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HELSINKI, FINLAND—Researchers from the University of Helsinki and the University of Edinburgh have discovered evidence of parvovirus in about half of the skeletal remains of 106 World War II casualties recovered from the battlefields of Karelia, located in what is now Russian territory. This is the first time that traces of virus have been found in old bones, which are the part of the body most likely to be preserved after death. “Human tissue is like a life-long archive that stores the fingerprint of the viruses that an individual has encountered during his or her lifetime,” professor of clinical virology Klaus Hedman said in a press release. In fact, two of the deceased carried a type of parvovirus that has not circulated in Nordic countries. When combined with other genetic information, this suggests that these were likely Russian soldiers, and not Finnish ones. “Such a combination of human and viral DNA can help us both identify the recently dead—making it a new tool for forensic identification or ancestry investigation—and determine how ancient humans migrated around the globe,” explained Antti Sajantila, professor of genetic medicine. To read about how the tuberculosis bacterium may have first arrived in the Americas, go to "Across the Atlantic by Flipper."
On August 31, around 5.000 people came together in Berlin to protest against homophobia and the anti-gay laws in Russia. The rally started in the western part of the city and ended in front of the Russian embassy in central Berlin. The whole demonstration last over five hours.
LGBT-people in Russia are not only faced with every day homophobia. Russian laws, like the ban of “propaganda of non-traditional- sexual relation” and the law on “foreign agents”, violate basic human rights and impede the work of many NGOs. All together this created an environment which supported the growth of violence against LGBT-people and activists. Thus, the participants sent its critique not only to the Russian government. One also appealed to the German government and to all sponsors of the Olympic Winter games in Sotchi next year to “open your mouth!” Last but not least, the demonstration showed solidarity with all affected people in Russia.
Included in the photo is the case of a standard 50 caliber (0.5 inch) Browning machine-gun round I found on a mountainside on the Isle of Arran in 1968. At the time, there were two or three dozen of these cases and plenty other bits of wreckage littering the small coire below Beinn Nuis (792m, c 2600ft). This was 24 years after the accident.
After much reading, I am now certain that, having been found below Beinn Nuis, this exploded case came from the Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress “Skipper an’ The Kids” which, almost certainly, crashed in full flight into the eastern cliff face of the mountain when having navigation difficulties in thick cloud.
The aircraft had left its USAAF 8th Air Force base at Knettishall in Suffolk on 10th December 1944, on a cross-country navigation and familiarisation flight to Prestwick on the Ayrshire coast, Scotland.
Capt John N Littlejohn, his crew and passengers (11 souls in all) were all killed, their remains and the wreckage not being found until three months later when a local hillwalker saw a glint of metal and heard the odd sound of melting icicles falling onto it.
A tragic end to those lives and to an aircraft that had been cherished by previous crews as a “lucky ship”, having returned from missions as far away as Berlin, badly shot up at times, and with over 60 missions under its belt.
For an excellent, fuller account of this B-17’s life, its last mission, and the guys who flew in her, I do not hesitate in pointing you towards “Tail-End Charlies” by John Nichol (Gulf War pilot and POW) & Tony Rennell (Penguin 2005).
The mountains on Arran – all less than 2900 feet in height – regularly posed a hazard to aircraft approaching Prestwick Airport during World War 2 when thousands of American aircraft made landfall in the UK there. Tens of thousands of US built aircraft reached the European war theatre through the "lend-lease" agreement, via Prestwick. The mountains on Arran claimed the lives of dozens of fliers in the early 1940s when a pair of fully-laden Liberators and this B-17 flew into them in bad weather. Nichol & Rennell say “Skipper” was just one of seventeen planes that crashed on Arran in the war, including brand-new bombers arriving in Britain after crossing the Atlantic.
The modest mountains - in the track of Atlantic weather systems - catch up to about 2700 mm (90") of rainfall per year and are regularly covered by cloud. Turbulence and icing are enhanced, too. The mantra “high ground kills” still applies today for aviators, but it is difficult to conceive nowadays how dangerous flying was in poor weather in those times. It is said by some, that about half of the 55,000 aircrew of Bomber Command who died in WW2 were killed in accidents. We owe all those people and their families a great deal.
(The red markers on the map show the locations of Beinn Nuis and Prestwick.)
See a fine image of Beinn Nuis and its east face (along with other pictures of the, otherwise charming, Isle of Arran) on David Taylor's site:
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Two Oaks, Morning Sun. Calero Hills, California. April 30, 2011. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
The springtime morning sun shines through a pair of oak trees in the Calero Hills south of San Jose, California.
On the final day of April and for the first time this season, I found to go for a hike at my favorite local park, a place where I have walked just about every available trail (and invented a few routes of my own) and photographed for a number of years. The park would not seem like anything all that special by comparison to some of the other places I visit, but it is close and I've gotten to know it in a way that makes it more special. The place is called the Calero County Park, part of the Santa Clara County Parks system.
The entrance to the park is in a broad valley that is largely occupied by stables. (Or, used to be - it looks like the stables must have closed since last season.) Rising from this valley are the typical grass covered hills of central and northern California, with oaks and other trees scattered around and, in places, thicker trees and brush. At this time of year, the hills turn what I call "impossibly green" - and if you have seen them on a late-winter or early spring morning you know what I mean.
I started this hike a bit after dawn, so the golden hour light was more or less gone. I had a general idea of photographing some wildflowers (which didn't happen - it was too windy) and some oak trees that grow alone or in small groups on the grass-covered hills. I passed a small lake - where a single egret often hangs out, but not on this morning - and topped a rise and descended into a small valley from which I have made quite a few photographs of oaks. It didn't look too promising at first, but at the far end of this area I noticed that a pair of trees were still obscuring the sun and that I might be able to shoot straight into the sun with the trees blocking its disk, and get a photograph including the tree shadows on the hillside grasses.
This turned out to be another of those all-too-common ephemeral photographs in that the sun was starting to rise above the top branches of the tree and would soon be "out in the open," making it much too bright for what I had in mind. So I worked quickly to set up tripod and camera and select a lens, then frame a composition, focus, and make a series of exposures that might be needed to deal with the huge dynamic range between direct sun and backlit tree trunks. By the time I had everything set up and was ready to shoot the sun had already risen above the upper branches, so I ended up looking for a slightly better shadow and putting the tripod down very low - and this gave me must enough time to make the series of exposures I figured I would need.
In the end, I got lucky. One single shot somehow managed to not blow the sun out too badly yet hold enough detail in the grass that a bit of work in post could bring it back. With all of the potential for lens flare - which I had to some extent in every shot - this one only had two small bits of it, and they were easily dealt with.
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Photo Caption: Mark Lankester (right) and Jonathan Yabut, the first ever winner of The Apprentice Asia.
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TUNE HOTELS’ RAPID EXPANSION IN PHILIPPINES BUOYED BY FASTER-THAN-EXPECTED ECONOMIC GROWTH
Third Tune Hotel opens in Manila; overall six in country
MANILA, October 17, 2013 – The Philippines and its people have all the great things coming their way with an economic wave that has driven direct investments into the country including by international hotel brand Tune Hotels, said its Group CEO Mark Lankester.
“This is a great market for us to do business. In less than two years we already have six hotels in operation in the Philippines, including the newly opened Tune Hotel Quezon City in Manila. Not to mention four more to come in Ortigas, Davao, Aseana City and Ayala Avenue in Metro Manila within the next nine months,” said Lankester.
The 140-room Tune Hotel Quezon City, located at Timog Avenue, is the group’s third hotel in Metro Manila. It opened its doors for business on October 8.
The first Tune Hotel in the Philippines opened at Angeles City in Pampanga in February 2012, followed by Ermita and Makati in Metro Manila, Cebu City and Cagayan De Oro.
International economic and financial agencies including the World Bank and Asian Development Bank have revised the Philippines’ 2013 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth upward to 7 per cent from around 6 per cent previously. This makes the Philippines the second fastest growing economy in Asia after China, and ahead of all its Southeast Asian neighbors. The strong growth is forecast to be sustained into coming years.
“This is a really great year for the Philippines and its people. The economy is booming, there is a great mood amongst the people and there are plenty of new jobs being created. Tourism within and into the Philippines is expanding massively, with really successful government marketing campaigns and the recent lifting of the European flights will only help contribute further to the tourism economy. In addition Filipinos have also made their mark on the Regional and International arena,” he said in reference to Filipino personalities like Jonathan Yabut who emerged the first ever winner of ‘The Apprentice Asia’ and Miss World 2013 Megan Young.
“There is a noticeable mood in the air that it really is the time for the Philippines to shine.”
Lankester had played Advisor to Tony Fernandes on the first ever ‘The Apprentice Asia’, the regional adaptation of the US reality series ‘The Apprentice’ this year.
He added: “It is very interesting to note that the Philippines has surpassed India as Asia’s top call-centre service provider, proving that it has quality human capital that are capable of driving the country to the next level.”
The Philippines has set a target of 10 million international tourist arrivals by 2016, more than double the 4.3 million tourists it received in 2012. Arrivals for 2013 have been projected at 5.5 million, contributing some PHP 1.5 trillion or 6.7 per cent to the GDP.
“We are very pleased with the commitment shown by the Department of Tourism and the Government in not only setting targets but to undertake firm initiatives to facilitate further growth of the tourism and travel industry in the Philippines. The country has a lot to offer and is destined to be a favorite destination in the region.
“For Tune Hotels, we look forward to positively contributing towards this effort by providing international standard accommodation at highly affordable rates, giving international tourists and locals alike the holiday experience they deserve. It’s definitely ‘more fun in the Philippines’ with Tune Hotels,” said the CEO.
Tune Hotels provides international-class high-quality accommodation which focuses on key essentials but minus the generally underused facilities found in other hotels such as swimming pools, business centres and gymnasiums. By doing away with these costly and high-maintenance facilities, Tune Hotels is able to pass on savings to its guests in the form of super low room rates. Its pay-as-you-use concept lets travelers choose and pay only for amenities that they require to keep costs down, reduce waste and save energy.
The group has received over five million guests since the opening of its first hotel in Downtown Kuala Lumpur in 2007. With the opening of Quezon City, Tune Hotels now has six hotels in the Philippines, eleven in Malaysia, five each in the UK and Indonesia, four in Thailand, and one each in India, Japan and Australia. Apart from further expansion in these countries, future Tune Hotels are also being planned in the Middle East, Europe and Africa.
Tune Hotels is part of Tune Group, a lifestyle business conglomerate co-founded by Tony Fernandes and Kamarudin Meranun, who are the Group CEO and Deputy Group CEO respectively of Asia’s largest low cost carrier AirAsia.
For real-time updates and promotion alerts, guests can stay connected with Tune Hotels via Facebook at www.facebook.com/tunehotelsPH and on Twitter via www.twitter.com/tunehotels.
For booking and further information, visit www.tunehotels.com.
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About Tune Hotels
Tune Hotels is part of the lifestyle business conglomerate Tune Group that was founded by Tan Sri Tony Fernandes and Dato’ Kamarudin Meranun. Tune Hotels seeks to innovate and revolutionise the way services are made available and has employed efficient web-based technologies to reach and engage its customers, presenting a unique lifestyle opportunity. All Tune Hotels’ properties feature space-efficient, streamlined rooms focusing on high-quality basics: a five-star bed, powerful hot showers and energy-conserving ceiling fans along with housekeeping services, electronic keycard access into rooms, CCTV surveillance, and 24-hour security. The Tune Group companies include Tune Air (a substantial shareholder of AirAsia), Tune Hotels, Tune Insurance, Tune Talk, the AirAsia BIG Loyalty Programme, Tune Box, Tune Studios, Caterham Group, Queens Park Rangers Football Club (QPR) and the Epsom College in Malaysia.
Photos can be downloaded from www.flickr.com/tunehotels.
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Mobile: +6012 315 3638
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Behind the Giant Tiger store in downtown Grimsby, Ontario, a brilliantly painted orange and blue former school bus has been transformed to fullfil its current role in life as a fry truck. Sitting on the edge of a parking lot it attracts downtown shoppers with the cooking smells. Adjacent to the truck are a couple of picnic tables for patrons and at one of these, I struck up a conversation with a retired gentleman. After drifting around a bit, the conversation eventually turned to the scratch-off lottery card he was holding and then further onto gambling in general. Shortly thereafter a bearded friend joined him and the two of them regaled me with stories of notable winnings, but still conceded the reality of long-time net losses. I noted that the second gentleman was wearing an orange safety sweat shirt, a colour nearly matching the brilliant orange used for the fry truck’s upper half. I asked him to let me shoot him against the truck as a background. It took a little convincing but he did eventually agree. So we have a man in orange set against an orange background that is the fry truck. - JW
Date Taken: 2-18-05-07
Tech Details:
Taken using a hand-held Nikon D7100 fitted with a AF-S DX Nikkor 18-105mm VR lense set to 52mm, ISO100, Auto WB, Aperture priority mode, f/7.1, 1/250 sec. PP in free open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set/scale final image size to 9000px wide, crop off the bottom and right side (preserving the 3:2 aspect ratio of the original image) to get rid of a small blue element from the background (bottom right in original), adjust exposure compensation to brighten the image by +1.15 stops, slightly increase colour temperature in White balance to warm the image a bit, very slightly boost Vibrance with skin tone protection turned on, enable Shadow/highlights and bring up shadow detail to bring out detail in the shadow ares of the face and also boost highlight recovery to handle the highlights on the forehead and cheeks, sharpen, save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: move the black point of the tone curve to the right and then make minor adjustment to the tone curve to fine-tune the tonality, duplicate the image to a new top layer and add a black/transparent layer mask, use a large soft-edged brush with white paint to paint in the shadow areas only of the face, in the main image area of the to layer adjust the tone curve to pul up the shadow tonality without impacting the rest of the image, create new working layer from visible result, use the dodge/burn tool on the highlights only to brighten the whites of the man’s eyes, very slightly boost overall saturation to clean up the colours and then on the yellow channel only only slightly reduce its brightness, remove a slight green cast using the colour balance tool, sharpen, save, scale image to 6000x4000, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 1800 wide for posting online, sharpen slightly, save.
Plumes of smoke blow across northern California in the wake of several wildfires that erupted across the region due to hot, dry weather and windy conditions. This image, captured by the GOES East satellite on June 26, 2018, shows smoke extending across California's Central Valley into neighboring Nevada as the fires have grown in size. The hazy smoke is also visible off the California coast, where the normally blue waters of the Pacific Ocean have taken on a beige-gray colored hue.
The largest of the blazes is the Pawnee Fire in Lake County, about 130 miles north of the San Francisco Bay Area. As of Tuesday morning, the fire had grown to 11,500 acres and was 5 percent contained, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire). Since the fire began on June 23, it has destroyed 22 structures and forced about 3,000 people to evacuate the area, prompting the California governor to declare a state of emergency for Lake County.
Last year, historic and deadly wildfires charred more than 245,000 acres in Sonoma and Napa, about an hour and a half south of this week's Pawnee Fire. The October 2017 fires were also visible from the GOES-16 satellite, prior to it becoming operational as GOES East in December 2017. Thanks to high-resolution imagery from GOES-16, including red-green-blue thermal infrared imagery used to detect fire hot spots, forecasters at the National Weather Service were able to locate fires more quickly, and coordinate warnings with local emergency managers that helped save lives.
Credit: NOAA
The Golden Ratio in Dr. Elliot McGucken's Fine Art Ballet Photography!
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Dr. E's: Golden Number Ratio Principle--Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty: The golden ratio exalts beauty because the number is a characteristic of the mathematically and physically most efficient manners of growth and distribution, on both evolutionary and purely physical levels. The golden ratio ensures that the proportions and structure of that which came before provide the proportions and structure of that which comes after, thusly providing symmetry over not only space but time, and exalting life’s foundational dynamic symmetry. Robust, ordered, symmetric growth is naturally associated with health and beauty, and thus we evolved to perceive the golden ratio harmonies as inherently beautiful, as we saw and felt their presence in all vital growth and life—in the salient features and proportions of humans and nature alike, from the distribution of our facial features and bones to the arrangements of petals, leaves, and sunflowers seeds. As ratios between Fibonacci Numbers offer the closest whole-number approximations to the golden ratio, and as seeds, cells, leaves, bones, and other physical entities appear in whole numbers, the Fibonacci Numbers oft appear in the arrangement of nature’s discrete elements as “growth’s numbers.” From the dawn of time, humanity sought to salute their gods in art and temples exalting the same proportion by which they and all their vital sustenance, as well as all the flowers and nature’s epic beauty, had been created—the golden ratio.
Fine Art Ballet Photography: Nikon D810 Elliot McGucken Fine Art Ballerina Dancer Dancing Classical Ballet Seascape Landscape Photography!
Fine Art Ballet Photography: Nikon D810 Elliot McGucken Fine Art Ballerina Dancer Dancing Classical Ballet Seascape Landscape Photography!
White leotard and flowy dress!
Dancing for Dynamic Dimensions Theory dx4/dt=ic: The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at the rate of c!
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Nikon D810 Epic Fine Art Ballerina Goddess Dancing Ballet! Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Ballet!
Marrying epic landscape, nature, and urban photography to ballet!
Nikon D810 with the Nikon MB-D12 Multi Battery Power Pack / Grip for D800 and D810 Digital Cameras allows one to shoot at a high to catch the action FPS! Ballerina Dance Goddess Photos! Pretty, Tall Ballet Swimsuit Bikini Model Goddess! Captured with the AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II from Nikon, and the Sigma 50mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art Lens for Nikon! Love them both!
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A pretty goddess straight out of Homer's Iliad & Odyssey!
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The 45EPIC landscapes and goddesses are straight out of Homer's Iliad & Odyssey!
I'm currently updating a translation with the Greek names for the gods and goddesses--will publish soon! :)
"RAGE--Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Zeus fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another. " --Homer's Iliad capturing the rage of the 45EPIC landscapes and seascapes! :)
Ludwig van Beethoven: "Music/poetry/art should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman."
I had the opportunity to meet Richard Champagne, a photographer from Montreal Canada, we talked and walked through Havana. It is always really nice to meet photographers from around the world and learn from their experiences and expertise.
Tuve la oportunidad de conocer al fotógrafo Richard Champagne de Montreal Canadá, conversamos y caminamos por la ciudad. Es siempre una oportunidad única a de conocer fotógrafos de otras latitudes, escuchar de sus experiencias y consejos.
A view of Rue Frei Bernando de Brito in the fortified town of Almeida from the fortress wall.
Een kijkje op Rue Frei Bernando de Brito in de vestigingstad Almeida vanaf de vestigingswal.
Puss in Boots
Record number: 23051301
Artist: Kubel, Otto (German, 1868-1951)
Item caption, front: Brüder Grimm / Der gestiefelte Kater / O. Kubel, pinx.
Item caption/descriptive text, back: 5. "Man hat mir versichert," begann der Kater, " daß Ihr die Gabe besäßet, gnädiger Herr, Euch in alle Arten von Tieren zu verwandeln." -- "Das ist auch wahr," antwortete der Zauberer, "um es dir zu beweisen, will ich mich gleich in einen Elefanten verwandeln." Der Kater war erschrocken, als er den Elefanten vor sich sah, und bat den Zauberer, sich in eine Maus zu verwandeln. Das geschah, dia Maus lief plötzlich hin und her, der Kater aber haschte sie und fraß sie auf. = "I have been told," began the cat, "that you have the gift, honored sir, of transforming yourself into all kinds of animals." "That is certainly true," answered the magician, "and to prove it to you, I will transform myself immediately into an elephant." The cat was astounded when he saw the elephant in front of him, and then asked the magician to transform himself into a mouse. That happened: the mouse suddenly ran back and forth, but the cat caught it and ate it up.
Uniform title: Grimm: Der gestiefelte Kater (“Puss in Boots”); Perrault: Le Maître chat ou Le Chat botté ("Puss in Boots" or “The Master Cat”)
Dimensions: 140 x 93 mm.
Date: ca. mid-1920s or earlier
Nationality: German
Publisher: Uvachrom Gesellschaft für Farbenphotographie m.b.H., München [Munich]-Stuttgart, [Germany]
Series: Serie 223 Nr. 4293
Medium: Uvachrom color print from original watercolor painting
Interpretive notes: The Cat asks the sorcerer to demonstrate his powers. The sorcerer first transforms into an elephant; but when he then changes into a mouse, the cat catches him and gobbles him up!
Subject headings: Cats; Magicians; Monkeys; Elephants
Credit: The Jack Zipes Historic Fairy Tale Postcard Collection/Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Clouds rolled in and stopped me getting any OIII so I simulated a H beta signal for blue using Ha x 0.33
4 x 10 mins Ha & 4 x 10 mins SII
Next step is to get some OIII followed by some more Ha to smooth out the signal then some 20 min SII subs.
Aussicht vom Zytglogge Turm über die Altstadt von Bern :
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Der Zytgloggeturm ( Zeitglockenturm / Zytglogge ) bildete das alte westliche Stadttor der Stadt /
Altstadt von Bern im Kanton Bern in der Schweiz
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Erbaut im Jahr 1191 war er bis 1256 das erste Westtor und bildete einst den Abschluss
der ersten Stadterweiterung. Er änderte im Laufe der Jahre sein Aussehen sehr stark,
im Zytgloggeturm sind Modelle aus den verschiedenen Epochen ausgestellt
Durch die Entwicklung der Stadt rückte der Turm mit jeder Erweiterung immer mehr ins
Zentrum der Stadt.
Für einige Zeit ist der Turm gar als Frauengefängnis genutzt worden => Pfaffendirnen-
gefängnis
Nach dem grossen Brand von 14. Mai 1405, der nahezu die gesamte Stadt in Schutt
und Asche legte, wurde er zum „ Zytglogge “ umfunktioniert.
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In seiner Chronik schildert der Chronist Conrad Justinger das Ausmass der Katastrophe :
Also verbrann die alt kebie, do die zitglogge inne hanget, darinne verbrunnen siben pfaffen-
dirnen. ... Also verbrunnen bi sechshundert hüsern, gros und klein, und gros guot darinne
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Die Zytglogge, die Glocke, die seither im neuen Turm die Stunden verkündet, wurde noch
im gleichen Jahr durch Johann Reber aus A.arau gegossen. Sie war es, die dem Turm
den heutigen Namen gab : Zytglogge.
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Ihre Inschrift lautet:
+ anno d[omi]ni mccccv mense octobris fusa sum a ma[gi]stro ioh[ann]e d[i]c[t]o reber de
arow sum vas et cer[a] et cunctis [...] gero diei horas.
( Im Jahre 1405 im Monat Oktober wurde ich von Meister Johannes genannt Reber aus
A.arau gegossen. Ich bin Gefäss und Wachs (?) ...und allen verkünde ich die Stunden
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Zur Zeitmessung gehörte natürlich auch ein Uhrwerk. Gleichzeitig mit der Glocke, wurde
also auch eine Uhr mit einem Stundenschlagwerk eingebaut. Über den Erbauer und über
die Ausmasse der Uhr ist leider nichts bekannt.
Hingegen wissen wir, dass das noch heute vorhandene Astrolabium bereits damals den
Turm zierte. Wie bei andern Kunstuhren diente es vorwiegend als Repräsentationsobjekt.
Es gehörte zum Ansehen einer Stadt, technische Spitzenleistungen öffentlich zur Schau
zu stellen und damit Bewunderung auszulösen.
Nebst vielen astronomischen Indikationen konnte man beiläufig auch noch die Zeit ab-
lesen. Dies war aber schwierig und überhaupt nicht das Ziel. Wichtig war die akustische
Zeitangabe durch die Glocke.
Zu Beginn des 16. Jahrhunderts häuften sich die Reparaturen am bereits über 100
jährigen Uhrwerk. Es wurde immer offensichtlicher, dass das Werk ausgedient hatte.
1527 erhielt der damalige Waffenschlosser und Zeitglockenrichter, Kaspar Brunner,
den Auftrag, ein neues Uhrwerk zu bauen. Es stand von Anfang an fest, dass die Uhr
grösser, schöner und kunstvoller sein musste als die alte von 1405.
1530 präsentierte Brunner den Bernern eine Monumentaluhr mit kunstreichem Figuren-
spiel und einem Räderwerk von gewaltigem Ausmass, wie es bis jetzt noch nicht ge-
baut wurde. Von Brunner sind keine weiteren Uhrwerke bekannt, dieses scheint sein
einziges zu sein.
Die Ausmasse, die Robustheit und die kunstvolle Bauweise ( Räder mit einzeln einge-
setzten Zähnen, massive Wellen, die Gewehrläufen ähneln ) zeugen vom Meister, der
sich im Bau von Waffen und Geschützen auskannte, aber auch in der Lage war, eine
aussergewöhnliche Uhr zu realisieren.
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An der Ostseite des Zytgloggeturms ist ein sehr schönes Glockenspiel angebracht, u.a.
mit Bärenfiguren und, hoch oben im Dach des Turms, der Statue von Hans Thann, einem
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Jede volle Stunde läuft das beliebte und vor allem von Touristen viel beachtete Figurenspiel
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Ca. 3 Minuten vor dem Stundenschlag kräht der Hahn und eröffnet das Spiel.
Kurz darauf kreist der Bärenreigen, er symbolisiert die Stadtwache, die pflichtbewusst ihre
Runden dreht. Dazu schlägt der Narr die Stunde an seine zwei Glöcklein. ( Zu früh, aber
das ist Narrenfreiheit )
Nun kräht der Hahn zum zweiten Mal.
Sobald die volle Stunde erreicht ist, schlägt die Viertelstundenglocke vier Viertel, mitten
im Spielerker auf seinem Thron dreht Chronos, der Gott der Zeit, die Sanduhr; dann hebt
er das Zepter in seiner linken Hand und gibt den Auftakt zum Stundenschlag.
Nun schwingt Hans von Thann, der goldene Glockenschläger, seinen Hammer und führt
die erforderliche Anzahl Schläge aus. Chronos hört aufmerksam zu und zählt die Schläge,
indem er seinen Mund öffnet und schliesst.
Der Löwe, Symbol des Stadtgründers, Herzog Berchtold V. von Zähringen, quittiert jeden
Schlag mit einer leichten Kopfdrehung. Zum Schluss schlägt der Hahn ein drittes Mal
und kündet damit den Beginn einer neuen Stunde an.
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Es ist ein wahres Meisterwerk der mittelalterlichen Uhrmacherkunst.
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Unter dem großen Zifferblatt ist eine astronomische Uhr aus dem 15. Jahrhundert zu be-
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Es handelt sich um ein Astrolabium mit südlicher Projektion, wie sie vorwiegend an
Kunstuhren bis in die erste Hälfte des 15. Jahrhundert gebaut wurden.
Der Stundenzeiger zeigt mit der goldenen Hand die modernen Stunden und mit dem
Sonnenemblem den Sonnenstand gegenüber dem aufgemalten Planisphärium, wobei
links der Sonnenaufgang im Osten, oben der Sonnenhöchststand im Süden und rechts
der Sonnenuntergang im Westen dargestellt ist.
Die Kugel ( mit einer goldenen und einer schwarzen Hälfte ) zeigt die aktuelle Mondphase
an.
Auch der aktuelle Mondstand kann aufgrund der relativen Position zum Sonnenzeiger ab-
gelesen werden. Auf der beweglichen exzentrischen Scheibe der Ekliptik zeigt die Sonne
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Der Turm und das Urwerk können mit einer Führung besichtigt werden.
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bern-altstadt.ch/htm/zytgloggeturm.htm
www.berninfo.com/de/page.cfm/CityToursAusfluege/Stadtfueh...
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( BeschriebZytglogge BeschriebZeitglocke BeschriebZytgloggeturm BeschriebZeitglockenturm AlbumZytgloggeturm AlbumStadtBern Bern Berne Berna Bärn Stadt City Ville kaupunki città シティ
stad ciudad Stadtturm Turm torre tower torni tour tårn wieża torn Mittelalter Geschichte History
Wehrbau Frühgeschichte Burganlage Festung Schweiz Suisse Switzerland Svizzera Suissa
Swiss Sveitsi Sviss スイス Zwitserland Sveits Szwajcaria Suíça Suiza UNESCO Weltkulturerbe
Unesco World Heritage )
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Besichtigung des Zytglogge - Turms in Bern am Dienstag den 20. Mai 2008
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Inci Mehmet and In Gee Chun during Wednesday's practice round at the Ricoh Women's British Open Golf Championship 2018.
Es importante en cualquier desfile que todos los componentes sigan el paso de aquellos que los preceden, de lo contrario la secuencia se vería fatal. En este caso todos los participantes que vemos en la escena pisan con el mismo pie.
Presentación • Mi galeria • Lo mas interesante • Mis expos • Fluidr
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The Plantin-Moretus Museum (Dutch: Plantin-Moretusmuseum) is a printing museum in Antwerp, Belgium which focuses on the work of the 16th-century printers Christophe Plantin and Jan Moretus. It is located in their former residence and printing establishment, the Plantin Press, at the Vrijdagmarkt (Friday Market) in Antwerp, and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2005.
The printing company was founded in the 16th century by Christophe Plantin, who obtained type from the leading typefounders of the day in Paris. Plantin was a major figure in contemporary printing with interests in humanism; his eight-volume, multi-language Plantin Polyglot Bible with Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Syriac texts was one of the most complex productions of the period. Plantin's is now suspected of being at least connected to members of heretical groups known as the Familists, and this may have led him to spend time in exile in his native France.
View of the courtyard of the museum
After Plantin's death it was owned by his son-in-law Jan Moretus. While most printing concerns disposed of their collections of older type in the eighteenth and nineteenth century in response to changing tastes, the Plantin-Moretus company "piously preserved the collection of its founder."
Four women ran the family-owned Plantin-Moretus printing house (Plantin Press) over the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries: Martina Plantin, Anna Goos, Anna Maria de Neuf and Maria Theresia Borrekens.
In 1876 Edward Moretus sold the company to the city of Antwerp. One year later the public could visit the living areas and the printing presses. The collection has been used extensively for research, by historians H. D. L. Vervliet, Mike Parker and Harry Carter. Carter's son Matthew would later describe this research as helping to demonstrate "that the finest collection of printing types made in typography's golden age was in perfect condition (some muddle aside) [along with] Plantin's accounts and inventories which names the cutters of his types."
In 2002 the museum was nominated as UNESCO World Heritage Site and in 2005 was inscribed onto the World Heritage list.
The Plantin-Moretus Museum possesses an exceptional collection of typographical material. Not only does it house the two oldest surviving printing presses in the world and complete sets of dies and matrices, it also has an extensive library, a richly decorated interior and the entire archives of the Plantin business, which were inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme Register in 2001 in recognition of their historical significance.
As I wrote earlier, I have been ill.
All day.
Jools is feeling tip top, so while I lay hovering close to death laying in my pit, she went to the gym for a workout, then, on the way back gets me a coffee from Starbucks opposite the hotel. Opposite and down a bit, then to the left. But close enough.
I drink that pretty quick, but I am not feeling very sharp at all.
So after Jools has a shower, she goes out for a wander and I stay in bed, listening to the radio, whilst my stomach empties.
And by one in the afternoon, I was feeling more human, so I began to think about what to do when Jools came back. And at just gone two, I see her in her coat coming back, carrying a huge cup of coffee for me.
She has been out on the L, going to various points she knew not where, as got lost twice, but had a good time.
What did I want to do?
Ride the L of course.
She sighs. Well, she put the idea in my head.
At quarter to three we go out, walk three blocks to the subway, where three bucks gets us one trip, to anywhere in the system.
We take two stops, then get out and go to the street onto the L, where I am happy as anything, standing at the very back of the train, snapping the scene as the train headed south.
After three stops, and going round a tight curve at a junction, of which I get pictures. And I am happy.
We get off and wander along the streets, stopping off at a health food place for a bag of chips and some juice.
I felt a little better.
Walk some more, back over the river, on a road that ran parallel with Michigan, as the designer shops and crowds are so boring.
After a few blocks, I see a tap room, and I am thirsty, so go over for a pint of porter. Which hits the spot, but goes straight to my head.
Of course.
Meanwhile, the dark clouds that had swept over the city in the afternoon were now producing light rain, and we scuttled north getting closer to the hotel.
We come to a bbq place, and I say, shall we eat here? I mean, its nearly five, eat early, back in our room and relax?
So we do.
Jools has a half baby back rib and I have brisket, both of which were good. Stunning to me who had not eaten in some 22 hours.
As ever, the food came with a side, and we also asked for onion rings. A small mountain of those came, which we made a fair dent in.
The ribs and brisket were stunning, the best of either I have had. So a win there.
But we left so much food as we both had had enough. It will get trashed.
The rain had stopped, so we walk back to the hotel in the thinning crowds as the time approached half six, and back in our room soon after.
Tomorrow, things will change, somewhat....
LUX CHANEL HOBO BAG By CULTE DE PARIS For Sybarite, Numina, KingdonDoll, FR16
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A little boat in cambodia can be a house, a shop, everything.
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Mario Uchard - The Frenchman in Mohammed's Harem
Avon Books 416, 1952
Cover Artist: unknown
"Inheritance in Flesh!"
Originally published in French (1877) as "Mon Oncle Barbassou". Also translated into English as "My Uncle Barbassou", "Oriental Love in a Harem" and "French and Oriental Love in a Harem"
Photographed at the Route 66 Cruisers Cruise-In at the Rock 'n Roll Hardee's in Springfield, Illinois on August 13, 2011.
Please visit my Motor Vehicles Collection on Flickr where you will find more than 10,000 photographs that have been thoughtfully categorized into dozens of sets, and carefully organized by model year, manufacturer, vehicle type, and more. This project, which began in 2008, continues to expand with new material added daily.
Victorian Alpine Huts survey, for Parks Victoria 1994-5.
In 1865, E George Treasure married Emily Langford and by the early 1870s had moved to Victoria to work at a Seymour vineyard. George Treasure junior had been born to the family at Wangaratta, in 1873, and the next two children at Wandiligong, in 1875 and 1877, as a mark of their gradual progress towards the Dargo area. Treasure worked on reef mining at Wandiligong, doing underground work as he had done in New South Wales. He moved to another mine, the Alpine, for a healthier working environment, in 1877 { Stapleton: 28-}. In 1878, E George Treasure (then described as a Harrietville miner), selected land at Kings Spur on the Dargo High Plains{ Stephenson: 107-}. The family (3 boys, one girl) made an arduous journey on horseback via Mt Freezeout and the Lankey's Plain, to a bark roof two-room log hut built on the High Plains near Kings Spur on the eastern edge of Gow's Plains, by George and his mining associate, Harry Stitt in late 1877. The hut had a verandah at the entry, a slab chimney `stoned up' to 7-8 feet high, two modified armchairs and bush furniture made on the spot. This served as the residence for a small dairy farm which provided for the miners who crossed to the Grant and Crooked River goldfields{ Stephenson}. The house became a licensed hotel and a store was added. Three miles south there was also Gow's hotel, the `half-way house'. Cessation of mining around 1900 meant the store was wound down. George and Emily purchased a 700 acre property at Lindenow (Grassvale) while their son Harry remained at King's Spur. George senior died at Lindenow of cancer in 1901, aged 58 { Stapleton: 116}. Emily then arranged the gradual transfer of the High Plains holdings to her sons who managed the properties and stock in the interim. Emily died in 1939, aged 90. Harry L Treasure (George's son) selected the 200 acre property Castleburn (45 miles distant on the Stratford side of Dargo, later enlarged to 3000 acres), c1904, to serve summer grazing. This was after his marriage in 1903 to local girl, Clare Gamel. About the same time he and his father-in-law built a new shingle and paling house at Mayford, east of the King's Spur property, as a winter base. From 1907 Harry's brothers sold him their shares and eventually departed north. Gamel built Harry another house, Rockalpine, in 1910 - located further to the south on the Dargo Road. The family spent the winter at the house in c1912 after the house at Mayford was burnt, leaving only some old huts. Harry, Clare and family developed their High Plains holdings in the inter-war period, including a near 100,000 acre grazing lease, George's 600 acre selection, a fenced freehold at Riley's Creek to spell the cattle on their way to the mountains in summer, and `a sheltered saddle near Mt Ewan…another substantial hut and set of bush yards capable of holding large mobs' { Stapleton: 159}. The 1939 fires meant losses for the family as for many others in the region but they saved the homestead complex, losing 700 stock, fences, and several huts and yards. The family worked hard to replace them, splitting some 4000 snow gum posts in the following season along with woolly but rails for yards and gates but wire and snow gum droppers replaced the old logs in the fences. Harry and his three sons (Don, Jack & Jim) rebuilt the Mt Ewan hut and yards as a `magnificent new log hut' { Stapleton: 214}. The paling hut beside the 1939 log hut was reputedly built for Freda Treasure (Harry & Claire's daughter) as her bedroom in about 1945- presumably allowing the men to sleep in the 1939 log hut { Kosciuszko Huts Association website 2004}. However a picture of Freda at Mt Ewan (in her 20s-30s?) has her seated on her bunk, next to her saddle, knitting in the log hut. Educated at MLC in the 1930s, Freda married Wally Ryder, from another pioneering cattle family, in 1957. She shifted to Tawonga as a result but maintained a keen interest in the High Plains along with her brothers{ Stapleton: 219}. Harry gave her a paddock at Castleburn, known as Bryce's and she became known by local scribes as `Maid of the Mountains' or `Cowgirl of the Alps'}. Harry gave her a 28,000 bush grazing block to work after 1939, known as Jones' where she used an existing hut and yards. She lived there through winter with her cattle, visited occasionally by her mother. Freda died in 1988, one year after Wally { Stapleton: 267-}. Harry Treasure served as an Avon Shire councillor 1918-1949, often riding to the council meetings at Stratford. Harry made many submissions to government inquiries concerning the causes of the 1939 fires and alpine grazing. He died at Rockalpine in 1961{ Stephenson}. As a postscript, Sydney (Jack) Treasure (son of Harry) sought a selection on the High Plains in the 1940s but met with government opposition{ HO15895}. Some 20 years later the Treasures tried again stating that they had added many improvements to their grazing block (4A) and desired some freehold security. Their father and grandfather had held it for some 80 years{ HO15895}. The improvements on the adjoining freehold which served the grazing lease then included four residences (Harry's sons), sheds, fences, stockyards (CAs 2,2A,4,5){ HO15895 }. The department granted a seven year lease instead, noting the good management of the property.
According to the limited information Herkimer scheduled production for single propeller commercial version of this engine in the early 1940's. Other than a few repro’s, fabricated by welding two twins together, it appears no commercial engines were actually produced or sold.
The military version sports a coaxial drive for contra rotating propellers with a dual point distributor in the back. It measures 11.5 inches long, 8 inches wide plug to plug, 5 inches high, and weighs 4 pounds- 12 ounces; it burns gas with oil mixed in for lubrication. As the war approached a few were produced for military testing but one or two either failed or were destroyed by the Army, which ended the program. This engine is believed to be the only engine, or possibly one of two original engines that survived.
Like the OK twin it has a single updraft carburetor with manifold tubes extending to each cylinder. Interesting is the tubes that make up the manifold appear to be rolled from brass sheet stock with the seams soldered.
See Tim Dannels article in his Engine Collectors Journal, Volume 32 number 3, Issue 183, July 2007.
Courtesy of Dave and Gloria Evans
Paul and Paula Knapp
Miniature Engineering Museum