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Ive drivin past this hidden newly found drain 3,679 times over the years and i randomly spotted it and ventured in!
Man my head and back hurts! Had a kool chamber at the end of these round red brick tunnels, then more 5ft rcp splits...
Nothing like the old school metal slides and jungle gyms for getting some poor grade school kids injured when they fall off the slide (not that i ever broke my arm that way).
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to gold, green and pink.
Click on the image, because it's best BIG on BLACK!!!
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Don’t see photographs as an end result, rather as a source.
– Anouk Kruithof
Berris has a brain injury which causes some disturbance to his processing of ideas and difficulties with mobility and caring for himself.
My idea is to create a 3D jigsaw from a set of portraits I have taken of him.
Explore 18.12.15
Barely missing the fence and injury, an Eastern Oregon State College cowboy gets a premature dismount from his ride during bare-back competition at the Walla Walla Fairgrounds. JEFF HORNER PHOTO Olympus OM-3 with Olympus Zuiko 250mm f/2 and 1.4x converter, f/2 and 1/500 sec., Fuji 400 ISO Film.
Managed some post-injury bests with free weights tonight. A set of bench presses of 185 pounds and a set of barbell curls with 70 pounds. Yeah, those used to be warm up weights but it's a lot of progress since last June.
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Xray sent back to me.
Now, I remembered all of a sudden my mishap. So, when this was given to me by the radiographer/radiologist she said: “Congratulations! You just fractured your thumb. And you did it pretty well.” Then she smiled, and I was left stunned there for a while. For a second, my whole world stopped and I was grasping what she just told me - and what was that smile was all about (?). Questions like What’s gonna happen to me now?, Would this still come back to normal?, What about my career?, Would I still be able to play my guitar?, What about my photography?, What about my handwriting?, How will I tell this to my parents (Am I gonna die?) and so on were running in my mind. Then, I got a hold of myself and asked her what does she meant by what she just said. She explained things. I left with some more questions.
On the train I saw this man seated in front me. He was blind. He was holding his guiding stick and I think, he became the subject of everyone’s attention. I saw the looks on their faces. Some felt sympathy, others were apathetic and were just staring at him because he’s incapable. Me, I felt sad about him. I felt sympathy. I thought that he was deprived of seeing the wonderful things around him - the colorful world that surrounds him. I felt sad. I pitied him. But you know what? He struck me bigtime. Oh yes, he sure did! It was his smile - his real big smile. I saw him smile when the conductor asked for his ticket and made a small talk with him. I was amazed of how he treats people. He may not be able to see them but he is smiling and all happy. He was like pure of optimism. He may not be able to play guitar, take photographs, or get to see his on handwriting but he is sure one happy and contented man.
Then all of a sudden, I think I knew the whole point of this: why such people co-exist with us in this sometimes-shitty world — to let every people know how God loves each one of us and to appreciate the little things that we have. It all became clear to me — What the heck am I whining about where in fact I’ve only got a fractured finger compared to this man who’s deprived of eyesight? I secretly smiled to myself. He got off the train. I got off the next station. Thanks to him I appreciated more Life. He sure was godsent to usO:-)
An incredibly rare self-portrait, but I felt like I needed to capture this injury, instead of hiding it. Don't worry, I'm 80% better now. It was the result of a stupid fall, and believe it or not, my face was nothing compared to the concussion symptoms. As a neurologist, I treated many patients with head injuries, but experiencing it myself gave me a new appreciation of how freaky it is when your brain doesn't work!
The digital play is my attempt at reflecting the physical and mental "Jekyll and Hyde" way it made me feel (and is hopefully a little more artistic and less graphic.).
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The original injury was the loss of the fine, turn-of-the-century building that almost certainly once stood on this lot.
The Brutalist excrescence that replaced it is an insult to the city´s architectural history. What possessed the architect to do this? How could the city have approved an aggressively disruptive design that undermines the vision that guided the architects who created an Art Nouveau city center after the devastating fire of 1904?
For its own sake and that of visitors, I hope Ålesund has since enacted design standards that would prevent similar disasters in the future.
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dont wage war on yourself.
Self-harm or deliberate self-harm includes self-injury and self-poisoning and is defined as the intentional, direct injuring of body tissue without suicidal intent. The most common form of self-harm is skin cutting but self-harm also covers a wide range of behaviours including burning, scratching, banging or hitting body parts, interfering with wound healing, hair pulling (trichotillomania) and the ingestion of toxic substances or objects. Behaviours associated with substance abuse and eating disorders are usually not considered self-harm because the resulting tissue damage is ordinarily an unintentional side effect. However, the boundaries are not always clear-cut and in some cases behaviours that usually fall outside the boundaries of self-harm may indeed represent self-harm if performed with explicit intent to cause tissue damage. Although suicide is not the intention of self-harm, the relationship between self-harm and suicide is complex, as self-harming behaviour may be potentially life-threatening.
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard that was published by the Smith Novelty Co. of 460, 9th. Street, San Francisco, California.
The card was printed by the Dexter Press of West Nyack, New York.
On the divided back of the card is printed the following:
'Double Exposure.
A panoramic view of San
Francisco's principal tourist
attractions, from a painting
by San Francisco artist
Homer Ansley.'
Coit Memorial Tower
Note the tower on the right.
Coit Tower (also known as the Coit Memorial Tower) is a 210-foot (64 m) tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, overlooking the city and San Francisco Bay.
The tower, in the city's Pioneer Park, was built between 1932 and 1933 using Lillie Hitchcock Coit's bequest to beautify the city of San Francisco. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 29, 2008.
The Art Deco tower, built of unpainted reinforced concrete, was designed by architects Arthur Brown Jr. and Henry Temple Howard. The interior features fresco murals in the American Social Realism style, painted by 25 different onsite artists and their numerous assistants, plus two additional paintings installed after creation offsite.
The structure was dedicated to the volunteer firemen who had died in San Francisco's five major fires. A concrete relief of a phoenix by sculptor Robert Boardman Howard is placed above the main entrance. It was commissioned by the architect and cast as part of the building.
Although an apocryphal story claims that the tower was designed to resemble a fire hose nozzle due to Coit's affinity with the San Francisco firefighters of the day, the resemblance is coincidental.
The San Francisco Cable Car System
The iconic San Francisco cable car system is the world's last manually operated cable car system. Of the 23 lines established between 1873 and 1890, only three remain: two routes from downtown near Union Square to Fisherman's Wharf, and a third route along California Street.
While the cable cars are used to a certain extent by commuters, the vast majority of their seven million annual passengers are tourists, and as a result, the wait to get on can often reach two hours or more.
The San Francisco Cable Car System is owned by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency whose headquarters are at the San Francisco Cable Car Museum.
The system serves the areas of Chinatown, the Financial District, Fisherman's Wharf, Nob Hill, Russian Hill, and Union Square. The track gauge is 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm), and the cars' top speed is 9.5 mph (15.3 km/h).
The system has 62 stations with a daily ridership (1914) of 20,100 and an annual ridership (1914) of 7,409,400.
There are three lines:
-- Line 59 - Powell-Mason
The Powell-Mason Line (shown in the artwork) began operation in 1888. It is 1.6 mi (2.6 km) long.
-- Line 60 - Powell-Hyde
The Powell-Hyde Line began operation in 1957. It is 2.1 mi (3.4 km) long. Powell-Mason/Hyde lines run 28 single-ended cars.
-- Line 61 - California Street
The California Street Line began operation in 1878. It is 1.4 mi (2.3 km) long, and runs 12 double-ended cars.
The Early Beginnings of the System
In 1869, Andrew Smith Hallidie had the idea for a cable car system in San Francisco, reportedly after witnessing an accident in which a streetcar drawn by horses over wet cobblestones slid backwards, killing the horses.
The first successful cable-operated street running train was the Clay Street Hill Railroad, which opened on the 2nd. August 1873. The promoter of the line was Hallidie, and the engineer was William Eppelsheimer. The line involved the use of grip cars, which carried the grip that engaged with the cable. The term 'grip' became synonymous with the operator.
The line started regular service on the 1st. September 1873, and its success led it to become the template for other cable car systems. It was a financial success, and Hallidie's patents were enforced on other cable car promoters, making him wealthy.
Expansion of the System
The next cable car line to open was the Sutter Street Railway, which converted from horse operation in 1877. This line introduced the side grip and lever operation, both designed by Henry Casebolt and his assistant Asa Hovey, and patented by Casebolt. This idea came about because Casebolt did not want to pay Hallidie royalties of $50,000 a year for the use of his patent. The side grip allowed cable cars to cross at intersections.
In 1878, Leland Stanford opened his California Street Cable Railroad (Cal Cable). This company's first line was on California Street and is the oldest cable car line still in operation. In 1880, the Geary Street, Park & Ocean Railway began operation. The Presidio and Ferries Railway followed two years later, and was the first cable company to include curves on its routes. The curves were "let-go" curves, in which the car drops the cable and coasts around the curve on its own momentum.
In 1883, the Market Street Cable Railway opened its first line. This company was controlled by the Southern Pacific Railroad and grew to become San Francisco's largest cable car operator. At its peak, it operated five lines, all of which converged on Market Street to a common terminus at the Ferry Building. During rush hours, cars left that terminus every 15 seconds.
In 1888, the Ferries and Cliff House Railway opened its initial two-line system. The Powell–Mason line is still operated on the same route today; their other route was the Powell–Washington–Jackson line, stretches of which are used by today's Powell–Hyde line.
The Ferries & Cliff House Railway was also responsible for the building of a car barn and powerhouse at Washington and Mason, and this site is still in use today. In the same year, it also purchased the original Clay Street Hill Railway, which it incorporated into a new Sacramento–Clay line in 1892.
In 1889, the Omnibus Railroad and Cable Company became the last new cable car operator in San Francisco. The following year the California Street Cable Railroad opened two new lines, these being the last entirely new cable car lines built in the city. One of them was the O'Farrell–Jones–Hyde line, the Hyde section of which still remains in operation as part of the current Powell–Hyde line.
In all, twenty-three lines were established between 1873 and 1890.
The Decline of the System
The first electric streetcars in San Francisco began operation in 1892 under the auspices of the San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway. At that time, it was estimated that it cost twice as much to build and six times as much to operate a line with cable cars as with electric streetcars.
By the beginning of 1906 many of San Francisco's remaining cable cars were under the control of the United Railroads of San Francisco (URR). URR was pressing to convert many of its cable lines to overhead electric traction, but this was met with resistance from opponents who objected to what they saw as ugly overhead lines on the major thoroughfares of the city centre.
Those objections disappeared after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The quake and resulting fire destroyed the power houses and car barns of both the Cal Cable and the URR's Powell Street lines, together with the 117 cable cars stored within them. The subsequent race to rebuild the city allowed the URR to replace most of its cable car lines with electric streetcar lines. At the same time the independent Geary Street line was replaced by a municipally owned electric streetcar line – the first line of the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni).
By 1912, only eight cable car lines remained, all with steep gradients impassable to electric streetcars. In the 1920's and 1930's, these remaining lines came under pressure from the much improved buses of the era, which could now climb steeper hills than the electric streetcar. By 1944, the only cable cars remaining were the two Powell Street lines – by then under municipal ownership, as part of Muni – and the three lines owned by the still-independent Cal Cable.
The Fight to Remain Open
In 1947, Mayor Roger Lapham proposed the closure of the two municipally owned lines. In response, a joint meeting of 27 women's civic groups, led by Friedel Klussmann, formed the Citizens' Committee to Save the Cable Cars.
In a famous battle of wills, the Citizens' Committee eventually forced a referendum on an amendment to the city charter, compelling the city to continue operating the Powell Street lines. This passed overwhelmingly, by 166,989 votes to 51,457.
In 1951, the three Cal Cable lines were shut down when the company was unable to afford insurance. The city purchased and reopened the lines in 1952, but the amendment to the city charter did not protect them, and the city proceeded with plans to replace them with buses. Again Klussmann came to the rescue, but with less success.
The result was a compromise that formed the current system: a protected system made up of the California Street line from Cal Cable, the Powell-Mason line already in municipal ownership, and a third hybrid line formed by grafting the Hyde Street section of Cal Cable's O'Farrell-Jones-Hyde line onto a truncated Powell-Washington-Jackson line, now known as the Powell-Hyde line.
Rebuilding the System
By 1979, the cable car system had become unsafe, and it needed to be closed for seven months for urgently needed repairs. A subsequent engineering evaluation concluded that it needed comprehensive rebuilding at a cost of $60 million.
Mayor Dianne Feinstein took charge of the effort, and helped win federal funding for the bulk of the rebuilding job. In 1982 the cable car system was closed again for a complete rebuild. This involved the complete replacement of 69 city blocks' worth of tracks and cable channels, the complete rebuilding of the car barn and powerhouse within the original outer brick walls, new propulsion equipment, and the repair or rebuild of 37 cable cars.
The system reopened on the 21st. June 1984, in time to benefit from the publicity that accompanied San Francisco's hosting of that year's Democratic National Convention.
Recent History of the System
Since 1984, Muni has continued to upgrade the system. Work has included rebuilding of another historical car, the building of nine brand new replacement cars, the building of a new terminal and turntable at the Hyde and Beach terminus, and a new turntable at the Powell and Market terminus.
The cable cars are principally used by tourists rather than commuters. The two lines on Powell Street (Powell-Hyde and Powell-Mason) both serve only residential and tourist/shopping districts (Union Square, Chinatown, North Beach, Nob Hill, Aquatic Park and Fisherman's Wharf), with the 'downtown' end of both lines a substantial distance from the Financial District. The California Street Line is used more by commuters, due to its terminus in the Financial District.
Fraud
In 2006, the then-mayor Gavin Newsom reported that he had observed several conductors pocketing cash fares from riders without receipt. The following year, the San Francisco auditor's office reported that the city was not receiving the expected revenue from the cable cars, with an estimated 40% of cable car riders riding for free.
Muni's management disputed this figure, and pointed out that safe operation, rather than revenue collection, is the primary duty of conductors. In 2017, after an audit showing that some conductors were consistently turning in low amounts of cash and a sting operation, one conductor was arrested on charges of felony embezzlement.
Safety
Among US mass transportation systems, the cable cars have the most accidents per year and per vehicle mile, with 126 accidents and 151 injuries reported in the 10 years ending in 2013. In the three years ending in 2013 the city paid some $8 million to settle four dozen cable car accident claims.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the system was shut down to protect operators from infection, as cable cars do not offer a compartment separating them from passengers.
Cables and Grip
The cable cars are pulled by a cable running below the street, held by a grip that extends from the car through a slit in the street surface, between the rails. Each cable is 1.25 inches (3.2 cm) in diameter, running at a constant speed of 9.5 miles per hour (15.3 km/h), and driven by a 510 horsepower (380 kW) electric motor located in the central power house.
Each cable has six steel strands, with each strand containing 19 wires, wrapped around a sisal rope core (to allow easier gripping). The cables are coated with a tar-like material which serves as a sacrificial lubricant - much like a pencil eraser erodes away rather than the paper.
To start and stop the movement of the car, the gripman closes and opens the grip around the cable. The grip's jaws exert a pressure of up to 30,000 pounds per square inch (210,000 kPa) on the cable. Due to wear and tear, a grip's dies have to be replaced after three days of usage.
There are four separate cables: one 16,000-foot (4,900 m) length and one 10,300-foot (3,100 m) length for the Hyde and Mason segments, a 9,300-foot (2,800 m) length for their common Powell section, and one 21,000-foot (6,400 m) length for the California Street line.
Brakes
Apart from the cable itself (which exerts a braking force when going downhill), the cable cars use three separate braking systems:
- Metal brake shoes on the wheels, which the gripman operates via a pedal. (On the Powell-Mason line, they can also be activated by the conductor, via a lever at the back of the car.)
- Wooden brake blocks pressed against the track when the gripman pulls a lever. The four blocks are made of Douglas fir (pine) and can produce a smell of burning wood when in operation. They have to be replaced after just a few days.
- An emergency brake consisting of a piece of steel, around 1.5 inches thick and 18 inches long, suspended beneath the car and pushed into the track slot when the gripman pulls a lever. It wedges tightly into the slot and often has to be removed with a welding torch.
The Network
The Powell-Hyde and Powell-Mason lines use single-ended cars, which must be looped or turned around like a bus at the end of the line; the single-ended cable cars use manual non-powered turntables to rotate the car. In the photograph you can see the conductor pulling the end of car in order to rotate it.
There are three street turntables to do this, one at the end of each of the three terminals: at Market & Powell Streets, Taylor & Bay Streets, and Hyde & Beach Streets, with a fourth turntable located inside the car barn on Washington and Jackson Streets.
The California street cable-cars use double-ended cars with grip levers at both ends which are operated in each direction without the cars needing to be turned at the ends of the line.
The system starts operating at 5:32 am each day and shuts down at 1:30 am.
Fares and Revenues
As of the 1st. January 2020, riding a cable car costs $8 for a single ride, except for seniors riding before 7am or after 9pm when the senior fare is $4. In the 1960's, the fare for a single ride was 15 cents.
By 2017, the San Francisco Chronicle described the cable cars as a 'cash cow' for Muni, yielding a yearly revenue of around $30 million.
陰沉的下雪天 我們安靜地觀察樹上的貓頭鷹 他突然飛到我右前方的樹叢中抓住獵物 有些人為了想拍到照片馬上追去圍住他 我和另一位朋友開口要求大家退後不可驚擾牠或給他壓力 更不要自私地使用閃光燈去拍非常敏感的貓頭鷹 因為閃光燈會造成它們失去視覺而傷亡 (關於閃光燈對貓頭鷹造成傷亡的問題 全球已經有許多鳥類獸醫發表過報告)
希望大家都能尊重野生動物 給予它們原有的自由和空間 不要只為了拍照或得到掌聲而不擇手段 無論是擅自進入禁區 或是以食物引誘!
We watched the owl on the trees quietly in a cloudy snowy day. He flew into the trees in right front of me and caught the prey. Some people wanted to take the photo and immediately chased him around. I and another friend requested them to back off and not to disturb him and not to give him pressure.
We also asked people not to selfishly use the flash to shoot owls. Owls are very sensitive. Using flash will cause them to lose sight and could cause injuries and casualties. (Flash on owls could cause injuries and casualties problem, many bird experts published reports globally)
I hope we can respect wild animals and give them the inherent freedom and space. Do not just for taking pictures to get applause regardless of the means to enter the restricted area or to induce them by food
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She fell off the swing set and landed on her face today. Mouth full of blood and a wiggling tooth. She's mad it didn't fall out because now the tooth fairy won't come. Brave girl.
It can walk but holds the leg up. He stayed for a long time eating grass but when I opened the door to check on him he managed to walk towards the woods. I'll see what happens tomorrow.
Elves , my Daughter’s eldest Cat ( 11 years old ) has had fisticuffs , with Her younger Cat ( 2 years ) .
The younger Cat ( Neyo ) made a slight scratch on Elves’ side , so now for a few days He has to wear a Cone to stop Him liking his wound !
Naturally Elves is less than impressed !
Harlow , Essex .
Wednesday afternoon 20th-November-2024.
Last December this flock of birds would start to gather in the last hour and a half of daylight , circling and swooping over the harbour until dark. I found it fascinating, something I'd never seen before in all the years I've been here, and would have to stop what I was doing ~usually preparing dinner ~and watch for a while. Eventually I noticed some slightly larger birds darting into the flock , then out again. I realized they were nighthawks. While I never saw one leave with a bird in it's talons.....soon after I took this shot, the flock of birds came towards me over the corner of the dock, and I saw one individual falling from the sky. It seemed to fall in slow motion......down, down towards either the water or the wharf. I heard the dull 'thunk' as it hit the hard paved surface of the wharf. I assumed it had been hit by the nighthawk, but managed to continue flying until it's injuries prevented further flight. Poor thing.
I haven't seen this activity at all this December.
The birds are starlings, and if any starling experts are out there......is this something they do once every 10 years or so? Or is it another manifestation of the changes our world is going through?
It just seems so strange that the phenomenon only ocurred for the one year.
Anyway.......it's December again, I was going through last December's folder.... and decided to post this. I've barely taken a photo this month, except at gatherings where I took pics to give to the hosts. Didn't even take any photos at my own annual Christmas party.
And , sadly, altho it was a beautiful , clear full moon night on Sunday.....last night......when I would have loved to see the lunar eclipse.......it was cloudy and raining. Sigh.