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I love cities for their close proximity to culture, which represents, I think, the best part of humankind. Unfortunately for me, humans themselves are the worst part of humankind, thus my love-hate relationship with cities.
Given this ambivalence, you might undestand why I only "budgeted" two days in Rome during my trip to Italy this summer. Well, it wasn't enough. The city was amazing despite the crowds, despite the lines, and despite Roman's annoyance with tourism in general.
Somehow I thought 48 hours would be enough time to cross the city off my bucket list. Just writing that sentence makes me feel stupid.
I will be back, Rome.
5-shot vertical panorama, Fuji Xpro-1 and Rokinon 12mm f/2.
Christmas Eve on the sidewalk in the rain.
Looking For Random Acts of Kindness and receiving many...but probably not enough.
Humankind - be both.
The view from the East Princes Street Gardens during the recent wintry weather - with the sun so low in our northern skies this time of year, most of the tall, old stone buildings of the Old Town are already in deep shadow, save for the odd spire and the very tops of the buildings, which glow in the late afternoon light, while snow outlined the eaves and roofs.
Edinburgh is a city where the ancient geology is as much a part of the cityscape as the architecture of humankind, fittingly, given the city is one of the homes of the science of geology. The Old Town was built around a long, narrow volcanic ridge (the Castle at the very top of that ridge on its great rock), with steeply sloping sides, so the only way to build was up. We are used to tall buildings today, but imagine how these multi-storey buildings must have looked to people of the 1600s??
There are centuries of history in amid those towering stone buildings, and the shadowy, narrow passages between them, taking in characters as diverse as Deacon Brodie (inspiration for Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde), Mary Queen of Scots, or Robert Louis Stevenson walking some of those streets. The Georgian-era New Town and its Gardens are designed to take in this magnificent view, all the more spectacular on a day like this. I've lived here for many years and still this city can take my breath away with its magnificent vistas and the way the light and shadows plays across them, forever shifting and changing. This was worth a freezing cold walk!
I know that Stephen Hawking did not believe in a Diety, but I would venture to say that as the Great Man of Science that he was, he believed in the maxim that "Nothing is lost in the Universe."
Although he would be able, beyond my comprehension, to be more articulate on that subject, suffice to say energy-matter-antimatter are constantly changing states as I understand it.
So, I wanted to depict in some way as a tribute that the essence, the "soul/spirit" of this great man is not lost, but is on a final journey to a destination beyond even his comprehension . . . until he arrives.
This is the image that I chose to depict that Final Journey that all of us will embark upon .... as generations of humankind as numerous of the grains of sand on a beach have done before us.
Dresghar: "A compulsory feature of elven formal gardens, classical sculptures tend to represent scenes from a mythical time period when elvenkind, humankind and nature lived in perfect harmony."
This mythic creature towers over humankind, awing all with its stunning plumage and gigantic size! Wings and tail are built using LEGO's new Forma skins.
Learn more about this build on my blog.
- Theodore Bikel.
As a photographer, it is hard to pass on the allure of an abandoned building. There is something about their rustic nature that renders well in photographs, particularly in a rural setting. Since moving to NW Arkansas, I have noticed that the region's rapid suburbanization has led to quite a few old abandoned agricultural structures. Usually, they are a bit hard to shoot due to their location, but recently on a trip to Boxley Valley historic district, we found many abandoned structures that were part of old homesteads.
I reached the site of this building quite late, well after the setting sun has put the structure in deep shade. Due to their protected nature, accessibility was limited, and I could not figure out a better composition. But the building and eerie nature of the woods were too good to pass up. I decided on a more straightforward composition and processed the image with cooler tones.
Faces of flower
Once again today
I stopped and for a long time
gazed
at the face of a flower.
I located its eyes
I bent down
inside it
and felt
awe.
And I was filled with love
filled with reverence
filled with humankind
.
-Nikiforos Vrettakos ( 1912 –1991 )
Noch einmal heute
ich hielt an und für eine lange Zeit
schaute auf dem Gesicht einer Blume.
Ich habe ihre Augen gefunden
Ich beugte mich
in ihrem Inneren
und fühlte mich überwältig
Und ich war voller Liebe
voller Ehrfurcht
voller Menschheit.
-Nikiforos Vrettakos( 1912 –1991 )
Γιά μια ἀκόμη φορά, σταμάτησα
σήμερα κι ὥρα πολλή κοιτοῦσα
τό πρόσωπο ἑνός λουλουδιοῦ.
Βρῆκα τά μάτια του·
ἔσκυψα
μέσα του
κι ἔνιωσα
δέος.
Καί γιόμισα ἀγάπη
γιόμισα εὐλάβεια
γιόμισα ἄνθρωπο..
-Νικηφόρος Βρεττάκος ( 1912 –1991 )
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Dear Journal,
After what seemed like months of sailing we have finally arrived at what I think may be the location of the greatest treasure ever discovered by humankind. I can barely contain my excitement. Even before I had assembled the ropes and harnesses needed for descent, I carefully leaned over the edge of the gaping chasm. It was as haunting as it was inspiring, perfect blackness pierced only by the portal from which I perched. My entrancement was interrupted by the words of my companion. "Are you absolutely sure I can't go down with you Zenas? It's awfully dark down there... and there could be nasty cave monsters." I looked over my shoulder at John's concerned face. "Aye, but if we both descend, who shall pull us back up?" John seemed satisfied by the logic of my statement but he inquired further. "True, but how shall I pull you up? We seemed to have forgotten a pulley or device of that sort."
I checked the oil in my lantern as I explained the plan. "I think if we affix a rope to the stern of the boat, upon my signal, you shall be able to simply hoist me out by sailing gently up from the cliff side." John nodded. "That should work. What do you think you'll find down there anyway?" I smiled. "Oh, nothing much, just a few trinkets."
Although I feel somewhat at odds for keeping John in the dark as to my true motives, I did not want to get his hopes up. Just in case the treasure was truly a myth as all my university peers once said. I shall write when I am below. Until then,
-Zenas Abbington
Built for the Isles of Aura.
To be continued!
The Waterbuck remains widespread across western, central, eastern and southern Africa. East (1999) estimated the total population at about 200,000, over half of which occurring in protected areas. No subsequent global population estimate is available. The species is susceptible to poaching and several population declines, some of them severe, have been documented.
The species is suspected to be declining overall, but there is no evidence so far to confirm that the rate of decline has reached a level that would meet the requirements for Near Threatened or Vulnerable status. However, if the declining trend continues, and reliable population estimates become available, then the status of the species may warrant uplisting in the near or medium-term future.
Not many fossils of the waterbuck have been found. Fossils were scarce in the Cradle of Humankind, occurring only in a few pockets of the Swartkrans. On the basis of Valerius Geist's theories about the relation of social evolution and dispersal in ungulates during the Pleistocene, the ancestral home of the waterbuck is considered to be the eastern coast of Africa - with the Horn of Africa to the north and the East African Rift Valley to the west.
The Robin's red breast and habit of living close to humankind makes it one of our most familiar birds.
Robins are widely distributed in Britain & Ireland throughout the year, from Shetland to the Channel Islands, apart from on the highest mountain tops. Robin breeding numbers increased through the last part of the 20th century and have been fairly stable since, albeit with some fluctuations.
The Robin is both a resident and also a migrant visitor to Britain during the winter months, when birds from northern and eastern Europe help to swell numbers. During particularly cold weather this pugnacious little bird can be seen sharing bird tables with several other Robins, all of them trying to defend the food source they have found.
Dark and Wet Monsoon. And the Frangipani along the Kerandangan road thrust themselves upon my mind and senses. They're beloved flowers for funerals here and planted often near or in cemeteries. That custom can only be around half a millennium old because Plumerias hail originally from South America. They were introduced to these parts probably by the Spanish in the early sixteenth century (www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/4405497843/in/photolis...).
Today I mourn. Far away in Groningen his friends will be saying their requiescats to Fokke Akkerman (1930-2017), and I do the same here on Lombok. Fokke was a foremost philologist and an international authority on the great northern humanist Rudolf Agricola (1443-1485), sometime master of Desiderius Erasmus (www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/8030053741/in/photolis...), and the philosopher Benedictus Spinoza (1632-1677). More than this, he was a fine literary scholar, and most of all a true friend.
Not a great traveler he nonetheless had a lively interest in strange climes and it was always a joy to send him postcards.
His last name translates to 'Agricola' in Latin. That's appropriate not only for their shared Republic of Learning, but also because a central concern in Agricola's thought was to pay attention to the things themselves: precise philology and a high regard for what meets the eye in nature, in geography and in humankind.
What looks like a still of an exploding firework is actually taken from an ESA simulation of humankind’s expansion across the stars, produced for an international competition. Each dot is a habitable star system, with the coloured stripes representing interstellar expeditions between them.
ESA’s Advanced Concepts Team think tank came third in the latest Global Trajectory Optimization Competition – known as the ‘America’s Cup of Rocket Science’. Instead of navigating the high seas, it challenges the world’s best aerospace engineers and mathematicians to direct spacecraft through space as part of an incredibly complex problem.
This year’s challenge, set by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as the previous winners, looked forward to a distant future when humankind has the capability and will to settle our entire Milky Way galaxy. Teams were challenged to settle as many of the one hundred thousand star systems suitable for settlement in as uniform a distribution as possible, using as little propulsive velocity change as possible.
The winning team was made up of representatives from a quartet of Chinese research organisations: College of Aerospace Science and Engineering; National University of Defense Technology, Changsha; State Key Laboratory of Astronautic Dynamics and Xi'an Satellite Control Center, Xi'an.
Last week ESA’s ACT hosted a two-day workshop on interstellar exploration, during which this video was shown. Topics under discussion included designing ‘worldships’ to sustain generations of inhabitants during the trip between stars, laser-based propulsion, self-healing materials and the likely social structure of such worldships, even down to how their language might evolve.
Credits: ESA ACT
"What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special" - Morris Dees
This is very similar to this photo from my last 365 project, and for good reason. The evenings before and after I took that photo I was assisting the students that I work with in a theatrical performance, much like I will be doing tonight.
The students that I work with are incredible, they are diverse and talented in many ways and have had to overcome challenges their entire lives. They aren't the students that get asked to dances or get picked to play on teams during gym although it's something that they desperately want. They are students with Autism, the ones with Downs Syndrome, the ones who typically get labeled as different or weird or many other terrible terms.
But, in this theatre class, they are actors. They are set designers, they are collaborators, they are students. For the past 3 years our school has developed a theatre program designed specifically to showcase inclusion and diversity and to celebrate the talent and accomplishments of ALL our students, regardless of ability levels. In the play tonight the cast is made up of students and adult supports that are putting aside diagnosis or disability and focusing on theatre and the chance to show the community what people can achieve when given the opportunity.
I go into work each day, yes because it's my job, but moreso because I look forward to interacting with these students, helping them learn and accomplish their goals and help them to feel like they belong in the school community. Tonight I'll be standing behind them, watching them step forward into centre stage and I know that I'll be beaming with pride and admiration for what they're doing and what they're achieving.
MFIMC: Emulation #88
Humankind's most distant outpost was recently captured crossing the face of our enormous and gleaming Sun. The fleeting transit of the International Space Station was over in the blink of an eye, but Ian Griffin, Director at the Otago Museum of New Zealand, made sure he was in the right place to capture it.
“A transit was predicted about 130 km from my home in Dunedin on New Zealand's South Island. So, I packed my telescope into my car and drove for approximately 2 hours”, explains Ian.
“On Thursday 31 January, at 11:07 NZDT, the International Space Station crossed the Sun in less time than a human heart beats once, and I was there to witness it".
The Space Station, slightly larger in size than a football field, orbits Earth every 92 minutes. It is one of the most remarkable endeavours our species has ever embarked upon, yet it pales in comparison to the size and power of our star.
This remarkable spectacle serves as a much needed reminder that the people and technology we send into space can be affected by solar activity, and the changing environment .
One of the largest geomagnetic storms on record, the Carrington event of 1859, was caused as a fast coronal mass ejection associated with an enormous solar flare struck Earth’s magnetosphere. The impact created auroras as far north as Queensland, Australia, and as far south as the Caribbean.
Telegraph systems across Europe and North America failed, with reports of some operators receiving electric shocks and telegraph pylons sending out sparks.
Today, a storm of this magnitude would create far greater disruption, as we become ever-more dependent on infrastructure in space and on Earth that is vulnerable to the outbursts of the Sun.
As part of ESA’s Space Safety & Security activities, the Space Weather Office is working to minimise the potential damage and disruption these events can cause. The future Lagrange mission will keep a constant eye on the Sun, sending timely warnings via the Space Weather Service Network to operators and controllers of vital infrastructure, giving them time to take protective measures.
This early warning system will also be of great importance to astronauts and future explorers to the Moon and Mars, who, vulnerable to the radiation emitted during these extreme events will need time to get to safety.
Find out more:
From 3-5 March, ESA and the Norwegian Space Agency are coming together for the #AuroraHunters SocialSpace, live from Tromso, Norway. Together with a group of 30 attendees, selected from hundreds of applicants across the globe, we will be highlighting the affects of the Sun on our infrastructure, technologies and skies – in the form of the awesome Aurora. Keep an eye on @esaoperations and follow the hastag #AuroraHunters on twitter to keep up with the event.
Credits: Ian Griffin
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This is my entry to the ♂ Fallen God and Goddess Contest 2020♀
Winner - Best Style Runnerup
I had so much fun creating the look for my appearance and the shoot! Earlier today while visiting the Fallen God and Goddess voting area, I was absolutely stunned by the gorgeous array of entries! Please visit and though having your vote would be wonderful I rather you choose the God and Goddess that you decide moves You! Collectively, this is quite a bit of work and its passion-driven. Together, while we celebrate another year of creativity provided by Alia Baroque's vision, 2020 has been difficult for us all and it is my dream that balance and time will allow humanity to heal. It is my wish that 2021 will bring that to fruition.
wearing:
Fallen Gods Inc Royale - gold
Fallen Gods Inc Golden Touch - feet
Venus Adored's Enveloped in Colored Nebula Particle effects
!dM DeviousMinds> Lunara: Goddess Dress & Shawl in Midnight, silver Heels & GlitterSash, Navigator Goddess Staff, Rhani Crown, Star Halo -and-
ANTINATURAL[+] Lost Saints Gold Holy Halo
Birdy's Foxes Melancholy Raven & Mood rings
Addams Sury Evil bracelets - gold
KC Odessa anklets
Tableau Vivant Lorelei Hair
POUT POP BoM liner & VELOUR Ingrid BoM lips
Of special note : Kimmy Kleb Lelutka Black Eyes Edition shadow/liner -and-
//VoluptasVirtualis Jamesie Eye Applier
LeLutka Greer
Maitreya Lara
^.^serenity style studio^.^ shape
location : Tempura Island
windlight : Midnight
Pose : Astalianda Sun, Moon & Stars Pose Set, featuring "Sun"
no environmental effects or photography filters were used in creating this image
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"Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between humankind and the universe."
Anatole France
Mike and I went out last night - and I was reminded of all the many reasons I prefer to avoid humankind en masse. The occasion was a rawk show in a sit-down theatre, which I suppose is an awkward combination at the best of times.
We arrived just in time. The opening band, Band of Horses (a current big big fave of mine), came on stage just a few minutes after we settled into our seats. Too bad I didn't get many visuals: throughout the show, the aisles were clogged with late-arrivers being shown to their seats.
To which I say FUCK OFF. If it had been a two-act play, I'm pretty sure the powers that be would've locked the doors when the first act started, and only let the late-comers in at intermission. Why should a rawk band (and a very good one at that) get any less respect when they play in an equally formal setting?
Of course the stragglers included a couple of teenage girls who sat in front of us and found it absolutely necessary to text throughout the show. Which meant I had a super bright cell phone screen shining in my face for much of the night. So... yeah, I was grateful for the big hulking drunk guy who was in the seat next to me. His entrance had been less than impressive - jumping onto and then into his seat from the row behind us with a series of thuds and judders. But he quickly earned my thanks by tapping text girl #1 on the shoulder, saying, "Excuse me darlin' but there's no texting allowed in the theatre." I think his sheer mass scared her. Plus he had an English accent, which made him seem somehow more authoritative. So... yeah. As we waited for Beck to take the stage, I was thinking things might just get better.
Wrong. Oh, I was so so wrong.
First off, there was the biggg gal behind me. When others in her row had arrived to take their seats, she had flatly refused to move to let them through. "I'm not moving," she kept repeating, every time someone made motions to enter.
As soon as Beck started playing though... move she did. Oy vey. She was up and boogying her bulk in her seat right behind me - which meant I was getting boffed in the back of the head by godknowswhat - Her boobs? Her belly? Her bag? Her thighs? I had no idea. I could only register regular onslaughts of swinging flesh coming at me from behind.
And then drunk guy beside me reappeared - freshly re-liquored up. And absolutely would not leave me alone. He was determined to get me up dancing with him. When I refused (for the 18th time) he decided to settle for resting his giant fucking head on my shoulder and telling me how gorgeous I was.
I had already made a point of introducing him to Mike. As in, "This is my husband, Mike." Husband, dude. As in, "Please please please fuck off and stop annoying me." Honestly, I haven't felt that harrassed since back in the day when I was single.
The highlight of the night was Mike's merciful agreement to leave before the encore. When he said, "Wanna go?" I clapped and cheered harder than I had for Band of Horses.
On the way out, drunk guy (who was standing in the aisle) made one more pathetic run at me. And all I could do was shake my head.
I am definitely too old (or too impatient, or too something) to deal with all this rawk show crap. The texting teens and crazy dancers and drunk dudes can keep it. My idea of a perfect night out is what you see in the photo above - the moon, the ocean, my camera and a whole lotta still perfect solitude. (sigh)
Humankind lingers unregenerately in Plata's cave, still reveling,
its age-old habit, in mere images of the truth.
Susan Sontag - On photography
人类永无救赎地留在柏拉图的洞穴里，老习惯未改，依然在并非真实本身，而仅是真实的影像中陶醉。
苏珊•桑塔格《论摄影》
ISS047e020123 (03/25/2016) --- A golden reflection of the rising sun on the Earths oceans greets the crew of Expedition 47 on board the International Space station. Another day begins for the crew in their pursuit of science that will aid humankind.
It would be great if humankind gave up industrialized killing, also known as war, and used the left-over resources to pay off debt and solve problems of the 21st century. In the meanwhile, we're stuck with having at least some level of ability to protect ourselves against crackpots or people who have some legitimate, or illegitimate, grudge against the US.
Its prototype was created in the late 1950s. I have no idea where my long-time appreciation of the F-4 started. I always liked the idea that the US Navy, Marine Corps aviation, and the US Air Force would live up to Secretary McNamara's ideal and use the same damn airframe. There are a lot of potential savings and efficiency gains. But the use cases are very different. For example, you can't use the same landing gear on an Air Force aircraft as you would use on a Navy aircraft. So it was a tricky proposition that worked at least this once.
I think there was a theory that air-to-air combat was going to be a stand-off affair when these were being created. So the early models did not have a cannon. When you use all of your missiles, this makes you unarmed. That's not good in an air-to-air battle. Later models were fitted with a cannon. They crammed a lot of capabilities into these things. In Vietnam, for instance, they were a significant improvement over older machines. Those antennas under the "Rescue" sticker and below/left of the "USS Midway" have always been interesting. Whatever they connect to was also installed on F-111s.
The J79 [jet engines] used enormous volumes of air: an F4H-1 standing on the flight ramp at full throttle, as the crew safety manuals described it, could suck in a two-hundred-pound man from twenty-five feet away.
— Glenn E. Bugos
Source: Bugos, Glenn E., "2: Development," Engineering the F-4 Phantom II: Parts into Systems, (Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1996) pp.50.
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Olives are a high-fat fruit and they are full of beneficial compounds. With a deep mythological history, they were so the story goes a gift to humankind from the Greek goddess Athena.
Olive Tree
If you have travelled along the Aegean coast of Turkey, you will have seen scores and scores of gnarled silvery-leafed olive trees clinging to hillsides and lining every little country road. Everywhere you look you see olive groves. In our area every village family owns at least some olive trees and their living depends partly on the success of the harvest that year. Unfortunately this year despite a promising start, it hasn’t been good due to the excessive heat in August. This income is supplemented by owning sheep, cattle, and by doing other manual jobs –basically whatever they can get.
Olive Branches
The olive picking season which started at the end of October is almost over and what a backbreaking business it is
Turkey is a great country to experience olive and olive oil culture because it has one of the most important olive growing countries in the world. If you want to taste delicious olive oils you should visit especially the southern Turkey.
Anatolia is actually the motherland of olive trees, also where the olive oil is born. Also olive oil is an important player in Turkish cuisine, especially in the Aegean and Mediterranean diet. It is already famous for its health benefits.
TURKISH OLIVE OILS
Turkey is the 4th biggest olive oil producer in the world. Turkish olive oils are extremely smooth and have a more gentle taste. The best olive oils are not easy to find, and if you are like most people. Once you have tasted a high quality Turkish olive oil, your life will never be the same.
TYPES OF OLIVE OIL
Extra Virgin Olive Oil: Extra virgin is the highest quality and most expensive olive oil classification. Extra virgin olive oil is made simply by crushing olives and extracting the juice. Good extra virgin olive oil is fruity, bitter and pungent.
Early Harvest Olive Oil: Early harvest oils, with their bitter taste, low acidity, and higher antioxidant content are worth paying a little extra for.
Other Olive Oils: Virgin Olive Oil, Ordinary Virgin Olive Oil, Refined Olive Oil, Riviera Olive Oil.
OLIVE OIL PRODUCERS
Olive oils are produced by traditional and modern methods. In Turkey, there are hundreds of various olive oil producers to discover, each with individual qualities that make them even more excellent. Many of these olive oils are the winners of the world's most prestigious olive oil competitions.
Turkey is rapidly becoming one the of largest olive oil producing countries in the world. In spite of wildfires that destroyed olive trees in western Turkey, its production increased by 62 percent in the 2017/18 harvest season.
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- and Good Will towards Men and Women.
"Good will " is more than restraint and forbearance; more complete than patience and leniency . Beyond the bounds of clemency,self-restraint, or an act of temperance;
It is a gift from one's heart and soul given to all humankind.
- FD
Have a most joyous holiday season !
14 x 15 on recycled wood
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A peace of art a day project
at MountainMade Gallery, Thomas, WV
Moon alongside mockingbird. The mockingbird suggests that humankind colonize Mars and leave the Earth to the birds since humankind has already declared its hatred for the Earth, Nature and every living thing.
I tell the mockingbird that this outcome is already guaranteed without any humans walking on Mars. I tell the mockingbird that the birds only need to endure for another 25,000 years and then they can watch Nature recover in the post-human era.
„Je weniger Zeit die Gesellschaft bedarf um Weizen, Vieh, etc. zu produzieren, desto mehr Zeit gewinnt sie zu anderer Produktion, materieller oder geistiger. Ökonomie der Zeit - Darein löst sich schließlich alle Ökonomie auf. Ökonomie der Zeit, Sowohl wie planmäßige Verteilung der Arbeitszeit auf die verschiedenen Zweige der Produktion bleibt also erstes ökonomisches Gesetz auf Grundlage der gesellschaftlichen Produktion.“(Karl Marx)
"The less time society needs to produce wheat, cattle, etc., the more time it gets to other production, material or spiritual. Economics of Time - finally all economics dissolve in this. Economy of time, and the planned distribution of labor time to the different branches of production thus remains the first economic law on the basis of social production. (Karl Marx)
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Das Rechenzentrum, auch „Datenverarbeitungszentrum“ oder kurz „DVZ“ genannt, steht in der Innenstadt von Potsdam und wurde in den Jahren von 1969 bis 1971 errichtet.
Das Gebäude ist durch das Mosaikband „Der Mensch bezwingt den Kosmos“, von Fritz Eisel, geschmückt. Das Band umfasst 18 einzelne Bilder.
The computer center, also known as "data processing center" or "DVZ", is located in the inner city of Potsdam and was built between 1969 and 1971.
The building is decorated by the mosaic "The man conquers the cosmos" by Fritz Eisel. The tape contains 18 individual images.
...We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle, 1855
Harnessing of the Atom
Amos L. Wallace, Western Red Cedar, 1967
Through a visual language typical of kooteeyaa (totem pole), this fifteen foot carving reveals aspects of Alaska's American & Russian history, humankind's efforts to control energy, & Tlingit spirituality. It suggest an interesting parallel between the Tlingit story of how light was bestowed to the world of humans, & the developement of nuclear energy by 20th century physicists.
At the top of the pole is the Bald Eagle, representative of the United States. Next is a Russian Orthodox priest, illustrating the influence of Russia & Christianity on Alaska. Below is a human being holding the sun, which has been released by Raven, the final figure shown.
Amos Wallace played an important role in drawing national attention to the arts of Tlingit people, & his work can be found in numerous collections throughout the United States.
Amos Wallace, 1967
Harnessing of the Atom
Western Red Cedar
This kooteeyaa (totem pole) tells the story of the harnessing of the atom. The pole was carved in 1967 by Tlingit carver Amos Wallace of Juneau. His Tlingit name was Jeet Yaaw Dustaa of the T;akdeintaan Clan of the X'aakw Hit Tlingit (Freshwater-marked Coho House). Wallace, an artist who worked in many differnet media was renowned for his carving & engraving. He died in 2004.
In 1976, th epole was installed here at what is now the Juneau-Douglas City Museum. The traditional method of mounting a kooteeyaa involves digging a hole for the lower end of the pole to rest in. Rocks line the hole to provide drainage & stability. By 2003, the kooteeyaa had developed a distinct lean & was in danger of severe damage. It was removed from its original, traditional mount. A new Aluminum support post was mounted in a concrete base to provide better stability & prevent further damage. Traditionally, a leaning pole might sometimes be propped up, but once fallen, it is generally left to return to the earth.
Harnessing of the Atom is 15 feet tall & carved of western red cedar. Cedar is the most commonly used tree for craving kooteeyaa because it withstands the elements so well. Decay is natural in kooteeyaa exposed to the effects of wind, weather, insects, & a hard life outside in the Southeast Alaska weather. Due to the organic material, cracks are natural & should not be seen as a flaw in the carving.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Hebrew: קיצור תולדות האנושות, [Ḳitsur toldot ha-enoshut]) is a book by Yuval Noah Harari, first published in Hebrew in Israel in 2011 based on a series of lectures Hariri taught at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and in English in 2014. The book surveys the history of humankind from the evolution of archaic human species in the Stone Age up to the twenty-first century, focusing on Homo sapiens. The account is situated within a framework provided by the natural sciences, particularly evolutionary biology.
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St. Joseph, Missouri
I was impressed with the number of trees in Missouri, seemingly everywhere that humankind had not made towns or agriculture. This tree was where a city park with mowed grass met the wilds. This one has tasty fruits, like blackberries, and they happen to be in the same plant family.
Came across this candle on the sidewalk at the „Lauergärten“, wondering why it was placed there. Only later learned which day that was.
Please, humankind, take care.
.... The City of Toronto has many displays of the Menorah at various spots, this one is at Queen's Park .... The Hanukkah menorah or chanukiah (Hebrew: מנורת חנוכה menorat ḥanukkah, pl. menorot)
“The Land of Eternal Night” -
Experience the downfall of humankind and the rise of the lords of the night.
In Nox Aeterna, vampire society has flourished and through impressive spellcraft they’ve even bent the sky to their rule guaranteeing that none need fear the rays of the sun ever again.
Atop the mountains sits one such stronghold, sprawling amongst the crags and peaks. Beneath it a village on the edge of a lake, steeped in tradition and protected as much by the denizens above as the forest surrounding it.
Nox Aeterna -
Sponsored by Quills & Curiosities
Region by Dacien & Marcel Blackwood
A Shopping Region
Chilean capital Santiago – among the largest conurbations in South America – viewed in false colour from ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite, with vegetation in red.
This December, Santiago will help set humankind’s future hosting the latest United Nations Climate Change Conference, the 25th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 25).
Sitting in a valley between the Chilean Coastal Range and the Andes Mountains, Santiago experienced explosive growth over the course of the last century. Today it is the fifth-largest city in South America, with a population of more than five million, and seven million people living within its overall metropolitan area.
In such a densely populated area, open space becomes all the more valuable. Note the hilly Santiago Metropolitan Park, seen as a dark mark running northeast of the centre. The double red patch just below and left of the city centre is the rectangular O'Higgins Park, right, with the Club Hípico de Santiago racecourse to its left.
Santiago Airport, the largest in Chile, is visible to the northwest of the city centre.
Launched on 7 May 2013, Proba-V is a miniaturised ESA satellite tasked with a full-scale mission: to map land cover and vegetation growth across the entire planet every two days.
Its main camera’s continent-spanning 2250 km swath width collects light in the blue, red, near-infrared and mid-infrared wavebands at a 300 m pixel size, down to 100 m in its central field of view.
VITO Remote Sensing in Belgium processes and then distributes Proba-V data to users worldwide. An online image gallery highlights some of the mission’s most striking images so far, including views of storms, fires and deforestation.
This 100 m spatial resolution image was acquired on 5 April 2017.
Credits: ESA/Belspo – produced by VITO