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The Flag Building also referred to as the Super Power Building is the largest building in Clearwater, Florida. It is owned by the Church of Scientology and was built principally to deliver the Super Power Rundown, a high-level Scientology training course intended to train Scientologists to use what Scientology describes as all of their 57 "perceptics" or senses. The interior of the building contains training suites, course rooms, theaters, and various devices intended to test these "perceptics," including a "time machine", an anti-gravity simulator, an "infinite" pit, and a pain station.
The complex occupies a city block at 215 South Fort Harrison Avenue. It includes a 15-story tower topped by a bronze Scientology cross visible from much of Clearwater. Construction began in 1998, was halted in 2003, and was ultimately resumed to reach substantial completion during 2011. The long delay in construction led to substantial fines being levied by the city authorities. The building is valued at $80 million and at least $145 million was raised by Church fundraising towards the project. The church denies accusations that the Flag Building's completion was deliberately delayed so that it could serve as a cash cow.[citation needed]
The Church of Scientology announced in August 2013 that the building would be opened to the public on October 6, 2013, with a dedication ceremony that the church estimated would attract approximately 10,000 Scientologists. However, a month later it emerged that the Church had canceled the ceremony and postponed the opening of the building. The building finally opened on November 17, 2013.
At 127,000 square feet (11,800 m2), the building is the largest property in Clearwater. It was originally budgeted to cost $24 million, but the cost has more than doubled to an estimated $50 million after repeated redesigns of the interior. According to the building plans, the Super Power Building will feature a grand lobby lined with sculptures depicting aspects of Scientology; theaters for training and introductory films; a museum honoring the Sea Org; and a separate museum honoring Scientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard. The sixth floor will house an indoor running track for Scientologists undergoing the Purification Rundown detoxification program.
The Mediterranean Revival-style building will also contain a bookstore, a library, and hundreds of course and study rooms; with a total of 889 rooms, 447 windows, and 42 bathrooms, plus a 1,140-seat dining room and two kitchens. A 124-foot (38 m) bridge connects the Super Power Building to the Scientology-owned Fort Harrison Hotel on the other side of S. Fort Harrison Avenue.[1] In January 2012, Tony Ortega of the Village Voice published leaked blueprints of the Super Power Building that revealed architectural features including a recreation of a deck on the Apollo, L. Ron Hubbard's flagship in the 1960s.
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www.emporis.com/buildings/175007/flag-building-clearwater...
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Visitors to the reconstructed site of old Dejima at Nagasaki, Japan, check their devices for messages.
Tempio Bulguksa.
I ponti Cheongungyo e Baegungyo sono collegati alla Porta Jahamun, che conduce alla Sala Daeungjeon, e sono considerati strutture simboliche che collegano il mondo della gente comune sotto il ponte con il mondo del Buddha sopra di esso.
I ponti sono costituiti da trentaquattro gradini di cui i sedici gradini che formano la parte superiore sono chiamati Ponte Cheongungyo e i diciotto gradini che formano la parte inferiore sono chiamati Ponte Baegungyo.
Questi ponti sono talvolta paragonati alla vita stessa, il primo sta per “gioventù verde” e il secondo per “anziani dai capelli bianchi”.
La struttura è unica nella scalinata a forma di ponte e la pendenza di salita è elaboratamente rifinita a 45 gradi.
Poiché la parte inferiore dei ponti è ad arco a forma di arcobaleno, rende fluida e vitale la vista che viene indurita dalle linee rettilinee.
Si dice che sotto il muro di pietra rinforzato dove si trovano i ponti ci fosse uno stagno.
Ancora oggi, a sinistra della scala, rimane un dispositivo che fa cadere l'acqua.
Si dice che quando l'acqua cadde da qui, gli spruzzi dell'acqua che cadevano crearono un arcobaleno.
Si presume siano state costruite nel 751 (il decimo anno del regno del re Gyeongdeok di Silla Unificato), queste strutture sono molto preziose perché sono gli unici ponti del periodo Silla ad essere sopravvissuti completamente intatti.
Inoltre, l'arco a forma di arcobaleno della parte inferiore è di grande significato in quanto testimonia l'uso più antico degli archi nei ponti di pietra e nelle porte delle fortezze.
Bulguksa Temple.
The Cheongungyo and Baegungyo Bridges are connected to the Jahamun Gate, which leads to the Daeungjeon Hall, and are considered symbolic structures that connect the world of ordinary people under the bridge with the world of the Buddha above it.
The bridges consist of thirty-four steps of which the sixteen steps forming the upper part are called Cheongungyo Bridge and the eighteen steps forming the lower part are called Baegungyo Bridge.
These bridges are sometimes compared to life itself, the first standing for “green youth” and the second for “white-haired elders”.
The structure is unique in the bridge-shaped staircase and the climbing slope is elaborately finished at 45 degrees.
Since the lower part of the bridges is arched in the shape of a rainbow, it makes the view that is hardened by the straight lines smooth and vital.
It is said that under the reinforced stone wall where the bridges are located there was a pond.
Even today, to the left of the staircase, there remains a device that makes the water fall.
It is said that when the water fell from here, the splashes of the falling water created a rainbow.
Presumed to have been built in 751 (the tenth year of the reign of King Gyeongdeok of Unified Silla), these structures are very valuable because they are the only bridges from the Silla period to have survived completely intact.
Furthermore, the rainbow-shaped arch of the lower part is of great significance as it testifies to the most ancient use of arches in stone bridges and fortress gates.
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The Flag Building also referred to as the Super Power Building is the largest building in Clearwater, Florida. It is owned by the Church of Scientology and was built principally to deliver the Super Power Rundown, a high-level Scientology training course intended to train Scientologists to use what Scientology describes as all of their 57 "perceptics" or senses. The interior of the building contains training suites, course rooms, theaters, and various devices intended to test these "perceptics," including a "time machine", an anti-gravity simulator, an "infinite" pit, and a pain station.
The complex occupies a city block at 215 South Fort Harrison Avenue. It includes a 15-story tower topped by a bronze Scientology cross visible from much of Clearwater. Construction began in 1998, was halted in 2003, and was ultimately resumed to reach substantial completion during 2011. The long delay in construction led to substantial fines being levied by the city authorities. The building is valued at $80 million and at least $145 million was raised by Church fundraising towards the project. The church denies accusations that the Flag Building's completion was deliberately delayed so that it could serve as a cash cow.[citation needed]
The Church of Scientology announced in August 2013 that the building would be opened to the public on October 6, 2013, with a dedication ceremony that the church estimated would attract approximately 10,000 Scientologists. However, a month later it emerged that the Church had canceled the ceremony and postponed the opening of the building. The building finally opened on November 17, 2013.
At 127,000 square feet (11,800 m2), the building is the largest property in Clearwater. It was originally budgeted to cost $24 million, but the cost has more than doubled to an estimated $50 million after repeated redesigns of the interior. According to the building plans, the Super Power Building will feature a grand lobby lined with sculptures depicting aspects of Scientology; theaters for training and introductory films; a museum honoring the Sea Org; and a separate museum honoring Scientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard. The sixth floor will house an indoor running track for Scientologists undergoing the Purification Rundown detoxification program.
The Mediterranean Revival-style building will also contain a bookstore, a library, and hundreds of course and study rooms; with a total of 889 rooms, 447 windows, and 42 bathrooms, plus a 1,140-seat dining room and two kitchens. A 124-foot (38 m) bridge connects the Super Power Building to the Scientology-owned Fort Harrison Hotel on the other side of S. Fort Harrison Avenue.[1] In January 2012, Tony Ortega of the Village Voice published leaked blueprints of the Super Power Building that revealed architectural features including a recreation of a deck on the Apollo, L. Ron Hubbard's flagship in the 1960s.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_Building
www.emporis.com/buildings/175007/flag-building-clearwater...
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
My dad’s last couple of months were really quite hard. Much of them were in hospital and many days were dire. He was at his best socially even as he sickened. He was a gentleman to every caregiver, doctor, nurse and auxiliary. He was kind, and patient, and polite to the other patients in the ward. Even as he himself worsened. He had a constant stream of visitors constantly by his bedside – willing him back to us.
He loved having us there, but he didn’t feel the need to constantly talk. He was a quiet man. So we’d sit, and of course left to my own devices I’d draw. I drew for posterity, for his grandchildren and their children, and honestly, for myself. I never shared these sketches with him.
Too late now.
Was honored to be asked by @KeenanCummings to participate in his new project Wander. See all the postcards, download mine for your mobile device and just learn more about Wander here: blog.onwander.com/post/24405771845/life-is-a-journey-tad-...
Per favore, una tazza perfetta. Leave it to the Italians to make a device for perfect stove top coffee. Not as sharp as espresso, it renders a very swift gush of deep flavored Moka. With or without milk, a great pick-me-up. They offer directions on YouTube
This guy is a first for me. I had to "sneak" up on him with my truck. Thankfully, I had included the Star Trek "Cloaking Device" option on my Toyota Tundra. I'm intent on getting an even closer shot of him when I go back to Maine in a few weeks.
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So we think it is an electronic sensor/device...but we might be wrong....we are not alone. The Parade Company. Detroit, Michigan. January 12th, 2019.
This display in the National Museum of Scotland is a doomsday device from a Scottish supervillain who used to have a hollowed out base inside the nearby extinct volcano of Arthur's Seat.
Okay, it isn't, it is actually part of the particle accelerator engineering from CERN, used to move particles to almost the speed of light. With the geometrically arranged display of colourful wiring behind it and the large metal sphere shape I thought it looked like a doomsday device from a classic 60s spy movie or comic book.
Beautiful 1880s era Second Empire style house with Mansard roof in Mantua Ohio. The classic architectural lines of the house were muddied by the addition of an enormous wrap-around porch. The story goes that the owner, a Mr. Crafts, wanted a large porch to accommodate guests for his daughter's wedding. Unlike many insensitive old house renovations, this porch was designed and constructed in a way that harmonized very well with the original structure. The residence is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located just across the street from the incredible Victorian mansion shown in my recent post entitled 'Chasing Embers.'
Romanticism
(or the Romantic Era) was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution.
In part, it was a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature.
It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature.
The movement validated strong emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as trepidation — especially that which is experienced in confronting the sublimity of untamed nature and its picturesque qualities, both new aesthetic categories.
Robert Schumann, (8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856)
was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law to return to music, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured by his teacher, Friedrich Wieck, that he could become the finest pianist in Europe, but a hand injury caused by a device he created with the false belief that it would help increase the size of his hands prevented that. One of the most promising careers as a pianist had thus come to an end. Schumann then focused his musical energies on composing.
Schumann's published compositions were written exclusively for the piano until 1840; he later composed works for piano and orchestra; many lieder (songs for voice and piano); four symphonies; an opera; and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works. His writings about music appeared mostly in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (New Journal for Music), a Leipzig-based publication which he jointly founded.
Possum Kingdom Dam.
This was a scary time as only a couple of flood gates could be opened due to repairs on the others. It was in the middle of a flooding season, full of storms and such. The lake was dangerously high, and the river was very very high. You could look out on the river and only see the tops of trees out there. A small bridge was almost over-topped further down the way. Water was lapping at and sometimes passing briefly through the rails.
Apologies for the vintage filter, but this is a kinda flashback to childhood play on my bedroom floor with the Trek Megos and Muton/Cyborg/Android/Dr Who Denys Fisher toys...
After an epic battle with Android and Muton's subforms, Cyborg lies drained... but Muton seems victorious; he has his hands on the alien Transcendence Device and with its untold energies flowing into him his evil will surely be unstoppable now - already his form is now beyond death.
But Cyborg's allies have a plan. With Spock monitoring the energy levels for a precise instant of vulnerability, the Doctor hastily connects the Device's power supply to that powering the planet's forcefield - which has kept help from the Enterprise at bay. Muton gladly absorbs the extra rush of power as the forcefield flickers and fades; for not even a volley of photon torpedoes could hurt his undying form now...
Kirk has the Enterprise transporter lock onto Muton, ready to beam him into the cold depths of space... but the alien laughs; even before 'transcendence' the vacuum of space was nothing to him...
"Energise, Mr Scott," Kirk orders, "maximum dispersal!"
There's a brief realisation of horror and failure on Muton's twisted face before his atoms are scattered far and wide across this corner of the cosmos.
But is even that enough to bring an end to the terror that is Muton?
Taken with the Steinheil Orthostigmat 4.5/210mm @f/11
Film Foma Retropan soft 320 @ISO 160
Developed in paper developer from Rollei.
The picture shows different collimator and autocollimator systems from Zeiss Jena, East Germany, Moeller/Wedel near Hamburg and Zeiss Oberkochen W.Germany.
Very helpful gears for lens rehousings, highest grade of precision..
Early morning coffee with friends and devices at Uptown Espresso. The warm day inspired warm colors.
Today people spending too much time with their high technology devices so it seems like they live not with but "in" their devices.
This week in 1999, the STS-96 crew aboard space shuttle Discovery became the first to dock with the International Space Station. Using the Integrated Cargo Carrier, Discovery delivered the Russian cargo crane, STRELA; the SPACEHAB Oceaneering Space System Box; and the American crane, ORU Transfer Device, to the space station. STS-96 was the Space Shuttle Program’s second ISS mission. The first, STS-88, delivered the first American module, Unity, in December 1998. In total, 34 shuttle missions were flown during construction of the space station.
The International Space Station serves as the world’s leading laboratory where researchers conduct cutting-edge research and technology development that will enable human and robotic exploration of destinations beyond low-Earth orbit, including asteroids and Mars. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center’s Payload Operations and Integrations Center serves as the agency’s command center for all science operations on the space station.
The NASA History Program documents and preserves NASA’s remarkable history through a variety of products -- photos, press kits, press releases, mission transcripts and administrators' speeches. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA’s history, visit the History Program’s web page.
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Guavas (singular guava, /ˈɡwɑː.və/)[1] are common tropical fruits cultivated and enjoyed in many tropical and subtropical regions.Our native guava is very flavorful and is made to guava jelly. Its leaves
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ipads, or similar devices.
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