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Charts similar to this are used to demonstrate relatedness according to Neo-Darwinistic Evolution. Lines are drawn based on observed similarities not only in physical features, but also in their assembly instructions. However, no explanation is offered to explain differences. The XR6 and XR8, for example, are in many ways identical, but changing a six cylinder motor into an eight cylinder motor gradually, step by step, is impossible.
Prior to the 1996 riposte by a Senator to the question of xenophobia as please explain a former Prime Minister had in 1992 labelled the Senate as unrepresentative swill. Never a chamber of greatness, just of review and opinions, they have improved since 1996. Still, their sub-optimal talent, except for some beacons of hope make it look as dull and uniform as the granite which clads two wings of the New Parliament House. This is it; up close.
I'm not really here to bag the Senate; that's too easy a target. Instead I'm here for a tour of parliamentary geology. That's right — geology. Under the encumbent mob you'd be excused for supposing I said theology. There are things older still than that antedeluvian mob, even if those things aren't as backward, unevolved and bland.
Where the New Parliament House stands there was once a perfectly good hill, and useful as hills go it was too. This was Capital Hill. On Capital Hill, as well as the foundation stone of the city of Canberra there were some altogether older stones, and some just a smidgen younger than the oldest ones. Australia had been a bit of mess in the Silurian Period. It was a bit of a construction site where something big had whacked into the side and pushed up some hills of its own. If you've ever piled something up you'll know gravity wants to pull it all down again; spoilsport that it is. Guess what? That's just what happened and so the State Circle Shale was formed. Then things got really serious and those new shales, along with the Black Mountain Sandstone on top of them, got tipped up as Australia's corset was tightened further. More weathering, erosion and pesky gravity later and another bunch of rocks, the Camp Hill Sandstone, were laid down over the lot. More uplift, tilting, erosion etcetera later and we had Camp Hill. Probably not as famous as the Hutton Unconformity at Inchbonny, but nevertheless, here in the middle of a city was an even more interesting and quite flashy example of deep time, orogenesis, blah, blah, blah…contained in an easily accessible unconformity.
Building New Parliament House required the excavation of roughly a million cubic metres of rock — the previously mentioned Capital Hill. With it went almost, but not quite all, of the unconformity between the Black Mountain Sandstone and Camp Hill Sandstone. Down below in the undercroft of this wastrel edifice, among all the dust and rubble, under the ventilation ducts, the buildings hydraulics and so on is a perfectly preserved chunk of that outstanding geology. This is why I am here. I cannot show you a photograph: phones, cameras etcetera are not allowed for security reasons. Honestly, it didn't work for Guy Fawkes, and blowing this lot up would be a waste of a good building, some classic geology and the explosives.
Further down the hill the circular road, unimaginatively named State Circle, cuts through the just a bit younger than Black Mountain Sandstone's successor, State Circle Shale, on which the Camp Hill Sandstone sits and can still be seen by public gaze. I promise, one day I'll post an image of that delight so you don't feel wholly left out.
Now back to xenophobia. It's Greek in origin; the word, although perhaps the concept too. I don't know. Because scientists liked to sound all clever they called the black blob in this image a xenolith, a foreign rock. This one is in the frankly pretty uniform and drab Eugowra Granite cladding of the New Parliament House. It adds character. People still argue about how to make a granite. Nobody has even seen one born. It always happens deep underground where we aren't welcome. Unlike your spitty, spewy volcanoes, it seems granites don't really have the runs. The mavens of granite now suppose that rather than a liquid blob squirting up into what they might call the country rock, granites are emplaced more as a gravitationally and chemically unstable mush of crystals, liquids and gases. Where the xenoliths were supposed to be bits broken off from the intruded country rock, now they are known to be something completely different. That unstable mush is generated by the heating up of rocks deep within the Earth by all manner of Nature's witchery. The more susceptible to melting and dissolving bits separate out. But bits of the more stable, left behind until now stuff get entrained with the gravitationally unstable intrusive blob. One of the really clever things about granites is how their fluidity is enabled by a flux of fluids. These fluids are held in by the pressure of the overburden until the point where the pressure of the fluids exceed the Earth's ability to hold it in, like Australia's corset giving way. When that happens, the granite freezes, it's chemistry changes a bit and if those bits of entrained stuff aren't quite in chemical equilibrium they can get a halo around them that is a bit neither one thing or the other.
For a while geologists, or maybe they were "Earth scientists", went all PC and stopped calling them xenoliths. Instead they called them enclaves. Thankfully that silliness seems to have abated. There's enough problems with the occupants of this grey clad house hating foreigners without giving them any hint that there might be enclaves of the buggers too.
I can't explain to you all how much I love my cello, my music. I only wish that everyone could understand how it works for us crazy musicians. The ones crazy enough to declare it a "major". The ones that spend hours a day in a practice room (or at least should). Don't get me wrong, I need to practice more than I do, but that's not my point here. I guess I don't really have a point, though.
If you want to step into my world for a little bit... listen to this. Just sit back, close your eyes and listen.
It's what I'm listening to right at this moment, in hopes of playing it this semester. It's so beautiful!
Guess this was just an upload for the sake of uploading. I do love this photo, though. One of the many that I've taken and a friend of mine has been all "weirdo, why are you taking a picture of that?" with me. Whatever, we get used to it, now don't we, fellow photogs? :).
Pleaaase view HERE.
Say a little prayer for me.
Hope you all have a wonderful rest of the week. :).
Child Survival and Development which provides strategic support and technical assistance to improve policies, access to and uptake of services through the health system particularly the posyandu (integrated health post) network. It aims to improve water and sanitation for poor and vulnerable children and women; developing capacity in health human resources, particularly in remote poor areas; improving health information systems, monitoring and evaluation; documenting lessons learnt to improve governance, services and resource allocation.
Camera: Chinon CE-5
Film: Agfa APX100
Dev: R09 13'
Scan: Epson V350 Photo
Lenses used included Tokina 24mm f/2.8, Vivitar 28mm f/2.8 KA, Tamron Adaptall 100mm f/2.5
Roll: AMP
Have I ever told you how much I despise estate agents? How I think that they are money-grubbing scum who make money by dubious lying and cheating?
I can't even make this mean anything by adding punctuation.
It seems that I can add "terrible use of English" and "Jumping on the environmental bandwaggon" to my reasons for hating them.
Taken with Minolta MD Macro-Rokkor 50mm f3.5 on Panasonic G1.
Over lunch at Ivychurch, John explained about some new building work that had been done at Kenardington, and making it sound as though the work had been done in a way to complement the church, we decided to head there first after lunch, as it was on the way to Warehorne, which I did not think I had been to. But had.
So, the new building is what was described as a pentice extension to link nave and tower and was completed at the end of last year.
And very fine it is too.
Kenardington is a church that is almost impossible to find, as it is only marked by a simple sign on the min or road passing it. Last time I was here we were on a circular walk along the nearby military canal.
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In a very exposed position overlooking Romney Marsh. The church originally consisted of an aisled nave, chancel with chapels and west tower. In the fourteenth century the building was damaged by a French raiding party and in 1559 struck by lightning. As a result the ruins were patched up to provide a smaller church more suited to the requirements of this small farming community. The bulk of the church was demolished, leaving the former south aisle and chapel to serve as the new church. This means that the north wall is virtually unrelieved by windows or monuments. On the south wall the original large windows were reduced in size by infilling the outer lights, leaving some excellent 'ghost' tracery visible. The font is a plain oval bowl and would not look out of place as a garden birdbath. Nearby is an oak-panelled screen which bears the date 1717. On the jambs of the main door are some excellent examples of medieval travellers' graffiti.
www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Kenardington
Kenardington may be found standing on what was once the 'Ancient Saxon' shoreline, but is nowadays the edge of the Romney Marsh .
St Marys church stands on the site of what was believed to be a small Saxon fort. The fort was 600ft long on the eastern side, and 550ft long on the northern side. Unfortunately most of its earthworks have been ploughed away over the years.
The fort may have been built to repel the Danish invasion, however it was only half finished when the Danes attacked in 892AD. The Danes encamped here before moving on to establish themselves at Appledore .
A Saxon church at Kenardington dedicated to St Mary, is recorded in the Domesday Book. At this time an annual fee of 12d (5p) was paid to the monks of Christchurch Canterbury. This indicates that it is likely the monks were the original founders of the church.
The original church may have been wooden, then after the Norman Conquest of 1066 was replaced by a stone building. The tower dates from 1170AD and is a square structure without buttresses. To the north side it has an unusual round tower, which carries the staircase to the belfrey at the top of the main tower.
The church is another one a long way away from the village, which implies quarantine at the time of the Black Death .
In the 14th century, it is believed that the church was sacked by the French during the Hundred Years War , but there is no remaining evidence. In 1559 the church was struck by lightning, and which started a fire causing the collapse of the nave, chancel and the north aisle.
Sparks telling us some disheartening details about what his stay was like. This pictures gives some scale of how big the room is with the people in it, the next looks down the room. Apparently, most of the prisoners in the room were political prisoners. However, one of the interesting things Sparks told us is the prison system mixed common prisoners with political prisoners in the hopes the common criminals would make the political prisoners into common criminals and the political prisoners would forget about politics.
Pretty stupid.
The opposite happened - the political prisoners educated the common criminals - and the prison started punishing prisoners with solitary confinement and severly restricting the learning and education the prisoners had access too. I think Sparks said at one point Nelson Mandela was denied access to any form of reading or educational materials for four years during his 18 year stay on Robben Island.
Maybe you still don't know why I'm a silly guy, so I want to explain you the reason. And I'm going to do it whit the lyric of one song that I discover last week (thanks MyStaR, you're wonderful!!!).
Whatever happened to the funky race?
A generation lost in pace
Wasn't life supposed to be more than this?
In this kiss I'll change your bore for my bliss
But let go of my hand and it will slip on the sand
If you don't give me the chance
to break down the walls of attitude
I ask nothing of you
not even your gratitude
And if you think I'm corny
then it will not make me sorry
It's your right to laugh at me
and in turn that's my oppurtunity
to feel brave
Because ridicule is no shame
Oh, it's just a way to eclipse hate
It's just a way to put my back straight
Oh, it's just a way to remain sane
Every morning I would see her getting off the bus
The picture never drops, it's like a multicoloured snapshot
stuck in my brain
It kept me sane for a couple of years
as it drenched my fears
of becoming like the others
who become unhappy mothers
and fathers of unhappy kids
and why is that?
'Cos they've forgotten how to play
Oh, maybe they're afraid to feel ashamed
to seem strange, to seem insane
to gain weight, to seem gay
I tell you this
That it takes a fool to remain sane
Oh, it takes a fool to remain sane
Oh, it takes a fool to remain sane
Oh, in this world all covered up in shame
(Oh, take it to the stage)
So, take it to the stage in a multicoloured jacket
Take it jackpot, crackpot, strutting like a peacock
Nailvarnish Arkansas, shimmy-shammy featherboah
Crackpot, haircut, dye your hair in glowing red and blue
Do, do, do what you wanna do
Don't think twice, do what you have to do
Do, do, do, do, let your heart decide
what you have to do
That's all there is to find
'Cos it takes a fool to remain sane
Oh, it takes a fool to remain sane
Oh, in this world all covered up in shame
Oh, it takes a fool to remain sane
Oh, it takes a fool to remain sane
OOOOOOOH in this world all covered up in shameeeeeee
The Ark - It Takes A Fool To Remain Sane
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I was taking some pictures for a photography lesson. This is the data: f29 - ISO 400 - 1/15 sec.
How did I get these results? Amazing, huh?
The Pioneer Martian Flag, with explanations of the symbols. Check out the world of Sub Martis at: www.submartis.com. Welcome to Mars!
Prof Mack Dumba explaining to the Chair Clare Short how the staff are fighting an uphill battle against an endemic corruption and deep rooted bad governance practices that have plagued the development of the country for decades.
The visitors were told how the team goes from company to company to collect payments figures to the state that they will then match with revenue figures declared by government agencies. Based on this, they figure out whether companies have paid their dues and whether these revenues went to the state coffers, instead of in government official's pockets.
I'm dancing next to none other than the European techno king. he stops only for camera poses and bathroom breaks- this guy was pure entertainment- we had a great time at our first techno party.
I didn't really know much about bird-banding until this visit to Starr Ranch. Ornithologist Kayla Baker thoroughly explained how to process birds - taking their measurements and attaching a small metal band, issued by USGS, to one of their legs. Typically, this process (including measuring wing length, determining age and sex especially for sexually dimorphic species, weighing, and banding) takes just 1 minute for a seasoned ornithologist. The short handling time helps reduce the stress on the bird.
Brussels - Anderlecht
Nijverheidskaai
Quai de l'Industrie
Since the end of summer 2010, pencils have been showing up in waves in Brussels. Yves Calomme, specialist in this phenomenon, explains what he has observed over time: “The evolution of the pencil has gone through many stages. In the beginning, they were simple and sharp. Then they gradually started to be drawn around the corners of walls. The artist added legs to them, made them into lady bugs, made them into Indiana Jones. Then they were drawn undressing themselves and even riding a camel…”
The hot question: who is this graffiti artist? Unfortunately nobody knows or wants to know the response. Graffiti is a bit of a sketchy subject, since the authorities are always keeping an eye on these sorts of things.
There is thought to be several artists responsible. Connoisseurs have managed to distinguish different stroke styles in the drawings. Certain ones are more detailed than others. According to Yves Calomme, “There is collaboration between the artists. They communicate with each other. There is an exchange going on concerning this pencil graffiti.”
Family Discussion.
They don't like when i take photos of them so composition and other things are not up to my ideas.
Coast Guard Reservist Lt. Ash Thorne and Senior Chief Rodney Wurgler speak with the City Manager of New Madrid, Mo. while inspecting the town's levee system after an errant barge collided with it May 1. The two reservists are members of one of two Disaster Area Response Teams (DART) that patrolled the levee separating the small town from the rain-swollen Mississippi, looking for possible damage caused by the barge collision. The Coast guard has deployed two DART teams to the region from St. Louis-based Sector Upper Mississippi River. The teams are assisting in flood response in rain-soaked communities throughout Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky. Continuous storm systems throughout the Midwest have overwhelmed the region's waterways and levees and caused massive flooding.
Jorge Dubon (Chiapas, 1938 – Paris, 2004) was also an architect, wich explains his vision that art should be part of buildings and of the street. For Dubon sculpture is linear motion and rhythm in color. Sculpture is nude, this is: separate from the anecdotal, literary and emotional. His sculptures have a strictly aesthetic function, to which all elements of the work of art are made useful.
Title of the work: Metalic wood
This work of art can be admired at the Middelheim open air museum at Antwerp: www.middelheimmuseum.be/en
Jorge Dubon (Chiapas, 1938 – Paris, 2004) was ook een architect wat zijn visie op beeldhouwwerk deels verklaart: hij vond dat die deel moest uitmaken van gebouwen en van het straatbeeld. Voor Dubon is sculptuur lineaire beweging en ritme in kleur. Sculptuur is naakt, dit is los van het anekdotische, literaire en emotionele. Zijn beelden hebben een strikt esthetische functie, waaraan alle elementen van het kunstwerk dienstbaar worden gemaakt.
Titel van het werk: Bos van metaal
Meer over dit werk: search.middelheimmuseum.be/details/collect/148191
Dit werk kan bewonderd worden in het openlucht museum Middelheim in Antwerpen: www.middelheimmuseum.be/nl
Jorge Dubon (Chiapas, 1938 – Paris, 2004) était également architecte, ce qui explique en partie sa vision sur la sculpture: il pensait qu'elle devait faire partie des bâtiments et de la scène de la rue. Pour Dubon, la sculpture est un mouvement linéaire et un rythme en couleur. La sculpture est nue, elle est séparée de l'anecdotique, du littéraire et de l'émotionnel. Ses sculptures ont une fonction strictement esthétique, à laquelle tous les éléments de l'œuvre d'art sont subordonnés.
Titre de l'œuvre: Bois métallique
Cette œuvre peut être admirée au musée en plein air Middelheim à Anvers: www.middelheimmuseum.be/fr