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Ok. I get the point. I've been Tagged (AGAIN. REPEATEDLY.) So here are TWENTY FIVE MORE RANDOM THINGS about Me.
1. I tend to Randomly capitalize.
2. My favorite number in the alphabet is Blue.
3. is the magic number.
4. I miss my Dad.
5. I prefer cold weather to hot, but I love thunderstorms, so I put up with the heat and humidity required to produce appropriate thunder and lightning every once in awhile. One of the things I miss most about South Florida are the hurricanes.
6. I type 60+ wpm. I am the ONLY one who showed up enough to Ms. Hall's typing class senior year to: a) Remember her name and b) learn how to type.
7. I hate raw tomatoes.
8. I could listen to Keifer Sutherland's voice for hours. He could read the phone book. I don't care.
9. Writing this made me think of Van Halen's video for "Right Now" so I stopped writing these things down and watched the video on the internet and wrote down ALL of the "Right Nows."
A few favorites:
Right Now...
-there's a bomb factory hard at work
-oil companies and old men are in control
-a convenience store is open
-oysters are being robbed of their sole posession
-our government is doing things we think only other countries do
-you aren't doing what you most wish you were
-your memory is getting longer while your life is getting shorter
Where was I? Oh yes...
10. I can do the Time Warp. (Again.)
11. I have Zero Patience with stupid people. I am working on that.
12. I am very empathetic despite my tough exterior. If I care about you, it is very easy for you to hurt me. But I'll also go to the ends of the earth for you.
13. I did not appreciate the beauty and freedom of my youth, although I listened to Baz Luhrmann's Sunscreen Song incessantly, and to be fair, it warned me of that.
14. I listened to Nine Inch Nails album Pretty Hate Machine so damn much that, to this day, my mother knows the song "Head Like a Hole"
15. I'm skipping Number Fifteen. Because I can. And now you'll wonder.
16. I once broke someone's heart, and, although it was absolutely the right thing to do, I feel badly for deeply hurting someone I once cared about. I worry to this day if he has ever been okay.
17. I love crosswords. Possibly because I love words.
18. I'd love to be a Culinary Anthropologist. I just don't know where that would be both applicable and profitable. I'd also like to tie the photography in with that, if possible.
19. Did I leave the oven on?
20. I prefer dogs to cats. Generally large dogs. Although I have always been fascinated by large, predator cats, particularly pumas, panthers, mountain lions... et cetera. I blame the short-lived but much-loved-by-me series "Manimal" for this obsession.
21. I tend to think and write in Stream of Consciousness.
22. I am a maple syrup snob and will only eat genuine Grade B Maple syrup. From a tree, not a female-shaped plastic bottle.
23. Also Balsamic Vinegar: Roland Four Diamond brand... it's amazing and once I had it, I have never been able to eat the thin, un-aged stuff again.
24. I love high thread-count, 100% cotton sheets. I have probably 10 sets. I do not believe it is necessary to have this many sheet sets for one bed. Nevertheless...
25. I want to travel the country for months in an RV. I want to see and photograph every wonder of our country and eat at odd, roadside diners and dives and historic places, and pick berries and see deserts and oceans and lakes and endless skies and sunsets and landmarks and buildings and sagauro cacti and large trees and moose and bears and rusted out airplanes and wrecked cars and urban superhighways and islands both deserted and supersaturated with 8 million people.
I'd also like to travel Europe by train.
МИНИН БОГАЗ И БОБОТОВ КУК СА ПИТОМИНА
Први дан децембра, ујутру. У 42 године мојих многих посета, први пут гледам Дурмитор у децембру. Из кампинга Мине Шамшала на Питоминама отвара се поглед на Савин кук, Стругу, са које се улази у Калицу, Шљеме, Међед и баријеру која сакрива Локвице, Минин Богаз, Облу Главу, Рбатину и Боботов Кук (Ћирову Пећину). Изван слике лево је Међед, чија сенка покрива средину слике, ону таласасту баријеру која одваја цирк Локвице од Црног језера.
► █░▓ FIRST DECEMBER DAY this year. Morning view from the camping site run by Mina Šamšal at Pitomine. This excellent location has been void of guests since a day or so ago when the last one - a bold German solo traveler - left with his camper due to grim weather. The rather low snow cover this year helps to accentuate the relief on the flanks below Minin Bogaz, further emphasized by the sidewards light direction of the low December sun. Međed (2287 m, left beyond the frame) casts its long shadow on the flanks leading to Lokvice cirque.
Minin Bogaz is the last Durmitor's peak I have climbed, thanks to Đoko Šibalić. We made a traverse of the ridge I've been dreaming about for decades. It proved easier than I thought.
By and large, Minin Bogaz and Prutaš are being regarded as the most beautiful peaks of the whole group and are gaining in popularity since 'Durmitor Ringway' has made them more accessible.
Panasonic DMC-G80 with Olympus 40-150mm f/4-5.6 lens sporting a circular polarizing filter. Handheld.
I have set the focal length deliberately close to that of the acclaimed 75mm f/1.8 Olympus prime, to observe the perspective and angle of view. Extra resolution of this lens would probably be much welcome in this image. Contrary to what most other authors report, I find this focal length very useful and applicable in practice.
Why polarizing filter? It does unnaturally darken the sky, but some people like it and it produces an effect of high altitude. On the positive side, it removes the perspective hue and saturates the colors, bringing up the scenery in a way you can't do later in post.
Out-of-the-camera jpeg, edited in the commendable IrfanView. Olympus lens has no stabilization in itself but the integration with this Panasonic body is perfect and the colors are - strange enough - perhaps more accurate than what the native Panasonic lenses provide. With a Panasonic lens I have to constantly adjust colors in post. Less of this fuss & hassle with the Olympus.
Immaculate LSL HST 43046 and its matching rake of Pullman liveried Mk3's arrive into Warrington Bank Quay last night with the returning leg of the 'Highland Clansman Pullman'.
* Very often I have been to WBQ for night shots and always take prior note of crossing trains ... not so applicable tonight! Late running and cancellations abounded, the travelling public are being abused.
Model: Jennifer Clark.
MUA: Jennifer Clark
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Joshua Tree National Park, Californie, États-Unis
Premièrement pour ceux d'entre vous qui utilisé la plateforme Canon et le logiciel EOS Utility 3 pour importer vos images de vos appareils photo à un de vos disques durs via vos ordinateurs Apple afin de les traiter avec Lightroom ou autre soyez avisé que le logiciel EOS Utility 3 de canon n'est pas supporté par la nouvelle plateforme Apple Mojave et si comme moi, vous effectué une mise à jour du system OS de votre Mac, vous allé rencontrer beaucoup de difficultés, car il vous sera impossible d'importer vos photos à partir de cette plateforme avec EOS Utility 3... Vous devrez alors faire comme moi, j'ai contacté Apple care qui m'ont guidé dans la manœuvre et c'est pas de tout repos, une chance que mes images étaient sur des disques durs externe car sinon je perdais tout... J'avais bien un TimeMachine que j'avais fait, mais il datait du 12 février 2018 alors tous les images que j'avais traitée sur Lightroom pour les mettre de RAW en format JPEG étaient revenue en RAW... Imaginez la somme de travail que j'ai dû faire depuis les dernier 48 heures et j'en ai encore pour des semaines à revoir le tout...
Imaginé l"internet n"est déjà vraiment pas rapide chez moi et maintenant en plus avant de présenter une image je dois toutes les revoir...
Alors Attention, avant d'effectuer une mise à jour du système d'exploitation sur vos ordinateurs, soyez certain d'avoir fait une copie disque de tout avant de changer ainsi que les BackUp de Adobe s'il y a lieu.
Joshua Tree National Park, Californie, États-Unis
First of all for those of you who used the Canon platform and the EOS Utility 3 software to import your images from your cameras to one of your hard disks via your Apple computers in order to process them with Lightroom or other be aware that the EOS software Canon Utility 3 is not supported by the new Apple Mojave platform and if like me you made an update of the OS system of your Mac you will have a lot of difficulties because you will not be able to import your photos from this platform with EOS Utility 3 ... You will have to do like me. I contacted Apple care who guided me in the maneuver and it's not easy, A chance that my images were on external hard drives because otherwise I lost everything... I had a TimeMachine that I had made, but it dated February 12, 2018, so all the images I had processed on Lightroom to put RAW in JPEG format had returned to RAW. .. Imagine the amount of work I have done since the last 48 hours and I still have work for weeks to review everything and sort it...
So imagined the internet is alreally not fast at all were I live and now in addition wen I whant to present you an image I must treat them again and chose the bets one of the batch ...
So be careful before upgrading the operating system of your computer (Mac or PC ), be sure to make a hard copy of everything before change, also Adobe Backup if applicable.
Sunset - Rajasthan, India.
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Sunrise - Tiruvanmiyur Sea Beach, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
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LMS Black 5, 5428 works the 'North Yorkshire Pullman' evening dining train away from Goathland where it can be seen passing under Cow Wath bridge on the outbound journey from from Grosmont to Pickering. The 'Black 5' can be seen framed by the 5mph speed restriction board associated with the crossover applicable to trains approaching Goathland in the down direction
An endless wait - @ the bank of River Mandovi - Goa, India.
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An evening in Dalhousie, Himachal Pradesh, India.
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Vista da Ponte da Carvalha, uma estrutura do início do século XVII construída no período filipino. Apesar do seu estilo remeter para a arquitetura romana, a ponte foi erguida com técnicas e materiais da época moderna. Composta por seis arcos de alvenaria em pedra, atravessa a Ribeira da Sertã, integrando-se na paisagem da Alameda da Carvalha, um espaço de lazer e convívio local. Este património destaca-se pela sua relevância histórica e arquitetónica, mantendo-se como um símbolo das ligações regionais ao longo dos séculos.
A view of landscape from Destiny Farmstay - located on outskirts of Ooty (Tamilnadu, India) at Avalanche (20 kms from Ooty).
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Storm & Rain in the Himalayan Mountains - From Dalhousie, Himachal Pradesh, India.
This is part of the Dalhousie City & the Valley in front of Pir Panjal - Dhuladhar - Mount Kailash Range. The entire valley transformed to a land of fire, light & shadow with a huge cloud formation, storm & rain during the setting Sun time. Himalayan Mountains are a treat to watch at the time of the rising Sun & setting Sun.
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Fire and ice
This love is like fire and ice
This love is like rain and blue skies
This love is like sun on the rise
This love got me rolling the dice
Don't let me lose
Still falling for you
Still falling for you
Beautiful mind
Your heart got a story with mine
Your heart got me loving all times
Your heart gave me new kind of highs
Your heart got me feeling so fine
So what to do
Still falling for you
Still falling for you
I yearn for every while
With every breath a new day
With love on the line
We both had our past of mistakes
But all your flaws and scars are mine
Still falling for you
Still falling for you
And just like that
All I breathe
All I feel
You are all for me
I'm in
And just like that
All I breathe
All I feel
You are all for me
No one can lift me, catch me the way that you do
I'm still falling for you
Brighter than gold
This love shining brighter than gold
This love is like letters in bold
This love is like out of control
This love is never growing old
You make it new
Still falling for you
Still falling for you
And just like that
All I breathe
All I feel
You are all for me
I'm in
And just like that
All I breathe
All I feel
You are all for me
No one can lift me, catch me the way that you do
Still falling for you
Falling, crash into my arms
Love you like this
Like a first kiss
Never let go
Falling, crash into my arms
Never breaking what we got
Still falling for you
Still falling for
And just like that
All I breathe
All I feel
You are all for me
I'm in
And just like that
All I breathe
All I feel
You are all for me
All for me
And just like that
All I feel is you
All I feel is you
You are all for me
I'm still falling
And just like that
All I feel is you
All I feel is you
You are all for me
No one can lift me, catch me the way that you do
I'm still falling for you
*Song and lyrics: Ellie Goulding - Still Falling For You
**I changed some words to keep thewhole applicable to us :-)
Car: Ford Focus 2.0T ST.
Year of manufacture: 2012.
Date of first registration in the UK: 7th December 2012.
Place of registration: Not known.
Date of last MOT: 21st February 2022.
Mileage at last MOT: 83,468.
Date of last change of keeper: Not applicable.
Number of previous keepers: 0.
Date taken: 9th September 2022.
Album: Carspotting 2022
Wednesday morning under the stars and the vast universe, with special guests Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter.
I was trying to come up with a quote for this and I'm not quite finding what I'm looking for. For now, this is what I've settled on, perhaps applicable for this perspective:
"It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware." (Albert Einstein)
Also, although these aren't necessarily the darkest skies available in Florida (see the left part of the frame, in particular), this particular location is very easy to access, a mere 35-40 minutes from my house. It's perfect for an impromptu trip, such as the one I took this morning.
📷:me from the Bull Creek Wildlife Management Area in St. Cloud, Florida.
A Estação de Lisboa-Rossio, inaugurada oficialmente a 11 de junho de 1890, é um notável exemplo de arquitetura neomanuelina em Portugal. Projetada pelo arquiteto José Luís Monteiro, a estação foi concebida para ser a Estação Central de Lisboa, garantindo ligações às principais linhas ferroviárias nacionais e internacionais.
O edifício destaca-se pela sua fachada ornamentada, que combina elementos do estilo manuelino com simbologia ferroviária. A estrutura inclui uma nave de grandes dimensões, coberta por um alpendre de ferro e vidro com 130 metros de comprimento e 21 metros de altura. Uma característica única é o desnível entre a entrada principal e as plataformas de embarque, que se encontram cerca de 30 metros acima.
At Alleppy District - Kerala, India.
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Revisited.
One of the greater influences for me when getting into photography was Galen Rowell.
This is going back to the days of film - slide film in particular - so I'm showing my age a bit.
Galen was a master at cooking a visual sauce to just the right mix between the science of light and its eventual manifestation onto an emulsion. When the month of August rolls around I often think of him. When I saw this unfolding, it screamed 'Rowell'.
His book 'Inner Game of Outdoor Photography' is a collection of essays and photos that provide some insight into his process, and a book that I have read a few times. Highly recommended. It talks of film a lot (because that was THE medium for photography then) but a lot of it will still be applicable now.
"Rainbows are most commonly seen during magic hours because of their optical geometry. They form a halo around the anti-solar point, the place directly opposite the sun. Because the primary arc of a rainbow lies in a forty-two-degree radius around this point, it is not visible above the horizon unless the sun itself is low in the sky. A full display of a rainbow commonly occurs minutes before sunset when the sun pops out under a layer of clouds after a storm to illuminate falling rain in the distance."
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Built in 1669 and located on High Street, Flamstead (Hertfordshire) opposite St Leonard's Church. In the 17th century, "Social Housing", if this term is applicable here, was a private initiative, an act of charity. A wealthy landowner would provide the ground and the building and sometimes even a fund for the upkeep of the almshouses. Saunders Almshouses offered four units, each for a poor married couple.
Sunset from our rooftop, Chennai, India.
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The last bird of Kumarokam Lake and rise of the Full Moon - Kerala, India.
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Sunset from our rooftop, Chennai, India.
A handheld photo. Not snapped fixing the camera on Tripod.
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One of the Peak of Panchachuli Peaks - Pithoragarh District, Uttarakhand, India.
This picture was snapped from a considerable height and after a good long trekking.
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The Panchchuli peaks are a group of five snow-capped Himalayan peaks lying at the end of the eastern Kumaon region, near Munsiyari, in Pithoragarh district, Uttarakhand state, India. The peaks have altitudes ranging from 6,334 metres (20,781 ft) to 6,904 metres (22,651 ft). They form the watershed between the Gori and the Darmaganga valleys. Panchchuli is also located on the Gori Ganga-Lassar Yankti divide. The group lies 138 km (86 mi) from Pithoragarh.
The five peaks on the Panchchuli massif are numbered from northwest to southeast. The highest peak is Panchchuli II, which was first scaled by an Indo-Tibetan Border Police expedition, led by Mahendra Singh, on 26 May 1973. The group's name is derived the legendary Pandavas's "Five Chulis" (cooking hearths), where they cooked their last meal before proceeding toward their heavenly abode.
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A view of Hillscape from Destiny Farmstay - located on outskirts of Ooty (Tamilnadu, India) at Avalanche (20 kms from Ooty).
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Revisited & Reposted.
It's amazing how many Mississippians seem not to realize that the flag on the right was (and thankfully is) the enemy of the flag on the left.
I think many latter-day Confederate sympathizers have no idea how far the South (and Mississippi in particular) moved toward an embrace of pure evil in the years leading up to the Civil War. I suspect their sympathies are influenced both by their lack of knowledge of the cause for which Southern governments fought and by the undoubted heroism of the Confederate soldiers who fought so bravely against hopeless odds.
When Mississippi was first admitted to the Union in 1817, its citizens still keenly felt the inherent tension between the statement in the Declaration of Independence that "all Men are created Equal" and the institution of chattel slavery.
In an 1818 decision, Harry v. Decker, 1 Miss. 36, the Mississippi Supreme Court declared, "Slavery is condemned by reason and the laws of nature. It exists and can only exist, through municipal regulations, and in matters of doubt, is it not an unquestioned rule, that courts must lean 'in favorem vitae et libertatis [in favor of life and liberty]'?"
In an 1820 decision, Mississippi v. Jones, 1 Miss. 83, the defendant who was charged with murder for killing a slave, appealed on the ground that a slave was not a human being. The Mississippi Supreme Court resoundingly rejected this argument:
"In this state, the Legislature have considered slaves as reasonable and accountable beings and it would be a stigma upon the character of the state, and a reproach to the administration of justice, if the life of a slave could be taken with impunity, or if he could be murdered in cold blood, without subjecting the offender to the highest penalty known to the criminal jurisprudence of the country. Has the slave no rights, because he is deprived of his freedom? He is still a human being, and possesses all those right, of which he is not deprived by the positive provisions of the law, but in vain shall we look for any law passed by the enlightened and philanthropic legislature of this state, giving even to the master, much less to a stranger, power over the life of a slave. Such a statute would be worthy the age of Draco or Caligula, and would be condemned by the unanimous voice of the people of this state, where, even cruelty to slaves, much less the taking away of life, meets with universal reprobation."
And, it should be noted, the Mississippi Constitution of 1832 forbade the importation of slaves into the state of Mississippi from either abroad or from another state within the United States.
But by the days immediately preceding the Civil War, white Mississippians had wholly lost their moral bearings, as can be readily seen from two astonishing Mississippi Supreme Court cases from 1859.
In the case of George (a slave) v. Mississippi, 37 Miss. 316 (1859), the defendant (George) was convicted of the rape of a 10 year old slave girl and sentenced to hang. The Mississippi Supreme Court reversed the conviction. The Mississippi Supreme Court held that as a slave, the little ten year old girl had no protection against being raped because "the common law has no relation to the rights of slaves, and can afford them no protection." Instead, unless the legislature had passed a law specifically protecting slaves, the Roman laws of antiquity were still applicable, which allowed slaves to be "tortured for evidence, punished at the discretion of their lord, or even put to death by his authority." The 1859 Mississippi Supreme Court did note its 1820 decision of Mississippi v. Jones, which had held that slaves were human beings entitled to protection of the law, but summarily rejected it as "founded mainly upon the unmeaning twaddle, in which some humane judges and law writers have indulged, as to the influence of the 'natural law' [and] 'civilization and Christian enlightenment.'"
George the rapist was allowed to live, with the punishment (if any) for his horrendous crime left solely to the discretion of his owner.
In the case of Mitchell v. Wells, 37 Miss. 235 (1859), the issue was the validity of a bequest of $3,000 in a will of a deceased white Mississippian to a Negro woman who was living in Ohio as a free woman under the laws of that state. The woman was the white man's daughter and he had traveled with her to Ohio, a free state, where he had freed her. Mississippi had passed a law forbidding the emancipation of any slaves within the state of Mississippi. However, this law had been interpreted by the Mississippi Supreme Court in 1840 as allowing slaves to be sent to Liberia for emancipation, as this emancipation occurred outside the borders of Mississippi. See Ross v. Vertner, 6 Miss. 305 (1840).
Despite its precedent in Ross, the 1859 version of the Mississippi Supreme Court contemptuously rejected the daughter's plea that she be allowed to receive her father's bequest. The Mississippi Supreme Court declared the state of Ohio, which had decided that blacks could live as free people within its borders, to be "forgetful of her constitutional obligations to the whole race, and afflicted with a negro-mania, which inclines her to descend, rather than elevate herself in the scale of humanity." It declared blacks to be "an inferior caste, incapable of the blessings of free government, and occupying, in the order of nature, an intermediate state between the irrational animal and the white man." It voided the will's bequest to the Negro daughter because Ohio's attempt to confer rights on black people was morally unacceptable:
"Suppose that Ohio, still further afflicted with her peculiar philanthropy, should determine to descend another grade in the scale of her peculiar humanity, and claim to confer citizenship on the chimpanzee or the ourang-outang (the most respectable of the monkey tribe), are we to be told that "comity" will require of the States not thus demented, to forget their own policy and self-respect, and lower their own citizens and institutions in the scale of being, to meet the necessities of the mongrel race thus attempted to be introduced into the family of sisters in this confederacy?
The doctrine of comity is not thus unreasonable. Like the benign principles of moral duty, which regulate the miniature government of family in social life, it commands no duty, the observance of which will tend to degrade a sister in the family of nations.
If the sister, in violation of morality, and respect for herself, as well as her associates of the old household, will insist on the meretricious embrace, we are neither bound to sanction nor respect it, much less to receive her new associate into our immediate circle."
This passionate embrace of the "right" of one race to exercise totalitarian power over another was at the heart of Mississippian's decision to secede from the United States and to enter into the Civil War. The second paragraph of the Mississippi Secession Convention's Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union reads as follows:
"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin."
When I think of the noble sacrifices of the Southern patriots who charged into the hailstorm of cannon balls, grape shot, bullets, and cannister at Gettysburg, I also think of the fact that many of those so bravely giving their lives were fighting for the proposition that black ten year girls could be raped with impunity and fathers have no right to leave their inheritances to their black daughters.
Still, to this Southern white boy, they were brave and noble, so I ultimately share the sentiments of General Grant in the final pages of his autobiography describing his emotions at Appomattox: "I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though it was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse."
Aftermath
Name: Peter Renshaw
Location: Kinglake West.
Date: 2009MAR26
Description:
First time in the back paddock. The plants you see in the foreground are what is left of a 1acre paddock of exotic Camellias and Rhododendrons. They are bending in the direction of the fire path.
The text below is a talk I gave on how we (brother, sister, myself and mates) organised and executed plans to get immediate power & water at my Dads house. Authorities simply didn't react fast enough.
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Final draft for talk at Trampoline
update latest news
Now published at seldomlogical.com/gsd.html.
A quick intro to the fire is here www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157615800278371/. Be aware this is a draft & I'll be posting later a linked & more polished version at seldomlogical and my wp site. For the purposes of the talk on the day I subtitled the talk Kick-starting Volunteers to not only make the title shorter but to put the talk in a bigger context. The ideas here can be applied to situations like Black Saturday but could just as easily be applied to Volunteers, even Startups. They all face the same types of problems.
Hello, my name is Peter. My talk is called "Getting stuff
done with nothing". Before I begin I'll tell you something
about myself. My first computer was a ZX-80. I don't get
out much and I haven't been to a meeting for a long time.
I'm one of those Gen-X slackers, I went to school for 20
or so years and I've worked mostly in Startups and
software. So you could say I'm a bit of an expert on the
topic. Well at least one.
Getting stuff done with nothing
Why is it that some individuals adapt to change faster than
others? How is it that people with no authority, few
resources can make such a difference? The ideas I want to
explore has its roots in the slow decline of volunteering,
the unfolding financial crisis and the 7th February 2009.
A day we now know as Black Saturday.
How do you avoid sabotaging yourself trying to help?
How do you get stuff done, with nothing?
Black Saturday
It was 46 degrees that day. I'd thought about going to Dads
about 70 kilometers from where I live. But with a total
fire ban and hot conditions I chose the pool instead
staying close to home. It wasn't till I got home about six
o'clock that evening that I got a call from a distressed
sister saying Dad was fighting off fires at his property at
Kinglake West and his phone was going flat. Later I got
another call at around 8 o'clock to say the house had
survived but he was still fighting. [0]
I was 70 kilometers away, it was getting dark so I drove to
the nearest place I could see the range, snapped a few
shots and uploaded them to Flickr. My brother and sister
who lived closer shot up to Whittlesea trying to get into
the fire-zone to help. Foolish maybe, but it was to have
positive implications later. [1] I knew that if Dad
survived the first two hours with house intact - as long
as he kept his wits about him, he would survive. So I
started planing, writing and collecting any information
I could to see if I could help out further down the line.
49 days later
It's now forty nine days since the fire and work is
still going on. A casual comment by a CFA volunteer on my
Flickr account [2] suggesting that for the next major fire
a similar site might do exactly what I was doing -
collecting information and acting as a clearing house.
This was going to be initial idea for my talk. "How to
apply technology and apply it to solve the communications
and logistic problems" I encountered with the fires. Maybe
it could be applied to other relief efforts. What about
the recession? Could it help people who loose their jobs
to re-train? Get new skills?
But thinking about it more, it turned out to be the wrong
question to ask. I don't think technology is the problem.
[3] I think the real problem is much more fundamental. I
think it's people and how they tackle obstacles. I don't
want to get bogged down in theory. What I want concentrate
on something practical. How to apply some quick hacks that
anyone can master in times of need.
Personal qualities not technology
To get things done you have to overcome hurdles. Some
are personal and internal. Others are external and totally
out of your control. When I started thinking about what
personal qualities might be important, I was struck by the
fact you might need to experiment and apply various
combinations to achieve a result. So I have tried to narrow
the list, to what I think are the 10 qualities that make a
difference.
1) Controlling emotion
Emotions effect the way we make decisions. Emotions come in
many forms as we react to stress. Each person reacts
slightly differently. Limiting your emotional reaction, lets
you move forward to make decisions. It's a trait that only
you can control. Some sort of control is an advantage over
none. No control over you emotions can let fear control
you. Fear is by far the most damaging emotion I can think
of. Fear paralyses you into in-action. In-action is not
only counter productive but it's also the fastest way to
sabotage yourself. Fear is also contagious. If you are
fearful, it has a nasty habit of rubbing-off onto others.
I don't know the solution to avoiding or controlling fear
but I do know you should be aware it exists. You should try
to negate it's side effects. The better control you have
over fear, the more effective you can be. [4]
2) Listening
How well you listen greatly effects any outcome to try to
achieve. Not listening is one of the quickest ways to fail
when you encounter external hurdles. Not listening you miss
details. Details that could mean the difference between
knowing what is required or taking a risk and guessing. A
requirement achieved is a form of measurable success.
Guessing simply wastes time. If in doubt ask someone "on
the ground". They know things you don't. Listen now and
you save time and effort later.
3) Mindset
If you have a rigid mindset. If you cannot adapt quickly
enough. You risk not only failing to achieve the things you
set out to do. You will be susceptible to blunder. A
blunder is when the action you take, results in a worse
situation than when you start. Blunders have many causes.
But the most likely culprit is a fixed or rigid mindset.
Mindset is the combined effect of "how you react
emotionally to current events" and "the decisions you make
as a result". So ask yourself. "Are you undermining
yourself because you have a rigid mindset?"
4) Empathy & imagination
Can you walk in the shoes of another person? Can you
identify their problems and solve them? Empathy and
imagination are an effective antidote to blunders, rigid
mindsets and cognitive traps in thinking. [5] Don't just
try and blunder your way through a solution. First put
yourself into situation you are trying to improve and
use your mind to to project, how you might make the
current situation into a better or best situation. [6]
5) Communication not Info-mania
An info-maniac is someone who misuses information. If you
hold onto information, shun or avoid the source or nature
of information. You are self sabotaging yourself. You need
to collect enough of the right type of relevant
information. Don't worry about the having too much
information. You will be surprised what people might be
looking for or find. [7] Working as a team has its own
challenges. When communicating to more than one person
make sure they have the right mindset and ensure they are
communicating together to get the job done.
6) Thrift and resources
Up till now, the focus has primarily been on the how.
Little thought has been given to cost. If you have few
resources and need them quickly it is up to you to work out
how important they are. Weigh the costs of buying verses
loaning. Don't buy if you can help it. The time honoured
"Beg, borrow and ask" works, well some of the time. A simple
solution is to hack what you already have and see if it can
fit the purpose. A roll of fencing wire and duct tape may
work wonders but not miracles.
This is where you have to get creative. A good resource can
be friends or people you know. It may even be complete
strangers. In some cases you will have to pay cash. Before
you do check with people on the ground if they really need
this item. If you pay cash it might be better to accept a
higher price for a receipt instead of trying to negotiate
a discount. This avoids disputes. Pay a bit more to avoid
potential conflict. [8]
7) Speed
We are often told to do things "fast". But saying and
doing are two different things. Where do you start? Well
start at the basics. The basics of life are 'food', 'water'
and shelter. So for a given situation concentrate first on
the basics. Be able to say with certainty you have
reliability. Day in, day out. Every day. Speed is also
about getting real results without wasting unnecessary time
and resources. Any lack of the above qualities will hinder
your efforts. So I think the measure of speed is about
delivering the basics. Then using a combination of
listening, empathy and imagination you can move your way
forward.
But speed alone isn't good enough.
It's a constant. What you really want is acceleration.
What forces can you use to increase the accelerate the rate
you do things? Well the answer to this and a potential
road-block is probably a combination of and Info-mania.
Collect enough information on problem at hand and you get a
data glut and as long as the relevance of the information
is high someone can probably find the right information.
The trick is then to get the right people to take notice.
We got "feet on the ground" to Dad in less than 48 hours.
Delivering a delivering a generator and essentials. Yet I
was shocked that it took another 48 hours for support teams to
touch base in Flowerdale a mere 26 kilometers further
north. [9] This changed quickly when Pete William started
writing the "helpflowerdale" blog. Things sped up when the
information flow sped up. [10]
8) Search for simplicity
KISS or Keep it Simple Stupid. Easy to say, much harder to
do in practice. The advantage of simplicity is it helps
keeps you focused on what is achievable. Focusing on simple
outcomes is also cost and time effective. Complex things
consume resources. How do you find simple solutions in
real-life complexity?
I have no real answers. But I did get a few valuable
insights trying to work out how to solve the problem of
water. After the fires, I knew delivering the basics was
going to be a big problem. And the most important basic is
water. But how do you source, deliver and maintain a clean
water supply 70 kilometers away?
How did I simplify the problem? Well first I had the right
mindset. I knew in the middle of summer in remote areas
that damaged water tanks, no pumps and when the power is
down there will be no reliable water. I also knew speed was
of the essence. The simplicity hack I applied was knowing
that water being a basic was required quickly. I confirmed
by ringing up people on the ground that water storage was a
problem. Then spread the news around this is what was
required. It just so happened that other people where
already thinking along the same lines pre-warned because of
the information I spread, "empathised" and offered help.
The actual situation itself is complicated and I couldn't
tackle this problem myself but I got a call from a good
friend who is an expert in logistics and just happened to
have a water solution in the form of a Shutz. By chance I
also got access to various forms of transport.
Is this a case of good luck or searching for a simpler way?
I'm not sure. I do know that by knowing this was a priority
and using resources I secured the water containers and got
them delivered. [11], [12]
9) Follow through, re-evaluate
What you start you finish. Don't leave loose threads. Then
quickly re-evaluate. Do you really need to continue?
Communicate together. Is someone else doing this? Check
with someone on the ground again. Then continue. If you
promise to do something, do it. No one else is going to do
it. It is up to you.
Are you going to let your mates down?
10) Motivation, "the mongrel factor"
The final personal quality is how much of the "mongrel
factor" you have. No, it has nothing to do with "Blue
Heelers" (the TV show) [13] but the mongrel breed of dog.
How hard do you "snap" and "snarl" [14] to extract that
last 5 percent effort required to complete a task? The
difference between those who give up and those who succeed
can partially be explained to how hard they are willing to
push themselves. [15]
The future of Volunteers
I don't think technology alone can solve the types of
problems. You need intelligent application of technology.
Instead we should look at how we as individuals respond
using technology to amplify results. I also saw a complete
change in community attitudes to 'volunteering'. Before the
fire, volunteering was a dirty word. After the fire people
felt guilty not helping.
The fires may be over. But your chance to make a difference
begins now. Black Saturday might be the fractal training
run for the current recession. Lots of people, young people
especially are now going find themselves without the
opportunities to work and no path to improve themselves.
What are YOU! going to do? Are you! (point to individual)
going to let your mates down?
Reference
[0] Bootload, flickr, "You can read a summary and view
pictures of the fires first hours here",
[Accessed Thursday, 26th March, 2009]
flickr.com/photos/bootload/3260244634
[1] We (my brother, sister, her bloke, myself and a good
mate) undertook two distinct operations. Operation Genny:
objective to deliver power in the form of a generator.
Operation Shutz: objective to deliver clean water supply
tanks up to 3000 litres with 1 tank capable of being put on
a ute. We completed both. We had feet on the ground within
48 hours of the fire occurring for the generator. The water
supply following some 2 weeks later.
None of this would have been possible if emotional sister
and determined brother used speed to the fire zone within
couple of hours. The reward, a pass to move through the
police road blocks. Had it not been for this quick
thinking. Nothing we planned would have come to fruition.
[2] miniopterus, Flickr, "I should have said, good job
tracking the events. I imagine that next time we have fires,
we might see something similar to your Flickr diary.",
flickr.com/photos/bootload/3298613958
[Accessed Thursday, 26th March, 2009]
[3] To technologists who forge and yield hammers every
problem can appear to be a nail. In this case I don't think
a technology solution is applicable as tackling how people
deal with decision making. You need intelligent application
of technology. Instead we should look at how we as
individuals respond using technology to amplify results.
[4] Fear is there for a reason. Men may perceive women to
be inferior when it comes to emotion. But like the second
law of thermodynamics, all that built up emotion is going
to leak out some time in the future. So in the long run,
I think women have an edge over men dealing with emotion.
But in the short term it is men who edge women out with
self control. There is a downside here. Apply too much
control and you might emotionally overheat and become
brittle when you cool down leaving yourself open to
cracking. Hard objects become brittle and crack under
stress.
[6] google, "enter 'from: kinglake west to: Flowerdale
VIC, Australia' and view the maps tab. This reveals the
distance from Kinglake West."
[Accessed Friday, 27th March, 2009]
[5] Zachary Shore, "Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad
Decisions, Blunder Intro, P5."
www.zacharyshore.com/static/content/blunder_intro.pdf
[Accessed Friday, 27th March, 2009]
[6] CVS2BVS: Current View of Situation to Best View of
Situation is a quick hack to make you think of moving
forward. What is you current view? What is your best
view? How do you get there? You have to ask the question
before you can find a solution.
[7] ITConversations, Tech Nation, Zachary Shore, "Why
Smart People Make Bad Decisions: Professor, Naval
Postgraduate School"
itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4007.html
[Accessed Friday, 27th March, 2009]
[8] Sourcing the Shutz (ruggised 1000 Lt, portable water
container) I negotiated a price by quoting a friends name
in cash. Then I get a phone call asking for more money. A
quick call back to my referring mate sorted this out. But
had I got a receipt I could have avoided this. In the end
it worked out. But the risk was there. You can read more
about sourcing the Shutz here:
www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157614178152108/
[Accessed Friday, 27th March, 2009]
[9] google, "To find the distance from Kinglake West to
Flowerdale enter 'from: Kinglake West to: Flowerdale VIC,
Australia' into google and click the maps tab.
[10] Pete Williams, blogspot, "Flowerdale - Survivor
Spirit", "A cry for help from the forgotten people of
Flowerdale"
"... The final straw for my sister in law came at 6.00am
today (12/02/09) when those left fought to save one of the
remaining houses that caught on fire overnight. They fought
with no water, no fire trucks and no support from the Army
that was in the area. They lost the fight. ..."
helpflowerdalenow.blogspot.com/2009/02/cry-for-help-from-...
[Accessed Friday, 27th March, 2009]
[11] bootload, flickr, "flickr set: 'Shutz IBC 1000L' where
I order and collect the Shutz water tank"
www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157614178152108/
[Accessed Friday, 27th March, 2009]
[12] bootload, "flickr set: 'Eltham to Kinglake West'
where we deliver the tanks"
www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157614178001242/
[Accessed Friday, 27th March, 2009]
[13] IMDb, "Blue Heelers, The Mongrel Factor"
[Accessed Friday, 27th March, 2009]
[14] Australian Sports Commission, "Participating in Sport:
Predicting sports suitability", "... Coaches who observe
such testing sessions are assessing the ‘mongrel factor’
which athletes show a doggedness to continue when the test
becomes hard?"
www.ausport.gov.au/participating/got_talent/overview/pred...
[Accessed Friday, 27th March, 2009]
[15] Simon Britton, "Mongrel Nation",
culturenow.com/site/item.cfm?item=24814
[Accessed Friday, 27th March, 2009]
To Andy, James, Kev, Mum and Trace. They know how to get
things done with nothing. Thanks Trace, Colin for reading
the article.
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____: It improves hemorrhoids taking a sitz bath with the decoction of the leaves and young buds, which also decreases the desire to smoke when chewed slowly. Also in poultices it is very useful to heal wounds, ulcers and boils.
Plants for the male sexual organ
____: The seeds reduce inflammation of the bladder and the prostate and expel intestinal parasites. The pulp of baked or boiled ____ is ideal for those suffering from digestive problems and kidney ailments.
____: This plant is normally presented in pharmaceutical preparations, it invigorates without exciting and without creating dependence increasing the energy production in the cells, therefore it increases sexual capacity and spermatozoid production, invigorating the organism in general.
Plants for the metabolism
____: infusions of the leaves are very useful in slimming diets due to its diuretic, depurative and anti cholesterol action.
____: It fights obesity and cellulite. Its algae have the property of removing the appetite and it is a gentle laxative.
Plants for the locomotive system
____: Poultices of fresh leaves alleviate rheumatic pain and inflammatory of the joints.
____: In infusions, essences, baths, frictions massages, fomentations and compresses it has invigorating properties for exhaustion, kidney colic, and rheumatism.
Plants for the skin
____: From the pulp of its leaves, the gel or juice is obtained which, when applied locally, in compresses, lotions, creams or pharmaceutical preparations, exercises beneficial effects on: wounds, burns, eczema, psoriasis, acne, fungi and herpes. It beautifies the skin and improves the appearance of scars.
____: The leaves and flowers in infusions or oil are an excellent remedy for burns, it moderates the inflammatory reaction, it has a local anesthetic effect, digestive, balancer of the nervous system and antidepressant.
Plants for infectious diseases
____: All the parts of this plant are natural antibiotics against respiratory and urinary infections. It encourages the functions of the skin. It acts against baldness.
____: It is a plant that has multiple anti-infectious properties with healing powers for the nervous system, digestive, respiratory and genital-urinary systems.
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Today's scan went really well! The ultrasound tech was awesome; she was very personable, and very knowledgeable. A far cry from the corpsman that did my ultrasound the last time. Anyhow, I asked her a ton of questions about ultrasound and when it's applicable, for people other than pregnant ladies and so on.
When she brought Grace and Kurt back into the room with me, the baby started really moving! S/he kept flipping and turning and rolling. Every time the tech tried to take a photo of him/her, s/he would race away from the probe and hide somewhere else. We got to see his/her mouth open, the arms waving, and the feet kicking. We saw the bladder and the stomach and the heart and the backbone. We even got to see the bone structure of the face!! What amazing technology!
Clouds Haze Fog Curtains Overlay Burning Hot Sun For Coolest Stunning Sunset Colors Tampa Bay #2 - IMRAN™ (SOOC)
This is another gorgeous unedited photo I took on May 3, 2021, at my blessed home in Apollo Beach, Florida. The image is completely separate from the other one I posted a few weeks ago ( www.flickr.com/photos/imrananwar/51326897199/ ), which had a different bird to the left of the sun. But the rest of the description below is exactly applicable here too.
Clear days are the best for beautiful blue skies & seas to be photographed. But for sunsets, it is the magical interplay of moisture and dust layers overlaying the sun at varying distances away from the lens which creates the most incredible sunset moments.
See the hazy, misty horizon, layers of clouds, and soft atmosphere. Look at these shades of gold and orange, red and pink, even multiple bands of colors across the sun itself. ALL of the colors are purely done by nature, not by any software or editing of any kind!
This is an absolutely SOOC (straight out of camera) photo I took with the 14-years old Nikon D300 with absolutely, not one pixel changed or tweaked. I only added my name and frame. But the actual image is absolutely pure out of the camera.
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"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." - Pablo Picasso
Day 28: Okay, so I don't normally have my shot of the day done by 9:30am (or even 9:30pm for that matter), but today I need to tackle a bunch of errands. I have my father visiting, a rare event, from Florida in a few days, and I need to convert my home office into a guest room. That means decluttering, cleaning, and more. Now, I wish old Picasso's words were applicable to household dust. I'd get to enjoy doing something creative, and all the dust that's gathered on my bookshelf would simply disappear. Unfortunately, good old-fashioned elbow grease is in order. That's only the beginning of the things I need to do, but I won't bore you any further with the details. Day 28, you are the weakest link...goodbye! : )
Flower Celosia cristata - Inside Victorial Memorial Hall premises @ Calcutta - West Bengal, India.
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Celosia cristata - is a member of the genus Celosia, and is commonly known as cockscomb, since the flower looks like the head on a rooster (cock). They are annual plants of tropical origin, and their leaves and flowers can be used as vegetables. They are often grown as foods in India, Western Africa, and South America.
They grow well in both humid and arid conditions, and their flowers can last for up to 8 weeks. A high number of seeds can be produced by each flower, up to 43,000 per ounce. The plant often grows up to 1 foot in height, though many are smaller. The leaves are either green or bronze/maroon, depending upon the cultivar. The flowers are usually red, yellow, pink, or orange, though other colors can be present. In some instances, a variety of colors are present in hybrids.
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When I was sitting in the hide, a bank vole sometimes came for a drink.
It was hard to capture him, for they are so quick.
Furthermore, the circumstances were not that good, so high shutter was not applicable.
I managed to get him 1 time on the pic. What I didn't know, for I focused on the mouse, is that I also captured a green frog (unsharp) facing the mouse.
I noticed this afterwards at home watching the pic on my computer.
FCAB mineral train 209 traverses the vast Salar de Ascotan in the high Andés as dark storm clouds roll over the border region. The FCAB hugs the Bolivian border between Ascotan and it's eventual crossing at Ollagüe, navigating through 3 salt flats. We are nearly at 13,000 feet in elevation where every hyperbole about an 'alien world' feels applicable
As seems to be the case with most churches in Poland, Lublin Cathedral has a relatively plain exterior hiding a wonderfully ornate interior.
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From Wikipedia : "Lublin, by some tourists can be called "a little Krakow", and this is true by the citizens sharing a number of Lesser Poland traditions, historic architecture and a unique ambiance, especially in the Old Town. Catering to students, who account for 35% of the population, the city offers a vibrant music and nightclub scene. Lublin has many theatres and museums and a professional orchestra, the Lublin Philharmonic. Old buildings, even ruins, create magic and unique atmosphere of the renaissance city. Lublin’s Old Town has cobbled streets and traditional architecture. Many venues around Old Town enjoy an architecture applicable for restaurants, art galleries, clubs, apart from entertainment this area has also been designed to place small businesses and prestigious offices. The Old Town Hall and Tribunal in the Market Square is surrounded by burgher houses and winding lanes"
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A blooming Aster Flower & a transparent Ladybug - at the Great Himalayan National Park, Himachal Pradesh, India - A macro shot.
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There's something interesting going on with the scale of this Lublin Old Town shot, I think given that you can't determine the massive size of the window you expect the girls to be twice the size than they really are.
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From Wikipedia : "Lublin, by some tourists can be called "a little Krakow", and this is true by the citizens sharing a number of Lesser Poland traditions, historic architecture and a unique ambiance, especially in the Old Town. Catering to students, who account for 35% of the population, the city offers a vibrant music and nightclub scene. Lublin has many theatres and museums and a professional orchestra, the Lublin Philharmonic. Old buildings, even ruins, create magic and unique atmosphere of the renaissance city. Lublin’s Old Town has cobbled streets and traditional architecture. Many venues around Old Town enjoy an architecture applicable for restaurants, art galleries, clubs, apart from entertainment this area has also been designed to place small businesses and prestigious offices. The Old Town Hall and Tribunal in the Market Square is surrounded by burgher houses and winding lanes"
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Sunset over Red Hills Lake - Chennai, India
Reposted for those who have not seen this earlier. This is one my most favourite !
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The Red Hills Lake,also called Puzhal Lake (Tamil: புழல் ஏரி) is located in Ponneri Taluk of Thiruvallur district, Tamilnadu, South India . It is one of the two rain-fed reservoirs from where water is drawn for supply to Chennai City, the other one being the Chembarambakkam Lake.
Redhills lake:The other name of this lake in Tamil is POZHAL YERI; Previously this was used as a Irrigation lake. During the British Rule, it was utilised as a Military Camp. That is why Pozhal Town is also expressed as Camp.This lake was used as an Airport for Water plans for to make a landing and takeoff. There was a concrete ramp to bring the floating crafts and vessals to the then Workshop and the remains can be seen.There was a big Bangalow for the Military personals with Wind mill pump house, sump,overhead tank,a small swimming pool, Tennis court and a mini Theatre for the military use.In order to feed the water plans, there were few huge M.S.tanks for oil storage on the earthern bunds of this lake.For this heavy movement of vehicles, the earthern bunds are enforced with concrete paths. The lake and its water was made to quench the thirst of Chennaities right from the year1868. This lake gets it s supply from Poondi Reservoir and the Cholavaram Lake, through its Upper and Lower Supply Channals.Thus the irrigation utility was stopped. Now a days Poondi Reservoir and Sembaramapkkam Lakes interlinked to get water from Kandaleru (Telugu Ganga Project)and at present ,the Redhills Lake is made to fill on both sides apart from the rain water from the Catchment areas.Its water spreading area is around 7.5K.Ms and with much storage capacity, when compared Poondi and Cholavaram Lakes.
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The full capacity of the lake is 3,300 million ft³ (93 million m³).
3 Ducks. Not to be confused with 2 soups or 4 candles (a joke that I think is only applicable to the British people).
The last bird of Kumarokam Lake and rise of the Full Moon - Kerala, India.
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A message of hope.
i am so sorry for not posting much lately. i've been busy and honestly, uninspired. i don't like posting pictures i don't like. so i decided i'll take my 365 project slowly. or maybe one day i'll have a million pictures to catch up. i'll see. :D
so i saw the harry potter midnight premiere the day it came out. i lined up at 7:30 with my friends. we brought blankets, cards and everything! the movie was so goooood. gah i love harry potter. seriously, j.k. rowling is an absolute genius.
i've been going to my local gym a lot lately. i've been so pumped out to get fit! it's so fun after i get a good workout. feels so incredibly good.
so i like this picture just cause it's applicable to me. and i'm sure to lots of people out there. and it's always a good reminder. :)
A quick time out... all work and no play makes for one very tired and grumpy old woman!
Hope you all have a wonderful week :)
A Panoramic view of Ooty, Tamil Nadu, India.
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