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Loutro, Loutrone (Greek Λουτρόν [1] Λο Λουτρό) is a village in Greece in the south of Crete, on the coast of the Libyan Sea, 7 kilometers west of Chora Sfakion and 16 east of Agia Roumeli. Included in the community (dim) Shfakyu in the peripheral unit of Chania in the periphery of Crete. The population is 56 inhabitants at the 2011 census There are no roads to the village, so it can only be reached by sea from Chora Sfakion, or you can walk 5 kilometers from the village of Anapolis. The inaccessibility of the village and the lack of vehicles in it attract people who want to relax away from places of mass tourism.
Village
Loutro
Greek Λουτρό
The village of Loutro was built on the site of the ancient city of Finik (Φοῖνιξ, Act. 27:12), the toponym was preserved in the neighboring village of Finikas (Φοίνικας), which served as a harbor for Anopolis (Greek) Russian. and Aradena (Greek). Russian. The harbor of Loutro is considered to be the most windless in the southern part of Crete. And the security of the harbor from the sea by an island does not allow waves to break into the bay, which almost always ensures a calm sea. Thanks to a successful harbor, Phenicia flourished during the ancient and Roman periods, and later became home to the Saracen pirates and slave traders. The situation changed when Venetians arrived in Crete. They forced out the pirates and fortified Loutro with a small fortress, the ruins of which are still visible today.
The Turks who replaced the Venetians built a fort over the village. During the uprisings against the Turkish invaders, Loutro was actively used by the rebels to deliver ammunition products. It was in these places in 1821 was the rebel committee that directed the liberation struggle against the Turks.
At present, the villagers live predominantly by hunting, fishing and irregular tourism. There are several taverns and a small number of rooms.
Peripheral roads. With the bus line 78 stops at the terminus Bisceglie in connection with the Underground line 1
As I walked along the country road in the darkness I could only hear my own footsteps and my breathing matching my feet for pace. But my eyes became drawn to a swirl of white in the distance. I couldn't quite catch the swirl's form as I drew nearer, right up until she hit my peripheral vision and swam in the air before me... a vision.
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Popovy Sisters Little Owl wearing a beaded collar by the sisters, a top by DollsSymphony and wig by Eclipse21
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Rebelling against all the recent colour and contrast... it's not her turn but she does what she wants!
This drawing was originally inspired by a discussion between Lawrence Weschler, Errol Morris, Dr. Kanan Makiya, and W.J.T. Mitchell as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival. The subject was the iconography of war and how people live with and process the myriad tragic and frightening images that have become a part of our everyday experience. It occurred to me that these iconic images fail us, or more that we fail them, in that we continually allow new atrocities to bloom, that we author many or most of these great calamities ourselves, and that we allow history to repeat itself over and over, only with more technological savvy as each new conflict arises so that we are further removed from the killing than we were the last time. When i see photos of depravity, of war, of suffering, of humiliation and dehumanization, such as the photos from Abu Ghraib that so many of us have seen, i want to believe that the images are powerful and profound enough to shock us into action, into some kind of patient and benevolent revolution to actually make the world better, to accept and respect all the differences in cultures and histories and ideologies and live amicably if not peacefully. Clearly i’m either too optimistic or too naive, because we fight, maim, lie and kill in the name of empire, religion, oil, just as we always have and likely always will. And many of us believe what we are told about the righteousness of our crimes and the trueness of our aim with little or no question because it is simply what we are told by those we expect to be in the know.
So the drawing at its inception was a collage of iconic images of war and struggle, a superimposed collection of calamity. It was my hope that the volume of sadness and destruction in this drawing would serve as a reminder for myself, an alarm to help me wake from my own apathy and disillusionment in the face of the grinding and monstrous engine of modern government and the political machine that can apparently function on nothing but the blackest crude, a reminder that i need to let history inform every decision and choice that i make so i’m not simply stumbling and blind as i move through the world, that if i am going to be a part of any change, it should be positive change.
The drawing has changed, however, and is no longer based solely in the literal, in the photo realism of our recent past, but for me it has also begun to acquire a symbolism and metaphorical nature that feels relative to our future. This piece has taken on its own life, separate from me, and i don’t feel like i control it anymore, neither the direction of the imagery used nor the execution of each individual piece of imagery, but rather that i’m slowly opening and receiving what comes in. It feels akin to the process of pollination. Foreign bodies have entered and have had a profound effect, life-changing even, and in realizing that effect, those foreign bodies become familiar and essential.
i’ve rewritten these lines a dozen times and i’m never satisfied with what appears on the page. It could be that for me there is no satisfaction in talking about my own failures as a person living today, or maybe i don’t want to sermonize what i see as the collective failures of everyone. It’s also possible that instead of all this writing and talking, all i can really do is draw a picture and let you do with it what you will.
It was not my goal to make a drawing of ruin, but when i consider where we seem to be going and how desperately we seem to want to get there, i don’t know that i could avoid it. At least, not this time.
3-24-08
Since the 19th of March, when Chicago held its 5 year anniversary rally/march/protest for the invasion of Iraq, a great deal of information has come my way that is causing me a great deal of concern. And fear. And anger. And i don't know if anyone else out there who might intentionally or accidentally stumble upon these paragraphs knows more or less than i do, but my knowledge is only starting to expand regarding where we are as a country and as a society, and even in my peripheral knowledge of the kind of insidious and deep running corruption we're living with and in, i find myself in a state of shock because so few people are responding to this information...which is available, it's definitely out there...and i know so few people who have any sense of outrage at all, who feel that their rights are being taken from them and are not anything more than sarcastic about it. As if they simply expected it and are willing to accept it because, well, what can one person do?
Habeas Corpus is gone. None of the current politicians are talking about that. This scares me. This essential right, now taken away, is one of the major dividing lines between a free society and a police state. And there's so much to say that i can't do it here. There is so so much to talk about. Habeas Corpus is just the literal tip of a vast and murky iceberg that i fear is about to sink our titanic self-image and our possibly vague and misguided ideas about what America is. And i don't want to sink.
8-5-08
Since i last made an entry here, not much has changed. The telecoms have been granted retroactive immunity, which in short means that our channels of communication can be monitored, and done so with no repercussions to those doing the monitoring. Which means we should probably fear that anything critical we have to say about the society we live in could be used against us, but not in a court of law. A closed society, a police state, requires no court of law. Barack Obama supported this retroactive immunity, which elicited a long thin sigh of disappointment from myself and many others. The young people canvassing the streets to raise money for his campaign didn’t have much to say about that, at least not here in Chicago. Some of them didn’t seem to know what i was talking about, to be honest. He may have had his reasons. There may have been other items tacked on to this particular legislation that he wanted to see get “through the system.” But could those reasons really outweigh our civil liberties, our small comfort in thinking we can speak freely? i still think Obama is the only candidate running for president. But i also think he has only used his offices to get to bigger and better offices. He hasn’t done much for Illinois since he’s been Senator because he immediately started running for president. i hope that once he wins that office he’ll be able to get something done, anything, as long as it’s in the opposite direction our current administration has been taking us. Clearly it is the most unsuccessful administration in the history of our young country. The most insensitive, the most rash and unthinking, the most ignorant and arrogant. i’m happy i was around to see it. Witnessing this kind of colossal failure offers an infinitely important challenge to mankind: The chance to fix things. Our fuck-ups have been on a global scale, and we need to make global amends. Coming out of this fog of war and corruption, we have an opportunity. It isn’t the first time we’ve had this opportunity, and if it’s the last then we won’t be here to consider it.
Also:
How about we stop being so silly? The New Yorker cover? It’s satire. We of all people should know what satire is. And it’s ironic that so many of us, including the Obama’s, were so offended by this illustration. We call ourselves the land of the free, yet our country was founded on genocide. Is that not irony? Are we not a satire of what we claim to be? Liberators? Come on. i know it's hard to have a sense of humor in these dark ages, but if we fail to see the absurdity in such situations and responses to those situations it will only add to the already frightening pile of things we've failed at.
More very soon, if you care...
9-22-08
And now, a word from my paramour, Cassandra:
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This is a bit long, but the financial cluster-f#@$ we're in is complicated and it seems the Bush administration would just like Congress to sign off on the bailout, no questions asked, no strings attached. So, if you can't slog through this whole text, could you, would you, please, skip to the end, call your elected officials and tell them you're not okay with signing off on a trillion dollar bailout without knowing the details or that only assists the companies that got us into this mess? And then, feel free to whittle it down, but could you pass it on? In email and/or phone calls to the folks you know that haven't yet crossed the digital divide? Yes, you know them; some of your parents, neighbors, etc. They don't really care for the world wide web, but they still believe in democracy and hopefully, the telephone. It's an awful lot of money that we're being asked to pony up. Wait! We're not being asked! That's why you have to call your Senator!
We've been told that in order to avert a major financial catastrophe, the bailout is necessary and needs to happen immediately. And that may be true, but it seems like we're not being told enough. Will the executives that run these companies that are crashing and burning, still receive their multi-million dollar pay and bonus packages while employees lose jobs, health benefits and retirement funds? Will there be any relief (of course we won't bail out your average working stiff, I'm not THAT naive) for the person who's losing their house, their business, their pension? Where is the money coming from? Where exactly are we borrowing $700 billion to a trillion from? What is the plan after? What will prevent this from happening again in a couple of months? We're going to be on the hook for this money (on top of the crushing debt we're already under) for a long, long, long, long time. Or is this another preemptive strike with no exit strategy? This feels a bit familiar, no? A dangerous set of circumstances that requires swift and bold (shock and awe) tactics to keep us all safe? Calling for nearly unfettered powers, (this time to the Treasury secretary)? "Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency." Intense pressure on Congress to pass a rescue measure quickly?
online.wsj.com/article/SB122200573768460503.html
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/20/...
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/no-deal/
Even this guy doesn't like the idea:
www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/trillion_dollar_bailou...
Does anyone remember the S&L crisis? Which cost American tax payers, some estimate, $1.4 trillion dollars? Sound familiar? Some highlights: During the senior George Bush administration, Jeb Bush defaulted on a $4.56 million dollar real estate loan, paid $500,000 back, the $4million balance was paid of by... um... you, the taxpayer. Neil Bush became director of Silverado Savings and Loan in 1985. Three years later the institution was belly up at a cost of $1.6 billion to... you again! The taxpayer bailed them out!
A more thorough account here:
www.city-data.com/forum/politics-other-controversies/4386...
A 1989 Time Magazine article here:
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,957083,00.html
(Note that Bush Sr. asked Congress to act within 45 days to prevent financial meltdown. Bush Jr. wants this passed tomorrow, Monday Sept 22, 2008. So, please don't wait to phone your elected officials.)
Accountability? Not much. We paid their bad debt and they went on their merry way. No indictments, no jail time, not even garnishments or freezing of assets to re-coup the embezzled money. Jeb even got to keep the building he took out the loan to buy! Bush Sr. wasn't re-elected, but Jeb was later elected Governor of Florida! (Schwing Vote!) An office he held during the Florida Supreme Court ruling that stopped the recount of the 2000 election his brother, W, "won". (Holy Serendipity!) Hey! Here's another interesting side note: did you know that this time last year August 30, 2007 Lehman Bros hired Jeb as an advisor?! Me neither! It's funny how these things go mostly unreported. Wonder why Lehman didn't get in on the bailout deal? Sibling rivalry? If you think your head won't explode, you should go here for Jeb's breathtaking resume:
www.atlargely.com/2008/09/what-is-jeb-bus.html
So, this is just one (eerily familiar) example of how the Bush family and their friends have been fleecing us for generations and we, the voters, the taxpayers, the people that our government is supposed to be "of, by, and for" are letting them have their very greedy way with us. Over and over and over again. They do it, frankly, because they can. We keep letting them fleece us (or another word that begins with "F") and we shrug, or rant, sometimes we take to the streets, but not often. But we don't act. We feel overwhelmed and totally hopeless, so we turn on the television or fire up the internets or find some other, any other diversion not to think about how overwhelming and hopeless it feels. But I am imploring you to call your elected officials, the ones who you took the time to vote into office, the ones you elected to represent you, call them and ask that they do what you elected them to do: Represent you. It's redundant, I know, but I think we forget that they work for US. (Even the ones you didn't vote for, still work for you.) Make them work. Tell them what you think. It'll take minutes. Minutes out of your day to use your voice to not allow our government to spend our money without accountability. Again. And if nothing happens, if we don't manage to start a movement today, that's okay. Because we did move. We stood. We didn't just sit idly by while we got filched. Or another word that starts with "F"...
Find your State Representative: forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml
Find your Senator: www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.c...
Patriotically yours,
Cassandra
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9-28-08
A New Delhi-based journalist who has worked with The Guardian and BBC invited me to contribute this image to a brief story about the assassination of Benazir Bhutto on a news-gathering website called NowPublic. Their motto is "Crowd Powered Media," which could be good or bad, depending on the crowd. To be honest, i think the crowd is ok, so i was happy to be invited. Here it is: www.nowpublic.com/world/un-investigate-bhutto-killing
It's small, but it's something. If one person wants to see it, i want them to see it. So thank you, Mr. Jha.
10-28-08
People! If you're still reading this far, please look at this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdNgMKPV9xQ&eurl=http://gobnf...
We can't ignore it. We can't sit back and watch. We need to be active. Informed. Right now. We need to use our power and we need to remake our government, our country, our world.
11-04-08
Let us hope that this is the beginning of a new American era.
Marker on watercolor paper.
Late 2007 – Early 2008
30 x 22
And still on Edinburgh's peripherals and to the north-west and the new Cammo terminus. In days now gone I viewed Edinburgh's Baillies and Councillors as strong custodians of the city's green belt and its difficult to think of a 'greener' area than the Cammo estates and its surrounds. However that mantra has slipped somewhat in recent years as more and more the city's green belt disappears.
A large number of houses have now been built here at Cammo, not far from Edinburgh airport and on the border of East Craigs another 'new' housing area. Lothian have seen fit to provide a service to the new area in the shape of extending service 41 which previously terminated to the north at Cramond. Older stock now seems the 'norm' on the 41 as seen here with fleet 372 at the Cammo terminus in a 'seaonal' downpour of rain which appears to have won a contest with the new drains! 372 will work back to Cramond and follow the old 41 route across the city to The Grange and King's Buildings.
While patiently waiting for the hikers to clear out in this area of Wall Street in the Narrows of Zion NP, I noticed a certain glow on my right that turned-out to be the tree and the wall behind it being lit by the light bouncing on the wall on my left. I quickly changed my composition and was able to fire some shots before the light moved out of frame. Patience has it's rewards, always, it seems.
My father's F.P.I. horse hair desk brush and paper weight from his patent drafting career. The paper weight is one of a few he made and the brush features a twine job he did on the handle. After that much effort it makes sense to mark the items with your initials.
Two evenly matched Rocky Mountain Bulls put on a vicious fighting demonstration while frustrated by high testosterone and a herd bull much larger and more skilled than they are. All rights reserved.
Amazon Vend-IT, keyboards, mice, all sorts of peripherals, makes a change from fizzy drinks and crisps I guess . . .
Eye looking through a snoot in black and white. Concept for Retinitis Pigmentosa Awareness Month (February).
First of all I hope the explanation isn't TMI.... no sooner had we arrived at Gnoll Country Park and Estate today that I had the sixth episode in 6 months of a little problem with my eyes called nystagmus. Last week when I saw my Clinical Nurse Specialist about this he asked me to describe it e.g. was it rolling, wavy, zig zaggy? but at the time I failed to come up with anything. Today however as I sat waiting for it to pass, I came up with the notion that it was akin to zoom burst photography but not half as bad as it looks here ( my Photoshops skills aren't that good😉 ) but wavy, moving lines on my peripheral vision.
Do you have these moments when you spot a creature out of your peripheral vision and you wish it would freeze where it is? I had such a moment, the creature was a skink. But as skinks do, they try to run and hide.
I followed this little skink from the grass on the side of the driveway until it disappeared under the car. Thankfully the car was parked. I was trying to figure out where it was hiding when I spotted it again. Rest assured, I gave it enough room to move and not feeling in danger and so it was moving from under the car to the front of it. I was able to capture a few photos before it decided to dash back under the car again.
What an encounter it was, I love being in the fauna rich Sunshine Coast Hinterlands.
Description:
Robust, with a dusting of fine pale lateral dots. Golden brown to coppery brown with many scattered to transversely aligned dark dorsal flecks, several large black lateral blotches between ear and forelimbs, and yellow and black mottled flanks with prominent, fine, white, to bluish-white dots. Ventral surface pale yellow between forelimbs and hind limbs. (Text Source: A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia, third edition)
My passion is wildlife photography. I hope I can bring the beauty of nature into your home and show how amazing nature is. Every single animal needs our protection as they all play an important part in our survival.
There is an abundance of scientific reports telling us that the rate of extinction is happening at an alarming rate. More and more fauna and flora are going to disappear. With my wildlife photography, I hope to showcase a fraction of animals before they are gone. Only what you know, you will love and protect…
©️ Spohr Photography 2020, all rights reserved
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Dragging a dark cloud around with me, I found balance today just when I needed it most, stirring my coffee in a café and dimly aware of someone stirring their own drink beside me, my peripheral vision aware I was being studied by someone who looked like a certain jolly old elf. When I slid my eyes his direction, he said "I was stirring the other direction so we could balance the universe."
From Wikipedia:
"The word is used to describe the sensation of having glimpsed oneself in peripheral vision, in a position where there is no chance that it could have been a reflection."
"In September 2006, it was reported in Nature that Shahar Arzy and colleagues of the University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland, unexpectedly had reproduced an effect strongly reminiscent of the doppelgänger phenomenon via the electromagnetic stimulation of a patient's brain. They applied focal electrical stimulation to a patient's left temporoparietal junction while she lay flat on a bed. The patient immediately felt the presence of another person in her "extrapersonal space." Other than epilepsy, for which the patient was being treated, she was psychologically fit.
The other person was described as young, of indeterminate sex, silent, motionless, and with a body posture identical to her own. The other person was located exactly behind her, almost touching and therefore within the bed on which the patient was lying.
A second electrical stimulation was applied with slightly more intensity, while the patient was sitting up with her arms folded. This time the patient felt the presence of a "man" who had his arms wrapped around her. She described the sensation as highly unpleasant and electrical stimulation was stopped.
Finally, when the patient was seated, electrical stimulation was applied while the patient was asked to perform a language test with a set of flash cards. On this occasion the patient reported the presence of a sitting person, displaced behind her and to the right. She said the presence was attempting to interfere with the test: "He wants to take the card; he doesn’t want me to read." Again, the effect was disturbing and electrical stimulation was ceased.
Similar effects were found for different positions and postures when electrical stimulation exceeded 10 mA, at the left temporoparietal junction.
Arzy and his colleagues suggest that the left temporoparietal junction of the brain evokes the sensation of self image—body location, position, posture etc. When the left temporoparietal junction is disturbed, the sensation of self-attribution is broken and may be replaced by the sensation of a foreign presence or copy of oneself displaced nearby. This copy mirrors the real person's body posture, location and position. Arzy and his colleagues suggest that the phenomenon they created is seen in certain mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, particularly when accompanied by paranoia, delusions of persecution and of alien control. Nevertheless, the effects reported are highly reminiscent of the doppelgänger phenomenon. Accordingly, some reports of doppelgängers may well be due to failure of the left temporoparietal junction."
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“Flippers”
“And when i see you, i really see you upside down...
but my brain knows better, and picks you up and turns you 'round, turns you around…” -DCFC
Did you know that your eye is a converging lens?
“When you see things around you, your retina projected the images upside down. This is due to the optics used by our eyes. Images need to be flip so we can see objects much larger than the size of our pupil and so that we may have peripheral vision.” -hhttp://www.retinaeyedoctor.com/2010/03/eye-images-reversed-on-retina/
Before I start with Agency by William Gibson I am rereading a few of his older novels. I finished The Peripheral a while back, and before reading Zero History I read Count Zero, in Swedish, which was a surreal experience.
I can’t believe that I’ve made it to day 50! I’m borrowing this idea from cutiger who borrowed it from someone else! Here’s my list of 50 things about me!
1.I’ve been a vegetarian for almost 13 years.
2.I don’t drive and can’t get my license because I have no peripheral vision. Call me Tunnel Vision Girl!
3.My favourite colours are red, black and purple.
4.I have moved nine times in my life.
5.I sat for an artist years ago. There are drawings of my hands, me sitting on a chair and a white wax model of me somewhere out there.
6.My favourite authors are Jane Austen and Margaret Atwood.
7.I love insects! That’s right, this girl loves bugs!
8.My first memory is at the hairdresser’s talking to Mom’s very pregnant belly and having my little brother kick me through her stomach! I was almost 2.
9.I get violent hiccups. And they are the strangest sounding hiccups you’ll hear.
10.I have big feet. Ladies 10.
11.My middle name is Leanne.
12.My favourite food is cake. And soup.
13.One summer I read the entire Works of William Shakespeare. For fun.
14.I’m a jewelry whore…I really am!
15.I flew to Japan 12 seats behind the Dali Lama, and it was one of the coolest things ever. Incase you are wondering, he doesn’t fly first class!
16.I get carsick in the daytime.
17.My imagination gets the better of me almost every day.
18.I’m a choc-o-holic. The higher the cocoa content the better!
19.I was on the swim team in high school.
20.One of the best nights of my life was in Japan spent on a mountain in Nagano with one of my best friends watching an amazing firework show!
21.I have a ridiculously high tolerance for alcohol…I’m not a cheap date!
22.I swam with dolphins in Cuba, and it was amazing…
23.Hockey is my favourite sport of all time. Don’t get me started!
24.My fiancé Ben moved in with me on the fourth date in Japan! (Long story!)
25.In college 5 of us stayed at the school for 2 days straight to get a project done.
26.My favourite movie is Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
27.I drink 15+ glasses of water a day.
28.I swear like a sailor.
29.I want to learn to play the drums.
30.The best summer of my life was when I was 12.
31.Classical music makes me angry, violently so. I don’t know why.
32.I love to dance!
33.My high school nickname was ‘Lipinski’ a friend started calling me that and it stuck. I’m not a skater. Just share the first name. Even teachers called me that!
34.My favourite bands/singers are The Pixies, Aerosmith, Janis Joplin, David Bowie and John Mayer. And the Stones. And The Doors. Oh, and Queen!
35.I saw Aerosmith in Japan with a friend. We were 29 rows from the stage. That my friends is the definition of awesomeness!
36.I like comic books. And manga. And anime.
37.I used to have my tongue and nose pierced. I want them done again.
38.My karaoke songs are (it depends on level of drunkenness at the time) Crocodile Rock, Mercedes Benz, Fat Bottom Girls, I Believe in a Thing Called Love, and Holla Back Girl! I miss karaoke in Japan!
39.I broke both of my middle fingers at the same time in 7th grade!
40.I’m a martini, sake and wine girl!
41.I’m deathly afraid of birds. Especially caged ones. And wild ones.
42.My favourite animals are giraffes and elephants.
43.One of my favourite vacations was a road trip to Toronto 7 years ago with my Mom, Aunt, cousins and best friend. It was a riot!
44.My dream dinner party would be Janis Joplin, Salvador Dali, Eva Peron, Johnny Depp, Bettie Paige, and Audrey Hepburn.
45.Japan changed my life.
46.I absolutely have to visit Africa. I promised myself that years ago!
47.My favourite TV shows ever are Friends, Fraggle Rock, Little House on the Prairie and Sex and the City.
48.I’ve played “music” on stage twice, tambourine and drums (long story again)! Neither time sounded good, but both were so damn fun!
49.Hidden talent…I can tie a cherry stem in a knot with my tongue!
50.I’ve lived my life guilt and regret free…and plan to continue doing so!
Okay, I'm done...is anyone sick of me now? Aww..I didn't think so! : )
Zamosc. Eastern Poland.
Picture No: 2021-09-19-1583_P_FS
Edited in Canon DPP 4:
peripheral illumination increased to 106
Bit cropped.
No photomontage.
Colors not modified.
Framed in Photoshop 6
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"Of the many drugs that are inhaled in this manner, nitrous oxide may be one of the safest. However, the mere fact that ones lungs can be filled with the stuff, at a very rapid rate means that asphyxiation can occur by displacing oxygen from the lungs, or suffocation can occur by simply blocking the ability of oxygen to get into the lungs as it normally would."
"Chronic inhalation of nitrous oxide results in damage to the peripheral nerves. Symptoms can include numbness, a tingling sensation or total paralysis."
National Inhalant Prevention Coalition
Disclaimer:
*No whippits were done in the taking of this photo.*
The only preserved Romanesque sacred building in the Saarland
St. Peter was erected as a monastery church around 1200 by Wadgasser Premonstratensian canons, who came to Merzig as successors of the Augustinian canons. The layout shows a three-aisled basilica with a transept, chancel peripheral towers, side-apses and a western single tower. The gothic cross-vault ornamented with heraldry was not put in until the 16th century. In the course of a renovation in the 60s of the last century, the nave was extended to the west around the Mary Chapel, while the southern side nave was given a new entrance hall. Special architectural attention deserve the two north portals, the small "cemetery portal" at the transept and the larger main and lay portal at the side ship. In the course of the extensive external restoration of St. Peter, completed in December 2004, the former main portal was reopened in the west tower.
In the interior of St. Peter the visitor can see a large number of cultic works, especially from the Baroque period. The Christ, Mary and the 12 apostles, who were made around 1700 by Wolfgang Stupeler, are particularly worth mentioning. Also worth seeing is the 17th-century Pietà in the side chapel in the northern transept. Further attention-getters are the high altar with the crowning pelican figure around 1738 probably carved by the Saarlouis sculptor Ferdinand Ganal, an early Christian symbol, the stemming from the 4th century Gothic plague cross over the altar, the revolving baptismal font, or the St. Nicholas statue rediscovered and restored just a few years ago. In extensive reconstruction work in 1984/85, the paintings by the Merzig painter Heinrich Klein, which had been coated in the framework of the Second Vatican Council, were also exposed, the latter one has made them in the style of the Nazarene school after models of Eduard von Steinle.
As the most important building in our city and the only preserved Romanesque sacred building in the state of Saarland, characterises the parish church of St. Peter most of all for those coming from the east from the direction of Brotdorf the image of the core city. In spite of the many changes that St. Peter has undergone during the course of his long history through fire catastrophes, war destructions or transformations in the style of the particular zeitgeist, the church has, apart from the Westbau (west wing), kept its original shape.
Einziger erhaltener romanischer Sakralbau im Saarland
St. Peter wurde um 1200 von Wadgasser Prämonstratenserchorherren, die als Nachfolger der Augustinerchorherren 1182 nach Merzig gekommen waren, als Klosterkirche errichtet. Der Grundriss zeigt eine dreischiffige Basilika mit Querhaus, Chornebentürmen, Nebenapsiden und einem westlichen Einzelturm. Das wappenverzierte gotische Kreuzgewölbe wurde erst im 16. Jahrhundert nach einem Brand eingezogen. Im Zuge einer Renovierung in den 60er Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts wurde das Nordseitenschiff um die Marienkapelle nach Westen verlängert, während das südliche Seitenschiff eine neue Eingangshalle erhielt. Besondere architektonische Aufmerksamkeit verdienen die beiden Nordportale, das kleine "Friedhofsportal" am Querhaus und das größere Haupt- und Laienportal am Seitenschiff. Im Zuge der im Dezember 2004 abgeschlossenen umfangreichen Außensanierung von St. Peter wurde das frühere Hauptportal im Westturm wieder geöffnet.
Im Innern von St. Peter erwartet den Besucher eine große Zahl kultischer Kunstwerke, vor allem aus der Zeit des Barock. Besonderes zu erwähnen sind beispielsweise die Christus, Maria und die 12 Apostel darstellenden Figuren, die um 1700 von Wolfgang Stupeler gefertigt wurden. Sehenswert ist auch die aus dem 17. Jahrhundert stammende Pietà in der Nebenkapelle im Nordquerhaus. Weitere Blickfänge sind der um 1738 vermutlich von dem Saarlouiser Bildhauer Ferdinand Ganal geschaffene Hochaltar mit der krönenden Pelikanfigur, einem frühchristlichen Symbol, das aus dem 14. Jahrhundert stammende gotische Pestkreuz über dem Altar, die Drehtaufe oder die erst vor wenigen Jahren wiederentdeckte und restaurierte Nikolausstatue. Bei umfangreichen Renovierungsarbeiten im Jahr 1984/85 wurden auch wieder die im Rahmen des II. Vatikanischen Konzils überstrichenen Malereien des Merziger Malers Heinrich Klein freigelegt, der diese nach Vorlagen von Eduard von Steinle im Stil der Nazarener Schule gefertigt hat.
Als das bedeutendste Bauwerk unserer Stadt und einziger erhaltener romanischer Sakralbau im Saarland prägt die Pfarrkirche St. Peter vor allem für die Besucher, die von Osten her aus Richtung Brotdorf kommen, das Bild der Kernstadt. Trotz der vielfältigen Veränderungen, die St. Peter im Lauf seiner langen Geschichte durch Brandkatastrophen, Kriegszerstörungen oder Umgestaltungen im Stile des jeweiligen Zeitgeistes erfahren hat, hat die Kirche, abgesehen vom Westbau, ihre ursprüngliche Gestalt weitgehend behalten.
Exposure: f5.6, ISO100 at 60seconds
Location: IWay construction site, Providence RI
Date: August 29, 2007 12:33 am
Notes: Shot with Nikon D200 with Nikon 10.5mm
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The usual crew of threshold, rizzolo, skazama and rtlm401 came out to Providence to shoot the IWAY before it's impending opening of the Rte-195 East Bound lanes in November.
Down below is a haunt we visited many times prior to the IWAY construction.
After finishing the film in my F100 and Holga I allowed the D200 to come out and play. That wasn't until 11pm and the "Late Nighters" stayed until 1:20am... man was beat the next day.
You can see a group pool here of all our shots on Flickr from the night or a slick slideshow here. It may take a week or so for all the shots to be posted.
A training slide of what I believe could be bacterial meningitis. (Different from viral meningitis by the type of white cells present.)
The larger, more reddish violet and spotted circles are likely segmented neutrophils - a type of white blood cell. The much more tiny dark violet dots speckled all around them are bacteria.
It is not usual for bacteria to be in the bloodstream at all. A slide as this is uncommon for as much as that as the fact that it is not common for that many white cells to congregate so closely together.
The image, to me, is a strong representation of the way the body fights to defend itself against foreign invaders. Swarming and rising to the challenge. Fight on!