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It's May and already fire and floods have taken a toll on BC, the undeniable effect of global warming. Earth is our house and we gotta step up as tenants.
Malgré l’exposition de cette ethnie à la «civilisation», les rites traditionnels continuent de structurer la vie des Hamer. Le plus connu est l’Ukuli : il symbolise l’entrée des jeunes hommes dans l’âge adulte. Le futur initié est désigné par son chef de clan, puis il se prépare longuement. L’ étape la plus spectaculaire de ce rite de passage qui s’étend sur plusieurs jours, prend la forme d’une cérémonie d’une demi-journée à laquelle nous avons eu la chance d’assister. Au programme : chants, danses, flagellations et « saut de vache ».
Les fouetteurs sont arrivés, tenant à la main de longues baguettes souples. Les femmes se livrent alors autour d'eux à une véritable danse de provocation et de séduction, pour attirer l'attention des jeunes gens, les exciter et les inciter à les choisir pour partenaire de la séquence qui va suivre.
Ukuli : Provoke the whippersnappers
Despite the exposure of this ethnic group to “civilization”, traditional rites continue to structure the lives of the Hamer. The best known is the Ukuli: it symbolizes the entry of young men into adulthood. The future initiate is designated by his clan leader, then he prepares at length. The most spectacular stage of this rite of passage which extends over several days, takes the form of a half-day ceremony which we were lucky enough to attend. On the program: songs, dances, flagellation and “cow jumping”.
The whippers arrived, holding long, flexible sticks in their hands. The women then engage in a veritable dance of provocation and seduction around them, to attract the attention of the young people, excite them and encourage them to choose them as partners in the sequence that follows.
It was a warm day and all the tenants living in this apartment house were getting some fresh air. Fortunately I had my trusty camera with me and snapped this absolutely real photo. A camera doesn't lie.
Mansfield / Agency History from the Connecticut State Library
--1860.. Connecticut School for Imbeciles at Lakeville is established.
--1915.., name changed to Connecticut Training School for Feebleminded at Lakeville.
--1917.. merged with the Connecticut Colony for Epileptics at Mansfield, renamed the Mansfield Training School and Hospital.
--1959.. administratively, Mansfield is transferred to the new Office of Mental Retardation in the Dept. of Health
--1975... administratively, Mansfield is transferred to the new Dept. of Mental Retardation
--1993... Mansfield Training School closes.
The Brickell World Plaza, also known as 600 Brickell, and formerly known as the Brickell Financial Center, is an office skyscraper in Miami, Florida, United States in the Downtown neighborhood and financial district of Brickell at 600 Brickell Avenue. The former Brickell Financial Centre Phase I, the Brickell World Plaza, is a 520-foot (160 m) skyscraper, one of the tallest buildings in Miami. The building contains 600,000 square feet (56,000 m2) of leasable floor space, an eleven story parking garage with 927 spaces, and a 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m2) ground level public plaza, and was also supposed include an outdoor area with a stage. 600 Brickell is located between the Fifth Street and Eighth Street Metromover stations.
The 40 story building was topped out in early 2009 but construction was suspended or greatly slowed, as the building was still not completed over two years later as of March, 2011. The building lost an anchor tenant, a law firm that had a 58 million dollar, 10.5 year lease for 15 percent of the building (115,000 sq ft), in early 2009.
With the new name of Brickell World Plaza, the building has a scheduled opening date of August 2011. The building developers, the Foram Group, have claimed that this slowed construction was strategic for the purpose of detail and that after completion they will move their corporate offices into the building. However, the near halt in construction and the loss of a major tenant suggests that the delay was not strategic, but due to the 2008 economic crisis and the falling demand for office space due to the excessive construction in Miami at that time.
Early in 2011, 600 Brickell got a $130 million construction mortgage loan from Los Angeles based Canyon Capital Reality Advisors that will fund the rest of the construction. This was one of the largest loans issued in the city of Miami since the real estate crisis.
When 600 Brickell came online in August–September 2011, it increased Miami's downtown office vacancy to nearly 25%, and Class A Brickell vacancy to over 30%.
That could change with the arrival of a new leasing team. Foram has hired Jones Lang LaSalle, led by veteran brokers Glenn Gregory and Noël Steinfeld, to handle leasing for the nearly 615,000-square-foot building. Gregory and Steinfeld said a full-court press to land tenants is finally under way. Shortly before Foram hired Jones Lang, the developer signed a pair of new-to-market tenants — New York-based lender Doral Money and Irvine, California-based mediation and arbitration services firm JAMS — to occupy a combined 30,090 square feet at the building. Gregory and Steinfeld said they are in discussions with prospective tenants for about 300,000 square feet, although that includes some space being marketed to multiple companies.
Gunster (law firm) moved its Miami office to the building's 35th floor.
The building will be South Florida’s first Cisco Connected Commercial Office Building in partnership with Cisco Systems Inc. Essentially it will have its own dedicated hub connecting it to the Internet with a secure and flawless connection. The project was designed by the global architecture firm RTKL and its developer was the Foram Group. The Foram Group’s intended goal was to set a new gold-standard for technology and sustainability in international commercial property development by creating the most innovative and forward thinking office building in Miami.
"We designed the building from the inside out, not the outside in,” said Loretta H. Cockrum, Foram’s founder, chairman and CEO. “We wanted the most efficient office building ever designed, with no wasted space or wasted energy. This is a building of the future more than a building of the present. A lot of love has gone into that building, and a lot of pride.
The Brickell World Plaza is the state of Florida's first building to be pre-certified under the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program.[11] In addition to this it is one of very few buildings in the world of its size to receive the LEED Platinum rating, the highest available from the US Green Building Council. Another feature that contributed to this precertification is the water program: the building collects all rainfall and condensed water from the cooling towers in a 10,000 US gallons (38,000 L) tank to be reused for irrigation and makeup water for the fountains at Brickell World Plaza.
It will also be the first building in South Florida to be a part of Cisco Systems "Cisco Connected Commercial Office Building",[13] which basically means it has a fast and secure, dedicated internet connection. The originally planned Brickell Financial Centre (two buildings) was to include office space, a hotel, luxury condominiums and a public plaza. The Brickell World Center will not feature the hotel or condominiums, but the ground level plaza will be a 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m2) public space as well as 18,000 square feet (1,700 m2) of ground level restaurants and cafes, as well as an outdoor stage where events may be held, probably taking up the rest of the property where the Brickell Financial Centre II would have gone. The first eleven floors of the building above the plaza are a parking garage, while the remaining 28 floors are all office space.[14] The outside of Brickell World Plaza is lit up at night similar to the Miami Tower. This began before Christmas in December 2011 with a ceremony with governor Rick Scott where a 40 foot wreath was hung on the building.
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CSX 3458 leads Q574 over the elevated tracks at CT Junction, crossing through the maze of supports that hold up I-75 near downtown Cincinnati. This section of Cincinnati was a beehive of railroad and industrial activity during the Golden Age of railroading. B&O, C&O, L&N, NYC, and SOU to name a few all used this area to stage coaches for their famous passenger trains. B&O's St.Louis to Pittsburgh mainline passed through here, hence the B&O warehouse that still survives to this day. Today, the warehouse, now called Longworth Hall, is mainly a parking lot, and the tenants are a mix of local firms, indie businesses and one of the more famous clubs in downtown, Energy Nightclub.
The Westpac Bank on the corner of Stanley and Vulture Streets was built in 1921 or 1922. The Bank had acquired this prestigious corner site opposite the South Brisbane Town Hall and the Municipal Library in the 1890s due to bankruptcy of the original owners.
This branch of the Bank of New South Wales was previously situated at 346 Stanley Street, between Ernest and Tribune Streets from the 1870s until it moved to this site in the 1920s.
The bank has had numerous tenants in the upper floor of the building, namely dentists, medical practitioners, and estate agents.
Source: Brisbane City Council Heritage Register.
Architecture: Trehearne & Norman, 1921
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...in North Yorkshire stands on the banks of the River Rye. A dwelling has been recorded from 1249, but the existing house has grown out of a Tudor hall. Notable tenants from that period include William Parr, the brother of Henry VIII's sixth and final wife, whose estates were forfeit to the crown because of his involvement in royal plots. In 1567, the estate was sublet to Dr Robert Huicke, chief physician to Elizabeth I.
In 1644, Sir Thomas Norcliffe gave up the hall as a billet for parliamentary troops, and after the Civil War, the house was in need of much repair. A cloth merchant called Ranald Graham bought the Nunnington estate in 1655 and, besides restoring the house, he helped to improve Nunnington village. The direct Graham line ran out in 1757, after which the hall was leased and began to decline. It had become a semi-derelict farmhouse by the early nineteenth century and, in 1839, it was put up for sale. The Rutson family, whose main residence was Newby Wiske Hall near Northallerton, then bought Nunnington to use as a sporting lodge for shooting, fishing, tennis, and croquet.
In 1920, Margaret Fife, the daughter of Albert Ruston, inherited both Newby Wiske and Nunnington, and sold the former to fund the latter's transformation into a family home. Margaret Fife bequeathed the hall, some of its contents, and part of its grounds to the National Trust in 1952, when it was opened to visitors twice weekly. Her daughter, Susan Clive, lived in the hall until 1978, when the family moved into the village, and more of the hall was opened to visitors.
By a strange coincidence, not long after this, my very first visit to Nunnington, I watched a rather weird film on Netflix called "Men", which was clearly shot at least partly on location here.
Looking towards Folly Bridge which crosses the River Thames and Grandpont Island, in Oxford, Oxfordshire.
The Folly Bridge is Grade II Listed and was erected in 1825–27 of stone, to designs of architect, Ebenezer Perry, who practised in London. The bridge is in two parts separated by an island. The origin of the name is uncertain although it has been suggested that it originated about 1650 after a tenant of Bacon's study.
The bridge apparently stands at the site of the ford over which oxen could be driven across the Isis, the ancient name of the reach of the Thames between Folly Bridge and Iffley Lock. The first known stone bridge on the site was built by Robert d'Oilli in around 1085, but there was believed to be a wooden bridge in the time of Ethelred of Wessex. Remains of the Saxon structure may still be seen beneath the present bridge.
Until the late 17th century the bridge was known as South Bridge, and formed part of a long causeway known as Grandpont, which stretched along most of the line of Abingdon Road. In the 13th century, the alchemist Roger Bacon lived and worked at "Friar Bacon's Study" which stood across the north end of the bridge until 1779, when it was removed to widen the road.
A toll-booth gateway tower used to straddle the approach to the bridge, which was on the Abingdon to Banbury turnpike. The former bridge and "Bacon's Tower" were drawn by many artists, including the twelve-year-old Joseph Mallord William Turner.
There was also a weir underneath the bridge which had a flash lock and later a "pen" lock. At the beginning of the 19th century this and the poor state of the bridge itself constituted a problem to navigation. Surveys discovered that the foundations were in a very bad state and in 1815 an Act of Parliament was obtained to rebuild the bridge and remove the "Tackle and Works" underneath. The new bridge works were begun in 1824 and completed in 1827. A pound lock was established nearby in about 1832, which was removed in 1884.
The toll house was rebuilt in 1844 and is now, along with the bridge, also Grade II listed; tolls on the bridge were abolished in 1850. A scheme for a public footbridge next to the bridge was designed by Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners but was not built.
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Sometimes I do miss the countryside but while in the city, I just like to be sorrounded by glass and tall buildings...;-}
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Canary Wharf is a large business and shopping development in East London, located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, centred on the old West India Docks in the London Docklands.
Rivalling London's traditional financial centre, The Square Mile, Canary Wharf contains the UK's three tallest buildings: One Canada Square (sometimes known as the Canary Wharf Tower) at 235.1 m (774 ft); followed by 8 Canada Square and the Citigroup Centre, both at 199.5 m (654 ft).[1] However, according to the official Canary Wharf website,[2][3][4] One Canada Square is 800 ft (244 m). The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.
Present day
Canary Wharf tenants include major banks, such as Barclays, HSBC and Citigroup, law firms such as Clifford Chance, as well as news media and service firms, including Thomson Reuters, and the Daily Mirror.
At the end of 2007 the official number of people employed on the estate was 93,000, of whom around 25% live in the surrounding five boroughs. Increasingly Canary Wharf is becoming a shopping destination, particularly with the opening of the Jubilee Place shopping centre in 2004, taking the total number of shops to more than 200 and increasing employment in retail to around 4,500. About 500,000 people each week shop at Canary Wharf.
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London Canary Wharf Architecture ~ The Glass Jungle...~
This year, the popular BBC television series ‘Doctor Who’ celebrates its 50th anniversary. To celebrate this year’s event, I’d like to build and upload 11 small Doctor Who MOCs – the last and biggest one in November this year.
I know, I know, it’s ‘Gridlock’ again. Due to finishing Lovecraft’s Study I was a bit under time pressure this month. Anyway, the Face of Boe is an important character and deserves his own little MOC.
Novice Hame looks a bit … well, disturbed in this picture, but hey, people often look stupid in snapshots.
Apartment building at 139th and Broadway in West Harlem. Except for the missing cornice and different commercial tenants the building looks pretty much like it did in 1940.
We have finally moved house and I am delighed to say we are currently subletting our front garden to a huge number of birds include this little House Sparrow perched in an overgrown Bush.
A tree sparrow stops by to check on the wood duck chicks. Typically they jump out the day after being born. They were checking the hole out over several hours. Wehr Nature Center in Franklin, Wisconsin. Spring 2015.
New tenant...
Hangs out in my artificial planter all day.
Lets me get pretty close before it feels the need to fly.
HAPPY SPRING!
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Belmont home and studio of Gari Melchers garimelchers.umw.edu/
Arista.EDU Ultra 5X7 paper RC VC Glossy Medium weight 1 second pre-flash
Drilled pinhole .35mm
Focal length 70mm
F200
ISO 6 Exposure time 1 min. 19 secs.
Camera: Ranger
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Stagecoach in South Wales finally vacated Brynmawr depot in July of this year, transferring the last three bus workings (Services E1 & E2 in Ebbw Vale and Service 1B in Abertillery) to Merthyr Tydfil depot with three Optare Solos and a pair of Mercedes Sprinters. Johns Travel of Nantyglo had purchased the site in early Spring, in turn vacating its former depot at Barleyfields.
Rewinding the clock to 2014, Brynmawr's maintenance facility was closed and some of its remaining services transferred to Blackwood and Cwmbran depots, with Cwmbran also taking responsibility for maintaining the reduced number of vehicles. World events in 2020 led to a further slimming down of the number of allocated vehicles, and with Blackwood depot closing in 2023, responsibility for some of Brynmawr's services was temporarily transferred to Merthyr Tydfil, though Cwmbran remained the 'parent' depot. This remained the situation until July 2025.
Brynmawr's closure leaves Stagecoach with just one depot - rebuilt Cwmbran - in the former county of Gwent.
This shot from December 2025 shows a number of Johns Travel's coaches parked on the forecourt, including a pair of Caetano Levante 2-bodied Volvo B11RTs that were acquired from Edwards Coaches in 2022 and are now high capacity school vehicles.
Eastern Screech Owl - Suburban New Jersey, 25 miles west of "The City" (NYC)
My latest tenant.
This year it's a gray morph, who's still a wee bit on the shy side,
but it'll eventually get used to me.
This capture was toward the end of the run, just a few minutes before it flew off for its evening hunt. I like the low light, and I'm willing to take my chances with 5 - 10 second exposures, since it has to be pretty dark to capture these guys with their eyes wide open.
Regarding flash:
No flash was used here since I feel it flattens the image, and the green BG next to the bird house would be black rather than green, which I think helps to bring out the greenish color in the eyes.
These are Haris - tenant farmers of interior Sindh. They are the lowest in the food chain and caught in an endless cycle of poverty and yet their current way of living gives a glimpse of their lifestyle which hasn't changed literally in over thousand years.
My wife took this picture! (using a compact camera fitted with a standard short zoom lens with amazing results)
So proud of her! :-)
Atlantic Puffin, Skomer Island.
Active Assignment Weekly - Your World
AAW: June 7-14, 2021.
Enjoy watching and listening to a pair of house wrens which return to our backyard every year to nest.
Syracuse Savings Bank Building, also known as Bank of America building, is a historic building in Syracuse, New York designed by Joseph Lyman Silsbee, then aged 26.
It was built in 1875 adjacent to the Erie Canal, and, at 170 feet tall, was the tallest building in Syracuse.It opened in 1876 as Syracuse Savings Bank. Its passenger elevator, the first in Syracuse, was a curiosity that drew visitors.
The building's current principal tenant, in the first four floors, is Bank of America. It was bought in 2007 by a limited liability corporation having four local principals for $1.75 million
Built:1876
Architect:Joseph Lyman Silsbee; John Moore
Architectural style:Gothic
Governing body:Private
NRHP Reference#:7100055