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Recent photos I took show the peace and solitude of Glendalough and the monastic site founded by St. Kevin in the 6th century. However this shot shows what greets you near the entrance!
I was the only customer so a better marketing strategy has to be found. I bought 2 items and got a free apple cider.
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Parrot: "One cracker, one photo. Move it along. Move it along. I don't have all day. You don't have a cracker? Oh, I'm so sorry. Get out of line! Next. Let's go, folks. I have nut bingo in one hour."
Santa Barbara Zoo, Santa Barbara, California 2015
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Outfit: Kitty Creations Meryl Red
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Pantyhose: Vannies Papillon
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Heels: C Chantal Leather Mules (part of C Chantal's Retro Rockabilly outfit)
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Necklace & Earrings: EarthStones Flight of Fancy
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Vitus Bering Innovation Park, offices & educational facilities for entrepreneurs at VIA University College Horsens, Denmark; by C.F. Møller Architects 2009.
We visited Cleveland's West Side Market yesterday morning for some shopping. Of course, I had my camera with me. This is a photo of a young girl who was busily making small woven baskets for sale. By far, she was the busiest and most aspiring entrepreneur at the market.
For me, the best part of this photograph is the sunlight on the girl's hair. I also liked the intense look on her face as she worked so hard.
Frazier is my oldest nephew. He has just started his own company, Signature Clothing. His line consists of all sorts of apparel, and is pretty cool looking, so this pic was something I wanted to be a little different, cool and innovative, just like Frazier!
After Thanksgiving dinner, I did a couple of quick grab shots at the table of Frazier and his brother, Drake. Though this one wasn't bad as far as detail went, it was busy and needed some enhancement. As I looked at the image, I realized that some of the things that were popping up in the background actually played into who Frazier is. "Brawny" and "Hefty" describe his strength. He had gone through Police Academy, and trained hard, deciding afterwards that he wanted to go a different route, which may include being an Army Ranger. Frazier is a tough guy with a heart. He loves animals, and they love him, so the kitties that pop up bring that in. There are magnets on the fridge referencing faith and humor, both also are a big part of who Frazier is. So, I left the background, busy as it was, but decided to make him pop by doing a sketch effect on only him. I actually really liked it after I got done. It kind of highlights the drive my nephew has, and a good natured intensity and determination that he personifies.
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Fellow Flickrite mpaulda was kind enough to send me some cameras to play around with this summer. Thanks Mark!
This bronze statue called "Spirit", by Buck McCain, represents the spirit of entrepreurism and resides outside the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. This image is from the Lomo Smena (Cmeha) 35.
A street in Kandy, Sri Lanka, a local farmer sets up on the street, while everyone else just walks and drives past
Inscribed - "Very truly your friend / Lysander Spooner"
Lysander Spooner (January 19, 1808 – May 14, 1887) was an American abolitionist, entrepreneur, lawyer, essayist, natural rights legal theorist, pamphleteer, political philosopher and writer often associated with the Boston anarchist tradition.
Spooner was a strong advocate of the labor movement and is politically identified with individualist anarchism. His writings contributed to the development of both left-libertarian and right-libertarian political theory. Spooner's writings include the abolitionist book The Unconstitutionality of Slavery and No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority, which opposed treason charges against secessionists.
He is known for establishing the American Letter Mail Company, which competed with the United States Postal Service.
Early life - Spooner was born on a farm in Athol, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1808. Spooner's parents were Asa and Dolly Spooner. One of his ancestors, William Spooner, arrived in Plymouth in 1637. Lysander was the second of nine children. His father was a deist and it has been speculated that he purposely named his two older sons Leander and Lysander after Greek mythological and Spartan heroes, respectively.
Legal career - Spooner's activism began with his career as a lawyer, which itself violated Massachusetts law. Spooner had studied law under the prominent lawyers, politicians and abolitionists John Davis, later Governor of Massachusetts and Senator; and Charles Allen, state senator and Representative from the Free Soil Party. However, he never attended college. According to the laws of the state, college graduates were required to study with an attorney for three years, while non-graduates like Lysander would be required to do so for five years. With the encouragement from his legal mentors, Spooner set up his practice in Worcester, Massachusetts after only three years, defying the courts. He regarded the three-year privilege for college graduates as a state-sponsored discrimination against the poor (who could not afford to go to college), and viewed it as providing a monopoly income to those who met the requirements. He argued that "no one has yet ever dared advocate, in direct terms, so monstrous a principle as that the rich ought to be protected by law from the competition of the poor". In 1836, the legislature abolished the restriction. He opposed all licensing requirements for lawyers. After a disappointing legal career and a failed career in real estate speculation in Ohio, Spooner returned to his father's farm in 1840.
American Letter Mail Company - Being an advocate of self-employment and opponent of government regulation of business, in 1844 Spooner started the American Letter Mail Company, which competed with the United States Post Office, whose rates were very high. It had offices in various cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York City. Stamps could be purchased and then attached to letters, which could be brought to any of its offices. From here, agents were dispatched who traveled on railroads and steamboats and carried the letters in handbags. Letters were transferred to messengers in the cities along the routes, who then delivered the letters to the addressees. This was a challenge to the Post Office's legal monopoly. As he had done when challenging the rules of the Massachusetts Bar Association, Spooner published a pamphlet titled "The Unconstitutionality of the Laws of Congress Prohibiting Private Mails". Although Spooner had finally found commercial success with his mail company, legal challenges by the government eventually exhausted his financial resources. A law enacted in 1851 that strengthened the federal government's monopoly finally put him out of business. The legacy of Spooner's challenge to the postal service was the reduction in letter postage from 5¢ to 3¢, in response to the competition his company provided.
Later life and death - Spooner argued that "almost all fortunes are made out of the capital and labour of other men than those who realize them. Indeed, except by his sponging capital and labour from others". Spooner defended the Millerites, who stopped working because they believed the world would soon end and were arrested for vagrancy. Spooner spent much time in the Boston Athenæum. He died on May 14, 1887, at the age of 79 in his nearby residence at 109 Myrtle Street, Boston. He never married and had no children.
LINK to - Lysander Spooner autograph letter signed to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Boston, 28 November 1858 - www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:dz011603q
LINK to video - America's First Anarchist: The Life of Lysander Spooner - www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHNGHTCOkQI
LINK to video - The Most Anti-Slavery Lawyer: Lysander Spooner | Politically Incorrect Guide to Real American Heroes - www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI2rtwY68OI
Roger Corbray: Entrepreneur, Bionic Engineer, and Human Augmentation Visionary. Having won backing from numerous MegaCorporations to launch his innovative NeuralNet, the campaign to on-board was aggressive. Millions of humans in need of upgrades to their outdated bionics or even their ailing bodies. The world was moving past humanity, mutants, cyborgs, replicates.... It was time we take our place and shed what makes us weak. The NeuralNet will perform 24/7 diagnostic, self repair, bring your mechanical and biological human self into balance.... a harmony for a healthier, smarter, and stronger humanity.
Graben (en alemán, zanja, foso) es una de las calles más importantes del Innere Stadt, el centro de la ciudad de Viena, Austria. Empieza en Stock-im-Eisen-Platz, junto al Palais Equitable, y termina en la intersección de Kohlmarkt y Tuchlauben. En el centro de Viena hay otra calle llamada Tiefer Graben («zanja profunda»), que es cruzada por Wipplinger Straße mediante el célebre Hohe Brücke, un puente a unos diez metros por encima del nivel de la calle.
El origen de Graben se remonta al antiguo campamento romano de Vindobona. La muralla suroeste del asentamiento se extendía a lo largo de los actuales Graben y Naglergasse; antes de la muralla se dispuso un foso (Graben). Este foso siguió existiendo frente a las murallas medievales. A finales del siglo XII, la ciudad fue ampliada por los Duques de Babenberg. En esta época, el foso fue rellenado y nivelado. Graben se convirtió así en una de las primeras calles residenciales de la ampliación de la ciudad. En esta zona de la ciudad aún había disponibles grandes zonas sin urbanizar, lo que probablemente contribuyó a que se haya conservado el nombre Graben hasta la actualidad.
Aunque la forma de Graben siguió siendo prácticamente la misma, su carácter empezó a cambiar. Esto fue marcado sobre todo por la construcción del Arkadenhof, un llamativo edificio renacentista, que en 1873 fue sustituido por el actual Grabenhof. Graben se convirtió en el lugar de celebración de varias festividades, incluidas demostraciones públicas de homenaje a la dinastía reinante. Esto impulsó a los residentes a reconstruir sus casas y engalanar sus fachadas. En 1701 se demolió la antigua Iglesia de San Pedro para ser reconstruida, y la nueva estructura se completó en 1708.
Con el aumento del tráfico rodado, Graben también se convirtió en una calle con mucho tráfico. Sin embargo, el tráfico fue limitado a la mitad sur de la calle. El 4 de diciembre de 1950, se instalaron aquí las primeras luces de neón de Viena.
En el siglo XX se han propuesto numerosos proyectos para la remodelación de Graben. El 22 de noviembre de 1974 Graben se convirtió, de manera provisional, en la primera zona peatonal de Viena. Durante la construcción del metro, Graben fue remodelado en fases sucesivas, y la zona peatonal fue expandida gradualmente. Para esta remodelación, se encargaron propuestas a cinco arquitectos y estudios de arquitectura. La propuesta de Gruppe M para la cubrición de Graben fue debatida acaloradamente.
En la actualidad, Graben sigue siendo una de las calles y zonas de tiendas más importantes de Viena.
En Graben hay dos fuentes. Ya en 1455, se encuentran gastos para una fuente en los libros de contabilidad de la ciudad. Esta fuente se situaba en el extremo noroeste de Graben y servía principalmente para apagar incendios. Debido a que estaba decorada con cuatro cabezas de león, era conocida como Löwenbrunnen («fuente de los leones»).
La segunda fuente, en el suroeste, fue construida probablemente en 1561. Cuando en 1638 se decidió establecer nuevas regulaciones contra incendios, se consideraron necesarias del mismo modo nuevas fuentes en Freyung y Graben. Las dos fuentes fueron por tanto reconstruidas. A instancias de Leopoldo I, las fuentes estaban adornadas con esculturas de los santos José y Leopoldo, que fueron realizadas por el escultor Johann Frühwirth. Estas fueron sustituidas posteriormente con figuras de plomo de Johann Martin Fischer. Las estatuas de Frühwirth se han perdido.
A partir del 1 de marzo de 1912, la primera línea de autobús de la ciudad discurría desde Stephansplatz hasta la Volksoper pasando por Graben. Posteriormente, numerosas líneas de autobús atravesarían Graben. En conexión con la construcción del metro, Graben se convirtió en una zona peatonal. En el desfile de Navidad del 27 de noviembre de 1971 se inauguró una prueba de la zona peatonal. El proyecto final para el establecimiento de la zona peatonal fue obra de Hermann Stiegholzer, y fue inaugurado en 1978. El proyecto fue completado en 1988 con la incorporación del tramo entre la Iglesia de San Pedro y el Kohlmarkt. Sin embargo, la línea de autobús A1 todavía atraviesa este tramo.
La línea U3 del Metro discurre bajo la sección entre Stock-im-Eisen-Platz y Jungferngasse desde 1991. La estación de Stephansplatz ya se había construido durante la construcción original de la línea U1, haciendo necesaria su extensión bajo Graben. Una salida de esta estación conduce a Graben. Esta salida no tiene techo, en un intento de hacerla lo menos invasiva visualmente posible. La incorporación de la salida en los edificios vecinos no fue posible debido a los altos pagos compensatorios que hubieran sido necesarios.
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The Graben is one of the most famous streets in Vienna's first district, the city centre. It begins at Stock-im-Eisen-Platz next to the Palais Equitable and ends at the junction of Kohlmarkt and Tuchlauben. Another street in the first district is called Tiefer Graben (deep ditch). It is crossed by Wipplinger Straße by means of the Hohe Brücke, a bridge about ten metres above street level.
The Graben traces its origin back to the old Roman encampment of Vindobona. The south-western wall of the settlement extended along the length of the present-day Graben and Naglergasse; before the wall lay a trench (Graben). This trench still stood in front of the medieval city walls. At the end of the 12th century, the city was enlarged by the Babenberg Dukes, using the ransom money for Richard the Lionheart. At this time the trench was filled in and levelled. The Graben thereby became one of the first residential streets in the new section of the city. In this area of the city large unbuilt areas were still available, which probably contributed to the maintenance of the name "Graben" up until the present day.
Although the form of the Graben remained more or less the same, its character began to change. It was marked above all by the construction of the Arkadenhof, a striking Renaissance building, which in 1873 was replaced by the present-day Grabenhof. The Graben became the site of various festivities, including public displays of homage to the ruling house. This prompted the residents to rebuild their houses and to deck out their facades. In 1701 the old Peterskirche was torn down, and the new structure was completed in 1708.
In the course of the 18th century the use of the Graben as a market was suppressed. In 1753 the produce-sellers were removed, and in 1772 the Christmas market was relocated. The Graben became the most fashionable promenade, the chief arena for the self-display of the urban elite. This was not limited to the nobility, but included the entrepreneurial class as well, who were most visibly represented by the construction of the Trattnerhof by the printer Thomas von Trattner. Prostitutes were also in evidence — the famous Grabennymphen.
With the increase in car traffic, the Graben also became a heavily traveled street. However, traffic was limited, as previously, to the southern half of the street. On December 4, 1950, the first neon lights in Vienna were installed here.
Numerous plans for the development of the Graben were proposed, including two for its surveillance. On November 22, 1974, the Graben became, on a provisional basis, Vienna's first pedestrian zone. In the course of the construction of the U-Bahn, the Graben was rebuilt in successive phases, and the pedestrian zone was gradually expanded. In this connection, development proposals from five architects and architectural firms were commissioned. The proposal of Gruppe M for the roofing of the Graben was hotly debated.
Today the Graben is again one of the most important promenades and shopping streets in Vienna.
Two fountains are found on the Graben. Already in 1455, expenditures for a fountain are found in the city account books. This fountain stood on the northwestern end of the Graben and served primarily to put out fires. As it was decorated with four lion's heads, it was known as the Löwenbrunnen (lion fountain). The second, southwestern, fountain was presumably built in 1561. When in 1638 it was decided to establish new fire regulations, new fountains on the Freyung and the Graben were likewise deemed necessary. The two fountains were therefore rebuilt. At the behest of Leopold I, the fountains were adorned with sculptures of Saints Joseph and Leopold, which were executed by the sculptor Johann Frühwirth. These were later replaced with lead figures by Johann Martin Fischer. Frühwirth's statues have since been lost.
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