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The Rio de la Crea, (in English Chalk Canal), in Cannaregio one of the six sestieri of Venice in Veneto, Italy.
It gained its name as the site previously held deposits of raw clay used for the production of bricks. The full route of the canal was blocked in 1861 during the construction of Venezia Santa Lucia railway station
It is approximately 580 meters long. The modern canal starts from Canale Colambola, the canal splits with two separate parts both turning 90 degrees towards the Cannaregio Canal.
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1911 Baker Electric Special Extension Coupe, Model V
In the first decades of the 20th century, electric vehicles seemed poised for primacy. Early internal-combustion engines were rudimentary, dangerous, and difficult to operate, requiring all sorts of pump priming and starter torqueing. Those tasks were uncouth for the wealthy gentlemen who were the automobile’s first customers and downright risky for the era’s women, clothed in voluminous, billowing Edwardian dresses and patriarchal notions of competence. Electric cars, on the other hand, were extremely simple to use. So long as the heavy batteries were maintained and charged, all one had to do was click the on switch, twist the go lever, and roll.
Having founded the American Ball Bearing Company in 1895, Midwestern engineer Walter C. Baker understood the basics of carriage production. This background gave him faith that he could make the leap into car building. Teaming up with his father-in-law and brother-in-law, he started the Baker Motor Vehicle Company in Cleveland in 1899. Seeing the aforementioned advantages inherent in electric vehicles, Baker decided to place his faith in this powertrain.
“Number one, it’s comfortable, and it’s not terribly difficult to drive,” said Stew Somerville, a volunteer mechanic at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome museum in upstate New York, which holds a 1911 Baker in its eclectic collection. “But part of the attraction of the electric automobile was the fact that it did not emit gasoline fumes, you didn’t have to crank-start the engine, there was no big wheel to wrestle with. It was a very smooth-handling automobile. You didn’t even have a loud, offensive horn. There’s a dainty little bell to warn of its coming.” Period ads were frequently, although not exclusively, pitched directly at women.
Baker’s first car to market was a two-seater, the Imperial Runabout. Priced at a competitive $850, it was first shown in New York at the city’s (and nation’s) first auto show. It attracted a number of notable buyers, including Thomas Edison, who purchased one as his very first car. (Edison designed the long-lived nickel-iron batteries used in some Baker vehicles.) By 1906, Baker was, briefly, the world’s top producer of electric vehicles.
But like many of his cohort in the emergent automotive industry, Baker wasn’t just in it for the business. He was in it for the speed. As his company was enjoying success in the consumer market, he was pursuing his dream by developing a series of advanced, record-setting racing cars. His first, the Torpedo, was built in 1902, at great personal expense to Baker. With its 11 batteries, 14-hp mid-mounted motor, outrageously low-slung 48-inch height, streamlined and lightweight white-pine and oilcloth body, and bizarre webbed canvas seat restraints, it seemed poised to set a world land speed record.
Sadly, in that year’s Automobile Club of America speed trials on Staten Island, the car was involved in a disastrous crash. After crossing the 1-kilometer (0.6 mile) mark in just over 30 seconds, Baker and his co-driver lost control and crashed into a group of spectators. One person died at the scene, and another died later from injuries. The drivers were both arrested and charged with manslaughter but were freed when it was determined that the crowd had pushed past protective barriers and onto the course. (Baker’s innovative safety harness likely protected the car’s occupants from serious injury.)
Further attempts with two smaller, single-seater race cars he named Torpedo Kid were also employed in pursuit of the land speed record but were subsequently abandoned following another, nonlethal spectator crash in 1903. Baker has often been noted as the first person to cross the 100-mph barrier, although his records weren’t official due to these wrecks.
Given this peril, Baker decided to forgo his quest for top speed. As gasoline-powered vehicles increased in popularity and gained infrastructural support, he shifted his attention instead to diminishing the electric car’s liabilities, particularly their limited range. He worked diligently on new battery designs, shaft drives, and other componentry. In 1910, Baker’s new chief engineer, Emil Gruenfeldt, set a record for distance driven on a single charge, taking a Baker Victoria for a 201-mile trip at an average speed of 12 mph. Not exactly Ludicrous speed, but an impressive feat nonetheless.
Baker’s successes gave the company prominence among the elite, and the company capitalized on this publicly. In advertisements around 1909, the brand boldly boasted about the King of Siam owning a Baker. The company made a similar splash in American politics when President William H. Taft’s administration purchased a 1909 model as one of the White House’s first automobiles. (A steam-powered White and two gasoline-powered Pierce-Arrows were also included, Taft hedging his bets on how the battle of the powertrains was going to play out.) Taft later added a 1912 Baker Victoria that went on to be driven by five First Ladies. The Baker brand maintains some celebrity allure today, with car-collecting comedian Jay Leno holding a 1909 model in his expansive collection.
As a means of offsetting some of the powertrain’s inherent shortcomings, Baker made investments in battery-charging infrastructure. The brand announced plans to open stations at every major intersection in Cleveland and to grow the network from there, although this effort became cost prohibitive and never came to fruition. Expansion into the production of electric trucks, police patrol wagons, and even trucks and bomb handlers for the U.S. Army during World War I was not enough to fend off the rising dominance of the internal-combustion engine, especially after the proliferation of the electric starter, first available on the 1912 Cadillac, significantly increased safety and convenience. By 1915, the Baker company was defunct.
By Brett Berk, Car and Driver
We see where our situation allows us, reality is not unique. Sometimes you have to rise to gain perspective and other times you have to immerse yourself to appreciate the details, reality has many layers.
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Vemos hasta donde nuestra situación nos permite, la realidad no es única. A veces hay que elevarse para ganar perspectiva y otras veces hay que sumergirse para apreciar los detalles, la realidad tiene muchas capas.
These 5 pictures from Monday and Tuesday nights, Sadr region, IC1396, Heart & Soul Nebulas, M8 & M20 and Veil complex...
WO SkyCat 51 Zwo 071MC Pro cooled color camera
Optolong eNhanced filter
#SharpCap Pro
Ioptron i45 Pro EQ mount PHD2 guiding
Orion 60mm guidescope SSAG
200 Gain offset 20 0c cooling all pictures 1 minute exposure
50 darks 50 flats and 50 bias frames
Astro Pixel Processor and PS
We visited Half Moon Island in the South Shetland Islands, which is a huge chinstrap penguin nesting site. Penguins rule here; we had to walk on the sharp, jagged rocks rather than the smooth "penguin highway" nearby.
This little fella is a molting chick who will soon go to sea and fend for himself. The chicks stay in the nest for 20–30 days before they go to join other chicks in a crèche. Around 50–60 days old, they moult, gaining their adult feathers and go to sea.
My 365-2023: #30 of 365
talented performance gains interest in recycling and conservation by all visitors passing through the Midway at the Texas State Fair.
BR Coal Sector 'Grid' 56121 waits time in the loop at Ellesmere Port before gaining access to the Manisty Wharf branch with a train of Cawoods containerised coal for export to Ireland.
In the background Stanlow Shell and its associated industries all connected by Oil Sites Road.
* Cawoods owned at one time 172 4-wheel PFA wagons all made at Standard Wagon Heywood. Later some were sold to British Fuels and repainted in a red livery.
M33, the Triangulum Galaxys one of the closest large galaxies to Earth. It’s located in the constellation Triangulum at a distance of about 2.5 million light years and has a diameter of around 60,000 light years. My first RGB image, taken in a Bortle 4 area; Borrego Springs, California, while attending a star party there about a week ago.
OTA: Esprit 120mm 840 focal length f 7.0
Camera: QHY268M
Gain: 56
Filters: Optolong LRGB,
Cooling Temperature: --15 Celsius
Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R with QHY Polemaster alignment
Autofocus: Sesto Senso 2
Guide scope: Orion 60mm focal length 240mm f/4
Auto-guiding: ZWO ASI290MM Mini
Control: Primaluce Eagle 4S
Calibrated PixInsight
Processed in Pixinsight and Lightroom
Borrego Springs - Bortle 4 skies
R 48 x 5min
G 39 x 5min
B 43 x 5min
L 55 x 5min
Ha 4 hrs
about 19 hour integration
Beekbergerwoud
The Netherlands has 20 national parks and hundreds of other nature reserves. Most are owned by Staatsbosbeheer and Natuurmonumenten and include lakes, heathland, woods, dunes and other habitats.
According to the World Wide Fund for Nature, the territory of the Netherlands belongs to the Eco region of Atlantic mixed forests.
In 1871 the last old original natural woods (Beekbergerwoud) were cut down, and most woods today are planted monocultures of trees like Scots Pine and trees that are not native to the Netherlands. These woods were planted on anthropogenic heaths and sand-drifts (overgrazed heaths) (Veluwe).
For a long time the Beekbergerwoud has been known as the last `primaeval` woodland of the Netherlands.
Natuurmonumenten started in 2006 with the restoration of the area and tries to gain back a little of the fairytale wilderness.
Nutrient-poor and crystal clear water wells up at some places and there are still rare plants from the former swamp present. Seeds of native trees and plants are still in the ground and can sprout again.
Sources:
- a few poor translated lines from www.natuurmonumenten.nl/beekbergerwoud
- www.pieterwielick.com/info-the-netherlands.html
Beekbergerwoud
10 juni 2013, natuur in wording. Even ten zuiden van Apeldoorn ligt het Beekbergerwoud. Ooit het laatste oerbos van Nederland, ontwikkelt dit vroegere agrarische gebied zich al weer aardig tot een gevarieerd natuurgebied waar je heerlijk kunt wandelen. Zo’n 8.000 jaar bleef het Beekbergerwoud ongeschonden. Totdat in 1871 tot de laatste boom werd geveld. Er kwam een agrarisch gebied met weilanden en akkers. Natuurmonumenten is in 2006 begonnen met herstel van het gebied en probeert daarbij iets van de sprookjesachtige wildernis terug te brengen. Je kunt in het Beekbergerwoud wandelen vanaf de parkeerplaats aan de Woudweg in Klarenbeek. Helder water Een bijzonder natuurgebied om te beleven, want de omstandigheden voor unieke natuur zijn nog altijd aanwezig: Er welt op een aantal plaatsen kraakhelder, voedselarm water uit de bodem op. En zijn nog steeds zeldzame planten uit het voormalige moerasbos aanwezig. Zaden van oorspronkelijke bomen en planten zaten nog in de grond en kunnen weer ontkiemen. Verbinding met IJsseldelta Het herstel houdt in dat het schone welwater beter in het gebied blijft staan. Op een aantal bulten zijn al zoete kers, zomereik, haagbeuk en winterlinde geplant. Meer werkzaamheden zullen volgen, met als doel dat het Beekbergerwoud een aanwinst is voor de Nederlandse natuur. Een onmisbare schakel die de Veluwe als vanouds met de IJsseldelta verbindt. Zodat planten, zoogdieren, vogels, reptielen en amfibieën zich beter over grote afstand kunnen verplaatsen.
Stella snuck into the tree room and started celebrating before the rest of us. 😂 she figured out which bag held her treats but only took out her new chew toy. She sat guilty next to her ill gotten gains happily wagging her tail! 🎄😄
Final Show - Burlesque Special Event featuring Hedy Patrucci singing live from The Netherlands
along with the Burlesque dancers
Sunday 13th September 2020
Both shows @ 12pm
Arrive 15 mins early as it get's crowded here!
Check out Lord's photo's of the first event
www.flickr.com/photos/lordvoxel/
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This fantastic review has just come in!
the.teleporter.sl-lifestyle.eu/2020/09/06/burlesque-speci...
or Read their wonderful review here:
"So this was it finally, the first part of the Hedy Patrucci’s Burlesque Show, long awaited and blanketed like the final training before a cup final. Hedy had invited her premiere guests to the Lyrics Ballroom, and the place was totally draped in matching decorations. After the big success she gained last year with her 2019 show, expectations were high for her this year’s show. And Hedy and her team delivered! – The costumes were glamorous, the dance acts fabulous and the different sets where creative and well chosen.
It was an extremely captivating show and best entertainment in SL. Though SL had its hick ups this evening for many, it couldn’t really harm the shining success of the evening. The enthusiastic applause at the end of the show was very well deserved.
Congratulations to Hedy and her team!"
Listen to Hedy here:
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This is the final performance SUNDAY 13 SEPTEMBER @ 12PM SLT, full production of professional dancers in Second Life with Hedy Patrucci singing live from The Netherlands
Hedy's performance at the opening night was nothing more than sensational!
She was truly sizzling on stage - and is truly an entertainer in every sense of the word.
Those that attended loved it and she had the audience captivated and dying of laughter with her seductive version of Dr Long John -
All the ladies are booked to see Dr Long John after hearing Hedy sing this song in her unique and brilliant way!
Every song she sang was a masterpiece - combine that with her humor - her tease - really this last performance of Burlesque should not be missed!
Last but not least, the Burlesque Dancers were absolutely sensational and our choreographer Faith Fromund is fantastic!
So blessed and proud to have these incredibly talented and professional artists in my life! Thank you each and everyone of you
A Special mention to Chandra @ !dM DeviousMind - the headdress and feathers come from this store, the creator Chandra is just wonderful and played a huge role in the wardrobe with her stunning costumes.
Lucky door prizes to be won!
Dress it up in Burlesque or wear cocktail or formal.
I have created a "memento gift box" of this special event.
They can be found on the tables in front of the bar, also dining tables are located along the runway for front row view - you will find the gift on these tables, also on the posters either side of the stage.
Come along, bring your friends to the best event in Second Life!
After a string of 4 clear nights in late March, it's been a long time since we have had a stretch of clear moonless nights. So no astrophotography for me…
In the meantime, I had upgraded one of my astro cameras to a new camera known as the ZWO ASI2600MM-Pro. This is a mono camera based on a new generation of larger APS-C size sensors. It offers much higher resolution, a full 16-bits of dynamic range, outstanding noise characteristics, and a much deeper well capacity (which means I can overexpose bright areas of the image - stars - much more before I saturate the sensor). This was also a bigger and heavier camera and I needed to rework my rig to balance things out. I have been eager to test this out.
Recently I had that chance. Choosing Messier 63 - the Sunflower Galaxy as my target I took over 15 hours of exposures through Luminesce, Red, Green, Blue and Hydrogen-Alpha filters over the nights of May 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th. I thought I had clear nights but it turns out that thin clouds passed through on EVERY night - enough cloud to mess-up my exposures but not enough to shut things down. I inspected every single frame and I ended up throwing out 5 HOURS of data due to "Cloud Pollution". I got to tell you - that HURTS.
So about our Target…
I have captured M63 before and I wanted to see what difference I could make with a new camera and a bit more experience under my belt. I am very pleased with the result of my first effort with this camera. Good detail, excellent color.
Located 29.3 Million Light Years away, this is what Wikipedia has to say about M63:
Messier 63 or M63, also known as NGC 5055 or the seldom-used Sunflower Galaxy,[6] is a spiral galaxy in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici with approximately 400 billion stars.[7] M63 was first discovered by the French astronomer Pierre Méchain, then later verified by his colleague Charles Messier on June 14, 1779.[6] The galaxy became listed as object 63 in the Messier Catalogue. In the mid-19th century, Anglo-Irish astronomer Lord Rosse identified spiral structures within the galaxy, making this one of the first galaxies in which such structure was identified.[8]
The shape or morphology of this galaxy has a classification of SAbc,[5] indicating a spiral form with no central bar feature (SA) and moderate to loosely wound arms (bc). There is a general lack of large-scale continuous spiral structure in visible light, so it is considered a flocculent galaxy. However, when observed in the near infrared, a symmetric, two-arm structure is seen. Each arm wraps 150° around the galaxy and extends out to 13,000 light-years (4,000 parsecs) from the nucleus.[9]
M63 is a weakly active galaxy with a LINER nucleus – short for 'low-ionization nuclear emission-line region'. This displays as an unresolved source at the galactic nucleus that is cloaked in a diffuse emission. The latter is extended along a position angle of 110° relative to the north celestial pole, and both soft X-rays and hydrogen (H-alpha) emission can be observed coming from along nearly the same direction.[10] The existence of a super massive black hole (SMBH) at the nucleus is uncertain; if it does exist, then the mass is estimated as (8.5±1.9)×108 M☉,[11] or around 850 million times the mass of the Sun.
Here is the detail around this image:
*Number of frames is after bad or questionable frames were culled.
71 x 90 seconds, bin 1x1 @ -15C, unity gain, ZWO Gen II L Filter
81 x 90 seconds, bin 1x1 @ -15C, 0 gain, ZWO Gen II R Filter
67 x 90 seconds, bin 1x1 @ -15C, unity gain, ZWO Gen II G Filter
79 x 90 seconds, bin 1x1 @ -15C, unity gain, ZWO Gen II B Filter
27 x 300 seconds, bin 1x1 @ -15C, unity gain, Astronomiks 6nm Ha Filter
Total of 9.7 hours
25 Darks at 300 seconds, bin 1x1, -15C, gain 0
50 Darks at 90 seconds, bin 1x1, -15C, gain 0
30 Dark Flats at Flat exposure times, bin 1x1, -15C, gain 0
30 R Flats
30 G Flats
30 B Flats
30 L Flats
30 Ha Flats
Capture Hardware:
Scope: Astrophysics 130mm Starfire F/8.35 APO refractor
Guide Scope: Televue 76mm Doublet
Camera: ZWO AS2600mm-pro with ZWO 7x36 Filter wheel with ZWO LRGB filter set,
and Astronomiks 6nm Narrowband filter set
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI290Mini
Focus Motor: Pegasus Astro Focus Cube 2
Camera Rotator: Pegasus Astro Falcon
Mount: Ioptron CEM60
Polar Alignment: Polemaster camera
Software:
Capture Software: PHD2 Guider, Sequence Generator Pro controller
Image Processing: Pixinsight, Photoshop - assisted by Coffee, extensive processing indecision and second guessing, editor regret and much swearing…..
Baie de la Somme vers le Hourdel.
Handheld from a dancing Zodiac. 600mm equivalent.
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DEAR FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES; THANK YOU FOR VIEWING, FAVING AND COMMENTING MY DIGITAL OBSERVATIONS.
Route 2 climbs from the Columbia river Valley to the top of Stevens Pass, at over 4,000 ft. We are now heading west toward the coast, and crossing the Cascade Range, getting close to the pass.
These passes are a big deal in Washington. There are only four, with highways going east-west, between the Canadian Border and the Columbia. It's exciting to go over one, with a long haul up on a winding road, and a long glide down on the other side.
Some franchised businesses can be sold for a gain to someone who the franchisor has approved. Yeah! Franchisors can be helpful in finding business buyers, especially since they are the only gateway in which a business buyer can be approved.
Some franchising firms do not allow you to sell the business.
Some franchises are sold for mere pennies on your invested dollar to a new franchisee approved by the franchisor, which receives franchise license fees again from the new buyer. Sigh. An unprofitable unit to a franchisee can be profitable for the franchisor, which can have it sold and receive buying fees from a new buyer–yet again for each time the outlet is bought. The troubled outlet remains and looks rock solid to consumers on the outside but internally the franchisee ownership changes again and again. Consumers sometimes might see a sign in between new business owners of the franchised outlet that says, "new management" as if the new business owners were new employees (managers).
Other franchises are shuttered at a complete loss.
We will miss you Leonard.
Alexandra Leaving
Suddenly the night has grown colder.
The God of love preparing to depart.
Alexandra hoisted on his shoulder,
They slip between the sentries of the heart.
Upheld by the simplicities of pleasure,
They gain the light, they formlessly entwine;
And radiant beyond your widest measure
They fall among the voices and the wine.
It's not a trick, your senses all deceiving,
A fitful dream, the morning will exhaust Ёc
Say goodbye to alexandra leaving.
Then say goodbye to alexandra lost.
Even though she sleeps upon your satin;
Even though she wakes you with a kiss.
Do not say the moment was imagined;
Do not stoop to strategies like this.
As someone long prepared for this to happen,
Go firmly to the window. Drink it in.
Exquisite music. Alexandra laughing.
Your firm commitments tangible again.
And you who had the honor of her evening,
And by the honor had your own restored Ёc
Say goodbye to alexandra leaving;
Alexandra leaving with her lord.
Even though she sleeps upon your satin;
Even though she wakes you with a kiss.
Do not say the moment was imagined;
Do not stoop to strategies like this.
As someone long prepared for the occasion;
In full command of every plan you wrecked Ёc
Do not choose a coward's explanation
That hides behind the cause and the effect.
And you who were bewildered by a meaning;
Whose code was broken, crucifix uncrossed Ёc
Say goodbye to alexandra leaving.
Then say goodbye to alexandra lost.
Say goodbye to alexandra leaving.
Then say goodbye to alexandra lost.
CN 5246. a warn and faded SD40-2W, leads CN L514 south with intermodal in tow for Moterm in Ferndale, Michigan on the Holly Subdivision.
The Rosette Nebula is an H II region located in the constellation of Monoceros. The nebula is associated with the star cluster NGC 2244. It lies around 5,200 light years distant.
HEQ5 PRO
WO71GT with adjustable corrector/reducer
QHY183C Gain 16 -20C
26 subs totalling 140mins
Processed using Pixinsight and Photoshop 6.
Ards Forest Park, Creeslough, Sheephaven Bay, County Donegal, Ireland
Sheltered on the tip of Ards Forest Park between 2 headlands in the shadow of the majestic Muckish mountain can be found this little hidden sandy cove, locally known as ‘The Lucky Shell Beach’. It has gained its name due to the variety and abundance of beautiful seashells that can be found scattered around there. Whilst here you can find your own lucky charm. Simply take a small shell that catches your eye and keep it on you to gain good luck!
What I find so attractive about this cove is how it is actually a forest that rolls onto a beach unlike other beaches which have very few trees growing nearby. Could you imagine what it would have been like for early settlers who travelled through this dense forest to be greeted at the end of their adventure by one of the most stunning looking beaches in Ireland 💚
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This tiny frost 'butterfly' is growing, yesterday it was but a quarter inch, now it has 'spread it's wings' a bit, and gained size, almost doubled.
Of particular interest to me are the formations across the bottom, too small to see with the naked unaided eye, but springing to 'life' like tiny cotyledons from a bursting seed.
The platforms of Ramsbottom Station are fleeced with a fresh covering of snow.
Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway territory with ‘A Class’ 52332 standing in the station with a mixed goods train, having gained permission from the Bobby to draw forward and take on water...