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I took this shot as part of the Kelby Worldwide Photowalk event:
This was taken on the same street that I lived on when I first moved to Los Angeles, right between Hollywood and Sunset BLVD almost 20 years ago. It was a pretty crappy street back then and save for this bitchen' mural, it still is. Coincidentally, I owned a pair of those exact basketball shoes!
A special thanks to Mr. Passerby for wearing matching colors! Now that was a coincidence!
Funny to think that this tractor was just left here at the exact same point where it puffed its last smoke and not a single inch further. And it will remain there for seagulls to land and for us to shoot.
Dear Journal,
I feel the time has come to shed some light onto the exact nature of my perilous quest.
The sought and found item in question is a 24-carat white gold tablet, 10x10" in length, with many complex wordings and symbols engraved on it, adorned in the center with a warlike mask - perhaps some great hero of the past.
After several day's worth of examination and several trips to the library, I concluded my previous suspicions as to its purpose were justified. It is, in fact, an ancient map which hopefully will lead me to the greatest archaeological find in our history... the lost city of Eusebia.
However, dear Journal, I mustn't continue without further explanation.
Cartography in the Isles of Aura is an exceedingly complex process. I will summarize the basics for you. Since about 2,300 years ago, all navigation has been based solely upon the stars. With a few year's training (and a heap of various advanced equipment for extra precision), you can find any place in our known world, regardless of height or depth. It is said that "One can never be lost if he is at home among the stars."
Fortunately, I have spent much of my life in these skies and and know these heavens well. It wasn't always like this...
Before 2,500 years ago, most historians agree that Aura was one massive continent floating wherever it pleased. And at some point, for reasons unknown, this great land mass broke apart and scattered across the known world. And this, journal, is where my problems really begin to stack up. For starters, Aura is incredibly difficult to map. It is a turbulent and ever-changing land and all charts must be revised every 50 years or so. This would be no problem if the map I have found calls upon the stars. However - it does not. it is based solely upon a series of complex landmarks and the distances and directions between them!
What's worse is that all charts on record are simply not old enough to correspond with the age of this artifact. And these distances it describes are too large to be anything but the now-extinct, afore-mentioned "Super-island".
On a side note: the start of the map is a capital city of an ancient civilization named Arravia that dominated Aura for centuries just before the great divide. This map is essentially a trade route from Arravia to Eusebia.
In conclusion, dear journal, this is my dilemma. The beginning of this trade route has long since disappeared with no accurate ways of finding it or any other of these dozen or so long-extinct landmarks and therefore the end (which is the Eusebia) is impossible to find.
But - there is one small chance. If I can find one of these landmarks and if it is in geological stasis, finding the rest of these landmarks would be child's play just by using the stars. Until one of these landmarks is discovered, this map is useless.
So... I shall write down these coordinates and donate this piece to the library of Alabastro for safekeeping!
There is now nothing I can do but continue my quest and hope to find unlikely favor in my search.
Signed,
Zenas Abbington
I have always wondered of what exact origin my last name “Klapheke” stemmed from, and what exactly it means. I decided to research it, and, being that some in my family are dedicated genealogists, it wasn’t long before I found the story behind it…
Circa 12th century, somewhere in Müschen, near Laer, Germany. Hubertus de Rode, a knight who lived on a fief that was owned by a local bishop. The knight’s property (a mill and a house) led to some farms of a church-village, all of which was surrounded by a fence.
It is speculated that Hubertus de Rode’s property was close to the edge of this fence, and that he might have been the gatekeeper, opening the “klapheck (a type of opening gate)” to visitors and townsfolk. It is most likely then that Hubertus de Rode then earned the title “Hubertus of Swing-Gate,” or “Hubertus Klapheck.”
Klapheck would later change to Klapheke as the ages passed by.
So there you have it. A dedication to the first Klapheke. MOC-wise I didn’t want this creation to be “run-of-the-mill” MOC (heheheh…), so I tried my best to add as many details as I was able.
Special thanks to Atte and Cesbrick for heavily inspiring me.
Also, big thanks to my workplace Bricks & Minifigs for supplying me extra parts to build this MOC. You guys are awesome. :D
At the exact same moment a farm tractor is rolling by - Canadian Pacific local G64 with a pair of GP22C-ECO diesels is moving along across the fields near Reeseville and heading for Watertown to do some switching.
I would bet that this wooden-siloed barn is at least 100 years old, and over those many years has seen plenty of trains pass by in the distance – And just as much farming equipment right out in front of it here on dirt, then gravel, then asphalt covered County highway G. – August 1st, 2017 ~~ A Jeff Hampton Photograph ©
I found myself back in Jim Thorpe this weekend for reasons that should need no explanation to even the the most casual of railfans!
So here is a fun little trifecta of shots taken at the exact same spot of three very different trains on three consecutive days highlighting the diversity of operations to be found along the rails of the Reading and Northern Railroad. All three of these shots are taken looking compass west (railroad south) at about MP 117.7 on the modern day RBMN's Reading Division mainline. I'm standing on Mill Street as the train approaches the Allen Street crossing just behind me cutting through a residential neighborhood in the small town that owes its existence (just like the railroad) to once mighty anthracite coal industry.
This trackage is former Central Railroad of New Jersey having been built in 1870 as Nesquehoning Valley Railroad Company. This stretch of the mainline is newly acquired having finally been purchased outright in June 2021 from Carbon County which saved the 18.5 miles of line from Packerton Junction to Haucks in 1981 when it was up for abandonment. Operated for a time by the Panther Valley Railroad and then the C&S Railroad, RBMN has been the defacto operator of the line under contract to C&S since 2004 so things really won't look different. The big changes will come in terms of infrastructure investment now that the railroad wholly owns the property they intend to upgrade the line and install signals so that it meets the same high standards as the rest of the mainline and is a fully CTC signaled continuous mainline from Reading to Pittston.
You can read more at this link: www.rbmnrr.com/s/Magazine-Final-Summer-2021-compressed_1.pdf
And just to reaffirm all that mentioned above, that the first train I present is a company work train that was on duty at 0430 in Tamaqua and is seen here slowly dumping ballast behind green and yellow SD40-2s 3050 and 3057 (blt. Mar 1979 and Jan. 1975 as UP 3550 and CNW 6901 respectively). I totally wasn't expecting this train but was headed west of town to scope out a photo spot for Saturday when I ran into them totally unexpectedly.
Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania
Friday August 12, 2022
Vandaag, exact 4 jaar geleden, reed de serie 1600 nog bij DBC. Op 2 april 2019 was het de 1611 die, beschenen door een ietwat nevelig ochtendzonnetje, met 15 wagens als omgeleide trein 61601 vanuit Beverwijk naar Kijfhoek via Breukelen onderweg was. vanaf een wat hoger standpunt passeert de 1611 met deze trein ter hoogte van Gieltjesdorp.
This image was taken a year and a half ago and I, just now, got around to developing the roll. I still remember the circumstances of this image quite well though. It was a rainy September day (I don’t remember the exact day anymore) and I was shooting along the Sauk River in a nearby park. I was getting wet and impatient. I was using my iPhone as a light meter and I put it in my front shirt pocket. When I leaned over to check something it slipped out of my pocket and into the river. I managed to retrieve it quickly; unfortunately, it was a bit worse for the experience and stopped charging soon after.
Can't make out the exact price, but rudimentary math indicates the last price on the pump on the right was somewhere around 10c per gallon... looks like the "sale" was less than $3.00 for more than 20 gallons. Note that it was unable to register more than $9.99!
Scipio, Utah.
Exact species unknown - maybe some type of sweat bee? Photographed at the Montreal Botanical Garden.
Pentax D-FA 100mm F/2.8 WR Macro, plus Raynox DCR-250 and with off-camera diffused Godox V850ii flash.
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Exact species ID welcomed! Body length is probably in the 10-15mm range...
Pentax D-FA 100mm F/2.8 WR Macro, Raynox DCR-250 and off-camera diffused Godox AD180 flash. Single frame, with a fairly significant crop (~17.9MP) to 16:10 aspect ratio.
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Safe passage by road between most of Scotland and much of coastal Argyll is blocked by the Arrochar Alps – a range of hills far smaller than their European counterparts but still with plenty of ruggedness of their own. Rest and Be Thankful is the summit of a scenic road pass well worth driving for the views alone, even if you aren’t using it to get somewhere. Beinn an Lochain, Ben Donich and several more of the “Alps” are all well seen (and climbed) from the road, with an equally fine view down Glen Croe (not to be confused with Glencoe!) from the top. This pass has been the way across since 1752 when soldiers constructed a military road over the bealach here – imagine the effort involved in ascending before cars were invented and the reason for the name becomes obvious. The pass is still vulnerable in poor weather: although the road doesn’t reach a particularly great height, heavy rain causes frequent landslides and rockfalls at all times of year, despite multi-million pound efforts to prevent them. In case of closure, a winding but more reliable single-track diversion (ironically using the exact line of the old military road) provides a potential work-around, provided it isn’t threatened by landslides itself.
I have been after this type of shot for a while now but conditions haven't allowed it. This was captured down at Lee On The Solent skate park.
One month ago I took a picture of the exact same leaf ... it was still greenish, just turning into the colors of fall ... today, a month later it is still holding onto the branch but I am wondering how much longer ...
Exact dezelfde plek als mijn laatste upload. Zoek de verschillen... Helaas is deze locatie hedendaags niet meer zo mooi als hij was (vind ik tenminste). Het houtwerk en vooral die verschrikkelijke stoplichten maken het allemaal een stuk onrustiger. Het zal nodig zijn geweest, maar het (fotografisch gezien) inmiddels iconische bruggetje zal zoals de meesten het kennen voortaan alleen nog in de archieven te vinden zijn.
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful ‚
The eye of a little god, four-cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.
Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.
-Sylvia Plath-
Sábado, 06 de Mayo de 2006
El misterio de las chapas
De repente, las tradicionales chapas esmaltadas que identifican las estaciones de la línea A de subtes desaparecieron. Nadie sabe exactamente quién las sacó pero sí por qué: para dar un aire de “modernidad”. La Secretaría de Transporte ordenó al encargado de las obras que las reponga de inmediato.
Por Sergio Kiernan
Esta vez fueron lectores de este suplemento y de La Nación que avisaron: en varias estaciones de la línea A del subte habían desaparecido los carteles. Se trata de los viejos y nobles chapones de hierro esmaltados en blanco y con letras y bordes negros, que identificaban las estaciones en el mismo andén, esos atornillados por encima de los paños de mayólica inglesa que ornamentan esa línea. El aviso era exacto, ya que los carteles seguían en pie sólo entre la estación histórica de Plaza de Mayo y la de Once, donde desaparecieron hace añares. Si- guiendo el recorrido, la línea que administra Metrovías había perdido sus carteles en Loria, Castro Barros, Río de Janeiro y Acoyte. En Primera Junta, nuevamente, fueron retirados hace muchos años. ¿Qué pasó con los carteles? En rigor, nadie lo sabe. Nadie sabe exactamente quién los sacó ni por qué y, más grave aún, dónde fueron a parar. O sea que esta es, por ahora, una historia de final abierto con villanos potenciales pero posible happy ending.
La cosa comienza tomándose el subte. Las estaciones de la línea A son viejas de casi un siglo e impecables representantes del sistema inglés de diseño, con sus mayólicas y dimensiones. Todavía circulan por la A los viejos vagones de madera de la primera mitad del siglo veinte y no extraña que la de Perú y Avenida de Mayo sea una estación histórica, ambientada temáticamente.
Como edificios, estas estaciones envejecieron muy bien, por la nobleza de sus materiales y la sensatez de su diseño. Es notable ver las barandas de hierro en su lugar, después de setenta u ochenta años de baqueta constante, aguantando todavía masas humanas cada vez mayores. Ni hablar de las mayólicas, que sólo fueron perdidas donde algún genio las sacó para instalar algo y poner unos lindos azulejos berretas.
Lo que hace ruido en estas estaciones es cuestión de opciones estéticas. El conventillo de colores hace que algunas parezcan calesitas, con boleterías de un color, rejas de otro, algunos molinetes de otro y algunos de otro más, todo pintado a brocha gorda con esmalte directo de la lata. Lo que le falta a esta línea es apenas agregarle la tortura de la D, con sus televisores bramando tonterías todo el tiempo.
Alguna mente maestra decidió que, en lugar de corregir este tipo de atentados estéticos, lo que las estaciones necesitaban era una nueva señalización. Hoy en día hay una sobrevaloración de la señalética, una especie de aplicación del modelo de Internet, con sus infinitos menúes, a cualquier cosa. Lo que la línea A padecerá ya puede verse en la estación Loria, de cuyo cielorraso en el andén cuelgan una pantallas en las que figura el nombre, la altura de Rivadavia, un plano de la línea entera y vaya a saberse qué más. Curiosamente, toda esta información ya estaba colocada sin tanta pompa en todas las estaciones: el nombre en los chapones esmaltados que ahora desaparecieron, el plano de línea en un marco en la pared, la altura de Rivadavia en sendos cartelitos, también esmaltados al pie de la escalera. Cualquiera que haya usado el subte sabe perfectamente que información no era lo que faltaba.
Por supuesto, estas señaléticas se usan en realidad para dar una sensación de renovación, de “modernidad”, fallutez conceptual en la que los bancos son expertos. En esta línea de pensamiento es que se bajaron los viejoschapones, que para todos los efectos prácticos estaban impecables, y se reemplazaron con los nuevos. Como se puede ver en las fotos, los nuevos son patéticos, simples autoadhesivos de ínfima calidad, material del que se usa en stands para una feria, con colores que agregan al ambiente calesita.
Y el misterio sigue ¿dónde están los carteles? Con un agregado: los carteles pertenecen a la ciudad de Buenos Aires, dueña del sistema de subtes que fue concesionado y no privatizado, vendido. Y si a alguien le parece una zoncera preocuparse por la propiedad de unos viejos carteles, no tiene más que buscarse en Internet alguno para comprar para ver la pequeña fortuna que cuestan. Es que en este mundo no hay tantas líneas de subtes, hay más vale pocas con semejante antigüedad y, por lo tanto, hay muy pocos carteles de este tipo en cualquier idioma.
Siguiendo la pista
Los subtes de Buenos Aires son, para el lego, un verdadero rompecabezas. Pertenecen a la ciudad, pero fueron concesionados antes de la autonomía, cuando el intendente era nombrado a dedo por el Presidente. Esto dejó una cantidad de peculiaridades al sistema, como que la autoridad de aplicación sea la Secretaría Nacional de Transportes. En principio, la empresa Metrovías, del grupo Roggio, opera los subtes porteños, bajo jurisdicción de la SNT. La ampliación de las líneas, sin embargo, se hace con fondos de la ciudad, que maneja obras y licitaciones, sin que Metrovías opine.
Más difícil de entender es el mantenimiento operativo del sistema, ya que algunas cosas las hace Metrovías –como comprar material rodante– y otras se hacen por licitación controlada por la SNT, como reemplazar vías. En este bosque regulatorio es que se perdieron las chapas.
Metrovías se tomó algo más de tres semanas para contestar que no tenía nada que ver con el tema. En la persona hostil de Lucía Maldonado, de la oficina de prensa, la empresa afirmó que las obras de “modernización” no las hacen ellos y que seguramente los carteles fueron retirados por la SNT o por alguna empresa contratada. Lo llamativo es que algo tan simple, que toma menos de un minuto enunciar, tomara tantas semanas...
La oficina del secretario de Transporte Ricardo Jaime fue mucho más rápida. En cosa de segundos negaron haber ordenado o siquiera aprobado el retiro de los carteles. Y en cosa de horas encontraron un responsable: la empresa Electrowatt, que está cargo en forma directa o través de subcontratadas de las obras en la línea A. Este miércoles, 3 de mayo, la Secretaría envió a la empresa una nota que dice que “por expresa disposición de la Secretaría Nacional de Transporte” se ordena “que procedan a la inmediata colocación de los carteles originales” en las cuatro estaciones en los que fueron retirados.
De paso, la SNT explicó que la firma Electrowatt también pertenece al grupo Roggio, como Metrovías, la lenta.
Lo que sigue
Habrá que ver si los carteles todavía existen, si están en buen estado, si Electrowatt cumple la orden de la Secretaría y reaparecen en su lugar.
Lo que va a quedar en el misterio es a quién se le ocurrió que había que sacarlos para hacer lugar a la nueva cartelería. Si el sistema de señales a usar en la línea A es como el de Loria, estación pequeña y típica de ese recorrido, se trata de algo que cuelga del cielorraso. ¿Por qué tocar las señales viejas, atornilladas a la pared?
La respuesta probablemente esté en esta ideología del cambio superficial que, incultamente, identifica viejo con anticuado, senil, loser. Y ya se sabe que todos quieren ser ganadores. Quienes están manejando el sistema de subtes porteño, en el aspecto arquitectónico, tal vez deberían tener más presente la experiencia de Nueva York, donde se gastaron centenares de millones de dólares durante décadas en “modernizar” la inmensa red subterránea. Se buscaba dar una imagen de renovación que incluyó cosasbuenas, como vagones mejores y medidas de seguridad superiores, y cosas bobas, como kilómetros cuadrados de hojas de plástico y metal para revestir paredes en los andenes. Hoy, Nueva York está gastando otra vez cientos de millones en retirar revestimientos y señaléticas que quedaron anticuadas –nada envejece más rápido que la última moda– y en recuperar las estaciones. Así, están apareciendo decoraciones clásicas y hasta temáticas, y maravillas como los carteles con el nombre de las estaciones, realizados en mosaicos al estilo pompeyano.
Habrá que convencerse de que la línea A es vieja nomás y tiene una identidad patrimonial y tradicional que no va a mejorar con carteles nuevos. Este maltrato al patrimonio y esta desaparición de objetos valiosos, propiedad de la ciudad, debe repararse.
I'd like to wish all my Flickr friends a very Happy New Year and hope that you all have a wonderful 2025.
I'd like to thank you all for your support here during 2024, a year where I have spent less time on Flickr than previous years, so probably have not given you all the attention you deserve.
For me, 1,122 images uploaded to Flickr for the year, so an average of just over 3 per day. Well over half of those (647 to be exact) were Melbourne Street Art.
adoraron la luna - pero poco
fabricaban canastos de madera
no tuvieron idea de música
fornicaban de pie
enterraban a sus muertos de pie
fueron exactamente como fueron
N. Parra
Valparaíso, Chile
Here is nearly the exact same location as my prior post but the freight edition.
After chasing the PF11 crew with the coal train to Bailey I was done before 0730 when the crew outlawed but that wasn't going to be a problem this day. An AF3 crew had come on duty at 0500 at the shops in Michigan City and run light out to Burnham Yard just across the state line. After switching out their cars they planned to depart around 0830 with a big cut to set out at Bailey before taking the rest of their train to Michigan City.
So we turned back west and headed to Hammond where I picked out a spot to wait just east of Hammond Station near MP 68.1 on the South Shore mainline where the electric interurban route climbs up and over CSXT's Barr Sub. The wait turned our to be a bit longer than planned, but just moments after train 504 slid by headed west to Chicago the South Shore Freight crew curled into view on Main 1 and started the ascent the ramp that will lead it up and over Columbia Ave. and CSXT's Barr Sub mainline right behind me. The crew has a healthy size train trailing original CSSB GP38-2s 2003 and 2000 from the ten unit order delivered by EMD during the Chessie System ownership era.
Hammond, Indiana
Monday July 5, 2021
I posted this exact view of this bridge last Fall. It looks interestingly different without the leaves on the trees.
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The purpose of the bridge cover was to protect the structural supports of the bridg from the elements.
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This bridge was built more as a landscape adornment than a transport artery.
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This bridge is a short distance up the road from the Old Stone Fort. It can also be reached by a trail that passes the cemetary and if you turn left at the creek the path passes under the route 30 bridge. It proceeds to a public park with parking on the other side of the road. This was the first really good weather day this Spring. I was determined not to waist it.
The Bridge below (Blenhime) was the longest covered bridge in the world untill it was destroyed in the hurricane in 2011.
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Exact species ID welcomed! Body length is probably in the 10-15mm range...
Pentax D-FA 100mm F/2.8 WR Macro, Raynox DCR-250 and off-camera diffused Godox AD180 flash. Single frame, and it was windy, so I shot at a lower magnification, and this is a significant crop at about ~17.5MP.
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Candy Cane pink to be exact.
Ferns growing on a bluff along the river with a spot of ice seeping out of the rock that appears a bit bluish.
Shot in Infrared.
590nm
One of my contacts/friends Nathan - his website - pwtphotography.com/ - knows I've been searching unsuccessfully for a snowy owl all winter. I think he felt sorry for me - LOL! He contacted me last night to tell me about a Great Horned Owl that was roosting on the exact same tree as last winter when he first located him. He gave me blow by blow instructions to get to his tree in Barrie. It was cloudy but I thought I would quickly check it out to see if I could locate the owl. We found the path and when we were close to the bottom of the hill - man servant turns to me and asks "Did you bring the instructions" I didn't and I ask everyone "What the heck is a man servant for if not to remember things like that"!! Just then, we heard someone behind us - what great timing - Nathan was just heading down to see if the owl was still there - so he led me right to this beautiful raptor. We stood under the tree chatting and taking pix and the owl would look at us every once in a while. He even moved to the open (see next pix) when he spotted a squirrel. ISO very high because it was dark - but so what WHO cares!! Didn't stay too long because I didn't want to stress the owl out - didn't seem to but WHO knows! Thank you Nathan for sharing this wonderful find.
Or typical Gronings to be exact. The small villages in my native province still sport lots of this style houses. They all vary in size and detail depending one the wealth of the owner. It’s fair to say they were mostly inhabited by middle class craftsman and little shop owners. If you want to see real live examples I can recommend visiting the wierde (terp) -villages of Ezinge, Niehove and Garnwerd.
After building the Crofter’s farm I became inspired and decided to build a second house for the upcoming lay-out. Initially the farm was meant as house for the bridge operator. I’ve decided to let the miller live in the farm instead and upgrade the bridge operator to a bigger house. This one is late 18th century and features sash-windows with soldier courses and a gable roof with clipped ends (wolfseind in Dutch). Furthermore the windows have shutters and there are cramp-irons keeping the first floor beams in place. On top there are two big chimneys. I’m very happy with the brick-build windows!
The bridge operator married an entrepreneurial wife who is operating a living room café (huiskamercafe) in the house. Supplying ale and gin (jenever) to thirsty travelers and farmer hands at the end of a long, hard day working the field.
In the front you see Kees, the bridge operator, behind him is Kornelis the farmhand who looks a bit sad, being caught on picture by his wife drinking his hard earnt wages. In the back we see Piet parking his bicycle.
As always, let me know what you think!
Nobody knows exact science when he has to leave,
I personally am ready for the trip,
Live every moment of my life as if it were the last
giving value to things that really have value,
appreciated every detail, that when presented
in my eyes they are a huge universe.
Grateful to all the pretty and beautiful things that I can still enjoy
Life must know how to live it!
Elsa Guerrero
January 9th, 2014
Nadie sabe a ciencia exacta cuando le toca partir,
Yo personalmente estoy lista para el viaje,
vivo cada instante de mi vida como si fuera el ultimo
dandole valor a las cosas que realmente tienen valor,
apreciado los mínimos detalles, que cuando se presentan
ante mis ojos son un Universo de inmenso.
Agradecida de todas las cosas lindas y hermosas que todavía puedo disfrutar
La vida hay que saber vivirla!
The exact year of establishment of the monastery is unknown. The church of Dormition of the Mother of God was built in the 15th century and reconstructed in 1630 while its larger church (Church of St. Petka) was built in 1747.[5]
Metropolitan Danilo I Petrović-Njegoš died in Podmaine Monastery in 1735. He was buried in the monastery but his remnants were later moved to Cetinje.[6][7] Dositej Obradović lived several months in the monastery when he visited Boka in 1764.[8]
In 1830 Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, based on the request of the emperor of Russia, sold Podmaine Monastery and Stanjevići Monastery together with their estates to the Austrian Empire.[9]
Njegoš wrote parts of his masterpiece The Mountain Wreath in Podmaine Monastery.[10]
Petit-duc maculé | Eastern Screech Owl | Megascops asio
Écureuil gris | Eastern gray squirrel | Sciurus carolinensis
Shannon le bigame...
Depuis une semaine Shannon passe pratiquement toutes ses journées au soleil aux abords du trou no 7, ce même no 7 où nous l’avons retrouvé il y a un exactement un an, ce même no 7 où Odi est aperçue depuis octobre dernier presque à tout les jours. Elle y a alterné entre le no 7 et le no 9 situé dans le même arbre. Sauf pour ces derniers temps, elle était visible une journée de temps à autres au no 9, laissant la place libre au no 7 pour Shannon. Depuis quelques jours elle n'y est plus visible. Tout indique qu'elle niche, comme l'année dernière, ailleurs. Nous ignorons où...
Depuis la fin de semaine de la Saint-Patrick, Shannon a quitté le no 5 et Amandine. Selon nos observations, il est possible qu'Amandine devrait terminer, ces jours-ci, la couvaison pour amorcer le nourissement au nid des petits, si la couvée est une réussite. Il s'écoulera une période de quatre semaines pour le nourissement au nid avant de voir les petits le quitter. Nous espérons que ce sera avec l'aide de Shannon, ce bigame, car le fidèle et assidu ami, Robert Dupont, qui poursuit ses observations de fin du jour, a bel et bien observé un court accouplement entre Odi et Shannon la semaine dernière. Le lendemain, il s’installait aux abords du no 7. C'est tout dire.
Dans la littérature sur les Petit-ducs maculés, on indique bien que les couples sont unis pour la vie, mais on souligne aussi qu’il arrive parfois qu’un mâle s’acoquine à plus d’une femelle. Si nous avons le grand privilège de voir les petits d’Amandine, nous verrons bien alors si Shannon s’acquitte bien des lourdes tâches qui lui incomberont alors avec cette participation à deux nichées... Tout un numéro quand même ce Shannon! On devrait le retrouver près d’Amandine à surveiller les petits lors des premiers jours de la sortie du nid... Si tout ce déroule comme nous le croyons, il y aura eu presque un mois de différence entre le début de ces deux nichées.
Ici, j’ai croqué cette scène samedi le 24 mars en fin d'avant-midi, une scène que j’ai déjà vue dans le passé présentée par d’autres photographes, entre autre à ce même trou et avec ce même hibou d’ailleurs. Une première pour moi d’avoir eu le temps de la capter. Ce qui m’impressionne ici, c’est de constater comment nos Petit-ducs sont petits lorsque nous comparons Shannon à cet écureuil... Impressionnant. Shannon a à peine bougé lorsque l’écureuil a passé au côté de sa cavité, lui jetant seulement ce regard. L’intrus, après avoir ainsi fixé les yeux du rouquin quelques secondes, a poursuivi son ascension pour rejoindre tout en haut de l’arbre, semble-t-il, son nid...
Exact age approximated, because Laddie here is a pure-bred alley cat. I can even name the alley he came from, but he was born some time in the spring of 2014 and he's an excellent all-around cat.
Puppy My Lad, April 2019.
Scientists pinpoint the exact moment in evolutionary time when mammals became warm-blooded
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By Ben Turner published July 20, 2022
And it happened much more quickly than scientists expected.
An artist's illustration of a mammal ancestor breathing out hot air on a cold night, a hint that it is warm-blooded. (Image credit: Luzia Soares)
Scientists have pinpointed the moment in time our earliest ancestors evolved to be warm-blooded, and it happened much later and far more quickly than the researchers expected.
The discovery, made by studying the minuscule tubes of the inner ear, places the evolution of mammalian warm-bloodedness at around 233 million years ago — 19 million years later than scientists previously thought.
These semicircular canals are filled with a viscous fluid, called endolymph, that tickles tiny hairs lining the canals as the fluid sloshes around. These hairs transmit messages to the brain, giving it instructions for how to keep the body balanced. Like some fluids, the honey-like endolymph gets runnier the hotter it is, requiring the semicircular canals to change their shape so the fluid can still do its job. In ectothermic, or cold-blooded, animals, this ear fluid is colder and thus behaves more like molasses and needs wider spaces in which to flow. But for endothermic, or warm-blooded, animals, the fluid is more watery and small spaces suffice.
This temperature-based property makes tiny, semicircular canals a perfect place to spot the moment when ancient mammals' cold blood turned hot, researchers wrote in a paper published July 20 in the journal Nature.
"Until now, semicircular canals were generally used to predict locomotion of fossil organisms," study co-lead author Romain David, an evolutionary anthropologist at the Natural History Museum in London, said in a statement. "However, by carefully looking at their biomechanics, we figured that we could also use them to infer body temperatures.
"This is because, like honey, the fluid contained inside semicircular canals gets less viscous [syrupy] when temperature increases, impacting function," David explained. "Hence, during the transition to endothermy, morphological adaptations were required to keep optimal performances, and we could track them in mammal ancestors."
To discover the time of this evolutionary change, researchers measured three inner ear canal samples from 341 animals — 243 living species and 64 extinct species — spanning the animal kingdom. The analysis revealed that the 54 extinct mammals included in the study developed the narrow inner ear canal structures suitable for warm-blooded animals 233 million years ago.
Before this study, scientists thought mammals inherited warm-bloodedness from the cynodonts — a group of scaly, rat-like lizards that gave rise to all living mammals — that were thought to have evolved warm-bloodedness around the time of their first appearance 252 million years ago. However, the new findings suggest that mammals diverged from their early ancestors more markedly than expected.
And this drastic change happened surprisingly fast. Heat-friendly ear canals didn't just appear later in the fossil record than the scientists expected. It happened far more rapidly, too — popping up around the same time the earliest mammals began evolving whiskers, fur and specialized backbones.
"Contrary to current scientific thinking, our paper surprisingly demonstrates that the acquisition of endothermy seem[s] to have occurred very quickly in geological terms, in less than a million years," study co-lead author Ricardo Araújo, a geologist at the University of Lisbon in Portugal, said in the statement. "It was not a gradual, slow process over tens of millions of years as previously thought, but maybe was attained quickly when triggered by novel mammal-like metabolic pathways and origin of fur."
Follow-up studies will need to confirm the findings via other means, but the researchers said they are excited that their work will help to answer one of the longest-standing questions about the evolution of mammals.
"The origin of mammalian endothermy is one of the great unsolved mysteries of paleontology," study senior author Kenneth Angielczyk, the Field Museum's MacArthur curator of paleomammalogy, said in the statement. "Many different approaches have been used to try to predict when it first evolved, but they have often given vague or conflicting results. We think our method shows real promise because it has been validated using a very large number of modern species, and it suggests that endothermy evolved at a time when many other features of the mammalian body plan were also falling into place."
Originally published on Live Science
Ben Turner
Senior Staff Writer
Ben Turner is a U.K. based staff writer at Live Science. He covers physics and astronomy, among other topics like tech and climate change. He graduated from University College London with a degree in particle physics before training as a journalist. When he's not writing, Ben enjoys reading literature, playing the guitar and embarrassing himself with chess.
Vandaag exact 30 jaar geleden werden Tiel en Kesteren voor het laatst bediend vanuit Utrecht Goederenemplacement (Utrecht GE), daarna gebeurde dat vanuit Arnhem GE. Ik was deze dag in opleiding en bezig met de zg. opfris-BOM. Je begon als machinist met de Basis Opleiding Machinist en mocht dan na succesvol afronden alleen rangeren, niet de hoofdbaan op. Utrecht kende toen met zowel reizigers- als goederendiensten gelukkig nog veel variatie. naar gelang verloop stroomde je door, na wettelijk minimaal een jaar rangeerdienst, en kreeg je een opfrisopleiding en proefritdag als examen. 15 januari 1993 was ik zodoende weer in opleiding en mocht mee op de goederendienst naar Tiel en Kesteren. Omdat ik dus zelf reed en rangeerde onder begeleiding van een ervaren machinist heb ik niet veel dia's van deze bijzondere dag. Uit die ruime handvol kies ik er drie waaronder deze. In Geldermalsen was altijd een korte stop in de dienstregeling. De eerste twee wagens zijn voor Hartigh in Kesteren, de kleine ketelwagen voor de Wetro in Tiel.
My Top 10 Favorite Movies at the moment to be exact. If you have followed me for a while, you might remember this: www.flickr.com/photos/99717434@N04/12554370323/
As you can see, quite a lot has changed since then, and movies that were in the top 5 were moved and or removed completely. This is due to me either having a change in taste or me simply seeing new movies since that photo.
These ranks are based on how much I enjoy the movie and how much I have watched each film. AND REMEMBER. These are my FAVORITE FILMS, not the best films ever made. These are just movies that I really enjoy.
I'll be going from Right to Left, starting with....
10. Watchmen: This movie gets a lot of hate, but I love it. Jackie Earl Haley is fantastic as Rorschach, Jeffery Dean Morgan is always a pleasure to see, and the whole film just looks great. Synder may not nail stories, but he can damn sure well make a movie look good. Also a huge fan of the soundtrack. This was moved from the top 5 for two reasons. I've watched some of these others movies a lot more since then, and I liked the other movies better than it, but it still holds a place on my top 10.
9. Guardians of The Galaxy: A surprise for me, this movie shocked me with how much I enjoyed it. Casting is great, movie looks great, but the main reason I love it so much is the soundtrack using the 70's music. Hence this, that's why it is only number 9.
8. The Big Lebowski: I've only seen it twice, but I love this movie so much. It's so damn quotable. Casting and acting in this is perfect. It's also pretty damn funny.
7. Django Unchained: Love Tarantino films. For many of the same reasons of Lebowski, the casting and acting is perfect, it has it's funny moments, it has its offensive moments, and it has its action moments. Just a really enjoyable and entertaining as hell film. It beats Lebowski only by a little, simply because I have watched it more than Lebowski.
6. The Dark Knight: While Bale is my least favorite Batman, Heath Ledger's Joker is what puts this movie on the list. Also love Gary Oldman and Aaron Eckhart in it. Just a fantastically shot, written, scored, and acted movie.
5. The Shawshank Redemption: Ironically, my 5th spot is the movie that I have seen the least on this list, only seeing it once all the way through, and then parts of it for all other viewings. But that's all it needed. This film is just fantastic. Just a great story of triumph and patience.
4. Ghostbusters (1984): It hurts me to have to put the year of the film considering that the trash heap coming out Friday shares the same name. I feel I don't talk about the og Ghostbusters enough, but I love it. You can't go wrong with Bill Murray, and the special effects and writing is great. Over the years as I have grown older and re watched it, I have really come to appreciate it more. And no, I will not be seeing the new "Ghostbusters".
3. Zootopia: If you haven't noticed, I've kind of gotten pulled in by this movie, and I don't really know why. On this list, it is my 3rd most watched, hence it being at 3. I've watched this movie maybe 7 or 8 times all the way through, and then a ton more times to just watch scenes. I'm not even a huge Disney fan, but this movie really hit me. The characters are so likable, the voice acting is on point, the animation is impressive and visually stunning. It also has some kickass references to the Godfather and Breaking Bad. Also, JK Simmons is in it. Can't go wrong with JK Simmons. I've been "made fun of" for liking this movie, and some of the "bullies" (for lack of a better word) have now bitten there tongue as they have seen the movie to, and took back the hate.
2. The Dark Knight Returns: Weird that my 2 and 3 spots are both animated films. Also funny that I have made a whole series of custom figures from each film at 2 and 3. I am considering Part 1 and 2 as one film, although each parts could easily count as there own movies. It's my favorite Batman story, and I love watching this movie. It may be animated, but it is not for kids. Peter Weller did great as Batman, and I also really liked Michael Emerson's Joker. Just an entertaining move that I have watched to many times to count.
1. Jaws: This will always be my #1 favorite film. I doubt it will ever change. I adore this film. Perfect casting, score, effects, writing, and direction. This movie is famously known for being a pain in the ass to make, and it was a better movie for it. People say "the shark looks fake", but I personally think it looks fine. For being made in the 70's, it's damn good. I grew up with this movie, and watched it over and over as a child. I even had it on VHS and had to rewind it over and over before I finally got it on DVD when I got older. The only part that bothered me was the part where Hooper goes into the shark cage. Hell, I wasn't even bothered at the part where the Ben Garner's dead corpse comes out of the side of the boat when Hooper is night diving. Despite this being my favorite film, I have still not made customs of the 3 main protagonist, but that might change soon. I cherish this film as one of my childhood favorites, and as I grew up watching it again, I came to appreciate and love it even more.
Also, here are some honorable mentions: Star Wars ESB, Transformers (2007), Ironman, Smokey and The Bandit, Back To The Future, and The Love Bug.
What do you think? What do you think of my personal favorite films? I know it's long, but it took time to write, so some feedback to what I have written would be greatly appreciated.
Exact een maand na de vorige twee foto's deden we weer een poging en nu lukte een foto in de winterzon van de NS 6407 die de beladen VAM-wagens ophaalt terwijl de VAM-tractor nog buiten de spoorpoort staat :-)
I watched as this Common Sandpiper stalked this beautiful butterfly, and here is the exact moment of the catch... I was amzed to see the eyes were almost closed...
I found myself back in Jim Thorpe this weekend for reasons that should need no explanation to even the the most casual of railfans!
So here is a fun little trifecta of shots taken at the exact same spot of three very different trains on three consecutive days highlighting the diversity of operations to be found along the rails of the Reading and Northern Railroad. All three of these shots are taken looking compass west (railroad south) at about MP 117.7 on the modern day RBMN's Reading Division mainline. I'm standing on Mill Street as the train approaches the Allen Street crossing just behind me cutting through a residential neighborhood in the small town that owes its existence (just like the railroad) to once mighty anthracite coal industry.
This trackage is former Central Railroad of New Jersey having been built in 1870 as Nesquehoning Valley Railroad Company. This stretch of the mainline is newly acquired having finally been purchased outright in June 2021 from Carbon County which saved the 18.5 miles of line from Packerton Junction to Haucks in 1981 when it was up for abandonment. Operated for a time by the Panther Valley Railroad and then the C&S Railroad, RBMN has been the defacto operator of the line under contract to C&S since 2004 so things really won't look different. The big changes will come in terms of infrastructure investment now that the railroad wholly owns the property they intend to upgrade the line and install signals so that it meets the same high standards as the rest of the mainline and is a fully CTC signaled continuous mainline from Reading to Pittston.
You can read more at this link: www.rbmnrr.com/s/Magazine-Final-Summer-2021-compressed_1.pdf
For train three on day three we see symbol OSJT the regular weekend all day excursion from Reading Outer Station a bit over 60 miles to Jim Thorpe where passengers have 3 1/2 hrs to enjoy the scenic and popular tourist town before returning home. This day's train consisted of two of the three fully operational self propelled Budd RDCs the railroad owns, 9166 and 9168. The lead one is an RDC-3 blt. in Feb. 1958 as Boston and Maine 6305 and 9168 trailing is an RDC-1 blt. in Apr. 1951 as New York Central M499.
Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania
Sunday August 14, 2022
Excerpt from sevillaflamenco.com:
El Palacion Andaluz is by far Seville's largest venue dedicated to flamenco. The two nightly shows are held in a renovated warehouse, which offers theatre style seating. Ticket options are available for a Show with drink, Show with dinner, or Show with tapas. The large venue and stage means El Palacio Andaluz also has the largest number of performers, with several different musicians, singers and dancers.
Flamenco, in its strictest sense, is an art form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain in the autonomous community of Andalusia and Murcia. In a wider sense, the term is used to refer to a variety of Spanish musical styles. The oldest record of flamenco music dates to 1774 in the book Las Cartas Marruecas by José Cadalso. Flamenco has been influenced by and associated with the Romani people in Spain; however, its origin and style are uniquely Andalusian.
Nevertheless, the exact origin of flamenco is unknown and the subject of many hypotheses. The most widespread is that flamenco was developed through the cross-cultural interchange between moriscos and gitanos (Romani people of Spain) during the sixteenth century specifically in East Andalusia (Machin-Autenrieth 2015, 29); the Diccionario de la lengua española (Dictionary of the Spanish Language) primarily attributes the creation of the style directly to the Spanish Romani (Real Academia Española 2019, sense 4).
On November 16, 2010, UNESCO declared flamenco one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity (Anon. 2010).