TRASHED IN SPACE!!!

MORE THAN 6,000 SATELLITES HAVE BEEN

LAUNCHED! HALF OF ALL TRACKABLE

OBJECTS ARE BECAUSE OF IN-ORBIT

EXPLOSIONS OR COLLISIONS.

Role Reversal

Amazing!!! Picture of lightning and tornado

This is an incredible picture of a tornado and a bolt of lightning

taken by a guy that works on an oil rig...he did not see

the tornado until the flash from the lightning lit up the

sky!

Andy Kim Rock Me Gently

This is a song sent to me by

my girlfriend Kim

rock me gently

Some awesome shots on planet earth!

Cooper River Bridge, Charleston, South Carolina

The old Cooper River bridge and the new bridge

(I once worked with an inspection crew on the old bridge)

Coward and Cowardice

It is in understanding these terms that we come to fully understand why our country is in the shape it is in and why we have ended up where we are. We need to each look into our own heart and ask ourselves where we fit in respect to these definitions. If a person is corruptable and is unwilling to take a stand against corruption, it is only because that person is a coward! Find out how to live a life that goes beyond self and is incorruptible.

Coward
One who shows ignoble fear in the face of danger or pain.

Cowardice
Ignoble fear in the face of danger or pain.

Cowardice describes a personality trait which is typically viewed as a negative characteristic and has been generally frowned upon within most, if not all global cultures, while courage - typically viewed as its direct opposite - is generally rewarded and encouraged.

It is difficult to define outside of specific social contexts. In general terms, it is the perceived failure to demonstrate sufficient bravery in the face of an adverse situation. Cowards are usually seen to have avoided or refused to engage in a confrontation or struggle which has been deemed good or righteous.

On a more mundane level, the label may be applied to those who are regarded as too frightened to defend their rights or those of others from aggressors in their lives.

Lizards Sunbathe for Vitamin D

Lizards Sunbathe for Vitamin D

May 4, 2009 -- Lizards may look lazy when basking in the sun, but the behavior serves a surprising purpose: They need vitamin D.

Not only that, suggests a new study, the cold-blooded creatures manage their time in the sun with extreme precision for ideal vitamin D production. Like people, lizards have compounds in their skin that, with exposure to the sun's ultraviolet light, are converted to a useable form of the essential nutrient.

"They were really, really good at hitting an optimum UV level," said Kristopher Karsten, a behavioral ecologist at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. "It broadens our perspective of what they're really doing when they're sitting out there in the sun."

Lizards get some vitamin D from their diet. The rest they get from the sun. Dosage is key: Not enough D and the animals may get sick, grow slowly, have trouble reproducing, or even die. Too much D is toxic.

"It's a double-edged sword, where if they have too little, they're not going to do well, and if they have too much, they're not going to do well," Karsten said. "It's because there's an optimum amount associated with this that it interested us."

For two months, Karsten and colleagues raised six panther chameleons inside in their lab. Three of the animals ate crickets that were dusted with vitamin D powder. The other three ate a cricket diet that was vitamin-D deficient. By the end of the period, the first group had far higher D levels than the second.

Next, the chameleons were moved into round outdoor enclosures that measured about 6 feet wide and 6 feet tall. Each lizard's cage contained a plum tree or two as well as a black shade. The animals were free to move between sunny, UV-rich areas and shaded, low-UV areas. For 12 hours, from 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., the researchers noted how each lizard spent its time.

As expected, the vitamin D-deficient chameleons exposed themselves to more UV-light than those who already had plenty of D. What was surprising was how precise the animals were about their behavior. The reptiles timed their basking sessions to achieve ideal levels of D.

"They were extremely good at it," said Mark Acierno, a small animal internist at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. "We know now that vitamin D is very important, and they'll go out of their way to change their behavior to make sure they get enough."

Karsten suspects that the chameleons have a sensor in their brains that tells them how high or low their vitamin D levels are. The results of his study were published in the journal Physiological and Biochemical Zoology.

Until recently, most reptile sunbathing research had focused on basking's role in regulating body temperature. Gaining a more detailed understanding of why lizards do what they do, Acierno said, should help people, zoos, and other groups who raise exotic animals in captivity.

"If we want to keep them in captivity and we want them to live a normal life span in a healthy fashion," Acierno said, "We need to understand these things. In that sense, it's really important."

An old picture of my older brother

This is a very old picture of my older

brother Ty (on left)

with his best friend John Flemming

Pictures of my nephew Trevor

Kim Kim with doggies on top of mountain

The forced sale of my dream home

This is where I was forced to sale my dream home

all because a very crooked detective named

Preston Peavy falsely arrested me and then

attempted to manufacture my guilt!!! I beat the

crooked bastard at his own game and

I'm not finished with him yet!!!! This extreemly

crooked "Investigator" was demoted to

uniform patrol, and after some time he was no

longer with the Sheriff's Department! But it is a

sad day that this "evil" cop that ruined my life

and put my family through the most difficult

years...with my dear sweet mother passing on

under the stress of corruption and malfeasance

at the hands of

Preston Peavy and all the officials that covered

for his demented actions!

Is it any

wonder that the state of Georgia passed

illegal laws in 1832 that kept the American

Indians from owning land in Georgia, and then

made it illegal to protest this illegal law?!? Then

in 1983 this same crappy state, that I happened

to have been born in, passed immunity laws so that

state officers could commit all kinds of crimes

against a citizen and there would be nothing he

or she could do about it. I know how the poor

Native Americans felt!!!

Kim on tree in paradise lost

Old deer stands in paradise lost

These are two old deer stands my father and I built many years ago....The top one was built out of pressure treated lumber, but we could not find anything but regular lumber when we rode out to my father's subdivision-called Marlanta-to get lumber for the bottom stand. These stands were on Corps of Engineer's property next to the land that I owned and lost after Detective Preston Peavy falsely arrested me for a crime I did not commit and then Mr. Peavy and the state of Georgia spent the next four years attempting to manufacture my guilt!! I won the battle in the end, if you can call it 'winning' when you have lost everything, including your mother and your physical and mental health.

Kerry Craig Walker's grave marker in paradise lost