They The town of Trego, want to clear their right of way back to the orange stake on the left in order to put in a wider and deeper ditch. We just had the wettest spring in history, See all the water sitting in the ditch? We really need a bigger ditch. Haha! Just resurface the road and leave the ditch alone !

 

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St. Joseph (Memmingen)

Parish Church of St. Joseph in Memmingen

St. Joseph is a Roman Catholic parish church in Upper Swabia Memmingen and was built in the years 1927-1929. It is the main church of the deanery of Memmingen. Its patronage is the feast of St. Joseph on March 19.

Location

The church with the address Saint Joseph Church Square 5 stands about 100 meters west of the old town of Memmingen. To the north the church is bordered by St. Joseph's Church Square, to the west, the Hopfenstraße is an adjoining street. To the east are the Elsbethen and the Bismarck school, south of the church is the church garden.

History

After the Reformation in the 16th century lived with the exception of the monks and nuns almost no more catholics in the imperial city of Memmingen. This changed with the Bayerischwerdung (when the city became a Bavarian one) of the city in 1803 by influx from outside. About 500 Catholics lived in 1803 in the city. Until 1871, the number increased to 1487 and about 19 years later the number had nearly doubled to 2800. In 1900, lived 4200 Catholics in the city and 1910 5500. As a consequence the parish church of St. John the Baptist had become too small and a larger new church building was taken into consideration. 25 men founded in 1907 a team to build a new Catholic church in Memmingen, whose chairmanship the then parish priest Max Rippler took over. Yet two years later they tendered a competition for the new building. 1916 the community possessed over 4.5 Tagwerk (Bavarian square measure, 3408 m²) building ground and 100,000 gold marks. The number of Catholics in the city also increased during this period, which is why the design of architect Heinrich Hauberrisser from Regensburg, which had been shortlisted was rejected because his proposed new construction would have been too small. During the inflationary period only the building ground could be maintained. Josef Schmid, since 1921 parish priest, resurrected the plans for a new church in 1925. The Court of Arbitration for new architectural competition consisted of Professor Dr. Baron von Schmidt, Privy Councillor Dr. Theodor Fischer, Privy Councillor Dr. Grässl and Monsignor Richard Hoffmann. The first two places took architect Wiederanders from Munich and the native of Augsburg architects Professor Michael Kurz and Thomas Wechs. On 14 April 1926, was settled for the plans of the latter two. The first cut of the spade of the new building was carried out by canon Deller on August 9, 1927. Memminger construction company Josef Hebel took over the construction works, construction management had Konrad Mayer from Augsburg. The church was executed in concrete with a brick cladding.

On May 7, 1928 the topping-out-ceremony could be celebrated. 1929, the floor of Solnhofer panels was laid and set up the choir stalls. The consecration of the five new bells took place on 12 October 1929. On 20 October, the church of suffragan bishop Karl Reth was consecrated. As celebration preacher was Monsignor Dr. Hartmann present. The organ was consecrated at Christmas 1929 before the Midnight Mass. Despite its size, St. Joseph is the largest church building in Germany between the First and Second World War, remained St. Johann in the old town the parish church. Only as at 1 December 1956, the previous daughter church of St. Joseph was raised to the status of a parish church and a city parish church. The confessionals and the high altar were set up in 1930. Two years later, the pulpit was installed. In the memorial chapel for soldiers in 1960 was erected a monument. The on May 7, 1970 opened parish hall was created in 1969 from the around the choir on the north and east side vacant rooms. The crypt of the church was rebuilt in 1975 as a parish center and connected by a staircase with the parish hall. The sculptor John Dumanski from Tannberg took over the design of the crypt. Reinhold Grübl planned the equipment for the Josefstüble (very small room). Government master builder Karlheinz Pasman was an architect for those measures. The Church Foundation and the City of Memmingen concluded in 1973 a contract by which the City of Memmingen committed itself to open up the spaces on the east, north and west side of the church for public transport and to shoulder design, care and maintenance of green areas. Simultaneously, a sculpture of mother and child by Diether Kunerth was erected in the west in front of the church. Between 1978 and 1980, the church was restored, an altar-island with a main altar in the nave integrated and installed a new organ. The heating system and the electrical systems were renewed. The latter were improved in 1987. In the same year, a new loudspeaker system was put into operation. The Lady chapel in the west of the church was rebuilt by Reinhold Grübl into a prayer and meditation room.

Specifications

The church consists of an enclosed, long rectangular room that has twelve yokes. The nave is flanked by each a side aisle. The openings from the nave to aisles are trapezoidal. Overall, the 73-meter-long nave has seven entrances. Each entrance a triangular porch is built onto the outside. The nave is 16 meters, the aisles are each 3.8 meters wide. The adjacent to the east, indented choir is 24 meters long and 11 meters wide. In front of it are built the parish hall and the sacristy. The choir is flanked by two in floor plan star-shaped steeples. In the west a transept in the same height as the nave is added. It serves as an abutment. In it, the entrance hall and laterally each a chapel is installed. On the upper floor there are side rooms. In front of the transept is the west gallery and this one serves as organ loft. The circular baptistery is left, the spiral staircase leading to the loft and the adjoining rooms of the transept, is located to the right.

The facade of the church consists of exposed brick, inside the concrete walls evoke a sober impression. The ceilings are covered with wood.

Organ

In 1980, the organ was built by Georg Jann as Opus 47. It has 53 stops, spread over four manuals and pedal. The various mechanisms stand in plain, open to the front boxes. The key action is mechanical, the key action electric. Josef Maier (Hergensweiler) changed the disposition in 2000.

Several sound recording media, recored by Gerhard Weinberger, Winfried Bönig and Christian Weiherer, document the sound of the organ.

Disposition

I Rückpositiv C-a3

Praestant 8'

Reed pipe 8'

Octave 4'

Spitzgedackt 4'

Field pipe 2'

Quinte 11/3'

Sesquialtera II 22/3' + 13/5'

Scharff V 1'

Dulcian 16'

Schalmey 8'

Vox Humana 8'

Tremulant

II principal work C-a3

Praestant 16'

Octave 8'

Copula 8'

Salizional 8'

Octave 4'

Recorder 4'

Quinte 22/3'

Octave 2'

11/3 mixture VI'

Trumpet 8'

III Swell C-a3

Bourdon 16'

HolzprinzipalFlauto 8'

Gamba 8'

Beat 8'

Principal 4'

Coupling Flute 4'

Viola 4'

Nasat 22/3'

Nachthorn 2'

Third 13/5'

None 8/9'

Fourniture VI 2'

Bassoon 16'

Harmonique Trompette 8'

Oboe 8'

Sill

Tremulant

IV. Chamadewerk C-a3

Cornet V (from g0)

Chamade 16'

Chamade 8'

Chamade 4'

Pedal C-f1

Subbass 32'

Principal 16'

Subbass 16'

Quinte 102/3'

Octavbass 8'

Bass tube 8'

Octave 4'

Bauer Flute 4'

Hintersatz V 22/3'

Bombard 16'

Trumpet 8'

Field Trumpet 4'

Cornett 2'

Pairing: I / II, III / I, III / II, IV / II, IV / P, I / P II / P III / P.

Game Aids: 16 coasters combinations crescendo roll tutti passage.

Minor remodeling by Josef Maier in 2000

Community

The parish of St. Joseph to 1975 consisted of the entire West town of Memmingen. The area encompassed the city center to the city limits, including the communities in the districts of Dickenreishausen and Ferthofen. In 1975, the parish of Christ Resurreciton was founded, whereby about 4000 believers switched to this one. From 1986, when the branch parish of St. Anton was incorporated into Ferthofen, the territory comprises the western city, with the exception of the western part of Berlin's freedom (Berliner Freiheit), as well as the districts Hart, Dickenreishausen, Ferthofen and Volkratshofen. In 2012, the parish of St. Joseph became a member of the parish community of St. Joseph-Christ's Resurrection.

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Iowa City, IA - May 5, 2019 - Proposed site of a 15-story development. The project would go at 12 E. Court Street, between Burlington and Court streets, and calls for North and South Capitol streets to be connected. The development proposes 800 to 1,000 apartments, aimed at college students, as well as other amenities.

 

Proposed Route of the 3rd crossing in Hampton RoadsVDOT) (Photo by Trevor Wrayton,

 

Schematic plan showing the main elements of the proposed Pebble open-pit copper and gold mine in southwest Alaska, superimposed on the Seattle area for scale. Mine plan derived from permit applications filed with the State of Alaska by Northern Dynasty Minerals. Compare with image entitled "Seattle and Environs."

Proposed development of the Royal Opera House, Open Up 2015

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Low resolution clip taken from very old video footage.

 

In 1983, Port Parham, in South Australia, faced a turning point.

 

Between the proposed Department of defence extension and the proposed airport at Two Wells, Port Parham and it's residents were about to become extinct.

A battle begun that ran for almost 4 years. 6 elderly residents passed away during the battle and in the last year, it looked like the future of the area for public use, was clouded.

 

The Army had created the "Department of defence, Proposed extension of the proof and experimental establishment, Pt , Draft environmental impact statement"

 

The Department of defence needed to test larger guns. The current area was the army firing range, Gun testing range and munitions testing area.

They needed to expand to test the new (At the time) 155 mm Howitzer. They needed to test it up to 6 times a year and needed 30 kms extra area (The range is 40 kms).

 

The Army faced three options.

 

Option 1 was to acquire land all the way up to Pt Prime (All the way from Sandy Point). This included Port Parham (Inhabited), Webb Beach(Inhabited) and Thompson Beach

 

(Uninhabited). Pt Prime being a previous shelling range and not a very nice beach). That leaves no real beaches north of Adelaide.

They did consider relocating all buildings and people to Pt Prime/Thompson's beach. Thompson's beach had no houses or infrastructure yet.

This plan would have been end to private land development planned at Thompson's.

This plan would include $5.5 million to acquire 5000 ha of land.

 

Option 2, move the firing range further north and fire into the existing area.

 

Option 3, close and relocate the firing range.

 

The preferred option for the Army was option 1. This meant they would compulsory acquire the land, lease it back for 10 years and close the beach. You cold see the beach but not

 

access it for the rolled up security barbed wire and armed men on hovercrafts. This was deemed to be in the national interest and a matter of "National Security. It was highlighted that

 

the Pt Wakefield range was the only lace in Australia where they can test the ammunition like this.

 

The army had been testing munitions in the mud flats since 1929 and it is littered with dangerous unexploded ammunition. They also test destroyer 5" navel shells and it is impossible

 

to recover all the shells. The Army has had access to the sea and airspace North of Pt Prime since the 2nd world war. (For all types of Weapons testing).

The army fired at high tide and retrieved munitions at low tide and then inspected them.

 

The area of Pt Parham was allocated to the army in 1937 for defence purposes. From 1978 government allowed freehold land and local council had been approving building permits.

The area North was not considered to have any restrictions except a building height restriction of 15 feet. The army approved many dwellings over this height since 1978.

 

The current proof range has been in use since about 1944. It is currently Sandy point to about 2 Kms north of Pt Parham. It is looked after by the Keswick Barracks which is a barracks

 

of the Australian Army in Keswick

 

As option 1 was pushed into the public space, it lead to all kinds of protests. During these, the gun on Pt Wakefield road was turned into a tent, defaced and graffiti.

This started the fight for land and homes. This plan would kill Pt Parham. Some of the current residents had been there since the depression. Some of them had settled in the area to

 

retire. There were 100's of full time residents and thousands of shack owners and other visitors that frequented the area.

 

The residents don't want to have the Army contaminate Pt Parham for all time, like they have where they are at the moment. They have already admitted that they will never be able to

 

clear the current mudflats of dangerous unexploded material. The residents also feared nuclear testing.

 

In July 1983 a document was released that outlined the process to compulsory acquire land. This is when the battled heated up. There were many meetings in the old social club (Grain

 

store - Webbs Carbonate of lime), at Collins Corner and beside the old shade house on the esplanade. There was a 13 point protest plan developed and issues were found in the

 

environmental impact study. Many people from Pt Parham and Webb beach attended the meetings, as did many holiday makers from across Australia.

People started to paint their fences and roof's with slogans.

 

"Army go home"

"P*ss off Army"

"Use a pond"

"Move the gun"

"St Kilda Next?"

"Sorry My Beazly, not for sale"

"We have enough shells"

"Only Beach north of Adelaide"

"People before Guns"

"I don't trust them"

"Not for Sale"

 

Hat's, stickers, shirts and beer cools came out with the slogans

"Save the crabbers and the gulf"

"Save the crabbers from the army shells"

 

I still have my yellow hat somewhere with the "Save the crabbers and the gulf" on the front. It is likely a rarity these days.

ABC, Channel 7 and 10 frequented the beach to have interviews with the residents and fly over the site in their helicopters.

 

Kevin Collins (member of Action Committee), Ian Featherstone (Chairman - Parham Action committee) and Leon Broster (Chairman Mallala council) appeared regularly on the news to

 

show that they were against the plans.

Local member John Meyer(?) and Lands minister Mr Abbot were against it but it was a federal issue and they could do nothing.

  

Len Web was interviewed. He had lived at Port Parham all his life and ran the shell grit plant. Shell grit is not widely available and sought after for poultry.

 

Col. Phillip Cooper and Major Andrew (Andy) Renolds came to Port Parham meetings to try and explain why this needed to happen. Barry Tompson of the

"Pt Wakefield friends of the proof range" wanted it to go ahead as he did not want Port Wakefield to die. He did not want the proof range to move.

 

Kim Beazley, the Federal defence minister, wanted to wait on the environmental study before making a decision. Premier John Bannon was against this.

 

After the battle, Kim Beazley compromised. In the end 2900 ha was acquired including 16 farms and 2 houses inland.

 

Pt Parham gave up 2 kms of land and coast (It was the army's anyway) and Port Parham has thrived ever since.

 

I still have access to the old footage.

The portrait of Quaid-e-Azam was being carved on the behest of the Master of the Mint, Lahore for Rs. 10 and 20 coins under consideration of the Government of Pakistan.

 

I have developed this proposed layout for the coin, which have been presented to the Minister and Secretary Finance GOP by me. I also have plans to carve portraits Allama Mohammad Iqbal and Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah. The set of these portraits can appear on Rs. 5, 10 and 20 coins.

From "Sheffield Replanned 1945", published by the Sheffield Town Planning Committee, proposing how to rebuild the City Centre following extensive damage in World War Two.

 

"A new square viewed from near the L.M.S. Station with a widened Sheaf Street in the foreground. The Civic Circle would pass at a higher level behind the Technical College"

 

The "widened Sheaf Street" happened and the bus station stayed here. The Technical College (now Sheffield Hallam University) building didn't happen in this form and what was built was joined by EPIC Building including the Roxy.

 

The Old Queen's Head didn't disappear, thankfully but the foreground became the Sheaf Valley Baths. They didn't last and were replaced by Ponds Forge sports centre in 1991. At the same time the bus station (sorry 'Interchange') was rebuilt and doubled in size. The Interchange then halved in size to make way for the offices currently under construction.

Iowa City, IA - May 5, 2019 - Proposed site of a 15-story development. The project would go at 12 E. Court Street, between Burlington and Court streets, and calls for North and South Capitol streets to be connected. The development proposes 800 to 1,000 apartments, aimed at college students, as well as other amenities.

 

"gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon.."

SHAKESPEARE - Henry IV

In the late 1930's, if you had taken the road east to Everton from Church Street, Tempsford, at the south corner of the present day Millennium Garden Sanctuary - the site of the proposed Tempsford Memorial monument- it would have led you directly past Tempsford Hall and across the main LNER (London North Eastern Railway) railway line on the Tempsford Flats to the Greensands Ridge at Everton. It was here, between the old Roman Road, now a public highway running north-south along the ridge, and the railway line in the east, that the Air Ministry, in the summer of 1940, started work on setting up the most important secret airfield, known simply as Gibraltar Farm, that would take on the clandestine operations to aid resistance activities across the Channel during World War II - answering Churchill's call to "set Europe ablaze".

 

This became RAF Tempsford, designed to look like an ordinary working farm, Gibraltar Farm, the base for the two Special Duties 'Moon Squadrons 138 and 161 (nicknamed the 'Tempsford Taxis') operating between 1942 and 1945, ferrying secret agents ('Joes'), arms and supplies to resistance networks in Occupied Europe - and bring back resistance agents, downed airmen and VIPs - all coordinated by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) set up by Churchill in 1940.

 

The range of operations reached from Norway to the South of France and across Europe, taking in Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Missions were concentrated around the nights of the full moon each month, allowing best vision for the pilots. 138 Squadron was a transport organisation for the SOE, flying the heavier aircraft - Whitley, Halifax and Short Stirling bombers- dropping containers of supplies and parachuting down secret agents to locations on the Continent, pre-arranged and coordinated with the resistance organisations. 161 Squadron, formed on Valentines Day 1942, specialised in landing and pick up operation, flying the lighter aircraft t - the high-winged Westland Lysander and Lockhead Hudson monoplanes. The Lysander (known affectionately as 'Lizzie' by it's pilots) had a strong under carriage, able to withstand impact on landing and usually a fixed outside ladder to the rear cockpit, allowing speedy boarding and exit. It was highly manoeuvrable, with a low stalling speed and could land in a football field, turn and take off again in minutes.

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Earth Designs Garden Design and Build were asked to created a landscape and propose garden design in Epping, Essex*. Here are the details of the project

 

The 'Water feature' Garden in Epping, Essex CM16

 

BRIEF:

 

This space was completely unusable as a result of a failed landscaping attempt by the previous occupants. Extensive ground work was necessary in order to level the space, including the redistribution of a very large mound of earth from the middle of the garden.

There was a summer house in the bottom right of the space, which was structurally sound but in need of cosmetic renovation - during construction it was decided that the building should be removed. The client's brief was fairly open and simple: to create a space for entertaining and social dining which compliments the decorative style of the house interior.

 

SOLUTION:

 

The design divides the garden into several distinct areas, helping to impart the illusion of space and create a sense of intrigue. The first area is open and floored with natural slate tile, multi hued with tones of dark and light grey and rust colours.

Leading from this area is a flush decking walkway, bridging a sunken black lined pool and flanked on both sides by railway sleeper raised beds mounted with gargoyle water spouts.

 

The sleeper beds continue down the space, flanking a large area of decking over which towers a bespoke wooden pergola, giving the space added height and a strong sense of drama. The pergola encloses a long, wide, heavy table and bench seating, constructed from sturdy sleepers to create an imposing focal point to the space. Overhead, a custom-made chandelier planted with ivy adds to the garden's medieval atmosphere.

 

A second decked walkway runs from the central decked area over a second sunken pool to a slate paved area at the bottom of the garden. The raised beds themselves are packed with evergreen shrubs and flowering perennials, with a dramatic and slightly gothic planting palette of black and white, softened with interspersed leafy greens.

 

TESTIMONIAL:

 

"We cannot recommend Earth designs highly enough. From the initial design phase through to building,planting and completion they have been excellent.

They have the knack of turning your ideas into reality with the minimum of fuss and disruption to your lives. We found the whole team led by Katrina and Matt to be friendly and helpful.

 

Most importantly of all, Earth designs managed to convert our jungle into a garden which we love and is the envy of our neighbours."

  

If you dig this and would like to find out more about this or any of other of our designs, please stop by our web-site and have a look at our work.

 

Earth Designs is a bespoke London Garden Design and build company specialising in classic, funky and urban contemporary garden design.

 

Our Landscape and Garden build teams cover London, Essex and parts of South East England, while garden designs are available nationwide.

Please visit www.earthdesigns.co.uk to see our full portfolio. If you would like a garden designer in London or have an idea of what you want and are looking for a landscaper London to come and visit your garden, please get in touch.

 

Follow our Bespoke Garden Design and Build and Blog to see what we get up to week by week, our free design clinic as well as tips and products we recommend for your garden projects www.earthdesigns.co.uk/blog/.

 

Earth Designs is located in East London, but has built gardens in Essex , gardens in Hertfordshire Hertfordshire and all over the South East. Earth Designs was formed by Katrina Wells in Spring 2003 and has since gone from strength to strength to develop a considerable portfolio of garden projects. Katrina, who is our Senior Garden Designer, has travelled all over the UK designing gardens. However we can design worldwide either through our postal garden design service or by consultation with our senior garden designer. Recent worldwide projects have included garden designs in Romania. Katrina’s husband. Matt, heads up the build side of the company, creating a unique service for all our clients.

 

If you a not a UK resident, but would like an Earth Designs garden, Earth Designs has a worldwide design service through our Garden Design Postal Design Vouchers. If you are looking for an unique birthday present or original anniversary present and would like to buy one of our Garden Design Gift Vouchers for yourself or as a present please our sister site www.gardenpresents.co.uk. We do also design outside of the UK, please contact us for details.

 

Proposed Layouts for Dossier Magazine

 

Photography : Mia Ziervogel

 

All work © Willem Kitshoff

 

Hopeful buttons people would like Facebook to release at Facebook's f8 Developer Conference 2011.

Title: Plan of Chicago: proposed civic enter plaza

Other title: Chicago (Ill.)

Creator: Commercial Club of Chicago

Creator role: Designer

Creator 2: Guerin, Jules Valleee, 1866-1946

Creator 2 role: Renderer

Date: 1909

Current location: Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States

Description of work: ""The Plan of Chicago of 1909, better known as the Burnham Plan (after its principal author, Daniel H. Burnham), is one of the most noted documents in the history of city planning. It has influenced not only how Chicagoans have shaped their city, but also how they have envisioned urban life."" (Encyclopedia of Chicago, www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/10537.html accessed 04/05/2007)

Description of view: Chicago. View, looking West, of the proposed Civic Center plaza and buildings, showing it as the center of the system of arteries of circulation and of the surrounding country. Painted for the Commercial Club by Jules Guerin

Work type: Architecture and Landscape

Style of work: Modern: Vernacular Architecture

Culture: American

Source: Commercial Club of Chicago. Plan of Chicago. Chicago: The Commercial Club, 1909. (Image CXXXII)

Resource type: Image

File format: JPEG, TIFF archived offline

Image size: 1564H X 2036W pixels

Permitted uses: This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. Other uses are not permitted. For additional details see: alias.libraries.psu.edu/vius/copyright/publicrightsarch.htm

Collection: Worldwide Building and Landscape Pictures

Filename: WB2006-916 Chicago Looking West of the proposed civic center plaza.jpg

Record ID: WB2006-916

Sub collection: civic centers

 

Shortly after Citroën took a controlling interest in Maserati in 1968, the concept of a mid-engined two-seat sports car was proposed. Lamborghini and De Tomaso already had the Miura and Mangusta, whilst Ferrari were known to be developing their own mid-engined contender. Initially known as Tipo 117 and later the Bora, the Maserati project got underway in October 1968 and a prototype was on the road by mid-1969. Shown in its final form at the Geneva Salon in March 1971, deliveries began before the end of the year. Maserati struggled after being bought by De Tomaso in 1975, and the Bora was discontinued after the 1978 model year. 564 Boras were produced in total, of which 275 were fitted with 4.9 L engines and the other 289 were fitted with 4.7 L engines.

 

The Bora was designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro at Italdesign and has a drag coefficient of 0.30. Fabrication of the all-steel panels was contracted to Officine Padane of Modena. The Bora had a number of innovative features that distinguished the car from Maserati's previous offerings. Compared to other supercars, it was civilized and practical, featuring a hydraulically powered pedal cluster that could be moved forward and backwards at the touch of a button and a steering wheel that could be tilted and telescoped, addressing the familiar problem of entering and exiting the vehicle typical of many supercars.

 

Initially two V8 engines were offered, a high-revving 4,719 cc (4.7 L; 288.0 cu in) and a higher torque 4,930 cc (4.9 L; 300.8 cu in); a US smog-qualified 4.9-litre engine was used (a stroked version of the 4.7), starting from the 1973 model year. Eventually, production switched to only using a more powerful version of the 4.9-litre engine rated at 320 hp (324 PS; 239 kW) at 5,500 rpm and 454 N⋅m (335 lb⋅ft) of torque at 4,000 rpm.

This image lifted from a June 2005 report by the RPC found at utca.eng.ua.edu/projects/final_reports/04408fnl.pdf

 

This picture used in my blog posting about the proposed elevated highway 280 found at curtispalmer.wordpress.com/2007/02/07/elevatedhighway280/

Artist's conception of shops in the proposed Hacienda rendered in color.

  

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With this set of 6 pics Eric Lon proposes to stretch the back muscles which are connecting the head and the toes. This is inspired by a French Yoga therapy technique : “ Mézières ”.

Respect the body alignment, and breathe evenly, with longer exhalations.

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Via 6 photos propose un étirement des muscles de l’ensemble du plan postérieur : ils sont tous reliés les uns aux autres, de la tête aux pieds.

Le concept de grande chaîne musculaire postérieure a été crée par Françoise Mézières, qui forma des kinésithérapeutes mézièristes.

Eric Lon en fait partie.

Pour en savoir plus, visitez son blog : www.methodemezierestoulon.blogspot.com

 

Proposals to extend the København metro to Malmö and develop an integrated regional rail network form an integral part of the Øresund 2070 vision unveiled during the Øresundshuset regional conference at Almedalen on June 30.

 

According to the President of Skanska Sweden Pierre Olofsson and his counterpart from the technical consultancy Sweco, Åsa Bergman, ‘the Øresund region is a growth engine, not only for Sweden and Denmark but for the whole Northern Europe’. Following an analysis of the region's challenges up to 2070, the two companies have prepared ‘a series of concrete proposals’ for investment to maintain and develop the region’s competitive position.

 

With the region’s population expected to grow by a million inhabitants over the next half century, Skanska and Sweco say this will place ‘higher demands on the transport system’, requiring investment in transport and housing plus ‘increased integration across the Strait’ to create conditions for growth and employment. To optimise the relationship between transport and housing, they envisage that much of the urban development should be concentrated in a ‘densified’ København – Malmö – Lund – Helsingborg corridor.

 

Skanska and Sweco suggest that investment should be focused on public transport and cycling, to reduce the need for car use, calling for more fixed links across the Øresund and the development of a regional rail hub at København Airport. Road and rail tunnels of 15 km and 9 km respectively are planned between Helsingborg and Helsingør, carrying both passenger and freight services. These could be built by 2025 under a 30-year PPP concession, at an estimated cost of SKr25bn. The tunnel could carry an orbital rail link connecting the current ‘Lille Nord’ route from Hillerød to Helsingør with Helsingborg, Hässleholm and Åhus.

 

Further south, Skanska and Sweco recommend an extension of the København metro network from Kastrup to Malmö, and greater integration of regional rail services to offer direct links between suburbs in both countries. Tram routes would be created in København, Helsingbørg, Lund and Malmö by around 2030.

 

A separate fixed link would carry high speed trains linking Sweden and Norway with mainland Europe, while the current Øresund link would be expanded to accomodate bicycles, connected to a 300 km network of ‘super bike paths’. A multi-level node at København Airport would provide connections between international air services, high speed and regional trains and the metro.

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Dedicated in 1899,The Horse Tamers, by Frederick MacMonnies (1863-1937), flank the Park Circle Entrance of Brooklyn's Prospect Park. Horse Tamers is an allegory of the Triumph of Mind over Brute Strength. The sculptures depict nude young men riding bareback on rearing, unbridled horses. To achieve their great dynamic energy, MacMonnies sculpted the horses after live Andalusian models.

 

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The Fox and the Little Prince

 

it was then that the fox appeared.

"good morning" said the fox.

 

"good morning"

the little prince responded politely

altho when he turned around he saw nothing.

 

"I am right here" the voice said, "under the apple

tree."

 

"who are you?" asked the little prince, and added,

 

"You are very pretty to look at."

 

"I am a fox", the fox said.

 

"Come and play with me,"

proposed the little prince, "I am so unhappy."

 

"I cannot play with you," the fox said,

"I am not tamed."

 

"AH please excuse me,"said the little prince.

But after some thought, he added:

"what does that mean---'tame'?"

 

"you do not live here," said the fox,

"what is it you are looking for?"

 

"I am looking for men," said the little prince.

"What does that mean---tame?"

 

"Men,"said the fox,

"they have guns, and they hunt.

It is very disturbing.

They also raise chickens.

These are their only interests.

Are you looking for chickens?"

 

"No," said the little prince.

"I am looking for friends.

What does that mean---tame?"

 

"It is an act too often neglected,"

said the fox.

"It means to establish ties."

 

"To establish ties?"

 

"Just that," said the fox.

"to me, you are still nothing more than

a little boy who is just like

a hundred thousand other little boys.

And I have no need of you.

And you, on your part, have no need of me.

To you I am nothing more

than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes.

But if you tame me, then we shall need each other.

To me, you will be unique in all the world.

To you, I shall be unique in all the world. . ."

 

"I am beginning to understand,"

said the little prince.

 

"There is a flower. . .I think she has tamed me. . ."

 

"It is possible," said the fox.

 

"On earth one sees all sorts of things."

 

"Oh but this is not on the earth!"

said the little prince.

 

The fox seemed perplexed, and very curious.

"On another planet?"

 

"Yes"

 

"Are there hunters on that planet?"

 

"No"

 

"Ah that's interesting! Are there chickens?"

 

"No"

 

"Nothing is perfect," sighed the fox.

But he came back to his idea.

"My life is very monotonous," he said.

"I hunt chickens; men hunt me.

All chickens are just alike,

and all the men are just alike.

And in consequence, I am a little bored.

But if you tame me,

it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life.

I shall know the sound of a step that will be

different from all the others.

Other steps send me hurrying back

underneath the ground.

Yours will call me, like music out of my burrow.

And then look:

you see the grain-fields down yonder?

I do not eat bread.

Wheat is of no use to me.

The wheat fields have nothing to say to me.

And that is sad.

But you have hair that is the color of gold.

Think how wonderful that will be

when you have tamed me!

The grain, which is also golden,

will bring me back the thought of you.

And I shall love to listen

to the wind in the wheat. . ."

 

The fox gazed at the little prince,

for a long time.

"Please---tame me!" he said.

 

"I want to, very much," the little prince replied.

"But I have not much time.

I have friends to discover,

and a great many things to understand."

 

"One only understands the things that one tames,"

said the fox.

" Men have no more time to understand anything.

They buy things all ready made at the shops.

But there is no shop anywhere

where one can buy friendship,

and so men have no friends any more.

If you want a friend, tame me. . ."

 

"What must I do, to tame you?

asked the little prince.

 

"You must be very patient," replied the fox.

First you will sit down

at a little distance from me

-like that-in the grass.

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye,

and you will say nothing.

Words are the source of misunderstandings.

But you will sit a little closer to me,

every day..."

 

The next day the little prince came back.

 

"It would have been better to come back

at the same hour," said the fox.

"If for example, you came at four o'clock

in the afternoon,

then at three o'clock I shall begin to be happy.

I shall feel happier and happier

as the hour advances.

At four o'clock,

I shall be worrying and jumping about.

I shall show you how happy I am!

But if you come at just any time,

I shall never know at what hour

my heart is ready to greet you. . .

One must observe the proper rites. . ."

 

"What is a rite?" asked the little prince.

 

"Those also are actions too often neglected,"

said the fox.

"they are what make one day

different from other days,

one hour different from other hours.

There is a rite, for example, among my hunters.

Every Thursday they danse with the village girls.

So Thursday is a wonderful day for me!

I can take a walk as far as the vineyards.

But if the hunters danced at just any time,

every day would be like

every other day,

and I should never have any vacation at all."

  

So the little prince tamed the fox.

And when the hour of his departure drew near---

 

"Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry."

 

"It is your own fault," said the little prince.

"I never wished you any sort of harm;

but you wanted me to tame you. . ."

 

"Yes that is so", said the fox.

 

"But now you are going to cry!"

said the little prince.

 

"Yes that is so" said the fox.

 

"Then it has done you no good at all!"

 

"It has done me good," said the fox,

"because of the color of the wheat fields."

And then he added:

"go and look again at the roses.

You will understand now

that yours is unique in all the world.

Then come back to say goodbye to me,

and I will make you a present of a secret."

 

The little prince went away,

to look again at the roses.

"You are not at all like my rose," he said.

"As yet you are nothing.

No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one.

You are like my fox when I first knew him.

He was only a fox

like a hundred thousand other foxes.

But I have made a friend,

and now he is unique in all the world."

And the roses were very much embarrassed.

"You are beautiful, but you are empty," he went on.

"One could not die for you.

To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think

that my rose looked just like you

--the rose that belongs to me.

But in herself alone she is more important

than all the hundreds of you

other roses: because it is she that I have watered;

because it is she

that I have put under the glass globe;

because it is for her

that I have killed the caterpillars

(except the two or three we saved

to become butterflies);

because it is she that I have listened to,

when she grumbled,

or boasted,

or even sometimes when she said nothing.

Because she is MY rose."

  

And he went back to meet the fox.

"Goodbye" he said.

 

"Goodbye," said the fox.

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;

what is essential is invisible to the eye."

 

"What is essential is invisible to the eye,"

the little prince repeated,

so that he would be sure to remember.

 

"It is the time you have wasted for your rose

that makes your rose so important.

 

"It is the time I have wasted for my rose--

"said the little prince

so he would be sure to remember.

 

"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox.

"But you must not forget it.

You become responsible, forever,

for what you have tamed.

You are responsible for your rose. . ."

 

"I am responsible for my rose,"

the little prince repeated,

so that he would be sure to remember.

  

From the Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

   

Proposed Fairfax Connector bus route changes to help connect riders to Metro's Silver Line stations. The five station that are part of the project's first phase are expected to open in winter 2013. There are four Silver Line stations in Tysons, and one at Wiehle Avenue in Reston.

Provided a westbound "green wave" at 9 mph east of 11th Street and 18 mph west of 11th Street.

Proposed Route of the 3rd crossing in Hampton RoadsVDOT) (Photo by Trevor Wrayton,

 

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Outgoing DOTC Secretary Mar Roxas presented to the media the proposed extension of LRT-2 from Santolan to Masinag, Antipolo.. The said project will add 2 stations, Emerald Avenue and Masinag. The NEDA board approved the funding for this project..

Proposed Route of the Blue Ridge Tunnel Greenway near Crozet in Nelson County(Photo by Trevor Wrayton, VDOT)

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Earth Designs Garden Design and Build were asked to created a landscape and propose garden design in Mill Lane, London*. Here are the details of the project

 

Brief: The brief from this client was to create a low maintenance, accessible and above all stylish garden, suitable for dining and entertaining. The client was looking for a real 'wow' factor and wanted the exterior of their property to mirror the high finish and individuality of their interior space. The existing space suffered from many drawbacks - it had an uninspiring, drab layout and was excessively overlooked from flats above and to the right and left. Its North facing aspect means that it does not benefit from a great deal of sunlight.

 

Solution: This design created create a stylish and contemporary space with a plethora of visual stimuli that offers extensive opportunity for enjoyment throughout the year.

 

The existing fencing along the rear and right hand boundaries was clad with opaque purple Perspex sheeting to create a uniform, modern backdrop to the space. Two distinct seating areas, each designed with a different use in mind, were created to allow the client maximum scope for entertaining and relaxation.

 

The first, in the top right corner of the space, forms the main focal point to the garden and comprises a slightly sunken conversation pit enclosed within a four-poster bed style structure. Constructed from sturdy railway sleepers, this area offers ample space for lounging and serves as a visually imposing talking-point. One side of the structure includes numerous open shelves, allowing the client to display a variety of sculpture and ephemera, while a second side houses a bespoke stainless steel water feature. The water feature itself is comprised of a large stainless steel tank fed from above by two stainless steel water blades. For comfort, large custom-made weatherproof cushions cover the conversation pit floor. These cushions can be removed and stored during inclement weather.

 

The second seating area, centre left of the space, comprises an L-shaped railway-sleeper fixed bench backed by a railway-sleeper raised bed. Serving as an informal alfresco dining area, this section of the space benefits from a low coffee-style table with a second table at kitchen-counter height, beside which the client has placed a BBQ for alfresco food preparation.

 

Flooring throughout is in attractive cream travertine, laid in a formal grid pattern and inlaid in the centre with a single rectangular strip of plum slate tiles, providing an elegant contrast to the dark stained railway sleeper structure and seating.

 

The left hand boundary was clad with stainless steel sheeting to create a stunning backdrop to the dining area. This panelling continues along the boundary beyond the seating area to mask a bespoke storage area in an alcove to the left of the space. The stainless steel theme is echoed with the addition of six stainless steel planters placed at intervals around the edge of the paving.

 

Planting in the space follows a strong architectural theme, consisting of sculpted box balls and tall, elegant allium in the raised bed, framed by the primeval fronds of dicksonia antartica (tree fern) clustered in the flush bed beyond. The box ball theme is echoed in the stainless steel planters spaced around the paving and a variety of climbers have been placed so that they will gradually adorn the Perspex fencing over time.

 

A comprehensive lighting scheme was installed with mood and accent in mind. Down-lighters installed within the alcoves of the railway sleeper shelving unit create a centre piece of the sleeper structure, while stainless steel bollard lights frame either end of the bench in the dining area. The paving is edged with in-ground up-lighters placed in front of each stainless steel planter to give balance to the space, while a submersible light installed within the water feature tank casts a gently undulating light across the back of the space. Low voltage spots cast a gentle glow across the back of the space and weatherproof wall-mounted infra-red heaters, one in the conversation pit and one on the boundary wall beside the bench seating, allow continued enjoyment of the garden on chilly nights.

 

Testimonial: "Many thanks, we are so thrilled with the entire garden. It is imaginative and bold but also practical and truly reflects our personalities! You have transformed an ordinary space into something quite magical."

 

If you dig this and would like to find out more about this or any of other of our designs, please stop by our web-site and have a look at our work.

 

Earth Designs is a bespoke London Garden Design and build company specialising in classic, funky and urban contemporary garden design.

 

Our Landscape and Garden build teams cover London, Essex and parts of South East England, while garden designs are available nationwide.

Please visit www.earthdesigns.co.uk to see our full portfolio. If you would like a garden designer in London or have an idea of what you want and are looking for a landscaper London to come and visit your garden, please get in touch.

 

Follow our Bespoke Garden Design and Build and Blog to see what we get up to week by week, our free design clinic as well as tips and products we recommend for your garden projects www.earthdesigns.co.uk/blog/.

 

Earth Designs is located in East London, but has built gardens in Essex , gardens in Hertfordshire Hertfordshire and all over the South East. Earth Designs was formed by Katrina Wells in Spring 2003 and has since gone from strength to strength to develop a considerable portfolio of garden projects. Katrina, who is our Senior Garden Designer, has travelled all over the UK designing gardens. However we can design worldwide either through our postal garden design service or by consultation with our senior garden designer. Recent worldwide projects have included garden designs in Romania. Katrina’s husband. Matt, heads up the build side of the company, creating a unique service for all our clients.

 

If you a not a UK resident, but would like an Earth Designs garden, Earth Designs has a worldwide design service through our Garden Design Postal Design Vouchers. If you are looking for an unique birthday present or original anniversary present and would like to buy one of our Garden Design Gift Vouchers for yourself or as a present please our sister site www.gardenpresents.co.uk. We do also design outside of the UK, please contact us for details.

 

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The proposed rule, as presented previously at the draft rule hearings, would establish a commercial trip limit of 200 individual sea cucumbers per person per day, as well as a daily vessel limit of 200 sea cucumbers, inclusive of all sea cucumber species. The proposed rule would allow the established traditional fishery that supplies sea cucumbers alive to the aquarium trade to continue to operate under its current practices and could be carefully expanded later, if appropriate, once more information is known about how the populations will respond to increased harvest. The proposed daily limit of 200 is supported by the Florida Marine Life Association (FMLA), the official industry organization for ML endorsement holders and by participants in an industry stakeholder survey.

  

The proposed trip limit would be a proactive measure to help ensure that the developing food fishery will be sustainable while preventing depletion of these ecologically important animals.