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Born Patricia Leftwich in Birmingham, Michigan. Patricia began her stage career after leaving school. Given a film test while appearing on stage in New York, she was put under contract by Warner Bros. Patricia Ellis called herself "the Queen of B pictures at Warner Brothers". With only three years of theatrical experience in New York under her belt, she started in films in 1932.
In 1932, she had two small parts, both uncredited, in the films 'Three on a Match' and 'Central Park'.
Her first credited role was in the 1933 film 'The King's Vacation', starring George Arliss and Marjorie Gateson.
After that film, her career took off, with her starring mostly in lower-budget B-movies but still working steadily. She had roles in eight films in 1933, co-starring that year with James Cagney in 'Picture Snatche'r, and in another seven in 1934. She started 1935 off with 'A Night at the Ritz', in which she had the lead female role, opposite William Gargan.
She starred in seven films that year and another seven in 1936. Starring alongside some of Hollywood's biggest names, including James Cagney, Ricardo Cortez, and Bela Lugosi, Ellis's career was at its peak by 1937. Most of her roles were in comedy films, along with some mysteries and crime dramas, and by 1936 she was playing the female lead in almost all her films.
She starred in five films that year, then only three in 1938, and finally just two in 1939.
Reviewers called her "comely and spontaneous" in the baseball farce 'Elmer, the Great' (1933) and "personable" in' Here Comes the Groom' (1934) co-starring Jack Haley and referred to her "blonde winsomeness" 'in Boulder Dam' (1936).
The problem was that the majority of her screen roles were purely ornamental and the films themselves were, without exception, second features. Towards the end of her run, Patricia appeared in the 1937 English comedy 'The Gaiety Girls' on stage (with Jack Hulbert and a young Googie Withers) and, against type, played a femme fatale in '''Fugitive at Large'
(1939).
She retired in 1939, choosing to marry George T. O'Malley, a successful businessman from Kansas City, Missouri, and left Hollywood behind her. She settled into private life, raising her family in Kansas City.
Patricia remained married to O'Malley for the remainder of her life, dying of cancer at age 53 on March 26, 1970, in Kansas City.[
Shot that didn't make my final selection for week 8 of 52 weeks for dogs. This week Buster shouldn't be in a garbage can.
Buster is getting bored and tired of these shots quickly.
“Given the strong relationship between Comcast and Liberty and Philadelphia, we wanted to make this special gift to the City in connection with the construction and building of our new headquarters,” said Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, commenting on The Comcast Experience.
“Philadelphia is known for its public art and The Comcast Experience is a tribute to the spirit of creativity and technology that is part of the fabric of this city.”
Photo courtesy of the Comcast Center
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Given to me by carrierdetect at OSHUG #8
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MAHAVATAR BABAJI CAVE
Mahāvatār Bābājī (literally; Great Avatar Dear Father) is the name given to an Indian saint and yogi by Lahiri Mahasaya and several of his disciples,[2] who reported meeting him between 1861 and 1935. Some of these meetings were described by Paramahansa Yogananda in his book Autobiography of a Yogi, including a first-hand report of Yogananda's own meeting with the yogi.[3]Another first hand account was given by Yukteswar Giri in his book The Holy Science.[4] According to Sri M's autobiography (Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master) Babaji, was Shiva. In the second last chapter of his book, he mentions Babaji changing his form to that of Shiva. All of these accounts, along with additional reported meetings, are described in various biographies.[5][6][7]According to Yogananda's autobiography, Babaji has resided for at least hundreds of years in the remote Himalayan regions of India, seen in person by only a small number of disciples and others.[3][8] The death less Master is more than 2000 years old. He belongs to a very powerful lineage of Siddha Boganthar and Rishi Agastya as his Gurus. He acquired this deathless, non perishable body through tough yogik kriyas.
Again, according to his autobiography, shortly before Yogananda left for America in 1920, Babaji came to his home in Calcutta, where the young monk sat deeply praying for divine assurance regarding the mission he was about to undertake. Babaji said to him: "Follow the behest of your guru and go to America. Fear not; you shall be protected. You are the one I have chosen to spread the message of Kriya Yoga in the West
There are very few accounts of Babaji's childhood. One source of information is the book Babaji and the 18 Siddha Kriya Yoga tradition by Marshal Govindan.[9]According to Govindan, Babaji was named Nagarajan (king of serpents) by his parents. [8] V.T. Neelakantan and S.A.A. Ramaiah founded on 17 October 1952, (they claim – at the request of Babaji) a new organization, "Kriya Babaji Sangah," dedicated to the teaching of Babaji's Kriya Yoga. They claim that in 1953 Mahavatar Babaji told them that he was born on 30 November 203 CE in a small coastal village now known as Parangipettai, Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, India.[10] Babaji's Kriya Yoga Order of Acharyas Trust (Kriya Babaji Sangah) and their branch organizations claim his place and date of birth.[10] He was a disciple of Bogar and his birth name is Nagarajan.[9][10]
In Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi, many references are made to Mahavatar Babaji, including from Lahirī and Sri Yukteshwar.[3] In his book The Second Coming of Christ, Yogananda states that Jesus Christ went to India and conferred with Mahavatar Babaji.[8] This would make Babaji at least 2000 years old.[11] According to Govindan's book, Babaji Nagaraj's father was the priest of the village's temple. Babaji revealed only those details which he believed to be formative as well as potentially instructive to his disciples. Govindan mentioned one incident like this: "One time Nagaraj's mother had got one rare jackfruit for a family feast and put it aside. Babaji was only 4 years old at that time. He found the jackfruit when his mother was not around and ate it all. When his mother came to know about it, she flew in blind rage and stuffed a cloth inside Babaji's mouth, nearly suffocating him, but he survived. Later on he thanked God for showing him that she was to be loved without attachment or illusion. His Love for his mother became unconditional and detached."[9]
When Nagaraj was about 5 years old, someone kidnapped him and sold him as a slave in Calcutta (now Kolkata). His new owner however was a kind man and he freed Nagaraj shortly thereafter. Nagaraj then joined a small group of wandering sannyāsin due to their radiant faces and love for God. During the next few years, he wandered from place to place, studying holy scriptures like the Vedas, Upanishad, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Bhagavad Gita.
According to Marshall Govindan's book, at the age of eleven, he made a difficult journey on foot and by boat with a group of ascetics to Kataragama, Sri Lanka. Nagaraj met Siddha Bhogarnathar and became his disciple. Nagaraj performed intensive yogic sadhana for a long time with him. Bhogarnathar inspired Nagaraj to seek his initiation into Kriya Kundalini Pranayam from Siddha Agastya. Babaji became a disciple of Siddha Agastya. Nagaraj was initiated into the secrets of Kriya Kundalini Pranayama or "Vasi Yogam". Babaji made a long pilgrimage to Badrinath and spent eighteen months practising yogic kriyataught to him by Siddha Agastya and Bhogarnathar. Babaji attained self-realization shortly thereafter.[9]
It is claimed that these revelations were made by Babaji himself to S.A.A. Ramaiah, a young graduate student in geology at the University of Madras and V.T. Neelakantan, a famous journalist, and close student of Annie Besant, President of the Theosophical Society and mentor of Krishnamurti. Babaji was said to have appeared to each of them independently and then brought them together to work for his Mission in 1942
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Query by Steve Hennessey:
I have just completed re-reading "Man-eaters and Jungle Killers" for the umpteenth time. In the story of "The Great Panther of Mudiyanoor" there is a reference to Kenneth Anderson's 'lucky Tiger charm' given to him by a jungle man named Budhia. I am curious about this, and my questions are - does anyone know what was in this charm? Or how it was constructed? And where is it now?
If this has been discussed in a previous post then I apologies, but would appreciate some enlightenment.
Given the threat of food shortages following BREXIT next March we should know what we can and can't eat - some fungi are nourishing, some are deadly!
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Two metres (Sea level) at 18:29pm on Wednesday 17th May 2023 on an unnamed and uninhabited by mankind wilderness, some distance from Dawley Passage Provincial Park and Meares Island in the Alberni-Clayoquot region of British Columbia in Canada.
I was stationed in a seventy year old house I was renting in Campbell Street, Tofino in British Columbia in Canada and booked a place on a twenty three feet long Zodiac inflatable in full life saving gear with Remote Passages Marine Excursions at 51 Wharf Street in Tofino.
We got a call to say a rare sighting of a pod of Orcas was made, and raced to take a respectfully distanced look. Here we see the mother and baby hugging the coastline.
Orca (Orcinus orca), also called killer whale, is a toothed whale belonging to the oceanic dolphin family, of which it is the largest member. It is the only extant species in the genus Orcinus and is recognizable by its black-and-white patterned body. A cosmopolitan species, orcas can be found in all of the world's oceans in a variety of marine environments, from Arctic and Antarctic regions to tropical seas.
Nikon D850 Single-lens reflex digital camera F Mount with FX CMOS 35.9mm x 23.9mm Image sensor 46.89 Million total pixels Focal length 600mm Shutter speed: 1/800s (Mechanical shutter) Aperture f/11.0 iso500 Image area Full Frame FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L 45.4Million pixels (8256 x 5504) 14 Bit uncompressed Hand held with Tamron VC control enabled AF-C Priority Selection: Release Nikon Back button focusing enabled 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points Exposure mode: Manual mode Metering mode: Matrix metering White balance on: Auto1, A1.00, M0.25 (4870k) Colour space: Adobe RGB Picture control: (A) Auto (Sharpening A+1.00/Clarity A+1.00)
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Given it's getting pretty close to summer already I'm going to assume the trees on Maids' Causeway are dead. They make for a striking comparrison to the rest of the road
This is one of two spotted hyenas that live Colchester Zoo in Essex.
The 5 year old male, Abu, arrived from Amersfoort Zoo in Holland, and Kalabi, a 3 year old female, came from Berlin.
Colchester Zoo feeds the hyenas 4.4 lb. (2 kg) of meat and bone six days of the week. They are given less meat than other carnivores, due to their ability to eat the bones. This imitates the food that they would be hunting in the wild.
A highly misunderstood animal, the species has a largely negative reputation in both Western culture and African folklore. In the former, the species is mostly regarded as ugly and cowardly, while in the latter, it is viewed as greedy, gluttonous, stupid, and foolish, yet powerful and potentially dangerous, but it is actually a intelligent creature. It looks like a dog but is more closely related to cats, civets, and genets. It is a strong and capable hunter and the largest member of the hyena family.
Females and males look exactly the same except that females are considerably larger than males. They have a shoulder height of between 27.5 and 36 in. (70 and 91.5 cm), and are 37.5 to 65.5 in. (95 to 166 cm) in length. They weighing 89 to 141 lb. (40.5 to 64 kg). The animal has a strong and well developed neck and forequarters, but relatively underdeveloped hindquarters. The rump is rounded rather than angular, which prevents attackers coming from behind from getting a firm grip on it. The head is wide and flat with a blunt muzzle and broad rhinarium, the furless skin surface surrounding the the nostrils. It possesses powerful jaws for crunching bones. In contrast to the striped hyena, the spotted hyenas ears are rounded rather than pointed. Each foot has four digits, which are webbed and armed with short, stout, and blunt claws. The paw pads are broad and very flat. The tail is relatively short, being 12 to 14 in. (300 to 350 mm) long, and resembles a pompom in appearance.
Spotted hyenas live in Chad, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, Angola, Namibia, and parts of South Africa, though not in the far south or the Congo rainforests. They occur in savannas, open and dense dry woodland, grasslands, mountains, tropical rainforests, semi-deserts, and coastal areas. In the rocky areas of East Africa and Congo, spotted hyenas frequently use caves as dens where they raise their young or rest during the midday heat.
In terms of their social intelligence, spotted hyenas are considered to be close to the same level as certain primates. They have a matriarchal social order of related individuals that are called clans. One alpha female leads the clan.
They are mostly nocturnal, hunting at night, and sleeping or staying near their den in the daytime. Hyenas have excellent night vision and can run at up to 37 mph (60 km/h). They are carnivorous animals that hunt and scavenge. When hunting alone, they prey on smaller animals such as hares, foxes, jackals, birds, fish, and snakes, as well as carrion. In a group, they hunt medium to large-sized hoofed animals like zebra, wildebeest, Grant’s gazelle, Thompson’s gazelle, topi, waterbuck, eland, hartebeest, and impala. They also supplement their diet with eggs, fruit, and invertebrates. Hyenas can eat up to 33 Ib. (15 kg) off of a carcass, including bone and tendons that other carnivore will not eat. This makes hyenas vital to the recycling of nutrients in their savannah ecosystem.
Breeding takes place at any time of the year at intervals of 11 and 21 months. Gestation is about 4 months, and 1 to 3 cubs are born inside a birthing den. The milk of a spotted hyena is very rich, and cubs can last for a few days between feeds, unlike wild dogs and lions. Females have the sole responsibility for bringing up the cubs. At 2 to 6 weeks of age, the cubs are moved by their mother to a communal den. The young are entirely dependent on milk for about 8 months and are weaned at 12 to 18 months old. They reach maturity at the age of 2 to 3 years. Males leave their birth clan at around 2 years old, whereas females remain. Cubs can expect to have a lifespan of between 20 and 40 years.
Whilst most populations of spotted hyenas in protected areas within southern Africa seem to be stable, the ones in western and eastern Africa, including those in protected areas, seem to be declining. The main reason seems to be human persecution through shooting, poisoning, trapping, and snaring, even in protected areas, often in farming areas following actual or assumed killing by hyenas of livestock, or to protect livestock. An additional threat is a decline in habitat quality outside of protected areas.
According to the IUCN Red List, the total spotted hyena population is between 27,000 and 47,000 individuals. The largest known populations are in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania with 7,200 to 7,700 animals, in Kenya with 500 to 1,000 animals, and in South Africa’s Kruger National Park with 1,300 to 3,900 animals. Currently the spotted hyenas conservation status is classified as 'Least Concern', but their numbers today are decreasing.
Una "tranquilla" domenica al Sant'Elia: Cagliari-Lazio 0-3. Il pubblico era quasi quello delle grandi occasioni, la squadra purtroppo no. Bellissima la Curva Nord, che non ha smesso un attimo di sostenere e incoraggiare i rossoblù. Peccato per i fischi a Marchetti...
Tuesday 21st July 1891
Lund Park was officially opened to the public by Mrs. Lund on 21st July 1891. The land for the park was given to Keighley Corporation in 1888 by landowner James Lund of Malsis Hall, Glusburn. The virtually square piece of land is bordered by Malsis Road (where the main entrance is located), Selborne Grove, Grafton Road and Mannville Road. The park was laid out and planted by Keighley Corporation. It became the second Corporation-owned public park in the town, following the gift of Devonshire Park by the Duke of Devonshire in 1887. Victoria Park followed in 1893. The Mayor at the time of the opening of Lund Park was Ira Ickringill.
The opening was covered in the Keighley Herald of 24th July 1891: “The heart of all Keighley was made glad on Tuesday by the successful opening of Lund Park. All went merry as a marriage bell. Mayoral hospitality abounded on every hand; and Keighley, through Corporation and people, was sensibly grateful and heartily joyful at the magnificent gift of the park… As was fitting to the occasion, the Mayor commenced the day’s proceedings by entertaining a representative gathering of ladies and gentlemen to luncheon in the Holycroft Board Schools. The set toasts that followed were but two – representative, as it were, of loyalty to the Queen and of gratitude and goodwill to Mr and Mrs Lund… The banquet over, the procession to the Park took place. The people lined the route, and the best order prevailed. At the park gates the ex-Mayor (Mr W. Weatherhead) presented Mrs Lund with a golden key, with which she duly unlocked the gates. Lusty cheers followed the throwing open of the gates to the free admission of the public, and all proceeded in an orderly manner to the band-stand, where the deed of gift of the park was presented to and acknowledged by the Mayor… The park will remain a priceless heritage to the people of Keighley.”
James Lund’s generosity was remarked upon in the Keighley News of 25th July 1891 (and the same time as noting that some of Lund’s loftier ambitions for the park had not been met): “We would be careful to avoid even the appearance of drawing comparisons between past and future benefactors of the town and the gentleman who, following up his liberal assistance to its educational development, has now endowed Keighley with its second park; and yet there is something peculiarly acceptable about this particular proof of an interest in the well-being of the town. Mr. Lund and his forefathers have occupied a high and honourable position in the social and industrial life of the place, and it is to such men as the founders of the firm Messrs. William Lund & Son that the growth and commercial importance of the locality is largely due.”
The evening concluded with supper back at Holycroft School and illuminations in the park. So successful were the latter that they were repeated the following Saturday (25th July), accompanied by the Silsden Brass Band playing from the band-stand. The bandstand had been funded by Keighley Friendly Societies' Gala Committee, and the park originally also included a drinking fountain donated by Lund's children, and a fountain, sited in a small lake, given by James Lund himself.
This selection of early-to-mid twentieth century postcards of Lund Park are all taken from the History Society's archive on Flickr. Researched and collated by Tim Neal.
Shoreditch London Old Street and City Road Silicon Roundabout. This is the most Diabolical Road Works that have been in progress for many months. There is a huge detour for Pedestrians walking along Old Street with total priority given to Cyclists. These prolonged Road works have caused considerable traffic congestion. It would appear that someone is purposely trying to sabotage London!
Was given a Golden Half from Soni just before setting off to HK on a snow dodging mission.
Here's some shots from around Tai Po, camera's loaded with Kodak Ultra 400 and was processed in HK, these are scans from negatives.
In 1886, The Statue of Liberty Monument was a given to the United States from France to celebrate the friendship the two endured during the American Revolution. The Statue of Liberty has over the years has symbolized the freedom and the democracy of the United States.
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was commissioned to design the Statue Sculpture with the completion date of 1876 to celebrate American’s centennial of the American Declaration of Independence. The Statue of Liberty was to be a joint effort between the United States and France. France would build and design the Statue part and United States would complete the pedestal that would hold Lady Liberty. Bartholdi needed an engineer to address the structural issues with designing the sculpture so Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (Eiffel Tower) provided assistance with getting the Statue to stand upright.
Funds to create the Statue of Liberty would prove to be tedious for both sides. In France, entertainment, public fees and a national lottery would help with the funds. In United States, things were much slower. Auctions, various forms of entertainment, and fights would help provide some funds. Joseph Pulitzer decided he needed to get the attention of the American people to get necessary money, he took out an editorial in his newspaper putting pressure on the rich and middle class to help funds this important icon for America. On August 1885 finances in the United States for the pedestal was complete. The construction finished in April 1886. In France the Statue was finished in 1884 and arrived in NY Harbor 1885 aboard the French vessel “Isere”.
In order to get the Statue to the United States the Statue was broken down into 350 individual pieces and packed in 214 crates. On October 28, 1886 the Statue of Liberty dedication took place, ten years later than the centennial date of 1876. The Statue of Liberty was placed on the granite pedestal in the star-shaped walls of Fort Wood.
Until 1901, the Statue of Liberty was the responsibility of the United States Lighthouse Board. In 1901, the war department took control of the Statue of Liberty. On October 15th, 1924 a Presidential Proclamation declared Fort Hood and the Statue of Liberty a National Monument. In 1933, The National Monument was placed in care of the National Park Service and a few years later the jurisdiction of the Monument would include all of Bedloe’s Island, and by 1956, the island’s name changed to Liberty Island.
Ellis Island was transferred into the National Park Service in 1965 and became part of the Statue of Liberty Monument. President Ronald Reagan wanted to restore the Statue of Liberty in 1982. Fundraising for an $87 million dollar restoration of the Statue of Liberty would take place between the National Park Service and Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. In 1984, the United Nations declared the Statue of Liberty as a World Heritage Site, and the completion of the restoration of the Statue was complete on July 5th, 1986, which celebrated her centennial.
The Statue of Liberty was closed a 100 days after September 11, 2001. The grounds reopened but the Statue remained closed until August 2004. Today visitors have access to the Statue’s pedestal observation deck a, promenade, museum, the area of Ft. Hood and Ellis Island. The Emma Lazarus poem, “The New Colossus” was written for the Statue of Liberty and engraved on a bronze plaque in 1903, 20 years after it was written.
Quilt given to Betsy Katherine Parrish Stephenson
as wedding gift in 1878.
Note written by her daughter,
Floy Gertrude Stephenson in 1978.
Quilt was 100 years old at that time.
Material for the quilt is thought to be
from the wedding dress
of her mother Susan Keene Parrish,
wife of Elijah Parrish.
Susaku Arakawa 'The Given' (Das Vorgegebene), 1972, Galerie der Gegenwart (Museum of Contemporary Art), Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
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Given that the window bill is identical to the one in the adjacent National Holidays coach I guess this is also working the same tour.
Given the discussions that ‘downtowns are dead’, I had to go look for myself.
This is on Powell St., just above Market St., on a Tuesday. We’re in the middle of what was the downtown shopping area, at the traditional spot where masses of tourists lined up for the cable cars and masses of peddlers/hucksters lined up to work that crowd. There were definitely less of both tourists and the less-than-perfectly-honest peddlers, but there were enough tourists (they’re behind me) to make it worthwhile for the city to run numerous cable cars.
RESERVED - Misty is 2 years old and is a new arrival. She is both boy and girl dog friendly. She has met small dogs and has given us no cause for concern. She is currently living in foster care with children and more detail will follow shortly.
The CPMR’s Intermediterranean Commission (IMC) has given its full backing to key plans for a territorial alliance aimed at developing a long-term strategy to build a sustainable future for all citizens in the Mediterranean.
The ‘Mediterranean Cooperation Alliance Joint Declaration’ was signed by political representatives from 5 Mediterranean organisations - including the IMC, the Euroregion Pyrénées-Méditerranée (EPM), MedCities, Latin Arc, and the Adriatic-Ionian Euroregion - at a major international seminar on ‘The Future of the Mediterranean Region after 2020’, held in Barcelona on 4 February being co-organized by the Catalan Government, the EPM and the IMC and attended by more than 200 participants.
This event and signature were performed in the broader framework of the “Mediterranean Catalonia Forum,” that focused on reinforcing the importance of the Mediterranean worldwide and the crucial role of regional cooperation in the EU and Euro-Mediterranean agenda and policies.
It was held back-to-back with the renewal of the Presidency of the Euroregion Pyrénées-Méditerranée, from the Government of Catalonia to the Balearic Islands, and the organisation of the CPMR Intermediterranean Commission Political Bureau.
The signature of the “Mediterranean Cooperation Alliance” was attended in particular by politicians of all the involved networks and will remain open for other key actors to endorse it in the future.
Its priorities, among others, are as follows:
• The demands that governing institutions – considering the post-2020 horizon and the two next programming periods – work harder towards the implementation and integration of emerging sea basin, macro-regional strategies and other connected initiatives and cooperation instruments, so as to build a common, more cohesive sustainable and co-owned Mediterranean macro-region involving all the territorial actors;
• Structuring a strong and operational multi-level and multi-stakeholder network, in order to work – together with EU and Euro-Mediterranean Institutions - in a more integrated way in the long run, to design and develop common projects and to support policies based on capitalization of results (e.g. from the Interreg MED Thematic Communities);
• Offering firm support to cooperation at political and technical levels between regional and local stakeholders in the EU, the IPA countries and non-European Mediterranean partner countries, as well as among all the components of the four helix: public and private sector, academia and non-governmental organizations/civil society.
It's much more common for steam to take the slow line from Woking, but here Bulleid pacific 34067 'Tangmere' is given her head on the fast line at Brookwood, on the long climb at 1 in 300.
“You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.”
By Richard Bach
Thanks to Pareeerica for her beautiful texture...it really works with the pic :)
Given to me by my Father in Law, it was his.
The Observer's book of Railway Locomotives of Britain by Ernest F. Carter with coloured illustrations by Kenneth E. Carter.
Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. 1955
Describing the steam locomotives of britain, with 8 colour plates and over 200 photographs. Also including a list of diesel and electric locomotives in general use.
A really nice little book.
Given these are not Sofa's, but they are Sofa Free.
I drove by these the other day and there was three guys chillin' on them. I was getting the stink eye from them, so I came back.
A few days later they were gone. I found one of them around the corner next to a trash bin.
Sofa Free in effect mode.
Southern Pacific heritage unit UP 1996 leads another UP SD70M on I-G2OA back in July of 2010 in Elmhurst
The featured plant is one which had been given to me about 18 years ago by my close friend Anne (we will be celebrating our 16th wedding anniversary this year). 18 years ago, it was a smallish plant with a single, nearly globular stem that fit comfortably in a 4 inch pot. With the passing years, this stem grew taller and wider, and eventually began to produce branches from the base, and along the length of the primary stem, ultimately growing into a nice multi-stemmed cluster ( I believe that there are a total of 18 heads on this plant today); it now fits nicely in a 12 inch bowl. Over the years, I have pampered it, neglected it, and everything in-between. No matter what I do, it persists, and often thrives. Every spring and summer, I move my plant outdoors, gradually exposing it to increasingly brighter sites until it is in the brightest portion of my garden where it benefits from exposure to daylight and hot summer temperatures. It responds very well when given the conditions which I outline in General Cactus Care. As long as I can remember, it has been a reliable bloomer, invariably flowering within about 4 to 8 weeks of being moved outdoors, and it frequently flowers sporadically at other times of the year as well. It produces a good amount of wool on new growth at the apex of the stem, and a bit further down on the stem as it begins to produce its flower buds. The wool is a temporary feature, and is usually lost within several months to about 2 years. Each areole produces about 4 spreading central spines which are white and tipped in dark brown to black, there are many short, white, hair-like radial spines, and the flowers are small ( about 1/4 to 3/8 inch), and are bright magenta in color, with 3 or 4 magenta stigma lobes. The name of the species has been a bit of a question over the years - the plant was never properly identified, and while it bears a similarity to several species - it does not fit perfectly within any species or variety. Mammillaria albilanata v tegelbergiana is the closest thing that I could find to this plant, but even so, this variety is not noted for producing good sized clusters - it typically produces a single, un-branched stem - and only occasionally will produce offsets. Of course, I cannot rule out the possibility (or the likelihood) that this is a hybrid plant - in commercial greenhouses, it is often difficult to keep the "bloodlines" pure. Whatever its name, this has proven to be an attractive, reliable, and forgiving plant - tolerating a wide range of growing conditions, soils, and watering regimens. I must admit that I have only grown a few types of mammillaria over the years, but if this plant is typical of the temperament of its many relatives, I can understand their popularity.
Given the cuts I'm surprised these haven't been sold off for scrap metal they are heavy enough.
interesting how the different light falls on them, they were open and face East/West.
The Town Hall was designed by architect E.W. Mountfield FRIBA. He was responsible for tLondon's Central Criminal Court, The Old Bailey.
Most of Dinosaur Provincial Park is a Natural Preserve, where regular visitors can't go except on guided tours. (Given what I observed of people's sign-following abilities in the public access areas, this is a good thing.) An excellent tour is the Centrosaurus Quarry Hike:
The Centrosaurus Quarry Hike is your best opportunity to see the unequalled concentration of dinosaur fossils that makes Dinosaur Provincial Park world famous. You will journey through rugged streambeds and over sandstone ridges to reach a former dig site, known as a bonebed, that contains the remains of hundreds of horned dinosaurs! As you investigate the clues these fossils provide, you will be challenged to come up with your own theory to explain their mass death.
Be prepared for your hike: for your safety and comfort please bring water, sunscreen, hat and insect repellent. Note footwear restriction on all hikes: participants must wear sturdy closed toe and heel footwear; NO sandals or flip-flops allowed on hikes! Also note age restrictions for this hike.
I volunteered to be 'chaser', ensuring that no one was left behind. It meant I missed some of the explanations, aimed at children, but I had the best photographic opportunities — and two decades of teaching means I would have been taking head counts anyway!
This was the end of the hike. I wandered away from the group to try to get some panoramas without too much ghosting.
This 360° High Dynamic Range panorama was stitched from 93 hand-held bracketed photographs with PTGUI Pro, tone-mapped with Photomatix, and touched up in Aperture.
Original size: 18400 × 9200 (169.3 MP; 181 MB).
Location: Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada
Given the depth of field, these really need to be seen at bigger than screen size, but this will have to do for now.
