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City-Wide Housing March
Saturday Oct 10th
Meet 955 E Hastings
NOON, 12PM
March for housing justice
Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish territories
Organized by the VANDU Tuesday Housing Cttee
With the support of the BC Social Housing Alliance
The housing crisis has never been worse in Vancouver, across the Lower Mainland, and throughout the unceded Coast Salish Territories of British Columbia. The number of people displaced, living on the streets and in shelters has never been higher.
People across the city continue to be evicted and displaced by rising rents, renovictions and demolitions of existing affordable housing. Indigenous people, racialized communities, recent immigrants, single mothers and people on fixed income are the hardest hit.
To make matters worse, tens of thousands of nonprofits and co-ops will lose their funding in the next decade, and yet politicians at all levels of government are only committing to pro-market policies that will deepen the crisis.
The federal government cut their regular social housing programs in 1993. Ten years later, in 2002, the BC Liberals ended the long-shrinking regular provincially funded social housing program in BC. In the winter of 2014, BC’s minister of housing finally declared “we don’t build social housing.” Developer-backed city halls are meanwhile pursuing aggressive gentrification agendas that only serve to accelerate the displacement.
To build social housing for the over 100,000 people facing homelessness in BC, we need tax-based housing programs organized by the provincial, federal and city governments. We need to join together, across the city, lower mainland and the province to say no more. We need to act now. On the eve of the federal elections let’s assemble to demand a national housing strategy that addresses the root causes of the housing crisis.
The Demands that Unite Us:
Adequate, healthy, and secure living conditions;
Address the root causes of poverty through rent control and a national anti-poverty plan;
Build homes not jails, end the criminalization of poverty:
Follow a real definition of social housing at rates affordable for low-income people and pensioners:
End Housing Racism and all forms of tenancy discrimination, including discrimination based on mental health, addictions, citizen status, gender identity and other forms of landlord discrimination
End housing racism and all forms of tenancy discrimination, including discrimination based on mental health, addictions, physical or cognitive dis/ability, citizenship status, gender identity, source of income, and other forms of landlord discrimination
Yes to Municipal Rent Control, No to Renovictions: withhold construction and renovation permits for landlords who renovict
We acknowledge that this event takes place on Unceded Coast Salish Territory
OCT 10 MARCH ENDORSED BY
BC Social Housing Alliance, Raise the Rates BC, Pivot Legal, BC Poverty Reduction Coalition, SUAV, Streams of Justice, SOLID (Victoria), Committee to End Homelessness (Victoria), Rising Tide, ACORN (Burnaby), ACORN (New Westminster), Together Against Poverty Society (Victoria), Radical Desi, Action Committee of People with DisAbilities (VIctoria), SocialCoast, DTES Street Market, Jacob’s Well, The Mainlander, Megaphone, No One is Illegal, Carnegie Community Action Project, EIDGE, Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society, UBC Medical Undergraduate Society, BC Association of People on Methadone, BC/Yukon Association of Drug War Survivors (Abbotsford), Drug Users Resource Centre, Coalition of Progressive Electors, Grassroots Women, Chinatown Concern Group, Gallery Gachet, Urban Subjects, International League of People’s Struggles, Sanctuary Health, Migrante BC, Chinatown Action Group, Aboriginal Front Door, Chinatown Concern Group, The Talon, Vancouver Cop Watch, Grandview Woodland Area Council, Grandview Woodland Calvary Baptist Church
Situated above the River Avon and cared for by the Churches Conservation Trust. Sir John Russell, d1556, and wife Edith, d1562 : detail
Meadow larkspur or Pine forest larkspur (Delphinium gracilentum) growing along the old Lower Kern River Canyon rd, Lower Kern River Canyon, Kern County, California
The Italian Fountain
by Oscar Spalmach
(1864-1917)
A detail from the fountain.
Carved in Carrrar marble in the the Roman studio of Orazio Andreoni at the turn of the nineteenth century.
The fountain features four Naiads riding hippocamps while a boy in the centre rides a dolphin.
Beale Wildlife Park and Gardens
Located by the River Thames, between the villages of Pangbourne and Lower Basildon in Berkshire.
The park was founded in 1956 by Gilbert Beale as his own private park. He was a keen collector and breeder of peacocks and these birds still roam free in the 350 acre park.
The main attractions are: collections of small exotic animals, farm animals and birds, landscaped gardens and woodlands.
There is a children's play area for families.
Photos from a recent visit to New York City. Visits to the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, Governor's Island, Staten Island, Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan.
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Description: Two views looking up a street of many races, lower Manhattan
Creator: Cushman, Charles Weever, 1896-1972
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The now trendy neighbourhood of Manhattan's Lower East Side is a mix of old tenement buildings and modern towers. Restaurants, bars and galleries abound in this once working class district.
Fort Jefferson is a massive but unfinished coastal fortress. It is the largest masonry structure in the Americas, and is composed of over 16 million bricks. The Dry Tortugas are part of Monroe County, Florida, United States. The fort is located on Garden Key in the lower Florida Keys within the Dry Tortugas National Park, about 70 miles (110 km) west of the island of Key West.
The islands get their name from their distinctive characteristics: Turtles, because Ponce de León, a Spanish explorer, saw several big sea turtles on the island. Soon afterward, the word "Dry" was added to the name, to indicate to mariners the islands' lack of springs. Later seafarers would keep the turtles on their backs in the holds of sailing ships and butcher them when they wanted fresh meat. They are not related to the Caribbean island of Tortuga, near Hispaniola.
The islands are home to Dry Tortugas National Park, and are only accessible by boat or seaplane. The large seabird colony, including sooty terns, brown noddy, masked booby and magnificent frigatebird, and the regular occurrence of Caribbean vagrant birds makes them a popular birding destination.
Spanish explorer Ponce de León gave the Dry Tortugas their name on his first visit in 1513. The name is the second oldest surviving European place-name in the US. They were given the name Las Tortugas (The Turtles) due to 170 sea turtles taken on the islands and shoals by de León's men. Soon afterward, the word "Dry" was added to the name, to indicate to mariners the islands' lack of springs.
In 1742 HMS Tyger wrecked in the Dry Tortugas. The stranded crew lived on Garden Key for 56 days, and fought a battle with a Spanish sloop, before sailing to Jamaica in several boats.
The United States government never completed Fort Jefferson after 30 years on Garden Key, and this bastion remained in Union hands throughout the Civil War. It later was used as a prison until abandoned in 1874. Dr. Samuel Mudd, famous for being the doctor who treated John Wilkes Booth in the wake of the Lincoln assassination, was imprisoned here until early 1869. During the 1880s, the Navy established a base in the Dry Tortugas, and it subsequently set up a coaling (refueling) and a wireless (radio) station there as well. During World War I, a seaplane base was established in the islands, but it was abandoned soon thereafter.
From 1903 until 1939 the Carnegie Institution of Washington operated the Marine Biology Laboratory on Loggerhead Key which "...quickly became the best-equipped marine biological station in the tropical world.” Through the years, over 150 researchers used the facilities to perform a wide range of research. In June 1911 the laboratory built a vessel in Miami, Anton Dohrn, for use by researchers as well as logistics between the station and Key West. The vessel, excepting a period of World War I service with the Navy, supported the laboratory's work until closure in 1939 and donation of Anton Dohrn to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
An account of a visit to the fort at the Dry Tortugas by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Justice-to-be Robert H. Jackson can be found in the book That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt, by Robert H. Jackson, edited and introduced by John Q. Barrett (Oxford University Press, New York, 2003).
The Dry Tortugas are also rich in maritime history. In 1989 Seahawk Deep Ocean Technology explored a shipwreck believed to be part of the 1622 Spanish treasure fleet. The wreck located in 1332' (406m) of water, yielded olive jars, copper, gold, silver, glass and other cultural artifacts. On September 6, 1622, the Nuestra Señora de Atocha was driven by a severe hurricane onto a coral reef near the Dry Tortugas, about 35 miles (56 kilometers) west of Key West. Mel Fisher and his company discovered the wreck July 20, 1985. The estimated $450 million cache recovered, known as "The Atocha Motherlode," included 40 tons of gold and silver; there were some 114,000 of the Spanish silver coins known as "pieces of eight", gold coins, Colombian emeralds, gold and silver artifacts, and 1000 silver ingots. In addition to the Atocha, Fisher's company, Salvors Inc., found remains of several nearby shipwrecks, including the Atocha's sister galleon the Santa Margarita, lost in the same year, and the remains of a slave ship known as the Henrietta Marie, lost in 1700.
In August 2004, the Dry Tortugas were directly struck by Hurricane Charley. The following day, a Cessna airplane crashed into the water near the islands, killing cinematographer Neal Fredericks while he was filming scenery for the feature film CrossBones
Looking east from Schmiedsgasse.
"Margetshöchheim is a municipality and a village in the Würzburg district of Lower Franconia.
Margetshöchheim is located about ten kilometers north of Würzburg on the left bank of the Main within sight of the municipality of Veitshöchheim, which is located on the right bank of the Main.
The community only has one community part. The Franconian Marienweg runs through the town.
The original name Hochheim consists of the Old High German adjective hôch and the Old High German word heim. Later, the name of the church patron Margaret of Antioch was added to distinguish the place from Veitshöchheim on the opposite side of the Main.
Lower Franconia (German: Unterfranken) is one of seven districts of Bavaria, Germany. The districts of Lower, Middle and Upper Franconia make up the region of Franconia. It consists of nine districts and 308 municipalities (including three cities).
After the founding of the Kingdom of Bavaria the state was totally reorganised and, in 1808, divided into 15 administrative government regions (German: Regierungsbezirke, singular Regierungsbezirk), in Bavaria called Kreise (singular: Kreis). They were created in the fashion of the French departements, quite even in size and population, and named after their main rivers.
In the following years, due to territorial changes (e. g. loss of Tyrol, addition of the Palatinate), the number of Kreise was reduced to 8. One of these was the Untermainkreis (Lower Main District). In 1837 king Ludwig I of Bavaria renamed the Kreise after historical territorial names and tribes of the area. This also involved some border changes or territorial swaps. Thus the name Untermainkreis changed to Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg, but the city name was dropped in the middle of the 20th century, leaving just Lower Franconia.
From 1933, the regional Nazi Gauleiter, Otto Hellmuth, (who had renamed his party Gau "Mainfranken") insisted on renaming the government district Mainfranken as well. He encountered resistance from Bavarian state authorities but finally succeeded in having the name of the district changed, effective 1 June 1938. After 1945 the name Unterfranken was restored.
Franconia (German: Franken, pronounced [ˈfʁaŋkŋ̍]; Franconian: Franggn [ˈfrɑŋɡŋ̍]; Bavarian: Frankn) is a region of Germany, characterised by its culture and Franconian dialect (German: Fränkisch).
Franconia is made up of the three Regierungsbezirke of Lower, Middle and Upper Franconia in Bavaria, the adjacent, Franconian-speaking, South Thuringia, south of the Thuringian Forest—which constitutes the language boundary between Franconian and Thuringian— and the eastern parts of Heilbronn-Franconia in Baden-Württemberg.
Those parts of the Vogtland lying in Saxony (largest city: Plauen) are sometimes regarded as Franconian as well, because the Vogtlandian dialects are mostly East Franconian. The inhabitants of Saxon Vogtland, however, mostly do not consider themselves as Franconian. On the other hand, the inhabitants of the Hessian-speaking parts of Lower Franconia west of the Spessart (largest city: Aschaffenburg) do consider themselves as Franconian, although not speaking the dialect. Heilbronn-Franconia's largest city of Heilbronn and its surrounding areas are South Franconian-speaking, and therefore only sometimes regarded as Franconian. In Hesse, the east of the Fulda District is Franconian-speaking, and parts of the Oden Forest District are sometimes regarded as Franconian for historical reasons, but a Franconian identity did not develop there.
Franconia's largest city and unofficial capital is Nuremberg, which is contiguous with Erlangen and Fürth, with which it forms the Franconian conurbation with around 1.3 million inhabitants. Other important Franconian cities are Würzburg, Bamberg, Bayreuth, Ansbach and Coburg in Bavaria, Suhl and Meiningen in Thuringia, and Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Württemberg.
The German word Franken—Franconians—also refers to the ethnic group, which is mainly to be found in this region. They are to be distinguished from the Germanic people of the Franks, and historically formed their easternmost settlement area. The origins of Franconia lie in the settlement of the Franks from the 6th century in the area probably populated until then mainly by the Elbe Germanic people in the Main river area, known from the 9th century as East Francia (Francia Orientalis). In the Middle Ages the region formed much of the eastern part of the Duchy of Franconia and, from 1500, the Franconian Circle. The restructuring of the south German states by Napoleon, after the demise of the Holy Roman Empire, saw most of Franconia awarded to Bavaria." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
Now on Instagram.
harley fest 2013
I'm just going to post whatever I find in whatever order, or I fear I'll never find my way back to flickr and photos.
Then at the bottom of the Strolling Pond Garden is the Lower Pond. Portland Japanese Garden is awake and ready for summer. Two images stitched and cropped.
The trees are Cercis canadensis (Eastern Redbud).
The groundcovers consist of various sedums, violets, ground ivy, vinca and some perennials that have grown from seeds washed down here during rainstorms. Other than the trees and the vinca, I didn't plant anything growing down here.
Aurora, Colorado, May 2009
The remarkable bill of the Black Skimmer sets it apart from all other American birds. The large red and black bill is knife-thin and the lower mandible is longer than the upper. The bird drags the lower bill through the water as it flies along, hoping to catch small fish.
Adult Description
•Medium-sized to large waterbird.
•Long red and black bill; lower half longest.
•Black back and cap.
•Underparts white.
•Very short red legs.
•Long, pointd wings.
Immature Description
Similar to adult, but with mottled black-and-white back and head.
Measurements
Both Sexes
Length15.7–19.7 in
40–50 cmWeight7.5–15.8 oz
212–447 g
Other Names
•Bec à ciseaux (Louisiana), Bec-en-ciseaux noir (French)
•Rayador, Arador, Pico de Tijera (Spanish)
Cool Facts
•The Black Skimmer is the only American representative of the skimmer family. The other two, rather similar, species are the African Skimmer and the Indian Skimmer. All use the same unusual feeding method.
•Although the Black Skimmer is active throughout the day, it is largely crepuscular (active in the dawn and dusk) and even nocturnal. Its use of touch to catch fish lets it be successful in low light or darkness.
•At hatching, the two mandibles of a young Black Skimmer are equal in length, but by fledging at four weeks, the lower mandible is already nearly 1 cm longer than the upper.
•Possibly the best description of the Black Skimmer's bounding, head-down foraging style came from R. C. Murphy in 1936. He said they look like “unworldly… aerial beagles hot on the scent of aerial rabbits.”
Habitat
Look for Black Skimmers on open sandy beaches, on gravel or shell bars with sparse vegetation, or on mats of sea wrack (tide-stranded debris) in saltmarsh. Skimmers are occasionally seen at inland lakes such as the Salton Sea of California. Much of this species' original beach habitat has been developed as houses and attractions for beachgoers. Particularly in the southeastern U.S., artificial islands made from dredge spoils are an important nesting habitat for this and other species.
Food
Feeds on small fish up to about 5 inches in length, including herring, killifish, mullet, and pipefish. Also may consume small crustaceans. Black Skimmers may travel 5 miles from their breeding colony in search of food.
Nest Description
Mates take turns scraping, using an exaggerated posture (with the neck, head, bill, and tail raised) kicking sand behind them with alternating foot strokes. They then rotate in their scrape to create a saucer-shaped depression, similar to resting scrapes used throughout the year. The depression takes only a few minutes to create, but the process of nesting may involve several scrapes. Males do more scraping and make larger scrapes than females. The average scrape is 10 inches in diameter and 1 inch deep.
Nest Placement
Black Skimmers are colonial seabirds that nest in groups, often with other species such as Laughing Gulls and Common, Least, or Gull-billed Terns. Look for colonies on beaches, gravel or shell bars, dredge deposition islands, saltmarshes, and rooftops.
Behavior
The Black Skimmer has one of the most unusual foraging styles of any North American bird. A feeding skimmer flies low over the water with its bill open and its lower mandible slicing the surface. When the mandible touches a fish, the upper bill (maxilla) snaps down instantly to catch it. Skimmers are highly social birds, nesting in colonies and forming large flocks outside the breeding season. Large, successful colonies usually occupy the same site from year to year, while small or failed colonies usually relocate.
The RIB is being lowered into the water as members of the boarding party wait on deck, ready to embark on searching suspect vessels.
The Lower Lea Crossing opened in 1991 and is part of a network of roads built to assist the regeneration of London's Docklands. It links Canary Wharf, Poplar and Blackwall in the west with Canning Town, Silvertown, Royal Victoria Dock and the ExCel Arena in the east.
The sliproads lead to Orchard Place, until recently an isolated and forgotten corner of London despite being only five miles from the City of London. Quite a way from any public transport links It is largely industrial, but a small residential community eked out an existence here until the 1930s when they were rehoused elsewhere by the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar.
At the end of Orchard Place is Trinity Buoy Wharf, established in 1803 by Trinity House to manufacture and maintain navigation buoys and lightships around the Kent, Essex and Suffolk coasts. It was closed in December 1988, acquired by the London Docklands Development Corporation in 1991, and in 1996 was re-established as a centre for creative enterprise.
A residential population has also returned to Orchard Place in recent years, with one of the old warehouses belonging to the East India Dock Company having been turned into apartments. Future plans for the north part of Orchard Place, which has recently been cleared, include a mixed-use residential scheme for 3,000 people.