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Our Daily Challenge 21-27 January : Fractions
I always cut these into 8 and ration myself to one bit each day
A fraction of the ruined West Pier silhouetted against the sunset sky with a trailing edge of starling murmuration flying by.
I made another fraction quilt! See it and get the pattern in Rachel May's new book Quilting with a Modern Slant.
Queen size.
Designed inspired by Cheryl Arkison. See my first fraction quilt here: www.flickr.com/photos/rossiebug/sets/72157622119666246/ (it's also in the book!)
A change in the rates of postage, effective on July 1, 1931, to 3 cents for the 1st ounce or fraction of an ounce, on letters for Canada, the British Empire, the United States, and certain other countries - 13 cents covered both postage and registration on letters weighing not more than 1 ounce.
From April 1, 1943 - a 1 cent War Tax was added to the first weight step preferred letter rate. The preferred letter rate was 4 cents for the first ounce and 2 cents for each additional ounce. 4 cents letter rate + 10 cents registration fee = 14 cents
HALFMOON BAY, B.C. to Vancouver, B.C / - 20 September 1936
3 cents forward letter + 10 cents registration fee = 13 cents.
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The HALFMOON BAY area was originally occupied by the shishalh Nation who have lived and thrived in this region since time immemorial. Settlers Charles & Clara Priestland arrived in Vancouver in 1889 and were married in Vancouver on October 10, 1889. In 1892, Clara Priestland left her husband and headed alone for Halfmoon Bay which was to be her home for more than 40 years. She built a log house on the site and became postmistress, a position she held for many years. In her early days at the Bay, the Post Office was known as Welcome Pass. The Bay was surveyed in 1910 and the name "Half Moon Bay" first appeared on a Admiralty Chart published in 1912. The spelling was changed during the next few years and the post office name was officially changed in January 1915 to the HALFMOON BAY Post Office. There was no wharf in HALFMOON BAY in those days and the postmistress' duties involved rowing out to Welcome Pass in all weather to meet the coastal steamers which carried the mail. With the post office went a single line government telegraph, with each station having a set time each day to relay and receive its messages.
- from 1908 "Lovell's Gazetteer of the Dominion of Canada" - WELCOME PASS (PRIESTLAND), a small post settlement at the foot of Half Moon Bay, Strait of Georgia, in Burrard District, B.C. 40 miles from Vancouver, on the C.P.R. The region is well wooded, and there is good fishing and hunting in the vicinity. Sechelt lies 10 miles to the east, and Nanaimo is 16 miles distant across the Strait or Gulf. The post office and general supply store is one. The population in 1918 was 18.
(from - Wrigley's 1918 British Columbia Directory) - HALFMOON BAY - a post office, summer resort, and logging district, located on Half Moon Bay, Gulf of Georgia, in North Vancouver Provincial Electoral District, reached by Union S. S. Co's boats from Vancouver, distant 40 miles. Has telegraph office, and population of 100 in 1918. Local resources: Logging and summer resort.
Welcome Pass Post Office opened - 1 January 1894; closed - 30 November 1898; the Post Office re-opened - 1 July 1904. Re-named HALFMOON BAY Post Office - 1 January 1915 and closed - 21 November 1989. The HALFMOON BAY (RPO) opened - 11 January 1990 and closed - 19 April 1990.
LINK to a list of the postmasters who served at the HALFMOON BAY Post Office - recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record...
- sent from - / HALFMOON BAY / SP 20 / 36 / B.C / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer (A1-2) was proofed - 9 October 1926 - (RF C) - the first split ring hammer (A1-1) was proofed - 6 January 1915.
- sent by registered mail - / R / HALFMOON BAY, B.C. / ORIGINAL NO. / (4579) / - registered boxed marking in greyish ink
- arrived at - / VANCOUVER / SP 20 / 36 / B.C. / - cds arrival backstamp
- registered letter sent by - Tom Wall / Half Moon Bay / B.C.
Thomas "Tom" Lane Wall
(b. 21 February 1884 in Nottinghamshire, England - d. 6 April 1940 at age 56 in Half Moon Bay, B.C.) - occupations - rancher, road foreman and school trustee - LINK - to his newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun-obituary-for...
Civic Leader Dies At Half Moon Bay - HALF MOON BAY, April 9, 1940 - Tom Wall, old-time resident here, passed away at the age of 56. He had been active in local community life since he came here in 1917. He was school trustee and road foreman for a number of years. Coming to British Columbia from Nottingham, England, before the last war, he lived in Prince Rupert for some time prior to moving here. Mr. Wall is survived by his wife, one daughter, Pat, and a sister in England. LINK - www.newspapers.com/article/the-province-obituary-for-thom...
His wife - Sarah Ann (nee Tasker) Wall
(b. 8 November 1881 in London, England - d. 22 October 1977 at age 95 in Sechelt, British Columbia / Halfmoon Bay, British Columbia) - they were married - 19 April 1912 in Vancouver, British Columbia) - LINK to her death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/2e... - LINK to her newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/article/the-province-obituary-for-sara...
Addressed to - Pacific Coast Pipe Company Ltd / 1551 Granville Street / Vancouver, B.C. - LINK - static.wikia.nocookie.net/mycompanies/images/e/ea/Pacific...
Because I had a rounding fraction in my tier, I picked up a small spot on a river next to a Philosophy club. There's just enough prims here to rez a small sailboat and go. Or you can take off on the river airboat I've set out - if you drive off with it, another copy will rezz in a minute, so enjoy.
Visit this location at Pussycat On The River in Second Life
Made this for a new blog entry:
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Only a fraction of humpback whales use this remarkable social tool for rounding up herring. The whales specialize: one circles below the prey blowing a net of bubbles; another issues a terrifying scream which drives the prey together; then the group of whales lunge to the surface simultaneously with their mouths open. And these are not family groups; just folks who have decided to hunt together. And they learn it from other whales; no young are observed in this behavior. Observers said they observed the behavior at this spot, but this photo seems not to capture the moment when they all lunge together.
The sun - 93 million miles away so it takes light traveling at 183,000 miles per second 8 minutes to reach earth. But with light comes life.
The total power output of the sun is 64 x 10 times 6.09 x 1018 m2, which is equal to 3.9 x 1026 watts of energy released from the Sun every second.
As a comparison, a large electric power plant produces about 1 billion (1 x 109) watts of power. It would take 44 million such power plants to equal the energy coming from the Sun.
The Sun's energy is radiated outwards in all directions. The Earth receives only a small fraction of this energy.
A major advantage to using solar energy is that it is a renewable resource. We will have a steady, limitless supply of sunlight for another five billion years.
Solar radiation, often called the solar resource or just sunlight, is a general term for the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the sun.
Solar radiation can be captured and turned into useful forms of energy, such as heat and electricity, using a variety of technologies.
In one hour, Earth's atmosphere receives enough sunlight to power the electricity needs of every human being on Earth for a year. Solar energy is clean.
A smaller portion of sunlight is made up of ultraviolet radiation, which is also invisible to our eyes.
Most of the Sun's energy reaching Earth includes visible light and infrared radiation but some is in the form of plasma and solar wind particles.
Without the Sun's heat and light, the Earth would be a lifeless ball of ice-coated rock.
The Sun warms our seas, stirs our atmosphere, generates our weather patterns, and gives energy to the growing green plants that provide the food and oxygen for life on Earth.
Yet all life on Earth as we know it would cease to exist without the ozone layer. This protective layer keeps the full power of the sun's UV radiation from reaching the surface of the Earth.
Stratospheric ozone is formed naturally through the interaction of solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation with molecular oxygen (O2).
The ozone layer, approximately 6 through 30 miles above the Earth's surface, reduces the amount of harmful UV radiation reaching the Earth's surface.
Happy sunrise!
Original Photo
Alhambra California
2023
'Standing On The Square' is a beautiful retrospective on a small fraction of the work of esteemed Brother and Photographer Jamel Shabazz. Curated by Sister Myrah Brown-Green.
Go see it at 558 St.Johns Ave, in the Great Republic of Brooklyn. It is a must see exhibition!
This is just a lil' taste ;-)
I saw this little half-Prime truck running around Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood, and I couldn't figure out how this happened. The big trucks are all marked Prime. That means they're supposed to be indivisible.
Fractions
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity! Paul Gauguin
My fraction of time at Salemas beach, hope you like it!
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spots in Madeira Island. Contact me for details.
Canon 5D Mark II + Canon 16-35
F14, ISO 100 and 3,2" exposure
With Nisi Soft Nano GN4
With FLM Tripod CP30-L3 Pro + FLM Tripod Head CB-43FTR
@ Praia das Salemas, Porto Santo, Madeira, Portugal
Duarte Sol Photography
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iGcCWysGK0
'There's a fraction too much friction
There's a fraction too much friction
Holding on the bygone era
Everybody shout cos we're getting nearer
There's a fraction too much friction
What we need is some positive action
What we need is some positive thought'
Tim Finn
Well, a few fractions of the entire tape measure!
Flickr Lounge ~ Weekend Theme (Week 11) ~ Fraction ...
Stay Safe and Healthy Everyone!
Thanks to everyone who views this photo, adds a note, leaves a comment and of course BIG thanks to anyone who chooses to favourite my photo .... Thanks to you all!
Touchdown!
This one made me smile!
I was trying to catch birds in flight and I guess this just about qualifies. This female chaffinch flew out of the hedge and landed on this stick. For once it seems I not only judged the timing to perfection but also got the bird in focus!
Fractions: subtracting
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Here is a vertical crop of a frame taken a fraction of a second before this earlier post:
That image may just be my favorite overall of the trip just because of how it all came together with seconds to spare and the absolute perfect lighting and dramatic sky.
Here is the same caption info repeated for those that missed the earlier post.
The same light units shot before dawn earlier this same morning have run to Conneaut Docks, retrieved a train load of taconite, and are now headed south toward a date with the Union Railroad in North Bessemer. After a crew change at Kremis the south end turn crew has train U703 at the 35 MPH track speed passing beneath the intermediate signals at MP 55 on CN's Bessemer Sub. just north of the McCandless Rd. Crossing with IC SD70 1028 (blt. Jan 1999) and two sisters in charge. While we didn't get to shoot BLE orange here these classic EMDs that were among the last standard cab units ever built look pretty good!
The 139 mile long B&LE can trace its earliest history to the Shenango and Allegheny Railroad which began operation through Greenville in October 1869. Then in 1897 Andrew Carnegie established the Pittsburgh, Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Company tp carry iron ore from Conneaut, Ohio, on Lake Erie to Carnegie Steel Company plants in and around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Forming a link between his plants and the Great Lakes ore boats arriving in Conneaut from Minnesota's Missabe Iron Range, it was part of his plan to form a complete, vertically integrated steel company. The core of the PB&LE was formed by two small lines Carnegie absorbed: the Pittsburgh, Shenango & Lake Erie Railroad, and the Butler & Pittsburgh Railroad. The company was renamed the Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad in 1900.
Carnegie Steel had an exclusive 999 year lease of the B&LE. This lease passed to United States Steel when that company was formed by J.P. Morgan in 1901 by the merger of Carnegie with Federal Steel and National Steel. The Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad became part of Transtar, Inc., in 1988, and subsequently a part of Great Lakes Transportation, LLC, in 2001 which was sold to the CN in 2004. Despite being disconnected from and virtually unrelated to the rest of CN's network they have retained the B&LE ever since.
Near Slippery Rock
Mercer County, Pennsylvania
Tuesday August 18, 2020
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Domenico Modugno Lu pisci spada Teatro 10 1964
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Acitrezza, a coastal town in eastern Sicily, a fraction of Acicastello (a town so called due to the presence of a gloomy and imposing Norman Castle which rises above the sea); Acitrezza has the prefix "Aci", which we find in nine municipalities in the province of Catania, a prefix that originates from an ancient legend that speaks of a love story between the shepherd boy Aci and the beautiful Nereid named Galatea, a marine divinity , but it is also a story of jealousy, in fact Galatea was desired by the terrible god Polyphemus (Ovid, in the XIII book of the Metamorphoses); Acitrezza is above all known to most, for having been the socio-cultural background for the novel "I Malavoglia" by the great realist writer Giovanni Verga, and for the film " The earth shakes" by the great director Luchino Visconti, a film always inspired by the novel "I Malavoglia ”; speaking of Giovanni Verga, born in Catania, I would like to underline that he was not only a famous writer, exponent of the Verismo literary current, but he was also a passionate photographer, whose photographic production was certainly influenced by his friend and writer Luigi Capuana: in Verga's photographs (for many years I have owned the book "Verga photographer") we find a particular attention to portraits (simple people, such as relatives, acquaintances, peasants, waitresses), photographs of urban and rural realities of Sicily of his time (a diatribe concerns whether or not these photographs were important cues for fueling his literary narrative production), but not only Sicily, there are photographs of landscapes such as the lakes in Lombardy, Bormio, Switzerland, which Verga visited starting from Milan where he lived for a long time. This introductory note, to talk about the photographs I took in Acitrezza on June 24th of this year: the first photos I post (in the slideshow, as in the photostream, they will be the last to appear) there are portraits of some very nice members of the Lega Navale di Acitrezza who performed in a very particular and unique musical performance using the shells of clearly exotic molluscs, I then made photographs of the particular coast of the sea that bathes Acitrezza, devoid of beaches, with the characteristic faraglioni (islands of the Cyclops), for which bathers to immerse themselves in its clear waters, must adapt to the presence of the rocks, or take advantage of the concrete "slides" created for launching or hauling boats, or taking advantage of the characteristic wooden scaffolding which, like stilt houses, overlook the rocks, allowing you to park comfortably a short distance from the sea water; however what prompted me to go to Acitrezza was the particular scenic representation held on the occasion of the Feast of San Giovanni on 24 June, a farcical representation that dates back to 1750, and seems to originate as a propitiatory rite for to fish for swordfishfish, such farce-representation takes the name of "U pisci a mari" (the fish in the sea), almost superfluous to underline how fishing for coastal towns such as Acitrezza (therefore also fishing for large Mediterranean fish, such as tuna and swordfish) has represented and represents an important source of livelihood, fishing that above all in the past (now it has become a rarity, something survives in the Strait of Messina) was carried out with the use of a long rod equipped with a harpoon with mobile and articulated fins (so as to prevent the rod from being unsarpooned by leveraging it), with typical boats of two types, the "luntru", equipped with a tree in the center of the boat, about three meters high, from whose top you can see the swordfish (which in the period between April and September it approaches the Calabrian and Sicilian coast of the Strait of Messina, it can be seen while it sails torpidly or even sleeps on the surface), the other type of boat is the "feluca" whose "modern" version includes, in addition to a very high lookout mast, the presence of a very long walkway that allows you to reach the swordfish above, which has not yet alarmed itself by hearing the engine of the boat still far away. In this "pantomime", a Swordfish-Man is symbolically captured with a spear, bright red fake "stage blood" is immediately sprinkled on his body, the joy among the fishermen is great, at the tip of the pier with the umbrella in hand there is the "Rais" (the Chief of the crew who has the task of signaling the presence of the Man-Fish) who rejoices, (this type of fishing has very ancient origins), the musical band has taken its place on a barge, with its music, brightens up the whole scene despite the bloody aspect that characterizes the scene, some photographs if not commented (and seen individually) could create a bit of bewilderment, looking at the smiling faces of the spectators one realizes that we are faced with a farce-representation, the Man-Fish, albeit "wounded", manages to squirm and regain his freedom by throwing himself into the water, the fishermen are in the throes of anger and despair, the Rais despairs, the capture and salvation for the Man-Fish takes place three times, after which the fishermen, now without prey and desperate, end their comedy by overturning the boat and thus ending up miserably in the water. The colors present in the feast of San Giovanni di Acitrezza are the colors red and yellow, colors that we find in the clothes of the fishermen, in the decorations and in the colors of the boat called San Giovanni, so even the devotees dress in red and yellow wearing the handkerchief or the yellow-red dress of St. John.
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Acitrezza, paese costiero della Sicilia orientale, frazione di Acicastello (paese così chiamato per la presenza di un tetro e imponente Castello Normanno che si erge sul mare); Acitrezza ha il prefisso “Aci”, che ritroviamo in nove comuni della provincia di Catania, prefisso che origina da un’antica leggenda che parla di una storia d’amore tra il pastorello Aci e la bellissima Nereide di nome Galatea, una una divinità marina, ma è anche una storia di gelosia, infatti Galatea era desiderata dal terribile dio Polifemo (Ovidio, nel XIII libro delle Metamorfosi); Acitrezza è soprattutto conosciuta ai più, per aver fatto da sfondo socio-culturale al romanzo “I Malavoglia” del grande scrittore verista Giovanni Verga, e al film “la terra trema” del grande regista Luchino Visconti, film ispirato sempre al romanzo “I Malavoglia”; a proposito di Giovanni Verga, nato a Catania, desidero sottolineare, che egli non fu solamente un famoso scrittore, esponente della corrente letteraria del Verismo, ma egli fu anche un appassionato fotografo, la cui produzione fotografica fu certamente influenzata dal suo amico e scrittore Luigi Capuana: nelle fotografia del Verga (da molti anni sono in possesso del libro ”Verga fotografo”) ritroviamo una particolare attenzione al ritratto (persone semplici, come parenti, conoscenti, contadini, cameriere), fotografie di realtà urbane e rurali della Sicilia del suo tempo (una diatriba riguarda se tali fotografie erano o meno importanti spunti per alimentare la sua produzione narrativa letteraria), ma non solo la Sicilia, ci sono fotografie di paesaggi come i laghi lombardi, di Bormio, della Svizzera, che Verga visitò partendo da Milano dove egli visse per molto tempo. Questa nota introduttiva, per parlare delle fotografie che ho realizzato ad Acitrezza il 24 giugno di quest’anno: le prime foto che posto (nello slideshow, come nel photostream, saranno le ultime ad apparire) ci sono i ritratti di alcuni simpaticissimi soci della Lega Navale di Acitrezza che si sono esibiti in una particolarissima ed unica performance musicale utilizzando le conchiglie di molluschi chiaramente esotici, ho poi realizzato fotografie della particolare costa del mare che bagna Acitrezza, priva di spiagge, coi caratteristici faraglioni (isole dei Ciclopi), per cui i bagnanti per immergersi nelle sue limpide acque, devono adattarsi alla presenza degli scogli, oppure approfittare di “scivole” in cemento create per la messa in acqua o l’alaggio delle barche, oppure usufruendo di caratteristiche impalcature in legno che, come palafitte, sovrastano le rocce, consentendo di stazionare comodamente a poca distanza dall’acqua del mare; però quello che mi ha spinto a recarmi ad Acitrezza è stata la particolare rappresentazione scenica che si tiene in occasione della Festa di San Giovanni il 24 giugno, rappresentazione farsesca che risale al 1750, e sembra originare come rito propiziatorio per la pesce al pescespada, tale rappresentazione-farsa prende il nome di “U pisci a mari” (il pesce nel mare), quasi superfluo sottolineare di come la pesca per paesi costieri come Acitrezza (quindi anche la pesca ai grandi pesci del Mediterraneo, come tonni e pescespada) ha rappresentato e rappresenta una importante fonte di sostentamento, pesca che soprattutto in passato (ora è diventata una rarità, qualcosa sopravvive nello stretto di Messina) veniva eseguita con l’utilizzo di una lunga asta dotata di un arpione ad alette mobili e snodabile (in modo da impedire che l’asta, facendo leva, potesse disarpionarsi), con barche tipiche di due tipi, il “luntru” , dotata di un albero nel centro della barca, alto circa tre metri, dalla cui sommità si avvista il pescespada (che nel periodo tra aprile e settembre si avvicina alla costa calabrese e siciliana dello stretto di Messina, lo si può avvistare mentre naviga torpidamente od addirittura riposa in superficie), l’altro tipo di barca è la “feluca” la cui versione “moderna” prevede oltre ad un’altissimo albero di avvistamento, la presenza di una lunghissima passerella che consente di giungere sopra il pescespada, il quale ancora non si è messo in allarme sentendo il motore della barca ancora distante. In questa “pantomima”, un Uomo-Pescespada viene catturato simbolicamente con una fiocina, del finto “sangue di scena” color rosso vivo viene subito cosparso sul suo corpo, la gioia tra i pescatori è grande, sulla punta del molo con l’ombrello in mano c’è il “Rais” (il Capo dell’equipaggio che ha il compito di segnalare la presenza dell’Uomo-Pesce) che esulta, (questo tipo di pesca ha origini antichissime), la banda musicale ha preso posto su di un barcone, con la sua musica rallegra tutta la scena nonostante l’aspetto comunque cruento che caratterizza la scena, qualche fotografia se non commentata (e vista singolarmente) potrebbe creare un po’ di sconcerto, guardando i visi sorridenti degli spettatori ci si rende conto che ci si trova davanti ad una rappresentazione-farsa, l’Uomo-Pesce seppur “ferito” riesce a dimenarsi ed a riguadagnare la libertà gettandosi in acqua, i pescatori sono in preda alla rabbia ed allo sconforto, il Rais si dispera, la cattura e la salvezza per l’Uomo-Pesce avviene tre volte, dopodiché i pescatori, oramai senza più preda e disperati terminano la loro commedia rovesciando la barca e finendo quindi miseramente in acqua. I colori presenti nella festa di San Giovanni di Acitrezza sono i colori rosso e giallo, colori che ritroviamo nei vestiti dei pescatori, negli addobbi e nei colori della barca detta di San Giovanni, così anche i devoti vestono di rosso e giallo indossando il fazzoletto od il vestito giallo-rosso di San Giovanni.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iGcCWysGK0
'There's a fraction too much friction
There's a fraction too much friction
Holding on the bygone era
Everybody shout cos we're getting nearer
There's a fraction too much friction
What we need is some positive action
What we need is some positive thought'
Tim Finn
Some what of an abstraction in a closeup. Again with shadows and light and subject and framing. All within a fraction of a second.
For the theme 'fractions' for the 100x group.
I know it's a bit of a cliche but it seemed right for the theme; edited and blue washed (first one of the year) in Snapseed.
Also slightly early February alphabet fun. A is for apple
The word carousel comes from the Italian word carosello (meaning "little war"). Carosello was a 12th-century game played by the Arabs and Turks, on horseback, using scented balls tossed from one to another. Anyone missing a catch was readily identified by the perfume they were doused with when the scented ball broke on impact.
Carosello was adopted by the French into an exhibition (now called carousel) of many types of horsemanship pageantry and competition, including spearing a ring suspended from a post or tree, while riding at full speed. A practice machine was created to help young knights prepare for this competition - a series of legless wooden horses attached to a rotating platform (driven by human-power or horse-power). When this practice machine proved to be as popular with women and children as it was with the young knights, the carousel was born.
The carousel gained even more popularity when steam power was harnessed to drive the platform around and around. Now the carousel wasn't limited to just the size and weight that could be managed by horse, mule, or man.
Though there were a few carousels operating in the US by the end of the Civil War, the real "golden age" of the carousel was from about 1880 to about 1930. During that time, there were many companies making carousels, including the Dentzel Company, Philadelphia Toboggan Company, M.C. Illions, Herschell-Spillman, Stein & Goldstein, Looff, and C.W. Parker, to name a few.
In addition to the master carvers whose companies bore their name (such as Dentzel and Illions), there were several other 'master' carvers who worked for various companies at different times (and some who even briefly had their own companies). Some of the most famous master carvers included Daniel Muller, Charles Carmel, John Zalar, and Salvatore Cerniglario.
Sadly, out of the many thousands of hand-carved carousels that were built during the 'golden age', only a small fraction have survived, less than 200.
NetJets EMB-505 Phenom 300 Reg: CS-PHA "Fraction 8 Alpha Quebec" on finals to Shannon from Farnborough.
He saw the gap before it existed.
There is a fraction of a second in youth rugby where everything slows. The noise fades, the sideline blurs, and the body answers a question the mind barely has time to ask. Left or right. Hold or pass. Go now.
This is that moment.
A young player carries the ball with both urgency and restraint, reading the shape of the field the way only instinct can. Hands reach for him. Grass tears beneath his boots. Behind him, the past. Ahead, only possibility. He does not look back.
These are the moments that build players long before they build athletes. Not the tries, but the choices. Not the applause, but the courage to commit to space that may close at any second. This is where confidence is born quietly, in motion, under pressure.
A change in the rates of postage, effective on July 1, 1931, to 3 cents for the 1st ounce or fraction of an ounce, on letters for Canada, the British Empire, the United States, and certain other countries - 13 cents covered both postage and registration on letters weighing not more than 1 ounce.
3 cents forward letter + 10 cents registration fee = 13 cents.
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KASLO is a small, picturesque mountain village located on the shores of beautiful Kootenay Lake, in the southwest corner of British Columbia known as the West Kootenay region. The largest community on the main (north-south) body of Kootenay Lake, Kaslo had a population of 1,026 as of 2011. Nestled between the Selkirk Mountain Range to the west and the Purcell Mountain Range to the east, perched on the shore of Kootenay Lake and the banks of the Kaslo River, Kaslo is picture postcard pretty from all angles. From humble beginnings as a sawmill site back in 1889, Kaslo’s growth exploded right along with the silver boom of the 19th century. Founded in 1893, Kaslo boasted a population of some 5000 people in its heyday, along with the support structures necessary to keep such a populace happy (mostly hotels and brothels, apparently). Although the silver boom was but a blip in the history of British Columbia, much remains of that era in the Kaslo of today. It was named after John Kasleau, Hudson's Bay Company trapper, who placer mined on the creek.
There seems to be several stories for the naming of Kaslo: - According to D.P. Kane, postmaster in 1905: "Kaslo was named by my brother and myself in the year 1890. Previous to this time my brother and myself staked a pre-emption and a purchase comprising a mile square or 640 acres more or less at the mouth of the river that flows into Kootenay lake at this point. The river was then and had been for many years before named Kaslo so we named the town after the river". ... - Also from D.P. Kane: "For a time when I was alone here I had an old Frenchman trapper staying with me in the cabin for awhile and he told me that years before when the Hudson Bay Company came in on this lake to get lead from the Blue Bell Mine for bullets, that there was a Frenchman with their party by the name of John Kaslo or Kasleau, who came up the lake to the head looking for placer gold and had named the river after his name." LINK - www.geni.com/people/David-Kane/6000000006884427548
The KASLO Post Office was opened - 1 August 1892.
LINK to a list of the Postmasters who served at the KASLO Post Office - recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record...
When this letter was posted at the KASLO Post Office - the Postmaster was David "Dave" Prosser Kane - he served as Postmaster from - 1 February 1905 until his death - 6 March 1937.
David "Dave" Prosser Kane
(b. 2 February 1871 in Paris, Ontario, Canada - d. 6 March 1937 at age 66 in Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, United States / buried in Kaslo, British Columbia)
Dave was reputedly the first person in the Canadian West to become interested in color photography, sending to France for his plates and experimenting in putting photographs on paper even before they appeared in the National Geographic magazine. He served as Kaslo Mayor for several terms; City Councilman for many years; School Board member; JP and juvenile court Judge. Had an insurance agency and served as Postmaster. Active Kaslo Board of Trade member since 1898 inception.
His wife - May Elizabeth (nee Millington) Kane
(b. 3 February 1878 in Dunedin, New Zealand - d. 3 July 1958 at age 80 in Calgary, Alberta) - she played the piano, after her three daughters learned violin and cello, she and her daughters would play for city dances and other festive occasions. They were married - 24 April 1895 in New Westminster, British Columbia.
- sent from - / * KASLO, * / APR 16 / 1934 / B.C. / - MOOD cancel in black ink - (RF B).
MOOD - It is a device which are known as "MOOD" (Money Order Office Datestamp / Device), which were first issued In Canada in 1927 and distinct looking round rubber CDS cancels of about 24 mm diameter (sometimes with ornaments). The definition of these cancels has come to include all circular rubber hammers under about 30mm diameter that were issued before 1973. MOOD cancels are usually seen in various colours, not often in black. MOODs were used concurrently during the period 1928 - 1945, with the majority seen in the 1930's. Almost all MOOD's have a comma after the town name, and this helps to differentiate them from other postmark styles. These devices were issued to post offices in order to date stamp money order and registration receipts as well as official mail. They were occasionally used for postmarking regular mail, but this use was not officially authorized.
- sent by registered mail - / R / KASLO, B.C. / ORIGINAL No. / (959) / - registered boxed marking in black ink
- via - / NELSON / AP 16 / 34 / B.C. / - cds transit backstamp
- arrived at - / LOS ANGELES (ARCADE ANNEX) CALIF, / APR / 19 / 1934 / REGISTERED / - double ring arrival backstamp in purple ink.
Addressed to - Wm. M. Bowen, / 746 Crocker St., / Los Angeles, / California
William Mortan Bowen
(b. 20 May 1865 in Indiana, USA - d. 6 April 1936 at age 70 in Los Angeles, California, USA) - occupation - religious tract producer.
His first wife - Lerna (nee Clifton) Bowen
(b. 1866 - d. ) - they were married - 2 October 1889 in Newport, Jackson County, Arkansas, United States
His second wife - Nellie Amanda (nee Thomas) Bowen
(b. 29 January 1871 in Fairmont Township, Martin, Minnesota, United States – d. 17 June 1957 at age 86 in Los Angeles County, California, USA) - they were married - 19 December 1916 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
His third wife - Ida May (nee McIntire) Bowen
(b. October 1869 in Montezuma, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States – d. 28 November 1932 at age 63 in Los Angeles, California, United States) - they were married - 15 October 1927 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
His fourth wife - Estelle Bell (nee Roe) Bowen
(b. 18 October 1877 in Midlothian, Ellis, Texas, United States - d. ) - they were married - 31 January 1936 in Santa Ana, Orange, California, United States.
His son - Roy Lafayette Bowen
(b. 5 February 1891 in Arkansas - d. 3 September 1962 at age 71 in Los Angeles, California, United States)
(8 April 1936) - BOWEN RITES TO BE TODAY - Tract Society Founder Forecast Own Death - Passes in Sleep - A strange premonition of death expressed by William M. Bowen, who had devoted more than half of his life to religious pursuits, was disclosed last night as relatives and friends prepared for his funeral services today. He died early Monday. Bowen, 70 years of age, was founder of the Free Tract Society in Los Angeles thirty-six years ago and for more than ten years had distributed approximately 20,000,000 tracts a year throughout the world, printed in eight languages. PREMONITION TOLD - His widow, Mrs. Estelle B. Bowen, whom he married last January, accompanied him to Honolulu on his first vacation trip a few weeks ago. Taken ill there, the widow said, Bowen told her he must return to Los Angeles and "put his house In order." Last week Bowen told his son, Roy L. Bowen, that if he had any questions to ask, he should ask them now. This will be my last issue of The Messenger," the elder Bowen said. "I am tired and my work is done." DIES IN SLEEP Quietly, in his sleep. Bowen died of a heart attack just as his last issue of The Messenger was being distributed In the mails. LINK - www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-obituary...
After Decades on York, This Printer of Religious Tracts Is Shutting Down the Press - The Society once printed more than 650 different tracts in 20 languages. They were mass communications before radio or film. During the Great Depression they churned out 20 million pieces a year. William M. Bowen, who started printing tracts for soldiers and sailors during the Spanish American War, founded the organization in 1897 in Salt Lake City. He moved to Los Angeles three years later and built a shop on San Pedro Street downtown. In 1917, he moved to 746 Crocker Street where he died in 1936. His son Roy moved the operation to Eagle Rock, where it lasted until 1962. Brother Ernest Soady took over and moved to MacArthur Park, where he stayed for a little over two decades before relocating to a spacious former upholstery shop on York Boulevard in Highland Park. Link to the complete article - www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/free-tract-society-closing/
(SEPTEMBER 18. 1932) - PRINTER'S LIFE WORK "PREACHING BY PROXY" by Martha Louise Baker - Only a few blocks from the city's business center is an inconspicuous place of business, unique in Its organization, and standing out strangely in contrast with other shops in that locality. It is the printing plant of the Free Tract Society, at 746 Crocker Street, of which William M. Bowen is founder and manager. "Preaching by Proxy" aptly describes this business concern. Here about 20,000.000 pieces of religious literature such as tracts, booklets, mottoes, hymn books and Gospels are printed annually and distributed to the four corners of the globe. And the unique phase of the business that it ls carried on solely by prayer and faith, according to if. proprietor. - LINK to the complete article - www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-printers...
“But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own life, and see that they are really nothing. In that moment when time stops, it is as though you know you could undertake any venture, complete it and come back to yourself, to find the world unchanged, and everything just as you left it a moment before. And it's as though knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
DONE! I will probably take a small break but will continue to keep in touch of course! Love my Flickr family! I do have two amazing trips coming up real soon so I'm sure I will have lots of photos. Cheers! <3
"Slam"
The door shut behind Baker as he took in his, rather disappointing surroundings. Although he could only see the entrance hallway and a fraction of what he assumed was the living room of the dilapidated building, he had expected more from Christ.
His 'faith' was faltering.
"This is *Baker turned at looked at the face of...Jesus?*...the hell?"
"Is something wrong my child...you never told me your name."
Looking at the sweet, trusting face of Christ now Baker couldn't help but tell him his name. I mean, there's no way anyone could have a face that perfectly matches Jesus, right?
"Jacob Baker my lord, and it's well, well it's just that..."
"What is it my child," Christ said this in an oddly annoyed yet also anxious tone.
"For a second it looked as though it...it looked as though, wel-"
"What!" In his anger 'Christ's' face became oddly, not Christ-like.
"It looked as though there was a stain on your face. A velvet stain, a stain of...blood..."
"..."
"My lord?"
"Jacob, how do you feel when you see a nude woman? Or man depending on your disposition." *The man's face changed as he talked, it grew more, emotionless, and less kind."
"Well my lor- wait, what do you mean?" Baker noticed the changes in the man's appearence, he had started to grow uneasy.
"You know? A pretty girl with blonde hair? A woman in a bikini? Don't you feel lustful? We are animals you know...our primary urges are that of lust and...hunger...
"What the hell are you going on about? Who the hell are you!"
"Oh Jakey *the man's devilish grin and bloodshot eyes turned to that of a young women in her 20s or so. 'She' smiled sweetly at Baker and talked to him like a lovesick puppy* will you just pleaassse listen?"
"Y-yes. Wh-whatever you say..." Baker stared at the beautiful 'women' in lust and utter awe.
"So, when you see a beee-autiful women you feel lust right? For you the pleasures of flesh are sexual, riiiiight?" Her eyelids fluttered.
"Yaaaa, like how I look at you, heh." Baker acted drunk, or as though he had been shot by Cupid himself when looking at the absolutely jaw-dropping 'girl'.
"Well *'she' smiled sweetly and fluttered her eyelids again* do you know...how I feel?
"Howww?"
"Hungry..." The devilish grin of yellow teeth stained the bright scarlet color of blood returned. Along with the eyes of a predator. The eyes of a creature that had found a meal...
"What...what the hell! Get away from me *the creature grabbed Baker's shoulders and stared into his soul. While the creature was quite hideous, with scars and sharp teeth, his powers exaggerated these features, and other features, into the stuff of demon-spawn* get off of me!"
"I FEEL HUNGRY JAKEY! SO HUNGRY! WHEN I SEE BARE FLESH, I HAVE NOT SEXUAL DESIRES. NO, I ONLY HAVE HUNGGEEEER!
"Get awa-"
"A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, WITH GOLDEN HAIR AND CURVES, IS THE SAME TO ME AS A CHICKEN LEG, A DELICOUS PIECE OF MEAT THAT I'LL CHOP AND CARVE! THEN I'LL CHEW TO BITS AND SWALLOW! HA HA HA! SO DELICIOUSSSSS! THERE VEINS JUICY, THERE SKIN TENDER, THEIR HEART SUCCULENT WITH BLOOD!"
"Please...let me go..." Baker was no longer angry or surprised...he was terrified to the point of desperation.
"Heh *the creature's voice had grown quieter* That'a boy. Your fear seasons your skin with sweat, your eyes with salty tears, and you veins with adrenaline. Normally I'd pick on children you know, easier to scare...but alas...there tiny, little bodies never suffice. I still hunger. Now Jakey *the creature took out a knife and held it next to Baker's face as he licked his lips* time for proper introductions. I...am Cornelius Stirk, and I...am going to cut you to itty, bitty pieces. *Stirk laughed a horrible bone-chilling laugh. One that would make a hyena piss itself* So, let's get started, ha."
Stirk had played with his pray to long. He had forgotten to embellish his repulsive looks. Baker began to come to his senses. The only thing this man had was a knife, as far as he knew. And a metal knife wasn't going to end Baker's life. His powerless life. Baker still hadn't gotten his power.
"Let..go OF ME!" Baker struggle with Stirk and as Stirk tried to thrust the stainless steel knife at Baker's face, Baker shot out his arm to deflect the blow. But something much more interesting happened.
"Ha ha. Time for supper Ja-what? WHAT!"
For an odd reason, when Baker shot out his arm towards the knife, it had gone flying. Baker was mystified, then remembered his powers. Now free of Stirk's grasp he backed up against a wall, looking at his hands.
"No. NO! I WILL NOT BE DENIED A MEAL! *Stirk opened a cupboard quickly and pulled out a bright red fire axe* Come here...JAKEY!"
As Stirk approaches Baker, neither fear nor desperation went through Baker's mind. Only anger, and a thought. A thought that had the revelation that, if his powers really had worked...he could retaliate. Against the cops, other criminals, those who looked down on him, and many more. Then he looked at Stirk. Stirk had tried to kill, him, tried to eat him. Now...Stirk...would be a trial run of Baker's powers.
"Come here Jakey!"
Baker looked at Stirk. It was time to retaliate.
Black & white ink drawing by Jacob Sibbern
This video can be found in the same album at this link:
www.flickr.com/photos/vintage_events_italy/24116452018/in...
This shot includes only a fraction of the Snow Geese that formed this huge gaggle. I estimated the entire flock to comprise perhaps a thousand birds. Included in this gathering were both adult and juvenile birds. The group also included several of the "blue Goose" color morphs. The audio that accompanies scenes like this is equally incredible... constant chatter! The birds were unsettled because evening was closing and they had to assemble in groups and depart to their nighttime roosts. The comings and goings were constant. The near group in this shot contains both adult and juvenile Geese as well as at least one "Blue Goose" (the dark bird with the white head)..
IMG_0997; Snow Geese