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Al Delta de l'Ebre, les tanques són escases i gairebé simbòliques. Semblen delimitar, sense limitar. Aquest és un dels ingredients de la llibertat que es respira en aquest vèrtex de Catalunya. De la mateixa manera, en aquesta terra oberta, els límits lingüístics imposats artificialment entre el valencià i el català es difumínen fins deixar en evidència la incultura dels seus apologetes.
Delta series I - El reciclador de límites
En el Delta del Ebro, las vallas son escasas y casi simbólicas. Parecen delimitar sin limitar. Este es uno de los ingredientes de la libertad que se respira en este vértice de Cataluña. Del mismo modo, en esta tierra abierta, los límites lingüísticos impuestos artificialmente entre el valenciano y el catalán, se difuminan hasta dejar en evidencia la incultura de sus apologetas.
Delta series I - The recycler of boundaries
Fences in Delta de l'Ebre are scarce and almost symbolic. They appear to mark out without really restricting. This is one of the ingredients of the freedom you can breathe in this catalonian vertex. All the same, in this open land, the forced linguistical boundaries enforced between Valencià and Català, fade away and reveal the ignorance of its apologists.
Imatge presa al passeig del Garxal, junt a la desembocadura de l'Ebre.
Processat: no.
Apparently, those little fish have speed limits as well, from what I can tell from this sign that I saw underwater in the Fox River today
Dawson.
Although Peterborough was beyond Goyder’s Line of 1864 indicating the limit of viable farming lands the government, grasping for land sales revenue and wanting to acquiesce to the demand for wheat farming land, allowed the Hundred of Coglin about 40 kilometres north of Peterborough to be proclaimed in 1878. Farmers and speculators moved in straight away with land sales doing very well. The town of Dawson was gazetted a few years later in June of 1881. The government town was planned on a grid pattern with 360 town blocks offered for sale. But had they waited a few months longer as the big drought of 1881 settled in the government might have been more cautions and less optimistic. But the potential farmers and business people for the town were not pessimistic. They established a thriving little town. Droughts come and go in Australia and they assumed this drought of 1881 would also pass. But this was not to be as the average rainfall of the Hundred of Coglin was too low to be a reliable area for grain growing. The so called drought persisted as the rainfall returned to its usual low average after the good years of the late 1870s ended. It was those few good seasons that had encouraged people to argue that “rain followed the plough”. This was just wishful thinking. In 1888, after ten years trying to grow wheat, some farmers around Dawson were reaping for three days to produce one bag of wheat! Then in January 1889 a thunderstorm produced floods and lakes sweeping away fences, cattle and trees. Nine inches of rain (225 mms) fell in one day. Further deluges occurred in February and in March. Hope was restored but great droughts returned in the early 1890s. Today the town is a ghost town with a handful of residents and the land is used for pastoralism, not grain growing. But it is picturesque and the dry weather has preserved its old buildings well.
Dawson soon had numerous buildings, although few now remain, and a population of over 100 residents within a few years. Among the first buildings, as in all SA towns in the 19th century, were the Dawson Hotel in 1883, a Primitive Methodist Chapel in 1882, an Anglican Church in 1883 and a Catholic Church in 1885. The government public school was built and opened in 1885 and this followed the opening of the Catholic school in 1884. By 1898 the state school had 55 pupils and early in the 20th century the average enrolment had risen to around 75 children but it declined from 1902 onwards until the final closure of the school in 1962. Along with a Post Office, a general store and a blacksmith the town was nicely established by 1887. By the 1890s it had two general stores, a butcher and a saddler and many residences. Few of these buildings now remain. Although the hotel served as a social centre for events and public meetings the town and community soon wanted an Institute or hall. This was completed in 1890. Nearby the first horse race meetings were held and the cricket ground was established. Crops were sown and yields were obtained but yields varied greatly and never reached the yields expected by the farmers and in some years nothing was reaped at all. The discovery of gold at the Mount Grainger fields in 1894 boosted optimism but not for long as nearer towns like Penn (Oodla Wirra) could provide services for the goldfield needs. By the time Australian Federation occurred in 1901 the town began to die but it clung to life until the 1970s. The town is surrounded by excellent pastoral country and farms were amalgamated into larger pastoral properties causing a drop in the total district population. Then once motor transport became common widespread in the 1950s the town died more quickly as larger service centres like Peterborough became much closer time wise.
Dawson today has few buildings. The old state school built in 1885 is now a comfortable looking residence with solar panels on its roof. The original Primitive Methodist Church of 1882 was a tin and timber building and it has gone. It was replaced with a new stone Methodist Church in 1890 that opened without plastering or a ceiling. They were added later. A solid stone water closet was built by the Methodists in 1893. It is still standing! The Methodist manse has been demolished and is gone. The outstanding Catholic Church of the Blessed Virgin of Mount Carmel is still standing on the hill but the buildings around it are all gone. The church was restored inside and out in 1925. The Catholic School founded in 1884 is believed to have only operated for a couple of years. The large and impressive Dawson Hotel from 1883 with a substantial cellar is standing in a ruined state. Although Dawson established an Institute in 1890 it was replaced with a new galvanised iron and timber structure in 1926. That is still in good condition and is still sometimes used. The sports ground is unused and dilapidated with no functioning toilets or facilities.
But how does a town become a ghost town? The example of Dawson shows the resilience and determination again the odds to maintain a township. From 1902 the school enrolment began to decline. The butcher shop closed in 1903 as did the blacksmith. By 1907 families were leaving the district and the hoped for returns from wheat farming had not eventuated. But in 1908 it is amazing to think that this town and district was blanketed in snow! Nevertheless the town continued to decline. In 1915 the local branch of the Agricultural Bureau ceased. In 1954 the government began to resume town blocks if they had never been purchased or if the owners were not traceable. In 1960 the town was officially abolished as a town. The Dawson Hotel closed in 1961 and the state school closed in 1962 followed by the general store in 1963.The tennis club abolished itself in 1963 with the football club following suit in 1965. The Methodist Church held its last service in 1964 and the last Catholic Mass was held in 1969 although the last Catholic priest to live in the town had departed as early as 1942. What a sad period this must have been for the farmers still living in the district. The only town activity which continued was the Dawson Hall Committee. In an attempt to keep something of Dawson for future generations they raised money and purchased the Methodist and Catholic churches and the ruins of the Dawson Hotel in 1981 to preserve them. Today it is doubtful that even the Dawson Hall Committee exists.
A high-profile public information campaign to ensure Scotland is ready for a new lower drink drive limit has been launched at the start of Road Safety week.
This sign marks the halfway mark on the ride home from work. Usually I accelerate past, but today I braked and turned back. It is my favorite speed limit sign after all, and there's no rule that says you can't slow down rather than speed up.
Officer at work inside a civilian car with speed check equipment between Rheineck and Buriet, Switzerland. Mar 14, 2008.
This painting is done in acrylic and the dimensions are 24 x 36 inches. The painting was painted for a contest at Good Girl Art Gallery in Springfield, MO. The topic for the contest is "Children in its Landscape."
You can view the painting in progress on my blog at whiterabbitart.blogspot.com/ or view more artwork on my website at www.whiterabbitart.net
80 mph test zone signs on I-15 in Iron County. Photo taken by Ming Jiang of the Traffic and Safety Division.
You don't have to stop at four. Or use a circle. I'm just old-fashioned and a little lazy.
Crease pattern available.
I had so much fun with the first cave racer, I made another quick one. Nothing new, I know. Basically, I just sorted out all the lime green bricks I had and built around that idea.
La Mezquita de Córdoba -Catedral de Santa María-
Edificada a partir del siglo VIII sobre la basílica visigoda de San Vicente, ampliada a lo largo de los siglos IX y X, durante el Califato, convertida en catedral cristiana en 1236, y parcialmente mutilada en el siglo XVI, con la implantación del nuevo edificio catedralicio en su centro. Fue la segunda en superficie del mundo, por detrás de la de La Meca. Lugar de reuniones religiosas y políticas, podía albergar hasta veinte mil personas.
Se comienza a edificar en el 780 por el primer emir omeya, Abderramán I, sobre el solar que ocupó la basílica visigótica de San Vicente, el templo cristiano más importante de la ciudad desde el siglo V. Se conforma mediante once naves longitudinales iguales, a excepción de la central que conduce al mihrab y las extremas, orientadas hacia el Guadalquivir, de doce tramos en dirección al muro de la quibla, que a diferencia de la mayoría de mezquitas no está orientado hacia La Meca sino hacia el sur -parece que quisieron imitar a la Mezquita de Damasco, también de los Omeya-. Se utilizan columnas y capiteles procedentes de construcciones anteriores -romanas y visigodas-, y sobre ellos realiza un sistema de dobles arcos, el inferior, de herradura, sirve de unión y atado, y el superior, de medio punto, soporta la cubierta. En los arcos se alterna el material de las dovelas, ladrillo rojo y caliza amarilla, que le dan la característica cromática al conjunto. Las obras concluyen en el 788.
Abderramán II realiza las obras que transforman definitivamente el templo de origen arriano en mezquita, entre el 833 y el 855, ya bajo gobierno de su hijo. Se derriba el primitivo muro de la quibla, -los restos son actualmente visibles en forma de grandes pilastras- y se prolongan las arquerías con ocho tramos más. Sigue el mismo concepto constructivo que la fase anterior: alternancia de dovelas en los arcos -amarillas de caliza y rojas de ladrillo- y materiales reutilizados, si bien se realizan ocho nuevos capiteles labrados “de pencas”, una esquematización del corintio romano.
Abderramán III amplió el patio y levantó un nuevo alminar que actualmente se conserva desmochado en el interior del campanario cristiano.
La ampliación más importante se efectúa en el siglo X durante el reinado de Alhakén II. Se perfora la quibla de Abderramán II y se realiza una nueva extensión hacia el sur en doce crujías más. Para mejorar la iluminación se construyen cuatro lucernarios con cúpulas nervadas. El primero de ellos, delante de la macsura, donde aparecen nuevos arcos polilobulados y entrecruzados, que se encuentra sobre la actual Capilla de Villaviciosa. Los otros tres, delante del nuevo muro de quibla para iluminar el nuevo mihrab, que no se limita a un nicho, se trata a una pequeña habitación octogonal cubierta con una cúpula en forma de concha. En las columnas se alternan fustes rosas y azules, labrados ex profeso, y se utilizan capiteles de pencas. La portada del mihrab y las cúpulas van recubiertas de mosaicos ejecutados por artesanos bizantinos.
Almanzor lleva a cabo la última y más extensa de las intervenciones durante el siglo X. La ampliación, tanto del interior, mediante la construcción de ocho nuevas naves que dejan descentrado el mihrab, como del patio, se realiza hacia el este –la presencia del río impide una nueva ampliación hacia el sur-. En los arcos la alternancia cromática de las dovelas es fingida puesto que todas son de caliza, sustituyéndose el rojo del ladrillo por pintura de de almagra.
Tras la conquista de Córdoba en 1236 por Fernando III, la mezquita se convierte en catedral, sufriendo progresivas alteraciones que acabarán configurando el edificio actual. En primer lugar se sitúa la Capilla Mayor, actual capilla de Villaviciosa, bajo uno de los lucernarios de Alhakén II, sin provocar destrucciones arquitectónicas, quedando protegidos Macsura y Mihrab. A finales del siglo XV se realiza una nueva capilla cristiana con estructura gótica y algunas modificaciones en los accesos, sobre la antigua capilla del siglo XIII.
La intervención cristiana más importante se realiza a lo largo del siglo XVI, cuando en el centro de la antigua mezquita se levanta una gran nave rompiendo el concepto espacial islámico. Realizada por el Obispado con gran polémica tras la intercesión de Carlos V, -el Concejo de la ciudad había promulgado una circular impidiendo la participación en la obra-. El propio monarca se lamentará de lo realizado: “habéis destruido lo que era único en el mundo, y habéis puesto en su lugar lo que se puede ver en todas partes”. La obra se inicia en 1523 por el arquitecto Hernán Ruiz I, bajo presupuestos góticos, evoluciona hasta una formulación renacentista con su hijo Hernán Ruiz II, y tras casi cien años de obras se concluye con la cúpula del crucero, obra de Juan de Ochoa al estilo manierista, y la bóveda de lunetos del coro que ya presagia el barroco. En ese periodo se realizan una serie de capillas, generalmente adosadas a los muros, formalizadas en diferentes estilos, del gótico al barroco, entre las que destacan las del Tesoro y Sagrario.
Al patio de la mezquita, el conocido Patio de los Naranjos, rodeado de un pórtico de arcos de herradura, donde ser alinean fuentes, naranjos y palmeras, se accede hoy por la Puerta del Perdón, realizada al estilo mudéjar en 1377, bajo el primitivo alminar desmochado parcialmente y revestido, a principios del siglo XVII, al estilo herreriano.
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The marina at Coronado Bay. Beatiful place and gorgeous sunsets. I loved how quiet and peaceful the place remained during the evenings. And I loved those streetlamps too. They deserve the starring role in a picture.
SEPTA Train 9761 rolls into Grundy Interlocking as they continue east under the signal bridge and by Grundy Tower. I was gonna grab this consist again with the 304 trailing on their return trip, but quite the strong thunderstorm with lots of lightning and heavy rain moved in and I headed for home instead.
Here is Scotty Mclaughlin #33 on the limit, giving it some Jandal on his last lap of Qualifying for the Top 10 shoot out, this effort got him 2nd fastest. #retro #farewellvolvo #volvo
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When I was a child - I only saw everything at adult knee height. What do you see at this child’s eye view. Show us.
when I was a child the sky was the limit and would be always testing that limit - I haven't changed that much
As of March 1, 2016, speed limits have been increased on 11 different highways in central and eastern Oregon, including I-84 from the Idaho state line to The Dalles, and I-82 from the Washington state line to the junction of I-84. See our website for full details: www.oregon.gov/ODOT/COMM/Pages/Speed-Limit-Increases-in-2... .