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There is an old stretch of two lane between Blue Mounds and Barneveld west of Madison that I remember traveling with my parents in a '52 Chevy to visit relatives in Dodgeville. The road winds along the ridges of undulating pastures and corn fields with patches of woods where the hills are too steep to plow. Somehow I was drawn back to this road on a warmer than usual November day to catch this series of sunset shots to add to my growing collection.
the caption is taken from the song, Like a Rolling Stone, off the Highway 61 Revisted album, in a feeble attempt to borrow a storyline from Dylan since I can't seem to come up with one of my own yet
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Historical data
The first settlement core of Wolkersdorf was the "Old Market" to the west of the present course of the Brünnerstraße (Brno street) direction Ulrichskirchen. An exact age determination of the emergence of the "Old Market" is not possible, but the evidence points to the time just before 1050. However, it seems that even before a settlement whose provenance cannot precisely determinated has existed. The foundation is often associated with the legendary figure of a Wolfger, who allegedly was a Frankish follower of the Salian king Henry III. (from 1046 Emperor). After him, the naming of the place is supposed to be done, but it is rather to presume that the place-name, as in other places in the Weinviertel, also can be explained from the settlement history and it's the case of a secondary place name, which refers to the surroundings of the actual Nuremberg.
The castle buildings in its present location - about a whatsoever former noble residence in the "Old Market" can only be speculated - in the first half of the 13th Century was built, as well as the "new market" was born. The Lords of Wolkersdorf who called themselves after the place were emerged from a lesser branch of the lords of Ulrichskirchen.
A close binding to the Babenberg Duke House in the connection with the third Crusade should have emerged, which has been rumored frequently, but it is not possible for various reasons. If the close binding to the Babenberg Court, which in the 13th Century undeniably has existed, really through joint crusade participations came off, this only can be the case of the so-called "German Crusade" under the Emperor Henry VI., however, this was canceled very quickly due to the death of Henry.
Thither also suggest other evidences, such as today's Wolkersdorfer city coat of arms, consisting of the colors of the burgraves of Nuremberg (Black/Silver). Even the oldest surviving deed of gift for Wolkersdorf end of the 13th Century comes from the Nuremberg burgraves, the fief relationship but already seems to have existed far longer.
The nobility of the Wolkersdorfer after the extinction of the Babenberg in the 70s of the 13th Century stood in opposition to King Ottokar of Bohemia, what made him object of a mention in Grillparzer's drama "King Ottokar's Fortune and End".
After the nobility of the Wolkersdorfer had left the place, there were frequently changing owners, among them the Dachsberger and the Starhemberger. Since 1481 and completely in 1538 was the domination Wolkersdorf owned by the Habsburgs and was following the testament of Queen Anne in 1547 the Wiener Hofspital (Court Hospital of Vienna) incorporatedl and belonged even after its repeal in 1782 to the endowment fund of the Hofspital until the purchase by Hugo Graf Abensperg-Traun in the year 1870. In 1884, the Wolkersdorfer Savings Bank acquired the castle, in 1967 it became the property of the former market town, since 1969 the municipality of Wolkersdorf.
In the eventful history of the place it came in the wake of the sieges frequently to devastations, such as in 1275 in the course of the siege by King Ottokar of Bohemia, in 1458 by the Bohemian King George of Podebrad or 1605 by the Calvinist Prince of Transylvania Stephan Botchkay. In the course of the Thirty Years' War it were mainly the Swedes under Field Marshal Torstensson Lienhart by which Wolkersdorf was affected. 1809 finally Napoleon's troops burned a portion of the "Old Market" down. 1866, the Rußbach (brook) was the demarcation line between Prussia and Austria, thus separating Wolkersdorf into a northern Prussian and a southern Austrian part.
Wolkersdorf was in the first half of the 14th Century raised to market; 1436 with Lewpolt Gerngrass first a citizen of the market Wolkersdorf documentarily is mentioned. Under King Albert II 1439 the district court Wolkersdorf by transfers from the regional courts Marchegg and Korneuburg was created, as the name suggests, the High Court was located on the Judgment mountain. Sometimes Wolkersdorf even had three judges, one for the "Old Market", one for the "New Market" and one for the approximately 1784 emerged 'settlers line" (New Line), today the Kaiser-Josef-Straße.
A school in Wolkersdorf is first mentioned in 1446. 1460 took place the meeting of the Lower Austrian estates in Wolkersdorf.
Of importance to Wolkersdorf was already in the Middle Ages a trade route that ran from Vienna, at Stadlau crossing the Danube, via Wolkersdorf, Gaweinstal and Mistelbach to Poysdorf and there reaching the old "Nikolsburger road", which was the forerunner of the in 18th Century developed Brünnerstraße. Through the construction of the Brünnerstraße under Joseph II Wolkersdorf quickly developed into the largest settlement of the beginning hill landscape of the Wine Quarter and in 1870 it was connected to the railway network.
Promoted business settlements of the municipality from 1960 made Wolkersdorf to an important economic center. This position was taken into account on 22 June 1969 by elevating Wolkersdorf to the status of the city. In the years 1966-1972 Wolkersdorf grew through the association with the communities Riedenthal, Münichsthal, Pfösing and the market town of Oberndorf.
Intensive infrastructure projects were formative for the 70s and 80s. In 1978, the Provincial Government of Lower Austria founded the industrial center Lower Austria Nord/Wolkersdorf to the south of the Ostbahn (eastern railway) and to the east of Brno road. Intensive residential construction activity, active youth work and the development to school center shape the face and character of the city as a gateway to the Wine Quarter.
Wolkersdorf successfully puts up the gap between urbanized and rural structure. The result is a high quality of life - with high developed infrastructure, diverse recreational spaces, rest areas and green spaces in and around Wolkersdorf. The proximity to Vienna as well as the pronounced Weinviertler cultural landscape attract many guests to Wolkersdorf .
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I FINALLY made a One Direction cover! Its about time. The logo isn't mine, but I got it one Plus Gossip (the former HR Encodes). What do you think?
Umbrella Today:
I have such mixed emotions about this app. Basically, I'm a bit of a
country girl, and this is a real city folk app.
When country folk check the weather they want to know a LOT about it.
If there are high winds or tornadoes, tell me what wind speed, what
direction, what kind of shifts, how fast is the front moving, how many
miles per hour, how many minutes until it reaches me, what is in the
path, what preparations should be taken to protect valuables (people,
property, plants, animals) that are in the path, etc*. If it is cold I
want to know not just how cold it is in real temperature, but what is
the wind chill, the direction of the winds, how many seconds to
frostbite for exposed skin, visibility, how icy is the ground surface,
etc. When I moved to Michigan, that first summer there was a tornado
outside of Ann Arbor, where I live. I thought I had moved to the place
with the stupidest weatherman on earth, since Fox news kept saying
repeatedly, "Tornado sighted outside of Ann Arbor," but never said
which side of Ann Arbor, had it touched down, how fast was it moving,
or anything useful.
But I've lived in Chicago, too, which is primo city-folk territory. In
Chicago we measured the cold by when the downtown suits became furs,
and all most folk really wanted to know was whether or not they needed
to carry an umbrella or wear a coat. That's it. Other than that, they
were indoors or taking public transit or driving. Seldom did you need
to wait outside very long without shelter.
So, if all folks really want or need for their own daily weather
information needs is:
Umbrella? Yes/No
then, why not simplify things to give them only the information they
really need? There was a small debate about this at #SOLO10 earlier
today. (SOLO10 = Science Online London 2010.) @attilacsordas and @mrgunn were talking about
minimum information standards becoming maximum information standards,
and how high or low the bar is set needs to be defined by the
community the information is serving. Well, the folks at ThoughtBot seem to have already been
thinking along the same lines. Umbrella Today answers that one, very
simple, yes or no question about the weather, and does it via web or
iPhone, and will send you daily alerts via email or SMS (texting).
Take the one thing you really want to know, and make it astonishingly
simple and obvious to find out. Pretty darn obvious, now that someone
else has thought of it, isn't it?
* This is also why I absolutely LOVE the Weather Underground and find
it vastly superior to www.weather.com, but that is a
discussion for another time.
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Kendal scrum-half Chris Park moves the ball from a ruck against Preston Grasshoppers in rugby union's North Premier league. It was the opening fixture at the Lakelanders' new ground. Multi-pitch New Mint Bridge, built on a 12-acre site, cost more than £10m. The visitors spoiled the party, and sent home disappointed the majority of a bumper crowd, by coming back from 9-5 down at half-time to win 25-19 a North West derby. Hoppers, now unbeaten in five games this season as they look to bounce straight back to National League Two North, outscored the Lakelanders four tries to one. Kendal had to wait until the third minute of second half stoppage time to cross the Preston line. No 9 Park's touchline conversion salvaged a losing bonus point.
Kendal's new ground was funded by the sale, to a supermarket developer, of their former Mint Bridge home, which is half a mile down Shap Road towards the town centre. It has taken a decade for Kendal to relocate because three public inquiries were needed before the proposed supermarket was given the go-ahead. RFU president Bill Beaumont officially opened New Mint Bridge in a short ceremony just before the Preston game kicked off.
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Those who sponsored a sleeper as part of the Mail Rail postal museum initiative got to ride on the new visitor attraction and then explore the tunnels and Mount Pleasant station beneath the streets of Farringdon, in order that we could see the commemorative plaque on "our" sleeper. This was a Sub Brit wet dream - they've pretty much left everything alone, just as it was when the last through trains ran in 2003. It even smells of ozone, although today that is generated by the blizzard of large projectors over the platforms telling the story of the Post Office Underground Railway.
Once the ride opens to public on September the 4th, this type of activity will no longer be possible. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to explore an iconic part of subterranean London!