View allAll Photos Tagged plots
09:00:02 up 15:47, 0 users, load average: 1.01, 0.74, 0.70 | temp=48.2'C | Start
09:00:10 up 15:48, 0 users, load average: 1.25, 0.80, 0.72 | temp=48.7'C | SID plot Finished
Explored - #181 on Sunday, August 2, 2009.
Near Schenectady, NY, is Plotter Kill Nature Preserve. It is a gorge with three good-sized waterfalls. I had to climb down about 200 feet of a pretty steep slope to get down here, but it was worth it. Climbing back out is always easier anyway.
3 shot HDR (-2, 0, +2 EV) tonemapped in Photomatix.
Altica pagana (blue metallic flea beetle) plot the downfall of mankind.
I for one welcome our new blue shiny overlords!
Burrowing Owl
Cape Coral, Florida
Nature's Photo Adventures: March 2011
One of Carmen's owls giving me an evil glare in Cape Coral, Florida.
Harley Quinn (Cassie) plots her next scheme to get Batman and take over Gotham City.
Cassie can be found at: www.facebook.com/burbankcosplay
(Best viewed on black, just press L on your keyboard).
Candid shot in "Cafe Nero".
These guys seemed so intent and secretive It just looked like they were plotting something.
Panasonic Lumix LX7.
06:00:01 up 15 days, 11:19, 0 users, load average: 0.65, 0.66, 0.73 | temp=40.1'C | Start
06:00:14 up 15 days, 11:20, 0 users, load average: 1.08, 0.75, 0.76 | temp=42.2'C | SID plot Finished
©2008 Susan Ogden- All Rights Reserved
Suffice it to say, i earned my 2nd "mental health day" by noon today!!
08:00:01 up 13 days, 13:19, 0 users, load average: 0.64, 0.72, 0.74 | temp=41.2'C | Start
08:00:09 up 13 days, 13:19, 0 users, load average: 0.99, 0.79, 0.76 | temp=41.2'C | SID plot Finished
Did you know?
- Cat's have a third eyelid;
- See worse in the day time than humans;
- Large eyes in comparison to the head are typically seen as cute, just look at anime, babies, etc. It's why we love kittens so much.
...and when you see them staring at something that isn't there and suspect a ghost... it's more than likely a spider web clinging in the air or a tiny insect.
Even the slightest of movement is noticeable to them.
on DeviantArt
02:00:01 up 16 days, 11:03, 0 users, load average: 0.78, 0.77, 0.88 | temp=47.6'C | Start
02:00:13 up 16 days, 11:03, 0 users, load average: 1.28, 0.87, 0.91 | temp=47.6'C | SID plot Finished
Maps of racial and ethnic divisions in US cities, inspired by Bill Rankin's map of Chicago, updated for Census 2010.
Red is White, Blue is Black, Green is Asian, Orange is Hispanic, Yellow is Other, and each dot is 25 residents.
Data from Census 2010. Base map © OpenStreetMap, CC-BY-SA
The Postcard
A postcard published by Dearden & Wade of Bournemouth. The image is a glossy real photograph.
The card was posted in Cornwall on Sunday the 26th. August 1962 to:
Mr. J. B. Green,
No. 17, Lancet Lane,
Loose,
Maidstone,
Kent.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Sat. 25th.
Had a very good journey
down yesterday.
Arrived to bright sun,
and this morning is nice.
Sheila's house is very
nice.
Daphne".
Rock
Rock is a coastal fishing village in Cornwall opposite Padstow on the north-east bank of the River Camel estuary.
Rock is best known for its estuary frontage. Rock Dunes, sand dunes to the west of the village on the banks of the River Camel, are designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest for their flora and geology.
Rock is popular with holidaymakers, and in 1881 the hotel was enlarged, a new sea-wall built and a bathing house erected on the beach. It is now a well-established centre for water sports including dinghy racing, waterskiing, windsurfing, and sailing.
The Black Tor Ferry operates across the river to the town of Padstow, and this is a major source of tourist traffic through Rock. The early 21st. century has seen extensive building work and increased prosperity for Rock - there a large number of holiday homes, as well as a number of retail outlets.
Rock has been referred to as 'Britain's Saint-Tropez' and the 'Kensington of Cornwall'. due to its popularity with affluent holidaymakers. Property prices there are very high. The Daily Telegraph has also called it 'Chelsea-on-Sea', and stated that former Prime Minister David Cameron's favourite beer is brewed there.
Sir Craig Mackey and the Westminster Atrocity of 2017
So what else happened on the day that Daphne posted the card?
Well, the 26th. August 1962 marked the birth in Carlisle of Craig Mackey.
Sir Craig Thomas Mackey is a former British police officer who served as Deputy Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police Service from 2012 until 2018.
On the 22nd. March 2017, while acting as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Mackey was in a car on a routine visit to the Palace of Westminster. He was in New Palace Yard during the 2017 Westminster terrorist attack, and was described as a 'significant witness'.
As a result of this, it was claimed that he could not issue any public statements, including any responses to criticism of his conduct.
Much of that criticism compared Mackey’s actions unfavourably with those of the armed protection officer who shot Khalid Masood (the car and knife attacker) dead. Gaby Hinsliff wrote in The Guardian:
'A Met chief stayed in his car during
an attack. That’s not leadership. What
apparently most enrages those officers
now condemning Mackey is a sense
that their own leaders wouldn’t do what
is asked of them every day, and that
perhaps speaks to a more deep-rooted
sense of betrayal going back years.
It’s horribly unfair to call Craig Mackey a
coward, particularly from the safety of
civilian armchairs.
He made what was in all probability the
cowardly decision.
But it does not, somehow, look like the
decision of a leader. In fact it stinks of the
'Do as I say, not as I do' double standards
of today's politically sensitive police
service management.'
Subsequently, at the inquest into the death of Masood, the chief coroner of England and Wales, Mark Lucraft QC, described Mackey’s actions as:
'Sensible and proper, and intended
to protect others in the car'.
Lucraft said Mackey did not flee the scene:
'You may well think that it was important
for the most senior police officer in the
country to be at New Scotland Yard, where
he could take command and control of what,
at that time, could potentially have been
part of a much larger attack.'
You may well think otherwise.
Lucraft's interpretations of Mackey's actions are charitable to say the least. The fact remains that Sir Craig Mackey locked himself in a car during the attack, and didn't rush to help PC Palmer who was being fatally stabbed by the knifeman.
Mackey subsequently told the Old Bailey that his 'instinct' was to get out of the car, but he remained locked inside as he was unarmed, in a short-sleeved shirt with no police radio or protective equipment, and was accompanied by two civilian police staff who had no formal officer training.
--- If Mackey had gone to help, would the civilians remaining in the car not have known how to lock the car from the inside?
--- And would a critical two minutes or so helping with the desperate situation have seriously impeded Mackey's administrative work at New Scotland Yard?
CCTV shows that about 20 seconds after Masood was shot dead by close protection officers, Sir Craig’s car was driven out of the gates into Parliament Square.
After 33 years with the Police, Mackey held his position as Acting Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police for a further 19 days; his last day in office was the 10th. April 2017. Sir Craig Mackey retired from the police service in December 2018, and was succeeded by Sir Stephen House.
The 2017 Westminster Terrorist Attack
The protracted terrorist attack ended outside the Palace of Westminster in London, the seat of the British Parliament. The attacker, 52-year-old Briton Khalid Masood, first drove a car into pedestrians on the pavement along the south side of Westminster Bridge and Bridge Street, injuring more than 50 people, four of them fatally.
He then crashed the car into the perimeter railings of the Palace grounds and ran into New Palace Yard, where he fatally stabbed an unarmed police officer. He was then shot by an armed police officer, and died at the scene.
Background to the Attack
Police treated the attack as Islamist-related terrorism. Masood said in a final text message that he was waging jihad in revenge for Western military action in Muslim countries in the Middle East.
Prior to the attack, the UK Threat Level for terrorism in the country was listed as 'severe', meaning an attack was 'highly likely'.
The Assassination of Airey Neave, DSO, OBE, MC, TD
There had not been a killing at the Palace of Westminster since the assassination of Airey Neave by the Irish National Liberation Army in 1979.
During WWII, Airey Neave was the first British prisoner of war to escape from Colditz Castle.
Neave was critically wounded when a magnetic car bomb fitted with a ball bearing tilt-switch exploded under his Vauxhall Cavalier at 14:58 as he drove up a ramp out of the Palace of Westminster car park on the 30th. March 1979.
He lost both his legs in the explosion, and died of his wounds at Westminster Hospital an hour after being rescued from the wrecked car, without having regained consciousness. He was aged 63.
The INLA issued a statement regarding the murder in the August 1979 edition of 'The Starry Plough':
'In March, retired terrorist and supporter
of capital punishment, Airey Neave, got
a taste of his own medicine when an INLA
unit pulled off the operation of the decade
and blew him to bits inside the 'impregnable'
Palace of Westminster.
The nauseous Margaret Thatcher snivelled
on television that he was an 'incalculable
loss'—and so he was—to the British ruling
class'.
As a result of Neave's assassination, the INLA was declared illegal across the whole of the United Kingdom on the 2nd. July 1979.
The 7/7 Bombings
The previous terrorist attack to have caused multiple casualties on the British mainland had been the 7th. July 2005 London underground and bus bombings. Please search for the tag 89LQH54 for information about the 7/7 bombings.
The Westminster Attack
At 14:40 a grey Hyundai Tucson, hired in Birmingham, was driven at up to 76 miles per hour (122 km/h) into pedestrians along the pavement on the south side of Westminster Bridge and Bridge Street, causing multiple casualties.
(a) Kurt and Melissa Cochran
The attack started when Khalid Masood mounted the kerb. He turned the car toward the pavement and crashed into an American couple named Kurt and Melissa Cochran.
Before the collision, Kurt had pushed Melissa out of the way and took the full hit. Kurt flew off the bridge and landed on the embankment below, falling 5.12 metres (16 ft 10 in), fatally injured. Melissa survived the attack, and was wounded after being pushed by the car into a kiosk.
(b) Leslie Rhodes
The attack continued as Masood drove down the pavement and moved 22 metres (72 ft.) forward. Masood then hit Leslie Rhodes and dragged him underneath the vehicle for 33 metres (108 ft.), whilst moving back to the road to avoid a traffic sign.
(c) Aysha Frade
Masood then mounted the pavement again and hit Aysha Frade. Aysha somersaulted approx. 17 metres (56 ft.), and landed in the bus lane, underneath the rear of a bus. The bus was moving during the time, and ran over her.
The Tucson moved towards the road again, with the driver's side on the road while the passenger's side was on the pavement.
(d) Andreea Cristea
The car struck multiple people before hitting Andreea Cristea, who had been out with her boyfriend. Cristea, a Romanian tourist, was thrown by the car's impact over the parapet of the bridge into the River Thames below.
Having been knocked unconscious and sustaining severe injuries from the fall, Andreea was rescued by the crew of a river cruise and brought aboard a London Fire Brigade boat. She later died in hospital from her injuries.
The Palace of Westminster
After striking Andreea, the Tucson crashed into railings on Bridge Street at the north perimeter of the Palace of Westminster, trying to aim at a group of pedestrians in the area.
Masood, wearing black clothes and wielding a knife in each hand, got out of the car and ran around the corner into Parliament Square and through the open Carriage Gates where he got into a struggle with an unarmed police officer, PC Keith Palmer.
Masood pushed PC Palmer back against the barrier wall, making Palmer trip. While Palmer was lying against the wall, Masood fatally stabbed him. An armed police officer witnessed the stabbing, ran towards the scene and shot Masood dead.
During that time, Palmer managed to go past the vehicle barrier and tried to go towards the area where the armed officers who had shot Masood were, until he eventually collapsed. The entire attack, from start to finish, lasted 82 seconds.
Despite attempts to resuscitate him, Masood died at the scene having been hit by all 3 shots fired by the police. The first bullet, which struck his upper torso, was believed to be the cause of death; he was pronounced dead at 15:35 in hospital.
Police colleagues and passers-by, including MP Tobias Ellwood and paramedics, attempted to revive PC Palmer, also without success. Police later confirmed that PC Palmer had been wearing a protective vest, which did not appear to have been punctured in the attack.
Aftermath of the Attack
Theresa May, the Prime Minister, who was in the Commons for a vote, was evacuated by her security team in the Prime Ministerial car, and taken to 10 Downing Street.
Additional armed police officers arrived, including Counter Terrorist Specialist Firearms Officers who were on scene within 6 minutes. An air ambulance attended the scene, landing in Parliament Square.
Parliament was suspended, and MPs remained in the Commons debating chamber as a precaution. Parliamentary staff were confined to their offices; journalists and visitors to Parliament were not permitted to leave the building. Some were later evacuated to Westminster Abbey.
The Scottish Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales also suspended their proceedings that afternoon. The UK government's emergency Cabinet Office Briefing Room (COBRA) committee, chaired by the Prime Minister, met in response to the attack. It was decided there was no need for the threat level to be raised as a result of the attack.
Casualties of the Attack
Reported fatalities and injuries by nationality were as follows:
British 11
American 11
Romanian 11
South Korean 4
French 3
Greek 2
Italian 2
Australian 1
Chinese 1
Irish 1
Polish 1
Portuguese 1
The Fatalities
Six people, including the attacker, died as a result of the incident, and over 50 others were injured, some of them severely. Of the five people killed by the attacker, three were British nationals.
One of the dead was a female teacher who was walking along the bridge to pick up her children from school. A tourist from the United States also died; he was visiting London from Utah to celebrate his 25th. anniversary with his wife, who was among the injured.
The third victim was a 75-year-old man from Clapham in south-west London, who was hit by the car and later died in hospital after his life support was switched off.
A fourth victim, a 31-year-old female tourist from Romania, fell into the Thames during the attack; she died in hospital as a result of her injuries on the 6th. April after her life support was withdrawn. Her Romanian boyfriend, who had planned to propose marriage during their trip to London, was also injured during the attack.
The police officer killed was PC Keith Palmer, 48, an unarmed police officer who was on duty with the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection command. Palmer had 15 years of experience in the Metropolitan Police Service.
Injuries
A dozen people received serious injuries, some described as 'catastrophic', and eight others were treated for less serious injuries at the scene.
Three French students, from Concarneau in Brittany, were among those injured; others included three police officers who were returning from a commendation ceremony, four students from Edge Hill University in Lancashire, and the wife of the American who was killed.
The Attacker
The attacker was identified by the Metropolitan Police as 52-year-old Briton Khalid Masood. He was born Adrian Russell Elms, but later changed the name to Adrian Russell Ajao when he took the name of his stepfather. He changed his name to Khalid Masood after he converted to Islam. Police said he also used several other aliases, including Khalid Choudry.
Born in Kent, Masood was brought up in Rye, East Sussex, and later attended secondary school in Tunbridge Wells in Kent. Most recently he was living in the West Midlands.
When he was 16, Masood dropped out of school, and by 18 he was described as a heavy cocaine user. In 2000, he was sentenced to two years in prison for grievous bodily harm after a knife attack in a public house in Northiam in Sussex.
In 2003, he was sentenced to a further six months in prison for possession of an offensive weapon following another knife attack in Eastbourne in Sussex. As well as these two prison terms, Masood had convictions for public order offences going back to 1983.
He converted to Islam while in prison, and changed his name to Khalid Masood in 2005.
A British newspaper obtained a CV of Masood's in which he described himself as having taught English in Saudi Arabia from November 2005 to November 2006, and again from April 2008 to April 2009. After this, according to the CV he returned to the United Kingdom and worked at a TEFL college in Luton.
In early March 2015, he made a brief trip to Saudi Arabia on an Umrah visa, normally issued to those making a pilgrimage to Mecca.
In 2010, Masood was described as a 'peripheral figure' in an MI5 investigation of a group of Islamists later convicted of plotting to bomb a Territorial Army base in Luton. Following a risk assessment, MI5 decided he did not pose a threat.
The Metropolitan Police said he was not the subject of any current investigations, and there was no prior intelligence about his intent to mount a terrorist attack.
Farasat Latif, director of the language school in Luton where Masood taught between 2010 and 2012, told The Guardian that when Masood lived in Luton he was apolitical, and not aligned with the younger and predominantly Asian local radical Islamist group Al-Muhajiroun.
Although aware of violence in Masood's past, Latif had only seen him become angry once, when Masood learnt of plans for a march by the English Defence League through Luton. Between 2012 and 2016, Masood appeared in MI5 investigations as a contact of individuals linked to Al-Muhajiroun.
Preparation for the Attack
Three days before the attack, Masood carried out reconnaissance of Westminster Bridge in person and online. Masood spent the night before the attack at the Preston Park Hotel in Brighton in Sussex, and was described as "laughing and joking" by the manager there. At a pre-inquest hearing, it was revealed that he had used anabolic steroids shortly before the terrorist attack.
Masood's Profile
Masood's profile was atypical, in that most jihadi terrorists are under 30, while he was 52.
Khalid Masood had taken out two payday loans so he could continue to feed his addiction to Lotto scratch cards. The jihadist was in debt, and behind on tax payments when he carried out his heinous attack on Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament.
An ex-flatmate of Masood revealed that the killer received a warning letter from HM Revenue and Customs a week after he had killed five people in the car and knife rampage.
He had arranged to pay off £100 a month, but fell behind due to his love of gambling and alcohol.
The former flatmate, from Birmingham, told The Sun:
"It didn't fit in with his faith, because
both habits are banned under Islam.
He'd always be coming back with
scratch cards. He was not a good
Muslim."
The flatmate added:
"I never saw him go to work. He must
have spent a lot of what money he had
that way."
Motive for the Attack
On the 22nd. March, the day of the attack, the Metropolitan Police said it believed the attack was inspired by international terrorism, and that they were working under the assumption that it was specifically Islamist-related terrorism.
On the 23rd. March, the Islamic State-associated Amaq News Agency announced that the attacker was:
'A soldier of the Islamic State, executing
the operation in response to calls to
target citizens of coalition nations'.
The Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, cast doubts on this claim. Analysts monitoring Islamic State online said the claim appeared to be an effort to mask its losses in Iraq and Syria, adding that the lack of biographical information on the attacker and lack of specifics about the attack suggested it was not directly involved.
Describing Masood as a 'terrorist', the Metropolitan Police said it was investigating whether he was a lone aggressor inspired by terrorist propaganda, or was being directed by others. On the 25th. March Neil Basu, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and Senior National Coordinator for UK Counter-Terrorism Policing, announced that investigators believed Masood acted alone.
The security services later recovered the last WhatsApp message sent by Masood shortly before his attack. In it, Masood said he was waging jihad in revenge for Western military action in Muslim countries of the Middle East.
He had written a document named 'Jihad in the Quran and Sunnah', with his photograph on the front page and multiple extracts from the Quran that could be seen as supportive of jihad and martyrdom. He sent this document to numerous contacts a few minutes before the attack.
Investigation
At 23:00 on the 22nd. March, West Midlands Police raided a flat in Hagley Road, Birmingham. By the morning of the 23rd. March, six locations in East London and Birmingham had been raided, resulting in the arrests of eight people on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts. Officials also carried out searches in London, Brighton and Carmarthenshire.
By the 24th. March, three further arrests had taken place, two men overnight in the West Midlands and North West England and a woman during the day in Manchester. A woman, arrested earlier in East London, was released on bail. Later on the 24th. March, seven of those initially arrested were released without further action, and the woman arrested in Manchester was released on bail.
By the 25th. March, only one man from Birmingham remained in custody, and the woman on bail from East London had been removed from police enquiries. Up to that point in the investigation, 2,700 items had been seized and 3,500 witnesses had been contacted. A further arrest was made in Birmingham on the 26th. March. By the 1st. April, all 12 suspects arrested after the attack had been released without charge.
Inquests
Inquests for the dead victims were opened and adjourned on the 29th. March 2017, and into Masood's death the following day, both under the Senior Coroner for Westminster, Dr Fiona Wilcox.
On the 12th. October 2018, the jury at the inquest into Masood's death, held under the direction of the chief coroner of England and Wales, found that Masood had been lawfully killed by a minister's close protection officer identified only as SA74.
SA74 recounted to the court how Masood had ignored shouted warnings, and how he had opened fire in response to Masood running towards him brandishing a knife.
Official Reactions
Reactions to the attack expressed shock and outrage, and characterised it as an attack against liberty, freedom of speech, and democracy.
On the evening of the attack, the Brandenburg Gate in Germany and Tel Aviv City Hall in Israel were illuminated with the Union Jack. At midnight that evening, the Eiffel Tower's lights were switched off to honour those killed in the London attack.
Both the House of Commons and the House of Lords resumed their normal functions on the 23rd. March, the day after the attack. A one-minute silence in honour of the dead was observed in Parliament, and by London's emergency services, at 09:33. The time was selected to coincide with the start of the day's official parliamentary business.
In the morning session of parliament, Prime Minister Theresa May said:
"Yesterday an act of terrorism tried to
silence our democracy, but today we
meet as normal to deliver a simple
message: We are not afraid, and our
resolve will never waver in the face of
terrorism."
In a later statement following the 2017 London Bridge attack, May stated that:
"All three recent attacks were bound
together by the single evil ideology of
Islamic extremism".
The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, the Leader of the Opposition, described the attack as:
"An appalling atrocity".
The Scottish Parliament suspended the day's proceedings, including a debate on a second independence referendum. Some MSPs who opposed the decision to suspend parliament said that doing so was "giving in to terrorism".
On the 23rd. March, Jean-Marc Ayrault, France's Minister of Foreign Affairs, came to London, where he first visited the hospital where three French high school students injured in the attack were being treated, and later attended the morning session in the House of Commons.
On the 24th. March, Prince Charles visited victims of the attack at King's College Hospital.
Amber Rudd appeared on BBC's The Andrew Marr Show to call for government backdoor access to encrypted messaging services like WhatsApp, which Masood used to send a message shortly before the attack.
She announced a meeting with similar technology industry leaders for the 30th. March, where she would persuade them to voluntarily co-operate with the government. She refused to rule out passing new legislation to this end if the companies did not comply.
Commemoration of the Victims
The Metropolitan Police honoured PC Palmer by retiring his shoulder number 4157U.
Charlton Athletic F.C. announced that his season ticket seat at the Valley would not be occupied at the club's next home game, but would instead have a club scarf placed over it as a mark of respect.
A JustGiving fund was set up, with the target of raising £100,000 for PC Palmer's family, a goal attained in less than 24 hours.
On the 26th. March, in an event organised by Women's March on London, roughly 100 women, including many Muslims, joined hands to form a chain along Westminster Bridge and stood in silence for five minutes to pay tribute to the victims of the attack.
Prince William laid a wreath at the National Memorial Arboretum in honour of PC Palmer on the 29th. March. The Duke of Cambridge placed the wreath at the Police Memorial within the Arboretum in Staffordshire.
A hand-written note attached to the floral tribute read:
"For PC Keith Palmer and all those who
have served our community so valiantly;
your legacy is our way of life.
William."
In the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours, PC Palmer was posthumously awarded the George Medal.
Documentary of the Medical Response to the Attack
The BBC TV series Hospital was filming a routine meeting at St. Mary's when the attack occurred; within minutes St. Mary's declared a 'major incident', one of several central London hospitals to do so. The cameras recorded the involvement of the emergency room and intensive care staff over the next few hours, and then followed the cases of three patients until their discharge.
The hour-long episode was broadcast in June, resulting in:
'A powerful, moving portrait of a major
trauma centre's response to such an
event, and of the brilliant human beings
who work there.'
Assessing the Basel II Internal Ratings-Based Approach: Empirical Evidence from Australia. Tarca, Rutkowski arxiv.org/abs/1412.0064 #q-fin
This is a photograph of the Plot of land reserved for Nissan in Washington, UK. It was taken at some point in the 1970's or early 1980's.
Reference: 5417/79/2
This collection of images has been assembled in support of the Washington Heritage Festival 2013.
The celebration of Washington brings together a variety of different themes. Washington is a Town in the City of Sunderland, Tyne & Wear. It is traditionally associated with Coal Industry, and notably known as the home of the Washington Family, ancestors of the First President of the United States George Washington.
However, in 1964 Washington was designated a New Town and drastically changed. With the introduction of new industry such as the Nissan Car Factory Washington experienced a huge redevelopment in both its economy and community.
These Photographs are taken from the Records of the Washington Development Corporation; held at Tyne & Wear Archives. The records document this change in industry, landscape and community in Washington between 1964 & 1988, and consist of many photographs.
For more information on the Washington Heritage Festival, 21st September 2013 please click here.
(Copyright) These images are Crown Copyright. We're happy for you to share these digital images within the spirit of The Commons. Please cite 'Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums' when reusing. Certain restrictions on high quality reproductions and commercial use of the original physical version apply though; if you're unsure please email archives@twmuseums.org.uk
15:00:02 up 13 days, 20:19, 0 users, load average: 0.62, 0.68, 0.68 | temp=41.2'C | Start
15:00:09 up 13 days, 20:19, 0 users, load average: 0.81, 0.72, 0.69 | temp=41.2'C | SID plot Finished
11:00:01 up 12 days, 16:19, 0 users, load average: 0.99, 0.97, 0.87 | temp=41.2'C | Start
11:00:10 up 12 days, 16:19, 0 users, load average: 1.22, 1.02, 0.89 | temp=41.2'C | SID plot Finished
About the photo :
This is the vege plot I passed by in upper part of Valencia .
Here's a little description of Valencia :
"Valencia is a ... municipality in the province of Negros Oriental, Philippines. It is located 9.4 kilometre west of Dumaguete...."
"Valencia was originally named Ermita, which means "a secluded place", due to its being a refuge from marauding Muslim pirates. In 1856 it was renamed to Nueva Valencia by Spanish colonizers, in honor of its parish priest Fr. Matias Villamayor from Valencia, Spain.
In 1920 it was renamed Luzuriaga in behalf of Don Carlos Luzuriaga, a delegate from Negros island to the Philippine Legislature who promised town officials he would work hard to help improve the town. The town was renamed Valencia in 1948, by virtue of Republic Act No. 252. "
Source : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valencia,_Negros_Oriental
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I love gardening ,and find Valencia area good for this sort of interests . It's easy to grow patchoi or Petchay, brocolli ,cabbages , brussel sprouts, cauliflower ,carrots and many types of veges and flowers here . The temp is a little cooler from lowland .
If only peace would stretch another hundred years ,yet with the current crisis looming :population explosion the inevitable food shortage ,animals dying for some unknown reasons ,Our population has gone past the 7 billion mark ,you see the middleast conflict escalating /world terrorism , upheaval ,social moral decay ,spritual confusion and deception , the rise of occult teachings and growing tolerance towards darkness ; evil perceive as good ,abortions in millions -- can you ever think of a bright safe future ahead. Perhaps I'm only pessimistic ,but I like to look at real trends / knock on effects and what we see everywhere are tell tale signs of what's in store for the future ... the future doesn't look bright .
Thinking of retirement - I have to be honest , right now my gut feelings seem strongly on a negative line .
Before I'll reach The point of retirement big global changes could happen and this isn't for the better , 20 yrs seem too long .Big changes could happen anytime soon ,the markers are right at the door ,you can see them in God's manual ,the Bible. .I strongly feel there's no retirement for me here . I wish not to say this in the open ,because I knew many of you are kind and polite and not to say the word "crazy" to me projecting doom and gloom - if you know that feeling. I'm in a battle of denial sometimes .But I find ihard to deny it and shut myself to silence .If you hate doomsday topics ,please avoid reading my posts . You can look at the photo but don't read it :) It does't contribute any good if you feel depressed .I will understand ,no offense . But I do encourage you to be aware of the possibilities .Update yourself ,not just the mainstream news but from the alternative sources ,as many events happening that were not reported or has only very little coverage. Regardless of these doon and gloom events,I am not depressed .I am not sad , I am not scared ,because the true peace of God is keeping me assured. It's so hard to explain it. The truth is I'm awestruck ! I'm part of the generation to see these things and the wonders of God to be seen in these last days as we know it .
As a christian , there's no place of depression in ones life ,that's true for me . If you you are away from faith ,then then can be so scary ! I always trust God for everything . My husband is hopeful thinking to retire someday- living in the Philippines .Most of us have dreams ,it nice to dream on . I don't want to spoil his hopes this time and the future .But I always try my best to make him aware of what is to come . However big the scale is , even when I am gone ( in case I might go ahead of him )he should be prepared and never loose hope ,to trust in Jesus in everything ,even to the last breathe .We bought adjacent plots here in 2004 and 2005, so we could be closely living near the city of Dumaguete, thinking of a future someday after retirement .However ,this seem blurry to me . I always hope I'm wrong with my projections . But I also think we should be prepared mentally and also our emotions as we are seeing the future unfold . It's likely a different kind of scary movie .
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<<~~~~@
Just for correction , am not ill , but you never know of life . I always think what the next day is ,will I still be here nxt day ,nxt week ,nxt month ?
I have seen people go - which gave me some perspective how precious life is , as life is like a bubble . I'm trying my best to have my day less complicated and relaxed as I can make it ,just in case it's my last day.
I have an accident in the past that could have cost my life and don't have any idea it could happen to me .I could have died on the spot . It changed my attitude and perspectives since that . I count everyday as blessing , another day might be different . Not the least to say ,I like to leave the day with a clean heart and conscience with God . I'm not perfect .I do make mistakes though how much I tried not to .But one thing, I don't stay / waddle with the same mistakes over and over again. I always pursue spiritual cleanliness through Christ ,and there is no room of guilt and self condemnation ,a room for secret sin to dwell in me . The love and salvation through Christs is a redeeming grace takes it all , we have to give our burdens to Jesus by simply repenting ,letting it all go and let Jesus' love and peace change our hearts to purity .Without the saving grace of Jesus ,we can't do nothing ,we are still same ol' filthy rags even though how good we think we are .
The Mexican Hothouse built (1834–36) by Charles Rohault de Fleury, an early example of French glass and metal architecture.
The Jardin des Plantes is the main botanical garden in France. It is one of seven departments of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. It is situated in the 5ème arrondissement, Paris, on the left bank of the river Seine and covers 28 hectares (280,000 m²)..
The grounds of the Jardin des Plantes includes four galleries of the Muséum: the Grande Galerie de l'Évolution, the Mineralogy Museum, the Paleontology Museum and the Entomology Museum. In addition to the gardens there is also a small zoo, founded in 1795 by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre from animals of the royal menagerie at Versailles..
The Mexican Hothouse built (1834–36) by Charles Rohault de Fleury, an early example of French glass and metal architecture.
The Jardin des Plantes maintains a botanical school, which trains botanists, constructs demonstration gardens, and exchanges seeds to maintain biotic diversity. About 4500 plants are arranged by family on a one hectare (10,000 m²) plot. Three hectares are devoted to horticultural displays of decorative plants. An Alpine garden has 3000 species with world-wide representation. Specialized buildings, such as a large Art Deco winter garden, and Mexican and Australian hothouses display regional plants, not native to France. The Rose Garden, created in 1990, has hundreds of species of roses and rose trees..
Founded in 1626, the garden was not planted by Guy de La Brosse, Louis XIII's physician, until 1635 as a medicinal herb garden. It was originally known as the Jardin du Roi. In 1640 it opened to the public. After a period of decline, Jean-Baptiste Colbert took administrative control of the gardens. Dr. Guy-Crescent Fagon was appointed in 1693, and he surrounded himself with a team of brilliant botanists, including Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Antoine de Jussieu, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu and his son Adrien-Henri..
The Comte de Buffon became the curator in 1739 and he expanded the gardens greatly, adding a maze, the Labyrinth, which remains today. In 1792 the Royal Menagerie was moved to the gardens from Versailles.
11:00:01 up 17:47, 0 users, load average: 0.35, 0.75, 0.78 | temp=48.2'C | Start
11:00:09 up 17:48, 0 users, load average: 0.48, 0.77, 0.79 | temp=48.7'C | SID plot Finished
This is part of my project on the culture of Prestbury a village on the outskirts of Cheltenham, UK.
Shot on Kodak Portra 400 120
Mamiya M645 1000S 80mm Sekkor
Part of www.flickr.com/photos/danwye_photography/sets/72157630731...
This is actually my final CEGEP project in Java. Built with Lego Mindstorms, hacked firmware with Java VM. The plotter was actually controlled using a Windows-based program with the mouse ! Very cool project. Took about 2 days to build and program.
Nelder plot experiment.
Photo by Fiston Wasanga/CIFOR
If you use one of our photos, please credit it accordingly and let us know. You can reach us through our Flickr account or at: cifor-mediainfo@cgiar.org and m.edliadi@cgiar.org