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My first attempt at controlled marbling using Lynda Moseley's fab new tut. I was not happy with the focal attempt so used the remaining veneer to make beads. I like the result
La salle de bain des fonctionnaires de police du Shogun
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Le Tokaïdo (Tôkaidô) est le nom de l'ancienne route qui reliait Edo (aujourd'hui Tokyo) à Kyoto, la capitale impériale. Elle était longue de 492 km et a été rendue célèbre par les estampes des artistes japonais qui ont représenté ses différents relais comme l'a fait le peintre Hiroshige Utagawa.
expositions.bnf.fr/japonaises/albums/tokaido/index.htm
Lors de la période d'Edo qui a mis fin aux multiples conflits entre les seigneurs féodaux locaux (Daimyo), le shogun du Japon (gouverneur) Tokugawa Ieyasu, décida en 1600, de construire 53 postes de contrôle (en japonais : sekisho) sur les routes principales menant à Edo. Ce système de contrôle a été maintenu pendant près de 260 ans, jusqu'en 1868.
Le poste de contrôle d'Hakone (Hakone Sekisho), ouvert en 1619, était l'un des plus importants d'entre eux.
Le rôle de ces postes était de contrôler l'entrée d'armes à feu dans la ville d'Edo mais aussi d'empêcher de fuir les femmes et enfants des shoguns féodaux locaux qui étaient retenus à Edo en "otage" pour limiter les risques de sédition contre le pouvoir central.
Les travaux de reconstitution du poste de contrôle d'Hakone ont débuté en 1999 après des recherches historiques. Les bâtiments reconstruits, avec les matériaux et techniques traditionnelles ont été ouverts au public en avril 2004.
Quelques petits troncons de l'ancienne route du Tokaïdo ont été conservés dans la région d'Hakone, ils peuvent être empruntés par les visiteurs comme celui des cèdres (cryptomères japonais) qui est à proximité du poste de contrôle.
Site officiel du poste Hakone Sekisho
www.hakonesekisyo.jp/english/main/main.html
Sur le site du guide du Japon
PACIFIC OCEAN (Aug. 18, 2021) Sailors assigned to expeditionary sea base USS Miguel Keith (ESB 5) conduct a damage control drill while underway. Miguel Keith is underway conducting routine operations in U.S. 3rd Fleet. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Hector Carrera)
Sala de comissões do Senado Federal durante reunião da Comissão de Meio Ambiente, Defesa do Consumidor e Fiscalização e Controle (CMA).
Deliberativa com 22 itens. Além de requerimentos, os senadores apreciam propostas como o PLC 64/2013, que cria os Selos Verdes Cacau Cabruca e Cacau Amazônia; e o PLS 635/2011, sobre o sistema de pagamentos e transferências de valores monetários por meio de dispositivos móveis. Logo depois, a comissão realiza audiência pública interativa com o diretor da ANTT, Jorge Luiz Macedo Bastos, sobre a situação do setor de transportes nos municÃpios do entorno de BrasÃlia.
Participam:
senador Donizeti Nogueira (PT-TO);
senador Eduardo Amorim (PSC-SE);
senador Jorge Viana (PT-AC);
senador Valdir Raupp (PMDB-RO)
Foto: Geraldo Magela/Agência Senado
I spent a night with my friend Sparky who invited me to attend his visit to a local hobby club. It was a fun couple of hours of photo enjoyment for me.
"Very good, ye' nearly have it," he said softly as the sound of the flames died down to a faint roar.
Lily took a breath, a coyote howled somewhere far off. Her concentration wavered. "Dammit," she growled, the fire shooting up high before dying out completely.
"Ye'll get it soon enough, donnae worry."
A routine day in much of the city.
Greater Manchester Police is grateful to the community of Manchester following a demonstration in the city centre on Saturday.
An operation was put in place by Greater Manchester Police, Manchester City Council and the community in the lead up to the demonstration, to facilitate the protest.
The police and Council worked with event organisers and local community members to agree a suitable area for protestors to hold a static demonstration.
The demonstration, which took place in Albert Square, was attended by around 700 English Defence League protestors and 350 from the counter demonstrators.
In total police made 15 arrests for public order offences, twelve were affiliated to the EDL and three were affiliated to the UAF.
There was an increased police presence to manage the demonstration and ensure that local businesses, residents and shoppers felt reassured.
The EDL demonstrators met at Water Street and the police controlled their movement to the demonstration site at Albert Square. Once the protest had finished, police then picked the protesters up in buses and took them back to their coaches and train stations across the city.
The UAF demonstrators met at Piccadilly gardens and walked up to Albert Square. Once the protests finished police facilitated their walk back to Piccadilly gardens.
Chief Superintendent John O’Hare said: “I would like to thank both the people of Manchester and the majority of protestors for their conduct.
“It was always going to be a challenging operation with tensions running high between two groups of people who are vehemently opposed to each other.
“There were fifteen arrests and out of a thousand protesters it is not uncommon for an event of this size.
“GMP respects everyone's right to a protest, but at the same time we have to balance this with the concerns of people in our local communities.
“We, the council and the communities of Manchester have worked hard over the last couple of weeks in order to facilitate this protest in a safe and responsible manner, reducing the risk of disorder by ensuring there were no surprises. Today, this work has paid off.
“There was only minimal trouble at any point during the day and for most of Manchester city centre, it was just a case of business as usual."
Councillor Bernard Priest, Manchester City Council's executive member for neighbourhood services, said: "While nobody in Manchester wanted this event to be held here, it is to the credit of both Greater Manchester Police and Manchester's residents that today's rally passed without serious incident. I'd like to thank them for their conduct today.
"The police handled the event excellently, with protestors escorted to and from the protest area as planned, and members of our many diverse communities showed the good judgement to ignore the rally and treat the day just as they would any other Saturday in our thriving city centre."
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website.
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2013 FAI European Championships for Control Line Model Aircraft
Bekescsaba, Hungary
03 Aug to 10 Aug 2013
Photo by Massimo Semoli
I received an invitation to photograph a controlled barn burn this morning with the men and women of the Clayton Fire Company (Station 45) and Townsend Fire Company (Station 26). What a great group of firefighters! Thanks everyone for making me feel so welcome.
View from the controls of Gateshead Tram 10 with Porto 196 in the background.
For more images and a writeup of the event visit the Beamish Transport Blog.
Minuteman Launch Control Center, SD
The Minuteman Missile National Historic Site illustrates the history of the Cold War. It consists of the underground Launch Control Facility and the missile silo . The Delta 9 facility was constructed in 1963 and was part of the 44th Strategic Missile Wing at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota. The Minuteman missiles were ICBM provided with nuclear warheads.
After the Start II treaty was signed, many of the Minuteman facilities were decommissioned. 500 Minuteman III missiles are still operated with three operational wings.
A small section of a control panel. These lights are indicating that the main circuit is not energized.
Bored during the technical control of my car (titine). in the window, we can see my car beeing tortured...
Home Theater Master MX-700 Remote control. Controling all of the equipment in these pictures except for beyond tv which uses the firefly remote.
Terry rides the four wheel fire truck while Ian prepares to set some. The four wheeler has a 25 gallon water tank with a pump sprayer.
Control panel on a Flexispot standing desk. The panel controls up / down and has several presets for height.
When it opened in 1906, Victoria Baths on Hathersage Road, Manchester, was described as the most splendid municipal bathing institution in the country and a water palace of which every citizen of Manchester can be proud. Not only did the building provide spacious and extensive facilities for swimming, bathing and leisure, it was built of the highest quality materials with many period decorative features:- stained glass, terracotta, tiles and mosaic floors.
Victoria Baths served the people of central Manchester for 87 years and established themselves in the affections of all those who used the facilities.
The Baths were closed by Manchester City Council in 1993. The Friends of Victoria Baths was formed and began to investigate the possibility of running the Victoria Baths independently.
Various fund-raising attempts failed to bring about a restoration of the Baths, although work to prevent the further dereliction of the building started in 1998.
In September 2003, the Baths won the first series of the BBC's Restoration programme. The building was chosen by a public phone-vote from a short-list of ten buildings in danger of dereliction in the UK. It was awarded £3.4 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the money raised through the phone-voting process. The Prince of Wales visited the baths a month later to help celebrate the win.
It was intended that the money would be spent on re-opening the Turkish bath by around 2006, with other parts following later at a cost of around £15 - 20m. However, the redevelopment plans were dealt a blow one year later when quantity surveyors delivered a much larger estimate of £6.3m to restore the Turkish baths. The Heritage Lottery Fund requested further details about the full redevelopment before they would hand over any money for the first phase. Final planning approval to begin a restoration process was not received until September 2005.
In September 2006, as part of a number of events to mark the centenary of the building's opening, the gala pool was filled for the first time in 13 years.
The first phase of restoration work consisting of structural work and repairs began on Monday 19 March 2007 and was completed in September 2008.
In 2011 the Baths were used as a filming location, a concert venue and an exhibition centre.
The interior has been seen in film and TV dramas such as Cracker, Prime Suspect, Bedlam, Life On Mars and Mrs Biggs.
On 7th November 2012, the Marketing team from The Co-operative Insurance spent their community challenge day at Victoria Baths, scrubbing, cleaning, mopping, vaccing and carrying to help the volunteers of the restoration of this fantastic building. This is the photo diary of that day.