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Macro Monday's Heart theme 2017.
Creative Tabletop, "Writing implements", pens, pencils, crayons theme.
M42 macro lens. Extension tube.
The week got away from me so just remembered at 8 last night that I hadn't shot anything for this weeks theme. Rummaged through the kitchen until I came across this handy dandy little gem. A thingamajig to get your olives out of jars and cans.
For the group Collective 52 Photo Project "2015".
Implements including the chain used in an attempt to block the Hudson river and artillery from the revolution made with iron from Ringwood, NJ.
The SSMP is implementing the vegetation enhancement projects in partnership with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation near communities around the Salton Sea. The projects cover approximately 1,700 acres and are located near the communities of Salton City and Bombay Beach. The projects aim to establish and enhance native vegetation on the exposed lakebed to reduce wind-blown dust and improve habitat value for desert wildlife. Native plants being established at the project sites include iodine bush, big saltbush, salt grass, honey mesquite, palo verde, among others still being considered.
This lovely old building could have been a house in the old days - of the mid 1950's. Upon looking through the window, there were old farm implements and rustic tools left behind.
Oom Samie Se Winkel (General Store), Stellenbosch, South Africa
Probably used in the wine farms of the area for shovelling grapes.
Sugar sucriers (sugar bowls) and sugar casters (sugar shakers): what an elegant and genteel history our forebears left us. How pleasurable it must have been to take sugar with tea, drinks or dessert using these wonderful sterling silver objects and implements.
No doubt you have a sugar bowl (also known as a sucrier) somewhere about the house, sterling silver or otherwise, but have you ever heard of a sugar caster before?
Sugar casters (also known as sugar shakers) have been used from the Seventeenth Century, were the natural progression from sugar boxes. Sugar boxes were often highly ornamented and decorative to advertise their owner’s wealth, yet were not convenient for using at the dinner table while eating or drinking. The term ‘caster’ is a reference to the way which the sugar is cast across the food, and dispensed evenly. The shape and form of the silver sugar caster is based on the need to sprinkle sugar when sweetening drinks or food. Therefore the pierced dome shape of the top of the sugar caster allows sugar to pass through delicately and gradually, while the solid bottom of the caster is the container for the sugar. Generally, the height of the sugar caster has grown over time.
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 16th of October is “starts with S”. I immediately thought of sterling silver. Then I thought that sugar also starts with an ‘s’, so I called in some favours from some like-minded friends to share some pieces of sugar related sterling silver to meet this week’s theme. I hope that you like my choice of a collage for the theme, and that it makes you smile.
Far left: a Georgian sugar caster made in 1801 by Thomas Wallis II in London. (Private collection).
Apprenticed to his father, Thomas Wallis I, silversmith Thomas Wallis II first registered himself in 1777. In 1810, Thomas Wallis II entered in partnership with silversmith Jonathan Hayne and established Thomas Wallis and Company.
Top second from the left: a large Victorian Rococo Revival sucrier made in 1840 by Patrick Loughlin of Great Ship Street, Dublin. (Private collection).
This ornately decorated sugar bowl is wonderfully large, with a 15 centimetre diameter and measuring 10 centimetres in height. Obviously its owners were wealthy, and perhaps liked to display their wealth through such a large sucrier. Irish silver is quite rare, with much British assayed pieces melted down during the fraught relationship between Britain and Ireland. This piece is also rare because Patrick Loughlin was only a silversmith between 1831 and 1848.
Bottom second from the left: an Art Nouveau sucrier made in Dublin in 1908 by Sharman Dermott Neill. (Private collection).
Sharman Dermott Neill established the retail business of Sharman D. Neill on the Edgware Rd, London around 1852. It remained open until 1880. Premises in Donegall Place, Belfast were established in 1884. In 1909 the firm was converted into a Ltd. Sharman Dermott Neill was a descendent of Robert Neill, who in partnership with Henry Gardner, advertised \'Telescopes\' in 1810. Sharman D. Neill Ltd. is still open at 7 - 9 Royal Avenue, Belfast, selling luxury goods and jewellery.
Top second from the right: a Regency Revival sucrier made in 1925 in Birmingham by the silversmiths Charles Boyton and Son Ltd. manufacturing silversmiths, Upper Charles Street, London. (Private collection).
The firm of Charles Boyton and sons was founded in 1809 and eventually wound up in 1933. The director Charles Boyton junior (1885 - 1958) broke away from the old firm and set up wholesale silversmiths in Maryebone Lane and a retail premises in Wigmore Street in 1934. Some of his work is inspired the Pyramid pattern designed Harold Nielson in 1926 for George Jonson. His business closed in 1939.
Bottom second from the right: a Georgian revival sucrier made in 1901 in Chester by William Aitken of Vyse Street, Birmingham. (Private collection).
William Aitken was a maker of sterling silver and silver plated items during the Victorian and Edwardian period in Birmingham between 1891 and 1904 and was also active in Chester at the same time. His motto was “Nothing is too large; nothing is too small”. It was said of him that “it is an impossibility to mention any article which can be made in silver that is not in the stock of this maker”.
Far right: an Art Deco sugar caster made in 1935 by Aaron Lufkin Dennison of Handsworth, Birmingham. (Private collection.)
Aaron Lufkin Dennison was an American watchmaker and businessman who founded a number of companies. Born in Maine in 1812, around 1862, Aaron Dennison started a business making watch cases in Birmingham and supplied the London office of the Waltham Watch Company. In 1879, Alfred Wigley joined Aaron to form the firm of Dennison, Wigley & Company. Aaron died in Birmingham in 1895. Following his death, his son Franklin became a partner in the firm. This very successful company continued until 1905 when it was renamed the Dennison Watch Case Company, and that company continued until 1967. As well as producing watch cases, they also produced luxury silver goods.
Flickr has once again implemented another new, new Beta version randomly selecting members to sample it. Being one of the most random people around, I was blessed with the opportunity. While the format has changed slightly, it is a marked improvement over the last which caused a mass exodus to foreign language versions as a means of avoiding usage, and much closer to the "old" version stylistically. Title, description, and comments are large and back to black on white text. The entire right margin is eliminated and group invites are clearly indicated and easily accessed. I can't find access to the HTML code yet but it must be there somewhere. While it may not be perfect, this is a vast improvement, obviously directly addressing the concerns expressed by membership. And for that, some appreciation is in order.
I would advise all of those who are utilizing alternatives to give a quick check back to English to see if you, too, are one of those so "honored" as to be capable of using the latest altered version. If you are not, the following link shows a sample page:
www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157645000450855/
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Due to the invasion of southern and eastern European nations by the Warsaw Pact, the EU has sent back their troops to Europe from America to prepare and strategize a retaliation. Due to this soldiers now have a much more common presence in the daily lives of civilians. All forces will be used to create an advantage, even the Leaning Tower of Pisa will be used as a watch tower in Italy. The preparations are almost complete.
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For the Purge Chronicles
Doing something very interesting with the leaning tower of pisa was harder than I thought if I wanted it to be pretty accurate, so this is more of a tone scene rather than a detailed one to be more accurate to the area.
Ría de Punta Umbría (Huelva - Andalucía)
SIgma 10-20 + Cokin filter : Gradual Neutral Grey ND8 (P121)
The Bo-Kaap is an area of Cape Town, South Africa formerly known as the Malay Quarter. It is a former racially segregated area, situated on the slopes of Signal Hill above the city centre and is a historical centre of Cape Malay culture in Cape Town. The Nurul Islam Mosque, established in 1844, is located in the area.
Bo-Kaap is known for its brightly coloured homes and cobblestoned streets. The area is traditionally a multicultural neighbourhood, and 56.9% of its population identify as Muslim. According to the South African Heritage Resources Agency, the area contains the largest concentration of pre-1850 architecture in South Africa, and is the oldest surviving residential neighborhood in Cape Town.
In 1760 Jan de Waal bought a block of land at the foot of Signal Hill, between Dorp and Wale Streets. A year later he obtained an adjacent parcel, extending his holding to Rose/Chiappini/Shortmarket Street. Starting in 1763, de Waal built several small “huurhuisjes” (rental houses) on this land, which he leased to his slaves. The first three are at 71 Wale Street (now the Bokaap Museum), above Buitengracht Street, and 42 Leeuwen Street respectively.
Skilled Muslim labourers called Mardijkers moved to the Cape from Southeast Asia and lived in the Bo-Kaap. Because the aboriginal tribes in the Cape Colony area resisted the Dutch, slaves were initially imported from Malaysia, Indonesia and different parts of Africa, hence the name “Malay”. Most of the new residents were Muslim, and several mosques were built in the area. The first one was Auwal Mosque, in Dorp Street in 1794. Between 1790 and 1825 more housing in both the Cape Dutch and Cape Georgian styles was built for the expanding population of tradesmen, craftsmen, and artisans. In 1804 the Tana Baru Cemetery was established to serve the Muslim families.
More Muslims continued to move into the area, including a wave of political exiles from Java and Ceylon circa 1820. After the emancipation in 1834 and the arrival of liberated slaves, developers constructed numerous rows of narrow, deep huurhuisjes.
The brightly coloured facades are attributed to an expression of freedom by the new homeowners, as all the houses were painted white while on lease, although it appears that the tradition of brightly coloured homes began in the late 20th century, rather than earlier.
Although the area has always been a centre of Cape Malay culture, until the implementation of the Apartheid Group Areas Act, it also had residents of other ethnicities. These included Indians, non-Muslim Coloureds, Filipinos, Africans, Portuguese and Italians at different times. Historically, the Bo-Kaap was larger than its current extent.
During Apartheid, the area was not bulldozed, unlike nearby District Six, however non-Malay residents were forcibly removed in accordance with the Group Areas Act, in an effort by a sympathetic apartheid government official (I. D. du Plessis) to preserve the Malay character of the area.
Preservation of the area began in 1943 when 15 houses were restored by a group of prominent citizens, with the support of the Historical Monuments Commission. In 1966 a portion of the area was designated as a National Monument. From 1971 the City Council began restoring houses and streetscapes, with 48 units completed by 1975.
Heres a shot of my latest find. An old rusty, crusty, planter/ fertilizer made by Moline. I just put the post fence up this evening, and will be planting flowers around it. I love old farm implements. One of the seed decanters is still somewhat in tact, so I put daisys in it.
The Thirtieth Ion Prophecy - Darkcoin - The Dictatorship of Shadows by Daniel Arrhakis (2021)
With the music : Jo Blankenburg- Lords of Arkhmar
The Thirtieth Ion Prophecy - Darkcoin - The Dictatorship of Shadows
And the times of money covered by shadows, encoded in bits of information came ready to finance the new nightmares and the new dictatorships of Man.
And the Lords of Money financed lies and fear, discrediting journalists, financing conspiracy theories writers in a web of falsehoods for which many will be their slaves.
And the academies of idolatry and the new sects of communication will be founded. The hordes of hate and intolerance worshipers, soldiers of anarchy and conservatives of old moral values will echo to make democracy and freedom of peoples hostages.
And the seeds of uncertainty and discord will be sown so that the Lords of Shadows can re-claim divine power again.
And days will come when the digital gold pyramids will fall apart like leaves in the wind and shake all the ivory towers of the kingdoms of Man while the lords of the shadows tried to implement anarchy and hostage the governments of the Earth.
And the lie will be repeated to the winds until it is considered to be true and the doubt will be written so many times that it will become the new law, unless the resistant fight with all their might and never question their deepest beliefs and values.
Because believe me, the biggest battle of our age is yet to come ... the Battle Of The Consciences !
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A Trigésima Profecia De Ion - Dinheiro Negro - A Ditadura das Sombras
E os tempos do dinheiro envolto nas sombras, codificado em bits de informação chegaram prontos para financiar os novos pesadelos e as novas ditaduras do Homem.
E os Senhores do Dinheiro financiaram mentiras e medos, desacreditando jornalistas, financiando escritores de teorias da conspiração em uma teia de falsidades da qual muitos serão seus escravos.
E as academias de idolatria e as novas seitas de comunicação serão fundadas. As hordas de adoradores do ódio e da intolerância, soldados da anarquia e conservadores de antigos valores morais ecoarão para tornarem reféns a democracia e a liberdade dos povos.
E as sementes da incerteza e da discórdia serão semeadas para que os Senhores das Sombras possam reivindicar novamente o poder divino.
E chegará o dia em que as pirâmides de ouro digital se desintegrarão como folhas ao vento e sacudirão todas as torres de marfim dos reinos do Homem enquanto os senhores das sombras tentam implementar a anarquia e tornar reféns os governos da Terra.
E a mentira se repetirá aos ventos até que seja considerada verdadeira e a dúvida será escrita tantas vezes que se tornará a nova lei, a menos que os resistentes lutem com todas as suas forças e nunca questionem suas crenças e os seus valores mais profundos.
Porque acreditem em mim, a maior batalha de nossa era ainda está por vir ... a Batalha das Consciências!
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Garden implements neatly arranged at Kumano Jinja (shrine), between Magome-juku and Tsumago-juku, Japan.
Sony FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS
24mm; 1/30 sec; f/6.3; ISO 400
Kitchen Tools #2. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell.
Close up photograph of kitchen implements.
When looking for subjects to test (otherwise know as “get to know”) a new camera or lens, it is amazing what things one can find to photograph! This week I’m trying to get up to speed on a new camera — more about that below — and how it works with some lenses I already have. On this evening I slapped a macro lens on the thing and headed to the kitchen to photograph… a whisk, blender blades, coffee cups, and others stuff that was lying around.
It is important to me to both understand objectively how my camera equipment functions and to develop an intuitive familiarity with it. The former helps me make smart decisions, and the latter is very important in the field, where I don’t want to get stuck wondering how the gear works. In this case, the new equipment is a Fujifilm X-T5 that I got to upgrade from the XPro2 that I’ve been using for my “small camera” photography for the past few years. For this photograph and a few others like it I put the Fujifilm 80mm macro on the camera.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
In 1944 Aalto was commissioned to design and implement a town plan for Säynätsalo, a small factory town founded around Johan Parviaisen Tehtaat wood-processing mills, from 1946 operated by Enso-Gutzeit (now part of Stora Enso), whose headquarters in Helsinki he also designed. The town hall would be built at a later date after Aalto won a government-mandated competition for its design. Aalto constructed the building into the wooded hillside of Säynätsalo creating a three-story multi-purpose building surrounding an elevated courtyard.
The design of the Town Hall was influenced by both Finnish vernacular architecture and the humanist Italian renaissance. It was the Italian Renaissance from which Aalto drew inspiration for the courtyard arrangement which informed the name of his original competition entry entitled "Curia." While the main program of the building is housed within a heavy brick envelope, the courtyard is bordered by a glass-enclosed circulation space which can be linked to the model of an arcade-bordered Piazza.
It was important to Aalto that the design represent democracy and the people's relationship with the government which is why he included a large public space, along with sections dedicated to the public.
The town hall is crowned by the council chamber, a double-height space which is capped by the Aalto-designed "Butterfly" trusses. The trusses support both the roof and the ceiling, creating airflow to manage condensation in the winter and heat in the summer. The butterfly truss eliminates the need for multiple intermediate trusses. It also gives call to medieval and traditional styles. The council Chamber is approached from the main entrance hall a floor below via a ramp which wraps around the main tower structure under a row of clerestory ribbon windows.
Aalto constrained his material palate to one dominated by brick and accented by timber and copper. Though Aalto practiced at the same time as Modernist Architects Le Corbusier and others, he rejected the Machine Aesthetic for the majority of his architecture. Instead, he saw his buildings as organisms made of up of individual cells. This principle informed Aalto's use of traditional building materials such as brick which is, by nature, cellular. The bricks were even laid slightly off-line to create a dynamic and enlivened surface condition due to the shadows.
The massive brick envelope is punctuated by periods of vertical striation in the form of timber columns which evoke Säynätsalo's setting in a heavily forested area.
Another distinctive feature at Säynätsalo are the grass stairs which complement a conventional set of stairs adjacent to the tower council chambers. The grass stairs also evoke notions of ancient Greek and Italian architecture through the establishment of a form resembling a simple amphitheater condition.
Pink farm implement in Montgomery City, Missouri by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens at ƒ/8.0 with a 1/125-second exposure at ISO 100. Processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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It is imperative that we implement a system of ecolonomic homeostasis to fight against the current anthropotechnogenic economic, social and environmental crises. Recent global economic and political instability has revealed the shortcomings of our current capitalist system. It further confirms the necessity for an ultramodern paradigm shift. On account of the deleterious impact of the financialization of the economic ecosystem, we must introduce an oligopolistic system that can be sustainably managed. The Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) is what is needed to fulfill our sustainable development goals. Environmental awareness must be the center of our ethos as we work to reduce our anthroposphere periphery in pursuit of global co-immunity. Not only must we manipulate living organisms through science and engineering to create commodities, we must also manipulate the Anthropos through cryptoeconomic engineering.
This new cryptospheric ecotechnic cybernetic system will revolve around a cyber-physical environmental intelligence. This transhuman technosphere of 15 minute city ecoregions will adopt a sustainable economic welfare system that will revolve around harvesting the body’s energy. You will be a collective of communities, a multitude of capital. We will combine biomimetics and thermoeconomics to economically rebalance the core-periphery dynamic. Xenocommodification: all money creation must have biophysical embedding—666. This thermalisation of thermoeconomics will be globally self-replicated.
In short: take the Mark of the Beast and become transhuman—embrace the techno-Beast system, because techno-animism is the way of the future!
These nerds want an economic system that revolves around the environment—a Social Credit Score System that will be linked to your Carbon Footprint and to the United Nations 17 goals of Sustainable Development. The ultimate goal is to tie this eco-economic system together with transhumanism—the merging of man and microchip…data capitalism (data totalitarianism).
Warning: “Constantly be on your guard so that your hearts will not be loaded down with self-indulgence, drunkenness, and the worries of this life, or that day will take you by surprise like a trap, because it will come on everyone who lives on the face of the earth. So be alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place and to take your stand in the presence of the Son of Man.” (Luke 21:34-36)
Inspired by Pisco Bandito's excellent implementation, Prozac74's mirror set, and to some degree, Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass
The statement of the title is true, don't listen to what some other photos might tell you. Below are two proofs.
Proof by Mathematical Induction
We induct on the number of times people have shaken hands.
Let E be the set of people who have shaken hands an even number of times.
Let O be the set of people who have shaken hands an odd number of times.
Base Case
Before a handshake ever took place, O has size zero and is therefore even.
Induction Step
We assume the statement is true for k handshakes. We need to prove the statement for k+1 handshakes.
For the (k+1)th handshake, one of the following cases is true:
A. Two people from E shake hands (who now move to the set O).
B. Two people from O shake hands (who now move to the set E).
C. One person from O shakes hands with one person from E (they now "trade membership")
For each case, the parity of O remains the same. And since the size of O was even beforehand (by our induction hypothesis), the size of O remains even.
Seb Przd's Proof Using a Parity Argument
O and E are defined as above.
Let n be the number of times any hand has shaken another.
Let n_o be the number of times a hand from the set O has shaken another.
Let n_e be the number of times a hand from the set E has shaken another.
Note: n = n_o + n_e
Each handshake increases n by two, hence n is even. n_e is a sum of even numbers (by definition) and hence is also even. Since both n and n_e are both even, the equation above tells us that n_o is even as well. But n_o is a sum of odd numbers (by definition). The only way for n_o to be even then, is if the size of O is even.
the implements I prepared so as to facilitate giving Sonya water when she becomes weak as she can't drink by herself. But I didn't use that, because she had drunk water by herself until just before her death for luckily and fortunately. Sonya passed away by cardiomyopathy on the morning of October 6th, 2025. She was 7 and a half years-old.
Old Russell Steam Tractor seen at the Hesston Steam Museum, La Porte County, Indiana.
in explore (Sept 7, 2016)
Russell & Company (Steam Tractor)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Russell & Company of Massillon, Ohio, are best known for manufacturing farm and railroad machinery in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Most notably 18,000 Steam tractors and Stationary engines, plus 22,000 Threshing machines
In 1838 Nahum and Clement Russell started a general carpentry business in Massillon, Ohio. They used a two-story frame building, and drove the machinery by horse-power. They made ploughs (plows) and agricultural implements, plus building houses, furniture, coffins, and more. The carpentry shop burned down in 1840.
Charles M, Nahum and Clement – formed C.M. Russell & Co. on Jan. 1, 1842, based in an old whitewashed building called the "White Shop". On seeing Hiram and John Pitts' Buffalo Pitts Separator (Thresher) they understood its short-comings such that their improved version took the honours at the Ohio State Fair at Columbus in 1845.
The Russells purchased stock in the Ohio & Pennsylvania Railroad, urged it to come through Massillon, and in 1852 they began producing handcars and stock cars for the railroad company. The business flourished, three more brothers joined and in 1864 it was incorporated as "Russell & Co".
In 1871 the company divided; C. Russell & Co. moved to Canton, Ohio to make agricultural reapers and mowers.
On May 17, 1878, a fire did $150,000 of damage to machinery, wagon stock and 36 years of patterns. Insurance covered only $53,100, a third of the total. Two-thirds of the main building was saved and new machinery was ordered, but 250 men were 'out of work'. A new 250 foot long four-story brick warehouse was built.
Russell & Co reportedly started building Steam Traction Engines after their 1878 incorporation, and by 1880, they employed 425 people on a seven acre site, with their own railroad sidetrack.
By 1884, they had become one of the largest producers of steam traction engines, plus building industrial, railroad and agricultural equipment.
By 1909, the 21 acre plant had produced 18,000 farm, traction and stationary engines, plus 22,000 threshing machines. They also made sawmills, pneumatic stackers, feeders and road rollers.
Merger and demise
By 1912, the company was in decline, and it merged with "Griscom-Spencer" Company of New Jersey. They created parts for Naval vessels during World War I, and earned an Army-Navy “E” for excellence during World War II.
In 1962, the company was purchased by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Company and the Massillon plant closed, laying off 800 employees).
Products
Steam Tractors
Russell steam traction engines ranged from 6 HP to 150 HP.
•The 1887 6 HP Russell had self-adjusting piston rings, which would not require attention if properly lubricated.
•The 1887 10 HP Russells had a patented friction clutch, reverse gear, equilibrium valve and boiler.
•The 1891 10, 13 and 16 HP models, had throttle lever, brake lever, reverse lever, steam chest, cylinder cocks and rod operating the blower, all within reach from the footboard.
•The 1907 single-cylinder Russells were built with cylinder bore and stroke sizes of 6x8 inches, 7.5x10 inches, 8x10 inches, 8.25x12 inches, 9x13 inches and 10x13 inches. They burned coal or wood.
Steam roller
The first Russell steam roller was introduced about 1910, as a combination of a road roller and a hauling engine. The detachable rear wheel cleats enabled rolling use.
Static steam engines
The 1901 catalogue offered static engines for factory /machine shop work. Listed as 4-Valve Automatic Engines.
Vessel of Mother and Child:
Paccha, a ritual implement for pouring chicha on the earth. The analysis of residue has confirmed the presence of corn inside an Inka-style vessel similar to this one.
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For the time being, the Incas will use this artifact to water *chicha la tierra, thus offering it to Pachamama and ensuring abundance of water.
*Chicha is a fermented (alcoholic) or non-fermented beverage of Latin America, emerging from the Andes and Amazonia regions. In both the pre- and post-Spanish conquest periods, corn beer (chicha de jora) made from a variety of maize landraces has been the most common form of chicha. However, chicha is also made from a variety of other cultigens and wild plants, including, among others, quinoa (Chenopodium quinia), kañiwa (Chenopodium pallidicaule), peanut, manioc (also called yuca or cassava), palm fruit, potato, oca (Oxalis tuberosa), and chañar (Geoffroea decorticans). There are many regional variations of chicha. In the Inca Empire, chicha had ceremonial and ritual uses.
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The Carchi Pasto culture was located in northern Ecuador in the province of Carchi, in the inter-Andean region between the Mira and Chota rivers. It extended as far as the Nariño Department of Colombia. Most of the population settled in the territories of Ipiales, Túquerres (Colombia) and Carchi (Ecuador).
It was characterized as being a peaceful, sedentary trading culture. The Carchi Pasto traded Spondylus mollusc shells, coca leaves, salt and jade with other coastal and Amazonian peoples. They were expert hunters of deer, which had a strong symbolic value.
This culture is renowned for its pottery and metallurgy. Many of their pieces feature “coqueros” – human figures in a sitting position with a bulge in their cheeks representing the rite of chewing coca leaves—along with interpretations of sacred animals such as jaguars and monkeys. They specialized in the negative painting technique to decorate their pottery, which was a dark red color. They also made use of positive-space painting, modelling, stone carving and gold-copper alloys. They also used Spondylus shells as beads and collars, which they obtained through trade with other regions.
Hanks & Spears Building, 401 Main Street, Genoa, Colorado. The Hanks and Spears building was constructed in 1922 and served for years as the local International Harvester implement dealer. It later became a hardware store, grocery store, and, most recently, a very unique residence. The building is currently being restored by local residents. Note the ghost sign for the Mile High General Store.
Ukraine’s priorities include joining NATO, implementing the decisions of the Alliance's Washington Summit, and jointly intercepting Russian missiles and drones. This was the focus of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s discussion with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte during their meeting in Kyiv.
This is Mark Rutte’s first foreign visit as the leader of the North Atlantic Alliance. President Zelenskyy noted that this visit immediately clearly outlines the current priorities, indicating where the defense of shared Euro-Atlantic values is taking place right now.
“Our key goal is Ukraine’s full NATO membership. Ukraine can become the thirty-third member of NATO. Ukrainians deserve this,” said the President.
During the meeting, the parties thoroughly discussed the prospects for cooperation, the Victory Plan and the feasibility of Ukraine's approach to a just end to the war, the situation on the battlefield, and the needs of our units, including weapons and brigade staffing.
“Ukraine needs to strengthen its positions on the frontline so that we can increase pressure on Russia for the sake of fair, real diplomacy. That is why we need a sufficient quantity and quality of weapons, including long-range weapons, the provision of which, in my opinion, is being delayed by our partners,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasized.
A separate focus of the discussion was Ukraine’s air defense needs. It is crucial for Ukraine that all air defense agreements, including those reached at the NATO Summit in Washington this July, are implemented before winter begins. Additionally, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Mark Rutte discussed additional cooperation with neighboring countries, drawing on examples from the Middle East.
“Jointly intercepting Iranian missiles is no different from jointly intercepting Russian missiles, and especially "Shaheds," which link the Russian and Iranian regimes. What we need in our region is more determination from our partners to put an end to Russian terror,” the President emphasized.
Mark Rutte noted that, as NATO Secretary General, he will do everything possible to increase support for Ukraine.
“Your security matters for ours. Your fight for freedom reflects our core principles and values,” he said.
According to the NATO Secretary General, member states of the Alliance plan to boost their own defense capabilities and strengthen Ukraine’s defense industry.
“Ukraine is closer to NATO than ever before. And we will continue on this path until you become a member of our Alliance. I very much look forward to that day,” said Mark Rutte.
A planter is an agricultural farm implement towed behind a tractor, used for sowing crops through a field. It is connected to the tractor with a draw-bar, or a three-point hitch. Planters lay the seeds down in precise manner along rows. Seeds are distributed through devices called row units. The row units are spaced evenly along the planter.
This machine is not on display, but is still sitting on what was once the old Fresno Ranch. I can't figure out what it did.
Els Comitès de Defensa de la República[a] (amb sigles CDR) anteriorment anomenats Comitès de Defensa del Referèndum, són un conjunt d'assemblees locals, de barri, comarcals i nacional amb l'objectiu de defensar, en primera instància, el referèndum de l'1 d'octubre i la república catalana posteriorment, des de l'estratègia de la no-violència.
Les assemblees aglutinen membres d'entitats, partits polítics independentistes, sectors de l'economia o l'esport i persones independents que busquen organitzar aquesta defensa poble a poble i barri a barri.
La independència de les assemblees locals dels CDR ha permès mobilitzacions constants i de molt diferent caire arreu del territori on tenen implantació.
Aquestes van des del desplegament de pancartes, pintades de murals als pobles, penjada massiva de llaços grocs, cercaviles, àpats populars, entre moltes d'altres.
El dia 10 d'abril de 2018, la Guàrdia Civil va detenir dues persones sota per haver "continuat l'estratègia del Govern de Puigdemont", acusades de rebel·lió i terrorisme.
Ambdues persones van ser traslladades a Madrid per ordre de l'Audiència Nacional.
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Museu dels Sants, "Gegants d'Olot" (La Garrotxa) CAT.
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The Defense Committees of the Republic [a] (with acronym CDR) previously called Referendum Defense Committees, are a set of local, neighborhood, county and national assemblies with the aim of defending, in the first instance, the referendum from October 1 and the Catalan Republic later, from the strategy of non-violence.
The assemblies bring together members of entities, independentist political parties, sectors of the economy or sport and independent people who seek to organize this defense people in town and neighborhood.
The independence of the local assemblies of the CoR has allowed for constant mobilizations and very different in the territory where they are implemented.
These range from the display of banners, painted murals to the villages, hanging massive yellow bows, parades, popular meals, among many others.
On April 10, 2018, the Civil Guard arrested two people below for "having continued the strategy of the Government of Puigdemont", accused of rebellion and terrorism.
Both people were transferred to Madrid by order of the National Hearing.
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Museo de los Santos, "Gigantes de Olot" (La Garrotxa) CAT
Farm implement near McBaine in rural Boone County Missouri by Notley Hawkins Photography. Taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV camera with a Canon EF8-15mm f/4L FISHEYE USM lens at ƒ/4.0 with a 152 second exposure at ISO 100. Processed with Adobe Lightroom 6.4.
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Farm implement near McBaine in rural Boone County Missouri by Notley Hawkins Photography. Taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV camera with a Canon EF8-15mm f/4L FISHEYE USM lens at ƒ/4.0 with a 143 second exposure at ISO 100. Processed with Adobe Lightroom 6.4.
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Farm implement near Glasgow in rural Saline County Missouri by Notley Hawkins Photography. Taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV camera with a Canon EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens at ƒ/4.0 with a 183 second exposure at ISO 200. Processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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