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The number of possible futures is infinite.
Each decision we make as individuals, offers to us any number of different futures.
Decisions we make as a species, even more so.
But try not to be too hard on the Human's.
We are the only species, known to date, that have begun to unravel the truths behind reality.
We and we alone, are the only species, that has the ability to dimly view and consider the future, as we are quite probably the only species to truly remember the past.
However you consider the beginnings of our species, we have managed to get this far in the relatively short time span of 150,000 years. And we managed to get here without the assistance of others. We have got here by our own skills, understanding, memory and accumulated knowledge.
Many times we have moved close to the brink but every time we manage to find our way through and continue.
Now, larger problems loom . . .
But as a species we will get through them . . .
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All objects constructed in Bryce 6.3
Final scene assembly and rendering Bryce 7
Four possible orientations for a pair of cheese slopes stuck into a "cube". (It's not an exact cube; I think of the square to be approximately 5 x 5.2 half-plates.)
For an article I'm writing. I know it's simple, but it helps to have illustrations. ;-)
Pablo contemplates possible escape routes if he were placed in Alcatraz prison in
Camera: Canon 50D
Lens: Canon EF 28mm 1.8
1/125 f. 4.5
ISO: 800
Location: Alcatraz Prison, San Francisco, California
Date: March 10, 2011
Time: 2:58 p.m.
i talked with kevin (stranger #9) for so long that i could write a book about him. kevin is originally from connecticut but has been all over the world. he has lived in new york, baltimore, california, thailand, and germany. he is back in baltimore (fells point) staying in a friend's row house for free.
kevin is a sculptor but has never considered that his career. he sculpts human figures using a variety of materials including animal skulls. he finishes each sculpture with bronze. kevin has sold some of his art work but usually gives them to friends or trades them for things that he needs.
kevin spent most of his adult years working at harbors, and later he worked at a facility for juvenile delinquents. his first wife was a well known artist in california and she was a spokesperson for the national organization for women. he didn't speak of any other relationships but did tell me that he has two sons. his first son is a teacher at an art school in baltimore and his youngest is a hippie in brooklyn.
i developed a closer relationship with kevin than my previous strangers. he invited me in his home to see his sculptures and we sat out on the stoop looking at pictures of his trips to thailand. it was wonderful listening to his stories. i hope to meet him again:)
to learn more about this project and view additional photographs please visit www.100strangers.com.
The reason for our field trip to Sauvie Island was to see remains of human occupation of the area before the arrival of Europeans.
I took this photo at a cut bank, where the river has exposed the layers of sediments laid down by floods over thousands of years.
The geologist who accompanied us is an expert in the study of these sediments.
The black band in the photo is charcoal. The geologist said it has been carbon dated to about 2100 years B.P., or about 100 B.C. He also said that there used to be rocks mixed in with the charcoal that have since weathered out of the bank.
All of this suggests we are looking at the remains of a hearth, a fire made by the Native Americans who lived on this land. They would have gathered stones, laid them in a circle and laid firewood within the circle to build a fire. Since there are no other archaeological features or artifacts nearby, this might have been a fire at a temporary camp rather than a hearth in a settlement.
If the charcoal were the result of a wildfire, the black line would be much longer than it is.
If this analysis seems tenuous, that's because it is. It would be stronger if there were signs of a fire pit, that is, a pit dug through the natural layers of the soil, or if the artifacts were something other than fire-cracked rock.
What this shows is that archaeology here is not about headline-grabbing finds that go directly to the musuem after they have been conserved and studied. Sometimes all we have are humble features such as this.
I've no idea how this is possible, but even a VIN check has verified that this one-owner-from-new T100 Lanos was indeed built in 2001, despite the fact that the T150 had been launched two years earlier.
At the rear of the coal loads was this surprise, a really clean SD70ACe. Such a rarity these days. Yes I was a little miffed this one turned up as a DPU but it was actually better positioned, relative to the light, than the head end was. It was nice enough that I gave serious consideration to chasing for another set or two. I did press on but this was one of the cleanest ACes I'd see all trip.
Benteen, MT, September 8, 2023.
I've been struggling to figure out how to cover my mess of an engine block, so today I fiddled around with a new engine idea. I was talking about it with my dad and he suggested having the ship flare out on the back end, so I may try that route.
I'm also considering converting it to minifigure scale...
And yes I've gotten a lot more done than just fiddle with the engines. I've made a new measuring stick, stands, and the whole ship has a slight frame now.
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September 2013
Because of barriers it was difficult if not possible to photograph some of the ships.
The frigate Shtandart (Russian: Штандартъ) was the first ship of Russia’s Baltic fleet. Her keel was laid on April 24, 1703 at the Olonetsky shipyard near Olonets by the decree of Tsar Peter I and orders issued by Commander Aleksandra Menshikov. The vessel was built by the Dutch shipwright Vybe Gerens under the direct supervision of the tsar. She was the first flagship of the Imperial Russian Navy and was in service until 1727. The name Shtandart was also given to the royal yachts of the tsars until the Russian Revolution in 1917. Tsar Nicholas II’s royal yacht was last of this series.
The modern Frigate Shtandart is the exact replica of the man-of-war built by Peter the Great in 1703 in order to defend Saint Petersburg. Modern Shtandart was built in 1999 and it is a functional training tallship. The original crew complement in 1703 was between 120 and 150, and the modern crew consists of 30 trainees and 10 officers.
"You can ask your friends if they have ever seen a flower growing out of a melon and if they say they haven't, you can show them this picture."
My artistic 6 y/o granddaughter.
Kim Possible sandals on Pure Neemo. Sort of fit but not really her style + ankle straps really tight. . I hope they don't stain.
West Kennet Long Barrow is an impressive Neolithic chambered buriel chamber dating back to 3650BC. It is possible to enter the chamber of the Barrow. Standing on the top of the mound you can see Silbury Hill.
one last look at the winter in coal harbour. now that it is well into spring in van, the archives need to be emptied.
Passage, November 17-20, 2022, McClintock Theatre. ©2022 Photos by Brian Feinzimer/Capture Imaging for the USC School of Dramatic Arts.
Nikon 1-J5 with zoomed Lens
The Roman Monumental architecture and specifically of Herod Aggrippa in the first century BCE.
This is the only remaining piece of the Tower of Hippicus from Josephus in Wars of the Jews :
The largeness also of the stones was wonderful; for they were not made of common small stones, nor of such large ones only as men could carry, but they were of white marble, cut out of the rock; each stone was twenty cubits in length, and ten in breadth, and five in depth. They were so exactly united to one another, that each tower looked like one entire rock of stone, so growing naturally, and afterward cut by the hand of the artificers into their present shape and corners; so little, or not at all, did their joints or connexion appear low as these towers were themselves on the north side of the wall, the king had a palace inwardly thereto adjoined, which exceeds all my ability to describe it; for it was so very curious as to want no cost nor skill in its construction, but was entirely walled about to the height of thirty cubits, and was adorned with towers at equal distances, and with large bed-chambers, that would contain beds for a hundred guests a-piece, in which the variety of the stones is not to be expressed; for a large quantity of those that were rare of that kind was collected together. Their roofs were also wonderful, both for the length of the beams, and the splendor of their ornaments. The number of the rooms was also very great, and the variety of the figures that were about them was prodigious; their furniture was complete, and the greatest part of the vessels that were put in them was of silver and gold. There were besides many porticoes, one beyond another, round about, and in each of those porticoes curious pillars; yet were all the courts that were exposed to the air everywhere green. There were, moreover, several groves of trees, and long walks through them, with deep canals, and cisterns, that in several parts were filled with brazen statues, through which the water ran out. There were withal many dove-courts of tame pigeons about the canals. But indeed it is not possible to give a complete description of these palaces; and the very remembrance of them is a torment to one, as putting one in mind what vastly rich buildings that fire which was kindled by the robbers hath consumed; for these were not burnt by the Romans, but by these internal plotters, as we have already related, in the beginning of their rebellion. That fire began at the tower of Antonia, and went on to the palaces, and consumed the upper parts of the three towers themselves.
from the wikipedia entry. Herod's Palace at Jerusalem was built in the last quarter of the 1st century BC by Herod I the Great, King of Judea from 37 BC to 4 BC. It was the second most important building in Jerusalem, after the Temple itself, in Herod’s day and was situated at the northwestern wall of the Upper City of Jerusalem (the Western Hill abandoned after the Babylonian sacking of Jerusalem). Herod lived in it as a principal residence, but not permanently, as he owned other palace-fortresses, notably at Masada, Herodium and Caesarea Maritima. Nothing remains of the Jerusalem Palace today except for portions of the surrounding wall-and-tower complex, much altered and generally known as "the Citadel" (see Tower of David). The site of the former palace is now occupied by the Tower of David Museum, a police station, and a former Turkish barracks/prison known as the Kishle.
Fun picture- guys could climb onto the thing and girls could stand around looking at them or something like that!! - 2
Hand made dress, i have to cut the skirt is almost finish! Is based on esmeralda from disney's movie
If possible this Fuller's pub is even more gloriously bedecked with flowers and foliage than last time I took a photo of it. It's a pub with a split personality (Irish pub, English name, American paraphernalia, Thai food, and, er, chamber pots hanging from the ceiling). Still, it serves good beer. (Older photo of it.)
Address: 119 Kensington Church Street (formerly at Peel Place, Kensington Gravel Pits and Silver Street).
Owner: Fuller Smith Turner (website).
Links:
After two days by horse and a broken foot, Laguna de los Condores was shrowded in mist and constantly raining. Even under these conditions, though, the place was amazing.
I think it's very possible that these are the coolest shoes on the planet.
:)
Perfect for me, non?
P.S. Someone needs to get over here STAT and clean my floor!
Picture Puzzle Piece by Shel Silverstein
One picture puzzle piece
Lyin' on the sidewalk,
One picture puzzle piece
Soakin' in the rain.
It might be a button of blue
On the coat of the woman
Who lived in a shoe.
It might be a magical bean,
Or a fold in the red
Velvet robe of a queen.
It might be the one little bite
Of the apple her stepmother
Gave to Snow White.
It might be the veil of a bride
Or a bottle with some evil genie inside.
It might be a small tuft of hair
On the big bouncy belly
Of Bobo the Bear.
It might be a bit of the cloak
Of the Witch of the West
As she melted to smoke.
It might be a shadowy trace
Of a tear that runs down an angel's face.
Nothing has more possibilities
Than one old wet picture puzzle piece.
Posted this purely for an honest critique/opinion would like you to be truthful and tell me what you think. Saw these deer scatter in some woodland near the gite, was in the car at the time they ran into some vines so drove ahead to a gap to try and catch them Just made it and this was a quick snap as we drove alongside them at speed. At first, thought it was useless but it has grown on me. Let me know HONESTLY what you think.
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