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2016-07-28 23:30-01:00
Clear, no moon, no wind, 12 degrees C
2016-08-02 00:00-02:00
Low clouds, no moon, no wind, 10 degrees C
M27 L
Exposures:
26x30s+17x60s+9x90s+9x120s+8x180s+6x240s+3x300s LIGHT
100x300s DARKS
200 BIAS
2014-08-06 23:45-03:00
Setting moon, high clouds, 15 degrees C
M27 RGB
Exposures:
16x300s+8x240s+9x180s LIGHT
16x300s+20x240s+13x180s DARKS
200 BIAS
Camera L: ASI1600MM-COOL, IDAS LPS-D1, gain 77, offset 12 and gain 100, offset 17, -20C
Camera RGB: Canon EOS-600Da, IDAS LPS-P2, ISO800
Lens: Sky-Watcher Esprit 80ED + Sky-Watcher field flattener
Mount: HEQ5 Pro
Skywatcher SynGuider auto guider and Celestron 80mm guide scope
Software: Sequence Generator Pro, BackyardEOS, PixInsight, Photoshop
New #YVR mayor seeks to solve city problems investing in police, which NEVER solves social or 💰 issues
Vancouver must instead compassionately invest in people, housing, #BasicIncome & #MentalHealth
Existing over-investment in Vancouver policing merely criminalizes more citizens ...leaving no positive effects on social ills nor crime levels.
Drug dealing exists openly; my daughter & I were offered all drug types as we walked the #DTES
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"The Downtown Eastside (DTES) is one of Vancouver's oldest neighbourhoods, and the historic heart of the city.
The DTES has many assets, especially for its low-income residents... the Downtown Eastside has struggled with many complex challenges including drug use, crime, homelessness, housing issues, unemployment, and loss of businesses in the community." (City of Vancouver)
"Around the beginning of the 20th century, the DTES was the political, cultural and retail centre of Vancouver. Over several decades, the city centre gradually shifted westwards and the DTES became a poor,[1] although relatively stable, neighbourhood. In the 1980s, the area began a rapid decline due to several factors including an influx of hard drugs, policies that pushed sex work and drug-related activity out of nearby areas, and the cessation of federal funding for social housing. By 1997, an epidemic of HIV infection and drug overdoses in the DTES led to the declaration of a public health emergency. As of 2018, critical issues include opioid overdoses, especially those involving the drug fentanyl; decrepit and squalid housing; a shortage of low-cost rental housing; and mental illness, which often co-occurs with addiction."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Eastside
Founded in 1978, the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre is one of the few safe spaces within the Downtown Eastside exclusively for self-identified women and their children. High levels of violence, homelessness, addictions and poverty characterize the Downtown Eastside community. Women and children are particularly vulnerable to exploitation, injustice and injury." dewc.ca/about
The mystery in Toronto's High Park area is solved. Discovered by a local out walking their dog, this meter-long critter has been identified as a Caiman, an "alligatorid crocodilian" member of the subfamily Caimaninae native to Central and South America. Obviously someone's released pet, it was rescued from Rennie Park's Catfish Pond, and is now headed for a reptile zoo.
The video is no longer up, but my son and I were interviewed by CTV News during their coverage of this news item.
Camera: Olympus E-PL2 & VF-4 Viewfinder
Lens: (Manual focus) Nikon AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G IF-ED @ 200mm with FotoDiox Nikon G to M4/3 lens adapter
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Americans have lost confidence in their government. We no longer trust our legislators and the Supreme Court to solve our country’s problems: income inequality, affordable health care, a woman's right to decide what’s best for her health, the economy, and climate change. Governance has become a series of battles. It’s no longer just political ideology. We are at war over cultural issues while our politicians ignore our basic needs.
The morals of our GOP legislators and their sycophants are just as important as their economic policy. How can we trust a party that Alex Patton, a Florida-based Republican consultant and pollster, has characterized as a party that “has become mean and driven by emotion on whom we dislike.”? “But,” he says, “that is the driving force in American politics right now.” That is the driving force of the GOP, not the Democrats. This is not an example of the equality of "bothsidesism."
In my essay, “It’s Time to Release Our Own Kraken!” I outlined the history of the Republican Party’s “below the belt” tactics. They continue to be underhanded to this day. But with the low level of civility in our present polarized country, many Republican legislators now in office have hit new ethical lows.
As a visual artist who has spent over a decade creating posters about the sorry state of American political discourse, this year I began a new series of portraits, “Faces of the Republican Party.” The men and women in this series deserve to be taken to task for their unwillingness to compromise, belief in conspiracy theories, and disdain for the LGBTQ+ community, women’s rights, and our children’s education. The purpose of our government is to solve our nation’s problems. It’s not a place for personal vendettas or manufactured cultural issues.
“Faces of the Republican Party” is not a partisan series of portraits. Merriam-Webster defines the word as “a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person, especially one exhibiting blind, prejudiced, and unreasoning allegiance.” The people depicted in these images are the partisans. Instead, my series is a documentary and op-ed showcasing the facts in 2022. All of these people had a hand in trying to overthrow the government. These images are MAGA Republicans who put their blind allegiance to Donald Trump and their careers ahead of the needs of the American people.
The results of the 2022 midterm elections showed we are tired of autocratic and self-absorbed politicians. We would simply like our officials to do the jobs we elected them to do. Everyone deserves a piece of American Exceptionalism. As it stands, there is nothing exceptional about the tribalism these people promote.
Republicans are perfect examples of Patton’s “driving force.” This force is dirty, mean, misogynistic, selfish, and wastes our tax dollars. These people are just a small sampling of individuals responsible for the loss of credibility and faith in America’s institutions. And worse, they couldn’t care less.
Feel free to pass this poster on. It's free to download here (click on the down arrow just to the lower right of the image). Each has a special Creative Common's copyright that allows you to share these images as long as there is attribution, no derivatives, and you do not use these for commercial purposes.
See the rest of the posters from the Chamomile Tea Party! Digital high res downloads are free here (click the down arrow on the lower right side of the image). Other options are available. And join our Facebook group.
Follow the history of our country's political intransigence from 2010 to 2020 through a eight-part exhibit of these posters on Google Arts & Culture.
Classic Problem: A farmer needs to cross a river, but his boat can only hold one other passenger or item. He can't leave the grain with the chicken for the chicken will eat the grain. He can't leave the fox with the chicken for the fox will eat the chicken.
How can he manage to get the fox, the chicken, and the sack of grain safely across the river?
Thank you all, for a great and unique Almedals week in Visby, Gotland.
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The Swedish Island, have been hosting this political week for democratic talks and development since 1968.
I really recommend a visit.
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Last spring and early summer the robins built a nest on top of this A/C unit. We had to do something to stop them since we needed to use the unit and I didn't want to harm the babies so Craig, our Handyman put a screen above the unit and now there isn't enough room for any bird to get in there. We have these screens on the other A/C units so this was the last one. I'm happy!
Can anyone identify this building? It was taken by the late John Hambley in August 1975 and appears to be next to a London Country garage, presumably in Kent or Surrey, the sign pointing to a National Travel Office.
LCBS offices at Reigate (see below), since demolished.
Great @Gizmodo article... => Badass Historical Chemists: Eugene Houdry Solved the World's First Fuel Crisis
Starting with "Bright Green Under" and a cube in a corner of a field...
When I took the shot I had hunted in vain for any information sign...so hence the internet search as I posted...
I wasn't very successful to start...
And then I remembered Geograph m.geograph.org.uk "The Geograph® Britain and Ireland project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland."
So I checked our GPS route to work out which grid square I thought it was in..
Then I found the advanced search on Geograph - that took a few attempts so I have saved the link here www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?form=text
Then I looked for images within 1 km of SK1664 (the grid reference) as it was on an edge.
I spoted a shot - and it gave me the extra word of Limestone and and the idea to include Cales Farm in the search (Neil had put in grid square SK1663 www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3596177
I then headed back to Uncle Google search with "bright under green limestone cales farm"
Bingo!
www.sitesofmeaning.org.uk/site14/details14.htm
Full information from Sites of Meaning...
inscription - Bright Under Green Limestone Edges. With Queen Ann Lace and Cranesbill in her Hedges
Michael Dower
proposer Emma Youatt
mason Heritage Stoneworks
location West Footpath to Cales Farm from Long Rake.
grid reference SK 16495 63959
notes Sometimes called the Bugle Stone, after the name of the community newspaper that Emma Youatt founded and edited.
From www.sitesofmeaning.org.uk/preface/about.htm
Sites of Meaning was a millennium project of Middleton and Smerrill in the Derbyshire Peak. It marks the seventeen entrances to its parish with boundary stones each inscribed with a text chosen by members of the parish.
So hopefully if we trip over any of the other 16 stones I'll remember where to look.
If you've got this far, I was rather chuffed I found the information and hence the rather laboured notes above on how I got there. Now, was I meant to be doing anything else this morning, I think the "to do" list will win again today!
No more pinholes but this developer is really black in the shadows. Agitation is every 15 sec. Might try once every minute next time to reduce the contrast.
2/5
I will accept my Nobel Prize with grace and humility for solving this age old problem. Thank you all :-)