The Amish society is built on helping each other out, and one of the most stereotypical symbols of that ideology is a barn-raising. I haven’t witnessed one of them, but yesterday we happened on this group of neighbors helping to replace a barn roof.

Tree-mendous Tuesday

Now the roof is a good foot higher than it was. This will make walking inside the hoop house much easier.

Raising awareness. Help end homelessness and hunger.

100 Free things you can do to help. "Planting-Peaches.net"

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Raising the roof with a Dalrymple Jn - Millerhill RDT at 0615, this morning! 069 on the Rear.

STILL waiting for a few pieces for the Aufklarer...2 tan clips, 2 tan grilles, 2 red brown tiles, and done!

I have the chassis for the Hetzer done. Waiting for the curved pieces for the hull to finish that one off as well. :) As with most of my tanks, PA helped me to learn how to build them modular. I can remove the upper hulls easily in one piece and swap them with other tanks if wanted. Makes it soooo much easier to update or change out pieces. Thanks again PA.

Grey sky. Grey mud. Grey train. The brightness level raised a tiny bit around lunchtime but not by much. 43301 heads the 1S51 12.25 Plymouth- Edinburgh with 43304 on the rear. A week ago I may not have bothered turning up at this picturesque location on a dullish day but with the announcement a few days ago that Cross Country would be withdrawing HSTs from their services on 23-10-23, two XC HSTs due within five minutes of each other and my work schedule putting me in the area this was a good opportunity to make the most of it as they won't be around much longer. With the announcement in December that GWR would be standing down their HSTs at the end of this year there was the comfort of knowing that XC HSTs would still be around but this is not the case now. As of the start of 04-03-23 power car 43301 had 100 engine hours left . Well it's probably done a quarter of that with a run from Edinburgh to St Erth and back to Edinburgh and could be gone imminently. Sadly there is an air of finality around all the HSTs down west now.

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

Colorful male Arctic Grayling (Thymallus arcticus) with dorsel fin raised. This fin is irridescent in color. Image taken in North Park, Colorado.

WEEK 40 – Hdo WM, Post-Remodel, Set IV

From that same vantage point, here’s a view turned more to the right, allowing us a good overview of the open front area of the grocery department. Notice anything different between the previous pic and this one? If any of you noticed the lighting… good eye, you’re exactly right! When the remodel was underway, new lights were installed above produce, replacing the previous spotlight fixtures… and they were placed quite low. As in, blocking-all-the-department-signage low. That seemed odd, but I assume the idea was simply the lower the light placement, the better illumination of the produce. However, someone must have either given up on that idea or realized that the sign blockage was not a good look, because the lights were raised up sometime not long prior to the date that this photo was taken on in late January 2018 (if I remember correctly, that is).

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I was looking forward to going down to the Campo Viejo Streets of Spain and visiting this place, purely because I thought it would be full of energy and colour and it was. It was also full of a lot of people…lol

Great place to hang out if you got nothing to do and highly recommend it, although if you are looking to take pictures, I would recommend you go on a week day when it is not busy.

I bought the saturation down a little and just increased the shadows a bit so I could see the Bokeh lights a bit more. And just used the dodge tool to go over the sign a bit more in lightrooms.

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Well, trying to raise it might be more accurate. I don't think she actually managed to move it at all ;)

Model/HMUA: Kayma Herrold

Season of Tilt

Week 20, Wednesday

When I was around twenty, the town where I lived had social issues regarding racism. Finland had just received a minor (but major in our national history) amount of refugees from couple of African countries and it had raised some issues in many smaller towns. There was a certain racist mob in our town too and for some reason I had singled out as a target for their negative attention. In one summer night when I was alone at the streets bunch of them found me and tried to beat me. I escaped from their first attack and run as fast as I could, but there were too many of them and they succeeded exhausting me. I had run through couple of streets and town square when they finally drag me down like a prey at one street corner and gasping my breath I wasn't much of resistance. I can't say I remember much of the actual assault. They had boots with reinforced steel heads and some bars which they used to beat me. Some of the kicks hit me on the head and I lost my consciousness for a while. It felt like a pitch black state and could hear their laughter like it was coming somewhere very far away. I don't know how long they continued or why they stopped. I only remember that once it was done I reached out to nearest car on street and it took me to local hospital. I survived with minor bruises, but from the psychical point of view it was a horrible experience. Afterwards I had, for example, troubles to sleep or go to any open public space. They had broke me from the inside and I had lost my basic social security.

Later on it turned out that one of my friend had actually saw the assault. I asked him to testify it so I could sue the beaters and gain justice for what had happened. He refused and claimed that the assault was actually my own fault because I had been in the streets at night - the truth was he was as afraid of the racist mob as I was and didn't want to be take a stance against them in any way. With this experience I learned something about the nature of violence and why people will always accept and justify some amount of it. It doesn't matter if the violence is physical and happens at the streets, or institutional and is tied into politics of identity, people will accept some of it if it isn't targeted to their own group, because it will make them feel safe to see that it's 'others' who are suffering from it. People will also accept violence if it sustains the social and cultural order and they feel their own group is not targeted. I know, it's an cowardly act, but that's what people do by their nature because everyone is afraid of violence – especially in the war of all against all.

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This is the beginning of my last week of Season of Tilt. Therefore I feel I need to contemplate on my experiences. At the very early stages of this season (actually at second post) I said that the Lensbaby and their products present an approach which is very different from current commercially driven technical approach to photography, which emphasizes the technical qualities like lens sharpness, sensor performance, etc. I asked if this technical discourse of camera manufacturing is obliterating some aspects of photography. I can't say it is a condition that applies to whole photography world, but I can say that in some ways it has applied to me. Before using Lensbaby lenses I was very concentrated on technical matters like pixel perfect editing of my photographs (well, I still am). But by using Lensbaby I have given myself a permission to do other kind of photography what I wouldn't normally do, and it has, finally at the end of this season, led me to more personal photography – which I think is positive development. I've began to use photography to search my inner feelings & memories and tried to find a visual language for them – in this case it's the unscrupulousness of the nature. I see this turning point as a some sort of small victory and I'm happy to finally get there. If someone would ask me what's my experience with Lensbaby, this would be it.

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Cyrene was founded in 630 BC as a settlement of the Greeks from the Greek island of Thera, traditionally led by Battus I, ten miles from its port, Apollonia (Marsa Sousa). Details concerning the founding of the city are contained in Book IV of Histories, by Herodotus of Halicarnassus. It promptly became the chief town of ancient Libya and established commercial relations with all the Greek cities, reaching the height of its prosperity under its own kings in the 5th century BC. Soon after 460 BC it became a republic. In 413 BC, during the Peloponnesian War, Cyrene supplied Spartan forces with two triremes and pilots.

After the death of Alexander III of Macedon (323 BC), the Cyrenian republic became subject to the Ptolemaic dynasty.

Look, I know we're only a few episodes in at this point, but I think G-Tekketsu has already eased the pain of G-Reco pretty meaningfully... but then again I thought AGE was going well until the second story arc, so I'm keeping my enthusiasm well-curbed.

Anyway, I just saw Episode 6 tonight and completely fell in love with the Isaribi, so this. For MFZ:IO purposes she'll have to be a Capitol Ship on account of her big honkin' tail-end hanging well over the size limit for frigates.

Early monring in January.

This beautiful photograph, taken by Joe Rosenthal, was one of the most significant (and most replicated) pieces of imagery of the 20th Century.

It was my desire to bring more life out of this photo by adding some color.

I hope it does no injustice.

Colored by Mark Jaxn

Red Heads

Heaven or Hell

Let's raise the glass to our health and to eternal girly fun.

Tokyo, Japan

Far From Home TUGHLAKABAD EMD Showing Aggression in ECR Region !!

White Beast Raising Dust While Skipping Major Sakri Junction With Jaynagar-New Delhi Festival Special Express !!

Midjourney Niji Group

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This photograph shows the U-Boat 110, a German Submarine that was sunk and risen in 1918. This photograph shows the Submarine's Electric Control Room, looking in to the Motor Room and Stern Torpedo Room.

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This image is taken from an album of photographs found in the Swan Hunter shipbuilders collection at Tyne & Wear Archives. The album is from 1918 and documents the U.B. 110 before she was scrapped on the dry docks of Swan Hunter Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend.

The twin-screw German submarine U.B. 110 was built by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg.

On the 19th July 1918, when attacking a convoy of merchant ships near Hartlepool, she herself was attacked by H.M. Motor-Launch No. 263 and suffered from depth charges. Coming to the surface she was rammed by H.M.S. Garry, a torpedo boat destroyer, and sunk.

In September she was salvaged and placed in the admiralty dock off Jarrow slake. She was then berthed at Swan Hunter's dry docks department with an order to restore her as a fighting unit.

The Armistice on 11th November 1918 caused work on her to be stopped. She was towed on the 19th December 1918 from Wallsend to the Northumberland Dock at Howdon and was subsequently sold as scrap.

The album of photographs, taken by Frank & Sons of South Shields, documents the U.B. 110 in extensive detail. The photographs provide a rare glimpse into the mechanics and atmosphere of the raised German submarine.

More images of the U-Boat 110 can be viewed here.

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[FlickrFriday] - Raise the bar

the vineyard is very sloping here

Lettuce be thankful for the rain.

Raised garden bed, suburban San Diego.

Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.

~ Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)

and a little more blogged here

In camera JPEG. Auto DR at 400%.

Happy New Year Of 2024 Dear Friends !! by Daniel Arrhakis (2023)

With the music : Avalon - Celtic Journey Fantasy Music created by Fantasy Meditations

Feliz Ano Novo Queridos Amigos com Paz, Amor e Saúde !!

yashical electro 35 gsn, kodak ultramax 400 pulled to 100.

A section of the veg patch in Maddy & Tim's permaculture garden

This is one of my picture with my friends. We go to a school that supported by us and teach them something in 30mins. The kids were great, cute and very active. I hope someday they will become great person...

Kitson & Co 0-6-0T A.No.5 raising steam on a hot sunny summer day.

These ramirezi were born and raised in my aquarium.

From their very first days of free swimming to now, I've watched them grow, explore, and even recognize me.

It's a simple everyday scence, but for me it represents all the care, patience, and quiet joy behind keeping and breeding these little ones.

Barbie opens the door

B: Hey you, what a flashback moment.

T: Hi! Yes most definitely.

B: Well, come in.

They walk into the living room

T: Hey,you two.

N&R: Hey.

B: Allright ladies, i'm happy all of us are able to sit down as adults and talk things out.

T: First of all Barbie, i wanna apologize for what happened the other day, i was really upset, i hope we can forget about it.

B: It's allright ok? But as you know you're the main reason for this right here. After your scene i knew we gotta talk now or never. And Nikki and Raquelle are apart of this because all of us witnessed what happened in the past.

T: Ok..

B: So, Let's not waste any second,who wants to make the start?

Nikki raises her hand

N: I'm gonna be honest, i feel like your behavour since you came back was inappropriate, you had no reason to act like this.

T: No reason? I'm sorry but i was the one being excluded from the Fashionistas.

N: For a good reason, right?

T: See, Nikki i'm triyng to be nice so i'm not going into detail..

N: You have to tho, weren't you the one who said yesterday there's enough to discuss? This is no tea party,boo.

T: Why are you mad hunny, we don't even have beef, so adjust your bangs and be quiet.

B: Ladies calm down, what are you guys talking about?

N: We came across her yesterday, that's all.

B: Oh, really? Ok.Tessa what she is triyng to say is that after what you've done, I should be the one upset at you, not you at us

T: I get that, but i still deserve a second chance Barbie.

R: Not in this life-time,sweetie.

T: Why are you even talking? You don't even like Barbie. You don't have anything to say.

R: You don't know anything, and i'm still a Fashionista, what about you?

T: Okay....i tried to be nice to you tricks, but i won't allow to be attacked like that. Raquelle shut your fairy tale ass up and someone check this 50-year old Nicki Minaj wannabe next to her.

B: Tessa please...

R: Excuse me...?

N: Oh no you didn't *sits up* One more word and I'll go Roman Zolanski on that butt.

T: Blah,Blah,Blah talk to my hand.

B: Ladies,STOP!

N: Yeah, my hand will talk to your face in a few seconds,how about that?

B:NO,STOP,STOP,STOOOP!!!!!! ALL OF YOU SHUT UP NOW!

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SEASON FINALE Friday 21th of June

On Explore

Chicago River

Part of a collapsed building in Old Town

Members of the U.S. Military participate in a flag raising ceremony in honor of Flag Day Sunday, June 14, 2020, on the South Lawn of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour)

Someone raises their fist during a protest against racism. They’re wearing a cape with the name of people that have been murdered by the police.

Seen in the San Francisco Bay

Raised By Wolves

Made with Over

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Thought I would try something a little different. Almost out of ideas up until this point so I will be trialling a few new things over the coming weeks. Wonder if they have noticed that the ground is made of coffee beans yet? Maybe thats the reason for the raising of the flag of the Imperial Empire?

It is of course a throwback to one of the more well known photographs of the 20th century - Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima by Joe Rosenthal (1945).

:::A Year With Stormtroopers:::

Boot with a 28cm. raise.

two scenes of what may have been a steam shed in the Eastern region with Brittania and a J15. Actually Barrow Hill in 2005

Competitors at the Highland Games in Saline wait for the bar to be raised. Each man tries to throw a heavy weight over the bar. The bar is raised little by little making the challenge harder each time a man takes his next turn.

Thie Pantry Restaurat always packs 'm in. A great local restaurant for veterans or otherwise. Just great downhome ooking for everyone to enjoyl