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The week got away from me so just remembered at 8 last night that I hadn't shot anything for this weeks theme. Rummaged through the kitchen until I came across this handy dandy little gem. A thingamajig to get your olives out of jars and cans.
For the group Collective 52 Photo Project "2015".
Implements including the chain used in an attempt to block the Hudson river and artillery from the revolution made with iron from Ringwood, NJ.
Implementing some of the lighting techniques learned at the WPPI 2014.........all natural harsh light. I would have usually used a diffuser, possibly softbox for filll, etc.
Due to the invasion of southern and eastern European nations by the Warsaw Pact, the EU has sent back their troops to Europe from America to prepare and strategize a retaliation. Due to this soldiers now have a much more common presence in the daily lives of civilians. All forces will be used to create an advantage, even the Leaning Tower of Pisa will be used as a watch tower in Italy. The preparations are almost complete.
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For the Purge Chronicles
Doing something very interesting with the leaning tower of pisa was harder than I thought if I wanted it to be pretty accurate, so this is more of a tone scene rather than a detailed one to be more accurate to the area.
Kitchen Tools #2. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell.
Close up photograph of kitchen implements.
When looking for subjects to test (otherwise know as “get to know”) a new camera or lens, it is amazing what things one can find to photograph! This week I’m trying to get up to speed on a new camera — more about that below — and how it works with some lenses I already have. On this evening I slapped a macro lens on the thing and headed to the kitchen to photograph… a whisk, blender blades, coffee cups, and others stuff that was lying around.
It is important to me to both understand objectively how my camera equipment functions and to develop an intuitive familiarity with it. The former helps me make smart decisions, and the latter is very important in the field, where I don’t want to get stuck wondering how the gear works. In this case, the new equipment is a Fujifilm X-T5 that I got to upgrade from the XPro2 that I’ve been using for my “small camera” photography for the past few years. For this photograph and a few others like it I put the Fujifilm 80mm macro on the camera.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
Ría de Punta Umbría (Huelva - Andalucía)
SIgma 10-20 + Cokin filter : Gradual Neutral Grey ND8 (P121)
Abandoned farm implements near Wooldridge in Cooper County Missouri in infrared by Notley Hawkins Photography. Taken with a Canon EOS 50D camera with a LIfePIxel infrared conversion and a EF-S10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM lens at f.8.0 with a 1/25 second exposure at ISO 100. Processed with Adobe Lightroom 5.7.
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Garden implements neatly arranged at Kumano Jinja (shrine), between Magome-juku and Tsumago-juku, Japan.
Sony FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS
24mm; 1/30 sec; f/6.3; ISO 400
Τρόπαιο Λεύκτρων
Lefkta Victory Monument(Trophy)
Η Μάχη των Λεύκτρων ήταν μια από τις πλέον περισπούδαστες μάχες της αρχαιότητας, από πλευράς στρατιωτικής τακτικής.
Η περίφημη αυτή μάχη, μεταξύ Σπαρτιατών και Θηβαίων, που διεξήχθη το 371 π.Χ. στα Λεύκτρα της Βοιωτίας, στην οποία και νικήθηκαν οι μέχρι τότε θεωρούμενοι αήττητοι Σπαρτιάτες, έδωσε αφενός μεν τέλος στην Πελοποννησιακή Συμμαχία αφετέρου χάρισε στους Θηβαίους την ηγεμονική τους θέση στον τότε ελλαδικό χώρο.
Αφορμή στον μεταξύ Σπάρτης και Θηβών αυτόν πόλεμο έδωσε η στάση του θηβαίου στρατηγού Επαμεινώνδα στο συνέδριο των ελληνικών πόλεων-κρατών που είχε συνέλθει στη Σπάρτη μετά την Ανταλκίδειο ειρήνη. Αυτός τότε επέμενε στο συνέδριο ν' αναγνωρισθεί ως αντιπρόσωπος όλων των Βοιωτικών πόλεων και όχι μόνο της Θήβας. Οι αντιπρόσωποι των άλλων πόλεων όχι μονο δεν το δέχθηκαν, αλλά απέκλεισαν τους Θηβαίους από το συνέδριο. Τότε οι Έφοροι της Σπάρτης διέταξαν επιπρόσθετα, προκειμένου να πτοήσουν τους Θηβαίους, τον ευρισκόμενο στη Φωκίδα και κοντά στη περιοχή, Σπαρτιάτη βασιλέα Κλεόμβροτο να εισβάλει στη Βοιωτία. Οι Σπαρτιάτες αριθμούμενοι σε 11.000 έφθασαν στην περιοχή και στρατοπέδευσαν στη κοιλάδα των Λεύκτρων, ανατολικά του Ελικώνα. Οι Θηβαίοι ανερχόμενοι σε 6.000 έφθασαν στη περιοχή από βόρεια και στην αρχή δείλιασαν. Ο στρατηγός τους Επαμεινώνδας τους ενθάρρυνε και εφήρμοσε για πρώτη φορά στην ιστορία των μέχρι τότε πολέμων μια νέα στρατιωτική τακτική η οποία και τον ανέδειξε σε έναν από τους ευφυέστερους στρατηγούς όλων των εποχών.
Αντί της τακτικής τής ενιαίας γραμμής μετώπου που ακολουθείτο μέχρι τότε, χώρισε τη φάλαγγά του σε δύο τμήματα εκ των οποίων το ένα διενεργούσε επίθεση και το άλλο άμυνα. Η παράταξη αυτή κλήθηκε από τον εφευρέτη της λοξή φάλαγγα, ο δε τρόπος λειτουργίας αυτής ήταν ο εξής: Την κύρια δράση είχε η αριστερή πτέρυγα της επίθεσης, που προηγείτο της γραμμής μετώπου. Στηριζόμενη στο ενισχυμένο βάθος της εκ 50 ανδρών, είχε ως κύριο σκοπό τη διάσπαση της εχθρικής παράταξης. Η ολιγότερο ισχυρή δεξιά αμυντική πτέρυγα παρέμενε καθηλωμένη σε αναμονή του αποτελέσματος, προκειμένου να επέμβει και να προκαλέσει σύγχυση στην πληττόμενη και πλευροκοπούμενη σπαρτιατική φάλαγγα. Έτσι, αν το απέναντι σπαρτιατικό τμήμα επιχειρούσε αντεπίθεση δεξιά της θηβαϊκής πτέρυγας επίθεσης, η θηβαϊκή πτέρυγα άμυνας προχωρούσε σε περικυκλωτική επίθεση. Αν συνέβαινε το αντίθετο, αν δηλαδή το σπαρτιατικό τμήμα προέβαινε σε επίθεση στα αριστερά της θηβαϊκής πτέρυγας επίθεσης, τότε η θηβαϊκή πτέρυγα άμυνας έστρεφε και πλευροκοπούσε τον εχθρό. Η όλη αυτή εφαρμογή τακτικής ομοιάζει με την εικόνα του δεξιόστροφου ή αριστερόστροφου πτερωτού κοχλία. Εν προκειμένω στη μάχη των Λεύκτρων η όλη διάταξη κινήθηκε δεξιόστροφα.
Στην αρχή ο Επαμεινώνδας εξαπέλυσε το ιππικό του κατά των προμαχούντων Σπαρτιατών ιππέων οι οποίοι βλέποντας να μην υποχωρεί η εχθρική γραμμή, κάμφθηκαν. Οι Θηβαίοι ιππείς της πτέρυγας επίθεσης στράφηκαν τότε κατά του κέντρου και του αριστερού εχθρικού τμήματος, ενώ ο Επαμεινώνδας με την αριστερή πτέρυγα της πεζής παράταξής του και ο Πελοπίδας με τον Ιερό Λόχο επιτέθηκαν με θυελλώδη ορμή κατά των Σπαρτιατών των οποίων η σθεναρή παράταξη διασπάσθηκε. Οι σύμμαχοι των Σπαρτιατών που είχαν παραταχθεί στο κέντρο και την αριστερή πτέρυγα, βλέποντας ότι οι Σπαρτιάτες ήταν ανίκανοι να συνεχίσουν τη μάχη, αποφάσισαν να υποχωρήσουν καταδιωκόμενοι από το θηβαϊκό ιππικό.
Οι απώλειες των θηβαϊκών δυνάμεων έφθασαν τους 300 άνδρες ενώ οι Σπαρτιάτες έχασαν γύρω στους 1.000 άνδρες, μεταξύ των οποίων και τον βασιλιά Κλεόμβροτο.
ΒΙΚΙΠΑΙΔΕΙΑ
Lefktron Trophy
Lefktra Victory Monument(Trophy)
The Battle of Lefktra was one of the most studied battles of antiquity, in terms of military tactics.
This famous battle, between Spartans and Thebans, which took place in 371 BC. at Leuctra in Boeotia, in which the Spartans, considered invincible until then, were defeated, on the one hand it put an end to the Peloponnesian Alliance and on the other hand it gave the Thebans their hegemonic position in the then Greek area.
This war between Sparta and Thebes was caused by the attitude of the Theban general Epaminondas at the conference of the Greek city-states that had convened in Sparta after the Andalkidian peace. He then insisted at the conference to be recognized as the representative of all the Boeotian cities and not only Thebes. The representatives of the other cities not only did not accept it, but excluded the Thebans from the conference. Then the Prefects of Sparta additionally ordered, in order to deter the Thebans, the Spartan king Cleombrotos, who was in Phocis and nearby, to invade Boeotia. The Spartans numbering 11,000 arrived in the area and camped in the valley of Lefktra, east of Helikon. The Thebans numbering 6,000 arrived in the area from the north and at first were timid. Their general Epaminondas encouraged them and implemented for the first time in the history of the wars up to that time a new military tactic which made him one of the most intelligent generals of all time.
Instead of the tactic of the single front line followed until then, he divided his phalanx into two divisions, one of which carried out the attack and the other the defense. This formation was called by the inventor of the oblique phalanx, and its mode of operation was as follows: The main action was the left wing of the attack, which preceded the front line. Relying on its reinforced depth of 50 men, its main objective was to break up the enemy line. The less powerful right defensive wing remained pinned down to await the result, in order to intervene and cause confusion in the battered and flanked Spartan phalanx. Thus, if the opposing Spartan division attempted a counterattack to the right of the Theban attack wing, the Theban defense wing would advance in an encircling attack. If the opposite happened, that is, if the Spartan division attacked to the left of the Theban attack wing, then the Theban defense wing would turn and flank the enemy. This whole tactic application resembles the image of the clockwise or counter-clockwise propeller. In this case, in the battle of Lefktra, the whole arrangement moved clockwise.
At first Epaminondas unleashed his cavalry against the advancing Spartan horsemen who, seeing that the enemy line did not retreat, retreated. The Theban horsemen of the attacking wing then turned against the center and left of the enemy, while Epaminondas with the left wing of his infantry and Pelopidas with the Sacred Company charged with a storm against the Spartans, whose strong line was broken. The Spartan allies who had lined up in the center and left wing, seeing that the Spartans were unable to continue the battle, decided to retreat pursued by the Theban cavalry.
The losses of the Theban forces reached 300 men while the Spartans lost around 1,000 men, including King Cleombrotos.
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It is imperative that we implement a system of ecolonomic homeostasis to fight against the current anthropotechnogenic economic, social and environmental crises. Recent global economic and political instability has revealed the shortcomings of our current capitalist system. It further confirms the necessity for an ultramodern paradigm shift. On account of the deleterious impact of the financialization of the economic ecosystem, we must introduce an oligopolistic system that can be sustainably managed. The Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) is what is needed to fulfill our sustainable development goals. Environmental awareness must be the center of our ethos as we work to reduce our anthroposphere periphery in pursuit of global co-immunity. Not only must we manipulate living organisms through science and engineering to create commodities, we must also manipulate the Anthropos through cryptoeconomic engineering.
This new cryptospheric ecotechnic cybernetic system will revolve around a cyber-physical environmental intelligence. This transhuman technosphere of 15 minute city ecoregions will adopt a sustainable economic welfare system that will revolve around harvesting the body’s energy. You will be a collective of communities, a multitude of capital. We will combine biomimetics and thermoeconomics to economically rebalance the core-periphery dynamic. Xenocommodification: all money creation must have biophysical embedding—666. This thermalisation of thermoeconomics will be globally self-replicated.
In short: take the Mark of the Beast and become transhuman—embrace the techno-Beast system, because techno-animism is the way of the future!
These nerds want an economic system that revolves around the environment—a Social Credit Score System that will be linked to your Carbon Footprint and to the United Nations 17 goals of Sustainable Development. The ultimate goal is to tie this eco-economic system together with transhumanism—the merging of man and microchip…data capitalism (data totalitarianism).
Warning: “Constantly be on your guard so that your hearts will not be loaded down with self-indulgence, drunkenness, and the worries of this life, or that day will take you by surprise like a trap, because it will come on everyone who lives on the face of the earth. So be alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place and to take your stand in the presence of the Son of Man.” (Luke 21:34-36)
In 1944 Aalto was commissioned to design and implement a town plan for Säynätsalo, a small factory town founded around Johan Parviaisen Tehtaat wood-processing mills, from 1946 operated by Enso-Gutzeit (now part of Stora Enso), whose headquarters in Helsinki he also designed. The town hall would be built at a later date after Aalto won a government-mandated competition for its design. Aalto constructed the building into the wooded hillside of Säynätsalo creating a three-story multi-purpose building surrounding an elevated courtyard.
The design of the Town Hall was influenced by both Finnish vernacular architecture and the humanist Italian renaissance. It was the Italian Renaissance from which Aalto drew inspiration for the courtyard arrangement which informed the name of his original competition entry entitled "Curia." While the main program of the building is housed within a heavy brick envelope, the courtyard is bordered by a glass-enclosed circulation space which can be linked to the model of an arcade-bordered Piazza.
It was important to Aalto that the design represent democracy and the people's relationship with the government which is why he included a large public space, along with sections dedicated to the public.
The town hall is crowned by the council chamber, a double-height space which is capped by the Aalto-designed "Butterfly" trusses. The trusses support both the roof and the ceiling, creating airflow to manage condensation in the winter and heat in the summer. The butterfly truss eliminates the need for multiple intermediate trusses. It also gives call to medieval and traditional styles. The council Chamber is approached from the main entrance hall a floor below via a ramp which wraps around the main tower structure under a row of clerestory ribbon windows.
Aalto constrained his material palate to one dominated by brick and accented by timber and copper. Though Aalto practiced at the same time as Modernist Architects Le Corbusier and others, he rejected the Machine Aesthetic for the majority of his architecture. Instead, he saw his buildings as organisms made of up of individual cells. This principle informed Aalto's use of traditional building materials such as brick which is, by nature, cellular. The bricks were even laid slightly off-line to create a dynamic and enlivened surface condition due to the shadows.
The massive brick envelope is punctuated by periods of vertical striation in the form of timber columns which evoke Säynätsalo's setting in a heavily forested area.
Another distinctive feature at Säynätsalo are the grass stairs which complement a conventional set of stairs adjacent to the tower council chambers. The grass stairs also evoke notions of ancient Greek and Italian architecture through the establishment of a form resembling a simple amphitheater condition.
Pink farm implement in Montgomery City, Missouri by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens at ƒ/8.0 with a 1/125-second exposure at ISO 100. Processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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Vessel of Mother and Child:
Paccha, a ritual implement for pouring chicha on the earth. The analysis of residue has confirmed the presence of corn inside an Inka-style vessel similar to this one.
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For the time being, the Incas will use this artifact to water *chicha la tierra, thus offering it to Pachamama and ensuring abundance of water.
*Chicha is a fermented (alcoholic) or non-fermented beverage of Latin America, emerging from the Andes and Amazonia regions. In both the pre- and post-Spanish conquest periods, corn beer (chicha de jora) made from a variety of maize landraces has been the most common form of chicha. However, chicha is also made from a variety of other cultigens and wild plants, including, among others, quinoa (Chenopodium quinia), kañiwa (Chenopodium pallidicaule), peanut, manioc (also called yuca or cassava), palm fruit, potato, oca (Oxalis tuberosa), and chañar (Geoffroea decorticans). There are many regional variations of chicha. In the Inca Empire, chicha had ceremonial and ritual uses.
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The Carchi Pasto culture was located in northern Ecuador in the province of Carchi, in the inter-Andean region between the Mira and Chota rivers. It extended as far as the Nariño Department of Colombia. Most of the population settled in the territories of Ipiales, Túquerres (Colombia) and Carchi (Ecuador).
It was characterized as being a peaceful, sedentary trading culture. The Carchi Pasto traded Spondylus mollusc shells, coca leaves, salt and jade with other coastal and Amazonian peoples. They were expert hunters of deer, which had a strong symbolic value.
This culture is renowned for its pottery and metallurgy. Many of their pieces feature “coqueros” – human figures in a sitting position with a bulge in their cheeks representing the rite of chewing coca leaves—along with interpretations of sacred animals such as jaguars and monkeys. They specialized in the negative painting technique to decorate their pottery, which was a dark red color. They also made use of positive-space painting, modelling, stone carving and gold-copper alloys. They also used Spondylus shells as beads and collars, which they obtained through trade with other regions.
the implements I prepared so as to facilitate giving Sonya water when she becomes weak as she can't drink by herself. But I didn't use that, because she had drunk water by herself until just before her death for luckily and fortunately. Sonya passed away by cardiomyopathy on the morning of October 6th, 2025. She was 7 and a half years-old.
kitchen implements for sale at a sidewalk . captured this image at a province known for making aluminum kitchenwares
Since its implementation of Precision Scheduled Railroading, NS's roster of SD60Es has all but been absent from many of my jaunts trackside over the last several years. Last Spring, I had seen posts that the GoRail SD60E was working local service between Bellevue and Fostoria. A Sunday afternoon visit to Bellevue found this to be the case as NS L11 arrived from Fostoria around lunchtime, worked Moorman Yard, and then departed back to Fostoria in the evening. The train is seen here working its way through the Mini-Plant interlocking on the Sandusky District having picked up an SD40E in the yard.
Lighted Farm Implement Parade, Sunnyside, Washington. I am pleasantly surprised how sharp these night photos are considering these shots are hand held and mostly shot at 1/30 and slower shutter speed. IMG_1065
Ukraine’s priorities include joining NATO, implementing the decisions of the Alliance's Washington Summit, and jointly intercepting Russian missiles and drones. This was the focus of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s discussion with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte during their meeting in Kyiv.
This is Mark Rutte’s first foreign visit as the leader of the North Atlantic Alliance. President Zelenskyy noted that this visit immediately clearly outlines the current priorities, indicating where the defense of shared Euro-Atlantic values is taking place right now.
“Our key goal is Ukraine’s full NATO membership. Ukraine can become the thirty-third member of NATO. Ukrainians deserve this,” said the President.
During the meeting, the parties thoroughly discussed the prospects for cooperation, the Victory Plan and the feasibility of Ukraine's approach to a just end to the war, the situation on the battlefield, and the needs of our units, including weapons and brigade staffing.
“Ukraine needs to strengthen its positions on the frontline so that we can increase pressure on Russia for the sake of fair, real diplomacy. That is why we need a sufficient quantity and quality of weapons, including long-range weapons, the provision of which, in my opinion, is being delayed by our partners,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasized.
A separate focus of the discussion was Ukraine’s air defense needs. It is crucial for Ukraine that all air defense agreements, including those reached at the NATO Summit in Washington this July, are implemented before winter begins. Additionally, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Mark Rutte discussed additional cooperation with neighboring countries, drawing on examples from the Middle East.
“Jointly intercepting Iranian missiles is no different from jointly intercepting Russian missiles, and especially "Shaheds," which link the Russian and Iranian regimes. What we need in our region is more determination from our partners to put an end to Russian terror,” the President emphasized.
Mark Rutte noted that, as NATO Secretary General, he will do everything possible to increase support for Ukraine.
“Your security matters for ours. Your fight for freedom reflects our core principles and values,” he said.
According to the NATO Secretary General, member states of the Alliance plan to boost their own defense capabilities and strengthen Ukraine’s defense industry.
“Ukraine is closer to NATO than ever before. And we will continue on this path until you become a member of our Alliance. I very much look forward to that day,” said Mark Rutte.
A planter is an agricultural farm implement towed behind a tractor, used for sowing crops through a field. It is connected to the tractor with a draw-bar, or a three-point hitch. Planters lay the seeds down in precise manner along rows. Seeds are distributed through devices called row units. The row units are spaced evenly along the planter.
Old farm implements at Seaton's Farm, Weddin Mountains National Park, NSW
There is a walk around 'Seaton's Historic Farm', which is now part of the national park. Seatons Farm is how one man and his wife turned every bit of wire into something useful. Jim Seaton hand made 3 km/1.8 miles of kangaroo proof fence by hand, with posts of local saplings, which are rot and vermin proof. The property was occupied in the late 1920s and during the Depression it was set up as a farm. Times and the land were hard and the buildings represent this. The sheds have walls made from flattened corrugated iron so that it stretched further. One of the sheds is full of old wire, iron sheets, bottles, everything you can imagine. All the old machinery is still there, sitting where it was when the family sold the property to the Government in the 1980s. A unique place, showing how the less well off farmers did it in the early and mid 1900s.
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