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Vom Urgrossvater des Sekretärs gebautes Hilfsmittel zur Ermittlung der korrekten Belichtung mit drei feststehenden und zwei frei drehbaren Skalen.
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Aid for determining the correct exposure with three fixed and two freely rotatable scales, self-made by Secretary's great-grandfather.
Le village de Kalabougou, connu également comme le village des potieres se situe à une dizaine de kilomètres de Segou au Mali, sur l'autre rive du fleuve Niger.Le travail de la poterie est essentiellement imparti aux femmes, les hommes, issus de la communauté Bambara, conservant les activités liées au travail du métal, socialement plus valorisantes. Dans le village, chaque famille se charge d'une partie du travail.
La terre, ramassée dans la bancottière située à environ 300m du village, est acheminée dans des paniers portés sur la tête par les femmes. Mêlée à des fragments de paille hachée ou à des résidus concassés d'anciennes poteries, la terre est foulée au pieds pendant de longues minutes pour obtenir une parfaite homogénéité. Les particularités de sa composition permettent aux poteries de remplir deux fonctions fondamentales : la conservation des liquides et la cuisson des aliments.
La potière monte son ouvrage sans l'aide d'un tour avec des "boudins" de terre (colombins) qu'elle agglomère les uns aux autres par le travail des mains et de l'eau. L'utilisation d'un battoir en bois améliore l'homogénéité de l'assemblage. Les poteries sont ornées d'un décor traditionnel par un engobe de couleur rouge, à base d'hématite, et stockées pour un premier séchage en attente de la cuisson collective.
Approvisionnement de la paille pour la cuisson à feu ouvert
Cuisson collective des poteries à Kalabougou, centre potier du Mali
La cuisson se fait à feu ouvert chaque fin de semaine. Au centre du village, les hommes apportent des chariots de fagots, de branchages et de paille qui sont déchargés sur la place et où sont déposées toutes les poteries fabriquées durant la semaine. Une fois les poteries recouvertes, la paille est enflammée pour permettre la cuisson.
La cuisson dure environ 30 min, atteignant une température de 600 à 800 degrés. Les poteries encore brûlantes sont soit étouffées sur un lit de feuillage de kundié séché, pour obtenir une teinte noire, soit trempées dans une décoction de fruits écrasés de kaki de brousse et d'écorce de Ngonde pour obtenir la finition rouge[1] [archive].
Environ 2000 poteries sont réalisées chaque semaine, chargées ensuite sur de grandes barques et vendues le lundi sur le marché de Ségou avant de rejoindre les autres marchés du Mali.
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La paix mondiale, déjà fragilisée par les troubles civils des dernières années, est "encore plus menacée avec la situation économique instable post Covid-19", pointe la 14e édition de l’Indice mondial de la paix (Global peace index), publié dernièrement par « l’institute for economics&peace ».
La crise du « Covid-19 » aura un impact négatif sur la paix dans le monde, avec un virus qui risque "d’exacerber les crises humanitaires et aggraver et encourager les troubles et conflits", réduisant à néant des années de développement socio-économique, selon le rapport.
Les réductions des aides internationales risquent en outre de déstabiliser encore davantage des pays fragiles tels que le Liberia, l’Afghanistan et le Soudan du Sud. "Les pays dotés d’une mauvaise cote de crédit, comme le Brésil, le Pakistan et l’Argentine, peuvent également avoir du mal à emprunter, à rembourser leur dette et à soutenir leur économie, ce qui augmente le risque d’instabilité politique, d’émeutes et de violence."
Deux groupes de pays risquent de se former : ceux connaissant la stabilité, les autres une diminution des niveaux de paix et de prospérité. L’Italie, la Grèce, la Lettonie et la Pologne risquent de moins bien surmonter les conséquences de la crise …
Dans un prochain sujet, j’aborderai le problème lié directement à nos jeunes, leurs études et surtout de leur avenir …
D’ici là, je vous souhaite une excellente journée et … gardons tous le moral !
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I've got the pen
You cannot find the vape in your hand
It's offensive you want to be friends
Do not mention me ever again
You're disposable I'm undeniable
Let's not pretend
I am a legend already
Right now I am being mentioned
In therapy sessions
Across the state of Connecticut
They talk about me incessantly
Whispering "cunt"
First of all I cannot claim all the credit for this image, As I said in my previous shot from here ,https://www.flickr.com/photos/17469730@N00/33460641475/in/datetaken-public/ .
I had put my tripod with camera on the wall to try and get the reflection shot I wanted however, I was unable to get a good shot of the reflection , There was a photog who had climbed over the wall already with the aid of a stepladder and saw me trying to get a shot, he kindly offered to take my camera and take a shot for me so i did my settings and passed it over as there was no way I could have got over that high wall , Many thanks to the anonymous photog for helping me out that evening .
My brother, sis in law and I spent a few days on the west coast of Florida visiting a little island with a little town.
Matlacha is an old Florida fishing village, population about 700, with small cottage homes that on the main street have been converted to art galleries, boutiques and restaurants. It now thrives on tourism.
There's not much to do except shop, eat, and drink in all the kool-aid colors that make the town famous.
And if you have a camera, take about a hundred photos.
It was a kodachrome feast for the eyes on a perfect Florida winter day.
Le palais de la Regaleira est un ensemble architectural situé dans le Centre Historique de Sintra (Portugal), ville classée au patrimoine mondial par l'UNESCO. Le palais et les jardins de sa Quinta (domaine) ont été créés par Antonio Augusto Carvalho Monteiro (1848-1920) avec l'aide de l'architecte Luigi Manini (1848-1936) ; ils s'étendent aujourd'hui sur 4 hectares.
Les références à l'alchimie, à la franc-maçonnerie, et aux Templiers sont nombreuses aussi bien dans l'architecture du palais que dans la conception du parc qui l'entoure. Le palais lui-même a plusieurs noms ou surnoms : Palácio do Monteiro dos Milhões (Palais du Monteiro des Millions), Quinta da Regaleira (Domaine de la Regaleira), Palácio da Regaleira (Palais de la Regaleira).
Third image in my current flower series...
A beautiful and evergreen perennial, Hellebore flowers are unique in that they change colors as they age.
Depending on the variety, the flowers first emerge as white or pink, and then slowly turn light or dark green over a month's time. Then the green petals actually begin creating food through photosynthesis, just like the leaves of the plants!
Technically, the petals are not really petals, but are called tepals, because they eventually act like leaves in aiding the plant in photosynthesis.
Whenever I dig into my old stuff the question always creeps into my head, "What would I tell that kid if I could tell him anything?"
You are going to do OK for yourself but in a quiet, unspectacular way. He (I) already knew that. In fact I took that for granted.
You are going to lose people that mean the world to you and you will never stop grieving for them. I knew that too ( we all do ) but I would have never admitted as much, preferring to only recognize those bitter truths as I was being run over by them.
I suppose I couldn't resist giving some sage advice but I wouldn't listen to myself. I remember making a point of not acting on good advice when dispensed by anyone professing to know what life was really about.
All in all it's a good thing time travel isn't possible. Aside from being freaked out by my wrinkly old self showing up to tell me crap I knew but didn't have the courage to act on, I would have been angered that all the suspense and mystery had just been taken out of life. For all the effort that goes into fiction about jumping back or ahead in time I think it is good that we have to crunch along alone without the aid of a nebbish future self showing up every so often to whine and moan about how I'm so lacking in ambition. I'm peeved at myself right now just for thinking up the thought of it.
I first put this together in 2012. Today I thought about it and made an effort to find the original images. 1974 was taken with a Canon F1 and a 50mm f1.4. 2012 was taken with a Pentax K10D and the 18-55 kit lens. In 2012 I used Gimp to stack the images. This time around I used Affinity Photo.
From an APOD text summary
This pretty cosmic cloud lies some 1,500 light-years away, nested securely within the boundaries of the southern constellation Fornax. Recognized as a planetary nebula, it spans about 3 light-years with its shape and colour being reminiscent of a blue robin's egg. NGC 1360 doesn't represent a beginning though. Instead it corresponds to a brief and final phase in the evolution of an aging star. In fact, visible in this image is the central star of NGC 1360 is known to be a binary star system likely consisting of two evolved white dwarf stars, less massive but much hotter than the Sun. Their intense and otherwise invisible ultraviolet radiation has stripped away electrons from the atoms in the surrounding gaseous shroud. The predominant blue-green hue of NGC 1360 seen here is the strong emission produced as electrons recombine with doubly ionized oxygen atoms.
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Information about the image:
Center (RA, Dec):(53.306, -25.872)
Center (RA, hms):03h 33m 13.458s
Center (Dec, dms):-25° 52' 19.140"
Size:43.4 x 28.5 arcmin
Radius:0.433 deg
Pixel scale:0.732 arcsec/pixel
Orientation:Up is 307 degrees E of N
Instrument: Planewave CDK 12.5 | Focal Ratio: F8
Camera: STXL-11000 + AOX | Mount: AP900GTO
Camera Sensitivity: Lum, Red, Green, Blue, Ha, OIII: BIN 1x1
Exposure Details: Total: 62.33 hours | Lum: 36 x 900 sec [hr], Ha: 59 x 1200 sec [hr], OIII: 65 x1200 [hr], RGB 16 x 900sec each [hrs]
Viewing Location: Central Victoria, Australia.
Observatory: ScopeDome 3m
Date: July-December 2020
Software Enhancements: CCDStack2, CCDBand-Aid, PS, Pixinsight
Author: Steven Mohr
I'm not active here much anymore though I'd like to be? Shiny things!
I had to get away from some of the madness and things that were not promoting happiness. So now there's PAWS AID. Just a bit of RP that I am enjoying the heck out of.
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As the second lock down is eased, the streets in and around central London are returning to life and so with it, can the street photography :) Orange Aid, because of those glasses!!
Aida
Giuseppe Verdi
Novembre 2017
Teatro Comunale Bologna
Aida Anna Lucrezia Garcia
Radamès Sergio Escobar
Amneris Cristina Melis
Il Re Luca Dall'Amico
Ramfis Antonio Di Matteo
Puppy Finds New Life and Happiness After Being Discarded at a Shelter in a Box
Carole J
August 22, 2023
A puppy’s life isn’t always filled with cuddles, treats, and playtime. While it should be a time of joy and exploration, the reality is often starkly different due to irresponsible pet ownership.
This truth is a daily reality for many animal shelter workers, including those at Dog Rescue Shelter Mladenovac in Serbia. They bear witness to the heart-wrenching stories of needy puppies, one of which unfolded recently under the cover of darkness.
In a YouTube video shared by the shelter, a man with a headlamp was seen rushing towards the top after working hours. He left a box on the premises and hurried away, leaving a mystery that wouldn’t be solved until morning.
Upon discovering the box, the shelter staff pieced together the night’s events through surveillance footage. Their hearts sank when they realized a puppy had been abandoned overnight in the box, motionless and alone.
Milan, the shelter’s owner, rushed to the puppy’s aid. The little canine was understandably scared but showed signs of relief upon seeing a friendly human face.
Milan expressed his sorrow over the rampant issue of puppy abandonment in Serbia. Despite the unfortunate circumstances, he felt grateful that the pup’s previous owner had left him somewhere safe instead of a remote, dangerous location where help might not arrive in time.
But every cloud has a silver lining, and this tale of abandonment transformed into a story of hope. The once-forgotten puppy, now named Meda, began a new chapter filled with love and care. His playful personality shone through, and soon enough, Meda found his forever home where he could truly enjoy the good life he deserved.
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Red Columbia's Trick or Treating on Weinerwurst Way
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go and get yourself tricks and treats!
The one in my mind’s eye is a lot more lovely than this one, but this serves as a tickler for the real thing!
Well at least it was if you were a Baptist kid going to VBS in the summer in Kentucky!
ODC: taste of summer
Photo André Knoerr, Genève. Reproduction autorisée avec mention de la source.
Utilisation commerciale soumise à autorisation spéciale préalable.
En raison de la situation en Ukraine, la livraison de 35 motrices Be 4/6 du type Tram 2000 à la ville de Vinnytsia est reportée.
En attendant la ville de Zürich et les VBZ s'associent pour fournir de l'aide (récolte de dons ou de matériel de première nécessité, accueil des réfugiés, etc.).
La Be 4/6 2062 sert de support informatif.
Cette motrice circule sur la ligne 5 en convoi avec le Pony Be 2/4 2033.
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The Ballroom with its one-tonne chandelier (12,000 crystals) given to Canada by England for its aid in the Second World War. This is where cabinet ministers are sworn in and medals of bravery are awarded.
The portrait on the back wall is the Diamond Jubilee Portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
1926 Packard 223 Series Model 2-Seater Roadster
- Fire Chief of Rhode Island Augustin J. Cote, known as 'Packard Man', bought this 223 as a 'fire aid' automobile in 1926, one of the first of its kind in the state
- this Roadster is equipped with 2 warning lights, a siren, a large searchlight and a bell
- he seldom drive it himself, but had one of his 2 assistants drive him, whether summer or winter, always with the top down
- the car was in service untill Cote retired in 1954
- his years of service can be been seen on the door: 1901 to 1954
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Sharp iinocut v-gouge tool and a band-aid. One of the linocut tool brands includes a package of band-aids in the kit.
Macro Mondays: perfect together
Not quite sure what this American school bus was doing in Devon! If it was for sale, I'd have bought it - anyone who has read 'The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test' will know why!
I spotted this structure in the village of Slaidburn and was intrigued as to its purpose. The sign says 'St John Ambulance'. After asking around the answer is that it is a St John’s Ambulance box. This once stored first aid equipment including a stretcher. This box was placed there way back by the Clitheroe St John Ambulance - Slaidburn being a very isolated village was one that needed such a facility - it was maintained for many years by the local Division who kept it stocked. Originally it would have had a key in a case attached to the door so it could be unlocked in an emergency. With better access by the Ambulance service and a GP facility in the village it eventually fell into disuse. However the box was considered of significance by local people who took on the responsibility for keeping it in good repair. These boxes which came in several sizes, were once to be found at many locations around the country before emergency services became more mobile.