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Montreal officially Montréal, French is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary",it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill around which the early city of Ville-Marie is built The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which obtained its name from the same origin as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is situated 196 km (122 mi) east of the national capital Ottawa, and 258 km (160 mi) southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City.
As of 2021, the city had a population of 1,762,949] and a metropolitan population of 4,291,732making it the second-largest city, and second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French is the city's official language and in 2016 was the only home language of 53.7% of the population, while 18.2% spoke only English and 18.7% spoke neither French nor English at home 9.4% spoke a mix of French, English and a foreign language at home. In the larger Montreal Census Metropolitan Area, 71.2% of the population spoke at least French at home, compared to 19.0% who spoke English. Still in 2016, 87.4% of the population of the city of Montreal considered themselves fluent in French while 91.4% could speak it in the metropolitan area. Montreal is one of the most bilingual cities in Quebec and Canada, with 57.4% of the population able to speak both English and French. Montreal is the second-largest primarily French-speaking city in the developed world, after Paris
Historically the commercial capital of Canada, Montreal was surpassed in population and in economic strength by Toronto in the 1970s. It remains an important centre of commerce, aerospace, transport, finance, pharmaceuticals, technology, design, education, art, culture, tourism, food, fashion, video game development, film, and world affairs. Montreal has the second-highest number of consulates in North America,[30] serves as the location of the headquarters of the International Civil Aviation Organization, and was named a UNESCO City of Design in 2006. In 2017, Montreal was ranked the 12th-most liveable city in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit in its annual Global Liveability Ranking,[ although it slipped to rank 40 in the 2021 index, primarily due to stress on the healthcare system from the COVID-19 pandemic. It is regularly ranked as a top ten city in the world to be a university student in the QS World University Rankings.[35]
Montreal has hosted multiple international conferences and events, including the 1967 International and Universal Exposition and the 1976 Summer Olympics. It is the only Canadian city to have held the Summer Olympics. In 2018, Montreal was ranked as a global city. The city hosts the Canadian Grand Prix of Formula One since 1978, as well as the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the largest jazz festival in the world the Just for Laughs festival, the largest comedy festival in the world, nd Les Francos de Montréal, which is the largest event devoted exclusively to French-language music anywhere in the world. It is also home to ice hockey team Montreal Canadiens, the franchise with the most Stanley Cup wins.
Etymology
See also: Name of Montreal
In the Mohawk language, the island is called Tiohtià:ke tsi ionhwéntsare. This name refers to the Lachine Rapids to the island's southwest or Ka-wé-no-te. It means "a place where nations and rivers unite and divide]
In the Ojibwe language, the land is called Mooniyaang which served as "the first stopping place" in the Ojibwe migration story as related in the seven fires prophecy.
European settlers from La Flèche in the Loire valley first named their new town, founded in 1642, Ville Marie ("City of Mary"),[14] named for the Virgin Mary. Its current name comes from Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill in the heart of the city. According to one theory, the name derives from mont Réal, (Mont Royal in modern French, although in 16th-century French the forms réal and royal were used interchangeably); Cartier's 1535 diary entry, naming the mountain, refers to le mont Royal.[46] One of Cartier's officers was Claude de Pontbriand, lord of the Château de Montréal,[47] in the Occitan-speaking part of France. The toponym Montréal and its reversed form Réalmont, the direct Occitan translation of French mont royal (or royal mont), are common in southern France. One possibility, noted by the government of Canada on its website concerning Canadian place names, speculates that the name as it is currently written originated when an early map of 1556 used the Italian name of the mountain, Monte Real;[48] the Commission de toponymie du Québec has dismissed this idea as a misconception.[46]
History[
Main article: History of Montreal
See also: Timeline of Montreal history
Pre-European contact
Archaeological evidence in the region indicate that First Nations native people occupied the island of Montreal as early as 4,000 years ago. By the year AD 1000, they had started to cultivate maize. Within a few hundred years, they had built fortified villages. The Saint Lawrence Iroquoians, an ethnically and culturally distinct group from the Iroquois nations of the Haudenosaunee (then based in present-day New York), established the village of Hochelaga at the foot of Mount Royal two centuries before the French arrived. Archeologists have found evidence of their habitation there and at other locations in the valley since at least the 14th century. The French explorer Jacques Cartier visited Hochelaga on October 2, 1535, and estimated the population of the native people at Hochelaga to be "over a thousand people".[51] Evidence of earlier occupation of the island, such as those uncovered in 1642 during the construction of Fort Ville-Marie, have effectively been removed.
Early European settlement (1600–1760)[edit]
In 1603, French explorer Samuel de Champlain reported that the St Lawrence Iroquoians and their settlements had disappeared altogether from the St Lawrence valley. This is believed to be due to outmigration, epidemics of European diseases, or intertribal wars.[51][52] In 1611, Champlain established a fur trading post on the Island of Montreal on a site initially named La Place Royale. At the confluence of Petite Riviere and St. Lawrence River, it is where present-day Pointe-à-Callière stands.[53] On his 1616 map, Champlain named the island Lille de Villemenon in honour of the sieur de Villemenon, a French dignitary who was seeking the viceroyship of New France In 1639, Jérôme Le Royer de La Dauversière obtained the Seigneurial title to the Island of Montreal in the name of the Notre Dame Society of Montreal to establish a Roman Catholic mission to evangelize natives.
Dauversiere hired Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, then age 30, to lead a group of colonists to build a mission on his new seigneury. The colonists left France in 1641 for Quebec and arrived on the island the following year. On May 17, 1642, Ville-Marie was founded on the southern shore of Montreal island, with Maisonneuve as its first governor. The settlement included a chapel and a hospital, under the command of Jeanne Mance.[55] By 1643, Ville-Marie had come under Iroquois raids. In 1652, Maisonneuve returned to France to raise 100 volunteers to bolster the colonial population. If the effort had failed, Montreal was to be abandoned and the survivors re-located downriver to Quebec City. Before these 100 arrived in the fall of 1653, the population of Montreal was barely 50 people.
By 1685, Ville-Marie was home to some 600 colonists, most of them living in modest wooden houses. Ville-Marie became a centre for the fur trade and a base for further exploration. In 1689, the English-allied Iroquois attacked Lachine on the Island of Montreal, committing the worst massacre in the history of New France.[56] By the early 18th century, the Sulpician Order was established there. To encourage French settlement, it wanted the Mohawk to move away from the fur trading post at Ville-Marie. It had a mission village, known as Kahnewake, south of the St Lawrence River. The fathers persuaded some Mohawk to make a new settlement at their former hunting grounds north of the Ottawa River. This became Kanesatake In 1745, several Mohawk families moved upriver to create another settlement, known as Akwesasne. All three are now Mohawk reserves in Canada. The Canadian territory was ruled as a French colony until 1760, when Montreal fell to a British offensive during the Seven Years' War. The colony then surrendered to Great Britain.
Ville-Marie was the name for the settlement that appeared in all official documents until 1705, when Montreal appeared for the first time, although people referred to the "Island of Montreal" long before then.
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April 2016: Work on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) road bypass between Kingswells North junction and Craibstone Junction (Aberdeen Airport)
Film image to reveal mu opioid receptor distribution in the brain of a rhesus monkey. Image had been color-coded by the computer--spectral colors are used to denote areas of different receptor density. high densities, marked in reds, orange, and yellow, are located in the hypothalamus and amygdala, key components of the limbic system. rEceptors are marked by [³H]naloxone binding and subsequent autoradiographic visualization in emulsion-cited brain sections.
National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health/ Photo: Miles Herkenham, NIH/NIMH
CERVICAL SPINE ANATOMY NERVOUS SYSTEMS DERMATOMES rheumatology images
Sensation from the skin is relayed along limb and trunk peripheral nerves to the spinal nerves that enter the spinal cord. The spinal cord then relays the sensation message to the brain and our awareness. rheumatology images.
Each spinal nerve relays sensation messages from a particular area of skin. This skin area is called a dermatome, and each dermatome is named after the spinal nerve that carries its message. rheumatology images.
For instance the C5 dermatome on the shoulder uses the C5 spinal nerve near the base of the neck to relay its message to the brain. rheumatology images.
There are seven spinal nerve pairs in the neck, called C2 to C8, which supply dermatomes on the head, neck and arms. This is useful to know as the sensation of pain in a dermatome may be due to irritation to the corresponding spinal nerve that is causing it to send a misleading message to the brain. For instance, compression of the C5 spinal nerve by a herniated disc or degenerative osteophyte in the neck can trigger in the brain the sensation of pain or numbness over the C5 dermatome at the shoulder.
CERVICAL SPINE ANATOMY NERVOUS SYSTEMS DERMATOMES rheumatology images
This article was written with the assistance of the following surgeons.
Dr Paul Licina. Dr Licina is spinal orthopedic surgeon, and co-founder of Brisbane Orthopaedic Specialist Services in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. www.brisbaneorthopaedics.com.au/paul_licina.html
Dr Matthew McDonald. Dr McDonald is a spinal neurosurgeon based at Wakefield Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. www.wakefieldneurosurgery.com.au
Dr Richard Parkinson. Dr Parkinson is a spinal neurosurgeon based at St Vincent's Clinic, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. www.svph.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=vie...
Dr Lali Sekhon. Dr Sekhon is a spinal neurosurgeon, and founder of Nevada Neurosurgery in Reno / Carson City, Nevada, USA. www.nevadaneurosurgery.com
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AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) work ongoing near Brimmond Hill near Craibstone for Kingswells North junction
June 2015: Work on the AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) dual carriageway near Craibstone, Aberdeen from Brimmond Hill, Kingswells
Practical Peripherals 14.4 kilo bit/sec 8-bit ISA modem pulled from one of the photographer's computers as "too slow"; replaced by an external 33.6 modem. (Which was eventually replaced by a 56K modem...which was eventually replaced by a cable modem!) This modem had a unique problem in that it could give you a shock, even with power to the computer off, (and the computer unplugged!) if you were touching it when the phone line it was attached to rang - or if there was unusual voltage on your phone line (which happened to the photographer's line once...) The problem is the placement of the transformer and that the leads were not insulated. (see note on picture) (and that "ring voltage" is 50V!)
Photo taken by a Nikon D40x at ISO 400 with a Nikor 18-55 non-VR kit lens. (at 52) Cropped a bit at top.
Moon, 02 October 2014
Canon EOS M with Celestron 102SLT telescope
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Yucca jaegeriana (syn. Yucca brevifolia var. jaegeriana) common name Eastern Joshua Tree or Jaeger's Joshua Tree, in the Beaver Dam Mountains of Utah. Peripherally rare in Utah and believed to be on the decline.
October 10, 1981 on the road between Littlefield AZ and the Shivwits Indian Reservation in the extreme southwestern corner of Utah, Washington County, Utah which is where the species is limited to in Utah (plants in the freeway median strip east of St. George, while also in Washington Co. were planted and that is not a natural part of its range as noted by Dr. Stanley Welsh in the A Utah Flora series;; a plant found in Sevier Co. was also no doubt planted there).
Treated in our floras historically (and even still currently) as simply Yucca brevifolia, Utah plants are part of the eastern range of Y. jaegeriana. Y. brevifolia sensu stricto does not occur in Utah.
The middle tree is good-sized and on the tall side for this species. Reported typical heights for Utah (20 feet is typically mentioned). The tallest tree is is closer to 30 feet tall. True Y. brevifolia (mainly in southern California) plants can be much taller (e.g. 50 feet). Plants of this size are thought to be hundreds of years old.
Y. jaegeriana apparently has a different moth pollinator, so full recognition at the species level seems appropriate and distinctive floral morphology as well as growth habit. Y. jaegeriana is branched from the base compared to having a single trunk that is branched above as in Y. brevifolia, and it has a long/narrow flower compared to the cup-shaped flowers of Y. brevifolia. The two species are largely separate from each other with an area of hybridization in central Nevda.
An iconic symbol of the west, while two the species occur in Utah, Arizona, California and Nevada, its occurrence in these states is more limited than that list might appear. It is rarest in Utah where it just barely enters the state and here is at the northeastern section of its range at elevations under 3,500 ft. It is in fact ranked as an S3S4 (state rarity rank) by NatureServe for Utah. It then occurs in an adjoining area that includes mainly southwestern Nevada, perhaps a half-dozen counties in only a relatively small portion of southern/southeastern California, and in western Arizona.
Under a rising temperature/climate change scenario, some scientists are concerned that Joshua trees could be eliminated from 90% of their current range within the next 60 to 90 years. See www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=2723 (3/24/11 "Uncertain Future for Joshua Trees Projected with Climate Change"). The reason given here relates to its inability to quickly disperse its seeds.
The link above indicates that the now extinct larger mammals that once carried its seeds are one of the reasons why the species cannot spread as easily as it once did. Another strike may relate to the fact that Joshua trees do not flower every year which perhaps means less consistent seed production as compared to some species, coupled with the fact that they are slow growing.
But there are other reasons to worry as well. Eastern and Western Joshua trees have also been severely impacted by brush fires in recent years and this is a species that is probably not historically well-adapted to fire. Some fires were no doubt caused by natural events, but the existence and spread of large amounts of invasive grass species (cheatgrass, etc.) has literally fueled the flames. This includes significant areas in Utah. And the plants do not seem to be recovering very well, if at all.
Flickr users are documenting fire impacts to both species of Joshua trees. Simply search for "burned joshua trees" to find these examples, a few of which follow in no particular order (first few are from Utah):
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Peripheral beneficiary is Phinma group or TA PNOY's economic team .
if you got in @ 12.30 then i shall see you @ 19.80. Then again this playbook is out. I shall pre sell @ 18 and risk 20% to 19.80 ++ 24
Notice Megawide's price is at halt. That is just an initial target price to race to 30 pesos.
How come?
Factor in when Central bank can no longer defend the strong peso. Interest rate + Fx Rate + GDP all prices should go up.
WHY?
Because Demand exceeds supply. Supply of good companies. Good companies managed by brilliant managers.
Part 1 www.flickr.com/photos/ayos/8360250435/
Study on a computerized integrated system for the assessment of central and peripheral chemoreflex sensitivity featuring Quark PFT.
Link to the scientific study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169260712002222#
Microchip announced from Electronica in Germany an expansion of its 8-bit PIC® microcontroller (MCU) portfolio, with the peripheral-rich, low-pin count PIC16(L)F161X family. These new MCUs introduce and expand the offering of Microchip’s Core Independent Peripherals (CIP), which were designed to reduce interrupt latency, lower-power consumption and increase system efficiency, and safety, while minimizing design time and effort. These peripherals are designed to reduce system complexity by eliminating the need for additional code and external components. Hardware-based peripherals offload timing-critical and core-intensive functions from the CPU, allowing it to focus on other critical tasks within the system. For more ino, visit: www.microchip.com/PIC16_LF161X-Family-Product-Page-111114a
Guillain-Barré syndrome
Guillain-Barré (pronounced ghee-lan bar-ray) syndrome is a rare and serious condition of the peripheral nervous system. It occurs when the body's immune system attacks part of the nervous system.
The exact cause of Guillain-Barré syndrome is unknown. However, most people (around 60%) develop the condition shortly after having a viral or bacterial infection. It is thought infection may trigger the immune system to attack nerve roots and peripheral nerves.
The symptoms of Guillain-Barré syndrome usually develop one to three weeks after a minor infection, such as a cold, sore throat or gastroenteritis (an infection of the stomach and bowel).
Symptoms often start in your feet and hands before spreading to your arms and then your legs. Initially, you may have:
pain, tingling and numbness
progressive muscle weakness
co-ordination problems and unsteadiness (you may be unable to walk unaided)
The weakness usually affects both sides of your body, and it may get worse over several days.
Symptoms
The symptoms of Guillain-Barré syndrome can develop quickly over a few hours. The muscle weakness often gets progressively worse within a few days.
The symptoms usually develop one to three weeks after a minor infection, such as a cold, sore throat or gastroenteritis (an infection of the stomach and large intestine).
Symptoms often start in your feet and hands before spreading to your arms and then your legs. Initially, you may have:
pain, tingling and numbness
progressive muscle weakness
co-ordination problems and unsteadiness (you may be unable to walk unaided)
The weakness usually affects both sides of your body and may get worse over a period of several days.
In mild cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome, your muscles may only be slightly weakened. However, in more severe cases, the muscle weakness can progress to:
temporary paralysis of the legs, arms and face
temporary paralysis of the respiratory muscles
blurred or double vision
difficulty speaking
difficulty chewing or swallowing (dysphagia), resulting in the need to be fed through a tube
difficulty with digestion or bladder control
fluctuations in heart rate or blood pressure
It is estimated that one or two people in every 10 will not recover completely from Guillain-Barré syndrome.
Long-term complications
Possible long-term complications include:
not being able to walk unaided (for example, needing a wheelchair)
loss of sensation (sensory ataxia) that may cause a lack of co-ordination
loss of balance
muscle weakness in your arms or legs
problems with your sense of touch known as dysaesthesia, which may be felt as a burning or tingling sensation
Some people with Guillain-Barré syndrome also have persistent fatigue (extreme tiredness).
Life-threatening complications
There is a small chance (about one in 20) of dying from Guillain-Barré syndrome. This is usually the result of complications that develop during the first few weeks of the condition. For example:
respiratory failure – where your lungs are unable to provide enough oxygen for the rest of your body
infections – particularly respiratory infections in people who are on a ventilator (a machine that assists with breathing)
heart rhythm disorders – including cardiac arrest
bowel obstruction
This is the link to my Twitter Twibbon GBS Awreness Campaign;
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I found it on the ground as we were setting up camp in a fancy caravan park. Does anyone know what it is worth?
New Gerber Suspension NXT Multi Tool Pliers Knife Saw Scissors Screwdriver 3345. Only $77 on ebay, that is disappointing. I thought it was like a Leatherman…. Multitool edc
A cheap edc.. not a patch on a Victorinox multi tool…
and yet another SGI peripheral, a 3D (Magellan/Logitech) Space Mouse, from eBay (:
I think it goes well with the 3D glasses I made earlier this week.
Such a mouse is great for Maya, but I'm gonna try it in Quake too. stereoquake anyone? ^_^
November 2017: Work on the AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) Aberdeen bypass bridge over River Dee at Milltimber
Microscopic photo of peripheral blood showing a circulating plasma cell (black arrow). Rouleaux of red cells is present in the background. Wright-Giemsa stain. 100X oil. Jian-Hua Qiao, MD, FCAP, Los Angeles, CA, USA. (乔建华医学博士， 美国病理学家学院专家会员。美国加州洛杉矶)
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St Helen, Bishopsgate, London
Here we are amidst the Dubai-ification of Bishopsgate, and yet the west frontage of St Helen is rather pleasing in its little courtyard beneath the Aviva building. It is a different story to south and east, however, for although the Gherkin has created a focus for St Mary Axe, the peripherals of the space are messy and ill-considered, and beside St Helen the car park entrance has all the charm of the neglected bit of a provincial shopping centre. However, all this will go for the construction of the City's tallest tower, the Undershaft building, and the two lower storeys being left open will give St Helen and its near neighbour St Andrew Undershaft the chance to talk to each other for the first time in centuries.
Uniquely in the City, St Helen has a double nave, and this is because it was the church of a Benedictine nunnery, established here in the early 13th Century. There was already a parish church on the site, and a new nave for the sisters was built to the north of the parish nave. There was a major restoration in the early 17th Century which gave the exterior much of its current character, and the church was far enough north to survive the Great Fire. The Blitz also did little damage here, and St Helen might have continued being a pleasant if rather sleepy medieval survival among the office towers were it not for two significant events.
The first was the Baltic Exchange bombing on the night of 10th April 1992. A one tonne semtex and fertiliser bomb was exploded by the IRA immediately to the south-east of the church, its intention to cause as much damage to property as possible. In this it succeeded, for the £800 million repair bill to the City was almost twice as much as the entire repair bill for all the other damage caused by IRA bombs in the British Isles since the current spate of Troubles began in 1969. The south wall of the church was demolished, the interior blown out by blast damage. Repairs were already underway when the second event to shape the current church occured. On the morning of 24th April 1993, a Saturday, the IRA exploded another one tonne bomb, this time of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, on Bishopsgate, to the north-west of the church. Thus, the little church found itself exactly between the two largest terrorist bombs ever exploded on the British mainland. This time the west front was demolished, and blast damage took out all the windows and furnishings again.
The building's rebirth was very much a reflection of the character of its congregation. Unusually for the City, St Helen is very much in the staunch evangelical protestant tradition. The pre-1992 church had been full of the clutter of those resacramentalising Victorians, but controversially the architect Quinlan Terry was commissioned to design an interior more fitting for the style of worship at St Helen. Anti-modernist, anti-gothicist, anti-conservationist, Terry is an architect so far out of kilter with the mainstream of British design that it sometimes seems as if he is working in an entirely different discipline, running in parallel with the rest of the architectural world. Previously, his most significant church design was for Brentwood Catholic Cathedral, which has been described as having all the style, grace and charm of a shopping centre food court. It was never going to end happily, either for the conservation bodies or the City traditionalists.
Terry's reinvented St Helen is a preaching box for protestant worship. Memorials have been relegated to the south transept, and the rood screen moved across it to separate it from the body of the church. The two naves have been united in a cool, square, white space, the focus of the church turned to face the north wall. It is as if the Oxford Movement had never happened. And yet it is all done well, with that infuriating veneer of seemliness that so much of Terry's work conveys.
Well, you wouldn't want all medieval churches to be like this, but churches are constantly changing to suit the style of worship of the day, and so it seems fitting that St Helen should have been reinvented this way. Much of the outcry at the time must have been because the Bishopsgate bomb vaporised St Ethelburga, St Helen's near neighbour, a small surviving medieval church, and it was felt rather willful that another medieval church was being gutted by those who might have been thought responsible for saving it. Me, I'm not so sure. Church communities should have their head to design their churches to suit their current worship, otherwise we would not have the extraordinary accretion of historical artefacts that the great majority of England's 16,000-odd medieval churches now contain. St Helen is a good example of what can be done by people with passion and enthusiasm in the face of apocalyptic destruction. This was true after 1945, and it was true after 1993. Mind you, I'm not sure we'd have the confidence to do the same thing now.
Page 33: Special Altair® MITS-MAS Christmas Catalog
These pages, featuring minicomputer kits and peripherals from the MITS Altair product line, were originally clipped from the December 1975 issue of Popular Electronics magazine.
April 2016: Work on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) road bypass at Brimmond Hill between Kingswells North junction and Craibstone Junction (Aberdeen Airport)
New Aberdeen Airport link road from new roundabout on A96 built as part of Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) / Aberdeen Bypass project with Dyce Park & Ride on left
December 2018: River Don bridge nearing completion for AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) Aberdeen bypass dual carriageway
Microscopic photo showing cross section of posterior tibial artery with circumferential medial calcifications and occlusive intimal atherosclerotic plaque. The arterial lumen is completely occluded. H & E stain. 10X Jian-Hua Qiao, MD, FCAP, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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November 2017: Work on the AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) Aberdeen bypass bridge over River Dee at Milltimber
Its been a couple of years since I first took a dandelion close-up shot. I saw some in the fields while out dog walking with a film camera. I picked one to shoot at home.
This one was taken with flash and I wanted the peripheral seeds in shot.
In the end, my various peripherals were all in electrostatic bags, because I hoard them for this exact purpose. Those things that still had their original box went back into those as well. This stuff stores easily in drawers/crawlspaces. You can also see my trusty computer tookit, which has come in handy so many times. Especially the claw thing with the 3 metal fingers that comes out and grabs the tiny screws that my hands are too big to handle. And the bottle o' screws is very handy too.
BACKSTORY: My favorite computer EVER died. Moment of silence for "Storm", 1999-2007. This computer started as 1 of 3 identical post-house purchase computers we built for ourselves, to supercede our pre-existing college-era 3 computers (2 defunct Pentiums and a K6-233 which can still run Win98 today). It underwent one MAJOR upgrade, changing cases and practically becoming a new computer... So from 2001-2008 it was unique. I had really, really, REALLY grown into that machine. I'm stillnot as grown into my current machine Hades yet, and it has been well over 6 months.
So suffice to say, this computer dying SUCKED. And now I had to salvage all useful parts.
As for the death, I pretty much covered what happened day-by-day, starting at day 1, when it broke, continuing on to day 2, and Days 3-10. I then wrote about 10 more blogposts about the birth of Hades
decommissioning computer.
PCI card, WD-40 lubricant, box, cards, computer, screwdriver.
Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
August 20, 2007.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
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THIS SATURDAY APRIL 24th
The "Street Art New York" Silent Auction Benefit
benefitting the arts and mentorship programs of Free Arts NYC
at Factory Fresh Gallery
Saturday April 24, 2010
Event 7-11, bidding 7-9:30
Factory Fresh Gallery
1053 Flushing Avenue between Morgan and Knickerbocker,
off the L train Morgan Stop
Everyone is welcomed to this community event.
With exciting new work by 60 of today's Street Artists
Abe Lincoln Jr., Alex Diamond, Anera, Avoid Pi, Billi Kid, Bishop 203, Blanco, BortusK Leer, Broken Crow, C Damage, C215, Cake, Celso, Chris RWK, Chris Stain, Creepy, Dain, Damon Ginandes, Dan Witz, Dark Clouds, Dennis McNett, Elbow Toe, EllisG, FKDL, Gaia, General Howe, GoreB, Hargo, Hellbent, Imminent Disaster, Infinity, Jef Aerosol, Jim Avignon, JMR, Joe Iurato, Jon Burgerman, Keely, Know Hope, Logan Hicks, Mark Carvalho, Matt Siren, Mint and Serf, Miss Bugs, NohJColey, Nomadé, Peru Ana Ana Peru, PMP/Peripheral Media Projects, Poster Boy, Pufferella, Rene Gagnon, Roa, Royce Bannon, Skewville, Specter, Stikman, Swoon, The Dude Company, Tristan Eaton, UR New York (2esae & Ski), Veng RWK
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Auction Time: Promptly 7 pm to 9:30 pm EST
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or call 212.974.9092.
Registered absentee bidders receive a complete directory of all pieces. The directory will be available after April 21.
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December 2018: River Don bridge nearing completion for AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) Aberdeen bypass dual carriageway
The Digilent I/O Explorer USB is a USB peripheral device that allows programmatic access from a personal computer to various external Input/Output (I/O) devices.
The I/O Explorer provides a number of I/O devices on the board itself, as well as RC servo connectors, and Digilent Pmod connectors that allow access to devices external to the I/O Explorer.
In addition to its use as a dedicated USB peripheral device, the I/O Explorer can also be used as a microcontroller development board. It features two Atmel® AVR microcontrollers, one having USB device capability.
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Microchip announced from Electronica in Germany an expansion of its 8-bit PIC® microcontroller (MCU) portfolio, with the peripheral-rich, low-pin count PIC16(L)F161X family. These new MCUs introduce and expand the offering of Microchip’s Core Independent Peripherals (CIP), which were designed to reduce interrupt latency, lower-power consumption and increase system efficiency, and safety, while minimizing design time and effort. These peripherals are designed to reduce system complexity by eliminating the need for additional code and external components. Hardware-based peripherals offload timing-critical and core-intensive functions from the CPU, allowing it to focus on other critical tasks within the system. For more ino, visit: www.microchip.com/PIC16_LF161X-Family-Product-Page-111114a
April 2016: Work on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) road bypass at Brimmond Hill between Kingswells North junction and Craibstone Junction (Aberdeen Airport)
The "Open Hand" is the most vaguely-programmed bit of the Capitol Complex; sitting at what became the edge of the ensemble, it feels particularly peripheral, like a weird footnote or signpost: You are now leaving Chandigarh. We hope you've had a pleasant stay. Gimme five! That it was only completed in the early 1970s, well after Le Corbusier's death, only further cements this "afterthought" reading. Of course, in the designed scheme, it was a piece of considerable symbolic importance, perhaps even the most crucial piece for the purposes of Corb's vaguely optimistic politics (cleansed of specific partisan tendencies following his awkward position vis-a-vis Vichy). And it originally had a context - - it was meant to overlook a recessed conversation pit, sort of a squared-off amphitheater. This clearly didn't get too far along; the one axonometric published in the Oeuvre Complete would have visitors arriving by a path coming from nowhere, in order to sit on tiers of seating which have been arranged in the worst possible way, with one tier facing the side of the other tier. Who knows where this would have gone; Corbu simply claims "This 'Pit of Contemplation' is provided for debates on public affairs."
But remember that the Open Hand was actually intended to be one of several monuments punctuating the vast space between the High Court and the Assembly. What's now a flat and desolate plain (sometimes terminated by reflecting pools) was to have been a multi-layered ground. The documentation is sketchy, but based on model photos and a few scant sections, there was to have been a full story's worth of sectional difference (or more), allowing the road to the Governor's Palace to pass under, and also giving honorific pits (?) for an elusive "Monument to the Martyr," a fidgety De Stijl approach to the Governor's Palace, a pair of parabolic arches representing "The Course of the Sun," and a "Pit of Consideration," acting as the diagonal opposite to the "Pit of Contemplation." The Pit of Consideration's key feature, a somewhat mysterious, faceted building, was (sort of) realized as a ramping knoll, labeled on Google as the "Geometric Hill."
Short version - there were a lot of ideas bouncing around for this esplanade, but the only ones that made it were a dramatically reduced approach to the reflecting ponds, and the Open Hand. As such, it's an archetypally overscaled example of Modernist death-march space. The Open Hand reminds us that this was all meant in rather more optimistically.
But why take my word for it? Here's a filmed interview with Corbu on the topic of the Open Hand. (No joke, click on it!)
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September 2018: River Don bridge near Dyce for AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) Aberdeen bypass dual carriageway
Construction of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) / Aberdeen Bypass between Craibstone & North Kingswells
Page 36: Altair Modules
These pages, featuring minicomputer kits and peripherals from the MITS Altair product line, were originally clipped from the December 1975 issue of Popular Electronics magazine.
August 2017: Work on the AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) Aberdeen bypass near Milltimber junction overbridge looking south from Culter House Road
December 2018: River Don bridge nearing completion for AWPR (Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route) Aberdeen bypass dual carriageway