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Traffic everywhere ... congested streets ... smog ... gasoline culture ...
... i Live in the Machine.
Shot originally with my OM10 (rear view mirror shot), always wanted to try out this texture kindly posted by ... www.flickr.com/photos/lucasbraga/
Betty Lord-Dinan
Elkader, Iowa
As a registered nurse, I have cared for many patients with chronic lung disease and congestive heart failure.
I first became aware of environmental health issues as a young girl because of ailments that affected my father. For example, he fell in the corn crib and was covered with corn during one harvest season. It took 10-15 minutes to dig him out. He lived, but had congestive heart failure and chronic lung problems thereafter. The chaff from the corn and oats at harvest times always affected him and contributed to his health problems. And in the spring, we saw ammonia and chemicals sprayed on fields to kill weeds. We have high cancer rates in pockets of Iowa. If those chemicals kill weeds, what are they doing to Iowans?
In Iowa, confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) and coal-fired power plants are major sources of air pollution. School nurses see an increase in asthmatic symptoms in children when they play outside where the air is polluted. When ammonia and chemicals are spread throughout the fields each spring, it affects the air quality and generates chemical run-off into streams and waterways.
To protect Iowans, we need the EPA's health protections to stay in effect. We cannot let these standards get watered or voted down.
Many of you might have visited the home of Rabindranath Tagore at Jorasanko, Kolkata, many might have taken lots of photographs too, but in this set I tried to capture what I could see in Jorasanko, not the glory of the Tagore family but the shambles, filth and neglect in which it is now.
Baker Street: The World's First Underground
..the origins of the world’s first Underground network.
Opened on 10 January 1863 as part of the Metropolitan Railway, Baker Street was home to the launch of a revolutionary idea – carrying passengers beneath Victorian London’s congested streets. Cutting a 90-minute journey to just 20 minutes, the ‘Met’ revolutionised travel in the city and provided the foundation for Metro systems across the world.
Explore closed-off parts of the station including original platforms, disused lift shafts and corridors that are hidden in plain sight - some of which were last accessed by the public over 75 years ago in 1945. Learn about the station’s history as the Operational Headquarters for London Underground, and hear first-hand accounts from those who worked (and played) there over the years.
This tour will take you on a historical journey through the 160 years of the station, starting with the early days of Victorian underground steam travel and ending in the busy station of 10 platforms and five Underground lines that it is today.
Along the way, you’ll hear what the very first passengers thought of underground travel in 1863, how the Underground grew and expanded over the next 16 decades, and how Baker Street served not only passengers, but also London Underground staff..
[*London Transport Museum]
HISTORY: In 1854 an Act of Parliament was passed enabling the Metropolitan Railway to construct an underground railway between Paddington and the City, as part of an envisaged 'Inner Circle' linking the mainline stations, to be completed in conjunction with the MR's collaborator, later arch-rival: the Metropolitan District Railway (MDR), inaugurated in 1864. This - the world's first underground railway - was constructed 1860-3 under the supervision of (Sir) John Fowler, the MR's Engineer in Chief, from Paddington, Bishop's Road (now Paddington), and Farringdon Street (Farringdon), with intermediate stations at Edgware Road, Baker Street, Portland Road (Great Portland Street), Gower Street (Euston Square) and King's Cross. The railway was constructed on the 'cut-and-cover' system whereby a trench is excavated and roofed over, a method employed until the 1890s when it was superseded by the deep tube system for electrified trains. Both broad and standard-gauge track were laid.
The original MR station surface buildings were relatively modest, single-storey Italianate buildings in brick and stucco and none survives other than as fragmentary remains. Of the seven, Paddington, Edgware Road, Kings Cross and Farringdon had platforms in open cuttings flanked by brick retaining walls covered by conventional iron-and-glass roofs, while Gower Street, Great Portland Street and Baker Street had sub-surface platforms covered by a brick barrel vault, lit by globe gaslights; these latter stations were thus the first true 'underground' stations. At Baker Street and Gower Street, which were virtually identical, lighting was supplemented by a series of deep lunettes pierced through the vault, lined with white glazed tiles, each of which had a thick glass cover at surface level with ventilation apertures, enclosed by railings. No more of these sub-surface platforms were built due to the noxious atmosphere from steam and gases.
Baker Street station opened on 10 January 1863, comprising a pair of one-storey buildings on the north and south corners of Marylebone Road and Baker Street, each containing a booking office and stairs down to the west end of the platforms. In 1868, two surface-level platforms opened on the north side to serve an extension to Swiss Cottage, later extended to four, with a link to the existing line. From here the line - known as the 'Metropolitan Extension' - was incrementally extended north-westwards into Middlesex, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire, reaching Aylesbury and Verney Junction in 1892, some 50 miles from central London. Branch lines were opened from Harrow to Uxbridge (1904), Moor Park to Watford (1925) and finally Wembley Park to Stanmore (1932). The MR absorbed the Hammersmith & City Railway in 1867, and opened a new branch from Edgware Road to South Kensington in 1868. The MR also operated trains on the London and South Western Railway line to Richmond by 1877. The original line was extended to Moorgate in 1865; Bishopsgate (Liverpool Street) in 1875 and Aldgate in 1876. Meanwhile, the remainder of the Inner Circle was constructed by the MDR, from South Kensington (1868) to Tower Hill (1884). The Baker Street & Waterloo Railway (later the Bakerloo Line) opened its station at Baker Street on 10 March 1906.which stood to the northwest of the MR station, interlinked to it by a subway. It was demolished in the 1960s.
The MR deliberately cultivated the image of a mainline company (which in effect it was). The line was electrified by 1907, and in 1911 the MR embarked on a comprehensive rebuilding programme in which Baker Street was to be its new company headquarters and flagship station. This was prompted not only by increasing congestion, but also the drive to exploit suburban expansion to the northwest. Here, the MR enjoyed a uniquely privileged position whereby it was legally enabled to retain surplus land it had acquired for railway development in the late C19. Thus was born 'Metro-land', the term coined by the MR's publicity department in 1915 and used henceforth in MR marketing, and which rapidly entered common parlance as an idealised evocation of northwest London commuterland. Baker Street Station was the 'Gateway to Metro-land'.
The new station was designed by Charles Walter Clark (1885-1972), appointed Chief Architectural Assistant to the Engineer of the MR in 1910 and Architect in 1921. It was intended to form part of the ground floor of a large five-storey, 15-bay hotel carried on a tall rusticated-arcaded ground floor, approached by a long ramp. The station comprised a grand booking hall and concourse at basement level with a ladies' room, buffet, lost property office and WH Smith bookstall among the facilities, providing a modern service comparable to that of a main-line station. To the east were offices, a parcels office and a goods entrance. The MR Extension platforms were remodelled, and to the northeast in Allsop Place an imposing new MR headquarters was built to Clark's design. Building ceased on the outbreak of WWI, and the hotel proposal was superseded by a scheme for mansion flats, named Chiltern Court, designed by Clark in 1927 and completed in 1929.
The MR remained fiercely independent until 1932, having resisted absorption into 'the Combine' which dominated underground railway construction in London until the 1930s. In 1933 the Combine, the MR and all bus and tram networks, were merged into the London Passenger Transport Board, an unsubsidised public corporation, and the MR network became the Metropolitan Line. In 1939, Bakerloo trains took over the ML service to Stanmore. Another entrance was formed further to the west in Chiltern House c1939, linked to the ML booking hall by a corridor. In 1979 the new Jubilee Line took over the Baker Street to Stanmore branch of the Bakerloo line and added an extra northbound platform. In 1990 the section of the ML from Baker Street to Hammersmith became part of the newly-created (or recreated) Hammersmith & City Line.
[Historic England]
Razz is in Congestive Heart Failure and has been hanging on for the last two years. Today he had to be drained from the abdomen. They took out 10lbs. of fluid. He's still a little sleepy from the stress and the drug they gave to relax him.
We had to walk through a congested sprawling market to get to the Yu Garden. This sweet stand was pretty inviting.
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Edsa has its good side and badside with its traffic. The congested highway exhibits the heavy hitters and gets you late for work.
One more night in Memphis and we took another look at Beale Street. This time a lot less congested and a lot less intimidating. Altogether a much better experience. Ate in the Hard Rock Cafe. I know not very adventurous but it was decent. And a stroll along Beale Street led to BB Kings where we were thoroughly entertained by one Patrick Dodd. Amaze-ing!!! Terrific blues and made Beale Street feel so much more worthwhile. This guy is awesome. He's on facebook, so check him out and if he's ever in your neck of the woods and if you love blues you will defy love this guy... www.facebook.com/patrickdoddmusic
Before leaving Memphis for Nashville I wanted to visit the Lorraine Motel, the scene of Martin Luther King's assasination as I read it was a civil right museum. When we got there we met the most incredible woman Ms Jacqueline Smith. She has bee protesting there for over 22 years. I got chatting to her and decided not to visit the museum after all. Read her story she is an amazing woman. And I got a wee kiss from her too!!! :D www.fulfillthedream.net/
Next stop Nashville wooooohooooo! (At last!!!)
Slippy cobbles and always congested with parked cars Lothian Buses provide several high frequency services along this street .
...congestion through Central Park in NYC. The exposure was long enough to both get the cars stuck in traffic and the streaks as they moved on. At 30 seconds and f/32 this was pretty much the longest exposure I could do without some extra kit (a ND would do the job - it blocks light out).
This guy has a rotten tooth, congestive heart failure, and a heart beat rate of 250 a minute as there's so little blood that can squeeze between those thickened walls. He also has fluid on his lungs and abdominal breathing as a result........oh, and some kind of growth near his heart.
And yet he's the happiest, most affectionate, and laidback cat. He rests all day now, and only objects if he can't be outside. Whenever I open the back door he comes trotting up to me, and 'talks'. If I'm sitting near to him, he'll lay a paw on me. If I'm near, he'll purr.
His heart's so bad, he's likely to die of a blood clot quite suddenly. I think he's teaching me that dying doesn't have to be scary.......I find it hard to believe he's enjoying life so much. He just drinks in the view and says "Hey, I'm fifteen and I'm having a good time. What's to worry about?"
i chose this because personally its one of my favorite photos. it isnt in a album. it uses fill the frame.
SMITH-ee-uh -- named for British botanist and physician Sir James Edward Smith ... Wikisource
KON-fer-tuh or kon-FER-tuh -- crowded ... Dave's Botanary
commonly known as: congested flower smithia • Assamese: অলক্ষণী alokhyani • Dogri: लक्ष्मन बूटी laxman booti • Gujarati: લક્ષ્મણા lakshmana • Hindi: लक्ष्मणा lakshmana • Kannada: ಕುಡುಹುಲ್ಲು kuduhullu • Konkani: नाईची भाजी naichi bhaji • Malayalam: മുതിരപുല്ല് muthirapullu, തിരുതാളി thiruthaali • Marathi: बरका barka, नाईची भाजी naichi bhaji • Mundari: boror ara, loyong-masuria, pui-masuria • Nepali: लक्ष्मन बुटी laxman buti • Odia: ଲକ୍ଷ୍ମଣବୁଟି laxmanbuti • Punjabi: ਲਖਸ਼ਮਣਾ lakshmana • Sanskrit: लक्ष्मणा laksmana • Tamil: இலைகண்ணி ilaikanni • Telugu: లక్ష్మణా laksmana • Tulu: ಕುಡುಪಂತಿ kudupanthi • Urdu: لکشمنا lakshmana
botanical names: Smithia conferta Sm. ... homotypic synonyms: Damapana conferta (Sm.) Kuntze • Smithia geminiflora var. conferta (Sm.) Baker ... accepted infraspecifics: Smithia conferta var. conferta ... heterotypic synonyms: Smithia hispidissima Zoll. & Moritzi ... POWO, retrieved 29 August 2024
Names compiled / updated at Names of Plants in India
Normally a congested mess at any time of the week, I-405 (the northbound San Diego Freeway just north of Sunset Blvd) is here in a moment of calm on the 5th Saturday of the Coronavirus Shelter-In-Place Order.
Péage urbain de Londres, institué en 2003. La zone est traversée par un très grand nombre de lignes de bus, en rouge sur la carte
It looks congested but there is room for more downstream. University of Brighton students measuring flow discharge in a meltwater stream from Mt Etna.
It doesn't look nearly so congested as it does when you are there but being a pedestrian here for the first time is quite an experience. When I first arrived I asked, "so how do you cross the streets here?" and the woman at the hotel reception explained that, "you walk out into the street and they will go around you but do not run and do not step backward or they will hurt you." It seemed to work. It was like stepping into a school of fish. They just go around you.
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