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VPS 186 245-7 mit einem Containerzug auf der KBS 110 zwischen Winsen und Lüneburg in Bardowick Bruch
VPS 186 245-7 with a container train on the KBS 110 between Winsen and Lüneburg in Bardowick Bruch
Pigeon Key is a small island containing the historic district of Pigeon Key, Florida. The 5-acre (2.0-hectare) island is home to 8 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places, some of which remain from its earliest incarnation as a work camp for the Florida East Coast Railway. Today these buildings serve a variety of purposes, ranging from housing for educational groups to administrative offices for the non-profit Pigeon Key Foundation. The former Assistant Bridge Tender's House has been converted into a small museum featuring artifacts and images from Pigeon Key's colorful past. It is located off the old Seven Mile Bridge, at approximately mile marker 45, west of Knight's Key, (city of Marathon in the middle Florida Keys) and just east of Moser Channel, which is the deepest section of the 7-mile (11 km) span.
The island was originally known as "Cayo Paloma" (literally translated as "Pigeon Key") on many old Spanish charts - said[by whom?] to have been named for large flocks of white-crowned pigeons (Columba leucocephala Linnaeus) which once roosted there. During the building of Henry Flagler's Overseas Railroad Key West Extension between 1908 and 1912, there were at times as many as 400 workers housed on the island. While these workers built many bridges along the route through the lower keys, the Seven Mile Bridge, spanning the gap between Knight's Key and Little Duck Key remains the largest and most impressive component of what was once referred to as "the 8th Wonder of the World". A number of buildings from the Flagler era remain on the island and are now part of the Pigeon Key Historic District.
Pigeon Key was one of the locations for the "Bal Harbor Institute" in the 1995 series of Flipper. It was seen in three episodes during season one including the pilot episode. It was also the site of the Finish Line of The Amazing Race 18 "Unfinished Business" in 2011.[2]
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in den Frankfurter Osthafen bzw. zum dortigen Containerterminal.
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It contains eight minifigures:
Batman
Robin
Batgirl
Alfred Pennyworth (Batsuit)
Polka-Dot Man
Wicked Witch of the West
Two Flying Monkeys
The Batmobile contains four vehicles:
Batmobile
Batwing
Bat-Tank
Batcycle
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The "Gartner" Train, hauled by the Taurus RailJet Loco 1116 227 westbound in Transit at Vienna-Hütteldorf Yard.
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San Antonio, 9 meses después
Durante un largo lapso de tiempo estuve sin viajar hasta El Tabo y San Antonio, y mucho que se notó hasta el fin de semana pasado. No obstante, con plena satisfacción pude viajar para reencontrarme con mi familia, y aparte de dicha felicidad, también pude revisitar los lugares citadinos (y los no tanto) de dicha zona, los cuales –en algunos sectores- están exhibiendo profundos cambios.
El Puerto de San Antonio está cambiando…
Y bastante diría, por un lado, la construcción del Puerto Central (segundo terminal del Puerto de San Antonio) avanza rápidamente, con sus primeros metros lineales ya finalizados y sus dos primeras grúas pórtico Liebherr (de cuatro en una primera etapa) con montaje finalizado, mientras que el principal terminal de San Antonio, STI –o San Antonio Terminal Internacional- ha estrenado dos –y enormes- grúas pórticos de origen chino (fabricadas por ZPMC) que permiten la operaciones de barcos de mayor altura (post panamax), de cara a la entrega de la ampliación del Canal de Panamá. Estos trabajos han creado muchas expectativas sobre el anuncio del Puerto a Gran Escala (PGE) en la ciudad de San Antonio.
Desde aquí, la media vista
La Av. Antonio Núñez de Fonseca conecta San Antonio y Cartagena (además de todos los otros balnearios ubicados al norte), y justo cuando esta avenida deja la ciudad existe una curva que entrega una increíble panorámica al Puerto de San Antonio (con ambos terminales portuarios), al Océano Pacífico y también hacia el sur, con una buena vista hacia Rocas de Santo Domingo e incluso hasta sectores ubicados en la Región de O´Higgins (visto desde un avión o Google Earth, San Antonio está en una suerte de herradura) cuando el viento sur está fuerte
The colourful but obscure area in the Cepheus Milky Way that contains the Lion Nebula (at bottom), a region emitting both red Hydrogen-alpha light and cyan Oxygen III light. It is a nebula that only recently became popular as an astrophoto target, perhaps because of its new nickname and from the use of narrowband filters to bring it out. It is not in the popular Messier, NGC or IC catalogues but is officially labeled as Sharpless 2-132. Meanwhile at top, the brightest nebula is the even more obscure Sharpless 2-135, alongside a very faint band of nebulosity that might not have a catalogue number — I couldn't find one!
The nebulosity at top is a deeper red than the Lion Nebula, as the top area of sky contains more dark dust absorbing and reddening the nebulosity and also decreasing the star density and yellowing the sky compared to the richer, brighter and bluer region at bottom to the south around the Lion.
There is a very small (like a fuzzy red star) planetary nebula just right of centre called the Little Ring Nebula, or M2-51, from the Minkowski catalogue. Another tiny planetary in the extreme lower left corner is Abell 79. The field of view here is 5° by 3.3°, with north up.
The star at upper left is the famous variable and double star Delta Cephei. The yellow star at right is Zeta Cephei.
This is a stack of 48 sub-frames taken over two nights, all with the SharpStar 94mm EDPH refractor at f/4.4 and the Canon Ra camera:
- A stack of 16 x 8-minute exposures with a "clear" filter, an Astronomik UV/IR cut filter at ISO 800
- A stack of 16 x 12-minute exposures through an IDAS NB1 dual-narrowband filter at ISO 1600
- A stack of 16 x 16-minute exposures through an IDAS NBX dual ultra-narrowband filter at ISO 1600. This set was shot on night #2 as there was not enough time to shoot it on the same night at the other sets.
The clear filter set contributes the sky background and natural star colours. The NB1 filter set contributes most of the red H-alpha component, while the "extreme" NBX filter contributes mostly the cyan OIII emission which the Lion Nebula has in abundance, somewhat unusually for an emission nebula.
All stacked, aligned, merged and masked in Photoshop 2021. Luminosity masks with Lumenzia helped bring out the faint nebulosity.
Taken from home. Autoguided with the MGEN3 autoguider applying a dithering move between each exposure average out thermal noise when aligning and stacking. No LENR or dark frames were employed on this frosty night! At one point late on night 2 the little guidescope frosted over as the guide star was lost. Hair dryer to the rescue!
The building's residences contain floor to ceiling windows.
Units in this high-rise offer spectacular views over the Atlantic Ocean, downtown Miami, and Biscayne Bay.
The 29th floor is was designed for amenities, including a health spa and gymnasium.
This residential tower contains one to four bedroom floorplans.
The unit prices range from about US $500,000 to $8,000,000 as of summer 2005.
The building contains an impressive four story lobby.
The tower was designed with laminated glass windows in order to protect residences from extreme atmospheric conditions.
All of the glass used in the construction of the tower underwent wind tunnel and missile impact tests.
This structure surpassed La Gorce Palace in 1997 as the tallest building in Miami Beach, and was the city's tallest until completion of Blue and Green Diamond in 2000.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
www.emporis.com/buildings/128241/portofino-tower-miami-be...
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152 070-9 mit einem Containerzug aus Hamburg Altenwerder auf der KBS 110 zwischen Winsen und Lüneburg bei Sangenstedt
152 070-9 with a container train from Hamburg Altenwerder on the KBS 110 between Winsen and Lüneburg near Sangenstedt
Five wildfires – the biggest of which are the Palisades and the Eaton fires – are still currently burning (as of 10 January 2025) in areas of north Los Angeles. At least 10 people are known to have lost their lives and many more properties have been burnt to the ground.
This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on 9 January 2025, shows the Palisades fire at lower left and the Eaton fire at upper right, with smoke seen reaching Catalina Island and the Santa Barbara reserve to the south of the fires.
See also the image of 7 Jan just after fires broke out.
Copernicus Sentinel-3 measures Earth’s oceans, land, ice and atmosphere to monitor and understand large-scale global dynamics. It provides essential information in near-real time for ocean and weather forecasting.
Credits: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2025), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
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London | Architecture | Night Photography
EXPLORE # 281
We had another wet night and day in London, it just didnt stop! i just managed to take a couple of reflection shots in London at night in Covent Garden ;-)
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Covent Garden (pronounced /ˈkɒvənt/) is a district in London, England, located in the easternmost parts of the City of Westminster and the southwestern corner of the London Borough of Camden. The area is dominated by shopping, street performers, and entertainment facilities, and it contains an entrance to the Royal Opera House, which is also widely-known simply as "Covent Garden", and the bustling Seven Dials area.
The area is bounded by High Holborn to the north, Kingsway to the east, the Strand to the south and Charing Cross Road to the west. Covent Garden Piazza is located in the geographical centre of the area and was the site of a flower, fruit and vegetable market from the 1500s until 1974, when the wholesale market relocated to New Covent Garden Market in Nine Elms. Nearby areas include Soho, St James's, Bloomsbury, and Holborn
In 1913, responding to political feeling against large holdings of real property, and wishing to diversify his investment portfolio into less politically sensitive fields, the Duke of Bedford agreed to sell the Covent Garden Estate to the MP and land speculator Harry Mallaby-Deeley for £2 million. The following year Mallaby-Deeley sold his option to buy to the pill manufacturer Sir Joseph Beecham for £250,000. After delays caused by the First World War and the death of Sir Joseph, the sale was finalised in 1918, the purchasers being Sir Joseph's two sons, Sir Thomas and Henry. The transaction included the market, 231 other properties, and sundry other rights. The property was part of Beecham Estates and Pills Limited from 1924 to 1928 and from 1928 it was owned by a successor company called Covent Garden Properties Company Limited, owned by the Beechams and other private investors. This new company sold some properties at Covent Garden, while becoming active in property investment in other parts of London. In 1962 the bulk of the remaining properties in the Covent Garden area, including the market, were sold to the newly established government-owned Covent Garden Authority for £3,925,000.[3]
By the end of the 1960s, traffic congestion in the surrounding area had reached such a level that the use of the square as a market, which required increasingly large lorries for deliveries and distribution, was becoming unsustainable. The whole area was threatened with complete redevelopment. Following a public outcry, in 1973 the Home Secretary, Robert Carr, gave dozens of buildings around the square listed building status, preventing redevelopment. The following year the market finally moved to a new site (called the New Covent Garden Market) about three miles (5 km) south-west at Nine Elms. The square languished until its central building re-opened as a shopping centre and tourist attraction in 1980. Today the shops largely sell novelty items, though street performers can be seen almost every day of the year, both on the pitches within the market, and on the West and East Piazza's/James Street outside. More serious shoppers gravitate to Long Acre, which has a range of clothes shops and boutiques, and Neal Street, noted for its large number of shoe shops. London's Transport Museum and the side entrance to the Royal Opera House box office and other facilities are also located on the Piazza.
In August 2007, Covent Garden launched the UK's first food Night Market. Fresh produce from over 35 different stalls included Neal's Yard's specialist cheeses, Spore Boys' mushroom sandwiches, Gourmet Candy Company, Ginger Pig sausages and Burnt Sugar fudge. The aim of the Night Market was to bring Covent Garden back to its roots as the "Larder of London". Organisers are hoping to make it a permanent event in 2008 as part of a wider initiative to regenerate interest in the Covent Garden area.
Covent Garden Market and Piazza was bought by Capital and Counties in August 2006 for £421 million.[4] In March 2007 Capco also acquired the shops located under the Royal Opera House.[5] The complete Covent Garden Estate owned by Capital and Counties consists of 550,000 sq ft (51,000 m2). and has a market value of £650 million.[4]
Covent Garden Market reopened as a retail centre in 1980, after the produce market was moved to its current location in Nine Elms. Currently one of the most famous and popular parts of the covered Covent Garden market is Apple Market, a small subsection of the main market. [6] Street entertainment at Covent Garden was first mentioned in Samuel Pepys' diary in 1662.[7] Today Covent Garden is the only part of London licensed for street entertainment with performers having to undertake auditions for the Market's management and representatives of the performers' union and signing up to timetabled slots.
Currently performers operate in a number of venues around the market, including the North Hall, West Piazza, and South Hall Courtyard. The courtyard space is dedicated to classical music only. There are street performances at Covent Garden Market every day of the year, except Christmas Day. Shows run throughout the day and are 30–40 minutes in length.
In March 2008, Capital and Counties proposed to reduce street performances by approximately 50%. In the Courtyard, shows currently run back to back from 10:30 am to 7:00 pm, with short breaks in between each show, allowing for two shows each hour. Under the new proposal, performances would be cut to one 30-minute show each hour. The musicians and performers staged a demonstration "busk" in the Piazza against these cuts on 27 March with the opera singer Lesley Garrett who is supporting their campaign.[8] They have organised a petition which so far has over 5,000 signatures including Ken Livingstone, Brian Paddick, Vasko Vassilev, Brian Eno and Victoria Wood.
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London Rain at Night ....in Covent Garden ~~~~
Darwin Harbour is the body of water close to Darwin in the Australian Northern Territory. It opens to the north at a line from Charles Point in the west to Lee Point in the east into the Beagle Gulf and connects via the Clarence Strait with the Van Diemen Gulf. It contains Port Darwin, which is flanked by Frances Bay to the east and Cullen Bay to the west.
Name
It was named after the naturalist Charles Darwin who sailed with Robert Fitzroy on the ship HMS Beagle around parts of Australia. However, Darwin and Fitzroy sailed in 1836 from King George's Sound (Western Australia) directly to the Cocos-Keeling Islands, at the south coast of Java, and from there to Cape Town and back to England. They stayed thus away from Darwin Harbour by 3000 sea miles and did not know of its existence.
Climate
The climate of the Darwin Harbour region is monsoon tropical with two distinct seasons: the Dry and the Wet. The Dry lasts for 6 months between April and September with an average rainfall of 24 mm, whereas the Wet lasts between October and March with an average monthly rainfall of 254 mm/month (according to the Bureau of Meteorology, 1999). The majority of the rain falls between December and April. Runoff varies between 250–1000 mm. Riverine discharge is relatively low with the exception of the Blackmore River and Elizabeth River. Peak flow for these rivers occurs in February, respectively 605Ml/day and 389 Ml/day, after which it slowly decreases until July when there is no freshwater input into Darwin Harbour until the onset of the following wet season (Padovan 1997). Cyclone frequency is low to moderate.
Marine life
Darwin Harbour supports very high fish diversity with 415 fish species now known. Darwin Harbour provides a unique opportunity to see dugongs in the wild, because their favourite food is located off Casuarina and Vestey’s beaches. Seagrass meadows are also the main diet of green turtles and provide habitats for many smaller marine animals including commercially important species such as prawns and fish.
Oceanography
The tides at Port Darwin are macro-tidal with a maximum tidal range of 7.8 m, a mean spring range of 5.5 m and a mean neap range of 1.9 m (Padovan, 1997). The currents caused by these tides are complex and strong.
Estuaries
The Elizabeth River Bridge across Elizabeth River, upstream the East Arm of Darwin Harbour
Darwin Harbour is a drowned river valley and consist of ria shorelines and extensive headlands.
Catchment
The catchment of Darwin Harbour occupies a total area of approximately 3,230 square kilometres (1,247 sq mi), of this 2,010 square kilometres (776 sq mi) is land based and the other 1,220 square kilometres (471 sq mi) are estuarine areas at the high water mark.
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"Salt & Light" is my new monograph softcover book, containing the first installment of my "Mojave Monochrome" Project.
These are often called, "Zines." However, calling this publication a zine sells it a bit short. This is a genuine softcover portfolio book, or "monograph." What is a monograph? A monograph is a collection of images and writing from an artist that strives to tell a cohesive visual story through art and writing. It is usually a "project," or series of images created around a central theme.
Why would you want to buy something like this? You view images all the time for free on the internet. However, they rarely fit together to tell a story, much less through creative art. The writing that accompanies most online images is rushed and very brief. This writing is long-form literary prose and is designed to be read slowly and in print. Likewise, my images are created to be seen in person, not on a screen. There is no substitute for holding a printed work of art in your hands in real life. Further, none of the nearly 6000 words of writing in this book is available online, as it was all authored specifically for print. All the images were made on black & white medium format film using the camera in this picture, specifically for this project.
If you would like to join in on my adventures or see a little behind my creative process, this book is an easy and affordable way to do that, and support my work in the process. It is an inspiring, uplifting, and beautiful piece of work that can become a part of your personal library and art collection. I hope you will consider buying one for yourself, and for anyone in your life who may appreciate art and literature.
I'm asking you to please consider enriching your life and supporting my artwork by purchasing one today for just $14.99 for the print edition, or only $7.99 for the digital eBook edition, at lowerylandscapes.com/saltandlight. You know you will enjoy it!
Vivía con miedo al mañana y un día aquello que tanto temía cobró vida... con el tiempo pensó que necesitaba de él para vivir. La costumbre se convirtió en necesidad y la necesidad en obsesión. Permaneció sumisa, sujetando los temores que en cualquier momento pudo apartar. Era una acumulación de miedo que terminaría por estallar.
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She lived in fear of tomorrow and one day what she feared came to life ... over time she thought needed that to live. Custom became necessity and necessity became obsession. She remained submissive, holding the fears that at any moment she could push away. It was an accumulation of fear that would eventually explode.
This picture contains so many of my passions.
First of all - the photography itself. I love to take pictures of beautiful, impressive landscapes. Especially in the mountains.
And my newest but by now most intense passion is mountain biking. I'm a newbie, but I have fun riding trails and learn how to manage my fears about falling down ;-).
And because all of this I visited Whistler in August. And I definitely have to come back. With my bike. And with friends. And then I will not only copy the mountains, I will defeat them by bike!
die bunte Vielfalt der Container auf den dicken Pötten gefällt mir immer wieder sehr ... hier mehrfach doppelt gelegt ... bis zur Fotokunst ... (für mich ;-))
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Seitdem ein regionales Sägewerk den Güterbahnhof in Wiesau erworben hat, herrscht dort reges Treiben. So kommt dort mindestens einmal werktags auch der Containerzug aus Hamburg an, wird entladen und beladen und fährt am gleichen Tag wieder in die Hansestadt. 223 143 hat den Zug in Hof übernommen und befindet sich nun auf den letzten Metern zum Zielbahnhof Wiesau.
This museum contains the works and personal effects of 3 of the most important Scottish writers - Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Burns, and Sir Walter Scott. It's located in a square that is easily missed - Lady Stair's Close just off the Royal Mile at Lawnmarket.
The house was built in 1622 as a private home. Admission to the museum is free.
Boxes left the house and were put in the container. This container will now head back to Southampton and begin it's journey to meet us in the US. Safe travels to our big red box!
Captrain 185 649-1 mit einem Containerzug auf der KBS 100 zwischen Hamburg und Büchen in Schwarzenbek
Captrain 185 649-1 with a container train on the KBS 100 between Hamburg and Büchen in Schwarzenbek
Contains 4 items:
• Minigun - in one of 20 colors
• Ray Gun - in one of 25 colors (including red, blue, light and dark chromes, and 24K gold (1:100)!)
• Tactical Sword - in one of 25 colors ((including red, blue, light and dark chromes, and 24K gold (1:100)! )
• Bloody Spattered Camo - on one of 8 different weapons - perhaps even 24k Gold! (1:100)
PLUS 1:100 packs will contain a prototype BrickArms weapon!
Available at most of my authorized resellers on 10/1.
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Resellers get these in sealed cases (bags) of 25 sealed packs.
Within each case, exactly one of the packs will contain either a gold item (gold Ray Gun, gold Tactical Sword, or gold Bloody Camo) OR a prototype.
The Bay of Cádiz is one of those magical places containing the necessary ingredients for the creation and development of flamenco. The city of Cádiz itself was the gateway to commerce and immigration, mostly from the Spanish colonies in America and Africa, making it a diverse and authentic melting-pot of cultures.
The existing music – Arabic, Jewish, Castilian and Roma – was refreshed by new sounds and rhythms from indigenous South American, African and Caribbean singers who expressed their emotions through ancestral song. Moreover, we should not forget that Roma men who were captured during the Great Raid of 1749 were confined here. From this primary mixture came lamentations in the form of expressive music that extended to the Spanish Roma community of the area.
It was in this same city, although much later on, that Antonia Gilabert Vargas was born on 19 June 1924, in its most ‘typically flamenco’ neighbourhood of Santa María. She would become known as ‘La Perla de Cádiz’, a Roma flamenco singer who is considered to be the most significant female voice of Cádiz flamenco.
Her destiny was marked from birth: her parents, guitarist Juan Gilabert and singer Rosa Vargas, known as ‘Rosa la Papera’, were well-known artists, and so flamenco was part of everyday life at home. Antonia soon drew attention to herself with her passion for singing. Her great talent was matched by her fervour, and she had two excellent teachers in her parents. According to her biographer, Félix Rodríguez,
‘La Perla had flamenco singing in her blood more than in her head. Her beginnings were forged in that melting-pot of flamenco maestros known as the Santa María neighbourhood and, without realising it, almost unconsciously, she had all the majesty, essence, rhythm and duende – the particular magic of flamenco singing – in her voice.’
At long last the stage was set for Cádiz to have the great cantaora it so deserved, but personal circumstances delayed her artistic success. In 1948 she married Roma flamenco artist Francisco Torres, known as ‘Curro la Gamba’, who did not allow his wife to become a performer. But her destiny was written in the stars, and so ‘La Perla de Cádiz’ would indeed go on to conquer the world of flamenco, if a little later than she had imagined.
In 1959, she won first prize in the category bulerías and alegrías at the Concurso Nacional de Arte Flamenco, Córdoba’s national flamenco singing contest – an important accolade because the contest was highly regarded in flamenco circles. Her performance was such a triumph because it came as a real surprise for the audience of aficionados, flamencologists and critics, and was resoundingly praised in the press. Flamenco fans had discovered in ‘La Perla de Cádiz’ a singer with personality who was also innovative in her interpretations of styles that were based on centuries-old foundations and used fixed structures. She entered that select artistic Olympus of the type: ‘…so-and-so sings bulerías or alegrías like La Perla’.
There followed a decade marked by professional fulfilment and triumph for ‘La Perla’. In Madrid she was received with open arms, and various flamenco tablaos in Spain’s capital (including Zambra, El Duende, Los Canasteros and Torres Bermejas) competed to hire her; the same was true in the tablaos of Seville (El Guajiro and Los Gallos), where the originality of her singing style was undeniable. At the same time, she toured throughout Spain, participating in well-known shows and sharing the bill at the most prestigious festivals. As a result of her success in Madrid, she was in high demand with major recording companies such as Columbia, Hispavox, Fontana, Zafiro and Belter, which sought to immortalise her voice and her stylised way of singing on vinyl. Her ten recordings in the space of twelve years have now gone down in the history of Cádiz flamenco.
Unfortunately, the splendour of ‘La Perla de Cádiz’ was short-lived, as she passed away aged just fifty-one. But like a rose, her fragrance lived on in the musical memory of everyone who was lucky enough to have heard her. The great Niña de los Peines claimed to be an admirer of her art, and Camarón de la Isla himself soaked up her ways to become one of her most faithful disciples.
Days after her death in Cádiz on 14 September 1975, Amós Rodríguez Rey, a poet from her hometown who admired her greatly, wrote in his Impresiones:
‘A rich voice resonating with the awareness of belonging to a sad people is gone from us forever, among the monotonous murmuring of the waves that so often accompanied the songs, which could never be happy because that is not the nature of bulerías. The flamenco of La Perla de Cai [sic] was always profound and authentic, these were the sounds of a wounded heart […] La Perla possessed the rare quality of convincing her audience and subordinating them to her artistic will. Her versatile and velvety voice expertly prepared for the highpoint of the cantes, and then, in the most natural manner, without exertion or artifice, she moved from sheer power to the most graceful tenderness.
She expressed her thinking as a singer with tones full of subtle nuances, simple and extraordinarily noble, and the strength of her expression was always matched by the force of her feelings.’
(Diario de Cádiz, 21 September 1975)
Text courtesy of www.romarchive.eu/
The jumping spider family (Salticidae) contains more than 500 described genera and about 5,000 described species,making it the largest family of spiders with about 13% of all species.Jumping spiders have some of the best vision among arthropods and use it in courtship, hunting, and navigation. Although they normally move unobtrusively and fairly slowly, most species are capable of very agile jumps, notably when hunting, but sometimes in response to sudden threats or crossing long gaps. Both their book lungs and the tracheal system are well-developed, and they use both systems (bimodal breathing). Jumping spiders are generally recognized by their eye pattern. All jumping spiders have four pairs of eyes with one pair being their particularly large anterior median eyes.
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The vast fields that contain the usually narrow flow of the Tama river, are lush green because of the water they get from the river.
The open air, occasionally marked by a bare tree, make them an excellent playground for these children to run around, or this person to read a book. The bird perched on the top of the bare tree is probably enjoying the breeze too.
Note - this photo contains a bit of a 'figurative language puzzle'. If you want to solve the puzzle and figure out the idiom, don't read the dogversation until you've had a try at it.
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Dave: Alright, Eva. What's going on here?
Eva: I thought I should own up to some of my past actions.
Dave: Really? You're going to own up to being a difficult puppy who terrorized the kids, my ankles, the furniture, and sweet old golden retriever Kael?
Eva: Nope. Can't address that because it never happened.
Dave: We may have to disagree a bit on that one.
Eva: Only if you refuse to change your memories.
Dave: If it's not being a general terror, what past actions are you owning up to?
Eva: Well, in my puppy years I did like to chew on the kid's toys. Some Playmobil mammals suffered horribly.
Dave: Agreed. But why does it say "incidents that may or may not have occurred"?
Eva: I gotta leave myself some wiggle room. Never accept full responsibility, that's my motto. Unless it's praise and cookies are being handed out. Then always accept full responsibility.
Dave: Makes sense. But, why did you only list the zebra, giraffe, and lion? You're leaving the elephant out.
Eva: I can't address her.
Dave: Really? You can't address the elephant in the room?
Eva: Yup. Can't do it. I don't know if that saying is an idiom or hard core rule. And you know me, I never ever break the rules.
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A bit of a long walk to get to this idiom of "being unable to address the elephant in the room".
I had this shot in mind for more than a year, but for some reason it kept getting pushed off. The Playmobil animals were by where I keep my camera, so I was ignoring them every time I went to do photos. I guess it was time for me to finally address the elephant in the room and do this photo.
This is also a continuation of my Playmobil and dogs photos.
Kuwait City (Arabic: مدينة الكويت, transliteration: Madīnat al-Kūwait), is the capital and largest city of Kuwait. It has an estimated population of 63,600 (2006 estimate) within city limits and 2.38 million in the metropolitan area. Located at the heart of the country on the shore of the Persian Gulf, and containing Kuwait's parliament (Majlis Al-Umma), most governmental offices, the headquarters of most Kuwaiti corporations and banks, it is the indisputable political, cultural and economic center of the emirate.
The Liberation Tower (2nd highest building on the right of the photo) is the highest structure in Kuwait. Construction of the tower commenced before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. It was meant to be called The Kuwait Telecommunications Tower. When the invasion took place, construction, which was almost half-way complete, was put on hold. However, the structure received no damage, and construction resumed after Saddam Hussein's forces were expelled on February 27, 1991. Upon completion in 1993, the tower was renamed the Liberation Tower, symbolizing Kuwait's liberation from Iraq. The tower contains a revolving restaurant and observation platform (in the first disc-shaped pod; now closed to the public for security reasons), and also houses radio and other telecommunications offices. The structure stands at 372 meters high (1,220 ft) at its pinnacle. The roof of the second pod on the tower is 308 meters high (1,010 ft). It is similar to the CN Tower because both contain a revolving restaurant, observation platform, telecommunications equipment and the same look.
As in all Middle East, the city skyline is constantly changing also in Kuwait City . The tower on the very right is a new addition to the city scape. Weather across Middle East has changed in last few days and Kuwait is experiencing humidity over 80% from its usual 10%. Change of weather has brought some clouds to Kuwaiti sky, which beautifully enhance colors in the evening sky.
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Containing a village of relocated authentic structures recreating indigenous architecture, customs, and folk culture from the region.
Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük
Two hills form the 37 ha site on the Southern Anatolian Plateau. The taller eastern mound contains eighteen levels of Neolithic occupation between 7400 bc and 6200 bc, including wall paintings, reliefs, sculptures and other symbolic and artistic features. Together they testify to the evolution of social organization and cultural practices as humans adapted to a sedentary life. The western mound shows the evolution of cultural practices in the Chalcolithic period, from 6200 bc to 5200 bc. Çatalhöyük provides important evidence of the transition from settled villages to urban agglomeration, which was maintained in the same location for over 2,000 years. It features a unique streetless settlement of houses clustered back to back with roof access into the buildings.
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The vast archaeological site of Çatalhöyük comprises two tells rising up to 20 meters above the Konya plain on the Southern Anatolian Plateau. Excavations of the Eastern tell have revealed 18 levels of Neolithic occupation dating from 7,400-6,200 BC that have provided unique evidence of the evolution of prehistoric social organisation and cultural practices, illuminating the early adaptation of humans to sedentary life and agriculture. The Western tell excavations primarily revealed Chalcolithic occupation levels from 6,200-5,200 BC, which reflect the continuation of the cultural practices evident in the earlier Eastern mound.
Çatalhöyük is a very rare example of a well-preserved Neolithic settlement and has been considered one of the key sites for understanding human Prehistory for some decades. The site is exceptional for its substantial size and great longevity of the settlement, its distinctive layout of back-to-back houses with roof access, the presence of a large assemblage of features including wall paintings and reliefs representing the symbolic world of the inhabitants. On the basis of the extensively documented research at the site, the above features make it the most significant human settlement documenting early settled agricultural life of a Neolithic community.
Criterion (iii): Çatalhöyük provides a unique testimony to a moment of the Neolithic, in which the first agrarian settlements were established in central Anatolia and developed over centuries from villages to urban centres, largely based on egalitarian principles. The early principles of these settlements have been well preserved through the abandonment of the site for several millennia. These principles can be read in the urban plan, architectural structures, wall paintings and burial evidence. The stratigraphy of up to 18 settlement layers provides an exceptional testimony to the gradual development, re-shaping and expansion of the settlement.
Criterion (iv): The house clusters of Çatalhöyük, characterized by their streetless neighbourhoods, dwellings with roof access, and house types representing a highly circumscribed distribution of activity areas and features according to a clear spatial order aligned on cardinal directions, form an outstanding settlement type of the Neolithic period. The comparable sizes of the dwellings throughout the city illustrate an early type of urban layout based on community and egalitarian ideals.
Integrity
The excavated remains of the prehistoric settlement spanning 2,000 years are preserved in situ in good condition, and are completely included in the property boundaries. The two archaeological mounds rise from the surrounding plain and constitute a distinctive landscape feature which has preserved its visual integrity. Shelters constructed above the two main excavation areas protect the archaeological structures from direct effects of the climate and thereby reduce the immediate dangers of rainfall and erosion.
Authenticity
The archaeological remains of Çatalhöyük have retained authenticity in material, substance, location and setting.Over forty years of well-documented research and excavation at the site bear testimony to the site’s readability as an early Neolithic settlement and thereby its authenticity. The site and excavations are well preserved. The physical mass and scale of the mounds have not much altered since the site was first discovered in 1958.
Protection and management requirements
The property is protected at the highest level as an ancient monument under the Turkish Directorate General of Monuments by Law 2863/1983 on the Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage amended in 1987 and 2004. It was registered as a conservation site on the national inventory of 1981 by the Superior Council for Immovable Antiquities and Monuments. According to these instruments, local authorities are also responsible for the property’s protection.
The management of the site is supervised by the Çatalhöyük Coordination and Supervision Council (CSC), an Advisory Board and a Management Plan team. A site manager has been formally appointed and a Management Plan team including experts from the excavation team in Çatalhöyük and the departments related to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism has also been established. On the basis of the experience gained with a previous management plan drafted in 2004, the new management plan to be adopted shall contain specific sections on visitor management, access, education, risk preparedness and involvement of the local community and is announced to be finalized in late 2012.The provision of regular financial and human resources, as well as a dedicated archive for documentation of excavation and conservation activities are key to the management system.
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Individual Lithops plants consist of one or more pairs of bulbous, almost fused leaves opposite to each other and hardly any stem. The slit between the leaves contains the meristem and produces flowers and new leaves. The leaves of Lithops are mostly buried below the surface of the soil, with a partially or completely translucent top surface or window allowing light to enter the interior of the leaves for photosynthesis.
During winter a new leaf pair, or occasionally more than one, grows inside the existing fused leaf pair. In spring the old leaf pair parts to reveal the new leaves and the old leaves will then dry up. Lithops leaves may shrink and disappear below ground level during drought. Lithops in habitat almost never have more than one leaf pair per head, the environment is just too arid to support this. Yellow or white flowers emerge from the fissure between the leaves after the new leaf pair has fully matured, one per leaf pair. This is usually in autumn, but can be before the summer equinox in L. pseudotruncatella and after the winter equinox in L. optica. The flowers are often sweetly scented. We had a few days of unseasonally warm weather which obviously made the plant think it was spring hence the new leaves appearing.
The most startling adaptation of Lithops is the colouring of the leaves. The leaves are not green as in almost all higher plants, but various shades of cream, grey, and brown, patterned with darker windowed areas, dots, and red lines. The markings on the top surface disguise the plant in its surroundings
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Corkscrew Swamp contains over two miles of distinct boardwalk built out of unprocessed Brazilian wood which is healthier for the surrounding swamp. It is a must see for another nature lovers in southwest Florida.
The Shambles Square which contains Grade II Listed Buildings, in Manchester, Greater Manchester.
"Shambles" was a name originally used for a street of butchers shops where meat was slaughtered and sold. It is derived from the Middle English word schamel, which meant a bench, as for displaying meat for sale. A shambles would have had blood, pieces of meat and offal running down the gutter, and although the original meaning of the word fell into disuse, it survived as a word meaning a scene of disorder.
The building that is now The Old Wellington Inn was built in 1552 next to Manchester's market square. In 1554, it was purchased by the Byrom family and became part residence and part drapers shop. The writer John Byrom was born there in 1692. The premises were licensed in 1862 and became the Vintners Arms, then the Kenyon Vaults and later The Old Wellington Inn. The building was extended in the 18th century to house John Shaw's Punch House.
The butchers' stalls were moved from the market place in the Old Shambles to new premises in Brown Street, built by the Lord of the Manor, Sir Oswald Mosley, in 1827. Many of the buildings in the market place were demolished in the Victorian era to make way for road improvements and the rest were destroyed in the Manchester Blitz in 1940, leaving The Shambles as one of the few pre-19th century buildings, and The Wellington Inn as the only surviving Tudor building in Manchester City Centre.
In 1974, most of the old property between Shudehill and Market Street was demolished to accommodate the new Arndale Shopping Centre. The Shambles was underpinned with a concrete raft and jacked-up 4 feet 9 inches to fit in with this development in the newly created Shambles Square. In 1998, £12m funding was provided by the government-sponsored Redevelopment Agency English Partnerships, private companies, the European Community and Manchester City Council to redevelop Shambles Square. The buildings were subsequently dismantled and moved 300 metres northwards to their present location. The Old Wellington Inn and Sinclair's were rebuilt at 90 degrees to each other and joined together by a stone extension to form two sides of the new Shambles Square.
The third side of the square is fronted by The Mitre Hotel which was built as The Old Church Tavern in 1815. Prince Charles Edward Stuart is said to have reviewed his troops by the tavern in 1745. It was renamed The Mitre Hotel around 1835.
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