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…find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.
~ Eve Ensler, Insecure at Last: Losing it in Our Security-Obsessed World
Quick stop in Volubilis.
As it was nearly 100 degrees out, that was OK. A bit warm for September in Morocco.
Built in a fertile agricultural area, it developed from the 3rd century BC onward as a Berber, then proto-Carthaginian, settlement. It grew rapidly under Roman rule from the 1st century AD onward and expanded to cover about 100 acres with a 1.6 mi circuit of walls.
The Romans brought their aqua-ducts and introduced olive trees. Prosperity, which was derived principally from olive growing, prompted the construction of many fine town-houses with large mosaic floors. The city of roughly 20,000-30,000 people, gained a number of major public buildings in the 2nd century, including a basilica, temple and triumphal arch. The city fell to local tribes around 285 and was never retaken by Rome because of its remoteness and indefensibility.
If you are a history buff, Morocco is Nirvana. I think every major historical event regarding human civilization included Morocco at some point.
All three Greek column types were found here, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian, but I was most impressed with the mosaic floors. After 2000 years, they are still in incredible condition, fine details and colors, and still so beautiful!
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STOP ISRAEL BARBARITY
We are not stupid!
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NEW CHAPTER, MY FRIENDS (30.06.2010): After removing my website link (more than 1,000), I´ve just received the same message and I´m out of the search lists again. Or this has relation with the message above or has no sense...
I´m not allowed by Flickr to link my personal website.... amazing....! After so many years... Maybe it´s a consequence of the Israel message, I don´t want to think bad, but I don´t believe in coincidences, moreover when lots of user are allowed to. If I continue here is because the great number of friends I´ve meet, but I´m taking advantage of this in order to complain and let you see the kind of injustice that Flickr is doing these days. Let´s see who can be more annoying...
Please visit my profile
This is the kind of things that flickr has to take care of (THIEVES):
mufasa.softarchive.net/works_of_photographer_alonso_diaz....
This is the rules it is supposed I broke: Don’t use Flickr for commercial purposes.
Flickr is for personal use only. If we find you selling products, services, or yourself through your photostream, we will terminate your account. Any other commercial use of Flickr, Flickr technologies (including APIs, FlickrMail, etc), or Flickr accounts must be approved by Flickr. For more information on leveraging Flickr APIs, please see our Services page. If you have other open questions about commercial usage of Flickr, please feel free to contact us.
Where is it said that personal websites are not allowed? I do not do a commercial use of it!!! I´m a economist and work in a saving bank!!
TRUE THANKS TO ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT, MY FRIENDS. IT´S WHAT MAKES ME THINK TO CONTINUE HERE
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NUEVO CAPÍTULO, AMIGOS (30.06.2010): Después de eliminar el link a mi web (más de 1000!), acabo de recibir el mismo mensaje y me han vuelto a sacar de las listas. O esto tiene algo que ver con el mensaje de arriba o no tiene sentido...
Después de cuatro años no se me permite poner el link a mi web... es increíble! Probablemente es una consecuencia al mensaje de Israel, no creo en las coincidencias y menos cuando muchos usuarios lo hacen. Si continuo por aquí es debido al gran número de amigos que he hecho, pero aprovecharé esto para protestar y hacer ver y protestar por las estupideces que Flickr está haciendo últimamente. Veremos quién molesta más...
Si quieres pasarte por mi web, visita mi perfil, por favor
Este tipo de cosas es lo que flickr debería cuidar (LADRONES DE FOTOS):
mufasa.softarchive.net/works_of_photographer_alonso_diaz....
Esta es la regla que me han dicho que he incumplido: Don’t use Flickr for commercial purposes.
Flickr is for personal use only. If we find you selling products, services, or yourself through your photostream, we will terminate your account. Any other commercial use of Flickr, Flickr technologies (including APIs, FlickrMail, etc), or Flickr accounts must be approved by Flickr. For more information on leveraging Flickr APIs, please see our Services page. If you have other open questions about commercial usage of Flickr, please feel free to contact us.
¿Dónde pone que no se pueden poner enlaces a páginas web personales? No hago uso comercial de ella! Joder, que soy economista y trabajo en una caja de ahorros!
MUCHAS GRACIAS A TODOS POR VUESTRO APOYO, DE VERDAD. ES LA ÚNICA MOTIVACIÓN PARA SEGUIR AQUÍ
None of my photos are HDR or blended images, they are taken from just one shot
Zambujeira do Mar, Odemira (Alentejo - Portugal)
Sony A900 + Carl Zeiss16-35mm + ND8 + 2 GND8 filters
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
Because the settlement expands quickly, roads need to be build.
Another Build for "9 Kingdoms" at Rogue Bricks.
Here's a quick demo showing a message with several replies, links, and attachments. The demo shows how we will navigate through preview links and attachments, as well as how we could expand to the full view message inline.
Check out the demo here, and the blog post here.
As we gallop into an exciting new year of film and motion picture photography, I want to share our gratitude for your support in 2024 (and the 15 years prior!). It is your passion for film and your generosity in donating your vintage equipment, that allows the FPP School Camera Donation Program to continue to expand, delivering refurbished and tested film cameras and lenses to schools and not-for-profits across America; and our research, testing, and eventually release of new film emulsions across so many formats is a direct result of your embrace of our products. We’ll be taking a break from the podcast until spring to explore some exciting opportunities, at which time we’ll return with our usual format of reviews of new products, tips and tutorials and some exciting new announcements.
It's a great time to SHOOT FILM!
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Excerpt from Wikipedia:
Riverside Park is an 80-acre (32-hectare) park located by the northern part of Woolwich Street in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. It is built around a portion of the Speed River that runs through Guelph.
Riverside Park opened in 1905 spanning 14.5 acres. Its development was related to the Guelph's now discontinued streetcar system. The park was a stop on one of the Guelph Radial Railway's (a precursor to the modern Guelph Transit system) streetcar line, and the company held a contest in 1905 to name the new attraction. The name “Riverside Park”, from the site's proximity to the Speed River, was the winning selection.
The City had been encouraged to open a major park by prominent citizen James Walter Lyon, partly to increase volume for the streetcar operation. The property had been privately owned as the Lace Farm until it was acquired and modified by the City. The plan was successful for the radial railway. In early days, the park included an "ice-cream building, bandstand, swings, and zoo" according to records and public swimming by both sexes was encouraged. Dressing rooms were constructed.
Since its foundation the park has expanded to 80-acres, with many on-site features and has become a noted landmark and attraction in the city.
The glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) is a wading bird in the ibis family Threskiornithidae. The scientific name derives from Ancient Greek plegados and Latin, falcis, both meaning "sickle" and referring to the distinctive shape of the bill.
This is the most widespread ibis species, breeding in scattered sites in warm regions of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Atlantic and Caribbean regions of the Americas. It is thought to have originated in the Old World and spread naturally from Africa to northern South America in the 19th century, from where it spread to North America. The glossy ibis was first found in the New World in 1817 (New Jersey). Audubon saw the species just once in Florida in 1832. It expanded its range substantially northwards in the 1940s and to the west in the 1980s. This species is migratory; most European birds winter in Africa, and in North America birds from north of the Carolinas winter farther south. Birds from other populations may disperse widely outside the breeding season. While generally declining in Europe, it has recently established a breeding colony in southern Spain, and there appears to be a growing trend for the Spanish birds to winter in Britain and Ireland, with at least 22 sightings in 2010. In 2014, a pair attempted to breed in Lincolnshire, the first such attempt in Britain. A few birds now spend most summers in Ireland, but as yet there is no evidence of breeding there.
Glossy ibises undertake dispersal movements after breeding and are very nomadic. The more northerly populations are fully migratory and travel on a broad front, for example across the Sahara Desert. Populations in temperate regions breed during the local spring, while tropical populations nest to coincide with the rainy season. Nesting is often in mixed-species colonies. When not nesting, flocks of over 100 individuals may occur on migration, and during the winter or dry seasons the species is usually found foraging in small flocks. Glossy ibises often roost communally at night in large flocks, with other species, occasionally in trees which can be some distance from wetland feeding areas.
For more information, please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossy_ibis
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Some lovely person planted gorgeous dahlias along the outside of their garden hedgerow for everyone to enjoy.
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Construction is booming in the Rainey Street area of downtown Austin, Texas with half a dozen major projects underway and scheduled for completion within the next two years.
Semester projet for the EPFL.
Made by Félix Dieu & Gaël Osowiecki
at IMT Neuchâtel in Optics Groups.
Thanks to S. Herminjard
2009-2010 Félix Dieu & Gaël Osowiecki
With this model I expand my concept of stretched minifigures with another "girl". Of course she plays one of my favorite classical music compositions on her violin: Pachelbel's canon in D major
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We haven't seen the rain that other parts of the country have, so our little local stream is running quite low at the moment.
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Semester projet for the EPFL.
Made by Félix Dieu & Gaël Osowiecki
at IMT Neuchâtel in Optics Groups.
Thanks to S. Herminjard
2009-2010 Félix Dieu & Gaël Osowiecki
Pastel on newsprint
I made this shortly after I started doing art at age 56. There was no preconceived idea. I just picked up a piece of pastel and started moving my hand and arm on the paper. This is the image that resulted. When I showed it to the teacher of an art class I had just started, he said "What were you on when you did THAT?", lol! The answer: nothing. I was just following the impulses as they popped up within. I made this in the horizontal orientation. It was only after it was done and I turned it to this vertical orientation that I saw that it resembled a serpent.
At the time, and for years prior, I spent many hours each day in mantra meditation, pranayama breathing, and yoga asanas, and had experienced many moments of expanded awareness and bliss. But I knew almost nothing about kundalini or its awakening.
I now know that the Sanskrit word "kundalini" means "coiled one". In the Dharma religions, it is a primal energy, or shakti, located at the base of the spine. Different spiritual traditions teach methods of "awakening" kundalini for the purpose of reaching spiritual enlightenment. Kundalini is described as lying "coiled" at the base of the spine, represented as either a goddess or sleeping serpent waiting to be awakened. ... To me, this image reflects the creative phase of the creation/maintenance/destruction cycle.
Kundalini awakening is said to result in deep meditation, enlightenment and bliss. This awakening involves the Kundalini physically moving up the central channel to reach within the Sahasrara Chakra at the top of the head. Many systems of yoga focus on the awakening of Kundalini through meditation, pranayama breathing, the practice of asana and chanting of mantras. In physical terms, many report the Kundalini experience to be a feeling of electric current running along the spine.
—Adapted from Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini
Also, " ... The Supreme Brahman is described as the swallower, devourer (attā = soul) of the universe; for just as he creates and maintains it, he destroys it also. But where does it go when it is destroyed? One answer may be that it simply vanishes. But the Upanishads are opposed to such an idea of destruction. Only the forms and shapes of the world are gone, but not the being of the world, which is the Being of the Brahman. Then what happens to the world? It is absorbed, assimilated to the Brahman. The Brahman swallows, absorbs, assimilates the world to itself."
—P.T. Raju, Structural Depths of Indian Thought, p. 420
a swollen looking abstract design...I call it a spinner.....trying to rise from the water & expanding as it goes....maybe trying to get out of the page....
thanks for having a look....glad you did & many thanks ....... best bigger ........hope you have a Great Day
The ice shelves along the western shore of Lake Michigan seem to be growing day by day. They are interesting to look at, but very dangerous to explore. They will extend far out into the lake and, if a climber falls through a crack, rescue is practically impossible. It would be like being trapped in an ice cave.
The noise of the volcano and it's power as the lava flows in to the ocean is phenominal. A completely unstoppable force of nature and I can't believe I was lucky enough to have the chance to photograph it. It was, however, a shame that the experience was somewhat ruined by inconsiderate tourists with no respect for other people or the volcano.
You can watch my YouTube Video and see the entire 'behind the scenes' shoot. Warts and all.
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Recently, NGC 7027's central star was identified in a new wavelength of light — near-ultraviolet — for the first time by using Hubble's unique capabilities. The near-ultraviolet observations will help reveal how much dust obscures the star and how hot the star really is. This object, which resembles a colorful jewel bug, is a visibly diffuse region of gas and dust that may be the result of ejections by closely orbiting binary stars that were first slowly sloughing off material over thousands of years, and then entered a phase of more violent and highly directed mass ejections. Hubble first looked at this planetary nebula in 1998. By comparing the old and new Hubble observations, researchers now have additional opportunities to study the object as it changes over time. Planetary nebulas are expanding shells of gas created by dying stars that are shedding their outer layers. When new ejections encounter older ejections, the resulting energetic collisions shape the nebula. The mechanisms underlying such sequences of stellar mass expulsion are far from fully understood, but researchers theorize that binary companions to the central, dying stars play essential roles in shaping them. NGC 7027 is approximately 3,000 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus.
Image credit: NASA, ESA and J. Kastner (RIT)
Early tests of the Expand-o-Ray were rather hap-hazard. The first human subject wasn't a willing participant to the test. Indeed, his friend sneaked up to his space-base and zapped him with it as a practical joke.
There then followed the problem of what to do to restore the victim to his normal size. The first thing the spacemen did was to get their computer to put the kettle on and make a nice cup of tea. Sadly it took quite a long time to do this. Fortunately this did give the spacemen enough time to find a giant mug for the tea to go in.
Once they'd had a nice brew, the answer became obvious. The Shrink-o-Ray was quickly invented and normality was restored.
As to why the spacemen enjoyed the taste of boiled leaves: that remained an enigma...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed the supernova remnant named 1E 0102.2-7219. Researchers are using Hubble’s imagery of the remnant object to wind back the clock on the expanding remains of this exploded star in the hope of understanding the supernova event that caused it 1700 years ago.
The featured star that exploded long ago belongs to the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way located roughly 200 000 light-years away. The doomed star left behind an expanding, gaseous corpse — a supernova remnant — known as 1E 0102.2-7219.
Because the gaseous knots in this supernova remnant are moving at different speeds and directions from the supernova explosion, those moving toward Earth are coloured blue in this composition and the ones moving away are shown in red. This new Hubble image shows these ribbons of gas speeding away from the explosion site at an average speed of 3.2 million kilometres per hour. At that speed, you could travel to the Moon and back in 15 minutes.
Researchers have studied the Hubble archive looking for visible-light images of the supernova remnant and they have analysed the data to calculate a more accurate estimate of the age and centre of the supernova blast.
According to their new estimates, light from this blast arrived at Earth 1700 years ago, during the decline of the Roman Empire. This supernova would only have been visible to inhabitants of Earth’s southern hemisphere. Unfortunately, there are no known records of this titanic event. Earlier studies proposed explosion dates of 2000 and 1000 years ago, but this new analysis is believed to be more robust.
To pinpoint when the explosion occurred, researchers studied the tadpole-shaped, oxygen-rich clumps of ejecta flung out by this supernova blast. Ionised oxygen is an excellent tracer because it glows brightest in visible light. By using Hubble’s powerful resolution to identify the 22 fastest moving ejecta clumps, or knots, the researchers determined that these targets were the least likely to have been slowed down by passage through interstellar material. They then traced the knots’ motion backward until the ejecta coalesced at one point, identifying the explosion site. Once that was known, they could calculate how long it took the speedy knots to travel from the explosion centre to their current location.
Hubble also measured the speed of a suspected neutron star — the crushed core of the doomed star — that was ejected from the blast. Based on the researchers’ estimates, it must be moving at more than 3 million kilometres per hour from the centre of the explosion to have arrived at its current position. The suspected neutron star was identified in observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, in combination with data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Credits: NASA, ESA, and J. Banovetz and D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University); CC BY 4.0
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Just another short, flattish, walk today. Out before it rains.
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Expanding my arcade, one machine at a time.
Though this will probably get some changes, I present, Outrun.
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the universe is expanding 5 percent to 9 percent faster than expected.
“This surprising finding may be an important clue to understanding those mysterious parts of the universe that make up 95 percent of everything and don’t emit light, such as dark energy, dark matter and dark radiation,” said study leader and Nobel Laureate Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute and Johns Hopkins University, both in Baltimore, Maryland.
The results will appear in an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal.
To read the full article, click here.
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My favourite part of the garden at the moment.
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Reflections are always "almost" the exact thing as what's it reflecting. So why not smile at yourself and be happy
This is Isabel Valdez, my fellow Junior Friend
it's very good.
Lacking in inspiration again today. Possibly because I had my flu vacc yesterday and woke up this morning with mother of all colds., despite the fact that there’s little evidence to suggest it can affect you - it being a ‘live ‘ vaccine.Just to be on the safe side i did a Lateral Flow Test which thankfully turned out negative.
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Treasure Hunt #17 ~ Bridge Over Water
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Redpolls are highly variable in size and colour and breed right round the temperate zone in America, Europe and Siberia. As its name suggests, Lesser Redpoll is the smallest form but it is also the brownest and most streaked. It breeds throughout Britain and Ireland and the Alps, but recently it has expanded through the low countries and into southern Norway. In winter, our breeding Lesser Redpolls are joined by Common, or Mealy Redpolls from Scandinavia which are larger, greyer with whiter wing bars (Lesser's are slightly buffy). They are usually seed eaters and feed avidly on the seeds in birch and alder catkins. I photographed this one in the Dearne Valley in South Yorkshire.
The name Lesser Redpoll (Acanthis cabaret) became widely used after 2001 when the BOU split the species from Common Redpoll (Acanthis flammae). Cabaret is a French word for a type of finch but the origin of the word for a certain type of entertainment is quite different. It is interesting that many people dispute the status of Lesser Redpoll as a species but it was originally described as a full species (Fringilla cabaret) by Daubenton and Buffon in 1776. Linnaeus named Common Redpoll as Fringilla flammae a few years earlier in 1758. The name cabaret was later demoted to a subspecies name of Common Redpoll until it was reinstated as a species in 2001. But from 1 January 2018 BOU officially dropped Lesser Redpoll to become a subspecies of Common Redpoll when they adopted the IOC species guidelines (see here www.birdguides.com/news/bou-to-adopt-ioc-world-bird-list/ ). So this is now Common Redpoll (Acanthis flammae subsp cabaret). Lesser Redpoll's short-lived status as a species was on the basis of a small population in Norway studied in 1994 that held 6 pairs of cabaret and 5 pairs of flammae, with no evidence of mixed pairs. But that is a very small sample size on which to base a taxonomic decision.
The name Redpoll refers to the red on the head, as poll originally meant head. The meaning of poll as a vote came about, as a poll was originally a head count. It now rarely survives in its original meaning although the bit between the ears on a horse or cow is called a poll, and a poll axe wasn't used for chopping trees.
The title comes from the song "The Storm" by Patrick Watson...check it out.
I love this porch..I hear that these were the original back windows, but then they expanded the house and added this other room/ indoor porch, so now the windows just lead from one room to another.