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...beyond it the river and the black and white building, a pub called the Green Dragon, closed for years now, was once the tallest building apart from the church and behind that the Cathedral up on the hill.
recycle,reduce,reuse
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Eliminating MSP. Further cuts to MSP will mean that in addition to the 2 million British Columbians who do not pay premiums, a further two million will see their premiums cut in half.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2017FIN0012-000373
A quarter million people joined the Climate Action March around the world on Sep. 8, 2018, asking for immediate action to reduce climate change.
In San Francisco, thousands of activists created one the largest street murals ever made, covering five blocks of city streets with dozens of colorful scenes illustrating possible solutions to global warming, all around the City Hall plaza.
Each mural was designed by a different community group, and painted on the ground in large 35-feet wide circles, with washable tempera paint. Murals featured in this photo set were created by the Sierra Club ("Keep close to Nature's heart"), environmental students at UC Berkeley (“Fiat Lux”) and SFUSD (“Write History Wisely”).
Everyone was welcome to join and it was a sight to behold! Participants ranged from veteran environmentalists to young activists, with very diverse backgrounds, coming together from all across California and beyond. We used this creative art form to demand that our leaders act now to cut back on fossil fuels and switch over to renewable energy, before it’s too late.
High school students from ‘Generation: Our Climate’ participated actively in this event, and were interviewed by both KQED and KPFA. I volunteer with their group and am inspired by their knowledge and passion. I really enjoy our collaboration, which bridges the gap between generations that are too often separated into different silos.
The Climate March was also a great opportunity to reconnect with many of my activist friends, including Marilyn, Wayne and the Freedom Singers. We posed together in front of a colorful float of Mayahuel, the Aztec goddess of fertility, created by Latino activists in the wood shop of a Mission high school.
Kudos to art director David Solnit and team at 350.org for guiding the creation of these murals and many of the signs for this march -- inspiring a diverse community of citizens of all ages. Many thanks to all who marched, painted, chanted, organized and spoke up for a better world at the Climate Marches around the world. This wonderful blend of art, music and activism helped engage more people to fight for climate justice. Let there be light!
See more pictures in my Climate Action photo album:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/sets/72157671226994677
To see the murals from above, check out this drone footage: www.facebook.com/350.org/videos/513123625781413/
Learn how to make your own political art :
Learn more about the Sierra Club mural:
www.sierraclub.org/san-francisco-bay/blog/2018/09/help-pa...
Learn more about Generation Our Climate:
#climatemarch #climatechange #350bayarea #350marin #riseforclimate
Graphics for the Council Plan 2014/15 half year performance report (2 December 2014).
Find out more at www.coventry.gov.uk/performance/
Read the full Council Plan 2014/15 half-year performance report online at: smarturl.it/council-plan-report.
I was so proud of the previous version that I started showing it to friends and family. All of them liked it, but my aunt Yola said something important: "It's a real pretty calendar, but maybe only for people who like to think--and you know how lazy some of us are."
Those were precisely the words I was trying to avoid. A calendar is a cognitive crutch or it is nothing and I had set out to create a calendar. It had to cater to the lazy! It should encourage laziness at every opportunity, that was its raison d'etre!
So a little demoralized I searched for ways to make the design clearer. I found two important ways. The first and most important one was to narrow the month rows. It greatly reduced the vertical space the eye had to travel and in so doing, greatly reduced column confusion.
The other great aid was labeling the weekday cells, as the next design shows.
On the other hand, the compactness and elegance of this design impressed me a lot and in trying to further them I pursued a different branch of the design, which led me to erase some numbers.
Fort Moultrie is a brick coastal defense fort completed in 1809 to guard the entrance to Charleston Harbor. It's the third fort built at this location. The first was a wooden fort which decayed and the second fort was destroyed by a hurricane. Fort Moultrie was obsolete by the end of the American Civil War in 1865, but was modernized and retained as a military post until 1947. Now a historical relic and museum. To its right is the black mass of Battery Jasper.
Fort Sumter is a brick coastal defense fort designed to guard the entrance to Charleston Harbor. It was near completion when, in December 1860, South Carolina seceded from the Union and claimed ownership of all Federal forts in the Charleston area. Major Anderson, the US commander, would not surrender Fort Sumter. The Confederate government forced the issue and began bombarding Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, forcing the surrender of the fort. Near Charleston, South Carolina.
By April 1863, the US Army had returned to the area, occupying part of Morris Island, 0.8 miles (1.4 km) south of Fort Sumter. From there, Union artillery bombarded the fort until it was abandoned in February 1865. Fort Sumter was by then a complete ruin, having been reduced from an impressive three-level fort to a large pile of rubble. After the war, the fort was partially rebuilt as a one-level fort, rearmed, and returned to service. I visited this place on April 12, 2018.
Fagiano reduce da battaglie con altri fagiani....coda spennata...
Fagiano comune / Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus )
Reduced Melbourne Central Activities District (CAD) Conservation Study 1985 survey images: approx 1200 Kodak colour negatives
This project involves constructing a new highway bridge carrying Peeler Road over the North Carolina Railroad (NCRR) tracks in Rowan County in order to reduce the risk of automobile/train collisions, improve safety for automobile and rail passengers, and reduce automobile and train traffic congestion.
This project is part of a series of improvements to the NCRR railroad corridor between Salisbury and Kannapolis, one of the busiest sections of railroad in North Carolina. The project is among improvements to the NCRR corridor between Raleigh and Charlotte to increase railroad capacity, efficiency, and safety.
This project was advertised and bid with contract awarded in April 2013.
Project is currently under construction.
Proposed project completion date is July 2015
www.ncdot.gov/projects/peelerRoad/
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Our first savory pie of the month.
A word about puff pastry. A big part of the fun in food preparation for me is doing as much as possible from scratch. Bread, mayonnaise, yogurt.. these are things from the kitchen, not the store. My pantry and freezer are full of summer produce I have canned or frozen for winter use. Even Pievember was born from my desire to learn how to make a decent crust. I can't always pull off the "from scratch" lifestyle, but I do my best (mostly for my own amusement).
Now puff pastry. Done right, it takes several days. After each step, the dough spends a night in the fridge. I've done this, but three days of waiting around (and planning that far ahead, for that matter) is kind of a drag.
Long story short, turns out it is easy to cheat by simply reducing each of those overnight rests to about 20 minutes. Traditionally accurate? No. The act of a purist? Certainly not. But you know what? This traditional British pie was ready to eat in two hours and turned out great. And I didn't buy prepackaged puff pastry.
And eyes everywhere roll in unison.
RECIPE
Crust (Quick Puff Pastry)
2c flour
2 sticks frozen butter
3/4 c ice water
pinch salt
Filling
1 1/2 lb beef, cubed
1 yellow onion, diced
2 large carrots, chopped
2 turnips, chopped
2 yukon gold potatoes, peeled and cubed
1/2 c sliced mushrooms
1 bottle beer
1 c broth (beef or chicken)
1/2 c cold water
1/4 c corn starch
Salt and Pepper
To prepare puff pastry, cut butter into half inch cubes. mix well butter, salt and flour in a mixing bowl. Add water and blend into a loose dough. Shape into a cube and roll on a well-floured surface into a 16x16 square. fold in thirds, turn and fold into thirds once again. wrap in saran wrap and refrigerate 20 minutes. Repeat this process twice more before rolling out again to top pie.
For filling, put a little oil in a large saucepan and cook onions at medium heat until soft. Add beef to pan and cook until brown on all sides. Drain fat and mix beef/onion and prepared vegetables in a 2qt ceramic or glass casserole dish.
Pour a little beer into pot to deglaze. Add beer (I used a Brooklyn Oktoberfest) and broth to pot and bring to simmer.
mix 1/2 c water and 1/4 c corn starch together to create a slurry and add to pot.
Continue cooking, whisking constantly until thick. Pour over beef and vegetable mix.
Seal the pie with puff pastry and cut a few slits to ventilate. Brush with egg wash.
Cook in 375 degree oven 45 minutes or until brown. Let cool 10 minutes before serving.
Beth Willhite using MCH to reduce damage by Douglas-fir beetle. Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Oregon.
Photo by: Rob Flowers
Date: April 7, 2015
Photo credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection, Central Oregon Insect and Disease Service Center.
Source: Rob Flowers collection. Bend, Oregon.
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
January 25, 2020
Heading into the Tip O'Neil Tunnel on Rte 93 North.
Boston, Massachusetts
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The Geology of “A” Mountain
If you drive up Sentinel Peak Road, you will travel past a series of rock layers that formed between twenty and thirty million years ago. These multicolored strata produce the bedrock that constitutes “A” Mountain as well as the nearby Tumamoc and Powder House Hills. These hills and “A” Mountain are the visible remains of a former landlocked peninsula that was anchored in the west by the Tucson Mountains and extended beyond the present day Santa Cruz River to the east. “A” Mountain is an erosional remnant of this land prominence sculpted by the forces of ice, wind and water. Four distinct and interesting rock layers are easily visible on the face of this 550-foot mountain.
Flowing lava created the dark red rock strata at both the top and the bottom of “A” Mountain. Nearby volcanic pipes and fractures supplied the basaltic magma that created these beds, each one separated by a span of nine million years from the formation of the other. None of this lava came from the large “volcano like” crater on the northeast side of the mountain. Quarrymen from the Griffith Construction Company dug this basin at the turn of last century in the pursuit of its stone, used for building Tucson homes, walls and other structures.
The dark red color of these two basalt layers is due to a high concentration of iron and magnesium in the original magma. These elements reduce the lava’s viscosity and the explosive tendency of the sourcing eruptions while allowing the molten rock to flow more uniformly across the surface. Much of the basalt layer at the base of “A” Mountain contains small cavities known as vesicles. The magma, in this case, erupted out of the ground just fast enough for the dissolved gasses to vaporize in the decompressing molten rock and then cooled fast enough to retain the holes formed by these gas pockets. The same bubble forming principle occurs when opening a bottle of beer. An example of this vesiculated basalt is visible on the west side of Sentinel Peak Road between the parking lot at the bottom and the beginning of the one-way road around the summit. The basalt cavities are at the top of this dark layer, presumably because the bubbles floated upward before the cooling lava locked them in place.
The two rock layers sandwiched between the basalts were the result of more violent volcanic activity about 27 million years ago. The older of these two light colored rock strata is composed of rough dark pebble size cinders (basalt) embedded in silt, sand and ash. This material fell from the sky in the form of a volcanic cinder fall. The light brown agglomerate layer with its dark embedded pebbles is visible on the left side of the one-way lane just beyond the split in the road.
Finally, the most visually striking layer of “A” Mountain is composed of tan and pink rock, known as tuff. This layer resulted from one or more volcanic ash falls. The magma for this ash also went through decompression near the earth’s surface. In this case, however, the eruption occurred so suddenly that the expanding gas in the magma shattered the molten minerals and rock into very fine pieces and threw them forcefully into the air. After settling back to the ground, the combination of heat, pressure and time welded this bed of ash into the light colored rock layer that we can see today. Look for a sharp color transition between the tan rock and pink rock as you drive up the southern slope of “A” Mountain. This will identify the tuff layer that is also visible as a large light horizontal bed on Tumamoc Hill to the west.
This introduction to the geology of “A” Mountain is an invitation to explore and enjoy our hilly community with an understanding of its primordial past. The vestige of this beginning is locked within every pebble and stone of our iconic mountain.
Here's me going all artsy farty on your Flickr asses.
Reducing the simple act of waiting for a light to change to the very basic elements.
Reduce:
1. the amount of packaging by buying products in bulk
2. the amount of paper consumption in the office, school, etc. DON'T BE A TREE-KILLER!
Recycle:
1. all aluminum cans and plastic bottles
2. newspapers, magazines, junk mail, and paper
3. all old electronics and clothing at specific facilities and/or donation centers instead of dumping them in the trash
4. yard waste: leaves, branches, grass, etc.
Reuse:
1. buy products that are made from recycleable materials
2. find creative ways to reuse paper and boxes
FRENCHL'agent orange est le surnom donné au plus utilisé des herbicides employés par l'armée des États-Unis lors de la guerre du Viêt Nam, en particulier entre 1961 et 1971. Notamment en raison de la présence de dioxine, ce défoliant chimique est responsable de plusieurs maladies chez les personnes ayant eu affaire à cet herbicide. En raison de la stabilité de la dioxine, les générations suivantes au Viêt Nam vivent encore en présence de ce produit cancérogène et tératogène, occasionnant des maladies diverses, des cancers et des malformations à la naissance.ENGLISHAgent Orange is the code name for a powerful herbicide and defoliant used by the U.S. military in its Herbicidal Warfare program during the Vietnam War. During the Vietnam War, an estimated 80 000 m³ of Agent Orange was sprayed across South Vietnam.Agent Orange's usage from 1961 to 1971 was by far the most used of the so-called "Rainbow Herbicides" used during the program. Degradation of Agent Orange (as well as Agents Purple, Pink, and Green) released dioxins, which have caused health problems for those exposed during the Vietnam War. Agents Blue and White were part of the same program but did not contain dioxins. During the Vietnam war, between 1962 and 1971, the United States military sprayed 77 million litres of chemical defoliants in South Vietnam as part of a defoliant program. The first objective was to reduce the dense jungle foliage so that Communist forces might not use it for cover and to deny them use of crops needed for subsistence.The second objective was spot clearing in sensitive areas such as around base perimeters.According to Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 4.8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to agent orange, resulting in 400,000 deaths and disabilities, and 500,000 children born with birth defects. The most affected zones are the mountainous area along Truong Son (Long Mountains) and the border between Vietnam and Cambodia. The affected residents are living in sub-standard conditions with many genetic diseases. The use of Agent Orange still has an affect on the citizens of Vietnam, poisoning their food chain and creating concern about its affect on human beings. This chemical has been reported to cause serious skin diseases as well as a vast variety of cancers in the lungs, larynx, and prostate. Children in the areas where Agent Orange was used have been affected and have multiple health problems including cleft palate, mental retardation, hernias, and extra fingers and toes.Much of the information on the effects of Agent Orange in Vietnam until the 21st century, were compiled by Vietnamese scientists in Vietnamese and largely unavailable to the worldwide English reader. However, general public perception in Vietnam is that the effects are severe and clearly visible in children of veterans and people in affected areas. Veterans have become increasingly concerned about the effects of Agent Orange to humans. While in Vietnam, the veterans were told not to worry, and were persuaded that the chemical was harmless. In the last few years, this opinion has changed, and studies show the true effects Agent Orange has on humans.
La Corporación Autónoma Regional del Guavio - CORPOGUAVIO te invita a difundir el hábito del reciclaje, recuerda que para minimizar el impacto sobre el entorno es recomendable habilitar en el hogar contenedores para separar los residuos de papel, plástico o vidrio.
Reciclar no es una obligación, es tu responsabilidad.
Taken with Celestron NexStar 6SE, F/6.3 focal reducer (effective focal length 1000mm), 1/100s, ISO100
All spacers/reducers machined up on the lathe and then assembled, front shock will need a "helper" spring to stop the spring falling off the seat at full rebound, will prob have to change the spring rates once we get mobile. Need to tidy the wishbone/shock mount and also include the anti roll bar drop link mount which will use the same bolt that secures the lower shock.
In September of 2017 truckers who received in-cab notifications from a Pennsylvania Turnpike connected-truck pilot program, operated in partnership with Drivewyze, reduced their speed 7 percent more than those who did not receive alerts. Photo by Christine Baker/PA Turnpike.
Sebastián del Real Ossa para Americanino
Colección Capsula para la Celebración de los 140 años del Jeans
Foto: Tomas Eyzaguirre
Yesterday was the most beautiful day here in Ohio. It was sunny and warm (well 40 degrees which is warm this time of year). The morning was frosty, with temps down in the teens. All the sap that was flowing the day before had stopped and was frozen in the spiles. It didn’t take long for them to thaw out with the sun and warmth and start flowing again. These are prime sugaring temps; you want it to be above freezing during the day and below freezing at night. The rest of this week and next week look like it’s going to be beautiful, especially for sugaring.
For more maple sugaring fun: chiotsrun.com/2010/02/21/tap-tap-tap-maple-sap/