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This photo was taken inside the nineteenth-century Adant House of Williamsburg's Domino Sugar Refinery. Architectural details include arched windows, brick walls, wood beams, enormous fire-proofing doors, and discrete tracks running some of the floors. The Adant House was finished the same year as the Brooklyn Bridge (1883) and overall is in excellent condition and in a perfect position for reuse, but the current plan for the $1.5 billion makeover calls for demolishing 11 of the 14 buildings comprising the refinery, and includes the Adant House. This infuriates me greatly because of how easily the space in addition to several others could be saved and integrated into the plan for "new Domino." This building is as true a piece of NYC history as the Brooklyn Bridge and will be lost as a result of senseless development.
I didn't have a respirator so after what looked like a rust/debris/asbestos concoction on the floor, I tried to tread as lightly as possible. Obviously I wasn't doing a good job preventing the powder from becoming airborne because after ten steps the smell of cinnamon hit me. An ex-coworker who spent 14 years here as an engineer said that the Adant House was where the sugar cubes were made. Apparently they made ground cinnamon here too.
The second photo shows a close up of the lone chest at the end of the tracks. What purpose it served, I have no idea.
Victorians didn't have cell phones and couldn't text, so how did they discretely communicate their romantic intentions? This Window Signaling card, printed in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, provides the answer.
A woman could stand at a window, as the card suggests, and place her left forefinger on her chin to secretly signal, "I desire an acquaintance."
A man passing by the window--hopefully he has a copy of the card, too--might reply, "favorable," by gesturing with his left forefinger.
And presumably a relationship could develop from there--"I greet you," "To-morrow night," "Yes," "I love you," etc.
Of course, there were obvious problems with this mode of communication. You might accidentally move two instead of three fingers on your right hand up and down, which would signal "no" when you actually meant "yes."
For some other alleged communication schemes, see:
-- Handkerchief Flirtation Card
-- Stamp Flirtation Postcard, 1909
Window Signaling
Open right hand held to side of face — I greet you.
Forefinger of left hand on chin — I desire an acquaintance.
Forefinger of left hand — Favorable.
Three fingers of right hand moved up and down — Yes.
Two fingers of right hand (the same) — No.
Open hand on forehead — I am a stranger.
Kissing the fingers of left hand — I love you.
Both hands clasped — I am engaged.
Two little fingers locked — I am at leisure.
Arms folded across breast — I would I were you.
Forefinger of right hand over mouth — Warning to cease signaling.
Left hand clenched as fist — To-night.
Both hands clenched — To-morrow.
Both hands clenched and taking one away — To-morrow night.
Taking both hands away — This even'g.
In Papua New Guinea, there are more than more than 850 discrete spoken languages, and until recently, none of them were written down. Even today, adult literacy sits at less than 62%. In a historically nonliterate society with more than 7000 diverse cultural groups, one of the most popular means of education has been through costume, song, and dance.
This is one reason sing sings so important.
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,,The Large Copper (Lycaena dispar) is widespread through much of central Europe though usually exists in small and discrete colonies of short lived adults. It is also a rather rare and endangered species as its habitat of damp meadows is prone to drainage. As a result it is protected under European law. The males have fantastic, bright orange uppersides rather like the Scarce Copper male, where as the females have markings reminiscent of many other members of the copper family with the black spots and browner hindwings. The adults seem particularly attracted to yellow flowers such as Ranunculus in spring and Pulicaria and Buphthalmum in summer.''
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Photographed in the area Piatra Craiului, Brasov, Transilvania, Ro. Piatra Craiului is river located along the Barsa where one of my favorite walking places near Brasov.
The Large Copper (Lycaena dispar)
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As you readers of this blog know I have a penchant for camara bags and I recently came upon another great brand of bags - Zkin. The Zkin bags are made in Hong Kong and are built to last.
So I decided to the get the black version of the Mothman which on the pictures looked totally cool and perhaps it could be the perfect little photowalk bag for X100/s. The question now becomes where does this litte bag fit into my lifestyle. That's a simple one to answer. You know the times when you're walking out the door and wish you could take your Fuji X100 or Fuji XE1 out for a walk, perhaps you're running some errands with the lady of the house or girlfriend and you need something small, discrete, and I must say quite nice looking as well. Well the Zkin Mothman fits that mold perfectly.
More images here with the rest of the text:
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Deux douzaines de goélands marins survolant discrètement le ciel de Cap Tourmente. Sans doute un premier groupe d'oiseaux en migration. Enfin... Marine Gull.
For many years I remember seeing Robinsons Shaft in the middle of an industrial patch of wasteland , it was owned by the National Trust then and mothballed . Now it is in the centre of Heartlands .
Robinson’s Shaft is the living soul and epicentre of Heartlands. Located at Pool in Cornwall, it’s one of the most important mining sites in the country.
It forms a part of one of the ten discrete landscapes that make up the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site and is home to a number of Grade II listed buildings.
So what makes this particular mining site so special? Well, it closed as recently as 1996 so it has retained more of its historic architecture and structure than any other site you see today where mining ceased much earlier. Robinson’s Engine House also holds the Crown Jewels of mining machinery – the Cornish pumping engine of 1854. This masterpiece has been kept in a remarkable state of preservation and was the last Cornish Engine to work on a Cornish Mine.
Robinson’s Shaft came to prominence around 1900-8, when it became the principal shaft of the South Crofty mine. However, it crops up on a plan from 1833 so it took nearly 70 years for it to take centre stage.
The turning point came in 1900, when they had to deepen the shaft to exploit the tin deposits in that part of the South Crofty mine. This involved a series of colossal engineering feats. The first of which was the construction of a winding engine, finished by 1901. Next came the installation of a pumping engine, which started in 1903. They then began the usual act of building the engine house and engine in tandem. By 1908, they’d completed the pumping engine, which allowed the shaft to be sunk to 205 fathoms. By 1910, they could mine to 238 fathoms, that’s 1428 feet or 435 metres - higher than Brown Willy, the highest point in Cornwall.
With the pumping-engine in place, the rest of the development around the shaft proceeded over the following 3-4 years. The layout was dictated by the way the different functions served the shaft, so what might appear to be a random cluster was in fact a highly organised working entity. The other early development at the shaft was the introduction of electric power, which astonishingly, seems to have taken place as early as 1910-11.
By 1967 the South Crofty mine had been reconfigured, so that the shaft at Robinson’s was used for lifting men and equipment, whilst ore was lifted at the nearby new Cook’s Shaft. The result of the changes of the 50s and 60s is that the site as seen today is essentially the product of two phases: its original development in 1900-11, when it became the major shaft in the South Crofty complex with all the typical functions of a tin mining site, and its modernisation in 1955-65 when it was adapted to play a subsidiary role in that complex.
The pumping engine at Robinson’s Shaft is a gloriously well-preserved example of a Cornish engine. It worked at this site between 1903 and 1955.
The engine was designed by Captain Samuel Grose, a pupil of Richard Trevithick, and was built by Sandys Vivian and Co. at the Copperhouse Foundry, one of the two major engineering works at Hayle. Apart from its state of preservation, and the fact that it continued to work until the 1950s, another claim to fame of this engine is that it experienced being moved no less than four times:
first erected at the Wheal Alfred mine near Hayle, where it worked 1855-64
moved to Wheal Abraham near Crowan, when it worked 1865-75
after a period of idleness moved to Tregurtha Downs mine near Marazion, where it worked 1883-95/1899- 1902 (the gap being because of the collapse of tin pieces in the mid-1890s)
re-erected for the final time at Robinson’s Shaft in 1903
If you think of shifting a house, bricks, mortar and all, you might begin to understand the complexity of this operation. Despite all these moves the engine as seen today is essentially as it was first built in 1854-5
Robinson’s Engine stopped working at 1.15pm on 1 May 1955, the last Cornish Engine to work on a Cornish Mine.
Robinson’s Engine is currently undergoing more restoration work (it’s a bit like painting the Forth Bridge), but you can still go on guided tours to see this magnificent engine and talk to our restoration team about the processes involved along with all the blood, sweat and tears. Once restored, the engine will run again using a hydraulic system. We believe in protecting the environment and we use renewable energy across Heartlands, so for now, the engine will not be run on steam.
Well , I can see a steel headframe and I can see a monkey puzzle tree -
cue the Tull
6 sec, f/2.8, ISO 8000 | Nikon D4 + 14-24mm f/2.8G
Yellowknife, CA, 3 Apr 2014
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After eight months of quiescence, Etna is back on the scene. For a week now, since 20 January 2017, new hot, molten, incandescent rock is coming to the surface in what we call Strombolian activity - small, discrete explosions that eject fragments of incandescent lava into the air, sometimes to several hundred meters high. The site of the activity is a vent that lies exactly halfway between the "old Southeast Crater", which was active from 1971 until 2007, and whose summit is visible immediately to the left of the incandescent jet, and the "New Southeast Crater", that initially formed in 2007 but which became a permanent feature in January 2011, and has erupted more than 50 times since, most recently in December 2015. The vent that is now active occupies what was once a conspicuous saddle between the old and new cones of the Southeast Crater. It has so far erupted only once, between 31 January and 2 February 2015, and after that appeared completely dead. In one of its typical twists of volcanic humor, Etna has now decided to make it come alive again: the first small ash emissions occurred on 15 December 2016, and new, incandescent, magmatic material was first observed on 20 January 2017. Since then, the activity has shown a gradual increase, both in the frequency and in the size of the explosions. This morning at dawn, the clouds, which had covered the southern face of the mountain since the previous evening, finally lifted, and the volcano spectacularly displayed its new activity with fine Strombolian explosions accompanied by small ash clouds every few minutes.
This is a photo that I took with my new camera (info below at right) at 06:36 h UTC (=local time -1) on 27 January 2017, from my home in the village of Tremestieri Etneo, 20 km south of the Southeast Crater.
I may have dallied for a discrete stop in the trees, so I then spied this shot as I was catching up...
The oystercatchers are a group of waders forming the family Haematopodidae, which has a single genus, Haematopus. They are found on coasts worldwide apart from the polar regions and some tropical regions of Africa and South East Asia. The exception to this is the Eurasian oystercatcher and the South Island oystercatcher, both of which breed inland, far inland in some cases.
In the past there has been a great deal of confusion as to the species limits, with discrete populations of all black oystercatchers being afforded specific status but pied oystercatchers being considered one single species.
The name oystercatcher was coined by Mark Catesby in 1731 as a common name for the North American species H. palliatus, described as eating oysters. Yarrell in 1843 established this as the preferred term, replacing the older name sea pie.
The genus name Haematopus comes from the Greek haima αἳμα blood, pous πούς foot.
The different species of oystercatcher show little variation in shape or appearance. They range from 39–50 cm (15–20 in) in length and 72–91 cm (28–36 in) in wingspan. The Eurasian oystercatcher is the lightest on average, at 526 g (1.160 lb), while the sooty oystercatcher is the heaviest, at 819 g (1.806 lb).
The plumage of all species is either all-black, or black (or dark brown) on top and white underneath. The variable oystercatcher is slightly exceptional in being either all-black or pied. They are large, obvious, and noisy plover-like birds, with massive long orange or red bills used for smashing or prying open molluscs. The bill shape varies between species, according to the diet. Those birds with blade-like bill tips pry open or smash mollusc shells, and those with pointed bill tips tend to probe for annelid worms. They show sexual dimorphism, with females being longer-billed and heavier than males.
Feeding
The diet of oystercatchers varies with location. Species occurring inland feed upon earthworms and insect larvae. The diet of coastal oystercatchers is more varied, although dependent upon coast type; on estuaries bivalves, gastropods and polychaete worms are the most important part of the diet, whereas rocky shore oystercatchers prey upon limpets, mussels, gastropods, and chitons. Other prey items include echinoderms, fish, and crabs.
Breeding
Nearly all species of oystercatcher are monogamous, although there are reports of polygamy in the Eurasian oystercatcher. They are territorial during the breeding season (with a few species defending territories year round). There is strong mate and site fidelity in the species that have been studied, with one record of a pair defending the same site for 20 years. A single nesting attempt is made per breeding season, which is timed over the summer months.
The nests of oystercatchers are simple affairs, scrapes in the ground which may be lined, and placed in a spot with good visibility. The eggs of oystercatchers are spotted and cryptic. Between one and four eggs are laid, with three being typical in the Northern Hemisphere and two in the south. Incubation is shared but not proportionally, females tend to take more incubation and males engage in more territory defence. Incubation varies by species, lasting between 24–39 days. Oystercatchers are also known to practice "egg dumping." Like the cuckoo, they sometimes lay their eggs in the nests of other species such as seagulls, abandoning them to be raised by those birds.
Conservation
One species of oystercatcher became extinct during the 20th century, the Canary Islands oystercatcher. Another species, the Chatham oystercatcher, which is endemic to the Chatham Islands of New Zealand, is listed as endangered by the IUCN, and the African oystercatcher is considered near threatened. In the past there has been conflict with commercial shellfish farmers, but studies have found that the impact of oystercatchers is much smaller than that of shore crabs.
Stagecoach Enviro 200s 36992 and 36993 carry discrete branding for Peak District service 65 which returned to the company on contract in July 2018 after over a decade of absence from its network. On Sundays the two-hourly frequency drops to three journeys in each direction, and the stretch of the route between Sheffield city centre and Meadowhall does not operate, meaning that a single vehicle is required. Having spent yesterday on Chesterfield local service 90, 36993 was back on its usual haunt today, and was captured in Eyam with the 11:00 from Buxton to Sheffield.
Capucine, la plus discrète et douce de mes 3 moutons. Au moins avec elle on ne se fait pas renverser (Cracotte) ou sauter dessus (Praline) au moment de la distribution de friandises.
Capucine the sweetest and most discrete of my 3 sheep. With her no risk of being run over (Cracotte) or to have a sheep jumping on you (Praline) during the treats distribution.
Wetenschappelijke naam: Anthocharis cardamines
Scientific name: Anthocharis cardamines
The Orange-tip is a true sign of spring, being one of the first species to emerge that has not overwintered as an adult. The male and female of this species are very different in appearance. The more-conspicuous male has orange tips to the forewings, that give this butterfly its name. These orange tips are absent in the female and the female is often mistaken for one of the other whites, especially the Green-veined White or Small White. This butterfly is found throughout England, Wales and Ireland, but is somewhat-local further north and especially in Scotland. In most regions this butterfly does not form discrete colonies and wanders in every direction as it flies along hedgerows and woodland margins looking for a mate, nectar sources or foodplants. More northerly colonies are more compact and also more restricted in their movements.
Anthocharis cardamines ssp. cardamines
The species was first defined in Linnaeus (1758) as shown here (type locality: Sweden).
Self-portrait made from 52 images combined via a slit scanning type method.
Made with processing.org .
Anecdotes urbaines: Ce n'est pas la statue qui attirait l'attention de M.W mais la discrete visiteuse qui parlait aux statues dans une langue oubliée de tous. #bnw #bnwmood #photography #photooftheday #montreal #museum #pointeacalliere #picoftheday
Taken at Swank Escapes, Romantic Dream experience at maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Prestigious%20Peace/176/24...
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* a romantic space for dinner for two
* a personal dance ball loaded with the most gorgeous dance animations (discretely located next to the music turntable)
* many music stream choices, controlled by Turntable/record player, perfect for setting a mood
* automatic security orb for privacy and security.
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Rutilia sp.
Family: Tachinidae
Order: Diptera
This fly is probably in a complex of insects known as Rutilia splendida-decora-chersipho-corona-cryptica. It is a complex comprising 5 discrete species in this genus.
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Aptly named: Lasioglossum coeruleum. Most of the many confusing members of these small sweat bees glimmer discretely in metallic integument, but our friend here takes it up a notch to and Osmia level. This makes them identifiable...except for the problem that some of them are not so bright...irritating if you have to identify them...but once you get the pattern you feel a small sense of superiority to those in power in the world who clearly would fail if you asked them to identify an "off" specimen So there. Specimen collected by Michael Veit in transmission lines in CT...
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Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
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Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
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PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
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The Essex Skipper forms discrete colonies that vary from a small number of individuals to several thousand. Where it occurs it can therefore be very common. This species is very similar in appearance to the Small Skipper and, because of this similarity, was not recognised as a separate species until 1889. The male is distinguished from the female by the sex brand on its forewings, which is a short line of specialised scent scales. Despite its name, the Essex Skipper is now found over much of the southern half of England and it was first recorded in Wales in 2000 and in Wexford in south-east Ireland in 2006. On the British mainland it is to generally be found south of a line between Dorset and North Lincolnshire. It is believed that the increase in distribution is being assisted by the steep and grass-covered embankments that are often found on motorways and major trunk roads which acted as corridors - allowing this species to reach new locations more easily.
Aloomba, Queensland is a small rural area in the south of Cairns, Queensland
It is a discrete settlement away from the highway, mostly populated by people living on sugar cane farms.
General Store
. 11 Fixter Rd. Aloomba QLD 4871. Phone: 07 40561897 ...
Architectural Description:
A single storey timber-framed shop clad with imitation weatherboard cladding and featuring display windows. The
gabled roof is clad with corrugated iron and is partly concealed by an upstand sign.
The building is low set with steps within the central ingo which lead to a pair of two-panel timber doors with bolection
mouldings. Four timber posts on concrete blocks support the skillion verandah. There is a side (south) extension under
a skillion roof. Windows to the other side (north) elevation have been altered and now comprise Colorbond aluminium
sliding sashes.
History
The building appears to have been constructed in the 1910s or 1920s.
Two storekeepers were referred to in Aloomba in Pugh's Almanac of 1910 - James Davies and Sun Sing Loong. In
1916, there was only one company under storekeepers in Aloomba and this was Davis & Stropp. In 1921, BE Hayes
and Con. J Verrenkamp were Aloomba storekeepers . And in 1926, there was once again only one storekeeper - AC
Templeton.
It is unknown which of these storekeepers may have occupied the subject building, but it does indicate that Aloomba, which maintained a population of approximately 150 people between 1910 and 1926, was a small town with only one or two shops.
I had to be very discrete while walking through the maze of the market, and this photo, as well as many others, was shot "blind" from the hip.
Le soleil est toujours présent..
Une présence parfois discrète sous les nuages, une présence parfois ardente à midi, mais toujours il est là ! Il fait sa course, chaque jour, dans le ciel réglé comme une horloge comme d'ailleurs plusieurs lois naturelles inscrites dans un univers fascinant.
Le théologien AH Strong a écrit: "L'univers est une source de théologie ( l'étude de Dieu) ".
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The sun is still there ..
Sometimes discreet presence in the clouds, a fiery presence sometimes at noon, but it is still there! He made his race every day in the sky like clockwork as are several natural law inscribed in a fascinating world.
The theologian AH Strong wrote: "The universe is a source of theology (the study of God)"
Common Blue / polyommatus icarus. Stanton Sidings, Derbyshire. 07/08/17.
'Oblique View Of A Bleak Blue!"
Head detail. BEST VIEWED LARGE.
The reason this male was probably sensing a kind of bleakness in its short life was because it's summer, threatening another rain shower and blowing stiff gusts of wind.
With no desire to seek nectar or a mate, this CB was all about survival when I made the image.
Numbers of first brood Common Blue butterflies at my local brownfield site were worryingly low this year. Things were looking slightly better with the second brood but they must be battling against the odds now I would think.
The American Robin or North American Robin (Turdus migratorius) is a migratory songbird of the thrush family. It is named after the European Robin because of its reddish-orange breast, though the two species are not closely related, with the European robin belonging to the flycatcher family. The American Robin is widely distributed throughout North America, wintering south of Canada from Florida to central Mexico and along the Pacific Coast. It is the state bird of Connecticut, Michigan, and Wisconsin. It has seven subspecies, but only T. m. confinis in the southwest is particularly distinctive, with pale gray-brown underparts.
The American Robin is active mostly during the day and assembles in large flocks at night. Its diet consists of invertebrates (such as beetle grubs, earthworms, and caterpillars), fruits and berries. It is one of the earliest bird species to lay eggs, beginning to breed shortly after returning to its summer range from its winter range. Its nest consists of long coarse grass, twigs, paper, and feathers, and is smeared with mud and often cushioned with grass or other soft materials. It is among the first birds to sing at dawn, and its song consists of several discrete units that are repeated.
The adult robin is preyed upon by hawks, cats and larger snakes, but when feeding in flocks, it can be vigilant and watch other birds for reactions to predators. Brown-headed Cowbirds lay eggs in robin nests (see brood parasite), but robins usually reject the cowbird eggs.
Los Angeles. California.
In Papua New Guinea, there are more than more than 850 discrete spoken languages, and until recently, none of them were written down. Even today, adult literacy sits at less than 62%. In a historically nonliterate society with more than 7000 diverse cultural groups, one of the most popular means of education has been through costume, song, and dance.
Which is part of what makes sing sings so important.
For the story, please visit: www.ursulasweeklywanders.com/travel/feathers-fur-and-face...
Essex Skipper (Thymelicus lineola). The Essex Skipper forms discrete colonies that vary from a small number of individuals to several thousand. Where it occurs it can therefore be very common. This species is very similar in appearance to the Small Skipper and, because of this similarity, was not recognised as a separate species until 1889. The male is distinguished from the female by the sex brand on its forewings, which is a short line of specialised scent scales. Despite its name, the Essex Skipper is now found over much of the southern half of England and it was first recorded in Wales in 2000 and in Wexford in south-east Ireland in 2006. On the British mainland it is to generally be found south of a line between Dorset and North Lincolnshire. It is believed that the increase in distribution is being assisted by the steep and grass-covered embankments that are often found on motorways and major trunk roads which acted as corridors - allowing this species to reach new locations more easily. Photo by Nick Dobbs, Stour Valley Nature Reserve 02-07-20