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Regardless of the extent of the ongoing tyranny and oppression I have been forced to deal with in Greece for nearly a decade under the harshest environment, my efforts in finding Justice and Freedom for my life have not stopped and it never will until my last breath.
Hence, on December 23rd, 2022, while enduring day 140th of my 4th Hunger Strike outside the UNHCR office in Athens, I left my shelter again to reach the Indian Embassy and plead for their help in providing urgent Humanitarian aid and mediation with this UN Agency.
Although I managed to speak with two Embassy representatives and even though they said they would help, ultimately they had gotten the Police involved to take me away. This time I was held in Police Custody for 2-hours before being let go.
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Against the extent of the sun we'd see today, a Metra scoot pushes toward downtown through Berkeley.
The Valles Caldera is 34 miles north of our house but the extent of the Las Conchas fire brought the flames within about 20 miles of us. The smoke was stifling and brought the visibility, normally almost unlimited, down to less than 5 miles at times.
What really amazes me, though I didn't know it at the time, is that as stated below, the fire was destroying forest at the rate of an acre a second on the first day. 43,000 acres were burned on day one of the fire. Frightening.
The Las Conchas Fire took place in north central New Mexico, in June and July of 2011. The fire started in Santa Fe National Forest and burned more than 150,000 acres, threatening Los Alamos National Laboratory and the town of Los Alamos. After five days of burning, it became the largest wildfire in New Mexico state history at the time, though it was surpassed the following year by the Whitewater-Baldy Complex Fire in southwest NM near the Arizona border.
The fire started on June 26, 2011, at approximately 1:00 pm Mountain Daylight Time when a tree fell on a power line. On the first day, driven by strong and unpredictable winds, the fire burned 43,000 acres, a rate of about an acre per second.
By the evening of the first day of the fire, no part was contained, according to local fire officials, and the county was put under voluntary evacuation. The fire burned over 61,000 acres by the end of the day on June 27, pushed north by winds into the Pajarito Mountain Ski Area. The fire also burned south, threatening the town of Cochiti, New Mexico. On June 28, this estimate was increased to nearly 61,000 acres. On June 29, it was reported that the fire was 3 percent contained, 12 miles southwest of Los Alamos, and had burned nearly 70,000 acres (109 sq mi). By then the fire had pushed farther north into the land owned and held sacred by Santa Clara Pueblo. By June 30, the burned area had increased to over 103,000 acres (161 sq mi), making it the largest fire in New Mexico history (the previous largest was the 2003 Dry Lakes Fire, which burned over 94,000 acres). Mandatory evacuation orders were issued for Los Alamos as of June 27, and Los Alamos National Laboratory was closed to all non-essential personnel. The evacuation order was lifted on July 3, at which time Los Alamos residents were allowed to return to their homes. The Los Alamos National Laboratory re-opened on July 6. As of July 14, 2011, the fire was 57% contained.
On June 27, a one-acre spot fire burned on Los Alamos National Laboratory until firefighters extinguished it. Authorities reported that the fire did not threaten essential buildings. That was the only time the fire burned on lab property, as the fire then moved away.
The fire was 100% contained on August 3 and efforts are now underway for recovery of the burned areas.
Sixteen thousand acres of Santa Clara Pueblo burned in the fire, much of it in the pueblo's watershed. Forty-five percent of the watershed was burned, leading to fears of flooding. The pueblo responded by preparing for floods. Currently, much of the burned area is still at risk for dangerous flash floods.
Destructive flooding occurred in the burned region as the result of a monsoon rainstorm on August 21.
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale that was published by Baudet of Reims. The card has a divided back.
Reims Cathedral
The cathedral suffered very heavy artillery damage during the Great War. The extent of the damage is not apparent from the photograph.
Reims Cathedral in the Great War
The Cathedral was reduced to a roofless shell by the 287 explosive and incendiary shells that rained on it during the course of the Great War.
A Poem by Grace Conkling
Grace Hazard Conkling (1878-1958) wrote a poem about Reims Cathedral in 1914:
'A wingèd death has smitten dumb thy bells,
And poured them molten from thy tragic towers:
Now are the windows dust that were thy flowers
Patterned like frost, petalled like asphodels.
Gone are the angels and the archangels,
The saints, the little lamb above thy door,
The shepherd Christ! They are not, any more,
Save in the soul where exiled beauty dwells.
But who has heard within thy vaulted gloom
That old divine insistence of the sea,
When music flows along the sculptured stone
In tides of prayer, for him thy windows bloom'.
Like faithful sunset, warm immortally!
Thy bells live on, and Heaven is in their tone!'
In fact the bells of Reims Cathedral did not melt, although they did fall. The solidified pools of metal on the floor of the Cathedral actually came from the covering of lead on the roof which had melted when the wooden structure blazed from end to end.
Molten lead also flowed from the medieval stained glass windows, and poured through the gargoyles designed to channel rain from the roof. The gargoyles were not designed for the roof itself to pour out of them.
Reims Cathedral Before the Great War
If you want to see what Reims Cathedral looked like before the Great War, please search for the tag 32RCB34
Rouen Cathedral
If Grace had wanted to write about bells which really did melt, she could have waited another 30 years and written about Rouen Cathedral. This was bombed by the Germans in the Second World War, leading inter alia to a fire in the medieval north tower containing the famous bells.
The tower acted as a chimney for the extensive woodwork inside to burn and create very high temperatures - sufficient to calcify the ancient stonework and leave pools of molten bell metal at the base of the tower.
You can see more about Rouen Cathedral if you search for the tag 87RCL55
The Use of Artillery in the Great War
Artillery was very heavily used by both sides during the Great War. The British fired over 170 million artillery rounds of all types, weighing more than 5 million tons - that's an average of around 70 pounds (32 kilos) per shell.
With an average length of two feet, that number of shells if laid end to end would stretch for 64,394 miles (103,632 kilometres). That's over two and a half times round the Earth. If the artillery of the Central Powers of Germany and its allies is factored in, the figure can be doubled to 5 encirclements of the planet.
During the first two weeks of the Third Battle of Ypres, over 4 million rounds were fired at a cost of over £22,000,000 - a huge sum of money, especially over a century ago.
Artillery was the killer and maimer of the war of attrition.
According to Dennis Winter's book 'Death's Men' three quarters of battle casualties were caused by artillery rounds. According to John Keegan ('The Face of Battle') casualties were:
- Bayonets - less than 1%
- Bullets - 30%
- Artillery and Bombs - 70%
Keegan suggests however that the ratio changed during advances, when massed men walking line-abreast with little protection across no-man's land were no match for for rifles and fortified machine gun emplacements.
Many artillery shells fired during the Great War failed to explode. Drake Goodman provides the following information on Flickr:
"During World War I, an estimated one tonne of explosives was fired for every square metre of territory on the Western front. As many as one in every three shells fired did not detonate. In the Ypres Salient alone, an estimated 300 million projectiles that the British and the German forces fired at each other were "duds", and most of them have not been recovered."
To this day, large quantities of Great War matériel are discovered on a regular basis. Many shells from the Great War were left buried in the mud, and often come to the surface during ploughing and land development.
For example, on the Somme battlefields in 2009 there were 1,025 interventions, unearthing over 6,000 pieces of ammunition weighing 44 tons.
Artillery shells may or may not still be live with explosive or gas, so the bomb disposal squad, of the Civilian Security of the Somme, dispose of them.
A huge mine under the German lines did not explode during the battle of Messines in 1917. The mine, containing several tons of ammonal and gun cotton, was triggered by lightning in 1955, creating an enormous crater.
The precise location of a second mine which also did not explode is unknown. Searches for it are not planned, as they would be too expensive and dangerous. For more on this, please search for "Cotehele Chapel"
The Somme Times
From 'The Somme Times', Monday, 31 July, 1916:
'There was a young girl of the Somme,
Who sat on a number five bomb,
She thought 'twas a dud 'un,
But it went off sudden -
Her exit she made with aplomb!'
I was always and still am to an extent a Straotcaster kind of guy; they feel nice to play, match the sound I am after and the they are the sound of my heroes. However when you want some meat delivered nothing sounds more pounding that a Les Paul. I have here my first "real" Les Paul which I found last year on the Cash Converters website severely under priced (suckers), and I have to say it has been my main stay for the House Band ever since. The House Band is a covers band we play loud and fast punk rock songs so an easy to play mid range power house guitar is an imperative. This studio Les Paul fits the bill with Alnico V pickups and a super smooth neck and action. but one thing above all is that all Les Paul's are beautiful. They have this timeless, photogenic style about them I can't quite put my finger on. Other guitars, the telecaster, being a prime example get contemporary updates from time to to time, Les Pauls don't need that. They come in lots of different models but with the same basic design mass. I don't think any guitar has had so little done to it, even my beloved Stratocaster has been through the design wars, but the Strat has variance as its key attribute. The Les Paul they got right first time no improvements needed. I guess you could say this has been "improved" in the sense that an original Studio Les Pauls pickups would not have been as mid range orientated, but thats only a mild shift from what is essentially what the Gibson factory had in mind. Mine is an Epiphone as you can see but to me thats a bonus, cheap guitars never came this good when I first started now they are mind blowing.
Just Why Is Xavier Chungu Back In Town
By Comrade Derrick Sinjela
BETTER late than never is a British parlance of old that to greater extents explains the return of Zambia's much revered and feared past immediate Director General of the Zambia Intelligence Security Services (ZISS).
While one independent media columnist, hits the nail on the head that the Almighty Great Shu Shu Shu (James Bond 007), is back on account of preparedness, speculations are mounting that perhaps the compromised stance taken by Rupiah Bwezani Banda and his henchmen, could have prompted the Zambian Spy Wiz kid to return home.
Another political school of thought attributes the development to the uncontested fact that since the demise of the anti-corruption stalwart, Levy Patrick Mwanawasa, to date it is difficult to find a determined anti-graft personality in the Zambian Government of Bwezani Banda.
Our court and prosecution system seems to be very much political as more often than not only those that are targeted by the state face the wrath of the law as evident by the manner characterising the run-up to the controversially held Presidential Bye-Elections on October 30, 2008.
Thus with little explanations bearing fruit on the timing of Xavier's return, many fear that the political grape vine will have a field day speculating.
Just as in politics itself, it seems in matters of graft they are neither permanent friends nor enemies given the realignments that were characteristic of the re-alignments that held sway in Zambia recently.
For the uninitiated, we saw, the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) patching up differences with Second Republican President, Dr Frederick Chiluba, and ironically witnessed First Republican President, Dr Kenneth David Kaunda, sharing the platform in support of Rupiah Banda. Perhaps with Rupiah in the saddle at State House, the United National Independence Party (UNIP) is equally comfortable eating on the same table with the MMD and of course sharing a bed.
The realignments are not limited to UNIP and Dr Chiluba, as Sakwiba Sikota, leader of the Liberal Party, yet another die-hard critic of the MMD Government, wholeheartedly supported Rupiah and the ruling party.
CSO Roundtable Post Election Update 2009
By McDonald Chipenzi
THE three (3) Election Monitoring Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) namely Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP), Anti-Voter Apathy Project (AVAP) and Zambia National Women's Lobby (ZNWL) organized a round
table discussion to review the 2008 presidential election.
The objective of the discussion was to allow participants to take stock, reflect and share experiences on the election and devise common strategies on the way forward. Among the participants present were from the Zambia Police Service, UPND, MMD, PF and Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD).
Others were from the United Church of Zambia (UCZ), Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ), AVAP, FODEP, NGOCC, TIZ, MISA-Zambia, MECOZ and ZNWL. It was observed during the discussion that overall, the 2008 election results showed the ruling MMD was no longer enjoying its usual share of
nationwide support. On the ECZ results map, the discussants noted that the map to some extent misrepresented the actual status quo because the MMD support base in the last election reduced, in some cases with a big margin.
Nationally, the MMD's support base had dropped by three (3)
percent i.e. from 43% in 2006 to 40% in 2008. The discussants also noted that PF and UPND commanded significant support in the country which the map could not capture.
The low voter turnout in the 2008 presidential election reduced Patriotic Front (PF) president Michael Sata's chances of winning the election and that had the voter turnout been high, Mr. Sata would perhaps have carried the day.
However, comparatively, from 2001 to 2008, PF is the only party that has been gaining in its vote share across the country. In the 2008 Presidential Election, PF was the only party that gained support in almost the nine (9) provinces. The UPND gained more support in Northwestern, Western and Southern provinces while the MMD gained more in Eastern Province, Lusaka and Southern provinces.
Media Ethics Council of Zambia (MECOZ) noted that specially on the complaint lodging structure and editorial comments. MECOZ attributed these weaknesses in the Code together with the
weaknesses in MECOZ's constitution to its failure to enforce the Code on media bodies to adhere to the acceptable ethics in their coverage of elections. The Council also noted that the lack of a media body to monitor media coverage during elections complicated the situation.
We have reached the "living buffer" aka a tree growing across the line! a dead version is just beyond... the line once continued to Lightmoor Junction on the Coalbrookdale line.
The extent of the panniers illusion. These would be prominent with any support underneath. My makeshift panniers were crushed in storage between Halloween and Purim, so this is all bustling.
Situated on a slight rise about 200m NW of the original extent of Manorhamilton town and separated from it by NE-SW section of the Owenbeg River. Sir Frederick Hamilton received a grant of over 5,000 acres in 1621-2 which he proceeded to increase, and by 1631 he had over 16,000 acres. He had undertaken to build a castle, which was probably not finished until 1636. In January 1642, Manorhamilton was besieged by Irish rebels under such leaders as Brian McDonogh and Owen O'Rourke or Teige O'Connor Sligo, who were encamped at Lurganboy. On January 30th they burnt the town but failed to capture the castle, and they lifted the siege on April 3rd. In the following year Hamilton used the castle as a base for raids as far afield as Sligo and Donegal. Hamilton left Ireland in 1643-4 and died in Scotland in 1647, but the castle seems to have survived until it was burnt by the earl of Clanrickard in 1652.
The castle is a two or three-storey rectangular house, although most of the third storey does not survive. There are two wings projecting on the N side which are not separated from the main house by party walls. The house is U-shaped and open to the N. The wings have a court between them, but its S wall, which would have had the original doorway, does not survive. There is a sallyport which is partly below ground level at the centre of the S wall of the house. There are four slightly rhomboid corner-towers which have three storeys at SW and SE, but those at NE and NW have five and four storeys with the use of mezzanine floors.
The house had two large transom and mullion windows in the S wall at ground and first floors, but these are either robbed or blocked and there are smaller windows, either blocked or robbed, on the E and W walls. The NE wing was probably the kitchen as its W wall at the ground floor has a large robbed fireplace. The main house was poorly provided with fireplaces with only small ones at the S end of the E and W walls and in each wing at the first floor.
Each floor of the corner towers usually has a window and two gun-loops, and some even have fireplaces. The corner towers communicated with the main house through lintelled passages, but there are no garderobes or latrines in the house.
All the quoins, except those from two angles of the corner towers, have been robbed, as has most of the dressed stonework from windows and doorways. There is a plinth all around and string-courses externally over the ground and first floors. The corner towers have three courses of banded masonry only on their outward-facing walls over the first floor.
The house is within a bawn defined by a reconstructed wall at W and remnants of the N end of the E wall. The interior is flush with the surviving top of the S wall, but there is evidence of corner towers only at SW where the W wall survives to three floors, and at SE where the foundations of a tower are visible. Elsewhere the bawn is defined by more modern walls, but there is no indication of where the original entrance may have been. Archaeological testing in the vicinity of the castle has failed to produce any related material, but an excavation inside the bawn has produced evidence of a cobbled surface in the courtyard and evidence of a basement within the castle. The castle has now been conserved, and guided tours can be had for a modest fee.
The extent of my Dangerous Love Collection, fashion-wise anyway. I did buy a few accessory packs for the incredible shoes, boots and beautiful handbags.
To some extent I have ignored Harold's Cross except for my visits to Mount Jerome Cemetery.
While travelling on the 16 bus today I overheard a group of young American visitors saying that Harold's Cross and nearby was the cool area of Dublin as it is now a hotspot for cafes and restaurants and they also mentioned the Harold's Cross Festival which includes everything from table quizzes to writing workshops and much to do in Harold's Cross Park. As a result of this conversation I decide to get off the bus and visit the park ... I always carry a very small Sony RX0 camera in my pocket.
This 1.25 hectare (3 acres) park was developed in 1894 by the Rathmines / Rathgar Commissioners and officially opened on May 1st 1894. The site of the park was used as commonage from medieval times. Designed by William Sheppard and Sons, “specialists in new parks and dripping pools” and costing £700 to construct, the park is essentially Victorian with a mixture of formal and natural styles. Dublin City Council took over the park in 1934 and has developed flower gardens and a play area while retaining the original design.
There are historical signs in the park explaining the parks history.
To what extent the British traditions of Hallowe'en and Bonfire Night are vestiges of the ancient Celtic New Year festival of Samhain (at which time the barriers between man and the supernatural are lowered), or celebration of the thwarting of an attempted terrorist outrage in 1605, is immaterial to the fact that a good bonfire will always have an instinctive primaeval fascination.
Urban extents illustrate the shape and area of urbanized places. Urbanized localities are defined as places with with 5,000 or more inhabitants that are delineated by stable night-time lights. For poorly lit areas, alternate sources are used to estimate the extent of cities.
An extremely rare World WarTwo (one of few in England) 5.25-inch Battery, consisting of three Gun Emplacements, located within the western extent of Weybourne Anti-Aircraft Training Camp, the site is centred on TG 0975 4381. The group consists of a Command Post building and three 5.25-inch Gun Emplacements, one of which was constructed in the post World War Two phase of the camp, potentially post 1953. A national plan was devised in 1944 to construct 5.25-inch batteries across Britain, although the Weybourne guns may have been installed as late as 1946, although there are no available aerial photographs of the camp in between 1941 and June 1946, so it is possible that the guns were constructed earlier. However on the 1946 aerial photographs there are obvious signs of relatively recent construction and activity around the site.
The Command Post building is centred on TG 0982 4387 and measures 55ft 9in by 19ft 8in. This building now houses the Environmental Centre operated by the University of East Anglia.
The eastern emplacement is centred on TG 0977 4381, a circular encasement, 39ft 4in in diameter, surrounds the gun and a 18ft long magazine is located to the immediate southeast. The central emplacement is centred on TG 0972 4381 and the post war gun is located at TG 0968 4382. A loop of access trackway runs to the south, which continues to the south towards the airstrip.
The site of the World War Two and post war Weybourne Anti-Aircraft Training Camp located alongside the cliffs at Weybourne to the north west of the village. The camp originally started out as a temporary summer camp for the Anti-Aircraft Division of the Territorial Army in 1935. At first the majority of the camp consisted of wooden and tented structures, although in 1937 it was decided to make the camp permanent and more fixed structures and defences were erected. The camp closed in 1959. During World War Two the camp was surrounded by a perimeter Anti-Tank Ditch and defended by a system of Gun Emplacements and Barbed Wire obstructions. The interior of the camp consisted of groups of Nissen huts and barracks and other military buildings. The cliff top to the north was covered by a line of Heavy Anti-Aircraft Guns and Batteries, Slit Trenches and Pillboxes.
RAF Weybourne was a World War Two Anti-Aircraft Establishment, ''X'' Flt, No. 1 Anti-Aircraft Co-Operation Unit were based at the station between 16th May and 14th September 1939, with ''T'' Flt, No. 1 Anti-Aircraft Co-Operation Unit there between 25th February and 29th April 1942. No. 6 Anti-Aircraft Co-Operation Unit were based there between 7th December 1942 and 30th November 1943. Associated with the Anti-Aircraft Gunnery, the station operated the De Havilland DH-82B Queen Bee target drone aircraft, a radio-controlled target tug version of the Tiger Moth II.
Although the published closure date known for this airfield relates to the World War Two airfield, the Army maintained an Anti-Aircraft Training Camp across from RAF Weybourne using Bofors 40mm Anti-Aircraft Guns linked to AA4 Mk.7 Gun-Laying Radar. When that closed in 1958 the radars were transferred to the RAF. A very small permanent detachment was maintained there using the obsolete radar into the 1980's for cross-tell training, decoy work and to extend low level coverage. In the late 1980's, after the obsolete radars were removed, trials were carried out to confirm the site's suitability for deployment of the new mobile radars that were coming into service.
A Marconi Type 91 ''Martello'' radar was moved from RAF Trimingham to Weybourne in September 1996, operated by 432 Signals Unit acting as a Ready Platform (along with RAF Hopton and RAF Trimingham) for the IUKADGE Series II (United Kingdom Air Defence Ground Environment) Radar System controlled from the R3 Underground Control Centre at RAF Neatishead. In October 1997 the Type 91 at RAF Weybourne was de-built, replaced when the Type 93 at RAF Trimingham became operational.
Information sourced from -
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Weybourne
www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?ui...
It is amazing the extent to which children imitate. As Meltzoff and Moore (1977) demonstrate, new born infants imitate less than 41 hours after birth. Further, the gestures imitated are not "perceptually tethered" (produced solely when the child sees the gestures) but become part of the child's repertoire of gestures. The children are thus imprinted or possessed by the gestures or expressions of others, reproducing them even after the adult movement had ceased and are no longer present.
Further children produce clockwise gestures in a clockwise fashion, so they are not merely mirroring (in a literal sense) what they see but cloning it, as if possessed by the intention behind the gesture, rather than the physical gesture itself.
Since newborn children imitate 41 hours after birth it is thought that caretaker (parent) training is not necessary to produce and reinforce imitation behaviour. Indeed it is now argued that children have "mirror neurons" (in a non literal sense) that hard-wire intent imitation behaviour.
I have rather extravagant, deliberate, British facial expressions, compared to the more natural, less symbolic, expressions of Japanese. Unfortunately for my children they have learnt to imitate my expressions. Their British expressions looks funny and endearing to me now, but I fear that my children will be teased, ostracised, or thought weird when they do my lopsided sneer or daft smile.
The evolutionary benefit of imitation are, however, many and varied. The most obvious benefit is in its facilitation of learning, of coping behaviours and social skills. But in addition, as I watch my children reproduce Timothesque eyebrow movements with bitter-sweet fascination, I wonder whether having my intentions cloned in this way satisfy some desire in me for immortality.
A desire to live on through ones children would make me more inclined thus to put them through college, but also be rather horrific, like the The Skeleton Key, 2005 (Climax) from the writer of another imitative horror, "The Ring."
Image above from Meltzoff and Moore (1977, p.75)
Meltzoff, Andrew N., and M. Keith Moore. "Imitation of facial and manual gestures by human neonates." Science 198.4312 (1977): 75-78. Retrieved from web.mit.edu/course/other/i2course/www/devel/mmis.pdf
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St Mary and St Botolph, Thorney, Cambridgeshire
Thorney was the site of one of those great Abbeys of the fen islands which became fabulously rich and powerful, to the extent that this was the last part of England where the Normans were able to exert their power. When they did so, they rebuilt the abbeys as massive fortresses. The present parish church is a fragment of the nave of the former Norman abbey church, but it is still vast. All that remains is the stone-built central part of the nave - the crossing tower, chancel, transepts and aisles are all gone, the arcades and triforia filled in, only the two octagonal turrets at the west end remaining to give the semblance of a tower. Difficult to photograph in the morning, it really needs to be seen in late afternoon to take in the west front.
The original church was 300 feet long. There are similarities to Ely Cathedral. The east end comes to an abrupt stop, but small transepts were added in the late 19th Century to balance the west end. The best that can be said of them is that they are unobtrusive. Inevitably, the eye is drawn down the long arcades to a vast east window, filled with rather interesting glass by George Austin in the 1830s. Austin was working on the restoration of Canterbury cathedral, and he copied the early 13th Century glass in the Trinity chapel there which shows, in roundels, the miracles of St Thomas a Becket. However, as Austin then went on to restore and augment the windows at Canterbury, this is the only surviving record of what the Canterbury windows actually looked like. There are also some very good panels of German 15th Century glass in the easternmost windows to north and south, but the real memory here is the great ranges of Norman arcades and Triforia stretching away towards the east.
Before 1965, Thorney was in the Isle of Ely. In 1965, Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely became a single county, and the Soke of Peterborough became a part of Huntingdonshire. However, Thorney was transferred into the new enlarged county of Huntingdonshire. Then, in 1974, the four original counties were joined together to make a kind of Super-Cambs. Peterborough is now a unitary authority, but ceremonially is still a part of the county of Cambridgeshire (unlike, for example, Rutland, which although subsumed into Leicestershire from 1974 to 1995 is now back to being a separate county). Having been returned to the new Cambridgeshire in 1974, Thorney became part of the new Peterborough unitary authority in 1995, so it can lay hold to the unique claim of having been in all four former counties at some point in the last fifty years!
'We hold a vaster empire than beer'! An amusing jingle on an early Canadian postal stamp dating back to 1898. This is a large blow-up of that postage stamp in the Canada War Museum which shows the extent of the British Empire back then. Vast swathes of Canada were held by the British while other stretches were held by the French. Ottawa city itself is divided into the British half and the French half. (Ottawa, Canada, June 2015)
The northern extent of the Cliffs of Moher, with O'Brien's Tower perched approximately 700 feet above the Irish Sea. The Cliffs reach their maximum height of 702 feet just north of O'Brien's Tower. The Cliffs of Moher are located in Western Ireland, near Doolin in County Clare.
Urban extents illustrate the shape and area of urbanized places. Urbanized localities are defined as places with with 5,000 or more inhabitants that are delineated by stable night-time lights. For poorly lit areas, alternate sources are used to estimate the extent of cities.
It’s nice that you ask for blurred pictures as most of mine are that way to some extent. I tried to get some other pictures with those little light spots that some are able to come up with but things were not blurred enough to really please me. For the past couple of days I have been hearing the peahen talking to her chicks but she has stayed on the nest. This morning before I was through cleaning up I could hear her really going at it with them. When I checked, she was down with one of them and I could see one still up in the nest. I climbed up and found two up there so I helped them down. She started trying to coax them down the run to the cage from the shed where she had her nest up in a corner. This picture was taken from the outside of the cage, through the holes in the poultry netting, across the 12 feet of the cage and about 3 or 4 feet into the cage side of the run to the shed. I don’t know how my point and shoot camera did it but I was pleased at the blur I think I got, to my untrained eye, around the edges of a couple of the pictures, while the chicks and peahen are almost clear. It’s not as good as others could have done it but I liked the result. Still no light spots but that blur is there.
I gathered the 4 up and put them over in the cage with the pigeons so the bigger ones wouldn’t kill the little ones.
The sunlight was so strong that the reflection from this structure would nearly burn your eyes out … to some extent it overloaded my camera sensor.
Martin Richman's Flow appears like a jewel on the side of the River Liffey.
This building built by Bord Gais is an Above Ground Installation (AGI), a pressure regulation centre for the distribution of gas within the North Lotts area in Dublin Docklands. The intention of this arts commission is to highlight an important service building as a stimulating, visual spectacle.
Martin Richman was educated at St. Martins School of Art in London. His work addresses issues concerning light, colour and space both in the private and public realms. As well as a strong studio practice and producing work for exhibitions and private houses, Martin Richman has undertaken many public projects from stand-alone sculptures to collaborative works with architects and engineers. Richman is well known for the transformation of Tyseley Energy Waste Facility, Birmingham (1997) in collaboration with architect Ray Perry - the project received a RSA award.
To some extent I have ignored Harold's Cross except for my visits to Mount Jerome Cemetery.
While travelling on the 16 bus today I overheard a group of young American visitors saying that Harold's Cross and nearby was the cool area of Dublin as it is now a hotspot for cafes and restaurants and they also mentioned the Harold's Cross Festival which includes everything from table quizzes to writing workshops and much to do in Harold's Cross Park. As a result of this conversation I decide to get off the bus and visit the park ... I always carry a very small Sony RX0 camera in my pocket.
This 1.25 hectare (3 acres) park was developed in 1894 by the Rathmines / Rathgar Commissioners and officially opened on May 1st 1894. The site of the park was used as commonage from medieval times. Designed by William Sheppard and Sons, “specialists in new parks and dripping pools” and costing £700 to construct, the park is essentially Victorian with a mixture of formal and natural styles. Dublin City Council took over the park in 1934 and has developed flower gardens and a play area while retaining the original design.
There are historical signs in the park explaining the parks history.
Byporten shopping centre, an extention from the Oslo Station building enters to the streets. To the left is NAF-Huset, then Clarion Hotel Royal. Onwards, Oslo City, a shopping centre and Oslo Plaza hotel in the background. This is the tallest building in Oslo.
my dog was busy chewing a bone so I desided to try out my 13mm Zeikos Digital AF Macro Extention tube. I didn't go for the 21mm or the 31mm. well I did try the 21mm but couldn't find the right focus point.
The extent of the signalling in place is evident here, at the up distant. Homes and advanced starters can also be seen in a very impressive setup.
Urban extents illustrate the shape and area of urbanized places. Urbanized localities are defined as places with with 5,000 or more inhabitants that are delineated by stable night-time lights. For poorly lit areas, alternate sources are used to estimate the extent of cities.
Urban extents illustrate the shape and area of urbanized places. Urbanized localities are defined as places with with 5,000 or more inhabitants that are delineated by stable night-time lights. For poorly lit areas, alternate sources are used to estimate the extent of cities.
Rock buttress extents, seepage box, and downgradient monitoring wells staked at base of northeast landfill slope 3-7-2022