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The fraction of a second when no one was in the picture. The place was an utter zoo with an overflowing parking lot and overcrowded viewing area.
What do planets around other stars look like? Are they rocky, like our own planet Earth, or gassy, like Jupiter and Saturn? Do they have moons? Are they suitable to host life? These are some of the most fascinating questions in modern astrophysics.
Since the first discoveries of planets orbiting stars other than our Sun in the 1990s, scientists have discovered over 4000 exoplanets, revealing a variety of alien worlds much unlike any of the planets in our Solar System. While the study of exoplanets is one of the fastest growing areas in astronomy, there is still much we don’t know about planetary systems beyond our own.
On 6 October, at ESA’s Open Day in the Netherlands, children visiting the agency’s largest establishment with their families had a chance to unleash their fantasy and creativity, sharing with ESA scientists how they imagine some of these planets might look like. The result of this public engagement activity, led by ESA research fellow Alice Zocchi, is the ‘Exoplanet Zoo’ – a collection of more than 200 drawings, a fraction of them shown in this picture.
The artwork portrays a wide variety of stars and planets, some inspired by the looks of Earth, Mars and other Solar System worlds, along with many curious, original views. One day, observations from future facilities on ground and in space could perhaps report that some of these visionary drawings do have an actual counterpart somewhere in the Universe.
To investigate exoplanets, ESA is preparing to launch its first mission dedicated to this subject: Cheops, the CHaracterising ExOplanet Satellite. Due to lift off in mid-December, Cheops will perform detailed observations of bright stars known to host planets, particularly in the Earth-to-Neptune size range, enabling a first step towards characterising the nature of these distant, exotic worlds.
Cheops will also help provide targets for other missions, including the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, which will be used to search for the signatures of water and methane, important elements in our quest for signs of habitability. On a longer timeframe, ESA is planning two more missions dedicated to the study of exoplanets – Plato, the PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars mission, and Ariel, the Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey mission – keeping European science at the forefront of exoplanet research.
Credits: ESA – SJM Photography
A fraction of a flock of scores of Long-billed Corellas (Cacatua tenuirostris) in suburban Melbourne. Think raucous din!
Possibly one of the last excited gossipy gatherings before these cockatoos pair off for spring breeding...
Cockatoos are crested parrots. Apart from what their name suggests, the most immediately identifiable feature of this variety is salmon pink or orange-crimson above the beak and, patchily, around the throat (just discernible in some individuals here at full enlargement).
It is apparently only in recent decades that the range of these birds has expanded from the west into Melbourne and beyond. This has coincided with declining numbers in their established natural habitat.
A change in the rates of postage, effective on July 1, 1931, to 3 cents for the 1st ounce or fraction of an ounce, on letters for Canada, the British Empire, the United States, and certain other countries - 13 cents covered both postage and registration on letters weighing not more than 1 ounce.
3 cents letter rate + 10 cents registration fee = 13 cents
From April 1, 1943 - a 1 cent War Tax was added to the first weight step preferred letter rate. The preferred letter rate was 4 cents for the first ounce and 2 cents for each additional ounce. 4 cents letter rate + 10 cents registration fee = 14 cents
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FOREST GROVE is an unincorporated place situated just off Highway 97, near 100 Mile House, in the Cariboo region of British Columbia, Canada. The population is 295. Prior to World War I settlers were making their way into the area and building small farms and/or living off the fur trade. One early settler, Oliver Philips, named the area Forest Grove after a town by the same name in Oregon. By 1917 Forest Grove consisted of a lodge, general store, post office, billiard hall, trading post, a large barn as well as a storage building. The first school was built about 1922 and serviced just the local area. Due to transportation difficulties communities further afield had their own small schools. By World War II farming was giving way to forestry as the main industry. Forest Grove remains a small community servicing the retirement and resort business on surrounding lakes. In the general area there is a school, store, legion, community hall and post office. There remains some farm activity as well as forestry.
A Forest Grove History project is under way. The objective is to bring together as much biographical material as possible relating to families or individuals that settled in the Forest Grove area between 1910 and 1950. LINK to the project - sites.google.com/site/forestgrovehistory/flora-and-ross-r...
(from - Wrigley's 1918 British Columbia Directory) - FOREST GROVE - a post office and ranching settlement, 16 miles from 100 Mile House, on Cariboo Road, in Lillooet Provincial Electoral District, reached by stage from Clinton on the P. G. E. Railway, 70 miles. Nearest telegraph office of Dom. Govt. Tel. line at 100 Mile House. The population in 1918 was 40. Local resources: Mixed farming and stock-raising.
FOREST GROVE Post Office was opened - 1 August 1917, having been named by Mrs. Ida Quackenbush. Forest Grove was not named after the town in Oregon, but after a grove here. The name was suggested by a sister of E. C. Phillips, the local storekeeper, at a public meeting held to choose a name for the Post Office.
LINK to a list of the Postmasters who served at the FOREST GROVE Post Office - recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record...
When this registered cover entered the postal system at FOREST GROVE, B.C. the Postmistress was Mary A. Phillips / Maude - she served from - 1 August 1917 to - 5 April 1938.
Mary Alice (nee Drumm) Phillips / Maude
(b. 7 November 1868 in Corvallis, Oregon, USA - d. 5 April 1938 at age 69 in California, USA)
Her first husband - Arthur St. Clair (or Sinclair) Phillips
(b. 16 October 1864 in Yreka, Siskiyou County, California, USA - d. 23 August 1911 (aged 46) in Kamloops, Thompson-Nicola Regional District, British Columbia, Canada) - they were married in 1885 - LINK to his Find a Grave site - www.findagrave.com/memorial/182921772/arthur-st_clair-phi...
Her second husband - Frederick Armitage Maude
(b. 26 April 1879 in Toronto, Ontario - d. 12 March 1961 at age 81 in Folsom, California, USA) - (his first wife) - On July 22, 1903, in Toronto, he married Mary Ann Graham. She was born in Toronto on October 11, 1882. Her parents were Thomas H. Graham and Annie Blackwell. Mary Ann died in Lynn Valley, North Vancouver, on June 9, 1915. She was buried in North Vancouver Cemetery. His third wife was Agatha K. Maude. - LINK to Agatha K. Maude's newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/article/the-sacramento-bee-obituary-fo...
By 1919, Frederick Maude was a rancher, living in Forest Grove, about 10 kilometres northeast of 100 Mile House in the Cariboo district of British Columbia. On October 11, 1919, in Ashcroft, British Columbia, Frederick married Mary Alice Phillips, who was the widow of Arthur St. Clair Phillips (1865-1911). She was born in Corvallis, Oregon, on November 7, 1868. Her parents were Joseph Abner Drum and Martha Howard. LINK to the biography of the MAUDE family - westendvancouver.wordpress.com/biographies-a-m/biographie...
In 1937, Frederick and Mary moved to Auburn, California, to establish a home. Mary died in California on April 5, 1938. She was buried in Old Auburn Cemetery in Auburn.
Frederick died in Folsom, California on March 12, 1961. He was buried in Lakeside Memorial Lawn Cemetery in Folsom, California. LINKS to his newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/article/the-folsom-telegraph-obituary-... and - www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun-obituary-for...
- sent from - / FOREST GROVE / DE 12 / 33 / B.C. / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer (A1-1) was proofed - 5 July 1917 - (RF B).
- sent by registered mail - / R / FOREST GROVE, B.C. / ORIGINAL No. / (592) / - registered boxed marking in black ink.
- arrived at - / VANCOUVER / DE 13 / 33 / B.C. / - cds arrival backstamp.
- addressed to: Swift Canadian Company Ltd / (Carrall & Water Streets) / Vancouver, B.C.
Fraction of a second too soon. I was on the tripod doing 7 bracket exposure HDRs on a 2 second timer for the sharpest possible image, This is the 7th exposure, the longest. I've compensated for the long shutter. If only I had hit the shutter button one second later......
NetJets Falcon 2000EX Reg: CS-DFG "FRACTION 988 UNIFORM" landing in dreadful lighting conditions at Dublin from Northolt.
A teacher at a One School at a Time partner school using a chapati to teach students about fractions.
The gondola is a traditional, flat-bottomed Venetian rowing boat, well suited to the conditions of the Venetian lagoon. For centuries gondolas were the chief means of transportation and most common watercraft within Venice. In modern times the iconic boats still have a role in public transport in the city, serving as traghetti (ferries) over the Grand Canal. They are also used in special regattas (rowing races) held amongst gondoliers. The gondola is propelled like punting, except an oar is used instead of a pole.[1] Their primary role today, however, is to carry tourists on rides at fixed rates.
History of the Gondola:
The gondola is propelled by a person (the gondolier) who stands facing the bow and rows with a forward stroke, followed by a compensating backward stroke. Contrary to popular belief, the gondola is never poled like a punt as the waters of Venice are too deep. Until the early 20th century, as many photographs attest, gondolas were often fitted with a "felze", a small cabin, to protect the passengers from the weather or from onlookers. Its windows could be closed with louvered shutters—the original "venetian blinds". After the elimination of the traditional felze—possibly in response to tourists complaining that it blocked the view—there survived for some decades a kind of vestigial summer awning, known as the "tendalin" (these can be seen on gondolas as late as the mid-1950s, in the film Summertime). While in previous centuries gondolas could be many different colors, a sumptuary law of Venice required that gondolas should be painted black, and they are customarily so painted now.
It is estimated that there were eight to ten thousand gondolas during the 17th and 18th century. There are just over four hundred in active service today, virtually all of them used for hire by tourists. Those few that are in private ownership are either hired out to Venetians for weddings or used for racing.[3] Even though the Gondola by now has become a widely publicized icon of Venice, in the times of the Republic of Venice it was by far not the only means of transportation: on the map of Venice created by Jacopo de' Barbari in 1500 only a fraction of the boats are gondolas, the majority of boats are batellas, caorlinas, galleys and other boats - by now only a handful of batellas survive, and caorlinas are used for racing only.
During their heyday as a means of public transports, teams of four men—three oarsmen and a fourth person, primarily shore-based and responsible for the booking and administration of the gondola (Il Rosso Riserva)—would share ownership of a gondola. However as the gondolas became more of a tourist attraction than a mode of public transport all but one of these cooperatives and their offices have closed. The category is now protected by the Institution for the Protection and Conservation of Gondolas and Gondoliers,[4] headquartered in the historical center of Venice.
The historical gondola was quite different from its modern evolution- the paintings of Canaletto and others show a much lower prow, a higher "ferro", and usually two rowers. The banana-shaped modern gondola was developed only in the 19th century by the boat-builder Tramontin, whose heirs still run the Tramontin boatyard. The construction of the gondola continued to evolve until the mid-20th century, when the city government prohibited any further modifications.
The oar or rèmo is held in an oar lock known as a fórcola. The forcola is of a complicated shape, allowing several positions of the oar for slow forward rowing, powerful forward rowing, turning, slowing down, rowing backwards, and stopping. The ornament on the front of the boat is called the fèrro (meaning iron) and can be made from brass, stainless steel, or aluminium. It serves as decoration and as counterweight for the gondolier standing near the stern.
Gondolas are handmade using 8 different types of wood (fir, oak, cherry, walnut, elm, mahogany, larch and lime) and are composed of 280 pieces.[5][unreliable source?] The oars are made of beech wood. The left side of the gondola is made longer than the right side. This asymmetry causes the gondola to resist the tendency to turn toward the left at the forward stroke. It is a common misconception that the gondola is a paddled vessel when the correct term is rowed i.e. "I rowed my gondola to work".
The profession of gondolier is controlled by a guild, which issues a limited number of licenses granted after periods of training and apprenticeship, and a major comprehensive exam[6] which tests knowledge of Venetian history and landmarks, foreign language skills, and practical skills in handling the gondola[7] typically necessary in the tight spaces of Venetian canals.
The gondola is also one of the vessels typically used in both ceremonial and competitive regattas, rowing races held amongst gondoliers using the technique of Voga alla Veneta.
The origin of the word "gondola" has never been satisfactorily established, despite many theories.[8]
In August 2010, Giorgia Boscolo became Venice's first female gondolier.
A fraction of a second is what it takes to capture a moment like this with the eagle splashing down on a fish with its powerful talons. www.troymarcyphotography.com
A fraction of a second earlier, this was a 2foot ripple - this place wedges hard
A fraction of a second later, I went over the falls backwards.
The most convincing ant mimic spider I have seen. Climbing about leaves like an ant and waving thin dark front legs like the jointed antennae of an ant. The difference was in behavior. It looked directly into my eyes, hesitated for a fraction of a second and quickly vanished behind the leaf. I slowly rotated the leaf: with the same result. Third time it looked a little longer, seemed to decide I wasn't going to eat it, turned and wandered off onto another leaf, tolerating my presence. The difference in apparent intelligence was on a scale similar to a guinea pig and two year old human child.
sony center roof - detail, berlin, germany.
For me this photography - its fractals and reflections - represents the fraction of Berlin and especially of the Potsdamer Platz., this important historical spot. Todays Potsdamer Platz architecture represents - on a deeper level - the fraction in history and in German culture. Even in the short time since Renzo Piano and the other architects (Jahn, Kohlhoff) created this "new center" it became a fraction: the facade of Kohlhoff's building (opposite of the Bahntower) is falling already apart....
Please see it framed.
Each of these bowls has a quarter "cut out," which took a lot of engineering to figure out how to do. I started playing with this idea about a year ago, but I didn't have the skills at that time to make it work well. Each is folded from a rectangle of Elephant Hide paper.
I made the Tri-wheeler in "New LEGO Sets Style". The construction is strong and easy to build like most of the new LEGO sets. The colour sheme is based on the Rench and Cyborg minifigures from TLG.
Kermit: “Hey, Fozzie. What’s with the numbers?”
Fozzie: “We’re here to see how numbers line up. And Kermit, remember that not all math problems are bad. Only sum.”
Kermit: “I heard the fraction and the decimal are no longer speaking to each other.”
Fozzie: “Why is that?”
Kermit: “The fraction couldn’t see the point.”
Fozzie: “Did you know that parallel lines have so much in common.”
Kermit: “Too bad they can’t meet.”
Fozzie: “I also have to introduce you to this king who loves fractions.”
Kermit: “Who is he?”
Fozzie: “Why, he’s King Henry VIII.”
Kermit: “I guess that makes King Louis XIV a little smaller king.”
Fozzie: “And to think, I always had problems with Math. I failed it so many times I couldn’t count.”
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Shave of a fraction and today marks the 1/3 point in the project. I thought this is a good time to give some of my thoughts on the project. I feel like I am hitting my stride, I no longer stress over my daily shot, they just come to me. If I do stress it is over things like the potential of a week working in montreal or denver. both might happen before the end of the project and yes I can take my camera but how interesting will my hotel room be? I have learned a great deal and at the beginning of the project i had to do several takes to 'get it right", this morning i did 2. The one getting the splash of the rock I got on the 3rd take. yesterday took me 2 takes, one to get the lines and framing correct..then the shot. I look forward to the next 2/3 and to see where it takes me. Thank you all for the interest and comments to this point on my project.
Measuring tapes are divided into tiny fractions, and I must confess I don't know what they are all called. It's something I think the average Jo might have to look up if they want to get an accurate measure.
Little Jackson was overnight with us, last night, and his best buddy also came along .... I believe he's called Spot!
Flickr Lounge ~ Weekend Theme (Week 11) ~ Fraction ...
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Best Viewed Large - This is just a fraction of the swarm of Gulls that were following our Lobster Boat out of the entrance of Shippagan Harbour - there's a community of what looks like thousands of Seagulls who've set-up home at the harbour mouth and who descend on all the returning fishing boats to pick up fish scraps and left-over bait.
This was one of the 'tidier' frames from the many I shot from the boat, none of which really does justice to the spectacle of hundreds of these spectacular birds all just swarming over the back of the boat.
The eagle-eyed among you may spot the falling piece of fish that one of the birds just dropped and which is about to cause pandemonium among the birds as it falls into the sea.
This was shot using the superbly crisp Canon 16-35/2.8 MKII L - I'm impressed at the amazing detail it's picking up in the wings of the birds.
A fraction of the exposure of my last post, picking out detail in the waves, while maintaining the effect of motion. The great thing about shooting a scene like this is that it constantly changes as the tide evolves new details.
A change in the rates of postage, effective on July 1, 1931, to 3 cents for the 1st ounce or fraction of an ounce, on letters for Canada, the British Empire, the United States, and certain other countries - 13 cents covered both postage and registration on letters weighing not more than 1 ounce.
3 cents letter rate + 10 cents registration fee = 13 cents
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CAMPBELL CREEK, East of Kamloops. Originally the San Poel (Sans Poil?) River. It was named after Louis (or Lewis) Campbell, an American cattle drover who began building a fine ranch there in the 1860s, one that ultimately extended for about 6 miles along the south bank of the South Thompson River.
Campbell Creek, 35 miles long, runs into the south Thompson River, 13 miles east of Kamloops. There is a ranching settlement on the Creek, 11 miles southeast of Kamloops. Post office now called Barnhart Vale.
- from 1908 "Lovell's Gazetteer of the Dominion of Canada" - CAMPBELL CREEK, a rural post office in Yale County, B.C., 3 miles south of the North Thompson River, 8 miles from Ducks Station, and 10 miles from Kamloops, both on the C.P.R., 250 and 263 miles respectively west of Vancouver.
(from 1918 - Wrigley's British Columbia directory) - BARNHART VALE - a post office and settlement on Campbell Creek, 10 miles south of Kamloops, in Kamloops Provincial Electoral District, reached by stage from Kamloops. Farming, dairying and fruit-growing.
Barnhartvale, originally Barnhart Vale, is located at the southeast end of Kamloops, south of Dallas in British Columbia, Canada. The area includes riding stables, farms, honey bee farms, and ranches. There is a local store called Happy Valley Foods, and a local elementary school, Robert L. Clemitson. The main road which runs through Barnhartvale is Barnhartvale Road. Todd Road and Pratt Road are the main accesses through the subdivided western portion of Barnhartvale. In 1973, Barnhartvale and other outlying communities were amalgamated with the City of Kamloops. Barnhartvale was originally referred to as Campbell Creek or Campbell's Creek until 1909. It is now named after Peter Barnhart, who was the conductor on the first CPR train through Kamloops. He moved to Campbell Creek and opened a post office and in 1909 the name was changed to Barnhart Vale Post. In 1978 the spelling was formally changed to one word, Barnhartvale. 1865 marks the beginning of the written history of the area later named Barnhartvale. That was the year that James Todd and Lewis (Lew) Campbell, the first two pioneers, arrived. The next settlers in the region were John and William McLeod in 1879. A major road in the area is named after the Robert and Henry Pratt families who occupied the bulk of the valley after 1890.
(From Place Names of the Kamloops District; Kamloops Museum, 1978) - Campbell Creek Post Office was established 1 June 1905, named after a settler. Name changed to Barnhartvale Post Office 1 June 1909, Peter Ashton Barnhart, first postmaster. Barnhartvale Post Office closed 30 August 1951. Peter Barnhart was conductor on the first CPR train in 1886, but retired during the 1890's to run a hotel in Kamloops. In 1905 he settled a short distance up Campbell Creek and opened a Post Office to which he attached his own name - to the disgust of early settlers!
Peter Barnhart was the conductor on the first Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) transcontinental train in 1886. Barnhartvale, British Columbia, Canada is named after him.
Barnhart Vale Post Office - In 1905 Barnhart purchased property in what was then known as Campbell Creek and in 1906 opened a post office there. Initially naming his post office "Campbell Creek (South) Post Office", he changed the name to "Barnhart Vale Post Office" in 1909 because of confusions with "Campbell Creek Post Office" established by Lew Campbell at the Campbell Creek Ranch in 1905.
In 1978, the spelling was officially changed to "Barnhartvale".
The Post Office was established at Campbell Creek - 1 June 1905 - it became Barnhart Vale - 1 June 1909 - in 1978 the name came one word - Barnhartvale.
LINK to a list of all the Postmasters who served at the CAMPBELL CREEK / BARNHART VALE Post Office - www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/postal-heritage-philately/...;
sent from - / BARNHART VALE / NO 23 / 34 / B.C / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer (A-1) was proofed - 9 June 1909 - (RF C).
by registered mail - / R / BARNHART VALE, B.C. / ORIGINAL No. (121) - registered boxed marking (in black ink)
via - / KAMLOOPS / 1 / NO 23 / 34 / B.C. / - cds transit backstamp
via the train - / X C. & V. R.P.O. X / 4 / NO 24 / 34 / B.C. / - rpo backstamp
via - / • MONTREAL • / 1 PM / 27 NO / 34 / CANADA / - transit backstamp
via - / • MONTREAL • / 1 PM / NO 28 / 34 / CANADA / - transit backstamp
arrival - / MONTREAL, P.Q. / NOV 28 1934 / REGISTERED / - boxed handstamp backstamp (in purple ink).
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