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Charts similar to this are used to demonstrate relatedness according to Neo-Darwinistic Evolution. Lines are drawn based on observed similarities not only in physical features, but also in their assembly instructions. However, no explanation is offered to explain differences. The XR6 and XR8, for example, are in many ways identical, but changing a six cylinder motor into an eight cylinder motor gradually, step by step, is impossible.
As I was explained by the locals the Duct Tape on the cavities of Manhole Covers are used to prevent cockroach infestation. They tend to appear from the sewers during the height of the summer and can be up to 5 cm in length. They are not welcome by the Italians hence the tape and disinfection of these Manholes to stop cockroaches from appearing on the side-walk. Noticed that the Manhole Cover taping has a certain appeal and everyone has a different approach. It defines the neighbourhood as the ones with the money go for professional services (Disinfection and professional tape) while other resorts to DIY (Taping the manhole cover over and over again with any means possible). As a result a series of photos of these Bari Manhole Covers.
Prior to the 1996 riposte by a Senator to the question of xenophobia as please explain a former Prime Minister had in 1992 labelled the Senate as unrepresentative swill. Never a chamber of greatness, just of review and opinions, they have improved since 1996. Still, their sub-optimal talent, except for some beacons of hope make it look as dull and uniform as the granite which clads two wings of the New Parliament House. This is it; up close.
I'm not really here to bag the Senate; that's too easy a target. Instead I'm here for a tour of parliamentary geology. That's right — geology. Under the encumbent mob you'd be excused for supposing I said theology. There are things older still than that antedeluvian mob, even if those things aren't as backward, unevolved and bland.
Where the New Parliament House stands there was once a perfectly good hill, and useful as hills go it was too. This was Capital Hill. On Capital Hill, as well as the foundation stone of the city of Canberra there were some altogether older stones, and some just a smidgen younger than the oldest ones. Australia had been a bit of mess in the Silurian Period. It was a bit of a construction site where something big had whacked into the side and pushed up some hills of its own. If you've ever piled something up you'll know gravity wants to pull it all down again; spoilsport that it is. Guess what? That's just what happened and so the State Circle Shale was formed. Then things got really serious and those new shales, along with the Black Mountain Sandstone on top of them, got tipped up as Australia's corset was tightened further. More weathering, erosion and pesky gravity later and another bunch of rocks, the Camp Hill Sandstone, were laid down over the lot. More uplift, tilting, erosion etcetera later and we had Camp Hill. Probably not as famous as the Hutton Unconformity at Inchbonny, but nevertheless, here in the middle of a city was an even more interesting and quite flashy example of deep time, orogenesis, blah, blah, blah…contained in an easily accessible unconformity.
Building New Parliament House required the excavation of roughly a million cubic metres of rock — the previously mentioned Capital Hill. With it went almost, but not quite all, of the unconformity between the Black Mountain Sandstone and Camp Hill Sandstone. Down below in the undercroft of this wastrel edifice, among all the dust and rubble, under the ventilation ducts, the buildings hydraulics and so on is a perfectly preserved chunk of that outstanding geology. This is why I am here. I cannot show you a photograph: phones, cameras etcetera are not allowed for security reasons. Honestly, it didn't work for Guy Fawkes, and blowing this lot up would be a waste of a good building, some classic geology and the explosives.
Further down the hill the circular road, unimaginatively named State Circle, cuts through the just a bit younger than Black Mountain Sandstone's successor, State Circle Shale, on which the Camp Hill Sandstone sits and can still be seen by public gaze. I promise, one day I'll post an image of that delight so you don't feel wholly left out.
Now back to xenophobia. It's Greek in origin; the word, although perhaps the concept too. I don't know. Because scientists liked to sound all clever they called the black blob in this image a xenolith, a foreign rock. This one is in the frankly pretty uniform and drab Eugowra Granite cladding of the New Parliament House. It adds character. People still argue about how to make a granite. Nobody has even seen one born. It always happens deep underground where we aren't welcome. Unlike your spitty, spewy volcanoes, it seems granites don't really have the runs. The mavens of granite now suppose that rather than a liquid blob squirting up into what they might call the country rock, granites are emplaced more as a gravitationally and chemically unstable mush of crystals, liquids and gases. Where the xenoliths were supposed to be bits broken off from the intruded country rock, now they are known to be something completely different. That unstable mush is generated by the heating up of rocks deep within the Earth by all manner of Nature's witchery. The more susceptible to melting and dissolving bits separate out. But bits of the more stable, left behind until now stuff get entrained with the gravitationally unstable intrusive blob. One of the really clever things about granites is how their fluidity is enabled by a flux of fluids. These fluids are held in by the pressure of the overburden until the point where the pressure of the fluids exceed the Earth's ability to hold it in, like Australia's corset giving way. When that happens, the granite freezes, it's chemistry changes a bit and if those bits of entrained stuff aren't quite in chemical equilibrium they can get a halo around them that is a bit neither one thing or the other.
For a while geologists, or maybe they were "Earth scientists", went all PC and stopped calling them xenoliths. Instead they called them enclaves. Thankfully that silliness seems to have abated. There's enough problems with the occupants of this grey clad house hating foreigners without giving them any hint that there might be enclaves of the buggers too.
Child Survival and Development which provides strategic support and technical assistance to improve policies, access to and uptake of services through the health system particularly the posyandu (integrated health post) network. It aims to improve water and sanitation for poor and vulnerable children and women; developing capacity in health human resources, particularly in remote poor areas; improving health information systems, monitoring and evaluation; documenting lessons learnt to improve governance, services and resource allocation.
Have I ever told you how much I despise estate agents? How I think that they are money-grubbing scum who make money by dubious lying and cheating?
I can't even make this mean anything by adding punctuation.
It seems that I can add "terrible use of English" and "Jumping on the environmental bandwaggon" to my reasons for hating them.
Taken with Minolta MD Macro-Rokkor 50mm f3.5 on Panasonic G1.
Sparks telling us some disheartening details about what his stay was like. This pictures gives some scale of how big the room is with the people in it, the next looks down the room. Apparently, most of the prisoners in the room were political prisoners. However, one of the interesting things Sparks told us is the prison system mixed common prisoners with political prisoners in the hopes the common criminals would make the political prisoners into common criminals and the political prisoners would forget about politics.
Pretty stupid.
The opposite happened - the political prisoners educated the common criminals - and the prison started punishing prisoners with solitary confinement and severly restricting the learning and education the prisoners had access too. I think Sparks said at one point Nelson Mandela was denied access to any form of reading or educational materials for four years during his 18 year stay on Robben Island.
Well, well, well... surely, the elite cadre of the moral police bunked too many history classes in school during their four-year scholastic career. Which explains why they have slapped a ban on women wearing burqas. Imagine that!
Not to be outdone by the rave publicity that the Sri Rama Sene is hogging, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the BJP, has imposed a ban on women wearing burqas at a college in rural Karnataka.
Now, what are we to make of this? So, Western dresses are sacrilegious. And the burqa offends Indian culture. Perhaps the sari, a garment that exposes ample midriff, ought to be made the official garment for all college-going women.
If you think I've had a little too much bad medicine, read this.
Now, does Shri Mutalik have anything intelligent to say?
I was taking some pictures for a photography lesson. This is the data: f29 - ISO 400 - 1/15 sec.
How did I get these results? Amazing, huh?
The Pioneer Martian Flag, with explanations of the symbols. Check out the world of Sub Martis at: www.submartis.com. Welcome to Mars!
Explaining the research process during Spatial Group Model Building (SGMB) workshop one for the pig value chain project in Myeik, Myanmar (photo credit: Lincoln University/ Jared Berends)
I did this diagram last year for a small economic consulting firm. The purpose was to explain the importance of secured transactions in developing economies. There are some things I would change, but I'm pretty happy with it, and it's still generating buzz at the relevant financial institutions.
Yayoi Kusama "Infinity Mirrors" exhibit, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Yayoi Kusama
Infinity Mirrored Room—All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins
2016
Wood, mirrors, plastic, acrylic, and LEDs
Collection of the artist
"Coming from a family that cultivated and sold plant seeds for a living, Kusama saw a pumpkin for the first time during a childhood visit to a seed-harvesting farm with her grandfather. Nestled into the landscape between fields of zinnia, periwinkle, and nasturtium flowers, she spotted an unusually shaped gourd the size of a man’s head. The artist was attracted to the pumpkin for its “charming and winsome form,” celebrating its lumpy, unpretentious, organic shape. The pumpkin motif first appeared in some of Kusama’s drawings from the late 1940s and has repeatedly shown up in her paintings, sculptures, drawings, and installations. Her initial pumpkin mirrored room was staged in 1991 and was later displayed at the 1993 Venice Biennale. Stepping into Infinity Mirrored Room—All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, one is transported to a space that recalls fairytales and fantasy. The glowing pumpkins, modeled after the Japanese kabocha squash, are married with Kusama’s signature polka dot pattern within an infinitely repeating space."
The FIFA 17 Web App initially opened ahead of the FIFA 17 launch in a period known as Web start, which allowed players to get a head start on the transfer market and Ultimate Team mode before the majority of fans gained access.
The initial Web start period’s over, which means there’s...
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Jorge Dubon (Chiapas, 1938 – Paris, 2004) was also an architect, wich explains his vision that art should be part of buildings and of the street. For Dubon sculpture is linear motion and rhythm in color. Sculpture is nude, this is: separate from the anecdotal, literary and emotional. His sculptures have a strictly aesthetic function, to which all elements of the work of art are made useful.
Title of the work: Metalic wood
This work of art can be admired at the Middelheim open air museum at Antwerp: www.middelheimmuseum.be/en
Jorge Dubon (Chiapas, 1938 – Paris, 2004) was ook een architect wat zijn visie op beeldhouwwerk deels verklaart: hij vond dat die deel moest uitmaken van gebouwen en van het straatbeeld. Voor Dubon is sculptuur lineaire beweging en ritme in kleur. Sculptuur is naakt, dit is los van het anekdotische, literaire en emotionele. Zijn beelden hebben een strikt esthetische functie, waaraan alle elementen van het kunstwerk dienstbaar worden gemaakt.
Titel van het werk: Bos van metaal
Meer over dit werk: search.middelheimmuseum.be/details/collect/148191
Dit werk kan bewonderd worden in het openlucht museum Middelheim in Antwerpen: www.middelheimmuseum.be/nl
Jorge Dubon (Chiapas, 1938 – Paris, 2004) était également architecte, ce qui explique en partie sa vision sur la sculpture: il pensait qu'elle devait faire partie des bâtiments et de la scène de la rue. Pour Dubon, la sculpture est un mouvement linéaire et un rythme en couleur. La sculpture est nue, elle est séparée de l'anecdotique, du littéraire et de l'émotionnel. Ses sculptures ont une fonction strictement esthétique, à laquelle tous les éléments de l'œuvre d'art sont subordonnés.
Titre de l'œuvre: Bois métallique
Cette œuvre peut être admirée au musée en plein air Middelheim à Anvers: www.middelheimmuseum.be/fr