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The first snow that really stuck! and of course the squirrel in the tree was antagonizing I-Lean. She can jump high though for being a tripod! lol
This Embraer ERJ 175 operating as Republic 4579 takes off from Charlotte-Douglas International Airport for Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Nebraska. The City of Charlotte along with some airport construction rests in the background.
'Sup, crews?
Lovely morning for it, eh chaps?
(From left to right – 96TS, Sarah Siddons, 38TS, A stock – a bit of our history!)
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Praia da Barra in North Portugal
Barra, Aveiro, Portugal
Sunday, August 27, 2011.
My girlfriend and I were out shooting for some upcoming photo club competitions. One of those competitions is themed “Patterns” and I thought, what better place for that than in architecture! So we went to Downtown Norfolk VA, in the financial district, to do some shooting. Let me also explain that she has some social issues with crowds, public spaces, anxiety, etc. Photography has been a useful tool in her therapy.
We parked our vehicle in front of the Bank of America building, 1 Commercial Place, Norfolk VA, and I started working with her. As a “new” photographer, I am spending time helping her learn the basics, etc. Anyway, we are on the public sidewalk shooting some buildings across the street. We turn to get some shots of the Bank of America building. While we are shooting, this little dude from a company called XSIG SECURITY (based in Baltimore MD) comes out and says that we can’t take pictures of the building. I remind him that there is this pesky thing called “The Constitution” and that as long as I am on public property, I can take pictures of anything visible to me. I immediately snapped a shot of him. (He was NOT amused). He threatened to call the Norfolk Police and have us arrested; I told him to go ahead, as I was not breaking any laws.
When we completed our shooting, I left my camera with my girlfriend and went to the security guards to ask for their names and a contact number. That female officer followed as I left her post. They told me that their supervisor, Carlton Hall, was coming over to “handle me.” When Hall showed up, I greeted him with an outstretched hand (as any gentleman would) and we talked. He stated that we absolutely could NOT take any pictures of “his” buildings from anywhere. Even across the river! I explained that we were just working on a project for our club, he cut me off and told me "(he) didn’t care if it was for Jesus Christ; that if (I) took any more pictures, (he) would personally have (us) arrested."
However, my girlfriend (who has some anxiety issues as I previously mentioned) was getting nervous, and was afraid that if we did not leave, we would spend the rest of the weekend in jail. So, at her behest, we returned home.
But I was pissed. Especially because I THOUGHT this issue had been settled last year, back when the rent-a-cops were operated by Wackenhut/G4. (Yes, I have been through this before with the security in that part of town!)
Not just because these idiots interrupted her photography therapy and my archetectural shoot, but because they think they are above the law. Actually, they seem to think they know all the law, and that they have the power over civilians. We use photography as a “therapy” to help her work through some of her issues, involving crowds, strangers, etc.
After getting home, I decided that I was going to return, and test their willingness to make fools of themselves; so I hopped back in my Jeep, and returned to the scene of the photography. After parking my Jeep, I was walking (about a block) to the Bank of America building, when I spotted a Norfolk Police officer on a Segway, Officer Lipski (as I recall). I hailed him, and explained the situation to him. He agreed with me, and said that they had issues with the rent-a-cops in that area before. He even explained to me that if it is in the view of the public, that the public could photograph it. Nice to hear from an actual police officer.
The officer then proceeded to cruise over to the rent-a-cops and explain the facts of life to them , and then saw Mr. Hall as well. He further explained that I could have THEM arrested for harassment and assault for what they said/did to us. He then told me to proceed with whatever shooting I was going to do, and reminded me to NOT step foot on the Bank of America property, to shoot from the sidewalk or the street (but to be safe if I was in the street!)
I was pleasantly surprised by the courtesy and sensibility of the Norfolk Police in this matter, as we have often read about police being real horses asses about photography. This Norfolk Police Officer renewed my faith that there are some decent cops who understand our rights as photographers and citizens.
I contacted XSIG in Baltimore the next morning, and their supervisor agreed that my girlfriend and I were completely right (as indicated by the Norfolk Police) and was a bit shocked at our treatment, especially by the supervisor and his comment. He assured me that it would not happen again. Not that I plan to go back there, but I may at some point...
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For a while now, Unikitty has been scouting out a new place to create Cloud Cuckoo Land anew. To do this she needs transportation, and so she had her friend Joey the snail help her find a new car, which happened to turn out to be Buster the vintage motor car. He doesn't drive very fast, but no-one minds: it's all about the journey to getting from point "A" to point "B" and having fun along the way.
As an added bonus, Buster has been around the block a few times and knows all the best roadside attractions and sights to see along highways, back roads and dirt trails of the LEGO World. Plus, Buster has been modified to run on Unikitty's boundless imagination and cheery attitude so no longer do they have to stop for gasoline. Unfortunately, Buster has a very temperamental engine, so Joey volunteers as the Mechanic for their journeys across the LEGO landscape while they search for a new home.
MY NOTES:
Buster was originally in yellow as a version of Doctor Who's car "Bessie". I then added eyes one afternoon last week as a idea of "what if Bessie was living and could talk". I then decided Bessie would go better with Unikitty because she is a bit more whimsical than the Doctor. I also added the snail from the Cloud Cuckoo Land set as Bessie's (now repainted red and renamed Buster) mechanic. By the way: The name "Joey the snail" came from my Sister's old blog where she had a beanie-baby-like frog named Legs as the star of the blog with a guest star Joey the Snail appearing on the home page occasionally... she quit writing the blog about three years ago, and I appropriated Joey and placed the snail from the LEGO Movie set as him once it was revealed to keep it alive, in a way.
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Webb has discovered what appears to be a new record-holder for the most distant known galaxy — shattering its own previous record. This galaxy existed only 290 million years after the big bang.
The galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0, is unusually bright given its distance. That luminosity seems to mostly come from young stars. The amount of starlight implies the galaxy is several hundreds of millions of times the mass of the Sun.
Data from Webb’s mid-infrared instrument also reveals the surprising presence of oxygen. Detected this early in the life of the galaxy, the oxygen suggests that multiple generations of very massive stars already lived and died before Webb’s observations.
For all of these reasons, this galaxy is very different from those predicted to exist in the early universe by models and simulations. Though this is science in progress, Webb’s discovery may have profound implications for what we know of our cosmic history: blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2024/05/30/nasas-james-webb-space-tel...
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Brant Robertson (UC Santa Cruz), Ben Johnson (CfA), Sandro Tacchella (Cambridge), Phill Cargile (CfA)
[Image description: A field of thousands of small galaxies of various shapes and colors on the black background of space. A bright foreground star with diffraction spikes is at lower left. Near the center, a tiny white box outlines a region and two diagonal lines lead to a larger box at the upper right, enlarging the view of this area. Within the box is a banana-shaped blob that is blueish-red in one half and distinctly red in the other half. An arrow points to the redder portion and is labeled “JADES GS z 14 0.”]
Project 365 // Day 79
The Horde is one of two opposing factions featured in Warcraft, it's counterpart being the Alliance. The Horde is made up of several races, including Orcs, Undead, Taurens, Trolls, Blood Elves and Goblins.
I used the DC Direct World of Warcraft figures for this collage. Top left is an Orc Shaman, top right is a Blood Elf Rogue, bottom left is an Undead Warlock and bottom right is a Goblin Tinker.
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"BREAKING NEWS!
PRN forces have been attacking the MLF's forces all over the Philippines. "We will not let these Ungrateful idiots take our land! The MLF is weak! We will be victorious! Fight for the motherland, fight for the PRN!"-President Cochran
The PRN also has said that immediately a bombing campaign of the MLF has begun. The PRN is asking all allies to help destroy the MLF and to leave no survivors. This has been channel 4 news!
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I'm pretty friken pissed off right now! I made this to show I invaded him but nooooo my sister had to be a jerk and not let me on the laptop! >.>
Also I'm pissed because he's invading just because he wants the Philippines becasue he lives there.... >.< ALSO....If you fave please comment. it means more to me. :)
Stars on Plaid was made from dresses I had made for my only daughter... she has five big brothers , poor kid!
Swatch Pro in Trestles with pro surfers Stephanie Gilmore, Anastasia Ashley, Alana Blanchard, Lakey Peterson, Laura Enever, Sally Fitzgibbons, Coco Ho, Stephanie Gilmore, newcomers Nikki Van Dijk Djik and Tatiana Weston-Web, and more!
The new Nikon D810 rocks for sports photography! New Instagram!
Goddess videos! vimeo.com/45surf
Nikon D810 Photos Pro Women's Surfing Van's US Open Sports Photography Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD !
I shot in DX mode which crops away the extra pixels and takes me 1.5X closer while allowing for up to 7 FPS with the Nikon D810's Nikon MB-D12 Battery Grip using the 8 AA battery option! 8 Duracles took me through around 3,000 shots no problem--maybe more! I was shooting at the equivalent of 900mm with the 1.5x crop factor! Pretty close! Had I gone with the Nikon D4s, I would have gotten 12 fps, but no DX crop factor, as the sensor has only around 14mp, compared to the d810's 36 megapixels! Sure the larger pixel size on the Nikon D4s full frame sensor comes in handy indoors or at night, but in the brigth sun, there's more than enough light for the smaller pixels in crop mode! Sure we lose some pixels from the outer edges when shooting in DX crop mode, but most of those pixels would be cropped away in lightroom anyway. And the smaller files make the memory cards last longer, while also upping the FPS to 7 shots per second! Not quite 12 FPS< but still awesome and enough I felt!
What a beautiful way to test the Nikon D810 and Tamron 150-600mm zoom lens for sports photography!
Athletic graceful girl goddesses! Tall, thin, fit and in shape! Pro women's surfers form the van's us open wearing both long wetsuits and bikini bottoms with shorty wetsuit tops/summer wetsuits. Sexy, beautiful beach babes and water goddesses all! Many are professional swimsuit bikini / surf lifestyle models too!
Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD Autofocus lens for Nikon AF-D Cameras.
The new Nikon D810 rocks for sports photography New Instagram!
Alana Blanchard is a sea goddess!
Alana Blanchard & Stephanie Gilmore Swatch Pro Trestles Pro Women's Surfing Van's US Open Sports Photography Wiht New Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD Lens for Nikon
45SURF Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography
Homer's Odyssey: Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide. . . Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; --Homer's Odyssey translated by Samuel Butler
Daytona Beach, Florida - December 29, 2022: Customers fill up on coffee at a Buc-ees, a famous large truck stop and gas station, known for clean restrooms
Came across this today and decided to dress "Fatale" Venus in it. I think it's perfect for her. Skeleton bodysuit is still on underneath.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kate Shelley, railroad heroine
Catherine "Kate" Shelley (September 25, 1865 – January 12, 1912) was a midwestern United States railroad heroine, and the first woman in the United States to have a bridge named for her.[citation needed] She was also one of the few women to ever have a train named after her, the Kate Shelley 400.
Catherine Shelley was born in Loughaun, Moneygall, County Offaly, Ireland.[2] Transcriptions of Irish records show her parents, Michael Shelley and Margaret Dwan, married on February 24, 1863. and Catherine was baptized on December 12, 1863.[2] However, United States 1880 census records indicate she may have been born in 1865.[citation needed] Her tombstone says she was born on September 25, 1865 and died January 21, 1912. The family name was originally spelled Shelly, which is how Kate often wrote her name, but the spelling Shelley was later adopted.[3]
Michael Shelley was a tenant farmer in Ireland, living on 3 acres (12,000 m2) and farming another 15.[2] The family emigrated to the United States when Catherine was a baby.[2] They first lived with relatives in Freeport, Illinois, then built a home on 160 acres (0.65 km2) at Honey Creek, near Moingona, Boone County, Iowa.[2] Michael Shelley became foreman of a section crew, building tracks for the Chicago and North Western Railway.[2]
Michael Shelley died in 1878. Margaret was in poor health, and Kate had to help support the family - plowing, planting and harvesting crops, and hunting.[2] The 1880 federal census for Worth County, Iowa showed 35-year old Margaret, 15-year-old Kate, both born in Ireland, and Mary (8), Margaret (6) and John (4), all born in Iowa.[4] Michael and Margaret Shelley had another child, James (also born in Iowa), but he drowned while swimming in the Des Moines River when he was only ten years old.[5]
[edit] The story
1908 map showing the Chicago and Northwestern route through Moingona, the southernmost community on the map. The railroad crossed the Des Moines River between Moingona and Honey Creek. (Red dots on the map are coal mines.)
On the afternoon of July 6, 1881, heavy thunderstorms caused a flash flood of Honey Creek, washing out timbers that supported the railroad trestle. A pusher locomotive sent from Moingona to check track conditions crossed the Des Moines River bridge, but plunged into Honey Creek at about 11 p.m., with a crew of four: Ed Wood, George Olmstead, Adam Agar and Patrick Donahue.[6]
Shelley heard the crash, and knew an eastbound passenger train was due in Moingona about midnight, stopping shortly before heading east over the Des Moines River and then Honey Creek. She found the surviving crew members and shouted that she would get help, then started to cross the damaged span of the Honey Creek bridge followed by the Des Moines River bridge. Although she'd started with a lantern, it had failed, and she crawled the span on hands and knees with only lightning for illumination. Once across, she ran a half-mile to the Moingona depot to sound the alarm, then led a party back to rescue two of the engine crew survivors.[6] Wood, perched in a tree, grasped a rope thrown to him, and came ashore hand-over-hand.[7] Agar couldn't be reached until the flood waters began to recede.[7] Donahue's corpse was eventually found in a corn field a quarter mile downstream from the bridge, and Olmstead, the fireman, was never found. The passenger train was stopped at Ogden, Iowa, with 200 aboard.[2]
[edit] The aftermath
The passengers who had been saved took up a collection for her. The children of Dubuque gave her a medal,[6] and the state of Iowa gave her another one, crafted by Tiffany & Co.,[8] and $200.[6] The C&NW gave her $100, a half barrel of flour, half a load of coal and a life-time pass.[6] The Order of Railway Conductors gave her a gold watch and chain.[6]
News of her bravery spread nationwide; poems and songs were composed honoring her. The railroad built a new steel bridge in 1900, and named it after her.[9] It was the first and, until the Betsy Ross Bridge in Philadelphia was opened in 1976, the only bridge in the United States named for a woman. The bridge was rebuilt by the Union Pacific Railroad from 2006 through 2010. The new structure can accommodate heavy trains, features two tracks and can handle two trains simultaneously at a speed of 70 mph. It was opened on October 1, 2009 as the new Kate Shelley Bridge, one of North America's tallest double-track rail bridges. [2]
Frances E. Willard, a reformer and temperance leader, wrote president Isabella W. Parks of Simpson College at Indianola, Iowa, offering $25 toward an advanced education for Shelley. Mrs. Parks raised additional funds for Kate to attend during the term of 1883–84, but she didn't come back the following term.[6]
She became a teacher in Boone County schools until 1903, when the Chicago & Northwestern named her stationmaster at the new Moingona depot,[10] the original having burned down in 1901.[11]
[edit] Later in life
In 1890, a Chicago newspaper revealed that the Shelley home was mortgaged for $500 at 10% and was near foreclosure. An Armenian rug, woven in the display window of a Chicago furniture store, was auctioned for $500, retiring the mortgage, and other Chicagoans donated an additional $417 before the state of Iowa voted Kate a grant of $5,000.[6]
In July 1896, it was reported that Shelley had applied to the Iowa Legislature for employment in the State House as a menial, because she was destitute and had to support her aged mother and invalid brother.[12]
Although there were apparently men interested in her, including the switchman in the yard at Moingona,[13] Kate Shelley never married, and continued to care for her mother until Margaret died in 1909.[6]
Kate Shelley grew sicker and, in June 1911, doctors at Carroll Hospital removed her appendix. After a month in the hospital, she stayed with her brother John,[11] and was reported a little better by September, but died on January 12, 1912 from Bright's disease (acute nephritis).[14]
Years later, the Chicago and North Western began operating streamlined passenger trains, and named one the Kate Shelley 400. It operated from 1955 to 1971, although the name was officially dropped in 1963.[1]
[edit] Legacy
Original steel on the left; new concrete/steel on the right.
The Boone County Historical Society maintains the Kate Shelley Railroad Museum on the site of the Moingona depot. The Shelley family donated a collection of letters and papers of family members of Kate Shelley, 1860–1911, to Iowa State University. The timetable accents for Metra's Union Pacific/West Line are printed in "Kate Shelley Rose" pink.[15]
The original high steel bridge is currently being replaced with a modern concrete and steel span that will also bear her name.
The Iowa poet and politician, John Brayshaw Kaye, wrote a poem in her honor called, 'Our Kate', in his collection Songs of Lake Geneva (1882).
The meal I made for Ukrainian Christmas
-Tofurky roast with gravy
-roasted potatoes and carrots
-cabbage rolls
-pierogi (with potato & cheese filling)
All vegan!
It was delicious but I need to improve on the pierogi. I made the dough way too thick and whole wheat flour didn't work very well with that recipe. Next time I'll try either white flour or a mix of white and whole wheat.
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(for further information please click on the link at the end of page!)
Palais Daun-Kinsky
If the Freyung once has been one of the most prestigious residential addresses in town, so for it was next to the Palais Harrach especially the Grand Palais Kinsky responsible. In its place in the middle ages were two parcels, each with a small building. The front part of the Freyung was since the 16th Century always in aristocratic in hands (Bernhard Menesis Freiherr von Schwarzeneck, Countess Furstenberg, Counts Lamberg). 1686 acquired Karl Ferdinand Count Waldstein the house of Count Lamberg. His son bought also the adjacent house in Rose Street (Rosengasse) and united both plots to one parcel. He had three granddaughters, who sold the site in 1709 to Wirich Philipp Laurenz Graf Daun. This came from an old Rhenish nobility. His ancestors were mostly working for the Elector of Trier as officers. In the battle of the Habsburgs against the Turks, Spanish and Frenchmen, he acquired great military merit. He brought it to the General Feldzeugmeister (quartermaster) and Viceroy of Naples. In 1713 he had the house at the Freyung demolished and by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt built in its place until 1716 a palace, him serving as Vienna's city residence. Down may have been Antonio Beduzzi requested the creation of reconstruction plans, but was eventually Hildebrandt entrusted with the work. In 1719, the palace was largely completed. Daun lived there but rarely because he stayed a lot in Italy and in Austria preferred his country castles Ladendorf, Kirchstetten and Pellendorf. In 1746 acquired Johann Joseph Count von Khevenhüller the Palais from Leopold Joseph von Daun, the son of the owner, who happened to be in financial difficulty. The Reichsgraf (count of empire) was appointed in 1763 by the Empress Maria Theresa for his services to the Lord Steward and Lord Chamberlain, and raised to the hereditary imperial princes (princes of the Holy Roman Empire).
Door knocker
He sold the palace in 1764 to the Imperial Councilor President Ferdinand Bonaventura Harrach Count II. This worked as a diplomat, especially in Holland and Italy. At times of Maria Theresa, the building was inhabited by her Swiss Guards until they 1784 moved to their new quarters in Hofstallgebäude (court stable building). Ferdinand Bonaventura's daughter Rosa brought the palace in 1790 into her marriage to Josef Graf Kinsky. Whose family belonged to the Bohemian nobility. Its members appear at the beginning of the 13th Century documented. Wilhelm Freiherr von Kinsky was a colonel and friend of Wallenstein. He was murdered with this 1634 in Eger. His confiscated estates were divided among the assassins. Only two masteries (Chlumez and Bohemian Kamnitz ) remained through the timely change of front of his nephew, Johann Octavian with the family. The Kinsky but succeeded soon to rise again. They occupied again high positions in the administration and the military. 1798 the had modernized their Viennese palace by the architect Ernst Koch inside. Thus, the original Baroque interior was lost. As in 1809 the Frenchmen had occupied Vienna, a french Marshal and General were billeted in the palace. Prince Ferdinand Kinsky was a great patron of Beethoven, which he paid an annual salary of 4,000 florins for life along with two other nobles. In 1856, the Palace was refurbished in the interior by the architect Friedrich Stache. In the 19th Century lived the Princes Kinsky mostly on their Bohemian goods or in Prague. The building was therefore temporarily rented to some posh tenants. So lived here temporarily Field Marshal Radetzky and Archduke Albrecht. 1904 redecorated the French interior designer Armand Decour the piano nobile.
Staircase - second floor
With the end of World War II began a tough time for the Kinsky family. Almost all goods and industrial holdings, with the exception of the hunting lodge Rosenhof at Freistadt lay in Bohemia. By 1929, 50 % of the extensive Bohemian possessions were expropriated. There were still about 12,000 acres, a sugar factory and breweries. 1919 had to be a part of Vienna's Palais force-let. During World War II it was requisitioned by the German army. For fear of air raids the in the palace remaining objects of art were transferred to some Bohemian castles. The Palais Kinsky was not destroyed, its art treasures but remained in Bohemia. After the Second World War, the remaining Czech possessions were lost by nationalization for the family. In the Viennese palace were temporarily housed the embassies of China and Argentina. In 1986 it was sold by Franz Ulrich Prince Kinsky. After several short-term owners, the palace was acquired by the Karl Wlaschek private foundation in 1997. It was generously restored from 1998 to 2000 and adapted for offices and shops. The Grand Ballroom is often used because of its excellent acoustics as a concert hall. Since 1992, acclaimed art auctions are held at the Palais.
The Palais Kinsky is probably next to the Belvedere the most prominent secular work of the great Baroque architect and one of the best preserved baroque palaces in Vienna. Despite multiple changes of ownership and of numerous rearrangements inside the main components such as Baroque facade, vestibule, staircase, hall and gallery remained largely unchanged. The building extends between Freyung and Rosengasse. The property is only 30 meters wide, but three times longer. It was therefore not an easy task to build on it a representative palace with a grand staircase. Hildebrandt but has brilliantly overcome by putting up four floors at 24 m height, and yet preserving the proportions. He grouped the construction with two long side wings and a cross section around two consecutive large courtyards. The pomp and living rooms of the palace are mounted around the first courtyard, while the second contained carriage houses and stables. Here have yet been preserved the marble wall panels with the animal waterings made of cast iron and enamel from the late 19th century. Hildebrandt integrated various parts of the previous building into the new building. The seven-axle face side at the Freyung is divided several times. Stability is procured by the rusticated ground floor with its inserted diamond blocks. On it sit the two residential floors. They are embraced by Corinthian Riesenpilaster (giant pilasters). The mezzanine floor above it features in comparison with the underlying main floor tiny windows.
Hercules
The large windows on the main floor are particularly detailed designed. While the outer pairs of windows possess pagoda-like over roofings, those of the three windows of the central projection are round-arched. The trophies and weapons depicted in the lintel fields refer to the military profession of the owner. Vertically is the extensive looking facade accented by the slightly protruding, tri-part central risalite, the pilasters are decorated much richer than that of the side projections. In the Fantasiekapitelle (fantasy capital) of the pilasters are diamond lattices incorporated, an important component of the coat of arms of the Counts Down. The with figures and trophies decorated attica is over the central part formed as balustrade. The sculptures are believed to originate from Joseph Kracker, representing the gods Minerva, Juno, Hercules, Neptune, Diana and Constantia. Very elegant looks the plastically protruding portal. Its composition goes back to Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt. It is considered one of the most beautiful Baroque portals of Vienna. The draft was submitted in 1713 and carried out until 1715. The richly decorated wooden gate dates from the period around 1856, when it was renewed. It is outside flanked by two, obliquely placed Doric columns that match the rusticated ground floor. Sloped to the inside carry two, on pillar stumps standing atlases (also from Kracker) the entablature with the overlying structured segment gable. On it sit the stone figures of Prudence and Justice. The middle window in between is much richer decorated than the rest of the window openings on the first floor. Instead of the usual trapezoidal over roofings here it is crowned by a cartouche held by two putti. The originally thereon located coat of arms of the owner was replaced after the change of ownership by that of the Kinsky family with three boar's teeth. Above the shield hangs an chain with the Order of the Golden Fleece. Both the gusset of the archway as well as the overlying triglyph frieze are decorated with trophies.
Banquet Hall
If someone passes the portal, so one gets into one, by strong pillars divided three-aisled gatehouse. The massive spatial impression is something mitigated by the large sculptures in the niches. They were created by Joseph Kracker. Among the somewhat restrained stucco decorations you can see the coat of arms of the owner, with its characteristic diamond motif. At this gate hall adjoins the widely embedded and more than twice as high vestibule with its domed ceiling. This transverse oval space is divided by pilasters and Doric columns. The rich stucco decoration of the ceiling provided with lunettes could come from Alberto Camesina or from his workshop. The here used motifs are again relating to the career of the client as a commander. For instance, in the lunette caps are reliefs of Roman soldiers. On the left side of the vestibule leads an anteroom to the grand staircase. It is dominated by a vault carrying Hercules, a work by Lorenzo Mattielli. As the monogram of Charles VI proves, with it the Emperor was meant to be worshiped. In two oval niches stand above the two double doors of the Treppenvorhauses (stairway hall way) busts of Caesar and Emperor Titus Flavius Vespasian. The elongated stairway occupies almost the entire length of the left wing of the first courtyard. In the stairwell are eleven statues of Roman deities in stucco niches. The relatively narrow, crossed grand stairway is considered one of the most beautiful of Vienna. It overall design might go back to Antonio Beduzzi. On the second floor stand on the from winded perforated volute forms constructed stone balustrade four groups of playing or scrapping putti. They serve in part as a lantern holders, partly just as a decoration. The statue cycle in the staircase is a work of Lorenzo Mattielli, but the cherubs are believed to stem from Joseph Kracker. This type of decoration already points to the coming Rococo. A fresco by Carlo Innocenzo Carlone adorns the ceiling. The simulated architecture painted Antonio Beduzzi. The large wall mirror of the staircase were added after 1907 .
Staircase/ceiling fresco
The somewhat playful balustrade leads to the reception rooms on the second floor. The large oval ballroom above the entrance hall is oriented towards the courtyard. Its allegorical ceiling painting stems from Carlo Innocenzo Carlone. The other frescoes are of him and Marcantonio Chiarini. The walls are covered with marble. The room was several times, most recently in 1904 changed structurally. In front of the banquet hall is the former dining room. It is now called Yellow Salon. In 1879/80 was installed in it a choir stalls from the Pressburg Cathedral by Georg Raphael Donner ( 1736) and partly completed. The also acquired confessionals were converted into boxes that are in the antechamber of the second floor today. In the chapel, designed by Hildebrandt, was until 1741 as altarpiece Francesco Solimena's "Holy Family with the Infant John the Baptist". 1778 the sacred space, however, was already desecrated. The altarpiece is already since the 18th Century in Wiener Neustadt Neuklosterkirche (church in Lower Austria). In the cross-section between the first and the second courtyard lay the paneled gallery whose spatial effect in 1856 by an attached conservatory was changed something. Its vaulted ceiling is decorated with frescoes by Carlo Innocenzo Carlone. Marcantonio Chiarini created 1716/18 the quadrature paintings. At it followed a larger hall in which Francesco Solimena's oil painting "Phaeton and Apollo" was located. It can be admired today in the National Gallery in Prague. The hall was later used as a library. Part of the state rooms 1714 was equipped with ceiling paintings by Peter Strudel. In the course of a radical redesign of the building's interior Ernest Koch has cut off all stucco ceilings of the staterooms 1798-1800 and also redesigned the walls. Since 1879 Carl Gangolf Kayser tried to restore the original spatial impression by the of Rudolf von Weyr created new Neo-Baroque stucco ceilings. Only in a few areas (vestibule, staircase, ballroom), the original substance remained. In the palace there are numerous Mamorkamine (marble fireplaces) and stoves from the 18th and 19th Century. The star parquet floors and many original door fittings date from the third quarter of the 19th Century. The facades of the first courtyard are structured by Tuscan pilasters. The arcades on the ground floor have already been closed in 1753. The with a mascaron decorated wall fountain is a work of Rudolf von Weyr. The second courtyard is kept simple. Remarkable at it rear end is the cenotaph for the current owner Karl Wlaschek.
Location/Address: 1010 Vienna, Freyung 4
Activities: The courtyards are freely accessible, the staircase usually also. A look at the state rooms is only possible if these are not just rented.
Nujoud Merancy, architecture lead for NASA's Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, Catherine Koerner, deputy associate administrator for NASA's Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, Patrick Forrester, special advisor in NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, Michelle Munk, chief architect for NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, and Joel Kearns, deputy associate administrator for Exploration in NASA's Science Mission Directorate, are seen on stage during NASA’s Moon to Mars Architecture Workshop, Tuesday, June 27, 2023, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md. Following the release of the 2022 Architecture Concept Review, NASA is conducting the workshop to engage the broader space community and collect feedback from U.S. industry and academia to inform the Moon to Mars mission architecture and operational delivery. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
for Trainee Nurses - Lauriston Place, Edinburgh
reference photography: The Illusionist
photographer: unknown
researcher: Stewart Brown
For our day out in Venice, Mike and I spent most of our time at Piazza San Marco. After visiting the Doge's Palace and Museo Correr, we made one final stop -- the Basilica di San Marco (St. Mark's Basilica).
While waiting in the queue to enter the basilica, I took this photo of one of the mosaics that decorate the arches over the church's five entrance portals. This mosaic adorns the main portal at the center of the facade, and it depicts The Last Judgment. You can also see a partial view of the detailed bas-relief sculptures decorating the portal's graduated arches.
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Nikon D800E photography of Pretty Blond Swimsuit Bikini Model Goddess @ the 45SURF Summer Beach House! Gorgeous Green Eyes! Modeling a pink bikini and black gold 45 revolver bikini! I'm thiking about adding a deck and a pool to the beach house / surf shack! You'll have to visit!
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Classic California--an athletic model goddess modeling Gold 45 Revolver bikini with the Moving Dimensions Theory Equation on it: dx4/dt=ic! Tall, thin, fit and very, very pretty!
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Photos shot with the AMAZING Nikon D800 E and Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II AF-S Nikkor Zoom Lens and the B W 77mm XS-Pro Kaesemann Circular Polarizer with Multi-Resistant Nano Coating. Classic California Brunette Beach Babe! Beautiful Swimsuit Bikini Model Goddess with Pretty Blue Eyes and wavy sandy-brown hair!
Shot in both RAW & JPEG, but all these photos are RAWs finished in Lightroom 5 ! :)
Modeling the classic 45surf t-shirts and the Gold 45 Revolver Gold'N'Virtue Bikini on a sunny Malibu summer afternoon--my favorite for shooting on the beautiful socal beach!
Modeling the black & gold "Gold 45 Revolver" Gold'N'Virtue swimsuits with the main equation to Moving Dimensions Theory on the swimsuits: dx4/dt=ic. Yes I have a Ph.D. in physics! :) You can read more about my research and Hero's Journey Physics here:
herosjourneyphysics.wordpress.com/ MDT PROOF#2: Einstein (1912 Man. on Rel.) and Minkowski wrote x4=ict. Ergo dx4/dt=ic--the foundational equation of all time and motion which is on all the shirts and swimsuits. She was thin, tall, fit, tan, and sexy! Every photon that hits my Nikon D800e's sensor does it by surfing the fourth expanding dimension, which is moving at c relative to the three spatial dimensions, or dx4/dt=ic!
May the Hero's Journey Mythology Goddess inspire you (as they have inspired me!) along your own artistic journey! Love, love, love the 70-200mm F/2.8 Lens! :)
All the Best on Your Epic Hero's Journey from Johnny Ranger McCoy!
May the classic California HJM Goddesses guide, inspire, and exalt ye along yer heroic artistic journey!
A Gold 45 Goddess exalts the archetypal form of Athena--the Greek Goddess of wisdom, warfare, strategy, heroic endeavour, handicrafts and reason. A Gold 45 Goddess embodies 45SURF's motto "Virtus, Honoris, et Actio Pro Veritas, Amor, et Bellus, (Strength, Honor, and Action for Truth, Love, and Beauty," and she stands ready to inspire and guide you along your epic, heroic journey into art and mythology. It is Athena who descends to call Telemachus to Adventure in the first book of Homer's Odyssey--to man up, find news of his true father Odysseus, and rid his home of the false suitors, and too, it is Athena who descends in the first book of Homer's Iliad, to calm the Rage of Achilles who is about to draw his sword so as to slay his commander who just seized Achilles' prize, thusly robbing Achilles of his Honor--the higher prize Achilles fought for. And now Athena descends once again, assuming the form of a Gold 45 Goddess, to inspire you along your epic journey of heroic endeavour.
For the first churchly visit of that November 2023 trip to the southern French provinces of Roussillon and Languedoc, I will treat you to a truly unique place, the so-called “priory” of Serrabone, which features an absolute world-class masterpiece of Romanesque sculpture: its tribune.
I said “so-called” above because a priory, in the genuine acception of the word, is a secondary monastery established by an abbey. It is populated by monks sent by that abbey. Those monks are led by a prior, whose superior is the abbot of the founding abbey. In the case of Serrabone, there first was a late Carolingian parochial church established in this mountainous locale and first mentioned in writing in 1069. The walls of the nave are, for some part, still those of that ancient church.
It was then, at a time when local lords used to meddle more and more in the affairs of the Church (which was one of the reasons that prompted the coming of the Gregorian reform), that the viscount of Cerdagne and the local lord of Corsavy installed on the Serrabone mountaintop an unusually mixed group of canons and canonesses to live in accordance with the Augustinian Rule.
A new college church was built (mostly by enlarging the previous one) and consecrated in 1151. Its architecture is harmonious but very simple, as one would expect: in the Middle Ages, those mountains were populated (hence the creation of the parish) and did feed their inhabitants (serra bona in Catalan means “good mountain”), but there was precious little commerce with the outside world and the locals had nothing of real value to export. Therefore, the local economy was pretty much a closed circuit and money was far from flowing in abundantly. The style of the church, even though there were donations from the aforementioned lords, reflects this paucity of financial resources.
It is therefore a total mystery how the magnificent sculpted tribune, which would have cost a veritable fortune, was funded, and by whom. Nothing has ever been demonstrated in that matter, although many have conjectured in various directions. The only certainty we have is that it was built around the time when the church itself was completed, i.e., the mid–1150s.
The culmination of the “priory” did not last very long: canons and canonesses are not monks and nuns, their commitment is found throughout history and places to be much less strong, and by the late 1200s they had already broken communal life and begun to live in their own separate homes. Decadence went to such extremes that the “priory” was secularized by the pope in the 16th century and made a dependency of the chapter of the cathedral of Solsona. The last “prior” died in 1612 and the church returned to its simple parochial status.
The place was progressively abandoned as people left the mountains to go live easier lives in the valleys. It was almost in ruins when it was listed as a Historic Landmark in 1875 and the restoration began. Fortunately, the tribune had been protected and its capitals and columns hidden by the locals.
One last menacing lion —this one is from the “cloister gallery” I first showed in this series.
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I shot in DX mode which crops away the extra pixels and takes me 1.5X closer while allowing for up to 7 FPS with the Nikon D810's Nikon MB-D12 Battery Grip using the 8 AA battery option! 8 Duracells took me through around 3,000 shots no problem--maybe more! I was shooting at the equivalent of 900mm with the 1.5x crop factor! Pretty close! Had I gone with the Nikon D4s, I would have gotten 12 fps, but no DX crop factor, as the sensor has only around 24mp, compared to the d810's 36 megapixels! Sure the larger pixel size on the Nikon D4s full frame sensor comes in handy indoors or at night, but in the bright sun, there's more than enough light for the smaller pixels in crop mode! Sure we lose some pixels from the outer edges when shooting in DX crop mode, but most of those pixels would be cropped away in Lightroom anyway. And the smaller files make the memory cards last longer, while also upping the FPS to 7 shots per second! Not quite 12 FPS, but still awesome and enough I felt!
What a beautiful way to test the Nikon D810 and Tamron 150-600mm zoom lens for sports photography!
Athletic graceful girl goddesses! Tall, thin, fit and in shape! Pro women's surfers form the van's us open wearing both long wetsuits and bikini bottoms with shorty wetsuit tops/summer wetsuits. Sexy, beautiful beach babes and water goddesses all! Many are professional swimsuit bikini / surf lifestyle models too!
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View your artistic mission into photography as an epic odyssey of heroic poetry! Take it from Homer in Homer's Odyssey: "Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home. Tell me, too, about all these things, O daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them. " --Samuel Butler Translation of Homer's Odyssey
All the best on your Epic Hero's Odyssey from Johnny Ranger McCoy!
I am pleased to announce you the creation of a new project for Tina who want something around a tutu dress set... So I plan to make a real pancake tutu with a gradient in different tulle overlays, inspired by the romantic ballet, where the spirit of Giselle, dancing with her lover, comes to save him from the death.
This set will include six pieces... a blouse, a tutu skirt, corseted over-skirt, stockings, short cape and hair pin.
I WISH YOU ALL HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
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For my Grandson Quinn, who wants to know all about Zentangling ... if he was close enough, I would have already taught him all the basics by now ... but will send him Suzanne McNeills Zentangle basics book. I needed a color break anyway ... I still love the pure black & white! ... 5x5, Done with Kuretake black zig millinium & black writer pens ... hope you are all having a great week end! :) THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR ALL THE SWEET & THOUGHTFUL COMMENTS THAT YOU TOOK TIME OUT OF YOUR DAY TO LEAVE FOR ME, TRUELY APPRECIATED! :)
I've been drinking a cup a day of Hibiscus Tea for six weeks (per The Dr. Oz Show) and my blood pressure has dropped from 144 to 131.
A study published in the Journal of Human Hypertension has shown that drinking hibiscus tea can reduce high blood pressure. The study results showed the average systolic blood pressure for those drinking hibiscus tea decreased from 134.8 mmHg (17.97 kPa) at the beginning of the study to 112.7 mmHg (15.03 kPa) at the end of the study, one month later.[6]
Blue Platypus for the Brisbane River Beautification Committee, out On Queen Street Mall, Brisbane in December 1989.
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Cabinet Minute 54997
FOR CABINET DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, CONSERVATION AND TOURISM CONTINUATION OF BRISBANE RIVER COMMITTEE
1. The Brisbane River Committee (then known as the Floral Waterway Advisory Committee) was established by Decision No. 48497 of 8th April, 1986. Shortly thereafter responsibility for the Committee was transferred to the Honourable the Minister for Water Resources and Maritime Services. Decision No. 48604 provided that the Committee cease operations no later than 30th December, 1988.
2. As part of the transfer of responsibilities with the formation of a new Government, Ministerial responsibility was transferred to me in January this year.
The Committee's role is to:
- advise State Cabinet on decisions which will have a direct effect on the river;
- liaise with development companies with a view to planned strategies for the river;
- co-ordinate river beautification projects.
The Committee's area of responsibility extends from the Apollo Ferry at Hamilton to the Six Mile Rocks at Yeronga.
3. Under its energetic chairmen, the Brisbane River Committee has been most effective in its activities to beautify the Brisbane River. Major tree plantings have been instigated at St. Lucia and Kangaroo Point; major riverside developers have been guided by the Committee to provide a co-ordinated landscaping theme for individual building projects on the river and the Committee has approached individually more than 300 private residents living on the banks of the lower Brisbane River encouraging them to participate in its "Plant a Tree" scheme.
4. In accordance with its charter to foster a public appreciation of the river the Committee has published a full colour booklet on the Brisbane River's historical beauty and has produced a colour brochure on the care and maintenance of the river. Both these publications highlight the vital role the State Government plays in protecting the Brisbane River's environment. Later this year the committee is coordinating a public display of architectural models depicting major riverside developments and, in November, the Committee will open a special Queensland art exhibition with the theme - the Brisbane River, Past, Present and Future.
5. The Committee has played a very positive role and actively promotes the Queensland Government as an administration dedicated to the river and its environment. Its membership focuses attention on the fact that it is the State Government which has control over practically every major aspect of the waterway and which is thus in a position to implement policy decisions. 6. My Department has been given sufficient funds to continue the Committee's operations through the 1988/89 financial year. The Committee's two staff are on contract and the whole operation runs on a very modest budget and overheads. I THEREFORE RECOMMEND that the Brisbane River Committee continue its operations until 31st December, 1989, subject to funding being provided for its activities in the 1989/90 financial year.
GEOFF MUNTZ MINISTER FOR ENVIRONMENT, CONSERVATION AND TOURISM
Department of Environment, Conservation and Tourism, BRISBANE 25th August, 1988
Read this Cabinet Minute here: DR47326
Converted for Tree Cutting, Wilts & Dorset Bristol VR OEL232P (9089) stands in the company of Damory Coaches (ex Wilts and Dorset) Leyland Olympian A175VFM (4923) in Swanage Yard.
For this weeks theme.. I thought about doing a "famous" album cover or one of the classics.. but then thought better of it and decided to go back to my teenage years and the music I loved when vinyl was still very much alive and kicking!
I absolutely and utterly loved Adam Ant.. my bedroom wall was covered in posters of him and I had all his records... I still get a weakness when I think of him in his Stand and Deliver days...Anyway.. I digress!
So my darling Abbie agreed once again to put herself under the spotlight and pose as Adam for me in this recreation of his Essential Album... she did all the make-up and we both fiddled about with the hair, but in the end I think she did a great job of looking like him!
I had far too much fun this week...