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Flat Earth Society 'Terms of Embarrassment' ft Mauro Pawlowski - Roppongi Hills Arena, Tokyo, Japan 9 Sep 2014
Kennedy Square is housing complex (comprising of mainly maisonettes and flats of varying sizes) which is owned and managed by Warwick District Council.
In an area of Brooklyn, where a few blocks walk could take you to three different neighborhoods of Brooklyn: Clinton Hill, Bed Stuy, or Williamsburg.
Actually, only 68 Lesser Scaup¹ (Aythya affinis) - Black Point Wildlife Drive, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Titusville, Florida
A 12 capture Aythyarama,
captured (flat-out)² with a 600 mm lens
¹ Assuming their are no Greater Scaup amongst them.
² Out on the flooded flats
Day 126/366 - No faux today, as it is my last day of holidays and I was not feeling "up" to it. Back to the grindstone, as they say; whoever "they" are...
Blowing Rock, North Carolina
Listed 12/24/2013
Reference Number: 13000978
The historic district comprised of Flat Top Estate, now Moses H. Cone Memorial Park, is significant at the state level under National Register Criterion A as an example of a Country Place era estate. At Flat Top, Moses Cone established a gentleman's country retreat in the style of those established by American captains of industry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The historic district is one of the largest and best preserved country estates in western North Carolina, incorporating a large manor house surrounded by orchards, pastures, meadows, lakes and other constructed water features, roads, and forests. The historic district is also significant at a state level under National Register Criterion B in the area of industry for its historic association with Moses Cone, who revolutionized textile manufacturing in the South, and particularly in North Carolina, during the late nineteenth century. In partnership with his brother Ceasar, Moses Cone reorganized the marketing of textiles by southern textile mills and introduced the manufacture of denim in the South. The entrepreneurial efforts of Moses Cone during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries throughout the southeast region affected this industry throughout the country. The historic district is nationally significant under National Register Criterion C in the area of landscape architecture for the planning of the estate, in particular the extensive network of carriage roads and associated plantings designed by Moses Cone. The carriage roads are among very few such systems in private estates ofthis period in this country; represent extensive and careful design and planning; and remain nearly intact today. The historic district also includes the Colonial Revival style manor house, significant at the state level in the area of Architecture. The association of the Flat Top Estate Historic District with the Blue Ridge Parkway, and its role as a recreational area along the parkway, are not considered as part of this nomination. The structures of Flat Top Estate are closely related to the surrounding environment. Archeological remains, such as trash pits, privies, wells, and other structural remains which may be present, can provide information valuable to the understanding and interpretation of the contributing structures. Information concerning land-use patterns, agricultural practices, social standing and social mobility, as well as structural details, is often only evident in the archeological record. Therefore, archeological remains may well be an important component of the significance of the structures. At this time very limited investigation has been done to discover these remains, but it is likely that they exist, and this should be considered in any development of the property.
Running 16mm film with an optical soundtrack. A newly acquired Steenbeck flat bed film editing suite. Getting it up and running.
Rocky Flats is the site of a former nuclear weapons component manufacturing facility which operated just west of Denver from 1952 to 1988. Accidents, chemical release incidents, hazardous working conditions and contamination of the local ground and water plagued the faciity, which manufactured plutonium bomb triggers, eventually leading to its closure. In the 1990's a costly cleanup and remediation effort was initiated which led to the complete disassembly of the facility. In 2006 the EPA certified the cleanup efforts, paving the way forward to declaring the site a wildlife sanctuary.
Today, it stands as the "Rocky Flats Closure Project" and little more than the power substations and this shiny new sign stand as testament to the awesome power once harnessed at this facility. Regardless of the accidents, the mistakes and the egregious disregard for public safety, the components manufactured here were critical to the success of the most powerful weapon systems ever conceived. Five decades of sunsets have fallen on Rocky Flats and while nothing remains of the buildings that used to house exotic toxic materials and the brain trust that was contracted to transform it into something even deadlier it's legacy will remain, despite the sanitized site name and the complete erasure of its physical presence.
Catching up on investments... I needed a low heel for Winter. I loved the shoes at Marc Jacobs - they're virtually flat. (Notice the little white paw investigating things in the colour pic?)
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Looking almost like a moire pattern or possibly the grain in burlwood, these sand ripples run in several directions. More from the Mesquite Flat Dunes.
Water source and pump for a car-washing vendor at the Bonneville Salt Flats during the 2007 World of Speed event.
An entrepreneur set up an on-site car wash at the Bonneville Salt Flats during the 2007 World of Speed event. Vehicles coming off the salt flats had salt on their undersides, in the wheel wells, and on the rear fenders. For about $20 he would wash all the salt off. For about half that amount he'd let a driver do the washing. I paid him to wash the Green Weenie; this was a lot more convenient---and thorough---than washing it myself here or at the self-serve car wash in Wendover.
He had a large portable swimming pool as a water tank. (The water had been delivered by a water truck.) A gasoline-powered pump provided water pressure to several washing hoses. Three or four vehicles could be washed simultaneously if drivers did the work themselves.
2007 World of Speed. Bonneville Salt Flats. Wendover, Utah.
"Originally Posted by sal
The "Flat Iron Folder" was the mating of a drop point blade with the original FRN "Rescue" handle. It was originally made as an exclusive model for another company and was dubbed the "Snake River Folder". The other company ran into some problems so the model was changed to the Flat Iron Folder and sold as an exclusive through Ironstone Mail order. When Ironstone Mail order shut down. the balance of the pieces were being closed out through the SFO store. I don't know current status as to whether or not we have any left.
sal"
"Originally Posted by Joyce Laituri
There were right around 1000 Flat Iron Folders made. The SKU (stock keeping unit) number was CFIFPS. "
The Flat-Iron began production in 1997
Adelaide to Mannum Road
The 2015 Sampson Flat bushfires were a series of bushfires in Australia in the state of South Australia, that primarily effected the Adelaide Hills and the outer Adelaide metropolitan area. The fires began on 2 January 2015 during a day of extreme heat and lasted until 9 January 2015.
The fires began in the outer northern area of the city, in the suburb of Sampson Flat. It later travelled southeast towards the Kersbrook township and across the Mount Lofty Ranges toward the Adelaide Hills. As of 6 January 2015, at least 26 houses were destroyed with 37 families in temporary accommodation. This count had increased to 38 houses, 125 outbuildings and 134 injuries by the evening of 6 January. The town of Kersbrook was worst hit, with twelve houses destroyed. On 7 January, the number of houses destroyed throughout the affected area was revised down from 38 to 32 and again down to 27 a few days later. There were no fatalities as a result of the bushfires; and the total cost was estimated to be more than A$13 million.
2014 was Australia's third-warmest year since national temperature observations commenced in 1910. Following Australia's warmest year on record in 2013, both maximum and minimum temperatures remained well above average, with frequent periods of abnormally warm weather throughout the year. For the 6-month period from July to December 2014 southeast South Australia recorded the lowest 5 per cent record of rainfall deficiencies, extending a continued pattern of severe rainfall deficiencies over a 27–month period.
On 1 January 2015 a fire weather warning and total fine ban were issued across most of South Australia as the Bureau of Meteorology estimated the temperature in Adelaide would peak at 42 °C (108 °F), with temperatures throughout the north-west of the state and stretching down to the Eyre Peninsula estimated to range between 43–46 °C (109–115 °F) on that day. On 2 January the temperature in Adelaide peaked at 41.1 °C (106.0 °F), approximately 17 °C (31 °F) degrees above the average December temperature for Adelaide while the following day reached 38.2 °C (100.8 °F), which further aggravated conditions.
The Sampson Flat fire was declared to be a "major emergency" at 08:30 ACDT on 3 January 2015, giving the South Australia Police and emergency services additional authority to manage the event and control access in and out of the area. Over thirty roadblocks limited access to the fireground to anybody not involved in the emergency response. Residents started to be allowed back in from 6 January, with their identity and address being checked to limit access to only the roads that had been cleared as safe for travel. Road clearing was suspended on the afternoon of 7 January due to the wind and thunderstorms making the activity unsafe for the cleanup crews. The major emergency declaration was rescinded at 3pm on 7 January, despite it being able to remain in force for 14 days.
The weather assisted to contain the fire on Sunday and Monday 4–5 January with mild winds and temperatures in the range of 30–34 °C (86–93 °F), but daily temperatures rose again on Tuesday and Wednesday 6–7 January, with forecast maximum temperature in the range of 35–39 °C (95–102 °F) on both days.
Thunderstorms on the afternoon of 7 January produced a spate of new grass fires from lightning, but also brought cooler temperatures, increased humidity, and rain over some parts of the fireground, making it easier to control and extinguish the remaining areas. In the early morning hours of Thursday 8 January, the South Australian Country Fire Service confirmed on its website that the fire had been completely brought under control with crews remaining on the ground to extinguish the remaining hot spots. Extensive rainfall across South Eastern Australia on 9 and 10 January significantly reduced the fire risk.
Canon 5D
2015
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