Entering Civilization

October 8, 2020 by 4g3nd4

Transition from the soft shaped world of nature into the hard shaped industrial world… somehow they go well together 🙂

About:
This was shot a bit further up the Lysakerelven river, than this shot from Saturday. Fåbro Fossen or Granfossen waterfall that was utilized for industrial purposes for centuries, begins in the distance.

Discussion
Comments and critique are as always welcome. Let me hear your opinion, why do you like this, or even better, how would you approach this scenery. Give me your thoughts… not just a Wow!… only then I can improve :))

uberfischer and Gunnar Bangsmoen have spotted a halo in this shot….!!!! Hmmmm, not good :))))) They want to see a larger version to judge this matter better :))
So I uploaded a larger version (blurred foreground 🙂

What do think? Is there a halo in there…

Kane feels that the glow on the water might be over powering. I used a circular polarizer filter to reduce reflections, that’s why the river bottom is visible in the front. But I find it hard to reduce reflections in big surfaces when I’m shooting at 10mm (16mm fullframe eq).
Any suggestions?

Thanks
In and out of Explore, thanks to all for comments and faves :))

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September 30, 2020 by 4g3nd4

Five Seconds……………………..Overview of Codex Alimentarius
by Rima Laibow, M.D.
At the request of the United Nations (UN) in 1962, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) took on the joint role of running and administering the Codex
Alimentarius Commission (CAC) to establish standards and remove barriers to trade for all food and
food products. Having declared that nutrients are toxins from which we must be protected, the CAC
has been busy establishing enforceable international guidelines for upper limits of nutritional
supplement dosing. Codex has goals that affect every person in the UN’s 170+ member nations,
including the United States. As a tool for furthering these goals, member nations are urged to adopt
Codex standards and guidelines as domestic policy. The United States has already committed itself to
doing so despite U. S. law which prohibits this compliance.
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has adopted Codex as a standard for the adjudication of foodrelated
international trade disputes and has the authority to enforce Codex standards through
implementation of harsh economic sanctions on non-Codexcompliant member nations. Pre-existing
international treaty laws dictate that WTO rulings will override the domestic laws already in place in
its member nations and, in fact, the WHO has successfully taken both states and the U. S. government
to court in the U. S. to force changes in our domestic laws eleven times. This means our nation’s hard
won laws that give you access to over-the-counter, natural health supplements will become
meaningless. Codex’s original mandate to remove barriers to trade and assure a clean food supply has,
under the influence of private, economically-driven multinational pharmaceutical, agricultural and
chemical corporations, self-expanded far beyond its original mandate. The result is a body of highly
dangerous and restrictive policies that threaten to become domestic law in the U. S. and, as such, are
a threat to your health and freedom.
The FDA has stated explicitly that its goal is complete "harmonization" with Codex and, in order to
bring that about, international regulations i.e., Codex will be given preference over domestic ones!
(Federal Register, 10/ 11 /95)
If Codex gets its way, as it already has in the EU, we can expect that, ultimately, only 18 or so dietary
supplements will be available over-the-counter in doses which are, by design, far too small to have any
discernible impact on any human being since codex classifies nutrients as toxins. High potency
nutrients will not be available either with or without physician’s prescription since these molecules
and compounds will be forbidden under any circumstances. The big surprise? Once in the hands of
pharmaceutical companies, consumer supplement costs are expected to more than quadruple. This
has, in fact, been the experience in Europe where this process is already underway and micro-dose
nutrient prices have increased 10 to 100 fold or more (e.g., in Norway a bottle of zinc lozenges which
previously cost $2 now costs $54; in France 12 Vitamin C tabs of just10 mg cost $117; while 10 Vitamin
E caps of only 10 IU each cost $110).
Australia and the European Union (EU) are in the process of enacting harmonized Codex policies that
restrict consumer access to nutritional supplements. America is next. Though Americans value
personal freedom, the fact Codex meets infrequently (and almost always offshore) and is bogged
down in highly technical language that is difficult to understand has resulted in many Americans
being unaware of this threat. The nearly total media blackout on Codex and its activities helps to
keep the U. S. uninformed and therefore, pliant.
While there have been rare serious adverse reactions to nutritional supplements during the past
decades, (usually when taken far in excess of the recommended dosing), numerous severe and even
fatal reactions to drugs (usually when taken at the recommended dosing) occur every day and are the
fourth leading cause of death in hospitalized clients in the United States when properly
used. When improperly used, they are, in fact, far and away the leading cause of death in
the United States. Even so, drug deaths are very likely underreported. Drugs are
inherently dangerous; nutrients are not. This fact makes it clear why the drug culture
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needs to eliminate all access to natural health options, including nutritional supplements,
in order to expand and intensify its influence and thus its profitability. Healthy people
take fewer drugs and thus are poor customers.
The global pharmaceutical powers -that-be have already purchased a large piece of the
lucrative global nutritional supplement pie but the considerable size of this pie keeps the
hugely profitable pharmaceutical profit -share-pie from reaching its maximum size so the
competing nutrient pie must be destroyed. Though unable to patent a natural substance,
pharmaceutical corporations can hold patents on synthetic versions of vitamins and
minerals that, unfortunately for the consumer, often do not act like their natural vitamin
counterparts in the body and often act in unpredic table and harmful ways. If Codexcompliant
Europe is any guide, the permitted micro-doses of permitted nutrients will be
only synthetic ones.
In addition to regulatory and/or administrative takeover and destruction of the dietary
supplement market and consumer access, Codex also mandates irradiation of food;
mandatory use of antibiotics, hormones and growth stimulants in all animals raised for
food, is expected to legalize the unlabeled inclusion of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) (whose
safety has never been established while their serious dangers have) into our seed and food supplies and
will increase the allowable maximum tolerated levels of pesticides, herbicides, veterinary drugs and
other dangerous industrial toxins in food, likely driving up degenerative illnesses, including cancer,
diabetes, cardiovascular disease, macular degeneration, MS, etc. All of these policies are made under
the guise of free and equal access to trade for all nations and protection of the public.
Some people have “Codex Anesthesia,” a state of overwhelming, numb confusion that occurs just
before people lose their health freedom. Many otherwise well-informed people from the manufacturing
and retailing sectors of natural healthcare believe that the Dietary Supplement Health and Education
Act (DSHEA), passed in 1994 to protect Americans’ access to natural healthcare substances, will still be
in place to protect them. This is not the case: Fundamental health freedoms afforded the American
public by DSHEA, which classifies supplements as food which, as such, can have no upper limit set on
their use, are now under well orchestrated legislative and/or administrative attack. Health nuts and
junk food devotees alike are not immune from this legislative attack on health freedom.
The following is a link to Dr. Laibow’s website which gives a self-prompting 5-minute presentation that
tells you about Codex: http: //www.healthfreedomusa.org/aboutcodex.shtml
More in-depth information can be found on her website, www.healthfreedomusa.org, and on
the highly informative "Nutricide: the DVD" http: /
/www.healthfreedomusa.org/aboutcodex/dvd.shtml

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NFL Playoff Picks, how to watch, stream: Seahawks upset Cowboys, Colts beat Texans on road in Wild-Card round

September 21, 2020 by 4g3nd4

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If you made a New Year’s resolution and you’ve kept it so far, then your year is already off to a better start than mine.

My New Year’s resolution was to not eat fast food in 2019, and that lasted for exactly 47 minutes. I got hungry after celebrating the new year and the only thing in my fridge was a Chick-Fil-A sandwich and there was no way I wasn’t going to eat it, so that’s now out the window.

Speaking of New Year’s resolutions, the Steelers should probably make one that involves not fighting each other.

The Bengals should also make a resolution not to hire Hue Jackson as head coach. Of course, you didn’t come here to hear about me talk about a bunch of sad non-playoff teams, you came here for wild-card picks, so let’s get to the picks.

Actually, before we get to the picks, I should mention that I’m adding one thing this week, which will be me trying to tell you why I may or may not know what I’m talking about in a certain game. Basically, I’ve tabulated all my picks from the season and now you’ll know how I did picking each team. For instance, I went 15-1 picking Seahawks games this year, but you already knew that since I mention it every week. However, any Cowboys fans who are here for the first time because they’re hate-reading due to the “Seahawks upset Cowboys” part of the headline might not have known that, which is why I’m repeating myself.

Also, if you need a new podcast for the new you in 2019, I highly suggest that you click here and subscribe to the Pick Six Podcast. I team up with Will Brinson, Ryan Wilson and Sean Wagner-McGough every week for an NFL recap show that you can download each and every Monday morning during the season. In our Week 17 recap, we spent an exorbitant amount of time talking about which quarterback the Eagles should dump if Nick Foles somehow leads Philadelphia to another Super Bowl.

Alright, now that we have that stuff out of the way, let’s get to the picks. Don’t forget, you can check out the wild-card picks from every CBSSports.com NFL expert by clicking here. Oh, and just because I know you were wondering, my other New Year’s resolution for 2019 is to get more picks right, so let’s hope this one doesn’t blow up in my face like that fast food thing.

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NFL Wild-Card Picks

Saturday, January 5

No. 6 Indianapolis (10-6) at No. 3 Houston (11-5)

4:35 p.m. ET (ESPN/ABC)

“Started from the bottom, now we’re here.”

I have no idea who’s in charge of organizing the halftime show for this game, but if the Texans don’t get Drake to perform “Started from the bottom,” then they’ve already lost in my book. I don’t think that song was written for the Colts or Texans, but it might have been, because this is basically the most improbable playoff game of all-time because both teams started the season at rock bottom (and now they’re here). On one hand, you have the Texans, who were 0-3 after three weeks and looked so bad that half the fan base wanted to see Bill O’Brien fired.

Fire Bill O’Brien. Fire everyone. Fire me.

— Ross Bolen (@WRBolen) September 16, 2018

Texans Monday to-do list:

– Fire Bill O’Brien– Sign Leveon Bell– Trade Clowney for OL

— The Astro Joker 🃏 (@theastrojoker) September 23, 2018

That’s solid to-do list, but the Texans didn’t listen to any of it. Instead, they kept O’Brien, went on a nine-game winning streak and ended up making the playoffs with an 11-5 record, becoming just the sixth-team in NFL history to make the postseason after starting 0-3. Of course, that’s not even that impressive when you compare it to what the Colts did this season. After getting off to a 1-5 start, everyone in Indy was ready to run Frank Reich out of town.

Fire Frank Reich….why wasn’t he this dumb in the 90’s???

— Matt Jackson (@MJ4Sports) September 30, 2018

Can you dump a head coach after 4 games? That decision by Frank Reich is a fire able offense. Cost the Colts the game

— Matt McCoy (@MattMcCoyZone) September 30, 2018

Although Colts owner Jim Irsay is on Twitter, he somehow managed to ignore the tweets calling for his coach to be fired, which is impressive, because ignoring people on Twitter isn’t easy. Also, firing someone because some people on Twitter told you to probably isn’t the best way to run a business. Anyway, the Colts held on to Reich and all he did was help Indy become just the third team in NFL history to make the postseason after a 1-5 start.

As for the actual game, the biggest thing I need to know is if the Texans are even going to try and stop T.Y. Hilton this week, because they don’t ever really seem to try and stop him when he’s in town. Hilton has four games in his career where he’s gone over 175 yards and three of those have come in Houston, including back in Week 14, when he had nine catches for 199 yards in a 24-21 Colts win. Hilton also had four catches for 115 yards the first time these two teams met in Week 4. Not guarding the other team’s best receiver is definitely a strategy that hasn’t been working out for the Texans.

Even if Hilton goes off though, I don’t expect this to turn into a Colts blowout. As a matter of fact, I fully expect this game to come down to the right foot of the guy below who kind of looks like Santa Claus’ brother.

Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri, who is now the third oldest player in NFL history, taking pictures before tonight’s game. He turned 46 this week. Only Morten Andersen (47) & George Blanda (48) were older. pic.twitter.com/OjHrAT9ACT

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) December 31, 2018

Adam Vinatieri might be older than everyone on the Texans’ roster combined.

The pick: Colts 27-24 over Texans

Record picking Colts games this season: 12-4 Record picking Texans games this season: 11-5

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No. 5 Seattle (10-6) at No. 4 Dallas (10-6)

8:15 p.m. ET (Fox)

The end of the regular season is usually an interesting time for me because that’s generally when everyone on the internet comes out of the woodwork and throws my preseason predictions in my face. For instance, Andrew here was kind enough to remind me that I blew it with my Bears prediction this year.

You had the Bears 5-11 this year didn’t you??

— AW (@WestAndrew75) December 31, 2018

Ouch. That’s pretty bad. In my defense, I made the prediction before the Khalil Mack trade. If I had known Mack was going to be on the team, I would’ve predicted 6-10.

Of course, the only reason I’m bringing up my predictions is because I think I’m the only person in the country who predicted that both the Cowboys and the Seahawks would finish exactly 10-6.

Everybody is ripping everybody nationally for having no faith in the Seahawks heading into the season. And then I see what my man John Breech said about them in September: pic.twitter.com/y76ZuekSC8

— Bob Condotta (@bcondotta) December 12, 2018

I think what I’m trying to say here is that if my preseason predictions are any indication, then there’s a 100 percent chance that I’m going to pick this game correctly.

Here’s what I like about the Seahawks: They never lose in the opening round of the playoffs. Since Pete Carroll took over in 2010, the Seahawks have gone 6-0 in their opening round playoff game and it doesn’t matter if that game was played in the Wild-Card Round (4-0) or the Divisional Round (2-0). You know how Andy Reid is basically unbeatable after a bye week? That’s Carroll, except in opening round playoff games.

The thing about the playoffs is that it’s the first time all season where you don’t know your opponent until a week before you play them. In the regular season, it’s easy to prepare for everyone, because you know exactly who you’re playing every week. In the playoffs, the best coaches generally survive (SEE: Belichick, Bill) because they adapt the quickest to this situation and Carroll is one of the NFL’s best coaches. On the other hand, you have Jason Garrett, who I’m 99 percent sure will make at least one completely befuddling decision late in the game on Saturday, which will probably cost the Cowboys the game.

The pick: Seahawks 23-20 over Cowboys

Record picking Seahawks games this season: 15-1Record picking Cowboys games this season: 8-8

Sunday, January 6

No. 5 L.A. Chargers (12-4) at Baltimore (10-6)

1:05 p.m. ET (CBS, stream the game here)

Someone at NFL headquarters must really hate the Chargers because no playoff team got hit with a worse kickoff time than them. There are a total of four time slots in the wild-card round and the Chargers basically ended up in the one where west coast teams go to die: The dreaded 10 a.m. PT slot.

No, the game isn’t kicking off at 10 a.m. in Baltimore, but that’s what it’s going to feel like for the Chargers, who probably would have been happy playing on Saturday afternoon, Saturday night or Sunday afternoon or ANY TIME SLOT EXCEPT FOR THE ONE THEY’RE IN.

The Chargers went 12-4 and have to travel across the country to Baltimore to play at 10am PST.

— Tom Fornelli (@TomFornelli) December 31, 2018

Is this a conspiracy by the NFL to make sure the Chargers don’t win so they can’t host any playoff games at their tiny soccer stadium? I’m not going to rule that out, but the one thing I will say is that they’re at a definite disadvantage and I even have some research to prove it thanks to my crack research team, which is actually just me.

Here’s how ugly things get when a western team has to play in an early game during the playoffs: Since 2002, Pacific and Mountain time zone teams have been outscored 202-56 in the first half of all 1 p.m. ET playoff games. If you’re thinking, “Now I know why China only has one time zone for the entire country,” I was also thinking that. It’s so every sports team is on an even playing field when they meet in the postseason.

As much as I clearly want to pick against the Chargers, the problem is that I’m not exactly sold on the Ravens and that’s because they’re starting a rookie quarterback. I mean, have you ever watched a rookie quarterback in the playoffs? They always look lost, they always make mistakes and the ending is usually predictable. It’s basically like watching Matthew McConaughey in any romantic comedy.

Not only have rookie quarterbacks lost five straight playoff games, but the last win by a rookie quarterback only happened because he was playing another rookie quarterback, so a rookie quarterback had to win (Russell Wilson vs. RG3 in January 2013). The advantage for the Ravens is that when a rookie struggles in the postseason, it’s usually throwing the ball and the Ravens might not have to worry about that against the Chargers. If I’m the Ravens, I take football back to 1937 on Sunday and I don’t throw a forward pass the entire game.

After picking against the Ravens for the past three weeks, Ravens fans don’t want me anywhere near their bandwagon…

Love how @johnbreech (still cant go simple math-national writer) who hasnt given the Ravens any credit since the bye week is picking the Browns…#notshocked ITS FINE we seem to win when you pick against us recently… #RavensFlock

— Brad Gunther (@BradGunther13) December 26, 2018

… but I’ve now decided to hijack the bandwagon and I think I might end up riding this thing all the way to the Super Bowl. I hope I don’t jinx your team.

The pick: Ravens 19-16 over Chargers

Record picking Chargers games this season: 12-4Record picking Ravens games this season: 8-8

No. 6 Philadelphia (9-7) at No. 3 Chicago (12-4)

4:40 p.m. ET (NBC)

This game kind of reminds me of David vs. Goliath, except David never actually loses because he’s Nick Foles. On paper, this is a total mismatch. The Bears defense should be able to suffocate the Eagles offense, but I’m not entirely convinced that Foles even breathes oxygen, so I’m not sure that would work. I think what I’m trying to say here is that I’m not sure how you stop Foles.

The scary thing for the Bears is that Foles clearly didn’t use all of his magic during last year’s run to the Super Bowl. As a matter of fact, I think he might actually have more magic now than he had last year. I mean, just look at what he’s done over the past three weeks: He beat the 11-2 Rams, he broke the Eagles franchise-record for passing yards in a win over the Texans AND he tied the NFL-record for most consecutive completions in a win over the Redskins. He also might be the best third down quarterback on the planet.

My final stat of the year:

Nick Foles threw 90 third-down passes in calendar year 2018.

Eighteen of them were incomplete.

Foles on 3D in 2018: 72-for-90 [80%], 874 yards, 9 TDs, 1 INT, 135.8 passer rating.

Insane.

— Reuben Frank (@RoobNBCS) January 1, 2019

Apparently, the only thing Foles can’t do right is earn his bonuses.

Oh, this is brutal. #Eagles QB Nick Foles needed to play 33% of the snaps on the season to get a $1M bonus for making the playoffs. He played 61 of 71 today, thanks to his injury. He falls 4 snaps short! He had 357 of 1,092 and he needed 361.

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) December 31, 2018

If I’m the Eagles, I cut him a check for $5 million this week and tell him there’s $10 million more where that came from if he beats the Bears. Although I just spent 200 words talking about Foles, this game is probably going to come down to whether or not Mitchell Trubisky can handle the spotlight. The Eagles have one of the worst pass defenses in the NFL — it’s ranked 30th overall — but the fact that they’re bad won’t matter if Trubusky can’t take advantage of them, and based on what I’ve seen from him this season, there’s a 50-50 chance he won’t be able to take advantage of them.

My head says pick the Bears, my heart says pick the Eagles and although Foles does everything with his heart, I’m going with my head here. Man, now my heart hurts, but that might just be acid reflux caused by all the cheap champagne I drank on New Year’s Eve.

The pick: Bears 20-17 over Eagles

Record picking Eagles games this season: 8-8Record picking Bears games this season: 11-5

Last Week

Best pick: Last week, I predicted the Dolphins would score 17 points in a loss to the Bills, and then the Dolphins went out and scored 17 points in a loss to the Bills. Now, did I know they were going to get beaten so badly that it was going to cause owner Stephen Ross to have a meltdown and fire Adam Gase? Of course, I did. I’ve seen Ryan Tannehill play enough football this year to know that it was only a matter of time before he played so badly that it would cost his coach his job. Tannehill threw two interceptions and I’m pretty sure Gase knew he was getting fired as soon as the second one happened. The best thing about this game is that some fans were kind of enough to put together a video that basically serves as the perfect metaphor for the Dolphins’ season.

The guy in the Tannehill jersey represents Tannehill. The broken table symbolizes Gase’s career in Miami. The fire is Ross and the Bills fans are just Bills fans who are only there because they like watching things burn.

Worst pick: Last week, I assumed the Bears were going to rest their starters against the Vikings, and let me just say, that was the most incorrect assumption I’ve ever made in my life. Instead of resting their starters, the Bears decided to destroy the Vikings and completely wipe them off the face off the planet. No one wearing purple was safe.

Kirk Cousins? He got massacred.

Adam Thielen? Annihilated.

The Bears showed no mercy. I mean, they almost sent a cheerleader to concussion protocol.

The Vikings had everything to play for on Sunday against the Bears and they couldn’t even come up with a win. I think the moral of the story here is don’t spend $84 million in fully guaranteed money on a quarterback, especially if your receivers don’t seem to really like that quarterback.

I hope all your important conversations in 2019 go better than that.

Happy New Year everyone! Let’s do this again next week for Divisional Round picks.

Picks record

Straight up in Week 17: 10-6Final 2018 regular season record SU: 166-88-2 (Ranked 22nd overall on Pickwatch)Against the spread in Week 17: 10-6Final 2018 regular season record ATS: 123-126-7Exact score predictions: 2

Wild-card record last yearStraight-up: 3-1Against the spread: 1-3

You can find John Breech on Facebook or Twitter and if he’s not doing one of those things, he’s probably writing down his 2020 New Year’s resolution, which is not to make New Year’s resolutions.

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