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"Because I'm a true American. I'm an educator, a nurse. I served 8 years for our country. I've been overseas, I've seen how they're running this war. They have no idea what they're doing."
--Nerine Sullivan
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District and stakeholder Flood Control District of Maricopa County completed Adobe Dam in 1982 to protect local communities from storm flows along Skunk Creek, in northwest metro.
Because of the Hedgpeth Hills petroglyphs, the project incorporated guidelines from the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. The Act states in part, "the historical and cultural foundations of the Nation should be preserved as a living part of our community life and development in order to give a sense of orientation to the American people."
"We had archeologists on-site supervising the care of the petroglyphs," said Mike Ternak, the Corps embankment engineer in 1982. "Each boulder was wrapped and carefully moved, ultimately to a warehouse, during construction of the dam."
According to an Arizona State University School of Human Evolution and Social Change brochure, only boulders from where the dam intersected with the hills were moved. The remainder of artifacts at the Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve are in their original location along the preserve's trail. DVPP is operated by the ASU Center for Archaeology and Society.
In addition to the dam, the Arizona Canal Diversion Channel was built to intercept flood flows from the north and move them to New River and ultimately the Agua Fria River. Before ACDC, flood flows from irrigation channels built in the 1880's would overtop causing severe flooding in the city of Phoenix.
"When we built the dam there was virtually no development downstream or upstream of the dam," said Ternak. "Today the area downstream of the dam is highly urbanized."
Corps records indicate that the June 22, 1972 flood is the largest pre-ACDC flood for which a detailed record of damages is available. The 1972 flood caused roughly $11 million in damages, $61 million in today's dollars.
Ternak adds, "Adobe Dam is a perfect representation of how a flood control project can allow for low flood risk development and provide recreational opportunities. The area upstream of the dam is a wonderful recreation area that includes a model airplane airfield, a kart racing track, a paintball complex, a golf course, ball fields, and a water park."
Because of the use of an ultra-wide Sigma lens there is much distortion and lens flare but I hope that these flaws are not too distracting.
From next week I may be off line for two weeks or so because our house is having the earthquake repairs done!
May 14, 2012, Christchurch NZ. It was such a wonderful Autumn's day and they say the snow on it's way so I had to take another walk around the city....And you always find somthing new!
They seem to think this building will come down..cost too much to repair!
A magnitude 5.8 followed by a 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Lyttelton on Friday afternoon the 23rd December, 2011, causing liquefaction to once again erupt from the earth and leaving sewerage, water and power out of action in pockets of eastern Christchurch.
A series of intense'' aftershocks have followed, and hundreds and hundreds'' were recorded by GNS in the 24 hours following the two major quakes, said seismologist Bill Fry.)
Taken from the New Zealand Herald New paper
The February 22, 2011 Christchurch earthquake was a magnitude 6.3 (ML) earthquake that struck the Canterbury region in New Zealand's South Island at 12:51 pm on Tuesday, 22 February 2011 local time (23:51 21 February UTC), The earthquake was centred 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) west of the town of Lyttelton, and 10 kilometres (6 mi) south-east of the centre of Christchurch, New Zealand's second-most populous city. It followed nearly six months after the magnitude 7.1 4 September 2010 Canterbury earthquake, which caused significant damage to Christchurch and the central Canterbury region, but no direct fatalities.
The earthquake caused widespread damage across Christchurch, especially in the central city and eastern suburbs, with damage exacerbated by buildings and infrastructure already being weakened by the 4 September 2010 earthquake and its aftershocks. Significant liquefaction affected the eastern suburbs, producing around 400,000 tonnes of silt. The earthquake was reported to be felt across the South Island and the lower and central North Island.
In total, 184 (as from Jan, 2012) people were killed in the earthquake, making the earthquake the second-deadliest natural disaster recorded in New Zealand (after the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake), and fourth-deadliest disaster of any kind recorded in New Zealand, with nationals from more than 20 countries among the victims. Over half of the deaths occurred in the six-storey Canterbury Television (CTV) Building, which collapsed and caught fire in the quake. The government declared a state of national emergency, which stayed in force until 30 April 2011.
It has been estimated that the total cost of rebuilding to insurers to be around NZ$15–16 billion, making it by far New Zealand's costliest natural disaster, and the third-costliest earthquake (nominally) worldwide.
The earthquake would ultimately be one of three major earthquakes in a year-long earthquake swarm affecting the Christchurch area, and was followed by a large aftershock on 13 June 2011, which caused considerable additional damage.
The EPA evacuated the town of Times Beach in early 1983 because of dioxin contamination and turned it into a Superfund Site. It seems that the contractor hired by the town from 1972 to 1976 to spread oil on the roads in the area in order to keep the dust down obtained his waste oil for spreading from some would say less-than-thorough sources who supplied him with oil that was a byproduct Agent Orange production. Some of the oil he spread during his tenure at the job contained levels of dioxin 2,000 times greater than that of Agent Orange. He also spread the stuff in various horse stables. The poor man has to be the embodiment of the phrase 'blissfully ignorant' - the contractors name was Russel Bliss.
In that tradition of turning lemons into lemonade (or perhaps government debacle) the State of Missouri has turned the former town into Route 66 State Park. None of the buildings from the town exist today. Hopefully none of the contaminated dirt, either. Allegedly a safe place to visit.
Photo taken in April of 1984 on 'dioxin free' Kodachrome.
Because the big dipper is always visible at the sky outside my apartment I have used the M108 and Owl Nebula to learn how to set up my Sky Watcher Star Adventurer. It's a small target for my William Optics Zenithstar 61II APO but its relatively easy to find. This image is off 51x60s at ISO-2500.
A magical melee of flight shapes and winter sunshine - a most enjoyable combination!
Best viewed on black or in a larger size.
.......because of the shape of the roof. Our former combination sauna and guest house reflected in the lake.
Because brands, shapes, colours, fabrics, height and weight don't matter as long as you know how to wear it...
These guys here know how to work it!! :P
The pic was uploaded on July 14th but it was actually taken on the 13th so that's valid I guess :) I got home too late tonight and it was already past midnight!
Because of a crazy school schedule I haven't touched my camera in almost two weeks. I've been spending all my time in Illustrator. Did this trace painting, using the pen tool, of my original picture for a class project.
This looks like a photo of nothing, but I can practically feel the heat and smell the herbs growing everywhere...
Because of the great fire wall of Chinese policy, it's so hard to cross the limit to visit flickr, so I could not reply my dear friends, I'm so sorry about that and please forgive me,thank you so much and hope my friends can still hit on me！由于中国网络原因，访问flickr很困难，速度很慢，所有暂时没有办法一一回应各位好友，请朋友们见谅！还请各位好友继续关注我！
My pro account is out of time，thank you my friends here for supporting me what a long time！！May I have a pleasure to receive a pro gift from you？我的pro账号到期了，感谢朋友们长期以来的热心支持！！有好心人能赞助一个pro账号给我吗，在此先表感谢！！
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I'm glad I was never a professional baseball player, because I don't want to go to Iowa when I die.
I said not long ago that while I like baseball and enjoy watching a game, I'm not a huge, addicted baseball fan. I don't really keep up with it the way the big fans do, and I've never been one to quote statistics. I just think it's fun sometimes to sit down and listen to the calm drone of the TV announcers while watching a game on TV. Or, even better, actually going to the stadium on a cool summer night and sitting in the stands. There's something about that door that leads from a concourse into the stands that feels comfortable and inviting. I always like the look of things when you first step into the baseball park light.
Editor's Note: I'm going to try to get in all the baseball pictures tomorrow. I'm trying to be more judicious in what I post so I'm not still on this trip at the end of the year. I might not be successful in this, so I'm also probably going to have a few days when I post more pictures at once than is advisable. Like today, it would have made narrative sense to stop three pictures ago. But I didn't.
Fuzzy Door Productions MUST BE BANNED AND GET SHUT DOWN FOR GOOD because Fuzzy Door Productions makes bad inappropriate shows about private body parts like Family Guy and American Dad which has bad inappropriate phrases about body parts which reminds me of my guilt of Corduroy the Bear when his button was in a storm drain and when Jessie Burris made my guilt of Corduroy the Bear worse by telling me that an alligator ate Corduroy's button and yelling out bad inappropriate phrases about body parts from Family Guy and American Dad at me and punched me in the elbow on December 2009 which made me super upset and worried and have ate a lot of salt and vinegar Pringles Potato ships, ate a big bowl of Fruity Pebbles, and ate extra school lunches and eating all of them nervously and feeling guilty for Corduroy and his buttons ending up with a sick stomach with green spots on exams week puking in a bathroom trash can and then I had to be sent home during the exams on December 2009, and my guilt of Corduroy the Bear the sick stomach I have got on December 2009 is all Betty Quan, Jessie Burris, Fuzzy Door Productions, and Seth McFarlan's fault. So I hereby Family Guy and American Dad MUST END IMMEDIATELY along with modern Simpsons and that Nelvana and Hanna-Barbera MUST TAKE OVER Fuzzy Door Productions. But at least they did get Corduroy's button out of the storm drain and put Corduroy's button back on Corduroy the Bear's green corduroy overalls and Corduroy the Bear does have two buttons on his green Corduroy overalls forever and Nelvana's version of Corduroy the Bear will be revived with the premiere of Two Buttons again and Forever and all of my favorite buildings in New Jersey will always be around etc. And I am even adding a New pavilion shopping Center taking over the Fox studios due to the bad inappropriate phrases from Family Guy and American Dad and the mean-spirited stuff in modern Simpsons (The Simpsons seasons 19 and later) especially modern Simpsons (The Simpsons seasons 19 and later) is giving many mean teachers bad ideas of getting students arrested based on their disability like autism or their race because of what Chief Wiggums does in modern Simpsons which is not acceptable at all. I am even having Nelvana acquire Hanna-Barbera and restore Hanna-Barbera back to their original Glory and restore Hanna-Barbera back to their original most popular classic iconic character designs as and animation style from the 1950s and 1960s for Hanna-Barbera to go back up on the top from when Warner Bros ruined Hanna-Barbera and remade Hanna-Barbera against their original Glory. Before Blue's Clues was ever created they used to make minor goofs of Mickey Mouse's iconic red short overalls with yellow buttons and no shoulder straps occasionally being low waisted and looking like a loincloth and having the buttons marking the human penises referencing the inappropriate phrases about body parts from American Dad and Family Guy is extremely vulgar and reminds me of when Corduroy's button was in a storm drain at the end of Cute as a Button which made me extremely upset but good thing I am working for Nelvana reviving Nelvana's version of Corduroy the Bear with the premiere of Two Buttons again and Forever fixing Betty Quan's upsetting mistake for good by showing that they did get Corduroy's button out of the storm drain and put Corduroy's button back on Corduroy the Bear's green corduroy overalls and Corduroy the Bear does have two buttons on his green corduroy overalls forever. They MUST CENSOR the inappropriate phrases about body parts in ALL future American Dad and Family Guy broadcasts because the inappropriate phrases about body parts from American Dad and Family Guy are so gross and inappropriate and so annoying and cringy like Dee Dee's laugh from Dexter's Laboratory and the inappropriate phrases about body parts from Family Guy are making me worried for Corduroy's button and the author of the Corduroy (Nelvana TV series) episode Betty Quan was also watching Dexter's Laboratory and having on DeeDee laughing in the episode of Dexter's Laboratory she was watching while writing the Corduroy episode Cute as a Button is why the Corduroy episode Cute as a Button does have an upsetting ending where Corduroy's button fell in a storm drain across the street from Lisa and Corduroy's apartment Building and forgot to show that they did get Corduroy's button out of the storm drain and put Corduroy's button back on Corduroy the Bear's green corduroy overalls and that Corduroy the Bear does have two buttons on his green corduroy overalls forever and in that storm drain, right after when the button fell in DeeDee from Dexter's Laboratory made Mowgli from Disney's 1967 animated film The Jungle Book fall on Corduroy's button and lay his stomach on the bottom of the storm drain and Corduroy's button was going on the front of Mowgli's bright red cotton fabric loincloth shorts and DeeDee was laughing about it which made me super upset which caused me to have guilt of Corduroy the Bear on December 2009 and what made my guilt of Corduroy the Bear worse was that a student at my middle school Dean Rusk in Canton Georgia named Jessie Burris told me a mean lie that an alligator ate Corduroy's button, yelled out the inappropriate phrases about body parts from American Dad and Family Guy at me, and then she punched me in the shoulder, then she told me to move on from my golden nostalgic toddler stuff like riding on school buses and bring back the bad things from the early 90s such as pear-shaped wrecking balls and ice cream trucks with the bad old outdated red trapezoid children slow crossing warning blades that word IF-SAFE STOP THEN-GO (which are extremely confusing to people who are deaf, color blind, can't read, or don't speak English and we need to help out those people out too) and then she told me that she liked DeeDee's annoying idiotic laugh from Dexter's Laboratory and the inappropriate phrases about body parts from American Dad and Family Guy which made me even more upset and worried for Corduroy and his button causing me to have anxiety with my guilt of Corduroy the Bear and all of that I was overeating so much food on December 2009 by making my bowl of Fruity Pebbles super big, munching giant stacks of salt and Vinegar Pringles Potato ships, and having a lot of extra school lunches and I was eating all of these foods all at once nervously for Corduroy and his button and then on exams week on my 8th grade school year on December 2009, I was having a sick stomach with green spots from overeating and then I had to rush to the restroom at my middle school Dean Rusk in Canton, Georgia and I was puking in the restroom bin at my middle school Dean Rusk in Canton Georgia and they had to send me home and skip the exam eventhough I wanted to take the exam and succeed in school. But good thing I am fixing Betty Quan's upsetting mistake by reviving the Nelvana TV show Corduroy with the premiere of an entirely new episode titled Two Buttons again and Forever which is the sequel to Cute as a Button showing that they did get Corduroy's button out of the storm drain and put Corduroy's button back on Corduroy the Bear's green corduroy overalls and that Corduroy the Bear does have two buttons on his green corduroy overalls forever and that I am writing and producing a lot more entirely new Corduroy episodes with Corduroy the Bear having two buttons on his green corduroy overalls instead of one and I am re-editing all season 1 episodes with Corduroy the Bear having two buttons on his green corduroy overalls instead of one and re-editing Betty Quan's Cute as a Button with the beginning of Two Buttons again and Forever as the alternative ending. Good thing I have decided to give up Family Guy because the inappropriate phrases about body parts from American Dad and Family Guy are making me worried for Corduroy's button and the other reason why I have decided to give up Family Guy is because I will have kids of my own when I live in Toronto reviving Nelvana's version of Corduroy the Bear with the premiere of Two Buttons again and Forever fixing Betty Quan's upsetting mistake for good by showing that they did get Corduroy's button out of the storm drain and put Corduroy's button back on Corduroy the Bear's green corduroy overalls and Corduroy The Bear does have two buttons on his green corduroy overalls forever. And my own kids will be a son named Pinocchio William Joseph Rich and a daughter named Pollyanna Wendy Lisa Rich. Good thing Disney now always have the waist of Mickey Mouse's iconic red short overalls with yellow buttons and no shoulder straps have the waist going all the way up to the chest and no longer having minor goofs of the overalls being low waisted and looking like a loincloth and I know for a fact all pants with two buttons going horizontally up in the front are overalls no matter if they have shoulder straps or not because pants always have the waist going all the way up to the chest if they have two buttons going horizontally up in the front no matter if they have shoulder straps or not. As one of my collaborations when I revive Nelvana's version of Corduroy the Bear with the premiere of Two Buttons again and Forever Fixing Betty Quan's upsetting mistake for good I will censor these stupid minor goofs of Mickey Mouse's overalls.