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Let me take you on a brief musical journey through my past... music has always been one of the most important components of my life. My dad is a guitarist and music lover, and his huge blaring stereo (all 500w of it) provided a constant background to my childhood. The first LP I bought was a Beatles compilation when I was about 8.
At the age of 10 I was in awe of Adam Ant. A year later I was a mod, dancing to The Who, The Jam and The Small Faces (and the odd bit of ska) at the local youth club.
By the time I got to my mid teens I was getting into metal (the heavier the better). Then later on indie, industrial, goth, etc. etc... But in between all that from the age of 12 to 14 I was really into this new style of music which you may have heard of called 'Hip Hop'.
My dad got me into rap in 1982, when he imported the first Grandmaster Flash album ('The Message') - his love of funk also contributing heavily (Prince Charles (the other one), George Clinton, early Prince, etc). But when rap really started breaking into the mainstream in the mid-80s, I lapped it up.
I would watch the movie 'Breakdance' on repeat play until the video broke; practice my (dire) human-beatboxing; and listen to my three favourite 12" singles:
- '(Nothing Serious) Just Buggin' ' by Whistle ;
- 'Bang Zoom! Let's Go Go!' by The Real Roxanne with Hitman Howie Tee;
- and the seminal 'The Show' by Doug E Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew (otherwise know as 'that song with the Inspector Gadget hook').
And here they still all are... complete with original price tags (£2.79p - from E.G.S and Son in Wakefield).
For a few years rap got better and better - and it almost seemed like it was growing and maturing with me (with the likes of Public Enemy and NWA). Which just makes me feel really bitter about all of the self-centred, 'Bitch/Ho/Bling' crap of the last fifteen years or so... But I guess it happens to all musical genres as they are subsumed by the marketing gurus and money men. The originators remain pennyless - but their morals intact - while the insipid pretenders milk the cash cow until it's dry. Give me Melle Mel over Jay Z anyday.
Gah... anyway. Listening to these EPs now just makes me feel young and FRESH all over again. Check it- check it out.
(Oh, and new prescription shades y'all!)
Photographed on an afternoon with great clouds at Lindo Lake in Lakeside, California. I would always like to have clouds, water and healthy vegetation in all of my infrared pictures as I think those elements contribute to building a strong image. I used channel swapping to turn the sky blue. I do use a polarizing filter with infrared because I think it accentuates the effect. Here is a link to a tutorial on playing with infrared images. www.lifepixel.com/photo-tutorials/infrared-photoshop-videos
I've been taking infrared images for at least 15 years with a total of 3 different cameras. It's much easier to take infrared images digitally that it was in the film days. If you like this look, I have an album of infrared photographs, creatively named Infrared.
Yes a Giant african snail in the Philippines, but not only, it's pretty wide spread now throughout the pacifique and asia.
It's latin name: Achatina fulica
Identification: Full grown Achatina fulica reach up to 20 cm in length and 12 cm in maximum diameter. The dark and light brown (sometimes more of a cream color) swirls wrap around its cone like shell. Its convex body allows for about 7 to 9 whorls. The outlines of the whorls fluctuate from narrow to broad even within the same colony. An adult Achatina Fulica’s lip opening is generally very thin and sharp. The shell itself is thick and strong if healthy (needs a high calcium diet). The rest of the body resembles a slug like appearance with a variance in color.
Original Distribution: Achatina fulica originates from coastal East Africa particularly Kenya and Tanzania. First sightings occurred before the 1800’s.
Current Distribution: Giant African Snails can be found in most southern hemisphere countries, eg. throughout Africa, Indian Ocean Islands, Australia, New Zealand, South America. In addition, these snails have been identified in Southern, Southeastern and Eastern Asia, Polynesia and other Pacific Islands, West Indies and the United States. Typically, Giant African Snails have been found along the coastline and in southern states of the USA. However, sightings have also occurred in Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio. These snails thrive in humid, tropical climates.
Site and Date of Introduction: As indicated in the map below, introduction of Giant African Snails dates back to the early 1800’s. These snails spread throughout East Africa into Ethiopa, Somalia, Mozambique, and Madagasar. Interestingly, they were not sighted in northern Africa until the late 1980’s.
The first occurrence of these snails outside of Africa was Bengal, India in 1847. Since then, the Giant African Snail has been transported mistakenly and purposefully throughout the countries listed in the above section.
Giant African Snails were first spotted in the US in the late 1940’s around San Pedro, California. Many of these snails were affixed to cargo imported to the US. Over 50 interceptions occurred within a ten year span (from 1948-1958) in the California ports.
In 1958, a young boy stashed Giant African Snails into his suitcase from his travels in Hawaii returning to California and driving to Arizona. Once the snails were discovered in his belongings, they family released them to the outdoors. Another very similar incident occurred in 1966, where another young boy visiting Hawaii decided to take a few Giant African Snails home to Miami, Florida to keep as pets and were released into the family’s garden. The Florida State eradication process took 10 years costing over one million dollars.
These snails continue to enter the US through illegal trade or in shipping containers and in plant shipments from the Hawaiian Islands, Guam and other Pacific Islands. Inspectors fairly easily identify these snails, intercept them and eradicate them.
Ecological Role: Achatina fulica forage on over 500 different plant species. During less favorable conditions (dry, cool), they nest in lose soil for during their period of hibernation. One may postulate that this behavior promotes health in the soil as the soil is churned and as matter from the snail settles into the soil. However, with over population, the snails destroy and pollute their surroundings, including the soil.
Benefit(s): Giant African Snails contribute to the degradation of animal matter. In addition, the Giant African Snail provides nutrients to the India glowworm Beetle; specifically to the larvae (male larvae consume 20 to 40 Achatinas; female larvae eat 40 to 60 Achatinas during their development). Other beetle species consume the Achatina fulica, such as the lampyriad and the coprine beetle.
The hermit crab is one of the most dangerous predators to the Achatina fulica and has been known to use the shell as its home. The coconut crab also views the Achatina fulica as a delicacy. The domesticated duck along with a vast variety of other bird species forage on Giant African Snails. Other mammals such as the wild pig prey on Achatina fulica.
Threat(s): The Giant African Snails’ greatest lethal threat to humans is eosinophilic meningitis. This condition is caused by the rat lungworm parasite, angiostrongylus cantonesnsis. Most often this parasite is transferred by eating the snail, as some humans consider snails a delicacy. In addition the Giant African Snail can carry the gram-negative bacterium, aeromonas hydrophila, causing a wide variety of symptoms, especially in persons with a weak immune system.
Giant African Snails cause great economic peril to farmers due to their propensity in consuming large amounts of crops/plants. Their diet consists of over 500 different plant species. A wide variety of horticulture and medicinal plants are known to be attacked by this snail. Not only does this decrease the income for agricultural producers, but it also impacts their living conditions (often requiring relocation) and decreases food and medical resources for humans, animals and other species.
The economic consequences persist in eradicating these creatures, sometimes costing millions of dollars. Another economic penalty involves the decrease in tourism. As noted earlier, Giant African Snails thrive in warm, tropical conditions – often tourist destinations.
The Rio della Ca'en Duo in Castello one of the six sestieri of Venice, Veneto, Italy.
The name Castello derives from fortifications located in the island of Olivolo, today the island of San Pietro di Castello, in the High Middle Ages.
There is the Basilica of San Pietro de Castello, the episcopal seat until 1807, the year of the transfer of the bishopric by Napoleon to the Basilica of San Marco, which until then had been the Doge's chapel used only for special occasions.
The Sestier de Castello is the most oriental of the city. It is divided in two by the imposing extent of land and water contained in the Arsenal, an old industrial engine and military-industrial complex serving the maritime power of the Serenissima.
Placed on the margins of the political center, Saint-Marc, and of the commercial center (Rialto) of the city, the Sestier always lived mainly on the activity of the Arsenal and on the maintenance and supplying needs of the ships; an activity that did not survive in the middle of the twentieth century when the technological development of production structures contributed to making this complex. inadequate.
The devastation and damage to the churches, convents and other buildings of the tip of Sant'Antonio and its surroundings in the nineteenth century led to the realization of the current public gardens and the realization of the Biennial of Art between 1894 and 1987.
The Pier Luigi Penzo Sports Stadium, the Francesco Morosini Naval Academy, and the urban area erected between 1924 and 1928 were built in the zone from the improvement of the lais around the small monastic island of Sant'Elena
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The Church of the Nativity, or Basilica of the Nativity is a basilica located in Bethlehem in the Palestinian West Bank. The grotto it contains holds a prominent religious significance to Christians of various denominations as the birthplace of Jesus. The grotto is the oldest site continuously used as a place of worship in Christianity, and the basilica is the oldest major church in the Holy Land.
The church was originally commissioned by Constantine the Great a short time after his mother Helena's visit to Jerusalem and Bethlehem in 325-326, on the site that was traditionally considered to be the birthplace of Jesus.[3][4] That original basilica was likely built between 330-333, being already mentioned in 333, and was dedicated on 31 May 339. It was destroyed by fire during the Samaritan revolts of the sixth century, possibly in 529, and a new basilica was built a number of years later by Byzantine Emperor Justinian (r. 527-565), who added a porch or narthex, and replaced the octagonal sanctuary with a cruciform transept complete with three apses, but largely preserved the original character of the building, with an atrium and a basilica consisting of a nave with four side aisles.
The Church of the Nativity, while remaining basically unchanged since the Justinianic reconstruction, has seen numerous repairs and additions, especially from the Crusader period, such as two bell towers (now gone), wall mosaics and paintings (partially preserved). Over the centuries, the surrounding compound has been expanded, and today it covers approximately 12,000 square meters, comprising three different monasteries: one Greek Orthodox, one Armenian Apostolic, and one Roman Catholic, of which the first two contain bell towers built during the modern era.
The silver star marking the spot where Christ was born was stolen in 1847. Some assert that this was a contributing factor in the Crimean War against the Russian Empire. Others assert that the war grew out of the wider European situation.
Since 2012, the Church of the Nativity is a World Heritage Site and was the first to be listed by UNESCO under 'Palestine'.
A 250-year-old understanding among religious communities, the Status Quo, applies to the site.
This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, depicts a special class of star-forming nursery known as Free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globules, or frEGGs for short. This object is formally known as J025157.5+600606.
When a massive new star starts to shine while still within the cool molecular gas cloud from which it formed, its energetic radiation can ionize the cloud’s hydrogen and create a large, hot bubble of ionized gas. Amazingly, located within this bubble of hot gas around a nearby massive star are the frEGGs: dark compact globules of dust and gas, some of which are giving birth to low-mass stars. The boundary between the cool, dusty frEGG and the hot gas bubble is seen as the glowing purple/blue edges in this fascinating image.
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sahai
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Early science results from NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter portray the largest planet in our solar system as a complex, gigantic, turbulent world, with Earth-sized polar cyclones, plunging storm systems that travel deep into the heart of the gas giant, and a mammoth, lumpy magnetic field that may indicate it was generated closer to the planet’s surface than previously thought.
This image shows Jupiter’s south pole, as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft from an altitude of 32,000 miles (52,000 kilometers). The oval features are cyclones, up to 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) in diameter. Multiple images taken with the JunoCam instrument on three separate orbits were combined to show all areas in daylight, enhanced color, and stereographic projection.
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Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Betsy Asher Hall/Gervasio Robles
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Sabiá-laranjeira: o pássaro dos poetas
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Rufous-bellied Thrush
Known as Sabiá-laranjeira in Brazil (Turdus rufiventris) this thrush is pretty common and this one was frantically trying to find its chick after a storm at the weekend had dislodged its nest.
The Sabiá, or Thrush, is known for the beauty of both its plumage and its song and is found all over Brazil, in 12 species, the best known of which is the Rufous-bellied Thrush, or Sabiá-laranjeira, Brazil’s national bird. Like many birds, it migrates north to the warm tropical zone in the winter and returns to the temperate zone when the climate in southern Brazil starts to get warm again. It lives alone or in pairs, in forests, parks, backyards and forested urban areas and can live 25 to 30 years. Hopping along the ground, it feeds on the coconuts from several species of palm tree, spitting out the pits after about an hour and contributing to the distribution of these plants. It also feeds on oranges and mature papayas, as well as insects and spiders. For years, the Sabiá has been celebrated in both writing and music , including in several very famous Brazilian poems and songs. Because of its widespread presence and popularity in Brazilian culture, the Brazilian Wildlife Preservation Association proposed that it be designated as an official national symbol of Brazil, a suggestion first made in 1968 that had gradually gained widespread public support by 1987, when a first (but unsuccessful) attempt was made to declare it Brazil’s national bird. Finally, on October 4, 2002, the Sabiá-laranjeira became the newest official symbol of Brazil, designated as the national bird in a Presidential Decree, which included for the first time its scientific name, “Turdus rufiventris.”
Nome científico: Turdos Rufiventris
Família: Turdídeios
Localização geográfica: regiões Centro Oeste, Sudeste e Sul do Brasil e mata atlântica.
O sabiá-laranjeira é uma ave brasileira, das mais populares, citada por diversos poetas como o pássaro que canta no tempo do amor, ou seja, na primavera.
O seu aspecto é de plumagem com cores que variam entre cinza claro a cinza escuro no dorso, o peito é esbranquiçado e o abdome varia de vermelho-ferrugem a marrom escuro na barriga, sendo que as tonalidades mudam conforme a região. Por exemplo, no nordeste brasileiro a cor do abdome é mais clara, amarelada.
Tamanho: 25cm.
Longevidade: em torno de 30 anos.
Na natureza prefere andar em casais, ao invés de em bando. Preferem as beiradas de matas, pomares, capoeiras, beiras de serras e estradas, praças e quintais, sempre por perto de água abundante. É um pássaro territorialista, e demarca uma área geográfica quando está em processo de reprodução e não aceita a presença de outras aves da espécie.
O canto
O sabiá-laranjeira, também conhecido como sabiá amarelo ou de peito roxo, é um dos melhores cantores do mundo. Seu canto é nostálgico e se assemelha ao som de uma flauta. É usado inclusive para conquistar as fêmeas antes do acasalamento.
O macho canta para ensinar os filhotes, ou seja, os pequeninos podem ser treinados e, se conviver desde pequeno com outras espécies, pode ser influenciado pelo canto delas e passar a ter um canto impuro.
Instalação: viveiros de no mínimo 1m de comprimento x 2m de altura x 2m de profundidade. O ninho é sólido, em forma de tigela, formado de ramos e fibras de raízes, com barro na base. Dentro é constituído de raízes finas e macias. Em cativeiro, pode ser um vaso de xaxim pequeno.
A higiene diária do viveiro é fundamental e é bom lembrar que o sabiá-laranjeira gosta de banhar-se com frequência.
Alimentação onívora: na natureza come no chão e nos galhos sementes, insetos, larvas, minhocas e frutas maduras, especialmente mamão e abacate.
Reprodução: os sabiás atingem a maturidade sexual aos 9 meses e se acasalam na primavera, sendo que a postura, que pode ocorrer até 3 vezes por temporada (de Setembro a Janeiro), é de 2 a 3 ovos. O período de incubação é de 15 dias.
Não há dimorfismo sexual, pois, ambos são iguais e a fêmea também canta, mas numa frequência bem menor que o macho.
Para o acasalamento, isola-se o macho num viveiro por 2 semanas. Coloca-se a fêmea e ouça o seu cortejo melodioso e nostálgico para atrai-la e incentivá-la à postura dos ovos.
Os filhotes devem ser mantidos com os pais por até pelo menos um mês, inclusive para aprender a cantar.
No Brasil podem ser encontradas outras espécies de sabiá, tais como:
Sabiá-Una;
Sabiá-Pardo;
Sabiá-Branco;
Sabiá-Coleira.
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1864
Niels Peter Clemmensen, looking back in time…..
Letters home....
Niels Peter Clemmensen passed away in 1931.
As a young man he was conscripted into the Danish armed forces and fought in the Danish/Prussian war of 1864. (1. Feb – 30. Oct. 1864)
I would like to thank Niels Peter’s Great-Grandson Kjeld for granting me access to the family’s treasure-trove of letters, paintings and photographs that form the basis of my photo-series, and for his permission to publicize my subsequent artwork.
This short-photo series, (which includes some of Niels Peter’s letters sent to his parents from the trenches in Southern Jutland), will also form an introduction to the family’s own private genealogical research. My sincere thanks for the trust in being able to contribute to the extensive digitalization of these letters, paintings and photographs.
See the complete 1864 album here:
Until the mid-1950s, the County Durham market town of Stanhope was awash with the colours of half a dozen independent bus operators. Through a process of service cut-backs and consolidation, Weardale Motor Services rapidly gained a monopoly position. Only two operators were actually acquired, the larger Stanhope Motor Services and the small business of J H Dowson (Safety Coaches) of Frosterley, plus the licences of Baldwin & Barlow (Heather Belle) of Tow Law. This image depicts a former Safety Coaches Duple-bodied Bedford OBs in the livery of Weardale Motor Services after the take-over of former's business in February 1962. In addition to two OBs, Safety Coaches contributed a Bedford SB and a former Hall Bros AEC Regal to the Weardale fleet, although it is doubtful whether the latter ever ran for its new owner. Despite their age, the OBs were useful additions - being favoured for the up-dale services over the difficult winter months - and the winter of 1963 was certainly difficult. (21-Nov-09).
The relationships between the general population in Israel and the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community are always tensed: The general population feels the Ultra-Orthodox do not contribute enough (don't serve in the army, don't participate in the work force); while the Ultra-Orthodox feel their values (mainly studying, and worshiping the Lord) are not honored.
Naturally, things become even more tensed these days when the country is under a shutdown (#1 in the world, in the number of cases relative to the size of the population) while some Ultra-Orthodox think that praying together in a synagogue is more important than the regulations (The result is that though they are 10% of the population, they are about 30% of the cases, if not more).
I think that today was my worst day on flickr with respect to Bad Pandas :-(
The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped the closest images yet of the sky's latest visitor to make headlines, comet NEOWISE, after it passed by the Sun. This is the first time Hubble has photographed a comet of this brightness at such resolution after this close of a pass by the Sun.
This ground-based image of comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) was taken from the Northern Hemisphere on July 16, 2020. The inset image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on Aug. 8, 2020, reveals a close-up of the comet after its pass by the Sun. Hubble’s image zeroes in on the comet’s nucleus, which is too small to be seen. It’s estimated to measure no more than 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) across. Instead, the image shows a portion of the comet’s coma, the fuzzy glow, which measures about 11,000 miles (18,000 kilometers) across in this image.
The comet photos were taken after NEOWISE skimmed closest to the Sun on July 3, 2020, at a distance of 27 million miles (43 million kilometers). Other comets often break apart due to thermal and gravitational stresses at such close encounters, but Hubble’s view shows that apparently NEOWISE’s solid nucleus stayed intact.
Comet NEOWISE is considered the brightest visible from the Northern Hemisphere since 1997’s Hale-Bopp. It’s headed beyond the outer solar system, now traveling at a whopping 144,000 miles per hour. It will not return to the Sun for another nearly 7,000 years.
Credits: NASA, ESA, STScI, Q. Zhang (Caltech); ground-based image copyright © 2020 by Zoltan G. Levay, used with permission
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Contributing to the potent, ethereal magic present was this happy coincidence.
Possibly a slightly jarring composition, the picture still had to be taken for obvious reasons.
The utter contrast to mundane daily life that these experiences gift to the onlooker cannot be stressed sufficiently. The usual melancholy kicked in as I gazed in wonder at my situation: the impossibility of 'bottling it all up' & taking some of it home proving to amplify an already raised state of emotion.
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Untitled by Cheyenne Gold: I migrated to Canada from Trinidad as a child with my parents and siblings and we settled in North Etobicoke, eight minutes away from this mural location. For newcomers, it is very important to keep in touch with elements of home and feeling represented, and I remember not feeling represented and frankly misunderstood as someone from a small island. So I saw this mural as an opportunity to contribute to the visibility of Caribbean culture and I asked myself what would I have liked to see on a wall when I was a young immigrant Caribbean child growing up in this neighbourhood. I chose to depict a recognizably natural Caribbean scene of an island silhouette and a sky full of texture, colour, and contrast through a familiar tie-dye pattern, that would hopefully appeal to children and families. Elements of international travel are also highlighted in this piece to represent the resilient journeys embarked upon by Caribbean migrants.
Caribbean people represent a plethora of cultures, in Trinidad specifically a majority are descendants of Africa and India post-colonialism, and even after centuries of adversity and linear migration, people of the Caribbean diaspora seem to always successfully revive their identity even when “home” is outside of the Caribbean region. Thus, to me, Caribbean migrants, of whom make up the second largest ethnic group of North Etobicoke, are naturally resilient.
In January 2015, the City of Broken Hill was included on the National Heritage Register. This register lists 106 other iconic landmarks such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Kakadu National Park, and the Australian Alps. Broken Hill is the first city to be listed. Extensive research and consultation with the Broken Hill community was a key part of the listing.
The National Heritage List is Australia’s pre-eminent heritage list recognising and protecting the nation’s most valued natural, indigenous, and historic heritage sites. Listing is the highest heritage honour in Australia and listed placed receive national attention and benefits from increased domestic and international tourism. Broken Hil has been assessed against the nine National Heritage Criteria, which include historic, aesthetic, and social values, creative and technical achievements, associations with significant peoples, and others.
The following is the Statement of Significance for the City of Broken Hill which was prepared as part of the listing process:
“The City of Broken Hill has outstanding significance to the nation for its role in creating enormous wealth, for its long, enduring and continuing mining operations, and the community’s deep and shared connection with Broken Hill as the isolated city in the desert, its outback landscape, the planned design and landscaping of the town, the regeneration areas and particularly the physical reminders of its mining origins such as the Line of Lode, the barren mullock heaps, tailings, skimps and slagheap escarpment and relict structures. It exhibits historic qualities in its ongoing mining operations since 1883, the current and relict mining infrastructure and its landscape setting. It is significant for its industrial past ….. together with its role as a pioneer in setting occupational health and safety standards.”
“It demonstrates the principal characteristics of a mining town in a remote location with extensive transport infrastructure and administrative connections to three state capitals and as a rare example of a place subject to Australia’s complex Federal system where differing administrative, social and economic influences are expressed in both tangible and intangible forms. It has social significance for its residents as a place of community pride, endurance, and as a remote mining community resilient to major social and economic change, Broken Hill has strong social significance for all Australians as a place where great wealth was created, as well as strong group associations with the Barrier Industrial Council. It exhibits outstanding aesthetic characteristics as a city in an arid desert setting, as the subject of interest for Australian artists, poets, film makers, TV producers and photographers.”
“It has significance as a place where outstanding technical achievement has occurred in refining ore for its minerals including the froth flotation process and the computer controlled on-stream analysis of slurries. Broken Hill is also important as a place of research potential to reveal further information on mineral deposits with its range of complex minerals. It is associated with person of great importance to Australia’s history, including Albert Morris (arid land regeneration), Charls Rasp (discoverer), Herbert Hoover (mining engineer), WL Baillieu, WA Robinson and MAE Mawby (industrialists), GD Delprat (metallurgist), Percy Brookfield and Eugene O’Neill (unionists). Broken Hill’s association with the Barrier Industrial Council as a group is also important.”
“The Broken Hill zinc-lead-silver ore deposit is one of the world’s largest ore bodies and contains an extraordinary array of minerals. It is geologically complex and has national scientific significance. The Broken Hill operation is significant for its immense size and unrecorded mineral species continue to be found. It contributes to an understanding of the formation of the Australian continent and more than 2, 300 million years of the earth’s history.”
The City of Broken Hill is delighted that the special heritage values of the city are recognised and celebrated nationally and internationally by this listing.
Wilyakali Country:
Wilyakali lies in the east of the state of South Australia, crossing into New South Wales, including the town of Broken Hill. The Wilyakali people traditionally visited the Paakantji people on the Menindee Lakes in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion each year.
The three Major language groups for the Broken Hill Region are the Paakantji, Mayyankapa, and Nyiimpaa.
Wilyakali and Danggali both lie east of the Ngadjuri language and north of the upper River Murray languages.
Wilyakali and Danggali are part of the Darling River Language Group or Paakantyi / Paakantji language group. This is a group of closely related languages in South Australia and New South Wales, which can be subdivided into two groups: the “Northern Dialects” and the “Southern Dialects.” Wilyakali and Danggali are both part of the “Southern Dialects.”
Other “Southern Dialects” include Pulaali, Southern Pankantyi, Pantyikali, Wanyuparlku and Marrawarra. Some of these languages have been recorded more than others. Although each language has its own distinguishing features, they are so similar they can be understood by speakers of other languages in this group. Therefore, the following reference list will include Southern Paakantyi references that may be helpful. The language name is noted in square brackets after each reference, when known.
Today the Wilyakali people are still the main Aboriginal group in Broken Hill, though there are a number of Aboriginal people that come from other language groups.
The Aboriginal people of Broken Hill have established working parties to pursue their vision of a better future. They continue to look after their traditional lands and are joint managers of the Mutawintji National Park which is the first national park handed back to the traditional owners in New South Wales. There are many strong elders who continue to maintain and pass on their traditional knowledge to their young people and, today, share their stories with the wider community.
Source: Broken Hill: A Guide to the Silver City by Elizabeth Vines, Mobile Language Team, & Aboriginal Housing Office.
Candles in memory of loved ones all over the world ~
We paused today on All Saints' Day to remember our loved ones who have gone on ahead of us. This season brings the bittersweet of memories- days with Jamie and others, thoughts so fleeting they seem like dreams . . .
This little turtle was a special gift from my wonderful Flickr friend, Kelly Dilello-Smith- Jamie's totem animal!
In our own personal remembrances, many MANY of your loved ones have been remembered along with ours.
Thank you all for contributing to my survival here. Life has been hard but this virtual community continues to bouy me up.
With love and thoughts for you all ~ Kim
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The Black Bat Flower (Tacca chantieri), also known as Black Bat Flower, Cats Whiskers, Devil Flower, Bat Head Lily, Bat Plant, Devil’s Tongue, Black Tacca, and Voodoo Flower, is an exotic plant native to Southeast Asia. Its unique and intriguing features make it a standout in the world of ornamental plants.
The most striking characteristic of the Black Bat Flower is its distinctive blooms. These flowers, deep purple or nearly black, closely resemble a bat in flight, with ruffled wings and long, hanging filaments. The overall effect is both mysterious and gothic, contributing to the plant's allure.
Blooming primarily in spring and lasting until early autumn, the Black Bat Flower adds a touch of drama to gardens or indoor spaces. Even when not in bloom, the large and attractive leaves provide an ornamental backdrop.
In its natural habitat on the forest floor in tropical regions, Tacca chantieri thrives in well-draining, rich soil with high organic content. Partial shade or filtered sunlight is preferred, and maintaining consistently moist soil is crucial for its optimal growth.
Cultivating the Black Bat Flower may require attention to specific care requirements, including humidity levels and protection from direct sunlight. It is suitable for container gardening indoors, making it a popular choice for those looking to enjoy its exotic beauty in various climates.
The plant's unique appearance has led to cultural interpretations and symbolic meanings, with associations to mystery and the supernatural in some cultures. Overall, the Black Bat Flower stands out as a captivating and extraordinary addition to gardens and indoor spaces, providing a touch of the exotic and intriguing to any environment.
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As winter descends upon Varanasi, the Ganges River becomes a majestic haven for migratory birds from north and central Asia. The city witnesses a seasonal influx of species like the Siberian Crane and Ruddy Shelduck, turning the landscape into a winter wonderland that attracts bird enthusiasts and nature lovers alike. The sailors of Ganga Ghat have emerged as the dedicated guardians of these avian visitors, playing a crucial role in protecting the birds and ensuring a harmonious coexistence between nature and human activity along the sacred river. Their efforts contribute to the preservation of the unique atmosphere that has made Varanasi a cultural and spiritual hub. Adding to the allure, migratory birds have swarmed the city, enhancing its winter beauty. From November to December, species like the Siberian Crane and Ruddy Shelduck can be easily spotted around the Dashashwamedh Ghat, creating a breathtaking avian haven along the Ganges River.
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Almost Summer, Thunderheads at Sunset, Rocky Mountain Front Range, Colorado
On “HOPE” - (July 8, 2018)
Thai Wild Boar Soccer Team and Heroic Rescuers:
“Dr. Jerome Groopman, Harvard Medical School professor, has carefully investigated the science of hope. He found that your brain pumps chemicals responsible for the hopeful sensation, which in turn block out pain and accelerate healing. Belief and expectation—the one-two punches of hope—release neurochemicals called endorphins and enkephalins that mimic the effects of morphine.
As a result [Dr. Groopman states], ‘Hope helps us overcome hurdles that we otherwise could not scale, and it moves us forward to a place where healing can occur.’ ‘. . . hope doesn’t directly lead to recovery, . . but it contributes to survival. . . .’ ‘Hope, I have come to believe, is as vital to our lives as the very oxygen that we breathe.’”
- The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life by Ben Sherwood, p. 318 (Trade edition 2010)
Fervent and hopeful prayers for survival of the 12-year-old Thai boys (Wild Boars soccer team), their coach, and all experts with "heroic selflessness and survival in their DNA" involved in the rescue efforts.
Well, not officially spring for another week but it's warm and sunny here, in the UK, and I’m certainly not complaining! Trying for a strong 'directional light' shot with the room darkened down and only the light from the window illuminating the scene. The lamp isn't contributing much light, but there is a tiny amount of back-fill from a mirror on camera-right.
The New York State Capitol is the capitol building of the U.S. state of New York. Housing the New York State Legislature, it is located in the state capital city Albany as part of the Empire State Plaza on State Street in Capitol Park. The building, completed in 1899 at a cost of $25 million (worth approximately half a billion current dollars), was the most expensive government building of its time.[citation needed] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, then included as a contributing property when the Lafayette Park Historic District was listed in 1978. The following year it was declared a National Historic Landmark
This climate-friendly bio degradable fibre can contribute to reduce carbon emission. Traditionally Bangladesh was famous for jute production, which is mainly used for producing bags, sacks and many other materials. The fibre and the stalks are now processed for interior materials for high end vehicles. The introduction of plastics made the jute production almost extinct in Bangladesh. It is now reviving because of growing demand of natural fibre throughout the world. Which bags do you use during shopping?
The photo was taken in a remote village of Satkhira, Bangladesh. The farmer is processing the fibre with the use of flowing monsoon water.
Von Mitte des 16. Jhs. bis 1606 waren an dieser Stelle nur
Kapellen gebaut worden. Mit dem Planungsbeginn sollte für
das bereits vorhandene Jesuitenkolleg ein Kirchenneubau geschaffen werden. Johann Alberthal war der Planer der nach Konzepten des Jesuitenkollegs arbeitete. Als gesichert gelten die Einflüsse der Augsburger Architekten Heintz, Holl und Krager bei der Endauswahl der Entwürfe.
Es sollte die zweite (renaissance/barocke) Wandpfeilerkirche
auf deutschem Gebiet und somit zur Vorlage für viele folgenden Kirchenbauten werden! Die Weihe fand 1617 statt. Erst ca. 140 Jahre später wurde der Innenraum umgestaltet und mit der hier zusehenden Rokokoaustattung versehen. Der leitende Dekorateur, wahrscheinlich Christoph Thomas Scheffler, verstand es den Raum ohne stark verändernde Eingriffe in die Substanz hervorragend auszunutzen. Die Liste der Künstler die am Gelingen Anteil hatten ist lang und voller bekannter Namen: ich möchte sie dem Leser allerdings ersparen...
From the middle of the 16th century until 1606 there were only
Chapels have been built. With the beginning of the planning for
the already existing Jesuit College a new church building will be created. Johann Alberthal was the planner who worked according to the concepts of the Jesuit College. The influences of the Augsburg architects Heintz, Holl and Krager in the final selection of the designs are regarded as certain.
The second (renaissance/baroque) wall pillar church on German territory was to be built and thus become the model for many of the following church buildings! The consecration took place in 1617. Only approx. 140 years later the interior was redesigned and provided with the Rococo equipment watching here. The leading decorator, probably Christoph Thomas Scheffler, knew how to use the room excellently without any major alterations to the substance. The list of artists who contributed to the success is long and full of well-known names: I would like to spare them to the reader though...
Caltabellotta stands at an altitude of about 900m. Its Arab name, Kalat-al-Ballut (Oaks’ Rock) evokes the look of the village that is perched atop a rock. Its dominant position contributed to protect it from the attacks of enemies throughout the centuries
A view of the front facade of the Caldwell County Courthouse in Lockhart, TX. Built in 1894, the courthouse was designed by Henry E.M. Guidon in the Second Empire architectural style. The exterior of the three-story structure is built with cream-colored limestone and red sandstone. The central clock tower houses a four-faced Seth Thomas Clock Company clock and a 900-pound bell. The mansard roof of the courthouse is characteristic of Second Empire design.
In 1978, the courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as a contributing property of the Caldwell County Courthouse Historic District.
This was taken from a boat touring around Manhattan, but I can't find the name of this beautiful deserted factory on Google Earth... I will appreciate if someone can contribute more information on it.
Thank you in advance
“Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasn’t so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other… ”
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
„Die Liebe sprang uns entgegen wie ein Mörder in einer Gasse, der aus dem Nichts auftaucht, und traf uns beide gleichzeitig. Wie ein Blitzschlag, wie ein finnisches Messer! Sie bestand übrigens später darauf, dass es nicht so gewesen sei, dass wir uns natürlich schon seit langer, langer Zeit geliebt hätten, ohne uns zu kennen, ohne uns jemals gesehen zu haben ...“
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
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The Dunnellon Presbyterian Church was formally organized in 1893 during the height of the local phosphate mining and timber boom. Located at 20641 Chestnut Street in Dunnellon, Florida, it stands as one of the oldest active historic landmarks in the region and is a contributing structure to the Dunnellon Boomtown Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places.
Founding and the "Boomtown" Era
Phosphate Boom Beginnings: The church was established following the discovery of hard rock phosphate by Albertus Vogt, which quickly turned Dunnellon into a bustling "Boomtown".
Community Hub: Completed in 1895, the Victorian Gothic frame sanctuary initially served the broader community. Other Christian denominations routinely shared the building for worship until they could build their own sanctuaries in the early 1900s.
Historic Preservation Landmark: While neighboring historic churches from that era were eventually demolished or replaced by modern concrete buildings, the Presbyterian church remains one of the sole surviving wooden reflections of early Dunnellon.
Architectural Significance
The sanctuary is a distinct example of Victorian Vernacular frame architecture with prominent Gothic Revival and Carpenter Gothic influences. Its most defining features include its historical stained-glass windows and an integrated square bell tower and steeple.
Modern Preservation Challenges
Structural Rescue (1990s): Exactly 100 years after its dedication, the structural integrity of the historic sanctuary was severely threatened. The heavy, sagging bell tower had begun to pull the building down, nearly causing the entire structure to topple over before emergency stabilization took place.
Renovation Project (2012–2013): Extensive rot and severe termite damage compromised the core structural beams of the bell tower. The congregation rallied to raise roughly $400,000 via community gifts and local fundraisers to complete a massive restoration project, adding decades of life back to the original 1893 framework and its 1993 addition.
The church remains an active congregation under the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) denomination. It continues to hold services in its original historic building while running regular community outreach, seasonal programs, and local fellowship groups.
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Whitey Ford, a New York Yankees Pitcher, died yesterday at the age of 91. Mike Vaccaro, a writer for the NY Post, summed it up: "There has never been a better pitcher in Yankees history than Whitey Ford. And there was never a Yankee who enjoyed his place atop baseball’s pinstriped pantheon more than the Manhattan-born, Astoria-raised Whitey, either."
Ford won almost 70% of games pitched over a 16 year career... a .690 winning percentage, all with the Yanks.
He contributed to 6 World Series Championship teams and 11 American League Pennants. Whitey was known as "Chairman of the Board."
My first 'real' baseball glove, given to me by my Dad, was a Whitey Ford Personal Model circa 1961-1962. Spalding came out with a new design in gloves called, "Trapocket" with "T-Bar Web" which provided a bigger webbing to catch balls.
Whitey's worn out machine-made signature can be seen above "Personal Model."
It is a little ironic that this glove was languishing in my basement for many years but was finally found on the day that Whitey died. May he R.I.P.
For Smile on Saturday
Theme: Leather
We give them less importance because of what they do.But they contributed the most in our liberation war.They are farmers.That time they were huge in number.These people are very humble and kind.The most beautiful thing about them is they don't want lot more.They want least foods and clothings to live a miserable war.We only value those who are whealthier than us.Actually we make people feel they are not like us.
The Engadine is a paradise for hikers in autumn.
The valley has plenty of sunny days, and it has mineral springs and a very pleasant climate. Piz Bernina is the only four-thousander in the eastern Alps (4,049 m. altitude). Piz Palü, Piz Corvatsch, Corviglia and Diavolezza are among its other well-known peaks and skiing areas.
Engadin St. Moritz has a fascinating cultural heritage - Romansch as its official main language, German spoken in St. Moritz, Italian in the neighboring valleys, French at the Club Med, lots of English for example at the Cresta Run, cricket and polo. Giovanni Segantini and the Giacomettis, Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Wagner, Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann, Arturo Toscanini, Richard Strauss, Herbert von Karajan and many other famous personalities from the worlds of the arts and culture have contributed to the myth und nimbus of this valley. 'Schlittedas', 'Chalandamarz', an own architectural style (the 'Engadine house'), and the famous Engadine nut tart are also a part of it all.
Are you an optimist or a pessimist...what is your point of view?
"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute." ~Gil Stern
"Die Letzte Hoffnung" is a forced union of four North German musicians in what one would actually think of as their best age. The baritone saxophonist and bass clarinetist Hauke Schlüter, the guitarist Jens Rathfleder, the bassist Michael Haupt and the drummer Jannik Stock, however, have found themselves in the abysses of contemporary jazz, in gloomy to headstrongly cheerful sound fields and thus usually in the deepest and darkest cellars of Northern Germany. They develop a music full of contrasts and a wide playful range from melancholic ballads and fragile sounds to free spheres and raging rock passages. The quartet cultivates an open sound, leaving room for interpretation for the listener as well as for the emotional development of the players. Not playing takes up at least as much space in their music as playing a tone. Highly communicative, spontaneous and willing to take risks, yet firmly rooted in the jazz tradition, the playing of the four instrumentalists is without doubt a very special listening experience. The compositions are contributed by the deep woodwind player Hauke Schlüter and the guitarist Jens Rathfelder. In the truest sense of the word "playful" is often the way the four musicians deal with these compositions, which are never performed on two evenings at once.
i thought this dress looked a little snow white-y so me and mr happy apple got together for some pictures
Child's Dress: Goodwill
Happy Apple: yard sale
Patent flats: gift from an old friend
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Cincinnati City Hall is a registered historic building in Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register on December 11, 1972.
The main building comprises four and a half stories with a nine story clock tower. An optical trick known as forced perspective makes the building appear even larger than it actually is. As it becomes taller, its windows get smaller.[2]
The building was constructed by the David Hummel company of Cincinnati using stone quarried in Wisconsin, Ohio, Missouri, and Indiana. Marble stairways and wainscoting originated in Italy and Tennessee, while granite columns were obtained from Vermont. Stained glass windows were installed which depict Cincinnatus and illustrate Cincinnati's early history.[3] A granite statue of Jesus was contributed by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati in 1864 and displayed in the alcove on the south side of the building until 2003.
Les personnes qui veulent participer(même des étrangers ) sont accueillis. La bonne pratique incluant que l'on apporte une offrande pour participer à la nourriture des invités (par exemple un cochon de lait ou plus conséquent ...)
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People who want to participate (even strangers) are welcome. It is good practice to bring an offering to contribute to the food of the guests (e.g. a suckling pig or something larger).
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.Las personas que quieran participar (incluso los desconocidos) son bienvenidas. Es una buena práctica llevar una ofrenda para contribuir a la comida de los invitados (por ejemplo, un cochinillo o algo más grande).
The New York State Capitol is the capitol building of the U.S. state of New York. Housing the New York State Legislature, it is located in the state capital city Albany as part of the Empire State Plaza on State Street in Capitol Park. The building, completed in 1899 at a cost of $25 million (worth approximately half a billion current dollars), was the most expensive government building of its time.[citation needed] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, then included as a contributing property when the Lafayette Park Historic District was listed in 1978. The following year it was declared a National Historic Landmark
Akamatsu - Pine tree
location : Kyoto Ditoku-ji , Kyoto city ,Kyoto prefecture , Japan
Daitoku-ji (大徳寺), the ‘temple of Great Virtue’) is a Buddhist temple, one of fourteen autonomous branches of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen. It is located in Kita-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The "mountain name" (sangō) by which it is known is Ryūhōzan (龍宝山). The Daitoku-ji temple complex today covers more than 23 hectares (57 acres).
Daitoku-ji originated as a small monastery founded in 1315 or 1319 by the monk Shūhō Myōchō (宗峰妙超), also pronounced Sōhō Myōchō; 1282–1337), who is known by the title Daitō Kokushi ("National Teacher of the Great Lamp") given by Emperor Go-Daigo. In 1325, the monastery was converted into a supplication hall for the imperial court at the request of the retired Emperor Hanazono. The dedication ceremony for the imperial supplication hall, with its newly added dharma hall and abbot's living quarters, was held in 1326, and this is generally recognized as the true founding of the temple.
Like many other temples in Kyoto during that time, the temple's buildings were destroyed by fire. In 1474, which was when Kyoto was the scene of the Onin War, Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado designated Ikkyū Sōjun as the head priest. With the help of merchants of the city of Sakai, Ikkyū contributed significantly to the temple's rehabilitation.
From its earliest days, the temple experienced alternating periods of fortune and decline. This can be attributed to the rivalries and conflicts between Daitoku-ji and other well-known Zen temples, as well as between Daitoku-ji and the political authorities.
Daitoku-ji became particularly important from the sixteenth century, when it was predominantly supported by members of the military establishment, who sponsored the building of subsidiary temples as prayers for their ancestors or in preparation for their own demise.[5] In 1582, Toyotomi Hideyoshi buried his predecessor, Oda Nobunaga, at Daitoku-ji. He also contributed land and built the Sōken-in.
Around this period in history, Daitoku-ji became closely linked to the master of the Japanese tea ceremony, Sen no Rikyū, and consequently to the realm of the Japanese tea ceremony. After the era of Sen no Rikyū, another famous figure in the history of the Japanese tea ceremony who left his mark at this temple was Kobori Enshū. - wikipedia
As you approach St. Peter’s Square you will hear the heartening sounds of trickling water, these are the fountains of St. Peter's square, The two fountains on both sides of the Obelisk contribute to its atmosphere and beauty. These fountains were constructed during the renaissance and they are considered exemplary works. These fountains give St. Peter’s Square a relaxing atmosphere. The fountains are a great tourist attraction and they are considered among the most beautiful fountains in Rome. The fountains have been renovated and are well preserved.
These days, I don't often share photos the same day that I took them, but every now and then there's a little more meaning behind one that makes me want to tell the story right away before my memory fades.
When famed photographer and fellow Troy native Jim Shaughnessy passed away in August 2018, I decided to attend calling hours. There, I had the opportunity to introduce myself to Jim's son, James. I briefly explained that not only had his father's work inspired me, but Jim as a person had been a very kind mentor to me. I had interviewed him for my senior thesis paper when I was attending Siena College, he was always a phone call or email away for any historical questions I had, and he graciously contributed to my first book. James later friended me on Facebook, where he saw a tribute post I had made to his father (you can see the post, which is public, here: www.facebook.com/tim.stockwell.587/posts/10100524475339363). I could tell that the post meant a lot to James, and that in turn meant a lot to me.
Well, today, James re-shared my post from 2018. I was surprised when I received the notification, but then I saw the reason: Today would have been Jim's 88th birthday. To see that my post was still helping James fondly remember his dad made my day.
Wednesdays are always my busiest work day, with a couple different meetings in different places in Troy, with the day ending with a soup kitchen for which I help recruit and oversee volunteers. In driving to the latter, I had some time to spare, and radio chatter tipped me off to the fact that CSX's B761 local was working in Troy. When B761 runs to Troy, it's typically a midday run. So, I knew that a rarer, afternoon run like this would afford some different angles. Also, on what would have been Jim Shaughnessy's 88th birthday, what better way to pay tribute than to photograph a train in Troy: the place where Jim grew up, went to school (RPI), worked, lived, and of course contributed so much to photographing Troy railroad history that is now long gone.
In this view, B761 prepares to depart Troy after picking up two refrigerated boxcars from K.C. Refrigeration. In the background on the right stands the steeple to St. John's Episcopal Church. The afternoon sun afforded an opportunity to place it in the photo, whereas normally it can't be included.
Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!
CSX B761
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November 24, 2021
A view looking north from Prairie Lea St. at the west side of the 200 block of S. Main St. in downtown Lockhart. My previous post shows this block looking south from Market St. All of the buildings in this view are contributing properties in the Caldwell County Courthouse Square Historic District listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
On the corner is the Dr. Eugene Clark Public Library, the oldest continuously operating public library in the State of Texas. Built in 1899 and dedicated on July 6, 1900, this library was financed with funds bequeathed by Dr. Clark, who was a prominent physician of Lockhart and San Antonio. His will left $10,000 to the people of Lockhart, of which $6,000 was to be used for construction, $1,000 to buy books and the remainder was to be put in a trust to maintain the building and purchase new books. A native of New Orleans, Dr. Clark was a graduate of Tulane Medical School and studied in Vienna, Austria. He was an eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist. He died, while still a young man, in New York City in 1897.
President William Howard Taft once spoke from the stage in the library and operatic soprano and musical theater actress Dorothy Sarnoff has performed here, remarking to her audience, "If you are bored with my performance tonight, you can just reach over and grab a good book to read." Many local community groups and organizations held theatrical productions, recitals and concerts in the library. The Local Community concert group held seasonal programs in the building until 1956.
The two-story Greek cross plan library is a Classical Revival building of red brick with limestone trim. Four projecting pedimented pavilions form the arms, while entrances are found at
the southeast, southwest and northeast intersections. On the main (east) facade, the pavilion, divided into three bays by pilasters, contains a central, stained glass memorial windows classically framed by pilasters and a round keystone arch. The southeast (main) entrance has double doors with a multi-lighted fanlight also framed by the pilasters and keystone arch. Crowning the building an octagonal drum, embellished by pilasters and entablature, supports the central dome. The building was designed and built by T. S. Hodges, who also designed the castle-like Caldwell County Jail.
The three-story red brick building with white stone trim standing to the north of the library is the old Masonic Temple built in 1925 for Lockhart Masonic Lodge #690. The building is now used for commercial purposes.
Lockhart, a community of 14,811 at the 2020 census, is the seat of Caldwell County and is located just 30 miles south of the state capital in downtown Austin. Lockhart's square and downtown is filled with late 19th and early 20th century buildings, nearly all contributing properties to the historic district. The city's turn-of-the-century appearance has attracted the attention of film makers. Over 50 films for the theater and TV have been shot in whole or in part in Lockhart, including the 1996 Christopher Guest comedy film Waiting for Guffman and the 1993 drama What's Eating Gilbert Grape.
Joseph Aspdin of Leeds patented Portland Cement on 21 October 1924. While it revolutionised modern building, it has also contributed significantly to global warming. Nevertheless, it is not only still much in use but also being further developed to be more eco- and user-friendly as well as self-cleaning.
John Smeaton of Leeds is thought to have created the first modern concrete, a mixture of limestone and clay which was resistant to water, whilst he was preparing his work on the Eddystone Lighthouse around 1755.
Joseph Aspdin on Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Aspdin
Archaeologists working on the site of Brunel’s Great Western Dockyard development next to Brunel’s ss Great Britain, have discovered what is thought to be the first ever substantial use of Portland cement in the construction of a major building.
www.culture24.org.uk/history/archaeology/industrial+archa...
Originating in Leeds
www.mylearning.org/jpage.asp?jpageid=719&journeyid=200
The development of Portland Cement
www.buildingconservation.com/articles/prtlndcmnt/prtlndcm...
The history of concrete and cement
inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blconcrete.htm
Portland Cement on Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_cement
Ordinary Portland Cement with extraordinarily CO2 emissions. What can be done to reduce them?
www.buildingforafuture.co.uk/autumn05/ordinary_portland_c...
Self-cleaning concrete
www.cement.org/tech/self_cleaning.asp
John Smeaton on Wikipedia
First experiments with a new form in the ever-evolving world of Pano-Sabotage photography that's been dubbed "MonitorPano". It's both a new turn for me and a return to a very old tactic I used in 2012 where I achieved coarse but provoking layers by photographing, with my Canon Rebel XS, my computers screen saver as it faded in and out between images in my photo files. The great thing was that the images didn't just click from one to the next like a slide show, they faded in and out over top of each other. There was always a "crossover" point where the two images would occupy the same amount of "presence" on the screen thereby becoming "fused" or "blended" ... in effect ... layered. A cruder version of Brian Enos Installation piece, "77 Million Paintings", perhaps, but using the same idea.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0_4rCfpNzw
By the time Apple brought out the next Operating System, they'd taken out that scrolling slide show feature from what was then "iPhoto" and re-dubbed it "Photos". It always amazes me how the Silicon Valley geeks always "improve" things by taking out unique and wonderful features. Gotta mow it all down to sameness and uniformity, I guess. Unique features are seen as "mistakes".
Liz Mack has asked, "How long will it take for Apple to 'correct' the algorithms that allow for Pano-Sabotage photography ?"
MonitorPano, even though being hotly used right now and to great effect has actually been around quietly for a few years now. Don of the PANO-vision group was actually one of the first Pano-Sabotage artists to start "pano-ing" his desktop screen, and has often produced some very unique work with this method. Recently, Bill Smith, Paul Ewing and Liz Mack have taken it up with a vengeance with striking results.
"Graph ET 1" is the first finished piece that I created using the same technique the Paul, Bill, Liz and Don use. All of us in "PANO-Vision" learn a lot from each other and each of us makes invaluable contributions to the groups knowledge and technique base by that sharing. In PANO, as well call it for short, it's not about competition. We thrive by sharing. Each of us grows by contributing to an ongoing and easy exchange.
"MonitorPano" is achieved by setting one's cell phone camera on "Pano", clicking it on, while focusing on the desktop monitor and using the other hand to tap the arrow right ( or left ) key to quickly jump from photo to photo while the cell phone hand is pano-sabotaging the whole "pass". Tricky, and it takes some co-ordination, but it can be quite surprising what results.
This image was created for the PANO-Vision Groups Summer Contest, "PANO to the Metal".
www.flickr.com/groups/2892788@N23/discuss/72157667684597037/
Image culled from SLR shots done in 2011 and
"MonitorPanoed" and processed June 6, 2018.
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I am VERY proud to announce that I was chosen to be the feature artist of the "Kreative People" Group's Spring Gallery - Running until the end of June. I really must thank both abstractartangel77 and Xandram for bestowing me with this great honour. The link to the gallery appears below:
Please visit my Kreative People Highlight Gallery HERE
wimblebury waits , as bellerophon makes ready and dubsy hidden by smoke contributes mightily to the pall of background smoke
As a B&B host (not an Air BnB Superhost! no thanks) I get asked many questions: where to go, what to see, what's the weather going to do today, etc? Fortunately, having an interest in photography has helped me in that, as I regularly recce the area to check roads, where deer are, highland coos, etc, and taste the local whisky so that I know!
Sometimes I'm powerless to help. When people (French) travel from the south of France to the Scottish Highlands and then decide it's too far to go 25 miles to explore the end of the Ardnamurchan peninsula. Or they only bring white trainers and no walking boots with them as if expecting to only walk on city pavements and not across unspoilt and rugged Mother Nature. I despair sometimes with the lack of 'nous' or planning. Of course they also expect to get up late and then set off for a day trip of all of Skye....and haven't even thought to book a ferry in peak season.
Some, a few, arrive better prepared, some with teenage kids more interested in staying in the room and playing Call of Duty on the Playstation. To them, I might say, why not go far off the beaten trail out to Glendrian?
Your kids can get some lungfulls of pure, fresh highland air, some exercise and some education (why do people come here with big plastic bottles of Highland Spring water bottled from some drain near the Ochil Hills near Glasgow? How could it be more pure than what we have come out of the mountains around here? At least I'm reasonably confident our water hasn't already passed through several other human beings, and only filtered after flowing through the whole sewage system and chemically recycled).
Glendrian is an abandoned crofting township in the centre of the Ardnamurchan peninsula centred on grid reference NM480687. It is a Scheduled Monument, Historic Scotland describing it as “of national importance because of its potential to contribute to our understanding of post-medieval settlement and economy. Although only abandoned in the 1940s the settlement incorporates information for the earlier expansion and contraction of the community who lived here. The buildings are varied in date and style and contain evidence for the complex history of settlement on the site.”
Glendrian’s lands occupy the eastern half of the low land within the circle of hills formed by the main ring dykes of the Ardnamurchan Tertiary Volcanic Complex. Even in winter, when the vegetation has died back, the buildings are difficult to see.
But take your teenagers out there and ask them to imagine it was their home, completely isolated and cut off in the low land where there is total silence within the circle of hills formed by the main ring dykes of the Ardnamurchan Tertiary Volcanic Complex. There's no road to it. No electricity. The running water is in the form of a burn along the bottom of the shallow valley. No shops. And apart from feeding and tending to the animals kids still had to go to school in Kilchoan, six miles over the hills. And they didn't have modern water and windproof clothing to cloth them as they walked to school in winter darkness, and rain, hail and snow. And shock-horror: tell your teenagers they had no phone signal or wifi either!
People lived in Glendrian until the 1940's until the convenience of motorised transport links, shops and electricity lured them to living in towns and villages. 80 years on, if they were still alive would they move back, valuing the quality of life in Glendrian: no noise, no traffic, no crowds, no crime, no rape, no knife crime - a peaceful way of life? That's what 'civilisation' should be. Indeed the movement of people to live in towns and cities has heralded the end of civilisation! A visit to Glendrian can teach modern youth, and city and town folk a lot! I scuttled off home before the rain arrived.
A more comprehensive history of the settlement is here : heritageardnamurchan.co.uk/glendrian/