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Acalypha californica—California copperleaf. An euphorb found in San Diego County and Baja California, including islands on both sides of the peninsula. The staminate Inflorescence visible in my other photos of copperleaf is the long reddish tube that can be from 1.5 to 4 cm long. The leaves are always green despite the common name of copperleaf. An interesting feature of the leaves is the moisture exuded at the margin of the leaves [I have been informed that the phenomenon is known as guttation. 7/11/2016]. The plant that provided the branchlet photographed is at Regional Parks Botanic Garden located in Tilden Regional Park near Berkeley, CA.
Mercedes Benz Sprinter Public Order Van National Association of Police Fleet Managers NAPFM the Blue & Amber Light Fleet Exhibition Telford June 2013
One of my favorite restaurants in St. Augustine (actually in St. Augustine Beach) is Cafe Eleven. They have great food and a decent beer list. You order at the counter and they give you a number on a stick and they bring it out to you. I try to get there every time I’m in town. Contax IIIa, Fujifilm ACROS Neopan 1600, Rodinal 1:50.
The Flickr Lounge-If I Had A Million Dollars
I'd build a house to my specifications with a big porch and a large kitchen where I could cook up a storm!
As peaceful a place as I've found this trip - Marmorkirken, Copenhagen.
Yesterday a Swedish lady thought I was German because I didn't have 'the English features'; a Danish photographer with a stripy beanie struck up a discussion about Stockholm's light; and an Australian girl at the hostel said after I leave she'd happily sleep in my bed with unchanged sheets because I looked clean.
We live in interesting times.
MORE about Chaeronea:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXUifDHgfGM
watch a video with the 30 TOP free camping and Nudist beaches in Greece:
Chaeronea was the site of several historical battles. Best known is that of 338 BCE, between Philip II of Macedon and a coalition of various Greek states, mainly Thebes and Athens. During the battle, the elite unit of Theban soldiers known as the Sacred Band of Thebes was wiped out completely. In 1818, the so-called Lion of Chaeronea, a nearly 20-foot-tall (6.1 m) funerary monument erected in honor of the Sacred Band, was rediscovered by English travellers. The fragmentary monument was reassembled and installed in 1902 by an organisation called the Order of Chaeronea atop a pedestal at the site of its discovery.
Roberto Rossellini
CD :
New Order
Movimento
Base Records
Italia
1981
Disegno . Grafica Industria
Postcard :
New Order
Roma
Italia
1993
Photography . Steve Double
E Pericoloso Sporghersi
GMA
What I like about the photo is the color and the fins in a nice order, what I do not like is I could not get the exposure I wanted, it took some time in lightroom to get it adjusted properly, what I would change would to play with the ISO and aperture more so that the exposure would be better and try a few more angles.
Original Caption: Swimming on Havasu Lake, May 1972
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-6348
Photographer: O'Rear, Charles, 1941-
Subjects:
Yuma (Yuma County, Arizona)
Environmental Protection Agency
Project DOCUMERICA
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i just got my order from kawaii corner and i love it all!! the nattochan tape was included but you can see those at my decotape set!
In order to do groundbreaking science, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope must first perform an extremely choreographed series of deployments, extensions, and movements that bring the observatory to life shortly after launch. Too big to fit in any rocket available in its fully deployed form, Webb was engineered to intricately fold in on itself to achieve a much smaller size during transport.
Technicians and engineers recently tested a key part of this choreography by successfully commanding Webb to deploy the support structure that holds its secondary mirror in place. This is a critical milestone in preparing the observatory for its journey to orbit. The next time this will occur will be when Webb is in space, and on its way to gaze into the cosmos from a million miles away.
This image: Following a successful deployment test of NASA Webb’s mission-critical secondary mirror, technicians and engineers visually inspect the support structure that holds it in place.
Read more: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/critical-deployment-of-...
Image credit: Northrop Grumman
Yonge Street, Toronto
The definitive New Order tune!! - Mike
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3XW6NLILqo
*****
"'The Perfect Kiss' is a song by the English rock band New Order. It is the first New Order song to be included on a studio album at the same time as its release as a single. The vinyl version has Factory catalogue number FAC 123 and the video has the opposite number, FAC 321.
The song has a complex arrangement which includes a number of instruments and methods not normally used by New Order. For example, a bridge features frogs croaking melodically. The band reportedly included them because Morris loved the effect and was looking for any excuse to use it. At the end of a track, the faint bleating of a (synthesized) sheep can be heard. Sheep samples would reappear in later New Order singles 'Fine Time' and 'Ruined in a Day'. Despite being a fan favourite, the song was not performed live between 1993 and 2006 due to the complexity of converting the programs from the E-mu Emulator to the new Roland synthesizer. However, it returned to the live set at a performance in Athens on 3 June 2006.
'The Perfect Kiss' reached only #46 in the UK charts, most likely due to a lack of marketing by Factory Records and the obscure Peter Saville sleeve: uniform grey with the word 'perfect' embossed on the front side and 'kiss The' on the back, like a wraparound band. It was about this time that the photographer Geoff Power [see 'Shellshock'] was introduced to Peter Saville. So enamoured was Peter by Geoff's work that he originally offered the photographer the cover to Low-Life. Then when that fell through, they worked on a cover for 'The Perfect Kiss' using one of Geoff's photographs, which can be seen later in New Order's songbook, 'X'. With time running out and Peter's decision not to run with this image - it didn't fit in Peter's subsequent portraits of the band on Low-Life - Geoff was offered an OMD album cover instead. Suffice to say Geoff decided to hang on until a subsequent New Order release came up a year later ['Shellshock'].
It has been suspected, and the lyrics strongly suggest that the song is about Ian Curtis's suicide. The lyrics seem to describe the subject of the song knowing that the 'friend' (possibly Ian) was suffering psychologically ('often thought he was deranged') and then the act of suicide ('you throw away your only chance to be here today', 'my friend he took his final breath, now I know the perfect kiss is the kiss of death').
The video also has a picture of Ian in the doorway at the end.
Lasting nearly 9 minutes, the full 12' single version of the song is longer than even "Blue Monday", New Order's 1983 dance epic. This version also appears on the vinyl edition of Substance, with the CD pressings deleting 44 seconds of the climatic finale, due to time limitations of the CD format in 1987 (future remasterings of Substance did not restore the missing 44 seconds, even though newer CDs would allow for it). The full version was eventually released unedited on the 2-disc deluxe edition of Low-Life, marking its first appearance on CD.
The version on the original Low-Life and all post-Substance compilations is a 4:48 edit that omits the third verse (the one that mentions the song's title) and fades out before the climax. This version is present on the A-side of the 7' single from the Philippines; most 7' issues from other countries have on the A-side a version that is further edited to 4:24 (in some or all cases without the percussion introduction). The UK 7' promo release on Factory Records is a rarely-heard edit which compresses most of the elements of the full, 8:46 version (including the ending but not the third verse) into 3:50.
There is also a live studio recording which corresponds to the music video; it is available on the bonus disc included with some editions of Retro and on various promotional vinyl releases.
The song has been remixed by third parties like Razormaid and Hot Tracks and has been covered by bands including Capsule Giants, Nude, International, Paradoxx, Razed in a New Division of Agony, and Amoeba Crunch.
'The Kiss of Death' is a typical New Order dub version: it is a mostly instrumental remix of the A-side with added effects; it notably features the opening of the album version. 'Perfect Pit' is a short recording of synthesized bass and drum parts that sounds like Gillian Gilbert and Stephen Morris practicing." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Perfect_Kiss
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Order asserts itself immediately here, not through scale but through repetition. Window after window, arch after arch, the Kensington Park façade builds a steady visual rhythm that rewards a slower read. Brick and pale stone alternate in disciplined layers, the masonry tight and legible, the ornament restrained enough to feel earned rather than performative.
The composition is unapologetically frontal, a choice that suits this building’s temperament. Nothing reaches forward aggressively; everything holds its line. Gothic-inspired arches soften the grid just enough, while carved details along the spandrels and balustrades introduce texture without breaking the cadence. The vertical banners punctuate the symmetry, subtle markers of contemporary life against a structure that clearly predates urgency.
At street level, the recessed entrance draws the eye inward rather than upward. The sign above the door — Kensington Park — anchors the building in the present, a quiet reminder that San Francisco’s architectural legacy survives through continued use, not nostalgia. Warm interior light glows from within the threshold, offering contrast against the cooler exterior tones without tipping into sentimentality.
This moment works because it reflects something essential about San Francisco’s downtown architecture: confidence without spectacle. The city’s best buildings don’t shout. They stand, patient and articulate, allowing proportion, craft, and time to do the talking.
The clones recive the order to execute all jedi.
This is my 3rd entry for the "Repubrick Buildig Cahllange: Order 66"
Categorie: 4 (more than 600 bricks )
The type we really need is Hairball Control, which is hard to find. Our on-line source has run out twice, once to the level of "on back order" & "autoship canceled!" Need some plans B, C, & D.
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Depois de duas semanas cortando e costurando, finalmente terminei todas as encomendas do fim de 2012. O que falta, como podem ver, é aplicar os botões. Pretendo finalizar isso em dois dias se o destino me permitir.
Muito obrigada pela paciência e pelo apoio e me desculpem o atraso ó_ò
Espero que até terça feira a noite, eu tenha finalizado tudinho! ^^ E aí tiro foto individual pra todo mundo ver! (:
(marquei os donos das encomendas pra não acharem que eu esqueci de vocês ^^)
Landscapes are crafted over centuries. Good to see that our age contributes to this mini-drama. Humans pump iron, cats have nerves of steel but dogs must be kept on lead. Caught in evening light.
Between 2018 and 2022 relief lifeboat RNLB MARINE ENGINEER served on the Douglas station following the withdrawal of the RNLB SIR WILLIAM HILLARY. She is seen here alongside the visitor pontoon at Battery Pier, Douglas whilst maintenance work is undertaken on the boathouse and slipway.
The station is currently served by RNLB RUBY CLERY the former Ramsey Lifeboat.
Click here for more photographs of the RNLI Douglas Station the birthplace of what became the Royal National Lifeboat Institution: www.jhluxton.com/Shipping/RNLI-Lifeboats-Stations/RNLI-Do...
Douglas Lifeboat Station is located at Battery Pier, Douglas Head, in the City of Douglas, capital of the Isle of Man.
Douglas and the Isle of Man holds a special place in the history of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), previously the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (RNIPLS), as this was the home of its founder, Sir William Hillary, 1st Baronet, 1771–1847.
The first Douglas lifeboat was funded by the Duke of Atholl, Governor of the Isle of Man, and arrived in 1802. A lifeboat station operated by the RNIPLS was opened in 1825. The station was re-established by the RNLI in 1868.
The station currently operates one of the last two Mersey-class lifeboats still in active service, 12-22 Ruby Clery (ON 1181), on station since 2022.
In 1802, a lifeboat was provided to Douglas by the John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl, Governor of the Isle of Man. She was an 8-oared 25-foot-long boat costing £130, named Atholl, and was one of 31 lifeboats built by Henry Greathead. There are no records of any service by the boat. The boat was kept out in the open on the beach and was washed away and wrecked in a storm of December 1814.
On 6 October 1822, the Royal Naval Ship Vigilant was wrecked on the Conister Rock (later the location of the Tower of Refuge), and it was only due to the daring actions of Sir William Hillary, Bt. and a group of volunteers, using local boats, that 97 men were rescued.
Having witnessed many wrecks and loss of life whilst living in Douglas, and now inspired by the events of 1822, Hillary published his Appeal to the Nation in 1823. He gained the support of his philanthropic friends in London Society.
A public meeting was held at the City of London Tavern, Bishopgate on 4 March 1824, with attendees including the archbishop of Canterbury, various MPs, and high-profile public figures such as William Wilberforce and sea rescue expert Capt. George William Manby FRS. It was resolved to form the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
The Institution was granted royal patronage by King George IV on 20 March 1824, thus becoming the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck. Prime Minister Robert Jenkinson was made president, with Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Charles Manners-Sutton becoming vice-president. Hillary was awarded an honorary Gold Medal as founder.
In August 1824, Hillary requested of the Institution, that a new lifeboat station be established at Douglas. The request was approved, and an order for a boat, the first lifeboat ordered by the Institution, was placed with William Plenty of Newbury, previously the winner of a lifeboat-design competition. He provided a 20-foot lifeboat, named Nestor, which arrived in Douglas in early October 1825.
However, also following the events of October 1822, a group of marine insurance companies including Lloyd's of London had already agreed in April 1824 to fund a new lifeboat for Douglas. She was a 29-foot North Country type, built by Wake of Sunderland, and cost £112. She arrived in Douglas in November 1824, 11 months before the Institution boat, and was named True Blue.
It may be that Nestor suffered a very short career. On her first and only recorded service, to the vessel City of Glasgow in trouble in Douglas Bay, Nestor was driven onto the rocks on her return trip and badly damaged, although the 15 people rescued from the ship and the lifeboat crew made it safely ashore.
There are conflicting reports of exactly which lifeboats were in service at Douglas after this time. Certainly, the True Blue remained in service for many years until 1851, with many heroic and medal-winning services performed. Hillary requested that new stations be set up in Peel (1828) and Ramsey (1829), and a new boat for Peel was ordered from Taylor of Blackwall. Another boat was ordered locally, a 29-foot 10-oared Palmer-type boat, from boat builder Robert Oates of Douglas. Whilst one report shows that this boat was being built for Ramsey, another report indicates that Ramsey's boat was actually built by Harton of London and transported to Ramsey aboard HM Cutter Industry, arriving on 20 February 1829.
A Glasgow boat, Eclipse, ran aground in Douglas Bay in January 1830. Hillary, along with lifeboat coxswain Isaac Vondy and crew, took the unfinished boat from Robert Oates's yard and launched to her aid. In extreme circumstances, with the lifeboat still missing air-cases, causing her to carry excess water from the pounding waves, everyone was safely recovered. Hillary received his second Gold Medal for gallantry.
In 1833, RNLI records show two Douglas lifeboats in service. One was the True Blue, but it is unclear as to the identity of the second boat – maybe the unnamed boat from Robert Oates, or possibly the Nestor, which may have been repaired. By 1843, just True Blue was reported to be in service at Douglas.
A period of decline followed the death of Hillary in 1847, the driving force behind the Institution on the island. A report of 1851 records the True Blue as unserviceable. The Institution decided to commission a 24-foot Peake-class lifeboat from Wallis of Blackwall, to be named Sir William Hillary, Bt., and by May 1853, it was reported as ready. But no records show any service by this boat, or indeed that it was ever delivered to Douglas.
In 1866, the RNLI resolved to form a new lifeboat station at Douglas. A new boathouse was built on Harris promenade, at the corner of Church Road, and a 32-foot self-righting lifeboat was commissioned with Forrestt of Limehouse, London, costing £246.
£325 was received from the Manchester and Salford Sunday School Fund, which covered the cost of the boat, plus all kit and equipment, and the launching carriage. On 6 February 1868, the boat was transported by rail to Manchester, and paraded through the streets to Peel Park, Salford, where she was greeted by about 10,000 Sunday-school children and parents and was named Manchester and Salford Sunday School.
In 1872, William Curphey took over as coxswain. However, when a launch in September 1873 failed to rescue 3 men from drowning, he resigned, citing that the boathouse was in the wrong location, which had caused unnecessary delays in launching.
The RNLI subsequently decided to place a second boat at the harbour, to be kept afloat at its moorings, and creating a No. 2 station. This boat arrived in 1874, and was named John Turner-Turner in the memory of the late husband of Mrs Turner-Turner of Ringwood, Hampshire, who had provided the funds for the boat.
The No. 1 station effectively closed when the boat house on Harris promenade was sold to Douglas Corporation in 1892, although the No. 1 boat Thomas Rose (ON 191) was still in service, and kept under a tarpaulin at the quay. A severe storm of December 1895 caused the No. 2 boat, by then Civil Service No. 6 (ON 273), to break her moorings, and she was wrecked on the rocks. She was withdrawn from service, and No. 2 station closed.
In 1896, following a meeting between the RNLI and Douglas Harbour Commissioners, a new boat house on the Battery Quay was commissioned, along with a slipway. A replacement boat was also ordered, another 42-foot 12-oared self-righting boat, built by Rutherford's of Birkenhead. Costing £618, she was also named Civil Service No.6 (ON 384), arriving in Douglas on 5 June 1896. The entire cost was met by the Civil Service Fund. Thomas Rose was withdrawn from service.
In 1920, the RNLI announced that a new motor-powered lifeboat would be provided for Douglas. A new lifeboat house and slipway was constructed, mounted on piles built in the harbour in front of the existing boathouse, and costing £10,000. The lifeboat was a 45ft Watson-class, built by S. E. Saunders, costing £8,456. Arriving in Douglas in November 1924 and funded by the Manchester and Salford branch of the RNLI, she was sailed over to Trafford Wharf on the Manchester Ship Canal in June 1925, for a naming ceremony attended by over 25,000 people. She was duly named Manchester and Salford (ON 689) by Lady Fry, wife of the Lieutenant governor of the Isle of Man.
Present day: In March 2024, the 1920s boathouse is still in use, awaiting a decision on a replacement boathouse and lifeboat. All-weather Mersey-class lifeboat 12-22 Ruby Clery (ON 1181) is on service, having been transferred from her previous homes at Peel and Ramsey.