have.

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Fogle

04-26-12, 06:24 AM

Duke, I had my old PC on it anyway but just now put my Quad on it as well. I'll keep crunching Rosetta till simap has work. :D

Duke of Buckingham

04-26-12, 08:36 AM

That is the idea to fullfill the gap, till boincsimap starts, with something usefull and keep the Team alert, and not disperse helping a friend on a personal project from all to all. In spite Alzheimer doesn`t usually show before 60 there are some cases the illness shows early signs of development at an earlier stage. That can be a blessing and a hell at the same time.

Any how all forms of dead are a wipe out of all the knoledge adquired in a lifetime, some big losses of memories and study, the paying price for our big mathematical brains, that we are trying to solve and keep all that knoledge alive because no one writes all that knows and for sure all that he learned about feelings. We need a lifetime to learn how to feel as kids again. Isn`t it?

Your Friend
Duke

Keep the good working for a small while more ... that is my wish.

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Fire$torm

04-27-12, 05:53 PM

Any time Duke. Glad to help.

Duke of Buckingham

04-28-12, 06:43 AM

Our friends, each time we see them less. It seems it was only when we were young, worked and drank together that we met as often as wanted, always daily. And in the greatest luxury of all, lost for so long: Because we had nothing better to do.

This week I have lunch with my great friends, that for the first time in our lives, I do not see for so many years. Each one of them starts talking to me as if I had not spent a day without seeing them.

Nothing fails. All fires out as if this was in our blood: the excitation of counting things and the joy of sharing trifles; LOL of the oft-repeated jokes; and the promises of hopes that are decades for accomplish.

There are great friends that I am lucky to have that insist in the importance of the PRESENCE in capital letters. So far never agreed, thinking that nostalgia makes jokes of the time and that the heart is more sensitive to the reminder than to repetition. I was wrong.

The best friends have to do is to see themselves whenever they can. It is true that, even if ten years have passed, is like we have seen each other yesterday. But even then we can feel the pleasure of finding who we never thought to find.

Time doesn`t pass for friendship, but friendship passes to time. You have to hold it while is there. We are friends forever but between day of staying friends and the day of die is a great distance. A distance as large as life.

Duke of Buckingham

05-10-12, 09:58 AM

Volcanic gas

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Krakatoa

Volcanic gases include a variety of substances given off by active (or, at times, by dormant) volcanoes. These include gases trapped in cavities (vesicles) in volcanic rocks, dissolved or dissociated gases in magma and lava, or gases emanating directly from lava or indirectly through ground water heated by volcanic action.

The sources of volcanic gases on Earth include:

primordial and recycled constituents from the Earth's mantle,
assimilated constituents from the Earth's crust,
groundwater and the Earth's atmosphere.

Substances that may become gaseous or give off gases when heated are termed volatile substances.

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Composite Volcano

Gases are released from magma through volatile constituents reaching such high concentrations in the base magma that they evaporate. (Technically, this would be described as the exsolution and accumulation of the gases upon reaching excess supersaturation of these constituents in the host solution (magmatic melt), and their subsequent loss from the host by diffusion and phase separation into bubbles). Molten rock (either magma or lava) near the atmosphere releases high-temperature volcanic gas (>400 °C). In explosive volcanic eruptions, sudden release of gases from magma may cause rapid movements of the molten rock. When the magma encounters water, seawater, lake water or groundwater, it can be rapidly fragmented. The rapid expansion of gases is the driving mechanism of most explosive volcanic eruptions. However, a significant portion of volcanic gas release occurs during quasi-continuous quiescent phases of active volcanism.

If the magmatic gas traveling upward encounters meteoric water in an aquifer, steam is produced. Latent magmatic heat can also cause meteoric waters to ascent as a vapour phase. Extended fluid-rock interaction of this hot mixture can leach constituents out of the cooling magmatic rock and also the country rock, causing volume changes and phase transitions, reactions and thus an increase in ionic strength of the upward percolating fluid. This process also decreases the fluid's pH. Cooling can cause phase separation and mineral deposition, accompanied by a shift toward more reducing conditions. At the surface expression of such hydrothermal systems, low-temperature volcanic gases (<400 °C) are either emanating as steam-gas mixtures or in dissolved form in hot springs. At the ocean floor, such hot supersaturated hydrothermal fluids form gigantic chimney structures called black smokers, at the point of emission into the cold seawater.

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Eruption Column

The gas release can occur by advection through fractures, or via diffuse degassing through large areas of permeable ground as Diffuse Degassing Structures (DDS). At sites of advective gas loss, precipitation of sulfur and rare salts forms sulfur deposits and small sulfur chimneys, called fumaroles. Very low-temperature <100 °C) fumarolic structures are also known as solfataras. Sites of cold degassing of predominantly carbon dioxide are called mofettes. Hot springs on volcanoes often show a measurable amount of magmatic gas in dissolved form.

The principal components of volcanic gases are water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), sulfur either as sulfur dioxide (SO2) (high-temperature volcanic gases) or hydrogen sulfide (H2S) (low-temperature volcanic gases), nitrogen, argon, helium, neon, methane, carbon monoxide and hydrogen. Other compounds detected in volcanic gases are oxygen (meteoric), hydrogen chloride, hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen bromide, nitrogen oxide (NOx), sulfur hexafluoride, carbonyl sulfide, and organic compounds. Exotic trace compounds include methylmercury, halocarbons (including CFCs), and halogen oxide radicals.

The abundance of gases varies considerably from volcano to volcano. Water vapor is consistently the most common volcanic gas, normally comprising more than 60% of total emissions. Carbon dioxide typically accounts for 10 to 40% of emissions.

Volcanoes located at convergent plate boundaries emit more water vapor and chlorine than volcanoes at hot spots or divergent plate boundaries. This is caused by the addition of seawater into magmas formed at subduction zones. Convergent plate boundary volcanoes also have higher H2O/H2, H2O/CO2, CO2/He and N2/He ratios than hot spot or divergent plate boundary volcanoes.

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Volcanic Gas Collect

Volcanic gases were collected and analysed as long ago as 1790 by Scipione Breislak in Italy.

Volcanic gases can be sensed (measured in-situ) or sampled for further analysis. Volcanic gas sensing can be:

within the gas by means of electrochemical sensors and flow-through infrared-spectroscopic gas cells
outside the gas by ground-based or airborne remote spectroscopy (e.g., COSPEC, FLYSPEC, DOAS, FTIR)

Volcanic gas sampling is often done by a method involving an evacuated flask with caustic solution, first used by Robert W. Bunsen (1811-1899) and later refined by the German chemist Werner F. Giggenbach (1937-1997), dubbed Giggenbach-bottle. Other methods include collection in evacuated empty containers, in flow-through glass tubes, in gas wash bottles (cryogenic scrubbers), on impregnated filter packs and on solid adsorbent tubes.

Analytical techniques for gas samples comprise gas chromatography with thermal conductivity detection (TCD), flame ionization detection (FID) and mass spectrometry (GC-MS) for gases, and various wet chemical techniques for dissolved species (e.g., acidimetric titration for dissolved CO2, and ion chromatography for sulfate, chloride, fluoride). The trace metal, trace organic and isotopic composition is usually determined by different mass spectrometric methods.

Certain constituents of volcanic gases may show very early signs of changing conditions at depth, making them a powerful tool to predict imminent unrest. Used in conjunction with monitoring data on seismicity and deformation, correlative monitoring gains great efficiency. Volcanic gas monitoring is a standard tool of any volcano observatory. Unfortunately, the most precise compositional data still require dangerous field sampling campaigns. However, remote sensing techniques have advanced tremendously through the 1990s.

Volcanic gases were directly responsible for approximately 3% of all volcano-related deaths of humans between 1900 and 1986. Some volcanic gases kill by acidic corrosion; others kill by asphyxiation. The greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, is emitted from volcanoes, accounting for nearly 1% of the annual global total.[3] Some volcanic gases including sulfur dioxide, hydrogen chloride, hydrogen sulfide and hydrogen fluoride react with other atmospheric particles to form aerosols.

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Mount Saint Helens Eruption

References
a b c d H. Sigurdsson et al. (2000) Encyclopedia of Volcanoes, San Diego, Academic Press
N. Morello (editor) (1998), Volcanoes and History, Genoa, Brigati
Royal Society Climate Change Controversies, London, June 2007

Duke of Buckingham

05-12-12, 05:15 AM

Maya wall calendar discovered

Ancient astronomical records found on room’s painted walls

By Bruce Bower
Web edition : Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Astronomical tables dating to the golden age of Maya civilization have unexpectedly come to light on the walls of a roughly 1,200-year-old room in Guatemala.

Hieroglyphs and numbers painted on the stucco walls of a structure built during the Classic Maya civilization record cycles of the moon, and possibly Mars, Venus and Mercury, say Boston University archaeologist William Saturno and his colleagues. Excavations in 2010 and 2011 at Xultun, a Maya site first described in 1915, revealed that painted murals once covered three of the room’s inside walls and its vaulted ceiling.

Until now, Maya astronomical tables were known from bark-paper books — known as the Dresden Codex — created 400 years or more after the ancient civilization’s demise around 900, the researchers report in the May 11 Science.

“The Xultun finds provide the first direct evidence of astronomical information from the summit of Maya glyphic literacy, the Classic period,” remarks archaeologist Stephen Houston of Brown University. He calls the recording of astronomical tables on walls rather than in a book “baffling, even astonishing.”

One Xultun wall section contains bar-and-dot numbers in columns that resemble astronomical tables in the Dresden Codex. Moon hieroglyphs appear atop at least five columns. These tables record lunar months, in six-month sets, over roughly 13 years. The number 13 held special significance for organizing the Maya calendar.

“It’s as though someone today took a university textbook and painted it on a wall,” says archaeologist Charles Golden of Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass.

Similar numerical records at Xultun and in the Dresden Codex suggest that the Maya passed and revised astronomical information over many generations after the Classic collapse, Saturno says.

A table of solar and lunar eclipses in the Dresden Codex starts in the mid-8th century, indicating that the document was based on information from at least 50 years before the Xultun finds, anthropologists Harvey Bricker and Victoria Bricker, both of Tulane University in New Orleans, wrote in a joint email.

Referring to Dresden Codex calculations of a starting time for astronomical tables, the Brickers say that corresponding numbers at Xultun record a period of almost exactly 198 eclipse seasons. Each 37-day eclipse season contains at least one solar and one lunar eclipse.

“Ritual specialists at Xultun, like the authors of the Dresden Codex, were concerned not only with the moon’s monthly cycle but with the much longer cycle of solar and lunar eclipses,” the Brickers conclude. So the Xultun Maya used walls as scratch pads to construct astronomical records, the Brickers suggest.

A plaster bench in the Xultun room, resembling benches Maya rulers used at royal court meetings, sits in front of a painting of a king talking to a kneeling attendant, says archaeologist David Freidel of Washington University in St. Louis. Classic Maya vases show similar court scenes, sometimes with humans and gods writing on tablets, Freidel says. No pottery depictions of anyone writing on walls have been found.

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Inside a structure excavated at the ancient Maya city of Xultun, researchers found walls bearing astronomical tables and paintings of big-wigs such as these. Credit: Tyrone Turner, copyright 2012 National Geographic

Duke of Buckingham

05-13-12, 05:08 PM

Retinal implants could restore partial vision

In lab tests on rat retinas, a photovoltaic chip helps display images through special goggles

By Rachel Ehrenberg
Web edition : 4:09 pm

Specialized goggles that send information to solar cell–like chips implanted in the eyes may one day help some blind people seeThe new implants, which have been tested in rat retinas in a dish, would require less invasive surgery than similar devices now being tested and offer a higher-resolution view of the world.

The new system, reported online May 13 in Nature Photonics, still needs work before being tested in people. But one day it may return partial sight to people suffering from conditions such as retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited disease that can lead to night blindness and tunnel vision, or macular degeneration, in which sharp central vision is lost but peripheral vision remains.

In those conditions, vision suffers when light-detecting cells at the back of the inner eye are damaged, even though the nerve cells that send visual information to the brain may remain intact.

No current treatments can restore vision for such retinal damage, says Lotfi Merabet, an eye specialist at Massachusetts Eye and Ear in Boston. The new work “is certainly very promising,” he says.

Developing the implants took many years and many scientists, says study coauthor James Loudin, an electrical engineer at Stanford University. “The sheer number of new technologies that had to be developed — it’s amazing,” he says.

For starters, there are the goggles. A miniature video camera sits on the nosepiece, watching the world. Information from the camera streams to a portable computer about the size of a smartphone. This computer processes the video images, which are projected into the eyes by near-infrared lasers on the insides of the goggle lenses. The laser hits slender photovoltaic chips implanted beneath the retinas, which convert the light into electrical current, stimulating nerve cells that send information to the brain.

Other labs have also designed retinal prostheses; one has been approved for use in Europe, and another is in clinical trials. But these systems transmit information and power via coils and wiring that have to be surgically implanted along with the retinal chip. Most of the hardware for the new prosthetics is in the goggles, so only the thin solar cell–like chip needs to be implanted. And because the new chip has three photodiodes per pixel rather than one, the image resolution should be better than that of other devices.

The team was concerned that the laser light, which is far brighter than the light that working eyes see on a sunny day, would generate potentially damaging heat, says Loudin. But tests show that the heat is one-hundredth of the established ocular safety limit.

With that issue resolved, the researchers are now testing the system on living rats.

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A system being tested in rats may partially restore sight for some blind people. A handheld computer processes images from a video camera that sits on specialized goggles. Lasers inside the goggles send that information to photovoltaic chips implanted in the eye, stimulating nerve cells that send information to the brain. The person then perceives the images seen by the camera. Credit: James Loudin/Nature Photonics

Fire$torm

05-13-12, 08:27 PM

Hey Duke,

That is some really great info on the Maya wall calendar. Keep up the excellent work! :-bd

Duke of Buckingham

05-14-12, 05:49 AM

:D Thanks F$. Things that I see on the Sciences News page and post to share with you.:cool:

Duke of Buckingham

05-14-12, 12:16 PM

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Duke of Buckingham

05-16-12, 10:03 AM

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Duke of Buckingham

05-16-12, 11:00 AM

Nice setup

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Duke of Buckingham

05-16-12, 02:48 PM

At ISEF, fusion is hot

South Carolina teen makes finals with directed neutron source

By Devin Powell
Web edition : 10:34 am

PITTSBURGH — Ben Bartlett, a 17-year-old from Lexington, S.C., built a portable nuclear fusion reactor in his parents’ house and earned himself a trip to Pittsburgh where he has a chance to take home one of the top awards later this week at the world’s largest precollege science fair.

Nevadan Taylor Wilson won last year’s Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for a similar reactor that detected radioactive materials by spraying out subatomic particles called neutrons. Bartlett’s project goes a step further by training the neutrons to move in one direction. That directionality could be useful for fashioning intense neutron beams used in treating some kinds of advanced cancers.

“One of the reasons why neutron therapy is only administered in a few locations is because it’s so hard to get the necessary concentration of neutrons in beams. The method of directionalization I’ve come up with … should have widespread applications in neutron therapy or any application requiring a high neutron flux,” says Bartlett, a junior at Lexington High School.

At this year’s fair, Bartlett and more than 1,500 other students are vying for over $3 million in awards, including a top award of $75,000 to be announced on May 18. The annual event is sponsored by the Intel Foundation and administered by the Society for Science & the Public, which publishes Science News.

Bartlett is not the first person to achieve fusion. He’s the 34th outside government and industry, he says. Neither is he the youngest. That record belongs to Wilson, who built his reactor at age 14. Would-be “fusioneers” — such as Mike Kovalchick of York, Pa., another competitor at the science fair — often start with plans posted online by the Open Source Fusor Research Consortium.

At the heart of Bartlett’s $2,800 machine, a long shiny windowed tube that emits a pink glow when switched on, is a suspended ball of deuterium plasma. Deuterium gas injected into the chamber and stripped of its electrons crashes into the plasma. Colliding particles don’t have enough energy to overcome their natural repulsion, but a quantum mechanical effect called tunneling kicks in and allows them to sometimes fuse into helium, spitting out neutrons in the process.

“Neutrons typically come out in all directions,” says Brenden Heidrich, a nuclear reactor physicist at Penn State. Guiding the particles in a single direction “would be very difficult to do,” he says, because neutrons are neutral — and thus ignore electromagnetic fields that can guide charged particles such as protons or electrons.

Forming a beam typically means using shielding to block most of the radiating particles. A small hole in the shielding allows only particles moving in the right direction to escape.

In search of a more efficient process, Bartlett figured out how to make neutrons that tend to travel in the right direction to begin with. A 140,000-volt difference from one end of the device to the other creates electric fields that change the speeds of the charged gas particles circulating within. Those moving toward the front of the tube accelerate, while those moving toward the back slow down.

That speed difference shapes the pattern of neutrons that emerges after collisions. Bartlett’s calculations suggest that about twice as many neutrons should emerge from the front of his device as from the back. Theoretically, stronger fields that can create a larger speed difference could send all of the neutrons toward a single point, in true beamlike fashion.

Vials of neutron-detecting fluid arrayed around the device bubbled in a pattern consistent with the math. To prove that that his device really works, though, the budding scientist will need to make some quantitative measurements, says Ronald Rogge, a physicist who works with neutrons at the National Research Council Canada’s Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario.

“People have suggested they could get this kind of direction preference before,” but such effects tend to be very small, says Rogge.

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Ben Bartlett discusses his tabletop fusion project at the 2012 Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in Pittsburgh. Credit: Devin Powell

Duke of Buckingham

05-19-12, 08:35 AM

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Marmalade Skies

Composite photograph courtesy NASA

Astronaut Don Pettit recently created this psychedelic scene using a stationary camera aboard the International Space Station, about 240 miles (386 kilometers) above Earth.

The digital composite includes 18 images stacked together to show star trails wheeling through Earth's "airglow"—light spawned by various chemical interactions in the upper atmosphere.

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Ghostly Eye

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A newly released image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) shows the ultraviolet glow of the Helix nebula, also called NGC 7293.

The object is what's known as a planetary nebula, which is made from the gas and dust left over after a sunlike star dies. The dense core of the star, called a white dwarf, sits at the center of this eerie cosmic "eye."

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Glacial Tapestry

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Seen in a false-color NASA satellite picture snapped in 2011, the Columbia glacier (deep blue) flows into a narrow inlet, which leads into Prince William Sound in southeastern Alaska. The region is rimmed by vegetation (green) and exposed bedrock (brown).

The glacier has been rapidly retreating since 1980, according to NASA. Satellite images of the region—including this one—show that between 1986 and 2011, the extent of the ice shrunk by more than 12 miles (20 kilometers).

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Rings of Andromeda

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Blue-white rings create a cosmic bull's eye in this new ultraviolet picture of the Andromeda galaxy, the Milky Way's largest galactic neighbor, which sits about 2.5 million light-years away.

Although the galaxy appears like a familiar spiral in visible light, the ultraviolet view—from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)—shows the ring-like shapes also seen in infrared images.

Astronomers think the rings are evidence that Andromeda collided with another neighbor, the galaxy M32, more than 200 million years ago.

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Lifting the Veil

Photograph by Erick Montero, Your Shot

Dark clouds drift across a waning gibbous moon on May 10, as seen in a picture snapped from San Jose, California and submitted to National Geographic's Your Shot.

According to photographer Erick Montero, the region was too cloudy for people to see the previous week's supermoon—when the full moon coincided with the lunar orb's closest approach to Earth. But later views of the partially full moon were still "mysterious and surreal," he wrote with his submission.

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Aurora Falls

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A "waterfall" of soft green light drops from the heavens, as seen in a picture taken from the Aurora Sky Station in Abisko, Sweden, that was recently submitted to National Geographic's My Shot.

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Asteroid Slices

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Seen under a polarizing microscope, different minerals appear in a variety of hues in three slices from meteorites—all of which were recently confirmed as parts of the giant asteroid Vesta.

Two of the three space rocks fell to Earth in Antarctica, while the third landed in North Carolina. Their origins were determined based on new data from NASA's Dawn mission, which has been orbiting Vesta since July 2011.

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Birth Right?

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The dusty golden glow of the planetary nebula known as Sharpless 2-71 is seen in a newly released picture from the Gemini North observatory in Hawaii.

Although the nebula was discovered in 1946, astronomers are still debating which star created the complex cloud of dust and gas. Some hold that the bright star at the center of the object is the one that shed shells of material as it swelled and died, forming the nebula.

But the central star doesn't appear to radiate the right amounts of high-energy light to cause the surrounding gas to glow as intensely as we see today. This led other experts to suspect that a dimmer, bluer star—which does pump out enough high-energy radiation—might be the nebula's true parent.

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Mike029

05-20-12, 09:46 AM

Very nice Duke!!

Fire$torm

05-20-12, 03:22 PM

Very Kool Pics there.... :-bd :-bd :-bd

Duke of Buckingham

05-20-12, 04:12 PM

Thanks to you both and to all other fans of nice pictures.

Duke:D

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05-21-12, 05:13 PM

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Amazing pictures of a great photographer, to see more of Darwin’s work, you can visit his portfolio site.
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DrPop

05-21-12, 05:24 PM

Now there are some amazing shots, thank you Duke! :D Reminds me of when Kim and I lived in Alaska. Here is one I took probably 5 or 6 years ago on Fuji Velvia slide film with a Minolta 35mm film camera. :)

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GregK

05-21-12, 06:10 PM

thanks for the thread!

Duke of Buckingham

05-21-12, 06:24 PM

Very nice picture DP. I like this moments of a person and it's camera having a moment freezed for much long before we go.

Today with all the image editors and effects things are much easier but it is still the human touch and the timing that makes a good photo. Very ancient photos are thought my passion but I know most of persons don't appreciate the black and white artistic photos.

The site of Darwin's is amazing mainly the waterfalls pictures, he is really an artist. Thanks for your words, I am happy you like it.

Duke of Buckingham

05-22-12, 03:49 PM

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This image of a pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273 was released to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the launch of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

The distorted shape of the larger of the two galaxies shows signs of tidal interactions with the smaller of the two. It is thought that the smaller galaxy has actually passed through the larger one.

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The star-forming region NGC 3603 - seen here in the latest Hubble Space Telescope image - contains one of the most impressive massive young star clusters in the Milky Way. Bathed in gas and dust the cluster formed in a huge rush of star formation thought to have occurred around a million years ago. The hot blue stars at the core are responsible for carving out a huge cavity in the gas seen to the right of the star cluster in NGC 3603's centre.

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The barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672, showing up clusters of hot young blue stars along its spiral arms, and clouds of hydrogen gas glowing in red. Delicate curtains of dust partially obscure and redden the light of the stars behind them. NGC 1672's symmetric look is emphasised by the four principal arms, edged by eye-catching dust lanes that extend out from the centre.

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This Hubble image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. As the two galaxies smash together, billions of stars are born, mostly in groups and clusters of stars. The brightest and most compact of these are called super star clusters.

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This stunning image of NGC 1275 was taken using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys in July and August 2006. It provides amazing detail and resolution of the fragile filamentary structures, which show up as a reddish lacy structure surrounding the central bright galaxy NGC 1275. These filaments are cool despite being surrounded by gas that is around 55 million degrees Celsius hot. They are suspended in a magnetic field which maintains their structure and demonstrates how energy from the central black hole is transferred to the surrounding gas.

By observing the filamentary structure, astronomers were, for the first time, able to estimate the magnetic field's strength. Using this information they demonstrated how the extragalactic magnetic fields have maintained the structure of the filaments against collapse caused by either gravitational forces or the violence of the surrounding cluster during their 100-million-year lifetime.

This is the first time astronomers have been able to differentiate the individual threads making up such filaments to this degree. Astonishingly, they distinguished threads a mere 200 light-years across. By contrast, the filaments seen here can be a gaping 200 000 light-years long. The entire image is approximately 260 000 light-years across.

Also seen in the image are impressive lanes of dust from a separate spiral galaxy. It lies partly in front of the giant elliptical central cluster galaxy and has been completed disrupted by the tidal gravitational forces within the galaxy cluster. Several striking filaments of blue newborn stars are seen crossing the image.

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This dramatic image offers a peek inside a cavern of roiling dust and gas where thousands of stars are forming. The image, taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, represents the sharpest view ever taken of this region, called the Orion Nebula. More than 3,000 stars of various sizes appear in this image. Some of them have never been seen in visible light. These stars reside in a dramatic dust-and-gas landscape of plateaus, mountains, and valleys that are reminiscent of the Grand Canyon.

The Orion Nebula is a picture book of star formation, from the massive, young stars that are shaping the nebula to the pillars of dense gas that may be the homes of budding stars. The bright central region is the home of the four heftiest stars in the nebula. The stars are called the Trapezium because they are arranged in a trapezoid pattern. Ultraviolet light unleashed by these stars is carving a cavity in the nebula and disrupting the growth of hundreds of smaller stars. Located near the Trapezium stars are stars still young enough to have disks of material encircling them. These disks are called protoplanetary disks or "proplyds" and are too small to see clearly in this image. The disks are the building blocks of solar systems.

The bright glow at upper left is from M43, a small region being shaped by a massive, young star's ultraviolet light. Astronomers call the region a miniature Orion Nebula because only one star is sculpting the landscape. The Orion Nebula has four such stars. Next to M43 are dense, dark pillars of dust and gas that point toward the Trapezium. These pillars are resisting erosion from the Trapezium's intense ultraviolet light. The glowing region on the right reveals arcs and bubbles formed when stellar winds - streams of charged particles ejected from the Trapezium stars - collide with material.

The faint red stars near the bottom are the myriad brown dwarfs that Hubble spied for the first time in the nebula in visible light. Sometimes called "failed stars," brown dwarfs are cool objects that are too small to be ordinary stars because they cannot sustain nuclear fusion in their cores the way our Sun does. The dark red column, below, left, shows an illuminated edge of the cavity wall.

The Orion Nebula is 1,500 light-years away, the nearest star-forming region to Earth. Astronomers used 520 Hubble images, taken in five colours, to make this picture. They also added ground-based photos to fill out the nebula. The ACS mosaic covers approximately the apparent angular size of the full moon.

The Orion observations were taken between 2004 and 2005.

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NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has trained its razor-sharp eye on one of the universe's most stately and photogenic galaxies, the Sombrero galaxy, Messier 104 (M104). The galaxy's hallmark is a brilliant white, bulbous core encircled by the thick dust lanes comprising the spiral structure of the galaxy. As seen from Earth, the galaxy is tilted nearly edge-on. We view it from just six degrees north of its equatorial plane. This brilliant galaxy was named the Sombrero because of its resemblance to the broad rim and high-topped Mexican hat.

At a relatively bright magnitude of +8, M104 is just beyond the limit of naked-eye visibility and is easily seen through small telescopes. The Sombrero lies at the southern edge of the rich Virgo cluster of galaxies and is one of the most massive objects in that group, equivalent to 800 billion suns. The galaxy is 50,000 light-years across and is located 28 million light-years from Earth.

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Appearing like a winged fairy-tale creature poised on a pedestal, this object is actually a billowing tower of cold gas and dust rising from a stellar nursery called the Eagle Nebula. The soaring tower is 9.5 light-years or about 90 trillion kilometres high, about twice the distance from our Sun to the next nearest star.

Stars in the Eagle Nebula are born in clouds of cold hydrogen gas that reside in chaotic neighbourhoods, where energy from young stars sculpts fantasy-like landscapes in the gas. The tower may be a giant incubator for those newborn stars. A torrent of ultraviolet light from a band of massive, hot, young stars [off the top of the image] is eroding the pillar.

The starlight also is responsible for illuminating the tower's rough surface. Ghostly streamers of gas can be seen boiling off this surface, creating the haze around the structure and highlighting its three-dimensional shape. The column is silhouetted against the background glow of more distant gas.

The edge of the dark hydrogen cloud at the top of the tower is resisting erosion, in a manner similar to that of brush among a field of prairie grass that is being swept up by fire. The fire quickly burns the grass but slows down when it encounters the dense brush. In this celestial case, thick clouds of hydrogen gas and dust have survived longer than their surroundings in the face of a blast of ultraviolet light from the hot, young stars.

Inside the gaseous tower, stars may be forming. Some of those stars may have been created by dense gas collapsing under gravity. Other stars may be forming due to pressure from gas that has been heated by the neighbouring hot stars.

The first wave of stars may have started forming before the massive star cluster began venting its scorching light. The star birth may have begun when denser regions of cold gas within the tower started collapsing under their own weight to make stars.

The bumps and fingers of material in the centre of the tower are examples of these stellar birthing areas. These regions may look small but they are roughly the size of our solar system. The fledgling stars continued to grow as they fed off the surrounding gas cloud. They abruptly stopped growing when light from the star cluster uncovered their gaseous cradles, separating them from their gas supply.

Ironically, the young cluster's intense starlight may be inducing star formation in some regions of the tower. Examples can be seen in the large, glowing clumps and finger-shaped protrusions at the top of the structure. The stars may be heating the gas at the top of the tower and creating a shock front, as seen by the bright rim of material tracing the edge of the nebula at top, left. As the heated gas expands, it acts like a battering ram, pushing against the darker cold gas. The intense pressure compresses the gas, making it easier for stars to form. This scenario may continue as the shock front moves slowly down the tower.

The dominant colours in the image were produced by gas energized by the star cluster's powerful ultraviolet light. The blue colour at the top is from glowing oxygen. The red colon in the lower region is from glowing hydrogen. The Eagle Nebula image was taken in November 2004 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

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This craggy fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds looks like a bizarre landscape from Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, which is even more dramatic than fiction, captures the chaotic activity atop a pillar of gas and dust, three light-years tall, which is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars. The pillar is also being assaulted from within, as infant stars buried inside it fire off jets of gas that can be seen streaming from towering peaks.

This turbulent cosmic pinnacle lies within a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7500 light-years away in the southern constellation of Carina. The image celebrates the 20th anniversary of Hubble's launch and deployment into an orbit around the Earth.

Scorching radiation and fast winds (streams of charged particles) from super-hot newborn stars in the nebula are shaping and compressing the pillar, causing new stars to form within it. Streamers of hot ionised gas can be seen flowing off the ridges of the structure, and wispy veils of gas and dust, illuminated by starlight, float around its towering peaks. The denser parts of the pillar are resisting being eroded by radiation.

Nestled inside this dense mountain are fledgling stars. Long streamers of gas can be seen shooting in opposite directions from the pedestal at the top of the image. Another pair of jets is visible at another peak near the centre of the image. These jets, (known as HH 901 and HH 902, respectively, are signposts for new star birth and are launched by swirling gas and dust discs around the young stars, which allow material to slowly accrete onto the stellar surfaces.

Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 observed the pillar on 1-2 February 2010. The colours in this composite image correspond to the glow of oxygen (blue), hydrogen and nitrogen (green), and sulphur (red).

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NASA, ESA, M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)

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Hubble's view of the Carina Nebula shows star birth in a new level of detail. The fantasy-like landscape of the nebula is sculpted by the action of outflowing winds and scorching ultraviolet radiation from the monster stars that inhabit this inferno. In the process, these stars are shredding the surrounding material that is the last vestige of the giant cloud from which the stars were born.

The immense nebula is an estimated 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina the Keel (of the old southern constellation Argo Navis, the ship of Jason and the Argonauts, from Greek mythology).

This image is a mosaic of the Carina Nebula assembled from 48 frames taken with Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys. The Hubble images were taken in the light of ionized hydrogen. Colour information was added with data taken at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. Red corresponds to sulfur, green to hydrogen, and blue to oxygen emission.

Credit:
NASA, ESA, N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Duke of Buckingham

05-22-12, 09:10 PM

And with this beautifull pictures is time to say goodbye. It was previlege to have a nice thread in this Team for so long. I consider some of you as very good friends.

Duke aka Ricardo

Fire$torm

05-23-12, 11:28 PM

And with this beautifull pictures is time to say goodbye. It was previlege to have a nice thread in this Team for so long. I consider some of you as very good friends.

Duke aka Ricardo

Goodbye??????

Hold on a second. What, when and why??????

Duke of Buckingham

05-24-12, 11:18 AM

I need sometime out. I will come back for you. I need to give myself a deep breath.

A nice and big hug to all of you.

c303a

05-24-12, 01:20 PM

Good night Duke....Sleep tight.;););)

Fogle

05-24-12, 03:14 PM

Thanks Duke for all the craziness and terriffic pictures, take care of yourself and come back when you can. I always enjoy your posts.:cool:

Duke of Buckingham

05-24-12, 05:41 PM

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

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Fire$torm

05-25-12, 02:14 AM

Duke, you are truly a wonderful individual. Thank you for sharing with us. I do look forward to more of spirit and generosity.

Enjoy your time away and remember, you will always have a place here.

Keeping the light on for Duke,
F$

Duke of Buckingham

05-26-12, 10:47 AM

I have joined my small crunching with you. Is not a river flowing, not even a small one, only some small drops, dreaming that they one day will be an Ocean.

Each drop dream is kept alive because understands that to achieve the ocean requires faith and belief, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. And always remember all things are possible for those who believe. The Ocean is down there, I am almost there ... We are almost there ... I will make it ... we will make it .. we will be the Ocean ... I believe ...

Duke

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Duke of Buckingham

05-27-12, 06:59 AM

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kheinicken

05-27-12, 11:15 PM

These are nice!

Duke of Buckingham

05-28-12, 08:35 PM

So nice pictures it is. :D

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Duke of Buckingham

05-30-12, 08:01 AM

Best Rare-Bird Pictures of 2010 Named

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Asian Crested Ibis

Photograph courtesy Quan Min Li via The World's Rarest Birds

A picture of an endangered Asian crested ibis soaring over China is a first-prize winner in the first annual World's Rarest Birds international photo competition, organizers announced in January.

Launched in 2010, the competition ranked pictures of birds that fall into three categories determined by the International Union for Conservation of Nature: endangered or data deficient, critically endangered or extinct in the wild, and critically endangered migratory species.

The above shot took top honors in the "endangered or data deficient" category. The Asian crested ibis once thrived in Russia, Japan, and China, but its population has shrunk to about 250 in China's Shaanxi Province. Agricultural activities have probably affected the bird by reducing available feeding grounds, according to the World's Rarest Birds website.

(Related: "Birds in 'Big Trouble' Due to Drugs, Fishing, More.")

A panel of five independent judges—including two wildlife photographers, a wildlife artist, a citizen interested in birds, and a book editor—rated the entries on image quality, subject rarity, and aesthetics. Winning images will be featured in the book The World’s Rarest Birds, to be published in 2012 by WILDGuides.

The book's "key message is poignant—a large proportion of the world's birds, including every one depicted, is threatened with extinction," Andy Swash, managing director of WILDGuides, said in a statement.

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Scaly-Sided Merganser

Photograph courtesy Martin Hale via The World's Rarest Birds

Two endangered scaly-sided mergansers glide across the water in a picture that won fifth place in the "endangered or data deficient" category.

Habitat loss and illegal hunting have reduced the bird's population to about 2,500 individuals in Russia and China, according to the nonprofit BirdLife International.

Overall, the competition received photos that represent 90 percent of the 566 rarest bird species. (Related picture: "Rare Bird Gets Own 'Luxury' Beach.")

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Forest Owlet

Photograph courtesy Jayesh K. Joshi via The World's Rarest Birds

A picture of central India's forest owlet earned fourth place in the "critically endangered or extinct in the wild" category.

The species lives in a severely fragmented forest habitat that continues to be destroyed, according to the nonprofit BirdLife International.

(See photo: "'Strange Owl' Seen in Wild for First Time.")

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Red-Crowned Crane

Photograph courtesy Huajin Sun via The World's Rarest Birds

Named a second place winner in the "endangered or data-deficient" category, the above picture shows a red-crowned crane making a courtship display.

Though the bird's population is stable in Japan, the mainland Asian population is declining due to habitat loss and degradation of wetlands for agriculture and development, according to BirdLife International.

(Related: "Ugandan Cranes Declining Due to 'Witch Doctors.'")

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Orange-Bellied Parrot

Photograph courtesy David Boyle via The World's Rarest Birds

This "touching image" of two orange-bellied parrots won the category for critically endangered migrating birds, according to a World's Rarest Birds contest statement.

The small parrot breeds only in southwestern Tasmania (see map) and migrates to southeastern Australia in the winter, where agriculture and development are crowding out its habitat. Probably fewer than 150 animals remain in the wild, according to BirdLife International.

(Related pictures: "'Rarest of the Rare' Species Named.")

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Kakapo

Photograph courtesy Shane McInnes via The World's Rarest Birds

One of the rarest birds of all is New Zealand's kakapo. The above picture of the large, flightless bird approaching the camera snagged first place in the "critically endangered or extinct in the wild" category.

Only 124 animals remain in the wild—the species has been largely wiped out by introduced predatory mammals such as feral cats.

(Related: "BO Attracting Predators to Birds.")

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Honduran Emerald

Photograph courtesy Robert E. Hyman via The World's Rarest Birds

A photograph of a Honduran emerald perched on a branch earned fifth place in the "critically endangered or extinct in the wild" category.

Found only in Honduras, the hummingbird exists in an "extremely small and severely fragmented range," which is declining due to habitat loss, according to BirdLife International.

(See "World's Fastest Flyer Is a Hummingbird?")

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Palila

Photograph courtesy Eric A. VanderWerf via The World's Rarest Birds

A "superb study" of a palila in Hawaii received sixth place in the "critically endangered or extinct in the wild" category, according to a World's Rarest Birds contest statement.

Habitat loss, cat predation, and drought have contributed to the species' ongoing decline in its native Hawaii. The bird's numbers are expected to plummet by 97 percent over the next 14 years, according to BirdLife International.

(See "Alien-Wasp Swarms Devouring Birds, Bugs in Hawaii.")

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Christmas Island Frigatebird

Photograph courtesy David Boyle via The World's Rarest Birds

A picture of a Christmas Island frigatebird flying over the Indian Ocean snagged third place in the "critically endangered or extinct in the wild" category.

The bird, found only on the Australian territory of Christmas Island (map), is disappearing due to habitat loss, phosphate mining, marine pollution, and overfishing, among other causes.

(See pictures: "Crab Swarms Overtake Island—Mystery Solved.")

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Brazilian Merganser

Photograph courtesy Savio Freire Bruno via The World's Rarest Birds

A "captivating" photo of a Brazilian merganser and her ducklings won second prize in the "critically endangered or extinct in the wild" category, according to a World's Rarest Birds contest statement.

In a sign of hope for the species, recent data from Brazil suggest that the merganser's status is better than previously thought, according to BirdLife International.

(See "Bizarre Gelatinous Fish Found in Brazil.")

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Great Indian Bustard

Photograph courtesy Csaba Barkoczi via The World's Rarest Birds

A shot of the Great Indian bustard in mid-flight snagged fourth place in the "endangered or data deficient" category.

Widespread hunting for sport and food in India is driving the bird to extinction, according to BirdLife International.

(See "Watching "Sexy" Males Leads to Better Chicks, Study Says.")

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Marvellous Spatuletail

Photograph courtesy Daniel Rosengren via The World's Rarest Birds

The third place winner in the "endangered or data deficient" category is a picture of Peru's marvellous spatuletail. (Watch video of the rare bird's courtship display.)

A "stunning" hummingbird restricted to just two sites, the bird's population is estimated to be less than a thousand, and it's decreasing due to deforestation for cash crops such as marijuana and coffee, according to a World's Rarest Birds contest statement.

(See "Cocaine to Blame for Rain Forest Loss, Study Says.")

Duke of Buckingham

05-31-12, 08:33 AM

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06-02-12, 03:37 AM

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Duke of Buckingham

06-02-12, 08:35 AM

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Together, by Jan Zajc

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untitled, by Bonali Giuseppe

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Frog beetle ready for take-off, by Alfred Preuss

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Ants climbing tree, by Uros Kotnik

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Water striders, by Clay Bolt

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Eyes of a Holcocephala fusca Robber Fly, by Thomas Shahan

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Eight-legged vaudeville, by Rick Lieder

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untitled, by Igor Siwanowicz

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Eucharitid wasp, by Rundstedt B. Rovillos

More nice photos at http://myrmecos.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/the-best-insect-photos-of-2009/

Duke of Buckingham

06-03-12, 03:42 PM

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Have a nice day...

Duke of Buckingham

06-04-12, 10:28 AM

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

William Shakespeare

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Duke of Buckingham

06-06-12, 05:33 AM

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Phyllocrania paradoxa, the ghost mantis, is an African insect that has become common in the pet trade.

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Orthodera ministralis - Australian Garden Mantis. The small wing pads indicate this individual is not yet mature.

Melbourne, Australia

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Orthodera ministralis - Australian Garden Mantis

Melbourne, Australia

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An Australian Garden Mantis Orthodera ministralis cleans pollen from her foot.

Melbourne, Australia

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Mantises consume their prey alive. This chinese mantid Tenodera aridifolia tore apart and ate this fruit fly in a matter of minutes.

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Tenodera aridifolia - chinese mantis

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Portrait of a young chinese mantis, Tenodera aridifolia

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Stagmomantis carolina, the carolina mantis.

Urbana, Illinois, USA

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A newly hatched Stagmomantis carolina surveys the world.

Urbana, Illinois, USA

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Stagmomantis carolina, the carolina mantis.

Urbana, Illinois, USA

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Preying mantises are meticulously clean insects. Here, a female carolina mantis, Stagmomantis carolina, grooms a hindleg.

Urbana, Illinois, USA

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A tree-dwelling mantis emerges from the moss in an Ecuadorian cloud forest.

Maquipucuna reserve, Pichincha, Ecuador

Duke of Buckingham

06-06-12, 08:27 AM

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Duke of Buckingham

06-08-12, 11:18 AM

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”

William Blake

Duke of Buckingham

06-10-12, 08:36 AM

Birds of Paradise

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Count Raggi's Bird of Paradise
Photograph by James P. Blair
The Count Raggi's bird of paradise is the national bird of Papua New Guinea.

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Lesser Bird of Paradise
Photograph by Tim Laman
The male lesser bird of paradise, like others in its genus, has beautiful plumage, which he displays to females in an elaborate courtship dance

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Princess Stephanie's Bird of Paradise
Photograph by Robert Sisson
Also known as a paradise magpie, Princess Stephanie's birds of paradise wear striking black feathers.

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Ribbon-Tailed Bird of Paradise
Photograph by Robert Sisson
Divas of the avian world, elaborately feathered birds of paradise, like this ribbon-tailed species, practice elaborate courtship rituals.

Baby Animals

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Baby Harp Seal
Photograph by Norbert Rosing
A baby harp seal rests on the Arctic ice. Its mother can distinguish it from hundreds of others by scent alone.

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Baby Asian Elephant in Tall Grass
Photograph by William Albert Allard
Baby elephants are born big, standing approximately three feet (one meter) tall and weighing 200 pounds (91 kilograms) at birth. They nurse for two to three years, and are fully mature at 9 (females) to 15 (males) years of age.

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Lynx and Cub
Photograph by Norbert Rosing
Lynxes are known for the black tufts of fur on the tips of their ears.

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Black Bear Mother and Cub
Photograph by Norbert Rosing
Mother black bears are notoriously protective of their cubs, who stay with their mothers for about two years.

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Leopard Cub Playing With Mother's Tail
Photograph by Beverly Joubert
Usually solitary animals, leopard cubs live with their mothers for two years, learning how to hunt. Cubs are born in pairs and are grayish with no discernible spots.

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Bobcat Kitten in the Wild
Photograph by Hope Ryden
Bobcat kittens are born in litters of one to six and will stay with their mother for up to one year before heading off on their own.

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Polar Bear Mother With Cub
Photograph by Norbert Rosing
Dutiful mothers, female polar bears usually give birth to twin cubs, which stay with her for more than two years until they can hunt and survive on their own.

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Cheetah Mother and Cubs
Photograph by Chris Johns
Cheetah mothers typically give birth to a litter of three cubs, all of which will stay with her for one and a half to two years before venturing off on their own. When interacting with her cubs, cheetah mothers purr, just like domestic cats.

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Black Bear Cub
Photograph by Robert Caputo
Black bears are excellent climbers, scaling trees to play, hide, eat, and even hibernate.

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Crocodile Cracks Its Shell
Photograph by Steve Winter
Female crocs lay their eggs in clutches of 20 to 60. After the eggs have incubated for about three months, the mother opens the nest and helps her young out of their shells.

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06-13-12, 05:26 AM

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Duke of Buckingham

06-13-12, 07:18 PM

Sometimes when I feel the will to give up
and I am lost for a small while
A light comes to me
and I understand.
We are not alone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB7fnZ-AQNE&feature=related

Duke of Buckingham

06-14-12, 05:43 AM

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Mount Bromo, Indonesia
Photograph by Helminadia Caryati
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Taken in the morning at Mount Bromo, East Java, Indonesia

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Portrait, Brazil
Photograph by Geralyn Shukwit
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Christiane, a child of the "roofless" movement in Salvador, Brazil. A beautiful spirit living a life not hers by choice, but she brings love and light to all around her.

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Svartifoss, Iceland
Photograph by Giacomo Ciangottini
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Svartifoss (Black Fall) is surrounded by the dark lava columns that gave rise to its name. The hexagonal columns were formed inside a lava flow that cooled extremely slowly, giving rise to crystallization. Skaftafell National Park, Iceland.

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Monkeys, Indonesia
Photograph by Suhaimi Abdullah
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The wild offspring stares while the elders rummage through a pile of rubbish for food in Tawangmangu, Solo, Indonesia.

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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This Month in Photo of the Day: Traveler Contest Images
After spending two months in the beautiful city of Rio de Janeiro with carioca people, samba, and lots of caipirinhas, finally there was a perfect day to go up to Sugarloaf Mountain and take this picture.

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Petra, Jordan
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This Month in Photo of the Day: Traveler Contest Images
Petra, the magical ancient land in Jordan, turns almost mystical by night. Candle lamps guide visitors down the mile-long Siq, and when you reach Al Khazneh, it is overwhelming to see this sight. People are gathered around these candles spread out in front of the Treasury while musicians play soulful music.

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Buick, Cuba
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This Month in Photo of the Day: Traveler Contest Images
The National Highway in Cuba has many stretches where you will not see another car for miles. Then when you do see one, it is an old classic like this 1950s Buick, which looks at home on the open road with the Cuban landscape of fields and mountains in the distance.

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Claustral Canyon, Australia
Photograph by Carsten Peter, National Geographic
This Month in Photo of the Day: Adventure and Exploration Photos
Veteran guide John Robens (at far left) leads a soggy team through a moss-covered passage in Claustral Canyon, a few hours' hike from their exit point. Canyoneering is all about the serendipity of discovery, he says. "You walk for miles and suddenly you find yourself in this magical spot."

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Mountain Biker, South Africa
Photograph by Guy Anderson, Your Shot
This Month in Photo of the Day: Adventure and Exploration Photos
The town of Hilton in South Africa is known for its misty weather, which came out in full force for an annual mountain bike classic. The unusually wet winter's day challenged competitors with muddy tracks, low visibility, and an icy wind. I battled to just keep my camera dry, and after failing to obtain sharp images through the haze, I took a step back and framed this shot, which captures the adventurous rider tackling the harsh environment.

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Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia
Photograph by George Steinmetz, National Geographic
This Month in Photo of the Day: Adventure and Exploration Photos
On the eastern margin of Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, expedition cars attempt to cross the flats after flooding from heavy March rains.

Duke of Buckingham

06-15-12, 06:26 AM

This is an important lesson to remember when you're having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year.
Things will change: you won't feel this way forever.
And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.
I believe you can't feel real joy unless you've felt heartache.
You can't have a sense of victory unless you know what it means to fail.
You can't know what it's like to feel holy until you know what it's like to feel really fucking evil.
And you can't be birthed again until you've died.

Duke of Buckingham

06-16-12, 10:44 AM

TIME 2010 Best Pictures

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Duke of Buckingham

06-17-12, 06:04 AM

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility,

not only nation to nation and human to human,

but also human to other forms of life.

Dalai Lama

Duke of Buckingham

06-18-12, 06:02 AM

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Paradox is the poisonous flower of quietism, the iridescent surface of the rotting mind, the greatest depravity of all.

Thomas Mann

Duke of Buckingham

06-18-12, 06:41 PM

20 Great Reflection Pictures

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girls on horseback by Mike Baird

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reflections for the day by Dene' Miles

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Big Brass Band! by peasap

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Fire & Ice by Steve Jurvetson

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this city will squash you by Jes

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Oslo Reflections by Geraint Rowland

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tokyo by Osamu Kaneko

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Dynamic Serenity by Andrew E. Larsen

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Riffelsee by Jeffrey Pang

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Fulcro by Daniel Zedda

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Phoenix by Steve Jurvetson

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Reflections by Mizrak

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Quiet Times are Good. by Dennis Jarvis

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Moscow Rain Reflections Four by Geraint Rowland

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Weirdo by Todd Baker

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Grand Tetons National Park by Frank Kovalchek

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Duke of Buckingham

06-20-12, 10:49 PM

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
William Faulkner

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.
Kin Hubbard

zombie67

06-20-12, 11:29 PM

"1. Spider-Man has reflexes much faster than any human. Jesus is supposed to be a god, yes, but he's also, more importantly, a man. And Spider-Man is faster than a lot of gods, anyway, as shown by his defeat of Firelord and Thanos. Spider-Man could react really quickly to anything Jesus would like to do." -- why Spider-Man could beat Jesus, by David Henry

Duke of Buckingham

06-20-12, 11:58 PM

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Duke of Buckingham

06-21-12, 06:28 AM

The nice and warm days of summer are coming. To comemorate the summer that starts today some pictures of it.

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and my BONUS

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Happy Summer

DUKE Crazy for Summer

Duke of Buckingham

06-21-12, 05:05 PM

I am really bad at computers. I am bad as anyone can be. But somehow I love/hate computers as I should, don't you? I love them almost as I hate them. They are my worst nightmare but sometimes they come into my dream...

Video Duke vacations for a week. I will let Einstein running for the team. and I will be there for you.

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EmSti

06-22-12, 12:02 AM

I understand the love/hate relationship with computers. I troubleshoot system problems for a living and I often remind folks on the the real hard problems - "If it were easy, they wouldn't need us." They drive me mad, but it pays the bill and funds the computing charity hobby. Full circle.

Duke of Buckingham

06-22-12, 04:23 AM

Thanks EmSti. Meanwhile 2 things is always good to remind before going on vacations. I wanted to know your opinion on this 2 issues.

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Hippocratic Oath
Original, translated into English

I swear by Apollo, the healer, Asclepius, Hygieia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my ability and my judgment, the following Oath and agreement:

To consider dear to me, as my parents, him who taught me this art; to live in common with him and, if necessary, to share my goods with him; To look upon his children as my own brothers, to teach them this art; and that by my teaching, I will impart a knowledge of this art to my own sons, and to my teacher's sons, and to disciples bound by an indenture and oath according to the medical laws, and no others.

I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone.

I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and similarly I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion.

But I will preserve the purity of my life and my arts.

I will not cut for stone, even for patients in whom the disease is manifest; I will leave this operation to be performed by practitioners, specialists in this art.

In every house where I come I will enter only for the good of my patients, keeping myself far from all intentional ill-doing and all seduction and especially from the pleasures of love with women or with men, be they free or slaves.

All that may come to my knowledge in the exercise of my profession or in daily commerce with men, which ought not to be spread abroad, I will keep secret and will never reveal.
If I keep this oath faithfully, may I enjoy my life and practice my art, respected by all humanity and in all times; but if I swerve from it or violate it, may the reverse be my life.

Duke of Buckingham

06-30-12, 08:45 AM

Hello Duke the menace is back and now is time to lunch. I will post Today in History soon.

Crazy Duke

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Duke of Buckingham

06-30-12, 03:00 PM

I am having very big trouble with the computer. mainly with the xml files made by me. I will try to reinstall the system tonight. What a big ........ geez.

Duke

Duke of Buckingham

07-01-12, 06:41 AM

Wow! signal

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The Wow! signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected by Jerry R. Ehman on August 15, 1977, while working on a SETI project at the Big Ear radio telescope of The Ohio State University then located at Ohio Wesleyan University's Perkins Observatory, Delaware, Ohio. The signal bore expected hallmarks of potential non-terrestrial and non-Solar System origin. It lasted for the full 72-second duration that Big Ear observed it, but has not been detected again. The signal has been the subject of significant media attention.

Amazed at how closely the signal matched the expected signature of an interstellar signal in the antenna used, Ehman circled the signal on the computer printout and wrote the comment "Wow!" on its side. This comment became the intensity variation of the signal. A space denotes an intensity between 0 and 1, the numbers 1 to 9 denote the correspondingly numbered intensities (from 1.000 to 10.000), and intensities of 10.0 and above are denoted by a letter ('A' corresponds to intensities between 10.0 and 11.0, 'B' to 11.0 to 12.0, etc.). The value 'U' (an intensity between 30.0 and 31.0) was the highest detected by the radio telescope, on a linear scale it was over 30 times louder than normal deep space.[1] The intensity in this case is the unitless signal-to-noise ratio, where noise was averaged for that band over the previous few minutes.

Two different values for its frequency have been given: 1420.356 MHz (J. D. Kraus) and 1420.4556 MHz (J. R. Ehman). The frequency 1420 is significant for SETI searchers because, it is reasoned, hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and hydrogen resonates at about 1420 MHz, thus extraterrestrials might use that frequency on which to transmit a strong signal. The frequency of the Wow! signal matches very closely with the hydrogen line, which is at 1420.40575177 MHz. The two different values given for the frequency of the Wow! signal (1420.356 MHz and 1420.4556 MHz) are the same distance apart to the hydrogen line—the first being about 0.0498 MHz less than the hydrogen line, and the second being about 0.0498 MHz more than the hydrogen line. The bandwidth of the signal is less than 10 kHz (each column on the printout corresponds to a 10 kHz-wide channel; the signal is only present in one column).

The original print out of the Wow! signal, complete with Jerry Ehman's famous exclamation, is preserved by the Ohio Historical Society.

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Determining a precise location in the sky was complicated by the fact that the Big Ear telescope used two feed horns to search for signals, each pointing to a slightly different direction in the sky following Earth's rotation; the Wow! signal was detected in one of the horns but not in the other, although the data were processed in such a way that it is impossible to determine in which of the two horns the signal entered. There are, therefore, two possible right ascension values:

19h22m24.64s ± 5s (positive horn)
19h25m17.01s ± 5s (negative horn)

The declination was unambiguously determined to be −27°03′ ± 20′. The preceding values are all expressed in terms of the B1950.0 equinox.

Converted into the J2000.0 equinox, the coordinates become RA= 19h25m31s ± 10s or 19h28m22s ± 10s and declination= −26°57′ ± 20′

This region of the sky lies in the constellation Sagittarius, roughly 2.5 degrees south of the fifth-magnitude star group Chi Sagittarii. Tau Sagittarii is the closest easily visible star.

The Big Ear telescope was fixed and used the rotation of the Earth to scan the sky. At the speed of the Earth's rotation, and given the width of the Big Ear's observation "window", the Big Ear could observe any given point for just 72 seconds. A continuous extraterrestrial signal, therefore, would be expected to register for exactly 72 seconds, and the recorded intensity of that signal would show a gradual peaking for the first 36 seconds—until the signal reached the center of Big Ear's observation "window"— and then a gradual decrease.

Therefore, both the length of the Wow! signal, 72 seconds, and the shape of the intensity graph may correspond to a possible extraterrestrial origin.

The signal was expected to appear three minutes apart in each of the horns, but this did not happen. Ehman unsuccessfully looked for recurrences of the signal using Big Ear in the months after the detection.

In 1987 and 1989, Robert Gray searched for the event using the META array at Oak Ridge Observatory, but did not re-detect it.

In a July 1995 test of signal detection software to be used in its upcoming Project Argus search, SETI League executive director H. Paul Shuch made several drift-scan observations of the 'Wow' signal's coordinates with a 12 meter radio telescope at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Green Bank WV, also achieving a null result.

In 1995 and 1996, Gray also searched for the signal using the Very Large Array, which is significantly more sensitive than Big Ear.

Gray and Simon Ellingsen later searched for recurrences of the event in 1999 using the 26m radio telescope at the University of Tasmania's Mount Pleasant Radio Observatory. Six 14-hour observations were made at positions in the vicinity, but did not detect anything similar to the Wow! signal.

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Interstellar scintillation of a weaker continuous signal—similar, in effect, to atmospheric twinkling—could be a possible explanation, although this still would not exclude the possibility of the signal being artificial in its nature. However, even by using the significantly more sensitive Very Large Array, such a signal could not be detected, and the probability that a signal below the Very Large Array level could be detected by the Big Ear radio telescope due to interstellar scintillation is low. Other speculations include a rotating lighthouse-like source, a signal sweeping in frequency, or a one-time burst.

Ehman has stated his doubts that the signal is of intelligent extraterrestrial origin: "We should have seen it again when we looked for it 50 times. Something suggests it was an Earth-sourced signal that simply got reflected off a piece of space debris."

He later recanted his skepticism somewhat, after further research showed an Earth-borne signal to be very unlikely, due to the requirements of a space-borne reflector being bound to certain unrealistic requirements to sufficiently explain the nature of the signal. Also, the 1420 MHz signal is problematic in itself in that it is "protected spectrum": it is bandwidth in which terrestrial transmitters are forbidden to transmit due to it being reserved for astronomical purposes. In his most recent writings, Ehman resists "drawing vast conclusions from half-vast data"—acknowledging the possibility that the source may have been military in nature or otherwise may have been a production of Earth-bound humans.

Duke of Buckingham

07-02-12, 07:54 AM

Iceland Volcano: Lava Explodes From Ice Cap

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Fire and Ice
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Ash and roughly thirty-story-tall lava fountains shoot from a half-mile-long (0.8-kilometer-long) rupture in the icy cap of southern Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull (pronounced AY-uh-full-ay-ho-kul) volcano early Sunday.

Because volcanic ash can cripple jet engines, flights were not allowed in Icelandic airspace Sunday. As of Monday, air travel was gradually returning to normal, the Associated Press reported.

The geology of Iceland, though, is anything but normal. The volcanic island lies just south of the Arctic Circle atop the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where two tectonic plates are forever pulling apart.

Magma from deep inside Earth rushes upward, filling the gaps and fueling Iceland's volcanic eruptions, which occur about once every five years.

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No damage or injuries have been reported as a result of the Icelandvolcanic eruption (pictured early Sunday), despite pooling magma, ash clouds, and towering lava fountains—as well as hundreds of small earthquakes felt by area residents this month, according to the Web site of the London Times.

The last volcanic eruption in the Eyjafjallajokull glacier area took place in 1821 and continued for roughly two years, according to the Associated Press.

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Lava Glow
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Seen from a distance, Sunday's eruptions greet the Icelandic countryside like a sunrise.

The lava fountains on Eyjafallajoekull volcano, which is 5,466 feet (1,666 meters) tall, threatened to melt parts of the adjacent Eyjafjallajokull glacier, sparking fears of flooding in the sparsely populated farmland below.

"We estimate no one is in danger in the area, but we have started an evacuation plan, and between 500 and 600 people are being evacuated," Sigurgeir Gudmundsson of Iceland's civil-protections agency told the AFP news service Sunday.

Late Sunday some residents from the outskirts of the evacuation zone were permitted to go home as floods failed to materialize. Scientific overflights Monday aimed to determine whether the rest of the evacuees could do the same, the Associated Press reported.

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Volcanic Chain Reaction?
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Not far from Eyjafjallajokull glacier, the much larger Mýrdalsjökull glacier (satellite map) hides the fiery, gently sloping Katla volcano that lies under the ice.

Considered one of Iceland's most dangerous volcanoes, Katla last erupted in 1918 and could be roused by the nearby rumblings that began over the weekend, scientists warned Monday.

"Historically, we know of three eruptions in Katla linked to eruptions in Eyjafjallajokull," Magnús Tumi Gudmundsson, a professor of geophysics and civil-protection adviser, told the AFP news service. For now, though, the giant's sleep appears undisturbed.

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Slow Burn?
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Burning brightly above the rim of the 2.5-mile-wide (4-kilometer-wide) Eyjafallajoekull volcano crater, lava fountains in Iceland showed few signs of stopping on Sunday.

The unpredictable eruption could fizzle tomorrow or flourish for two years, geophysicist Magnús Tumi Gudmundsson said at a press conference Monday, according to Iceland Review Online.

Duke of Buckingham

07-03-12, 10:13 AM

“A single death is a tragedy;
a million deaths is a statistic.”

Joseph Stalin

Duke of Buckingham

07-03-12, 05:12 PM

Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

You can come in here and be one of us, serve mankind and feel the happyness of a job well done.

Duke of Buckingham

07-03-12, 09:34 PM

Funny Pictures

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Duke of Buckingham

07-05-12, 09:58 AM

Higgs found
Last particle in physics' standard model falls into place
By Alexandra Witze
Web edition : Wednesday, July 4th, 2012

Finally, physics’s zoo of subatomic particles is full. Scientists have almost certainly snared the Higgs boson, the last particle waiting to be roped into the fold.

Decades after it was proposed, the Higgs emerged in the shards of particle collisions at the world’s most powerful accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory near Geneva. Physicists announced the discovery on July 4 during a seminar at the lab.

“We have now found the last missing cornerstone of the standard model,” said Rolf-Dieter Heuer, CERN’s director-general. “It’s the beginning of a long journey to investigate all the properties of this interesting particle.”

The particle’s mass is around 125 billion electron volts, or about 133 times the mass of a proton. CERN captured the Higgs in two huge experiments, each of which independently reached the gold-standard statistical level for confirming the particle’s discovery.

One of the theorists who first proposed the particle nearly five decades ago joined in the all-around congratulations. “It really is an incredible thing that it’s happened in my lifetime,” said Peter Higgs of the University of Edinburgh.

In one respect, finding the Higgs simply confirms the standard model, physicists’ framework for understanding the particles that make up the universe and the forces that govern them. But the discovery also opens new areas to explore, including alternate versions of the standard model that could explain some of the biggest unanswered questions about the cosmos.

The Higgs traces back to 1964, when several physicists independently dreamed up the idea of an energy field that would have permeated the early universe (and persisted to the present). “In all honesty we were trying to solve a more modest problem,” said theorist Carl Hagen of the University of Rochester in New York. In certain theoretical calculations, particles with zero mass kept inconveniently popping up: In trying to get rid of those particles, Higgs, Hagen and others realized that once the universe cooled enough from its initial Big Bang, this energy field would have had to emerge.

Like a puddle of molasses, the field resists the motion of particles moving through it. Such resistance to motion, or inertia, is the defining quality of mass. Subatomic particles therefore acquire differing amounts of mass depending on how strongly they interact with the energy field.

Known as the Higgs field, its existence also required a new particle — the Higgs boson. (Bosons are a class of fundamental particles defined by their quantum properties.) Finding the Higgs was a major goal of the Superconducting Super Collider, an atom-smasher that was being built beneath Waxahachie, Texas, when the U.S. Congress canceled it under budget pressures in 1993. The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, in Batavia, Ill., also chased the Higgs until shutting down its biggest machine last year.

Today, CERN scientists hunt the Higgs by smashing two beams of protons together at the $10 billion LHC. Out of a trillion proton-proton collisions, perhaps one will create a Higgs particle, which then decays almost instantaneously into other particles. Sensitive detectors placed at the sites of these smashups look for signatures of several ways the Higgs might have decayed. “It’s not a needle in a haystack — it’s much worse than a needle in a haystack,” said Joe Lykken, a theoretical physicist at Fermilab.

In its lifetime, the LHC has created some 500 trillion collisions overall. If each collision were represented by a grain of sand, the total number of those collisions would fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool, said Joe Incandela, a physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a spokesman for one LHC experiment. Yet the grains from the signals of interest — the possible Higgses — would cover only the tip of your finger.

Both experiments looked at multiple ways the Higgs could decay, such as into two photons or into two Z particles.

One of the LHC’s two main detectors, the CMS experiment, found signs of a particle with a mass of 125.3 billion electron volts, plus or minus 0.6 billion electron volts, Incandela said. The statistical strength of a signal is measured by a quantity called sigma: A five-sigma result, considered the standard to claim a discovery, means there is a 1-in-3.5 million chance that a statistical fluke could have created a signal of that magnitude or greater.

In three of five decay paths studied, CMS found the Higgs with a statistical significance of 5.1 sigma. Adding in the other two channels, which have relatively little data, lowered that to 4.9 sigma — but the results are still consistent with a Higgs being there, said physicist Elizabeth Simmons of Michigan State University.

The competing ATLAS experiment spotted a new particle with a mass of 126.5 billion electron volts, with a statistical uncertainty at a 5.0 sigma level when combining the decay paths it examined. Independent physicist Philip Gibbs combined data from both ATLAS and CMS, using only the decay in which the Higgs produces two photons, to come up with an unofficial six-sigma signal.

The Higgs masses found by both experiments are consistent with one another given the uncertainty ranges in each measurement, said ATLAS spokeswoman Fabiola Gianotti (though she did not give a numerical error range for her experiment). Both teams will also present their work this week at the International Conference on High-Energy Physics in Melbourne, Australia.

“It’s a great day for particle physics and it’s really a profound discovery about how nature works,” said Pier Oddone, director of Fermilab.

CERN won the transatlantic race to find the Higgs after Fermilab’s proton-antiproton accelerator shut down last September. On July 2, in their final analysis, Fermilab physicists reported that their data could narrow the Higgs mass range only to between 115 billion and 135 billion electron volts, with a statistical significance of 2.9 sigma (SN Online: 7/2/12).

Since April the LHC has been colliding beams at energies of 8 trillion electron volts — 4 trillion electron volts in each beam — at four times the energy of Fermilab’s machine. Lab officials have decided to extend the LHC’s current run by up to three months to gather as much data as possible before it shuts down for two years for a major upgrade to 14 trillion electron volts.

Now that the Higgs has almost certainly been found, scientists are looking forward to learning more about it. So far, the particle seen in the experiments looks like the Higgs as predicted by the standard model, Heuer said, but slight differences could still exist. He compared the task to trying to determine from afar if a person approaching is your best friend or your best friend’s twin. Only when the person gets close enough can you determine which one it is. LHC measurements should soon reveal whether the particle’s properties match those predicted by the standard model, or whether new physics might be at work.

“Confirmation of theory is satisfying, but it would be more eventful if there were significant disagreements and controversies to resolve,” said Frank Taylor, an MIT physicist who works on the ATLAS collaboration.

One well-loved extension of the standard model is a theory known as supersymmetry, which holds that all known particles have a heavy supersymmetric partner as yet unseen. The concept opens up all sorts of areas to explore. One version of supersymmetry, for instance, predicts that at least five kinds of Higgs boson should exist, although only the lightest would be detectable at the LHC. Other supersymmetric particles may account for dark matter, the mysterious stuff that makes up most of the matter in the universe but which scientists have yet to identify.

If supersymmetry is right, the LHC has a shot at detecting many of these new particles as it continues its Higgs-refining quest. “It’s the path to answer these other questions,” said Gordon Kane, a theoretical physicist at the University of Michigan whose work has predicted a Higgs in the mass range found.

Fermilab’s Rob Roser said far more is yet to come from the LHC. “They’re in a new regime of energy and statistical precision, and this may not be the only surprise we have this year from them.”

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A computer visualization depicts one array of particle debris that physicists would expect from the decay of the Higgs boson in the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator. After years of effort, officials at the European laboratory CERN report that the Higgs apparently exists and has characteristics in line with the standard model of particle physics. Credit: © 2012 CERN

Duke of Buckingham

07-06-12, 08:40 PM

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

Thomas A. Edison

Duke of Buckingham

07-07-12, 07:17 AM

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.

Sun Tzu

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07-07-12, 08:09 PM

http://www.clevermag.com/images06/fall08/mule.gif I am not stubborn is only determination ...

Duke of Buckingham

07-08-12, 02:56 PM

Beautifull Europe

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EuroLapse
by David Kosmos Smith
The images used in this time lapse were taken in 2011 over the course of three summer months in Europe. My wife's mother lives in Lithuania, just outside of the capital city Vilnius, so we decided to make it our homebase from the end of May through August while we traveled to various countries. Some of the places we had been to were new to us, others we had visited before. But all in all, it was an amazing summer and definitely an unforgettable part of our lives.

We split our summer up into four trips. Between each of these trips, we'd fly back to Vilnius and relax for a week or so before packing up and heading off again. Our first trip took us to London. We spent three nights there before catching a quick flight over to Amsterdam. We spent another three nights (which became our default) in Amsterdam and then took a train down to Paris. We originally planned on three nights in Paris, but after day two, we realized how much more we wanted to do and that we didn't have enough time. So we extended our stay and ended up being there for six nights. I can't recall why, but for some reason, we had to cut the trip short and head back to Vilnius after Paris.

Next on our list was Scandinavia (or at least part of it). Neither of us had been there before, so we were super pumped. We started with three nights in Stockholm, followed by three nights in Copenhagen, another three in Helsinki, and capped it off with a final three nights in Riga. We really wanted to go to Norway, but felt that it would require an entirely separate trip of its own, just to explore the fjords and all of the beautiful natural scenery. Stockholm was an amazing city and we both agreed that we could easily settle down there. Riga also blew us away and I feel like it's one of the most underrated cities in all of Europe.

After another week or two back in Vilnius, we headed to the island of Crete for a week at an all-inclusive resort. We took a day trip to Santorini, which consisted of the most hellish eight-hour round trip boat ride ever, but that's another story. Definitely want to get back to Santorini, but we'd have to go for at least a few nights to make it worth it. Such a beautiful island.

Back to Vilnius again for another week or so, and then we headed out to Italy. Our summer in Europe was ending soon, so we only had enough time to visit Cinque Terre for three nights, with one night in Milan on each end of that trip.

The summer of 2011 was surreal. We visited so many places, saw so much, ate so much, and it all happened so quickly. Thank you to my amazing wife for being my little assistant and for having the patience to stand around waiting for all of these time lapses to finish!

Cities visited:
Vilnius
London
Amsterdam
Paris
Stockholm
Copenhagen
Helsinki
Riga
Heraklion (Crete)
Fira (Santorini)
Milan
Cinque Terre

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07-09-12, 09:39 AM

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Duke

Duke of Buckingham

07-14-12, 06:14 AM

Splendour in the Grass

What though the radiance
which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass,
of glory in the flower,
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.

William Wordsworth

It is time for me to stop posting and crunching so I will do that. It is time for the newest generation to make the world for them to live in. I have been delaying this decision for more than I should but will not delay anymore.

I couldn't change nothing in the world, the world is more cinical, liar and materialist that have ever been before. People are so used to bad things that have habituated there minds to the new reality. A very sad one.

The thieves are in the banks, the liars in the governments and good man are beeing thrown away from one side to the other. At the age of 45/50 years they are called old man and the system does anything to not let them give any production to the society and the world.

We are losing our old people and the experience of many lifetimes. We are losing old worlds, one for each person.

Mike029

07-15-12, 12:05 AM

Duke, :-? , you can't stop posting!!!! We need the Pics... All kidding aside, I love your contribution. Keep it coming.

Mad Matt

07-15-12, 01:08 PM

Duke, :-? , you can't stop posting!!!! We need the Pics... All kidding aside, I love your contribution. Keep it coming.

+1 Don't forget, you have friends too who will miss you.

Duke of Buckingham

07-15-12, 07:40 PM

I am very tired and a bit ill Matt and Mike but thanks for the words they were apreciated and read with attention as the messages from Matt, thanks.

Duke

Mad Matt

07-17-12, 06:46 PM

Well, some say that's for kids... I think it's for everyone. :)

http://youtu.be/N83fWqmljzk

Duke of Buckingham

07-17-12, 08:27 PM

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Duke of Buckingham

07-18-12, 05:57 PM

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Mike029

07-18-12, 09:18 PM

Nice high rez pics Ric. Thanks.

Duke of Buckingham

07-19-12, 04:14 AM

Thanks Mike. I was posting in 5 teams, on a regular basis, it was too much for me, my health doesn't allow it.

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Duke of Buckingham

07-19-12, 09:17 AM

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07-20-12, 05:53 AM

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Duke

Dr. Dan

07-21-12, 11:49 PM

No matter the path that you follow, you will find those who will miss you. You have made your footprints in the sand of time.

DD

Duke of Buckingham

07-22-12, 06:00 AM

I miss them all also. Ones I miss more then others though. I can say without doubt that you are one of the most missed. I am installing everything new in my computer and need to get this all fixed before start posting on regular basis but it is not easy, I think I will have to buy a new OS.

I am very happy for your words as I always am for your friendship. I hope everything is better to you since I know you have been ill. I have posted on "Search for Freedom Team" on "Smell the roses" thread. I think that team being within the American Spirit and in the aspiration of all mankind is one International team that will be in our brotherhood, sooner or later. I will get there once in a while to keep the connection open.

So please come and walk with me on the short pass of life. A butterfly may live only one day but can awake in us deep feelings and wonder us with the inner beauty we can have. Beauty and Freedom on small seeds that can grow in to trees.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZstpiBKN874

Ricardo Ferreira

Duke of Buckingham

07-22-12, 08:19 PM

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07-23-12, 12:49 PM

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Duke

Duke of Buckingham

07-25-12, 06:32 AM

:p Today I am very bad column (or spine). Since yesterday I went down and I could stand up no longer. Sorry for not write much but the pains are many and very strong.

:) I am very happy with the crunching at Donate. Good friends do it by surprise and so it was, thanks. :o

Today is time to go to the hospital once again. I already know that will be there for about 6 hours. :mad:

Duke of Buckingham

07-25-12, 06:49 PM

Time to go to sleep. Goodnight all.

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Duke of Buckingham

07-27-12, 08:54 AM

The pain is unbelievable, I can not be seated, so I can not post only for a small while and then I have to go to bed.

c303a

07-27-12, 11:15 AM

Take the time to rest and heal Duke. When you are better we will expect a rejuvenated Duke.

Duke of Buckingham

07-27-12, 05:48 PM

I felt a bit better for a moment. Thanks c303a. Now is time to go to bed again.

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Dr. Dan

07-28-12, 05:19 PM

I hope you like the Ricardo 1,2,3....?

Rest and sit back for a while.

DD :cool:

Duke of Buckingham

07-29-12, 02:33 AM

:D Thanks DD. A lot of Ricardos I have seen them all. I am doing small things without pushing very hard for now. I don't know to be more slow than this

Those cards crunch a lot and with my card and computers they are giving about 1,500,000 a day. I am flying. :bz

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Duke of Buckingham

07-29-12, 07:36 AM

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07-29-12, 10:05 AM

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Duke of Buckingham

07-29-12, 06:32 PM

There are some friendship quotes I love more than others.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Robert Hall

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Aristotle

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Elbert Hubbard

Duke of Buckingham

07-30-12, 05:52 PM

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Duke of Buckingham

08-01-12, 05:26 PM

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zombie67

08-03-12, 12:17 AM

Nevada is an amazing state. Several different regions, all EXTREMELY different.

In the western corner, you have the Lake Tahoe area. Alpine, skiing, the lake...Gorgeous! Just down the eastern slope of the mountain range, you have the completely different desert towns that grew up around the precious metal mining.: Virginia City, Carson City, Reno.

In the southern corner, you have Las Vegas (no description required). And LV was the result of the Hoover Dam / Lake Mead construction. An oasis on the middle of a desert, it's the largest reservoir in the US. Oh, and that white band around the walls of the lake? That is where the water line used to be. The lake level is lower than it used to be due to less rain/snow.

All the rest of the state is a wasteland! Rt 50 , which bisects the state going east to west, is the "The Loneliest Road in America". I have pictures of the signs for prove it. ;) It is a dead, sad, place.

Fun fact#1: Approximately 86% of the state's land is owned by the U.S. federal government under various jurisdictions, both civilian and military.

Fun fact #2: Most of Nevada is part of the Great Basin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Basin). No rain or snow that falls on it flows out. It all stays in and eventually evaporates.

Duke of Buckingham

08-03-12, 02:00 AM

Very nice Z that you like it. It is funny how each state has it's on light and mood. I understand better why and how you are so different. There are so many states to post yet and then so many countries in this world we are living. I will try to post the most states and countries I can. In his own style I like them all. One more for you.

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Duke of Buckingham

08-03-12, 04:25 PM

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Duke of Buckingham

08-05-12, 12:56 PM

20 Amazing Pictures of Icelandic Horses
by Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir

Known for her amazing self-portraits, Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir, who’s from Iceland, has many other projects that she dedicates her time for. One of them that she enjoys is photographing Icelandic horses. With Iceland’s incredible scenery as a backdrop, these unique animals are beautiful subjects that Rebekka captures perfectly.

“I have a constant need to illustrate how i see the world. My camera is my paintbrush and canvas. To hear that my work brings joy to others makes me feel quite blessed.”

Check out more of Rebekka’s photography on her website and Flickr photostream.
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Duke of Buckingham

08-06-12, 07:31 AM

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Duke of Buckingham

08-12-12, 10:35 PM

Yes I am a real menace for a lot of people. For I see that most of the world is imprisoned for they own brain, attached to their reality and unable to see fantasy as the freedom of the mind.

The most intriguing is that fantasy as always making me see the world for a better and more consistent point of view, a more real world. A more complete world, so to say.

The more I fantasize about one thing the better I understand that thing and those who have denied themselves the dream and fantasies live a life so far from reality that didn't make sense for me. Without fantasy they live apart from reality.

I am a free man and I begin being free in my brain and will free all I can, in order they can make a nice journey with me in the freedom of fantasy.

As a prisoner of war I will flee and take as many as I can with me, that is my duty.

Fantasy Duke

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08-13-12, 08:46 AM

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08-14-12, 07:40 AM

Battle of Aljubarrota

The Battle of Aljubarrota (Portuguese pronunciation: [aɫʒuβɐˈʁotɐ]) was a battle fought between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Crown of Castile on 14 August 1385. Forces commanded by King John I of Portugal and his general Nuno Álvares Pereira, with the support of English allies, opposed the army of King John I of Castile with its Aragonese, Italian and French allies at São Jorge place, between the towns of Leiria and Alcobaça, in central Portugal. The result was a decisive victory for the Portuguese, ruling out Castilian ambitions to the Portuguese throne, ending the 1383-1385 Crisis and assuring John as King of Portugal.

Portuguese independence was confirmed and a new dynasty, the House of Aviz, was established. Scattered border confrontations with Castilian troops would persist until the death of John I of Castile in 1390, but these posed no real threat to the new dynasty. To celebrate his victory and acknowledge divine help, John I of Portugal ordered the construction of the monastery of Santa Maria da Vitória na Batalha and the founding of the town of Batalha (Portuguese for "battle", Portuguese pronunciation: ). The king, his wife Philippa of Lancaster, and several of his sons are buried in this monastery, today a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The Battle

The initiative of starting the battle was with the Castilian side. The French allied heavy cavalry charged, as they were accustomed to do, in full strength, in order to disrupt order in the enemy lines. Even before they could get into contact with the Portuguese infantry, however, they were already disorganized. Just as at Crécy, the defending archers and crossbowmen, along with the ditches and pits, did most of the work. The losses of the cavalry were heavy and the effect of its attack completely null. Support from the Castilian rear was late to come and the knights that did not perish in the combat were made prisoners and sent to the Portuguese rear.

At this point the main Castilian force entered the battle. Their line was enormous, due to the great number of soldiers. In order to get to the Portuguese line, the Castilians became disorganized, squeezing into the space between the two creeks that protected the flanks; it was not an auspicious start. At this time, the Portuguese reorganized. The vanguard of Nuno Álvares Pereira divided into two sectors. Since the worst was still to come, John of Portugal ordered the archers and crossbowmen to retire, while his rear troops advanced through the space opened between the vanguards. With all his troops needed at the front, there were no men available to guard the knight prisoners; John of Portugal ordered them to be killed on the spot and proceeded to deal with the approaching Castilians.

Advancing uphill with the sun on their backs, squashed between the funnelling Portuguese defensive works and their own advancing rear, and under a heavy rain of English longbowmen's arrows shot from behind the Portuguese line and crossbow quarrels from behind both the Sweethearts' and the Honeysuckle wings on their flanks, the Castilians did their best to win the day. The Castilian knights on the main body were forced to dismount and break in half their unwieldy four metre-long lances in order to join the constricted melèe alongside their infantry. At this stage of the battle, both sides sustained heavy losses, especially on the "Ala dos Namorados" where the Portuguese students became renowned for holding off the heavily armoured knights of the Castilian wings who, still on horseback, attempted to flank the Portuguese lines. A similar attack was more successful on the right "Honeysucle" flank, though only briefly and late in the fight.

By sunset, only one hour after the battle began, the Castilian position was indefensible and the situation quite desperate. When the Castilian royal standard-bearer fell, the already demoralized troops on the rear thought their King was dead and started to flee in panic; in a matter of moments this became a general rout where Juan of Castile himself had to run at full speed to save his life, leaving behind not only common soldiers but also many still dismounted noblemen. The Portuguese pursued them down the hill and, with the battle won, killed many more while there was still light enough to see the enemy.

Aftermath

During the night and throughout the next day, as many as 5000 more Castilians were killed by the neighbouring towns' villagers; according to Portuguese tradition surrounding the battle, there was a woman called Brites de Almeida, the Padeira of Aljubarrota (the baker-woman of Aljubarrota), said to be very tall, strong, and to possess six fingers on each hand, who ambushed and killed by herself eight Castilian soldiers as they stormed her bakery in the town of Aljubarrota itself. This story in particular is clouded in legend and hearsay. But the popular intervention in the massacre of Castilian troops after the battle is, nevertheless, historical and typical of battles in this period.

In the morning of the following day, the true dimension of the battle was revealed: in the field, the bodies of Castilians were enough to dam the creeks surrounding the small hill. In face of this, the Portuguese King offered the enemy survivors an amnesty and free transit home; an official mourning was decreed in Castile that would last until the Christmas of 1387. The French cavalry contingent suffered yet another defeat (after Crécy and Poitiers) by English defensive tactics. The battle of Agincourt decades later would show that they still had a lesson to learn.

In October 1385, Nuno Álvares Pereira led a pre-emptive attack against Mérida, in Castilian territory, defeating an even larger Castilian army than at Aljubarrota in the battle of Valverde, in Valverde de Mérida. Scattered border skirmishes with Castilian troops would persist for five years more until the death of John I of Castile in 1390, but posed no real threat to the Portuguese crown; recognition from Castile would arrive only in 1411 with the signature of the Treaty of Ayllón (Segovia).

As stated above this victory assured that John of Aviz was the uncontested King of Portugal and the House of Aviz ascended to the crown of Portugal. In 1386, the closeness of relations between Portugal and England resulted in a permanent military alliance with the Treaty of Windsor, the eldest still active in existence. His marriage to Philippa of Lancaster in 1387 initiated the Portuguese second dynasty, and their children went on to make historically significant contributions in their own right. Duarte, or Edward of Portugal, became the eleventh King of Portugal, and was known as "The Philosopher" and "The Eloquent". Henrique, or Henry the Navigator, sponsored expeditions to Africa.

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The end of the 14th century in Europe was a time of revolution and crisis, with the Hundred Years' War devastating France, the Black Death decimating the continent, and famine afflicting the poor. Portugal was no exception. In October 1383, King Ferdinand I of Portugal died with no son to inherit the crown. The only child of his marriage with Leonor Telles de Menezes was a girl, Princess Beatrice of Portugal.

In April of that same year the King signed the Treaty of Salvaterra de Magos with King Juan I of Castile. The treaty determined that Princess Beatrice was to marry Juan I, king of Castile, and the Crown of Portugal would belong to the descendants of this union. This situation left the majority of the Portuguese discontent, and the Portuguese nobility was unwilling to support the claim of the princess because that could mean the incorporation of Portugal to Castile[a]; also the powerful merchants of the capital, Lisbon, were enraged from being excluded from the negotiations. Without an undisputed option, Portugal remained without king between 1383 and 1385, in an interregnum known as the 1383–1385 Crisis.

The first clear act of hostility was taken in December 1383 by the faction of John (João), the Grand Master of the Aviz Order (and a natural son of Peter I of Portugal), with the murder of Count Andeiro. This prompted the Lisbon merchants to name him "rector and defender of the realm". However, the Castilian king would not relinquish his and his wife's claims to the throne. In an effort to normalize the situation and secure the crown for him or Beatrice, he forced Leonor to abdicate from the regency. In April 1384, in Alentejo, a punitive expedition was promptly defeated by Nuno Álvares Pereira, leading a much smaller Portuguese army at the Battle of Atoleiros. This marked the first use of English defensive tactics on the Iberian peninsula, reportedly without any casualties to the Portuguese. A larger second expedition led by the Castilian king himself reached and besieged Lisbon for four months before being forced to retreat by a shortage of food supplies due to harassment from Nuno Álvares Pereira, and the bubonic plague.

In order to secure his claim, John of Aviz engaged in politics and intense diplomatic negotiations with both the Holy See and England. On 6 April 1385, (the anniversary of the "miraculous" battle of Atoleiros, a fortuitous date), the council of the kingdom (cortes in Portuguese) assembled in Coimbra and declared him King John I of Portugal. After his accession to the throne, John I of Portugal proceeded to annex the cities in whose military commanders supported Princess Beatrice and her husband's claims, namely Caminha, Braga and Guimarães among others.

Enraged by this "rebellion", Juan I ordered a host of 31,000 men to engage in a two-pronged invasion in May. The smaller Northern force sacked and burnt populations along the border, including the open city of Viseu, before being defeated by local Portuguese nobles in the battle of Trancoso, on the first week of June. On the news of the invasion by the Castilians, John I of Portugal's army met with Nuno Álvares Pereira, the Constable of Portugal, in the town of Tomar. There, they decided to face the enemy in battle, before they could get close to Lisbon and besiege it again.

Along with its English allies who arrived on the 1385 Easter, consisting of a company of about 100 English longbowmen, veterans from the Hundred Years War, sent to honor the 1373 alliance (presently the oldest active treaty in the world). The Portuguese set out to intercept the invading army near the town of Leiria. Nuno Álvares Pereira took the task of choosing the ground for the battle. The chosen location was São Jorge near Aljubarrota, in a small flattened hill surrounded by creeks, with the very small settlement of Chão da Feira (Fair's Ground) at its widest point, still present today.

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Monastery of Batalha
[B]The Dominican Monastery of Batalha is the most significant testimony to the Portuguese Gothic style. It was built at the end of the 14th century with patronage from King João I, in memory of the battle of Aljubarrota. This vast complex, which is a royal Pantheon, is an excellent example of the evolution of medieval architecture up to the 16th century, from the innovative experience of the late Gothic to the Manueline decorative exuberance. Located in the historic centre of Batalha, the Monastery is inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.

Duke of Buckingham

08-15-12, 07:48 AM

Woodstock

Woodstock Music & Art Fair (informally, Woodstock or The Woodstock Festival) was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre (2.4 km²; 240 ha, 0.94 mi²) dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969. Bethel, in Sullivan County, is 43 miles (69 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York, in adjoining Ulster County.

During the sometimes rainy weekend, thirty-two acts performed outdoors in front of 500,000 concert-goers. It is widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history. Rolling Stone called it one of the 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll.

The event was captured in the 1970 documentary movie Woodstock, an accompanying soundtrack album, and Joni Mitchell's song "Woodstock", which commemorated the event and became a major hit for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

The festival

The influx of attendees to the rural concert site in Bethel created a massive traffic jam. Fearing chaos as thousands began descending on the community, Bethel did not enforce its codes. Eventually, announcements on radio stations as far away as WNEW-FM in Manhattan and descriptions of the traffic jams on television news programs discouraged people from setting off to the festival. Arlo Guthrie made an announcement that was included in the film saying that the New York State Thruway was closed. The director of the Woodstock museum discussed below said this never occurred. To add to the problems and difficulty in dealing with the large crowds, recent rains had caused muddy roads and fields. The facilities were not equipped to provide sanitation or first aid for the number of people attending; hundreds of thousands found themselves in a struggle against bad weather, food shortages, and poor sanitation.

On the morning of Sunday, August 17, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller called festival organizer John Roberts and told him he was thinking of ordering 10,000 New York State National Guard troops to the festival. Roberts was successful in persuading Rockefeller not to do this. Sullivan County declared a state of emergency.

Jimi Hendrix was the last act to perform at the festival. Because of the rain delays that Sunday, when Hendrix finally took the stage it was 8:30 am Monday morning. The audience which had peaked at an estimated 400,000 people during the festival, was now reduced to about 30–40,000 by that point; many of whom merely waited to catch a glimpse of Hendrix before leaving during his show.

Hendrix and his band performed a two hour set. His psychedelic rendition of the U.S. national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner" occurred about 3/4 into their set (after which he morphed into "Purple Haze"). The song would become "part of the sixties Zeitgeist" as it was captured forever in the Woodstock film; Hendrix's image performing this number wearing a blue-beaded white leather jacket with fringe and a red head scarf, has since been regarded as a defining moment of the 1960s.

Although the festival was remarkably peaceful given the number of people and the conditions involved, there were two recorded fatalities: one from what was believed to be a heroin overdose and another caused in an accident when a tractor ran over an attendee sleeping in a nearby hayfield. There also were two births recorded at the event (one in a car caught in traffic and another in a hospital after an airlift by helicopter) and four miscarriages. Oral testimony in the film supports the overdose and run-over deaths and at least one birth, along with many logistical headaches.

Yet, in tune with the idealistic hopes of the 1960s, Woodstock satisfied most attendees. There was a sense of social harmony, which, with the quality of music, and the overwhelming mass of people, many sporting bohemian dress, behavior, and attitudes helped to make it one of the enduring events of the century.

After the concert, Max Yasgur, who owned the site of the event, saw it as a victory of peace and love. He spoke of how nearly half a million people filled with possibilities of disaster, riot, looting, and catastrophe spent the three days with music and peace on their minds. He states that "if we join them, we can turn those adversities that are the problems of America today into a hope for a brighter and more peaceful future..."

Sound

Sound for the concert was engineered by Bill Hanley, whose innovations in the sound industry have earned him the prestigious Parnelli Award. "It worked very well," he says of the event. "I built special speaker columns on the hills and had 16 loudspeaker arrays in a square platform going up to the hill on 70-foot [21 meter] towers. We set it up for 150,000 to 200,000 people. Of course, 500,000 showed up." ALTEC designed 4×15" marine ply cabinets that weighed in at half a ton apiece, stood 6 feet (1.8 m) tall, almost 4 feet (1.2 m) deep, and 3 feet (0.91 m) wide. Each of these enclosures carried four 15-inch (380 mm) JBL D140 loudspeakers. The tweeters consisted of 4×2-Cell & 2×10-Cell Altec Horns. Behind the stage were three transformers providing 2,000 amperes of current to power the amplification setup.[26] For many years this system was collectively referred to as the Woodstock Bins.

Performing artists

Friday, August 15 – Saturday, August 16

Richie Havens
Swami Satchidananda
Sweetwater
Bert Sommer
Tim Hardin
Ravi Shankar
Melanie
Arlo Guthrie
Joan Baez

Saturday, August 16 – Sunday, August 17

Quill
Country Joe McDonald
Santana
John Sebastian
Keef Hartley Band
The Incredible String Band
Canned Heat
Mountain
Grateful Dead
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Janis Joplin with The Kozmic Blues Band[28]
Sly & the Family Stone
The Who
Jefferson Airplane 8:00 am – 9:40 am

Sunday, August 17 – Monday, August 18

Joe Cocker and The Grease Band
Country Joe and the Fish
Ten Years After
The Band
Johnny Winter
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Sha Na Na
Jimi Hendrix / Band of Gypsys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMhq1L0cJf0

Duke of Buckingham

08-15-12, 05:33 PM

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

Duke of Buckingham

08-16-12, 07:30 PM

My back is killing me.

http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1426/1280664115_6655b8bfef_z.jpg

Duke

Mike029

08-16-12, 10:16 PM

My back is killing me.

http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1426/1280664115_6655b8bfef_z.jpg

Duke

The penguin looks fine to me. :p Feel better DUUUUUUKE!!!

Duke of Buckingham

08-17-12, 08:58 AM

Nice Mike, I am better today and will be back to post the USA best pictures today.

Duke of Buckingham

08-17-12, 11:58 PM

Power problems for me. I was without power for about 5 hours. So I will have to do tomorrow some things I thought for today. And I had more time to think today.

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow and a my shadow never leaves me.

I will be back tomorrow.

Duke

Duke of Buckingham

08-18-12, 03:37 AM

Jai Guru Deva Om

Is the sentence bellow on Sanskrit. No it is not a Bin Laden sentence.:D

One night in 1967, the phrase "words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup" came to Lennon after hearing his ex-wife Cynthia, according to Lennon, "going on and on about something." Later, after "she'd gone to sleep—and I kept hearing these words over and over, flowing like an endless stream," Lennon went downstairs and turned it into a song. He began to write the rest of the lyrics and when he was done, he went to bed and forgot about them.

“I was lying next to my first wife in bed and I was thinking. It started off as a negative song and she must have been going on and on about something. She'd gone to sleep and I kept hearing, 'Words are flowing out like endless streams...' I was a bit irritated and I went downstairs and it turned into a sort of cosmic song rather than, 'Why are you always mouthing off at me?'... The words are purely inspirational and were given to me - except for maybe one or two where I had to resolve a line or something like that. I don't own it; it came through like that.”

The flavour of the song was heavily influenced by Lennon's and the Beatles' interest in Transcendental Meditation in late 1967 – early 1968, when the song was composed. Based on this he added the mantra "Jai guru deva om" (Sanskrit: जय गुरुदेव ॐ) to the piece, which became the link to the chorus. The Sanskrit phrase is a sentence fragment whose words could have many meanings. Literally it approximates as "glory to the shining remover of darkness," and can be paraphrased as "Victory to God divine", "Hail to the divine guru", or the phrase commonly invoked by the late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in referring to his spiritual teacher "All Glory to Guru Dev.", I (Duke) would translate for "I give thanks and salutation to heavenly teacher, OM."

The song's lyrical structure is straightforward: three repetitions of a unit consisting of a verse, the line "Jai guru deva om" and the line "Nothing's gonna change my world" repeated four times. The lyrics are highly image-based, with abstract concepts reified with phrases like thoughts "meandering", words "slithering", and undying love "shining". The title phrase "across the universe" appears at intervals to finish lines, although it never cadences, always appearing as a rising figure, melodically unresolved. It finishes on the leading note; to the Western musical ear, the next musical note would be the tonic and would therefore sound complete.

In his 1970 interview with Rolling Stone, Lennon referred to the song as perhaps the best, most poetic lyric he ever wrote: "It's one of the best lyrics I've written. In fact, it could be the best. It's good poetry, or whatever you call it, without chewin' it. See, the ones I like are the ones that stand as words, without melody. They don't have to have any melody, like a poem, you can read them."

Duke of Buckingham

08-19-12, 07:55 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuphFPEqJqw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ag3XbD2p6E&feature=related

Duke of Buckingham

08-20-12, 12:09 AM

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

William Shakespeare

Duke of Buckingham

08-21-12, 07:53 AM

"Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono"

"The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness."

Duke of Buckingham

08-22-12, 12:52 PM

There is so much about love that we could write a Townsend books and still have another Townsend to write.

Love is a such a complex feeling that goes from respect to friendship or about needs and forgiveness. For each word another Townsend books to write about. But in the end we all finish with one word, love.

The kind of love I want from and for my friends is full of respect as it always been. Respect for their country, religion, sexual choices or any other thing I could consider minor but sometimes is so important to them.

Not a lot of love thru a friendship that doesn't let us breath. Not that kind of love that eliminates the other person with one avalanche of our own feelings and demands so much from the other person. A small gesture, a kind word, that look we can only give to our friends and loved ones that is all is needed.

Some of us have been thru some traumatic events in one or another time of our lives and there is no one that don't understand what it is to be lost inside ourselves. There are tough things that only time can heal. The same time that heals our physical diseases, yes that one we are always counseling others to give to themselves.

As a friend I am always seeking for a remedy to help the heal my friends but sometimes only time can be of some help. In good times and bad times, I'll be on my friends side for ever more...that's what friends are for.

Ricardo Ferreira

Duke of Buckingham

08-23-12, 01:19 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGbnua2kSa8

Duke of Buckingham

08-23-12, 01:51 PM

Sadness please go away,

I want to sing again.

Duke of Buckingham

08-23-12, 11:50 PM

http://www.clipartguide.com/_named_clipart_images/0511-0901-0516-4420_Man_Singing_in_the_Shower_clipart_image.jpg

Duke of Buckingham

08-24-12, 11:34 AM

How I clean my things.

When is cleaning day, I clean my things from top to bottom. I remember that mess was made for one dear friend and it was the first time he made a mess and so I clean it without pain or much thinking.

AHA and that one was made for that guy, is always making mess and I don't even like him so much, I will clean it also. It is sometimes painful, it makes me smile other times.

After all I was there when things happened and is the messing things of life being whipped. Mine mess, I clean a bit ashamed of that day, I was a little drunk or was so clumsy. Always an emotional way of seeing life, damn DUKE.

In the end all will be shining because it is my things I am cleaning. And it was good for I found those papers I have lost or that music I was missing or even a telephone number I was searching for so long.

I had some profit with it. It was a good business. Life always is, if we make of anything a pass for a better ME.

Tomorrow I will clean my things and after tomorrow I will be better than I am today, I am sure.

Very Crazy Duke

http://iamgratefulhowareyou.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/cleaning_man.jpg

Duke of Buckingham

08-24-12, 06:29 PM

USA best Pictures.
Wisconsin, Badger State
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Duke

Duke of Buckingham

08-25-12, 03:49 PM

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

Thomas Paine

It is a real pain in the ass make changes on project by project but I will change my country affiliation to INTERNATIONAL because that is what we are. And so I will be with the team as INTERNATIONAL.

Duke of Buckingham

08-26-12, 10:36 AM

Words are very powerful aren't it?

First they imprisoned those that talk.

Then they burn some books.

For last they beat and kill all that disagree with them.

When are we going to learn that is defending others right to a different opinion that we gain ours?

http://pt.dreamstime.com/pena-e-espada-thumb6084597.jpg

Duke of Buckingham

08-26-12, 11:12 AM

Would you post about your country for us to know?

PORTUGAL

Geography
Portugal is situated at the south-west point of Europe and also includes the Madeira and Azores archipelagos in the Atlantic Ocean. Mainland Portugal occupies an area of 88,889 km2. It is 218 km wide and 561 km long. It has 832 km of Atlantic coast and a 1,215 km border with Spain.

The Azores are situated in the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and North America. They have an area of 2,355 km2 and consist of nine islands - São Miguel and Santa Maria in the Eastern Group, Terceira, Graciosa, São Jorge, Pico and Faial in the Central Group and Flores and Corvo in the Western Group. It takes about two hours to get from the Azores to mainland Portugal by plane.

The Madeira Archipelago has an area of 741 km2 and lies in the Atlantic Ocean about 500 km from the African coast and 1,000 km from the European continent (1½ hours flying time from Lisbon). It consists of the islands of Madeira and Porto Santo and the uninhabited Desertas and Selvagens islands, which are nature reserves.

Population
Portugal has a population of about 10 million.
The population density is at its greatest in Lisbon, the capital and its suburbs, where about 1.9 million people live.
The second largest city in Portugal is Oporto in the north.
Generally speaking, there are more people living in the country’s coastal regions than in the inland areas.

History
With such a long sea coast, it is not surprising that Portugal has witnessed so many sailings and arrivals. This is why we have been open to the world and to communication for so long. We have assimilated peoples of different origins: Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans (who left us our language), northern Europeans and peoples from Mauritania. In spite of all these mixtures, Portugal is one of the oldest nations in Europe. In the 12th century, the country gained its independence from the other kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula thanks to Count Afonso Henriques, who was our first king at his own wish. A century later, with the conquest of the Algarve, Portugal was to definitively establish its continental border.

In the late 13th century, King Dinis founded our university, one of the oldest in Europe, and took it to the beautiful city of Coimbra. In the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, the Portuguese were the first Europeans to sail to Africa, the distant Orient and the heart of South America, from where we brought a wealth of treasures. Even before advancing along the coast of Africa, we discovered the archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira, which are part of our territory in the Atlantic.

After a dynastic crisis and a period under the rule of the Spanish crown, in 1640 a Portuguese king took the throne once more, because, although we are discrete, we have a strong sense of independence. In the 18th century, King João V, an absolutist monarch and a patron of the arts, built a huge palace and convent in Mafra and the great aqueduct that supplied Lisbon’s water. In the 19th century, the monarchy was weakened by clashes between different factions and, in 1910, it was overthrown and Portugal became a republic.

We have been members of the EU since 1986, though we still value our own virtues.

From this brief history, you will see that our art is a little different from that you already know.
Note some of the peculiarities, especially the "Manueline" style, which exalted the age of the discoveries, the way we have learned to work with tiles and our fado, the song of nostalgia.

Religion
The majority of Portuguese are Catholics, but the Portuguese Constitution guarantees religious freedom and there are a number of different religions in Portugal.

Language
One of the Latin languages, Portuguese is the third most spoken European language in the world and the native tongue of about 250 million people.

The Portuguese-speaking countries are scattered all over the world. Portuguese is spoken in Africa (Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé e Príncipe), in South America (Brazil) and in Asia, (East Timor, the youngest nation in the world), and it is also the official language in Macao Special Administrative Region of China.

In Portugal there are lots of people who are able to communicate in English, French and Spanish.

Mike029

08-26-12, 11:49 AM

Very nice, Thanks Duke.

Duke of Buckingham

08-27-12, 07:17 AM

Thanks Mike. I will post some nice pictures soon of my country

I am waiting from Denmark, Germany, Spain and many other countries to post the history or some pictures maybe some link for us to go and see how wonderful our world and your country is.

The world is made of so many countries and cultures what a pity life (and money) are so short to see it all and go everywhere. But you can bring a bit of your country in here. Feel welcome to do it.

Portuguese Girls are waiting for those posts you are making and they are excited, oh my...:D

http://img1.imensagens.com/pt/portugal/30.jpg

http://www.intercambiocultural.com.br/intercambio-portugal/intercambio-portugal-lisboa-europa.jpg

Do you see Z, just like San Francisco Bridge but it is in Lisbon.

Duke

zombie67

08-27-12, 12:19 PM

Duke of Buckingham

08-27-12, 12:24 PM

More for you Z.

http://bananapeople.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/ponte-25-de-abril-lisboa-portugal.jpg

http://bananapeople.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/ponte-25-de-abril-3.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Ponte_25_de_Abril.png

Nice bridge.:D

c303a

08-27-12, 02:39 PM

Loved your Wisconsin Pictures. I know where a couple of those places are since I have lived in Wisconsin almost my whole life.. The first picture with the Midwest Express jet is no longer in Wisconsin. Unfortunately they sold out to another airline.

Duke of Buckingham

08-27-12, 07:02 PM

Thanks c303a, good that you are enjoying the pictures also. Tomorrow I will make one post about Alabama. I am liking to do this pictures by State but some States seem to be more photograph than others. Alabama is the State I have less pictures. I will search better tomorrow in any case. But all States have their own charm and different light, is been very interesting.

DrPop

08-28-12, 05:10 PM

I don't have many of California yet, because I have not been into photography down here, but Duke, here are two of Alaska that I took before we moved. One in winter and one in summer. :D Guess you have to click on them to make them bigger...I don't know how to upload them full size?
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Duke of Buckingham

08-28-12, 10:54 PM

I think is going in insert image on the left of insert video on the top and select the file from the computer. Nice pictures Jed. Thanks for sharing.

Duke of Buckingham

08-29-12, 07:03 AM

USA best Pictures.
Alabama, Yellowhammer State, Heart of Dixie
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I look everywhere and try to understand what Dixie or Dixieland means. Can any of you explain me what is Dixie or Dixieland?

Duke

c303a

08-29-12, 12:14 PM

Now you are bringing back old memories. The Air Foorce Rescue helicopter picture is the same as an Army H-21. This is the first helicopter I worked on after I got out of mechanics school at Fort Lewis Wasington. Thats way back when.....

zombie67

08-29-12, 02:22 PM

I look everywhere and try to understand what Dixie or Dixieland means. Can any of you explain me what is Dixie or Dixieland?

Wikipedia does a pretty good job of explaining the source of the term, and what it means now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie

Duke of Buckingham

08-29-12, 02:34 PM

Thanks Z. Very nice, this computer make the primary search on Portuguese. I am not used to it.

To c303a the Alabama state is full of jets, airplanes and helicopters. There must be a reason for it. I will study this. We are always learning.

c303a

08-29-12, 03:36 PM

The military has a large base at Dothan Alabama. Fort Rucker is the base for all Army pilots to do their training. Plus they train the aircraft mechanics there. I spent 8 glorious weeks (yea sure) in this he$$ hole for basic aircraft maintenance.

Duke of Buckingham

08-29-12, 04:27 PM

http://cdn2.mamapop.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/paranoid-cow.jpg

That military compound terrifies me.

I didn't knew that, thanks c303a.

Signed BIN LADEN:D

Sorry Bad Joke

DrPop

08-29-12, 11:32 PM

Actually, that was a good one Duke, no worries, bro! :D ;)

Duke of Buckingham

08-30-12, 06:59 AM

:D Thanks Jed. This is a joke in the limit with no bad intention after all the bastard is dead. And for sure that base is in every detail map of the region.

I don't think they are such a menace anymore. The only MENACE here is the crazy DUKE and is bad jokes. :rolleyes:

Sorry for the joke c303a. :o

c303a

08-30-12, 10:36 AM

Didn't bother me.

Duke of Buckingham

08-30-12, 05:14 PM

Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator.

It was not me that translator.

Duke of Buckingham

08-31-12, 03:11 AM

I will divide California pictures in three posts because doesn't fit in one. Too many pictures and is not easy to choose. Very beautiful state.

USA best Pictures.
California, The Golden State
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Duke of Buckingham

09-02-12, 07:08 AM

Second Post of California.

USA best Pictures.
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Duke of Buckingham

09-02-12, 10:37 AM

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

John F. Kennedy

What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again.

Eric Liu

Duke of Buckingham

09-03-12, 07:46 AM

Lisbon
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This the Lisbon in which I live and that was one day the center of the known world.

Duke of Buckingham

09-04-12, 01:33 PM

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Duke of Buckingham

09-04-12, 02:12 PM

Where love comes from?

And no one has the woman's soul map.

I travel because I have to,

I come back because of you.

Very Crazy Duke.

Duke of Buckingham

09-05-12, 09:22 AM

This were the major Empires of the world.
I hope I didn't forgot none.

British Empire
Mongol Empire
Russian Empire
Spanish Empire
Qing Dynasty
Yuan Dynasty
Umayyad Caliphate
Second French Colonial Empire
Abbasid Caliphate
Tang Dynasty
Portuguese Empire
Rashidun Caliphate
Empire of Brazil
First French Colonial Empire
Achaemenid Empire
Japanese Empire
Ming Dynasty
Han Dynasty
Roman Empire
Nazi Germany
Göktürk Khaganate
Golden Horde Khanate
Tibetan Empire
Macedonian Empire
Ottoman Empire
Gupta Empire
Northern Yuan Dynasty, Mongolia
Mauryan Empire
First Mexican Empire
Xin Dynasty
Pala Empire
Timurid Empire
Fatimid Caliphate
Xiongnu Empire
Hunnic Empire
Hephtalite Empire
Eastern Turks Khanate
Afsharid Dynasty
Western Turks Khanate
Rouran Khaganate Juan-juan
Great Seljuq Empire
Italian Empire
Kushan Empire
Ilkhanate
Dutch Empire
Chola Dynasty, Tamizhan Kingdom
Khwarazmian Empire
Chagatai Khanate
Safavid Dynasty
German Colonial Empire
Western Jin Dynasty
Shaybanid Uzbek Dynasty
Byzantine Empire 03.5 01.35
Northern Song Dynasty
Sassanid Empire
Ghaznavid Empire
Almoravid dynasty, Morocco
Mughal Empire
Tughlaq Dynasty
Ghurids Sultanate
Parthian Empire
Median Empire
Sui Dynasty
Uyghur Khaganate
Seleucid Empire
Khazar Khanate
Kalmar Union
Kievan Rus'
Kara-Khanid Khanate
Qajar Dynasty
Danish colonial empire
Grand Duchy of Moscow
Samanid Dynasty
Maratha Empire
Qin Dynasty
Eastern Jin Dynasty
Liu Song Dynasty
Khilji Dynasty
Ayyubid Caliphate
Majapahit Empire
Liao Dynasty
Indo-Greek Yavana Kingdom
Bactrian Empire
Later Zhao Dynasty
Belgian Empire
Kara-Khitan Khanate Western Liao
Jurchen Jīn Dynasty
Southern Qi Dynasty
Southern Song Dynasty
Bahriyya Mamluks
Burjiyya Mamluks
First French Empire
Wei Dynasty
Earlier Zhao Dynasty
Former Qin Dynasty
Western Roman Empire
Northern Wei Dynasty
Saffarid dynasty
Almohad dynasty, Morocco
Satavahana Empire
Inca Empire
Second Mexican Empire
Gurjara Pratihara
Sibir Khanate
Rashtrakuta Dynasty
Buyid Sultanate
Mamluk Sultanate
Indo-Parthian Kingdom
Wu Dynasty
Northern Zhou Dynasty
Nanda Dynasty
Indo-Scythian Kingdom
Tulunids Emirate
Idrisid dynasty, Morocco
Suri Dynasty
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Songhai Empire
Empire of Harsha
Liang Dynasty
Western Wei Dynasty
Later Liang Dynasty
Later Tang Dynasty
Mali Empire 01.29
Shang Dynasty
Western Zhou Dynasty
Aksumite Empire
Khmer Empire
Carolingian Dynasty, Francia
Srivijaya Empire
Sunga Empire
Kingdom of Kush
Thai Empire
Chalukya Dynasty
Swedish Empire
Lodhi Dynasty
Polish-Lithuanian Empire
Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt
New Kingdom
Ptolemaic Dynasty
Eastern Wei Dynasty
Northern Qi Dynasty
Tahirid dynasty
Kalachuri Dynasty
Holy Roman Empire
Western Xia Dynasty
Western Chalukya Empire
Avars Empire
Kanem Empire
Bruneian Empire
Maha-Meghavahana Dynasty
Konbaung Dynasty, Burma
Volga Bulgars Khanate
Akkadian Empire
Later Jin Dynasty
Ghana Empire
Pagan Kingdom
Western Satraps Dynasty
Himyarite Kingdom
Balhae Kingdom
Khanate of Kazan
Merovingian Dynasty, Francia
Bulgarian Empire
Shu Dynasty
Yadava Gauli Kingdom
Paramara Dynasty
Kingdom of Dali
Vijayanagara Empire
Kingdom of Nanzhao
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Fifteenth dynasty of Egypt
26th Dynasty of Egypt
Vakataka Kingdom
Visigothic Kingdom
Caliphate of Córdoba
Rai Dynasty
Maukhari Kannauj Dynasty
Bahmani Sultanate
Nizams Dynasty
Sikh Empire
Middle Kingdom of Egypt
Lydian Empire
Neo-Babylonian Empire
Kosala Dynasty
Shishunaga dynasty
Chu Dynasty
Pandyan Dynasty, Tamizhan kingdom
Later Han Dynasty
Kangju Empire
Ostrogothic Kingdom
Goguryeo Kingdom
Xia Dynasty;
Polish Piast State
Crimean Khanate
Armenian Empire
Old Kingdom of Egypt
Middle Kingdom of Assyria
Latin Empire
Mitanni Empire
Carthaginian Empire
1st Dynasty, Babylon
Serbian Empire
Aztec Empire
Middle Elamite
2nd Dynasty, Isin
Urartu Empire
Amorian Dynasty, Byzantium
Old Kingdom, Assyria
Eastern Zhou Dynasty

Where are they now?

artemis8

09-05-12, 10:03 PM

Lisbon looks pretty cool!

Duke of Buckingham

09-05-12, 10:13 PM

Thanks artemis. I think it is a beautiful city.

Duke of Buckingham

09-05-12, 11:04 PM

Time to sleep. Goodnight and see you tomorrow.
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Sleepy Duke

Duke of Buckingham

09-06-12, 07:29 AM

A very strong and nice coffee in the morning ...
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... and now I will got my lunch. I don't eat much.
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That should be enough, if Matt don't make me pays his power bills.
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and some dessert, man I almost forgot.
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Running Duke

Duke of Buckingham

09-06-12, 08:40 PM

Third and Last Post of California.

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Duke of Buckingham

09-07-12, 11:36 AM

Well I am going on my way to 60 years (I have 55) but damn, I know a lot of kids that don't have half of the energy I give to life.

When are they thinking to make their own life projects?

It is really a pity to look at someone that is around twenty looking in the infinite while seating on the sofa pretending that is watching TV.

The absolute lack of criteria is alarming and they are not really seeing anything. After that I had to listen to him saying: "How could anyone live without a remote control".

My will was to launch him in the middle of the rain forest for at least a month. Maybe then he could understand that to reach the science and knowledge to get to that remote control has a long way of men and invention and mathematics and physics.

I still wonder myself with those men that painted the caves, so long ago. They had no supermarket to buy the red or the green. They had to make each and every color with their own hands. They needed to understand the properties of each material to paint those walls, in a time that staying alive was an all time job.

What kind of human (dependent) species are we creating? Have we forgotten that independence from all environment is the first quality for survival?

I am a stone age man, I am really much more next to that men that painted the caves than to my own family members, not watching TV while seated in front of it.

That is what I am doing today, painting my caves, I couldn't live without that. I will do it till I die because if I stop, I will die everyday while I am alive.

I will paint my caves till there are no more caves to paint and meanwhile will try to stay alive.

Ricardo Ferreira

Duke of Buckingham

09-08-12, 05:09 AM

This soccer games with a lot of friends to see Portugal playing and too many beer meanwhile. Will eventually kill me.

Men, my head seems "The Great Mingun Bell", the world biggest and noisier bell in the world.

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Stop ringing the bell please.

Duke of Buckingham

09-08-12, 04:35 PM

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Duke of Buckingham

09-09-12, 06:50 AM

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

Niels Bohr

Niels Henrik David Bohr (Danish pronunciation: [ˈnels ˈboɐ̯ˀ]; 7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr mentored and collaborated with many of the top physicists of the century at his institute in Copenhagen. He was part of the British team of physicists working on the Manhattan Project. Bohr married Margrethe Nørlund in 1912, and one of their sons, Aage Bohr, grew up to be an important physicist who in 1975 also received the Nobel Prize. Bohr has been described as one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century.

Duke of Buckingham

09-09-12, 12:31 PM

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Katsumoto: The Emperor could not hear my words. His army will come. For nine hundred years, my ancestors have protected our people. Now... I have failed them.
Nathan Algren: So you will take your own life? In shame? Shame for a life of service? Discipline? Compassion?
Katsumoto: The way of the Samurai is not necessary anymore.
Nathan Algren: Necessary? What could be more necessary?
Katsumoto: I will die by the sword. My own, or my enemy's.
Nathan Algren: Then let it be your enemy's.

Duke of Buckingham

09-11-12, 06:52 AM

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09-11-12, 04:27 PM

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