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In cooperation with the European Youth Forum, Connect.Euranet went face to face with the European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Multilinguism, Androulla Vassiliou in a live debate. Young journalists and youth leaders from all across the EU quizzed the high profile politician on the EU's plans for investing in youth. Hot topics ranged from promoting democracy and participation, with an emphasis on the 2014 European Parliament elections.
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YouTube - For those of you who are not from a farming background a ewe is a mature female sheep. Here in Ireland it is pronounced as yew but in some parts it may be pronounced as Yo.
Mark Ryan is a sculptor. He works in a variety of materials – wood, clay, plaster, steel, stainless steel and bronze. He welds, cuts, casts and shapes. The scale of his work varies from small scale intimate works to very large scale sculptures in public spaces. His work is included in many national and international collections.
He has received the Braun prize at Carlow Eigse and the Halward Sculpture prize. His work is selected regularly for the RHA annual show and Sculpture in Context, the Botanic Gardens Dublin and by various galleries throughout Ireland.
Visit Mark: www.markryansculptor.com
Co. E, 12th KS. Infantry
The La Cygne Weekly Journal, Friday, June 28, 1907, Pg 5
In Memoriam.
Francis Marion Conley was born in Indiana March 28, 1840 and departed this life at his home in La Cygne, Kansas June 25, 1907, aged 67 years, 2 months and 27 days. On the 15th day of May 1862 in the bonds of Holy Matrimony to Miss Vienna Mason. To this union was born ten children, three of whom with the wife survive him and mourn his departure to the Spirit World.
On August 18, 1862, just sixty three days after their wedding day, Mr. Conley in response to his country’s call for brave men offered himself as a volunteer and was accepted and enlisted in Company E of the 12 Kansas Infantry, and served his country almost three years, receiving a honorable discharge at Little Rock June 13, 1865.
After the close of the war he returned to his Kansas home where by honesty, industry and good management he has acquired some very desirable property. For the last fifteen years he has been identified with the business interests of La Cygne, conducting very successfully a furniture store. He also held many city and county offices proving himself worthy of the confidence placed in him by his fellowmen. But it was in his judicial administration that he out-shown all his other gifts. He seemed especially qualified for that special work, hence he was commonly spoke of as “Judge”. His apprehensions were very rapid; his development of truth was luminous as its path; his knowledge appeared intuitive, and he, by a single glance, and with as much facility as the eye of the eagle passing over the landscape, surveyed the whole field on controversy—saw in what way the truth might be most successfully defended and how error must be approached. In coming into his presence where he sat as the Judge, oppressed humanity felt a secret rapture, and the heart of the innocent leaped for joy.
Wherever he was—it mattered not in that sphere he moved—the friendless had a friend, the fatherless had a father, the poor man though unable to reward his kindness, found an advocate. It was when the rich oppressed the poor—when the powerful menaced the defenseless, when truth was disregarded or the eternal principles of Justice violated it was on these occasions that he exercised all his strength, and gave him the force and authority of a prophet.
As a patriot, his integrity blessed the scrutiny of inquisition; whose manly virtue never shaped itself to circumstances; who stood amid the varying tides of party, firm like the rock which far from land lifts its majestic top above the waves and remains unshaken by the storms which agitate the ocean.
As a friend, he was true to his promise, his bosom was transparent and deep in the bottom of his heart was rooted every tender and sympathetic virtue. He made it a rule of his life to be upright, clean and pure in all his transactions with his fellowmen.
He has spent more than thirty years in the Church of God. And few men have exercised greater faith in God than did Mr. Conley. He took God at his word and expected the fulfillment of that word. He was not disappointed. Now his illuminated spirit still whispers from heaven with well known eloquence the solemn admonition, “Mortals hastening to the tomb and once the companions of my pilgrimage, take warning, and avoid my errors. Cultivate the virtues I have recommended. Follow the God I have followed. Live for immortality; and would you recite anything from the final dissolution lay it up with God. Thus speaks, me thinks our deceased benefactor. For thus he acted during life. And this more than any other sheds glory on his character. Everything else death effaces. Religion alone abided with him in his
Red carpet in place, celebrity style came to RAF Brize Norton on Friday 11th October as the very first BRAVOS Awards took place.
The awards were to recognise personnel, military and civilian on station for the superb work they do, day in and day out at the largest RAF Station in the UK. Group Captain Steve Lushington, Station Commander was delighted to kick off the awards “Tonight is all about the people at RAF Brize Norton who do a fantastic job every single day. This is a night to recognise them.”
Celebrities also turned out to make this an extra special evening: Victoria Pendleton and husband Scott Gardner, comedian Kane Brown and his lovely wife Suzy, former Lions fullback Tim Stimpston, Oxford United Football Club. BRAVOS Awards 2013
Winners were revealed, some shocked and surprised but all very worthy nominees:
Outstanding individual – Corporal Andrew Rogers
Support to the Armed Forces – Meg Evans
Ambassador for Brize – Corporal Martin Puxley
Valiant Volunteer – Senior Aircraftman Lauren Hogarth
Brize’s Unsung Hero – Sergeant Johnny Carberry-Rogers
Outstanding Achievement in Sports – Royal Air Force Brize Norton Buccaneers
Outstanding Personal Development – Senior Aircraftman Natasha Mukungungwa
Top team – The Force Protection Training Unit
Special Achievement Award – Lin Kennedy
Triumph Through Adversity Award – Sergeant Ryan Briggs
Sergeant Ryan Briggs who won the Triumph Through Adversity Award said “I’m quite humbled.
“You just do your job. As tasking as it was, I just had to get on with it. “I was more concerned about the guys who were involved”.
Military Wives Choir Brize Norton brought the evening to an end with a rendition of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. BRAVOS Awards 2013
Group Captain Steve Lushington “What a fantastic evening. What amazing representatives of RAF Brize Norton these people are”.
A totally awesome night! A huge congratulations to all our winners!
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I went to Krakow for like 4 nights, for a trip to see family and get some dental work done.. Some nice sight and sounds and great weather one day
Terra is a striking circular knit and a great easy lace project. Here Jennifer wears Terra as a layering piece for day, adding a splash of color and extra warmth to a stylish and casual winter outfit.
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Sebastião Lima da Silva and family speaking with CIFOR (Center for International Forestry Research) researchers.
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Redruth.
The SA Mining Company established Kooringa or Burra as it was more usually known in 1845 as the great copper mine at Burra opened. The government owned land to the north of this and surveyed an adjoining government town in 1848 with the town lots being sold in early 1849. In this government town a goal was built, a Courthouse and an early police station and lockup. Although surrounded by Hampton an English settlement, Aberdeen a Scottish settlement and Llwchwr a Welsh settlement, the government town of Redruth was not English but primarily a Cornish settlement. It eventually had two Methodist Churches. The Primitive Methodists opened a small church in 1858 which is now privately owned and the Wesleyan Methodists opened a much grander and larger church in 1874. After Methodist Union in 1900 the Wesleyan Church became the Methodist Church. In 1924 a grand Sunday school was opened next door to this church. The Zion Primitive Methodist Church closed in 1900 and the Wesleyan Church closed in more recent decades.
A large gaol was erected at Redruth in 1856 and it was the first gaol outside of Adelaide as Burra was such a big centre of population in the colony at that time. The gaol closed in 1894 and became a reformatory for wayward girls but this too closed in 1922. It is now run by the National Trust. The fine old Courthouse in Redruth was opened in 1857 and only closed in 1986. The Italianate style Police station was erected in 1879 and was used for this purpose until 1971. Redruth had a hotel, and it was on the edge of the SAMA copper smelters. Redruth was named after the same place in Cornwall as most of the miners living there had migrated to SA from Cornwall. Among the early buyers of land in Redruth was William Paxton a chemist of Adelaide and a major investor in the Burra copper mining company. In Kooringa (Burra) be built a square of miners cottages which were rented to the mine workers. Paxton built his city house on North Terrace and it later became Ayers House. Henry Ayers, another mining company director and Premier of SA lived in it and eventually purchased it from Paxton after Paxton returned to live in England in 1855. A charming row of six Cornish miners’ terraces was built in Redruth from 8 to 18 Truro Road by James Tiver a local storekeeper in 1856. They are known as Tivers’ Row.
Aberdeen.
The township of Aberdeen was a private town west of the government town of Redruth. Next to the town of Aberdeen was the Bon accord copper mine. The town was subdivided by Robert Morehead and Matthew Young in 1849 when they advertised 144 town lots for sale. But their auction attracted only 20 buyers and Aberdeen never thrived. The railway line reached Aberdeen in 1870. The magnificent stone station was erected much later in 1883 with some later additions. The railway line closed to passengers in 1986 and the station was left derelict but grain trains serviced the grain silos until 1999. The Burra railway station has now been beautifully restored and it reopened in 2014 as a museum. Near the railway station are sale yards and the Bon Accord Hotel named after the Aberdeen copper mine. The first Bon Accord Hotel was built in the 1850s but destroyed by fire in 1879. The current Bon Accord Hotel was erected in 1880 although the sign on the building says established in 1875!
The Bon Accord mine was established by a group of Scottish investors from Aberdeen hoping to make a fortune like investors in the Burra mine had done. But they had no luck. No worthwhile lode of copper was ever discovered at Bon Accord. Mining operations opened in 1846 and closed in 1849 when land was sold to create the township of Aberdeen to raise some funds. Work started again in 1858 and continued until 1862 but again no worthwhile returns were obtained. It was in this period from 1858 to 1862 that most of the above ground mine structures were built – mine offices, blacksmith’s shop, mine managers residence, pump house etc. When the Burra Mine pump house closed in 1877 and the water levels rose the Bon Accord mine shafts were flooded and no work was ever again undertaken. The pumps though were operated to pump water for the town water supply until the Murray pipeline from Mannum reached the Burra district in 1966. The above ground mine buildings still remain and are operated by the National Trust as a mining museum.
The Shrine of Solmoe
Birthplace of Saint Andrea Kim Dae-gun
May 13, 2014
Songsan-ri, Wookang-myeon, Dangjin-si, Chungcheongnam-do
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This is the "Punch" end of the buffet table . . . the floating apples are frozen. These are used instead of ice or a frozen punch ring (hard to make as far as *I* am concerned - I quit doing it years ago and use apples of "seasonal" colors - - - green and yellow in the spring, and red or green (depending on what color the punch is) for Christmas, yellow or red for fall, etc. I used green in the white-cranberry-grape-juice punch for my daughter's wedding. (Picture of THAT punch bowl is in the first comment below . . . it wouldn't "stick" here!
My mom taught me this trick and people love it. The apples can be "trash apples" - things you don't particularly enjoy eating . . . small ones, etc., as long as they are good and clean without bruises or "bad" places since they get quite mushy when they thaw out over several hours time.
They're festive and they make WONDERFUL "ice cubes" - - - keep it very cold without diluting the punch at *all*!!!!
In the immortal words of Mikey, the Life Cereal kid, "Try it! You'll LIKE it!" :)
Having visited this dockyard in August 2017, it brought back many memories for me having sailed out from there in 1963 on H.M.S. Venus to the Azores. I was then a Cook in the Royal Navy serving at H.M.S Ganges in Suffolk. It was a cold winter day then and I was over the side of the ship scrubbing it clean before we sailed. Arriving at the entrance it was a bit disconcerting to see the queues of people waiting to get in. The queue took 40 minutes to allow where I was to arrive at the ticket gate. A bag search told me I was to leave my Monopod with them for safe keeping at the ticket office. This also applies to Tripods for camera equipment so remember this.
The first ship you see is the H.M.S Warrior on the left hand side dock. This ship was the fastest, largest and most powerful warship in the world when she was launched. Such was her reputation that enemy fleets were intimidated by her obvious supremacy and deterred from attacking Britain at sea although she never fired a shot in anger. HMS Warrior was a 40 gun steam powered armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior and her sister ship HMS Black Prince were the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warships, and were built in response to France's launching in 1859 of the first ocean-going ironclad warship, the wooden-hulled Gloire. Warrior conducted a publicity tour of Great Britain in 1863 and spent her active career with the Channel Squadron. On board HMS Warrior which was launched in 1860, Britain’s first iron-hulled, armoured battleship. The ship is powered by steam and sail and was the largest, fastest and most powerful warship of her day and had a lasting influence on naval architecture and design. Work and life on board reflected both the changes the Royal Navy experienced as it evolved into a professional service and shifts in Victorian society.Built to encounter the latest of the French ships, Warrior was, in her time, the ultimate sea warrior. Yet by creating a new era in naval technology, she very soon became outdated. After 22 years’ service, Warrior’s hull was to be used as a depot, floating school and an oil jetty. Painstakingly restored in Hartlepool and then back home to Portsmouth since 1987, Warrior is a unique survivor of the once formidable Victorian Navy and now serves as a museum ship, visitor attraction, popular private hire venue and more. HMS Warrior was rescued in the 1980’s, restored and brought back home to Portsmouth and is owned by Warrior Preservation Trust, an independent charity. Sadly, time has it taken its toll and today she is in a sorry state - her bulwarks, which keep her watertight, have failed and are deteriorating to a point which places her at significant risk.
Next ship I saw was H.M.S. Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is best known for her role as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. She additionally served as Keppel's flagship at Ushant, Howe's flagship at Cape Spartel and Jervis's flagship at Cape St Vincent. After 1824, she was relegated to the role of harbour ship. In 1922, she was moved to a dry dock at Portsmouth, England, and preserved as a museum ship. She has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012 and is the world's oldest naval ship still in commission. This the world’s most famous warship HMS Victory is crumbling under her own weight. An 18-month programme to bring this historic ship back to its original condition. H.M.S. Victory has been sitting in dry dock in Portsmouth since 1922 supported by 22 steel cradles positioned at six metre intervals. It has been well recorded that the 252 year old ship is collapsing ( so to speak ) under her own weight and following a detailed laser scan of 89.25 billion measurements and computer modelling, a new support system has been designed to record how the ship would sit in water.
The Mary Rose Museum is run by the Mary Rose Trust. The construction has been a challenge because the museum has been built over the ship in the dry dock, which is now a listed monument. During construction of the museum, conservation of the hull continued inside a sealed hotbox. In April 2013, the polyethylene glycol sprays were turned off and the process of controlled air drying began. In 2016 the hotbox walls were removed and after reopening on 20 July 2016 the ship is currently on display behind glass. This new museum displays most of the artefacts recovered from within the ship in context with the conserved hull. Since the opening it has been visited by over a million people. The museum is dedicated to the 16th century Tudor navy warship Mary Rose as well as the historical context in which she was active. The museum opened in 1984.T he Mary Rose is a Tudor ship that was built in 1510. In service for 34 years, it sank in 1545 and then discovered in 1971 and was raised in 1982.
Another ship I went to visit was HMS M.33 which is the only sole remaining British veteran of the bloody Dardanelles Campaign of 1915-1916, and also the Russian Civil War which followed. The ship is one of just three British warships from World War I still in existence. HMS M.33 was built in 1915 on the orders of the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill. She was a floating gun platform designed to bombard coastal positions from the sea. Her first active operation was the support of the British landings at Suvla during the Battle of Gallipoli in August 1915. She remained stationed at Gallipoli until the evacuation in January 1916. She served in the Mediterranean for the remainder of the War and was involved in the seizure of the Greek fleet at Salamis Bay in 1916.
In the dockyard you will find many other attractions and museums along with various shops catering for items of interest connected to this historic site.
People queueing (:O) for a photo atop Devil’s bridge, the largest rock arch in Red Rock Country Northwest of Sedona, Arizona, USA.
Sui versanti più rocciosi e esposti ai venti marini la vegetazione si riduce ulteriormente lasciando il posto alla gariga, un’associazione di bassi cespugli ed erbe tra cui rosmarino, pungitopo, salvia, santoreggia, ruta, elicriso.
Le numerose forre che solcano il paesaggio della Costiera Amalfitana offrono sorprese veramente straordinarie. Formate da antiche faglie e profondamente erose dagli agenti atmosferici queste valli strette e ricche d’acqua si presentano ombrose e umide con una vegetazione sorprendentemente rigogliosa. Risalire, da Amalfi, la Valle dei Mulini e poi inoltrarsi nella Valle delle Ferriere, sembra far scoprire, per un singolare fenomeno di inversione climatica, un angolo di tropico, un habitat tipico di aree temperate ad altitudini maggiori. È il regno della Woodwardia Radicans, esempio raro di flora preglaciale, ormai tipica solo delle aree tropicali del sud-est asiatico, con cui convive la Parnassia Palustris dai fiori bianchi, l’Arisarum Proboscideum dal fiore simile all’orchidea, la Pesasites Hibridus e, qua e là, la piccola carnivora Pinguicola Hirtiflora, con le sue foglie vischiose, che tende trappole mortali ai piccoli insetti.
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On rocky slopes most exposed to sea winds and the vegetation is further reduced, giving way to scrubland, an association of low shrubs and herbs such as rosemary, holly, sage, savory, rue, everlasting.
The numerous canyons that crisscross the landscape of the Amalfi Coast offer surprises really extraordinary. Formed by ancient faults and deeply eroded by weathering these narrow valleys and rich water appear shady and humid with a surprisingly lush vegetation. Climb from Amalfi, Valley Mills and then advancing in the Valle delle Ferriere, seems to discover a singular phenomenon of climate reversal, a corner of the tropics, a typical habitat of temperate regions at higher altitudes. It is the realm of Woodwardia radicans, a rare example of pre-glacial flora, now only typical of tropical areas of Southeast Asia, which coexists with the Parnassia palustris white flowers, the orchid flower similar Arisarum Proboscideum from the Pesasites Hibridus and Here and there, the small carnivorous Pinguicola hirtiflora, with its sticky leaves, which tends deadly trap for small insects.
Liesegang banding in quartzite in the Precambrian of Wisconsin, USA.
The Baraboo Ranges of southern Wisconsin are dominated by a hard, erosion-resistant Precambrian metamorphic unit called the Baraboo Quartzite. These rocks were originally marine sandstones and have been subjected to metamorphism and structural folding. Original sedimentary structures are preserved, such as cross-bedding and ripple marks. Baraboo Quartzites vary in color from pinkish to dark reddish to grayish. During metamorphism, quartz overgrowths formed over the original quartz sand grains. Long-term, modern weathering can result in original sand grains being released.
This unit has economic significance - it has been quarried historically and in modern times. The quartzite is broken down into gravel-sized pieces for use as railroad ballast and erosion-control rip-rap.
The lines, or "layers", in the quartzite shown above do not represent sedimentary bedding or lamination or any other sedimentary structures. This thin, closely-spaced banding is called "Liesegang banding". It usually occurs as irregular, reddish or brownish or orangish-brown iron oxide banding in porous rocks, particularly sandstones and pebbly sandstones. These features are almost universally referred to as “Liesegang banding”, representing precipitation lines of iron-rich minerals (e.g., hematite, limonite, goethite, etc.) at & along groundwater chemical interfaces. However, according to Neil Wells of Kent State University, the original concept of Liesegang banding (Liesegang, 1896) does not match up with what is seen in the rock record (see Wells et al., 2003).
True Liesegang banding refers to parallel bands of precipitate formed by diffusion along a single chemical gradient during one event. What's seen in the rock record often consists of sets of irregularly concentric iron bands, with different sets of bands quite frequently oriented in different directions, and showing cross-cutting and dissolution of older sets. Iron oxide banding in the rock record is clearly the result of numerous precipitation events over long periods of time by moving groundwater (Wells et al., 2003). Iron oxide mineralization along these bands appears to be induced by the presence of either a redox interface (change from reducing to oxidizing conditions in the groundwater) or a pH interface (change in acidity).
Because Neil Wells is the first (apparently) to point out that what geologists have been calling Liesegang banding really isn’t, a renaming seems to be in order. It was jokingly suggested in 2003 that the iron banding discussed above be called “Wells Banding”. I’m all for that.
The "Liesegang banding" seen above is unusual in that it is in quartzite, a hard, tight, non-porous metamorphic rock. Before metamorphism, the quartzite was sandstone. The banding was acquired before alteration to quartzite.
Stratigraphy: Baraboo Quartzite, upper Paleoproterozoic, ~1.7 Ga
Locality: Tumbled Rocks Trail, northwestern margin of Devil's Lake, Devil's Lake State Park, northern part of the South Range of the Baraboo Ranges, southeast of the town of Baraboo, eastern Sauk County, southern Wisconsin, USA (43° 25' 34.34" North, 89° 44' 06.56" West)
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References cited:
Liesegang, R.E. 1896. Ueber einige Eigenschaften von Gal-lerten [On some properties of gelatin]. Naturwissenschaftliche Wochenschrift 11: 353-362. (see also: Liesegang, R.E. 1945. Geologische Bänderungen durch Diffusion und Kapillarität [Geologic banding by diffusion and capillarity]. Chemie der Erde, Zeitschrift der Chemischen, Mineralogie, Petrographie, Geologie und Bodenkunde 15: 420-423.)
Wells, N.A., D.A. Waugh & A.M. Foos. 2003. Some notes and hypotheses concerning iron and iron remobilization features in the Sharon Formation (Summit County, Ohio). in Pennsylvanian Sharon Formation, past and present: sedimentology, hydrogeology, and historical and environmental significance, a field guide to Gorge Metro Park, Virginia Kendall Ledges in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, and other sites in northeast Ohio. Ohio Division of Geological Survey Guidebook 18: 33-37.
Dutch first edition 1887 of Alice in Wonderland (Dutch: Alice in het land der droomen) under the name of Eleonora Mann.
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - FEBRUARY 26: Fans in audience with sign for 100 Thieves at the VALORANT Champions Tour 2023: LOCK//IN Groups Stage on February 26, 2023 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)
Cypress Trees in Fog. Point Lobos State Reserve, California. August 21, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Cypress trees on rocky shoreline cliffs at Pinnacle Point, Point Lobos State Reserve, California.
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Not the weather I was expecting...
In the middle of a Friday afternoon I was trying to decide where in the greater SF Bay Area to shoot. I'd shot in The City a few days ago, and shot Muir Woods at about the same time, so I wasn't thinking of those kinds of locations. As I frequently do when pondering such things, I went to the NWS web site to see what conditions might be like on the coast. I had a vague notion to go to Point Lobos for an evening shoot, so I check the weather report for that area. I must have read too fast because I didn't see anything about fog...
So I quickly loaded up and headed off to the Monterey Peninsula with ideas about photographing beautiful golden hour light at one of my favorite shoreline locations. Oddly, as I approached the Salinas River, there was some fog in the air. In full-on "explain it away" mode I told myself that it was probably remnants left over from the clearing that was certainly underway now. Supporting this notion, by the time I got to Marina the air over the Bay was quite clear, though there were some clouds atop the ridge above Monterey. Again, I told myself, "It is clearing still. I'll get there just in time for the sun to emerge!"
Passing Carmel it was just plain foggy, and when I entered Point Lobos nothing changed. Still, I told myself - again! - that it must have just not cleared here yet. Any sane person who knows this area would have recognized my delusion at this point. While it is possible - just barely - for the fog to clear at 5:30 along this coastline, that is about as likely as putting your car in first gear and having it go backwards... Nonetheless, I wandered on out to the Monterey Cypress groves along the northern portion of the Reserve, happy to photograph the trees in the soft light of the fog.
As the evening wore on, it eventually became clear - even to me! - that the fog was coming in, not going out. I set about looking for "foggy subjects" to photograph, still working mostly in and around the cypress forest. This photograph is yet another example of how conditions can change the shot completely. Here there was just enough fog to mute the background pinnacle and other rocks and barely reveal a bit of the ocean beyond, but it was not so foggy that the closer tree on the rocky prominence was hidden.
On a clearer evening I would have stayed a half hour after sunset to continue shooting... but the light was really gone long before that.
(More of my Point Lobos photographs)
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In the pre-dawn hours of June 16, 1983, "Yankee Bravo Zero Six" was on a submarine-hunting training mission north of the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
The Orion's radar was off, in order to be undetected by the submarine. The night, overcast sky made for zero visibility.
At just after 4 a.m., the aircraft hit a steep ridge on the Na Pali Coast of Kauai.
All fourteen Shipmates were lost.
In memoriam of the 14 men aboard U.S. Navy P-3 Orion YB-06 of VP-1 that crashed on Kalepa ridge between Honopu and Kalalau valleys on June 16, 1983.
Squadron VP-1
Lt. Cmdr. J.R. Moseley, Macon, Georgia
Lt. M.E. Gallagher, Pensacola, Florida
Lt. j.g. R.L. Coulter, Glendora, N.J.
Lt. j.g. R.W. Bruno, Mojave, Calif.
Lt j.g. M.R. Lunde, Arlington, Texas
S.A. Phipps, Monticello, Ky.
B.M. Sparrow, Westland Michigan
B.D. Sunde, Erie, Pa.
R.C. Wilson, Fresno, Calif.
A.S. Castillo, Hollister, Calif.
Ronald Lipschutz Jr., Elverta, Calif. hometown Southington, CT.
L.A. Roth, Oxnard, Calif. and Houston
C. Chambers, Houston, Texas
D. Stringer, Eau Claire, Wis.
Underwater Odyssey snorkeling-tour in Pattaya on November-18-2024
One of the best for observing the tropical underwater world, guided snorkeling tour from Pattaya City to Samae Sarn National Park. In the first half of the day there will be a speed boat trip with snorkeling near a group of uninhabited islands, where Nemo fish and sea turtles live. And secondary, after a delicious lunch - time to relax at Hat Nang Ram, the beach in Sattahip. Snorkeling equipment, meal and transfer are provided.
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A 20-year-old man was listed in critical condition Saturday morning after a motorcycle and car crashed in unincorporated Woodstock.
At around 7:26 a.m. on Saturday, a 2001 Suzuki motorcycle, driven by a 20-year-old man from Wonder Lake, was headed eastbound on Route 120 east of Raffel Road. Sheriff’s officials said the driver of the Suzuki crossed over the double yellow centerline attempting to pass a line of cars.
A 2002 Buick Century, driven by a 24-year-old female from Woodstock, was slowing to turn left into a parking lot and as the Buick turned, the motorcycle collided with the it, ejecting the driver from the motorcycle, authorities said.
The driver of the motorcycle was wearing his helmet at the time of the crash. He was transported by a Flight For Life medical helicopter to Advocate Condell Hospital in Libertyville with serious injuries. The driver of the Buick sustained no injuries. Officials said that no other occupants were within, or riding on, any of the vehicles.
Route 120 remained closed for approximately 4 hours during the investigation.
Members of the Woodstock Police Department and Woodstock Fire Protection District assisted.
The investigation is ongoing by the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office Major Crash Investigation Unit.
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Central World Plaza was a shopping plaza and complex, in Bangkok, Thailand It was the second largest shopping complex in Southeast Asia, after SM City North EDSA of the Philippines. The complex, which included a hotel and office tower, was owned by Central Pattana. In 2006, after three years of design and renovation, Central World Plaza was expanded to 550,000 square metres of shopping mall and 1,024,000 square metres of complex, topping its nearby rival Siam Paragon in terms of size.
On May 19, 2010, Central World Plaza was gutted by fire set by rioters in the aftermath of a military operation against anti-government protesters known as Red Shirts. Thai media reported that a portion of the building had collapsed and the building had been declared a danger zone because of fears of the complex entirely collapsing, and that the building would have to be demolished.
Originally called the World Trade Center, the eight-story mall was opened in 1990. Central Group acquired the property in 2002 from the Wang Petchaboon group and soon thereafter renamed it Central World Plaza, and in 2005 re christened it Central World. It is on Crown Property Bureau land. In its acquisition, the Central Group's property development arm, Central Pattana ( SET: CPN ), secured a new 30-year lease on the site.
Expecting the opening of the luxury Siam Paragon, CPN started massive renovations and expansion on the site in 2003. The original mall structure was 300,000 square meters. The expansion plans boosted that to 550,000 square meters. Though the work had not yet been completed, CPN held an official opening of the renovated complex on July 21, 2006, and it was expected to be fully operational by October 2006. As of May 2007 the mall was fully opened but some premises in parts of the upper floors remain still vacant. Major exterior construction was ongoing on the hotel situated in the northwest corner of the mall, and the extension floors to the ZEN department store in southeast corner.
The renovated complex aimed to attract 150,000 customers per day, spending more than seven billion Baht annually. It marketed itself as a middle class shopping centre, opposed to the upper class-marketed Siam Paragon.
At first, Central World did not appear to reach its goal in term of daily visitors due to several reasons, including political turmoil and ongoing economic downturn. However, shopper numbers soon increased, though reliable figures are hard to find. Bangkok's New Year countdown gatherings were held in front of Central World, a tradition that developed in recent years, with the number of people increasing steadily.