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CLF5 leads GM42-703 and two GM's between Bordertown and Keith back on a grain from Wolseley back in September 2011
The Seven Ghosts are revealed
11 April 2011 - Tom Curren leads the latest Rip Curl Tip 2 Tip Search mission to the Seven Ghosts in Indonesia and into the first legitimate river bore barrels in history.
On April 1 this year - only days after returning from Indonesia - the Rip Curl Tip 2 Tip mission unveiled a taste of what is undoubtedly the best river bore surfing to ever be captured on film with Panasonic LUMIX GH1 and GH2. And today, April 11, you have the proof. Witness Rip Curl International team riders Bruno Santos (BRA), Dean Brady (AUS), Tyler Larronde (FRA), Oney Anwar (IND) and original Searcher Tom Curren (USA) pull into 6-foot (2m) river bore barrels on the “Seven Ghosts” river, as it’s known to village locals.
Though tidal surges occur semi-regularly on the Seven Ghosts, a surge strong enough to create the waves captured this March by Santos, Brady, Larronde, Anwar, and Curren are extremely rare. At the guidance and expertise of Frenchman Antony Colas, who first surfed and documented Seven Ghosts in September 2010, the Rip Curl Search team chose the week of March 18-24, as it coincided with the Spring Equinox and tidal swings that occur only once every 19 years. As it turned out, Colas could not have been more spot-on.
“I didn’t want to have any expectations coming into this trip, but the waves we’ve scored out here were pretty crazy,” said Brazilian Bruno Santos, who logged in a 35-minute ride and a handful of chocolate barrels. "People dream of experiences like this - it really is the perfect wave."
There’s no doubt that by the time the last lines rolled off upriver, every surfer had left their mark on history, but fittingly it was Rip Curl's original Searcher, Tom Curren, who was the first to re-write the record books.
On Sunday, March 20, after a few test runs to figure out the initial Seven Ghosts tidal pulses, the crew moved into a prime location over the best sand banks on the river and prepared to whip each other into history. With cameras rolling from the skis, zodiacs and helicopter, Curren faded into a growing 6-foot (2m) left-hander, backdoored its folding lip and was spit out to the cheers of the 15-man Search crew intently watching nearby. It was undoubtedly the first legitimate river bore barrel to be made in history.
“This has been the most amazing Search trip in 20 years,” Tom Curren said after his groundbreaking river tube.
To witness the full account of this monumental Rip Curl Search odyssey, journey over to ripcurl.com/tip2tip for the much-anticipated videos and photos that you, your friends and the rest of the surf world will be talking about in the line-up for weeks, months and maybe even years to come.
Text and photos courtesy Rip Curl
leads L783 through Manassas, GA on the old SAL mainline that stretches from Vidalia to Savannah.
Built in 1977 as SR 3965 to NS 3965 to GC 3965 to VLIX 3965.
Out of the eight active U-boats on the roster at the time of our visit, this was the only one to survive. The rest were sold to a scrap company with parts going to the maritime industry.
KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia (Feb. 26, 2019) – Cmdr. Patrick German, from Oklahoma City, Okla., commanding officer of the amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48) leads local Malaysian city officials and media during a ship tour. Ashland, part of the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group, with embarked 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, is operating in the Indo-Pacific region to enhance interoperability with partners and serve as a ready-response force for any type of contingency. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Markus Castaneda) 190226-N-WI365-1030
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T356 leads 8063 on the approach to Woodvale block point on the 17/4/22.
Video available at: youtu.be/1X6ZnOWZ4y4
SSR's T386 leads hired heritage locos T395 and S313, with T381 and P14 providing assistance mid train as 9377. The front three locos are in charge of a loaded railset bound for Katunga for unloading, with the middle two to be detached at Murchison East with an empty ballast and spoil rake for upcoming works. The train is seen visibily struggling up beveridge bank in Melbourne's north
I thought it would be a nightmare to solder up all forty leads–four each from ten LEDs. In fact, it was pretty easy and straightforward. I didn't even make any mistakes.
3016 leads 4 carriages along with 4918 through Parramatta Station towards Richmond on a tour "Steam to the suburbs" (Tour 1) from Central via the Bankstown Line to Carlingford then on to Blacktown and Richmond. 3801 Limited borrowed 3016 from ARHS ACT for a several months from 2012-2013.
Parramatta, NSW.
Sunday 17 February 2013.
Army Family Action Plan leads to change
By Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – Home on leave from Iraq, Matthew Smith swerved across an Indiana roadway to avoid a soda can he thought was a roadside bomb and nearly crashed into oncoming traffic.
Smith, 27, now a sergeant with the Kaiserslautern-based 457th Civil Affairs Battalion, mentioned the 2007 memory to his wife Stephanie, who had an idea. Why doesn’t the Army make mental health screenings mandatory for deployed Soldiers before their Rest and Recuperation leave?
“That event really scared him,” said Stephanie Smith, an Army Community Service employee at U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern. “If someone had warned him – to take time to reintegrate and make adjustments on R&R – that could have been prevented.”
Last year, the Smith’s submitted the idea as a suggestion the Army Family Action Plan – a grassroots program where community members indentify quality of life issues for the Army to address. It ended up being considered at the highest Army levels.
“Change starts with people like me, just another community member,” Smith said.
Representatives from U.S. Army Garrison Baden-Württemberg and U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern came together Oct. 19 for a combined 2011 AFAP conference. Roughly 200 people attended the three-day event held at the Kaiserslautern Community Activity Center on Daenner Kaserne.
In past years, ideas were submitted anonymously in community drop boxes. This year, U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern webmaster Brandon Spragins created a way for community members to offer AFAP ideas online – significantly increasing submission numbers from previous years, said Michelle Thomas, Army Community Service director at U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern. Also, mobile device photographed a special bar code that pointed them directly to the submission site.
“This allowed users to offer ideas with ease, from either their workplace or the comfort of their home,” Spragins said. “Using today’s interactive technology revolutionizes how community members can suggest improvements and make changes both locally and Army wide.”
At the conference, issues were prioritized and solutions recommended. Some topics brought up this year included improvements to parking, housing, speeding on post and the transformation of Sembach Kaserne, where several Army units are moving.
Some issues were raised to higher commands or senior Army leadership. Other problems can be addressed at the local level, Thomas said.
“We have command team that has no problem with confronting issues and finding solutions. They’re family and Soldier oriented,” Thomas said. “When you have that in a command team, you have a wonderful thing.”
AFAP conferences began in 1983. Early issues focused on child care standards and volunteer support. Since then, milestones included changes to pay, healthcare, insurance, single
Soldier programs and school liaisons. AFAP suggestions also led to an increase of annual leave carryover, toll-free hotlines for wounded service members and education benefits for surviving spouses. AFAP issues even led to legislative changes as well as changes of Army and DoD policies, AFAP program manager Kimberly Lazarow said.
“Our first step is to see if the submitted issues affect the local community or is it something Army-wide,” Lazarow said. “About 90 percent of issues submitted are worked at the local level, others are pushed higher.”
Last year, the Smith’s issue was elevated through Installation Management Command to the Department of the Army for consideration.
“This really works. Everything has to get looked at and nothing gets pushed off to the side,” Stephanie Smith said. “One little event in my husband’s life may change Army policy.”
Utica is really just a road that leads through a couple old and abandoned buildings. But the few residents left take pride in it! There looks to be a strong sense of community history still hanging about the place. Even if it's less than a stop along the way, it's still an intriguing little community in a beautiful location!
"Utica, on the Judith River, was a hangout for cowboys and headquarters for the Judith Basin Cattle Pool in the early 1880s. There was a storehouse for saddles, bridles, and other gear for roundups from one season to the next. When the riders came to town, Utica was the liveliest town around.
Jake Hoover discovered a sapphire mine in Yogo Gulch above Utica; that's the same Hoover who gave Charlie Russell a home and some grub while the artist was fiddling around with painting. Four New York prospectors heard about Yogo Gulch and came rushing out. But there wasn't enough money in the mining game for all four, so some settled on the land.
Utica is in Charlie Russell country and much of the artist's work bears memories of this area and its people. After spending a winter with Jake Hoover, Russell decided to establish a little place of his own, so he picked out a homestead in Pagel Gulch above Utica.
Utica was cattle country back in the early days and is getting back to it now. The town had a renewal of activity when the sapphire mines reopened, attracting tourists as well as summer homeowners. Today Utica stands as a relic to the past, a place where, more than any other in Montana, the romantic vision of the Old West still survives in cowboy sagas and tales. (from Cheney's Names on the Face of Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company)
The Utica Museum is a collection of artifacts from the Homestead Era. Recreation opportunities abound in the nearby Lewis and Clark National Forest, Judith River Wildlife Management Area, and Ackley Lake State Park. The Judith River Wildlife Management Area, at the edge of the Little Belt Mountains, is a good place to view large elk herds in late fall and winter.
Judith River is a tributary of Missouri River. Starting in the Little Belt Mountains and stretching for 127 miles in central Montana and emptying into the Missouri River not far from Judith Landing. This excellent canoeing stream flows through isolated breaks country that features white cliffs, deep coulees, and peculiar rock formations, but floaters should be aware of fences crossing the channel. Captain Clark of the Corps of Discovery named the Judith for Julia Hancock, whom he later married in 1808." -centralmontana.com
Army Family Action Plan leads to change
By Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – Home on leave from Iraq, Matthew Smith swerved across an Indiana roadway to avoid a soda can he thought was a roadside bomb and nearly crashed into oncoming traffic.
Smith, 27, now a sergeant with the Kaiserslautern-based 457th Civil Affairs Battalion, mentioned the 2007 memory to his wife Stephanie, who had an idea. Why doesn’t the Army make mental health screenings mandatory for deployed Soldiers before their Rest and Recuperation leave?
“That event really scared him,” said Stephanie Smith, an Army Community Service employee at U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern. “If someone had warned him – to take time to reintegrate and make adjustments on R&R – that could have been prevented.”
Last year, the Smith’s submitted the idea as a suggestion the Army Family Action Plan – a grassroots program where community members indentify quality of life issues for the Army to address. It ended up being considered at the highest Army levels.
“Change starts with people like me, just another community member,” Smith said.
Representatives from U.S. Army Garrison Baden-Württemberg and U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern came together Oct. 19 for a combined 2011 AFAP conference. Roughly 200 people attended the three-day event held at the Kaiserslautern Community Activity Center on Daenner Kaserne.
In past years, ideas were submitted anonymously in community drop boxes. This year, U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern webmaster Brandon Spragins created a way for community members to offer AFAP ideas online – significantly increasing submission numbers from previous years, said Michelle Thomas, Army Community Service director at U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern. Also, mobile device photographed a special bar code that pointed them directly to the submission site.
“This allowed users to offer ideas with ease, from either their workplace or the comfort of their home,” Spragins said. “Using today’s interactive technology revolutionizes how community members can suggest improvements and make changes both locally and Army wide.”
At the conference, issues were prioritized and solutions recommended. Some topics brought up this year included improvements to parking, housing, speeding on post and the transformation of Sembach Kaserne, where several Army units are moving.
Some issues were raised to higher commands or senior Army leadership. Other problems can be addressed at the local level, Thomas said.
“We have command team that has no problem with confronting issues and finding solutions. They’re family and Soldier oriented,” Thomas said. “When you have that in a command team, you have a wonderful thing.”
AFAP conferences began in 1983. Early issues focused on child care standards and volunteer support. Since then, milestones included changes to pay, healthcare, insurance, single
Soldier programs and school liaisons. AFAP suggestions also led to an increase of annual leave carryover, toll-free hotlines for wounded service members and education benefits for surviving spouses. AFAP issues even led to legislative changes as well as changes of Army and DoD policies, AFAP program manager Kimberly Lazarow said.
“Our first step is to see if the submitted issues affect the local community or is it something Army-wide,” Lazarow said. “About 90 percent of issues submitted are worked at the local level, others are pushed higher.”
Last year, the Smith’s issue was elevated through Installation Management Command to the Department of the Army for consideration.
“This really works. Everything has to get looked at and nothing gets pushed off to the side,” Stephanie Smith said. “One little event in my husband’s life may change Army policy.”
Venedig - Canal Grande
The Grand Canal (Italian: Canal Grande [kaˌnal ˈɡrande]; Venetian: Canal Grando, anciently Canałasso [kanaˈɰaso]) is a channel in Venice, Italy. It forms one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city.
One end of the canal leads into the lagoon near the Santa Lucia railway station and the other end leads into the basin at San Marco; in between, it makes a large reverse-S shape through the central districts (sestieri) of Venice. It is 3.8 km (2.4 mi) long, and 30 to 90 m (98 to 295 ft) wide, with an average depth of 5 metres (16 feet).
Description
The banks of the Grand Canal are lined with more than 170 buildings, most of which date from the 13th to the 18th century, and demonstrate the welfare and art created by the Republic of Venice. The noble Venetian families faced huge expenses to show off their richness in suitable palazzos; this contest reveals the citizens’ pride and the deep bond with the lagoon. Amongst the many are the Palazzi Barbaro, Ca' Rezzonico, Ca' d'Oro, Palazzo Dario, Ca' Foscari, Palazzo Barbarigo and to Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, housing the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. The churches along the canal include the basilica of Santa Maria della Salute. Centuries-old traditions, such as the Historical Regatta [it], are perpetuated every year along the Canal.
Because most of the city's traffic goes along the Canal rather than across it, only one bridge crossed the canal until the 19th century, the Rialto Bridge. There are currently three more bridges, the Ponte degli Scalzi, the Ponte dell'Accademia, and the controversial Ponte della Costituzione from 2008, designed by Santiago Calatrava, connecting the train station to Piazzale Roma, one of the few places in Venice where buses and cars can enter. As was usual in the past, people can still take a ferry ride across the canal at several points by standing up on the deck of a simple gondola called a traghetto, although this service is less common than even a decade ago.
Most of the palaces emerge from water without pavement. Consequently, one can only tour past the fronts of the buildings on the grand canal by boat.
History
The first settlements
The Grand Canal probably follows the course of an ancient river (possibly a branch of the Brenta) flowing into the lagoon. Adriatic Veneti groups already lived beside the formerly-named "Rio Businiacus" before the Roman age. They lived in stilt houses and relied on fishing and commerce (mainly salt). Under the rule of the Roman empire and later of the Byzantine empire the lagoon became populated and important, and in the early 9th century the doge moved his seat from Malamocco to the safer "Rivoaltus".[clarification needed]
Increasing trade followed the doge and found in the deep Grand Canal a safe and ship accessible canal-port. Drainage reveals that the city became more compact over time: at that time the Canal was wider and flowed between small, tide-subjected islands connected by wooden bridges.
"Fondaco" houses
Along the Canal, the number of "fondaco" houses increased, buildings combining the warehouse and the merchant's residence.
A portico (the curia) covers the bank and facilitates the ships' unloading. From the portico a corridor flanked by storerooms reaches a posterior courtyard. Similarly, on the first floor a loggia as large as the portico illuminates the hall into which open the merchant's rooms. The façade is thereby divided into an airy central part and two more solid sides. A low mezzanine with offices divides the two floors.
The fondaco house often had lateral defensive towers (torreselle), as in the Fondaco dei Turchi (13th century, heavily restored in the 19th). With the German warehouse, the Fondaco dei Tedeschi (which is also situated on the Grand Canal), it reflects the high number of foreign merchants working in Venice, where the republic supplied them with storerooms and lodging and simultaneously controlled their trading activity.
More public buildings were built along the Canal at Rialto: palaces for commercial and financial Benches (Palazzo dei Camerlenghi and Palazzo dei Dieci Savi, rebuilt after 1514 fire) and a mint. In 1181 Nicolò Barattieri constructed a pontoon bridge connecting Rialto to Mercerie area, which was later replaced by a wooden bridge with shops on it. Warehouses for flour and salt were more peripheral.
The Venetian-Byzantine style
From the Byzantine empire, goods arrived together with sculptures, friezes, columns and capitals to decorate the fondaco houses of patrician families. The Byzantine art merged with previous elements resulting in a Venetian-Byzantine style; in architecture, it was characterized by large loggias with round or elongated arches and by polychrome marbles abundance.
Along the Grand Canal, these elements are well preserved in Ca' Farsetti, Ca' Loredan (both municipal seats) and Ca' da Mosto, all dating back to the 12th or 13th century. During this period Rialto had an intense building development, determining the conformation of the Canal and surrounding areas. As a matter of fact, in Venice building materials are precious and foundations are usually kept: in the subsequent restorations, existing elements will be used again, mixing the Venetian-Byzantine and the new styles (Ca' Sagredo, Palazzo Bembo). Polychromy, three-partitioned façades, loggias, diffuse openings, and rooms disposition formed a particular architectural taste that continued in the future.
The Fourth Crusade, with the loot obtained from the sack of Constantinople (1204), and other historical situations, gave Venice an Eastern influence until the late 14th century.
Venetian Gothic
Venetian Gothic architecture found favor quite late, as a splendid flamboyant Gothic ("gotico fiorito") beginning with the southern façade of the Doge's Palace. The verticality and the illumination characterizing the Gothic style are found in the porticos and loggias of fondaco houses: columns get thinner, elongated arches are replaced by pointed or ogee or lobed ones. Porticos rise gently intertwining and drawing open marbles in quatrefoils or similar figures. Façades were plastered in brilliant colors.
The open marble fascias, often called "laces", quickly diffused along the Grand Canal. Among the 15th-century palaces still showing the original appearance are Ca' d'Oro, Palazzo Bernardo a San Polo, Ca' Foscari (now housing the University of Venice), Palazzo Pisani Moretta, Palazzi Barbaro, Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti.
Renaissance
By the start of the 15th century, Renaissance architecture motifs appear in such buildings as the Palazzo Dario and the Palazzo Corner Spinelli; the latter was designed by Mauro Codussi, pioneer of this style in Venice. Ca' Vendramin Calergi, another of his projects (now hosting the Casino), reveals a completed transition: the numerous and large windows with open marbles are round-arched and have columns in the three classical orders.
Classical architecture is more evident in Jacopo Sansovino's projects, who arrived from Rome in 1527. Along the Canal, he designed Palazzo Corner and Palazzo Dolfin Manin, known for grandiosity, for the horizontal layout of the white façades and for the development around a central courtyard. Other Renaissance buildings are Palazzo Papadopoli and Palazzo Grimani di San Luca. Several palaces of this period had façades with frescoes by painters such as Il Pordenone, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, all of them unfortunately lost. Particularly noteworthy were the frescoes by Veronese and Zelotti on Ca Cappello, overlooking the Grand Canal at the intersection with the Rio de S. Polo.
Venetian Baroque
In 1582, Alessandro Vittoria began the construction of Palazzo Balbi (now housing the Government of Veneto), in which Baroque elements can be recognized: fashioned cornices, broken pediments, ornamental motifs.
The major Baroque architect in Venice was Baldassarre Longhena. In 1631 he began to build the magnificent Santa Maria della Salute basilica, one of the most beautiful churches in Venice and a symbol of Grand Canal. The classical layout of the façade features decorations and by many statues, the latter crowning also the refined volutes surrounding the major dome.
Longhena later designed two majestic palaces, Ca' Pesaro and Ca' Rezzonico (with many carvings and chiaroscuro effects), and Santa Maria di Nazareth church (Chiesa degli Scalzi). For various reasons the great architect did not see any of these buildings finished, and the designs for all but Santa Maria Della Salute were modified after his death.
Longhena's themes recur in the two older façades of Palazzo Labia, containing a famous fresco cycle by Giambattista Tiepolo. In the Longhenian school grew Domenico Rossi (San Stae's façade, Ca' Corner della Regina) and Giorgio Massari, who later completed Ca' Rezzonico.
The 16th and 17th centuries mark the beginning of the Republic's decline, but nevertheless, they saw the highest building activity on the Grand Canal. This can be partially explained by the increasing number of families (like the Labia) becoming patrician by the payment of an enormous sum to the Republic, which was then facing financial difficulties. Once these families had achieved this new status, they built themselves with impressive residences on the Canal, often inducing other families to renew theirs.
Neoclassical architecture
Neoclassical architectures along the Canal date to the 18th century: during the first half was built San Simeone Piccolo, with an impressive corinthian portico, central plan and a high copper-covered dome ending in a cupola shaped as a temple. Date to the second half Massari's Palazzo Grassi.
Modern era
After the fall of the Republic of Venice in 1797, much of the palatial construction in Venice was suspended, as symbolized by the unfinished San Marcuola and Palazzo Venier dei Leoni (housing the Peggy Guggenheim Collection). The Patrician families, bereft of their hereditary role in governance and sometimes persecuted by revolutionary forces, sought other residences. Several historical palaces were pulled down, but many found other uses, and some restorations have saved their 18th-century appearance. By the late 20th century, most of the more prominent palaces were owned by the city, state, or civic institutions.
During the era of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, the Napoleonic suppression of the monastic religious orders vacated large sectors of real estate in the city. It also freed large amounts of furnishings and works of art into the antiquarian market or into the possession of the state. Large monasteries changed functions: the Santa Maria della Carità complex became a museum, the Gallerie dell'Accademia); the Santa Croce complex, was converted into the Papadopoli Gardens area; and the Santa Lucia complex (partially designed by Palladio) was razed for the establishment of the Santa Lucia Station.
The Kingdom of Italy accession restored serenity in the city and stimulated construction along the Grand Canal respecting its beauty, often reproduced in Gothic Revival architectures like the Pescaria at Rialto.
Events
Historical Regatta
On the first Sunday of September the Historical Regatta ("Regata Storica") takes place, a competition between Venetian boats watched by thousands of people from the banks or from floating stands. Competitions are preceded by a historical procession ("Corteo Storico") remembering the entrance of the Queen of Cyprus Catherine Cornaro after abdication in 1489: gondoliers in costumes sail in typical 16th century boats following the Bucentaur, doge's state galley.
The Feast-day of the Madonna della Salute
On November 21, Venetians thank the Virgin Mary for salvation from the plague epidemic in 1630-38 with a pilgrimage to Santa Maria della Salute. Pilgrims cross Grand Canal on a temporary pontoon bridge from Campo Santa Maria del Giglio, and enjoy stalls and traditional dishes.
(Wikipedia)
Der Canal Grande, im Venezianischen Canałazzo, ist eine knapp vier Kilometer lange, zwischen 30 und 70 Meter breite und bis zu fünf Meter tiefe Hauptwasserstraße in der Lagunenstadt Venedig. Die erste Biegung des S-förmigen Kanals wird als Volta di Canal bezeichnet.
Er ist das letzte Stück des nördlichen Armes des Flusses Brenta, der durch die Lagune zieht, weshalb das Wasser hier im Gegensatz zu den übrigen venezianischen Kanälen immer fließt. Rund 45 kleinere Kanäle (italienisch Rii) münden in den Canal Grande ein.
Lage
Der Canal Grande trennt die citra (diesseits)-Stadtsechstel (Sestieri) San Marco, Cannaregio und Castello von den auf der rechten Kanalseite gelegenen ultra (jenseits)-Stadtteilen Dorsoduro, San Polo und Santa Croce.
Brücken und Gondeln
Derzeit überspannen vier Brücken den Kanal, deren älteste die Rialtobrücke ist. Es handelt sich dabei um eine gegen Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts anstelle einer Holzbrücke errichtete, gedeckte Brücke in Kalkstein.
Bis zur Errichtung der Scalzi-Brücke und der Accademia-Brücke im 19. Jahrhundert (beide erneuert im 20. Jahrhundert) war die Rialtobrücke die einzige feste Verbindung über den Kanal.
Im Sommer 2007 wurde mit dem Bau einer vierten Brücke nach Entwürfen des spanischen Architekten Santiago Calatrava begonnen. Am 11. August 2007 wurde das Mittelstück der tragenden Konstruktion eingesetzt. Dazu wurde der Canal Grande für mehrere Stunden gesperrt. Am 11. September 2008 wurde die Brücke als „Ponte della Costituzione“ eingeweiht. Die 94 Meter lange Brücke mit Treppenstufen ermöglicht Pendlern und Busreisenden, ohne Umweg von den Parkplätzen und dem Busbahnhof am Piazzale Roma zum Bahnhof Santa Lucia zu gelangen.
Neben den Brücken und den städtischen Vaporetti ermöglichen Gondeln (italienisch Traghetti) an acht Stellen ein Übersetzen über den Canal Grande. Die Gondeln verkehren ausschließlich tagsüber.
Verluste an historischer Bebauung, darunter die Kirche Santa Lucia, mussten im 19. Jahrhundert durch die Errichtung des Bahnhofs am westlichen Ende des Kanals verzeichnet werden. In Erinnerung an die abgerissene Kirche wurde der Bahnhof Stazione Ferroviaria Santa Lucia genannt.
Im Canal Grande besteht ein bußgeldbewehrtes Badeverbot, das streng durchgesetzt wird.
Paläste
Der Canal Grande wird von über 200 prächtigen Adelspalästen gesäumt. In Venedig war die Höhe der Paläste von zahlreichen Vorschriften der Stadtrepublik vorgegeben und jeder akzeptierte das. Auch hier herrschte im Vergleich zu anderen italienischen Städten ein starker gemeinsamer Geist, der Einzelinteressen überlagerte. Das Gegenbeispiel sind die Geschlechtertürme in anderen Städten, mit denen sich die einzelnen Familien gegenseitig zu übertrumpfen suchten.
Nach dem großen Vierten Kreuzzug von 1204, in dessen Verlauf die Venezianer reiche Beute gemacht hatten, waren die ehemals hölzernen Häuser zunächst durch Steinbauten im byzantinischen Stil abgelöst worden. Vom 15. Jahrhundert an wurden sie nach und nach durch prunkvolle Paläste ersetzt – im Stil der Gotik, der Renaissance und auch des Barock. Byzantinische Elemente blieben in wenigen Gebäuden erhalten, sind jedoch noch in den Maßwerkformen der gotischen Fenster zu sehen.
Der Abstand der Paläste zum Canal Grande war im frühen und hohen Mittelalter teilweise größer. Erst im 13. Jahrhundert begann man, die Bauten, die auf vielen kleinen Inseln errichtet waren, zum Kanal hin zu erweitern und den Hof nach hinten zu verlagern. Gleichzeitig wurde die Hauptfassade zum Wasser hin verlegt, die zuvor zur Landseite wies. Entgegen einer weitverbreiteten Meinung standen die Paläste der berühmtesten Familien nicht am Canal Grande, sondern an größeren und kleineren Plätzen oder an Seitenkanälen.
Die Steine für diese Paläste wurden hauptsächlich vom Festland herbeitransportiert, besonders aus Verona (roter Marmor) und aus Istrien (weißer Kalkmarmor). Alles Baumaterial, auch Ziegel für Mauern und Dächer sowie erhebliche Mengen von Holz musste von außerhalb, zum Teil über hunderte von Kilometern, herangeschafft werden, da in der Stadt Venedig nichts davon vorhanden war.
Die Paläste sind zwar in ihrer Größe oft sehr unterschiedlich, aber alle nach dem gleichen Bauprinzip – einem dominierenden Mittelteil und seitlich untergeordneten Flügeln – angelegt. Die durch große Fenster geöffnete Fassade und die Bevorzugung der leichten vor der festen Bauweise ergibt sich auch durch die Notwendigkeit, auf unsicherem, oft sandigem Grund mitten im Wasser der Lagune keine allzu schweren Häuser bauen zu können. So sind alle Gebäude Venedigs auf einem Gerüst aus tausenden von Eichenpfählen, die viele Meter tief in den Untergrund getrieben wurden, errichtet. Die innere Anordnung der Räume ist meist an der Fassade abzulesen. Hier zeigt sich die jahrhundertelange Erfahrung der Baumeister, dass das fundamentale Element Venedigs das Wasser ist, dessen Lichtreflexionen in die Räume hineinspiegeln sollten.
Das untere Geschoss, das Wassergeschoss, war schon deshalb offen, um die Waren aufnehmen zu können, die von den Schiffen gebracht wurden. Dieses ganze Geschoss, das Piantereno, war auch auf der Hofseite seit dem 14. Jahrhundert dem Handel vorbehalten, also der wirtschaftlichen und finanziellen Grundlage der meisten venezianischen Familien, die solche Paläste bewohnten. Hier legten vor dem Portal die Boote an, wurden be- und entladen und die Waren unmittelbar in den angrenzenden Räumen und Magazinen eingelagert. Vor den Palästen stehen die berühmt gewordenen Pali, die bunten Pfähle zum Anbinden der Schiffe. Sie bezeichnen mit ihren individuellen Farben auch den jeweiligen Hausherrn.
Das erste Obergeschoss, das Piano nobile, und oft noch ein weiteres, war der Familie vorbehalten. Hier gab es den großen Saal, den Portego, der in der Mitte die ganze Tiefe des Hauses einnahm. Dieser Mitteltrakt war meist zu beiden Seiten von kleineren Räumen umgeben. Die Dienstboten wohnten ganz oben im Mezzanin. Die Küchen lagen ebenfalls meist unter den Dächern – aus gutem Grund. Wenn es hier zu einem Brand kam, wurde nicht das ganze Haus in Mitleidenschaft gezogen.
Innenhöfe fehlen fast immer. Dafür hatte jeder Palast im nach hinten offenen Hof seinen eigenen Brunnen. Die weniger Begüterten holten ihr Wasser aus öffentlichen Zisternen, die auf den Campi standen. Über jeder Zisterne war ein Brunnen eingerichtet.
Das Wasser für die Zisternen kam zum Teil von den Dächern. Rund um das Dach verlief nämlich die so genannte Gorne, eine steinerne Regenrinne, die über senkrechte Abflussrohre mit den Zisternen verbunden war. Die Dächer der Paläste sind relativ flach, und zwar – der Sage nach – weil die Venezianerinnen dort ihre Haare von der Sonne so lange bleichen lassen konnten, bis sie jenen Farbton des goldenen rötlichen Blonds erreicht hatten, für den sie schon zu Tizians Zeiten berühmt waren. Nur das Haar wurde gebleicht, nicht die Haut gebräunt. Das galt als vulgär. Braune Haut hatten nur die Leute, die im Freien arbeiten mussten. Die Dächer der venezianischen Palazzi waren aber entgegen einer weit verbreiteten Meinung nur selten wirklich begehbar, jedoch gab und gibt es in Venedig zahlreiche Altanen, hölzerne, balkonartige Aufbauten über den Dächern.
Viele Paläste waren trotz ihrer luftig-lichten Bauweise im Inneren sehr dunkel, vor allem im hinteren Bereich, wenn das Haus, wie meist in Venedig, eingekeilt zwischen Nachbargebäuden stand, mit oft nur wenig oder gar keinem Platz für einen Innenhof. Vor allem die Treppenhäuser und Erdgeschosse ließen an Licht und Luft zu wünschen übrig. Deswegen kam es im 16. Jahrhundert zu einer Aufwertung dieser Bereiche.
Kirchen
Direkt dem Canal Grande zugewandt, nur durch kleine Plätze oder gepflasterten Uferbereich von ihm getrennt, sind auch einige Kirchen: die Santa Maria di Nazareth (Scalzi), San Simeone Piccolo, San Geremia, San Marcuola, San Stae, San Samuele und Santa Maria della Salute. Als Teil der Accademia, dem größten Museum für Venezianische Kunst, ist auch noch das Langhaus der ehemaligen Kirche Santa Maria della Carità zu sehen. Für die Errichtung des Bahnhofs am nordwestlichen Ende des Canal Grande war im 19. Jahrhundert die Kirche Santa Lucia abgebrochen worden.
(Wikipedia)
Jan 29, 2013 Jane Lombardo leads a Teacher Center instruction on teacher effectiveness and student learning by identifying evidence based teaching at the Tarrytown regional office. School Districts: Nyack Union Free SD: [Patricia Allutto; Amy Leibel; Stephanie Minassian; Linda Pappalardo; Lauren Weick; Laura Zaris.]. Clarkstown Central SD: [Kerry Sullivan]. Mount Vernon SD: [Lisa Celzo; Clara Gomes; Tamisha Hall; Gloria Mcquaid; Shelidah Duprey]; Hawthorne Cedar Knolls USD: Adam Chagares]. Greenburgh Central SD:[Sharon Davenport; Michele Ghigliotty;; Judie Mirra; Laurie Oliva]. East Ramapo Central SD: [Devora Fintzy]. Eastchester Union Free SD: [Laurie Pesce]. Ossining Union Free SD: Cori Jackson; Yorktown Central SD: [Susan Sniffen]; Rockland Teachers’ Center Institute [Debi Thomas].
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NR97 leads a late running WB3 with NR's 49 & 101 seen here at Raleigh as they pour on the power and sand as they approach Repton bank
Mechanical / drafting pencil leads.
Brands: Pilot, Pentel, Rotring, Staedtler, Uni, Jakar, Faber-Castell and Artés
West of the Praetorium, a beautyful path leads to one of the most famous and photographed buildings of the Villa, the Canopus. It has been excavated by the Jesuits in the XVIII century, finding sculptures of egyptian subject, and later on in 1950 by Aurigemma, who discovered many statues among which the copies of the Cariatyds of the Herecteion of Athens. Unfortunately his excavations did not consider stratigraphy, and its many articles and books just deal with the sculptures that were found.
The Canopus consisted of a long water basin flanked by pergulae, which lead to a monumental building in the form of a shell-shaped grotto, decorated by niches, fountains and waterworks. Its walls originally had marble revetment, while the vault was decorated with mosaic. At its center was a semicircular stibadium, or triclinar bed for the guests: the Canopus, in fact, was a spectacular summertime open-air dining room. In the center of the dome there is a sort of grotto, entering inside the hill, decorated by niches for statues and waterworks. Water gathered in an undelying basin and then overflowed, flowing into a series of small channels surrounding the triclinar bed. In the back of the building were several other rooms paved with opus sectile, and two small single latrinae. On the western side, a long room probably used as a kitchen was originally decorated by frescoes, which were detached in the 1960's. Two staircases lead up to the hill behind the Canopus, where has been found a water basin and a small aqueduct supplying the waterworks. In this area was also identified a Nymphaeum.
The half dome of the Canopus was an artificial, 'virtual' grotto, and since in its basin was found a fragmentary sculpture representing Scylla, it probably recalled other imperial triclinia such as the one in the Grotto of Sperlonga, in the villa of Tiberius, where was found a marble sculpture representing Ulysses blinding Polyphemus. In the hellenistic royal palaces, the grotto was part of the decoration and iconography; in roman times the grotto was very popular, even in small villas and private homes, as seen in Pompeii and other archaeological sites. In the imperial villas the grotto was a 'must', and reached monumental size, as in this case.
It is important to remind that Aurigemma's reconstruction of the columnade surrounding the Euripus basin of the Canopus is hypotetical, and was not supported by real excavation evidence.
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An extremely winding but well maintained road leads up the mountain. The summit area includes Haleakalā Crater, the summit of the volcano, and the area surrounding the summit. This part of the park is accessed by Hawaii state road 378. There is a visitor center, with parking and restrooms, near the summit. At the summit itself is another parking lot and a simple observatory without facilities.
The main feature of this part of the park is undoubtedly the famous Haleakalā Crater. It is huge: 6.99 miles (11.25 km) across, 2.0 mi (3.2 km) wide, and some 2,600 ft (790 m) deep. The interior of the crater is dotted by numerous volcanic features, including large cinder cones. Two main trails lead into the crater from the summit area: the Halemau'u and Sliding Sands trails. Hikers in the crater can stay in one of three cabins (which need to be reserved through the park first).
Each morning, visitors come to the summit of the volcano to watch the spectacular sunrise. More visitors come each afternoon to watch the equally amazing sunset. In either case conditions can be extremely cold. One attraction of the park is Hosmer's Grove, a unique forest of alien trees including deodar (Cedrus deodara) from the Himalayas, sugi (Cryptomeria japonica) from Japan, eucalyptus from Australia, and several species from North America (pine, spruce, cypress, fir, and others). Native plants and trees are also present in the forest but are not very common due to the little light available (because of the taller alien trees).
The park is known for its unique volcanic features, its long scenic drive with numerous overlooks, and the unusually clear views of the night sky available. Haleakalā is one of the best places in the United States for amateur astronomy, and binoculars and telescopes are available for rent from many local merchants. Nēnē (Hawaiian geese, Branta sandvicensis) can also be seen in their natural habitat in Haleakalā Crater. Although nēnē died out entirely in the park, in 1946 they were re-introduced with the help of the Boy Scouts, who carried young birds into the crater in their backpacks.
Shot with a Nikon D750 and the 24-85 3.5-4.5G
West of the Praetorium, a beautyful path leads to one of the most famous and photographed buildings of the Villa, the Canopus. It has been excavated by the Jesuits in the XVIII century, finding sculptures of egyptian subject, and later on in 1950 by Aurigemma, who discovered many statues among which the copies of the Cariatyds of the Herecteion of Athens. Unfortunately his excavations did not consider stratigraphy, and its many articles and books just deal with the sculptures that were found.
The Canopus consisted of a long water basin flanked by pergulae, which lead to a monumental building in the form of a shell-shaped grotto, decorated by niches, fountains and waterworks. Its walls originally had marble revetment, while the vault was decorated with mosaic. At its center was a semicircular stibadium, or triclinar bed for the guests: the Canopus, in fact, was a spectacular summertime open-air dining room. In the center of the dome there is a sort of grotto, entering inside the hill, decorated by niches for statues and waterworks. Water gathered in an undelying basin and then overflowed, flowing into a series of small channels surrounding the triclinar bed. In the back of the building were several other rooms paved with opus sectile, and two small single latrinae. On the western side, a long room probably used as a kitchen was originally decorated by frescoes, which were detached in the 1960's. Two staircases lead up to the hill behind the Canopus, where has been found a water basin and a small aqueduct supplying the waterworks. In this area was also identified a Nymphaeum.
The half dome of the Canopus was an artificial, 'virtual' grotto, and since in its basin was found a fragmentary sculpture representing Scylla, it probably recalled other imperial triclinia such as the one in the Grotto of Sperlonga, in the villa of Tiberius, where was found a marble sculpture representing Ulysses blinding Polyphemus. In the hellenistic royal palaces, the grotto was part of the decoration and iconography; in roman times the grotto was very popular, even in small villas and private homes, as seen in Pompeii and other archaeological sites. In the imperial villas the grotto was a 'must', and reached monumental size, as in this case.
It is important to remind that Aurigemma's reconstruction of the columnade surrounding the Euripus basin of the Canopus is hypotetical, and was not supported by real excavation evidence.
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43156 leads the 08.00 Cardiff - Penzance off the Royal Albert Bridge. The rear power car is 43093. I did take a shot of this train a little bit further back coming off the arched section of the bridge but a very large articulated truck was passing behind on the road bridge but was positioned just above the power car making the image somewhat less aesthetically pleasing than I had hoped . Hey ho. Beats being done by a cloud.
Army Family Action Plan leads to change
By Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – Home on leave from Iraq, Matthew Smith swerved across an Indiana roadway to avoid a soda can he thought was a roadside bomb and nearly crashed into oncoming traffic.
Smith, 27, now a sergeant with the Kaiserslautern-based 457th Civil Affairs Battalion, mentioned the 2007 memory to his wife Stephanie, who had an idea. Why doesn’t the Army make mental health screenings mandatory for deployed Soldiers before their Rest and Recuperation leave?
“That event really scared him,” said Stephanie Smith, an Army Community Service employee at U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern. “If someone had warned him – to take time to reintegrate and make adjustments on R&R – that could have been prevented.”
Last year, the Smith’s submitted the idea as a suggestion the Army Family Action Plan – a grassroots program where community members indentify quality of life issues for the Army to address. It ended up being considered at the highest Army levels.
“Change starts with people like me, just another community member,” Smith said.
Representatives from U.S. Army Garrison Baden-Württemberg and U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern came together Oct. 19 for a combined 2011 AFAP conference. Roughly 200 people attended the three-day event held at the Kaiserslautern Community Activity Center on Daenner Kaserne.
In past years, ideas were submitted anonymously in community drop boxes. This year, U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern webmaster Brandon Spragins created a way for community members to offer AFAP ideas online – significantly increasing submission numbers from previous years, said Michelle Thomas, Army Community Service director at U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern. Also, mobile device photographed a special bar code that pointed them directly to the submission site.
“This allowed users to offer ideas with ease, from either their workplace or the comfort of their home,” Spragins said. “Using today’s interactive technology revolutionizes how community members can suggest improvements and make changes both locally and Army wide.”
At the conference, issues were prioritized and solutions recommended. Some topics brought up this year included improvements to parking, housing, speeding on post and the transformation of Sembach Kaserne, where several Army units are moving.
Some issues were raised to higher commands or senior Army leadership. Other problems can be addressed at the local level, Thomas said.
“We have command team that has no problem with confronting issues and finding solutions. They’re family and Soldier oriented,” Thomas said. “When you have that in a command team, you have a wonderful thing.”
AFAP conferences began in 1983. Early issues focused on child care standards and volunteer support. Since then, milestones included changes to pay, healthcare, insurance, single
Soldier programs and school liaisons. AFAP suggestions also led to an increase of annual leave carryover, toll-free hotlines for wounded service members and education benefits for surviving spouses. AFAP issues even led to legislative changes as well as changes of Army and DoD policies, AFAP program manager Kimberly Lazarow said.
“Our first step is to see if the submitted issues affect the local community or is it something Army-wide,” Lazarow said. “About 90 percent of issues submitted are worked at the local level, others are pushed higher.”
Last year, the Smith’s issue was elevated through Installation Management Command to the Department of the Army for consideration.
“This really works. Everything has to get looked at and nothing gets pushed off to the side,” Stephanie Smith said. “One little event in my husband’s life may change Army policy.”
I'd had the Kelvin clips for making up these leads, and the 4mm banana plugs, for some time. When #makevember came along, I finally had the motivation to assemble them! The four-wire connection is a way to reduce the errors due to lead resistance when making Ohms measurements: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-terminal_sensing
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Sgt. 1st Class Francisco Santiago, Charlie Company, 163rd Military Intelligence Battalion first sergeant, leads his troops in saluting the American flag during their change of command ceremony. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. April York, 2nd BCT, 4th Inf. Div., PAO)
"Crazy" Leo Urlichich in car #3 on Stage A6 "Iron Bridge South" of the 2013 Rally of the Tall Pines.
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West of the Praetorium, a beautyful path leads to one of the most famous and photographed buildings of the Villa, the Canopus. It has been excavated by the Jesuits in the XVIII century, finding sculptures of egyptian subject, and later on in 1950 by Aurigemma, who discovered many statues among which the copies of the Cariatyds of the Herecteion of Athens. Unfortunately his excavations did not consider stratigraphy, and its many articles and books just deal with the sculptures that were found.
The Canopus consisted of a long water basin flanked by pergulae, which lead to a monumental building in the form of a shell-shaped grotto, decorated by niches, fountains and waterworks. Its walls originally had marble revetment, while the vault was decorated with mosaic. At its center was a semicircular stibadium, or triclinar bed for the guests: the Canopus, in fact, was a spectacular summertime open-air dining room. In the center of the dome there is a sort of grotto, entering inside the hill, decorated by niches for statues and waterworks. Water gathered in an undelying basin and then overflowed, flowing into a series of small channels surrounding the triclinar bed. In the back of the building were several other rooms paved with opus sectile, and two small single latrinae. On the western side, a long room probably used as a kitchen was originally decorated by frescoes, which were detached in the 1960's. Two staircases lead up to the hill behind the Canopus, where has been found a water basin and a small aqueduct supplying the waterworks. In this area was also identified a Nymphaeum.
The half dome of the Canopus was an artificial, 'virtual' grotto, and since in its basin was found a fragmentary sculpture representing Scylla, it probably recalled other imperial triclinia such as the one in the Grotto of Sperlonga, in the villa of Tiberius, where was found a marble sculpture representing Ulysses blinding Polyphemus. In the hellenistic royal palaces, the grotto was part of the decoration and iconography; in roman times the grotto was very popular, even in small villas and private homes, as seen in Pompeii and other archaeological sites. In the imperial villas the grotto was a 'must', and reached monumental size, as in this case.
It is important to remind that Aurigemma's reconstruction of the columnade surrounding the Euripus basin of the Canopus is hypotetical, and was not supported by real excavation evidence.
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Electrical workers appear to have put jump leads on these overhead cables. Maybe the Earth needed a jump start?
Seen on a walk on the Cheshire Ring canals.
As I was parking my car this morning I backed into a grassy bank; it bent the exhaust. As I had a few miles to drive home I fixed it as best I could, to stop it dragging on the ground, by looping the jump leads round the tail pipe and shutting the boot lid on them to keep them in place.
It made a rather throaty sound as I drove but it held … a trip to the garage tomorrow morning.
This bridge leads to (or from, in this case) Koraku-en, one of the most famous gardens in Japan.
Momotaro means "peach boy." The story of Momotaro is closely associated with Okayama, and his likeness can be seen everywhere. You can see from this statue in front of JR Okayama station his three friends: a dog, a monkey, and a pheasant. According to the legend, Momotaro was found by an elderly couple inside a giant peach. He and his three friends journeyed to a land infested with ogres and forced them into submission. There is even a song about it, although I really don't have the details.
Okayama lies in Japan's Chugoku region, southwest of the Kansai area which includes Osaka and Kyoto. It is a short journey from Osaka, and can be reached by shinkansen along the JR Sanyo line in about one hour. It is a great stop on the way to Hiroshima or Hakata, which are also shinkansen stops. It is also a stopping point on the way to Shikoku.
Okayama is famous for the legend of Momotaro, a boy that was found inside a peach and later slays ogres--yeah, I know it is a little weird. It is also home of Koraku-en, one of Japan's three great gardens, and Okayama castle.
Koraku-en. Okayama City, Okayama.
A Saudi Arabian honor guard officer leads a greeting ceremony for the arrival of U.S. Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, rin Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Nov. 8, 2016. Dunford is in Saudi Arabia to further military relations between the two nations. (DoD photo by D. Myles Cullen/Released)