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The Level (sometimes referred to as Colby Level or simply Level) is a seasonally operated request stop on the Isle of Man Railway located in the sheading of Rushen on the Isle of Man. This is the sole remaining section of the railway which once spanned over 46 miles with lines to Peel in the west, Ramsey in the north and the mining village of Foxdale in the centre of the island.
This must be the smallest station on the IOM network being only one carriage length!
The process of designing, building, and installing the shed for drying wood on my property was fun (minus the million ticks and chiggers). It will be a great place to store all of my wood for future campfires and projects!
Taken on a Nikon Fm with HP5 400 film and hand printed. High Level Bridge, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
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Quick wonder out nice and early this morning and as somebody pointer out to me the weather was TRICKERY.
This shot is another attempt at some HDR. If anyone can point me in the correct direction for some good pointers at processing HDR on a MAC (using photomatrix) please let me know in the comments.
Minister of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security, Ana Mendes Godinho, on a High-level video conference on the European Strategy on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030.
Based on the new strategy on the rights of persons with disabilities, the discussion paid particular attention to essential areas that affect the daily lives of people with disabilities, such as accessibility, independent life, dein-stitutionalisation, community-based and person-centred social services, employment and inclusive education. Political representatives, European institutions, bodies representing people with disabilities, social partners, civil society, people with disabilities and other important players reflected on the path to be taken. PEDRO SA DA BANDEIRA/PPUE
A parking garage dressed up like a rainbow.
I loved how this everyday structure became something joyful, almost absurd — repetition made vibrant. It’s a rare moment when concrete feels lighthearted.
Shot with the Fujifilm X-T3 and 35mm f/2 lens.
A high-level group representing some of Somalia’s main international partners – the African Union, Ethiopia, the European Union, Germany, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, Sweden, the United States and the United Nations – today visited Baidoa, the largest city in South West State, and met with that Federal Member State’s President Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed ‘Laftagareen,’ representatives from the African Union Transition Mission to Somalia (ATMIS) and local civil society groups to discuss a range of topics related to political, humanitarian and security developments in both the Federal Member State and Somalia as a whole, as well as how they can best provide support.
UN Photo / Sourav Sarker
The level crossing gates are down so the red flashing lights are on, also the traffic light is at red. Added to that the driver in front is sitting with his foot on the brake. (My car is in park, the hand brake is on and the engine is switched off :-)
A hedge school (Irish names include scoil chois claí, scoil ghairid and scoil scairte) were small informal illegal schools, particularly in 18th- and 19th-century Ireland designed to secretly provide the rudiment of primary education to Catholic children. Under the penal codes imposed by the British, the Catholic Church in Ireland was not allowed to have schools. Instead Catholics set up highly informal secret operations that met in private homes. Historians generally agree that they provided a kind of schooling, occasionally at a high level, for up to 400,000 students by the mid-1820s. J. R. R. Adams says the hedge schools testified “to the strong desire of ordinary Irish people to see their children receive some sort of education.” Antonia McManus argues that there “can be little doubt that Irish parents set a high value on a hedge school education and made enormous sacrifices to secure it for their children....[the hedge schoolteacher was] one of their own”. While the "hedge school" label suggests the classes took place outdoors (next to a hedgerow), classes were normally held in a house or barn. Subjects included primarily the reading, writing and grammar of the Irish and English languages, and maths (the fundamental "three Rs"). In some schools the Irish bardic tradition, Latin, history and home economics were also taught. Reading was often based on chapbooks, sold at fairs, typically with exciting stories of well-known adventurers and outlaws. Payment was generally made per subject, and bright pupils would often compete locally with their teachers. While all Catholic schools were forbidden under the Penal laws from 1723 to 1782, no hedge teachers were known to be prosecuted. Indeed, official records were made of hedge schools by census makers, such as that in Clare. The Penal Laws targeted education by the Catholic religious orders, whose wealthier establishments were sometimes confiscated. The laws aimed to force Irish Catholics of the middle classes and gentry to convert to Anglicanism if they wanted a good education in Ireland. Formal schools for Catholics under trained teachers began to appear after 1800. Edmund Ignatius Rice (1762-1844) founded two religious institutes of religious brothers: the Congregation of Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers. They opened numerous schools, which were visible, legal, and standardized. Discipline was notably strict. Hedge schools declined from the foundation of the National School system by the British government in the 1830s. Most of the Catholic bishops preferred this, as the new schools would be largely under the control of the Catholic Church and allow better control of the teaching of Catholic doctrine. James Doyle, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin wrote to his priests in 1831: “ The Roman Catholic bishops welcome the rule which requires that all the teachers are henceforth to be employed be provided from some Model School, with a certificate of their competency, that will aid us in a work of great difficulty, to wit, that of suppressing hedge schools, and placing youths under the direction of competent teachers, and of those only. ” After 1900, historians such as Daniel Corkery tended to emphasize the hedge schools' classical studies (in Latin and Greek), but while these studies were sometimes taught (based on a local demand), they were not taught in every school. Fernández-Suárez quotes a Board of Education inspector visiting a school in 1835: “ Amazed at the skill of the twelve-year-old boys in reading the new books, and considering the possibility that they were reciting from memory, I invited one of their number to read me a passage from the gospel of Saint Matthew. Evidently the child misunderstood me. He searched in his satchel until he found his tattered book, stood up, and proceeded to read me the account of Christ’s passion—in Greek (Local Ireland & Others 1999)
As ever the Somerset Levels became flooded after heavy rain following the thawing of the recent snow falls.
Unused tracks from the former Union Pacific 9th Street Drill Line. Ashby Ave., Berkeley
The Emeryville Greenway starts just behind those builldings.