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Flickr-users from the US will be familiar with those legendary commercials for BUD(WEISER) beer, some years ago.

Curious Germans who are wondering now what it is all about

can easily find endless clips on youtube...

 

Für die deutschen Fotofreunde:

In der englischsprachigen Welt assoziiert man mit "bud"

nicht nur eine Biermarke, sondern eben auch "Knospe".

["So sorry!" an alle, die gerade genervt aufgestöhnt haben...]

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At the request of the creators SL,

I made a Demo object and an additional script that allows other users to create their own versions of the landscape elements for the "Auto Season 12 months" from Skifija and this will work with the Time Manager from Skifija.

Now you can make objects "12 months Auto Season" for personal use, gifts and sale!

You can use this script for whatever objects and actions you want, including sounds, animations, etc.

 

The package includes:

1. DEMO! Skifija 12Months Auto Seasson Grass (Receiver)

2. script:! Skifija 12Months Grass (Receiver) for Creators

3. script:! Skifija 12Monts (command receiver)

4. "! Skifija Time Manager Auto Season 12 Months Landscape v.0.3" - You don't Can Modify and No Transfer this,

Users get it when they buy one of the products "! Skifija 12Months Auto Seasson"

 

This point assumes that you know Linden's scripting language (LSL).

If you don't understand what this is about, don't use it.

 

useful links:

wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LSL_Portal

wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlSetLinkPrimitiveParams#llSetLi...

 

How it works?

The Time manager gives commands on an individual channel for each resident.

The object you created accepts commands using the "!Skifija 12Monts (command receiver)" script

and sends them to the "!Skifija 12Months Grass (Receiver) for Creators" script.

 

How can I help?

You can contact me with suggestions or questions (if it will be sent for goran Osterham to notecard).

 

Сondition:

You can transfer this script to the next owner with permission - NO modify, No Transfer or NO modify, No Copy.

Please note that all responsibility for the unscrupulous use of the script lies with you.

 

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✗ Face Runes: Ex.Umbra - Viss

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✗ Cloak: {Aii & Ego} - Catacomb Prince Cape

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A massive, swirling supercell storm cloud dominates the sky over a flat, rural landscape, casting an ominous shadow over a dirt road and fields. The dramatic contrast between the dark cloud and the surrounding lighter sky accentuates the power of the impending storm.

 

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The color version of the photo above is here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ticino-best-photos-of-southern-...

 

THE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO:

So far there's only been one photo in my gallery that hasn't been taken in my garden ('The Flame Rider', captured in the Maggia Valley: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/53563448847/in/datepo... ) - which makes the image above the second time I've "strayed from the path" (although not very far, since the photo was taken only approximately 500 meters from my house).

 

Overall, I'll stick to my "only-garden rule", but every once in a while I'll show you a little bit of the landscape around my village, because I think it will give you a better sense of just how fascinating this region is, and also of its history.

 

The title I chose for the photo may seem cheesy, and it's certainly not very original, but I couldn't think of another one, because it's an honest reflection of what I felt when I took it: a profound sense of peace - although if you make it to the end of this text you'll realize my relationship with that word is a bit more complicated.

 

I got up early that day; it was a beautiful spring morning, and there was still a bit of mist in the valley below my village which I hoped would make for a few nice mood shots, so I quickly grabbed my camera and went down there before the rising sun could dissolve the magical layer on the scenery.

 

Most human activity hadn't started yet, and I was engulfed in the sounds of the forest as I was walking the narrow trail along the horse pasture; it seemed every little creature around me wanted to make its presence known to potential mates (or rivals) in a myriad of sounds and voices and noises (in case you're interested, here's a taste of what I usually wake up to in spring, but you best use headphones: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfoCTqdAVCE )

 

Strolling through such an idyllic landscape next to grazing horses and surrounded by birdsong and beautiful trees, I guess it's kind of obvious one would feel the way I described above and choose the title I did, but as I looked at the old stone buildings - the cattle shelter you can see in the foreground and the stable further up ahead on the right - I also realized how fortunate I was.

 

It's hard to imagine now, because Switzerland is one of the wealthiest countries in the world today, but the men and women who had carried these stones and constructed the walls of these buildings were among the poorest in Europe. The hardships the people in some of the remote and little developed valleys in Ticino endured only a few generations ago are unimaginable to most folks living in my country today.

 

It wasn't uncommon that people had to sell their own kids as child slaves - the girls had to work in factories or in rice fields, the boys as "living chimney brushes" in northern Italy - just because there wasn't enough food to support the whole family through the harsh Ticino winters.

 

If you wonder why contemporary Swiss historians speak of "slaves" as opposed to child laborers, it's because that's what many of them actually were: auctioned off for a negotiable prize at the local market, once sold, these kids were not payed and in many cases not even fed by their masters (they had to beg for food in the streets or steal it).

 

Translated from German Wikipedia: ...The Piazza grande in Locarno, where the Locarno Film Festival is held today, was one of the places where orphans, foundlings and children from poor families were auctioned off. The boys were sold as chimney sweeps, the girls ended up in the textile industry, in tobacco processing in Brissago or in the rice fields of Novara, which was also extremely hard work: the girls had to stand bent over in the water for twelve to fourteen hours in all weathers. The last verse of the Italian folk song 'Amore mio non piangere' reads: “Mamma, papà, non piangere, se sono consumata, è stata la risaia che mi ha rovinata” (Mom, dad, don't cry when I'm used up, it was the rice field that destroyed me.)... de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaminfegerkinder

 

The conditions for the chimney sweeps - usually boys between the age of 8 and 12 (or younger, because they had to be small enough to be able to crawl into the chimneys) - were so catastrophic that many of them didn't survive; they died of starvation, cold or soot in their lungs - as well as of work-related accidents like breaking their necks when they fell, or suffocatig if they got stuck in inside a chimney. This practice of "child slavery" went on as late as the 1950s (there's a very short article in English on the topic here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spazzacamini and a more in depth account for German speakers in this brief clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gda8vZp_zsc ).

 

Now I don't know if the people who built the old stone houses along my path had to sell any of their kids, but looking at the remnants of their (not so distant) era I felt an immense sense of gratitude that I was born at a time of prosperity - and peace - in my region, my country and my home. Because none of it was my doing: it was simple luck that decided when and where I came into this world.

 

It also made me think of my own family. Both of my grandparents on my father's side grew up in Ticino (they were both born in 1900), but while they eventually left Switzerland's poorest region to live in its richest, the Kanton of Zurich, my grandfather's parents relocated to northern Italy in the 1920s and unfortunately were still there when WWII broke out.

 

They lost everything during the war, and it was their youngest daughter - whom I only knew as "Zia" which means "aunt" in Italian - who earned a little money to support herself and my great-grandparents by giving piano lessons to high-ranking Nazi officers and their kids (this was towards the end of the war when German forces had occupied Italy).

 

I never knew that about her; Zia only very rarely spoke of the war, but one time when I visited her when she was already over a 100 years old (she died at close to 104), I asked her how they had managed to survive, and she told me that she went to the local prefecture nearly every day to teach piano. "And on the way there would be the dangling ones" she said, with a shudder.

 

I didn't get what she meant, so she explained. Visiting the city center where the high ranking military resided meant she had to walk underneath the executed men and women who were hanging from the lantern posts along the road (these executions - often of civilians - were the Germans' retaliations for attacks by the Italian partisans).

 

I never forgot her words - nor could I shake the look on her face as she re-lived this memory. And I still can't grasp it; my house in Ticino is only 60 meters from the Italian border, and the idea that there was a brutal war going on three houses down the road from where I live now in Zia's lifetime strikes me as completely surreal.

 

So, back to my title for the photo above. "Peace". It's such a simple, short word, isn't it? And we use it - or its cousin "peaceful" - quite often when we mean nice and quiet or stress-free. But if I'm honest I don't think I know what it means. My grandaunt Zia did, but I can't know. And I honestly hope I never will.

 

I'm sorry I led you down such a dark road; I usually intend to make people smile with the anecdotes that go with my photos, but this one demanded a different approach (I guess with this latest image I've strayed from the path in more than one sense, and I hope you'll forgive me).

 

Ticino today is the region with the second highest average life expectancy in Europe (85.2 years), and "The Human Development Index" of 0.961 in 2021 was one of the highest found anywhere in the world, and northern Italy isn't far behind. But my neighbors, many of whom are now in their 90s, remember well it wasn't always so.

 

That a region so poor it must have felt like purgatory to many of its inhabitants could turn into something as close to paradise on Earth as I can imagine in a person's lifetime should make us all very hopeful. But, and this is the sad part, it also works the other way 'round. And I believe we'd do well to remember that, too.

 

To all of you - with my usual tardiness but from the bottom of my heart - a happy, healthy, hopeful 2025 and beyond.

People who complain that software engineers build unwieldy, unfriendly and outright mindboggling user interfaces need to look back in history to realize that hardware engineers have not always been much better in that respect. A good place to do that is the Railway Museum in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

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Created for dA Users Gallery Challenge 113 - Model 264

 

Model with thanks to La-Esmeralda-Stock

 

Background photo my own

 

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lion, grass and foliage thanks to Moonglowlilly

 

Created for Angie's Animal Antics Challenge No 11 – Wild Animals

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Door het zonlicht en de structuur van het glas krijg je een golfachtige schaduw op de draagbalken.

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Centaurus A

 

CHI-1, 60cm F6.5 Reflector

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Aperture: 610 mm (24 inches)

Focal Length: 3962 mm

Model: QHY 600M Pro

Pixel Size: 3.76s μm

Observatory name: El Sauce Observatory

Location: Río Hurtado, Coquimbo Region, Chile

Coordinates: 30.472529° S, 70.762999° W (Google maps)

Elevation: 1525 m

Average seeing: 1'' - 1.5''

MPC code: X02

Original data from Telescope Live

 

17,5h LRGBHa data, integrated in PixInsight

 

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Belvès, cité médiévale aux sept clochers, est située sur un éperon rocheux dominant la vallée de la Nauze. Belvès fut fortifiée au XIème siècle en raison de sa position stratégique.

 

En ce 1er Mai c ' était une belle destination pour célébrer son Anniversaire..

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" Médiéval Music "

 

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Belvès - Dordogne - France.

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The Darckr Flickr Viewer is a webapp and a mashup based upon the flickr web rest apis.

 

Darckr allows to view Flickr content and helps in social life and picture management, by posting comments, or editing photo parameters.

 

For me, Darckr is an experimental platform to study the web2 languages.

 

Working is easier in beautiful surroundings...

 

Darckr uses ajax for continuous page preloading and streaming (here my own pictures sorted by interestingness according to Flickr), and the mootools javascript api.

 

The originality of Darckr is that the end user can freely customize his preferred viewing settings and save them on demand in cookies.

 

Ironically, this free software has become the mostly used of my programs ever, with more than 3000 thousand users of the full functionality,

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A Western Diamondback Rattlesnake found crossing in the mid-afternoon in Southeastern Arizona after a mild, overcast day.

 

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Evening glow during another South Carolina sunset.

 

EXPERIENCE WATERSIDE VIEWS WITH THESE VIDEOS I'VE CREATED

 

DONUT STACK CHALLENGE:

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- See the short version on Flickr:

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COOLER DIVING

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UNDERWATER SUNSET

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UNDERWATER CREEK

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THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE BIRD WHISPERER

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DON’T BULLY

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CIVIL AIR PATROL:

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EINSTEIN'S MUSHROOM TRIP - Episode 1:

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TNT: an AC/DC Cover

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COOLER DIVING

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FUN LOOK AT MARRIAGE

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LUNATIC

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Umm what i have to say umm i don't have word's to say about you but i will say one word's for you Maryoom" you are the beest :D " i hope soon you have a true LOVE :P< i know you will kill me bcuz i say that :P but what ever :P umm adrey anch ma t3rfeen english 3dell :P but i don't have arabic latter's :P sow it's oky ^^

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i hope i say all about you true !

i LOVE u MyCuzn''s (L)(L)!!

    

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out of ideas =P

and btw. that colorful thing is eatable =P LOOOL i jst did it to take this shot =P

      

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Linda Paganelli (who designed my little fox:) over Eel Garden in Dahab, Egypt.

 

#2: Flickr Explore 10 March 2011 (Whoohooooo!)

 

We ended up using this one for the Freedive Cape Town poster...

 

Shot while Freediving.

 

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Some things just look better Large and on BLACK…… Enjoy!!!

 

This has to be one of the most difficult shots I’ve ever made.

I thought it would be easy but boy was I wrong. They don’t stand still, not even for a second and they are as quick as lightning. This is the best I could manage and the only real good one. But I love a challenge and I’ll try again real soon.

Have a great weekend

 

Explore: # 52

Just a 4 picture series of the Florida setting sun...hope you like them !!

“Any users, found to replicate, reproduce, circulate, distribute, download, manipulate or otherwise use my images without my written consent will be in breach of copyright laws as well as contract laws.”

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