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Striking warbler with vastly different male and female plumages. Males are unique deep blue above with black face and sides and white belly. Females are plain brownish-olive with dingy buffy underparts and subtle face pattern. Always look for small white patch on the wing, lacking only on the dullest immature females. Breeds in the understory of mixed forests, favoring hills with dense vegetation. Found in nearly any wooded or shrubby habitat during migration. Winters primarily in the Caribbean. Listen for lazy buzzy song, usually a series of notes with a final long buzz. (eBird)
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The mnemonic for this warbler's song is a rising, buzzy "so la-zy', although these birds are anything but. It was a real challenge to find and keep this little bird in the viewfinder long enough to take his photo. It's only the second time I've managed to photograph him. I've never photographed the female.
Trans-Canada Trail, Stittsville, Ontario, Canada. May 2023.
"Ἀεὶ ὁ θεὸς γεωμετρεῖ"
English
Credited to the greek philosopher Plato it means "Great God is always using geometry" wanting to depict the importance of geometry in the understanding of the cosmos. The phrase is also used as a mnemonic of the irrational number pi (π the ratio of circle's circumference to its diametre) since the number of letters in each word give 3.1415
Flamborough Head Lighthouse
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The present lighthouse, designed by Samuel Wyatt and costing £8,000 to build, was first lit on 1 December 1806. It had a distinctive light characteristic of two white flashes followed by a red flash. This was provided by the lighting apparatus, which was designed by optics specialist George Robinson, who was also Chief Inspector of Lighthouses at Trinity House. It consisted of a revolving vertical shaft with a three-sided frame on which were mounted 21 argand lamps, 7 on each side, with parabolic reflectors. On one of the three sides the reflectors were covered with red glass: this was the first use of red glass in a lighthouse and represented the first use of the colour as part of a light characteristic; the idea was soon taken up elsewhere. According to a description of the lighthouse written in 1818, the red light was used to distinguish Flamborough's lighthouse from the one at Cromer. A Victorian pilot book used the mnemonic: 'Two whites to one red / Indicates Flambro' Head'.
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The sentence in the picture title, which means "An old lady went shopping today", is a German mnemonic for the standard guitar tuning E-A-D-G-B(in German: H)-E. The English mnemonic "Eddy Ate Dynamite, Good Bye Eddy" would be much harder to reproduce photographically;-)
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Listen: Portico Quartet - Zavodovski Island
i made this photograph on beautiful day in june 2016 while visiting a dear friend in mantova. her father is un maestro orologiaio, and this clockwork is one of his charges. i thought about this photo this morning, probably because the maestro has recently celebrated a birthday. buona giornata alla famiglia gorla.
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The Phare du Petit Minou is a lighthouse in the roadstead of Brest (Finistère, Brittany, France), standing in front of the Fort du Petit Minou, in the commune of Plouzané. By aligning it with the phare du Portzic, it shows the safe route to follow for ships to enter the roadstead. It also has a red signal that indicates a dangerous sector around the plateau of les Fillettes (literally the girls), one of the submerged rocks in the goulet of Brest — sailors remember this by using the mnemonic "the Minou blushes when he covers les Fillets". (Wikipedia)
Flamborough Old and New Lighthouses.
The new lighthouse isn't exactly new. It was built in 1806 to guide ships to Bridlington and Scarborough. The old lighthouse dates back to 1674 with very little evidence that it was ever lit.
The new lighthouse was the first in the country to utilise coloured glass to differentiate it from the lighthouse further south at Cromer in Norfolk, with seafarers learning the mnemonic "Two whites to one red / indicates Flamboro' Head."
Interesting reading up about the history of lighthouses around the UK's coast. I never realised, though it makes complete sense, that every lighthouse has it's own unique signal. Something that I had noticed flying the drone the evening before from this same field and trying to coordinate the flashes with taking an image. It now flashes four white lights in close succession every 15 seconds.
As usual, with so many people drawn to the headland to watch sunrise and sunset I didn't feel comfortable flying the drone so retreated to this recently harvested field an hour or so before sunset.
I'd bought a Freewell circular polariser a few weeks ago and this was the first time I'd use it. Took a few attempts taking an image then landing and changing the position of the polariser to have it only affect the sky. The low sun was bringing out the colour in the field and didn't need anything added to it further, though the light leakage in the bottom right corner is something I need to have a play with.
Commonly known as the Carolina sphinx moth and the tobacco hawk moth (as adults) and the tobacco hornworm and the Goliath worm (as larvae), it is closely related to and often confused with the very similar tomato hornworm (Manduca quinquemaculata); the larvae of both feed on the foliage of various plants of the family Solanaceae.
Tomato hornworms have eight V-shaped white markings with no borders; Tobacco hornworms have seven white diagonal lines with a black border. Additionally, Tobacco hornworms have red horns, while tomato hornworms have dark blue or black horns.[2] A mnemonic to remember the markings is tobacco hornworms have straight white lines like cigarettes, while tomato hornworms have V-shaped markings (as in "vine-ripened" tomatoes).
Les libellules, demoiselles et lestes font partie de l’ordre des odonatoptères. Leurs caractéristiques sont de posséder un corps allongé et deux paires d’ailes transparentes à membrane. Ces insectes sont des prédateurs et fréquentent les zones d’eau douce ou saumâtre.
Pour différencier les sortes de libellules voici un petit moyen mnémotechnique basé sur l’observation:
Si elles se posent ailes fermées, ce sont des demoiselles.
Si elles se posent ailes ouvertes, ce sont des libellules.
Si elles se posent ailes mi fermées, ce sont des lestes.
Dragonflies, damselflies and fleet are part of the order of odonatoptères. Their characteristics are to have an elongated body and two pairs of membrane transparent wings. These insects are predators and frequent fresh or brackish water areas.
To differentiate the kinds of dragonflies here's a mnemonic device based on observation:
If they arise closed wings, they are maids.
If they land open wings, they are dragonflies.
If they arise wings half closed, they are nimble.
Les libellules, demoiselles et lestes font partie de l’ordre des odonatoptères. Leurs caractéristiques sont de posséder un corps allongé et deux paires d’ailes transparentes à membrane. Ces insectes sont des prédateurs et fréquentent les zones d’eau douce ou saumâtre.
Pour différencier les sortes de libellules voici un petit moyen mnémotechnique basé sur l’observation:
Si elles se posent ailes fermées, ce sont des demoiselles.
Si elles se posent ailes ouvertes, ce sont des libellules.
Si elles se posent ailes mi fermées, ce sont des lestes.
Dragonflies, damselflies and fleet are part of the order of odonatoptères. Their characteristics are to have an elongated body and two pairs of membrane transparent wings. These insects are predators and frequent fresh or brackish water areas.
To differentiate the kinds of dragonflies here's a mnemonic device based on observation:
If they arise closed wings, they are maids.
If they land open wings, they are dragonflies.
If they arise wings half closed, they are nimble.
Datura is a genus of highly poisonous vespertine-flowering plants in the Nightshade family. There are several species of Datura, but pictured here is Datura wrightii, colloquially known as Sacred Datura, native to the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico.
Datura plants – both Datura wrightii, and other varieties – contain toxic quantities of tropane alkaloids like scopolamine and atropine. Substantial ingestion of Datura results in anticholinergic syndrome; function of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine is blocked, resulting in a series of symptoms ranging from psychosis to hyperthermia to temporary blindness. The symptoms of anticholinergic syndrome are described by the medical mnemonic “Blind as a bat, mad as a hatter, red as a beet, hot as a hare, dry as a bone, the bowel and bladder lose their tone, and the heart runs alone.” Ingestion of Datura can be lethal.
That doesn’t stop some people, often teenagers, from ingesting it though, because hey, psychoactive plant! But apparently it is the Worst. Drug. Ever. I once heard it described by a Youtuber as “The Psychedelic that Only Gives Bad Trips.” A foray into the Datura Trip Reports section of Erowid.org features Trip Report titles such as “24 Hours of Madness”, “Three Unpleasant Days,” “Imaginary Friends May Not Be Nice”, “Vague, Unreal, and Unpleasant,” “The Depths of Delirium Sucked”, “Complete Retrograde Amnesia”, “Loss of Coordination Entirely”, and “Oblivion in the Worst Possible Sense.”
Clearly ingesting Datura isn’t advisable. If you wish to unlock its mysteries, I would recommend sitting with it and asking it what it wants to tell you rather than consuming it. But if you want to get wild and crazy, maybe touch it and end up with a horrible case of contact dermatitis* like me. :)
*Note that it isn’t known to give contact dermatitis universally, only to sensitive individuals; I’m allergic to almost everything on God’s Green Earth, so it’s not surprising I had a reaction. That being said, apparently touching it with an open sore can be No Bueno.
I shoot this fence rather often at night by the light of the pool lights. It never ceases to fascinate and delight me.
Thank you Freya for inviting me to Mnemonic Zone!
It was a great sim for pictures and I had a lot of fun. <3
Thank you Freya for inviting me to Mnemonic Zone!
It was a great sim for pictures and I had a lot of fun. <3
For all of you heading back to school and doing science , thats the mnemonic for remembering the colours of the rainbow.
Thank you Freya for inviting me to Mnemonic Zone!
It was a great sim for pictures and I had a lot of fun. <3
I recently heard an interesting anecdote about the origins of the word 'posh'. It apparently stems from the marine industry, and is a mnemonic for 'port out, starboard home'. This used to be printed on tickets of passengers on P&O (Peninsula and Orient) passenger vessels that travelled between UK and India back in the day.
Britain and India are both in the northern hemisphere so the port (left-hand side) berths were mostly in the shade when travelling out (easterly) and the starboard ones when coming back. So the best and most expensive berths were 'port out, starboard home' - POSH, hence the term.
Drop me a note in the comment section if you have heard this, or any other explanation of posh seats/cabin.
Thank you Freya for inviting me to Mnemonic Zone!
It was a great sim for pictures and I had a lot of fun. <3
Early morning shoppers Exeter, Devon, UK.
Reflection, the Structure of Memory.
The relationship of memories to specific physical visual forms. These representations form the basis of how the mind.
structures relationships between specific objects and memories. Through reflection associations are created that activate the mind to recall these memories via mnemonic visual references. These mnemonic references are objects of familiarity that create a concrete relationship between form and memory experiences.
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Le phare du Petit Minou indique aux bateaux désirant se rendre à Brest, la route à suivre pour entrer dans la rade. Il forme un alignement avec le phare du Portzic.
Il comporte également un secteur rouge qui signale le plateau des Fillettes, l'une des roches immergées du goulet de Brest. Pour parer ce danger, certains marins utilisent ce moyen mnémotechnique :
« Le Minou rougit quand il couvre les Fillettes. »
Il se trouve en avant du fort du Petit Minou, sur la commune de Plouzané.
Haut de 26 mètres, il se trouve à 34 mètres au-dessus du niveau de la mer. Allumé en 1848 il est automatisé depuis 1989 et commandé depuis Brest. Son nom viendrait de min (pointe, en breton), au pluriel.
(Source Wikipédia.org)
The Petit Minou lighthouse shows boats wishing to go to Brest the route to follow to enter the harbour. It forms an alignment with the Portzic lighthouse.
It also includes a red sector which indicates the Fillettes plateau, one of the submerged rocks of the Brest gully. To ward off this danger, some sailors use this mnemonic device:
“The Kitty blushes when he covers the Girls. »
It is located in front of Fort du Petit Minou, in the town of Plouzané.
26 meters high, it is 34 meters above sea level. Lit in 1848, it has been automated since 1989 and controlled from Brest. Its name would come from min (tip, in Breton), in the plural.
(Source Wikipedia.org)
Colorful Roy G. Biv Raindrops Splash In Pool.
Roy G. Biv is a mnemonic for Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet
Nature's natural color spectrum always elicits the same pattern (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet) when light is refracted, commonly known from the Roy G. Biv mnemonic.
While a primary rainbow is visible when light is reflected once off the back of a raindrop, a secondary and usually dimmer rainbow is spotted when light is reflected twice in a more complicated pattern.
The colors of the second rainbow are inverted, with blue on the outside and red moved to the inside. The second bow appears dimmer or cloudier because much more light is released from two reflections, and both bows cover a larger portion of the sky.
Thank you Freya for inviting me to Mnemonic Zone!
It was a great sim for pictures and I had a lot of fun. <3
Thank you Freya for inviting me to Mnemonic Zone!
It was a great sim for pictures and I had a lot of fun. <3
«... Νηστεύοντας το περιττό από την πόρτα του τυχαίου...
Μου φτάνει το άρωµά σου!». Χρ. Λιοντάκης
not exactly, but...:
"At the door of randomness i`m fasting from the needless...
I only need your scent" Chr. Liontakis
Thank you Freya for inviting me to Mnemonic Zone!
It was a great sim for pictures and I had a lot of fun. <3
Thank you Freya for inviting me to Mnemonic Zone!
It was a great sim for pictures and I had a lot of fun. <3
Excerpt from torontobiennial.org/work/dana-prieto-at-small-arms-inspec...:
In October 1992, the Toronto Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) purchased the Arsenal Lands, a 15.7-hectare property located on the City of Mississauga’s waterfront and the site of the Small Arms Inspection Building (SAIB). Alongside this acquisition, the TRCA performed an environmental audit of the land to determine the extent of contamination associated with its prior use as a large munitions plant that manufactured rifles and small arms for the Canadian Army. The testing identified the presence of large concentrations of low-level radioactive waste, PCBs, heavy metals, petroleum compounds, volatile organic compounds, and combustible gasses. Since then, the TRCA has directed an extensive screening of the grounds, extracting and segregating toxic particles and debris while removing over 70,000 tonnes of radioactive soil that have been stored in a containment facility neighbouring SAIB. Beyond the haunting ubiquity of forever chemicals scattered across the Arsenal Lands, this site is entwined with cycles of migration, settlement, war, displacement, natural disasters, butterfly visitations, the prospects of a tenuous biocultural restoration, and a revival of community and cultural happenings.
Dana Prieto’s commission for the Toronto Biennial in 2022, Footnotes for an Arsenal (2022), proposes an exercise of attunement toward ways of thinking with the ground we stand upon, an invitation to enact an unflinching, caring, and responsible attention to that ground, and to the profound social, historical, and chemical enmeshments that link us to it. The work meditates on the past, present, and future histories of SAIB and the land where it is located. The installation resembles a mundane scene around a tiled patio or playground, comprising an arrangement of terracotta clay tiles that hold an assemblage of containers. Incorporating fired soil , this prosaic tableau offers mnemonic traces of a convoluted and ostensibly hazardous ground, charting the uncontainable nature of earthly bodies while tendering forms of life that are not defined by its damage.
“The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched”
~Thoreau
Even though the increase of sunlight can be measured in only a few minutes a day in deep, dark January, I find myself at the south window each night as the sun goes down, marking its journey north through tree branches, power poles, and my own mnemonic meanderings towards that light.
this painting with colored pencils was made on A3 Fabriano 33x48 cm smooth high-weight paper, the image is of my imagination, inspired by photographs from the internet, but I deliberately performed a mnemonic and compositional exercise by creating the perspective, the spaces the shapes of the waves and the colors, the formation of the sky, etc. etc. I used a Staedtler HB graphite pencil such as Mars Lumograph to draw the shapes and I used Caran D'Asche's Prismalo colored pencils to color the whole. I greet everyone and thank everyone for the visits.
The Phare du Petit Minou is a lighthouse in the roadstead of Brest, standing in front of the Fort du Petit Minou, in the commune of Plouzané. By aligning it with the phare du Portzic, it shows the safe route to follow for ships to enter the roadstead.[1] It also has a red signal that indicates a dangerous sector around the plateau of les Fillettes (literally the girls), one of the submerged rocks in the goulet of Brest — sailors remember this by using the mnemonic "the Minou blushes when he covers les Fillettes".
Looking down Swaledale, Thwaite just out of shot.
The early eighteenth century saw the wooden barns that dotted the Dales being replaced with the characteristic stone barns we see today. This was a time of increasing prosperity and stone barns were a sign of faith in a future worth investing in.
Laithe is an old northern word for a field barn or grain store.
A rather useful mnemonic for lovers of pub quizzes is
SUNWAC DDT.
For the retention of the names of Yorkshires major rivers.
Swale, Ure, Nidd, Wharf, Aire, Calder, Don, Derwent ,Trent.
With apologies to the Ouse.
Given during a Geography lesson for O level back in 1965 at Batley Boy's High School, and never forgotten.
You can put any mnemonic device to this bird's song, as long as you say it in the right cadence. I think this guy was singing to the plum bounty it found. (At second glance, they might be crabapples) . "The White-throated Sparrow comes in two color forms: white-crowned and tan-crowned. The two forms are genetically determined, and they persist because individuals almost always mate with a bird of the opposite morph. Males of both color types prefer females with white stripes, but both kinds of females prefer tan-striped males. White-striped birds are more aggressive than tan-striped ones, and white-striped females may be able to outcompete their tan-striped sisters for tan-striped males." All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology.