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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

A Perfect Afternoon On Beebee Lake

Michael Stephen Wills Photography

After work on a 2008 Friday afternoon in October we sped over to Beebee Lake on the Cornell University Campus to catch the late afternoon glow.

Beebe Lake is formed by a dam on Fall Creek. It seems to be the flooded meadow it is, surrounded by hills formed by glaciers 10,000 years ago. Cornell maintains footpaths around the lake.

People say that if a couple walk the a mile around the lake and over a bridge at either end, they are destined to be married.  This day we passed only joggers and families.  Pam and I will celebrated our tenth anniversary March 2019, so the legend worked for us.

Here are four snapshots from that time, presented in chronological order. Each is a handheld shot taken on the fly using my Sony Alpha 700 I use for exploratory photography.

Click any photograph to view my Finger Lakes Memory gallery

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Sheriff Villanueva Demotes Challenger Vera, Who Claims Political Retaliation | LAist

But when Vera decided to challenge the sheriff in next year’s election, everything changed. Vera says Villanueva sent him a letter asking him how he could possibly serve as a chief while running against his boss. Last week, the sheriff answered his own question — Vera could not. Villanueva demoted Vera one rank from one of 11 chief positions in the department to commander. He also moved him from the Technology and Support Division to the Court Service Division, considered by some a backwater. ‘Retaliation’ Or A Reasonable Personnel Move? Vera called the move “politically-driven retaliation.” “I think what he wants to do is hurt my campaign in order to bring discredit upon me,” Vera told LAist.

Source: Sheriff Villanueva Demotes Challenger Vera, Who Claims Political Retaliation | LAist

New Dawn in Afghanistan shadowed by uncertainty.

“Why did the Taliban talk about general amnesty, women rights, when none of the appointed ministers are women or any of the ministers from the ousted Ashraf Ghani administration or Hamid Karzai administration?

What changes will this new regime bring in Afghanistan, Asia and The World? Only time will tell. However, after judging the new appointees one thing is certain that the UN, EU or the West don’t hold any ground in the decision making process of the new Taliban regime.”

Beyond The Lines

Zabiullah Mujahid, the official spokesperson of Taliban in a media conference revealed the names of the top ministers of the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan”.

Here is the list of ministers announced today in the official briefing of the Taliban :-

• Prime Minister – Mullah Hasan Akhund

  • Deputy Minister or 1st Vice President – Abdul Ghani Baradar

  • Deputy Minister or 2nd Vice President – Mullah Abdus Salam

  • Interior Minister – Sirajuddin Haqqani (son of Jalaluddin Haqqani)

• Defence Minister – Mohammad Yaqoob (son of Mohammad Omar)

    • Acting Minister for Hajj and Religious Affairs – Mawlawi Noor Mohammad Saqib

    • Acting Minister of Higher Education – Abdul Baqi Haqqani

    • Acting Minister of Telecommunication – Najibullah Haqqani

    • Acting Minister of Refugees – Khalilur Rahman Haqqani

    • Acting Minister of Economy – Qari Din Hanif

    • Acting Minister of Justice – Mawlawi Abdul Hakim Sharie

    • Acting Minister of Borders and Tribal Affairs – Mullah Noorullah Noori

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    Nacionalni park Everglejds, Sjedinjene države – Everglades National Park, United States

    Myrela

    Amerikanci s pravom tvrde da su bili pioniri u mjerama zaštite svjetske prirodne baštine, ali savjest nacije nije u potpunosti čista. Dok je osnivanjem nacionalnih parkova Veliki kanjon i Jelouston, Amerika stvorila mit o divljini, podjednako značajna oblast u Južnoj Floridi nije pobudila ni najmanji interes. Everglejds je, mora se priznati, neprijatan kraj. Vrela, vlažna klima onoga što, čini se, nije ništa više od močvare, gdje sve vrvi od komaraca i aligatora, nije naročito privlačna, ali Pa Hej Oki (“Rijeka trave”, kako su je Indijanci Seminole zvali), koja teče neosjetnom brzinom u dužini od dvjesta kilometara od jezera Okičobi do Floridskog zaliva i dostiže širinu od osamdeset kilometara, jedini je tropski sistem u Sjevernoj Americi. I, paradoksalno, priznavanje njegove vrijednosti podudaralo se s njegovim nezaustavljivim propadanjem.

    Kada je predsjednik Hari Truman 1947. godine osnovao Nacionalni park Everglejds, u Južnoj Floridi je živjelo samo 500.000 stanovnika. Kada su državne vlasti 1985…

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    Short story regarding importance of ethics and values in life.

    LIFESTYLE AND INSPIRATION

    ₹7 !

    The Nobel Laureate Prof. C. V. Raman after retirement wished to open a Research Institute in Bangalore.

    So he gave an advertisement in the newspapers for recruiting three physicists.

    Lots of eager Scientists applied thinking that even if they were not selected, they would at least get an opportunity to meet the Nobel Laureate.

    In the preliminary selection, five candidates were selected and the final interview was to be taken by Prof. C V Raman himself.

    Three were selected out of the five.

    Next day Prof. Raman was taking a walk and found one young man waiting to meet him.

    He realized that it was the same man who was not selected.

    The Prof. asked him what was the problem and he replied that there was no problem at all, but after finishing the interview the office had paid him ₹7 extra than his claim and he wanted…

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    Okay…Okay…Okay, lol

    Lolsys Library

    Okay, so the world is pretty…fucked at the moment … Cuse my french, haha.

    Remember always put yourself first. Put your family first. Put your mental health first.

    I’m going to list what I do to help with my mental health, and please free to add on in the comments! Also, feel free not too, lol.

    • Feel free to block anyone, on any social media platforms. Even friends and family! I recently started to block accounts on Twitter that they and I are on the same page as. They were making rules for what people could tweet, quote and screenshot their tweets on. I was just sitting there thinking to myself “I am not going through every single twitter account to see what individual rules are”. If you don’t want to tweet something for people to see, you can make your profile protected. You can do all sorts of things…

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