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Monument Valley after sun-set. We missed the sun-set by a few minutes as we took a 60 minute private tour on a Jeep into the Navajo Tribal Park which you can see above. Monument Valley is located inside the Navajo Tribal Park.
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An average hillside at Mesa Verde these days. Remember the fire that came through here a few years ago? This is what it left behind. Also note the moon.
although an average shot, a landmark for me, this is the first time i have picked up my camera "just becuase I wanted to" in months. Although I missed most of the action while deciding if I had the energy to chase another storm, my mojo kicked in and I took off, up to the hill, standing on my own, once petrified of lightening, now I wanted it to come..... until i swear I nearly got hit LOL, i picked up the tripod, camera still attached and mid exposure and ran, faster than I ever have! Maybe....just maybe the photographer in me is back..fingers crossed. Perhaps a little grainy when posted to flickr... hmmm
BTW the shot that came from the camera grab and run is a funny capture of my stupidness!
he Baltimore Checkerspot is a popular butterfly that was named the Maryland state insect in 1973. The Baltimore was named for the first Lord Baltimore, whose coat of arms matched the colors on this butterfly.
The Baltimore is black, with an orange rim of spots on its outer wing, and rows of white spots on the inner wing. The adults can be seen in the summertime, basking in the sun and feeding.
They usually lay their eggs under the leaves of their host plant, found in wet meadows and marshes. Caterpillars spin a nest of webs and feed into autumn. They then overwinter in leaf litter, and in the spring continue to feed.
The Baltimore Checkerspot is disappearing in some areas due to a decline in host plants, but a welcoming garden may bring this beautiful butterfly back to your yard.
Family: Brush-footed Butterfly (Nymphalidae)
Subfamily: True Brushfoot (Nymphalinae)
Average Wingspan: 1 3/4" - 2 3/4"
Habitat: Marshes, wet areas, wooded areas
Figure 25 from 'An Agricultural Geography of Great Britain' by John Terence Coppock.
Used in a lecture given by JR James whilst at the Department of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Sheffield between 1967 and 1978.
Not the average Christmas shopping scene.
Soldiers from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (5th Scots) parade through the streets of Canterbury following their return from Afghanistan and their being granted the Freedom of the City.
Unusually, I by chance had my small pocket camera with and took this shot. Note to self, must make more use of this old 3 megapixel camera!
Locations where vehicles stay stopped for a long time start sampling less often than every 20 seconds. Perhaps a slight clue for why some locations on some routes are sampled more often than others.
The brighter the area, the less frequent the sampling. Data from NextBus.
The town of Butte, Montana (pronounced “byoot”) is known as the “Richest Hill on Earth” and "The Mining City". The Butte Mining District has produced gold, silver, copper, molybdenum, manganese, and other metals.
The area's bedrock consists of the Butte Quartz Monzonite (a.k.a. Butte Pluton), which is part of the Boulder Batholith. The Butte Quartz Monzonite ("BQM") formed 76.3 million years ago, during the mid-Campanian Stage in the Late Cretaceous. BQM rocks have been intruded and altered by hydrothermal veins containing valuable metallic minerals - principally sulfides. The copper mineralization has been dated to 62-66 million years ago, during the latest Maastrichtian Stage (latest Cretaceous) and Danian Stage (Early Paleocene). In the supergene enrichment zone of the area, the original sulfide mineralogy has been altered.
Seen here is the Continental Mine, also known as the Continental Pit. It is the only active mine in modern Butte. Mining here was started in 1980 by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company - it is currently owned by Montana Resources. The mine is situated on the eastern side of the Continental Fault, a major Basin & Range normal fault in the Butte area with about 3500 feet of offset. Over 100 different copper minerals are known from Butte to the west of the fault - many are minor minerals. East of the fault, lower grade rocks are present. The Continental Mine targets this low-grade deposit, which consists of disseminated copper sulfides plus copper- and molybdenum-bearing hydrothermal veins that intrude the BQM. Minerals include chalcopyrite, molybdenite, malachite, azurite, and cuprite. A secondary biotite mica halo is present around the deposit - the biotite is derived from hornblende amphibole.
Copper and molybdenum concentrates are produced at the Continental Mine, but they are not smelted locally and not even smelted in America. Concentrates are sold around the world, where material is smelted and the metals are produced. America shipping rocks overseas and buying back the finished product is the behavior of an underdeveloped country - America is not interested in smelting anymore - a sad reality.
When I visited in 2010, the Continental Mine was making 50,000 to 52,000 tons of ore each day. This mine can operate down to an ore grade of 0.1% copper. Most of the mineralization is disseminated copper, but veins are also present. Two stages of mineralization occurred in the Butte area - a porphyry copper system and a main stage system with large veins. The bottom of the porphyry copper system is ~ less than 12,800 feet below the surface. Veins peter out at 5600 to 5800 feet below the surface. At the Continental Mine, veins are small - they're veinlets less than 6 inches wide.
Mining is done 24 hours a day, 365 to 366 days per year. There's 1 to 2 days of down time at the mill. During those days, mining stops and waste material is moved. The ore:waste ratio is 8:10 (= strip ratio). The alluvial overburden consists of 7 paleosol horizons, including some caliches - the lime content results in an average pH of 8. The caliche material can be used to treat acidic materials.
"An ore deposit is a mine if it can stand total mismanagement and still make money."
Dutch decided there needed to be a little team assembled for spec ops tasks and assaults and stuff. He knew it sounded cheesy, but it had to be done, so he had Hazard create Average Company (TMP came up with the name, they all fight for a normal life). Hazard leads by rank, but has MissingPiece lead for his tactical skills.
The Paparazzi Bots is a series of five autonomous robots each standing at the height of the average human. Comprised of multiple microprocessors, cameras, sensors, code and robotic actuators on a custom-built rolling platform, they move at the speed of a walking human, avoiding walls and obstacles while using sensors to move toward humans. They seek one thing, which is to capture photos of people and to make these images available to the press and the world wide web as a statement of culture's obsession with the “celebrity image” and especially our own images. The flash autonomously goes off, capturing people’s photos and elevating them to “celebrity” in a kind of momentary anointing by the robots. The robots also become celebrities through their association to the “famous people” at the exhibition that are captured by the Paparazzi Bots.
Each autonomous robot can make the decision to take the photos of particular people, while ignoring other humans in the exhibition, based on things such as, whether or not the viewers are smiling or the shape of their smile. When the robots identify a person or group they will automatically adjust their focus and use a series of bright flashes to record that moment.
Surveillance technologies straddle a delicate balance that we have in contemporary culture, where we are all photographed without our knowledge by cell phones, hidden cameras and sometimes “celebritized”. This is a kind of modern baptism with the camera flash and the spectacle of being the focus of the camera becoming a kind of techno anointing.
This work explores ideas surrounding the shifting territories of self and machine and how machines can manipulate the other (us) in a grand co-evolutionary dance of emerging robot-human relations.
The recent emergence of social networks and their ability to connect people through software prompts via the world wide web is a prime example of the co-evolution of humans and their intelligent machines. The fact that the software prompts exploit our social needs for connectivity and social space is so easily exploited in this new critical juncture in our emerging machine human relations.
This camera can track your head and be set to take a photo if you smile mildly, medium-smile or pull-a-muscle smile. When set to smile mode, they do seem to prefer even smiles rather than crooked smiles so here the machine is making determinations about issues of "beauty". I have considered holding a robot beauty contest as an addition to this work.
By Ken Rinaldo.
Special Thanks to Shirley Madill curator who invited these works to Toronto for Nuit Blanche
Special Thanks to Amy Youngs the midwife to the birth of these robots.
Thanks to the Dynasty Foundation, Russia and Dmitry Bulatov Curator, for funding this robot Commission.
Thanks to Malcolm Levy who invited the production of three more Paparazzi Bots for the Vancouver Olympics in 2010
Thanks to the College of Arts and Humanities for further funding of this project.
The Paparazzi Bots is a series of five autonomous robots each standing at the height of the average human. Comprised of multiple microprocessors, cameras, sensors, code and robotic actuators on a custom-built rolling platform, they move at the speed of a walking human, avoiding walls and obstacles while using sensors to move toward humans. They seek one thing, which is to capture photos of people and to make these images available to the press and the world wide web as a statement of culture's obsession with the “celebrity image” and especially our own images. The flash autonomously goes off, capturing people’s photos and elevating them to “celebrity” in a kind of momentary anointing by the robots. The robots also become celebrities through their association to the “famous people” at the exhibition that are captured by the Paparazzi Bots.
Each autonomous robot can make the decision to take the photos of particular people, while ignoring other humans in the exhibition, based on things such as, whether or not the viewers are smiling or the shape of their smile. When the robots identify a person or group they will automatically adjust their focus and use a series of bright flashes to record that moment.
Surveillance technologies straddle a delicate balance that we have in contemporary culture, where we are all photographed without our knowledge by cell phones, hidden cameras and sometimes “celebritized”. This is a kind of modern baptism with the camera flash and the spectacle of being the focus of the camera becoming a kind of techno anointing.
This work explores ideas surrounding the shifting territories of self and machine and how machines can manipulate the other (us) in a grand co-evolutionary dance of emerging robot-human relations.
The recent emergence of social networks and their ability to connect people through software prompts via the world wide web is a prime example of the co-evolution of humans and their intelligent machines. The fact that the software prompts exploit our social needs for connectivity and social space is so easily exploited in this new critical juncture in our emerging machine human relations.
This camera can track your head and be set to take a photo if you smile mildly, medium-smile or pull-a-muscle smile. When set to smile mode, they do seem to prefer even smiles rather than crooked smiles so here the machine is making determinations about issues of "beauty". I have considered holding a robot beauty contest as an addition to this work.
By Ken Rinaldo.
Special Thanks to Shirley Madill curator who invited these works to Toronto for Nuit Blanche
Special Thanks to Amy Youngs the midwife to the birth of these robots.
Thanks to the Dynasty Foundation, Russia and Dmitry Bulatov Curator, for funding this robot Commission.
Thanks to Malcolm Levy who invited the production of three more Paparazzi Bots for the Vancouver Olympics in 2010
Thanks to the College of Arts and Humanities for further funding of this project. The Paparazzi Bots is a series of five autonomous robots each standing at the height of the average human. Comprised of multiple microprocessors, cameras, sensors, code and robotic actuators on a custom-built rolling platform, they move at the speed of a walking human, avoiding walls and obstacles while using sensors to move toward humans. They seek one thing, which is to capture photos of people and to make these images available to the press and the world wide web as a statement of culture's obsession with the “celebrity image” and especially our own images. The flash autonomously goes off, capturing people’s photos and elevating them to “celebrity” in a kind of momentary anointing by the robots. The robots also become celebrities through their association to the “famous people” at the exhibition that are captured by the Paparazzi Bots.
Each autonomous robot can make the decision to take the photos of particular people, while ignoring other humans in the exhibition, based on things such as, whether or not the viewers are smiling or the shape of their smile. When the robots identify a person or group they will automatically adjust their focus and use a series of bright flashes to record that moment.
Surveillance technologies straddle a delicate balance that we have in contemporary culture, where we are all photographed without our knowledge by cell phones, hidden cameras and sometimes “celebritized”. This is a kind of modern baptism with the camera flash and the spectacle of being the focus of the camera becoming a kind of techno anointing.
This work explores ideas surrounding the shifting territories of self and machine and how machines can manipulate the other (us) in a grand co-evolutionary dance of emerging robot-human relations.
The recent emergence of social networks and their ability to connect people through software prompts via the world wide web is a prime example of the co-evolution of humans and their intelligent machines. The fact that the software prompts exploit our social needs for connectivity and social space is so easily exploited in this new critical juncture in our emerging machine human relations.
This camera can track your head and be set to take a photo if you smile mildly, medium-smile or pull-a-muscle smile. When set to smile mode, they do seem to prefer even smiles rather than crooked smiles so here the machine is making determinations about issues of "beauty". I have considered holding a robot beauty contest as an addition to this work.
By Ken Rinaldo.
Special Thanks to Shirley Madill curator who invited these works to Toronto for Nuit Blanche
Special Thanks to Amy Youngs the midwife to the birth of these robots.
Thanks to the Dynasty Foundation, Russia and Dmitry Bulatov Curator, for funding this robot Commission.
Thanks to Malcolm Levy who invited the production of three more Paparazzi Bots for the Vancouver Olympics in 2010
Thanks to the College of Arts and Humanities for further funding of this project.
Greensboro, NC - 2/25/10
A Face to Face "social practice" event, The Soapbox Salon: Lee Walton's Search for the Most Average Bowlers
Romance of Food: Bananas
We have no figures of the number of bananas the average Australian eats in a year, but before they were rationed in England every person in Britain consumed an average of ninety bananas per annum.
Though it is the most popular of tropical fruits, the banana has risen to fame only in comparatively recent times. Until a generation ago bananas were looked upon as a rare tropical luxury in Europe. They were curiosities even seventy or so years ago, and few people had seen a banana much less eaten one.
It was not until the last decade of the 19th century that the art of successfully importing bananas began to be mastered, and cultivation of the fruit on a commercial scale began in the West Indies.
The original home of the banana is the moist tropical regions of southern Asia. Even in 327 B.C. the armies of Alexander the Great found it flourishing in India. The sages of that country reposed in the shade of its great leaves and lived largely on the fruit, so that the banana plant was called Musa sapientum - fruit of the wise man.
Ancients used to dry the main rootstock and plant it wherever they travelled. In this way the banana reached the east coast of Africa. From here it travelled with man-kind westwards across the Continent to the Guinea coast. When the Portugese discovered the Guinea coast in 1482, they brought the plant to the Canary Isles. Bananas reached the West Indies in 1516, being taken there by a Spanish priest, Father Thomas de Berlanga.
After the land has been cleared and drained. banana roots are planted about a foot deep. Each root has "eyes" like those of a potato. The plant grows quickly after planting. The stem which bears the fruit rises from the centre of the stalk and bends over and downwards., the flower bud at the end resembling an enourmous ear of corn in the husk. The husks drop off to reveal the yound bunch with its cluster of tiny bananas pointing downwards. With growth they slowly point outward and upward.
The banana is an all-food fruit, supplying energy and fuel for the body as well as important vitamins and mineral salts. It is three-quarter water and one-fifth glucose. The remaining fraction consists of starch, protein, fat, fibre, pectin, and minerals.
Description source: Warwick Daily News, 19 August 1952
Image source: Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 27223
You Have Got To See This Cute New Home Listing In Palm Beach Gardens: Property Details For: 342 Vizcaya Dr Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418Type: Single-Family HomePrice: $689,000Bedrooms: 5Baths: 5.0Sq Feet: 4,068See full detail for Listing: R3246097Address: 342 Vizcaya Dr Palm Beach Gardens FL 33418Here is some additional information about 342 Vizcaya Dr Palm Beach Gardens FL 33418: "Perfect,Inviting,Classic Elegance-Describes This Impeccable Seville Model. Meticulously Upgraded W/ Plantation Shutters, Custom Drapery,Designer Lighting,Surround Sound,Crown Molding,Etched Glass Entry Doors,Custom Pool W/Waterfall. A True Find!Fastidiously Maintained - 2 New A/C Units With 10 Year Warranty, Hurricane Accordian Shutters, Beautiful Stone Like Ceramic Tile Floors, New Carpeting In The Master Bedroom. Gas Cooktop,Pool Heater,Water Heater, Dryer And Plumbed For Outdoor Kitchen. Home Has Beautiful Views Of The Lake And The Sunrise." Here is what Trulia.com has to say about the area: Palm Beach Gardens Market Stats: There are 189 four bedroom properties available with an average listing price of $1,081,906. Overall the average listing price in Palm Beach Gardens is $750,056.
The Dalí (Salvador Dalí Museum)
Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida
El reflejo craneano (The Cranial Reflection)
The Average Bureaucrat
A representative soil profile of the Tate series. The average content of semi-rounded rock fragments is as much as 35 percent in the solum and s much as 60 percent in the substratum. Depth to bedrock is more than 150 centimeters. (Soil Survey of Grayson County, Virginia; Robert K. Conner, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
The Tate series consists of very deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils on benches, fans, and toe slopes in coves in the Blue Ridge (MLRA 130). They formed in colluvium weathered from felsic to mafic high-grade metamorphic rocks. Mean annual temperature is 52 degrees F., and mean annual precipitation about 52 inches near the type location. Slope ranges from 2 to 50 percent.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
Thickness of the solum ranges from 24 to more than 60 inches. Depth to bedrock is greater than 60 inches. Content of rock fragments is less than 35 percent by volume in the A and Bt horizons, and less than 60 percent in the BC and C horizons. The soil is very strongly acid to slightly acid unless limed. Content of mica flakes is few or common.
USE AND VEGETATION: About half is cleared and used for growing corn, small grain, tobacco, truck crops, and pasture. Common trees in forested areas are scarlet oak, white oak, yellow-poplar, eastern white pine, shortleaf pine, Virginia pine, and northern red oak. Understory plants include mountain-laurel, rhododendron, blueberry, greenbrier, flowering dogwood, black locust, honeysuckle, sourwood, and flame azalea.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: The Blue Ridge (MLRA 130) of North Carolina, Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and possibly Georgia and South Carolina. The series has large extent.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/virginia/VA077...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/T/TATE.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
This house appears to be a little dirty but I'm not sure if it needs a good clean or is it the paint colour they have chosen? I would also suggest painting the front door a contrasting colour so that it stands out. At the moment it looks very dark.
You can check out my curb appeal blog at www.exteriorencounters.com
The average Great Egret measures 38-39 inches (97-100 cm) from the tip of its beak to the tip of its tail. Taken at Circle B Bar Reserve near Lakeland, Florida, USA. This wetlands reserve is over a thousand acres and hosts a nice variety of wildlife, especially birds. The hiking trails are all user-friendly and take you close to the action. Anyone visiting central Florida should consider placing this reserve on their "must see" list.