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And this, Tami, is precisely why you get nothing done in a day.
*i started out grinding up a bunch of small quantity bags of fresh coffee beans. I did this so I could clean up my disgusting kitchen and reorganize.*
So far I have thrown away some rotten yogurt and taken 126 pictures.
We went out mapping, or more precisely doing aerial photography, flying a digital camera under a nice big green balloon from the green of Goldsmiths University. The MA is Design at Goldsmiths has an option called “Design & Environment” supervised by Prof Jennifer Gabrys. It is a course that initiates students to alternatives design and environmental methods and pratices. This hands-on experiment was lead by Cesar Harada acting both as Goldsmiths tutor and Public Laboratory instructor. The mappers -who are also the authors of this post- were Anuja Uttamrao Borker, Inessa Demidova, Shan-Yu Hsu, Dk Hajah Hazwani Pg Dato Haji Jaberudin, Federica Sterpos, Chian-Yun Yang, Yifan Zhang, Elvira Grob.
Swarovski is the brand name for a range of precisely-cut lead crystal and related luxury products produced by Swarovski AG of Wattens, Austria.
To create crystal glass that lets light refract in a rainbow spectrum, Swarovski coats some of its products with special metallic chemical coatings.
Aurora Borealis, or "AB", is one of the most popular coatings, and gives the surface a rainbow appearance. Other coatings are named by the company, Crystal Transmission, Volcano, Aurum, and Dorado. Coatings may be applied to only part of an object; others are coated twice, and thus are designated AB 2X, Dorado 2X etc.
I passed the new Swarovski shop in Brisbane on the weekend, and the urge was high. You know what urge I mean.
There is an amazing wall piece inside that I must go and charm my way into.
THIS PIECE TOOK ME PRECISELY 6 HOURS T OD AND IT WAS SUPPOSE TO BE DONE ON NEW YEARS EVE, NO THANKS TO THOSE TFL AND NEW YEARS PARTY ORGANISING IDIOTS !!!
Plus doing it on NEW YEARS DAY WAS A DAY TO LEARN AND PREPARE FOR NEXT TIME TOO
This is my superhero NEW YEARS PIECE filled with Amalgamte characters,BANANAMAN, BLuntman and Chronic and of COURSE ME GIVING YOU AN AFFIRMATIVE MESSAGE
"BE A HERO THIS YEAR!!"
HAVE A GREAT YEAR PEOPLE AND ALWAYS BE POSITIVE TOO !!
With the time being 1:33 pm precisely Southeastern's 'celebrity' class 465 Networker EMU 465 908 'Chris Green' painted in its early 1990s Network SouthEast livery leads fellow class 465 Networker unit 465 040 beneath the roadway of Elizabeth Bridge as the units leave platform 7 at London Victoria with the 2U34 Southeastern suburban service out towards the likes of Denmark Hill, Peckham Rye, Lewisham, Eltham, Bexleyheath, Dartford and Gravesend on the overcast early afternoon of Wednesday 17th July 2025. Just visible on the left of the photo one of Southern's fleet of class 377 Electrostar EMUs is seen over on the 'Brighton' side platforms.
Turtle Bay, Manhattan
Designed by Philip C. Johnson in 1948 and built in 1949-50, the former Rockefeller Guest House is one of the earliest buildings in New York City to reflect the influence of the modem movement in architecture and the celebrated German-American architect Mies van der Rohe. The house, which was described by the noted architectural critic Ada Louise Huxtable as "sophisticated . . . handsome, unconventional," is remarkably intact.
Johnson's subtle and elegant design incorporates features borrowed from two earlier projects by Mies: his unbuilt "court houses" of the 1930s, and the elevations he designed for various buildings at the Illinois Institute of Technology (hereafter, IIT). Built without the use of traditional ornament, the striking two-story street facade is articulated with precisely arranged structural elements, including a symmetrical first story consisting of a handsome wood door and flanking polished reddish brown ironspot brick walls laid in Flemish bond, surmounted by a grid of six fixed translucent windows faced with four steel H-sections.
The house was commissioned by Blanchette Rockefeller, the wife of John D. Rockefeller 3rd and a major patron of the Museum of Modem Art (hereafter, MoMA), to display her collection of modem painting and sculpture and to entertain guests. The Rockefellers donated the house to the museum in 1955, and in the years that followed it had a succession of owners, many of whom were associated with the international art community, including Johnson who lived in the house from 1971 -79. A significant early work by one of the country's leading architects and his only private residential building in New York City, in May 1989 the Rockefeller Guest House became the first work of architecture in the city to be sold by a leading art auction house.
Design and Construction
In June 1948, the Empire Mortgage Company, acting on behalf of the Rockefeller family acquired a 25 by 100 foot lot on East 52nd Street, west of Second Avenue. It was an ideal location - midway between her home in Turtle Bay on Beekman Place and the museum. On the site were two vacant structures, both dating from circa 1870. Johnson later described them as "completely nondescript, [a] small house, wedged between brick walls, a gap and a weed patch, with a dumpy coach house."17 This sequence of spaces -closed, open, and closed-would shape Johnson's plan. Whereas most urban townhouses have gardens at the rear of the lot, the "gap" and "weed patch" would become an internal courtyard, filled with water and partly open to the sky.
An associate in Johnson's office, Frederick C. Genz, filed plans for the guest house in late 1948.18 Since the existing brick walls were retained, it was classified as an alteration, consisting of mainly plastering, plumbing, carpentry, and masonry work. The project's estimated cost was $64,000.19 Construction began in 1949, and the house was ready for use in 1950.
The Rockefeller Guest House was one the first buildings in New York City to reflect the influence of the modem movement in architecture and the celebrated German-American architect Mies van der Rohe. It would also be Johnson's first and only private residential building in the city. Located on the south side of 52nd Street, the simple two-story brick and glass facade stood in sharp contrast to the late nineteenth century buildings adjoining it, a tenement and schoolhouse.
Johnson's spartan design reflects two projects by Mies: the unbuilt "court houses" of the 1930s, where he explored the "flow of space . . . confined within a single rectangle formed by the outside walls of court and house conjoined," and the architect's elevations for the various buildings at HT which were notable for their "subtleties of detailing."20 In describing these facades, Johnson wrote in 1947:
Structural elements are revealed as are those of a Gothic cathedral . . . And whereas the medieval architect relied on the collaboration of the sculptor and painter for his ultimate effect, Mies, so to speak, had to perform the functions of all three professions. He joins steel to steel or steel to glass or brick, with the taste and skill that formerly went into the chiseling of a stone capital or the painting of a fresco.
Johnson followed Mies's example; rather than embellishing the guest house facade with traditional ornament, he articulated the street facade with precisely arranged structural elements. He divided the two-story facade into two visually-distinct sections. The lower portion of the first floor facade, which projects slightly in front of the windows, consists of a wood door at center flanked by polished reddish brown brick walls laid in Flemish bond. The brick, which resembled that used on the cylinder that enclosed the bathroom in Johnson's New Canaan residence of the previous year, was chosen to compliment the facade of the adjacent schoolhouse.
Above the solid base of the first story is a grid of six "unpolished plate glass" windows.22 The mullions that divide the fixed translucent windows are faced with two decorative steel H-sections that rest atop the brick sill. Whereas the second story has vertical floor-to-ceiling windows, the lower horizontal panes act as clerestories, enclosing the upper portion of the first floor facade. These two sets of windows have been traditionally hung with identical white draperies, giving the impression of a single floor above the brick base.
The first floor interior (not part of this designation) was designed as a single flowing space. In front was a large living area with a fireplace and a compact kitchen hidden by folding doors, and in the rear, a bedroom with bath and dressing area. Between the rooms was an interior court with a pool that extends the full width of the building. A grid of floor-to-ceiling windows face the courtyard, similar in effect to the courtyard Mies designed for the Chemical Engineering and Metallurgy Building (1945-46) at 13T. Uninterrupted brick walls painted white extended from the living area through the courtyard, providing a neutral backdrop for the owner's art collection; which included pieces by Alberto Giacometti, Hans Arp, Robert Motherwell, Elie Nadelman, Jacques Lipchitz, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.
Above the living area on the second floor (not part of this designation) were two unheated bedrooms and a bathroom. These rooms served two purposes; providing additional space for guests, but also giving the guest house a stronger presence on the street. Johnson later claimed that he designed the second story mainly to "give the facade height" and because a one-story house "would look all wrong."24 These second-floor bedrooms face the interior courtyard.
Critical Reception
The Rockefeller Guest House received considerable attention, with articles and photographic spreads in The New York Times, Interiors, and the Architectural Review. House & Home admired the simplicity of the living areas, suggesting that such "restraint" could "help make a cheap house look more expensive."25 In a 1961 guide to modem architecture in New York City, published by MoMA and the Municipal Art Society, the noted critic Ada Louise Huxtable described the house as "sophisticated . . . handsome, unconventional."
While many writers noted Johnson's long-standing debt to Mies and the intricate detailing on the facade, his friend and ally, the critic Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Jr., highlighted the building's "classical leanings" and how the arrangement with a central courtyard resembled "Pompeiian domestic planning."
Several critics detected a subtle Asian influence in Johnson's design.28 In August 1950, a writer for Architectural Forum described the "inward-directed plan" and the emphasis on the "restful" courtyard:
The idea of a quietly serene and empty space at the very core of the house and its busy life is one that might have appealed to Lao Tse the philosopher.
Modern architecture's minimalist character is also likely to have appealed to the owners who made frequent trips to Asia and were avid collectors of Asian and particularly Japanese art. White and black predominated throughout the sparsely-furnished interiors, and the pool in the courtyard was traversed by three raised travertine stepping stones that MoMA historian Russell Lynes later speculated were a "concession" to the Rockefeller's fondness toward "things Japanese." Furthermore, round wood pegs, set flush into the outer section of the dooijamb, suggest the hand-crafted quality of traditional Japanese woodwork.
Subsequent History
During the early 1950s, the Rockefeller Guest House became "an informal arm" of MoMA.
It was presided over by a butler named Charles, who could and frequently did run up luncheons for a small number of trustees and donors to the Museum, for Important Persons and those being wooed. There, too, were cocktail parties and small dinners and the ever present hazard of someone accidently backing into the shallow pool...
In 1954 the house was the site of an exhibition to benefit the activities of the Junior Council. Curated by Barr, Dorothy C. Miller and William Lieberman, it displayed paintings, sculptures and prints owned by various council members. Although The New York Times critic Aline Saarinen was disappointed by the cautious character of the artworks displayed, the exhibition offered the public a rare opportunity to view the elegantly minimal interiors.
Despite his antipathy to modern art, John 3rd attended functions at the house and on one occasion he and their children stayed overnight. He regretted the amount of time his wife devoted to running the guest house and eventually convinced her to donate the building to MoMA in the summer of 1955.32 Until the museum's East Wing (designed by Philip Johnson) was completed in 1964, the near-by guest house was used for a various museum events and functions, including receptions, conferences, and special exhibitions.
The guest house was purchased by Robert C. Leonhardt, a Manhattan business consultant, in 1964 for $100,000.
At the time of the sale, The New York Times described the house as "one of Mr. Johnson's most striking designs."33 With the death of Mr. Leonhardt in 1971, his widow, Lee Sherrod, sought a suitable tenant, inviting Johnson and his partner, the former art dealer and exhibition designer, David C. Whitney, to lease the house. Johnson, who described their previous residence as a "ratty old two-room walk-up," made few changes, repainting the interiors white and hanging paintings by such celebrated contemporary artists as Roy Lichtenstein, John Chamberlain and Frank Stella. Andy Warhol, who occasionally visited Johnson, admired the openness of the plan, calling it "a prototype of loft living in New York."
Robin Symes, a London antiquities dealer, acquired the house in 1979. Ten years later, in May 1989, he consigned it to the Sotheby's auction house. Sold to Ronald S. Lauder, a MoMA trustee since 1973, the building was described by The New York Times as "the first ever offered at a New York art auction — and the first piece of real estate auctioned anywhere in the world by Sotheby's." Anthony d'Offay, a London gallery owner specializing in modem art, purchased the guest house in the mid-1990s. In May 2000, Christie's auctioned the Rockefeller Guest House. Six bidders competed, and the final price was $11.16 million.
Description
The Rockefeller Guest House is located on the south side of East 52nd Street, between Second and Third Avenues. The street facade is symmetrical and two stories high. The lower section of the first story projects forward and is faced with reddish-brown Flemish bond brick with tan mortar, similar to that used on the adjoining school building.36 To the east, the brick facade recedes to metal extending the full height of the building, to brick that extends south and is visible from both the front and the side until it intersects with west wall of the adjoining school building. To the west, the brick facade recedes to metal extending the full height of the building, to brick that extends south to the adjoining tenement building.
The entrance is at the center of the first story, marked by a wood door that is divided by vertical lines into seven sections. The historic door, which rises as high as the brick walls, is opened with a brass handle located to the east. At approximately eye level is a peephole, and centered below, a brass mail slot.
The historic doorframe is made of identical wood. Round wood pegs, set flush into the outer frame, are visible. The east side of the door jamb incorporates (from top to bottom) a non-historic brass security camera, a brass speaker/microphone, and brass lock. The historic brass saddle, screwed to the threshold, is scored with incised lines. The door head incorporates a flush rectangular lighting fixture. To the west of the door is the building's address "2 4 2" in historic raised brass letters. Below these numbers, close to the ground, is a circular black metal vent. To the far right, near the west edge of the facade, aligned with the vent, is a small non-historic plastic apparatus. To the west of the door, set into the sidewalk, is a non-historic metal grate.
Six fixed historic translucent windows rise above the brick facade. Four projecting steel H-sections are welded to the columns that divide and frame the windows. The two outer beams extend the full height of the building, from the roof to the ground, framing the east and west edges of the brick facade and windows. The two center beams rest on the brick facade. A continuous horizontal metal panel, set behind the H-sections, divides the upper and lower windows, creating horizontal clerestory windows that illuminate the first story, and the larger, vertical, floor-to-ceiling, second-story windows.
An unadorned metal fence, set back several feet from the front of the building, extends across the roof from east to west. Behind the fence, pipes are visible to the west and east, as well as an irregularly shaped ventilation unit. All of these elements are painted black. At the rear of the building, adjoining the tenement, rises a black chimney.
- From the 2000 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
THIS PIECE TOOK ME PRECISELY 6 HOURS T OD AND IT WAS SUPPOSE TO BE DONE ON NEW YEARS EVE, NO THANKS TO THOSE TFL AND NEW YEARS PARTY ORGANISING IDIOTS !!!
Plus doing it on NEW YEARS DAY WAS A DAY TO LEARN AND PREPARE FOR NEXT TIME TOO
This is my superhero NEW YEARS PIECE filled with Amalgamte characters,BANANAMAN, BLuntman and Chronic and of COURSE ME GIVING YOU AN AFFIRMATIVE MESSAGE
"BE A HERO THIS YEAR!!"
HAVE A GREAT YEAR PEOPLE AND ALWAYS BE POSITIVE TOO !!
The Aqueduct of Segovia (or more precisely, the aqueduct bridge) is a Roman aqueduct and one of the most significant and best-preserved ancient monuments left on the Iberian Peninsula. It is the foremost symbol of Segovia, as evidenced by its presence on the city's coat of arms.
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We went out mapping, or more precisely doing aerial photography, flying a digital camera under a nice big green balloon from the green of Goldsmiths University. The MA is Design at Goldsmiths has an option called “Design & Environment” supervised by Prof Jennifer Gabrys. It is a course that initiates students to alternatives design and environmental methods and pratices. This hands-on experiment was lead by Cesar Harada acting both as Goldsmiths tutor and Public Laboratory instructor. The mappers -who are also the authors of this post- were Anuja Uttamrao Borker, Inessa Demidova, Shan-Yu Hsu, Dk Hajah Hazwani Pg Dato Haji Jaberudin, Federica Sterpos, Chian-Yun Yang, Yifan Zhang, Elvira Grob.
I was fighting sleep after we took off in Kolkata precisely because I was so much hoping to see this! And I did! It was a magnificent look, even though the Himalayas were far away, to the north of us. But my calculation to sit on the right side of the plane did pay off. I was also afraid I would not recognize which one is Mount Everest, but the mountain is simply the highest, and you can even see it from the airplane! One of the greatest moments of our trip to India. And imagine: the ignorant cabin crew of the British Airways asked us several times to pull down the shades on our windows, in order not to disturb other passangers in their sleep! Incredible!!!!! How stupid they must be!
I admire the music that Sufjan Stevens creates. More precisely, I think I'm in love with it. And it has been a few years now since his Illinois album. So the coming of a new album -- his symphonic suite tribute to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway -- carries with it much anticipation.
His label, Asthmatic Kitty, challenged fans to "MS Paint My Album" with any cover in their catalog, in 350x350 pixels -- and then, offhandedly, commented, "We are wondering if anyone is brave enough to MS Paint The BQE." Unfortunately, I'm just the type to take that as a challenge. So I did some planning, and started sketching some of the skeleton into MS Paint. And once I started, I simply had to finish. Three weeks of late nights later, I built what you see above, lovingly rendered, pixel by pixel, exclusively in MS paint.
(it looks compressed and weirdly re-sharpened here, so View Full Size)
Lontong Balap
Lontong balap is one of traditional foods from East Java, precisely from Surabaya. Lontong balap is consist of lontong or sticky rice cake, bean sprout, tofu and lentho. Lentho is more or less like fried cake, which is made by cassava and cowpea, it is tasty and make particular crunchy-ness in Lontong balap. It become more yummy by garlic dressing sauce and hot shrimp paste.
Moreover, when eating Lontong balap, do no forget to complete it with Sate Kerang or scallop satai and coconut ice.
Why this food named by Lontong Balap, because formerly, when the people who sell Lontong Balap they used heavy-barrel-shaped and bear it to the whole city. This barrel make the seller had to walk as fast as they can, seems like someone who taking a race. Balap is taken from Javanese language, balapan, means racing. Recently, we can find Lontong balap in stall or barrow.
We can find some Lontong Balap in all over Surabaya, whether in stall or barrow. Fortunately, the most popular Lontong Balap in Surabaya is located in Kranggan street, there are some stalls over the street that offering Lontong balap as their main menu, but the most special one is belong to Lontong Balap Garuda by Pak Gendut. It becomes famous for the different taste within the ingredients, and that makes Lontong Balap Pak Gendut known by people outside Surabaya.
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With the time being 12:27 pm precisely Southeastern's class 465 Networker EMU 465 908 leaves platform 4 at London Charing Cross beneath the Southern Railway crest on the start of its out of service journey down to Grove Park EMU sidings in South-east London on the early afternoon of Tuesday 25th February 2025. Although this early 1990s Network SouthEast livery looks fantastic applied to this unit the passenger doors have to be painted in a different colour in order to satisfy the stringent Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) regulations, something which when unit 465 908 was delivered new into service with British Rail from Metro-Cammell way back in 1995 the DDA legislation was still very much in its infancy. The slight variation to the original 1990s NSE livery on 465 908 is that the unit's front end 'buffers' are painted in yellow instead of being in the original white. Interestingly the modern office development above the platforms at Charing Cross station dates from around the same time as to when the class 465 EMUs were delivered new into service back in the early 1990s.
Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC)
The Tunis Agenda on the Information Society, more precisely its Para 101 proposed implementation mechanism at the regional level, as follows: Upon request from governments, regional intergovernmental organizations in collaboration with other stakeholders should carry out WSIS implementation activities, exchanging information and best practices at the regional level, as well as facilitating policy debate on the use of ICTs for development, with a focus on attaining the internationally agreed development goals and objectives, including the Millennium Development Goals. UN Regional Commissions, based on the request of Member States and within approved budgetary resources, may organize regional WSIS follow-up activities in collaboration with regional and sub-regional organizations, with appropriate frequency, as well as assisting Member States with technical and relevant information for the development of regional strategies and the implementation of the outcomes of regional conferences. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the follow-up on the implementation of the WSIS outcomes at the regional level. Session will include the contributions of the representatives of the UN Regional Commissions, followed by a general discussion.
Day 3
15 May 2013
ITU/ Claudio Montesano Casillas
DougTrumbull- The models in 2001 are probably the most precisely detailed ever constructed for a film. As soon as the overall design was completed on each model, construction was begun to produce the basic form of that spacecraft, and this process often took several months. Then the arduous task of detailing and painting the model would begin. Massive crews of model detailers worked around the clock for several more months to produce the finished results. Basic construction was of wood, fiberglass, plexiglass, steel, brass, and aluminum. The fine detailing was made up of specially heat-formed plastic cladding, flexible metal foils of different textures and thicknesses, wire, tubing, and thousands of tiny parts carefully selected from hundreds of every conceivable kind of plastic model kit, from boxcars and battleships to airplanes and Gemini spacecraft. A delegation from the production was sent to an international model exhibition in Germany to select the best kits available.
Every minute facet of each model had to be perfect, so that photography would not be restricted in any way, and during shooting the cameras came relentlessly close with no loss of detail or believability.
Each spacecraft was built to a scale which best suited that particular model, without any particular regard to scale relationship between models. Only the Discovery spacecraft and the pod were on the same scale, since they had to work so closely together. Very tricky calculating had to be done for the approach of the Orion spacecraft to the space station because both models couldn’t be built to the same scale. Roughly, the Orion was three feet long, the space station eight feet in diameter, the Aries two feet in diameter, the Moon rocket-bus two feet long, and the Discovery fifty-four feet long with a thirteen-inch diameter pod. The main “command module” ball of Discovery was six feet in diameter, and for long shots another complete model of Discovery was built to a length of fifteen feet. All moving parts on the models were motor driven and extremely geared-down since most shooting was at a very slow rate due to the necessity for stopping down to small lens apertures to obtain maximum depth-of-field.
THIS PIECE TOOK ME PRECISELY 6 HOURS T OD AND IT WAS SUPPOSE TO BE DONE ON NEW YEARS EVE, NO THANKS TO THOSE TFL AND NEW YEARS PARTY ORGANISING IDIOTS !!!
Plus doing it on NEW YEARS DAY WAS A DAY TO LEARN AND PREPARE FOR NEXT TIME TOO
This is my superhero NEW YEARS PIECE filled with Amalgamte characters,BANANAMAN, BLuntman and Chronic and of COURSE ME GIVING YOU AN AFFIRMATIVE MESSAGE
"BE A HERO THIS YEAR!!"
HAVE A GREAT YEAR PEOPLE AND ALWAYS BE POSITIVE TOO !!
Precisely 599 years and 11 months before this photo was taken, in the early morning of Wednesday 14th August 1415, these waters, off the mouth of the River Seine, were host to slightly more ships than this solitary Portsmouth - Le Havre ferry. A fleet of around 1500 ships, carrying some 15,000 men and at least 20,000 horses, having spent 2 days at sea following the same route as the ferry, was anchored off the headland in the centre of the picture. The army would take 3 days to disembark onto the rocky shore, unopposed by a French army absent from the prepared beach defences.
The invaders moved swiftly against their target, the important Seine port of Harfleur just 5 miles to the East. From this place began Henry V’s journey to immortality.
though i don't remember precisely, this must have been taken in Kamakura with my first film camera when i was a teenager.
it looks like most of the photos i take these days as a grown up. i don't feel i've become better or learned much in framing nor focusing. and i also am sure i will take a photo quite similar to this one if i had a chance to visit the same place.
you know, you get older everyday and never be the same, yet some part of you won't change that much.
10代の頃に初めて手にした一眼で撮った写真。たぶん、鎌倉で。
いま見ると、最近撮っている写真と大して変わらない気がする。構図も、撮影技術も向上してはいない。たぶん、いま同じ場所に行くことがあったら、同じような写真を撮ってしまうだろう。
どんどん年をとってどんどん変わっていく一方で、大して変化しない部分というのもある。
To appreciate Dendera even more, see Christopher Dunn's book "Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt" He devotes a chapter to the construction details of this temple.
We went out mapping, or more precisely doing aerial photography, flying a digital camera under a nice big green balloon from the green of Goldsmiths University. The MA is Design at Goldsmiths has an option called “Design & Environment” supervised by Prof Jennifer Gabrys. It is a course that initiates students to alternatives design and environmental methods and pratices. This hands-on experiment was lead by Cesar Harada acting both as Goldsmiths tutor and Public Laboratory instructor. The mappers -who are also the authors of this post- were Anuja Uttamrao Borker, Inessa Demidova, Shan-Yu Hsu, Dk Hajah Hazwani Pg Dato Haji Jaberudin, Federica Sterpos, Chian-Yun Yang, Yifan Zhang, Elvira Grob.
Park4U® uses ultrasonic sensors located in the front and rear bumpers to precisely calculate the length of the parking slot available, and automatically maneuvers the car into the slot.
The new version needs only 40 cm of clearance at either end of the vehicle to be able to park, a reduction of 43% compared to the first generation, made possible by a more sophisticated geometric calculation. In addition, steering assistance no longer ends when the car first goes into reverse, but continues to help the driver until the vehicle is parked, however many maneuvers may be necessary for a short parking slot.
Park4U® also allows the motorist to exit a parking space, even if it is very tight (25 cm at either end). It assesses the space available in front and behind the vehicle, and calculates the most appropriate maneuver. The driver remains in control of the speed, but the system takes control of steering, as when parking. The system also detects the best moment to exit the parking space, and automatically deactivates to let the driver merge into the traffic.
Park assist systems make parking and reversing not only more convenient, but also safer. In 2008 Valeo’s Park4U® system was awarded the “Genius” safety prize by Allianz Insurance for its role in reducing parking accidents, which account for a third of all car insurance claims made in Germany.
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Nineteen metres, prior to the magic of the Golden hour around sunrise at 05:17am, (sunrise was at precisely 06.15am) on Saturday 6th September 2014 off the Patricia Bay Highway 17, on Lochside Drive close to Frost Avenue and the Lochside Waterfront Park, in beautiful Sidney by the sea on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Here, we are looking over towards Mt Baker in Washington State, USA from beautiful Sidney by the sea on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Also known as Koma Kulshan, (pronounced kō-ō’mah’ kool-shän’),she is an active glaciated andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington State in the United States, standing 3,286 metres tall and was first ascended in 1868, her last eruption recorded in 1880.
The name Mount Baker first appeared in print in Captain Vancouver’s 1798 narrative of his voyage around Vancouver Island. Legend has it that his third-lieutenant, Joseph Baker, was the first to spot the mountain while they sailed into Dungeness Bay on April 30th, 1792. Also known by the Lummi as Kwud-Shad, and Koba (meaning 'high mountain always covered with snow', was the Skagit name.
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Nikon D800 70mm 1/30s f/5.0 iso100 RAW (14 bit) Manual focus. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance.
Nikkor AF-S 70-200mm f/2.8G ED IF VRII. Jessops 77mm UV filter. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL batteries. Nikon DK-17M Magnifying Eyepiece. Nikon DK-19 soft rubber eyecup. Manfrotto MT057C3 057 Carbon Fiber Tripod 3 Sections (Payload 18kgs). Manfrotto MH057M0-RC4 057 Magnesium Ball Head with RC4 Quick Release (Payload 15kgs). Manfrotto quick release plate 410PL-14.Jessops Tripod bag. Optech Tripod Strap.Digi-Chip 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC. Lowepro Transporter camera strap. Lowepro Vertex 200 AW camera bag. Nikon MC-DC2 remote shutter release. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit.
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THIS PIECE TOOK ME PRECISELY 6 HOURS T OD AND IT WAS SUPPOSE TO BE DONE ON NEW YEARS EVE, NO THANKS TO THOSE TFL AND NEW YEARS PARTY ORGANISING IDIOTS !!!
Plus doing it on NEW YEARS DAY WAS A DAY TO LEARN AND PREPARE FOR NEXT TIME TOO
This is my superhero NEW YEARS PIECE filled with Amalgamte characters,BANANAMAN, BLuntman and Chronic and of COURSE ME GIVING YOU AN AFFIRMATIVE MESSAGE
"BE A HERO THIS YEAR!!"
HAVE A GREAT YEAR PEOPLE AND ALWAYS BE POSITIVE TOO !!
DougTrumbull- The models in 2001 are probably the most precisely detailed ever constructed for a film. As soon as the overall design was completed on each model, construction was begun to produce the basic form of that spacecraft, and this process often took several months. Then the arduous task of detailing and painting the model would begin. Massive crews of model detailers worked around the clock for several more months to produce the finished results. Basic construction was of wood, fiberglass, plexiglass, steel, brass, and aluminum. The fine detailing was made up of specially heat-formed plastic cladding, flexible metal foils of different textures and thicknesses, wire, tubing, and thousands of tiny parts carefully selected from hundreds of every conceivable kind of plastic model kit, from boxcars and battleships to airplanes and Gemini spacecraft. A delegation from the production was sent to an international model exhibition in Germany to select the best kits available.
Every minute facet of each model had to be perfect, so that photography would not be restricted in any way, and during shooting the cameras came relentlessly close with no loss of detail or believability.
Each spacecraft was built to a scale which best suited that particular model, without any particular regard to scale relationship between models. Only the Discovery spacecraft and the pod were on the same scale, since they had to work so closely together. Very tricky calculating had to be done for the approach of the Orion spacecraft to the space station because both models couldn’t be built to the same scale. Roughly, the Orion was three feet long, the space station eight feet in diameter, the Aries two feet in diameter, the Moon rocket-bus two feet long, and the Discovery fifty-four feet long with a thirteen-inch diameter pod. The main “command module” ball of Discovery was six feet in diameter, and for long shots another complete model of Discovery was built to a length of fifteen feet. All moving parts on the models were motor driven and extremely geared-down since most shooting was at a very slow rate due to the necessity for stopping down to small lens apertures to obtain maximum depth-of-field.
Pueblo Bonito, the largest and best known Great House in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, northern New Mexico, was built by ancestral Pueblo people and occupied between AD 828 and 1126.
Pueblo Bonito is divided into two sections by a precisely aligned wall, running north to south, through the central plaza. A Great Kiva is placed on either side of the wall, creating a symmetrical pattern common to many of the Great Houses. In addition to the great kivas, over thirty other kivas or ceremonial structures have been found, many also associated with the large central courtyard. Interior living spaces were quite large by the standards of the Ancient Pueblo.
The site covers almost two acres (8,000 m²) and incorporates at least 650 rooms, with some estimates rising to 800. In parts of the village, the tiered structure was four and five stories high. During later construction, some lower level rooms were filled with debris to better support the weight of the upper levels. The builder's use of core and veneer architecture and multi-story construction produced massive masonry walls as much as three feet (1 m) thick.
It is possible that Pueblo Bonito is actually neither a village nor city. While its size has the capacity for a significant population, the environment may not have been ideal for sustaining a large population. Excavations at the site have not revealed significant trash middens indicating residential areas. A common suggestion is that Pueblo Bonito was a ritual center. This is not only evident in the existence of the kivas (which are more often than not attributed to ritual function) but also in the construction of the site and its relation to other Chaco Canyon sites. Although there were many occupants, only 50-60 burials were found here.
Examination of pack rat middens revealed that, at the time that pueblo bonito was built Chaco Canyon and the surrounding areas were wooded by trees such as Ponderosa Pines. Evidence of such trees can be seen within the structure of Pueblo Bonito, such as the first floor support beams. Scientists hypothesised that during the time that the pueblo was inhabited the valley was cleared of almost all of the trees, to provide timber for construction and fuel. This, combined with a period of drought, led to the water table in the valley to drop severely, making the land infertile. This explains why Pueblo Bonito was only inhabited for about 300 years and is a good example of the effect that deforestation can have on the local environment. The Anasazi, no longer able to grow crops to sustain their population, had to move on.
A multi-year field study, centered in Pueblo Bonito, has been launched in order to obtain new information on the economic conditions of the Bonito phase. The ultimate goal of this recent fieldwork is to obtain data that will enable researchers to examine the development of great house communities in respect to relationships between demographic change and economic productivity.
Lontong Balap
Lontong balap is one of traditional foods from East Java, precisely from Surabaya. Lontong balap is consist of lontong or sticky rice cake, bean sprout, tofu and lentho. Lentho is more or less like fried cake, which is made by cassava and cowpea, it is tasty and make particular crunchy-ness in Lontong balap. It become more yummy by garlic dressing sauce and hot shrimp paste.
Moreover, when eating Lontong balap, do no forget to complete it with Sate Kerang or scallop satai and coconut ice.
Why this food named by Lontong Balap, because formerly, when the people who sell Lontong Balap they used heavy-barrel-shaped and bear it to the whole city. This barrel make the seller had to walk as fast as they can, seems like someone who taking a race. Balap is taken from Javanese language, balapan, means racing. Recently, we can find Lontong balap in stall or barrow.
We can find some Lontong Balap in all over Surabaya, whether in stall or barrow. Fortunately, the most popular Lontong Balap in Surabaya is located in Kranggan street, there are some stalls over the street that offering Lontong balap as their main menu, but the most special one is belong to Lontong Balap Garuda by Pak Gendut. It becomes famous for the different taste within the ingredients, and that makes Lontong Balap Pak Gendut known by people outside Surabaya.
More info visit:
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DougTrumbull- The models in 2001 are probably the most precisely detailed ever constructed for a film. As soon as the overall design was completed on each model, construction was begun to produce the basic form of that spacecraft, and this process often took several months. Then the arduous task of detailing and painting the model would begin. Massive crews of model detailers worked around the clock for several more months to produce the finished results. Basic construction was of wood, fiberglass, plexiglass, steel, brass, and aluminum. The fine detailing was made up of specially heat-formed plastic cladding, flexible metal foils of different textures and thicknesses, wire, tubing, and thousands of tiny parts carefully selected from hundreds of every conceivable kind of plastic model kit, from boxcars and battleships to airplanes and Gemini spacecraft. A delegation from the production was sent to an international model exhibition in Germany to select the best kits available.
Every minute facet of each model had to be perfect, so that photography would not be restricted in any way, and during shooting the cameras came relentlessly close with no loss of detail or believability.
Each spacecraft was built to a scale which best suited that particular model, without any particular regard to scale relationship between models. Only the Discovery spacecraft and the pod were on the same scale, since they had to work so closely together. Very tricky calculating had to be done for the approach of the Orion spacecraft to the space station because both models couldn’t be built to the same scale. Roughly, the Orion was three feet long, the space station eight feet in diameter, the Aries two feet in diameter, the Moon rocket-bus two feet long, and the Discovery fifty-four feet long with a thirteen-inch diameter pod. The main “command module” ball of Discovery was six feet in diameter, and for long shots another complete model of Discovery was built to a length of fifteen feet. All moving parts on the models were motor driven and extremely geared-down since most shooting was at a very slow rate due to the necessity for stopping down to small lens apertures to obtain maximum depth-of-field.
Adjacent to Columbus Square, and precisely the location where we were approached and badgered for money by some expert swindler with a very emergent, incredible story. He didn't take credit cards. We saw him 3 hours later in a different outfit and location, telling the same story to another couple of tourists who were sympathetic enough to pay in cash. Upon catching our glance, he quickly turned and took off. I should have taken his picture! :)
His plot was that he and his father were passengers on a cruise ship that was docked at pier 11 (not sure there even is one..we didn't see any other ships when we were there). They were approached by some hoodlums that mugged them and seriously hurt his father, who was on the ground somewhere waiting for him to return with enough money to pay for cab fare. He swiftly added that the police were no help and they were crooked (if he were a tourist, why did he believe that?) and that is why he couldn't get an ambulance to take his dad to the hospital. Furthermore, that we should stay far away from "that neighborhood" where the attack was which incidentally was not even near the so-called pier 11. This guy was a smooth talker with a polished tale. The giveaway was that his attire was slightly unkempt despite the style of it (preppy in a thrift store and unlaundered kind of way). When we broke the news that we didn't carry cash, he almost looked ticked off like as if he suspected we didn't believe him.
See Blog: 'A Day in San Juan' : wp.me/pc8Zw-be
We went out mapping, or more precisely doing aerial photography, flying a digital camera under a nice big green balloon from the green of Goldsmiths University. The MA is Design at Goldsmiths has an option called “Design & Environment” supervised by Prof Jennifer Gabrys. It is a course that initiates students to alternatives design and environmental methods and pratices. This hands-on experiment was lead by Cesar Harada acting both as Goldsmiths tutor and Public Laboratory instructor. The mappers -who are also the authors of this post- were Anuja Uttamrao Borker, Inessa Demidova, Shan-Yu Hsu, Dk Hajah Hazwani Pg Dato Haji Jaberudin, Federica Sterpos, Chian-Yun Yang, Yifan Zhang, Elvira Grob.
DougTrumbull- The models in 2001 are probably the most precisely detailed ever constructed for a film. As soon as the overall design was completed on each model, construction was begun to produce the basic form of that spacecraft, and this process often took several months. Then the arduous task of detailing and painting the model would begin. Massive crews of model detailers worked around the clock for several more months to produce the finished results. Basic construction was of wood, fiberglass, plexiglass, steel, brass, and aluminum. The fine detailing was made up of specially heat-formed plastic cladding, flexible metal foils of different textures and thicknesses, wire, tubing, and thousands of tiny parts carefully selected from hundreds of every conceivable kind of plastic model kit, from boxcars and battleships to airplanes and Gemini spacecraft. A delegation from the production was sent to an international model exhibition in Germany to select the best kits available.
Every minute facet of each model had to be perfect, so that photography would not be restricted in any way, and during shooting the cameras came relentlessly close with no loss of detail or believability.
Each spacecraft was built to a scale which best suited that particular model, without any particular regard to scale relationship between models. Only the Discovery spacecraft and the pod were on the same scale, since they had to work so closely together. Very tricky calculating had to be done for the approach of the Orion spacecraft to the space station because both models couldn’t be built to the same scale. Roughly, the Orion was three feet long, the space station eight feet in diameter, the Aries two feet in diameter, the Moon rocket-bus two feet long, and the Discovery fifty-four feet long with a thirteen-inch diameter pod. The main “command module” ball of Discovery was six feet in diameter, and for long shots another complete model of Discovery was built to a length of fifteen feet. All moving parts on the models were motor driven and extremely geared-down since most shooting was at a very slow rate due to the necessity for stopping down to small lens apertures to obtain maximum depth-of-field.
Culmore Fort, Culmore Point, Derry – 12 Oct 2025
74A Culmore Point, Londonderry BT48 8JW
Grid Coordinates: 55°02'48.1"N 7°15'14.7"W
Culmore (from Irish Cúil Mór, meaning 'the great corner') is a village and townland in Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is at the mouth of the River Foyle. In the 2011 Census Culmore had a population of 3,465 people.
It is not known precisely when the fort was built. A fortification was likely erected by the ruling O’Doherty’s in the early 16th century, but may have been built as a Tower House as early as 1450, from which they controled access to the River Foyle. Culmore at that time would have been considered part of Inishowen and Donegal.
From 1556 a fort was in the possession of the crown and granted by Queen Mary I dated 12th Sept 1556 to Richard Bethell and William Piers (d.1603).
Culmore Fort appears to have been abandoned by the English soon after and was possibly destroyed either by them or by Sir John O’Dogherty (b.1540 d.1601) because when Henry Docwra, landed there in 1600 he found “the butt end of the old broken castle.”
The current Fort is a two-storey stone building in Culmore Village, northeast of Derry City. It was originally built between 1600 and 1649 alongside earthen ramparts and a ditch, serving as a strategic defensive site overlooking Lough Foyle. Due to its advantageous location, Culmore Fort has witnessed many significant events that have shaped the history of Ireland and the establishment of the city of Derry.
Sir Henry Docwra (b.1564 d.1631), 1st Baron Docwra of Culmore, was an English soldier who landed with a force of 4000 foot and 200 horse troops at Culmore on 16 May 1600, as part of an attempt to quell a war against the crown in Ulster. On the 22 May he marched into Derry without resistance and occupied and fortified the town. Facing stronger local Irish opposition, Docwra's troops became almost prisoners, unable to make any progress while slowly starving. Aged 15, Cahir O’Dogherty (b.1587 d.1608) lord of Inishowen, a Gaelic chieftain joined the forces of the English Governor of Derry, Sir Henry Docwra, who were fighting to defeat Tyrone's Rebellion. With the help of O'Dogherty and other Gaelic lords, Docwra advanced from Derry into the heart of Gaelic territory. Docwra praised O’Dogherty courage while under fire, and recommended him for a knighthood.
The sympathetic Docwra was replaced by Sir George Paulet (b.1553 d.1608), who took a much harder view of the Gaelic lords, even loyalists like Cahir O'Dogherty. Docwra had resigned his command because he felt that English veterans of the Nine Years War (1594–1603) and their Irish allies had been poorly rewarded after the Treaty of Mellifont in 1603 as land promised to them had been returned to the 2nd Earl of Tyrone, Hugh O'Neill (b.c.1550 d.1616) and the 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, Rory O'Donnell (b.1575 d.1608).
While in Derry on business, Paulet struck O’Dogherty on the face. O'Dogherty began to suspect that he could not hope for fair treatment from English justice. O'Dogherty remained reluctant to rebel and with "tears in his eyes" he approached English officers asking them how he could regain the Lord Deputy's favour. He even turned over one of his relations, Phelim Reagh MacDavitt (b.1568 d.1608), a wanted man, to the authorities. O'Dogherty's lobbying on behalf of MacDavitt led to his release just in time to take part in the rebellion.
The night before the rising, 18 April 1608, O'Dogherty dined with his friend Captain Henry Hart (b.1566 d.1637) who was the constable of Culmore Fort and Hart’s wife Frances. O'Dogherty explained his reasons for rebellion and asked Hart to hand over Culmore to him. Hart refused, even when threatened with death. To save her husband's life, Hart's wife, Frances (nee Bosville b.1582 d.1654) agreed to help. She lured the garrison out of the fort, who fell into an ambush by O'Dogherty's men.
Having armed themselves with munitions taken at Culmore Fort, at 2:00 am on 19 April 1608 O'Dogherty led around 100 men on a surprise attack on Derry.
Phelim MacDavitt killed Governor Paulet during the battle; a sheriff named Hamilton was also killed. The rest of the garrison and inhabitants surrendered. O'Dogherty declaring that he was not there to spill blood, he let a number of English prisoners go but kept some important hostages. Every house within the settlement of Derry was then burned, including public buildings. Shortly after this incident the town of Strabane was burnt to the ground.
Cahir O'Dogherty was killed on 5 July 1608 near Kilmacrennan, Co Donegal during a skirmish with English and Irish soldiers. He was fatally injured after being shot in the head. This led to the immediate collapse of his rebel army. His death marked the end of his rebellion. The severed heads of O’Dogherty and his foster father, Phelim MacDavitt were impaled on pikes and displayed on Newgate prison, Dublin.
Docwra was granted 2000 acres (8 km2) in the Precinct of Liffer (Lifford) for his service. He served as Governor of Loughfoyle, and on 15 May 1621, by a patent dated at Westminster, was created Baron Docwra of Culmore. He was also Treasurer at War and a member of the Privy Council. Sir Henry Docwra died on 18 April 1631 in Dublin, shortly after retiring from his public offices, and was buried in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.
Most of the original structure was destroyed in 1688 when the political landscape in Ireland was marked by rising tensions between Protestant and Catholic factions. The fort was destroyed during this period, but the tower and some earthworks remained intact, although specific details about the exact events leading to its destruction are not extensively documented.
The fort remained in disrepair until 1780, when General Henry Hart (b.1566 d.1689) reconstructed it. Hart was born in 1566 to John Hart of Highgate (b.abt.1540) and Bridget Ashfield (b.abt.1545), most likely in England.
According to ‘Landed Gentry’, Henry founded the Irish branch of the family, going to Ulster from England with Walter Devereux, (b.1541 d.1576) 1st Earl of Essex who led an unsuccessful colonizing expedition of Ulster from 1573 to 1575, during the reign of Elizabeth I.
Hart served in Ireland under Sir Henry Docwra during the Nine Years' War (1584-1603) rising to the rank of Captain.
The earliest mention of Henry Hart in his official capacity seems to have been at the defeat at the Battle of Carrickfergus in 1597, when Sir John Chichester was out maneuvered by James MacSorley MacDonnell, and Chichester was killed and beheaded. Lieut. Hart was present at the battle having been wounded along with others.
Despite Hart’s loss of Culmore, he was rewarded as a servitor like other veteran officers in the Plantation of Ulster. He was granted land close to Kilmacrennan, Co. Donegal. This was in the heart of old O'Donnell territory, which had been confiscated following the Flight of the Earls. Several of Hart's former comrades also received land nearby which had been mapped out by the 1609 Bodley Survey.
Hart married Frances Bosville on 5 Dec 1603. Henry was 38 years old and Frances was 22. Her father was Sir Robert Bosville of Eynesford and her mother Elizabeth Sybyll. Frances was very little, ugly and vain, and used to say that "her father could put money-bags under her feet to make her tall as anybody". They had two sons.
Henry lived at Muff House, Co. Donegal where he died on the 6th September 1637, he was buried at St Columb's Cathedral, Derry on the 9th.
Sir John Chichester Junior (b.1565 d.1597) was born in Devon, England, his father, Sir John Chichester (b.1516 d.1569), was 49 and his mother, Gertrude Courtenay (b.1521 d.1566) was 44. Sir John Chichester was the younger brother of Sir Arthur Chichester (b.1563 d.1625), Lord Deputy of Ireland John & Gertrude had 12 siblings, 7 sons and 5 daughters.
In the latter part of June, 1597, Sir John Jnr. was appointed Governor of Carrickfergus. It was a most critical period, Tyrone (Hugh O’Neill) was in the height of his power.
On the day of the planned meeting, 4th November 1597, the English saw James MacSorley MacDonnell (b.1550 d.1601) coming towards Carrickfergus Castle leading about 700 soldiers. Governor Chichester didn't want to seem weak, so he marched out with most of his own men. He had five groups of foot soldiers and one group of horse soldiers, his men were very tired from a previous trip.
Chichester led his troops about four miles to Altfracken near Ballycarry where they met the Scottish forces. He stopped to let his soldiers catch up. During this time, his officers discussed tactics. One experienced officer told the governor to just have the parley meeting.
But when his troops were ready, Chichester turned to his commander, Captain Nichols Marmion (b.1635 d.1598) and asked, "Now, Captain, those are your old friends. What do you say? Should we attack them?" Marmion agreed, and so did the horse commander, Moyses Hill (b.1573 d.1629).
The order to attack was given. The Scottish soldiers started to fall back over the hills. But the English horse riders were not sure where to go. Governor Chichester quickly found him-self alone with a small group of men. These men had managed to keep up with him.
MacDonnell had led the English into a trap as he had hidden 800 soldiers behind his main group. These hidden soldiers included Scottish archers, swordsmen, and Irish pikemen, but most importantly, there were 500 Irish soldiers with guns.
Suddenly, many shots were fired at the English soldiers; these shots came from Tyrone's hidden gunmen. The Scottish and Irish soldiers then rushed forward and broke the English army's formation.
Governor Chichester was shot in the leg, but he got back on his horse and lead his men down the hill, he was then shot in the head and died right away, aged 32. Another officer was shot in the head and captured while another had his horse shot from under him, with another being shot in the shoulder.
After the battle, James MacSorley (d.1601) had Chichester's head cut off, packed in a barrel and sent to the Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone at Dungannon.
Anderson McCausland Esq, (b.? d.1857), occupant of Culmore House in 1830 carried out repairs to the fort. In 1858 it is referred to as a coastguard station in Griffiths Valuation of 1858. The coastguards were withdrawn by the Admiralty in 1870.
Sir Thomas Phillips (b.1560 d.1633) was an English knight and soldier of fortune. He was knighted in 1607. Originally granted land at Coleraine, he forfeited it to the London Livery Companies in exchange for grants of land at Limavady and what became the Moyola estate as part of the Plantation of Ulster. In 1622 he sold the Moyola estate to Thomas Dawson. A son, Sir Dudley Phillips, who was a key figure in the defence of Coleraine and Londonderry during the 1641 Rebellion.
Phillips records a Raven’s illustration of the Culmore Fort in his publication of Londonderry and the London Companies 1609-1629. The fort was ruined in the escapades of 1688-9 and remained in a ruinous condition until reconstructed by General George Vaughan Hart (b.1752 d.1832) in 1780s. A garrison was based in the fort up until 1688 as the original chapel (Holy Trinity Church of Ireland) built in 1687 was for the convenience of the military staff.
Before 1860 Culmore Fort and 300 acres of land attached to it were allotted to the governors of the Fort. Field Marshal John Byng, (b.1772 d.1860) 1st Earl of Strafford who was governor from 1833 up until his death he received £200 from the Irish Society on his appointment and the rent from the lands. It is unlikely he ever set foot in Culmore. When he died in 1860 the fort and lands reverted back to the Irish Society.
The remains of a moat can easily be discerned west and north of the fort. It is overgrown and much of the land contained within it has been built upon.
The Latest Restoration
Historically, the Fort at Culmore was held by the Crown until 1840, when it and its surrounding lands were sold to The Honourable The Irish Society, who remain its owners to this day. For the past 50 years, the Fort has been had been closed to the public on leased to Lough Foyle Yacht Club and used for storage, however the Culmore Community Partnership (CCP) acquired the lease and successfully completed the conversion of the Fort for community use following a major funding of £265,000.
This followed many years of planning, community engagement and work on site beginning in 2021, seeing the project completed in June 2025. It now accommodates much-needed mental health support for youth in the area, in addition to hosting meetings for a variety of sports, heritage and cultural organisations.
The restoration project was made possible through the Village Catalyst grant scheme, a collaborative initiative between the Department for Communities (DfC), the Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF), the Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA), and the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE).
Additional financial support was also provided by The Honourable The Irish Society, the Garfield Weston Foundation, the Pilgrim Trust and Lough Foyle Yacht Club.
THIS PIECE TOOK ME PRECISELY 6 HOURS T OD AND IT WAS SUPPOSE TO BE DONE ON NEW YEARS EVE, NO THANKS TO THOSE TFL AND NEW YEARS PARTY ORGANISING IDIOTS !!!
Plus doing it on NEW YEARS DAY WAS A DAY TO LEARN AND PREPARE FOR NEXT TIME TOO
This is my superhero NEW YEARS PIECE filled with Amalgamte characters,BANANAMAN, BLuntman and Chronic and of COURSE ME GIVING YOU AN AFFIRMATIVE MESSAGE
"BE A HERO THIS YEAR!!"
HAVE A GREAT YEAR PEOPLE AND ALWAYS BE POSITIVE TOO !!
We went out mapping, or more precisely doing aerial photography, flying a digital camera under a nice big green balloon from the green of Goldsmiths University. The MA is Design at Goldsmiths has an option called “Design & Environment” supervised by Prof Jennifer Gabrys. It is a course that initiates students to alternatives design and environmental methods and pratices. This hands-on experiment was lead by Cesar Harada acting both as Goldsmiths tutor and Public Laboratory instructor. The mappers -who are also the authors of this post- were Anuja Uttamrao Borker, Inessa Demidova, Shan-Yu Hsu, Dk Hajah Hazwani Pg Dato Haji Jaberudin, Federica Sterpos, Chian-Yun Yang, Yifan Zhang, Elvira Grob.
I wasn't able to precisely identify this species but it may well be Guibemantis albolineatus. This tiny frog, like the other members of its group, is an arboreal species that live among the spiky fronds of plants in the genus Pandanus. The eggs are laid in the water-filled axils.
Thomas Gläser (envis precisely) bei der abschließenden Preisverleihung von mehreren O‘Reilly-Büchern.
Lontong Balap
Lontong balap is one of traditional foods from East Java, precisely from Surabaya. Lontong balap is consist of lontong or sticky rice cake, bean sprout, tofu and lentho. Lentho is more or less like fried cake, which is made by cassava and cowpea, it is tasty and make particular crunchy-ness in Lontong balap. It become more yummy by garlic dressing sauce and hot shrimp paste.
Moreover, when eating Lontong balap, do no forget to complete it with Sate Kerang or scallop satai and coconut ice.
Why this food named by Lontong Balap, because formerly, when the people who sell Lontong Balap they used heavy-barrel-shaped and bear it to the whole city. This barrel make the seller had to walk as fast as they can, seems like someone who taking a race. Balap is taken from Javanese language, balapan, means racing. Recently, we can find Lontong balap in stall or barrow.
We can find some Lontong Balap in all over Surabaya, whether in stall or barrow. Fortunately, the most popular Lontong Balap in Surabaya is located in Kranggan street, there are some stalls over the street that offering Lontong balap as their main menu, but the most special one is belong to Lontong Balap Garuda by Pak Gendut. It becomes famous for the different taste within the ingredients, and that makes Lontong Balap Pak Gendut known by people outside Surabaya.
More info visit:
THIS PIECE TOOK ME PRECISELY 6 HOURS T OD AND IT WAS SUPPOSE TO BE DONE ON NEW YEARS EVE, NO THANKS TO THOSE TFL AND NEW YEARS PARTY ORGANISING IDIOTS !!!
Plus doing it on NEW YEARS DAY WAS A DAY TO LEARN AND PREPARE FOR NEXT TIME TOO
This is my superhero NEW YEARS PIECE filled with Amalgamte characters,BANANAMAN, BLuntman and Chronic and of COURSE ME GIVING YOU AN AFFIRMATIVE MESSAGE
"BE A HERO THIS YEAR!!"
HAVE A GREAT YEAR PEOPLE AND ALWAYS BE POSITIVE TOO !!
"A smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity."
~ Emily Dickinson
These dolls are used to celebrate Girl's Day (3rd March) and Boy's Day (5th May).
1. Ichimatsu Ningyo (Japanese dolls), 2. Ichimatsu Ningyo's charm, 3. Ichimatsu Ningyo's beauty
These are my own Ichimatsu Ningyo. I love their smiles and charm.
They were originally the ambassadors of friendship.
created using www.picnik.com/
Nicknames are so common in New Orleans. How appropirate was this man to have been called “Precisely.” Taken in Tremé accross from St. Augustine Church, the photo is so telling of the spirit and sentiment of this very old African-American neighborhood. It is the hot bed of emerging contemporary brass band musicians and as well as the home cradle of this uniquely New Orleans’ ceremonial custom.
Starlet Raven-Symone knows precisely who she is, which individual can’t be defined with the normal labels.
That’s what the previous “Cosby Program” star informed Oprah Winfrey on OWN on Sunday night, as she discussed why she doesn’t like to be labeled as gay or...
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Pueblo Bonito, the largest and best known Great House in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, northern New Mexico, was built by ancestral Pueblo people and occupied between AD 828 and 1126.
Pueblo Bonito is divided into two sections by a precisely aligned wall, running north to south, through the central plaza. A Great Kiva is placed on either side of the wall, creating a symmetrical pattern common to many of the Great Houses. In addition to the great kivas, over thirty other kivas or ceremonial structures have been found, many also associated with the large central courtyard. Interior living spaces were quite large by the standards of the Ancient Pueblo.
The site covers almost two acres (8,000 m²) and incorporates at least 650 rooms, with some estimates rising to 800. In parts of the village, the tiered structure was four and five stories high. During later construction, some lower level rooms were filled with debris to better support the weight of the upper levels. The builder's use of core and veneer architecture and multi-story construction produced massive masonry walls as much as three feet (1 m) thick.
It is possible that Pueblo Bonito is actually neither a village nor city. While its size has the capacity for a significant population, the environment may not have been ideal for sustaining a large population. Excavations at the site have not revealed significant trash middens indicating residential areas. A common suggestion is that Pueblo Bonito was a ritual center. This is not only evident in the existence of the kivas (which are more often than not attributed to ritual function) but also in the construction of the site and its relation to other Chaco Canyon sites. Although there were many occupants, only 50-60 burials were found here.
Examination of pack rat middens revealed that, at the time that pueblo bonito was built Chaco Canyon and the surrounding areas were wooded by trees such as Ponderosa Pines. Evidence of such trees can be seen within the structure of Pueblo Bonito, such as the first floor support beams. Scientists hypothesised that during the time that the pueblo was inhabited the valley was cleared of almost all of the trees, to provide timber for construction and fuel. This, combined with a period of drought, led to the water table in the valley to drop severely, making the land infertile. This explains why Pueblo Bonito was only inhabited for about 300 years and is a good example of the effect that deforestation can have on the local environment. The Anasazi, no longer able to grow crops to sustain their population, had to move on.
A multi-year field study, centered in Pueblo Bonito, has been launched in order to obtain new information on the economic conditions of the Bonito phase. The ultimate goal of this recent fieldwork is to obtain data that will enable researchers to examine the development of great house communities in respect to relationships between demographic change and economic productivity.
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The Aqueduct of Segovia (or more precisely, the aqueduct bridge) is a Roman aqueduct and one of the most significant and best-preserved ancient monuments left on the Iberian Peninsula. It is the foremost symbol of Segovia, as evidenced by its presence on the city's coat of arms.
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We are precisely THREE DAYS away from professional baseball in Pensacola and I couldn't be more excited. Today was the first day that the public was allowed inside the stadium and I was THRILLED with what I saw. It was like being a little kid on Opening Day again!
Look at that incredible view - it's right on the water with a constant tropical breeze from the Gulf Of Mexico that should keep the customers cool
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