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Jose Rojas, North American Division Volunteer Ministries director, visits with audience members following a Check Him Out program.
My attempt at keeping was was left intact which was pretty much useless but
at least it's still somewhat there.
A Morsbag I made a little while ago from an old sheet. I have a lot more of this fabric, and I hope each one will each have a stencilled picture to distract people from the pattern!
www.jenmeister.com/2010/06/birds-and-bears-on-bags-oh-my....
even when it's polka-dotty bananas.
My wonderful sister-in-law found this truly amazing banana bread recipe a few years ago and was sweet enough to share it. It's made using sour cream and is baked in a Bundt pan. In our house, it never lasts more than a day.
For my friends (you know who you are) who need a chunk of this today.
Yay, the banana bread made explore!! LOL!! How hilarious! #490...woot.
The deer herd at the Jay Property take cover in the invasive multiflora rose thicket on the site.
Invasive shrubs that have deliberately been allowed to proliferate for literally decades provide cover for these animals and protected places to breed. This increasingly destabilizing combination of deer and invasive plants and vines is reducing the biodiversity of flora and fauna on the Jay Property, threatening the ecology of this important place and negatively diminishing the health of surrounding residential lands. The invasives also provide cover for coyotes tracking the deer.
Chris Graseck, President of Friends of Marshlands, told Rye reporters "Because deer graze on native plants and avoid invasive species like the multi-floral rose, Graseck said the deer "make it very difficult to do any habitat restoration. If the county were to remove the invasives and reintroduce more native species, the deer would quickly devour the plants and consequently leave the property again vulnerable to invasives."
This is circular thinking and only promotes inaction allowing destructive invasives to spread further and crowd out fragile natives indefinitely.
Ironically these plants are identified, cautioned against, and removed by Westchester County Parks at its other properties but not in Rye. See Westchester County Parks brochure on invasive plants: www.nativeplantcenter.org/Invasive Brochure.pdf
Said JHC President Suzanne Clary, "The Jay Heritage Center respectfully disagrees with Chris Graseck and Friends of Marshlands. We agree with NY Audubon which believes that invasive species like the multiflora roses should be removed as part of a thoughtful stewardship and regular habitat management plan. Both shrub birds and grassland birds would benefit. It is important to send the right message to the public -- don't give up and propagate alien, non-native plants in your backyard - be proactive and save our endangered native species and the wildlife that need them."
ny.audubon.org/BirdSci_HudsonRiverValleyConservation-Deci...
"Maintain enough habitat and connect “open-space” – Grassland birds need relatively large fields (20 acres and larger, depending on the species and the landscape). A small grassland patch surrounded by open space, even if the surrounding fields are not grasslands, is better for grassland birds than a grassland surrounded by trees.
Clean up fence lines – Although hedgerows provide important habitat for some wildlife, along with other benefits such as erosion control and wind and snow breaks, even small trees and shrubs pose problems for grassland birds. A line of brush or trees delineates the edge of a grassland habitat patch to birds that prefer large grasslands for breeding. Also, hedgerows and brush lines attract weasels, raccoons, skunks, foxes, crows, and more—all species that eat grassland bird eggs and nestlings. Reducing the woody corridors that intrude into or border grasslands helps young grassland birds to survive.
Control shrubs and woody vegetation in the field – Abandoned fields make good grassland bird habitat, but only for a few years. Once shrubs and saplings are established the habitat quickly becomes unsuitable for grassland birds, and bringing it back into good condition becomes more difficult and more expensive. If a field is large enough to be used by grassland birds, a regular plan of mowing, haying, or grazing is important to keep it as grassland, but timing is crucial (see the following note)! Mowing each patch every 2 or 3 years, or a rotating fraction (1/3 or 1/2 of the patch) each year, is preferable to mowing annually.
Grassland habitat
Time mowing and hay-cutting to allow young grassland birds to escape – The nests, eggs, and flightless young of ground-nesting grassland birds are obviously vulnerable to the tractor wheels and mowing equipment. The following mowing/haying dates are ranked in order of value to breeding grassland birds from highest to lowest:
After 20 August only.
Once before 20 May, and once after 20 August. The following options will allow only limited successful breeding:
Once before 1 June.
After 20 July only.
Maintain a healthy mix of grass and other beneficial plants – Both native plants (such as goldenrod and some asters) and non-natives (knapweeds, mugwort, and honeysuckles) can easily spread in grasslands. Regular mowing (as soon as possible after the dates listed above) helps maintain healthy grasslands. For some invasive species, more aggressive techniques are needed, such as early spot-mowing (mowing only the affected “spot” in the field) to prevent flowering and spread of seeds, or other controls for heavy infestations.
When grazing, keep stocking rates low enough to maintain nesting cover – High-intensity grazing (including rotational grazing) removes the vegetation needed as cover for grassland bird nests, exposing the nests to severe weather and predators and also subjects nests to a greater risk of trampling. Maintaining “refuge patches” that are not grazed is also a critical component of any sound rotational grazing prescription that advertises wildlife benefits. Grazing at low intensities is also extremely useful for maintaining open, grassy fields, although occasional mowing (after the breeding season) is sometimes needed. "
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"Maintain adequate patch size
Shrub habitats between 5-25 acres will provide habitat to a number of the at-risk species; in general, larger is better. However, smaller, isolated patches less than 5 acres can also provide habitat to some of the at-risk species.
Control woody vegetation
The mechanism and frequency of management you employ will depend on the current structure and species make up of the area you are interested in managing; tree species require more management compared to shrubs. On average, shrub habitats need to be managed every 5-10 years, sometimes less frequently.
If you have:
Existing shrub habitat without trees (i.e., areas with shrubs interspersed with openings of grasses and forbs), management may be required only every 2-4 years (sometimes less frequently) to prevent the openings from reverting to forest. Management options for maintaining these areas include mechanical mowing, selective removal of trees if they appear, prescribed burning, or grazing.
Existing shrub habitat with trees, trees should be removed by stumping and mowing every one to three years, perhaps coupled with an herbicide application to control trees that may attempt to resprout. The remaining area should be managed as noted above in #1.
An area dominated by trees, shrub habitat can be created by clear cutting and then managing the area every one to three years to remove regenerating late-successional, or shade-tolerant, trees while maintaining the shrub structure. These areas will initially require aggressive management using land clearing equipment such as a hydroaxe, Brown Brontosaurus, tree shear, or hand removal with chainsaws in smaller patches to remove larger unwanted trees, followed by less frequent action (e.g., every three to five years) to maintain the habitat. Once the shrub habitat is established, it can be maintained as noted above in #1.
Time your management activities so it doesn’t harm birds
Mowing should not be done during the nesting season (April 15 to August 15) and can take place without serious impacts to wildlife during late fall and winter. However, if trying to control invading tree species, mowing should take place as soon after August 1 as possible, because mowing during the growing season helps to minimize resprouting.
Control Invasives
Invasive plants should be removed because many are aggressive and will displace desirable native species if not controlled. For example, autumn olive and multiflora rose can become well established and dominant in two to three years."
BOTTOM LINE : The Jay Property in Rye needs a stewardship plan ( and there is one - an award winning, 2002 Cultural Landscape Report by Heritage Landscapes). Invasives should be removed. Appropriate meadow and shrub habitats can then be restored with native plants and the community can follow this example of management in their own backyards.
Westchester County already has an Executive Order in place which mandates the removal of invasives in County Parks and invasives have already been controlled in other parks like Ward Pound Ridge, Lasdon and Lenoir with great success along with reintroduction of native plants and shrubs, many of which are deer resistant.
Read about and see photos of successful management of invasives at other parks and properties associated with Audubon:
www.hartlandlandtrust.org/audubon.html
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Berthold had two Times families in its phototype library at the time this Berthold Types catalog was published in 1988. “Times New Roman” looks to be based on a 12pt or larger size, like the digital Times we know today. But Times New Roman 327 (a series name from Monotype) appears to be based on a smaller metal version. It’s darker, broader, and sturdier.
The difference is even more obvious in the bolds of the two families. To me, the sources for both Monotype (AKA 334) and Linotype digital versions (MT’s is essentially what you see here at left) really suffer from the condensed bold. At first I thought this was the result of duplexing, the practice of casting multiple styles and weights on the same width, but Walter Tracy in Letters of Credit says that wasn’t a requirement for the project and indeed Roman and Bold widths differ. In fact, many Bold letters are actually narrower, resulting in counters reduced to mere slits in some cases. Times 421 is not compromised in this way and the result is much more clear and confident. Yes, it takes up more space; but this style needs to — especially for text.
Times 421 also maintains the angled stress of the regular (327), while Times New Roman Bold is forced into an unrelated vertical stress. Starling is a digital interpretation of Times that does maintain stress angle and open counters throughout its weights, but it’s still more of a display face.
I haven’t yet compared the italics.
I don’t know if this design originated at Monotype or if it’s a Berthold invention. It isn’t a match, but it does seem similar to the variant used by Stanley Morison in his essay on Times for A Tally of Types (1953), which he describes as “a wide version, more suited for longer lines.” Jaspert, Berry and Johnson show that in Encyclopaedia of Typefaces as “Times Wide” (Series 427).
Another possible link to this Berthold design is mentioned by Tracy in Letters of Credit:
“This disparity in style between the roman and bold was evidently something the German Linotype company thought should be eliminated. In the version of Times Roman they issued in 1935, first called Neue Romanisch but then named Toscana, the bold lowercase was redesigned in the ‘old style’ mode. The idea of harmonising the bold with the roman was logical; the actual execution, especially the character spacing, was not well done. The type soon disappeared.” [scan]
Still At Large
St. Helena Escapee
Diligent search is still being made for Charles Leslie, alias Deacon, and other names, who has been missing from St. Helena penal establishment since the morning of November 26.
The island is being scoured, and a strict observance is being kept on the mainland. The manner of Leslie's escape has puzzled the prison authorities. It is stated that he was fencing in a field under the surveillance of warders, when suddenly he was missed.
Like previous escapes from St. Helena, he may be hiding in the many dense mangroves which fringe one side of the island, and which afford an excellent hiding place. The obtaining of food would be his chief difficulty in staying there for any length of time, and there would be other hardships such as heat and mosquitoes.
Another theory is that he had friends outside who could have got him across the Bay at night in a boat. He may even, having selected his time, risked the danger of being taken by sharks, and swam across at low tide.
Leslie is 5ft. 7 3/4 ins. in height, weighs about 12st. 9lbs., is dark complexioned with dark hair, and brown eyes.
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NOTE: Flickr makes a .jpg of uploaded files. The Jpeg process reduces actuance. The original scan has more detail than the .jpg file and in turn the original scan has less detail than is on the film. The film probably has 4 to 9 times (2 squared to 3 squared) the detail as you can see if made with a cracker jack lens and top rated film.
The Pictures...
These recently uploaded pictures have no artistic value. They were just uploaded to be representative of color picture recording during about 75+ years that I was able to take color pictures, mostly slides at first. Unlike in today’s digital world it took time, money and effort to make a color slide. We took fewer pictures back then, trying to stretch resources, but some sere still frivolous.
I'm 97. In between health downturns, I fear this will be my last chance to post much. The ratio of today’s digital pictures that are kept for any length of time and/or printed is much less than the film photos taken in days past. History will be lost. Meanwhile you get to be bored by some old Kodachromes, Anscochromes, a Dufaycolor and perhaps an old black & white or so.
The Camera: Contax RX
This shot was taken with a Contax RX attached to a Contax/Ziess 50mm, F:1.4 at about F:8. This combo produced consistently sharp, well exposed slides. Popular Photo Magazine did a 50mm shootout type of test some years back. Both their results and the film cut they showed proved the lens to be a clear winner.
Kodak Ektar 100, late issue:
In the late 2000s Kodak announced a new professional negative color film that was supposed to have the finest grain of any color film ever made. This new product only came in 100 ASA speed and was named Ektar after a previous well thought of, but discontinued film. Several knowledgeable people from another photo site tested it against Kodachrome 25 and old batches of discontinued Ektar 25 and found the claim to be true. Ektar had a little more resolution but larger grain. The smaller grain but faster film was a true step forward for Kodak film making. I think it was Kodak’s last hurrah.
The Scanner, a Nikon IV ED:
The Nikon IV ED was rated by the manufacture to scan at 2900 PPI. Unlike most other scanners testing with a glass plate USAF 1951 with the resolution chart metal deposited on it, showed both vertical and horizontal resolution to be very close to that figure. When scanning a chart at maximum resolution one has to be concerned with registration between the lines on the chart and the pixel placement of the sensor. Exact registration is a hit and miss, re-trial exercise. With film the scanned bits of silver and dye clumps are randomly scattered without the need to have perfect alignment. I’d rate the IV ED at or very near 2900 PPI on film. Most scanners are over rated by 50-100%
I dropped off our recycling today and grabbed this shot.
One man's trash is another's treasure. Make a photo of something discarded or abandoned today.
GB Railfreight Class 92, 92043 powers south through the early morning fog at Acton Bridge with the Caledonian Sleeper Up Highlander (1M16) bound for London Euston.
A revised timetable was in operation due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with only the Inverness and Glasgow portions running and splitting/joining at Edinburgh to form one train in each direction on the WCML. 92043 had also worked the Glasgow-Edinburgh portion (1C16) prior to working 1M16 from Waverley.
Former Anchor Hocking building in Clarksburg, WV. See the attached photo of what it used to look like.
equipment: Apo-EL-Nikkor 105mmF5.6N at F5.6 and EOS 5Dmk2-sp2 by Seo san at ISO 6,400 on Takahashi EM-200 temma 2Jr. autoguided with hiro-design off-axis guider, Starlight Xpress Lodestar Autoguider, and PHD guiding
exposure: 5 times x 8 minutes, 6 x 4 min, 5 x 2 min, and 10 x 1 minute
location: a dark site at 4,000 feet above sea level in Nagano, 2 hour drive from Tokyo
Consumers Energy is reducing water usage at its power plants. Employees Brad Plummer, left and Marc Owczarzak, right, stand at a 100,000-gallon byproduct conditioning water tank at the D.E. Karn Plant near Bay City. The two are reviewing the system in preparation for start-up.
One way to fight climate change is to electrify your home and switch your natural gas applicances to electric, to reduce your carbon emissions. Then contact your utility to request 100% renewable electricity from wind and solar energy sources.
These simple actions can help reduce your energy usage, make your home more efficient and put money in your pocket.
In this photo set, contractors at John Owens in Marin County installed an electric water heater with a heat pump in Green Change director Fabrice Florin’s home, to reduce their carbon emissions. They got rid of their old natural gas heater, which was emitting a lot of CO2 in the air we breathe.
Their new water heater is now entirely powered by wind and solar, since they use 100% renewable electricity from MCE. Next, they will gradually electrify our home, to replace all their natural gas appliances and stop spewing CO2 in the atmosphere.
This is just one example of the climate actions we can take to make a green change in our lives: switching to 100% renewable electricity, getting an electric vehicle, biking more often, canceling long flights, converting gas appliances to electric and eating a plant-rich diet.
By taking all these actions this year, the Florins have now reduced their household carbon emissions by nearly half in just 6 months. They hope to reach zero emissions by the end of next year, to help solve the climate crisis.
And besides taking action in his own life, Fabrice also started Green Change, a new climate action network in Marin, to help others go green together.
View more photos about greening the Florin home:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/sets/72157709353249591
To learn more about going green, visit Green Change:
#climateaction #electric #energy #green #greenchange #greenhome #heatpump #homeimprovement #waterheater
Our engineers reduced the depth of the chase and work surface on our award-winning Sight-Line furniture to create a compact, space-saving command console with a smaller footprint that meets ergonomic standards.
Insight consoles feature a high-density profile.
Consoles contain a compact overall depth of 32″.
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Vincent van Gogh 1853 - 1890
De zaaier, 1888
The sower
olieverf op doek / oil on canvas
Vincent van Gogh Stichting
Van Gogh maakte diverse variaties op dit onderwerp: een zaaier in een veld, met een ondergaande zon. Opvallend in deze versie zijn de felle, onnatuurlijke kleuren en de indeling van het beeldvlak, waarbij de knoestige boom op de voorgrond het doek diagonaal doorsnijdt. Deze bijzondere compositie is waarschijnlijk geinspireerd op voorbeelden uit de Japanse prentkunst.
Van Gogh made a number of variations on a theme depicting a sower in front of a setting sun. Especially striking in this version are the bright, unnatural colours and the unusual composition, in which the knotty tree in the foreground constitutes a diagonal division of the canvas. His inspiration for this may have come from a Japanese print.
inv. S29
This photo was taken on 23 june 2009 during a one-time exclusive photo session at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam for the Wiki Loves Art /NL project.
Our engineers reduced the depth of the chase and work surface on our award-winning Sight-Line furniture to create a compact, space-saving command console with a smaller footprint that meets ergonomic standards.
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Forest entomologist Karen Ripley with a golden eagle at Tsonjin Boldog, Mongolia.
Photo provided by forest entomologist Karen Ripley. In June, 2017, she made a rapid assessment of Mongolia’s forest health surveys, site prioritization, and pest control activities that protect its forests from native defoliating insects. This evaluation was sponsored by the United Nations’ Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation program.
Photo courtesy of: Karen Ripley
Date: June 23, 2017
For more about Forest Health Protection's International Activities see: www.fs.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsinternet/cs/main/!ut/p/z1/04...
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
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Vincent van Gogh 1853 - 1890
De opwekking van Lazarus (naar Rembrandt),1890
The raising of Lazarus (after Rembrandt)
olieverf op papier, op doek / oil on paper, canvas
Vincent van Gogh Stichting
inv. S169
This photo was taken on 23 june 2009 during a one-time exclusive photo session at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam for the Wiki Loves Art /NL project.