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"We fly the weather God gave us" - JAG, Adrift.

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Fixed to a tripod, a camera can record graceful trails

bibleverse

"And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but 
 the greatest of these is love."          
                       I Corinthians 13:13 

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A ca. 1889 proposed architectural plan for a military aviary to house swallows as messenger birds, based upon a scheme by Jean Desbouvrie, a French amateur bird trainer who successfully demonstrated that swallows could exhibit homing behavior and that when they did so they flew much faster than carrier pigeons. Furthermore, swallows fly higher and faster than pigeons, are more difficult for marksmen to shoot or for birds of prey to intercept, and are able to feed during flight. However, after obtaining authorization from the French government for further testing, Desbouvrie did not follow through with rigorous experimentation, and his plans never came to fruition. Image: F. Meriy; Restoration: Lise Broer Archive – More featured pictures...

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cementedsky

When you have a potentially fatal illness, denial can be deadly; but under more normal circumstances, denial is actually a good thing for us [at least to a certain degree]. Without denial, it would be much more difficult for any intelligent, well-informed person to achieve the peace of mind necessary to get through the day. We all live in denial about many scary things. For the past several years, Americans have been well aware of the potential for terrorist attacks on home soil. For the past several decades, we've lived with the danger of intentional or accidental launching of nuclear weapons. There's always the possibility that one day we could find ourselves amid a terrorist slaughter or a nuclear holocaust, and there's probably not much any of us, whether ordinary citizens or political leaders, can do about it. We put threats of suicide bombers and atomic attacks out of our minds so we can get out of bed in the mornings and get on with the challenges and pleasures of our daily lives.

If we constantly worried about everything that's constantly threatening us - nuclear proliferation, terrorism, global warming, and the conflicts and crises described in most of the articles in the first section of the New York Times - then we'd have trouble calming down and summoning the focus, energy and positive outlook to cook breakfast or drive to the office. Basic psychological health demands a certain level of denial. It's likewise helpful, up to a certain point, when we deceive ourselves about our own flaws, since that makes it easier for us to maintain a necessary self-confidence and optimism.

But while our defense mechanisms are helpful in the short run - getting us through the day or the week - they block us from solving our persistent problems. Denial is one of the biggest reasons it's so difficult to motivate other people to change. We think we can enlighten them by telling them the facts, but they're in denial because they've actually confronted the facts and they can't handle the facts. We try to use fear to motivate them to change, but they're in denial because the fear is too overwhelming.

- From Change or Die by Alan Deutschman [author's own emphasis]

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What's happening on the surface of Saturn's moon Helene?

bibleverse

"I am the vine, ye are the branches; He that abideth in
 me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit; 
 for without me ye can do nothing."              
                                      John 15:5 

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Picture of the day
	A view of rainclouds gathering over Bareina, a Bedouin village and rural commune in the Trarza Region of southwestern Mauritania. Photo credit: Ferdinand Reus Archive – More featured pictures...