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Coping with a break up by surrounding myself with nature. Seemed very fitting to be looking back across a bridge at an empty and hollow winter void.
Griffy Lake, Bloomington IN
Vietnamese refugees at the Pulau Bidong refugee camp in Malaysia. This camp has about 36,000 Vietnamese refugees.
01/08/1979. Malaysia. UN Photo/John Isaac. www.un.org/av/photo/
while coping with the Covid-19 pandemic....
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Playing with "American Gothic," inspired by the fabulous foks here: www.theartofquarantine.com/
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: A boy holds his favourite pet that is left after the floods in Sukkur district in Sindh Province. This photo was taken after the 2010 floods in Pakistan.
© UNICEF Pakistan/2010/Marta Ramoneda
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Traditionally, smoking has been mostly the province of men. But in the last four years, women have begun to light up as well, though they still make up a minority of smokers. It has historically been considered a shame and disgrace for women to smoke in Qatar. Today, that seems to be changing, as more and more women are becoming smokers in Qatar.Young girls start smoking as early as 14, and peer pressure influences them to start at a young age. According to Health Promote International, 27 percent of males in Qatar currently are smokers, while 10 percent of females are smokers.
Five years ago, only 4 percent of women smoked, according to Health Promote International. That means the number of female smokers has more than doubled in that time. “Most of the smoking among women happens due to peer pressure because females want to feel as part of a group and never want to be looked at as a lonely person." said Ms. A. Al-xxx, a pharmacist in Hamad Hospital's.
The pressure on females from their families is also a major reason for the spread of smoking among women. The stress of social constraints may lead women to smoke as a way of coping with depression and anxiety. "Smoking is better than suicide in cases of depression. These days depression is very widespread, and I would rather see them smoking than risking their life for simple problems," she said. People in Qatar consume YR 120 billion worth of cigarettes yearly, said Mr. H. Al-xxx, secretary-general of the national society for fighting smoking.
This number might seem small next to the hundreds of billions of dollars spent by other countries on cigarettes. Based on data collected from 1995 to 1999, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that adult male smokers loose an average of 13.2 years of life and female smokers loose 14.5 years of life—all for the ephemeral thrill of inhaling a cloud of nicotine.
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The Province of Quebec is closing the border to Ontario residents in an effort to stop the spread of the virus. All non essential travel is banned. No trips to the cottage if this keeps up.
A batch of twenty of these front entrance/exit Alexander bodied Scanias were new to London Buses during October and November 1991 for Docklands Express services to supplement the Docklands Light Railway, which was not coping well at the time. They were acquired from dealer stock. Some were delivered in London Buses standard red with grey skirt and white tape, some had a gold cantrail band and gold East London lettering. Some then received broad white wrap-round adverts for Docklands Express route D1 then by the end of 1991 S10-S14, including this one, wore LBL livery, 12 and 13 with gold band and lettering, while S15-29 wore white bands with route details for the Docklands Express D1 (Waterloo - Isle of Dogs) and new D11(London Bridge - Canary Wharf). In 07/1992, nine of the Scanias (S11 and S13-20) were re-allocated to Holloway for use on the Red Express X43 route, which was a Monday to Friday route from North Finchley to the City and London Bridge, utilising the new no-stopping Red Route. New in 11/1991, Potters Bar based S11 is seen here climbing High Steet, Barnet, on 31/07/1998, when operating Service 84 to St. Albans. Starting it's London life out of West Ham, this Scania then moved to Upton Park, in 05/1992. In 07/1992, it moved to Holloway, as noted above, and then to Potters Bar, in 12/1993, being privatised to MTL London, in 12/1997. Around the time of this photo MTL was taken over by Harrow based Metroline Travel and thus became Metroline London Northern. In 06/2003, it passed to well known Purfleet based operator and dealer, Ensign Bus. A month later, it passed to Geldards Coaches, Leeds, then onto Square Peg, Garforth, in 11/2015. See www.countrybus.org/Scania/S_a.htm#fleet for more details.
The camera being a Praktica MTL3 with the film being a Boots Colourslide II
I would request, as with all my photos, that they are not copied or downloaded in any way, shape or form. © Peter Steel 1998.
Not a good quality shot, but just to remind everyone in drought-stricken areas to keep the bird-baths full! This is actually one of the dog's drinking bowls on the veranda, but the dogs drink out of the bird-baths, so fair exchange.
We have about 10 baths/bowls around the yard.
Coping well with wet rails B1 4-6-0 no 1264 makes its way up to Goathland with a NYMR service from Whitby.
Taken with a 1938 Zeiss Ikon Ikonta 6x9 folding camera, Compur Rapid shutter, Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 105mm lens, yellow filter, Ilford XP2 400 mono film.
Coping with the loss of my beloved kitty cat has been hard, but being able to make photos like this cheer me up a little.
The spires of Lichfield Cathedral can be seen when you are walking down Gaia Lane towards Beacon Street.
There is high wall surrounding the site.
panoramic
Grade I listed building
Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Chad, Lichfield
LICHFIELD
SK1109NE THE CLOSE
1094-1/5/212 Cathedral Church of the Blessed
05/02/52 Virgin Mary and St Chad
(Formerly Listed as:
THE CLOSE
Cathedral Church of St Chad and St
Mary)
GV I
Cathedral church. Early C13 west choir arcade and aisles,
chapter house and chapel, transepts and crossing tower; c1280
nave, aisles and west towers; 1300-50 Lady Chapel and east
choir arcade and aisles, and choir clerestory. Major
restorations of 1660s, 1788-95 continued by Joseph Potter Snr
of Lichfield, 1850s by S Smirke, and 1856-78 by Sir Gilbert
Scott, continued by John Oldrid Scott until 1905.
Ashlar with graduated slate roofs.
PLAN: cruciform: 3-bay Lady Chapel, 8-bay choir with aisles,
chapter house to north with library above and consistory court
to south with chapel of St Chad's Head above, crossing steeple
and 3-bay transepts with east chapels, 8-bay nave with aisles
and 2 west steeples.
EXTERIOR: Lady Chapel has 3-bay apse articulated by plinth,
stepped to end due to slope of ground, gabled buttresses with
C19 statues, enriched cornice with traceried and embattled
parapet with pinnacles; 3-light windows, 6-light central
windows to north and south, with trefoil tracery; 3 much
restored tomb recesses to south with cusped arches, gables and
pinnacles.
Choir has similar clerestory, gabled buttresses supporting
flying buttresses and pinnacles, angle buttresses with C19
statues; 3-light aisle windows with Decorated tracery and
5-light clerestory windows with Perpendicular tracery, those
to east bay with Decorated tracery; organ loft to north west
has quatrefoil windows in rich square settings and north east
octagonal stair turret with pinnacle.
Chapter house of elongated octagon form, buttresses with top
tabernacles with statues, Y-tracery windows, vestibule with
Y-tracery north window and 2-light plate tracery windows to
1st floor. Court and chapel have large octagonal turrets with
shafts and pinnacles and 2 statues in niches; 3-light windows
with Perpendicular tracery, 1st floor triplets of lancets.
Crossing tower has polygonal buttresses with crocketed
pinnacles, lines of former steep gables, two 2-light bell
openings in blind tracery settings, traceried parapet and
spire with 5 tiers of lucarnes.
Transepts have 3- and 5-light clerestory windows with
Perpendicular tracery; north transept has polygonal buttresses
flanking portal of 5 orders with rich decoration to arch with
flanking niches, 1880s window of 7 lancets, Y-tracery windows
above; 4-light chapel north window and west windows; south
transept has large C18 gabled angle buttresses flanking portal
similar to above, but much restored, trefoil-headed arcade
with C19 figures, 9-light window with Perpendicular tracery
and top Catherine wheel windows with flanking statues; chapel
has 3-light windows and south tomb recess with cusped arch,
gable and pinnacles; 2 pairs of lancets to west; statue of
Charles II for west front gable, attributed to Sir W Wilson,
attached to south west angle.
Nave has gabled buttresses supporting flying buttresses and
pinnacles, enriched cornices and parapets with pinnacles;
3-light aisle windows with Decorated tracery and spherical
triangle windows to clerestories; south side restored by
Smirke.
West front has gable between towers with large polygonal outer
turrets; central portal with multi-cusped arch and inner doors
with C13 seated Christ over trumeau, original doors with rich
scrolled iron work, statues to returns; flanking portals of 5
orders with restored arches and similar doors; 6-light west
window with Decorated tracery of 1868; towers have 2-light
louvred bell openings, lozenge parapet and square crocketed
pinnacles, spires with 4 tiers of lucarnes.
Facade articulated with blind tracery and crocketed trefoil
arches, corbelled C19 statues, with some medieval statues to
north tower, trefoil-headed arcade with seated figures and
figure of Christ to gable; much ball flower and crocketing,
treatment continued to returns. Wind vanes and C18 rainwater
heads.
The wall is Grade II* listed.
Bastion to North East Angle and Attached Walls of Garden of Former Episcopal Palace, Lichfield
LICHFIELD
SK1109NE THE CLOSE
1094-1/5/216 (North side)
06/03/70 Bastion to NE angle and attached
walls of garden of former Episcopal
Palace
(Formerly Listed as:
THE CLOSE
Bastion in the garden of the former
Episcopal Palace)
GV II*
Truncated bastion and garden walls partly built on foundations
of medieval close defences. Probably early C14 with later
alterations and late C17 and C18 garden walls. Dressed stone
and brick. Octagonal tower has rubble base and brick re-facing
with stone quoins and raking brick buttresses; C18 or C19
parapet with some stone coping. Most detail obscured by ivy,
but one stone-dressed window visible to south east; entrance
to west has shouldered lintel and battened door.
INTERIOR recorded as having stone dogleg stair and chamber
with garderobe, 3 high windows and probably late medieval
vault. Garden wall extends south along line of defences, and
the rear garden wall extends west, with dry moat to north and
east; rear wall has stone facing and raking buttresses to
north, stone base to south; the east end has been altered for
conservatory, now demolished.
Wall to west marks boundary between the gardens of the Deanery
and the Palace, with a deviation east about halfway along its
length; part of this wall may be late C17. An important
remaining part of the medieval defences of the close.
(Drury P: The Capitular Estate of Dean and Chapter of
Lichfield Cathedral: 1987-; Victoria History of the County of
Stafford: Greenslade M W: Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.60-1).
Listing NGR: SK1155709918
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Source: English Heritage
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.
Chosen for Arts Center East, Vernon CT, Coping juried exhibit, Sept. 4-27, 2020.
Two Bottles; A Hawk Feather (with pastel overpainting), and Flight (with pastel overpainting).
After the initial shock of the lockdown and the scramble to figure out how to get food and necessities, I found myself in a life with no schedule and few obligations. Routine chores became unimportant. With no need to dress for anyone or anything, laundry dropped to near nothing, No one was allowed in my house so……you get the picture, Most important, though, was that I had time to dig out materials for projects that I’d stowed away over the years.
Last year I saw the hauntingly beautiful cyanotype images created by Anna Atkins at an exhibit in the N.Y. Public Library. She began using the newly invented photographic process in 1843 to catalog her collection of seaweeds and algae. From the exhibit notice: “With great daring, creativity, and technical skill, she produced Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, the first book to be illustrated with photographs, and the first substantial application of photography to science.”
www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/blue-prints-pioneering-ph...
I found packets of sun-sensitive paper buried in a box. And, I found a new obsession. The search for materials to “photograph” has its own rewards, and the process of printing with the sun has its own rhythms. I forget about the troubles and horrors of the outside world for hours at a time. That’s enough for now,
An elderly refugee resting at the Lubhini Transit Centre in Bangkok, Thailand. There are about 2,000 refugees in this camp from Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos and they will be going to the United States, Canada, Italy and France.
Photo ID 101366. 01/07/1979. Bangkok, Thailand. UN Photo/John Isaac. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/
We all want to resist getting older. Age isn’t something we have any control over, however getting old we do. Okay, I’m 35. I can’t hide or change that. Seinfeld mentioned to “George” in one episode of his show about “throwing on the sweatpants and giving up on life” which I still think about to this day.
There is a day most of us come to where we just give up. Give up on what we look like, our goals & aspirations, our attire, health… just give up and fade away. SOME of us fight this rigorously by hanging out with younger people, being active in our society, trying new things, travel, etc. I for one love being active. And this weekend I was hired to photograph a skateboard demo at our local skate park. Very few people know that I was once a sponsored skater back in the 90s.. 2000s 1980s. I could ride vert ramps, launch ramps, etc. I had game for a 14yo in 1989. So this weekend when the local pro to show that I am still a triple threat.
Age caught up to me shortly thereafter when I was attempting to ride the coping of the bowl and crashed down hard on my hip. Below is a photo from about an hour after, and it now looks much worse. My 5yo commented that my leg might fall off.
More photos of the skate demo and my injuries on my blog
Sunday I didn’t do anything, except hobbled around like an old, bitter man.
Helper Civic Auditorium, 19 South Main Street, Helper, Utah. Built in 1937, the Helper Civic Auditorium was designed by Salt Lake City architects Carl W. Scott and George W. Welch. The building is an excellent example of Art Moderne style also known as "Streamline Moderne". The style was popular in the 1930s particularly in public buildings. The auditorium features Art Moderne elements such as the flat roof emphasized by concrete coping and coursing, smooth masonry with curved corners, glass block, and pilasters with abstracted capitals.
The Helper Civic Auditorium was built as part of the Utah Public Works Administration (PWA) and Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression. The building is significant because it helps document the impact of New Deal programs in Utah during the Great Depression. The Helper Civic Auditorium was one of 226 buildings (two of which were auditoriums) constructed in Utah during the 1930s and early 1940s under the WPA and other New Deal programs. Of those 226 buildings, 130 are still standing. On a local level the construction of the building was a boost to Helper's economy by providing much needed jobs and funds through the purchase of building materials.
Someone in the police department had complained that the Detective smoked too much.
"You know why that man smokes so much?" the Commander demanded, "It's because he's seen some shit that would make you go insane. The things that crawl in the night, your very nightmares... he has met them with a rifle in hand. He smokes because if he didn't, he'd go crazy."
No one ever asked again.
Quite a interesting surprise on Aurizon's 1253, trip train for Yennora to Glenlee.
Struggling and revving to its full extent Aurizon's X54 lifts the train solo up the grade and under the roadbridge at Guilford.
The usual combo of 422/X/LDP was no great loss with this great piece of Clyde Engineering coping with being ditched and deserted to pick up the slack.
Coping with a fever and the cognitive inefficiencies that go with it, but still, nice to have her back.
River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
These images were taken during the fourth week of September, 2016.
On a rare trip down to the Harbour area, just to check out progress here. Throughout the summer, this is where the heavy-duty engineering works have been taking place.
This is a section of the flood protection scheme that I have pretty much ignored -- it's inconvenient for me to access, and others cover it much better.
Check out 'Turgidson'.
Walking back along the newly constructed walkway adjacent to Seapoint Court, and looking upriver towards the town of Bray with the 'Fran O'Toole bridge' in immediate view.
Bray: Fran O’Toole Bridge:
On 31 July 1975, five members of the Miami Showband were travelling by minibus back to Dublin from a gig in Banbridge, County Down.
At the townland of Buskhill, outside of Newry, they were stopped at a bogus military checkpoint by gunmen dressed in British Army uniform, who ordered them to get out and line up by the roadside.
They were members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). Two of them had hidden a time bomb on the minibus, but it exploded prematurely and killed them.
The remaining gunmen then opened fire on the band members, killing Fran O'Toole, Brian McCoy and Tony Geraghty and wounding Des Lee and Stephen Travers.
On Saturday 4 July, Bray Bridge was renamed the Fran O'Toole Bridge.
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Bray Bridge, Main Street, Bray, County Wicklow :
Three-arch stone built road bridge over the Dargle or Bray River, built in 1855-56. The bridge is in dressed granite, with round-ended piers rising into panelled pilasters and a string course just above the level of the arches.
The arches themselves are segmental, whilst the parapets have rounded coping. Branching off to the north-east of the bridge a smaller single-arch dry bridge, carrying the Ravenswell Road over a grass-covered laneway which leads down to the riverbank itself.
This smaller bridge is in granite rubble with a segmental arch with dressed granite voussoirs, and rounded coping to the parapets.
(Description: National Inventory of Architectural heritage)
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A four-arch Bray Bridge was constructed in 1666, but this collapsed in 1741 and was replaced by a new bridge within the same year.
The 1741 bridge was replaced in 1856 by a new three-arch bridge designed by Mr Henry Brett.
The bridge was built by David Edge, and it bore his name.
The bridge was renamed on 5th July 2015 in honour of Bray resident Fran O'Toole, who was the lead singer with the Miami showband.
Three members of the showband were killed outside Newry in 1976, including Fran O'Toole.
The Railway Bridge downstream was built in 1853, a year prior to the opening of the railway between Dublin and Bray.
The railway company had to narrow the channel of the river and build a small shipping dock.
Between Bray Bridge and the Railway Bridge there was a wooden footbridge linking Ravenswell Road and the Seapoint Road, this bridge was built at the time of the railway coming to Bray.
It closed in 1870 and was removed shortly afterwards.
"The Little Book of Bray and Enniskerry" by Brian White.
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Various pictures from our visit to Hayman Island, in the Great Barrier Reef section of northeastern Australia, in December 1973.
We stayed here for almost a week, and enjoyed the sunshine and the surf -- and, perhaps most of all, a wonderful after-dinner drink called Yalumba Port, which we sipped each evening after dinner.
Then one morning, the hotel staff bustled up to our beach bungalow and began madly putting away chairs and tables, looking anxiously at the sky. "What's going on?" we asked.
"There's a huge tropical storm approaching," they said nervously. "If you'd like to evacuate the island, the last boat back to the mainland is leaving in 30 minutes." Needless to say, we were on it; and though it took another day or two of coping with torrential winds and rain, we eventually made it back to Sydney for the long flight back to the U.S....
Note: this photo was published in TripWolf's "Hayman Island travel guide." It was also published on this Wikipedia page.
Moving into 2010, the photo was published in a Feb 10, 2010 blog titled "Hayman Island, playas de lujo en Australia." And it was published in a Mar 10, 2010 blog titled "NEW REPORT: AUSTRALIA FLUSH WITH RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES, BUT YET TO USE THEM." It was also published in a Sep 2, 2010 blog titled "Conoce el Norte de Australia desde las alturas."
Moving into 2011, the photo was published in an undated (mid-Feb 2011) blog titled "Velký bariérový útes – Great Barrier Reef." And it was published in an undated (late Nov 2011) blog titled "Witsunday Islands - Hayman."
Tucson, Arizona
Built in 1902 at the cost of $15,750.00, the hotel was originally called The Willard.
"The Willard Hotel was the first hotel built In Arizona by Trost. The Willard was a business venture undertaken by Alex Casey,a mining man.
In late May, 1902 the roof was being constructed and offers from around the country to lease the hotel. The hotel had up-to-date lighting with both gas and electric. The forty two rooms were arranged in suite and single , including a private baths.
In late July, Willard and Charles Fleming signed a seven year lease for $250 per month. The name was changed to the Willard Hotel and September 1, 1902, was the opening date. Guest stayed in the south wing while work finished on the other wing.
On September 24, the dining room was open under the direction of chef Steve Slaughter. Then two day later, Charles Fleming sold his interest in the hotel to his partner Willard Wright. Mr. Wright announced his intentions to close the hotel after not being able to renegotiate the lease with Mr. Casey. Mr. Casey terminated the water service and forced the guest out.
The hotels proprietorship was assumed by William Siewart around 1904. Adding concrete coping to the curvilinear parapets
The hotel was under various management until 1944. Remodeling effort removed the curvilinear parapets, stuccoed the exterior, altered the interior and reopened under the name Pueblo Hotel and Apartments. I operated until 1984, when it was vacated."
I believe it has been renovated and reopened.
Wow this is sharp!
Geography exam first thing tomorrow , don't even like geography particularly. Never to mind.
Coping with the harsh terrain and weather is part of a Mongolian herder’s way of life. But there are early warnings that this winter the dzud – or a very snowy winter, which causes starvation when animals can’t graze – will be very severe. Past severe dzuds which have stripped herders of their livelihoods, have coincided with strong El Niño.
Read more about FAO and El Niño.
Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/D. Hadrill. Editorial use only. Copyright FAO
One of three coaches from Coplands at Drayton Manor today MIB516 a Bova Futura C55F. Photo taken 17/07/14
This is to show my appreciation to all the group administrators and moderators who work so hard on our behalf and have had a hard time coping with the resent changes. Many thanks to them all.
Whilst grateful for all your favours I'm finding is hard to deal with them when I get more than 2 or 3 at a time from any one person.
I wish you well in whatever way is most appropriate for you but cannot take on the extra work of writing it to you individually. Thank you for your good wishes and to those who have made me their contact. Due to long term health and eye problems I regret I can't take on any new contacts but nearly always manage to reply to your comments.