The Glair - The IGF and the UNet
YEAH!!
The UN thinks it will help regulate the internet.
Anything the UN becomes involved in is bound to work at least as well as sausage link fueled rocket ships and Gouda cheese built moonbases.
As for the IGF, any organization formed to regulate the internet that doesn't understand how to
physically organize itself, or run a conference, or how to employ the technology used to cover that conference, is in serious need of academic study. Which is the real value of the IGF, as a subject for a term paper at any predominantly liberal European University of higher aberration.
The UN on the other hand couldn't pick it's nose without US financial support. There wouldn't be an internet or world wide web without the US and I'm willing to bet the only exposure most UN officials have ever had to it is in the kiddy porn domain, which is something the UN excels at.
This is just an attempt by the UN to make it appear as if they are involved in a relevant way in relevant matters. As usual they are wrong on both accounts.
This isn't going to be a culture clash, it's going to be a culture crushing.
Anybody who wants to use the internet productively will side with us, all the socialists and bureaucraticians will throw in with the UN.
If the UN wants to be relevant and productive in a way that people who are likely to benefit from UN policies can enjoy then they should just float the UN ark to Belgium and dry-dock there. I say Belgium because by the time that august body could actually make a decision and complete the trip the year would be 2912 and France will be either completely depopulated or a Middle Eastern Colony known as Disney-Palestine Europa-land. Which come to think of it, maybe they should aim for France after all.
Godspeed little fellas and don't let the Statue of Liberty whack you on the ass on the way out. Though you sure could use it.
World discusses internet future
By Darren Waters Technology editor,
BBC News website, Athens
The forum was set up by the United Nations.
The future of the net is the ambitious topic under discussion at the first global Internet Governance Forum, being held in Athens over the next five days.
It has been set up by the UN to give governments, companies, organisations and individuals space for debate.
Nitin Desai, chair of the organising body for IGF, has said the forum needed "dialogue in good faith".
He warned that the biggest challenge in making the IGF successful was a "potential culture clash".
article continued here: UN to Regulate Internet
Monday, October 30, 2006
Shadows on a Moonless Midnight
Signal, Sygnet and Sigil - Shadows on a Moonless Midnight
The article below was inspired by an article I read by Josh Manchester whose blog is the Adventures of Chester. I have been reading this blog for some time and endorse it.
My article discusses in brief ideas I have been developing for years, as well as conversations over time with some of my friends regarding these matters.
I suggest reading Josh Manchester's Article as well.
Jack.
One of the main and most persistent problems of this entire conflict has been the general failure by the public, as well as by many in the military and Intelligence communities to recognize the links between criminal activity directly associated with terrorism, overall terrorist strategy (on a regional and global basis), terrorist propaganda efforts (both directed towards their own potential recruits and used as a vehicle to suppress or depress opposition efforts - psychological and political attacks against the War Efforts in Iraq for instance), and the art of infiltration.
Terrorism, and terrorist recruitment is an underground, undercover, and clandestine effort. Propaganda efforts aimed at new recruitment is a clandestine operation and effort. Yet the United States fights our own propaganda war in an open and overt manner, completely losing all potential advantages of waging a covert propaganda war.
The US is also terrible at infiltration, dis and miscommunications, and undercover penetration of terrorist cells and the criminal organizations and rogue regimes that support and enhance their operations. Why? In my opinion for no better reason than a psychological resistance to the idea of adopting the operational methodologies of the enemy. Yet that is exactly how we should be operating, as the enemy does.
Obviously our goals differ, as would the methods by which we would seek to achieve both our war and peace objectives, but we could learn much and should learn much from the techniques of the enemy. This is a guerilla and Indian war. This is not a war against states with hierarchical organizational structures, though many rogue regimes assist terrorist aims, and many other nations, such as China and Russia and France indirectly assist those aims as well.
We should have a long time ago developed our own shadow forces; Forces, Teams, and Organizations (be they military, law enforcement, undercover, infiltration, or intelligence) that operate as mirror images of terrorist cells. These would be counter terrorist teams but their job would be to operate exactly like terrorist cells. I intend to write a more detailed paper about how these forces should be constructed, the benefits to be derived from the proper development of such forces, and how they would operate, for the B Reader, but suffice it to say for the moment that their operational purposes would include deep infiltration, intelligence gathering and construction (that is they could construct intelligence operations built upon anticipations and projections they make based upon the fact that they are mimicking real world terrorist cells), undercover work, covert and background psychological operations and propaganda warfare, and recruitment of operatives and agents in Islamic territories and organizations.
To beat, to overwhelm, to corrupt, to undermine, and to eventually convert the populations of those who oppose us we must become like the enemy, we must operate in a fashion and mode that the enemy understands. We must become better terrorists than they. Not with the intentions of undertaking terrorist acts, but in understanding and anticipating terrorist actions and in understanding and anticipating the actions of those regimes which support terrorist activities.
Currently we are woefully inadequate at the arts of infiltration, of undercover operations (both against International Criminal Cartels and against Terrorist cells), of counter-recruitment and of turning terrorist operatives, and most especially at the propaganda wars. You can win a war against another military force by military action alone, but you cannot win a successful peace by military action alone. It takes a combination of cultural, military, social, religious, political, economic, law enforcement, intelligence, and propaganda-mission oriented efforts. We have been very successful militarily, but only moderately to minimally successful along the political, cultural, social, economic and intelligence spheres of operations. We are an utter failure and disgrace thus far at our efforts concerning the religious, law enforcement, and propaganda based aspects of our strategy. And I would go so far as to say this is primarily due to the fact that we have no real strategies, or only immaturely developed strategies to exploit these absolutely important aspects of infiltration and undercover warfare. For too long we have fought this war as a reactionary conflict, when we should have been fighting it as an anticipatory set of actions designed to overwhelm our enemies. Currently we either react to enemy attacks or attempt to thwart future or attempted enemy attacks. But we almost never preempt terrorist structures and actions in the same sense in which we attempted to preempt rogue regime support for those actions by invading Iraq. I am not against the War in Iraq, I think that if properly exploited Iraq would help to cripple Islamic fascism throughout the region, and by having a functional and effective base of operations for Western Ideals in that area help to eventually crush Islamic fascism on a global scale. In addition a successful Iraq could have beneficial effects upon other enemies, such as Iran, North Korea, and China. If it works it could help to stabilize the entire world over time giving us specific and unique leverage in that vital area of the world. However we must properly exploit Iraq both for the good of the Iraqi people we have helped to liberate and for our own national and international interests. And we are not properly exploiting Iraq because we are fighting a reactionary and police state war there when we should be fighting an Infiltration and Undercover/Clandestine war.
We cannot fight and win a war, which is based upon deception, disinformation, propaganda, recruitment, infiltration, and clandestine action, when we are unwilling to develop the types of forces and counterforces necessary to fight enemies who intuitively understand the types of warfare in which the world is immediately engaged.
The United States must become far better at deception, disinformation, miscommunication, propaganda, recruitment, deception, infiltration, undercover operation, and clandestine action than any enemy we are likely to encounter. We must operate as a state army, as a national security force, but we must infiltrate as if we were a small guerilla and terrorist force whose very survival depends not upon technological superiority but psychological strength and cunning and guile and craft.
The Soldier of the United States learned to fight and was formed in the crucible of the Indian War, of the guerilla fight, of the Swamp Fox. We must return to those roots, both tactically and strategically. Our governmental strategy, the course plotted in the Pentagon, the covert plan of our State Department must make allowance for and assume certain basic ideals and practices of operation, chief among these being the fact that being better at what the enemy does than they are is not a disgraceful manner of behavior, it is a necessary and even brilliant one. We must hunt as the wolf hunts. We will hunt for different reasons of course, and to a different end, but we must become even better than the wolf at tracking, at infiltration, at cover, at disguise, at camouflage, at stealth, at methodology, and at penetration. And when the War on Terror is finally over then historians will be able to look back and say, "the terrorists were good, but the Americans, by God, were like Shadows on a Moonless Midnight."
We can win a Midnight War; of course, we’ve done it before, but not if we insist on doing all our fighting at High Noon and in broad daylight.
© JWG, Jr. 2006
P.S:I also encourage everyone to read Eric Egland's broad, excellent and insightful article about redesign of War Plans and Tactics in Iraq. It echoes many of the discussions my buddies and I have been having on this very issue for years.
I think though that these recommendations could be well applied to the overall War on Terrorism, no matter the theatre of operation.
Six Steps to Victory
The article below was inspired by an article I read by Josh Manchester whose blog is the Adventures of Chester. I have been reading this blog for some time and endorse it.
My article discusses in brief ideas I have been developing for years, as well as conversations over time with some of my friends regarding these matters.
I suggest reading Josh Manchester's Article as well.
Jack.
One of the main and most persistent problems of this entire conflict has been the general failure by the public, as well as by many in the military and Intelligence communities to recognize the links between criminal activity directly associated with terrorism, overall terrorist strategy (on a regional and global basis), terrorist propaganda efforts (both directed towards their own potential recruits and used as a vehicle to suppress or depress opposition efforts - psychological and political attacks against the War Efforts in Iraq for instance), and the art of infiltration.
Terrorism, and terrorist recruitment is an underground, undercover, and clandestine effort. Propaganda efforts aimed at new recruitment is a clandestine operation and effort. Yet the United States fights our own propaganda war in an open and overt manner, completely losing all potential advantages of waging a covert propaganda war.
The US is also terrible at infiltration, dis and miscommunications, and undercover penetration of terrorist cells and the criminal organizations and rogue regimes that support and enhance their operations. Why? In my opinion for no better reason than a psychological resistance to the idea of adopting the operational methodologies of the enemy. Yet that is exactly how we should be operating, as the enemy does.
Obviously our goals differ, as would the methods by which we would seek to achieve both our war and peace objectives, but we could learn much and should learn much from the techniques of the enemy. This is a guerilla and Indian war. This is not a war against states with hierarchical organizational structures, though many rogue regimes assist terrorist aims, and many other nations, such as China and Russia and France indirectly assist those aims as well.
We should have a long time ago developed our own shadow forces; Forces, Teams, and Organizations (be they military, law enforcement, undercover, infiltration, or intelligence) that operate as mirror images of terrorist cells. These would be counter terrorist teams but their job would be to operate exactly like terrorist cells. I intend to write a more detailed paper about how these forces should be constructed, the benefits to be derived from the proper development of such forces, and how they would operate, for the B Reader, but suffice it to say for the moment that their operational purposes would include deep infiltration, intelligence gathering and construction (that is they could construct intelligence operations built upon anticipations and projections they make based upon the fact that they are mimicking real world terrorist cells), undercover work, covert and background psychological operations and propaganda warfare, and recruitment of operatives and agents in Islamic territories and organizations.
To beat, to overwhelm, to corrupt, to undermine, and to eventually convert the populations of those who oppose us we must become like the enemy, we must operate in a fashion and mode that the enemy understands. We must become better terrorists than they. Not with the intentions of undertaking terrorist acts, but in understanding and anticipating terrorist actions and in understanding and anticipating the actions of those regimes which support terrorist activities.
Currently we are woefully inadequate at the arts of infiltration, of undercover operations (both against International Criminal Cartels and against Terrorist cells), of counter-recruitment and of turning terrorist operatives, and most especially at the propaganda wars. You can win a war against another military force by military action alone, but you cannot win a successful peace by military action alone. It takes a combination of cultural, military, social, religious, political, economic, law enforcement, intelligence, and propaganda-mission oriented efforts. We have been very successful militarily, but only moderately to minimally successful along the political, cultural, social, economic and intelligence spheres of operations. We are an utter failure and disgrace thus far at our efforts concerning the religious, law enforcement, and propaganda based aspects of our strategy. And I would go so far as to say this is primarily due to the fact that we have no real strategies, or only immaturely developed strategies to exploit these absolutely important aspects of infiltration and undercover warfare. For too long we have fought this war as a reactionary conflict, when we should have been fighting it as an anticipatory set of actions designed to overwhelm our enemies. Currently we either react to enemy attacks or attempt to thwart future or attempted enemy attacks. But we almost never preempt terrorist structures and actions in the same sense in which we attempted to preempt rogue regime support for those actions by invading Iraq. I am not against the War in Iraq, I think that if properly exploited Iraq would help to cripple Islamic fascism throughout the region, and by having a functional and effective base of operations for Western Ideals in that area help to eventually crush Islamic fascism on a global scale. In addition a successful Iraq could have beneficial effects upon other enemies, such as Iran, North Korea, and China. If it works it could help to stabilize the entire world over time giving us specific and unique leverage in that vital area of the world. However we must properly exploit Iraq both for the good of the Iraqi people we have helped to liberate and for our own national and international interests. And we are not properly exploiting Iraq because we are fighting a reactionary and police state war there when we should be fighting an Infiltration and Undercover/Clandestine war.
We cannot fight and win a war, which is based upon deception, disinformation, propaganda, recruitment, infiltration, and clandestine action, when we are unwilling to develop the types of forces and counterforces necessary to fight enemies who intuitively understand the types of warfare in which the world is immediately engaged.
The United States must become far better at deception, disinformation, miscommunication, propaganda, recruitment, deception, infiltration, undercover operation, and clandestine action than any enemy we are likely to encounter. We must operate as a state army, as a national security force, but we must infiltrate as if we were a small guerilla and terrorist force whose very survival depends not upon technological superiority but psychological strength and cunning and guile and craft.
The Soldier of the United States learned to fight and was formed in the crucible of the Indian War, of the guerilla fight, of the Swamp Fox. We must return to those roots, both tactically and strategically. Our governmental strategy, the course plotted in the Pentagon, the covert plan of our State Department must make allowance for and assume certain basic ideals and practices of operation, chief among these being the fact that being better at what the enemy does than they are is not a disgraceful manner of behavior, it is a necessary and even brilliant one. We must hunt as the wolf hunts. We will hunt for different reasons of course, and to a different end, but we must become even better than the wolf at tracking, at infiltration, at cover, at disguise, at camouflage, at stealth, at methodology, and at penetration. And when the War on Terror is finally over then historians will be able to look back and say, "the terrorists were good, but the Americans, by God, were like Shadows on a Moonless Midnight."
We can win a Midnight War; of course, we’ve done it before, but not if we insist on doing all our fighting at High Noon and in broad daylight.
© JWG, Jr. 2006
P.S:I also encourage everyone to read Eric Egland's broad, excellent and insightful article about redesign of War Plans and Tactics in Iraq. It echoes many of the discussions my buddies and I have been having on this very issue for years.
I think though that these recommendations could be well applied to the overall War on Terrorism, no matter the theatre of operation.
Six Steps to Victory
Friday, October 27, 2006
Interesting Developments
Pesharim - Interesting Developments
1. I use both Browsers, and although IE7 has some interesting new features and is better optimized for some sites, Firefox is in my opinion the far superior browser. It is far faster, subject to less security incursions, and most importantly it is less prone to freezing, hang-ups, and overextension. It is also more fluid, flexible and intuitive in operation, and the tag functions operate more smoothly and without problem. I also suspect it drains far less in resource costs, especially memory.
From what I've seen of Vista and my own experience with XP I'm not exactly up in arms with anticipation at Microsoft's new OS either.
You know I've given Microsoft the benefit of the doubt for a long time, and still give them much credit for helping to invent the Personal Computing industry, but it is well past time they underwent serious business, design, application, and technological reforms. If so many of my clients did not use Microsoft OSs and applications then I would dump all Microsoft products on my own systems and go for Linux.
Unfortunately I cannot afford to do that and undergo all of the inter-related hassle of making my stuff compatible with every particular client.
2. Well, it looks like another round robin set of Regional and Civil Wars in Africa.
Imagine that... I knew someone who was hacked to death by machete in Rwanda.
One thing you can definitely say about Africa, they know how to do killing and murder up close and personal.
And in great numbers.
Of course they are awful good at starvation, disease, plague, and poverty as well.
If you're gonna be good at something, go all out I say.
3. Now this is one Tower of Babel I hope reaches a successful conclusion.
4. If this story is true then I'm looking forward to the research and possible eventual applications. I can see more extended possible use than those disclosed here, but nevertheless this is a fascinating little Article.
You know this made me think of the previous idea I had of creating a water filled treated vat for astronauts in deep space to exercise in. It also makes me think of numerous other applications.
6. Little Green Footballs recommends this Book. I do as well.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Redeployments and Realignments
Signal, Sygnet and Sigil - Redeployments and Realignments
Assuming this Article is indeed legitimate, I am very much in favor of this type of troop realignment and redeployment. And I have been personally advocating this idea for some time.
I think every Soldier, Sailor, Airman, Marine, and those in Special Forces units (even those normally not spun up except for exceptional mission scenarios - such as Counter-Terrorism Rescue and Hostage Rescue Teams) should spend some active duty time in a combat zone or in a combat theatre, even if only for six months.
No Armed Force of the United States, especially an all-volunteer force should consist of those who have been in Combat Areas (Combat Veterans - whose deployments are usually far too exhaustive and exhausting), and those who have never seen or Know Nothing of Combat Areas (Combat Virgins). Even those in the Institutional Force should be serving some period of time in and around combat theatres. It will make them far better, far more experienced, and far more valuable trainers.
Of course you do not necessarily want every trooper who is transferred to a combat theatre to see combat (or even necessarily see the most dangerous areas of a combat theatre), but you do want them to at least gain a necessary education in, and to become acclimated towards, combat conditions. You also want those who do not directly engage in fighting to gain experience in offering logistical and close support to those troops who are engaged in active combat. And I suspect that it would greatly and beneficially contribute to overall force cohesion.
By the way, it looks like another great is Going Black.
You know, I'm to the point now of thinking about asking for legislative action to help address this problem.
I still think the problem could be easily addressed though through clever use of technological filters.
Assuming this Article is indeed legitimate, I am very much in favor of this type of troop realignment and redeployment. And I have been personally advocating this idea for some time.
I think every Soldier, Sailor, Airman, Marine, and those in Special Forces units (even those normally not spun up except for exceptional mission scenarios - such as Counter-Terrorism Rescue and Hostage Rescue Teams) should spend some active duty time in a combat zone or in a combat theatre, even if only for six months.
No Armed Force of the United States, especially an all-volunteer force should consist of those who have been in Combat Areas (Combat Veterans - whose deployments are usually far too exhaustive and exhausting), and those who have never seen or Know Nothing of Combat Areas (Combat Virgins). Even those in the Institutional Force should be serving some period of time in and around combat theatres. It will make them far better, far more experienced, and far more valuable trainers.
Of course you do not necessarily want every trooper who is transferred to a combat theatre to see combat (or even necessarily see the most dangerous areas of a combat theatre), but you do want them to at least gain a necessary education in, and to become acclimated towards, combat conditions. You also want those who do not directly engage in fighting to gain experience in offering logistical and close support to those troops who are engaged in active combat. And I suspect that it would greatly and beneficially contribute to overall force cohesion.
By the way, it looks like another great is Going Black.
You know, I'm to the point now of thinking about asking for legislative action to help address this problem.
I still think the problem could be easily addressed though through clever use of technological filters.
Verona, Kennedy, and Counter-Terrorism
Signal, Sygnet and Sigil - Verona, Kennedy, and Counter-Terrorism
Ace, over at the Ace of Spades has been doing a recent series on some information taken from the Verona Decrypts.
Some of you may remember me discussing Verona with you some time ago via email.
A while back, (and please excuse my faulty memory as to the exact source or sources - I think I read them on the CIA site or the FBI site, or both- you know how much technical reading I do) I read much of the Verona information and information regarding the related operations on governmental websites, at least those portions that they were willing to release to the public. Of course you can obtain more detailed information by a FOIA request, but I find it extremely interesting that the Company and Bureau websites apparently no longer allow direct public access to these files.
I'm wondering if this might not be related to two separate, but perhaps inter-related matters. One is due to the fact of how much political data can be gleaned, even about current political figures, such as Ted Kennedy. And this has indeed been the focus of the series done by Ace, among others. See here. And here.
The other thing I'm wondering about is the fact that the Verona information may have been purposely removed because it allowed free and public study of potential methods and procedures (that is the information allowed one to easily infer practical methods) for the gathering of intelligence information. I haven't had time to test this thesis lately due to being so busy with other matters, but if other files regarding Intelligence and Law Enforcement Operations have indeed been removed form easy public access on various governmental websites, then I can be reasonably certain that particular parties are indeed very concerned that past operations may offer clues as to methodology which could be exploited by various enemies and could allow them to penetrate our ongoing intelligence, counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism operations.
Jack.
Ace, over at the Ace of Spades has been doing a recent series on some information taken from the Verona Decrypts.
Some of you may remember me discussing Verona with you some time ago via email.
A while back, (and please excuse my faulty memory as to the exact source or sources - I think I read them on the CIA site or the FBI site, or both- you know how much technical reading I do) I read much of the Verona information and information regarding the related operations on governmental websites, at least those portions that they were willing to release to the public. Of course you can obtain more detailed information by a FOIA request, but I find it extremely interesting that the Company and Bureau websites apparently no longer allow direct public access to these files.
I'm wondering if this might not be related to two separate, but perhaps inter-related matters. One is due to the fact of how much political data can be gleaned, even about current political figures, such as Ted Kennedy. And this has indeed been the focus of the series done by Ace, among others. See here. And here.
The other thing I'm wondering about is the fact that the Verona information may have been purposely removed because it allowed free and public study of potential methods and procedures (that is the information allowed one to easily infer practical methods) for the gathering of intelligence information. I haven't had time to test this thesis lately due to being so busy with other matters, but if other files regarding Intelligence and Law Enforcement Operations have indeed been removed form easy public access on various governmental websites, then I can be reasonably certain that particular parties are indeed very concerned that past operations may offer clues as to methodology which could be exploited by various enemies and could allow them to penetrate our ongoing intelligence, counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism operations.
Jack.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
The Meaning of Life
Marxed - The Meaning of Life
A Eulogy for Baby Boomers, Generation X'ers, the Rock the Vote Crowd (who never actually vote) and all of those other outstanding modern types.
Life consists of the following things: food, drink, work, television, the internet, film, music, books.
If you haven't been aborted yet, and who doesn't think that's a good idea, then you pretty much know this by now.
Which reminds me of a little story, in verse (stop right here and read no further).
I've never done a thing in life,
A Eulogy for Baby Boomers, Generation X'ers, the Rock the Vote Crowd (who never actually vote) and all of those other outstanding modern types.
Life consists of the following things: food, drink, work, television, the internet, film, music, books.
If you haven't been aborted yet, and who doesn't think that's a good idea, then you pretty much know this by now.
Which reminds me of a little story, in verse (stop right here and read no further).
The Meaning of Life
I've never done a thing in life,
I ate my share away
I'm from a generation lost,
The future past today.
I watch a lot of good ole tube
And see a film or two,
I cruise across the shiny web
Cause that's the thing to do.
I think that I will sing a song
Just like my favorite band
Or maybe I could watch awhile,
Is that woman some kinda man?
An actress is my favorite guy
Man, if my life was that!
I think that I might plate my teeth
And tattoo up my ass!!
I know, I think I'll read a book
To cure my boring mind,
And one day I might do something
To try and kill the time.
But not today my good ole friends
I'm busy at nothing now,
I'll never do a thing in life
I'm faceless in the crowd.
Something now to feed my face
And drink ambition dead -
I'll never do a thing in life
It is my secret dread.
But cable offers me new hope
A channel never seen
Perhaps someone will show me how
Or do something for me?
With courage like a bleating mouse
I drain my manhood dry,
My friends are all as brave as me
Which makes me want to cry.
Not really, it was all a joke
I'm satisfied you see
My life is music, books, and film
And don't forget TV.
So let adventure come and go
I watch it on the screen
Who'd want to do a thing in life
When nothing is your dream?
I'll never do a thing in life
But that's okay by me
If you just had my life to live
You'd want it too you see.
Gravity and Water
Invisible Hand - Gravity and Water
You know I was thinking about this article while in the shower tonight and it suddenly hit me that if You could construct a vat or tank of water which could be made to rotate around a ship (by affixtures) rapidly enough then you could not only create a small bubble of artificial gravity (though weak) but you could also let astronauts climb inside that cavity when it was filled with water in order to exercise against the water pressure. The combined differences, the water pressure (if properly compressed and encapsulated), combined with the small field of artificial gravity would allow an astronaut to maintain bodily muscular activity and strength and allow skeletal density to be taxed, perhaps to the degree one might find on the gravitational field of the moon. I could easily design such a craft myself. And perhaps treated water can act as a radiation dispersal and diffusing field similar to the effects of liquid bending visible light.
In addition two other ideas occurred to me. What, if any, are the effects from low to no gravity on cancer development (both incidence and severity of the disease) and as regards cellular reproduction rates of cancer cells and rates of necrosis and telemere degradation? Do relative strengths of gravity fields affect cancer like syndromatic diseases, and if so, how?
But the other idea has more practical and immediate applications. It occurred to me that sufficient time inside a body of water, vat or tank, might have some effect upon certain types of cancer. Especially if combined with entrained subsonic fields and certain light frequency, perhaps even oscillating subsonic and light fields. Also it made me think of encasing cancerous tumors inside self-contained liquid cavities which could be emplaced in the body, therefore isolating them like an internal, liquid filled bandaid. It also made me think of the idea of developing portable water tanks, in the shape of wearable vests, like a life preserver, only water or liquid filled (and of similar clothing simulators) which are really liquid band for the treatment of wounds and possibly even cancers. Would such vests or components have any effect on pain control?
Anywho I'm gonna hav'ta transfer these ideas into my experimental notebooks for later empirical experimentation.If any of you have ever heard of such experiments, or of techniques like water therapy as applied to cancer treatment (as opposed to rehabilitational therapy) then let me know what you know and I'll investigate the matter more thoroughly.
Radiation and Bone Loss: Deep Space Mission Concerns
By Robin Lloyd
Special to SPACE.com
posted: 18 July 2006 06:57 am ET
A single dose of radiation approaching what will be faced by long-term space travelers to the Moon or Mars causes as much as a 39 percent spongy bone loss in mice, a new study shows. The loss of connectivity in spongy bone ranged as high as 64 percent for one of the types of radiation tested, along the lines of an osteoporosis diagnosis.
The results say nothing directly about the effect of space radiation on people but it has implications for the future of human spaceflight, especially given the U.S. commitment to send astronauts on long trips beyond low-Earth orbit. Both mice and humans lose bone after radiation exposure. "We were surprised that there was bone loss, and the degree was a lot more than we expected," said Ted Bateman of Clemson University, lead author of the research report.
"We're seeing bone loss at much lower doses of radiation than we expected."What's lost Scientists already know that cancer patients who receive radiation treatments have a higher risk for spontaneous bone fractures down the line. Now it's more clear why.
For Bateman's experiment, 38 female mice were exposed to radiation, receiving about the same amount that would be a single day's dose for someone suffering from cancer. The gamma, proton, carbon and iron radiation used in the experiment is less damaging than the complex mix of radiation (protons and heavy ions, or ionizing radiation) that long-term space travelers will experience.
Bone is comprised of hard or cortical bone on the outside and marrow inside, as well as bone adjacent the marrow, called trabecular bone. This spongy part of the bone is key to bearing weight and preventing fractures. In the experiment, radiation had no real effect on cortical bone. The result of Bateman's study, published in Journal of Applied Physiology, was a profound loss of trabecular bone—about 30 percent for all types of radiation, with carbon radiation inflicting 39 percent loss, the most of all. The loss of spongy connections in the four radiation groups ranged from 46 to 64 percent, with proton radiation inflicting the worst damage in terms of connectivity.Fewer interconnected struts means more load on each of them, leaving bone structure less efficient and more vulnerable to fracture. Trabecular bone connectivity is irreplaceable once lost. "You can regain bone mass," Bateman told SPACE.com, "but once the connections between struts is lost, the load is not being passed from strut to strut and that becomes permanent. Struts can become larger and thicker but loads are not transferred as efficiently once you've lost the connections between struts."
ImplicationsCurrently, astronauts on the International Space Station and shuttle lose about 2 percent of their bone mass for each month in space as a result of microgravity much more than as a result of cosmic or solar radiation given their relatively short stays in space and protection by Earth's magnetic field. The new study shows that on longer flights, such as a 6-month trip to the Moon or 30-month trip to Mars, the bone lost as a result of microgravity will be compounded by more extensive bone loss as a result of radiation exposure. Up to now, NASA has focused on radiation's cancer-causing properties and effect on the central nervous and immune systems. The effect on bone health has been unexamined. "Now we're concerned that radiation and reduced gravity are both going to contribute to bone loss," Bateman said.Procter and Gamble, which makes an osteoporosis drug called Actonel, helped to support the research.
You know I was thinking about this article while in the shower tonight and it suddenly hit me that if You could construct a vat or tank of water which could be made to rotate around a ship (by affixtures) rapidly enough then you could not only create a small bubble of artificial gravity (though weak) but you could also let astronauts climb inside that cavity when it was filled with water in order to exercise against the water pressure. The combined differences, the water pressure (if properly compressed and encapsulated), combined with the small field of artificial gravity would allow an astronaut to maintain bodily muscular activity and strength and allow skeletal density to be taxed, perhaps to the degree one might find on the gravitational field of the moon. I could easily design such a craft myself. And perhaps treated water can act as a radiation dispersal and diffusing field similar to the effects of liquid bending visible light.
In addition two other ideas occurred to me. What, if any, are the effects from low to no gravity on cancer development (both incidence and severity of the disease) and as regards cellular reproduction rates of cancer cells and rates of necrosis and telemere degradation? Do relative strengths of gravity fields affect cancer like syndromatic diseases, and if so, how?
But the other idea has more practical and immediate applications. It occurred to me that sufficient time inside a body of water, vat or tank, might have some effect upon certain types of cancer. Especially if combined with entrained subsonic fields and certain light frequency, perhaps even oscillating subsonic and light fields. Also it made me think of encasing cancerous tumors inside self-contained liquid cavities which could be emplaced in the body, therefore isolating them like an internal, liquid filled bandaid. It also made me think of the idea of developing portable water tanks, in the shape of wearable vests, like a life preserver, only water or liquid filled (and of similar clothing simulators) which are really liquid band for the treatment of wounds and possibly even cancers. Would such vests or components have any effect on pain control?
Anywho I'm gonna hav'ta transfer these ideas into my experimental notebooks for later empirical experimentation.If any of you have ever heard of such experiments, or of techniques like water therapy as applied to cancer treatment (as opposed to rehabilitational therapy) then let me know what you know and I'll investigate the matter more thoroughly.
Radiation and Bone Loss: Deep Space Mission Concerns
By Robin Lloyd
Special to SPACE.com
posted: 18 July 2006 06:57 am ET
A single dose of radiation approaching what will be faced by long-term space travelers to the Moon or Mars causes as much as a 39 percent spongy bone loss in mice, a new study shows. The loss of connectivity in spongy bone ranged as high as 64 percent for one of the types of radiation tested, along the lines of an osteoporosis diagnosis.
The results say nothing directly about the effect of space radiation on people but it has implications for the future of human spaceflight, especially given the U.S. commitment to send astronauts on long trips beyond low-Earth orbit. Both mice and humans lose bone after radiation exposure. "We were surprised that there was bone loss, and the degree was a lot more than we expected," said Ted Bateman of Clemson University, lead author of the research report.
"We're seeing bone loss at much lower doses of radiation than we expected."What's lost Scientists already know that cancer patients who receive radiation treatments have a higher risk for spontaneous bone fractures down the line. Now it's more clear why.
For Bateman's experiment, 38 female mice were exposed to radiation, receiving about the same amount that would be a single day's dose for someone suffering from cancer. The gamma, proton, carbon and iron radiation used in the experiment is less damaging than the complex mix of radiation (protons and heavy ions, or ionizing radiation) that long-term space travelers will experience.
Bone is comprised of hard or cortical bone on the outside and marrow inside, as well as bone adjacent the marrow, called trabecular bone. This spongy part of the bone is key to bearing weight and preventing fractures. In the experiment, radiation had no real effect on cortical bone. The result of Bateman's study, published in Journal of Applied Physiology, was a profound loss of trabecular bone—about 30 percent for all types of radiation, with carbon radiation inflicting 39 percent loss, the most of all. The loss of spongy connections in the four radiation groups ranged from 46 to 64 percent, with proton radiation inflicting the worst damage in terms of connectivity.Fewer interconnected struts means more load on each of them, leaving bone structure less efficient and more vulnerable to fracture. Trabecular bone connectivity is irreplaceable once lost. "You can regain bone mass," Bateman told SPACE.com, "but once the connections between struts is lost, the load is not being passed from strut to strut and that becomes permanent. Struts can become larger and thicker but loads are not transferred as efficiently once you've lost the connections between struts."
ImplicationsCurrently, astronauts on the International Space Station and shuttle lose about 2 percent of their bone mass for each month in space as a result of microgravity much more than as a result of cosmic or solar radiation given their relatively short stays in space and protection by Earth's magnetic field. The new study shows that on longer flights, such as a 6-month trip to the Moon or 30-month trip to Mars, the bone lost as a result of microgravity will be compounded by more extensive bone loss as a result of radiation exposure. Up to now, NASA has focused on radiation's cancer-causing properties and effect on the central nervous and immune systems. The effect on bone health has been unexamined. "Now we're concerned that radiation and reduced gravity are both going to contribute to bone loss," Bateman said.Procter and Gamble, which makes an osteoporosis drug called Actonel, helped to support the research.
Monday, October 23, 2006
Milblogs II
Signal, Sygnet and Sigil - Milblogs II
I sent the link regarding the Milblogs discussion on Blackfive to an old friend of mine who is an Intel officer, and he asked me to post his response. He wishes to remain anonymous and I have paraphrased his comments.
His response is below:
"Having been both an Intel Office and a Combat Officer I know that the issue of milblogs is a complex one. On the one hand they are an excellent propaganda tool and a method of distributing information to the public, which often has the information it does receive through the media heavily filtered or altered for effect. Yes, milblogs are an important source of real information on the war to millions of Americans. I would not want to shut one down unless absolutely necessary. However, there is one factor you gentlemen have not touched on. That factor is manpower: reviewing of milblogs is a Battalion and Brigade S2 function, and you all know that Battalion and Brigade S2s just don't have enough people assigned to do all the other Intel tasks. Telling us to review all Soldier blogs before they're posted in order to ensure OPSEC is giving tactical S2s a time consuming and realistically impossible task. Some S2s just say no, some don't bother to check, and most of us just do the best with what we've got, which ain't nearly enough. I enjoyed reading the other posts on this issue on Blackfive by the way and thought most of the comments informative and well thought out. Thanks."
Personally, I think that a lot of these problems could be solved as an IT matter simply by developing an application which filters content searching for OPSEC data and either places that data on hold for later inspection (thereby saving officers the need to read posted blogs - they could simply scan content extractions which showed as questionable. Then if the data contains nothing harmful it could allow the full posting to show later (after approval) or it could simply extract or excise harmful data contained in the original post. This seems to me far more easily solved as a technological problem than a political or military one, or even a legal one.
Besides since Milblogs are technological conduits it seems only appropriate that such problems could be rectified not by placing blame upon the soldier or increasing officer workload but simply by having the military tech officers devise an appropriate and effective filtering system and software. You would of course face hacker and security threats at the filtering point but milblogs and other military information systems already face such threats. That's life.
Jack
http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/6477601
I sent the link regarding the Milblogs discussion on Blackfive to an old friend of mine who is an Intel officer, and he asked me to post his response. He wishes to remain anonymous and I have paraphrased his comments.
His response is below:
"Having been both an Intel Office and a Combat Officer I know that the issue of milblogs is a complex one. On the one hand they are an excellent propaganda tool and a method of distributing information to the public, which often has the information it does receive through the media heavily filtered or altered for effect. Yes, milblogs are an important source of real information on the war to millions of Americans. I would not want to shut one down unless absolutely necessary. However, there is one factor you gentlemen have not touched on. That factor is manpower: reviewing of milblogs is a Battalion and Brigade S2 function, and you all know that Battalion and Brigade S2s just don't have enough people assigned to do all the other Intel tasks. Telling us to review all Soldier blogs before they're posted in order to ensure OPSEC is giving tactical S2s a time consuming and realistically impossible task. Some S2s just say no, some don't bother to check, and most of us just do the best with what we've got, which ain't nearly enough. I enjoyed reading the other posts on this issue on Blackfive by the way and thought most of the comments informative and well thought out. Thanks."
Personally, I think that a lot of these problems could be solved as an IT matter simply by developing an application which filters content searching for OPSEC data and either places that data on hold for later inspection (thereby saving officers the need to read posted blogs - they could simply scan content extractions which showed as questionable. Then if the data contains nothing harmful it could allow the full posting to show later (after approval) or it could simply extract or excise harmful data contained in the original post. This seems to me far more easily solved as a technological problem than a political or military one, or even a legal one.
Besides since Milblogs are technological conduits it seems only appropriate that such problems could be rectified not by placing blame upon the soldier or increasing officer workload but simply by having the military tech officers devise an appropriate and effective filtering system and software. You would of course face hacker and security threats at the filtering point but milblogs and other military information systems already face such threats. That's life.
Jack
http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/6477601
Saturday, October 21, 2006
The BBC and You: Why We Slight
The Glair - The BBC and You: Why We Slight
I thought this was an excellent send up of the BBC on Michelle Malkin's blog.
British Broadcasting Disservice
I thought this was an excellent send up of the BBC on Michelle Malkin's blog.
British Broadcasting Disservice
New Subjects
Pesharim - New Subjects
I have placed a New Poll at the top in regards to Reform of the Priesthood.
I have placed a New Recommendation up in the box.
I have created a new list of Favored and Approved subjects in the sidebar.
I have devised a New List of Subjects for both my professional and hobby photographic work.
These are the targets I intend to concentrate upon during the Winter months.
Natural
Forests
Mountains
Beaches
Deserts
Unusual Terrain
Swamps
Rivers
Ranches
Farms
Oceans
Seas
Lakes
Insects
Arachnids
Animals
Botanical Life
Spelunking/Caves
Islands
Wrecks
Rural Exploration Subjects
Deserted Farmlands
Dead or Deserted Industrial Centers
Old Mills
Bridges
Outposts/Frontier Stations/Ranger Stations
Ranch-houses
Stables
Farmhouses
Barns
Herds
Animal Beds and Homes
I have placed a New Poll at the top in regards to Reform of the Priesthood.
I have placed a New Recommendation up in the box.
I have created a new list of Favored and Approved subjects in the sidebar.
I have devised a New List of Subjects for both my professional and hobby photographic work.
These are the targets I intend to concentrate upon during the Winter months.
PHOTOGRAPHIC SUBJECTS FOR STUDY
Societal
Churches
Public Buildings
Urban Decay
High Crime Areas
Historical Sites
Private Buildings and Complexes
Hospitals
Sport Centers
Industrial Centers
War Zones
Crime Scenes
Gang Locales
Dead Drops
Museums
Libraries
Airports
Jetports
Technology
Machinery
Wrecks
Urban Exploration Subjects
Roofs
Bridges
Underground/Subterranean
Deserted Buildings
Construction Sites
Demolition Sites
Archaeological Sites
Old Mills
Utility Centers and Complexes
Graveyards
Disaster Areas
Catacombs
Colleges
Zoos
Societal
Churches
Public Buildings
Urban Decay
High Crime Areas
Historical Sites
Private Buildings and Complexes
Hospitals
Sport Centers
Industrial Centers
War Zones
Crime Scenes
Gang Locales
Dead Drops
Museums
Libraries
Airports
Jetports
Technology
Machinery
Wrecks
Urban Exploration Subjects
Roofs
Bridges
Underground/Subterranean
Deserted Buildings
Construction Sites
Demolition Sites
Archaeological Sites
Old Mills
Utility Centers and Complexes
Graveyards
Disaster Areas
Catacombs
Colleges
Zoos
Natural
Forests
Mountains
Beaches
Deserts
Unusual Terrain
Swamps
Rivers
Ranches
Farms
Oceans
Seas
Lakes
Insects
Arachnids
Animals
Botanical Life
Spelunking/Caves
Islands
Wrecks
Rural Exploration Subjects
Deserted Farmlands
Dead or Deserted Industrial Centers
Old Mills
Bridges
Outposts/Frontier Stations/Ranger Stations
Ranch-houses
Stables
Farmhouses
Barns
Herds
Animal Beds and Homes
Milblogs
Signal, Sygnet and Sigil - Milblogs
This is an excellent page on Blackfive regarding a series of comments concerning Milblogs and Milblogging.
I highly recommend this read.
Blackfive and Milblogs
This is an excellent page on Blackfive regarding a series of comments concerning Milblogs and Milblogging.
I highly recommend this read.
Blackfive and Milblogs
Friday, October 20, 2006
Blog of the Day
Pesharim - Blog of the Day
I did not realise this at first but apparently I won a Blog of the Day Award.
Since I'm relatively new to Blogging I did not at first understand what Rob was telling me until I revisited his site and discovered that I had been featured there and given the Award Code.
So I've added it to my Support Section in the Sidebar, and I appreciate the honor done me.
I've also added a link to the Blog of the Day in my Links to Other Blogs.
Thank You.
Jack.
I did not realise this at first but apparently I won a Blog of the Day Award.
Since I'm relatively new to Blogging I did not at first understand what Rob was telling me until I revisited his site and discovered that I had been featured there and given the Award Code.
So I've added it to my Support Section in the Sidebar, and I appreciate the honor done me.
I've also added a link to the Blog of the Day in my Links to Other Blogs.
Thank You.
Jack.
Opacity
Humours of Idleness - Opacity
I have discovered a brilliant new site for Vadding and Urban Exploration on the web.
It is called Opacity and I have included the link in my Recommendations Box above.
It will also go into my List of Interesting Websites
I have discovered a brilliant new site for Vadding and Urban Exploration on the web.
It is called Opacity and I have included the link in my Recommendations Box above.
It will also go into my List of Interesting Websites
The B Reader in Preparation
Pesharim - The B Reader in Preparation
Related Links:
The B-Reader
A Global Network
Shadows on a Moonless Midnight
Over the past month or so I have been developing materials and content for the new Blog I intend to launch dealing with military, intelligence, investigative, law enforcement, political, cultural, religious, and international matters.
This new blog will be entitled the "B Reader" and should be up and running by the end of December, if no problems are encountered. At this point I expect no problems.
The articles I intend to write so far include the following subjects (but I have not yet decided upon the exact titles):
New SWAT Tactics - Why the police must consider hostage takers as domestic terrorists and why new tactics and infiltration/kill teams must be developed to liquidate, not capture, such suspects at the earliest possible moment. (This will be my first article).
Eastern Europe - Why Eastern Europe needs a combined, single, intelligence sharing organization to coordinate Intelligence gathered from Asia, Europe and Africa. Why Eastern Europe cannot depend upon Western Europe for either defense or intelligence sharing, and why Eastern Europe needs stronger economic, political, cultural, military and financial ties to the US, and why the US needs stronger ties to Eastern Europe.
The Cell Wars: How the New War is not really just a War on Terrorism, but is also a War on International Entities, Corporate Individuals, Rogue Regimes, and International Criminal Cartels - Why ICCs are really smuggling, trafficking, border penetration and logistical support organizations for terrorist groups, how criminal gangs and terrorist cell activity overlaps, and how to use such alliances to infiltrate both organizations.
American Misunderestimation - Why the Military and Law Enforcement still does not work effectively in cooperation, and how to create support teams and liaison agents to operate in the organizations of both.
The Employment of the Amateur Line - How to effectively employ private citizens and individuals, as well as private small group organizations and PIINs in the Cell Wars.
PIIN - Private Intelligence and Investigative Networks - Continuing and completing the paper I started elsewhere.
Vadding and Infiltration - Turning a private and individual pursuit of exploration and infiltration into a personal and team effort to assist the authorities in suppressing crime and fighting terrorism.
Propaganda and Strategic Psychological Operations - Why we are failing, and possible corrective actions.
My Analysis of the Litvineneko Case: Post Mortem - An analysis of likely suspects and motivations regarding the assassination of Litvinenko and the effect his assassination is likely to have on national, institutional, organizational, and private intelligence networks.
The Renaissance Soldier - How to develop a new generation of Renaissance Special Forces Teams, as well as incorporating a wider range of highly capable, multi-functional Renaissance and Special Forces Skill Capacities in the standard development of normal troop units and individual soldiers.
The Renaissance Lawman - How to develop and train a new generation of modern lawmen with a wide range of inherent capabilities such as intelligence gathering, intelligence analysis, infiltration, counter-terrorism, etc. to support their already existing law enforcement, forensic and investigative/detective capacities.
I hope some of my readers will consider writing papers, articles, commentary or criticism or your own for inclusion in the blog or will even consider becoming occasional or regular contributors. Both professionals and amateurs are welcome to read, comment, and contribute.
If interested contact me by email or leave a comment on this blog.
Jack.
I'm taking ideas, comments, suggestions, and recommendations on whether I should
make the B-Reader an entirely
separate blog, or whether I should incorporate it within the body of the Missal.
If you
have an opinion as to whether it should be a separate Blog or simply be
incorporated into it's own section of the Missal then let me know.
Related Links:
The B-Reader
A Global Network
Shadows on a Moonless Midnight
Over the past month or so I have been developing materials and content for the new Blog I intend to launch dealing with military, intelligence, investigative, law enforcement, political, cultural, religious, and international matters.
This new blog will be entitled the "B Reader" and should be up and running by the end of December, if no problems are encountered. At this point I expect no problems.
The articles I intend to write so far include the following subjects (but I have not yet decided upon the exact titles):
New SWAT Tactics - Why the police must consider hostage takers as domestic terrorists and why new tactics and infiltration/kill teams must be developed to liquidate, not capture, such suspects at the earliest possible moment. (This will be my first article).
Eastern Europe - Why Eastern Europe needs a combined, single, intelligence sharing organization to coordinate Intelligence gathered from Asia, Europe and Africa. Why Eastern Europe cannot depend upon Western Europe for either defense or intelligence sharing, and why Eastern Europe needs stronger economic, political, cultural, military and financial ties to the US, and why the US needs stronger ties to Eastern Europe.
The Cell Wars: How the New War is not really just a War on Terrorism, but is also a War on International Entities, Corporate Individuals, Rogue Regimes, and International Criminal Cartels - Why ICCs are really smuggling, trafficking, border penetration and logistical support organizations for terrorist groups, how criminal gangs and terrorist cell activity overlaps, and how to use such alliances to infiltrate both organizations.
American Misunderestimation - Why the Military and Law Enforcement still does not work effectively in cooperation, and how to create support teams and liaison agents to operate in the organizations of both.
The Employment of the Amateur Line - How to effectively employ private citizens and individuals, as well as private small group organizations and PIINs in the Cell Wars.
PIIN - Private Intelligence and Investigative Networks - Continuing and completing the paper I started elsewhere.
Vadding and Infiltration - Turning a private and individual pursuit of exploration and infiltration into a personal and team effort to assist the authorities in suppressing crime and fighting terrorism.
Propaganda and Strategic Psychological Operations - Why we are failing, and possible corrective actions.
My Analysis of the Litvineneko Case: Post Mortem - An analysis of likely suspects and motivations regarding the assassination of Litvinenko and the effect his assassination is likely to have on national, institutional, organizational, and private intelligence networks.
The Renaissance Soldier - How to develop a new generation of Renaissance Special Forces Teams, as well as incorporating a wider range of highly capable, multi-functional Renaissance and Special Forces Skill Capacities in the standard development of normal troop units and individual soldiers.
The Renaissance Lawman - How to develop and train a new generation of modern lawmen with a wide range of inherent capabilities such as intelligence gathering, intelligence analysis, infiltration, counter-terrorism, etc. to support their already existing law enforcement, forensic and investigative/detective capacities.
I hope some of my readers will consider writing papers, articles, commentary or criticism or your own for inclusion in the blog or will even consider becoming occasional or regular contributors. Both professionals and amateurs are welcome to read, comment, and contribute.
If interested contact me by email or leave a comment on this blog.
Jack.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Shooting in the Rain
Pesharim - Shooting in the Rain
These shots were taken in the rain, for the most part, except for the last shot which was taken at night. I altered and enhanced the image using my Corel Photo Paint program.
The first three are of an animal corpse I came across on a very deserted and isolated road. Because the animal seemed to have been partially skinned as well as being partially crushed by a vehicle or vehicles I could not say with absolute certainty what the animal was, but given the evidence of the remains and what had apparently been done to the corpse I think it most likely was a brown fox. I think it most likely the fox was shot or trapped, then killed and partially skinned, then the remains dumped on the road. I cannot be absolutely sure that was the sequence of events and even to verify what kind of animal it was would mean I would have had to have taken bone and hair samples for comparative analysis, but I think this the most likely set of deductions. In any case I always like taking shots of animal corpses as it gives me good practice in the taking of forensic photographic images.
These shots were taken in the rain, for the most part, except for the last shot which was taken at night. I altered and enhanced the image using my Corel Photo Paint program.
The first three are of an animal corpse I came across on a very deserted and isolated road. Because the animal seemed to have been partially skinned as well as being partially crushed by a vehicle or vehicles I could not say with absolute certainty what the animal was, but given the evidence of the remains and what had apparently been done to the corpse I think it most likely was a brown fox. I think it most likely the fox was shot or trapped, then killed and partially skinned, then the remains dumped on the road. I cannot be absolutely sure that was the sequence of events and even to verify what kind of animal it was would mean I would have had to have taken bone and hair samples for comparative analysis, but I think this the most likely set of deductions. In any case I always like taking shots of animal corpses as it gives me good practice in the taking of forensic photographic images.
These shots are of a squirrel my Great Bernard caught and killed. You can clearly see the puncture wounds on the body of the squirrel which no doubt contributed to the shock which led to death. My Great Bernard was awfully proud of his kill, however not long after taking these shots my Great Dane bitch came along and took the corpse. At first my Great Bernard growled at her and seemed ready for a fight, but then he just turned and let her have it. He has learned already that if a female wants what you have then just go ahead and give it up, she'll get it eventually anyway.
This last shot is of a pregnant praying mantis I took near nightfall. I altered the image as I mentioned above. I intend to enter this photograph in Matt Bamberg's Halloween Photographic contest.
Digital Art Book
Pesharim - Digital Art Book
I forgot to mention earlier that I wrote a review for Matt Bamberg's book "Digital Art Photography for Dummies."
I have the book and really enjoyed it. You may find the review on the Amazon site for his book.
His blog is here: http://digitalartphotographyfordummies.blogspot.com/
I forgot to mention earlier that I wrote a review for Matt Bamberg's book "Digital Art Photography for Dummies."
I have the book and really enjoyed it. You may find the review on the Amazon site for his book.
His blog is here: http://digitalartphotographyfordummies.blogspot.com/
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