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The altar area includes a large rectangular triclinium, where celebrants at the sacrifice shared a communal supper. In the middle of the High Place, there’s a large stone block preceded by three steps. This is a motab (repository), where the god statues involved in the procession would have been kept. Next to it is the circular altar, reached by another three steps; stone water basins nearby were used for cleansing and purifying.
The faint bleat of sheep or the clunk of a goat bell evokes the ancient scene – except that no ordinary person would have been permitted to enter this holy of holies at that time.
Cette statue contemporaine en bronze représente un personnage populaire qu’on pouvait croiser naguère dans les rues de Verviers. Il s’agissait d’une sorte de représentant de commerce qui allait proposer sa marchandise chez les lainiers. Il transportait et présentait ses échantillons de laines (venus d’Argentine, du Chili, d’Australie et d’Afrique du Sud) contenus dans des cylindres de papier bleu. Vers 1950, ces marchands étaient encore près de 200 à Verviers. Il y avait tellement de filatures à visiter qu’il fallait une semaine pour en faire le tour. Le sens premier de l’expression « ploquettes » se rapporte aux déchets provenant des loups-cardes c’est-à-dire des premières machines à épurer les laines brutes fort chargées de matières végétales et autres impuretés qui devaient être carboniséesavant leur réintroduction dans la fabrication. Les fameux cylindres de papier bleu pouvaient contenir des ploquettes mais très souvent il s’agissait d’échantillons de laine pure. Cette statue de Louis-Pierre Wagelmans symbolise donc l’éclat de l’industrie florissante de la laine à Verviers.
This contemporary bronze statue represents a popular character that could once be seen in the streets of Verviers. He was a sort of sales representative who was going to sell his wares to the woolen companies. He carried and displayed his wool samples (from Argentina, Chile, Australia and South Africa) contained in cylinders of blue paper. Around 1950, there were still nearly 200 of these merchants in Verviers. There were so many spinning mills to visit that it took a week to tour them. The primary meaning of the expression "ploquettes" relates to the waste coming from the wolves, that is to say from the first machines to purify the raw wools heavily loaded with vegetable matter and other impurities which had to be carbonized before their reintroduction in the manufacturing. The famous blue paper cylinders might contain small flakes, but very often they were samples of pure wool. This statue of Louis-Pierre Wagelmans therefore symbolizes the brilliance of the flourishing wool industry in Verviers.
: to make pure
: to clear from material defilement or imperfection
: to free from guilt or moral or ceremonial blemish
: to free from undesirable elements
: to grow or become pure or clean
Location: Location: Uninhabited House , Dist 3, HCMC.
24-70L f2.8.
Explored on Nov 15, 2010 #14. Click to view Purify
"Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking." ~William E. Simon
In my mind, I always associate this place with a deep, purifying breath of air. It is so crisp and clean. I remember it reaching deep down in my lungs as I slowly sucked it in and savored the icy freshness.
Until recently, this was one of the last places I could remember very vividly being able to take a deep breath. Over the last summer I began to notice I didn't feel as energized as usual, and I struggled here and there to catch my breath. I figured I was just tired.
Over the fall, I steadily became more fatigued. I kept thinking my body just needed some rest, a reaction to the declining light and weather. But by the time January rolled around I had developed a chronic dry cough. I couldn't exercise without coughing incessantly. I figured I was fighting a cold. Then the chest tightness and numb tingling hands started up. I would wake up in the middle of the night with feelings of impending doom because I felt like I couldn't breathe. I was unsure if my anxiety led to breathlessness, or vice versa. Was I having panic attacks?
I decided to try more breathing exercises and stress-reduction, but no matter what I did, I was always left struggling to breathe. My ability to run and exercise slowly decreased, despite my best efforts. I had no energy and my emotional state was declining with it. The beauty of winding forest trails and lofty mountain tops were seeming farther and farther away. Then one night at work I found myself out of breath while eating lunch. That was the final straw. I made the first appointment I could get to see my doctor; by this time I was convinced I had developed adult-onset asthma, just like my mom. My doctor agreed and started me on medication, which is finally kicking in and giving me lasting relief. Before all this started I was running over a half marathon without much trouble. At my worst a month ago, I was struggling to run one mile, with walk breaks. Today, I did 5, and it felt amazing. Unfortunately for me, exercise is one of my triggers. One of the healthiest things I can do, also feels like it's slowly killing me, without medicine.
Breathing is one of those things we take for granted, until we have to think about it, until we struggle daily to feel our lungs expand. Now, I am savoring each breath and its associated freedom. No longer will I take either for granted.
Was not posed or planed. this was a truly emotional moment for me. i try to make my photos very true to me, as in reflecting my life in its most beautiful and tragic times. I have been a little off schedule lately, but I plan to post more very soon.
The inner side and wood architectures of the temple main hall in Shoren-in (青蓮院) Kyoto (京都) Japan
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Model: Sony ILCE-6000 (A6000)
Lens: Sony 24mm f/1.8 Wide-Angle Prime Lens Alpha E-mount Carl Zeiss Sonnar Optics (SEL24F18Z).
Habitat is a “home ground” or an environment in which an organism or group of species normally lives or occurs. In this sense, a habitat is any particular place that supports animal or plant life. From the habitat is where plants or animals get their survival essentialities such as water, food, shelter, and breeding grounds.
Different plant or animal species have different necessities for water, shelter, nesting and food. Thus, each and every plant or animal is adapted to survive in a specific kind of habitat. For instance, some turtles live in the seas while others live on land. Some plants grow in the deserts, some in the seas, and some in swampy areas. This shows different species have different needs. Examples of habitats include oceans, streams, or forests.
When a habitat is dramatically altered due to natural or anthropogenic activities such as earthquakes, agriculture, pollution or oil exploration, these places may no longer be able to provide shelter, food, water, or breeding grounds for the living organisms.
Such kind of events lessens the places where plants or animals such as wildlife can live and threatens the survival of various species. That sort of habitat degradation or fragmentation is what is termed as habitat loss and destruction. Habitat loss and destruction are influenced by several drivers which include:
1. Agriculture
Agricultural production has claimed much space of the natural habitat since settlers began converting forests and grasslands to croplands. In the modern world, the pressure to convert lands into resource areas for producing priced foods and crops has increasingly led to habitat loss.
Runoff of agricultural waste, fertilizers, and pesticides into marine and freshwater environments has also transformed streams and water systems. As a result, there has been a tremendous loss of natural crop species, aquatic life, and wildlife habitat.
2. Animal Waste, Sewage, Fertilizer, and Mining Waste Pollution
Marine and freshwater life forms are the most affected by pollution. Pollutants from animal waste, untreated sewage, fertilizers, pesticides, and heavy metals find way into wetlands and water systems and subsequently end up in the food web.
Animal wastes and fertilizers generate nutrients that cause an outburst in algae growth that depletes dissolved oxygen in aquatic systems. Mining wastes may also contain heavy metals that affect the health and breeding of aquatic organisms. Sewage sediments may destroy dwelling grounds of aquatic animals.
3. Industrial and Automobile Pollution
The majority of animal and plant habitats have been destroyed due to the toxic substances and chemicals emitted from industries and automobiles that pose long-term cumulative impacts on the species health. Seriously polluted regions have become dead zones since the conditions have become very harsh for biotic survival. A prime example is an acidic lake which cannot support aquatic life forms. In some areas, only a few organisms can survive owing to the cumulative effects of industrial and automobile pollution.
4. Water Projects
The development of water projects such as hydropower plants, dam construction, and water diversion frequently disconnect or draw off waters thereby altering water chemistry and hydrology. This is because such water projects limit the amount of water and nutrients running downstream.
The downstream section of the river can dry out and the nutrients supporting aquatic life can significantly reduce. As an outcome, gradual habitat loss happens as the water flows downstream.
5. Land Use and Development
The conversion of lands into urban settings, housing developments, office spaces, shopping malls, industrial sites, parking areas, road networks, and so on takes away the naturally occurring land that provided habitat for wildlife and other living organisms. This practice has substantially led to the loss and destruction of millions of acre of natural habitable environments.
6. Global Warming
Global warming is one of the recent leading causes of habitat loss since it changes the physical environmental factors such as temperature and moisture which are essential for a sustainable habitat.
For instance, wildlife that requires cool temperatures of high elevations such as the rock rabbit and mountain gorillas may in the near future run out of habitat due to global warming. Excessive rains, flooding or drought arising out of global warming have also impacted several habitats, contributing to the loss of wildlife and other living organisms.
7. Diversity Loss and Invasive Species
When a certain ecosystem which is home to numerous species collapse, more aggressive species may enter the territory. As the original species struggle to cope in a harsher environment, the invasive species contributes to a further and rapid decline of the habitat and subsequently dominates.
The explosive entry of invasive species into a habitat presents a strong threat to the native species as they struggle to survive in the increasingly changing environment. Invasive species directly competes for food with the native species and can also alter the structure of the habitat.
8. Vegetation Removal and Logging
Vegetation removal and logging destroy the structure of the habitat since it takes away the vital materials and natural systems responsible for replenishing and purifying the habitat. Removal of vegetation cover and logging also creates room for soil erosion and decrease stormwater infiltration which leads to the degradation of water quality, further destroying the habitat.
9. Dredging and Bottom Trawling Fishing
Dredging and bottom trawling fishing gives rise to the physical destruction of the dwelling, feeding and breeding areas for aquatic plants and animals. The displaced sediments may further smother the bottom dwelling organisms. Fish gills can as well become blocked with sediments and plant life activity is reduced due to limited light.
Dredging might also release underground toxic materials into aquatic habitats. Besides, bottom trawling fishing can by-catch unmarketable fish which turns out to be the food for other bigger fish in that particular underwater habitats.
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The greater sand plover (Charadrius leschenaultii) is a small wader in the plover family of birds.
It breeds in the semi-deserts of Turkey and eastwards through Central Asia. It nests in a bare ground scrape. This species is strongly migratory, wintering on sandy beaches in East Africa, South Asia and Australasia. It is a rare vagrant in western Europe, where it has been recorded as far west as Great Britain, France and Iceland. It has been spotted twice in North America, the most recent being on May 14, 2009, in Jacksonville, Florida.
This species is fully migratory, and is likely to migrate without stopping on a broad front between breeding and non-breeding areas . Migratory flocks form after the end of breeding between mid-June and early-August, and arrive in the wintering grounds between mid-July and November (adults and immature birds arriving before juveniles. Those birds wintering in South-East Asia start moving northwards to the breeding grounds in late-February (the migration peaking in March to early-April), arriving from mid-March to May; whereas those wintering in East Africa and southern Asia depart for breeding grounds from mid-April to early-May. Most non-adult wintering birds remain in the wintering areas during the breeding season . The species is typically gregarious, feeding in flocks of 2-50, and sometimes congregating in groups of up to 1,000 when roosting (Urban et al. 1986, del Hoyo et al. 1996). Habitat Breeding During the breeding season this species is predominantly found in open, dry, treeless, uncultivated areas up to 3,000 m , including dried mud, silt and clay flats, hard salt-pans overgrown with halophytic plants , and rocky plains near mountains in desert or semi-desert . In Turkey the species frequents heavily grazed saline steppe . The species usually breeds near water but exceptionally it will nest up to 20 km away from it. Non-breeding During the non-breeding season this species shows a preference for littoral habitats with mixed sand and mud substrata . It is found on sheltered sandy, shelly or muddy beaches, large intertidal mudflats, sandbanks, salt-marshes, estuaries, coral reefs, rocky islands, tidal lagoons and dunes near the coast , although it may sometimes feed on coastal grasslands . Whilst on migration the species will occasionally utilise inland habitats such as salt-lakes and brackish swamps, usually roosting on sandbanks and spits . Diet This species is carnivorous: during the breeding season its diet consists mainly of terrestrial insects and their larvae (especially beetles, termites, midges and ants), and occasionally lizards whereas during the non-breeding season its diet contains mainly marine invertebrates such as molluscs (snails), worms and crustaceans (such as shrimps and crabs). Breeding site The nest is a shallow scrape on the ground amongst sand-hills, gravel, or on other barren substrates.
"What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature."
Pierre Trudeau
at Susanoo-Shinto shrine. Ginko tree hanging over the water purification pavilion is estimated 800 years old.
Before beginning his curious discoveries here on planet Earth, Zadoc the Imperial Jumptrooper felt the urge to purify himself. After turning my medicine cabinet upside down, he found some alcohol pads and dug right in. Out of 100 pads, he used 99, before he felt really pure.
And for those of you wondering why his boots are still dirty, Zadoc the Imperial Jumptrooper wishes to give the following explanation: "That is not dirt, that is camouflage paint!"
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I woke up early this morning and to my surprise, it had snowed through the night. I had been waiting for the snow to "purify" this tree. No amazing colors in the sky, but the tree handled it's own just fine.
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Skippy rests with his new friends and tries to reassure them that all is well in the world.
And you know why all is very well?
Because Shiny Shabby is opening soon!
I created a cool space featuring the following items:
RASP - Serene Collection - Sofa, Center Table and Coffee Mug!
{anc} - TriangleTiles!
Pixel Mode - Boho Lights!
[ zerkalo ] Shiny Shabby Boho colored kitchen - Chest and Basket!
[ kunst ] - Boho carpet!
Also from last time, and available at their new Shiny Shabby store, you can see Zerkalo's Draughts game, and their amazing and free gift, The Infamous Armchair!
Oh! And I don't want to forget...
You too can pick up some new friends from Weon!
They're Adorable Lion Cubs!
Shiny Shabby Forever!
"Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently and shower their silver light into the arms of bare upreaching trees. It was a mad and beautiful thing that scoured raw the souls of animals and man, driving them before it until they loved to run. And what it did to Northern forests can hardly be described, considering that it iced the branches of the sycamores on Chrystie Street and swept them back and forth until they rang like ranks of bells."
― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
Purifying Freedoms.
Mirum poeticis rebus opiniones erroris exposita errores inebriare onocentauris deridiculo recreans voces informes,
Schmieden Anerkennungen arrangierte Entwicklungen Verständnis des Charakterdrucks Bücher betrunkene Nächte literarische Schmerzen Wiedererlangung der Effekte,
des ponts plongeants expressionnistes froids en lambeaux des yeux fous des directions bouleversantes des principes fous sifflant du monde,
křik línie uniknout husté hlasy vytváření opatření flopped podnikání soudobé práce shromažďování papírů svítí,
coragem respeito emergente fumaça dominado passos martelou volumes assustado inimigos fluir obrigações,
η ιστορία γράφει τις εκτιμήσεις κύκλους κοσμικός ποιητής χρόνια της ατυχίας που τρίβει τα φυλλάδια αγγείων εμφανίζονται,
犯罪唇熱狂的な眼鏡森林補償報復の話し合いパーミッション幽霊の身振りの難しさ山々の登山山の美学話された.
Steve.D.Hammond.
The women of Arles enjoy perpetuating the legend by carrying off their traditional dress
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Daudet, Mistral, Léo Lelée, and other admirers gave life to the figure of this proud, gracious and elegant woman, of whom the Queen of Arles is a renewed incarnation.
The Arlesian traditional dress appeared at about the mid-18th century, born from a desire amongst the women of Arles to dress differently to other women. Arlesian traditional dress developed under the influence of Parisian fashion and the times: the droulet, Louis Philippe, Napoleon III costumes, not forgetting the mark made by Léo Lelée.
It took its final and purified, or modern form, at the end of the 19th century. Today, the costume is worn for festive occasions. The hairstyle using the famous ribbon appeared around 1835.
the Arlesienne women often wore elaborately tied ribbons in their hair, winding the wide, embroidered or patterned material around their hair to protect and decorate it.
Headwear was always worn and the hair pinned up. Not only did it keep the hair clean and tidy (there was no washing it every day), but it also was part of the woman’s modesty. The clothes and jewellery are part of a collection of Arlesienne costumes . They show the incredibly detailed and beautifully sewn and embroidered clothes once worn by the women who lived in the Arles region of the Midi.