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In the end, Michael Milner (Toronto consultant, left) did find a gold flake. Gérard Hérail of ORSTOM (right) and Ron DiLabio (colleague from the Geological Survey of Canada) witnessed the event.
Photo taken in June 1991 on Kodachrome film and recently scanned using a Nikon Supercoolscan 5000 film scanner.
Finally making its way south after doing work at Neenah Yard, CN train A446 is seen here just north of Parkway Ave. The trailing unit is IC 2464, which was the last unit in the IC 24xx series I hadn't photographed.
green and rufous kingfisher - male
saw glimpses of this guy all week on our canoe trips, but wasn't able to get a shot until the last evening at the sacha lodge. amazing to compare the oversized bill to the weak, undersized feet. great kingfisher.
the rootin' end of a piggie.... in all she is 2 1/2" long by 1 3/4" tall. this one is called pauline.
Me, eleven or twelve with my 52 dollar Schwann that i got at Coral Sea Village when i was 10. ( the bike is red. )
This is later, at Guadalcanal village. This is around the time i was learning the radio stuff from Gorge Bowley, and tried to buy a wire recorder. ( They were probably being phased out. I finally got the first tape recorder at the Pleasant Hill house and got the second one- needed for editing- in Boston. )
From the grownups point of view, this apartment ( behind the camera ) in a building like the one in the upper left- was better than living in half of a quonset hut at Coral Sea.
But both places were good.: the old one had the ex-volcano to play on; this one had the grassy field and the basketball court, where i made a million shots.
This is still Mare Island, but we are just outside the main gate, near the causeway to Vallejo.
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It looks like I’m showing off the bike.
I was going to school on the Navy bus, to Saint Vincent Ferrer’s Catholic school for a few years until the eighth grade.
Then we moved to Pleasant Hill, to 1985 Peggy Drive.
You can still look up that house on Google Earth. It’s pretty much the same, but it has a big tree on the lawn that wasn’t there. That tree would have saved me a lot of mowing, but the house was new when we moved in. The workers threw away the cardboard refrigerator boxes in the unused field nearby. I like to think that they did it for the kids. Boy, did we use them.! Most of the boxes were laid horizontally for our fort, but one was set up vertically for a telescope. We had the fort for awhile, until the other kids wrecked it.
I went to Concord High for the freshman year, while they were building Pleasant Hill High, where i went, for sophomore and junior year.
Then we moved to Boston ( again ) and Dad started working at EG&G on the testing of the Bomb.
I went to Dorchester High. I won the Boston Science Fair, and tied for first at the Massachusetts Science Fair. *
I was headed to BU, probably because of that, but i decided for Art, instead.
That was senior year of High School, before starting at the Museum School.
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* The Science Fair project was a 26 minute, taped radio program called, “Electronics in Music”, about what people like Les Paul were up to, adding the new tech to popular music.
It explained the trick of adding a second recording head to a tape recorder to make a reverberating echo. It made the sound of a tree falling with the slowed down sound of blting celery.
Stuff like that. It won the science fair in a science town.
For some reason, that did not impress my Dad, as i expected it to. **
( … but, then, i just ended a sentence with a preposition. )
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Don note-
I was at st. Vincent’s from the second half of the 3rd grade to the 8th grade. Third grade started in Federal Terrace, the public school in Vallejo, because St. Vincent’s didn’t have room till later in the year.
But that means that i was on Mare Island much longer than i thought.
Boston ( Dorchester High) was 1954. I don’t actively remember that date. The one i do remember is the next year, because i started at the Museum School in September of 1955.
( the other year that i actively remember is 1952. That is the year ( at Peggy Drive that the first tape recorder finally arrived from Radio Shack [ Wilcox-gay, with 7 inch reels ] ).
I was recording when Dad got home and said to Mom in the living room, “ I got my orders, and they’re good “, and told her that he was going to start work on the testing of the Bomb. Mom was very excited.
So, what about 1952 to 1954.? Did it take two years for Dad to get us to boston.? Puzzling. But 1952 is definite, because i mentioned that date on this first recording that included Dad’s announcement. And 1955 is definite. I don’t know how to figure that out.
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** - more on my Dad. There may be a clue, here, because he actually talked to me about an impression he had of me… a surprise that made him look at me twice.:
I seemed to be wanted as a student at Boston University. Don’t know how i found that out. I don’t think i was looking at BU, myself. I figure it was winning the science fairs that made them look at me.
After that, it was between BU and the Museum School.
But Dad went with me to the interview, thinking that he was going to speak for me, but i handled the meeting.
He said, after that, that he didn’t know i could do that, and that gave me a lift.
As it turned out, i chose the Museum School, but I’m glad that meeting happened. It helped me with Dad.
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Finally i got one thanks to Yeyo. It was one of my best dreams..and now i can see the world better...and learn about photography..^^
ROMA ARCHEOLOGIA e RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA: Rome, Largo di Torre Argentina - Site Where Julius Caesar Was Stabbed Will Finally Open to the Public. SMITHSONIAN.COM (MARCH 5, 2019).
ROME - Site Where Julius Caesar Was Stabbed Will Finally Open to the Public. SMITHSONIAN.COM (MARCH 5, 2019).
The spot where Julius Caesar was murdered by members of the Roman Senate is one of the most infamous sites in world history. As a tourist spot, however, it’s infamous in a different way: The ruins in the Largo di Torre Argentina, where dozens of stray cats now call home, are currently crumbling and fenced off from the public. But that's set to change. Julia Buckley at Conde Nast Traveler reports the area will soon undergo renovations before opening to the public in 2021.
Rome’s mayor, Virginia Raggi, announced that the restoration is being funded by the fashion house Bulgari, which will drop about $1.1 million on the project, funding earmarked to go toward cleaning up and securing the ruins, building walkways through the site and installing public restrooms, TheLocal.it reports.
Though the spot of Caesar’s murder was immortalized by ancient historians and, later, William Shakespeare, it was actually covered over by the expanding city of Rome and lost to history until the 1920s. That’s when Italian dictator Benito Mussolini razed many sections of modern Rome to unearth the archaeology underneath to tangibly tie his dictatorship to the might of the Roman Empire. The propaganda effort uncovered four temples and part of the Theater of Pompey, a massive public work where the Roman senate met during the era of Julius Caesar.
Following World War II, the Largo di Torre Argentina was among the many sites that languished due to lack of interest and funding. In recent years, economic stagnation, corruption and disfunction have plagued Rome, leaving little resources available for now badly needed historic preservation projects. In search of funders, the city has started partnering with prominent businesses on the projects, who can foot the bills for restorations. Bulgari itself previously paid $1.6 million to restore Rome’s famous Baroque-era Spanish Steps. The fashion house Fendi, meanwhile, funded a clean-up of the Trevi Fountain, and the luxury brand Tods paid for half of the massive restoration of the Colosseum, which reopened in 2016.
The site of Caesar’s death is not where casual readers of Roman history might assume. In many ways, dying on the doorstep of Pompey’s great public work was ironic. For centuries, the Roman senate met in the Curia, or meeting house, on the Comitium, ancient Rome’s primary open-air meeting space. While the senate house experienced several fires and restorations over the generations, changing names depending on who paid to rebuild it, it was always in the same location. But in 52 B.C., Publius Clodius Pulcher, the rabble-rousing tribune of the plebs and Caesar’s ally against the senatorial class, was killed by his political rival Milo following several years of what was more or less gang warfare on the streets of Rome. His rowdy followers decided to cremate his body in the senate house, burning it to the ground in the process.
Caesar took on the task and expense of building a new senate house that he named, of course, after himself. But building the Curia Julia took time, so the senate temporarily moved to the Curia Pompeiana, part of Pompey the Great’s massive public theater. Pompey, once Rome’s most accomplished general and one of its richest citizens, had, notably, been defeated by Caesar in a civil war in 48 B.C. before being murdered in Egypt by Caesar’s allies.
After taking on the title of dictator and committing Rome to an expensive and many believed foolhardy plan to conquer the Parthian empire in the east, many senators believed killing Caesar was the only way to re-establish republican traditions and the rule of law. That sentiment came to head in 44 B.C. when, on the Ides of March, a group of senators stabbed him to death in Pompey's Curia. The republic was not instantly restored as they planned—instead the assassination set off events leading to Julius Caesar’s great nephew, Octavian, becoming Augustus Caesar, first emperor of Rome. He completed work on the Curia Julia and moved the senate back to its traditional home, though the legislative body was essentially just an imperial rubber stamp in the centuries that followed.
Plans to restore the site of Caesar’s death have fallen through before. In 2012, Jennie Cohen at History.com reports, Spanish archaeologists claimed they found the exact spot where Caesar was killed in the ruins at Largo di Torre Argentina, and that a restoration effort would be undertaken in 2013. But that project never materialized.
Now, Bulgari is on board to see the project through. But a big question remains: What will happen to all the cats—which we assume are the reincarnations of the Roman senators who conspired against Caesar—once the Largo di Torre Argentina is refurbished?
Luckily, cat colony volunteers who care for the felines already have an answer. “The works will not disturb the historic feline colony, otherwise protected by the laws of the State and the Municipality,” volunteer Silvia Zuccheri assures TheLocal.it. That’s good news, otherwise there might be another meow tiny ahead.
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-- SMITHSONIAN.COM (MARCH 5, 2019).
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-- Ramongo Guajiro Santamaría | Facebook (15/03/2019).
Finally the preorder for my dream <3 I already sent my aplication for Crescent.
Oh how I've waited ever since they bublished her <3
She'll probably be my Masha ~
Before this, the phone I was using was from my graduation.After almost 6 years of usage, one day while coming back from office, the phone fell from the pocket,crashed on the road,and split in half.
So it was time to look for a new phone.
And finally set my eyes on this.
Pretty happy with it.
Strobist: Yongnuo 460MKII 1/32 lumiquest softbox III camera right.
Vivitar 285HV 1/16 DIY softbox camera left.
DIY: foam board below phone.
DIY softbox.
Finally gave up on my camera dial sticker since almost no one knew what it was and I changed my computer anyway. My new one looks much more crooked in this picture than in real life but went minimalist. The yellow certainly doesn't match. Should've gone with black I guess.
Finally shot and developed some of my rare stash:
ORWO NP18
VEB Filmfabrik Wolfen DDR
120 film ASA 50
Expired February 1969
finally printed my first photos in the darkroom. all the photos were taken with my konica big mini and self developed kodak tri-x 400 - apart from the left and middle photo on the top row. they were taken with a canon a1 and agfa apx 100.
THAC XIII is going well, but slowly. Here's a nice frame.
I don't think it's cropped right, but I don't really care right now.
SEE ORIGINAL--- Bumble bee buzzing around our porch. Shot many pictures. This was cropped from an image as small a the head on this bee.
7 1/2 month old, Addison finally learnt sitting up properly, but still needs some pillow to support. It is a bit later than most of kids as he is such a big boy, simply doesn't have enough strength to support himself.
Finally finished (though, in taking pictures I see 3 things left...) my wolf lord /canis model. I magnetized the arms so I can use him with a different loadout than normal for tournaments etc.
Finally i decided to go and have a closer look at this abandoned farm.
I have been planning on doing so for maybe years already.
You're not allowed to enter this farm, not even allowed to walk around it.
So what did i do? yup.. i went in.
Finally.
So it finally happened…
Barbarian Versus Barbarian…
The splinter faction left in the homeland who later rallied and created a fractional faction, a splinter group…
This faction of troops more true to the barbarian core values than the army besieging the Alliance capital, they accepted no women and minorities among their fighting ranks they finally caught up to the main Barbarian army more inclusive lead by Tyrana!
…the reason why it took so long was that they more true to original Barbarian culture, didn’t read maps which they deemed unbarbaric…
So they just wandered about at random, ended up in the easterlings lands and then were in the frozen south fighting their way through armies of fin-birds standing about on the blocks of ice… (they didn’t fight back that much!)
Now here is an aerial photo of the first clash between the factions at the outpost ruin city of Joseph Strummerville…
Remember where you first saw the news… at the worldwide Medieval news network WMnn…
“We are always first with medieval news, best at old News!”
Even this body (probably the tiniest SD boy body) is too big for him, according to my taste. But he looks really cute in clothes!
After 4 hours of ferry ride, 1 hour of bus ride, 7.5 miles of hiking on the nicely maintained PCT (Pacific Crest Trail), 3.5 miles of bushwhacking (best to be forgotten) to lower basin camp, and .75 mile of bushwhacking into the upper basin the morning after, finally found myself at the base of this less visited mountain. Now there were just 3,000 feet of kick stepping through the glacier to get to the top. Summit to the left of center
more than a year ago I was given this gift by a wonderful and beautiful French photographer, Elodie Brunel. I've finally gotten it framed and it's hanging in the new baby's room (which we have painted too!). Check out her work here: elodiebrunel.fr/
i finally recieved my key and tags for the coop bike cage, after 4 months on the waiting list.
now i won't have to keep it in our little hallway, where it lived for those four months.
here it is in the hallway peeking into the shot. it left maybe half a meter of clearance on the side.
if you think i am making too big a deal of this, imagine squeezing past the thing for 4 months.
erin is very happy.
Karplebloom
Male Age: 0
Fur: Velveteen - Violet
Eyes: Faerie
Ears: Airplane
Shade: Twilight
Taken at Shamrock Market and Auction - All Things Ozimals, Shamrock Market (66, 214, 2501)